HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-04-29, Page 3NAVAL ACTIVITY INCREASE
Traffic Temporarily Suspended While the British
Submarines Approach German Coast
A despatch from London says :
Indleatoits of increased naval ac-
tivity eonle,s Irani va,riou sources.
All steamboat Commueication with
Holland has been suspended by
or,cler of the British Government,
,;.vrick taken in conn,eretion with the
new, from Berlin that British sub-
ma.rines have been in the Bight Of
HeligOland, wfiere the German Ad,
miralty lays dann to having sunk
one ,and perhaps More, 'WAS is, be-
lieved to foreshadow some Move-
ment in' the North Sea,. ,
The [stoppage of traffic to Hol-
land was announced in an official
statement given out in Ameterdain
in Wehalf of the British Govern-
ment, which said:
"A14, Shipping between Holland
arnd the. United Kingdom is strop-
ped kir the time being. No ships
will leave the United Kingdom for
Holland further.- notiee, and
old/is from Holland will not be ad-
mitted .to the United Kingdom.
It is hoped shortly to resume limit-
ed cargo and paiseenger traffie.
Special arrangements have been
ma.cle for the transfer *mails."
The reports of the intention of
Great Britain to Stop traffic with
Holland influeneed -the Tates at
Lloyds alIC1 checked the tendency
rednee insurance rates. Nobody
in tho Inkarket seemed to be aware
of the cause of the stoppage.
Merchant and fishing vesserls,ar-
riving at 0openhaen report the
Prelien•Ce of an Anglo-Feench squa-
dron off &wangler, . Norway, and
stories ale.) are ourrent in ethe
Danish capital of a Gorman fleet
cruising in the North - Sea. ,
The trawler Foschia reached
Ab.ordeon to -day with the cle-w of
the trawler Envoy and reported
that the Envoy bad been shelled by
it German ,subma,rine last night off
Lha east coast. The alien onth•e
Envoy left their ship in a small
bat, •which, they Say, also was
shelled by the submarine. No oae
was injured. The Envoy's erew
drifted about in the small boat
for two hours before being picked
`According to Berlin evening
newepap.ers," says 'Renter's Am-
eteetions .coeresponclent, "a Ge.rsitan
submarine • stopped the Britislj.
steam triewle.r Glaatearse off Aber-
deen and took it into a German
port on the North • Sea." Aber-
deen is some 460 sniles a:eroes the
North Seasfroun the nearest point
on tile German coastline,
GERMAN AVIATORS
MAY BE EXECUTED
neei it Will Institute Reprisals
Against 1110Se Who Hill
Civilians.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
Ruesia is to institute reprisals in
8onle forni against the Germans for
the bomb -dropping upon undefend-
ed towns of Poland. Announee-
men to this effeof was made at the
General headquarters, which de:
nouneed the Gcerman aviators so
engaged as "apaehes." It is hint-
ed that all such men, who may be
captured will be tried by otturt-
martial, and if it is shown that they
wantonly brought death to inoffen-
sive civilians they will be executed.
There is special interest in the
etatement because a Taube was
brought down near Sambroff yes-
terday and the , two men aboard
made prisoners. They may be the
first to be brought to trial,
In a statement the general seaff
says:
•
"Though the 'German air raids
are becoming more frequent, they
cause practically no damage except
when the bombs fall among a dense
population. Our aviators confine
---,etheniselves to bombardment el
works.''
TRE WHEAT SUPPLY.
Quantity ' Itemaining in Rands of
Farmers Smaller this Year.
A press bulletin issued by the Cen-
sus and Statistics Office, gives the
re,eults of the usual annual inquiry
es to the sbooke of ,grake and other
• ereps remaining, in the hands of
farmers on Mar& 31ist, and the
proportion of the crops harvested
in the previous year which turned
out to be of merchantable quality.
