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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1915-10-28, Page 3OLD COUNTRY NEWS FISHING FOR, LOndon CabIe.---(Corresponaeace at the Auseelated Preigia-Strangest- looking of all the ships With the Brit- ish Urinal Fleet le the Atlantic liner attic% has been transformed into a mother -ship for the seaplanes. There tire platform' in place of the Mennen- aclee where paseengere esed to lounge, bombs in place of deck-qtrolte, and the dining -saloons have been fitted • ae workshops, "everything that a seaPlatte needs in the way of repairs can be supelied. "Ilere hi our ageortment of bombe," said an officer, ehowing an exhibit of different glees on a shelf. "That one weighs a liundred pounds, the same we • six-incli shell." "What do yoa use them on?" he was asked. "Anything, from a German cruiser, if we get a chance at one, to a sub- marine. That big bomb would finish et Zeppelin, too." A crane that once had taken pas- sengers' trunks out oe the hold lifted a seaplane off a platform and tleposit- ed it on the water, where it bounced on the waves before the motor was start- ed, and it skimmed across the surface for a hundred yards or more, rose, circled around the fleet two or three times, and then disappeared out at sea, With its floate it looked clumsy beside an aeroplane -the difference between a duck, and a hawk, Most of the romance and the action of sea warfare while the British Greed Fleet waits for the German fleet to eome out are the seaplanes and the destroyers. The dreadnoughts remain O in harbor, except for occasional cruises into the North Sea; but the planes and the destroyers are always on the move. They work teigether in hunt- ing "Fritz," as British officers and men universally refer to submarines. A submarine. is visible to an aviator when it is cruising beloar the surface. It never travels deeper than thirty or forty feet and tones a characteristic ripple and ainbubbles and streaks of oll, When a plane has located it sig- nals tee hunters where to go. But befare they arrive a squall may liave hidden the track. A submarine may 1-e known to be in a certain region and be lost and seen and lost and seen again. Submarine hunting is a tire - lees gems of hide and seek. Naval in- genuitt has invented no end of -meth- ods of location and of destruction. Ex- periment has proved some to be effec- tual and some useless. Strictest kept of naval secrets these. Very thin the skin of a submarine and very fragile and complicated its machinery. It does not take much epf a shock to pnt it out of order or a large cargo of explosives to deat that skin beyond repair. "The clifficultY is to knew whell you get them," an officer explained; "for it is in the nature of. the sub- marine to sink, whether vitally in- jured or not. It may have gone to the bottom to stay in fifty fathoms of water, or it may have submerged un- der a choppy sea and made its escape. We have been hunting them for a year now, and no doubt we are getting the better of them. We have not only learned how to keep them off from our great ships, but how to destroy them." If oil and bubbles come up for a long time in one place, or it they come up with a rush, • that is considered fairly good evidence of success. There is no escape for.the grew, They can- not make the submarine rise or get out of ite It becomes a steel caeket , in a watery grave. No nautical mind is required to realize that by casting about on the bottom. with a arapnel you will learn if an object with the bulk and size of a submarine is there; and the "death" of submarines is es- tablished in this way. "The Admiralty will not accept any guesswork about it," said an officer. "We may have.put explasive right into one, or rammed. it in a way that must have broken its back but that is not proof enough. The record goes down on the chart aS 'supposed de- stroyed.'" With Admiral Crawford the corres- pondent of the Associated Press went to see the submarine defence ef a tiarbor. Cruisers and destro auxiliaries wore going and coming, but the narrow openings through which they passed were closed in- Mantly they were by. There was more than one obstruction. If a sub- marine got peat the first or the isec- and, it was iu a. pocket. Several have been caught in this way. "Take care! There is a tide here!" the coxswain ot the admiral's barge was warned. eWe don't want to get eaugbt in a trap meant for Fritz." - At one naval base the correspondent sem a number of ,destroyers lying Moored to a euay as close together as fish in a bresket. They had just come in from a tour at sea. "Here to -day and gone to -morrow," eaid an officer. "What a thne they laid last winter! And they are in for another winter of it. You know how cold the North Sea is -no, you cannot unless you have been out in a torpedo boat dancing the tango in tbe teeth of that bitter wind, with the f =pray whipping up to the top of 'the emoltestacks. In the dead of night they would come into the pitch-dark aerbor. How they found their way ie past me. lea a trick of those young felloWs -who commaad," If a destroyer gets on the track of a submarine A has thirty knots Against the submarine's six or eight. 