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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-3-21, Page 3ERMANS CONTINUE TO EMPLOY GAS SHELLS -IN BOMBARDMENT French Dig Up Buried Money in Ruined area Recovered From the Enemy, Which Had Been Concealed by Fleeing Civilians, A .despatch from Canadian Army Our Milpers have been haying an Headquarters says:'Outside of airplane active time, not only getting numer- activity there is little to report from ous Germans, but also exploding the advanced areas, Our heavies, 18- teen stick bombs on the enemy's pounders, trench mortars, •stoke' rand trenches, smashing the parapet and machine guns have been active in a doing other extensive damage, normal harassing fire against enemy ,searching among the debris of what positions, as well as engaging particu- had formerly been his home, a return- lar targets. Our patrols have been out ed French soldier found $0,000 francs frequently, but have had only one ($0,000) on Wednesday. Anothervil- conflict with the enemy, In this the lager found 21,000 francs ($4,200), Boches were easily overcome, In an- The men wero assisted in their- dig- other instance, it is reported, where a ging operations by four Canadian sol- hgstile party was seen by our patrols, diers. At least another three-quarters the Huns preferred to run rather than of a million is said to be buried in the fight. neighbothoed which the French civil- The Germans continue to employ ians evacuated in August, 1914, six gas, For half an hour on Thursday hours before the arrival of the Ger- morning Loos was treated to gas mans, expecting to return in about a shells. The enemy is also using fish- fortnight. Now they are coming back tails containing gas against some of after three and a half years, to find our positions. As a result of .his the whole area in ruins, but with their poisonous activities there is an appre- hoards still untouched. viable amount of gas in "pockets" in With the advent of fine weather various low-lying parts of our line, baseball materials are appearing by but careful training' of oar men in the magic all over the Canadian „front, use of their excellent gas -masks has Cries of "over the pan" and "at a - done much to reduce casualties from boy" are heard once again in the bet- els source. tie 'area. TURKISH FORCES Markets of the World, IN ERZERUM Strong Resistance Being Offered by the Armenians. • .A. despatch from London says:- Armenians ays:Armenians are offering resistance to Turkish troops, according to an .of- ficial Tarkish announcement received here on Thursday. In .Palestine attempts of the Brit-' ish to advance on March 9'and 10 are said to Have been repulsed. An ef- fort to break through the line of the Jerusalem -Nablus road failed, the statement says., The statement, issued by the Turk- ish War Office on Tuesday, says that Turkish troops have entered Erze- rum and are extinguishing fires caus- ed by the Armenians. Erzerum, the principal city of Turkish Armenia, 120 miles southeast of Trebizond, was held by the Russ gaits until their evacuation of Turk- ish Armenia. GREATER ACREAGE '.Breadstu$a Toronto Mar. 19 -Manitoba wheat - No, 1 Northern, 32.230; No, 2, do., $2,202; No. 3, do, $2.170; No. 4 wheat. $2,102; In store' Fort William. 'lnclpoing. 20c Manitoba oats -No, 2 C.W„ 9780; No, 3 C.W., 9280; extra No. 1 feed, 9280; No. American 902c; on- No.. 2 in store yelloWilliam. illn dried, $2.10, track, Toronto, Ontario. oats -No. 2 white, 95 to 9Gc; No. 3 white, 94 to 96c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.22; basis in. stole Montreal. Peas -No. 2, $3.70 to $3.80, according to freights outside, Barley -•-Malting, $1.83 to 81.86, ne- oordina to freights outside. Buckwheat -$1.63 to 91.66. according to freights outside. Rye - No. 2, 32.50, according to freights outside. Manitoba !tour -War quplity, $11.10, new bags, Toronto. Ontario flour -War quality, 910.70, new bags, Toronto and Montreal freights, •prompt shipment. Mrllfeed-Car lots -Delivered Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton. $35' shorts, per • ton, 940. 1 -lay -No X70 1, per ton. 617 to 918; mixed, $14 to $16, track Toronto. Straw -Car lots, per ton, $8:69 to $9, track Toronto. Country Prodnoe-Wholesale Butter -Creamery. solids, per lb., 48 to 49c; prints, per'ib., 49 to 499c; dairvy, Per lb„ 39 to 4Dc. • Eggs -New laid, 40 to 410. Poultry -Dressed, chickens, 26 to 28c: fowl, 25 to 27c; ducks, 23 to 240; Rein; 21 to 22c; turkeys, 30 to 350. Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following pikes, IN 1918 CROP280 to 231early yge, 22 toe. 2a; twins; to 231o; cheese, 260 to 260; large twin, 26 to 260c. Butter ---Fresh dairy. choice, 41 to 420; creamery prints, 61 to 52c; solids, 49 to 60c. Margarine -32 to 38c lb. Zggs-New laid, 46 to 47c; new laid, in cartons, 49 to 61c. Dressed poultry -Milk -fed chickens, 85 to, 370; fowl, 30 to 390; turkeys, 40 to 46c. Live poultry -Turkeys, 30c; chickens, lb,. 26 to Ho; diens, 30 to 88c. Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bush., 98.26 to $8.60; ramp. hand-picked, Burma or Indian, $7; Japan, 98 to $8.26; Limas, 19 to• 20o. • Provisions -Wholesale Smoked meats -Mains, medium, 34 to 350; do., heavy, 28 to 30e; cooked, 45 to 479; rolls, 28 to 80c; breakfast bacon, 40 to 428; backs, plain, 42 to 43o; boneless, 46 to 40c. - Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 28 to 290; clear bellies, 27 to 280, Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 293 to 30c; tubs, 292 to 3010; pails 30 to 2000• compound tierces, 253 to 116c; tubs, 6i to 260c; palls, 26 to 260c. Western Soil Has Also Been Better Prepared This Season. A despatch from Winnipeg says: "The amount of land in the three Prairie Provinces prepared for the coming crop is 20 per cent. greater than last year. Not only is there this increase in the land that will be un- der cultivation, but it has ail been pre- pared in a much better way than in preceding years," said J. Bruce Walk- er, Commissioner of Immigration, who returned on Thursday morning from an extensive tour of the West. Mr, Walker's tour was for the pur- pose of ascertaining the acreage like- ly to be under cultivation this year ,and to look into the labor problem. GRAIN FROM UKRAINE TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED. A despatch from Washington says: According to an official despatch re- ceived from Copenhagen on Thursday and emoting from the National Ti-' dende, Germany and Austria will di- vide equally until July 31st the amount of grain available in Ukraine. Dur- ing the early part of this period Aus- tria will have two-thirds and Germany one-third of ail grain obtained. Dur- ing the second half the proportion will. be reversed, There is literally no time like the present, for there is no time but the present. Montreal Markets Montreal, Mar. 19 -Oaks -Canadian western, No. 8, $1.080; extra No. 1 feed, 91.083; No. 2 local white,, $1.08; No. 8 do., $1,04; No. 4, do., 21.03. Flour -New standard Spring wheat grade, $11.10. to 1$311.20. Rolled oats, gbags, 90 lbs., $6.00. to 900,$2lOoulillet$604to 962. Iiay, s.No 2, per ton, car lots, $17. Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, Mar, 19 -Cash prices:- Oats --No. 2 C.W., 972c; No. 8, do„ 938o; extra No,2, d0., 868c; refeed, rejected, 92.67feed, 91.64. Flax -No. 1 N.-W.C., $3.901; No. 2 C.W., 53.313; No. 4 C.W., 93.743. 'United States Markets Minneapolis, March 19 -Corn -No. 8 yellow, 97..80 to $1.86, Oats No, 3 white, 920 to 930o, Zloty -Unchanged. Bran -$32,98,. Duluth. Mal', 19 -Linseed -$4,27 to 9.4.39; to arrive, '$4.27; May $4.31; July, 94.283 asked; October, $3.85 bid, Live Stook Markets Toronto, Mar. 19-Nxtra choice heavy AILED GOVERNMENTS WILL PLACE GERMAN PRISONERS IN DANGER ZONE NE Will Locate Them in Areas Which Enemy Bomb in Reprisal For Like Action on Pa 't of the Enemy. A despatch from London says: Ger- man prisoners of war are to be distri- buted over areas which the enemy's aircraft are subjecting to attack in their air raids, according to the Even- ing News on Thursday. "This," says the News, "is being done because the allied Governments have learned that prisoners of their nationalities in German hands already have been so placed in all towlis which the German Government considers likely to be attacked." The Double Decker Above. i On the left: A small boy feeding a pig on a bottle. Right Shows a type of wooden yoke used in Oklahoma to prevent pigs frolic routing their way under rail fences and into pastures not intended for them. steers, 911,86 to $12.25; do„ Good heavy, $11.40 to- $11,76; butchers' cattle, choice, $11,40 to 911,76; d0„ good, 910.76 to $11.25; do„ medlum, 910.26 to 910.50; do., common, 99.26 to $0.60; butchers'. buns, choice, $10 to 910.80; do., good bulls, 99 to 99.25; do., medium bulls, $7,86 to 98.60; do., rough bulls, 96.60 to 97; butchers' cows, choice, $10 to 910.60; do., good, 98.76 to $9; do., medium, 98 to $8.60' stockers, $7.60 to $8.80; feed- ers, 99 to 910; canners and cutters, 96 to 68.50; milkers, good to choice, 990 to $140; do,. gem. and med., 968 to $80' springers, $90 to 9140; light ewes, 913.50 to 916; cheap, heavy, 96 00 97.26; year- lings, 911,76 to $12.76; lambs, 918 to to $19.60; calves, good to choke $16 to 917; hogs, fed and watered, $20; do., weighed 012 cars, $20,25; do„ f.o.b,, 619. .e, FORESTS AS A FACTOR IN WAR. A