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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-11-7, Page 3Teirat.'"a7S, ;„ UNCONDITIONAL NKRENDER QFTURKEY OPENS DARDANELLES TO ALLIES TerPAS,oJ Arneistice Include Eelease of Aft Allied PriMiers- Entire Turkish Army Captured by BritiSit in Mesopotamia -WOO, Fleet En IROilte to Blach $ett 10.1nage Gentian Novi FOrceti. n ' 4. patch foam Lendoe sayet- 'Turkey son' Thursday unconditionally esti:Tendered to the Ogee, The itemise- -tiee was .eigned by Atingirei Calthoris on behctif of the Entente at gudros, on the -bleed of Lemeos. "Gen. Tolimehend, tho British com- mander, captured, at Kiet-et-Ame•re, W13 liberated several (Ape ago by the Turks," Sir George Cave, the Home : Secretary, :limos':need in the House of Coon ii on Thursday, "in order to :inform the British admiral mend in the Aegean that, the Tuekish Government asked that negotiations he opened immediately for an armia- + '.. "A reply was se,.nt, that if tho Turk- ish Government eent fully accredited ••••--"."'"- plenipotentiaries, Vice -Admiral Cal- . therm the British 'awn -mender, was empowered to inform them of the con- ditione upon which the allies would agree to •stop hostilities, and cools] . sign an armistice on these conditions in their behalf. "The Turkish plenipotentiaries ar- rived at Mudros, Island .of Lemnos, early this week and an armistice <vas signed by Admiral Calthorp an behalf of the allied Government on Wednes- day night. It came into operation at noon on Thursday. • "It is impossible as yet to publith the full terms of the armistice, but they include (1) The free passage of the aliipa fleets through the Bosphorus • to -tha Black Sea; (2) The occupation of forts on the Dardanelles a-nd in the -Bosphorus necessary to secure the pas- ge of -the ships, and (3) Immediate with much material." repatriation of allied Prisoners of %sho announcement that an ermlitico with Ttfrkey which, petinita paesage of gilled warships through the -Dar- danelles already is in operation ied navel officers to believe that an allied fleet if it has not already started, soon will pass through to the Black Sea to attack the German naval forces there; Those forces include ehip s of the Russian Black Sea fleet taken over by the Teutons after 'the collapse of the Provisioual Government in Rus- sia, The Germans obtained one $.09:-.‘ er-dreadnought, several battleships of the pre -dreadnought typa and a score of fast deskroyers. - • The Connell battle eruiser 'Goebert also is in the Black Sea. This yes - set was in the Mediterranean When the war •began and escaped to the Bos- phorus, where it was reported to have been "sold" to Turkey hefore that country entered tlu war. The cruiser was badly damaged several tenses, but recent reports elate it has been re- paired again, taken over by the 'Ger- mans and withdrawn to the Black Sen. The entire Turkish force which has has bei • captured, it was officially been opposing,the British on the Tigris announced on Thursday. The text of • the statement reads: "The hard fight- ing on the Tigris, which began on ABDICATION OF October 24, ended on the 30th with the capture of the entire Turkish force opposed to ue on that TIVOT. The pris- AISER. REPORTED entre are estimated at about 7,000, "The Prints of Peace".Wilhelm•puts his foot in it again. Markets of the „ Of -Bags, 90 lbs, 0.10 to $5.25, Bran, $37.25. Shorts $42.25. Mountie, w Id $68.00 to $70.00'. Hey -No. 2, per ton, CRT lots, $25.00 to $26.00. Cheese Breadstuffs -Finest eastern% 25% to 26. But - Toronto, No. 5. -Manitoba wheat- ter -Choicest creamery, 4a, to 50e. No. 1 Norehern $2 24%. No, 2 North- Eggs -Selected, 54o; No. 1 stock, 49e. ern, s2.21.14.; I've. '8 Nortbern, Potatoes -Per bag, ear. lots. $t.00. . $2.17%;" -No. 4wheat, $2.11%, in Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, $26.50 'tore Port Willi3tra, not including tax, to $26.00. Lard -Pure, wood pails, Manitoba oats -No. 2 CM., 85%c; ,.0 lbs. net, 31 a to 3 c. ' No, 2 C.W., 82%e; extra No. 1 feed, -82%c; No. 1 feed, 80%.e. Live Stock Markets Ara ' . • N . 