'There is no difficulty in keeping up; lier wireless brings a ewarm of as- aletance. The fast turbine destroyers eseenIed to Slip over the Ater as if their bottoms were oiled, Only a few of the crew are exposed when showers of freezing spray sweep their 'decks, and all are elad in thick, short tioate of llama wool, which keeps their bodies warm and leave the legs free for movement in keeping footing as the deetroyers roll and Plunge In a heavy ilea. e.lvery ship on the blockade from /Mend to the BrItieh Channel Is also a part of the aysteM of submarine hunting. They show no lights; there are no lighte along the coast at night, "It gives one an idea of Englandas maritime resources," said an officer, "When you consider that We have 2,300 trawlers and other aUxiliary shipa on service." - The trawlers plod Over plotted Sea- equares with the regularity of mow- ing ataehines, Cutting a harvest. on their way back and forth sWeeping up mineri. They Were fisherMen before the Vildr and tire fishermen still, They COMO into barbore stiff with cold, thief Out, have a rest, and return to their vigils and their hardeltips. Be- nt:lad theta, the eruitiete and deStrOye .ers are patrolling ou the watch for tiny sign of a German Coining. eta Past "DAN" V C. KILLED. Lleutenaut Harry Paulette "Dale" V. C., lies been. killed hi actiOn. la - formation et his death Was received by the Lora Mayor of N'orWiee 01/ euesday week. Lieutenaut Daniels received his V, 00 tiravery at Nein e Chapelle ou March 120). last when a itergeent- major In tee 2uct Ititie Brigade, abree menthe efterwards Lieuten- ant Daniele was promoted to secouti- lieutentaney in another regiment. Lieutenant Deniels was bora at WY- mondhana just outside Norwich, but spent nearly all hie early life in Nor- wich. He lost both parents. at We age of foua and was teken into the Norwich Boys' Home, controlled 'by the Board of Guardians, (Ilene -LEGGED HERO DECORATED. The King at 13uckinghans Palv.ce Saturday week decorated Sergeant Richards, 1st Lancashire Fusiliers with the Victoria Cross. Sergeant Richards was elected to the V, C, by his comrades for bravery at the landing of truce companies of his regiment at Cape Belles, Uallipoli on April 25th. The party atere met by a heavy fire and the survivors with great bravery made good their advance. The commanding cffiaer left it to the survivors to determine who should be recommended for th.e Victoria Cross, and Sergeant Richards wae one of three chosen. He had to have a leg amputated and arrived at Bucking- ham Palace on ertttches. The King, shaking hands with Richards, said: "I congratulate you on your pluck and on your escape, al- though it was with the loss of a limb." Sixteen officers were also decorated by the King with the various orders. weeteteav woenat SOlaterv in the 13413tYwell lesa , Creed a 'It'd& In ord•r that the miners of elane- Nola, Notte may not be tempted away trout their Work, 'the town cOuilt 11 Caner' the pleaeure ride of the °Hole 4 id Ineveeni r fairs. The Lolth. dock laborers' dispute tate teen rottled, the men being grained eied per hour (ley mai and ilaati hourly overtime. Tlie New Delaval (Northamberlana) miners who went on etrilce last week, over e timber dispute resealed work ou Monday maritime. e Hull trensport workers decided to ri quese a meeting with the employ- ers to urge it' further advaaeu in wages owing to the lacreased coet of There have beee seven flag days in Leicester this year, anti the total receipts are 410AM. Lieutenant S. emus -Heady, the welieltnown tricaeter, lure been pro- moted temporary captain in the Nor - (elk Regiment (Ty.) F, W. Teylor, of Dugdale street, Camberivelt, has no fewer than ten sons serviug in el. M. forces', nine III the army and one in ,the navy. Since the outbreak ot war the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, why have illSt sent a new ':feboat to Dungeness, record the saving et $34 lives. The Admiralty has issued a notice stating that the sale of picture post - 1 cards or photogre.phe of H, M. sillies is prohibited. under regulation 18 of ' the Defence of the Realm Regulations. The Bishop of Manchester has ap- pointed the Itev. John Sinker, vicar of Lytham Parish Church, to be rural dean of the Fylde sttecessioa to the , Rev. George Layton, vicar of Bispham, who has retired, There are twenty- nine parishes in the deanery, News hes reached Liverpool of the death at Holyhead of Mr, T. Martin Bingham, head of ,eleesrs. John Bing- ham es Co., corn merchants, Liveepool. Mrs. Sarah Louisa Taylor, a wella known Penitonlen, died at the resi- deace of her daughter, Mu. J. Hatch - cliff°, East ',elate Gate, Doacaster, at the age of 72 years, after only two or ehree days' illness. Mr. Oswald Bainbridge, of Ach- nashellach, Ross-ehere, a well-known 'coalowner and director of several large aompanies, has died at South well, Notts, aged 36, from injuries re- ceived serve time ago while hunting, The death has taken place at South- ampton, following an operation, onelr. /William Anderson, borough treasurer, of Southampton. Mr. Anderson, who was fifty-six, was formerly borough treasurer at South Shields, NOTES. Ex -Head Constable Dunlop, of the Royal Irish County Constabulary, wad atting a bough: otr a large tree at Ins house in Drumedd, Armaa'n, when the bough, weighing over a ton, broke and, tae end planing him againet the trunk, killed hire. Tb.e firs; newel of the ac• eident was brought by his little child running to her mother saying, "Daddy is asleep up in the tree." A caution has been issued in Bit.- a:bagman against tho practice of kind- ly dieposed peogle who throw parcels ee gifts into carrlagee occupieJ by wounded soldiers. One Officer has had als eye -glasses broken by a 'uox threwn into his compartment, and another, 14truck by a book, had a bandaged eye eat by the blow. Mrs. Lily Gireleetone, the wife of a elargyman, was fined ie2 10 s Bela, tol on Monday for refusing to to fill up her registration form. The defend- ant slated that Englishwomen were elassel with criminals, idlets, aliens, and paupers far votina purposes, and none of these was required to flit up the form. She wae also opposed to the takivg tee human life in any form. Farmers from the counties of Car- marteen, Cardiga.n, and Petnbroke who attended the Whitland annual hiring fair had to pay the locany unprece- dentedly high weges of a35 to £40 a year, with all found, for farm ser- vants. In some eases .