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The Clinton News Record, 1919-8-28, Page 2-BRIAN FORCES 8,654)487 .T.IIPIPORTS Or TUE ALLIES a A,NTEfJ- S'I`J er STATISTICAL :1.OII ?A:t (Piton THE ileiiUS`fitAi'TiD L Oh'DON .Nld\V$, JLIN.13 28, 1916), SONS 'ldings'Ftrom ScoUlami t.inpir0']^',d'art Dretight 7,130,28.0 Froze Mother Country and Colonies,. A despatch from London says: -- The report of the War Cabinet for 1918 stultma nines as follows the Lm• 'mire's war effort; The strength of the regular army reserve and territorial force" on the fourth of. August, 1014, wi.s 7310,914;' Britain has .since recruited 4,000,158 men, With other enlistments In tit: United I{tngdorti and Canada ih total White ontistrents in the whclo Um- pire were 7,130,280, The fix.res of enlistments for races other than white, including over 1,260,000 from India, were 1,624,187, giving a grand total for all races of the Empire of 8,664,407. In addition to these, Chinese and other labor units were raised for service .in Salonik!, Egypt and Meso- potamia. CANADIAN PI WA T D BY BRITAIN Old Country Can Absorb All Dominion Has For Export. A despaltrfroin London says:—A 'tlraVe. shortage of the British .hay Crop has resulted in many urgent en- quiries being placed with Canadian trade representatives here for sup- plies of Canadian hay. Ti; Canada has any hay for export she can sell all of it over here, The Government spokesman .stated in Parliament that the authorities Were watching the hay situation care - and that if prices rose to an unreasonable level they would con- fider the advisability of fixing maxi- mum prices, The Government would hot, however, control the distribution of the year's hay crop. 'AMERICAN TROOPS 4 MEXICANS. Surrounded the Bandits in a BjOgiehouse in the Mountains. :A. despatch from Marfa, Tex., hays:—Pour Mexican bandits were dI1ed by American troops in Mexico Thursday. Captain Leonard Matlock, • who arrived hereby airplane reported. they were surrounded in a block- . Souse that the Mexicans had con- Obructed in a mountain pass. The ' bandit's fought desperately when they � found they were trapped, and two escaped. When the American troops' approached the blockhouse with the tention of searching it the Mexi-' oars opened fire from portholes. WI38TMORE'S ESTIMATE - OF WESTERN CROPS Forecasts 88,000,000 Bushels of Wheat For Sask.,' 43 in Man., 21 in .Alta. ',A• despatch from Regina,' Sask., anys:--A. E. Whitmore of Regina, a close student of crop conditions for many years, made a forecast that Saskatchewan Will have 88,890,000 bushels of wheat this year. The Manitoba crop he places at 48,696,000 and the Alberta crop at 21,951,600. The yield in Saskatchewan, he estimates at ten bushels; for Mani- toba fifteen, and for Alberta six. 11e has issued forecasts of the seine mature for a number of years, and Otey have been remarkably accurate. lust year, for instance, he estimated 20,000,000 bushels higher than others made at the same time, and was with- in 3,000,000 of the final Government report. '' A Golden Newspaper. The London Daily 141a11 has printed a)4t#peclal "Peace Number" in gold, which forms a lasting, beautiful and dstoric souvenir of the tremendous events of the last five years. It con- :afns a complete record of the world oasis and its solution, from the signa- tures of the famous "scrap of paper" .o d photograph of the actual signing pf . Peace. practically imperishable, with its ;olden "ink" and perfect paper, this Peace Number will be a thing to pass on, 'to the next. generation, to. show what manner of men made, fought, .and settled the Great War. A list of famous contributors in- oludes the names of; Viscount North- alffe, Mr. Joseph Conrad, Colonel Sohn Buchan, Viscountess Rhondda, 'George A. Birmingham" (Canon Han- ley), Sir A Canon Doyle, the Countess +1.udley, Sir A. Pinero, and the ll!sh- t,q of Birmingham. The price Is 25 cents, or post free n4where in the world 40 cents, Or - should bo sent to "Golden Num- Carmelite um- arme ite house, London, E, C. 4," GREAT BRITAIN'S HIGH PLACE IN THE ALLIED POLL OF HONOR: THE TESTIMONY OF FIGURES. The figures given above (taken from an article in the June number of "The Round Table") may be left to speak for themselves. Those who study them carefully will see that this country holds a splendid record of military ef- fort during the war. Discussing the limitations of statistical testimony, the writer says: "It is impossible, for instance, to measure the extent to which the military effort of the United Kingdom was handicapped by the necessity of making munitions for the Allies, assisting their finances, main - Mining the command of the sea, and keeping up the