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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-02-24, Page 3WEST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN ENDS ALL CAMEROONS CONQUERED German Commander Succeeded in Escsiping, 1-iow- ever, Into Spanish Territory A despatch from London says; The following official eommunication refer- ring to the operations in the Lamer - bons region of West Africa was is- sued Thursday night: "A telegram dated ,Feb, 16 from Gen. Dobell `(the .French commander in Cameroon) stabes,.that he has re- ceived information from Gen. Ayrner ich that, the French have closed the frontier up to Ngoa and all east thereof, The Campo legion column has a few miles to traverse to close the line from the sea. "Active operations are now prac tically ended„ and the conquest of Gammon is complete, with the ex- ception of the isolated position of Mora hill. The German commanclanb, Zinincrman, succeeded in making his escape int Spanish territory," Markets 4f the World 46 to 46'/ye. Flour—Fancy patents, yellow, 77 to 78e. Oats—No. 3 white, 10c higher; quoted at $7; first clears,', 5c higher; quoted at $5.20. Other grades unchanged. Shipments, 55,892, barrels. Bran, $19 to $22, Duluth, Feb. 22.—Wheat--No. i hard, $1.34%,.; No. 1 Northern, Manitoba oats—No. 2. C.W.451/set $1.31%; No. 2 Northern, $1.283f . + Linseed—Cash, $2.3831 to $2.34; •Nos 8 C,W., 42iyac; extra No, 1 feed,. May, $2,36; July, $2.36',x• 423..c; No. 1 feed, 41%c, in'.etore lent William. American corn -No. 3 yellow, 83a'ee, ti nth Toronto. C corn—Feed, corn Peed, 74 to 76c, track' Toronto: Ontario oats—No. 3 white, 44 to $7 to $7,40; do, medium, $6.15 to 45c; commercial, 43 to 44e, aecording` $6.65; 'do.,' conimon, $5 to $5,65:' to freights outside, butchers' bulls, choice,' $6, 50 to $7; Ontario 'wheat -No, 2; Winter per do„ good bulls, $5:75 to $6.10; do., car let, $1.10 to $1:12; , wheat, rough bulls, $4, 50 to $5; butchers' slightly sprouted and tough, accord -cows, choice,' $6.75 to $7; do., good, ing to sample, $1.06 to $1,10; wheat, $5.85 to $6.10; do., medium, $5.10 sprouted, -smutty and tough, according to sample, $1 to $1.04; feed wheat, 90 to 95c, according to freights outside. Peas—No. 2, $1.50; peas, accord- ing to sample, $1.25 to $1.75, accord- ing to freights outside, „. Barley ---Malting, 64 to 66e; feed, 57 to 60e, aceording to freights out-. •side. Buckwheat --Nominal, 7'7 to 78e, according to freights outside. Rye—No, • 1 commercial, 92 to 94e; rejected, aceording to sample, 83 to 85c, acording to'freights outside. Manitoba flour—First' patents, , in jute bags, $7.20;' second patents, in jute bags, $6,70; strong bakers', in jute bags, $6.50, Toronto. Ontario' flour—Winter, according to sample, :$4,.70 to $4.80, track Toronto; -$4.80 to 84.90, seaboard, prompt ship ment, • Mlifeed--Car lots, delivered Mont- real -freights—Bran, per ton, $25; shorts, per ton, >$25 to $26; middlings, per torr, $27; good feed flour, per bag, $1.75 to $1.85. Breadstuffs. • Toronto, Feb. 22,—Manitoba wheat =New crop, No, 1 Northern, $1.20%; No 2 Northern, $1;24.3¢; No. 3 North- , ern, 1, .:2t'/e, to store Port William, Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Feb. 22.—Choice heavy steers, $7-.60 to 6•butchers'a- 0 77 cat- tle, choice, $7.40' to $7,60; do., good, Country Produce. Butter—Fresh dairy, 27 to 80e; in- ferior, 28 to 25c; creamery_ prints, 84 to 800; solids, 32 to 34c. Eggs—Storage, 26 to 27c per doz.; selects, 28 to 29e;. new -laid, 32 to 34e, case lots. Honey—Prices, in 10 to 60 -lb. tins, 12 to 1.2%c; comb, No. 1, $3; No. 2,; $2.40. Beans—$4.20 to $4.40. Poultry—Spring chickens, 17 to 200; fowls, 15 to 16c; ducks, 17 to. 20c; geese, 15 to 19c; turkeys, 23 to 27e. Cheese --Large, 19e; twins, 19%c. , Potatdes—Car lots of Ontarios quoted at $1.75 to $1,80, and New Tirunswicics at $1.90 to $2 -per bag, on track. Montreal Markets, Montreal, Feb. 22.