HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-09-07, Page 3FRESH FRIGHTFULNESS
EXP ECTED FROM I3ERLIN
Elevation of Hindenburg Stroke of Kaiser to Revive Spirits of
People, Who Are Becoming Skeptical'. -
A -despatch from London says:
Well-informed opinion here is that the
true measure of the effect which Rots -
mania's entry into the war has had
upon the German -higher Councils is
given by the removal of Gen. Von
Falkenhayn and the appointment of
von Hindenburg. The supersession
e von Moltke after the battle of the
Marne was purely military in its
bearings, while the appointment of
Hindenburg because of the failure of
German diplomacy to keep Roumania
out of the war is regarded as an "ex-
cited effort to satisfy public opinion"
in Germany.
A despatch from The Hague
says the change in the General Staff
has caused a sensation in Germany,
where the censorship so far does not
allow the publication of newspeper
comment. In the same despatch it is
suggested' that the plans of linden-
- burg and Falkenhayn clashed because
the latter did not wish to send troops
to the eastern front, holding that the
decision in the war would come only
in the west, and that Roumania's
move caused the Kaiser suddenly to
take Hindenburg's side. The vieW
here, however, is rather that in plac-
ing Hindenburg the Kaiser plays his
last trump; that the German people
are losing faith in the reports of their
own press and, the Kaiser hopes to
revive their spirits by invoking the
magic of Hindenburg's name.
Hindenburg's task in 1916 is com-
pared with that of Napoleon in 1814.
The Westminster Gazette draws at-
tention to the fact that "von Hinden-
burg, von Thpitz and von Bulow have,
as the readers of the German news-
papers know, become associated in the
public mind with a policy of ruthless
war to the end as'against a hankering
for peace, which is attributed to
Bethmann-Holweg, Falkenhayn and
the Emperor himself. The latter has
apparently thought it necessary to
clear himself by a dramatic stroke
from complicity with the moderates,
and with Hindenburg in supreme cen-
tred and all the extremists raging at
Betlimann-Holweg we may look out
for a fresh bout of frightfulness."
FOE TROOPS HAVE
A NEW DRILL
Prisoners Say They Have Had
Enough of War -Shell
Craters Are Ponds.
A despatch from the British Front
in Prance says: An Army officer and
ninety. Germans surrendered in a
body near Guillemont on Wednesday.
They were sent out as usual with or-
ders• to stick under the British shell
fire. and against British infantry -at-
tacks to the lasteman. But when the
British worked their way 'up on either
side of the exposed trench they held
up a white flag without making any
fight for it. They said that they had
• suffered enough hardship -end had had
enough of war and preferred to be
taken prisoners. The heavy down-
pour of yain continued all day, making
ponds of the shell craters and turn -
tag the trenches into mudholes.
While the German press is saying
that Roumania's entry will lengthen
the war, prisoners taken say that it
will shorten it, as is evident now
that Germany cannot win and had
better compromise than prolong the
struggle.
"But we are not going to consider
any compromise," the British soldiers
- tell them.
The British who have received the
surrender of Germans say that with
characteristic organization they now
have what the British call a "surren-
der drill." When they come out of
their dugouts to give themselves up,
as in the case of the body on Wed-
nesday, theyehave all their letters,
papers and' valuables in their hands,
ready as a peace offering to their
captors.
TWO LEPROSY CASES
FOUND IN VICTORIA, B. C.
A despatch from Victoria, B. C.,
says: Hardly had the medical auth-
orities taken in charge one ease of the
dreaded disease leprosy, in the per-
son of a Chinese who had been a re-
sident of the local Chinese colony for
the last year, than the discovery was
made of another case, one more seri-
ous than the first. Within the last
day or two this second case, that of a
man who has been a resident of
Canada for some years, and who is in
a deplorable condition through the
ravages of the malady, was discovered
by Che Dominion medical authorities,
band -is now incarcerated at the Isola -
on Hospital.
THIRTY TEUTON GENERALS
HOISTED.
A despatch from The Hague says:
Despatches from Berlin received here
on Wednesday state that thirty Ger-
man Generals have been dismissed as
a result of the appointment of Field
Marshal von Hindenburg as Chief of
the General Staff. Field Marshal von
Hindenburg recently removed the
Austrian Major-General Puhallo from
command of the army -corps defend-
ing the leovel section of the front in
Volhernia, and gave the command of
the troops there to Gem Friedrich von
Peenhardi, the famous author.
