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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-08-26, Page 3WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC SUNK WITHOUT WARNING Act is Looked Upon As a Deliberate Challenge to Neutrals -Grave Near Lusitania A despatch from London says: The ' White Star liner Arabic, one day out from Liverpool, was sunk 30 miles off Queenstown by a German submarine the torpedo sending her to the bot- tom within ten minutes after the ex- plosive missive pierced her side. Four hundred and twenty-three souls were on board -180 passengers and 243 crew. After floating around in lifeboats for some hours the victims were pick- ed up by the steamer Primrose and taken to Queenstown in the morning. This first big victim of the German submarine since the Lusitania was sent to the bottom had•no warning, and the fact that there was not great- - loss of life is due to the wonderful , training and discipline of the crew tinder Captain Finch. White Star officials say there were 26 Americans aboard, 10 passengers and 16 of the crew. So far as can be learned the Arabic carried no securities. Two British ships reached Queens- town with about 375 survivors. - Of These 174 were passengers and 217 crew. The rescued included 140 Bri- tish,‘ rlfish,i 26 residents of the United States, three. French, one Belgian, three Russians, one Spaniard and one New Zealander. Passengers arriving in, Queenstown Were in practically an exhausted con- dition, due to fright and exposure.' scone were able to saveany belong- ngs, being ordered to take to the oats some time before the torpedo actually hit the steamer. ' The Arabic was struck on the star- board side about 100 feet from the stern, one torpedo being sufficient to do the work. Fortunately for those on board, the weather was fair and the sea calm. But the item whidh counted for most in saving so many' of the -•passengers wasthe splendid team work and efficiency of the crew, who managed -to load 16' lifeboats and lower; them safely before the steamer turned over. The Arabic's grave is about forty miles south of the spot where the Lusitania lies. She went down 65 miles south-east of Eastnet stock and, 55 mines south of Old Head of Kin- sale, both on the south coast of Ire- land, in a region where German sub- marines have been active since the opening of the war zone decreed. Saw Vessel Torpedoed. Some survivors, according to re- ports received here, say that they had just witnessed the torpedoing of a British steamer, presumably the Dun= sley, and that this had caused great alarm on board the Arabic. In their fright the passengers had rushed for. life preservers and had barely adjust- ed them when the German submarine turned its torpedo against the ves- sel's side. Ten lifeSoats and a number of life rafts were quickly': got over the side of the steamer, and into these a large number of passengers and members of the crew scrambled. Many of the passengers, however, fell into the wa- ter, but they got hold of ::the rafts and clung to them and later were' rescued. One woman who fell into the sea screamed pitifully for help. The. weather and tidal -conditions being. favorable, two sailors swam to her assistance and succeeded in lifting her upon a raft. Markets Of The World Breadstuffs. Toronto, Aug. 24. -No. 1 Northern, $1.37%; No. 2 Northern, $1.28%; No. 3 Northern, $1.25%, on track lake ports; -2c more for immediate de- livery. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 61e; No. 3 C.W., 59c; extra No. 1 feed, 58c, on track lake ports. American corn -No. 2 yellow, 86c, on track lake ports. Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, .nom- inal, on track Toronto. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 57 . to 58c; No. 3 white, 66 to 57c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, nominal, $1.15; new, $1.04 to $1.05, according to reights out- side. Peas -No. 2, nominal. • Barley -Good malting barley, nom- inal; feed barley, 60c, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots. Rye -No. 2, nominal. Manitoba flour -First patents, in bute bags, $7; second patents, in jute ags, $6.50; strong bakers', in jute bags, $6.30, Toronto; in cotton bags, 10e more. Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cent. patents, $4.60; do., new, $4.10; sea- board, or Toronto freights in bags. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights. Bran, $27 per ton; shorts, $29 per ton; middlings, $30 per ton; good feed flour, $1.90 per bag. Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, 25 to 26c; in- ferior, 20 to 22e; creamery prints, 28 to 20%; do., solids, 26 to 27c. Eggs -No. 1, 22 to 23e per doz., in case lots; extras at 24 to 25c. Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), 10 to 11%c; do., retain, 12% to 15c. Combs (wholesale), per dozen, No. 1, $1.50 to $2; No. 2, $1 to $2. Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress- ed, 16 to 18e; Spring chickens, 20 to 21c; fowl, 14 to 1.5c; ducklings, 17 to 18c. Cheese -Large; 15 to 15%e; 1514 to 15%c for twins. Old cheese, 21%/2c. Provisions. Bacon -Long. clear, 14 to 14%c per lb., in case lots. Hams -Medium, 18 to 18%c; do., heavy, 141/2 to 15c; rolls, 15 to 6c; breakfast bacon, 20 to 23e; backs, plain, 22 to 23c; bone- less backs 25 to 26c. Lard -The market is quiet; pure lard, tubs, 11% to 1214c; do., pails, 12 to 12%c; compound, tubs, 10 to 10%c; do., pails, 10% to 10%,e. Baled Hay and Straw. Baled hay -New, No. 1, per ton, $17 to $19; No. 2, ton, $15 to $16; baled straw, ton, $7. Business in Montreal. Montreal, Aug. 24. -Corn -Ameri- can No. 2 yellow, 90 to 91c. Oats-, Canadian western, No. 8, 61% to 62c. Oats -Extra No. 1 feed, 61% to 62e; No. 2, local white, 61c; No. 3- local white, 60c; No. 4, local white, 59c. FIour-Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.10; seconds, $6.60; strong bakers', $6.40; Winter patents, f choice, $6.25; straight rollers, $5.60 to $5.80; straight rollers, bags, $2.65 to $2.75. Rolled oats, barrels, $6.25; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.90 to 1 $3. Bran, $26 to $26.60. Shorts, $28, Middlings, $33 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to $40. Hay, No. 2 per ton, car lots, $16 to $17. Cheese, finest western, 121/2 to 12%c; finest easterns, 11% to 12%.c. Butter, choicest creamery, 27% to 27%c; do., seconds, 26% to 26%c. Eggs, fresh, 27 to 28c; select- ed, 26c; No. 1 stock, 23c; No. 2 stock, 20c. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $13.50 to $14. Pork, heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, $29; Canada short cut back, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, $28.50. Lard, compound, tierces, 375 lbs., 10c; wood pails, 20 lbs.; net, 103%• pure, tierces, 375 lbs., 12; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 13 o U. S. Markets. Minneapolis, Aug. 24.-Wheat- Sdptember, $1.04%; December, $1,08%. Cash: -No. 1 hard, $1.51%; No. 1 Northern, $1.43% to $1.51%; No. 2 Northern, $1.39% to $1.48%. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 79% to 80e. Oats -No. 3 white, new, 42 to 43c. .Flour and bran unchanged. Duluth, Aug. 24. -Wheat -No, 1 hard, $1.53%; . No. ' 1 Northern, $1.48% to $1.50%; No. 2 Northern, $1.46%; Montana o, 2 hard, $1.06% September, • $1.06%; December $1,05%; Linseed, cash,'$1.63%.; September, $1.63; December, $1.63. Live 'Stock' Market. Toronto; Aug. 24. -Best heavy steers, $8.60 to $8.85; •butchers' cat- tle, choice, $8 :to $8.35; do., good, $7.40. to $7.60; do., medium, $6.50 to $7.20• do., common, $5.25 to $5.80; butchers' bulls, choice, $6.75 to $7.50; do., good bulls, $6 to $6.50 • do., rough bulls, $5.25 to $5.75; butchers' cows, choice, $6.50 to $7.25• do., good, $6.36, to $6.50; do., medium, $5.25 to $6; do., common, $4.50 *to $5; feed- ers, good, $6.50 to $7.50;.stockers, 700 to 900' lbs., $6.25 to $7.25; can- ners and anners'and cutters, $4 to $5.25, milk- ers, choice, each, $65 to $100; do., common and medium, each,:$35 to $50; Springers, $50 to $95; light ewes, $6 to $7; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs, $7 to $8; Spring lambs, cwt., $9 to $9.40 calves, $8.50 to $10.70; hogs, off cars, $9.15 to $9.40; do., fed and watered, $9 to $9.10; do., f.o.b., $8.65 to $8.79. Montreal, Aug. 24. -The demand from local buyers for the best steers on the market was good and sales of such were made at $7.75, and the low- er grades ranged from that down to $5.50, while butchers' cows brought from $4.50 to $7, and bulls from $4.50 to $7.50 per cwt. The demand from packers for canning stock was good and sales of bulls were made at' $4 to $4.50, and cows at $3.50 to $4 per cwt. An active trade was done in lambs at $7.50 to $8.25 per cwt., and a few round lots of very common stock were sold as low as $6.65, while sheep brought from $4 to` $5.50. The demand for calves was good at from $5 to $20 each as to size and quality. Hogs, $9,40 to' $9.50; rougher lots, $9 to $9.30 per cwt, weighed off cars. POWERFUL NEW GUN FOR USE OF ALLIES One Explanation of the Delay In Launching the British Advance. A despatch from New York says; Recent arrivals . from England are able to afford acme explanation of the. delayed British advance, which . as much in England as throughout 'the rest of the world has caused consid- erable bewilderment. Their explanation is, that Lord Kit- chener has been waiting to launch "his great surprise," and this surprise lies in the completion of new guns and a new type of shell which it is believed will revolutionize artillery operations and make the path of the allies to Berlin more possible than hitherto. Soon after the beginning of the war, when it became