oversea carrying trade against the terrible toll exacted by the submarine. It is equally Impos• slbie to assess the magnificent moral effort by which France held four- fifths of the Western Front until our new .armies carne to her aid, or that which enabled Belgium to rise superior to the first annihilating shock of • the waves of the German advance, More imponderable even than these is the force of instinct and of vision which sent the splendid Dominion con- tingents across thousands of leagues of sea." The total of 8,704,410 United Kingdom enlistments excludes the Navy, Merchant Service, and auxiliary hone services --(Copyrighted in U.S.A. and Canada). OVER 1,100 DIVORCES SOUGHT. IN MANITOBA The Majority of..Applicants Are Returned Soldiers. A despatch from Winnipeg says:— An announcement made at the law courts Thursday states that there are more than eleven hundred divorce ap- Looked Suspicious. Gr-rr-r-h1 Tho train drew no with a mighty crash and shock between stations, "Is it an accident? What happened?" inquired a worried -looking individual of+the conductor, "Someone pulled the bell -cord!" shouted the conductor. "The express knocked our last car off the track! plications filed for hearing when the Take tis four hours before the track Court of King's Bench opens for the is clear!" fall sittings,- September 15. Six "Great Scott! Four hours! i am judges will be occupied hearing the supposed to be married to -clay!" cases. In the majority of cases, the groaned the passenger, divorce applications are being made The conductor, a bigoted bachelor, by soldiers, who have returned to find raised his eyebrows suepiciouely, their wives have been unfaithful. The "Look here!" he demanded. "I sup: cost of obtaining a divorce is from $200 up, according to lawyers. FRENCH AIRPLANE GOLIATH IS GIVEN UP AS LOST pose you ain't the chap that pulled the cord?" ---.ra Drake's Cup Brings $19,000, The cup which Queen Elizabeth gave to Admiral Drake for defeating Unusual Concrete Ships Built For Salvaging. Concrete ships of extraordinary. de- sign are being built for the British Admiralty to be used in raising mer- chant vessels sunk by the Germans near the coast of the United Kingdom. On a broad foundation, shaped ince the hull of a ship, are placed a series of towers, constructed of hollow blocks, and reinforced in snick a manner as to be able to withstand great internal THE FIRST FOUNTAIN PEN. Invention of a Frenchman is Still In Use in Paris. A fountain pen made in 1804 is still in use in Paris. It was patented that same year by ,roan Benoit Mallet, an engineer, and the firm that still car- ries on the business founded by hint asserts that this was the first foun- tain pen ever nude. pressure. The towers are provided Mallet was the inventor of the gold with wato'-tight doors and pumps, leen with the ruby point, perhaps the These unusual vessels are to be towed easiest writing and most durable nib to the location of a sunken ship,>lutd ever put on the' market. But it is lowered on either side of the wreck, necessarily expensive. Iaa, 1843 14Ia1- Divers will then attach 'them to the bat substitutes! iridium as a point for wreck. When the are his pens, At the same time he pro - they Y puo the out, vided a reservoir for the ink. This are expected to rise to the sur- was the g�rm from which grew the face, carrying the wreck with thein, idea of stoidng hilt in the hanulle. Mallet's fountain pets differs only A 'curious nest is . made by the slightly from our modern ones, It was f and scs9 b1'htg the Spanish Armada, tailor bird c f. India, a tiny yellow self -filling, but the Row of ink was re• A despatch from Paris says:—The has been sold at auction speer in London creature, To escape snakes and mot- gulatecl by a little turn -screw on the French airplane Goliath, which has for. $19,000. T.t is in the farm of a ter- neyintois blr.l takes a dead leas, flies lido, ',l9nis, however, Was soon g1Vei1 not been seen since it left Mogador, teeth] lobe engraved with a map of p a tree, and with a fibre for 09, as it beca.tne clogged. Morocco, for Dakar last week, gener- allywas given up as lost .