FRENCH RECOGNITION
OF HER NEW ALLIES
A despatch from Paris says: -For
the first time since Italy entered the
war the French Government on Wed-
nesday ordered that flags be raised on
all official buildings in recognitipn of
the declaration of war by Italy against.
Germany, and by Roumania against
Austria-Hungary.
MASCOTS ON WARSHIPS.
How They Conducted Themselves in
the Jutland Battle.
There are some little incidents
about mascots on British warships in
the Jutland naval battle which are
worth repeating.
The mascot on the Tiger was a bull-
dog. He is a fine fellow. When get-
ting into the battle the crew were a
bit concerned as to how their favor-
ite would take the crashing of high
explosives on the ship, so they plug-
ged his ears with cotton wool, wrap-
ped his head round as if he had a
heavy dose o ftoothache and a couple
of men took the bulldog, much to
his annoyance, to a room that was
thought to be as quiet as the ship
could provide. The dog didn't quite
fancy being treated as an invalid, and
resented the coddling, but when the
shots began he took it pretty badly,
and was might ir glad he had a pal sit-
ting on either side holding him by
the paws.
Another boat had a fine big black
cat. Somehow or other he was over-
looked when they got into action, and
the first shell that came aboard this
fellow got loose and took a flying
dive overboard. As the boat was
tieing abOut 27 knots, even the most
tender-hearted Jack Tar could hardly
risk going after Tommy. On another
ship they had a little bantam, who, as
a rule, strutted about more proudly
than the dinkiest midshipman, and
with as big a show of courage as the
hardiest of the old sea dogs. The
tars were proud of the "swank" their
pet could assume before strangers;
he did look game, but when the first
German shell crashed on board the
bantam lost all his fine show and
flew down one of the ventilators.
When he was rescued and photo-
graphed after the fight he presented
a very bedraggled appearance,
MORE MEN NEEDED
FOR GERMAN ARMIES
MI Men of Military Age Hitherto Ex-
empted are Being Examined.
A despatch from Amsterdam says :
-The Frankfurter Zeitung says that
the meeting of Socialist electrical
unions of Greater Berlin propose for
on Tuesday, when Deputy Haase in-
tended to speak on peace, was prohi-
bited. The
ll Zeitung says that a
general examination of all men of
military age in Germany who pre-
viously were exempted is now taking
place. German officials who hereto-
fore had been declared indispensable,
the newspaper says, also are being
examined.
NO BOOZE ON TRAINS
AFTER SEPTEMBER 16th
A despatch from Toronto says -
The nine railway companies operating
in the Province, m reply to a cone.
munication from the Ontario License
Board, have given the assurance that
when prohibition comes into effect
they will discontinue the sale of liquor
on their trains. This decision re-
moves any notions that may have been
entertained that the railway com-
panies might take steps to contest the
authority of the act in reference to
such sales.
ERASE KAISER'S NAME
FROM ROMAN PALACE.
A despatch from Rome says :--
Workmen on Tuesday chopped off the
marble memorial names of Emperor
William and the German Crown
Prince, Frederick William, which had
been placed in the Senatorial Palace
on the ancienleCapitol hill during a
visit of the German Emperor to Rome
twenty years ago. The names were
ordered removed by the city Govern-
ment.
GREEK KING SEEKS REFUGE
WITHIN THE GERMAN LINES
.Report That Allies Kaye Attacked Greek Army and Several
Princes Have Already Fallen.
A despatch from London says: The
British press representative at Salo -
nice, Ward Price, sends a report
which is current there that Eing Con-
, gtantine of Greece has fled to Larissa,
Thessaly, to take refuge with a
' guard of 800 Uhlans, The text of
the officiel message, which is dated
,• guesday, reads:
"This evening's oensation is that
, King Constantine has fled from Atli-
' ens to take refuge with a German es-
cort of 300 Uhlans, who have, been
waiting for him for several daYs at
Larissa.
"Another report is that the allies
have already landed, a strong force
at PhvIts, v,,hich has been 'heavily en-
gaged with the Greek army in battle
around the King's country houee at
Tatol, where several Greek , princes
have already fallen. Perhapa to -mor-
row will bring more light upon the
situation) which is extraordinarily
involved, even for the Bali
Markets... of d'
°ri
rea d stuWa.