patent that high explosives were to be' the dominating factor iri the struggle for victory, the combined efforts of British chemists and ordnance experts invented a shell unquestionably more powerful. than any previously used.: In destructive power it was without' doubt superior to- any previously known. A varia- tion in explosive composition render- ed it likely to supersede all types in use. The Government ordered. experi- ments to be made with big guns then being manufactured at Woolwich Ar- senal. As far. back as last November Gov- ernment experts were at work on this problem. They experimented with various alloys of steel, trying to find one that would stand the strain of such a shell. Finally they succeeded. They produced a 17 -inch gun .that would suit this purpose. Various ex- periments have been made and are believed to have been entirely success- ful. It is stated that the shell will be carried .25- miles and will work havoc on , a scale entirely unprece- dented. Thus is answered the question why no advance was made when Warsaw was about to fall and the main bulk of the German troops were concen- trated on that front. It also explains why after the great movement of Kitchener's army to France early in July the troops were not used. 'Noth- ing was to be done until these guns, which the great armament factories of Britain have been working on for six months had been delivered in suffi- cient quantities at the front. The second Canadian contingent, numbering 45,000 picked troops, an overwhelming majority of whom have seen previous service, are now in Francs. With their despatch Kit- chener's movement was ready to be- gin. The result may soon be appar- ent, 'NEW YORK PRESS } ON THE ' SITUATION GERMAN SHIPMENTS ARE ALLOWED TO PASS A despatch from London says: At the request of A. G. Hays, attorney for the American consignees, Great Britain has issued permits for ,the shipment of some consignments of German goods which were ordered before March 1, but were not paid or. The consignments, some .of which already, are in Rotterdam awaiting shipment, while others have not yet eft Germany, are valued at several millions of marks. The Athenian. Areopagus, or court of law,used to sit in darkness. LONDONERS RUSH TO ENLIST FOLLOWING ZEPPELIN RAID 500 30m Colors'at O•ne Point and i, la;r ire ort Were 'Received Prom Other Parts of City A despatch from London says: When London knew about the recent Zeppelin raid, which killed ten per- sons, thousands walked or rode in taxis and tramcars to the scene. The vast throng had every appearance of a crowd out en a bank holiday, If the Zeppelins were intended to :frighten the populace the 'raid has had a con- trary effect, and simply stirred up the public as no other event of the war has done, „ Recruiting has taken a sharp spurt all over London. At the Horse Guards' parade nearly 500 en- listed and were despatched to the various depots before the following midday. Similar reports were re- ceived from other parts of the city. "Only One Road Remains Open" Declares the New York Tribune. A Despatch from New York says: Under the caption "Deliberately Un- friendly," the New York Tribune says editorially: "In every detail the German attack upon the Arabic fulfills President Wilson's definition of an act 'deliber- ately unfriendly' to the United States. "Since• this is the ease, only one road remains open to Mr. Wilson; there is only one course that he can follow with dignity and with honor. Without delay, further protest, any diplomatic exchange whatsoever, the German Ambassador in Washington should receive his passports, the American Ambassador in Berlin should be recalled. "It is time to have done with a na- tion which has repudiated every scrap of international law. It is time to have done with a State which has adopted a policy which is alike a chal- lenge to humanity and a negation of all that civilization means. If the would-be murderer misses, if his bul- let goes astray, does society less cer- tainly incarcerate him? It is not the fault of the German commander that every American on the Arabic was not drowned.. All that the assassin could do was done. All that the 'but- cher could do' to make the massacre complete was done. If chance spared Americans, it was chance alone. "The time has come now to act. To talk further is to encourage, not avoid, murder. It is to compound with infamy and continue relations with savagery. It is to write our- selves down willing victims, as con- senting to the continued slaughter of Americans. In the crime of the Ara- bic the last thin disguise has slipped from the German beast, and we see the fact as it is -butt we see it un- afraid." The World says editorially: "Is the destruction of the Arabic Germany's official reply to the American note?" WESTERN CROP YIELD. The following telegraphic advice from