HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-3-4, Page 2BRITISH GUNS ARE SUPREME
TELE GI':IIMA.NS ESE AN IN.
GENDIARY SHELL.
{,lertuan Tricks No Longer Effec-
tive, and They Are Always
• Detected.
:The British army in Trance is now
using heavy howitzers, which, se-
conding to a report front the Official
"Eyewitness" with the expedition-
ary ,furca, ;have gained ascendency
over the Heavy German guns. These
howitzers, he states, were used in
sueceseful attacks on the Gelman
poeitions in the brick fields eottth
of La Bassen Canal a few week ago,
"Our heavy he vit ers took part
in this bombardment, ,their fire be-
ing directed on the railway
angle." the the Eyewitness says. The
boom of these pieces and the deton-
ation of their shells were audible
twenty miles away above the •roar
of the other artillery, while to those
close at hand the shreiking of the
great projectiles through the air was
most impressive, as were the vol-
umes of ,smoke and debris thrown
up. The effect of the lyddite shells
was truly terrific, one house being
blown bodily into the air, and as
they burst among the brick stacks
they ereated great have among the
enemy.
It Blinded Them.
•The assault was launched
against a strong position or `keep'
among the stacks of bricks held by
the Germans. Our storming col-
umns rushed the work from three
ekles at once ,and captured it with
very- little loss, /or, a prisoner after-
ward stated. the noise of the burst-
ing shells was so great and the
elute& of dust with which the de-
fenders were surrounded were eo
thick that they •did not observe our
men advancing until too .late. At
the sante time trenches to the north
of this point, between it and the
carni, were stormed by another
party. By seizing these points we
were enabled to 4ireupy a cortin-
uc,uq line southwards from our for-
ward poste on tate canal, which
formed an advantageous position in
front of the brick fields.
'We eaptured nineteen unwound-
ed prisoners, in addition to many
wornded, a trench mortar and
mu;hine guns. The Germans left
70 dead en the ground, while our
casualties were insignificant.
It Won't Do Now.
"The Germans, however, showed
nu inclination to accept this reverse,
for in the early hours of Feb. 7 a
body of them advanced along the
canal bank, shouting out, 'Don't
shout: we are engineers.' This form
of stratagem. unfortunately for the
enmity. has now lost its novelty. Our
men held their fire until the sup-
posed sappers were only a few yards
alineand then opened with te ma-
ch ee faun, with the result that
`eneteeers fell back, leaving thirty
bodies in front of o,ur line. In the
afternoon another attack was at-
tempted, but it melted away under
our artillery fire, and did not arrive
at c:iose quarters.
"A great feature of the recent
fighting has been the aecuracy of
our artillery fire. On one occasion
car guns avromplished the feat of
blowing the Germans out of trench-
es -they were occupying on an em-
bankment. although it was only
forty yards from that which we
were holding. On the sixth of Feb.
most of the {.n.ems's casualties were
due to our shell fire. The whole of
the neva both behind and im-
mediately in front of the' trenches
we now l•olfl were found to be litter-
ed with the bodies of hundreds of
Germans killed in the various fights
since Jan. 25. Our artillery fire
here ha' obtained such ascendancy
that after the s sseult on that day
out troops actually were able to put
Up barbed wire entanglements in
front ul their trenches in broad day-
light without being fired at by the
eaemeas infantry. Prisoners cap-
tured were despondent and much
shake',.
.1 Peculiar Shell.
"The Germans rely very much on
an incendiary s'he:ll for damaging
towns, an in their recent bombarda
meet of Armentiers they made use
of projectiles of this type packed
with candles composed of celluloid,
phosphorus and wax, which: mater-
ial is so inflammable that it will ig-
nite is piacrd in the sun.
"tan the house -to -!house fighting
the• allies have distinguished them-
se1•vee greatly . One man eingle-
'handed attaeked a house held by
eight Geranans. He fired at them,
• and they returned the fire until in
order to get to close quarters he en-
listed the help of two other men.
