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Breadstuffs.
Toronto, Feb. 17,-T-141anitolba wheat!
No, 1 Northern, $2,80; To, 2 Nortli-1
ern, $2.77; No, 3 Northern, $2,73, Sn
store Fort William,
Manitoba oats• -N0, 2 C.W., 98%e;
90%o; No '1 deed,'87%e No, o. 2 feud,
86%e, in store Pert William..
Manitoba barley -No. 3, C.W.,
VaL70%; No, 4 C.W., $1,40%; aajeoted,
E180%; feed, $1.30 %, in stores Fort
William.
American corm --No. 8 yellow, $1,85;
No. 4 yellow, $1.82, track, Toronto;
prompt shipment.
Ontario oats --No. 8 white, O8eto
$1,00, according to freights outside,
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per
eel' lot •$2,00'to $2,01; No. 2, do,, $1.98
to $2.01; No. 8 do,, $1.92 to $1.03,!
f,o.'b. shipping points, wording to
freights.
Ontario wheat, -,-No. 1 Spring, per
car lot, $2,02 to $2.03; No. 2 do., $1.98
to $2.07• No. 3 do., $1.95 to $2.01,
f.o.b, slipping paints, according to
freights.
Peas -No. 2, $8.00.
Barley -Malting, $1,76 tie $1,77, ac-
cording to freights outside,
Buckwheat -$1.45 to $1.48, accord-
ing to freights outside. '
Rye -No. 8, $1,77 to $1.80, accord-
ing to freights outside.
`Manitoba i'lour-Government stan-
dard, $13.28 Toronto,
Oetrario f10}tr.---Government stan-;
dard, $10.80 t6 $11, Montreal; $11.00
in Toronto, in jute bags. Prompt
shipment.
Millfeed -- Car lots - Delivered
Montreal freight, bags included -Bran
per ton, $46; shorts, per ton, $62;
good feed flour, $3.60 to $3.75.
Hay -No. 1, pe • ton, $27 to $28;'
tnixed, per ton, $25, track, Toronto.
Straw --Car lots per ton, $16 to $17
track, Toronto.
Country ProduceWholesale,
Eggs -New -laid, cases returnable,
65e to 67c. Butter -Creamery' solids,
60c to 61c; do., paints, 60se to 61;,c.
Honey -White, per 1'b., 60-]b. tins,
net, 21c to 22c; 10-1b. tins, gross,
21'nac to 22%c; 5 -+Ib. tins gross, 23e
to 24c. Live poultry ---Buying prices;
delivered, Toronto: -Hens, over 5 lbs.,
live, 33e, dressed, 32c; hens, 4 and 5
lbs., live, 30, dressed, 28o; hens, under
4 lbs., live, 25e, dressed, 28e; spring
citi'ckens, live, 28; dressede,30e to 32e; I
spring chickens, milkfed, live, 29c,�
dressed, 34e to 88c; roosters, live, 20c,;
dressed, 25e; cluoklings, live, 33e,!
dressed, 33c; turkeys, live,dress-
ed, 45e; geese, live, 22c, dressed, 24c. i
Cheese -Large, 30e to 31c; twins, 81e
to 32e. Cheese -Large, 30c to 131c.
Maple Syrup -Prices nominal.
Provisions -Wholesale -
'Smoked meats -Rolls, 300 to 31e;
Mains, medium, 36s to 36e; heavy, 330
to 840; cooked hams, 483 to 6.0e; bairns,
plain, 49e to 50e; Wake, boneless, 152e
to 560; breakfast 'bacon, 42o to 40e;
cottage rolda, 88c to 34e.
,Barrel'led moats•--Pleltled pork, $46;
mess pork, $45.
Gruen meats -Out of pickle, le less
than stnolted, •
Dry salted meats -Long clears, in
tone, 32,13; in eases, 28c to 29c; clear
bellies, 27e to 28i/sc; fat 'backs, 82e
to 33.0,
Lardm--Tierces, 813 to 813f c; Aube,
31%e to 32c; pails, 31%e to 32%e;
prints, $2%e to 33e. Compound lard,
tierces, 29e to 29%c; tubs, 20%e to
80c•epails, 8055, to 80%c; prints, 31,5e
to 82e,.