£45 was agreed to. Young boys were engaged at alit to g25 with maintenance. Many farm- ers tvho were 'unable to get men at any price stated that taey would have to turn same of their land to grass next year on account of lack of labor. There was an equal scarcity of girls and wo- men for farm Work. The unique collection of rare miner - els of the late Mr. A. Victim oil the Priory, Exeter, was destroyed by fire at the Newton Abbot Technical School. One specimen, a flexible oandstone, 2 feet in length and very rare, has not yet been found.. Other losees include the town records of edueaelon and a collection of photographs. Presentation of jury lists at Wim - borne, Doreetshire, drew attention to the fact that at East Woodyates, a par- ish on the "Wiltehire ln.rrior, there are 00 pereons Ilable or qualified to serve as common or special jurors, the par - DM having no house, church or school. Mr. R. T. Thornton, ex -Metier of les.stbourne and the. well-known Kent -.Iounty cricketer. has just retuned from a four months' spell of service With the French Red Croes Society. Mr. Thornton, wise is 62 years of age, turned his motor -ear into an antbu- 'lance and learned to drive before he eft England. illtr Essex EducatiOn Committee, at -t I meeting indscettlon oa Monday week, adopted a scheme for providing cadet corps for the keys attending all elementary schools in the county'. The boys will be drafted into the cerise int - mediately after- they reach 14, the scheol-leaving age. At a wedding At Layer-doeit•Haye, Essex, the bride and bridegroom, Sarah Stanip and Isaac Wakelin, were both over 70. The boat man WaS 80 and the bridesmaid 90. All four are neighbors. Ono hundred ..,enants 111 the Paezick district of Glasgow declined to pay Pio increase in rants and rervitted their rents at the present rate to the house agent by poetal order. On Tuesday ar- terttoon the agent called personally on the tenants and returned the itstal orders. As Ill went from house to house he Iva; renewal by a large crowd, who "Resod itzid tarew Melee - meal at bliu. The police had to be semtnoned to guard him. A brigade of wotnen fireftten has just been forined at Norwich. It cortaiste of the menibere Of the staff of Chant- berlins, nited, whole:tale drapers and arebousemere atel Was organized to take theaplaee of the teen's bri axle, Which was daft/tried because, the members. laid all gone to the war. The itew brigade is a smut Mid efficient organization. Their lestruclor is Speeter ThOttlpS011, Chief engineer ef the City of N • 1.11 e r gede. Mr. and Mrs. J. Me Garnett. old - established residente of Hoyland Cona mon, have Net celebrated their golden Wedding. The Deneaater Guarding deelded to continue the 6d utl week °extra out - relief to houteholders id the. end ef the Chrietnias quarter, About 41000 dal/lege Was teethed at York by a fire whith broke Mit On the pretuirtoS of Messrs, Glossop, Halifite, who are engaged in etteplyIng the GO eminent with material extracted trent tar. The Duke of Rutland has granted the rile of a field aillOining the Bake - ALL MOTHERS NEED CONSTANT STRENGTH The;r° Strength is Taxed •and They Are Victims of Weak- nesS and Suffering. When. titers is a growing family to care tor and Inc motet:J. talio lit it is a serious matter. Many Inother.4 who are on ate gu trout morning to night, whose work, apparently, is iteNe try to disguise their suffering and keep tm an appearance of cueerfulness 'before their family. Only tnemselves know aow they are distressed by back- aches and. headaches, dragging down pain's and neavous weakuesse how teeir nights are. often sleepless, aral they arise to a liew day's work tirea, depressed and quite. unrefreshed. Such women shoUld know that their sufferings are usually due to lack at good, nourishing blood. They should know that the one thing they -need. above all others to giVe them. new health and streogth rich, red blood and that among all Medicines there is none can equal Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for their blood -making, health- - metering qualities. Every suffering woman, every woman with a home and family to cafe for, should give these pills a fair trial, for they will keep her in health and strength and make her work easy, eirs. G. Straiser, Aoton West, Ont., eays: "I am the mother of three children, and alter each birth beeame terribly run clown; I had weak, thin blood, always felt tired, and unable -to do my household work, After The birth of nty third abild I seemed to be worse, and was very badly run down. I was advised Li` take Dr, Williams' Pink Pills; I found tee greatest benefit from the Pills • and soon gained my old-time strength. Indeed, after „taking them I felt as well as in my girlhood, and could take pleasure in my work. sI oleo used. Ba.by's Own Tablets for my little ones and have found them a splendid mediciue for childhood ail- ' silents," You ean get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.a0 frorhaThe Dr. 'Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Turner's Little Afterhought. An English critic's reference to Tur- ner's fine picture "The Wreck Buoy" reminds a faithful newspaper reader of a, curious aneedote in connection with it. When Turner ,first sent: this picture to the Royal aeaderny it was hung among several brilliantly colored plotures. pn varnishing day Turner timed the effeet of hie dull gray rem dering of a stormy sea altogether %polled by its bright surroundina,s. painted in the lighted buoy in the fore- ground, and its dab of 'grin:Leon light showed so brilliantly in its gloomy set- ting that Turner's pieture became the prominent