Tho=three dusted forward through
the .;Alarm of'bullets and •broke into
the !house. They accounted for the
eight oeeupants, four of whom were
, killed, and the other four led off in
triumph as prisoners,
'];veli Consumptives Called,
The "Eyewitness" says bhat some
tri the prdsonees captured lately
have been of comparatively poor
hysioal condition., woe] tells of finde
ng'znthe pocket
p of au dead German
two, medical oertifioatee stating that
e was suffering from oonsumpelem,
The eertufrcutteet were aeeom. anted
by an .application from the eotdier's
father asking that the son be re.
Roved front the necessity of going
into active service, Theo oral ob-
server wase quotes lettere which he
ears were received by eoldisere froan
home and whieh were found on bod-
ien, cornplaining of the inerease ivt,
the cost of living and the emercity
of bread, ani stating that even
school boys were being called into
military service.
Were Mowed Down,
Reverting to the Gellman attack
on Guinelhy on Jan. 95, the "Eye-
witness" saw` that the Germans
Pressed on in etwerms, being mowed
down, but yet in places reaching the
British trendhes, and in others
penebrating beyond than.
"But oven when our lino was
broken," he co -minuet, "portions of
it continued to resist, and our in-
fantry holding them, when assailed
from the rear, remained steady,'
faced about and met the enemy with
rifle and bayonet.
"Some of those in the village ,who
had been engaged in elearing the
enemy out of the houses, had got
somewhat scattered until of one
party only fifteen remained to-
gether, when they saw that some of
the enemy were established iu one
of our fire trenches, just outside.
They at once charged down the
trench, led by their officer, and kil-
led or captured all the Germans,
forty in number.
An Exception.
"During the engagement at
Givenchy one of our officers had
been partially buried by 'a parapet
of a trench which alta been blown
in on top of him. .A German officer
who saw him. despite the fact that
he himself was under a hail of beil-
lets, stopped to dig him out and give
him. some brandy from his flask
To the regret of these of our men
who witnessed the deed of gallantry
and `self-sacrifice, and deeply ap-
preciated it, the German officer was
killed by a Chante bullet."
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NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST
WHAT THE: WESTERN PEOPLE
ARE DOING:
Progress of the Great West Told
in a Few Pointed
Paragraphs.
The new building in Prince Ru-
pert, B.C., last year cost a little
over $600,000,
At Kathlyn, B.C., the G.T.R. cut
7,000 tons of ice, It was 16 inches
thick.
During the past 12 years the sum
of $95,000,000 has been expended in
Vancouver for buildings.
Mrs. Mebissa Gerow died at Vic-
toria. She was 79 and one of the
first residents of that city.
When the Canadian Northern
Railway is finished it will have 803
miles of traek in British Columbia.
Hoteime•n of Vancouver think
that city will this year get the big-
gest share of tourist traffic in its
history.
A rubber roofing company at Vic-
toria ;has sent a sample consignment
to South Africa and hopes to de-
velop trade,
Vancouver has opened an unem-
ployed Boy' s Institute, where job -
les lads between the ages of 16 and
20 will be looked after.
An effort will be roads to salve
$200,000 in gold, lost on the Rus-
sian sloop Neva, wrecked while en
route to Sitka, Alaska 60 years ago.
The oldest man in the Provincial
Rome at Kamloops, B.C.,s Peter
Keeler, He was 94 yeara old, and
although blind, is as lively as some
men half his age.
Grant Hall, new vice-president of
the C.P.R. said in Vancouver that
the Rogers Pass tunnel will: be fin-
ished in two years,. It will lower
the grade 541 feet and shorten the
linethree miles.
One of the best known of British
Columbia's old timers is dead in the
person of William L. Fagan. • He
had held' many important railway
positions, and when 'he died was
provincial tax collector.
It is complained that beer traps
are spread promiscuously in the
Fraser Valley district, Some years
ago a man near Blaine was caught
in one, end was found starved to
death three weeks later.
