HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-02-18, Page 3INCREASES IN THE TARIFF
General All Round Advance of Seven -and -a -Half
Per Cent., in Customs
A despatch from Ottawa says: A
general ,beriff increase of seven and
• a half -per cent. intermediate and
five per cent, preferential, with cer-
tain exceptions, such as tea, sugar,
tobacco, wheat, flour aald agricuJ
teral impleneents.
Speeial War taxes including:
One per eent, on bank note circu-
lation.
One per <lent. on the gros•s income
<Canadian) of -trust and loan coin-
. ,
panes.
One per cent. on the net prem-
iums of insurance companies except
life fraternal and marine.
One cent on telegraph and cable
•niesaagee,
Ten cents for every five dollars
an railroad and steamboat tiekets.
Ten emits on sleeping car and five
tents ort parlor car tickets.
•One to three dollars per passen-
,ger froth. ,steamboat companies car-
rying to ports other than in Can-
ada, Newfoundland, ;the United
States of America, and British Wart
Indies,' , •
Two cents on all bank Cheques,
eeceipts and bills of exchange, ex-
press and poat-office orders.
One eeet on postal -notes.
One cent (war stamp) on each let-
ter and postcard. ,
Two emits on bills of lading.
Five cents per pint ou non -spark-
ling wines solid in Canada and
twenty-five cents per pint on (Mama
pagnes and sparkling wines. One
cent on each ten tents' cost of pro-
prietary medicines.
Theee are the proviaions announc-
ed by the Minister of Finance, on
Tharselay foe -restoring the revenues
to "the minimum amount regarded
as necessary." The special , taxes
are expected, (ma rough estiinate,
to produce eight million dollars.
The increased Customs duties will
'add to the'revenue from twenty to
twenty-five million dollare.
BRITISH VESSEL FOILS SUBMARINE
German U=2 Tries in Vain to Destroy the Laertes
,-Latter Uses Dutch Flag
A despatch from Ymuiden, Neth-
erlande, says: The German sub-
marines U-2 attempted to torpedo
the Britieh steamer Laertes, which
areiVed from Java. The vessel es -
taped by adroit manoeuvres and
fast steaming. When attacked the
steamer was flying the Dutch flag.
Captain Prophet was in command.
' The attack on the Laertes was
made while the vese.el- was steaming
between the .Meuse lightship and
• Sefton -wen Bank. The -submarine-
'fired several shells, Winch damaged
the steamer's funnel, compass and
'upper deck. As -this did not induce
the captain to stop, the submarine
made an unsuccessful attempt to
-torpedo the steamship.
The Laertes, when challenged by
the eithmarine, was proceeding with-
out showing her nationality. When
asked ta stop the vessel flew the
Dutch flag.
A despatch from Rotterdam says
there is reason to believe that the
submarine Bank. She was last seen
in a cloud of steam.
The Laentes is one of the smallee
liners of the Ocean Company, a Bri-
tish corporation, plying between
Harwich and Dutch ports. It is
supposed that the submarine en-
countered the liner off the Hook of
Holland and prevented' her entering
Dutch waters. The aaptain at once
headed north, and finally managed
to elude the submarine and reach a
safe port,
• The Dutch authorities will make
an inquiry into the attempt of the
German submarine U4 to torpedo
British.steamer inside Dutch ter-
ritorial waters.
iSLADGEITER IN
BAGATELLE FIGHT
'Germans Lose Heavily in Trying to
lake French Fortifications at
' Marie Therese.
A despatch from London says:
Tremendous slaughter marked the
progress of the terrific battle but
*Bagatelle on Friday. After four
-days of desperate fighting the Arg-
onne- battle reached its climax -when
the Germans charged down upon
the French fortifications at Marie.
"Therese in solid columns four a-
• breast, and column abreast of col-
umn across a front more theft 600
yards wide.
The guns of the fort poured a
-deadly-shell fire into the solid ranks
as soon as they were well within
range. The line of ,colninns waver-
ed ander the withering fire, but still
-they came on, When within .easy
rifle range the quick -firers and inha-
le -try of the French sent in a Shower
.of ballets that was a veritable hurri-
-cane of death.