2 yelloW, V '-9' -anon . • • • .- Ceheavy No. Seyellow, 51.65; No. 4 yellow, steers, $13 m .00 to $13.60; butchers' ..... $1.55; sample corn, feeds $1.32, track „tete, choice, $11.00 to $1,1 • 75; do., Toronto • 'ood. $10.25 to $:t0.73; do, d' , Ontario'oats, now crop --No. 2 white, 58.85 to $9.50; do. conunOrl, $1.75 to 15 to 78c; No. 3 white. 74 to 77e, Ete- $8.26; butchers' bulls, choice, 510.00. -cording to freights outside. te 510.50; do. medium bulls, $9.50 to Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per 59.75; do, rough bulls, $7.26 to $8.25; .ear lot, 52.14 to $2.22; No. 2, do. butchers' cows, choice, 510.00to :$2,11 to $2.19; No, 3 do., $2,07 to $10.25; do. good, 50.00 to 59.50; -do, :$2.15; No. 1 Spring, $2.09 to $2,17; medium $7,50 to $8.00; An comuion No. 2 Spring, $2.06 to• $2.14; Noe 3 Spring, $2.02 to 52.10, f.o.b., shipping points, according to freights PROS -No. 2, nominal. • Barley --Malting new crop, $1.02 to Buckwbeate-Nomieal. Rye -No, 2, nominal. Manitoba flour -Old crop, war serSquality.J11 . Toronto. . .crop, 510.15; in bags, Montreal and Ontario flour -War gaulity, old Toronto, pyompt shipment, Millfaede-Car lots, delivered Mont- real 'freights, bags ineladed; Bran, 537.25, per ton; shorts, $42.25 per fen. Hay -No. 1, $22 to 523 per ton; mixed, 520..00 to 521,50 pee ton, track Toronto. Straw -Car lots, $10.00 to $111.50 track Toronto. Country Produce -Wholesale. Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 38 to 39c; prints, 40 to 41e. Eggs -New laid, 55 to 57c; stove 50 to -52c. Dressed poultry -Spring chicken% 30 to 82e; roosters, 25e; fowl, 27 to ducklings, to , y , 31 to 114c; squaks, dos 54.50; seeee.e, 25e. Live poultry -Roosters, 18 to 20e; fowl, 20.' to 20c; ducklings, lb., 22c; turkeys,' 27 to 300; Spring chickens, 26 to 28e; geese, 20e, Wholesalers are selling to the re- tail trade at the -following prices: - Cheese -New, large, 26% to 27e; tWins, 26% to 272,40; old, -larg,e, 28 to 28%c; twin 28% to 29c. Butter -Fresh dairy, . choice, 40 to 48c; creamery, prints, 63 to 55c; creamery solids, 62 to 53e. Malgarine-84 to $5c, Eggs -No. 1 etorage, 5-1. to 52c; selecte'd storage, 53 to 54c; new laid, in cartons, 65 to 67c. ' Dressed p.oulhw-Spring thickens, 38 to 40c; roosters, '25c;. fowl, 38 to36c; turkeys, 40c; ducklings, lb., 35c. Spuabs, doze 55.50; gees, 80e, •Setress-t-Canatlian, hand-picked, bus., 5'7; imp., hand-picked, Burma or In - $6; Japan, $7; Lima, 18 to 18%c. Honey, new crop-Stvained, 60-11). tis, 26c; 1.0 -lb. tins, 27e; 5-1b. tins, 28c, Gnnbs-Doz., $3,75 to $4.50. Provisioas-Wholesale Smoked Meats -Hams, medium, 87 to 30e; doe' heavy, 130 to 32c; cooked, 52 to 84e; relics. 32 to 33e; breakfast bacon, 41 to 45e; hada, plain, 46 to 47c; boneless, 50 to 52c. Cured meats --Long clear 'bacon, 80 to 31e; clear :belliea,.29 to 30e, Larel--Pere, tierce% 31 Lo 311e0; teals, 31% to -32e; tatils, 31% to 3214.e; Prints, 33 to 331/fic, Compound, tierces, 25% to 26e; tube, 26 to 20%e; pails, 26% to 264/4e; silents, 27% to 28e. Montreal Merkel iVfoetreal, Nov, 5.---Oats-fforten 340, 1 feed, 98c. Flour-Inew star:davit grade, 511,50 to 511.65. Rolled oats Uprising of Population in Rhine District. 210, 315 600 BUSH TOTAL WHEAT CROP Estimate for Year's Yield of Various Grains and AUSTRIAN ARMY SUFFERS COMPLETE ROUT: 50,000 .CAPTURED Vanquished Envoys Olrer White Flag to Italian Commander-, • Italy Dictate Terms en the Meld. A despatch from Rome eayel '111e elleeeee ef our arms is assuming great proportioes. The routed enemy ie re- treeting east of the Piave, and seals narcily withstand the close Reassure of our troops on the mountain front," says the report on .Thursday night. Italian troops have reathed Ponta Dale All, northeast of the city of Belluno, thus definitely dividing the Austrian armies, said an official 'wireless message received here on