Very Necessary Asset of the Coun- try That Would Win. Victory is with the army whose country has the greatest iron mines and smelters, the largest areas of waving grain and an abundance of wood. Of all the products of the soil upon which the very life of a nation depends in times of war, wood is the only one that cannot be rapidly in- creased under necessity and by the employment of adequate labor.,. .here- fore, provision for adequate national defense necessitates the maintenance of vast reserves of timber throughout the nation, reserves from which bil- lions of feet can be drawn in a single year if necessary to meet the needs of the army and navy. A sane and conservativ, develop- ment of forest resources to meet the needs of the nation in times of peace necessitates a constantly increasing intensity of management of all abso- lute forest land and the building up and maintenance of an enormous for- est capital. Please remember this for- est capital can be drawn upon in times of war and may determine the fate of the nation. For generations, England has ob- tained most of the wood used in her buildings and industry from beyond the Bea. The stress of war found her with a meagre forest capital, and the sons of England and Canada are to- day felling the remnant of the forests of that proud country that the empire may live. When the sombre clouds of war are lifted from Europe's battle- fields and peace again rules over the earth, England's lesson, learned in this bitter strife, will be taken to heart by her people and forests will clothe her idle lands, A•forest capital, far beyond that of former days, will not only add to her economic develop- ment in times of peace, but be develop- ed and maintained to better insure her against vital needs in times of possible future strife. -Prof. J. W. Tourney. SUB ATTTACKS A MERCY SHIP Unsuccessful Attempt to Sink Hospital Vessel in British Channel. A despatch from Lender, says: - The hospital ship Guilford Castle was attacked unsticcessfully by a submar- ine in the Bristol Channel an March 10, it was announced officially on Thursday The statement follows: "The British hospital ship Guilford Castle, Capt. Thos. M. Lang, R.N.R., homeward bound, was unsuccessfully attacked by, an enemy submarine at the entrande to the Bristol.dhannel at 3.35 p.m, on March 10. She was fly- ing Red Cross flags and had all the hospital lights on." Two torpedoes were fired at the Guilford Castle, the first missing and the second hitting the vessel's bow. Although badly damaged, she was able to reach port. There were many sick and wounded onboard, who were transferred to a hospital. This is the second submarnie at- tack on British hospital ships recent- ly. A fortnight ago the Glenart Castle was sunk in the Bristol Chan- nel, about 150 lives being lost. The sinking, an official r«nnouncement said, was a violation of the German pledge as to the immunity of hospital ships in that area. The Guilford Castle is a steamship of 8,036 tons gross. The Bristol Channel, in which the attack was made, is en arm .of the Atlantic ex- tending into the southwestern part of Great Britain between Wales and Eng- land. 54 CONCRETE SHIPS TO BE BUILT BY FIRM. A despatch from a Pacific Port says: So successful was the launching here on Thursday of the world's largest reinforced concrete ship that her builders announced they imme- diately would begin construction of 54 similar ships of larger size, and ex- pected that all would be completed within 18 months. Keep provisions which rats and mice will attack in rat proof and mouse proof containers. /,.%fit{:• .: � t t,G it/../,tinrr/ ul:w Telephone From Train Travelling 60 Miles .Per Hour. Experiments, are being conducted on the Canadian Government rail- ways with a telephone apparatus that permits verbal messages to be trans- mitted to and from moving trains, and have met with highly gratifying re- sults. 'Connection between the instrument and raihvay is made through the car wheels. It will be possible for connection to 'be made between the train instruments and that of any regular telephone subscribes!' Train speed is of no consequence, as satisfactory results have been attained with the tram travelling at the • speed -of 60 miles an hour, Ibictto 113 Dominion of Canada 5% Gold Bonds PRice: 58% and Interest Duel 1st December, 1922, to Yield 5,77% 1st December, 1927, to Yield 5,65% 1st December, 1937, to Yield 5.60% .... Interest payable 1st June and December, Bearer 'or Registered Bonds. Denominations: $50, $100, $500 and $1,000 These bonds are free from the Dominion income Tax, and may .. be used as equivalent of cash at 100 and interest in payment' For future Dominion of Canada bonds