The 'carnage was more than hu-
man courage could withstand, and
column after 'column broke, crumb-
• led and turned, leaving large nam -
'hers of dead on the field. -
Serious Shortage
of Skilled Workers
A despatch from London says:
The shortage of skilled workers in
engineering and ship -building es-
tablishments, owing to the large
numbers of these men who have
gone to the trent, is se !Berme that
an enquiry was opened by repre-
rtentatiias of the Government and
trades unions for the purpose of de-
vising methods of assuring the full
productivity of these adjuncts to
military operations. The trades
, unions will be asked to waive some
of their regulations during the per-
iod of the war crisis.
65 CANADIANS DIED.
Twenty-four Cases of Meningitis
Peoved Fatal at Salisbury.
A despatch from London says: In
reference to reports of heavy losses
from dieease among the Canadian
troops encamped on Salisbury
Plain, the War Office on Wednesday
issued a statement to the,effect that
only 65 Canadians have died in this
camp,stend that the total lois from
meningitis has been 24 Mere out of
40 mune reported, It had been re-
ported -bleat an entire Canadian bat-
talion was %Mitering from meningi-
tis, and the inference had been
drawn that the epidemic was due to
bad camp conditions. Aceo,riing to
the War Office, however, the disease
was brought with the contingent
from Canada. In refe-renee to the
report that 70 per cent, of the Cana-
dian heyees are suffering from mud
maaanse. fever the War Office deelares that
anly 10 per cent, of the Canadian
'teepee ,a,re eick and that only a pro-
portion a these had mud fever.
Russian Expenditures
Nearly $2,00p,000,000
A despatch from Petrograd says:
The Budget was on Wednesday
voted by the Duna and the Council
of the Empire. The Budget Com-
mittee of the Duma in its estimates
for 1915 placed the revenues at
$1,666,000,000; expenditure, $1,846,-
000,000; extraordniary expendi-
tures, $67,000;000. 'Afterthe vote
in the Council, one of the members,
P. M, De Kaafmann, declared ill
the name of all the groups • that
whatever sacrifices were demanded
the war shouM be carried out to the
bitter end. This Was received with
cries of approbation.
Revolt Breaks Out
In Trarisylvania
A despatch from Rome says:
News has been received here to the
effect that a revolt has broken out
in Transylvania, where precisions
have been requisitioned for the
army While the inhabitants are
Starving, The gendarmes charged
the citizens, and many were killed
or wounded.
An agitation bordering on insur-
rection is spreading in South Hun-
gary. Rioting has been repressed
only through bloodshed.
OIL SHORTAGE IN GERMANY.
Price Charged Is Double What It Ie
in France.
A despatch from Pari e says: An
official account of the situation at
Douai, a French city under German
occupation ancl control, reports that
petrol which is brought in from
Germany has reached the unprece-
dented price of $1.40 a men. This
is regard,ecl as most interesting in
France, as it shows that Germany
already has begen to feel the -scarc-
ity of illuminating and motor oils
upon Which so Meth depends in this
war. The price of petrol in Parie
to -day is 70 cents scan, one-half the
price exacted in German territory.
This is an increase of only six cents
to the can Mime the war began.
,
800 German Deserters
Have Fled to Holland
A despatch from Aanaterelarm says:
The Telegraaf has reeeived a mes-
sage from Antwerp saying that 800
German deserters who had, been
ordered to the leer have fled into
Holland, The despatch also alleges
that large numbers of soldiers are
deserting from the Antwerp forts.
35 Killed by Bomb
. In An Antwerp Port
A despatch from London says:
The Daily ltailte Rotterdam .corres-
pondeat says he learns that 35 Ger-
saasv were kitten in .000 of
the Antwerp feats leat Friday by a
barna dropped by British airmen.
• .Fir(sc.c.o.t..swthouklir,i-Dnss.t.ldorf
'A despatch to the London Daily
Telegeaph from Rotterdam -reports
aacceseful al pia by the allies
aver Dusseldorf, "The Geemane,/'
Acenrdine rhea that eotmeepondenia
• ;gearing euol e sadwjiAllOselanal
recently built a eeeeet eterehonee
201BAO distance away from the arse-
nate int'o which wax mattemal and
explioeivee from the arsenal were
moved, The raltlera elestovereell this
kope, 41) droned, boinb,e non it,
PM 0;4) afilh67".