Thursdey night from Rome. Over 50,000 pracouers and pore than SOO guns hove been counted, and thou*, ands of additional captimes tire com- ing in. "The 00000S)1 of 0111' 001121013 is beaming more and 'more stemera -does," says the despateb, The flght- ing is ert Es front or 100 to 120 milee now. Gen, Diaz, Italian Cominander-in- elder, has issued the following bulle- tin to his troops; "Soldiees, forwavd! In Italy's memo we will place the wreath of victory on the tomb of ,our glorioue dead. lsevward! Our beloved country calls!" In answer to Austria's,anuounce- ment that she mete ready to evacuate Italian territory, Italy hos officially replied that the offer hae come too. late. It is assumed the Italians will endeavor to drive the Austro-llun- garians -from Italian soil before an armistice can be signed. The Austrians in the 1200112 are menaced by the movement emtheast Above Belluno and ae Italian army marching from the southetoward that (1113. The other Austrian army is 7nonae- oci by an Italian drive moving smith- eost, 112 tide ease 021a:fork of the pincers ie the Adrietle Sen. The Auetrinne /Ave been. completes lY routea east of the riare, atr.earlier de'Spetels said, end ero with great dilliculty sustaining " the ineeesant pvessure of the Italian troops in the 11100111.41111 region, in the plain told hi the Alpine foothills of Venetia. En - only messes aro declared RS "Stream- ing in coufueion" down the mountain valley in all attempt to reach passes on the Tegliamcnto RIVOT, Aeeleepatch iron Vienna rays: The War Office issued this nnnouncement to-eiglit-"The high command of the Enenies, early Tueeday, by nAlies of a Barlementaire, established com- munication with the Destine isenlei comnaand. Silvery effort is to be made for the avoidance of further useless sacrifice of blood, for the cessation of hostilities and the canclasion of en armietice. Towards Otis step, which was enlmated by the host intentions, the Italian high corranand at first 125' 8012100 RR attitude of unmistakable refusid, and it was only on. the even- ing of 'Wednesday that, in accord with the Italian high command, Gen. Web- er, accompanied by a deputatiom was petrel -hod to cross the lighting tine for preliminary pourprivlere. 11, therefore, the cruelties of warfare must continue in the Italian theatre of \CRT, the guilt 11nd responsibility will have to be ascribed to the en- emy." NEWS FROM ENGLAND BRITISH TAKE A despatch from London says: Legumes. NEWEis BY el VII 1B0'7T ' JOHN High -placed German officials at Cop- , BULL AND WS PEOPLI3 &linen Thursday afternoon received A despatch from Ottawa says: The information that the German Einpev- Dominion Bureau of Statistics an - or had abdicated, according to the notinces the result of the en-nevi:ion Occurrences in the Lencl That -Reigns Copenhagen correspondent of the of the precis under trop and the slum- • Exchange Telegraph Company, who hers of farm live stock throughout Supreme le the Commer. adds: undee arrangements made jointly Ir, "Nothing is said about the Crown the Dominion Bureau and the Prove -1-1 cia: Wo•.11.1. Prince." cial governments. They are publish- Owing to the scarcity of supplies A despatch from Amsterdam says: ed, subject to revision, in the form. of the London and Northwestern Rail - There has been' an outbreak and a a press bulletin as 'follows: way will no longer pie:reale soap and panic etnong the population in the The total Areas sown to the princi- towels. in train lavatories. Rhine provinces, agising from reports pal eereal crops are as follows, 0001- George Rabey has been Inside R that the authorities were prepared, 3! parative figures for lest year being lire governor 01' London Respite). an necessary, to allow' enemy troops to given within parenthisis: recognition of eervices rendeved that occupy Coblenz and Cologne, accord- Wheat, 17,858,902 acres (14,755,850 institution. ing, to Berlin ,newspapers. • acres); oats. 14,790,336 acres (13,313,- At El recent medical itspection of 400 acres); barley, 3,353,811 acme • the Woodgthen sehools only 673 chit - 56.50 to $7.00; stockers. $8.00 to GERMANY IS DBvageetemefla 510.50; feeders 510.00 to 511.00; OCCUPIED RUSS. TERRITORY canners and cutters, $5,50 to $5.76; — milkers, goosl to eholee, 590.00 to A despatch from Landon says: Con- acres (919,000 acres)• mixecl grains.. eery hospital. 