Toronto, Sept. 5. -Manitoba wheat -
No. 1 Norther:3, $1.60 ; No. 2, do.,
$1.88 ; No. '3, do., $1.54, track, Bay
ports. '
Manitoba oats -No. 2 OM., '56e *
No. 3, do., 55%c ; extra No. 1 feed,
55340; No. 1, feed, 54%c, track, Bay
ports
American corn= -No, 3 yellow, 950,
track, Toronto,
Ontario oats -No, 3 white, 50 to 51c,
nominal, according to freights out-
side.
Ontario wheat -No, 1 commercial,
$1.15 to $1.17 ; No, 2, do., $1.11 to
$1.13 ; No. 3, do., 0.07 to $1.09, ac-
cording to freights outside, New crop,
No. 2, $1.20 to ,$1.22.
Peas -No. 2, neminal.
Barley-IVIalting, nominal ; feed
no
Buckwheat -Nominal.
Rye-Not2, new, $4..e5 to $1.08, ee-
cording to freights outside ; No. 1
commercial, nominal.
Manitoba flour -First patents, • in
jute bags, $8.40 ; second patents, in
jute bags, $7,90 ; strong bakers', in
jute bags, $7.70, Toronto.
Ontario flour -New Winter, accord-
ing to sample, $5.35 to $5.45, nominal,
In bags, track, Toronto, prompt ship-
ment ; $5:26 to $5.35, nominal, bulk
seaboard, preempt shipMent,
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mon-
treal freights; bags -included-Bran,
per tone $27 ; shorts, per ton, $29 ;
middlings, per, ton, $30 ; good feed
flour, per bag, $2.15.
1,.„ -New, No. 1, per ton, $10 to .
$12 ; No. 2, per ton, $9 to $9.50, track,
TOronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $6 to $7,
track, Toronto.
Country Produce -Who I esa le.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 29 to
30o ; inferior; 24 to 25c ; creamery
prints, 34 to 36e; sonde, 33 to 35e.
Eggs -New -laid, 30 to Sic; do., in
cartons, 34 to 36c.
Beans -$4.50 to $5, the latter for
hand-picked.
Cheese -New, large, 19% to 20c;
twins, 19% to 20%0 ; triplets, 20 to
20% it
Dres.sed poultry -:Chickens, 25 to
270' fowl, 18 to 200.
Live poultry --Chickens, 18 to 20c;
fowl, 15 to 16c.
Potatoes -Jerseys, per bag, $2.50;
Ontarios, $2.35 to $2.40 ; British
Columbia Rose, per bag, $2.
Honey -Five -pound tins, 12% to
130 ; do., 10 -lb., 12 to 1214e.
• Provisions -Wholesale
• Bacon -Long clear, 18 to 18%c per
lb.
Hams -Medium, 24 to 26c ; do.,
heavy, 22 to 23c ; rolls, 19 to 20c ';
breakfast bacon, 26 to 27c • backs,
plain, 26 to 270; boneless backs, 28
to 290. Cooked ham, 36 to 370. 4,
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 17140;
tubs, 17% to 17%c; pails,. 17% to
17%c. Compound, 14 to 141/2c,
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, Sept. 5. -Oats --Canadian
Western, No. 2, 60c ; do, No. 3, 544c
extra No. 1 feed, 69%c •, No, 3 local
white, 54c, Flour -Manitoba Spring
wheat patents, firsts, $8.50 ; do.,
seconds, $8 ; strong halters', $7,80 ;
Winter patents,choice, $7.50 ; straight
rollers, $6.90 to $7.20 ; do., in bags,
$3.25 to $3.40. Rolled oats--Barrels,
$5,05 ; bag of 90 lbs, $2.90, =Reed
-Bran, $25 ; shorts, $27 ; middlings,
$29 ; mouillie, $31 to $34. Hay -No.
2, per ton, car lots, 06.50 to $17.50.
Cheese -Finest Weaterns, 20 to 204;
do., easterns, 19%. to 19%c. Butter,-
Choicest creamery, 3434 to 35c; sec-
onds, 33% to 34e. Eggs -Fresh, 36 to
37c ; selected, 34 to 35c ; No. 1
stock, 30c; No. 2, do., 27c.
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Sept. 5. -Oasis quotations:. -Wheat -No. 1. Northern, $1,5234;
No. 2 Northern, $1.50; No. 3 North-
ern, $1.46 ; No. 4., $1.39V2 ; No. 5,
$1.34%; No. 6, $1.241h ; feed, $1.17%.
