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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-12-07, Page 3LSOUTH: LES COAL. • TO BE. PU'B ,ICI .OWNED Priti;li overninellt Takes Drastic 'Step. to Conserve the Supply and -Prevent Iinniinent Trade Disputes. A despatch. from London says: Uncles the defence of the realm act the Board of Trade announces that from December it will. assume control of all the coal mines in South. Wales. A committee has-been appointed, re- presenting the Board of Trade, the Home ,Office and the Admiralty, for the administration of the mines, and will meet to consider the question of. wages. There has been a long dispute con- cerning the demands- of the South 'f Wales miners for an increase of the war bonus. The Board of Tracie .at- tempted intervention to procure a settlement, but the mine -owners ob- jected to an investigation of their affairs with a view to ascertaining. whether they could justifiably meet the miners' demands, The action of the Government in tatting over control of the South 1 Liles coal mines is an entirely new departure, and appears to have been caused by the imperative necessity of preventing a trade dispute from inter- fering with the coal supply. Earlier. in the course of the war the Govern - meat had taken steps to control the price of coal to' some extent, but from the beginning of the war there has been trouble in the South Wales coal field arising from the constant conflict between the coal miners 'and the owners on the queestion of wages. A year, ago David Lloyd George, then Minister of Munitions, had to in- terfere, and concede to. the miners a fifteen per cent. bonus, despite the opposition of the owners. But with the continually rising - cost of living the men contended that they were entitled to a further bonus, and that the great war profits the owners ad- mittedly were making justified their demands. 'The owners especially ob- jected to an audit on the ground that it was unprecedented and unreason able, The coal owners have been general- ly condemned by both press and pub- lic, and namerous conferences have been held by the Board of Trade with the objeect of finding an issue from the difficulty, but all to no purpose, owing to the owners' irreconcilable 1 attitude. arkets of the \Vorld $7,50; do., medium, $6.50 to$0.00; do„ choice, $7.60 to 57.90; do., good, $7.15 to . common, $5.36 to 56; butchers'.. bulls, choice $7,10 to $7.50; do.,:- good bulls, 56.40 to 56,50; do„ rough bulls, $4.60 to. $6 butchers cows, choice, $6.26 to $7; 0„ good, 56.75 to 56; medium, $5.50 to Peedeo'e,06 50rto,$7.25; canners;andn cut- ters, 53.85 to 54,90; milkers, choice, each, $70 to 5115; do„ common and medium, each,440 to. 560; springers, $60 to $100;' light ewes, 55.25 to 59;. sheep, heavy, 55.75 to $7,26; calves, goodto choice,' 110 to $11.50; lambs,. -choice, $11 to $11.00; do., medium, $9.25 to $9,50; hogs, fed: and 'watered, 511,25; do„ weighed off cars, $11.60; do, f.o.b., $10.75. Montreal, Dee. 5. -Choice steers, 56.15 to $8; good, $5 to $7; eholoe cows, $0 to 56.76; good, 54.50. to 59; canners, $3.50 to $4; butchers' bulls, $5.25 to $6; oan- Brcadstatfs, Toronto, Doc. 5, - Manitoba wheat - New No. 1 Northern, 52012; No. 2, do., $1.90 No, 3, do„ $1.934; No, 4 wheat, 51.23 track,bay ports: Old crop trad- ing 4c above new crop, Manitoba oats -No. 2 11I.W., 675c; No. 3, do 6650; extra No. 1 feed,- 605o; No. 1 feed 660, trach, Bay poets. American corn No. 2 yellow, new, $1,04, immediate shipment, track To- ronto. Ontario oats -No, 2 white, 630 to 65c, nominal; No. 3, do,, 62 to 64c, nominal, according: to freights outside. Ontario -wheat -New No: 2 Winter, per car lot,. 51.73 'to $1.75; No. 3 do., $1.71 to $1.73,- according to freights outside. Peas - No. 2, 52,46, according to freights outside, Barley -Malting 51.15 to $1.20, nom- inal, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -51.35, nominal, abcording to freights outside, ltye-No. 2, 51.40 to $1,42, according to freights outside. Manitoba hour -First iiatonts, in lute bags $10 20; 2nd do„ 59.70; strong halt- ers' $9.50, Toronto, Ontario flour - Whiter, according to sample, 57,65 to 57.75, in bags, track Toronto, prompt shipment. MillSeetl-Cal lots -Delivered Mont- real freights, bags included, bran, per ton, $31 to 552• shorts, do„ $30 to $37; Middlings, white, per ton,. 