•in aviation the world as it was known in the six• the leaf to a green ono hanging from what was the date of the earliest circles. The Farman Company, build- teenth century, Tho Cover is 5111'• the tree, The sides are sewn up, an patent on a fountain Pett In Ainet•lca erg of the airplane which carried mounted by -n vase chased. in cherubs, opening to the nest time formed being or England, eight even," 111 grotesque 018500es and fruit It ,,,no 1 f was st without e.'t nt. the to . loaf, • • . , V, ° hanging from tt 'wt wield taken for a nest, le c l!",f 8lr Lees Knowles, brother -In-law .of Lord Strathspey, lute reeelved the) Territorial Ueeoratton. Sergt, G, S. Adams, Seaforths, awarded the Dlstingulsrhed Conduct Medal, is a native of Brora, ' One of Glnagow'e best known ablp. ownet'sFPassed away recently in the person of Wililam Robertson, Raton Bailie J. A. Poison, Bonar Bridge, has given di00 to the local Fallen 13eroes' Memorial irund, The Order of the British limph•e has been .conferred on Provost 3, 9, Straw, Fort •William, lnyernese. The Croix de Guerre has been awarded to Sergt, Charles Ilal'fen, D.O,M„ of the 6tlt Gordon Higlilanders.i The Regent'Place U, ir, Church, Oraigpark, Dennistoatn, recently held ,their centenary celebration services, The experiment of carrying parcels fbaylileowl intgraltno plaak hol f GPlaubgcw shus- ponritr, , Macpherson, who has been ap- pointed Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, is, a native of Duinan Bridge, Morayshire, A, Mackie, M,A., master of mathe- matics and science at Tain Academy, has been appointed rector of that In- stitution. The death is announced at Dingwall of John Munro, who conducted a baker business at Dingwall for neatly fifty yoa,rs, A tablet has boen erected In the West End School, Elgin, In memory of the 117 old scholars who were killed in the writ, Lord Levet has arranged to sell his estates at Stronelairg, Corrlegarth, Glendoe and Kililo, comprising 00,600 acres. The French Government has award- ed the Croix de Guerre with palms to Sergt, R, Valentine, Seaforths, Los- siemouth, Maj. A. R, hlunro, awarded the Ter- ritorial Decoration, is a brother of the Rt. Hon..Robert Munro, Secretary for Scotland Sergt. Robert Logie, Scottish Rifles, who has been awarded the D.C.M., is a son of the late James Logie, Port Gordon. The death took place recently at the Preston Royal Infirmary of Nurse Jeannie Gibson, daughter of the late Bailie Gibson, Elgin, The Croix de Chevalier has been conferred on Capt. J. D. Laurie, D.S.O., nephew of Sir Claude V. E. Laurie, formerly of Fairburn. airs. Stewart Mackenzie has under consideration the extension of her Seaforth tweed industry for the bene- fit of disabled soldiers and sailors, The death took place recently at Ramsey Gardens, Edinburgh, of Alex. Mackenzie, M.A., for many years bead master of Larchfield, Helens - burgh. SUFFICIENT •PUNISHM'ENT. Amusing Story Told by Britisher in Oceupitd Germany. Under British administration in oe- cupied Germany a great deal • of re- sponsibility falls on the burgomaster. \Vhen his authority breaks down or when there are breaches of the regu- lations, a military court trios the cases and imposes fines of various amounts. There are a good many cases of theft and of food smuggling, One amusing case of theft in which the punishment fitted the crime carne under my notice, says Bishop Frod- sham 111 the Co•nhill Magazine, , A sapper complained to his commanding officer that a parcel of his that had lately arrived from England htul been opened, and that some cakes and a bottle of sugar-coated cascara pills had been removed, The owner of the billet, a stout baker, was promptly interrogated, I3e denied with tears all knowledge of the theft, Ills wife, also i11 tears, af- firmed ]tor innocence. The five chit, dren howled out their innocence of all matter connected with the parcel.. Then some one remembered that a tow -headed small boy, a neighbor's son, had been In the house. When they asked him if he knew anything about the matter, he acknowledged that he had eaten the cakes, big and little. Did he know anything about the medicine? No, he had seen no medicine, but a little bottle of confec- tions Ito had seen and also eaten. I•iad ho eaten all? Yes, ho had all con- sumed• --and he was netfeeling well! 1.INEI) FOR TWO HOURS AFTER BLOWING OUT BRAINS From Err c's G 'ec Isle iti.. A 'Powll Tenants' League has been formed at Kilkeel, County Down; to 1111'0tect themselves against relit Pale. Lord Shaftesbury addrewed a large. ly attenCocl lnesting in Belfast lu'sup• .port of the Comrades of the Great War movement. The machinery of the Southern Star newspaper, Skibbereett, ached by the military authorities in August last, has bosh returned to the owners. At a meeting of the Discharged Sol - client and Sailors, 110111 in Galway,. it wile decided to ask the Gevorlu•i ut to establish a Mechanical training eentl'e at Galway. A farm consisting of 05 Irish inr.e5, situated at Mileltouso, Enniauorthy, sold recently for 1118,400, William Doyle, a sheep driver', brig fined a1 at the Bray Sessions 'for driving sheep with sore feet, Tho Earl of Meath has substantial. ly increased the wages of all the men and boys on his Kllruddery estate, The Yougllal Guardians have up. pointed Dr. M. Lynch to act tenpor• arily. for Dr. Foley as medical officer. 