HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-12-27, Page 2TEUTONS ATTACK FRENCH
POSITIONS IN ALSACE AND LORRAINE
EnemySustained Severe Losses and Palled to Gain Territory in
Either Lorraine or in Tipper Alsace,
.A deepateh from London nays:---. erful•" In the Lorraine attack, which
The long -expected attacks by the Ger-- was directed againet the' trenclloe
Mane against the French lines in; north of Reillions, and which eou-
A.lsace-Loi't 1tte were delivered on 1 pletely failed, the Germans left num-
Thurtelay. .Although they did not ! crop;, dead on the ground. In 'Upper
reach the dimensions of n general of Alsace positions south-west of Alt-
fetJsive, the breech Sitar Oifiee de- , kitt.h were attacked, but eget with no
scribes there es r seriocuf' and "pow-! success.
FIELD-MARSHAL - 'throbbing' zone of conflict which, if
employed for peace, would populate
rocs stet ,q't q ,q and pt rpetttatt• a kingdom.
t. °
And when this moving pieture, more
animated than any imaginative play
ever thrown upon cinema screen, has
passed before you. you realize even
before a single shot is firer} that dy-
namic energy and organization of the
higheet order have been tested to a
well-nigh incredible extent,
EVERY INCH A MILITARY ILtN
OI' DISTINCTION.
Co:tleaanler-irt-('bief of BritiA Forces; 'i'lte l'ked•llarshal's 1)ay.
in Franus Has Steiking trite every detail of daily life at
General headquarters the Field -Mer -
lit
ersota z y, ' chars chi t actor is iinpressed, After
A graphic stretch of Sir Doegine lunch, for example, he spends an hour
• Haig at General Ile tdtival tc r is gfv- clone, and in this period of meditation
en by :slew P. ;Mui of :on- in pearson', the whole fateful panorama of the war
pa.iscs before him. When it is over
i\ia„ neine,
the wi •es ::plotter and the fierce light
'GERMANS GIN
UNDER COVER EaR OF FOG
Succeed in 'faking Advance Post
East of Messines.
A despatch from London sayse-
The official report from Field -Marshal
Haig's headquarters Thut edgy night,
reads:
"The enemy raided ono of our poste
early Thursday morning, north-east
of IHargieourt, and '.L'hursday after-
noon, nudes cover of fog, succoodeti in
repotting one of our advanced posts
east ut; Mersines, Othot' hostile raid-
ing parties attempted' to approach our
lines daring the day north -cant• of
Armentieres and north of the Menin
Road, but were driven off by our 'fire,
We captured tt few prisoners anti a ,
machine gun, - A few prisoner's were
taken enilninny casualties inflicted ons
the enemy in the course of patrol en-
counters Wednesday night south -mid
of Carnival. Our own and the enemy's
artillery was active on Thursday.
"A raid attempted by the enemy
last night south-enst of Laventie
(north of Arras) was repulsed by
Portuguese troops. Itxcept for hos.
tile artillery activity in the neighbor-
hood of Yaseehendaele, there is ndtth-
ing further to report"
JERUSALEM AS
IT IS TODAY
POPULATION ABOUT 70,000, TWO.
'111'RO i JEWS,
Of the Ancient City .Little is Left;
Present Bra't's Weee Built in
16th Ccltlu •y,
Jerusalem, which has been ettptuvod
by the {British, has been in the'tinaldy. -
and unties the rule of the Ostoses+tt
Turks since 1610, a span of centuries
which motes on
life in the known history tl' a city •
where Christ walked when Jerusalem
already was very old.
The industries of the city amount
almost to nothing, It has a seaport,
Jaffa, which lies thirty -live milds to
the north-west, a railroad 54 miles
long eennectinge Jaffa with Jerusalem.
The antiquity of the city is " borne
home when one learns that Jaffa an••
ciently was a Phoenician colony its the
lamp of the Philistines, The seaport
is of sufficient importance to export
annually more than 13,000,000 worth
of goods, consisting tttostly cif oranges
and other foodstuffs, its imports being
•x _ _ chiefly cotton goods, cloths and foods,
ly fora brief breath of
•
I found myself its a preemwe that, of the taming night ---the army does
even without the slightest Blue to hienot begin. to light until most people go
profession, would have unconsciously _ to sb:t p is ordained.
mtpicseed itself as military, Dignity, This hui.,hed, the brief period of re -
distinction and a grin-ious reserve
favor -
mingle in its bearing. I have rarely ite h begins. Rain or shine, his e
seen a masculine face so handsome rte horse is ridebrouht to the dear and Ire
and yet so Strang. ttee hair and mous-trot`-; fora ride, usually accompanied t
tache ars fele s by ane or two young -Staff cheers, I LEADING MARKETSHOLY en i L
1
i enter. into'the ]Waking of the greatest
•—
book in the world. It is situated 2,600
Enemy Forces Repulsed by the feet above sea level on'a rocky plateau
in a mountainous region between the
Mediterranean and the Dead Sea,
Incident ie the Halifax Tragedy.