The returns received from crop -
reporting eorrespondents show that
of the total estimated yield of
wheat in 1914, 123i per, cent., or
20,247,000 busihe4, remained in
. farmers' hande at theend of March,
At the rate of 1Xbushele per acre
this quantity -should allovi of the
sowing this spring of about. 11,-
570,000 acres, or 1,522,000 acres
more than were son in the sprin,g
of 1914, independently of quanti-
ie:s of Wheat stored in elev,ators
which may be returned to farmers
for seeding' purposes. The quantity
of wheat remaining this year in
the hands of farmers isehowever,
smaller then in any previous year
on :menu.), the light crop and the
high price being together re,eponsi-
b'le for this result. In 1914 the
quantity of wheat e.etimated to be
in farmers' hands at March 31,st
was 38,353,000 buelhels, or 16X per
cent -of the large harvest of 1913;
in 1911 at March 3est, the propor-
tion was 22 pier cent. or 50,234,000
bushels, and at March 3Ist, 1912, it
was 27 per cone. or 62,188,000 bush-
els.
Of the ref:mini/1g grain crops the
peoportitens of the previous year's
productioe e•seimated to be in
attaraers' hands, On March 314,t are
also smolder then in any former
year on record. Oats chow a bail-
anee of 85,843,000 bushels,, ox .27
Per eent., barley 7,430,400 bushels,
or 203 per cent., rye 343,700 bush-
ele, or 17 per cent., beckwheat
1,792,500 bushels, or 21 per cent.,
corn for he:eking 2,928,000 bushels,
or 21 per cent., and flax -seed 740,-
700 bus.heths, or 10 per cent. Of
potatoes, which gave the •excellent
yield last year ef 85,672,000 bush-
els, 37.7 per cent., or 32,310,000
bushels were in farmers' -hands on
March 31st, this proportien being
larger than in any of the last five
years, excepting 1913, when 43 per
cent., or 36,619,000 bushels re -
over lest:i the harvest of
1912. Of turnips and other roots
10,267,000 bushelor 15 per cent.
reanainecl over, and of hay and
clover the quantity in farmers'
hands is placed at 2,173,000 tons or
21 per cent. of the total erop of
10,259,000 tons.
Out of the total wheat crop of
161,280,000 bushels, all but 6,4 per
cent., or 150,793,000 bushels proved
to be of merchantable quality.
This percentage, adthough below
the exceptional record of 1914, when
the proportion of noneverehantable
wa,s lesis than 3 -per cent., is about
equal to the average of the last six
years, during which the lowest pro-
portion of -merdhantable grain was
in 1910-11 ,after the poi ''
of 1910, when 12.8 per,'
estimated to be of noni
able quality. The prop.o
other crops in 1914 wide.% peeved to
be of merchantable quality are as
follows: Oats, 91 per *ea. (285,-
988,000 bushels), barley, 88 per
cent. (32,022,000 bushels), rye, 90
per cent, (1,815,000 bushels), buck-
wheat, 84 per cent. (7,279,000 bush-
els), corn for husking, 80 per cent.
(11,100,000 bushels), flax-eeed, 88
per eent. (6,370,200 bushels), pota-
toes, 86 per cent. (74,165,000'bush-
els), turnips, ete., 87 per cent.
(60,218,000 bushels), and hay and
clever, 88 per cent. (9,094,000
Correspondents througihout Can-
ada report that the past winter
has beem exceptionally mild. In
most of the provinces live stoclr
have in consequence come well
through and are in good condition.
In some parts, notably in Saskat-
chewane Oho light crops of last year
rendere feeding difficult, and ani-
mals at the dose of the wmter were
thin. Tn these eases, however, mat-
ters mould have been anuch worse
had the Winter been of normal ee-
verity. An early spring was an-
ticipated, and the prospects for the
coming season were hopeful. Far-
naere were preparing ler a big in-
crease in 'the a•oreage to be seeded,
their efforts being facilitated by the
large amount of fall plonghing com-
pleted lase year.
In Dire 'Need of Food.
A despatch from „London says:
Seven' million Poke, of whom two
millions are Jews, are in dire need
of food. This s.tatement was made
by Herrn:woe Laandano a prominent
Jewish philanthropist _associated
with v,arious , Jewish cbaritiee an,
London. .
'`Of these .sufferers 5,500,000 'are
east of the Vistula River and 1,-
500,000 west. of .the river," Mr.
Launclan said, "The, Jews are
even, poOrer than the Gentiles, be -
cease of the boycott against the
Jews in ,parte of Poland before the
beginning- of the war, which im-
poverieheti alheusands who other-
wise would haae been able to pro-
vide for their fa,milies."