—Cora—Ameri- , "can 11o. 2 ycllow,'85 to 86c. Oats - No. 2 local white, 50c; No. 3 local white, 49c; No: 4 local white, 48e. Barley ---Manitoba feed, 63 to 64e; is smooth and inclined to be fat, it. melting, 70 to 780. Buckwheat—No. belongs to quite another, kind of per - 2, 80 to • 82c. Flour—Manitoba. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.30; second's, $0.80; strong bakers', $6,60; Winter patents, choke, $5,70; straight. rollers, $6 to $6.10; do., bags, $2.85 to $2.95. Rolled, oats— Bbls„ $5.35; do., bags, 90. lbs., $2.55. Bran, $24, Shorts, '$26. Middlings, $28 to $30. Mouille, $31 to $33. Hay •- •No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20 to $20.50. '• Cheese—Finest' westerns, hand of Mammon. 18% to 19c; finest easterns, 1814 to 1.8%c. Butter—Choicest creamery, 34 to -34%c; seconds, 33 to 33%c. • Eggs—Fresh, 34 to 35c; selected, 28. to 20e; No. 1 stock, 26 to 27e; No. 2 stock, 23 to 24e. Potatoes—Per bag, car lots, $1.80 to $1.85. Winnipeg Grain. to $5.65; do., common, $4 to $4.60; feeders, good, $6.25 to $6,85; stock- ers, 700 to 900 lbs., $6.10 to $6.75; canners and cutters, $8.25 to $4.50; milkers,- choice, each, $75 to $100; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $60; springers, $50 to $100; light ewes, $7.25 to $9; sheep, heavy, $5.25 to $6; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs, $7 to $7..75; lambs, cwt., '$11.25 to $12:75; calves, me- dium to choke, $7.25 to $11.50; do., common, $4 to $4.50; hogs, fed and watered, $10; do., weighed off cars, $10.40; do., f.o.b., $9.65 to $9.70. Montreal, Feb. 22.—Choice steers at $7.75 to $8; good at $7.25 to $7.50; and the lower' grades at from $5.25 to $6,25, while butcher cows sold at $4.75 to $6.50, and bulla brought from $5.50 to $7 per cwt.; packers to $4.75 per, cwt. Small lots of lambs at $10.75 to $11, and sheep at $0.75 to $7.50 per cwt., while milkfed calves sold 'at 10% to lie, and grassfed .at 535 to 61c per lb. Hogs, $10.80 to $11 per cwt., weigh- ed off cars, but as high as $11.10 was paid for some lots. of long -run stock. BIG HANDS. What They Are Said to Indicate in a Man. Most people seem to object to big- ness, as applied to features of the body—big feet, big ears, big mouth, particularly. As a rule, the man who has a taste for science has a big. . hand, and a bony one. Re carries ib loosely on his wrists. It is not a beautiful hand, as an artist counts beauty; but it is true that mere beauty does not often go with the very highest character.; The man who possesses this large, angular, knobbly, capacious hand nev- er tells a lie. Moreover, he will not pass a mis-statement or an exaggera- tion. It is this exactitude which makes him a scientist, even if his opportunities' have never allowed him to study. - If the hand is not only large, but instead of being knobbly and angular son. You will see that kind ofhand be- longing to the well -contented 'person opposite to you at a public' dinner, who is always calling for the wine -list, and scanning the menu, for fear he may be inadvertently missing some- thing good. The big, smooth hand is capacious. It is apt to ire rapacious. It is the Winnipeg, Feb. 22,—Cash quota, ALL BRITISH WORKERS HAVE MONEY TO SPEND Were Never Before So. Prosperous So Merchants Report. A despatch from London says: "In my forty years' experience, I have never known a time when there was so much money about among the tions:--Wheat—No. 1 Northern, working'elasses,"' is;thu testimony of $1.2078; No, 2 Northern, $1.231; a pawnbroker, doing business in a No, 3 Northern, $1.20%; No. h, district of London, where a large $1.16%; No. 5, $1.09+/x; No. 6 amount of army materials are mantle $1,03%; feed, 97%,. Oats—No. 2 G. factured. His testimony is support - W., 44%e; No. 3 C.W„ 421a; extra ed by the jewelers, merchants' and No. 1 feed, 421,4e; No. 1 feed, 401'he;,variety and moving picture theatres No. 2 feed, 39%c. .Barley—No. a. in the neighborhood. They all say the workers were never so prosperous, or spent thin•, money so freely—except that they don't call on pawnbrokers as they used to.. in this district there are 6,000` women and girls employed in munition work and they are the free spenders. Most of them are the wives of soldiers and receive separa- tion allowances from the Government, which increases their ineo'ine. 68%c; 12o. 4, 68c; rejected, 57%x; feed, 673% Flax—No. 1 N.W.C.; $2.10%; No, 2 C.W,, $2.07%. UJnited States Markets. • • Minneapolis, Feb. 22.