51.45.00s do. corn. and meek, $65.00 dit'ons in Psiseian teriatory- occupied by the Germans Etre deieribed in an 038,120 ' • 40 1awes ( 7,:i26 acres); and A clissmond necklace 21,410 sold at to $75.00; springers, $90.00 to $145.00; 1 . S e .1. . light ewes . $13 00 tb $14.00; yearl- o cial Russian wireless - meesage• 839 acres). corn for husking, 250,000 fleece (234,- Johnson's Auction Rooms, London( , higsi, $15.00 to $15.50; spring lambs, Ill for $380„ the money to be devoted $15.25 to $15.60; calves, ' good to which says: . The estimated total yields of these eaeiee, $14.00 to 517.75; hogs, fed "From all regions new in .00thlan crops are, 111 bushels, as follows: • et is estimated that theee are over to work among sailors. and watered, P7.75 to $18.00; do., occupation it is reported that- the Wheat. 210,315,000 (233,742,850); one million four hundred thousand Gorman military authoritids are car- oats, 4511,738,900 (403,009,800); bar- llotment holders in England and ryieg off everythiag that it is Pose ley, 33,202,500 (55,057,750); rye, 10,- Wales. ;A setae te take to Germany. They are 375,500 (8,857,200); eess, 4,884,700 devestating the country. The Postmaster- Ceneeel has ve- 'II White RuEisia there are no 000); buckwbeat, 11.400,600 (7,119,- may be transmitted by post to any (3,026,340); beans, 4,588,200 (1,274,- minded that public that no matches horse!: and ' no cattle because the 400); nee, 7,0105.000 (5,934,900); mixs place in the United Kingdom. Gelnuris have taken them all. In ee grains, 32,3013,000 (16,157,080); Captain Charles Lambert, 5011300 the regions' where evacuation is i 511(1 (1001) for tesseteg, 0,915,000 (7, tugmaster of the Dover Mather pending the fields vernein linemen I ee2,1110), . The 051122122t6,]nurnbere of farm Lug captains on the sot:the:est coast, Board, and one of the bestnenown because - the Germans have left 210 1 eeed. Childten are dying of stervasi live stock, based neon the returns re- died recently. tion. Milk cannot be obtained, I ccived, are for the 21131010 of 0(1111108 E. G. Hutchinsom of Carlisla has "Household furniture, telegraphic !fellow, been appointed manager and engin- and telephonic instruments and ap- Horses, 0,008,315; milch cows, 3,- Per of the Richmm ond Gas Copany pliancos from many towns have I, -10011 :542,429; °thee cantle, 0,307,267; sheep, E. J. Acott is retiring as postmas- sent to Germany. The railwey lines i 3,037,480; swine, 6,280,682; fowls, 31,- ter et weses„., after forty-six year?, have been stripped, 01113 -"1'eck.".1 i 8241P8; turkeys, 1,058,913 1 : geese: of service in the post. office, order on 'wheat flour just passed hy and melees cars being telt bellied," I, , 879,31'?; and ducks, 83.1,011-1, Lieut. Knox and Corp. Beesley have (2,392,200 acres); rye, 150e,294 acres deers out of R total of 2,185 were nor - (211,880 acres); Peas, 235,976 acres '71101 ill all respeots. (198,881 avres); beans, 228,1377 acres Two residents of Keglefield, Sur - (92,457 acres); buckwheat, 548,097 rsy, from 350 tomato plants raised acres (895,977 acres); flax, 921,820 peer a ton or tomatoes for the 7niii- weighed off ears, 518.00 ;to 518.25. Montreal, Nov. 5. -Choice steers, 511.00 to 512.00; good steevs, 59.50 to 510.50; Medium, 58.00 to 59.00; common, down to $7.00; choice butch- er cifevs, 59.00 to 510.00; good cows, 57.50 to 58.50; medium, down to $6.00, and common, 55.50. Calmer 0012'S,54.1i0 to 55.00; canner bulls, $5.50 to $7.00. Sheep, 59.50 to 511.00; good lambs, $15.25. Other lambs, 513.00 to $15.00. Choice select hogs, 517.00 to 517.50. Milk.fed calves, $15.00; graes-fed, $6.00 to 