Superstition is what prompts a
person to believe a horeeeltoe over
the deer has More virtua than a
lo.ck 'and key.-
GEN. IAN HAMILTON COMMANDS
Noted British Officer Referred to as "My Chief" in
lessage Profit Gen. d'Ainacle
, L'•
-despatch from London says: A,
letter to the Times describ; ' '
the big earop of the allies' ex-
' 10-die:lona:Ty force for the Dania-
snelles, new at Alexandatia, reveals
VAcoideilt007- thie tact that Gen. Sir
Ian Hamilton ±0 the cem-mander-in-
eltief of that expedition. During a
review of the forces, the letter
says, gend'Arnade, commander of
the French Sectioe, refereed to
Gen, Ileanilto,n as 'My chief." ,
Started
Out For England
clespateh from Dendon says
.'red T. Jane, a well-known naval
e?fport, addres-eing a meeting at
Liverpool; oak] that it was not gen-
erally known that the Germans
tried to land an expeditionary
forcein England- and thatit was the
liettiali navy, that •matie •thean •go
bade, to these harbor again, The
nayse.savecl the eountey and there
w•es rieyer a word of it in the news-
papers, „ •
Aviator Billed, While Performing for "Movies."
Zia photograph was made on March 16 at Utiversal City, Calsas
Aviator Stites 'was doing a eeries of aerial thrillers for the moving
pfeture photographers. The "4.unt" was euddealy terminated when
something went wrong with the xnarehine and Stites wee dashed 500 feet
to his death. 'The picture shows the machine just as it started tilting
on its fatal plunge to. earth.. An instant before the dunineY aeroPiarse
below Stites had been blown up aa part of the "stunt." One- theoxy
is that, the explosion shown in the picture caused Stites' machine to
capsize. -
PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS
REPORTS FROM THE LEAOINC TRADE
CENTRES OF ASIEFIIGA,
Breadstuff&
Toronto, April 27.-2l0ur-0fttnitoba first
Detente quoted at 48.10, in jute ham see-
nd patents, 47.60; strong bakers', 47.40.
Ontario wheat flour, 90 per centpatents,
qUoted at 46,15 to 46.25, seaboard, and at
86.25 to $6.30, Toronto freight.
Wheat -Manitoba No, 1 Northern quoted
ot $1.65; No. 2 tit 41.64; and No. 3 at
81.61 14. Ontario wheat, is Jinn at 81.60
to $1.55 for No. 2, a.t outeido Pointe.
Cats--Ontarlo quoted at 60 to 61e, out-
side, and at 63 to 64e, Toronto, Western
Canada, No. 2, quoted at 706, and No. 3
at 68c, e.i.f., Bay ports.
Barley -Good malting puttee, 75 to 780,
outside.
Rye -The market is dull at 41.05 to
$1.10, outside.
Peas -No. 2 quoted Si $1,75, outside.
Corn -No. 2 new American quoted at
83c., oil., Bay ports, and. No. 3 at 82e,
Bay sorts.
Buckwheat -No 2 quoted at 80 to 132e,
outside.
Bran and ehorte-Bran IS quoted at $27
et ton, and ehortseat $29 to $30,
Rolled oat -Car lote, per bag 00 90 lbe,
Provisions.
Cured meats are quoted as follows
: -
Bacon, long elem., 13 3-4 to 3.4e Per lb. in
case lots, name -Medium, 17 to 17 1-2e;
do., heavy, 14 IA to 16e; Tolle, 14 to 14 1-20;
breakfast bacon, 18 to 19c; ,backe, 20 to
21e; boneless ,back, 23e.
Lard -The market is quiet, -with prices
Moody; puro lard, tube, 113-4 to 126; do
Palls, 12 to 10 1-2e. OomPound, tubs, 9 3:4
to 10e; do., pail, 10 to 10 1-4o,
Country Produce.
Butter-4E11e market le quiet, -with prieee
general's, unchanged. Good grades want-
ed. Choice dairy, 27 to 200; Inferior, 21
to 23o; creamers, prints, 36 to 36c; do.,
solids, 32 to 33c,
Eggs -The market is firmer, with sales
at 21 to 2.2o per dozen, In case iota.
Beans -The market eteady at $3.40
to $3.45 for prime, and $3.45 to 43.50 for
bond-Piched.