Oats -No. 2 C.W., 49%c; No. 3 OW.,
490 ; extra No. 1 feed, 49c • No. 1
feed, 48c; No. 2 feed, 47%e. Barley
-No. 3, 82c ; No. 4, 79c ; rejected,
730; feed, 73e. Flax -No, 1 N.W.C.,
$1.57; No, 2 OW., $1.84.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, Sept. 5. -Wheat -Sep-
tember, $1.4934 ; No. 1 hard, $1.5634 ;
No. 1 Northern, $1,50% to $1.5334 ;
No. 2 Northern, $1.4634 to $1.61%.
Corn --No. 3 yellow, 86 to 87e. Oats -
No. white, 431/4 to 44c, Flour un-
changed. Bran -$21.00 to $22,00.
Duluth, Sept. 5. -Wheat -No, 1 hard,
$1.5434 ; No. 1 Northern, $15234 to
$15334 ; No. 2 Northern, $1.4834 to
$1.5034 ; September, $1,4014, bid.
Linseed -On track and to arrive,
$2.06 ; September, $2.0634 bid; Octo-
ber, $2.07 ; November, $2.07 bid ;
December, $2.06.
.. Live Stock Markets,
hogs, fed and . watered, $11.e5 to ni
$11.75 ; do, weigbed off cars, $11.90 111 ,. BLACK BERLI ,
to ,i.o. ; do., xt...i,,,, $1,..i,. - .. . , : _ .
good, $7 to $7,50 ;. .fair, $1.50- to $7 ; rt
' Montreal, Septee.-Butchereesteere,
. A i PRESENT Tirdh
medlem, $5.5e to $fi ; common,$4 to
$5, cwt, ; butchers' cows, good, $6 to ----
$7 ; 'fair, CC 55 to $5.75 • common, $4
to $5 ; butchers bulls, 'best, $6.50 to
$7 ; good, $6 to $6,50 ; fair, $6.50 to
$6 ; canners, $450 to $5 ; sheep, Is
per pound m
; labs, 934,c to 10%0 per
Pound ; calves, mills -fed, 8c to Sc per
pound ; grass-fed, $5 per cwt. ; Hogs,
eelects, $11.75 (6 $12 ; roughs and
mixed lota, $10 to $11.25 ; sows, $9.76
to $10 ; all weighed off cars.
TWELVE -STORY FARMS,
Rocky Island of Greece Supports
25,000 People.
"It is easier to• build a house than
to build a farm in Andros," declared
Prof. J. Irving Manatt recently; and;
since hp- describes a "twelve -story
farm," but no house of more than
three stories, it is easy to believe thate
his right. -
Andros, one of the famous "isles of
Greece" of Byron andeHomer, is a
mountaie island twenty-one miles by
eight, which supports twenty-five
thousand people, to whom both
wealth and poverty are unknown.
Every font of land must be made to
produce to the uttermost Where farms
are half quarried, half built on a
reeky mountain side. So, in a lesser
degree, are the farmhouses.
"To get' foundations you simply
quarry out a section of rock slope un-
til your horizontal and perpendicular
meet, and you have a fine rock shelf
with floor and back wall that will
never need repairing. In fact, you
may sometimes- economize your -end
walls out of nature in the same way;
but as a rule that is avoided for sani-
tary reasons."
Quarrying the cellar for a houee us-
ually affords the main part of the
building material for the house walls;
and quarrying to make the flat ledges
for a terraced farm provides stone to
build the necessary retaining walls.
Andrian industry "has through pa-
tient ages, turned the bleak moun-
tains into smiling gardens. God gives
the rocks and the rigorous winters
and sweeping summer winds. Where
a thousand shiftless souls would
stgrve, twenty thousand and more by
toil and thrift have enough and to
spare."
The island rocks are slate, which
sucks in water like a sponge, yield-
ing it again in abundant springs;
moreover, as they disintegrate they
weather into fruitful soil. The farm-
er, his 'terrace and aqueduct ready,
"when he has got his footing, so. ,to
speak, in one little shelf of soil or a
dozen of them, plants his olive, fig
and vine, his bit of barley or wheat,
his patch of onions, potatoes and
beans. Against the north wind he
sets his break of cypress trees with
intertwining vines, or of tall reeds in
triple ranks. He keeps half a dozen
goats and sheep for wool, milk and
cheese. . . There is always, too, the
household pig, to be salted and pick-
led for winter. After the Feast of
Saint Demeteius in October follows
the pigsticicing throughout the island,
and in this land of simple living a
bit of pickled pig is a luxury, A well-
to-do household will have its donkey,
possibly a cow or two for draft and
breeding, rarely for milk."