58.00. .12— FOURWHEAT FLOUR SUBSTITUTES ALLOWED A despatch from Ottawa save An the Canada Food Boned defines- the --.. been presented with the freedom of only four 'Wheat flour substitutes as • Nuneaton in honor of their having oat, barley, eora, and rye flows. All GERMANS HAVE LOST- 1 SOLE REMAIN INC TURE ARMY won the Viceerin Croes, consumers must now take one pound • " 500 000 THIS 'YE e.11 CONCENTRATED NT GALLIPOLI ., The death- is annoueced of Alfred John Mason, 11111131113111 Service Order, formerly superintendent of the Local Governmeut Board. Tht Bishop of Southwell has sug- gested the holding or short Thaeke- giving services in the market places on market daye. • A Hampehire lady who recently celebrated her 1001)1 birthday sent het' usual (111111)311 subscription to the s -oe Royal Hospital, Pinney Heath, of substitutes to four pounds wheat flour. The order allows anyone to have on band 100 poinids•of fipureor sufficient tor premt: 0.4y „alleet.:.g. .tictetres fefhtially est:mesa-1 on 1.husecley at .taye the "ole ra„„tirtm.,,, Turkish A despatch from Lonikei says: Ger- ) A despatch Paris says, A mon loeses sinee Jan, 1 -were semi- 1 despatch from Athens to Le Math ments, while any fernier whose home- 2,500,000, tef whit+ one million werti 1 army hoe been concentrated 12113)115112',grown wheat has been 'gienied•by doricIrmilliet4;• st,toilisIs:111,111.1 thn e eck of the Gallipoli excbanged directly veith a miller, and or the 10,000 German gen;% °mat_ Ien1 The Tchatalja positiona any person livingemore than five miles Mg July 15, tho allies hava captured .j , see being peepared as the second line I keep or: hand 200 pounds of flour, or a 112106,t or Miconee for Constantinople. trent a mill, oi• licensed dealer, may what is sufficient for 200 clays,' Feeding milling! wheat or :its mix- tures to live stock or noun* is for- bidden, except where grown together, containing, not more than 25 per cent. of milling wheat, Orders Nos, 81 and 40 are repealed, KINGDOM OF GREATER SERBIA IS PROCLAIMED 13 • s • A despatch .from Islosol, Switmer- land, says: A Vienna despatch re- ceived 120210 says that nernecling . to the .Austrian..neWspapers 'file I01213 - dont of Greater Serbia has been pro- claimed at Sarajevo, Bosnia., and that, the assassins of Arehiluae Franz 'fba most, etatosel ul gr 0 W 'CV A ilea Feedinand have been releseed by eel- stable menus.° at. the rate or 10 tons cliees. . to tbe neve for raspbervies. The assassination of Franz Fercli- Save fuel, Mrs. llotteewire, 14 keep - n1 mid his consort at, Sarajevo in ii •• • •11 dth "1 1 • June. 1914, afforded. Cloven:my the of Thievee." The Coinsen getcovay was too rapid to allow 01 the carriage tics cleae, in eteara beiteee, one. An, electeic heater has been invent - Gotha and Victoria streets, Hack- ney, have been ineorporated under Lim nense. of Wareefovil street in hem- ov n British aermau who destroyed a Zeppelin. Fire desteoyed seems 04161:S, 11 threshing mill and other machinery at Pinekbeelt Match. tear. Spaulding. rocial Australian Y.51,(1.A. rae- deevonsi aote officers and thee of the Australia -re -threes :has been OPOIlCCI ;It Weymontlt, Glum, aortherly postmastet at Deal, has :been appointed to succeed 71/. 4100011 poginaeter et IVitid- ' sor. Stolen But Not Taken -Here is e pile 'or booke stolen front the liberalee na ot Montdidier and billed for Berlin. But they uovei c e aud ing. the sottom or eour pote and kite . 1,000 GERMA Waste of ,Waters Confronts Bri- tish North of Valenciennes. A despatch from London 12(13,51-3m Use i•egion eaet of Courtrai the British delivered an attach on Thursday against tho Geenume, gained all their objectives ancl took a thostaand Gar - 11l0 nrieonere, accord -nig to Field :Marshal Haig'e commuelcatien issued on Thursday night, noel which indi- cates that the British are fighting right on the Scheldt, and are probably across it et an important point. A despatch from the British Armies in France says:-..