West Vancouver is soon to have
a weber supply from Lister's Creek,
A dam 126 feet long is to be built
and a reservoir oapable.of storing
1,100,000 .gallons of water created,
The octet will be nearly $99,000
R. H. Alexander, e. charter mem-
ber O. tem Vancouver Board of
Trade and one of the best known
ni•en on the Paeifio Coast, died at
his son's home in Seattle, Ile, with
as party, went to B.C. by the over-
land route in 1862.
Archibald Dods, •a pioneer of
British Columbia, died in Victoria,
Born in Scotland he went to
Australia with his parents when 10
years old. In 1862 the gold dis-
coveries. in British Columbia led
frim to take the long voyages from
Australia in a sailing ship.
A man, named Nate Tucker was
caught in a dry enowslide in the
Sloven while walking between Tiger
and Bobo entrees. He was anestod
down the mountain hall a mile.
When found he was taken to the
New Denver hospabal badly cut, one
a.rm broken in two places, Wand his
.right leg torn and bruised in a
tenable manner. Ho wee one of the
few men to ride a elide and come
out alive.
Britain's Super.Dreadnougitt Audacloub.
New York •hears that she did not sink, but has been repaired, and will ge into commission next week.
GERMAN PRISONER'ST
STORY
TELLS OF LMF.0 IN AN ENGLISH
PRISON GA.MIP,
Walter Goerlitz Says Ile Is Well
Treated by British
Captors.
The experiences of'a. German who
was taken from a liner at Falmouth
while going to join the Kaiser's
army, are ,i•nteretstingly Mold in a
letter of Walter Goerlitz to his
uncle, Hugo .Goerlitz, the impres-
sario who brought Rubelik, Pad-
rewski and Richard t5bratiss to
America, and who saw his nephew
in captivity. The wriber is a son
of a colonel in charge of a prison-
ers' camp at Scineidemuhle, Ger-
many. The letter said impart :—
On August iota, at Falmouth,
they todlc us, tbiirltyetwo Germans
and Austrians, away from the ship,
and lodged us in a grain .'store,
where we remained a week without
straw or (blankets. Thad two rugs,
which I lent to •some of the others,
as I was used to roughing it, bat
the next day 1 out a lot of grass
which grew in front of our prison,
and made fine mattresses for myself
and three friends.
The soldiers and!the officers were
very nice to us, and dad all in their
power,;for which naturally we were
substantially grateful.
Were Well Treated.
The neat day we were sent by
rail, to Ne'wibury, .and the command-
er of Falmouth reserved a com-
partment for our panty of ire. En
route we nail all the liberty we
wanted, and bhe corporal allowed
us eo alight at a station :to take tea.
On our arrival at Newlbury, the
same evening, we were glazed- in
the boxes at the racecourse, which
are in a closed building. There
were from six to 'ten men in each
box; of the 'be'tter class only six
were put in one box. We had suf-
ficienb straw ,and four Blankets. For
food we received tea, bread and
margarine in the morning, soup,
meat and ,potatoes for •dinner, and
for supper the same as (breakfast,
everything quite good and plenti-
ful..
We had a sorb of self-government,
A chief captain, and for boxes con-
tainin;g ben men, an under captain,
all, of course, prisoners of war.
The •prisoners did their own cook-
ing. The woe-eb, as far as I was
concerned, was being deprived of
miv liberty, as we only saw the walls
of the building. On Saturday
nights we always had entertain-
ments, songs and recitations, which
were quite good, and some times we
masqueraded and had funny pro-
cession's. Bub ,when it rained it
was nasty.
On October 23rd, the camp in
whidh you visited me was erected,
and 1 was delighted when Col,
Haines (the commander) placed me
there as a camp captain, and I also
was appointed postmaster. There
we were ale in tents, Mr. Brink -
mann, whom I introduced to you as
thief captain, I second captain and
poeemester, and a friend of mine
quartermaster. Here also we had
self-government, and not a soldier
entered our camp.
have First-class Cooler.
Our etooks, also prisoners of war,
were professional ohelfs of the first
London hotels, and they cooked
very tasty meals with the supplies
they received.