one, and its rivals on easel etcle were east -into the shade. et Is curioUs, if true, that the most nOtiet• able feature of the pecture should haVe been an efterthought. One Little Letter. One little letter placed within Ills name, Changes the world and all the people In it: Mattes prates of men In angry strife to win it: And en their records leaves the trail to Shame. One little letter turns them from His throne: Changes inen's no.tures; dulls their finer pat ts, Soueezes the milk of kindness from their hearts, And makes them 'worship what they yearn -to- own. By ono man letter a. change is told, .Across the world it's sordid canna is Seen, Men's hearts and hands are bloody and unclean. The 'Goa they worship. new Is written o -Detroit Pree Prees. * FRUGAL. terouoton Chronicle) The Impresaricteasertately, madam, can Jimmie you with a second prime donna to sing your children te eleep. But you sing so perfeetly yourself, The Prima Dorinp. Assoluttt-But I h couldn't think of equeuiderina that t h the child on. ppodicitis Prevented Life Lengthened Health Maintained DoctorS Say if people kept their 13owels in proper order them would Do no suelt disease on recera as ap- peetlicitis. it is due solely to no. gleet, and is therefore preventable. if you, have constipation, bad breath, or headache yen need medicine right away, 'the moment you Suspect Your bow- els aro clogged, you should take Dr Hamilton's PUN the sittOotheSt lalor Of them all. They move the bowele „and elvanee tile liter eo eineothly searcely notice the ef- feet, But- Yee can get the action just the tame. Telten ae algae you weke up next morning, clear headed, hungry, ;aged, energetic, feeling like a different man. Why don't YOU spend a quarter to, day and try Dr. Hamilton's Pills. ' They work so easy, jast as nature would ordtir, • never gripe or cause headache; Finest thing for folks that are out of sorts, dePreased, lack- ing in color a,nd spirits. Folks that use Dr, Hamiltou's Pills are never sick, never have an ache or a Pain -feel goad all the time simPlY because their system is. clean, regu- lated and healthy. This you can eas- ily prove yourself. WHEN BUYING A HORSE, Buying a. horse from. an honest, trustworthy person is all right; but the analority of horses are purchased from dealers, and not a ftew of the latter are up to 'the tricks of the ,trade." The man who knows nothing about a horse must rely upon the dealer's word, which in great many cases has been the cause of a bad bar- gain. It is, therefore, well that a lit- tle kn,owledge be acquired before the step is taken. These tricks as practiced by deal- ers are many, A horse it made to ap- pear young by giving a StimUlating doge. The process of filling up the depressions over an old' horse's eyes is another matter that requires the _art of a.n adept, This is termed,"puff- ing the glims." The skin over the cavity bi punctured, and the jockey their fill it with air from his mouth; the aperture closes, and the brow be - conies as smooth as that of. a young h • Jockey go so far sometimes as to paint a 'horse all ever, if his color is bad; and dying in spots for the pur- pose of producing matched teams is a common practice. This is a clever trick and not easily detected, The white hairs which appear about the head and eyes of aged animals are fraaa quentiy pulled out. Horses, too, are doped to produce the appearance of flesh. Dealers frequently endeavor to pass off a glandered horse upon an unwary customer by stimulating the noatrils 'until the animal has- snorted away all the matter lying in tbem, and then by infections of an astringent nature producing a temporary suppression of the discharge.' But of all the nfeans by -which the dealer carries on his trade there are none so muelt relied on or so effective as bold and ingenious lying, Thes is his great resourse. It. furnishes his- tory, pedigree and warranty. Sh.ould there be blemishes on the horse, they can be easily explained away by plaus- ible lies. The serest Man to purchase from is the reliable and long-established deal- er, who has built up a trade on honest principles. He not only wants to sell to You, but he wants to make your bargain so• satisfactorily that you will tell others about his fairness. •The fact of the matter is that even few veterinarians are able in all eases to detect some forms of unsoundness in the horse. la is the purpose of this article to offer some hints that may be of assistance to those who do not "know it all" when it is necessary for them to rely on their own judg- ment al; to the soundness of some par- ticular animal. We will assume that the horse to be examined is sound ex- ternally, that is, is free of curbs, spa- ying, splints, ringbones, quarter cracks, bad eye sight, etc., and Is te all appearances not lame. A superficial examination of this kind is all that is uspally made, and that, too, under conditions often most favorable to tbe animal in question, it usually having been under motion for some time beeore the examination takes place. When such is the cese, certain defecth, such as certain forms of lameness, are lia.ble to be overlook- ed, as the lameness disappears with exercise. „In all eases the horse to be'examined should be tied in a wellelighted stall for at -least one hour before moved out for inspection. During the time the aninial le in the stable no one sbould be permitted to go near it. Ob- •e- eat' di 1 oe reveal certain defects, ahd the hour's rest gives atnple time for the horse to cool out. Two things to watch for While the ae r tng and "weaving," the latter a form of chorea, evinced only in the stable while the horse is not excited ba' the presenee of owner or grootn. The term "weating" is applied to this af- fection frore the resemblance