Women's Volunteer Reserve March Through Lonaort.
Members of the Women's Volunteer Reserve on their first route
parch through Londen. The object of the .eorps ia to train a body of
°women :skilledin first-afda 'Cooking, signalling, adding; driving, the
management of horses, and inarkimanahip. When the corne is fully
trained it is the intention to offer it to. the War Office. •
PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS
.EPORTS FROM THE exam/0 TRADE
CENTRES OF AMERICA.
Breldstuffs.
Toronto, Fob. 16. -Flour -Manitoba, tint
Patents, $8, In jute bugs; second patente,
$7.50; strong bakers', $7.20. Ontario tviteat
dour. 90 per cent. Detentes, quoted at 27
to $7.1.5,' seaboard.
Wheat-Mattitolut No. 1 Northern, $1.67
to $1.67 1-2; No. 2 at $1.64 to 91.64 1-2; and
No. 3 at $1.61 to 91.61 1-2; Ontario wheat,
No. 2, 91.60 to $1 65, at outside points.
Oats -Ontario, 63 to 65e, outside, and at
67 to 680, on track, Toronto. Western Can-
ada, No. 2, quoted at 74e, and No. 3 at
71 1-2c.
3Sarley-85 to 87C, outside.
Itye-$1.18 to 51.22 outside.
Peas -No. 2 quoted at $1.90 to $1.22, out-
side.
Corn -No. 2 new American, 84e, all rail.
Toronto freight.
Buckwheat -No. 2 at 85 to 90e, outside.
Bra and shorts -Bran at $26 to 927 a
ton, stud shorts at 228 to $29.
Bolted oats --Car lots, per bag of 90 lbs.,
$2.45 to $3.50.
Country Produce. •
Butter -Choice dairy, 24 to 25; inferior,
20 to 210; creamery prints, 31 1.2 to 530;
g.),..tose27teid.e, 30 to 31c: farmers' separator,
Eggs -New -laid, tzt cartons, 34 to 35e;
coleete, 267* 30e; storage, 2610 270.
lioney-12 V., 134 per lb. for strained; No.
1 honeycomb, $2.76 per dozen; No. 2, $2.25.
POultrY-Chickez.s, dressed. 13 to 150;
duoks, :dressed, 14 to 16c; fowl, 10 to Ile;
geese, 14 to 15e; turkeys, dressed, 19 to 200.
Oheese-17 3-4 to 18u for large, and at 18
to 18 1-4c for :mins.
Potatoee-Onterios, 65 to 75e per bag,
out of store, 60e in oar lote. New Bruns -
wicks, car lots, 650 par bag.
Baum Hay and Straw.
Dealers are paying as follows for car
lot deliveries on track
Straw, 98 to $8.60 a C011, in ear lots Oki
tz•ack Imre.
1Lay-No. 1 new hey is quoted at 917.50
to 918; No. 2 at 915.50 to 516, and No. 3
at 512,50 to $13.50.
Provisions.
Bneon-Long clear, 13 1-2 to 2.4e per lb. In
ease lots. Itatue-klediuni, 16 to 17e; do.,
breakfast baconn 7 1-2 to 18e; backe, 20 to
heavy, 14 1-2 tre91.5e; rolls, 14 to 14 1-2e;
' eta L‘• , ' a e. •
'Lard-hltirket quiet; pure, tub, 1/ 3-4 to of Abora, and 34 in the Province of
to
tee eaneema, 9 3-4 ire in babe, 5,11.11 Ramo. The tome of Aeezzano, in
the Province of Aquila, • had the
. wi en Meg Cra tn, heaviest loss of any individual
Winnipeg, Feb, 16.-Cas51-No. 1 Northern, town, 10,819 of its inhabitants,'
el.a 1.2" No. 2 Northern, 21.52 1-2; No, 3 which is equal to 96 .per cent. of the
Northern, $1.49 3-4; No. 4, $1.45 1-2; No. b. •
91.41 1-2; No, 6, 51.37 1.-2; feed, 191.33 1.4. population, hawing been killed.
osee-No. 2 C.W., 66 1-4o, Barley, No. 3,
83e; No. 4, 77o, Flax, No. 1 N.W.0., 81.61 1.2; -.--,-....--......._
No. 2 (LW., 91.58 14. U.S. to Supply Wardens
GERMANY WARNED
BY UNITED STATES
Latter Will Not Tolerate the Loas
of Life or Property on the
High Seas.
