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ONE KILLED AND
FOUR WOUNDED
A despatch from Amherst, N.S.,
saye: During an outbreak at the
alien enemy internment camp near
Amherst, one of the. prisoners, Fritz
Clause, German, was shot dead,
,and feur others, also ,said to be Ger-
"Mans, Were seriously wounded. A
rumor was abroad during the day
that the shooting occurred when a
squad of German prisoners attempted
to escape. The following version
itt 1
FRENCH UNEMPLOYED
ABOUT 10 PER CENT.
A despatch from Paris says: The
Ministry of Labor has completed an
enquiry into the effects of the war
Upon employment. In 27,610 indus-
trial and commercial concerns, with
1,097,000 employes in ordinary times,
ie was found that 65 per cent. were
fully employed in the month of April.
The. remaining 36 per cent, does not
represent the actual unemployment
because 24 per cent:of the total num-
ber prior to the war is now with the
colors; so that actually only 11 per
cent., including both v sexes, were un-
employed during April, as compared
with 17, per cent. in January, 32 per
cent. in October and 42 per cent. in
August.
These figures, together with statis-
tics issued by other Ministries, indi-
Cate continuous improvement in the
Industrial and commercial situation
ese in France since the opening of the
War.
.1.
TO DETECT PRESENCE OF
UNDERWATER CRAFT
A despatch from London says: The
question of whether there exists any
scientific method of detecting the pre-
sence of a submerged submarine,
which was raised during the Lusitania
enquiry, is now engaging the atten-
tion of the Admiralty. Certain valu-
able suggestions have been made by 'a
prominent Canadian to Mr. Donald
MacMaster, K.C., who representd the
Dominion Government at the enquiry,
and Mr. MacMaster has submitted
these to the Admiralty and to Lord
Mersey, and the latter has promised
to give every encouragement to any
experiments in the direction of set-
tling the question.
BRITAIN TO REGISTER THE
NATIONAL RESOURCES.
A despatch from London says:
Now that the agitation for munitions
Is at its height, England is going to
take a stock of her resources. A bill
providing for "the register of nation-
al resources" is to be introduced in
the House Of Commons by Walter
Bum° Long, president of the Local
Government Board, according to an-
nouncement made by William Hayes
Fisher Unionist member for Fulham.
just what will be the scope of the in-
ventory, and whether it will include
men as well as supplies, has not been
made known.
NORWAY IS WORRIED
BY PIRATE WARFARE
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A despatch from London says: The
hope that Germany will take steps to
safeguard neutral shipping from sub-
marine attacks was expressed by the
Norwegian Foreign Minister, M.
Dien, at the opening of the &pith-
ing, says a Reuter despatch from
Christiania. Discussing the torpedo-
ing of the Norwegian steamships
Belridge and Sveinjarl, Ihlen declared:
"Whatever differences of opinion may
exist regarding rights under interna-
tional law, it is my hope that the
German Government, having learned
through experience how easily mis-
takes are made, will give commanders
of German warships such instructions
as will make neutral shipping safe."
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GERMAN SPY IS SHOT
IN TOWER OF LONDON
A despatch from London says: F.
Robert Muller, who on June 4 was
found guilty at the Old Bailey Police
Court of being a German spy, was
executed in 'the Tower of London on
Wednesday by shooting.
Another alleged German spy, Rob-
ert "'Rosenthal, *ho is said by, the
police to have confessed that he was
Lent to England by the German Ad-
lmiralty to obtain information,on na-
:t•al matters, is to be court-martialed.
BIG RUSSIAN CROP.
An Increase of Forty Per dent. Over
. Last Year.
A despatch from Ottawa says: A
Cable from the International Institute
of Agriculture gives the 1915 forecast
Of the winter wheat crop for Euro -
Man Russia at 301,000,000 bushels;
'inter rye, 941,000,000 bushels, being
for wheat an increase of 40 per cent.
tad for rye nearly 20 per cent., as
mpared with the production of the
last year.
POPE IS HORRIFIED
BY WAR ATROCITIES.
A despatch from Londoet says:
Discussing the Vatican and the war,
the Morning Post says the Pope has
expressed his horror at some of the
ore atrocious crimes, but in regard
e what many Catholics believe to
ave been the supreme and original
niquity the Pope remains silent. For
two generations Germany has been
aught to believe in the justice not
only of the present war, , but of all
neer.