Fruit, especially lemons, of which
the annual yield is estimated at
twenty millions, is the leading crop. M
Professor anatt pays tribute to the
island housewives when he declares
that "this commerce might be in-
creased and the world given a new
delight" if they would only export
theire"preserve of green lemons no
bigger than a walnut, land still more
delicious lemon -blossom sweets."
There are figs, too, and grapes, with
the picturesque festivals of the vint-
age and fig -stringing.
A fig -stringing, which occurs after
the figs have been gathered and dried
upon the housetop by being spread
upon beds of clean rushes, is, he ex-
plains, a sort of sewing bae. A. jolly
company of women and girls gather
in a great room heaped with the dried
fruit, like a garner full of corn, each
vying with the rest in transforming
the piled confusion into graceful and
convenient garlands. They string the
figs upon reed grass, used as thread,
and fastened into hoops, gossiping
and laughing as their fingers fly, and
celebrating the close of the task with
a simple feast and dancing.
Disobeying Orders.
steers, $8.15 to $8,75 ; good heavy
The porter of a small hotel being
steers, $7.75 to $8.00 ; butchers' cat-
tle, good, $7.36 to $7.75 ; do., medium, attacked by illness while on duty, his
$7,00 to $7.15 ; do., conamon, $6.00 to
$6.15 ; butchers' bulls, ehoice, $7.25 to
$7.50 ; do„ good bulls, $6.40 to $6.50 ;
do,. rough bulls, $4.50 to ;5.00 ; but-
chers' cows; choice, $6.50 to $6.75 ;
do„ good, $6.00 to $6.25 ; do., medium,
$5.50 to $5.85 ; s4ockeys, 700 to 800
bel .46.00 to $6.50 ; choice feeders,
dehorned, $6,30 to $7.00 ; canners and
cutters, $3.50 to $4.50 ; milkers,
choice, each, $70.00 to $90.00.; do.,
coin, and med., each, $40.00 to $60,00 ;
springers, $50.00 to $90.00 ; light ewes,
$7.65 to $8.50 ; sheep, heavy, $4.50 to
$5.36 ; spring iambs, per ib„ 10c to
10e4c ; calves, good to choice, $10,50
to $12.00 ; do., medium, $9.00 to $10.00-,
kind employer sent him upstairs to
be and called a physician. 'When the
doctor came down after having at-
tended his patient, the proprietor ac-
costed him:
"Well, doctor, how did you find
him?" he salted.
"IIe'e coming down with the grip,"
was the doctor's reply.
"If lie does, I'll .send him back to
bed. I warned hint' not to lug any
more baggage to -day."
Some folks will do anything for
money except go to work for it.
'
The "Contemptible Little Army."
Willie: But, daddy, why don't y du sweep away the contemptible
little army?
Kaiser: Go away, and don't wormy one, Willie! Go to-VerdunlIerom
"The Westminster .Gazette."
DESCRIBING LIFE IN THE HUN
CAPITAL TO -DAY.
Pitiable Spectacle When People Line
Up on ta Streets
, for Food.
There have lately • been many re-
ports in the newspapers of the short-
age of food in Carnally, and these re-
ports I am able to substantiate, since
I returned fromBerlin a few weeks
ago, writes a girl who has been expat-
riated by the German Government in
London Answers.
The shopkeepers there are finding
it more and more difficult to carry on
their business.. On the one hand,
they are attacked by their customers,'
who are justifiably angry at the ex-
orbitant prices charged; and, on the
other hand, they cannot obtain their
stores from the wholesale dealers.
Treason Talk.
Again and again, when crowds of
housewives have been waiEng for
hoeirs in a queue for, their weekly
quarted-pound of butter, I have seen
them break loose and, in their disgust,
smash and loot the provision shops.
• The people of the poorer quarters
begin linging up early in the morning,
and on wet days they present a piti-
able spectacle. Many of them
brought camp -stools and cans of hob
'coffee, and I heard the most treason.:
able sentiments expressed against the
Imperial House.