A . despatch from Washington
says: A very pointed warning to
Germany against causing loss of
American life or property in her
efforts to enforce a blockade of the
British Isles, and a friendly note to
Great Britain intimating disappro-
val of an official/y sanctioned gen-
eral urae of the American flag by
belligerent vessels, were sent by the
United States to the German and
British Governments., and the fall
texts of both communications are
Made public.
The note to Germany, whieb is
stiffer ah, tone than was -anticipated,
warns her that the- destruction of
American neutral vesseheand• lives
by Germany would be hard to re-
concile with friendly relations, and
the United States would bold Ger-
many to strict accountability and
take .any steps necessary to guard
American lives and property.
Death List 25,000
in. the Earthquake There ie probably as much dis-
comfort in the world as there ever
,was, but there never was a period.
in Its history when so many people
'were .comfortably housed and fed
8,8 n -ow,
•Steasn has revolutionized the poor
man's table. Tea, eo'
ffee spices,
fruits are within' bis reach, and for
$5 he can buy a coal oil stove, by
which he eau do se maximum of
cooking .at a minimuin of cost.
Poch, indeed, is the'man who lives
in a house .thab has no glass win-
dows; but in the days of Queen
Elizabeth and the Great •Oharles V.
glass was very sparingly used, even
in the most, splendid establishments,
When a family possessing glass
casements left home they ha,d them
token out and packed up, for fear
of accident, and for a long period
windows were movable property,
like chairs and trebles. 13ut glass
was.known to the ancient Egyptians
even 'before the exodus •of the Is-
raelites, so some sdhoole say. Bibs
of blue glass have been found in the
ruins of Thebes, and glass utensils
unearthed at Hercalaneune
Weaving is believed to :ba an older
art than spinning. Rade looms are
pictured on the tombs at Thebes,
tins effect was made in the House and it is believed that the ten cur -
of Commona on Wednesday after- tains of fine twined linen, blue and
noon by It J. Tennant, Paeliamen- purple and scarlet, with cherubim
tary Secretary of the War Office. •of cunning work, made for the ta-
4. ,• • berna-cle, eventtaopestries the work
Grandfathers Called• of the loom, not ,the needle.
The old story of Penelope andher
aft anraveled welle is familiar to all.
During the middle ages, while
France and England were becoming
nations, thousands a patienb fin-
gers toiled at tapestries, pieburing
the stories of the Bible in male
tinted threads •of wool and silk, for
. .
some great cathedral, or weaving
the deeds of gallant kni,gala!on
hangings for &castle. .Noble ladies
'worked at these tape,stries, and
great artists made designs for them,
and no doubt they shielded many
titled heads from unpleasant drabs,
But tapestries , were • nab for the
poor ; neither were the curtains' of
embraidered leather, which the
'Crusaders bectught ,patterns of from
the east.
'Skins of -the bear aed the wolf •
A despatch f roan Paris says! An
probably protected the feet of
Qtalea Elizabeth seem the cold appendeeieiecr,en
tetiotehhe olffivca,171
, 11 011.-b:;
floor of her bower, It is doubtful Iluellb of
th
makes an announcement which is
if soft rags from ISinyrita adorned
it. Rushee sbreweel the aeon of her !received with the liveliest' satisfac
banquet halls and audience -
• tion by Parisians. It says that in
, „
bees. Itle was a rich man who could 1""-""""n, 'c'es"r*Y'ng German
afford fresh rushes every dayaignal blial(xm in the} vicinibY
Cagny on Wednesday, at Verdun
It le scaacely 160 years since the
thea broaght down a Geeman aerea
manufacture of carpets bsgan plane, the plot of wlach .proved to
England. •Ram boring, as it does,
dust and disease germs, the ceepet
- -
may not be an unmixed good, but it CATARRN NETER S.TO
proteets the feet of invalids and
a•ged persons, a.nel cre.eplag infants
from cold; and 60, -must add some- • REACES THE LUNGS -
thing to Ole .averagC _length of hit-
1114A711501illS00 years aao. an ingenious
To Stop A Cold Quickly And
Frenehmaa traced a aatteen with Prevent Catarrh, Use
varnish on cotton eloth, and sifting "Catarrhozone."