Montreal Markets,
Montreal, Fob, 17.. -Oats -Canadian
Western, No, 2, $1,13; do., No. 3, 980.
Flour -Nem standard, $13,25 to
$$13.55. Rolled oats -Bag of 90 lbs„
$5.15 to $5.25. Bran -$45.25. Shorts
--$52.25, Hay -No. 2, per ton, car
lots, 526. Cheese -Finest easterns, 30
to 30%e. Butter ---Choicest creamery,
63 to 060; seconds, 58 to 600, Eggs --
Fresh, 75 to 78c; selected, 60 to 62c;
No, 1 stock, 63 to 54e. Potatoes -
Per bag, ear lots, $8.50. Dressed
hogs - Abattoir -killed, $28.50 to
$29.60, Lard -Pure, wood pails, 20
lbs., net, 82c,
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Feb. 1 L -Choice heave'
steers, 513.63 to 518.75• good heavy
steers, $12,50 to $18.00; butchers' cat-
tle, choice, $11.50 to $12.25; do., good,
$11 to $11.25; do., medium, $9.50 to
$10; bulls, choice, $10,50 to $11; do.,
medium, $9.50 to $10; do., rough,
$6.75 to $7; butcher cows, choice,
$10.50 to $11; do., good, $9.50 to
$10; do., mediums, $8 to $8,511; do.,
common, $7 to 57.25; stockers, $7.50
to $10; feeders, $10 to $11; canners
and gutters, $5.25 to 56.50' milkers,
good to choice, $110 to $165; do.,
common and medium, $65 to $75;
springers, $90 to $165; sheep, ;,56.60
to $11; lambs, per cwt., $14 to $19.50;
calves, good to choice, $18 to $21,50;
hogs, fed and watered, $18.50; do.,
weighed off cars, 518..75; do., f.o.b.,
$17.50; do., do., country points,
$17.25.
Montreal, Feb. 17. --Butcher steers,
medium, $10 to $11; common, $7.75
to $10; butcher heifers, medium, $0
to $10;•common, $7,50 to $9; butcher
cows,'tnedrum, $6:110 to 59; canners,
$5.50; cutters, $5.75 to $6.50; butch-
er bulls, common, $7 to $9. Calves -
Good veal, $18 to $20; medium, $15 to
$17. Ewes, $9 to $12; lambs, good,
$16.50 to $17; common, $15.60 to
316.50. Slogs (off car weights) -
Selects, $19 to $20.25; light, $18 to
$20.26; sows, $15 to $16.
RUSSIA IS ONE
BIG BATTLEFIELD
Bolsheviks Launch ;xpected
Attack on Dvina Sector.
A despatch from London, say -s: -
The pursuit by the Bolsheviki of the
remnantsof General Denikine's forces
into the Crimea, the launching of an
expected Red' attach on the north Rus -I
elan front in the 1-)vii:a sector, and the
eouclusion of the Lettish operations!
against the Reds are pointed to by the:
military observers as the most salient
developments of the past week's oper-
ations in Russia as reported to- thei
War Office here.
On the western sector of the south
Russian front the .resistance of the
volunteers agatittst the Bolsheviks ap-I
. pears entirely to have collapsed with
the Red occupation of Odessa. The
Reds now are pushing toward the
Dniester along a front of 120 miles.
The reports show that the Bolshe-I
vllti suffered &:easter in ]:heir at-
tempts to force tate line of the Don
and Manitelt Rivers, having lost heav-
ily in men killed or made prisoner.
The Reds, however, are making rapid
progress in the .Steppes region, prob-
ably attracted by the possibility of
occupying Sebastopol and Theodosia,
Black Sea ports in the Crimea, and
seizing the Petrovsk railroad. The
taking of this line would constitute
a serious threat to the anti -Bolshevist
ronmanications with the volunteer
fleet in the Caspian Sea, which has
ets base at Petrovsk,
The British detachment pis with-
t1)ons1: ti •
unt to
drawing from Be
noels. The advices do not state whe-'
titer the situation at liatunt, whichrecent
ening, had cimprot ebeen d arded as e
warranting the a t
withdrawal of the British, or if it
has grown worse and the British were
compelled, to withdraw. 11 to :t
There have been no operations of •
great moment en the Polish front,
Following the virtual dissolution of:.