At that time -only a few weeks
ago -butter was fetchingthree morkea
pound, and duringgi '1,,kie.ovol.. hag
pound, and dripping about the same
figure. The most inferior meets of
meat: were priced at about two shill-
ings per pound, and the prime parts
were colden the open markets at from
three to four m
shillings per pod,
while pork was absolutely unprocur-
able. The general opinion is that
there is no necessity for these outrage-
ous prices; are, indeed, the Police
President of Munich has expressed
himself very forcibly on the subject,
denouncing the wholesale merchants
as "a shameless crowd of vampires."
Two meatless days had to be observ-
ed every week, and as fish was very
scarce, and eggs were at such a price
as to be only within the --reach of the
wealthy, feeding on these days was a
problem.
Can't Afford to Wail!
Not only wee there a lacklef provi-
sions, but all articles of clothing were
fetching absured prices, since the Gov-
ernment have forbidden the looms to
manufacture any material except that
required by the military. I found it
almost impossible to get my boots re-
paired, owing to the scarcity of leath-
er, and when at last the job was done,
I was charged about six shillings..
Molt of the German houses present
a very bare and disordered appear-
ance just now, as metal of every kind
has been seized by the authorities, and,
the German people were very fond of
decorating their doors, Stoves, books,
and ornaments with brass and copper
plaques.
The question of soap, too, is caus-
ing, much anxiety among the house-
wives, a small cake of common soap,
costing in ordinary times twopence,
being priced at about eightpence. As
a result the laundries are charging
high prices for their work, in which
they use inferior and evil -smelling
soap. •
Everywhere in the city one saw em-
pty shops, closed restaurants and
hotels, and block upon block of vacant
fiats. I attended several meetings
held in the linter den Linden by the
extreme Socialists for the purpose of
denouncing the war, an I although
such meetings -were immediately
charged and dispersed by the military,
they were, nevertheless, repeated at
frequent "intervals.
Anger Against America.I niteccd, too, a marked differenee in.
the attitude of the people towards the
Imperial Family. I had many opport-
unities of seeing the Crown Princess
and her suite in the Tier-Gaeten (the
Hyde Park of Berlin), but people
hardly bothered to turn tiler heads to
look at them.
During the eerly months of the war
the fiercest invective was reserved for
the British, but a curious change has
come over the German mind lately.
To -day their anger isdireetecl against
America. It is the general feeling
that the United States are prolonging
the war by supplying munitions to the
Allies, An interesting point of view,
though not necossarily conclusive.!
BLACK CATS AS MEDICINE.
Nourishing Food For Invalids, Say
Toronto, Sept. 5. -Choice heavy
' Chinese Doctor.
"Black Cats and Dogs served up at
at a Moment's Notice,. This is the
announcement that may be found
placarded up outside any restaurant
in Canton, China.
The Chinaman with a particularly
weak digestion selects this dish from
the menu with all good faith, for the
Chinese docters regard the flesh of
cats and dogs -especially the black
ones -as a most nourishing food for
invalids, with excellent medicinal pro-
perties. Cats of the black variety
are specially bred for culinary pur-
poses.
But the new ruler of the Celestial
Empire is not a lover of the aristo-
cratic dishes of his country. Fried lo-
custs, birdsenest soup (the actual
nests of the birds of the seashoee),
grilled seaweed, ancient curried (ergs
-quite black inside -and other 'ela-
licacies" beloved by the nobility do e it
appeal to him, He shows Weal en
tastes in preferring the food of ee
Chinese peasant; which consists me .1-
IY of rice, fish, and the really eipe....0 s-
ing crab salad.•
-
Not Het
She -If you had $1,000,000 1 -.bat
Wetud you do the first year?
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From the Ocean Shore
BITS • OF NEWS FROM Title
MARITIME PROVINCeiS.
Items of In ter wit From Fleas
Lapped By Waves of the
A tlan t lc.
Cod is reported to be scarce on the
Grand Banks.
• Ninety-eight Quebec children have
died from the heat.
Dog, poisoners are again on the
war path in Frederick.
Lieut. Beaton, of North Sydney,
is to receive a Military Cross for
bravery. e,
Murray McIntyre, a 15 -year-old lad
of St. John, wag injured by Et falling
skylight,
Percy' L. .TEITViS, a Fredericton boy,
ds at the Mexican border with the
U. S. army.
Dr. Thompson,.ofLynn, Mass., who
was salmon fishing in' St. John's, is
reported missing.
Lt. -Col. Mackenzie, of Campbelhon,
has had the Military Cross conferred
upon him by the King.
The population of St. Pierre, is
much reduced on account of the num-
ber of men who have enlisted.