Business In Montreal.
Montreal, April 27.-Corn-Amer5can No
2 yellow, 82 1-2 to 83c. Cate-Canadial
es ein, ISo, 3, 69 1-20; extra No. 1 feed
69 1-20; No. 5 local white, 67 1-2e; Na 3 lo
cal white, 661.06; No. 4 local white, 65 1-5.0
Barles,-Manitoba, feed, 800; malting, 8
to 88c. Fieur--Manitoba Spring 'wheat pat
ante, fireits, $8.20; seconds, 47.70; strong
bakers' 4750; W' t t
47.80; straight, rollerti, $7.30 to $7.40; do.,
bags, $3.45 to $3.55. Rolled eate-lible.,
4.75 to 47; do., bags, 90 lbs,, $3.25 to $3.35.
Bran, 426. Shorts, 828. Middlings, $33 to
430. Routine, $35 to 438, Ifay-No. 2, per
ton, car lots, 418 to 419.60. Cheese -,Finest
weeterns, 17 1-2 to 17 3-40; finest eastern,
17 to 17 1-4e. Butter -Choicest creamery,
35 1-2 to 360; aeconde, 34 to 340-06, Ilgge
-Fresh, 22 to 200; selected, 200; No. 2 stock,
21.o. Potatoee-Per bag, car lots, 47 1-2 to
60e. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, $13 to
$13.50; country, 410,50 to 411.75, Pork -
Heavy Canada short mees, bhis., 35 to 45
pieces, $28; Canada ehorteut back, bhls.,
45* to 65 pieces, $27.50. Lard -Compound,
tierces, 375 lbs, 1-2e„; wood pails, 20 the.
net, 10o; pure, tiercee,,375 lbe, 114-2; pure,
wood pail, 20 lbs. net, 12e.
PEREMYSL NOT
S110111 OF FOOD
Capitulation 01111 Simply to A us
trian sore Conviction That
Resistance Was Useless.
A (1.espatell from Petrograd says:
Gen. Selliwoneff, the victor of the
siege of Pe,reanysl, who has return-
ed to Petrograd, has paid a tribute
to the apoetisma,nlake -conduct of the
Austrian garrieon. "1 eonsider it
desirable to point out," said Gen.
Seliwanoff, "that while the discus-
sione of the surrender, of the garri-
son were- in progreee no stores were
set on fire and no ammo/Mon was
blown up. Snob explosions as oc-
curred were the result of fire$
lighted •before the discussions be-
gan. •
"It is incorrect to say that Per-
m-13*g wee forced to ,surrender ow-
ing to starvation, as stoces suffi-
cient for two we,eks Were found
there. The surrender was clue sim-
ply to the Austrian staff' s convie-
tion that farther resistance and
satrifice were ueeless. The men of
the garrison suffered most severely
from rheumatism, which incapaci-
tated thousands of them." •
TIED STRAW TO ANIMALS.
•
Lighted the Strew and Sent Them
Into Russian Cdtill/B.
The Morning Pest pnblishee in
the notes of a Humganan wentan
just returned to England from
• Germany and Austria-Hungary, a
, stay of ,he revenge of a Houved
- remanent because the Ruesia,ne had
e disturbed the Honveds' Christmas
-
celebration The story was relat-
ed by the colonel of the regiment,
as f 11 •
"We weee happyand singing,
waiting for midnight, when the
Russians, ait 11.30 o'elock, deliver-
ed a furious\ attack on the village
we held. We suffered terrible loss-
es that Christmas night.
"When the Russian Christmas
came, and the village was held by
them, some of our men, with the
idea of revenge, caught hundreds
of, eats, dogs and goats and a few
wild bulls:- They tied bunches of
straw on the backs of the eats and
dogs and between the horns' of th.e
goats and bull, soaking.the straw
in petroleum. They lit it and drove
the aairrials, roaring and howling,
into the village, where the Russians
were peueefully singing Christmas
chants, At the same time ehey fired
volleyinto the villages, and the
living torches, rushing about on
the dark streets, together with
noises impoesible to describe, made
the superstitious soldiers almost
lose their heade." •
Winnipeg Wheat.,
Winnipeg,, April 27. -Wheat --No, 1 North-
ern, 41.58 35, No, 2 Northern, $1.57; No. 3
Northern, $1.54 3-4l No. 4, $1.50; No. 6,
41.46 1-2; No. 6, 41.42 1-2. Cate -No, 2 C.