.Admiral I{olchak s armies :in Siberia,' u _,,,,?k�;a;!>::;,,... >a,• •?� ..,, �,�:i� :r}
Vladivostdlt did not resist occupation _
by the rebels. Authority there has ? ay L a„ycg
been taken over by the Provincial
Lemstvo, The cityds reported quiet.
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German Army is
aver 400,000 Strong
A despatch from Paris Bays:-Tlto
German army is still 400,000 strong,
according to a report received by the
Committee of Foreign , Affairs from
Gen. Niessel, head of the Baltic Mis-
sion. In addition there are 100,000
policing forces, officers and non-com-
missioned officers.
Germany also is well supplied with
tanks, machine guns and airplanes.
In the neutral zone alone on the right
bank of the Rhine the policing forces
number 15,000,
- Gen, Memel Ads that the German
Minister of Defence, Nosko, is in the
hands of the General Staff and that
the German Government is capable, if
willing, of obtaining execution of the
treaty clauses by the country.
Prince Will Visit
West India Isles
A despatch from Kingston, Ja.,
says: -Official dnformation has been
received here that the Prince of Wales
tvi11 pay a visit to these islands on his
return from his visit to Australia,
Prince Buying Stock
For Canadian Ranch
A despatch from London says: -
The Prince of Wales' agents are busy
buying breeding stock for his Wes-
tern Canadian ranch, and at two or
three sales within a week have picked.
up some excellent young 'cattle.
One War Criminal
IS Found Guilty
A despatch from 45arreguemines ✓,� Fry +., . <
Alsace-Lorraine, says: -Captain Pritz
of the Tenth Corepanyiof the 166th
German Infantry, accused of having Sip JAMES GRANT_
ordered the shoatting of ten eiyilians One of Canada's foremest physicians
tat Gerbeviller in 1914, has been feund and Last survivor of Canada's drat
guilty by the oourt-martial before parliament, who died at Ottawa re -
which he was en trial. eently.
FROM TORONTO TO NORTHERN GOLD FIELDS BY.DOG TEAM
With an Alaskan dog team and outfit, Mr. J. Jones of 294 Rushton Road,
Toronto, will leave shortly on a gold prospecting expedition 500 miles
north of the Sanies Bay district, He expects to cover the distend° in tevo
weeks, The picture shows Mr. Jones and his leading dog.
SAYS EUROPE
WILL RECOVER
New Secretary of U.S. Treas..
ury Takes Hopeful View.
A despatch from Washington says:
--Confidence that Europe's monetary
problems will be settled satisfactorily
was expressed on Thursday by Secre-
tary of the Treasury Houston in a re-
view of the international financial
situation,
The United States is constantly
furnishing Europe capital with which
to reconstt_act the economic life of
nations there, said Mr. Houston, ex-
plaining that advances are being made
In the same way that Europe aided
this country in time of depression in
the past, -not by Government loans so
much as by indirect methods, such as
private loans, sale of surplus army
equipment, and the absorption of
high-grade investment securities of-
fered in markets here by European
libelers. The Secretary estimated
that Europe had received approximate-
ly $4,000,000,000 from the United
States since the armistice was signed.
The position of the United States
Treasury was said by the Secretary fah
be very strong, and on Monday the
last issue of "loan" certifl^ates of in-
debtedness, about 560,000,000, will be
redeemed, leaving no outstanding
floating loan in the sense of- long-
term certificates requiring to be re- headquarters -should remain in Penis.
funded at maturity. Tax certificates
For the convenience of the British
outstanding amount to $2,935,949,500, which. Governmantal authorities, however, it
all h will be paid PorthcOm- e o sit hfor or the res-
ing income and profit taxes. will continue t
p
Altogether, Secretary Houston de- ent, probably through the coming
clhted to agree with the pessimistic fortnight.