530 to 40; moil feed flour, per bag, $2.70. to 52.30, "S•Sty-No. 1, per ton, $12.60 to 513,50; No. 2, do., $10 to 111,50, track, Toronto. Straw -Car lots, per ton, 59 to 59,50, track Toronto, �. Country Produce -Wholesale. Butter•: ri•eiilt dairr,,choieo, 40 t'; 42e; creamery print§, 45 .to 48c; solids, 44 to 449c. 29ggs-No, 1 storage, 41 to 42c• stor- age, selects, 43to 44o; new laid, in oar - tons, 58 to 60c; out of cartons, 66 to 57c, Cheese -targe, 24 to 242c; twins, 245 to 2350; triplets, 245 to 20c. Live poultry - Chickens, 15 to 10e; fowl, 15 to 14c; ducks, 13 to 15o; tur- keys,25 to 280 geese; Spring, 14 to 15e. DDressed poultry -Chickens 21 to 22c; fowl, 17 to 190; ducks, 15 to 20c; squabs, per dozen, 54 to $4.50; turkeys, 30 to 36o; geese, Spring, 17 to 100. Roney ,white clover, 26-10,. tins, 13 to 130c; 6-11). tins, 13 to 130e; 10-I0„ -125 to 13c; 60-1b„ 12 to 126; buckwheat, 60 - lb, tins, p 10 000, Conb honey - extra flue and heavy weight, per dozen, $3; se- lect, 52.50 to 52,75; No, 2, $2,25 to $2,40, Etincemeat-Palls, 28 lb„ 10 to 12o; tubs, 55 lb., 09 to 11u. Potatoes - Ontario, per bag, $2.25; British; Columbia Rose, per bag, $2.10 to 52,25; New Brunswick Delawares, per bag, 52.35 to $2.40; Prince Edward Island Whites, per bag, 52, track To- ronto. Cabbages-1MMan., per on, $46, Beaus - Irnported, hand-picked, per bushel, $0 to 16.25; Canadian primes, $5 t0 '$6,50; Lima, per ib„ 9 to 100, Provisions -wholesale, Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 24 to 26c; do,, heavy, 22 to 23e; cooked, 33 to 35c; rolls, 19 to 20c; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27c; bucks, plain, 26 to 27o; bone- less, 28 to 29c, than cured, during this advance. Curet] meats -Long clear bacon, 18 to ' 189c per lb.; clear bellies, 18 to 13$0,------...-,��--- Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 195. to 20e; tubs, 20 to 2030; ails 203 to 2D - ( FUND'S pound, 16; to 16e.9c, can THE FUNDS NEW PRESIDENT. o'0-ookins oils - Wbhto, tierces, 161o; 40, tins; 1610, yohiow, le below white. $5; Sheep, $6.50 t0 07.60; lard's, 51.1,25 to 511.50; calves, 54.60 to $5.50; select hogs, 510.50 to 511,45. PRISON' POPULATION SMALLEST FOR YEARS. Prohibition, Opportunity for Employ- ment, Enlistment Have De- ster show an approximate increase creased Crime. ' The gun is fed from a long tape to of 60 per cent, over those of the SCIENCE. TO AID IN DEVELOPMENT Government Advisory Council on Technical Research. • A •ciespatcli from Ottawa says: - After a year's 'consideration of the best method of Govermnent•procedure to .nc.urage and assist in Canada Cows sold as high as $125 per maatufa•otin•ing development based on head.)ecentlyat Lulu Island, B.C. scientific and technical research, the Two of the three members of the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Sir Koksilah School Board are women. George. E. Foster, has scouted the art- The City Hall employes of Vancou- pointment by the Government of an ver have asked an increase of salary. IIonoraay Advisory Council on ' ln- ' Halibut has reached the record dustrial'and Scientific Research, The price of 11% cents per lb. at Prince Council consists of University pro- Rupert. fessors in the departments of applied The Bantams of Victoria, B.C., will science, and of menprominent in steel use live bombs in their course of in - and engineering wont. struetions. The appointment of the Council is • A panther that measured 6 -feet in line with action taken months ago was ' shot, recently in the North by Great Britain and the United Saanieh district. States when Governmental action was Lieut. J. G: Hay, former City Soli - taken early in the war to secure the citor of Vancouver, has died of best expert advice, with a view to wounds in France. taking full advantage of the trade Coyottes have been seen in con - and manufacturing opportunities of- siderable numbers in the vicinity of fered by 'the exclusion of Germany Kamloops recently, from the world's market. • The ob- A longshoreman of Vancouver has ject in ;view is to include technical died from anthrax contracted while and scientific research ' and utilize handling Australian hides. the results: for the development of The City Council of New Westmin- production and trade. It ishopedster are furnishing the Soldiers' Club that the free assistance thus offered with free light for the balance of the to industrial firms will enable Canada year. to keep abreast of the world's mann- Mayor McBeath, of Vancouver, facturing