4.
yR1SONERS IN BRITAIN
WILL HARVEST CROPS.
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A despatch from London says:
The Government has decided to allow
1 eisoners of war to help in the bar -
tilting of crepe near places where
liey ire under detention. The out-
ide labor will be performed only un-
er specified conditions.
..
was obtained from a competent
Beane:
"While the prisoners of war in the
detention camp were being conducted
to the compound for physical exer-
cise, one of them, Fritz Clause, as-
saulted one of the internment police,
knocking him insensible. The camp
police with the guard was called out
to quell the mutiny and in the mean-
time the originator of the tremble
was shot dead, and four of the other
prisoners were seriously wounded."
GERMAN WOMEN SUFFERING.
Wives of Interned Aliens in Britain
Cannot Get Work.
The question of the internment of
German women is under considera-
tion.
Meanwhile the German women in
London regard the idea with horror.
They are asking where will room be
found for them -they number many
thousands -if the housing problem
has proved It difficulty in the case of
their interned husbands. Nearly all
the single women have been repatri-
ated or have gone with Home Office
permits -obtained with great diffi-
culty -to the United States. Many
have definitely refused repatriation,
having left home through some family
quarrel and lived here for many years.
When war broke out there was a large
number of German women -clerks,
typists, commercial travellers, stu-
dents, and tourists in London, but
these with few exceptions have been
repatriated. The women who are here
now are mainly the British or German
wives of German men who have been
interned or middle-aged and elderly
German women who have lived here
so long that they have lost touch with
their own country. Their sympathies
are, however, German, and they make
no attempt to conceal the fact, though
German women of the better classes
avoid all allusion to the war when in
the company of English people.
Work is made absollitely impossible
for them with one curious exception -
the German cook, whose position has
fluctuated since war broke out. In the
largest of the servants' agencies it
was stated that German servants had
been dismissed almost everyvehere,
and that the German cook was rare in
English families. In one of the Ger-
man women's associations, on the con-
trary, it was said that though Ger-
man servants were dismissed at the
beginning of the war, many applica-
tions were afterwards received from
Englishwomen overwhelmed by the
servant difficulty, for German cooks,
and these women, unless they have
been dismissed as a result of the pre-
sent outcry, are perhaps the only Ger-
man women in British employment.
There has been a considerable
amount of suffering among German
women and British women married to
Germans since the war. Only 1 per
cent. of the German men at large are
in employment, and there is much
poverty. The German Government
through American ' intermediaries
make an allowance, paid through the
German Benevolent Society, of 10s, a
week and 3s. a week for each child to
the wives of interned Germans, while
the English Government make a
grant, paid through the relieving offi-
cer, of 8s. outside the London radius
and 10s. inside, and Is. 6d. for each
child to the English wives of interned
Germans. Where 68. or more a week
has to be paid for rent and the chil-
dren require much milk, the allowance
does not go far. The mental distress
of those who have male relatives fight-
ing in Germany, and who have been
badly frightened by the recent anti -
German riots is very great.
Seeing is to strong, that anyone
with a German name is viewed with
suspicion. A distinguished English
woman archaeologist, whose family
has been resident over 30 years, can
obtain work nowhere, because she has
a German name, The Friends Emer-
gency Committee for the assistance
of Germans, Austrians, and Hunger-
iane in Distress has dealt with over
3,000 cases, trying to find work, gen-
erally unavailingly, for German wo-
men and men and to relieve necessi-
tous cases. Other societies also are
helping, including the Y.W.C.A., the
Friends of Foreigners in Distress, and
the German Benevolent Society.
Enter the Dried Egg. •
A comparatively young industry -
the conversion of eggs into the frozen
and desiccated product -should be-
come a great stimulus to the egg in-
dustry of this country. In fact, it
seems ,destined to have a great future.
The deeiceated product not only fur-
nishes an excellent and highly nutri-
tious substitute for fresh eggs, in
compact form, to campers, explorers,
sailors and, soldiers, but there is an
increasing demand for it for general
culinary purposes, and wherever eggs
are used in large quantities, as, for
instance, in bakeries and restaurants.