W„ 66e; No, 3 0.36r„ 62c; extra No. 1 feed,
61 3-4c; No, 1. feed, 60 7-81; No 2 feed,
593-06, Flax -No. 1 N.W.C, 41.79; No. 2
United States Markets.
Mintneapolis, April 27.-W2,eat-No. 1
hard, $1,61 3-4; No. 1 Northern, 41.57 1-4 to
41.61 1-21; No. 2 Northern, $1.52 3-4 to
41.5914; May, $1.65 1-4. Corn -No, 3 yel-
low, 731-4 to 73 3-4e. Cette-No. 3 white,
64 3.4 to 65 1.4c, Flour and /man •'un-
changed,
Duluth, April 27. -Wheat -No. 1 hard:
81.61 5-8; No 1 Northern, 41.60 3-8; May,
41.693-8. Lineeed, $1.98 1.4; May, $1.98 3.4.
Now York, Awn 27. -Flour firm ItYe
Sons 'steady. efey steads,. Hope quiet.
Hides steady. Leather firm.
Live Stock Markets.,
Toronto, Aprli 27.-Butthers' cattle,
choice, $7.35 to $7.60; do, good 45.90 to
$7.15; do„ medium, $6,50 to $6,75; do. con).
mon, 46ull
.50 to 46.76; butchers' ,bs, c'hoice,
$6 to 26.80; de.„ good 1)101,3, 4625 to $6.30;
do., rough thine, 44.60 to 46.75; 'Mitcham'
rms. choice, 45.55 to '46.76,; do., medium,
5.56 to $5,40i do., 00531111.011, 84.00 to $6.75:
feeders, fgood,- $6.40 tb 17.25; do., rough
bona, $5 to $5.50; .stoelters, 700 to 1,000 lbs.,
A6 to 56.85; cannere and cutters, $3,75 to
$060; milkere, choice, each, 460 to $85; do.,
edininoil and medium, each, 435 to 446;
springer& $60 to $75; light owes, 46.60 to
$7.50; do., heavy, 86 to 46,30; do., buCks,
8360 to. 4460; lambs, - 96-6* $10; ea4lves,
$5.60 to 410; hogs, fed and watered, $8,65;
'do., off cars, 49 to $9.15.
Montroal,,April 27, --The .s71pply of cattle
ivas small; for which the demand ,was
fair, and sales of choice steers were made
at $7,75 to ' $81. good ot $7.25 'to $7.50, and
Ole. lower grades ,trom 45 to 46.50, while
butchers' cOws brought 'from , 44.50 to
$6,50, and bulls from $5 to $7 per owt. The
feature of the emall. meat trade wits the
activity in cabree, there being a good do-
i;1and ,61.1.1,hb oife'ringe at prices ramp
li
g' from. 42,ho, $9 .etich as to 5100 and
quallPy.few small iote of yearling,
lamhe sold at, 48.20 to 49.25; and ewo sheep.
at $6,75 td 46 ear owt. Spring lambs
br,ought 42.50 to $8,50 each, as to eke.
The tone of the market for hoge was lirm
under a. fair d,emand and ErmN11 offerings,
and sales of selected lots were made at
49,60,to $9 t
,60' per ew, weiulicti off oars,
and one or 'two iteanases ae high II0
89.75 was paid for small lote.
Wasted Time.
illiietrees---"In the time it. takes
me to. 'tell on how to do the work'
I :could do rt. myself
Houserfleid--"Yesen, And in bh.e
time it takes Me to listen to yote so
could
•
Admiralty May Close
Ports Without Notice
A despatch from Washington
says: Con,sul-Gen,e,ral Skinner, at
London, cables that the British Ad-
miralty had given netice that cer-
tain ports of Great Britain may
be closed to shipping without no-
tice. "Closing will be indicated,"
the messege said, by three verti-
cal red lights ate night and three
red balls by clay. When these sig-
nals are displayed vessels must
proceed to examination anchorage
or keep to sea."
Bubonic Plague in 'turkey.