readjustment during the has declared himself in favor of the war, and of the keen "international public ownership of that city's liar - competition which will follow it. bor. Cloverdale (B.C,) Council mem- bers have voted their indemnities of $100 each to the Canadian Patriotic Fund. It is expected that a new pulp mill 'wall, -shortly be opened in British Col- umbia, involving an expenditure of $2,500,000. The school children of South Van- couver have deposited nearly $1,000 in the penny savings banks clueing the past year. New Westminster is fitting up a clubroom for returned soldiers, the work being done by the convalescent heroes themselves. The wives of soldiers in Vancou- i they slid at the battle of the Nile when vex declare they will patronize only L'Orient did the same; we moderns those merchants who contribute to have got beyond all these courtesies. the Patriotic Fund. Nor did we notice the noise of the ex - Customs receipts of New Westmin- plosion which seems • to suggest that there were a great many other strange noises -which indeed was the ca50 " The Invincible was not the only great vessel whose destruction be wit- nessed; there were others; but, im- pressive as he found the spectacle, there was another sight that impress- ed him quite as deeply, and moved him more. "As those were the essence of shat- tered matter, so this was the essence of triumphant spirit: a little British destroyer, with her midships rent by a great shell hnoaxt for a battle cruiser, exuding steam from every Rev. A. D. NIcKinna pastor of the poi't,'able to go ahead, but not to potato crop this year, it has been de- Kitsilano Presbyterian thinks oursteelineamvii108 taonally across eided to introduce a new scheme o£ that the word "obey" in the Church, thinks u (which s rather congested potato rationing. On January 1 the ceremony should be made to a 1 Ij just thele). She was unable to get pt/ Y out of anyone's way; likely to be ram. FROM •SUNSET COAST WBAT THE' WESTERN PEOPLE ARIE DOING. Progress of the Great West Told in a Few Pointed Paragraphs. NEW MACHINE GUN. Allies Getting it -Can Fire 1,500 Shots Per Minute -Make 200 a Day. A despatch from New York says: - The New York Sun on Thursday morn- ing says: "A satisfactory test was made yes- terday afternoon on a machine gun capable of firing fifteen hundred shots a minute, and so easily handled that a little girl can manipulate it. The test was made for the benefit of re- prectentatives of the British and French Governments, for whom the new death -dealer is intended. The gun is of a new pattern manufac- tured by the Marlin Arms Company of New Haven, Conn. THE BATTLE IN THE FOG. Vivid Pen Picture of the Greatest Naval Engagement. Of all the groat naval battles of his-? tory, surely none was ever more shrouded in fog •both actual and figu- rative than the 'recent Jutland sea fight -veiled in smoke and fog at sea and obscured ever since in a smother .of contradictory arid contested claims. Only gradually"the truth emerges; doubtless the whole truth of the greater iseues of loss and victory will not be known until the war is over. But scene by scenes picture by Pic- ture, lurid, flash by flash, we are get- ting glimpses of the battle -terrible, tlagib;-: splendid glimpses of "destruc- tion, death and deathless valor. None are more vivid than those given by the New York Tribune from the let- ters of a young British officer, written home the next day to his family. "Somehow, I never thought of a general action in a thick mist where you could not see half your own fleet, lot alone the enemy's," he wrote; "but so it was, and vast forms loomed up out of the mist, firing like Billy -o at other ships that were perfectly in- visible. "I saw the Invincible -my old In- vincible -blow up like the Bulwark, right alongside us, hardly a mile off, a great crimson race of flame a hun- dred feet high and perhaps two hun- dred broad, that went up leisurely, contemptuously, with an awful, ma- jestic dignity, to a good four hundred feet; at its very top an immense bulk of ship's plating, and many lesser bits. Then the deep red faded out, and there remained only a black pall be- low, merging in the general pall that the smoke of all the ships running at full speed was creating; above, a new billowy cloud was added to the others in the sky, only to be distinguished from them by its greater height. "Eighteen minutes later the pall cleared