to tho motions of the weaver; the subject rolls with a swayitig motion frail one front forst to the other. When the horse is to be taken out have an at- tendant back it out Of the Stall, the exatniner standing behind it and not- ing if there are any sytnatotes of tittifigattla tor in backing mit of a stall er turning suddenly arottild ie e sures Me o o etecting this defeat, the horsee will Show It under such corlditions Unit never at any tith- er time ?shove the least 'sytnptome ot It, The horse now being cool abet hi at natural -cohdition, if there le anY eltronle lattleneedi it is liable to shOW if trotted off to the halter 'before the horse had time to warm out of it by The examination of the teeth 1.a solnething that should not be °Ver. letiked when eXamining for eroundooess. Good molars are about as eseetitial ets good feet. It is a common giving, "No foot, no hone," and it might be added that if a here° has bad teeth it wilt .sot 'be a good horse for long. After the examinations boa beet made there remains the test tor ecutulness of Wind, The tato Moist tetanal ailments ot tido kind ars s oo a ground for tri -Argos chyme, 6.igetoum two heives and twilit Many dishonest Infirma a a tb 11 ° deaterie have boconie adopts in the matter of dlerolieing or so palliating elteee defects in the horse that we have known professional buYers to buy horses badly ttftected with the heaves, A slim gallop of 100 to 200 yarde will Usually reveal whether or not the ani - Mal ii4 a roarer, but other methotis Eire sometimes necessary as a test for heaves, Certain drugs and modes of feeding will palliate tbe disearie, that it can be deteeted in only one manner, namely, "coughing" the animal. The Cough of heevee le characteristic, and no matter how carefully the horse lais been Prepared to pass iaspeetion, if it be forced to cough theaffection can be easilY cletected if present. In making this test, stand at one side, and with the hand. grasp firmly tbe larynx, or throat, pressing it firm- ly, while the head es left free, end a COugli will be the result, either a na- tural and healthy cough or the char- acteristie cough of 'heaves, Examination for soundness is really the duty of a veterinarian, but the ebove Mato, as, aS we have veld be- fore, for the use of the aVerage Par' chaser, and if they prove of assslt- anee when profeesional aid Is not to •Dtleteratatidia, atibthenen oautrtaionbajrt in offering • NOTES. We tent about the drudgery of dairyihg, and it is ratheit a binding btisineas; but it is the poor half of the herd that makes, it so. Keep records, weed out those poor emit, pay more individual attention to the rest, feea- ine them, up to tbeir capacity to re- opond, and feed the rest of the field products to aheep or colts or steers or heifer calves,' or even sell them outright. Cull out the unprofitable Part of the herd and don't do it by guesswork. Some people think that they oan tell by the looks of a pail how much milk there is in it. Any man who has not actually weighed or measured several milkings will be in - dined to _exaggerate the amount by from 25 to 50 per pent. Potassium salph—ide, one ounce to taro gallons of water, as recommended for mildew on lilacs or roses. This dis- eage may be recognized by the white spots appearing on the- plants. There is less waste in feeding silage than in feeding fodder, because good silage, properly fed, is entirely con- sumed. The dairy barns are few and far between that have enough windew space in them. One should allow about four square feet of light space for every cew• Milk being acarce on many farm% the pig is likely to run short of the food niost desirable for rapid growth. In such eases a good, substitute for eummer feed is a retie pasture. After the rape has grown eight to ten inches high, small pigs can be turned in. A large growth should be obtained be- fore turning the larger hogs and sheep in, so as to prevent pulling of the plants. Do not allow too close pas- turing, as this will prevent a second growth. Properly pastured, it will supply feed until winter. A MassaelluSetts melou grower says he considers a swarm of bees In the vielnity of the melon patch an advan- tage in pollenieing the blossoms. They tend to help the vines to make a larg- er setting,of fruit, and to a more per- fect condition of the melons. Breakineitp the hardpan under the surfaee by the uso of dynamite, deep Plowing pr subsoiling helps. dvainage. . Bulletin No. 400, of the New York Station at Geneva, advocates the use of ground limestone for correcting soil acidity, and gives strong evidence, from careful and extensive tests in other States and from considerable ex- perience in New York, to show that this unburned stone, ground moderate- ly fine and applied in liberal quanti- ties once in a, rotation of from three to five years, is fully as effective as other foems.of lime, and in most con- ditions decidedly the most ec.onomi- eal. Sharpbill-So the family gross the street have a new phonograph, eh? Orookedbill-No; it's those pesky' bees etwarming again. Law and the Queen. The quaintness Of many provisions of British law is curiously illustrated in the stetus of the queen of Englaild. so far as her majesty s private busi- aess is concern..d, she le not regarded by the laws end customs of England as a married woman at all. She is the only woman tn Great Britain who does not come within the scope of the mar- ried woman's rroperty qt. The idea in all this is that affairs of state can- sume a 1 the t me cf the king, and therefore no reeponsibility for the queen's private business ruts upoh him, If the queen eon traeted debts In her hueband',. Mlle he would. net be responsible for them, as anY other hurl* band in the United leingdOm would, The king eanaot be sued for debte but the queen can be. ShoUld the king die some authorities hold that the queen could net marry again, in erne) she wished to, withceit the license of the king's flueeessOr.