-.--Wheat---- May,.. $1,29; to $1.29%; July, $1,271%; No. 1 hard, $1.36%; No. 1 Northern, $1.80 to $1.34; No. 2 Nor- thern, $1,28 to $1.31, Corn --No, 3 LIVELY BRUSH WITH H GERMANS IN EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN ' Reconnaissance in Force Carried Out Against Sal- - altar Hill to Ascertain Enemy's Position , A despatch from London says: 'The • r#tish official statement issued Thurs- ' at, nighb on the East African cern- fiaign says; i,� "The ,genoral officer commandixig the British forces in East Africa Otatas that on the 12th a rsoonnais- teo in force was carried out against aita Hill to locate the enemy's po- gblon and Ascertain his strength. The hill was found to be strongly held, and the main German reserves were ascertained to'be in the neighborhood. "Our casulties amounted to 172, of whom 139 were in the second South African brigade, which had their first experience in bush fighting. "The branch railway' has now been carried to Njoro, 3n/a miles from Sa- laita." eite KO CANAL e. _.l.• jo4ocK BERLIN i.c oa •! eiestrie BLACK ays,Ho„N,, SEA s BATUrl ,- KARS ai 4U51t,� 'wise eel • 4. PILSEM STRASS80,36 COLMAR UNICH A \ 4 s A 'e • GIrhP ✓' .gym 73 KUT-F l /A,MRRA. 1,"7u caveat c a A 'O AU,1 riESTE FIUME 1c1 1711 .RRI N.E.A.2}r c EA //I/ 5E1_GRADE; l l� 141104' hl±M B ULGi•R' ' )$URct1As ice. S� t` 4 i °SOFIA ... c3 i o6aK 1: , j Ai ONSTANT THE WEEK'S DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WAIL. The past week has scan more activity on the Western :front for some time past. The Germans attacked the British lines in the vicinity of Ypres and carried the trent line trenches along a front of something like 800 yards, These' trenches have changed hands many times and, in fact, this section of the front is said to have. ,been called the International front. Part of the ground has been regained. The Canadians participated in the fighting and are said to have repulsed all attacks with comparatively slight loss. The outstanding festure of the war news this week, however, has. been the capture by the .Russians of the fortress. of Erzertm, together with something Eke 1,000 guns and immense supplies. The position was taken by frontal attack after a five days' siege. This event is the most important recent development in the war operations, The Russians are reported to be striking southward with a view to cutting off the retreating Tprk- ish garrison. British reinforcements are on their way to meet the British relief expedition in Mesopotamia. In the meantime the beleagurcd British force- at Kut -el -Amara is reported to be successfully holding the position and to have ample supplies for some time, to come. Rumania' has taken a position very Much more favorable to the Entente Allies. Germany has resorted to threats in an attempt to keep that country neutral, but as soon as Russia can get her troops in such a position as to ensure Rumania against invasion it seems probable that Rumania will throw in her lot with the. Allies. She has much to gain by an attack on Bulgaria and her assistance would do much to turn the scale in the Balkans. The situation on other fronts is little changed. There has been considerable activity on the part of air squadrons, including another raid on the East coast of Britain and an allied attack by air on Strumiutya. There seems to be a general feeling that big events are impending, but their nature and magnitude are not yet apparent. MONTENEGRINS RISE AGAINST ILL -USAGE People Goaded Into lEevoitby Brutali- ty of Austrian Soldiery. A despatch from Rome says: The Durazzo correspondent' of the Idea Nazionale telegraphs that