A despatch front Itome eays: Re-
ports have reached here from Gan-
st,entinople that bhe bubonic plague
is raging\ in Tarkey and bhat the
victims oe the disease are very nu-
meroue. The centagion is speee,d_
ing in an alarini,n,g manner owing
to the neglect of sanitary precau-
tione. Several eases have occurred
01 Salenika,
Austrian Air Seoutt. ,
A de.spateli from Rome eays
Word has been reeeived been An-
cona that an Anstrian steroplatie
was seen scoutiing, the Italian
eoast, along the Adriatic Sea. The
aeroplane was equipped with
stroog •seaechelights. The authori-
ties ere attemptieg to identify the
aeroplanes
FROM ERIN'S GREEN
NEWS
Ifs21,1111•'S sir aenitl s.
!SEE WAS.... A. .-GERMAN ::SCHEM
IRE.,
11a pi}eit in gs In tilt.: Elnei'ajd Isle
of Iiilercet to 'Irish -
leen.
An extremely large Teem ting
meeting was held in Dundalk 'when
fi17.. Ieel.eect,Ltilue.e. was
given by
Lien'''.
l
The von,. Arehdeaeoi, Madden
has ,be en no ifiecl that hi,s son,
Lieut. 11 T, Madden, has beenkill-
ed in action at Clivehrha-`
The earpealters employed by the
three -principal contracting firms ifl
011lagll'9utVe StrILC:k wosk, dameact=
-ing an increase in wages.
A young man named Jas. Hough,
.clerk in the 'Waterford post of-
fice, ha's been arrested charged
with tearing down recruiting post-
ers.
Captain William Morgan Hunt,
a eephew of Mrs. Hunt,
Askeaton 100.1 Limeeick, has been
severely emended' in the Persian
The War Office haye. placed- cell -
newts in Dublin for a considerable
quantity of saddlery items so that
locaPe3nployeaent may be brisk.
The death is announced of Mr.
S tan islaus John Lyn eh, Senior
Len.d Commissioner, at his home,
Elgin road, Dublin, after a short
illness.
At the annual meeting of the
Irish Medical School, the Arnott
Memorial Medal was awarded to
Lieutenant T. J. Kelly, R.A.M.O.,
of_ Killarney.
Enthusiastic scenes were witnees-
ed at Omagh Railway Station when
eleven .postmen and post office of-
fieiialse. left to join the Post Office
Rne
An East Clark Crimean veteran
has just passed away in the person
of Jeremiah O'Shea, whose death
occurred in Midleton at the age of
79 years.
A large number .of men all over
the county have been charged un-
der the Defence of the Realm Acte
and charged with inberfering with
reeruiting.
'The death took place at Paddens-
town, about five miles from Malin-
ger, of James Mulvaney, who had
celebrated itis 100th •birthday last
month.
Is.
4
Expenses of Delegates to be Paid if They Will Pass
ResOlutions Without Discussion
A deep:deli from Paris ,says :11
14 ehargacl 400:0 by Madame Duero
Tmet.zp, peeeident of the Fren-eh
Woman's 'National League, that,
the Wine:el-Cs, Pe,a•ce Contereace to
te held et, The Hague is nothing
more nor lees than -a Geentan Pro-
paganda. manestiveing ander the
eolore of international interven-
tiers And, this 'Wad:tune Tmetzu
holds to be time, pealy bemuse the
Women'1 National League has
been -Offered all expens,es fe:r their
cleliegate:s to the conference if they
consent to the prepared resolutions
without discuesian,
Consequently all French feminist
Groups have unanimously refused
to participate in the eonerees at.
which Mies Jane Addams -le to pre-
side. 1-6 is their intention, how-
evee, isa u•ntite in sending a strong
prol.eq against the reaoliution, fav-
oring peace, which it is peoposed
tc Pass, as coming fromthe women
uf the world.
"It is impossible," she says, "to
id'eal, the question) of peace in any
fashion tehtsbeiner while onr ,pro-
vinces are still invaded by the
enemy, We- un,clerstand talmt 25 Or
30 erersnan, women will-ehe preeett
at the conieeence.' Under sueb. ,air -
our presence there
welled be an ineult to every French
\vomaa who mourns her itueband
or son. It dis only, too evident ehat
tate congress is a German proem-
Igg,ThdP masquerading under do, ,
guise of international in ter v entio n',
foe our :total expenses have been
offered if we will atte•nd and ac-
quiesce in the prepared reaolittioes
without ,cliseussion.''