-NeW York Tribune, A Magnetics island. The island of BOrnholtn, in the Bale tie sea, may`be regarded as A huge magnet. Although the power of at- traction. is not So great as to draw nails and *bolts ont of approaching ships, .the Magnetism works a good deal of daraage in that it deflects the needle elf the maven tiO that it can- not be depended upon. The effeet Is poreeptible at a distance of nine and a half Milee. • WE PAY IlIGHEST TRICES FOR RAW FURS FREE "Hallaoree 'rapport etilto" Ztislibh ttoicti, ed rages Wag hew atiLt*Imi trAp Iktrot ottohtotheveattsiturrAer P0tlibesice itlittww" linre,rioSotlyelaanilettooltt". meats, also ' Maoist th4 Spolitmtn't Suppe eater Ilitetrworte.tneemetetorespoodienesietn,roreenhat,Aedbytootit,ava4t JOHN ALLAMLIZietthiatil 1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MAKES THE WHITEST.1.1611TES1 " yEAS1 CAREs MADE IN CANADA .4smarossur Asir ROYAL YEAST CAKES MAKE PERPEPT BREAD Bread made in the home with Royai yeast wilt keep freolh and rnoiet longer than that made with any other, Food Scientists claim that there is more nouriihrnent M a pound of good home made bread than in a pound of meat. Consider the difference ineost, EW,GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO. ONT Ar WINNIPEG MaNTeeel. .0.0.1eke. 111 • 44•4114411.e..04.4.4.•4141 , THE LIOULTRY WORLD ••••••••••••••••••• LADY EGLANTINE'S RECORD. Some years ago, even wise poultxy editors scoffed at the idea of auy hen laying 200 eggs 365 days. Users or trap nests bad told of remarkable lay- ing, but as they came from, unofficial eources, little credence was given them, and the 200 -egg hen, though then in the yard& of some breeders, was not given the consideration it is to -day. Twoh.unclred eggs in a year froth a hen is mighty good. laying, and while the 200 -egg producers are not common, they are becoming more plentiful each year, where trap nest- ing is resorted to and proper breeding followed. Each year at the laying contests bold in different States the offieial world's record has been broken. Lest year ,tet the international contest staged at 'MOM:Wale, Pa., a Columbia Plymouth Rock took the honors for the year, a New Jersey product, This Year a Maryland Leghorn, the product of the Eglantine Farms, Greensboro, Md., A. A. Christian, of Philadelphia, owner, has broken all laying .eompetition re- edrds, making this singlecomb White Leghorn the most wonderful layer in the world. If is dou.btful if either private or any other records have ever approached the great record made by this hen, and it seems to the un- educated. in poultry lore that no hen could lay as many eggs, through moult and all. Those who scoffed at the 200 -egg hen eome years ago have experienced a change in heart, but few, eveu among the more experienced poultry - keepers were willing to admit the 300 -egg hen. It seems tO bolter°, un- less Lady Eglantine dies, or ceases to lay very shortly. This little Leghorn has made history and will do as much as have other high -scoring egg pro- ducers to bring poultry keepers to breed. for more eggs. Among tile matority of poultry keep- ers haphazard breeding has been. the rule, with. the result of indifferent egg production. With the advent of the laying contests held in different States, official records bavo shown the possibilities of better egg produc- tion when the fowls have been placed under expert care, with the results of each. year bringing forward a bird that has bettered any previous record, and perhaps the end is not yet. The world's champion is not a haphazard - bred fowl. The manager of the Eg- lantine farm• haS been selecting the best layers, mating them to males of high records for several years, and tbe official record of the world's champion proves that it has not been in vain. There is only one way to tell the laying hen, and that is by the trap nest. Systems may come and go, and to a certain extent help, but no sys- tem yet, other tha,n. the trap nest, ca.n tell how many 'eggs a hen has laid in 365 days. Lady Eglantine, with her record at 292 eggs, is fully entitled to all ahe glory that comes to a world's cha.mplon. STORS, CONN., 200 -EGG B1RD. In last year's competition only a lit- tle over sixty indieidurrI hens reaghed the 200 egg mark, or about seven and' a half per cent. of 'the birds entered in the contest. In the present com- petition the management predicts something like 130 200 egg hens, or 13 per cent. of the individuals entered. This prediction includes all birds that had a record of 170 up to the end of August, and provided, furthermore, that they had laid at least twenty eggs during the month of August. On this basis the subjected table has been made showing the probable number of 200 -egg hens in each breed and the per cent. of the total number. Breed Entered.Eggs. Cents No. 200 Per W. Rocks 50 B. Rocks .. ..... 70 161 1126 W. Wyandottes. .. 90 12 13 Buff Wyendottes 2 20 , , e ,s W. Legliorns 400 , 69 17 B. Legharne .. 