view of some public men, who fore- It is expected that Premiers Lloyd
cast a financial crash, and asserted George and, Nitti will be in constant
that, while there were many difficul- attendance,: Premier Millerande will
ties still to be overcome, there was Probably be called home before long,
nothing in the situation to be regard- in which case France will be repre-
ed as extremely grave, sented by Philippe Berthelot, -Political
Director of the Foreign Office, and
Paul Gambon, Ambassador to Great
Britain. •
Although Marshal Foch and Gen-
oral Weygand arrived at No. 10
A despatch from Washington says: Downing street just before the first
-Tho mortality rate due to the in- session of tate Council to -day they did
fluenza epidemic this year was about not attend either of the two meetngs
hall of that in 1918, said a statement held. Belgum was represented by
by the Public Health Serv'iee, • an-. Premier Delacroix,
flouncing that the present epidemic
apparently had reached its peak.
"A comparison," the statement
said, "of the excess mortality tate
DETERMINED TO
GET WAR CRIMINALS
Allies Will Probably Send An-
• other Note to Germany. .
A despatch from London, says:-
The
ays:The Allied Supreme Council on Thurs-
day after discussing the situation
arising from Germany's violent pro-
test over the extradition demands,
agreed on the question of insisting
upon those demands Thursday night.
It had been reported that there
were differences between France and
Great ,1Britain as to whether the de-
mands should be modified.
It is probable that the position of
the allies will be set forth soon in a
statement. This may take the form of
another communication to Germany,
or possibly one to Holland. As far
as can be ascertained, however, noth-
ing definite has been decided regard-
ing any further steps to be taken to-
ward Holland.
The Council in dealing with other
questions, decided that'afinanaial ex-
perts of the allied Governments,
many of whom are here, should meet
soon to discuss the problem of inter-
national exchange in an effort to de-
vise a plan for its stabilization. It
was not settled when the first meet-
ing of these experts should be held.
The Council decided finally that its
A Letter Fr ain Laidan
13; King 4 eorgo'e eiroet milerthe.
State apartments of Windeer Castle
are once mat's .omen to tate pebl1e, The
treasures from the apartniellts Itavo
been ontlrely reengage(' ehteo they
'wore pieced in the spaeioue cellat'e of
the old Keep during the air ratite. This
was a fluty in which the late Sir Guy
Laking took the deepest intermit, Tie
was largely instrumental, ae a matter
of fact, in tife (Recovery of many long•
forgotten objocte of interest in the
Castle when he made a sys.tematio
search some time ago, and the militia
will now have 1111 opportunity of see•
ing many of these historic relics for
the first time:
r * * * * *
Tho Prince of Wales seems likely
to becotne quite an Empire tourist. I
hear he will probably leave for Aus-
tralia and Now Zealand in March, But
this Is not all. It is rumoredethn.t af-
terwards he will visit India, like his
illustrious father and grandfather
before him, •
* * * * *
'i'hoserwho are really intimate with
the Prince realize how annoyed he 10
by the rather silly tittle "Prince
Charming" that was bestowed uPotr
him by some of the papers in the
United States, It is too fanciful en-
tirely for King-Georgeei eldest son,
who has a healthy contempt for flat-
tery,
Mortality Rte From Flu
Halt~That of Year 1918
DAM BURST AT .
per 100,060 of population for the re -1 IROQUOIS FALLS
spective peak weeks of 1920 and 1918
shows: Chicago, 1,886, compared with Big Paper Plant Tied Up—
compared tenth 1,918, Washington,
2,072, as compared with 0,789.
"These rates may be taken as a
fair indication of conditions through- of the Abitibi Pulp and Paper Co. at
out the country. With the exception Iroquois Falls,
A despatch was received at the T.
& N. 0, offices in this city stating that
the mill -dam in that town -had been
broken on Thursday and that it• is
feared a foreman and four men irad
lost their lives. As a result of the
Commons Cheered break in the dam the mill has been
closed doom lndeflnitely.
141x. J. 0. McKerrnll of tho Tetuis-
katning and Northern Ontario Railway
Particular hearty cheer; ,were given . Commission at North Bay said that he
in the House of Commons last night had despatched to Iroquois Falls on
Thursday night throe carloads of tim-
ber and other supplies to repair the
broach in the dant.