Poultry Alphabet.
A utility bird is rarely :worth doc-
toring, the axe being an excellent
surgioal instrument to apply to
-sick fowls. .
Balanced rations • supply maxi-
mum of no o rishmen t with minimum
of waste.-
iOull :closely; for it doee not pay
to .boarel
Do not attempt tee much to ac-
complish thoroughly,
Every 'inseet left te mature will
deerea-se the profits of the flock. .
F -i -L -t -h 'spells failure.
Good stock is the beet foundation
but it must be handled with com-
mon 6013.80.
Hens are not magicia-ns; so can --
net manufacture eggs unless given
the proper materials.
Indolence and poultry -'breeding
make a combination 'which would
bankrupt a wealthy -financier.
Just a little observatioa will
prove that the, I -know-it-alls never
make successful p-oultrymen.
Kindness shown to fowls pays in
increased egg -supply.
Lice multiply rapidly in uncleanly
surroundings.
May Chieks pushed -to maturity,
rneke fall layers to fill in the time
when . hatched birds are
resting.
No mixed flock cal) give the satis-
faction of a, single breed. '
Ono'o favorite breed is usually
the best with which •to win success.
Pullets should -be separated from
eoekerels as soon as sex can be dis-
tinguished.
Quickly kin the ehicks which are
dwarfed or crippled when hatched.
Rush young birds towards matnr-
ity if you •wish large profits.
Select bresetiers early and dispose.
of all other male birds.
Try to waste no feed, either by
over -feeding, careless methods, or
one-sided diet.
Unles-s you give your flock regu-
lar' care, they do not pay to keep...
Very few pciultrymen know so
miuth that they can learn nothing
from the experience .of others.
Nothing Rusty.
Much regret has been oceasione
in Athlone at the "death of Sewn
Lieutenant P. 13. Bohan, King
Own Light Infann7, -who was kil
ed in action at Neuve Chapelle.
The farmers of 'South Wexfor
are this season making an exten
sive use of seaweed as e substitut
for artificial manures, which hay
considerably advanced in price a
a result.
The three -masted steamer Upon
of Newry, which "WaS hound from
Ayr to Waarenpoint, capsized whe
off the County Down coast, an
only two of the crew of eight wer
8a..A.Vetdmeeting of the sootal Dublin
Union it resolution was under (lis
mission asking the Treasury to,con
eider the advisability of increasing
the payments to old age pensioners
by fifteen per cent.
Exciting scenes were witnessed
at a fire at Brand Is Ce. Belfast,
where upwards of 150 girls were at
the time. The workshops were gut-
ted, hut fortunately all hands were
ii•ble to reach safety.
Information hits been received of
the death of AlSred James Hunter,
3r4 Battalion, King's Royal Rifles,
wiho has •been killed in action. Re
wits the youagest son of the late
Mr. John Hunter, Omagh.
Many recruiting eppeals are to.be
seen now in Dublin on the street
cars, and the Dublin jarviee are
also displaying large posters in
their ears, and the general post of-
fice is covered lhoth inside and out.
By the sinking et the auxiliary
ceuiser Bayano, the Boy' Brigade
in Dublin have lost one of its
yo.ungest and-snost promising
ok-
15se's in the person of Harold
Wharton, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wharton, Dolphin's Barr. •
Three hundred and eighty-four
invalid soldiers have arrived by the
Red Cross ship Valdiver, in Dub-
lin, a euinher of tvhoin came dieect
frbin the trendies. They .were re-
moved to the 15 city hospitals in a
little' over five hauls),
The Local Government Board has
intimated to the Coleraine Rural
Council that they have received a
petition .from the electors of Ports -
tenant requesting that the town be
constituted an urban district. A
local inquiry will he made.
Two shooting outrages Werc per-
petrated in the police district of
Turlouglanmee, County Galway,
when a lodge occupied by John
Doyle, and the dwelling house of a
farmer named Coen, DA Carreto
teeny were fired into, bet none of
the inhabiter/ ts ,were 'inj u red.