Two sailors digging for bodies, the one on the left looking for the remains of his wife and two children which
he finally found,
VAIN ATTACK
ACK
The 'City of David.
Jerusalem itself is, in the Arabian
BY TEUTONS
U O tongue, "T'1-Kuds," which literally
a �( Fj� means "The }Ioly" of holy cities that
and his clear, almost• have seen Sir Douglas liaig galloping
steely blue eyes search you, but net aloud
thee° smooth French roads,•
'$52000 000 FOR
Allies on Italian Front.
BY MKS
9 9 • A despatch from Rome says: Coin- Thee is a deep elft valley of Kedrot,
HALIFAX RR
I,+ mete repulse of Wednesday's attack or Jehoshaphat, to the east of the
f
unkindly. His Ghost is broad anrl'head up, eyes ahead -a memorable 1(j yA ��-a by the Austro -Garman :forces, whicU
• deep, but scarcely broad enough for fle'ute of irate and motion. Ile rides resent,•, Dee . 24-\tiuiuoba ttheat- rr city, beyoucl which is rho Mount oe
Nr, i \,, t e, 20h;was delivered on the [arson-C!ol Doli Olives, and on the west and south is
ghat point a mass of color against the
"fie t 1 tt 1
g A
Brendetnffs
the rows of service and other ribbons l r I ❑, $ -, • No.., to $_ .ot, --
"fi hose letter -day centaurs -the o. 3, de.. s- tett No. 4 wheat. $2.1J15,
in pier,. I•'ol, Minato, i dl 2fo 1'211110115 �l
f the ("hunch Or•so front, between the Brenta and the tortuous valley of Hinnom, The
eosin bacl;tround nF ]h tl i usirahan ranger and the America -1i lean NI arta lig ate o. Dominion Government Appro. the Piave, was announced by the War southern half of the modern Jerusa-
• h f1 horse. oftl Holy
Stolen. • cowboy. He seem, part o his horse. • 11 uittblt Oafs-- No. 2 r.11,'.. tin . N,'. to Sepulchre ' 0 en. i)i':lation For �tldlCl'er5 Office on Thursday. The enemy suf-
The Cotick out
cavah•y That modest establishment is early � (• �,t, �R3;,•;,t ac•1tt'I Port William. i filled(. \n Ades catch tioln li'ashin tont D.C., ., !fered heavy losses,
training:ticks out ull over him, You to bed, but more than one guest at Au, 11.ur1 ra -No, 3 Yellow:. nondnat. I g From L+'M 00100 New attempts bythe enemy to cross
see it in the long, ehapely lines of his unn r, urs Nn. _, tvl,ux, ,7 to 7%a says; An official despatch received' P Y
legs and i:i the rounded calces in er- General :Headquarters on the way to It0nr1".et: No a, do•, .s m •,,,• mm�itult, hese from Prance says that the Turks; A despatch Pram Ottawa says: The the Piave Vecchia were frustrated,
fectly-poli: bed hoots, with their ' his chamber has passed the office of ae`„r`iitlg to freights uutatde, before surrendering Jerusalem to the Government jlas decided to vote $6,- The place where the enemy gained le of T ro recon which is now large-
jinglethe Commander -in -Chief, and seen c 22' basits,i'in More al. 1\inlet' British brutally mistreated Christian for relief of the Halifax sof- a foothold, on the west banked the } ley
b) the piled u debris
of ilwer n rs. He stands easily and 1 • _ - yy ; p
I t 1 f 1 1 1 fiof the centuries, from the City of Dae
vid, or Zion, and Mount Motvab. The
site of David's city, in fact, is not in-
side the present city walls.