No dateggo, he said, had been done
to any other part of the town.
Tho company started operations at
The metric eystett has been offi- 1rorinole Falai in 1914 and by plant
cielly adopted ay 93 countries and . extensions the capacity was brought
is used to a greater or less extent to absent 240 Ions of paper, 280 tons'
in 200. of pulp and 130 tons of sulphite a day.
4,620 in 1818; Mihvaultec, 1,434, as Five Men Believed Drowned.
A 6eapatcb from Toronto says
Disaster has overtaken the large plant
of some cities in Massachusetts and
New York State, exclusive of New
York city, practdcatly all of the re-
ports indicate a decline."
Canada's Intention
A despatch front London says: -
when Austen Chamberlain, Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, intimated that
the Canadian Government desired to
make a contribution toward the t'e]]ef
of Central Europe.
lit thie respect he resembles King
Edward, With ]lathe tite name "Eddie"
given to him in pertain quarters long
before the nlaat-lit-tlte•street af3,3otion-
ately dubbed Itis Majesty "Toddle,"
I roc`ta11 a farnouil eaeldent In the Marl-
borough Club when he whipped round
upon a mere acquaintance who ;fait
ventured to refer to Itim by that natio,
"My dear sir," he Mailed out, "I am
'Eddie' to no ono, My family term
me 'Edward'; my'friends 'Sir,' You,
being neither, will please not address
me at all in the future,"
* * * *
Prince Albert recently celebrated
hie twenty-fourth birthday, His ap-
ettearancee in publto have ...been fro-
quen. of late, and no doubt as time
goes on and his elder brother gets
more and more busy, we shall see Itim.
ticking a prominent part• in public af-
fairs. During the war, it will bo re-
membered, he saw service as a sailor,
and he was present al the Battle of
Jutland. Later he took up aviation,
peyltaps because his taste for me-
chanics made the technical side of
the business appeal to him, I ata
told that in his Navy days his favorite
spot aboard ship was the engine-
roem and his delight in the mechani-
cal side of battieehllis earned for ltim
the nickname of "Dirty Bartle;' -Big
Beit.
U.F.O.—U.F.W.O.
If any of our readers are interested
In following the }tistory 'the Western
farmers' movement, they will find it
told most fa.ecinatingly in "Deep Fur-
rows,' by Hopkins Moorehouse,
The Farm Women played theft• part,
each province having. its "Women's
Section" of the organization.
But in Ontario the work developed
more slowly. For three years the in-
defatiguable Secretary, J. J. Morrison,
managed the business from his farm
home, then the business attained pro-
portions which warranted the opening
of the Toronto office.
In June, 1918, Mr. Morrison learned
that one of the foremost women in the
farm movement in Saskatchewan was
corning East, a delegate to the Na-
tional Council of .Women. He ar-
ranged a gathering of Ontario Farm
Women, as representative as was pos-
sible In the short time at his disposal
for arranging the meeting, to be held
in Toronto.•»Accordingly, on the 17th
of June, 27 Ontario women conferred
with Mrs. McNaughton, and the
United Farm Women of Ontario was
provisionally organized. Following
the precedent set by the Western
Women they adopted the constitution
and by-laws of the United Farmers of
Ontario,. The provisional officers
were: President, Mrs. George N.
Brodie of Newmarket; Vice -Presi-
dent, `Mrs. James N. Foote, Colling-
wood; Secretary -Treasures, Miss
Emma Driesback, CoIlingwood.
At the 1918 convention, the United
Farmers of Ontario amended their
constitution to admit Farm Women to
membership on exactly equal terms
with men. In passing, it is interesting
to note that they were the first body
of men to thus officially recognize
women as equals, "socially, economi-
cally, and politically," as the women
phrase it.
I heard an official of the United
Farmers say in reply to a question:
"There is nothing in our constitution
to prevent a woman occupying the
president's chair."
The U.F.W.O. held their 1918 con-
vention on the same dates as that of
the U.F.O. The provisional officers
wereelected for the ensuing year, a
Board of Directors was appointed and
our organization launched.