sufficiently to enable nae to see her bows sticking up above 'water at an angle, with the red bottom above the gray side; her stern stuck up at an equal angle, with the red upper- most. There she stayed, the British fleet passing by on either side, going into action. , . No one stopped fire ing when the Invincible blew up, as A despatch from Ottawa says: The .which cartridges axe attached, pass- same month last year. penitentiary and prison.populatfon of ing through the weapon from side to For allowing young boys in his the Dominion -is now smaller than it side while the gun is in action. The theatre during school hours the pro has been for years. Prohibition, em- cartridge used is of .762 millimetres prletor of the Star Theatre, Vancou- pioyment conditions, and 'the enlist- diameter. The weapon has a range ver, was fined $25 and costs. ment of the "adventurous spirits" in of 3,000 yards, and is said to be par- Three first-class German prisoners, the war have combined to decrease ticularly well adapted for use on air- who were °Mceers in the German crime and empty the jails. Practical- planes, for its weight is only about army, escaped from the ,Morrissey Ju- ly all, penitentiaries report to the De- that of the average rifle. ternment Camp, ten miles from partment of Justice that the "slack• Fernee, season" for compulsory boarders has GERMANY CUTSDOWN Silver Wings, the yacht that car - been on for months. At Stony Moun-PEOPLE'S POTATO RATIONS. ried Robert Louis Stevenson to his twin Penitentiary in Manitoba, for _ last home, Wilma, in the South instance,need there are not enough prison- A despatch from Berlin says; Ow- Seas, is now used to bring home ers at present to keep the prison in- ing to the decided falling off in the cargoes of fish, dustries running. CANADIANS TOOK 750 AT GRANDCOURT urban population will be ularte s of a to the plan as well as the Woman, need by any one of a dozen ships; her n a daft allowance of three-quarters The City Council of New West- siren was whimpering, � p g, `Lal me through! Make way! her crew had fallen in at, dressed in life belts, ready for the final plunge, and was sheering wildly, as an enthusiastic crowd might cheer when the King pusses. Perfectly magnificent! Thank God, I'm en Englishman! "You will be glad to hear that she is now, after loll, safe in port. The Invincible had just blown up, the Queen Mary ten minutes earlier. She had just been winged, and that was her reply -spontaneous cheering ft -eon her crew. resent fiscal low creature, makes a most curious "We don't talk about our `morale; p' year, amounting to post. To escape snakes and monkeys but if you are thinking at all about 012,203,519.96, or close to the $13,- such a thing you may well remember 000,000 high record of April. The this bird takes a dead leaf, flies up !such little shattered destroyer, her total is 02,884,833.26 in excess of the into to a tree, and, with a fibre for a head held high,her vitals hiun in record for November last year. For thread and its bill for needle, sewsg gout the eight months of the fiscal year the leaf to a green one hanging frofn and cheering as she came." the total Customs revenue has been the tree, an opening to the nest thus The great conflict was closed by the 094,728,097.70, an increase of $32,440,- formed being left at the top. The leaf, enemy's signal ,to retire, which 348.78. apparent, han ing from a twi chanced to be, the young. oA'ieer re- y g g' cords appreciatively, "a really lovely A despatch from London says: pound instead of one pound. The Wounded officers in the hospitals here agricultural population will have an monster paid the claim of William say that the Canadian attack on De- allowance of one pound daily duringGary for $5 for the repair of. his sire trench, near Grandcourt on No- January and February, and thereaftewatch which was damaged owing to vember 18, was to big surprise to the a, in the street, pound and a half. The potatoes an accident due to a defective plank Germans, the weather being so bad thus saved will be devoted to placing that they never suspected any move -Anyone convicted of engaging in those performing hard labor on a ea- illicit liquor traffic between Van- ment. The Canadian artillery gave tion of two pounds daily, the infantry effective support and couver,_ B.C., and Seattle, Wash., will forced the Germans to remain in the render themselves liable to a filo of rte p d