Count:' felk in elk reighborhood
of Sawefield, Ulster, have ibeeil
alaemed recently by a series of
loud explosions •at night), and wild
remora hav,ebeen elloat that a
Zeppelin raid was in progress. The
police have discovered thai, prac-
tical jokers are at sv,ork,
Orphans of France.
A despatch from Paris says: It
beem decided by the Cabinet
that childrea made orphane lq the
death ia the wee •of their lathers
should be cared lox by the State.
The Ciablailet .cone4depe4 thta gpeit-
ter at Illength and determined au
principle that them orphans .A.„,„id
be made public wards, eo be main-
tained autl educated atemaling Lop
plan to be decided upon fatet, a
commission representing the ftli-
eral Ministries concerned, will be
AP:Pointed to study thie co:media-04,4,
qaesti on and • examine bills al..
ready introdeoed in Parliament.
"I hope, Flora, that you have se-
riously considered the matter,"
said a 'Scottish lady eo her servant
girl, who had "given notice" be-
cause ,she as to be married "that
day two weeks."
"Oli, indeed 1 :have, ma'am," was
the reply. "I've been to ,two •for-
tune-tellers, en' eleirvevant, an'
looked in -a sign -book, an' dreamed
on a lock o' his fiair, an' I called
on ane o' the aeterrologers, an'
they a' tell me to go ahead, ma'am.
I'm no' a person to marry reckless
like, ye ken."
DRIVE ENEIIY
FROM THE RILLS
Important French and Beilish Suc-
cesses in the Campaign in Ger-
man Equatorial Africa.
A despatc,h from Pelee says: Th‘e
French War D,epartaneet has an-
nounced that tbe allied forces had
gained it vi -tory in the operations
against the Germans in the Came -
ropes, a Gelman colony of Western
Eqe.a.toxial Africa. The text of
,
.seateineau sonows:
"After heavy fighting of the la.st
few nionths the Gerniart troope in
the Cameroorts h -ave been forced to
retreat from the high plateans situ-
ated in the . centre of the col.ony.
The eeat of Government has been
transferred to Janette: The move-
ment of the adlied forees in this di-
rection continues:.
"French native troops from Can- •
tral Afrietthave attained in the eaat
the line Lornie-D•unie. Towardw the
west troops commanded by Col.
Mayer, fellowing the railway line,
have s.uceeeded in forcing a passage
eeress the Kele River. British ,
tro-ops marching in a northerly.
direction and following the Edes.-
Jasinde road hasa taken possession
of the Ngwae bridge.
She Knew Them. .
A celebrated violinist has a great;
er _readiness -of wit thaii he is us-, •
\tally credited with. Be had played
one afternoon at a receptioe at a, -
fashionable house • in Ion don, and t,
afterwards he stood, rather ill at
ease, in. a eorner, silecs11
ounggrtii, clennircly apploach-
jin,said
'Pardon me, .sie, but your hands
kerohief ±0 hanging out Ur your
Pclekehba'n"
'`Tk you," said th e vie] i st.
"Thank you fo-r the wareieg. Von
probably know the eompany better
than 1 do."
While Rome Durned.
The old gentleman beamed \non
Use boy who stood on the
crest ef the hill one night at twi-
light, a happe contented Vrnile on
his
13
4ia,sn
"Ivery pleased to see you
watching the beautiful red glow of
the setting gun, my little inae,'' be
said, patting ,the youngster's back.
"Do you watch it every night i"
The little lad ehuckled.
"Oh, no, sir," he .said gleefully.
"That's not the sun settings That's
our school burning down.'
Refuses to Vote
Military Credits
A Parris despatch to the Central
News says that the opening session
of the Hungarian) Chamber was a
gloomy sitting. The Chamblee re-
fusedto vote the new military ore-
dits demanded by the generalestaff.
The attempt of Count Tisza, the
Premier, to break clown the oppe-
eition was futile.
The Morning Poet's Berne cor-
respondent gives a different version
of the opening of the Chainb.er
from that of the C.eitteal News. He
says that Count Tisza in a long pre-
liminary oo.nferen•ce with the •lead-
en of the. Opposition, Counts Ap-
ponyi, Andeassy, Miiehy and Kite-
olyi, tried to obtain their promise
not to oppose the new hilts to be
eubmitt-ed to the Cha.mbee, but that
it is believed he failed to eeeuye
their promfse,
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