Our work is largely sooiai. The
farm woman is busy, and her activi-
ties are confined very largely to the
walls of her home. Too many of them
fail entirely to regard themselves as
members of a great class, indispens-
able to the nation's prosperity. That
Is the chief, perhaps we ought to say
the first, lesson the organization
wishes to teach men and wonion both,
that our farms, an integea1 part of
the industry which produces 80% of
the nation's wealth, each individual
farm worker a citizen of the country,
with a citizen's responsibility and
privilege. Power we have never
sought as ultimate aim. We regard
it as a
means to ail end,and that end
is P
the establishment of rindP les the
basic idea of which is worded thus:
"Equal rights for all; special privi-
leges for none." This is the motto of
our people. The idea is embodied too
in our emblem, a button which the
Iden wear on the lapel of their coat,
and a little pin which the women
wear. The design, in blue and White
and gold, represents the clasped hands
of producer and consumer, each meet-
ing the other half way. It was de-
signed by a farmer, Mr. Gurney, of
Paris.
At the recent Directors' meeting a
previsional constitution for young
peoples' clubs was adopted, so that
we are ready now to
"Aid it a)I we can,
Every woman, every man,
The good time coniing,"
and we are assured that
"Every help, if rightly given,
Makes the dmpulso stronger..
'Twill be strong enough one day l
Wait a little longer."
• -Margery Mills.
What is a Gentleman?
The qualities of a Christian gentle-
man as defined ,by Bishop Welidon,
the Dean of Durham, in a sermon at
Durham Cathedral, at'e as 'follows:
Such a man could not lie. I40
shrank instinctively from any ants
every action that was mean or sordid
or disingenious or dishonorable,
IIe looked all the world itt the face.
He Would not if he could, and could
not if he would, play a double part.
He would not take an unfair advan-
tage of anybody. His word was his
bond. IIis conscience was his religion.
He was the soul of loyalty and in-
tegrity.
He asked not what he could get,
but what he could give. He tried to
make the world a Iittle better and a
little happier. He was always looking
out for a chance to say a kind word
or to do a kind act, relieve sorrow, or
inspire hope; or lift a lame dog, dry
the tears that flowed so freely, and
help those who were sad, at heart to
smile again,
The character and spirit of. a Chris-
tian gentleman, added Bishop Well -
don, were vitally needed to -day, par-
ticularly in industrial disputes,
•
Good' Roads and Land.
A worker for good roads in the re-
cent campaign bumped into an argu-
ment against good roads that he could
not answer. He had been telling the
people if they voted for hard -surfaced
highways it would add to the value of
their laud. He accosted a well-to-do
farmer in a northern township.
"You're going to vote for good roads,
aren't you, Bill?"
"No.
"Why not?"
"You said it would increase the
price of land, didn't you?"
"To be auto," replied the good -roads
man; "and it will,"
"That's why I'm against it."
"That's a queer objection."
"Na, it isn't," returned the farmer,
"Yon see, this is good land all about
here and it is selling too low. I
want'' get a lot more of it this year,
and, of coarse, I want to get it as low
as possible. If your good -roans pro-
positi.,,n carries it will go up $10 an
acre. Now, it will take me perhaps a
year to get what I want. After that
I'll sign up for good roads."
Bricks Yield Gas,
England has le deposit of clay so
bituminous that bricks made of it yield
oil, gas and ammonia when heated in
retorts.
chief Justice sir Gienholine-Faleon-
bridge, who died recently in Toronto,
—
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WHAT THE TEN
PLAGUES WERE
S THOUGHT OUT BY a
MODERN STiDENTS.
Correspond to What We Call
Natural Phenomena in
These Days. a�
It is thought by modern Blble sae•
dente that the famous plagues of
Egypt, designed by Jehovah for the
punishment oe a stubborn Pharaoh,'
were probably distributed over a.
period of many yearn, and that the'
fortes`they took were such as (some,
ponded to what in these days we wenld I
call natural phenomena.
One of them was a plague of ,frogs,
which multiplied in astonishing num-
bare, invaded houses and even getting'.
into beds, ovens and lmeading troughs.