In the morning we had tea and
hall a loaf of English bread for
each ; for dinner soup, meat and
potatoes, Sometimes the meat was
boiled, sometimes roasted; tea in
the afternoon, ,amcl gaup again for'
supper. The cooks, by !being care-
ful, often, saved from the allow-
ance of milk and sugar, which they
exchanged for beans .and peas'.
was There '
1 a a lino !hand, wha,dh
played every night, We instituted
a dharity fund, ;from which we
heaped those who had no money.
There were booemakers 'who had to
sola our boa'ts, and the leather re-
quired nor those wlio were without
means was paid out of our charity
fund, .and each hoolimaker was also
paid a small sum+far the wort: done
although they worked w illsngly, as
they rejoiced in having work to
do. The Government supplied
boots, enatihing, ,and urider•weee for
those wnho hacl no means.
'Col. Haines, in many oases, put
bis hand into his own pocket to
heap, and he was com'tinuousily try-
ing to improve our position es much
as possible. When the camp brake
up (the prisoners were sent to win-
ter in new barracks) I stented to
send ten address of thanks to Col.
Haines and coeleoted signatures ;for
that purpose, but it created a great
revolt, because the mien thought
that the newspapers would use it
extensively. I nvas obliged to ask
C'ol-. Haines with a detachment of
soldiers to come to our re'soue, as
the men wanted bo thrash the oap-
tains.
The British Method.
When Col. Haines arrived he
made a fine speech ,to the men,
speaking not as a oommand•er would
address prisoners, but as a father
would speak to his chihclren. He
said: "If you are determined to
make a row you had .better raise
three cheers for me," whidh was
done.
As far as I can judge, the English
have done the utmost men can do,
and, as bhe Englishmen have not
mnclh talent for organization, 11 is
very commendable what they
achieved. The ootnmrander was
charming, much too good-ihearted,
and he tried in every way to better
our lives.
GIGANTIC FIGURES.
Carry Their .Ow•n Moral to the
Canadian Jammer.
Great Britain imported 51,786,915
bushels of wheat from Canada in
1913. She also. imported 9,360,400
bushels from Russia, 2,050,987 from
Germany, 804,533 from France, 201,-
653 from Roumania, 265,843 from
Austria-Hungary and 76,533 ,bushels
from Bulgaria, a total of 12,759,949
bushels that will have to be made
up. There was a. decrease in Rus -1
site's exportations to Britain of 7,-
000,000 bushels in 1913 compared'
with 1912 end of 24,000,000 compared
with 1911. In 1913, the United
States supplied the United King-
dom with 80,013,897 bushels, an in-
crease of 32,000,000 bushels over 1912
and 43,000,000 bushels over 1911,
while Canada's increase ill 1913
over 19,12 was only 1,177,000 bushels.
Great Britain's total importations
reached; 229,580,885 bushels,
Great Britain imported 14,245,000
bushels of barley from Russia in
1913, 3,240,533 bushels from Rou-
manse, 5,208,700 bws!hels from Turk-
ey in Asia, 832,067 from Germany
and 622,533 bushels from Austria-
Hungary; a total of 24,148,833 bush-
els. Canada supplied 6,977,533
bushels and the United States 10,-
355,567 buehele. Great Britain's
total importations amounted to 52,-
858,245 bushels.
Great Britain imported 9,173,459
bushels of oats from Russia in 1913,
11,213,459 bushels from Germany,
and 2,007,765 ;bushels from Rom
enanira, a total of 22,464,683 iiteheds,••
Canada supplied 7,734,588 bushels
and the United States 4,723,814.
Great Britain's total importations
of oats were 59,829,950 bushels,
Surely the foregoing figures carry
their own moral to Canadian farm-
ers. -
WOUNDED HEARTS SEWED UP.
Patients Are Saved By as Delicate
Operation.
A Russian surgeon named Zeld-
ler reports 31 patients who recover-
ed from stab wounds of the heart
is the hospital at 0buehow. Prompt
and rapid operation is the probable
reason for this good showing.