powdered floak a different colors
upon it prod -Lifted • a pleasing and •
Nothing Pada -serious than the cornoheap !wall -covering. Nat long of-
terevaed •another Frenchman inv•ente,
moaieola
Tf gains headway you can't atop it
ed a machine aox making 0011.birill-010 s,„,manig. dmriireos,,
cats paper. Hand -printed wallpaper 01 5510119 throat aegogo!
was soon made, but- w•allpaper was _ Oatmeal weeds vete, fas*.
not printed lerreachinery until 1840. Frain nose to throat it ices to a
daa. Soon the Brootheat tubes, are
Paper was invented by the !Sara -
dens some time in the eeventh een• '10800-an4 before Yon know tie un-
less yen, healthy the Wags are ha,
; but, like glass and the art of
a
. anattaao late.
weaving, wa's lung • ue In While yen have the chance, drive
b.riuging e")10" aad, cheer 3,, coats and Catarrh right old of the sys-
poor.tsii
!Cotton was minnfnbiieil into Yon can quickly do' 130 by inhaling
dlotill ila enclene agent, and in Lana the etch piney Vapor Of. Gatarebomone,
BRITAIN'.:HOAS...D.MNC.ARMY
Ready to Go Anywhere Any Time in the Event of
a German Invasion
A •despatch from London says: sion of the question of inoculation
After two days of debate, during againet disease, in reply to which
which many matters in connection Mr. Tennant declared the sentiment
with the was were discussed, the in favor of compulsory inoculation
House of Commons on Wednesday was increasing, and that the Gov -
night passed without division the eminent was eonsideling adopting
army estimates for 3,000,000 men, it. Lord Kitchener, Secretary for
exclusive of India, and also by a War felt so strongly about the mat
"token" vote, provided for the pay ter, 'Mr. Tennant said, that he was
of the officers and men. By this about to issue an order suspending
vote the Government will receive a grants of leave to those persons
bleak cheque for this purposewho declined to be inoculated. .
Replying to points 'raised by mem- The Under-Secretary added that
bers of the House, Harold J. Ten- the suggestion that the War Office
nant, ParliamentarY Under-Secre- •should consent to the enlistment of
tary for War, said, that in ease of "bantsan battalions" waslatiag con-
e raid on England, Gen. Sir Ian sidered In the•mining districts, he
Hamilton wee in command of a mo- said, there were many mea under
bile force, whieh was ready to go the reticulation height, who desire to
anyvihere at any time.. serve In the army, and that some of
There was considerable discus-- them already were in training.
•COMFORTS OF MODERN LIFE.
Inventions and Discoveries Rave
Revolutionized Things.
A despatch from. Rome says; The
Giornale d'Italia, an Wednesday
published semi-official sta•tistics of
the fatalities in the recent earth-
quake, from which it appears that
about 95,000 persons perished. Of
these, 23,407 were in the Province
.ot Aquila, 422 in the Province of
Caserta, most of them in the town
Montreal Markets, For British Prisoners
2yelloW, 86 to 87e. Cate, Canadian West -
en), No. g 740; Canadian Western, No. 3, A despatch from London says:
710; extra, No. 1 feed, 710; No. 2 locoi white,
601.2 to 660; No. 3 local whi.to 641-2 to The 13eitisili Government has ar-
ese; No..4 Meal white, 63 1-2 to, 640. Bar- ranged with the Government of the
ley, Man. feed, 78 1-2e; onalting, 93e. Buolt-
wheat., No. 2. $1. Flour, Man. Ftnetztg United States to appoint quarter -
wheat patents. Mete, $8.10licitslecterondrekt$0710: lAnniasetrosturadrmypatoymaasotte
strong bakers', 97,40; rasa nineuttrhael
choice, $8.30; straight rollers, VIA to 98;
straight rollers, bags, 23.70 to 53.80. Bonwardens to Iiritieh prisoners of war
ed oats, barrels, 97.25; bags, 90 abs„ 93,55. in Germany. The initiation of this
Bran, $27.