The modern walls of the city were
buil by the Sultan Solyman the Mag- '
n}ficent in the first half of the six-
teenth century, the rest of the walls,
except on the southern side, being
largely anupbuilding y of foundations
'y that are very ancient. The city walls,
IN 191
brief ane business -like reports of with the Halifa :sufferers are to hand, liar No. t. nen, Psi' too._ $15.50 to occupation of Jerusalem, conditions arising out of the war, it
i the gates has been walled up for. een-
operaiiorr, that emanate each stay The Goveroor-General has received a i,i;5nio nn• a, ctrl. $1X ue s15, Week- The same despatch told of Lndigna- is felt that a special. duty rests upon
from his headquei tNra (they are al `Iron - •'ar lora per t,ni 19 is, $•' S0 tion amour Mussulmans of Asia
Lhe Government to afford immediate Curies -rise to a height -of almost
b] Walter L S F F` P t f d b
}em is roughly the site of the main
part of ancient Jerusalem, or upper
city, the upper city being separated on
.the east by a long depression (the val-
gi,lcefully and walks with that rangy,atm a ._t en , a no. , a moa ons y g" e"-----\ , - ',3.'''' ,,, $3-".„t••, t A1ns priests, carried off the famous treas-
. I fevers, This includes the appropria- old Piave, and was driven back to
swinging ,(tide so common, ody ttre•-leaning over a map and begin- ir'tj.ejrets.,eettiiltle e, ,,, to. $1.30• np- ore of fhe Church of the }Io]y Sepal-itron of $1,000,000 already made. An- the water's edge, is the nearest point
Wing the nightly wrestle with the great cordial to tittattts nntst,te chre, Valuedl at millions of dollars, and nonneement of the Government's in- he has approached to Ventre but this
enough, tc lean who ride much. He. ; problem that, reaching out from the ifs' t t h .5 --$ t.ee 10 31.55, me 1 1101 i
was a famous foe -hunter in his under- •,• n fret: lit •nitride. sent to Berlin the church's rceleUrated 'te»tion was contained in a statement snot regarded as a serious menace to
graduate days at Osfard and iitendly house amid the trees, affects teye---�o. . $l.ta. u00ordiug to freights .ostensory of brilliants. !issued by Sir Robert Borden on Thugs -the city, as the remaining stretch i,
td neve the deetiey and Fairly of the whole "Insist • da't marsh of la
save in time of utmost crisis, dues he; Manitoba fleas-1•'Irsl nateura, In Jute 1 11lohsiguor Camassei, the •Patr}arch Y ]tight, which reads: goings, and the occupied
forego his daily gallop, To him the weld. letee egs, $11,110:ee ii.fi "lorniit�u, strong hal.-'of Jerusalem, is said to have been de -
the
"including the million dollars al-1point is within range of the warships
mares t, a business vehicle, Weser ”"" ariee a0nr-1\tnar. ntenr•ding to posed from bbs office, and Father Pic- ready appropriated for immediate aid off the mouth of the river.
:mole, $1.15,, in bags, Montl•e01: Mee, cardo, au Italian priest, to have died to those who have suffered from the I
meant for sport o' pleasure. 060.000 FOR HALIFAX t,rmm�: $s.,n holt., seaboard, prompt recent a allin s a
Although inarticulate about him -I F.N 1. BY di0\G 1tOYG,
shipment r from the effects of Turkish brutalities pp 1, disaster at Halifax TO
�,,� S�°° ,•t le
,ttf 1 -Our rets, dPtit�.E'd ylmnrent � The Church of the Holy Sepulchre the Government intend to make a to-l�� �A1t:'ri„tJ ���d�g
it' Hain has always fettered the rrPl,:ht r.: •. t ,
self ,
frankestrthlicity about his • assn 1 u. a n,1 1 loan uP, 1m,.
y ; Ades retell from Uttaa'a says: Fur- sat: ate»aa, do I+, unldtutgs, lo.. ;had remained unmolested heretofore
tal contribution of five million dollars.
and the t,erfo•uiances of his men. 'Phe' 1 $ Is 1'' 4r• x"od teed n etre per bag, during all the centuries of Moslem As the ',calamity was the result of
thee evidences of practical sympathy 83.25
which are ornamented with..ntany tow-
ers and include eight gates -one of
- ca er•'rlrt rein a er anger eco•e- � •' ' •• 1 •• - Famous (rencll. Aviator •Pel•- or y eel. an cued a circuit of two
nicer' epi r mematjel are emhtewly Lary -- - Minor over the action of a German aid in this large measure,"
tl.•h Colonies, elating that Oonntry Yroanoe-tvnoleaale ' fectzn and a half miles. 114auy of the most
chase• te: istic• of the mac tvho'le name tiers Kong h:ai 'given ten thousand lauttei , reanteac. sour{,:. per tb.. 42'.:general in establishing staff head- g ,Plates for Oen Cllt-
the} bear. 1 pounds "with expressions of deep ,yin- to 4ae, nru,ts, her lb.. 4s to 43gc; dei, y`, ;quarters fn the great mosque of rho ALLIL'S 'f0 JAKE SURPL:iS
1'he Haig 1 ersonalitg, 1e, the ee to ter 1City of Aleppo, near the Syrian C:INADIAN FLOUR AND HEAL.