The patients were all put under
the influence of ether very soon af-
ter the injury, part teethe cheat wadi
was removed, the heart lifted from
its bed, and the atitehesquicklyin-
treduced between pulsations, The
bony chest wall over the 'heart was
not pub back in pplace, that organ
being covered; only by skin and
muscle. This was done to give the
heart room to expand and to pre-
vent edhesions from embarrassing
bhe heart's action, ,Several of the
patients are at their daily work af-
, ter sewn years since the operation,
SWORD AT GERMAN( S BACK
HOLLAND HOLDS THE KEY TO
THE SITUATION.
H. G. Wells Writes An .:article
Which Was Suppressed by
the British Censor.
In an artiele in the New Yor
Times, written by H. G. Wells, b
refused publicabion in Britain b
the censor, the euxhor seeks to giv
'his personal views of the position o
Holiamd in the presentsituation,
foe the holds that tile Dutch hold
•bhe key to the problem. For the
position of holland is strong, as
the risk of Germany attacking her
Vanishes daily, and she stands well
with the allies, Were sine now sub-
ject to any German outrage she
could,9trike with her exoellentarmy
of 400,000 at Aix la •Ohapelle, and
turn repulse into rapid disaster.
Thus they hoid a sword ,at ,the back
orf the Kaiser, and tk,ey could cut
the main communications of the
German army in Flanders and cap-
ture enough Germans to open up
bhe road to the Rhine, or, in fast,
could Smash Germany.
What Are the Chances'?.
Now, says ,¥Ir. Wells, against the
chances of doing !this is her assur-
ance of her freedom, the allies fight
for her ,and the German sease is
leaving her people, •who have feared
it forty years. Then she has the
x
eample of the devastation of Bel-
gium ,before her.
On ,bhe other side are the losses
Hollandas ;bearing through the war
with her army always ready, (trade
dead and country full of refugees.
What if she presently struck to end
an oppressive war end end the-,tea-
sion 7
And what if she struck .also Ice
a hatred of what ;has happened to
Belgium/ 'Suppose the Dutch are
not so much frightened by the hor-
rible example of Belgium as indig-
nant. My impression oaf the Dutch—'and ,we English know something
of the ;Dutch spirit—us that ,they are
a,people not easily cowed. Suppose
that they have net only a reason-
able learhut e reasonable hatred of
"frightfulness." Suppose that . an
intelligent fe'ilow-feeling dor a small
nation has filled them :with a desire
to• give them a lesson. There, it
may be, is a;seoond reason why Hol-
land should come in,
Means Greater Holland,'
kj
ut
y
And iby coming in, there is some-
thing .more than the mere termina-
tion of a, strain .and the vindication
of international righteousness to
consider. There is the possibility,
and not only the ,possibi}ity but t)hs
possible need, ;that Holland :tthould
come out of'this world war eggraan-
elized. I want to• lay stress upon
that, because it may ,prove a dem-
sive factor in this shatter.
Indeed, in twenty years' time
Holland may need to .be a stronger
country, for then she may lie alone
between Britain and Germany—a
dangerous position unless she its
well prepared and prroteoted, So
brat the desire to be larger is
tempting and elle may yet join the
allies and Trance, Belgium, Hol-
land and Britain be hereafter join.
C,LX-.tams
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D\S\k\ASX%
THE CLEANLINESS
OF SINKS.CLOSETS.
BATHS. ORINS.ETC-
IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE
TO HEALTH.
.114•14.0. cru .>.,.,,a„oar Hofr'•.'
eel for mutual protedtion. The im-
proved frontier ;the relies could
award Hwffiand as the fruits of war
sand crushing of Germanic power
are very tempting—.and• Germany
mast be crushed!
The Improved Holland.
Ib is shot ,difficult to map a very
much improved Dietdh frontier
along the Ems, rand thence striking
down bo the Rhine and meeting the
iron country on ,the lefb bank of
bhe Rhine, whose annexation and
ex:Qloitation is Belgium's legitimate
compensation for her devastation
,ant sufferings, Here are the mak-
ings of a safer. Greater Holland)
Thousands of Dutchmen must be
looking on :the map at the present
time and thinking such things as
this. There, ,clearly and attractive-
ly, is the price of ailaanee,
The price of .neutrality is an in-
tent Holland—and a certain isola-
tion in the years .ahead. But still,
I admit, a no's unhappy Holland,
Dubah and ffree. Until a. fresh Am-
gfoeGerman struggle begins. Yet,
be it noted, a Holland a little he'lp-
less and friendless df some rena-
scent Asiatic Power should .present-
ly coveb her Eastern possessions.