Mouillie, $34 Sto237.horts, Nay, 2299 Middlingpee, r $32. „I
Lean,however, has been delayed, as
Son
ear tote, ea to eie. Cheese, finest West- Germany still !hoe the matter under
erns, a 3-4 to no: flneet Eastern% 16 1-20.
er aho.eeet creaery, 31 to consideration. Announcement to
Buttm31 1-2o;
seconds, 30 to 30 1-2c. Eggs,•freek, 38o; se-
letted, 310; No. 1 stock, 28e; No. 2 stock,
25o. Potatoes, per bag. oar lots, 50 to
521.00.
Montreal, Feb. 16. -Corn, American ?To.
. United States Markets.
Minnewpolle, Feb, 16.--Wheat-No. 1
hard, $1.58; No. 1. Northern, 21.63 1-4 to
51.67 1-2; No. 2 Northern, 91,60 1-4 :to 91.55;
May, 91.65 Corn -No. 3 yellow, 72 12
to 72 3-45. Oats -NO, 3 white, 57 1-2 to
67 3-4e. Flour and bran unchanged.
Duluth, Minn. ,Feb, 16. Lhseed, 1.56 1-2
to 91.57 1-5; MaY, 5/,87 Cloee-Wheat,
No. 1 bard, $1.56; No. 1 Northern, 91.55;
No. 2 Northern, 91.51 to 91.63; May, $1.55.
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Live Stook Markets,
Toronto, Feb. 16,-.13utchers' changed
hds anat $6.50 to 97,50. Butcher CAYVVO and
bulls, 95.25 to $6.25 for the most part and
bulls at $5.60 to .26.75. Milkers sold 10
steady prices. Stockers at 25.60 to 96.25
for fairly good stock. For Iambs $7.60
29 was pnid, and for sheep owes 26.55 to
$6.25. Swine; 98.15 to $8.20. They 'brought,
97.90, fed and watered.
Montreal, Feb, 16.-]? ;no ,beoves, 7 1-56
to near 7 3-40; medium, 6 to 7 1-4e; coin -
mon, 4 3-4 to 6 3-4c; (*Wag 440 tO $80 each;
sheep, 5 to 51-206 lambs, 7 1.2 to 80; hogs,
140.
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• ALLIES ARTS 111A.STEIIS.
•
German Offensive Moves Cease in
Belgian Dunes.
• A despatch from Boulogne,
France, stays: From a very reliable
source I am in a position to state
that the allies ere now absolute
masters of the dunes, says a, comma
pendent. Little by little the Ger-
man offeneive movements changed,
and after a, shoet defensive they
gave way before the allied troops.
Wieh regard to the dietriet about
Ostend, the Germans have become
greatly alarmed .at their position.
Large reinforcements earrive daily
at Ostend fram Bruges. The health
of the. German troops is becoming
extretniely grave. At Mons, over 50
pee cent. of the garrisens ere in
the hospital suffering froth typh.03.
fever. At Antwerp 12,000 eoldiers
are in the hospitals suffering trona
fever.
Serbia is Really.
A despatch front Sofia says The
Serbian array Rum a stvength of
520,000 men, wellsuppliedwith war
reatoritels and food, One of the dip -
!pants at Nish, diming the courae
of an interview, ealel I 'A new Aus-
tro-Geernan offenalve campaign is
be,lieved to be naminent, and eveey-
thing Possible is being atene to put
the country into a good state of de-
eiee's. The women and children tere
aiding in digging trenches."
• to Fight for Austria
A despot -011'f rorn. Geneva, Switzer,
land, says: Austria is experiencing
great difficulty, especially in Hun-
gary, it is reported at Innsbruck,
in mobilizing the Landsturm of the
classes from the years 1878 to 1890,
Which were recently .called to the
colors, Women are said to be pre-
venting the men many of whoin are
grandfathers, Lea leaving their
homes,
32 Spanish Soldiers '
Lost in a Shipwreck
A despatch from Madrid says:
Thirty-one soldiers and one com-
missioned officer, a lieutenant, were
drowned in the Bay of Arzila, Mor -
mats, when a barque with 100 sol-
diers on board stranded.