The product, as it appears in the
market, is chiefly in the form of gold-
en yellow flakes, which are made
ready for use by simpli dissolving
them in water. The cold storage of
eggs only retards, but does not pre-
vent deterioration. With the modern
method of freezing and desiccating
eggs, on the other hand, it is possible
to obtain a product that retains for a
long time the qualities Of fresh eggs.
Took Advantage of Waves.
A despatch from Montreal says:
German submarines within firing
distance of unarmed merchant yes-
sele, and actually firing, can still be
foiled by superior seamanship and
steadfast courage. Thie was amply
demonstrated by the experience of
the Teespool, a vessel which has just
come into Montreal from Barry,
England. When the shells began
falling around the vessel, Capt. I.
Olsen placed his vessel beam to the
waves, so that if the /Submarine fol-
low, 1 him it would roll heavily and
disconcert the gunner's aim. This
was successful, and the vessel, by
reason of his well -thought-out plan
and clever manoeuvring, arrivedsafe-
ly
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MARKETS OF THE WORLD
REPORTS PROM THE LEAOINO TRADE
CENTRES OP AMERICA.
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, July 6. -Manitoba wheat
-No. 1 Northern, $1.30%; No. 2,
$1.27%; No. 3,$1.25%, on track,
lake ports.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 58c;
No. 3 C.W, 57 to 57%c; extra No. 1
feed, 57 to 571/50, on track, lake ports.
American corn -No. 2 yellow, 79%c,
on track, lake ports.
Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, 77e,
on track Toronto. .
" Ontario oafs -No. 2 white, 54 to
55c; No. 3 white, 53 eci 54e, according
to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per
car lot, $1.10 to $1.12, according to
freights outside.
Peas -No. 2 nominal, per car lots,
$1.50 to.$1.60, according to freights
outside.
Barley -Good malting barley, 70
to 73c; feed barley, 65e, according to
freights outside.
Buckwheat --Nominal, car lots,. 74
to 76c, according to freights outside.
Rye -No. 2 nominal, $1.05 to
$1.10, according to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patents,. in
jute bags, $7; second patents, in iute
bags, $6.50; strong bakers', in jute
bags, $6.30, Toronto; in cotton bags,
10c more.
Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cent.
patents, $4.60, seaboard, or Toronto
freights in bags.
Millfeed, car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights -Bran, per ton, $26;
shorts, per ton, $28; middlings,per
ton $29; good feed flour, per bag,
$1.85. '
Country Produce.
Butter -Choice dairy, 21 to Me; in-
ferior, 18 to 20e; creamery prints, 27
to 29c; do., solids, 26 to 28e.
Eggs -Straight new -laid, 21 to 22c
per dozen, in case lots, and selects 23
to 24c. •
Beans -$3.10 to $3.15 for prime,
and $3.20 to $3.25 for hand-picked.
Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress-
ed, 16 to 18e; Spring chickens, 35c;
fowl, 13 to 15c.
Cheese -The market is steady, with
new quoted at 17e for large, and at
17%c for twins. Old cheese, 21c.
Potatoes -Ontario, 55 to 60c per bag,
out of store, and 45 to. 50e in ear lots.
New Brunswieks, car lots, 55 to 60e
per bag.
Business in Montreal.
Montreal, July 6. -Corn, American
No. 2 yellow, 80 to 81e. Oats, Cana-
dian Western, No. 8, 57%e; extra No.
1 feed, 57%e; No. 2 local white, 59c;
No. 3 local white, 58c; No. 4 local
white'v57c. Barley, Man. feed, 72c.
Buckwheat, No. 2, 79 to 80e. Flour,
Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts,
$7 .10; seconds, $6.60; strong bakers',
$6.40; Winter patents, choice, $6:80;
straight rollers, $6.40 to $6.60; do.,
bags, $3 to $3.10. Rolled oats, bar-
rels, $6.25; do:, bags, 90 lbs., $2.90
to $3. Bran $26. Shorts $28. Mid-
dlings, $33 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to
$40. Hay, No. 2 per ton, car lots, $20
to $21.50. Cheese, finest westerns,
16% to 17e; finest easterns, 16 to
1614e. Butter, choicest creamery,
28% to 29c; seconds, 27% to 27%e.
Eggs, selected, 24 to 25e; No. 1 stock,
21% to 22c; No. 2 stock, 19 to 20c.
Potatoes'per bag, car lots, 42%c.
Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $13.25
to $13.70. Pork, heave, Canada short
mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, $29; Can-
ada short cut back, bbls., 45 to 55
pieces, $28.50. Lard, compound,
tierces, 375 lbs., 10c; wood pads, 20
lbs., net, 10%e; pure, tierces, 375
lbs., 12%e; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs.
net, 18%c.
U.S. Markets.
Minneapolis, July 6.--Wheat--No.
1 hard, $1.32%; No. 1 Northern'
$1.21% to $1.32%; N. 2 Northern,
$1.18% to $1.2934; July, $1.19%;
September, $1.02%. Corn -No. 3
yellow, 71 to 71%e. Oats -No. 3
white, 45% to 461/se. Flour -Fancy
patents„ $6.50; first clears, $5.50;
second clears, $4. Bran unchanged.
Duluth, July 6. -Wheat -No. 1
hard, $1.30; No. 1 Northern, $1.25
to $1.29; No. 2 Northern, $1.22 to
$1.25e July,$1.22; September,
$1.05%. Linseed -Cash, $1.73%;
July, $1.73%; September, $1.76%.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, July 6. -Butchers' cattle,
choice, $8.20 to $8.65; do., good,
$7.50 to $7.80; do., medium, $7.15 to
$7.40; do., common, $6.60 to $7.10;
butchers' bulls, choice $6.75 to
$7.50; do., good bulls, $d.25 to $6.50;
do., rough bulls, $5.25 to $6; butchers'
cows, choice, e6.75 to $7,25; do.,
good, $6.25 to $6.50; do., medium,
$5.10 to $5.75; do., common, $4.50 to
$4.75; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7.25;
stockers, 700 to 1,000 lbs., $6.25 to
$7.60; canners and cutters, $4 to
$5.25; milkers, choice, each, $65 to
$106; do., common and medium, each,
$35 to $45; springers $50 to $95;
light ewes, $6.50 to $7.50; do., heavy,
$3.50 to $4.50; do., bucks, $3.50 to
$4.50; yearling lainbs, $6 to $8;
Spring lambs, cwt., $10.75 to $12;
calves, $8.50 to $10; hogs, fed and
watered, $9 to $9.10; do., off cars,
9.25 to $9.40.
Montreal, July 6. -Choice steers
were scarce; small lots of good steers
sold at $8.50 to $8.76, while fair
stock brought $7.50 to $8.75, and the
lower grades from $6 to $7 per cwt.
The trade in butchers' cows was fair
at from $5.75 to $7.50, and bulls sold
at $6 to $8 per cwt. The demand for
lambs was good and tales were made
at $5.50 to $6 each, and old sheep at
$5.50 to $6.50 per cwt. The trade in
calves was active at prices ranging
from $1.50 to $10 each. Hogs quiet
with an easy undertone, but prices
show no actual change, sales of se-
lected lots being made at $9.50 to
$9.60 per cwt., weighed off cars.
RELEASEDDERNBuBRYRITAIN.G B
SHIP W
A despatch from London says:
The Norwegian steamer Bergensfjord,
together with Dr. Bernhard Dern -
burg, has been released by the British
authorities.
The Bergensfjord was detained at
Kirkwall, Scotland, Dr. Dernburg
carries a British safe conduct.
Casualties in Raids on Britain.
A despatch from London says:
The number of casualties in the bom-
bardment of Hartlepool, Scarborough
and Whitby, some time ago by hos-
tile warships, was 127 killed and 567
injured, Under-secretary Brace an-
nounced in the House of 'Commons.
He stated that fourteen air attacks,
chiefly against undefended towne,
caused the death of 56 persons -24
men, 21 women, and 11 children -and
the wounding of 138, of whom 35
were women and 17 children.
IleirApparent to
Th)-bne of Greece+
se=.
CROWN PRINCE OF GREECE.
NEWS OF TDE'MIDDLE WEST
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND REF
FISH COLUMBIA.
Items From Provinces Where Many
Ontario Boys and Girls Are
Living.
June roses bloomed plentifully at
the end of May in Battleford.
Gleichen will hold a stampede this
year; it is a famous Alberta cow town.
The Assessment Commissioner at
Winnipeg estimates the Population at
212,889.
The sale of war tax stamps added
$1,600 to the May reecipts at Regina
post office.
A record beginning for cutting of
alfalfa was made at Lethbridge the
last day of May.