The price of .participation with
Germany, on the other hand, is
comrple'te-envslapmehyt in the warm
embrace of the "good German bro-
therhood"the gradual substitu-
tion of the German language for the
Dutch, and. a Germanization ofsuch
colonies as the allies may still jeave
for Holland, frequent state visits
from Kaisers, and the anbordinae
tion of Dutch mercantile interests
to 'those of Hamburg and Altana
and (Germanized) Antwerp, And—
the everllastang howling ever3wsthere
of "Deubsoh'land, Deutsehland uber
hales."
Could Free Belgium.
Bub I have a sort of feeling for
the reasons I have stated, that even
without any serious fbreaoh of
Dutch neutrality by the Germans,
Holland may decide presently to
put her troops beside the Belgians.
And if, as is always possible, the
Germans do make some lumpish on•
slaught upon Dutch meubrality,
then I am convinced that et once t
that sturdy little oonntry will
tep and fight, And do remarkably. e
well thy it.
And I have a much stronger feel-
ing that 'preaenbly the Dull gov-
ernment will ask the Germans to 1
reconsider their proposed annexa- •c
tion of Belgium. Upon that point e,
Holland has absolutely dictatorial
power at the present moment, She
'could secure the independence of
Belgium at the cast of a fitdle pa-
per and ink, she could 'force Ger-
many to evacuate her ,sister omen -
:try by !the mere movement of her
army,
HOW BELGIUM HAS SUFFERED
POPULATION JIAS BEEN RB'
0 1JCAW ABO UT 600,000,
The Germans Have Annexed About
Everything 01
Yalue.
B flgium's popullatiou has been
reduced by about 600,000:as a result
o:£ the war and ;her eoedatson pre-
eenta a xittiation nvi'thout paral•1s1
in 'history, says a report issued re-
seri.(,, iby ;the Rockefeller Founds-
,tion, New York, from its war relief
eonvmiesion sent to invesbigrats the
ffeets of ;bhe war upon non -con_ set -
assts. It is the firsb report from
this 'oomruission, abash went to
43elgiten heat November.
After detailing how means of
eraiusportation, communication and
banking exwhan'ge have ;been de-
stroyed, commerce and industry
paralyzed, the, ;agrioulbural dis-
tricts devastated and the food sup-
aly virtually cub off, ;the report
says:
"Yet, if one is to understand the
Belgian problem, it is perhaps ne-
cessary to emphasize nob the testi-'
tution of a few ;hundred thousand,
but the suddenly enforced inactiv-
ity of a strong and !heathy, nation
of
7,000,000.'
A Sorry Plight.
After stating that there are 320,-
000 Belgian refugees in Holland
and 100,000 in England, the report
says that the nunilber ctf people who
are stile in Belgium, ;but who have
been driven out of their homes has
not yet been estimated. The army
it says, has drawn off 250,000 mem.
Of the destruction of themes and
property, the report •says: "We
found people living in cellars under
the ruins of their homes, in lofts
over the cony stalls; sane •c}hildren
who had been; born in ben coops and
pig stys and learned of one :man
who ,considered that he was doing
well when the population of the
poultry house eves reduced from 82
to 18 refugees."
Still Active, However.
Regarding the agricultural situ-
ation, the commission found that
autumn planting 'has somehoweebeen
done, and it is conceivable t,bat
Belgium may continue to raise most
of her own ,potatoes, fruits and
fresh veg'eta`bles.
In connection with the destrnc-
taon ollhouses and property, the re-
port says 'bh:at no estimates can ter
obtained of the total either of ,the
military requisitions and levies. or
of rite destruction of property, but
that this total must he enormo,is.
Grabber] the :Lot.