the Department of Agriculture of Alberta at Edmonton was received at the head office of the Canadian Nos thein Railway in Toronto: Southern district: Ideal harvests weather past week; cutting com- mencedn a d will begeneral . b end of Y this week, Central district: Weather warm with local showers; cutting com- menced; livestock in splendid condi- Northern district reports good har- vest weather; wheat and oats turning; barley harvest started. Peace River district: Harvesting, general. All reports signify bumper yield, and if present weather continues, grade will be largely number 'one. ,H People with musical tastes general- ly have large and prominent ears, Alpaca is so sailed after a Peruvian. animal, of the Ilama species, from, whose wool the fabric is woven. A Tremendous Offering of Peaches 4o the CANADIAN' RFDCRO5s SOCIETY g7 ; ':'. W i�ls• A ^ �t5d�.h ; e r$ KtN THE JORDAN HARBOR PEACH RANCH WILL COMMENCE SEPTEM- BER 1ST TORACK AND SHIP 100,000 GALLON HOSPITAL SIZE SANK- TARY CANS, EACH' CONTAINING 6,1/2 TO 7. LBS. OF SUPERB BRAND PEACHES FOR DISTRIBUTION • THROUGH :THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY TO OVERSEAS HOS- PITALS IN BRITISH ISLES, FRANCE AND BELGIUM. This undertaking is of such magni- tude, representing fifty car loads of FRESH FRUITS and the employment of over Two Hundred men and women dur- ing the PEACH SEASON, • PACKING DAILY 5,000' LARGE E HOSPITAL CANS. These reaches 'are peeled, pitted and halved, them packed in large HOSPITAL SANITARY CANS, in'HEAVY SYRUP, then crated (six cans in each crate), to be forwarded to destination through the CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. The total cost is FIFTY CENTS per CAN (50c), this charge includes all ex- penses. These fruits are packed EL CLUSIVELY for the CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY AND CANNOT . BE PURCHASED by the GENERAL PUB- - LIC, as they are prepared and delivered to the CANADIAN RED CROSS SO- CIETY AT ACTUAL COST. By remitting 50 Cents .through the CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, or direct to the JORDAN HARBOR PEACH RANCH, JORDAN STATION P.O., Ontario, it insures one of these Large Cans of BEAUTIFUL SUPERBA BRAND PEACHES going forward to our sick and wounded soldiers. Don't delay' in accepting this OPPOR- TONITY. THESE FRUITS. are UR- GENTLY NEEDED and will be much appreciated by our Gallant Defenders. All SUBSCRIPTIONS will be duly ac- knowledged, and should be completed by September 1st. Remit now. Contributions are being received from all parts of Canada. THINK OF OUR SICK AND WOUNDED DEFENDERS IN OVERSEAS' HOSPITALS. It's UP TO YOU TO "DO YOUR BIT' AT ONCE.- WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? .1 ACROSS THE BORDER WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN THE STATES. Latest Happenings in Big Republic Condensed for Busy Readers. • Philadelphia reports no increase of school pupils over last year. Real estate men say Cleveland will plies. becoe a great centre for war sup - m A goat fought Patrolman Petus for possession of an infant abandoned in Brooklyn. • Carl M. Pihl, of Phillipsburg, N.J., says he was arrested in Nova Scotia as a German spy. David R. Greens, of Chicago, left $5,000 by his will for the care of his dog "Nellie." A Cleveland citizen asks the city to cut the weeds and relieve suffer- ers from hay fever. Edith Dunlop, aged 6, an Edmon- ton girl, died at Entiat, Wash., from a rattlesnake bite, A lone bandit held up the cashier of Cedar Rapids National Bank and got away with $22,000. C. A. Juhlin, a. university graduate, at 83, is a newspaper seller in the street of Lampasas, Tex. Someone placed dynamite in the boiler and blew up a steam roller on a Reading, Mass., street. Miss Eunice Hoag, of Longmeadow, Mass., was killed by an auto on her way to her 'wedding. Redbank, N,J., will not allow autos to toot within 500 feet' of churches during service. Three cases of poisoned feet from dyed shoes at Akron, 0., have caused an investigation. Dr. C. H. Clark, of Huntingdon,. L.I., eye' specialist, was jailed for six months for beating his blind wife. Joseph Curley, Long Island beach policeman, resigned because, while he slept, persons blacked his face. Mrs. H. T. Griffin is, president of the Board of Education of White Plains, N.Y., the first in the State. Hibbing, Minn., with $750,000 pay- able, is bankrupt because eleven mining companies refuse to pay up. The American Consul -General at Shanghai shows Washington a sub- stantial reduction in the export of opium. Dr. Mary L. Ambrook, of Boulder, Cal., feeling death near, diagnosed her own case and sat down to die quietly. ' U.S. Marine R. A. Whitby, when arrested at Chester, Pa,, was pro- , tected by a parrot which defied the police. Atlantic City women donned bath- ing garbs rather than pay hold-up sprices