FRENCH TOWNS IN DISTRESS.
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.American Relief House Wires That
589,000 Are in Need.
A despatch tram New York says.:
The war relief clea,ring house tor
Fra.nee and her allies, which .has an
office in this city, on Weelneeday re-
ceived a cablegram front the A:inert-
ean Relief Clearing House of Paris,
announcing that in 300 villages,
tatans and communitie.s of France
there are 589,000 refugees in great
need, 01 this number, $1,000 are
in need of money, 31,000 need food,
249,000 need clothing and 219,000
are in need of gorteral assistance,
It was stated in -the ottblegralD that
pare woollen yarns of good quality
and clothing, old or new, for men,
women, children and babies were
the articles meat urgently needed.
Many 41 nia,n who -wouldn't take
aaything else that doesn't belong to
hint is quick to take °fleece.
A. temperaace lecture in a probi
biaion tOW11 ian't !always a, ease o
carrying coals ito Newcastle,
lee eriage isn't ,a failure if the con-
tracting parties ham, Iwo heads"
feu hands and 000 heant,
before the dawn of history, and
-Cortes found the Mexicans clothed
in cotton; but it was eta manufac-
tured in Europe until •930 A.D.,
wh'en Aaclerralanan 111., the great-
est ofelfoorish princes, was reign-
ing over -the fairest part of Spam.
The name "cotton' comes to us,
from the Arabic. But little cotton
was manufactured, indeed, till the
invention of the spinning jenny
(1709), the carding engine (1760),
the steam engine (by Watt, 1765)
and the power loom (1787).
Bleaching by means of chlorine
was discovered, then, clothe were
-printed from cylinders, and you end
1, dear reader, have in consequence
an, abundance of cheap, easily laun-
dered under -garments and gowns,
that queens would have been proud
te- wear 200 years ago.
The manufacture uf ruhaber has
introduced anobhee oheap means of
protecting the human body. There
are plenty of graaelfathers living
who tan tell you of the first rubber
shoes, and the no -w universal rub-
ber cloaks and coats date back but
a, few years.
The rich, who ean ride, and
whose purses can afford to spoil
few garments nosy and then .by rain,
receive some benefit, of course,
from these over -garments, but they
are an inestimable boon to men and
women whoa-10st face all weathers.
Rubber nob only pratects the body
but it is a. means of relieving pale
in air cushions and hot-water bot-
tles. It has also given the hoe,pit-
als_ and surgeone a long list of ap-
pliances and inetruments useful in
preserving life by promoting re-
covery from disease.
"Children," said a tbeacher to his
pupils, "you should be able to chi
anything equally well -with either
hand, Will a lietfle Practice you
will find tt jast tia easy bo do any-
thing with one band as it de with 'the
other," "Ei it?" ineuired Oar ur-
[Ain 410 the Ifeet al the oleos, ''Let's
see yorput your left hand de the
rigbt-hand pockets of your 'trou-
sers,"
FRONI ERIN'S GREEN ISLE
NEWS BY MAIL P.ROM
IRE-
LAND'S 81101IES.
Dappenings In the Emerald Isle 01
Interest to Irish-
men.' •
Over 150 tons ,of hay were destroy,.
ed in a fire that 'brake out .ab
-farm of George Nelson at Culea-
very,
• Louth County Council has ,arp-
• preyed of making an offer of $5,000
for the 'purchasing of °meal:b. Park.
An aged women named Bridget
• Connolly -was found iburned to
death in a house at Corcaghau, near
Monaghan.
While hunting with the Meath
hounds ateDunh•oyne, Mrs. Dunville
• wife of the M.FAIL, fell and 'broke
her men.
R. G. WYlie, Poyntypass, was
seriously injured when 'Wm horse he
was driving threw him violently
against a steno -
The interior of Garron Tower ,
Hotel, Ararim, recently fitted up
for wounded British 'soldiers,has
been destroyed by fire. .