-Awaste of waters eonfronts the British Meet Army north of Vtsleucteitnes. the Dane barn breached the banks of the Scheldt Canal and blown up sluices to give their rear guard additional pro- tection and a great; artificial lake', in places three miles broad, now cover0. the level ground berore out:pets. The largest inundation is 'between Valeneiennes and Conde, where the Scheldt gene RTC 111.11CtiCally 111 a straight line for nearly 230V011 7111150, It joins the Mons Canal at Conde, mut the latter has practically disappeared in the flood Which stretches beyond Eresnee toward Thivenceltes and other villages north-east of Valenciennes, There 522..0 lesster floods and patellae of water verying in size between the Conde and Maulde, where the Scheldt passes from France into Belgium. Thus the so -mile front linkin Tournai and Valenciennes lies against a water beerier for two -t11106(1 of the way. The 'deeds are not deep, in 001110 plaCee hardly more than kl CC/01, but obvioesty they cannot easily 1)5 forded by infantry for any distance. German patrols 110 -Id the 119960 floor or buildiugs, which rise out of. these lakes and cover the welters) bank of the Scheldt Canat with machine galas. Release of the 'waterways enables tho enemy to economize men and hold the lake district lightly. There are apparently 110 more than three diva stone thinly strung along lite 11)011001- 3)11. 11050 north of Valenciennes. te_ Two retains in the Field. A story is told that throws a pleasant light o11 the distinguished French general. Ile was driving in a motor with an equerry past a town neav Verdun when he came upon four little lessee who wore =trolling in single file, arrayed in soldier's hel- meta and carrying real bayonets. The sight of the little faces, almost lost hi the real soldiers' helmets, am- used Gen. Petah:, and stopping the ear, he said to the leader of the file; - "Vou are brave fellowel What te your name "Oh, 1 am Gen. 'Petaint" repliod the boy, who had no idea to 2010111 VMS SpCal(111g. The tesply greatly amusea the gen- eral. "Well, MY tame is Petain he said; "and 1 am very pleased to have met you!" The two generals then shook hands, gravely (whited, and parted company. Clarify 'Wind Shield. CX011110 she was looking for to cowl- of more. books, valuable thoogh they Mlly be. Buy n Victory Bend in sixteenth et an indi or F4)01; dreroat:ea ed to prevent moistuve collecting on 1(111)10 the NVOTIC1 War, ilV1 1, (201111dit.111 libreries bave beet/ sassed 10101 011is'Plc• vends:nu 1:y 50 per ecut. an automobile wind shield, Th 43 70 (0) ii icor tbe II L, J)(.5 /001, ,...5,, , ri,o-rER 210wr Toe 'FIRE: )/4 P4E • FURIklhC '121(0(0330(23)6 ,., ros 11 Wynn VJJj(L31 LA11.1R14 IT 012 1.1•1-Mes, MOli88 'rom r • • itlEt.?!! 11,„ 153)331 096 TEE , REGIST ER "; W. 'I QUICin ariaLsia Lenceir4~... • .41225 -• •, • " FROM OLD SCOILliNi) NOM 03. INTEREST FROM 11$1t BANKS AND 5.341Ag8. What to Coln; 012 fa the Hight:1114i • end Lowlands of Auld . . Scotia. One hundred pigs from Lora Itoec- beey'e herd --reelized 4155470. The unitedages of . an' past coast fishing boat crew is 298 yeare 'the cable boy being (2 man, of eeveriey.. ,The Military Medal and D.0,111, have been awarded to Sergeant I), Hegg, Eskdaterlimir, The Countose of gar . and Keine_ opened a Women'Wee Service Ex- hibitiore la Stirling, Capt, John Todd, R.A.F., Feendeee, eged nineteen, has seventeen -eel's,- planee to has ('150111, Majoe Victor Fortelle, Black Wetale 131entrairn, has been promoted to Bri- gadier -general, The 71).8,0. and Croix de Guerra have been awarded to Lieut, Harold 0. Campbell, of Ceigrain. Brockbach Farm, Kithpatelek-Dur- ham, Mrs been purchased by John Briggs, Sheflleld, for 113,800. Capt. Robe Halley, 5011 of ex - Bailie Haney, Path, has been awarda ed the Distinguished Flying Coos. Cocichurnepatli, Bersviekehire, has twenty-two inhabitants, whos11 ages vary from seventy to ninety years:. The presence of a white crow its a householder's gmelen 111 Pitlochryinne