The police of St. John are watching
for the children that have been break -
big the windows in St. Peter's School.
Donald McDonald, one of the
oldest residents of Victoria County,
died at his homeat Smith's Moun-
tain in his 83rd year.
Roy Knorr, of Fairville, was
thrown from his bicycle when he
collided with an automobile in St.
John. He will recover.
The will of the late Mrs. Blackader,
wife of C. C. Blockader, proprietor
of the Halifax Recorder, makes gen-
erous bequests to charitable institu-
tions.
John McMaster and two sons, of
Fairville, have left for Valeartier.
They are all in the fife and drum
band; the father is to be made band
captain.
Several boys of Sydney were
locked up in the band stand for half
an hour. They had been discovered
pilfering ice cream from one of the
booths at the social.
A horse driven by Mr. Hezen Dob-
son, of Moncton, became frightened
by a street car and ran away. Mr.
Dobson was bruised considerably,
but escaped serious injury.
Miss Mary Chaisson, St. John, won
the gold medal offered by Mrs. Jas.
Dever to the pupil making highest
marks in English language and liter-
ature in matriculation examinations.
KAISER LOVER OF PEACE.
Says: "I Don't Envy the Man Who
Caused the War."
e The Berne correspondent of the
'London Daily News quotes an emin-
ent neutral who recently was in Ber-
lin and had an audience with the
Kaiser. According to this authority
the Kaiser said:
"It is curious how the British the-
ory that I am responsible for the war
seems to fascinate my enemies. Yet
the people who accuse me of having
caused the war are the very people
who previously testified to the ear-
nestness of my desire for peace.
"I do not envy the man who has
the responsibility for this war upon
his conscience. I, at least, am not
that man. I think history will clear
me of that charge, although I do not
suppose that history will hold me
faultless.
"In a sense every civilized man in
Europe must have a share in the re-
sponsibility for this war, and the
higher his position the larger his re-
sponsibility. I admit that and yet
claim that I acted throughout in good
faith and strove hard for peace, even
though war was inevitable.
"Why do you neutrals always talk
about German militarism and never
about Russian despotism, the French
craving for revenge and English
treachery? I think the next gener-
ation will strike a juster balance in
apportioning the blame."
In the course of the interview, ac-
cording to the dispatch, astonishment
at and admiration for the discipline
and unity of the German people was
expressed. The Kaiser replied;
"That is the impression most
foreigners get, even hostile foreign-
ers. I suppose for one thing that
the contrast between the Germany de-
picted by our enemies the Germany
which is supposed to be restive, war -
tired, half -famished, and the united,
enthusiastic, still prosperous country
actually seen 'mist cause them • a
great deal of astonishment,"
The Berne dispatch quotes the
same neutral as saying:
"The Kaiser did not strike Inc at
all as a man who was suffering in-
tense mental anguish or who had an
intolerable burden upon his con-
science. I have :men many men
whose rent was overdue look much
more worried. There are deep lines
certainly across his forehead, and his
hair contains many gray streaks, but
the same might be said of most men
of his age."
OLD AGE PENSIONERS
TO GET AN INCREASE
A despatch from London says :-
In response to prolonged agitation re-
garding the hardships suffered by
Government old age pensioners by
reason of the increase in the price of
necessaries, the Government has de-
cided in special cases to make an ad-
ditional allowance not exceeding half
crown per week;
CHOLERA IN TOKIO.
A despatch from Tokio says :-Ten
cases of Asiatic cholera are reported
In Tokio. The disease is abating at
Nagasaki, but increasing at Osaka,
where the cases now number 406.
What She Wanted to Know.
"How log did you stay in your
last place?"
"Two weeks, mum, and before I
agree to come to work foe you I
should like to know hew long you kept
the. last girl you had.' e I
eineee,
MANY NATIVES
AT BRITAIN'S CALL
OFFICERS PRAISE MEN AS
BRAVE AND DARING,
Sir 11 .rry Jelmstoa Wants Prelim
teak Called to Serve
its War.
The drain of man power on the
population of all the Allies is enorm-
ous,
h
' though,
t
u gfetery,olifn gdrn
course,
cltocaitesis not
Britain
with
yet feeling the strain like some of
her friends. But the: wastage grows
day by day. Prance has felt it, espe-
cially at Verdun, and of all the Allies
only Russia with her teeming millions
can look forward to the future with
absolute confidence; she at least will
have an amble supply of men to draw
upon to the end, writes a London
correspondent.