the Mon- tenegrins in the:Vasoyevici,,Plavo and. Guying° districts, goaded by the ill usage of the Austrians, have revolt- ed with such success that the Austrian authorities have been obliged to send to Scutari for reinforcements. The Montenerins, thanks to arms and mu- nitions, which they had hidden, con- tinue to resist. When they entered the country, the correspondent adds, the Austrians announced that -quanti- ties .of provisions 'would arrive im- modietely,.,but as soon as the terri- tory was occupied they carried off the EOM that remained and the population everywhere is dying of hunger, al- though money is abundant. Austria is seeking to control the movement by hanging all -the leaders and the situ- ation appeared serious enough to sum- mon more troops from Matra, WINS MILITARY CROSS. Young Canadiana Has Also Been Men- tioned in Despatches. A despatch from Charlottetown, P. E.L, says: Captain Dawson, grandson of the late W. E. Dawson, formerly Mayor of Charlottetown, and a son' of Captain Dawson, of Bombay, India, has received the military cross for distinguished service in the field and has ben mentioned in despatches. He has been serving in the civil engineer corps,.. and has been through Mons, Ypres and other battles. He has re- cently been appointed instructor of fortification schools in Chatham, Eng- land. He is a graduate of Kingston Military College. i+ GERMANY HAS SPENT ' $7,500,000,000 ON WAR A despatch from London says: The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Reginaid McKenna, announced on Wednesday that the British national debb'at'the end of the financial year, March 31, will be £2,200,000,000. Germany's gross war expenditure to the end of 1915 was more than £1,500,000,000. Credits voted by France between the outbreak of the war bo the end of December, 1915, were about 11,- 240,000,000 and for the first quarter of 1916, £300,920,000. TWO-YEAR SENTENCE FOR A DESERTER A despatch from 1Vlontreal says: Benjamin Coulter,nineteen years of age, who was convir,ted on Wednesday before Judge Lanebot on charges of having deserted froth the 73rd Royal Highlanders, 87th Battalion Gren- adier Guardsand the 5th Universities Company overseas, was , sentenced to St. Vincent de Patel Peneben•tiary for two years. He is married.' NEWFOUNDi,AND WILL DOU'BLE ITS CONTINGENT • Sailors Are Much in Demand for Auxiliary Work. A despatch from St. John's, New- foundland says: Plans for a, com- plement of soldiers and sailors in ac- tive war service were completed Thursday night. So far 1,200 naval reservists and 2,000 soldiers have been enlisted and sent to England. The heart is in most human beings a little Iarger than the fish. The misguided young man with a salary of $9 a week who 'marries a girl that cannot cook, hands :himself an eXtra large and juicy lemon. - YOUNG MARRIED MEN ARE NEXT IN ORDER! Britain to Bring Pressure to Bear on Them to Join the Colors. - A despatch from London says: Young married men who have not en- listed are soon to receive the atten- tion of; the War Office, which is con- sidering the question of bringing pres- sure to bear upon them to induce thenf to , join the army. All single men who attested under the Earl of Derby's plan have been called up, and the Compulsory Military Service Act enrolls all other bachelors, of military age who have not been exempted. Mar- ried men who attested under the Derby plan will next be called to arms. Most of them are men between 30 and 40 years. There are large. numbers of married men below 30 years of age who have not answered the appeal to take up arms, and the authorities are searching for a method to bring them into line. ONE MAN IN SIX IN MANITOBA ENLISTED Total Raised in District Since the War Started is About 47,500. A despatch from Winnipeg says: According to the returns compiled on Wednesday morning recruiting in this Province has progressed bo the point where one man out of every six be- tween the ages of 18 and 46 have en- listed for foreign service. The figures