to cabmen during a heavy rain- storm. Thieves raided the home of Win. D'Olier, at Philadelphia, to find nothing; they dropped a $5 note on' their way out. 50, Wm. Denby,fisherman all his life at Port Clinton, 0.f fell into 7 feet of water and was drowned; he couldn't swim. W. ' Gutmiller, of Philadelphia, said to have misplaced vital organs, suieided in fear of surgical curios- ity and operations. Miss Dorothy Southard found an old picture in an attic at Toledo, •0., discovered it to be worth $50,000-a Ruebens or Van Dyke. In trying to raise one chick an old hen makes exactly as muck Ygs5,; as' she would in bringing Up rlo Ori; GREEK PREMIER'S POLICY. Union of Territories Can Only Be Effected by Fighting Turkey. A despatch from Rome says: Ad- vices of a confidential nature received here from Athens outline what is de- clared to be the policy decided upon by former Premier Venizelos, who has been asked by King Constantine to form a Cabinet, and has announced his readiness to do so. The outline is substantially as follows: M: Venizelos affirms that he has no preconceived bias against the central. empires. What he wishes to achieve, the advices state, is the union of all Greek territories, which, in his view, is only obtainable now by. fightin Turkey, Accomplishment of Greek aspira- tions by co-operation with the Entente allies would, in the view of Venizelos as ,outlined from Athens, have been easier before Italy entered the war, because of the occupation by Italy of Aegean islands claimed by Greece, and now further complicated by Greek expansion in Epirius, in Southern Al- bania, thus arousing Italian jealousy M. Venizelos, it is declared, may consent to territorial concessions in the Balkans on the condition that Greece maintain a predominant posi- tion in the peninsula, but her partici- pation with the Entente allies now implies a greater demand, in the re- presented view of Venizelos, since Austro -German successes augment the value of her intervention. The former Premier's object, the Athens advices declare, is to obtain for Greece what Cave= achieved for Italy, and he feels that she must have her national aspirations of becoming a great power in South-eastern Eu- rope satisfied, or risk nothing. sIs OVER 1,300 CANADIANS ARE PRISONERS OF WAR A despatch from London says: A return received here gives the total number of Canadian prisoners of war in all parts of Germany up to last week as 1,305. Six hundred and thirty-six of these are at Giessen, 168 at Hanover, 157 at Munster, 58 at Sennelager, 87 at Meschede, 48 at Paderborn, 46 at Ohrdruf, and 14 at Oberhausen. The remainder are distributed among Bel- gium and North-west Germany. 3 TURKS LEVY WAR TAX ON ALL FOREIGNERS. A despatch from Rome says: Des- patches from Salonika received by the Giornale d'Italia and the Tribuna declare that the Turkish authorities in addition to prohibiting the departure of Italians from Smyrna have levied a heavy war tax which foreigners never before have been required to, pay, and! which many Italians in Smyrna, be- ing almost destitute, are quite unable to pay. NORWAY HAS DEMANDED RETURN OF HER MAILS A desPathe from Christiania, Nor- way! says: The halting of the Nor- wegian 'mail steamer Haakon VIT. and the seizure of mails' on board by a German submarine have. been o1low ed by a protest to Berlin anti. a de- mand for the return of the Mails' to Norway. The Haakon VII. was bound from Bergen to Englaiid. g "What do you think of the two Call - dates?" asked one elector of an- other during a recent contest, "What do I think of them?" was, the reply. Well, when I look at them I thank rea yarn 'shat only one of them can get I KITCHENER VISITS THE FRONT AND INSPECTS THE BATTLE LINE Particular Attention Was Paid to Conditions in the Champagne and the Woevre A despatch from Paris says: A joint inspection of parts of the west- ern battle line was made by Lord Kitchener, Great Britain's Secretary of War, and Alexander Millerand, the French War Minister. They were accompanied part of the time by Gen. Joffre and Sir John French, Com- manders -in -Chief of' the French and British armies. The military leaders paid particular attention to conditions in the Champagne and the Woevre. An official note, which gives details of the trip, says Lord Kitchener and M. Millerand were greatly impressed by the splendid appearance of the troops and their high morale. Sev- eral conferences were held, but the. nature of them is not disclosed. Speaking at the close of a dinner M. Millerand declares he felt highly honored by Lord Kitchener's visit to France, and was glad -to learn from the British Field Marshal's own lips_ of the complete accord uniting the two nations. Addressing the British War Minister directly, he said: "Yours is not the only voice which praises our soldiers, for the enemy also gives them