The famous explorer, Sir Harr)
Johnston, computes that there art
1,500,900 native troops from foreign
dominions at Britain s command, and
demands that this material shall be
made use of. The actual white popu-
lation of the whole of the British Ern-
pire is under 60,000,000 in number.
On the other hand, King George rulei
over or protects something like 3700
000,000 of yellow skinned, brown skin-
ned, black skinned and neutral skin-
ned men, women and children, of
whom a large proportion of the mem
would make excellent soldiers. Sib
Harry Johnston says:
"I am glad to note that Genera:
Smuts has already testified with real
conviction in his tones to the ex.
cellent quality of the King's African
Rifles, whom he has found ready te
his hand in carrying out the eonques'
of German East Africa. The King's
African Rifles are, or at any rats
were down to a few years ago, re
milted from among the Christian
Mohammedan and pagan nesroes of
all that part of East and East Central
Africa which lies between the Zane
besi on the south and Somaliland on
the north.
Make Excellent Troops.
"The Somalis make excellent, intel-
ligent and brave soldiers, but are 'nol
perhaps quite so steady, so doggedly
loyal to the British as are the men
of pure negro race. There is, in ad-
dition, that remarkable recruiting
ground the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
"But there is also much fine sol-
diery among the Bari, and their dis-
tant allies, the Masai of East Africa,
make first class fighting men, of great
intelligence and dauntless bravery.
Even allowing for the necessare
maintenance of law and order nol
only in the more settled provinces of
the Sudan but in the recently con-
quered sultanate of Darfur, and all
contingencies in Egypt, it ought te
be possible to and from within the
limits of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
to the war in Europe a contingent of
at least 200,000 picked soldiers. The
King's African Rifles, already refer-
red to,are recruited mainly in Ugan.
da and. British East Africa and in
whet may be generally termed Brit
Salt Central Africa -namely, Nyasa.,
land and the adjoining districts of
northern Rhodesia,
"The Yao people of Nyaselane
(British and Portuguese) have prey-
ed over and avec again their fighting
value in British campaigns. They
were my toughest opponents in the
years between 1889 and 1896, evhereit
I strove completely to suppress and
extiepate the slave trade of East
Central Africa and to bring law and
order into the lake regions. But once
they were decisively beaten by the
aid of Sikh troops from India they
turned round in that.abrupt way so
characteristic of the negro and enlist-
ed in our armies and proved them-
selves in Ashanti, in Somaliland, in
Uganda and East Africa the best and
bravest negro soldiers we ever had
under our command.
efeekny one who was at all known tee
them like Sir Alfred Sharpe, recent-
ly the Governor of Nyazalaied, could
recruit promptly 200,000 good fight-
ing men among the Yaos, whom three
or four menthe would train sufficient-
ly for service, say in Egypt, and six
months for service en the battlefields
of Europe, in Mesopotamia or in the
Balkan peninsula.
Praised by Officers.
"Then there is the splendid recruit-
ing ground of northern and southern
Nigeria. Here we have the fax fam-
ed Hausa soldiery, whose praises are
sung with almost wearisome reitera-
tion by British and French officers in
connection with the thoroughly suc-
cessful Cameroons campaign. I have
met many British officers returning
from that campaign and not one of '
them has tired of tendering a tribute
to the bravery, the resourcefulness,
the loyalty, the discipline of the
Hausa troops.
"But the Bormt soldiers nowadays
are scarcely to be distinguished from
their liaausa speaking neighbors and
the Hausa type of Mohammedans ne-
gro sqldier extends right across froze '
the middle Niger to the far interiei
of the Gold Coast. In the northeee
territories of the Gold Coast and
Ashanti we have another fine re.
oinking ground which might supple
us with 50,000 picked men, Ther;
are in southern Nigeria itself fight
ing races that have already pro-
vided us with excellent ' soldiers
(chiefly 'Yoruba and Igara), on whom
we might draw for perhaps 100,000
for the purposes of the present war.e
NEW PERSIAN CABINET
FRIENDLY WITH ALLIES
A despatch from Petrograd says ;-
According to despatches from Teheran
a new Pereian Cabinet has been form-
ed under the Premiership of V08-
sough-ed-Dowleh, who also will take,
the post of Foreign Minister. All the
other Ministers in the Cabinet belong
to the Moderate party and are report-
ed to be friendly disposed toeveuele
Russia and Great Britain.
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