given out show that for the first fifteen days of February 2,771 had joined the colors. This brings the total number of men raised in this district since the beginning of the war to approximately 47,500. Efficient` and Skilful Sir.George Paish, the great financ- ier, declares that England is more efficient and skilful than ever before,. and that her resources have .now been so organized that the period of dis- ruption may be taken as a ,thing of the past. 7 CANADIANS ViERE KILLED - IN RECENT GERMAN ATTACK Enemy Got Into ,Our Trenches at Many Points—, whey A. Stili There A despatch from -Ottawa says: Gen, Sit Sam Hughes stated in the House on Thursday in reply to a , question that his department had received of- ficial information that there had been a German attack on the British and Canadian lines south-east of Ypres along a 'fronb of some miles. It had been preceded by a heavy bombard- ment, lasting some two or three days. Tho. Canadian troops, however, had GREAT BRITAIN'S WAY: WOMAN SPY SPARED Sentenced to Death, But Given Penal Servitude Instead. A despatch from -London says: The case of a woman spy who was re- cently sentenced to death, but whose sentence was commuted to penal ser- vitude for life, was announced in the House of Commons on Thursday by Herbert L. Samuel, the Secretary of State for home Affairs. • The woman was found guilty in a criminal court, the Home Secretary stated. An ap- peal was dismissed, but the .sentence was commuted. Her activities were discovered six days after her arrival in Great Britain, and her correspond- ence was interrupted in the interval between the time and her arrest. She was not a British subject. This is the first time since the beginning of the war, it was stated, that a woman had been given a severe a prison sentence in Britain for espionage. .t, HEAVY BULGAR LOSSES IN BALKAN CAMPAIGN A despatch from London says: The Daily News has received thefollow- ing despatch from R. Mackenzie, its correspondent at Rome: "A neutral diplomatist recently returned from Bulgaria says bhat the Bulgarian loss- es amount to 150,000 men. The army is now reduced to about 180,000, and is insufficient to aid the Germans in an attack on Saloniki. The Bulgarian soldiers are on short rations, as the Germans have requisitioned all sup- plies of wheat. They are dishearten- ed and tired of the tear, and fear Rus- sian reprisals in the riear future. • BERLIN'S BUTTER SCARCE. A despatch from Berlin says: The members of•the Magistracies in Great- er Berlin held a conference on Tues- day over the uniform disturbance of the butter supply and decided to in- troducebutter cards, similar in their application to bread cards early in the war. The amount of butter to be allowed each person has not yet been determined. _ evidently taken to ilia dugouts, stnee they did not seem to have suffered in -anything like the proportion whieh would ,otherwise be expected, the re- cord being one killed Thursday and five or six the day before. "The Ger- mans, following the bombardment, got into our trenches atmany points,” continued the Minisber, "My ih'forma tion is that the Germans are still there—but they are. dead." PROSPERITY FOR FIGHTING AT CLOSE QUARTERS, Prone)) engaged Ili house to house fighting In one of the Sanchez, clean UP9. - - delivered. In _ the house to which it was 'taken the estimated value of he furniture in the house was 'con- BRITISHLABOR the instrument. siderably less than the pric• e paid for • WORKMEN OE • MAKING MORE MONEY .THAN "EVER. Comparatively Few are Saving or In- vesting Their Overplus of Wealth: "Munition;" has con:e"to be a magic word among the workers of Sefiield. two years ago it was outside the vo- cabulary of all but a few; to -day it Jewelers are doing nn extensive is continually in the mouths of the business men and. women living in this typical ss in rungs, gold bracelets, great arsenal city, It stands with brooches, lockets; and other trinkets, them for hard work but high wages iMleasedturers of electro -plate, who for unexampled prosperity, and 10 a released hundreds of men for the comfortable sense that a' halo of pat - ant. at- army in the early days of the war, F rtotism rests .upon the labor of the, when trade came almost to. a'the day, says a Sheffield; England, letter. still, •find it difficult to execute the Every second man in the city is "onl orders now pouring in,. Another van - munitions,' and it is said locally that ity is the purchase of elaborately - anyone with one leg and one eye„can mounted umbrellas. A working-class obtain employment. The change from woman in a tramcar explained the peace to war industry has been on an. possession of an umbrella which Shealmost incredible scale, and the rami- said had cost 45s. by the simple re- ficatfons of munition work are be- wildering. A laborer in a brickyard finds himself unable to leave for other employment because the bricks made in the yard are used to line the furnaces of the great armament Instances of People Who Have Read works, The Sheffield cutler—at one ' time the typical craftsman of the city Their Own Death Notices. —is busy with knives and forks for War always brings out curious situ - the army. A firm which repaired ations in more ways than one—ways broken-down locomotives is menu- which most folk would declare utter - factoring submarine machinery. ly impossible were they included in The -men at type foundry who be- any romance by a novelist, says Lon - fore the war made printers' furniture don Answers. are now producing cartridge boxes.I Quite recently there arrived at his Rolling mills which once rolled nickel mother's house in Richmond, Surrey, silver for metal teapots, are rolling a private soldier, who simply sent his - brass and copper for the materials of relations delirious with joy by that war. Scores of firms are tackling strange homecoming; for only a day work : which it year ago was never or two previously he had been an. - within their calculations and many nounced by the War Office authorities manufacturers have been astonished as "killed in action.” at the -possibilities • of their plants.i But what made this case even more People who thought in thousands have astounding was that this very seine learned to thing in millions. Every- soldier was posted as "killed" dur- where there is activity and new en- ing the Boer War. terprise all directed upon the one end —munitions. Workers Not Saving. Young mechanics are buying mo• torcytic,, often with a sidecar at- tachecl, and hundreds of them may be seen on Sundays riding the machines on the Derbyshire roads The wives of the munition workers take their;- shine in spending. Women, who in the past have been able to buy only the cheapest clothes, are now ordering costumes costing £4 and even 45, guinea hats, and expensive shoes. 'The manager of a bootshop states bhat his commission on sales during the past 12 months is the highest he has ever obtained. mark, "Jack's on munitions." 3 OFFICIALLY "KILLED" Quartermaster -Sergeant Kerr, of the Royal Field Artillery, who wae mentioned for special gallantry in Trades unable to contribute to the one of Sir John French's despatches, business of the war have been largely in boast similar fashion of a very strange experience denuded of men. The young and fit r during the South African War. He was officially re - went to the army months ago. Others ported "killed," whereas he was never have found that even a laborer's job even seriously wounded. in the armament shops gives them I When the "dead" man came back; more money. than their regular oc- ' from South Africa all alive, his own cupation. On the corporation tram -memorial tablet was there staring him cars one sees none but women con- in the face, much to his and his ductors, and in many other services friend's amusement! women are doing the work which 1 Few people, indeed, can claim the. was once performed by men. Apart 1 unique distinction of possessing a, from the Local supply of labor thous- ,ticket for their own