Saskatoon will limit the entry of
public school pupils to those over six
years of age.
Eleven cases of horse stealing fig-
ured on the docket of the Assizes at
Calgary Criminal Assizes.
The only two strikes of workers in
Saskatchewan last year were at Sas-
katoon and Battleford.
The Charities Endorsation Bureau
will abolish tag days in Winnipeg, re-
garding them as hold-ups.
From September to April Winnipeg
civic employes contributed $31,586 to
the patriotic fund.
The Canadian Northern Railway
expects to be ready for buiiness in the
West within three months.
The Calgary Power Company has
to pay the city $21.60 per hour dur-
ing the time the power is "off."
For steeling four horses at Emer-
son, Mae, John McCurry was sen-
tenced to four years in the pen.
Hon: Dr. Roche Minister of the In-
terior, will probably make a trip
through Peace River Valley this sum-
mer.
The -Postmaster -General has order-
ed the name of Windy River, Alta., to
be changed to, Pleasant View.
Reynold Hordan, naturalized Ger-
man citizen, homesteading near Cal-
gary, will be tried for seditious ex-
pressions.
Red Deer fall fair and race meet
will be held this year as the Domin-
ion Government grant of $2,500 has
arrived.
Ald. S. G. Freeze, of Calgary, has
the contract to suply 10,000 lbs. of
coffee to military camps in the West
for a year.
Calgary finds it difficult to get
street cleaners as the new rules call
for speakers of English over forty
years of age.
This summer steel will likely be
laid on 25 miles of the Lethbridge -
Weyburn branch of the C.P.R., east of
Foremost.
From June 1st, 1914, to Tune 1st,
1915, there were 1,282 arrests by Ed-
monton police, exclusive of drunks
and assaults.
Winipeg has set aside a portion of
Brookside Cemetery for the burial of
soldiers; it was suggested by the
I. 0. D. E.
The P. Burns Packing Company of
Calgary are supplying large quantities
of dressed meate for the allied armies
in Europe.
The Trades and Labor Council of
Moose Jaw prefer serious charges
against the character and capacity of
the city's fire chief.
A man from Buchanan, Sask., who
found the army too great a grind
after enlisting, was tarred and fea-
thered on returning home.
The property values of Winnipeg
this year are assessed at $7;500,000
over last year, the business assess-
ments have decreased $750,000.
The introduction of modern machin-
ery will cut down to 700 the men
needed on the work for Greater Win-
nipeg's new water eupply.
Things to Remember.
Many a man is full of original sin
who never stole an apple in his life.
Husbands are like eggs; if kept in
hot water long enough they will
harden.
However ugly the baby may be, it
generally resembles the wealthiest re-
lative.
If you must fret and worry, get
away somewhere by yourself -they're
both catching.
If what a great many husbands say
is true, that married women have no
idea of the value of money, it is be-
cause they never have any.
' Can See Behind.
Fishes and birds have an advant-
age over human beings in their abil-
ity to see on both sides of them.
Their eyes are set not for looking
straight ahead. That is because they
balance their bodies to right or to
left while we balance forward and
backward. A bird can watch the tips
of both wings at once; the pilot of
an aeroplane has to turn hie head
from side to side to see his wing -
tips.
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A Real Comforter.
Hee-Ie blueness don't improve I
shall go crazy. I am literally up to
my ears in debt,
Wife -Cheer up, dear. Just hink
how ,much works it would be if you
SOLDIERS TAKE SACRAMENT
BEFORE GOING OUT TO THE
FIRING LINE.
Drank Christ's Blood in Symbol and
Then Marched to Grip the
Hand of Death.
"We're going off to the front to-
night, sir, and we thought we'd like
to have the sacrament before we go.
Can you give it to us?" The question
was put by some soldiers of the Black
Watch to that poer,preacher and
Highland mystic, Laelnan MacLean
Watt, and in the Edinburgh Scots-
man he describes what followed. It
took place somewhere in Flanders, "a
table cloth borrowed from the officers'
mess and a little wine from the same
source helped out the preparations."
We read:
"A notice on the door that the
place was closed for ordinary useun-
til the communion service was over
did not keep us free from interruption
for the room was the ordinary one
for the soldiers' 'sing song,' and the
men would come and beat upon the
doors and clamor for admission, not
reading notices nor at first under-
standing.