of like maturity, or longer, other than issues made abroad More complete information gladly furnished on request. I o1.NLINION SECURITIES CORPORATION LIMITED HEAD. orrice. TORONTO 26 ENG ST. E. MONTREAL • ESTABLISHED 1903 LONDON, ENG. BRITISH AIRMEN SHOW -MARVELOUS RESULTS; OVER 100 PLANES DOWNED Superiority of Air Forces Every Day More Manifest Showing Themselves Masters of the Situation. A despatch from London says: The superiority of the British airmen over the enemy is becoming more manifest day by day. Their work during the past fortnight has been almost mar- velous. Since March 1, on all fronts, 120 machines have been destroyed pr driven down out of control. The Lon- don Times correspondent reports that of commission on the front, of which 57 were completely destroyed. In ad- dition, the Naval Squadron bagged 17, two of these being brought down by seaplanes over the North Sea, during a fight in which two Britishers van- quished five opponents. Less than a score of British machines were lost during the same period. THE FIRST BLIGHT. Graphically Described by a Pasenger In An Airship. X. young American who recently went up with an aviator of the famous Escadrille Lafayette thus describes his sensations: There were two other passengers besides myself; I sat behind the pilot, with my knees pressed against the back of his little chair and my arms round braces that went from the edges of the car up to the superstructure. Then the mechanics swung the mon- ster plane round, the propeller speed increased, and we began to move,slow- ly down the field. It was like being in an excellent automobile moving over bumpy ground. The man in front of me turned the steering wheel, and we swung bumpily round in a great half circle. Then his hand slid up on the throttle segment, the buzz of the big propeller became a roar, and a great gust of wind began to be sucked past. Gradually our speed increased. The grass sped by beneath us and the bumps became one continual vibration of rushing speed. Then with a little lift, as if shaking itself free of the earth, the front of our machine rose slightly -the back followed, and we were upl A sudden and remarkable transform- ation took place. From the rush of a racing car we were transported in an instant into a great calm. The roar of the motor and the strong wind con- tinued, but all the intimate contact with motion was gone. The ground continued to race by beneath, but it seemed quite dissociated from our ex- istence. I gave myself over to studying my sensations. The most remarkable was the utter cessation of all the ordinary attributes of notion. Although we climbed in three great circles to a height of twenty-five hundred feet, it seemed rattler as if the landscape be- neath us passed slowly through meta- morphoses, of which we were calm and disinterested spectators. The past ex- perience most like the present was the experience of being on a mountain top. To the tremendous wind there was added of course the roar of the engines and the whir of the great pro- peller. In spite of the wind and the noise we seemed perfectly stable and perfectly still -like a mountain top beaten by a gale: The distant views of forests and lakes added to the illu- sion. Directly beneath us, however, was a new kind of landscape. The hills seemed very unimportant, but every house and hedgerow stood up like a toy, outlined by its clear-cut shadow. A.ud cows in the field would have been mere splotches on the green if it had not been for their own little shadows, which gave them reality. There was no fear possible. It was the acme of living. All the little things of life were forgotten; everything ex- cept the landscape and the glorious wind. By a wild stretch of imagina- tion one could imagine falling toward that little landscape below; falling wing over wing, perhaps. In the a most extraordinary and uncalled. thought there was something rather in pleasant. You would have plenty of for manner when he was first present. time to right the machine when you ed at the Court. This gentleman, who got nearly down. The very distance woos a multi -millionaire and hailed seemed to be a tremendous cushion of from Chicago, was highly amused a99 safety; seemed to insure against a the red Court dress of the gentlemen' sudden catastrophe. present, and, going up to one dignitary; Looking out through the wing, I was who was rather fat and pompous,• surprised to see it lift against the slaiSped him on the back, exclaiming scene behind it. Then I realized that in full hearing of the company pre sent: "Hallo, my fine, fat flamingo!" AMBASSADORIAL "DR. FELLS" MISFITS IN TIUeI DIPI4OMATItI slfRYW , - Men Wile Have Been Obnoxious to • Nations to Which They liavo Been Accredited, I do not like thee, Dr., Fell, The reason why I cannot toll; But this alone I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr, Fell. The International Diplomatic Ser. vice has come in for a good deall"of criticism during this war, and its re- presentati'i'es from the enemy coun- tries have met with well-deserved re- buffs everywhere. But it is not generally known that no ambassadorial appointment is ever made without first having received the absolute approval -of the Government to whose country the envoy is nomin- ated. There have been several famous in- stances of breaches of this unwritten law of diplomatic etiquette, and the of- fending individuals have been very summarily pronounced "persona non grata." ` Banned byQueen Victoria. The most unfortunate affair that England had to contend with was when we notified the French Government, after it proposed sending the late Marquis of Montebello as Ambassador to the Court of St, James, that that gentleman was undesirable. It is said that Queen Victoria's righteous antipathy against this dip- lomat dated from the time of the death of Empress Eugenie's son and heir, the Prince Imperial of France, when the Marquis was Charge d'Af• faires in London. He had declined, for fear of being suspected by his Government of Bonopartist sympath- ies, to postpone a large dinner at the French Embassy on the night follow• '!ng the arrival of the news in Eng- land that the ill-fated Prince had been killed in South Africa by the Zulus. Queen Victoria was very wroth, and gave expression to her anger in un'. measured terms, exclaiming that "M de Montebello should have remember- ed that it was the great-uncle of the Prince Imperial who raised his stable- man of a grandfather to be a duke and, a field-marshal. These favors were surely worth the few sauces that would have been wasted if M. de Montebello had postponed his dinner,"! Things Better Left Unsaid. America has in past years often( been very unfortunate in some of her diplomatic citizens. It would be im-1 polite to mention names; but it is wells known that one of her envoys to a northern Continental country behaved we were "leaning" against a turn. The centrifugal force, I suppose, accounts for the fact that while you are in the air you are hardly aware of Ieaning. Then the sensation changed: There was the feeling one has in a car when he reaches the crest of a hill. We be- gan to glide downward. The earth be- low grew larger, rapidly reversing all the phenomena of our slower ascent. I saw the hangars and the field. We were almost clown. I wondered how the pilot could be sure we would pass over the houses and trees that loomed large ahead of us, and then we were over them and gliding toward the grass of the field, The downhill feel- ing suddenly ceased and we were glid- ing almost level through the air. Just a touch, then another, and before I knew it we were bumping along over the field, terrestrial beings once more. • Snow will lie on the leeward side of an old snake fence all winter long and then mance the land for rods so wet that it can net be worked until very Irate. The best thing to bo with all such fences is to turn them into firewood. GRF,AT B° R1 li AIN AND UNITED STATES TAKE OVER INTO II S !II S -9 Allies Seize Million Tons of Holland; national Law. A despatc1t from Washington says: -A milliot tons of Dutch ships now held in ports the world over through Holland's fear of Germany's threat to sink them if theyventure out will be brought iilt0 the service of the United States and Great; Britain` at Shipping Under Inter - once. The United States and Great Bri- tain will take them over tinder inter- national law, availing themselves of a sovereign right which Germany her- self has hitherto exercised under the same authority. • Needless to say, lie was not retain- ed in diplomatics for any great while, President Cleveland had the mortis fication, in 1885, of having an envoy chosen by him rejected by two Euro- pean countries. It was Anthony M. Keily. This gentleman was first ap- pointed Minister to Italy without tak- ing the precaution of sounding the Italian Court beforehand. Someone dug up an old speech of his, in which he had denounced the Italian Govern- ment for depriving the Papacy of its temporal possessions. Consemrently, President Cleveland then nominated Mr, Keily as Ambassador to Austria. Ile was not, it turned out, even ae• ceptable by the Austrian Government, on the ground that Mrs. Kelly was a Jewess, and, consequently, barred from the Viennese Court. The Evil Eye. Japan also pronounced as persona non grata Senator Blain, who was no- minated by President Harrison, in 