"Since the •Germans occupied
• the country, they have requ tress-
ed grain, canned goods, feud sup-
plies, live sbodk and horses from
towns and eonntryside. They have
also requisitioned such ;things as
cotton and woolen stores, both raw
and manufactured; copper fixtures
and implements in some factories,
motor cars, gasoline .end any ma-
chinery that can be used in the
ma•nulbacture of armaments."
The population, the commiseaon
recounts, is denied the use of the
telegraph end tellephone and there
is no mail or other means of roan .
munination •with the outside w orla
except through Gterman clan•ieis.
DeAelencies That Must Be Made
Good.
Greab Britain imported 185,125,-
000 bushels of wheat from August
1st, 1913 to' July 31st, 1914. Ru,sla
exported 163,267,000 bushels and
Roumania. 45,642,000 bushels iu the
same period. How much will thew
IVO countries export this year 1
Great Britain imported from Aug,
st, 1913, to July 31, 1914, 54,207,-
00 bushels of oats. Russia export-
ed 34,750,000 bushels, Germany 2:5,-
073,000 bushels and Roumania 17,-
96,000 bushels. The last three
ountries in 1916 will hardly export
bushel, How is the defscieney t-,
be made up 7 Great Bataan from
Aug. 1, 1913 to July 31, 5914 import-
ecl 40,169,000 bushels of barley,
Auen'ia-Hungary 8,031,000 bnsh'ls,
and Roumania 18,941,000 bushels.
How much is Canmcla going to du to
make up the large shortage 7
Given An'ay.
Young Van Winkle waited nerv-
ously in the drawing -room for Julia
to appear. He had been sitting
there twiddling his thumbs for half
an hour. Finally a step was heard
in the hall, and he rose to his fee:
expectantly, Bub it was not Julie.
It was her maid. "Marie," said
the impatient young man, "what
keeps
your mistress so longi Is she
making up her mind whether she
will eec me or not7" "Nn, 'sir,,,
answered the maid, with a wise
stnirk. "It isn't her nhincl sire's
making tip."
Domestic Strategy.
Ad15s, Exe—Theh Inst cook 1 heti
was ni ;;1, i"m riled she's one,
Mrs, Wye --Drs you diisehaege
er4
Mrs, Exe--•No ; l wished to avoid
a scene. What I did was to flatter
her so about her eookmg that she
thleftou,ght she 'was underpaid and
MARVELOUS BALSAMIC ESS
NO DRUGS TO TAKE -
ACES CURE CATARRH
-A DIRECT BREATHING CURE
Statistics Prove Ninety -Seven Per
Cent; of Canada's Population is
infested With the Germs
of Catarrh.
This disease Is most dangerous ow-
ing to its tendonoy to extend to the
Bronchial tubes and lungs, where it
causes Coneumptton. Unfortunately
the eople have faith In sprays, oint-
men ty and snuffs, which can't .pos-
sably cure, and in cosssequence
catarrhal disease has become a nee
tionel curse. Science is a,rlve.aaa
every day, and fartannte�ly a remedy
has been discovered .that not only
aures but prevents Catarrh. This
new •treatment "Oatarrhozone" liar
sufficient power to kill the germs of
Brcnoh tis, Catarrh and Aebhtna. It
contains pure pine essences and heal,
lug balsams that go to the remotest
part of the nose, throat and lunge,
carrying health•glving medication to
every spot that Is tainted or weal:.
You don't take Catarrhozoue like
cough mixture --you inhale ils heal.
Ing Vapor at the mouth and it spreads
al! through the breathing organs,
soothing and curing wherever Catarrh
exists, This is nature's way of sup•
plying the richest balsams, the purest
antiseptics known to science,
A sneezing cold is ourod In ten
minutes. n 11r ^;1 ra enact nn
tall
lame, tho most offensive catarrh is
thoroughly drawn from the system,
For Asthma and Bronchial irrita-
tion nothing can equal Catarrhozoae
—every physician and druggist says
so, awl we advise our readers to try
this treatment 11 suffering with a witt-
ier 111. The ootnpletb outfit costs $1,10,
medium site 50e,, at alt deniers,