funeral! Yet; ands of workers have come to the city' such was. the case with our late Am - from, other parts of the country, and .bassadorto China, Sir Claude Mac. ' housing accommodation is so strain- I donald, who smilingly one night, at a ed that the Lord Mayor recently is- public meeting in England, told how ' appeal to citizens to take in sued n• a both he and Dr. Morrison had had the this immigrant population as lodgers. ( strange experience of reading their The weekly outpouring of money own obituary notices in "3he Times;' in connection with the siege of the, total, and the tradespeople who cater Legations at Pekin, and the alleged for the wants—and one must add in massacre there, during the Boxer re.; some measures the extravagances—of hellion some years back. the 'war workers, have had the best I - r+But,'' said Sir 'Claude, "I can go a year within their memory. Enquiry f bit farther than my friend the doctor. does not suggest that any large part For I received, in due course, a ticket of the excess earnings is being sys- j of admission to my own 'funeral ser-, tematically saved, although in the vice,' held in St. Paul's Cathedral!" lack of thrift the Shefiiekler is no How extremely difficult it may be worse than his mate in other towns for a living man to prove that he was where trade is good. not "dead," in certain cases, may well The more thoughtful among the be seen from the experience of John, artisans are putting an adequate Partridge, the famous astrologer of; share of their present high wages in- I bygone days. to the war loan or the savings banks , partridge was making a big in best understood by bheir class. There I come front the sale of his almanac,' with,reason to believe that others aro , its thr !lin ro heei.es over hoarding money in their homes, and !year. The greab Doan Swift was an a reasoned appeal might secure this noyed at this and at the gullibility of money for the use of the State. Ina the public, so he determined to stop it» great number of eases the only in- i One year, therefore, he himself in- vestment favored is the purchase of I sued a rival almanac, prophesying furniture, Wives who have long therein that Partridge would die on h 22ndth wished for sideboard or a sewing March of e comingyear. ti Y ° • When machine, or some other article which , in ordinary times has been beyond this day arrived, there appeared in several papers due notice of the as- trologer's death, with a few lines about his career.. Dean Swift evert wrote and published far and wide an "Elegy on the Death of Mr. John Partridge"! This fairly "put the lid on" In vain did the "deceased" write to this paper and that, and publish pam-' phlets declaring that he had neva "died" at;all. Nobody believed himl ` Poor Partridge at last gave up the wages bheir means, are at 'last able to re- alize their ambitions. Buying Luxuries: There is also a good demand— sometimes a foolish demand—for pianos. A man and woman walked into a shop on a recent Saturday night and asked the price of a piano in the window. "126," was the answer given. "Is it a good 'un?" enquired the man. "It is a good instrument for the money." the dealer said. "Can'sta struggle to convince people he wasn't, send .it up to ahttr 'Ouse?" came the "dead." next question.' "Yes, when it is paid for," was the comments of the shop- Mother (after relating pathetic keeper, who was not in the least ex- story)—"Now, Reggie, wouldn't you, pecting to do business. "Oh; that's like fo give your bunny to that poor, aw'reeb," said the man. "Here's a little boy you saw to -day who hasn't pun note, and wc'11 bring t'rest rahnd any father 7" Reggie (clutching' ternaorrow." The next morning the rabbit)—"Couldn't we give him fa-'. balance was paid and the piano was ther instead?" HUNDRED NEW SUBMARINES HAVE BEEN BUILT BY GERMANY A despatch from Geneva says: The Stew type, and is preparing to renevNi J uial de Geneva says that Ger- her submarine cam aigg i with in many has built 100 submawines eg a created vigor.