+ puthy of the colony in the terrible dtc n� a 1 t tali l a h r a ,•ggs, a s to Sup• i border.
Bu, underneath all this poverty of nater Which has befallen them," mutat'—Tisk , iressea, ur., 2$ w
eee: geese dressed in 14 u _
expres._to'i lies a mine of unexplored' The Governor-General has also re= J'nr„toe. - \t 11,1 1t1,os nil raci,iRl .I '+ 1 1 A despatch from Calgary says: It
• eeive,l a cablegram from the Governor g+"''t •i me eerie, eniblels $1.75 for FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY HECY is learned that the
fir:,t-,•l ., r t.. out tae reiuu,. CONCERNING JERUSALEM. purchasing meitts
repro-
of British Guiana that the combined \ 1,,,1 -1, .,1r wog tc u,r. result sentatives ofe the all}ed Governments
court there has cured flue thousand tree. e l w r, tt, n h,a r 11 to — have arranged to tape al] the sur pus
d r.E• - .\ew: hu -3 tr i?i', runs, - P
ethers in aid of the sufferers, Th { to 3- cul It .h •ase..51 ,o co: A despatch from Je u:;alem says. Your and oatmeal manufactured UY
cablegram adds: "The people of Brit- J.nge iwln. _r, to 2 c. The capture of Jerusalem has led to the mills of Canada, and that already
ttuttrr--Kt•esh ettni et•, 4r+ to 41e•
i+h (iulenn hal'.^ heard with greatest ,rerun, r; p -t01N, 4, to Oar; solids, 44 the discussion of a remarkable pro- every mill 'in the Dominion is worlc-
i
interesting and historic points of Jeru-
salem are outside the walled little city.
A despatch from London says: The Most important'. of the city's wall gates
Daily Sketch of Paris says that Jean are the Jaffa, Damascus and Abdul -
Navarre, the famous French airman, Hamid gates.
now out of the army, is busy ps.fect- Four "Quarters" Within Pt'alls,
ing plans for a flight across the At -
Inside the city walls are four "quar-
lantie, The announcement is made tars” -the Christianquarterl efo at the
that Navarre will most probably set north-west, the Mohammedan to the
out to concjuer the ocean next sum- north-east, the Jewish at the south -
men
concert, of disaster which has. be_ to 450. phecy uttered when the Kaiser macre ing to capacity and will continue to do All the preliminary arran cments East and the Armenian at the south -
!
}Halifax and olee•ire to convey Lts.,,',, ' \;.,t L2-1,:11',„,„1.1„,„, i6,, to 65, ; his theatrical entry into thea city on so until the war is over. for the flight have been completed, west. Everywhere are narrow ,treats
itheir sympnihy," et„. t 1 } 1 + :'•. it: !n ate, meet storage, a white charger, dressed to ]oak as j The Calgary mills aro grinding Navarre will use one of the mach°inns with many arched passages, The
A despatch from Iiingston..Tamaica I" 4‘". ,,,,,,11, - 1„far tl,it•1ren:. 27 marls like a crusader as possible. It', Might and day, and the surplus above which the Am,erfcan expert, Glenn houses are as a rule of massively built
aye: The Island Council has voted 1(e -'"'; rein. -std ,•17„•keus, ilr.etuo: reel was said then, according to an ancient can requirements apportioned to Curtiss, has been working on for same walls of hewn stone, often consisting
t70,ni+0 for the relief of the auffei015 ” t" °: ,'re'f's 1'a" "a to $t'Sa° prophecy, the liberator of Jere- t of many detached aparttt,lenis. The
nurse, ,ISG; al.l ,: : 1 ring, _5 u, 2`, r, 1 i y hose planta is being turned over to time. Navarre says 1 will succeed or
from the regent hnrripanc in ,Tamaica genNe, 24c. 801011 would 'enter it, not on horse -'the purchasing agents for the allied lose his lite in the attempt. roofs are flat for the most part, with
fi,e lottlt t- T01ke5N, , Fh' 10
and (1.000 for that of the survivor ^ back but afoot, and would I .,,._._— , uncounted low cupolas relieving the
.,._ !Telefax ock,•1 1 11 ••_'e-. -hent 10 lo Oc: Allah .._, t g
disasterof skylines, a single horse ol'isai boasting
represent' Governments by the managements
Their Excellencies the .Duke and a ri,' e itt43. i4 ,n a2, s> ie 11:1 52 6n; Now that Gen. Allenby has entered I "Fent, -..,r __
' Dnchees of Devonshire have left on a `t'itl'e r stns• 21's nits L's, le to itte.' Jerusalem afoot, his name with very; Carrot Soup.