their due. After a year of war the enemy no longer has illusions of winning. He predicts in- ternal dissentions among his enemies which he hopes will occur. Already he is endeavoring to incite neutrals and places before belligerents veiled' innuendoes of peace. "Let me assure you France is united, People, Parliament and Gov- ernment never have been more firmly. determined, in close accord with our heroic and faithful allies, never to lay down our arms until the day ar- rives when we shall have attained our goal, and if the road to Tipperary is long; the price is sufficiently high to justify us paying for all the delays, difficulties and sadnesses along the road, because the price is the libera- tion of the world." Lord Kitchener, speaking in French, thanked M. Millerand for his kind- ness in extending an invitation to • visit the=French front, and said that after seeing the splendid troops of Gen. Joffre he could understand the French victories. He closed by de- claring that Great Britain was re- solved to make the greatest possible effort to aid France and to carry the war to a finish. SPYING AN ENEMY'S COUNTRY. The German System the Most Highly Organized. Since the war broke out, we have just begun to understand how impor- tant and how continually busy are the secret services of the various Euro- pean nations, The "spy" is employed by all the military offices of Europe, and although the German system is believed to be the most highly organ- ized and efficient of them all, there has been ritany- a clever bit of secret work done by the agents, of England, France . and Russia. . 'Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the well-known founder of the Boy Scouts, has some of the most exciting exploits in question to his credit, and he describes several of them in his book, "My Adventures as a Spy." This is the story of his mission to get information about a new power house and a drydock in an unnamed foreign country: It was early morning, and several carts were waiting to come in. No- ticing that the policeman at the gate was talking to the driver of the first wagon, I jumped alongside the second wagon, on the side opposite the po- liceman, and so passed inside the wall, and continued to walk with the vehi- cle as it wound its way round the new building. r S then noticed another �g 0 oche policeman ahead of me, and employed the same tactics to avoid him. Un- fortunately, as I rounded the corner of the building,the first ;policeman spied me, but I walked' on as uncon- cernedly as I could until I had put the corner of the new building be- tween him and me. Then I fairly hooked it along the back of the build- ing and rounded the far corner of it. As I did so, I noticed that the po- liceman was coining full -speed, and that he had called the other police- man to his aid. I darted round the next corner, out of sight of both, and was halfway up a ladder at that side of the building, when round the next corner 'came one of the policemen. I at once "froze," keeping absolutely immovable. He drew nearer to the ladder, passing almost under me, and looked in at the doorways of the un- finished building. Then he doubtfully turned and looked back at a shed be- hind him, and finally ran on round the next corner of the power house. The moment he disappeared, I had finished the rest of my run up the ladder, and reached the platform of the scaffolding. My first act was to look for a line of escape in case of pursuit, and presently I found a short ladder :leading to the stage below, al- though it did not go to the ground. Then I proceeded to take notes. From my position I had an _ excellent view of the dockyard and the excavations for the new dock, the dimensions of which I could easily estimate. I whipped out my prismatic compass,. and quickly took the bearings of two conspicuous points on the neighboring hills, and fixed the position so that it could be marked on a large-scale map for purposes of shelling the place. Meanwhile my pursuers, satisfied that I was not in the interior of the power house, proceeded to examine a shed close by. One man went into it, while the other, by accident or design, stood at the foot of the ladder by which I had come; so I climbed down the shorter ladder to the lower story, and from there I quickly swarmed down a scaffolding pole and landed safely on the ground. Here I was out of sight of the man guarding the lad- der, g . and takin • care to keep the cur- ner of the building between us, .I made my way out of the gate without being seen. •P Sunflowers are sometimes used in the manufacture of cigars. To put an egg 'into a bottle without breaking the shell, soak ,the egg, which must be fresh, for several days in strong vinegar. The acid of the vinegar' will eat the lime of the shell, so that while the egg looks the same it is really very soft.