10 2 20 Sil. Campines 20 1 5 Suesex 10„ 1 19 NOTES. The best stroke of genius any man eab. show just now is to sort out every single old hen and sell her, Ever day a• broiler st farra after iris of Markettible size, it eats a sliee 'Off the top of its head." Put a etdp to that, Get them to town befOre they hese done the de- capitathig act to the finish. ' Hens at large will take many a bite tit grass afid other green stuff; but juet toes down before thera a lettuce leaf and see how they will gobble it up, It ts not wise to conelude that be- cause your poultry have the run of the tieltbs they are gettlieg all the grit they need. See that the supply is good in the house every day. Better start with five .hens and work up to a thousand than to start With a thonsand a.nd work doWn to five. Poor shipping orates are costly things, To meny broken eggs at the other end. Better pay five eents more for a good crate than to have italf-a- dollar's worth of eggs smashed. It is fine to go to the home fair so as to let people know what kind of stock you have; but look out that you do not get the fever of following the pens all over tho country, Leave that toTshotelriceb:rdey tliteseiktys and nights that the poultry keeper keeps eareful watch on the growing Boric. When crowd. ing ot the poultry le indulged in the sfottolln.colds, often folloWed by ratite is loor grit in. the eye aPP1Y OM or two Of eaStOr iteellieves the irrita- tloir. e SOHOOL130Y HOWLERS, More Quaint Lights On Men and Things, Some delightful samplee of school- boy. howlers are given oy, the "Lauver sity C,orrespondeut," Here are a few: 'late King was not to order taxis without the consont of Parliament. Bombardier wells ii a great writer about the future. To germinate is to become a netur- alized German. A. refugee keeps oilier at a football moat Cecil Rhodes founded 'Sateen. Charles II, told the people. they could get drunk and 'gamble arid do what they liked. That was called the Restoration, . aaealtaesre,utl.larrievaentan: lefainine, woniatt, . Tho Inquisitions woce cuatonis du- ties levied by James 1. The Philistines wore islands 10 th.? Pacific. "Boys to guide the plough and pen" tnireanfolbovisys to .plough and look hftor 'rennyilou, the greatest Roman prose -writer that aVOI• HMI, wrote the "Lilted," and "Paradise Lost." Australia sends to England wine mane from a bird named the emu. Charles 1. was going to metre, the Infanta of Spain. He went to see her, and Shakespeare) lays he never rmiled again. . Milton, when 12 years old, wriee -a hymn beginning, "Lettere from a alati. stone mind." . There are three kinds of Dcwns - North Dowas, South Downs, a,nri Vail- til'IL.) on•kr7 s.k.7112.. tag a Nancontowrirats. javte.ry fat, besides be - Magna Obarta meant; the Queen has lost her garter; the Preneh is lion! soil qui mal y pense. Celogne is famous, for the odor Inue'decoptilTroaften lose their conseiences when they are ill. /- r "MassOniea," ths orgal of the Old Girls' :Masonic Aseteetati in, bas sonic: *howlers" which occurred in the C'lirlstn:as examinas.lon papers of tbe Masonic' Girls' School. Qeeen elary hal all the Froteeiante tint under the steak! The Invisible Armada was so ealled bemuse you couldn't..see it.' Henry VIII was very pious, and he (1,1hatc.ilreahhyran book chained up ill every flatherine Of Arragoa was pushed oft the throne by Anne Boleyn. Thomas a:Becket, was standing on• (1.‘h,tetioasl.ter when four nights. came and killed him. • A. Welsh prince was born to please The feudal stettem was treat a large tin was put ever the fire so that it would go out at 7 o'clock. • _ • , The Tragedy of the Agate Type. , • (Buffalo News.) . Casualty lists, as theyeappear in the daily publication erom the other side, to Americans -e eelly so. f are, of course, einctly impersonal They represent -in their Countless agate lines -the sum total of men who lhaaavt.e dared death for a principle -and One eau well imagine, however, how sharply. they strike at the hearts of the horae.people. Imagine, if you can, the daily grind of agate records of what happened yesterday, served in your evening Paper. Imagine searching the list from curiosity and findiag there the name of the splendid young chap who shared your vacation joys, the son of your partner's business friend in a distant city, or the young man who ushered with you at the nuptials of a muhatuattglinfraiendd.ay after clay the anti pang, , one day sharper than another, depending upon the closeness of the bayonet's •thruste. Some of the simple, oliecure records from the front reach far beyond the shores of saddened Europe, This, for example, jibes strongly witlt the coreedy of Sheridan: ° Killed -Lieut. W. P. Sheridan (17,- 256), Roaal Wickshires, Sheridan, one of the most entleusa male of the younger English officers, was the son of Edward Sheridan, and the great grandson of Richard Brine - ley Sheridan. Another name hidden away in the Labyrinth of Sorrow has a world-wide interest: John Kipling, Irish Guard's (12,394). ' ,Tohn Kipling, only eon of Itudyard Kipling, the celebrated English poet. was delicate and frail, but answered the deli to arms early in the war. Re- peatedly wounded, he remained on the firing line until the Nemesis of battit claimed him. Instinctively, one hark•: back to the "Barrack Room Ballads" of •the boy soldier's father, those red- blooded rhymes of the service, anti a .s,t,rriainagiaelayraplroPhetie gaatrain: of this story is plainly te be aeon: You 'a,ven't got no famillee when Servile of the (amen -- You ateen't got no brothers, fathers, Barterer, Wieres or sons.- .., --.4,..a..... RECKLESS AtrroiSTs. (Pittsburg Gazotte-Thrw) , Probably the besetting inietake ,..f al.to- mobile owners and e tatt eat:, $ 1 1.1 :they peptlit ralnittarity With ailei,d, iht11- Muir t(ti t!IgtrXIVIA"Ala lin tiii.s'Oligss la.,,.• a : 81:: ht:1111not T,cittt:::::::;:vels:111,51t‘o.:i. vo.i.v.ily,'41,1.:ii".1;1:t vice:111; ‘thunity and or great prtniti!o, a:ip,,ar ;high standing, ,of worth to the emit - .the tale of the yes.r, iti thp ai,....:,apPra, flip namee af ticaliie of pr000nene.., a mpii or mcemplary lillt,h,riet* ja tilvir or. am a prOiel et aak a -41A' the rommoner 1 Mil I '1111antirgilfglin141i!"=" .1)"1" "-v""8" 'Mit $1. 