"There was a very special reason
why I welcomed the experience. For,
mane years ago in my parish, I realiz-
ed 'how many, laid aside by sickness
or old age, were unable to share i
that service which is so precious to
our Scottish folk. And I used to go
on each communion Sunday into the
little homes in the lanes or aveaY
across the moors to some quiet bailie
carrying the sacred symbols of divine
brotherhood, and so linking on the
lonely to the side community, setting
the solitary in the families. And the
girls' class of St. Stephen's had heard
of it, and given me a chaste little set
of communion vessels for the pur-
pose. And now these were to receive
a very deep consecration. They were
to be brought into living touch with
the sacrifice of the bravest of our
imperial manhood, in this the great-
est conflict of opposing ideals which
the world has ever seen.
Crooning Psalm Melodies..
The men began to gather, and sat
down there as reverently as though
the dim, little, drafty hut were the
chancel of some great cathedral, holy
with the deepest memories of Chris-
tian generations. 'You might wait,'
whispered one. 'The Camerons and
Seaforths may be able to come.' So
we waited ---a hushed and solemn
waiting. Then quietly some of them
began to croon old psalm memories
and quiet hymns, waiting. And at
length the others came, stepping soft-
ly into the place, and with them com-
rades who explained that, though they
were of a different country and a dif-
ferent church belief, they yet desired
to share in the act of worship, pre-
paratory to celebration. At length
about one hundred and twenty men
were there and we began.
"It was the twenty-third psalm, the
psalm of God's shepherding, the com-
radeship of the Divine in the Valley
of the Shadow, the faith and the hope
of the brave. What a power was in
it --what a spell of wonder, of com-
forting, and uplifting in thie land of
war! They sang it very tenderly, for
it spoke to them of times when they
had held their mother's hands and
looked up wondering in their faces, in
the church at home, wondering why
tears were there as the dear old
hearts remembered. Some of them,
also -the tears were on their cheeks
as they sang that old psalm, very
precious in the homeland, very pre-
cious here; and it is a soul -shaking
thing to see a strong man's tears. It
was surely thus our father's sang, in
quiet places and by foreign streams,
when to be true to the faith commit-
ted to them meant outcasting, exile,
and death. It means a big thing
still, to -day, for our Empire -this
heart -deep singing of our soldier
men. I have never dreamed that I
should see such' depth of feeling for
eternal things. Do not tell me this
is Armageddon. It is not the end of
things. It is Resurrection and Pente-
cost we are passing through. A har-
vest is being sown in France of which
the reaping shall be Empire -wide
There will be angels at the ingather-
ing.
To Die As Did Christ.
It only needed the simplest words
to seal that sacrament. And next
morning, in the grey light, the men
who had been touched by the
thought of home and the dear ones
there, and the big throbbing thought
of consecration were marching off to
grip the very hand of death, in sacri-
fice like Christ's, for others."
The scene was repeated with a dif-
ference at another spot, where in a
big marquee the members of the
Y.M.C.A. had been selling tea and
coffee. "We are going off to -morrow,"
said a fine lad from Cheshire. "Give
us communion that we may remem-
ber when we go that high ideals pall
us."
"It was a difficult thing just for a
moment, to decide whether in that
tent where men were noisily eating
and,,drinkingat the counter it should
be held, or in some place apart. In-
stinctively I said: 'Yes. Here.' So
a rude communion table was made of
boxes heaped together as our fathers
would heap stones together in the
moors. Covered with a white linen,
cloth, we laid upon that table the
little chalice of silver, with the flagon
of red wine, and the bread upon its
platter, expecting eight men to par-
take. But the tent filled and hushed,
and filled to overflowing; and even
outside men steed and peered in
through the seams. And we began,
as ever, with the psalm of consecrat-
ed memory. Again and again, and
again, the 'chalice and platter came
back for replenishing. Men raised
their drooping heads and stretched
out their hands for the saceed sym-
bols. Away up in the 'trenches, an
al3out the region of La Bassee, red
blood as red as Christ's, was enrich-
ing the soil of France; and the hearts
that were beating here might soon be
still, in the long graves yonder. A
breath of mystery seemed to sway
them in that tent, and still that quiet
urgency for more came up, until over
three hundred men whose faces to-
LEMBERG HELD FOR 293 DAYS;
PEREMYSL HELD FOR 260 DAYS
LEMBERG. '
August 26; 1914-itussian armies attack Lemberg.