g is until the advance (vas CUSTOMS REVENUE $5,000, or a two-year term in the peni- e FOR PAST MONTH tentiary, or both. on top of them. The advance was made in a thick snow storm. The A despatch from Ottawa says:- The Customs Birds Curious Nest, just closing is the second best for the Pickledordry eared meats, 1 cent less F. E. Ball, of Montreal, were killed. Canadians took seven hundred and e forthe month Majors John Lewis and fi T captured. illy ycl- fty prisoners when the trench was levenu The tatl00 bird of India, a Montreal Markets. Duke of Devonshire Becomes,, Chief Executive of Patriotic Fund. Montreal, Dec. 5 -Corot, American No, The new Governor-General, the 2 yellow, $1,12 to $1.14; Oats -Canadian Duke of Devonshire has manifested Western, No: 2, 691c; No, 3, 6030; extra , work being •carried No. 1 feed, 685c. Barley -Man. feed, his interest in the 1.05; malting, $1.30.. Pious Man. $ pring wheat patents, firsts, $10,36; se_. on Uy the -Canadian Patriotic Fund by sends, 00.80; strong bakers', $9,00; Win- consenting to become the President tgg�rsorriori$950ostra�gl0it br flight roUtars, of the Fund, This position was lfeld $4 55 to e4.70. ,tolled oats barrels; els, by the Duke's predecessor, the Duke Shorts, $33; middlings, 536 to $37; moullle, $40 to $46. Iay-No, 2, per the fund until his departure, from erns, 25Butter, tott 26,c; finest easterns, 24 to Canada ane. to 44c; seconds, 425 to 43c. Eggs financial strength is largely due to 0 eeted, 420 No 1 50'.80; straight rollers, bags of $7.45; bags, 90 lbs„ $3.60, Bran -$so. of Connaught, from the inception of ton,car lots is. Cheese -finest west- C d 1 the present position of 6c. b er,choicest creamery, 435 t;e fund in national confidence and Fresh, 60 to 66c; selected, stock, 30e; No, 2 stock, 36c. Potatoes- his inspiration and personal devotion Per bag, car' lots, 53,70 to 51.90. to its interests. The new Governor - Dressed flogs -Abattoir lulled, 516.50. to 816.75; country, $15.75 to 516.25, General evidently proposes to take the same active part in promoting the Winnipeg Grain,welfare of this great national under - Winnipeg. Dec. 5. -Wheat No, 1 Nor- taking, hero, $1.919; No, 2 Northern, $1.08; No, Northern, $1.83 Na. 4, $1.663; No, 5, ..----.---4 1:.404 No, 8, $1.403.. Oats-No:6 C,tiv., GERMANS INC ' _ 0. o• No. 3 C.W. 69' c• INCREASE J 0 u ,extra No e!j$ 1feed 60 c• No. 1 feeds 6S e IVo 5 0 .,2 feed, 575o, Barley -No. 3, $1.06; No, 4, 96c; rejected, 620; feed, 820. L'lax-No, 1 N:W.C., 52,5553 No. 2 C.W., $2.55. LEVY ON BELGIUM.. A despatch from Paris says: The German authorities have issued a de- t -^ would never be taken for a nest, star -shell. After all the furious, creep - RUMANIAN WHEAT Sli'OCIC red displays of pyrotechnics we had 109,000,000 BUSHELS Not His Size. been treated to for over three hours, Little Willie wore his dad's clothes, this gentle, cool, pure, white, silent :-A re which his mother had cid; d r • star of Bethlehem was like the Spirit aw t for port issued by the International Insti• him as best she could. A despatch from Rome saysof Peace corning to brood over us." Lute of Agriculture estimates Ru- As little Willie was getting into ii--r:•- mania's total wheat stock at 109,000,- vest that had been cut down into an 000 bushels, of which 30,000,000 overcoat he began, to growl and CHEAPEN COST OF -LIVING. bushels represent last year's surplus, grumble. The estimate of this year's harvest "What's the matter now?" said leis Alieraticn of Daily Menu by Using ending July 31 for rye, barley, oats dad, • Cheap Foods. and corn is 143,000,000 bushels, tiV hY said Wilhe th 1 t h , The Kansas City Snnes says: - "The average housewife, travelling in a rut, thinks;she must have Irish po- tatoes on the table, no matter what they cost. If when she went to school she had been taught the food I values in different things, and was who had evidently been lunching a watching the market novo, she -would ! London Times says: Certain Ger- car with difficulty. only one-half as much a0 Irish t - "What's the matter?" lib asked, toes, 'have just as nnuch food van c mildly, as lie observed the conduc- with a saving. of $1 a bushel. A tor's impatience, "Ain't this car the good cook would teach her hew to 008 I want?" "Flow do I know whether it is or not?" growled the conductor. "Oh, you must have known it, or you wouldn't have stopped to let me catch it," said the befuddled one. Slightly larger