attracted a good deal of attention. Buchlyvie district, with a popular, -Lion of 800, subscribed over 113,000 to the local War Savings' MSC/da- tion. By the death of Lieut. Odo L. D. Simpson, Sherwood .33'oresters, there is 11020 no living heir to the beronetey. The -oldest of the farmers in the Kb:kb-10110th district passed away in the person of William Laird, The Dyke. Mrs. McIntyre succeeds bee late husband as Clerk anse treasurer of the Ardchattan and Muckairn School Board. Major R. Scott, 411022, MCI., R.I".A., son of Rey, Thomas Scott., Living- ston, has been awarded the Croix do Guerra Lieut. -Col. R. A. Wolfe -Murray, awarded the 12.13,0., 18 the eldest son or Commander Philip Wolfe -Murray, Cringlette. Litut.-Col. Sir Ian Colquboun, who has. been awarded the D.S.0., is the chief of clan Colmboun, Roes Dina Loell Lomond. The parish church bell will ring eaSh day at noon as an invitation to the inhabitants to paay for the suc- cess of the Alhes. The house of Lord and Lady One - canner, at Innerleithen, has been given as a convalescent home eor Canadian obflicers. Capt. G. Hunter, lIstwick, has four brothers in the army, ont of 1120112 111 the Canadian army- having 00011 the Military Medal, The :Marquis of Graham, when openieg a fete at Ardwell, said the workingmen at home had reason to thank the mon on the battlefield. When retiring from the position of 1(110s 1at:s.ica.. 1 Master of Peebles Hh ig School, William Macqueen was pre - 55111 -0(1 -with a wallet of Treasury Capf, Frank M. aleCallion, Ste- forths, killed in action, was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. McCal- lion, Doune Cottage, Dumbarton. P. 11o11, schoolmaster, Mt:entitle haa boon notified that his son, Lieut. Thomas Bell, 103.E., has bectakilled in action. The Military MIAMI has boort awarded to Sergeant 3ohn Stewart, Cordons, son of the late John Stew - era Lossiemouth. Sister Nellie Mackenzie. who 12110 • been awarded tht Royal Red Ciente. Hill Terrace, Inver miss. is a daughteL %Ms', Maekeneic. 11 INTEREST1N(LLEXPERIMENTs4 Proof of Earth's Revolutions Can. he Obtained With Bowl. Take a good sized bowl; fill it near- ly full of water, and place it upon the flooe of a room 20111013 3,1 110t eli- pcVetl to shaking or jarring from the street. Sprinkle over the &mare of the water a coating of lycopodium powder, which can be obtained at al- most any chemist. Then upon the outface of this coating or powder make, with powdered chart:oat a straight Meek 1iney say an inch or two in length. Having 10111(30 11115 little marl: with the charcoal powder' 012 the eurfacia of the contents of the bowl, lay town upon the float, close to thei bowl a stick or some other steaight object, so that it will he exactly pavane] 201111 the mark. If the 1111e 11119961121 to be punnet with a meek in the -floor, or with any stationery object in the room, this will servo as well. Leave the bowl undieturbed for a few hours, and then observe the position or the black mark with re- foreede to the object with which it WAR parallel. It will be found to have moved in the direction oppomite to that or the moveme711 of the earth on ite axis, The earth 311 simply re- volving, has enerfea the water and everything else in the bowl remed with it, aut the powder on the mt. face has been left behind s The line will always be found to have moved from eaet tts west, which is perfectly good 'proof that, every- thing else has moved the other way. Strictly Forbidden. A eeetain venerable rabbi, when jut about to occupy a seat in a crowded street mite found hinteelf forestalled by an agile youth who sidled quietly past hint and slid situ - busty into the vacaticy. Tbe rabbi 1n2151 levo eXpreseed slight annoyance in his features, for the young man added insult to injury by eaying, with cool effrontery: "What's the mattes(' With you, You , itsole as if you wanted 10 cat me." ) Jewish gentleinen Wes easel to the pc:comfort, "Yes," he answered cslicily. "but 1 5111 forbidden,"