1891, as Minister to Pekin; He, too, bad to thank an unfortunate speech of his own for his rejection. In it he had referred to the yellow race in San Francisco as "The seeds of death, un- less the plant can be upront:d and ex- tirpated." , The Italians and Spaniards are cre- dited with beim' very superstitious, and they bout fought shy of a very distinguished Dutch diplomat, and re- fused him welcome,claiming he had the "evil eye," And even Constantin- ople would have none of him, So Hol- land was compelled to put the gentle- man on the retired list. NEXT WINTER'S WOOD. Take Steps to Avert a Possible Fuel Shortage. Already a number of municipalities aero preparing for a possible feel shortage next winter. Carleton Placa, Out., is arrnnging for the pur- chase .of at least 1,000 cords of wood, Ottawa, too, is malting similar pre- parations on a larger scale, Efforts are also being made to speed tip! the output of the coal mines of Canada. All these activities are receiving the enclorsation and assistance- of the Commission of Conservation, They are steps in the right direction The. narrow escape front a fuel catastrophe this year has shown, with startling clearness, the serious dependence ot, Canada on the United States for sup pit's of coal rind the urgent necessity that t:xigte for obtaining subatitnt:es in ventral Canaria, for the din'ation of the waratloast, The ('ammiseinn of Conservation's bull sti in"Wood for Fuel" will be sent os ststsesi to any municipality inier- est ern. 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J 't, i�, /!P � z of 4n i 0 r7�t.1.} ''�i . t �' il� I A Poore MV i�JA`i ' a;;; r.., ?�`I ; fI �� • Dos/ UP Y • 4. .A.; _i,� \ MAN �''r _" "_ J�' "'•`u•, rlr ,t'-. it hrr ` a• ( w+ :.°.a'K. . J%I J , \ [i till ' Yt�' fi.:�1 h;' ,. �e +'� '. t di t I.;. tl ll f v` > J i r, Y I $`. J¢■�f r�I I,rlrr�ll 'l .Ind /G 11 • i,. rrt',:r �1 1 l ilei 1<r ; on J 1`•'tit I'll .F i q71,' 4 i Ri I v ��1iw irifi,M"'•`l ... .A /p/. ; ,, ,: �,ryy,' �, J+4i 'r 4�t�;(; „{"�` , , a. 1 r� t. 0 f 4'J pk,1: 7) I ;. . ,r! :. r NI .M J. ¢ i" 9i 5 "1 ; tr i'f'fy jl {?v44'" ^ I'' it .,w. ..a. -.--.ti IR .rE '� .. ,.... �.. ...i.. -,r. • Needless to say, lie was not retain- ed in diplomatics for any great while, President Cleveland had the mortis fication, in 1885, of having an envoy chosen by him rejected by two Euro- pean countries. It was Anthony M. Keily. This gentleman was first ap- pointed Minister to Italy without tak- ing the precaution of sounding the Italian Court beforehand. Someone dug up an old speech of his, in which he had denounced the Italian Govern- ment for depriving the Papacy of its temporal possessions. Consemrently, President Cleveland then nominated Mr, Keily as Ambassador to Austria. Ile was not, it turned out, even ae• ceptable by the Austrian Government, on the ground that Mrs. Kelly was a Jewess, and, consequently, barred from the Viennese Court. The Evil Eye. Japan also pronounced as persona non grata Senator Blain, who was no- minated by President Harrison, in 1891, as Minister to Pekin; He, too, bad to thank an unfortunate speech of his own for his rejection. In it he had referred to the yellow race in San Francisco as "The seeds of death, un- less the plant can be upront:d and ex- tirpated." , The Italians and Spaniards are cre- dited with beim' very superstitious, and they bout fought shy of a very distinguished Dutch diplomat, and re- fused him welcome,claiming he had the "evil eye," And even Constantin- ople would have none of him, So Hol- land was compelled to put the gentle- man on the retired list. NEXT WINTER'S WOOD. Take Steps to Avert a Possible Fuel Shortage. Already a number of municipalities aero preparing for a possible feel shortage next winter. Carleton Placa, Out., is arrnnging for the pur- chase .of at least 1,000 cords of wood, Ottawa, too, is malting similar pre- parations on a larger scale, Efforts are also being made to speed tip! the output of the coal mines of Canada. All these activities are receiving the enclorsation and assistance- of the Commission of Conservation, They are steps in the right direction The. narrow escape front a fuel catastrophe this year has shown, with startling clearness, the serious dependence ot, Canada on the United States for sup pit's of coal rind the urgent necessity that t:xigte for obtaining subatitnt:es in ventral Canaria, for the din'ation of the waratloast, The ('ammiseinn of Conservation's bull sti in"Wood for Fuel" will be sent os ststsesi to any municipality inier- est ern. A little deeper speed the pluu A little higher glade the cow, A little fuller fill the mow, A little harder work the brow, And. Mese will bring •ueees chow,'