areas than were used . is pocket as ed no bottom to tt, last year have been sown for the Win- er, GERMAIl PEACE 1MISSION ARRIVES 1N HOLLAND "Pocket," said the dad; "that's a buttonhole." Of Course Noll .A. somewhat befuddled individual, The Rotterdam correspondent of the trifle too freely, climbed on board the know theft sweet potatoes, costing man personalities with international /Jutted states Markets. cree imposing a further payment of connections have areived in Holland • ber, nn 5 t olis, Dec. 16,-Wheat,84, Decent.; 1.0,000,000 francs a month on Belgium; ;for• the purpose of getting in touch hard, 51.88$33 to -$1.609; No, 1 Northern, according to 01 'Havre despatch fromwith pacifist propagaulists." T1x 1.709 to 51.828; No, 2 Northern, 51,749 Iiavre. This is additional to the ex- Daily Mail's Rotterdam correspondent to. 51.006. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 50 to 87e.describes these neo Oats -No. 3 white, 602 to 61o. 7,1our feting levy of 480,000,000 francs. The propagandists as poli- uuohangee, Phan, $27,50 to 523, des atch sa s that .th0 rovincial ticians of various countries. Duluth, Dec, G. -Wheat No, 1 hard, • p Y P F52; No. 1 Northern, 5$122; No. 2 Nor- councils have been convoked for -De- ern, $1,66 to 51,70•; Ixecornbcr $1804 comber 2 in order to approve the new' It's better for a man to do a little nseed to arrive, 52.703; November, INTEND TO ANNEX $2.779; December' 52,771; May, 52.54. ... PART OF RUMANIA time Stook Markets, A Rotterdam despatch to the Lon- don Times says that General von Blume, in the Koelnische Volks Zei- bung indicates that the Central pow- ers intend' permanently to annex parts of Rumania for the purpose of pro teeing the Bagdad route and secur- ing a permanent additional corn sup- ply) kicking than to become a human foot - Toronto, Dec. 6, -Butcher .steers, ball, heavy, 58 to $5.75; butchers' cattle, FURTHER UNITS FROM AUSTRALIA TO BE DESPATCHED TO FRANCE The Premier Announced That the Result of Conscription Referen- dum Will Not Check Recruiting. ' 'A despatch from Melbourne, Aus- flalia, says: ---On ,the resumption of Rhe sessions of the Federal Parliament ten Thursday the Premier; Wm. Morris iinghes, announced that notwithstand- 'ing ,the conscription referendum, the Government would continue its ut- most, efforts with regard to men and commodities to aid Great Britain and her allies, An Opposition ,notion of he ecnfid. ence in the Government was defeat 46 to 21, .ANOTHER CAVELL CASE REVEALED iN BELGIUM. A despatch from Paris says; An- other Cavell ease has been added to the list of Teuton atrocities Commit- ted in Belgium. News has reached this city .of the execution of Madame I'leloise Mox'esse, a Freud; woman, the circumstances"being quite similar to those of the British marty'ecl. nurse, Miss Edith Cavell. 300 PERSONS PERISH IN INDIAN CYCLONE A despatch fro- nt London says: - The 'death of..nearly 300 persons, in a cyclone at Pondicherry, India, is re- ported in to Renter's despatch from Madras. The storm -caused great damage to property. Good Company, "Is that little boy I saw you play- ing with this afternoon a good hoy, Willie?" asked his mother. "No," replied Willie, "he ain't much good, but he's the only boy around that 1'0811 lick." - ^ Unnecessaryinfoa'tnation , "If I were you, Peck, I'd let my wile know who is boss in my house "Let her know? Croat S;ott! she knows already," make sweet potato pie, to roast with the skin on, to bake, to cut in strips and fry, to boil and to cook in other, ways, "Also, she would knew that there is just as much nutriment in corn- meal as in wheat flour, and, while it has doubled in price, it is yet cheaper than wheat flour. "There is another wholesome food almost wholly neglected now, that was in every home in the old days. Molasses, either sorghum or cane, was on every table in the last gen- eration. It is still Cheaper than sugar, and there is more food value In it than in butter, the experts say. "Sweet potatoes, coria bread with molasses for a spread, and all old - Whittled molasses ginger cake to finish off with --such food was good enough for the stalwert men and woe pioneers of the West. But. Ove• have been living through an ago of extravagance, and it will be hard to go back to plain food without "trim- A cheque for. 5500 was given for a flag 071 "Our Day" at Beckenham Junction. WANTED FOR THE ROYAL N Two thousand Canadians are wanted for the Royal