September 3-Ruesians -Occupy the city, '
June 19, 1915 -Austro -German forces break through Grodek.
June 20-Austro-Gennan forces capture ridge of hills six
miles , from city.
June 22 -Austrians re-enter the city.
PERENIYSL.
September 16, 1914 -Russian forces before Pe emysl.
October 1 -Russians invest the city.
March 22, 1215 -Captured by Russia.
May 15 -Austro -German ferces reach the city.
June 3 -Abandoned by the Itu ssians.
morrow would -be set toward the bat-
tle, had partaken of the sacrament of
sacrifice that linked us to God and
our homes across the -sea.
"Talk of your churches, your sects,
your quarrelsome diyisions! When
men are face to face with the eternal,
as we are out here, these things are
as forgotten as the dust that blew
last year: over the remote:it sand
heap into the Atlantic. Brotherhood
in the divine uplifting of a great im-
perial call, and the love of a uniting
Christship, bind, as with a golden
girdle, all our hopes, our faiths, and
fears, and link them to the Highest."
RISE 1,000 FEET A MINUTE.
Expert Explains How Zeppelin Air-
ships Escape.
Although it has been officially an-
nounced that the Zeppelin which
dropped bombs on Ramsgate and
three or four adjacent English south
coast towns was attacked and dam-
aged by British aeroplanes, it seems
fairly certain that the airship OM
not destroyed and managed to reach
its shed near Brussels in safety. The
fact that smoke was seen issuing
from it is explained by aviation ex-
perts as not really indicative of
damage.
The smoke probably was caused
by displacemept of oil in the en -
engines to run back to the rear cylin-
ship was presumably suddenly forced
upward at a steep angle, thus caus-
ing the oil in the creek cases of the
engines to run back to th erear cylin-
ders so that they spouted thick oil
smoke from the exhaust pipes. The
same thing has frequently been no-
ticed when a German aeroplane has
dived vertically to avoid attack by
English aeroplanes, only in this case
the oil runs forward and floods the
forward cylinders.
It is now recognized that when a
Zeppelin which is going full speed
ahead wants to rise rapidly to avoid
attack the pilot simply throws the
stern of the machine down by means
of the elevates.' planes, or vertical
steering rudders, so that the nose
goes up and the momentum of the
vast mass plunging through the air
produces such pressure underneath
it that it shoots up like a rocket and
for the first thousand feet or so will
actually rise much faster than any
aeroplane yet built.
A Zeppelin in this way can rise
1,000 feet in a little over a minute,
declares Dr. C. G. Grey, a well
known British expert. An aeroplane
is doing very well to climb 300 feet
a minute. Of course, when the mo-
mentum of the Zeppelin is exhausted
it cannot continue to climb and the
aeroplane -will soon get the upper
position if it continues the chase.
Various accounts of actions with
Zeppelins have assumed that an air-
ship which has been fired upon has
been damaged because it is seen to
be 'Very much 'down" or "up" by
the nose, but this, as now shown, is
not necessarily the case, but more
probably is due to the fact that the
airship if suddenly attacked will
rise suddenly by the use of this man-
oeuvre. In other cases the clever air-
ship pilot by the use of this device
for a sudden drop or rise is able to
get his machine quickly behind the
shelter of a bank of cloud or mist, in
which he frequently can conceal him-
self for an indefinite period.
Small Shocks.
We get used to certain names or
terms, and, not unnaturally, -think
i
that, n cases where they are descrip-
tive, they hold truth. Not always.
For example, "sealing -wax" con-
tains no wax.
We wouldn't say "German silver"
now at any price. Well, first of ale
"German silver" isn't silver, nor is it
of German origin. It has been used
in China for centuries.
If we wished to partake of a real
Irish stew we should naturally go to
Ireland. It is stated, too, that "Turk-
ish baths," despite the sign of the
Crescent, are unknown to the Turks.
The same comment can -be passed
on another "Turkish commodity -
viz., "Turkey rhubarb." It is a Rus-
sian monopoly.
There is no reason why one should
not buy a Dutch clock, except this -
that they are Of German manufac-
ture. It is useless to kill cats to get
"cat -gut." Cat -gut is "sheep" gut.