1,•01' livi.a i of folly. seem to lose Nlvlit of their t. ni- ":,:tottilitlpytitillavieisoilnif,t,f:78ti'le'lly t Air iii!:,1 1 :,:,:(,:';'J.Vntruill ,o timtr motors for a. bit of dre-n air ani The neutral nations may be very anxious, for peace, but the alileo pro - peep to dictate the ternis. Germane -el greatest difficulty 1.. to "eve teasel' as inters see her," in ial .er Ned -blooded lentetliness. Both tlie British and the 44anadian Red Cross Societies are appealing for funds. Those wild can't fight must pay. e. The British are now using Silloee and gas in their attacks on. the Ger- mans, Fighting the devil with fire, as it were. Canada's wheat fielde ylolded 71,- 97voa bushels more duriug 1915 time e 1914. That will feed rt few solaiere Or a. day or two. The Armenian massacres will stop when all the Armeniane aro masses cred. In the meantime Count Berns- torff poohepoohs the whole .affair. 0 I 0. Tbe-New York Evening Mail wantS the United States to buy from Great Britain the bilande or Bermuda aud famaica. But the British Empire is not &ening its real estate just now, _ • Germany objects .to Britain and France employing colored troops. in he war. But these are egentlemen compared to the men who ravaged Belgium and who are murdering the ermenians. Over four million dollars a -mouth will be required to provide for the hemeleee Belgians 'during coming winter -and they sacrificed their own aear homes for the principles tbat Britain and Ilex allies are fighting for. England has produced at least one brilliant political prophet in Lord • Fisher, who predicted so long ago tut 1906 thet there would be a war with !jemmy in 1914 and that Jenicoe would be tbe commander of the British navy, says rt Rochester exchange. ft was a good guees, His Lordship really made it. Since the beginning of the war alasgow corporation hae recruited, clothed, equipped and also housed un- til they were drafted elsewhere, no fewer than 6,500 mon, the equipment including ehe necessary altieles, some fifty in number, for each man's kit. This must have taken quite burden ofethe Government. Mr. Albert Thomas, France's muni- tion minister, told. British lebor lead- ers the other day that there had not been one .strike in France sit‘e.e the war began. The men in munition factories were working Sunday and eaturday, with only one day off a fortnighl, or else every Sunday morn- ing. The men had agreed to'' put aside for the present all ediffieulties caueed by union rules or traditions. That is a lesson for the rest of us. at • a Cliwernor Brumbaugh, of Pennsyl- eyrie, has juat made an automobile tour of the State for the purpose of seeing for himself the progress of the good roads movement. He had trav- elled over 1,100 miles, according to the report of a correspondent who aecom- panted him from Pittsburg forward. That correspondent, telegraphing to his paper for publication, says: "In the whole eircle of the State not mote than tea miles of "bad" road was encountered, Some of the highways were better ihan others, but for the most part they were all thee anyone Could ask, and the work is going ahead rapidly, the people of the various communities are being brought into closer and easier communication, and that tourists outside the State have learned of conditions here is evidenced by the large number of cars from other Suttee met on the tour." WHAT OF KINGS? (Louden Adyt.rtiser) It is indeed doubtful if democratiC Peo- nies Europe will again permit th.L in- termarriage of royal families as has been the custom in the past ;While the pres- ent conflict has Served to disprove the conspiracy theory of rulers plunging their PeoMes into war by mutual consent, it nevertheless remainS true that thinking People in Britain over have come to the conclusion that the blood of the Guelph:4 and the Hohenzollern:4 should not again mingle. Tt is to be doubted if the houses will ever be reconciled. Royalty has been torn asunder, perhaps permanently, and the results to monarchial lines will be drastic. Russia, Britain, Partngal. Servia, Italsr are for all times, ie wawa seem, separated in royal relationshin from GermanY, Austria, and Bataria. Turkey Will not be affected. Certainly the British people and the British ruling family may he relied upon, to swear a solemn oath against mar- riage with the ITohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs. The war may restrict royal - The purest form of democracy may come thyitnytosnodwt:ything we can 00W imaiine. 1145 GERMAN Sun. "mENA0E." (Philadelraia Record) tim proof were needed of the fail- ure of Germany's submarine warfare against Great Britain, so far as its ef- n et on the merchant marine is COWeet'll- ed, it is afforded by the annual reports of some Bnglish shipping companies. Of four t'ardiff :•,tettniships lines one luta Paid dividond of per cent. for the four months ending August SI, and the others have paid, 10 per cent, or more for the year. A Newcastle conmany operating' 41 vessels paid, 10 1,10r cent. for the year ending dune Al, and reserved handsome surplus of emergencies. The revenues of the Manchester ship canal are Stead- ily inereasing, and two now steamship lines from. that port have reeently been established. There Is things in such facts and Meisel to indicate any serious fear of rierman submarines. These are stilt at base, according to yesterday's re- tool of the sinking of a 'British Vesael, hut it is evident that their Power for injury has been greatly curtailed. "It's no use." pouted little. -Freddy, who" had just eampleteti ais first week it .sellool, "1 shall never go to school igain!" "But why?" asked lie mother. "What's the Use of goieg? shall never loam .to .spell!" 'Vim/ do you mean?" "Well, bow -can 1 - • -444- learn -to'' spell when • the-teaelter .41ty mow with money to- burn eau elianges the ,words every laYrkl-thi. be some girrs. flares • . tura) Iterald. " • .t.!"