Later they died, were gathered 1ne
heaps and "the land stank."
F
and an exceptional flood of the Nile,rogs are always plentiful in Egypt,'
leaving behind many overflow ponds
as the waters retreated, might easily;
give rise to a groat increase in theft:
numbers. Under favoring., oondltloua
the little batechians multiply at 'an?
amazing rate. And with the drying up
of tho overflow ponds they would ir-i
eyitably perish in .multitudes for lacki
of water,
Were Probably Sand Flies.
But Pharaoh would not let the Israoi.l
Res go. So the next affliction was
that "all the dust of the land became,
lice throughout Egypt,"
It is hardly to be supposed that'
these were "cooties." The word in the
oldest manuscripts of the Scriptures,'
-night refer to any kind of biting nu.
sects. Perhaps the plague was one eta
Band fleas, which are fearful biters,
and a familiar nuisance in Southern:;
United States, They live in sanitya
soil, which is often literally full of
them; and Egypt is a sandy cora.;
try. Not long ago the isle of Pints
(south of Cubit), suffered so severely
from a plague of send fleas that an
appeal for help was addressed to the
United States Bureau of Entomology,
The sand Fleas li iviug failed to eett-
vinee Pharaoh, the next effort made
by Moses anti his brother Aaron wa:a
With locusts. 'rend the loeuste went
up all over"the land of Egypt. Very
grievous were they, And there re-
mained not any green thing' through-
out all the land."
These locusts were what we cell
grasshoppers, Egypt hes ha.cl many
plagues of them, though probably none,
worse than Western States farmeae'
have experienced time and again (ee-
fore their great breeding grounds
were wiped out by cultivation of the
soil), when clouds of the insects liter-
ally darkened the sky, and not avy
green thing was left after a swarm
had alighted.
The plague of darkness was match-
ed in New England in May, 1870, when
children were lost on their way to
school and mets searched for than
with lanterns at midday. Ail over
Connecticut it was believed that ilia
end of the world had conte, ,
Rain of Blood in 1883.
When all the waters of Egypt turned
to blood it must have been rather lee
palling. But Gerace, in Calabria, be-
held a similar phenomenon in 168.1,
when a fiery red cloud approached
front Ole sea, presently coveeing all
the heavens, and a rapt of blood 351 -
lowed, When the rain dried, however,
the matter that gave it its crimson hes
was found to be volcanic dust whi5ln
had been carried in the clouds and to -
posited by the rain drops.
. The "plague of Pies" continues to
this day in Egypt, encouraged by is
sanitary methods of keeping domeatto
animals, As for the "murrain et
beasts," it may have been an epidemic
or "rinderpest," such epizootics being
doubtless much more frequent in aft
dent times, when there was no quer
antine system.
The "plague of boils," which attack-
ed
ttacked man and beast, was presumably
anthrax, Moses started it by titrosr-
ing a few handfuls of ashes into tee
air-eprobably a figure of speech to
convey the idea of wide distribution
Why the Sky is Blue.
What makes the blue sky and the
glor,pits hues of sunset? Professor
Bragghas given the answerr in a lee.
tura on "Sounds of the Country" at the i
Royal Institution, London,
The blue sky, he explained, was i
due to the interception by particles in
the atmosphere of the blue rays which,
form a part of the while light of the
sun. The parts of white light con- I
veyed by. longer red and yellow light,'
waves managed to jump the many i
substances in the atmosphere and
were seen at sunset.
He showed a disc of light on the
screen which, passing through a bowl
of water, became gradually redder as
the water got cloudier, till itt last, af-
ter an imitation of the sun in a teovem-'
ber fog, It faded away.
Another clever experiment showed
how the wind made sottnds in the
trees. A stick put into a rercl 'ing
bowl of water set up lath t heleools,
behind it. In the sante wee. tee grind
rushing past trees inrrecel igar ehris
on a small scale, crnd chose am, el
Mose eourds so a:(trti:ably desci'ibe;t
by the imitative word "wading!'
Similar sounds are sct n,) 1''r ;.•'
graph wires,
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