When you roll your own cigarette,
and use' the best "rice" paper, you
can remember that it isn't made from
rice or the rice plant. "Kid" gloves
are capable of a punning illustratien,
for they are not made from "kid" but
of lamb or sheep skin.
The foregoing are but samples, for
the Est is endless.
@dere she has been married a
year every woman discovers that
her husband is a brute.
All Indian regiments wear the tur-
ban, except the Gurkhas, who wear
a little round cap.
ATTACHE AT HAGUE
INVITED TO LEAVE
German Diplomat Too Active in
Espionage „to Please
the Dutch.
A despatch from Londoe says:
The Daily Mail's correspmelent at
The Hague telegraphs that he learns
from a trustworthy source that Col.
Ostertag, the German military at-
tache at The Hague, and formerly at-
tache at London, whose sudden de-
parture from the Dutch capital a
few days ago occasioned surprise in
diplomatic circles, was practically re-
quested to leave by the Netherlands
Government.
"Col. Ostertag," the correspondent
says, "nominally attache here since
early in the war, is said to be in real-
ity one of the most efficient and use-
ful leaders of the German intelligence
department, and is said to have kept
an active teat& on all lines of cora-
inunication between Holland and Eng-
land, and between Holland and
America. He latterly has become
much interested in Dutch military
operations, and ii . the disposition of
the Dutch troops on the Belgian front-
ier. His efforts to obtain information
and the methods he has pursued, it
is stated, finally attracted the atten-
tion of the Dutch Government, which
intimated its strong disapproval to
the German Foreign Office.
"Col. Ostertag left on 24 hours' no-
tice, and is now at Ghent. Soon after
his arrival there, nine civilians were
summarily courtmartialed and -shot
on a charge of transmitting military
information to the frontier,"
FASHIONS SET BY SOLDIERS.
Buttons on Sleeves, the Frock Coate
and Other Styles.
The fashion of adorning the sleeves
of our coats with buttons originated,
it is said, with the French army. The
French soldiers were in the habit of
wiping their mouths with their.
sleeves, and the buttons Were nisi on
to prevent them from doing so. To-
day, of course, the real reason for the
presence of these buttons is forgot-
ten, and they *are considered oma- ,
meats,
civilians RS well as soldiers
decorating their sleeves with thm.
Who would dream of associating '
the frock coat with the army? And
yet it is a descendant of the old-
time "wafenrolc," a long garment,
falling below the knees and slit up
the back in order that it could be worn
for riding. It was made long' to
cover the armor. The two purely Or-
namental ,buttons which adorn the
back of the modern frock and tall
coats were, at one time, supports for
the sword -belt. The Norfolk coat was
designed from the chain -snail hauberk
fastened round the waist with the .
sword -belt as worn by Richard
"Coeur -de -Lion," and every modern
peaked cap is a copy of the helmet
worn by toldiers up to Cromwelre
time.
The army, too, has been the birth-
place of some of our most everyday
customs. Shaking hands as a form of
greeting originated through the cus-
tom of a knight, on meeting a friend,
extending his right hand to allow
that -he held no weapon,
Something Like Earnings.
Half a dozen doctors are now being
paid $25,000 a year by the British Ad-
miralty. Private practice is not for-
bidden, but it must not interfere with
the performance of an officer's inmate
duties. Those who are inclined to
wonder at the size of the fee may like
to know that in other professions as
well as medicine big sums are asked
for services rendered.
Harry Lauder, for example, has
been offered $5,000 a week, and hun-
dreds per week were paid for the per-
formances of trained elephants and
chimpanzees.
Patti received $360,000 for six con-
certs: Sir Vector Horsley gets a hun-
dred guineas for going out of London
to give evidence in a trial and fifteen
guineaS a day expenses, and, even
then, he is out of pocket. On one
occasion the late King Edward asked
his host -a famous surgeon -what a
first-rate medical man would make,
and \vas told that $75,000 a year
would hit the mark. The King's in-
formant placed the earnings of a
great barrister at $125,000.
When the present Lord Chief Jus-
tice was Sir Rufus Isaacs his brief,
would frequently be marked $10,000,
and $5000 a day "iefreshee."
the painter, earned about
$175,000 a year by his magic brush,
and one year, at any rate, he exceed-
ed that anieunt by $25,000. -London
Ansivers.
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