Naval Can. adieu Volunteer Reserve towards manning the new ships of tho Imperial Royal Navy. Immediate overseas service. Only men of good character and good physique accepted. Pay $1,10 Minimum per day -Free Kit $20.00 per IVlonth Separation Allowance Apply to the nearest Naval Recruit- ing Station, or to the Dope. of tho NAV.' Service OTTAWA BRITAIN'S SECOND NELSON HEADS THE GRAND FLEET Big Shake-up in the Admiralty at Whitehall, Resulting in an Infusion of New Blood A despatch from London says: Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Commander of the British fleet, was on Wednes- day appointed First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, being succeeded in com- mand of the Grand Fleet by Vice - Admiral Sir David Beatty, who com- manded the British battle cruiser squadron in the Jutland naval battle. Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson, the present First Sea Lord, has-been ap- pointed President of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. The announcement of the'ehange of command of`the British Grand Fleet was made in the House of Commons by A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr, Balfour said there would be eonsequential changes also in the Board of the Admiralty. The decision involving the appointments of Admirals Jellicoe, Beatty and Jack- son was taken some time ago, Mr. Balfour said, but for military reasons the announcement was delayed. On being asked whether the changes in the Admiralty meant other changes in higher commands, Mr. Bal- four replied that undoubtedly there would bo changes, which would be announced in the ordinary course GERMANY ISR READY TO DISCUSS PEACE Terms Guaranteeing Existence and Future of Nation Are Required. A despatch from Berlin says; -In an hcldress to the Reichstag on Wed- nesday, in introducing the Man power Bill, Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl- weg -again announced that Germany was ready to end the war by a peace guaranteeing the existence and future of the nation. In presenting to the Reichstag the bill for the national auxiliary service (providing for com- pulsory service of civilians for war purposes), Chancellor von Bethmann- Holiweg made at address in regard to tatem. i i 1 tat situation, y s on, a nd the pur- pose of the bill. It was the Chancel- lor's sixtieth birthday, and his desk was decorated with chrysanthemums, "The war continues, with its de- structive forces," the Chancellor said. "Accordingly our enemies desire . it. They celebrated the past Summer as a period of victory. But did they ob- tain what they wanted? Our lines are unbroken and Rumania, through which a great change of events was expected, is now atoning for what she did. God has helped us up to the present. Ile will help us further." 130 SOLDIERS r 0 DI ] S ItILLED IN JAPANESE WRECK A despatcix from Tokio says.:- imudred and thirty young soldiers have been killed in a collision of a freight train with the train on Which they were being conveyed to Aomori, a seaport 011 the north coast. OVER 100,000 BELGIAN WORKMEN HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEPORTED Are Being Starved in German Camp in Attempt to Make Then Sign Work Contracts. A despatch from New York says:- PIerre Mali, the Belgian Conon! in New York, made public on Thursday night the following cable message re- ceived from Carton de Wiart, Belgian Minister of Justice, at Havre, France: "According to the last information received here more than 100,000 13e1- gian workmen have already been thrown out of their homes and taken into slavery in unknown places. The mothers, wives and children who want to retain then, are driven back by the Germans and are torn with despair.; The Belgian Government has just sent bread, through the Swiss Government, to 10,000 of these unfortunates actual ly kept together in Soltau Camp, and the Germans are breaking them with' a starving system to try to get them to sign work contracts. What do the' American people, whose Belgian relief work is put into serious danger, think' about this?" II I IC 'S,Vtrctt your hcacl is dull and heavy, your tongue furred, and you fool dour -up and good for nothing, without knowing what i5 really the natter with you, probably all that is needed to restore you to health and vigour is a few doses of a reliable THE digestive tonic and stomachic rem - STOMACH. 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