Adam Ru•therlford, farmer, Bally -
chine, collapsed while driving to,
Lieibura Market, and died betare
• aid couM he summoned.
• A number of Belgian _refugees who
have arrired ab Glensbal have been
provided with -cottages in his park
by Sir G. Barrington.
The gashouae .conneeted with the
Bleach Works of Kirkpatrick Bros.,'
Limited, Ballyelare, has been com-
pletely destroyed by fire.
The death has occurred at ,the age
of 76 of Mr. Charles Bradley, Stan-
ley's Walk, Derry, w.ho was • well
-known as "Charley the Poet,"
• The local Government Bosad have
sanctioned 'the loan of $7,600 to the
Kilkenny -County 'Council for the
machinery.
eeroyf purchasing steam rolling
Ennis District -Connell has denreceiv-
methbe:boscanrdctitoorattofe tllosae.nlocAl. gso2v5,eorn00-
for theipunpose of repairing the cot-
tages in the Unioa.
Entering Galway Barbee in -a stiff
gale from Rianotatki with 2,000 tone
of 'timber, the steamer Nordlystet
ran aahoee at Mutton Island and
became, wedged in the rocks,
.A memorial is to be erected in
the town of Ballinamore to • the me-
mory of the late Or. Mulcahy, who
for upwards of forty-two years
worked among the people or thee
district.
The Board if Public Works have
refused a loan of $16,000 to the
Mayo Asylum Committee far the
punpose of installing electric light
in the Castleton District Lunatie
AsTylitlm'
eiAnchor Line New York
steamers have now resumed callings
at Moville and their homeward
steamers also stop at this port,
where Irish. end English passengers '
can now embatdc ;and land.
A government expert has visited •
the scene of the old eilver and lert•d
mines at Cormanuchia, near Bally -
hay, where antimony is found in ,
large quantities. It is expected that
the mines will be reopened hi the -
near Mare.
A tremendous explosion followed ;
by fire which caused damage estim-
ated at $130,000, occurred in the
store .of D. Malcolinson ta, Sons,
Market street, Lurgon, and spread :
to the adjoining premises. Three
persons were eemously injured.
An order lam been issued -by Gen-
eral Hill, commanding the Dublin
district, authorizing the Dublin !
Metropolitan Police to seize and
take possession of all military arms
and ammunition landed at the port
of Dublin. .
•
German Factories Waiting,
SGME) Indications of the luau:aria'
eau -eta -ea in Germany were given at a
melding of the General industrai
Auseetatten head in Munich recently,
The general fulling of the meeting
appeared to be that small inaCuraolur.
ors and teatime were being overlooked
-
in the general effert to revive econo-
nec aotivity. In his opening renealts
the chaienan observed that great dis-
true peevalled among Weakens in rao.
torles not engaged in euppiying the
needs. of the army rind navy and he re.
gretted that officials amd the ween-
ier memberre of the communety were
reducing their purchase to the mita-
mum, as well as refrainting from put-
ting work in hand.
German Bomb Thrower Captured
be Lieut. von Hidelin. He will be
remembered as the adielacione avia-
tor Who last September flew over
Paris, dropping bombs whith caused
the death of several non-combat-
ants, and added to this a note invit-
ing Parisians to surrender "to the
vietorioare German armies then
marching en Paris," It is not
stated whether th.c lieutemiat land-
ed safely or WaS
PS IN SAME PLACE
DRUPES CONSUMPTION
Right ta where the avirig germ of
Catareb is working wnl the healing
'ettnIE1,5 of Catea•rhosone go fa ten sec-
onds, •
No liquid madecine can penetrate to
the deep Teoesses that Cathaerheatent
teethes with its soothing vaartr-thatai
just why it proves so wonderfully ef-
fective.
• Tim heattlela•den vapor of Catawba,
?one mires the wart of cantata and,
haftrecoess. The uttermost parts or
the bronchial tubes are leached. Bron-
chitis is mined -every *oaten the heed,
throat aad nose de treated by Oatriaali-
OZ011eele weaderfeti aurae,
You can't beat Clataxthezone fiar
huskiness, weak throat, sore nostails,
eatametal earl bronchial trouble of melt
land. Get ilho complete $1.00 outfit.
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dealees everywhere,