'The death took place recently at "The Frolic," Nehagli, of Mrs, Mc• Keane, mother of Lieut. McKean°, MC. Judge Law -Smith, at the Limerick Assizes, awarded Mrs. \Nalene :0109 and costs for the death of her'hns• band from a fall at the Limerick Bonded Stores. The Military Cross has been award" ed to Lieut. C. H. Ricketts, grandson of the late T. W. Humphries, Donagh• more House, Castlbfin. The 'L'hurlos Urban Council have a scheme on hand to provide electric lighting for that town at a cost of $38,000. Mr, Shealy, of Carrick -on -Shannon, lost his son, two brothers, sister -in• law and nephew in one week, death being caused by influenza. The Government has under 0015• sideration a recommendation of the lrlsh Advisory Committee, a 10 -shin. ling -a -week State assistance for the blind. Owing to trade depression, the Power Loom Manufacturers' Associa- tion have deckled o1 a 30 -Hour wock In all weaving factories. THE WRITER'S REWARD, More Fame Than Fortune Gained by Literary Work, That the late Amelia 10. Darr, auth- oress of sixty successful novels, left an estate of only $500 indicates sonde - thing of the vicissitudes of the literary profession. A novel may amply repay the publisher and then fall tint as to its demand, leaving the writer of it but slight returns for the time and labor spent on It, Many prolific authors have had similar eiperiences and they wrote so many books, perhaps not through sheer love of writing, which always produces the best results. but simply as a matter of routine and necessity. In a sense they might have been called the slaves of the pen, which some. times reward its users beyond their deserts and at others with the. c•atn•i• ciousnoss of which literature furnish, es so many examples, gives them but scant daily bread. A mere beginner in literature or in journalism to -clay 01111 frequently earn much more than Edgar Allen Pee, for instance, earned at a time when he 11118 'turning out masterpieces of literature in prose and verse. But while fortune is fickle and capricious and bestows her rewards frequently without much reference to merit, lance is niore just. The world knows little or nothing and care's less for the publisho•s and editorial magnates who grudgingly gave Poe n mere pit Lance for work which time has stamp' o&1 immortal. They looked down upon hint as nn erratic scribbler and prob• ably thought they were treating him liberally, and now the kindest thing that falls to them is silence and ob. livion, Even Griswold, a nun important in the literary history of his time, io now known chiefly from his collection of the prose and poetry of his day and for his antagonism and injnsti10 to Poe. Sun•Strokesl The summer sun is distant 95.000,• 000 miles from you as you he an the bench and bask, •or gasp, in its rays, but the sun you see is only a part of the real eun. Do you know that the snn 10 corn- osed of sodium, iron magnetism, co. alt, hydrogen, nickel, titanium. chron• 111, and a few other things? There re movements in the sun, but no gas of it being burnt out or ex. haunted. It is not the heat that gives you sunstroke, but the invisible violet rays of the sun, and the base of your skull is the vulnerable spot. Sunburn is really the rupture and inflammation of the tiny veins of the skin, And you wear white in the sun tiitle not because it looks cool, but. bm cause that color resists the hent rays of the sun better than colors, The violet tinge over everything at ter you have looked at the sol Is there because violet is the accidental color of yellow—the sun's color. Yoe canunt really look at the sun, but birds can, heeanse they have an extra eyelid which can he drawn down to act ns t screen or shieid Tho stiu is hoticet. retaken 3 and 4, nani111er tuna And tllo 5ru bt 1 nts initch larger al saurisn and vnn5ct -although It 110,01 ..,'is 1101' ai+t. neem un it iv that nearer 1ho 1t n u tint Olivetti, and so gain by compaH eat. 4. red :outset. portends 11110 weather: wet the vapor n roil mmlrmlhtl I in the air hem already condensed to eh+nd� I ia,alla 11 ' hott:'vt e1unnor elan Will a 1 t by it1&lt igniio name• al ubst wr,• a 1 n.1 to 1L the g,iaals 141:.. vial i a + t U. brim: 111 rimy axe+ into ').i'te'nce with its woriuth, • A despatch from South Porcupine P Bays:—'Charles Morton Penny, who 11 lived with his wife and family on a iu a si farm near Golden Oity, was found in a dying condition in bed, having shot himself through the head, blowing out his brains. He died two hours after being discovered. Penny was an Eng- lishman. 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