I special train for.Halifax, where they t'' n'; 1e • 1`y (0 111,n GU's, is to 1si7c. little straining, c',ombines those of Al- I
L'etw ported til i t ascot bus,. , tient one cup of mills, or milli and
• Will visit the hospitals and take steps c^ It's imported t inu,d-6+' I:r n s3.5e u, rah and 'Nehhy, which means -God! white steer, add three-fourths of a
to help the aniferers in the city of the $'' t'"'1 " 1 3''' in the Islamic tongue, The discovery I
- cup of finely chopped call'ats, ono
great disaster, 1 provisions-wltolosal¢ has given the necessary touch of fa-
- ,no's ad uootte- tt 1n,s, medium,•I, t„ talism to his victory to mate it more
o> ' 21e• d: Ileo :I a o. , l.t l 11 to impressive than ever to Eastern
SILK `:%(1113l OF 1Hle SEA. 4' tell to 21e: breakfast bacon, minds.
_-•-.... 5 t 42beefs, Plain, 40 to 41e. bone--
• l t„ to 44,.
. . � I Spial at Thread To Fasten Itself 10 a Cored d a,eais--1 'ug clear b c m. 27+� `
fa -
tablespoonful
FOOD CRISIS IN
GREAT BRITAIN
spoonful of butter, one-fourth of Both Rich and Poor Obliged to
a to teaspoolnful
of salt and one-eighth Stanch in Line For Necessities.
of a teaspoort'ul of pepper. Cook
in a double boiler. A despatch from London says: The
food question in Britain ie rapidly ap-
proaching a crisis. The fourth winter
of the war finds the public, rich and
poor elike, driven to stand for long
hours:to secure daily neetessities such
Ai: tea, butter, margarine and. sugar,
of which the minutest portion is doled
out to each customer regardless of
the size of the family or actual needs
This condition exists in nearly
every large city of the country and
it is worse in London,' where the
situation is so serious and public opin-
ion has risen to such a pitch that
prompt official action to relieve the
situation has been promised and will
soon be forthcoming.
GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS
AT HEAD OFA GR1utvt ARMY
A despatch 1't•otn London says: ---A
despatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from }I'apazanda reports
that Ket'oneky with on army is now
marching against Moscow, while
Granth-sT)uko Nicholas has gathered a
great army of Royalists In the (tuu-
ttaells,
:tock, to 28.; tt teal bellies, 265 to 2ie,
Sir Douglas Haig, I
Lord- t iir,. lard lit es, 2ti4 u, 20c:
i ,11": pails, 1 It "_kart
tnmra,nuL l,w ors, 241 to 2E Heb„ 24$
1"
251,.: pulls, 23 to 256e.
1 Plenty of worms live in.the sea, and
human material, whose richest coin some or them ars very beautiful
creatures, Which latter fact ought to -
:be consoling to ourselves, inasmuch as
there are naturalists who contend that
the earliest ancestor of the human
•
:race was a marine worm.
Bttt the so-called "silkworm of the
'sea" -the designation being purely
figurative and poetical -is a bivalve
• mollusk properly known as the "pin-
na" and native to the 5Fediterranean.
It spins a silk so beautiful that in an
c ieet days lite fibre was reserved e::
dttsively for the weaving c,f royal gar
matte.
This silk is spurt by the mollusk to
furnish an ancho'-line, by which it
fastens itself to a convenient rock
It Is extremely fine and very strong
Cleaned, dried and passed through
combs, it is reduced to delicate threads
of a lustrous brownish -yellow hue,'
which are woven into gloves, Block.;
Ings and other articles. A pair of
torlcings of this material to -day poets
+fie
American Potash.
The production of potash in the
United States is rapidly increasing,
according to figures given out by the
United States Geological Survey. The
production of 1017, it is slated, will
probably be In excess of 26,000 tone,
or two and a half, times that of 1014.1
But this is only 10 per cent, of the
average normal year iv consum,ptiot
e the. country, a ate the \vee potash
cools] be-bo#ight for $JO a ton, but
since l s' mpor. a' on corn ., Germany
is the teal personality of the man him-
self.
i'lost people know that Haig is a
Fife,. beta. what most people do not
know 1 the very illuminating fact that
from his boyhood the aspired to be a
soldier. This ambition took definite
form at 0 ! nrrl, Where he wa.s a atn-
• dent at .fie a.,enose College, He was
never the "hell -fellow -well -met" .•ori
of Person. Reserve was hie hull -mark
Bet he was alnay: an out: doers man,
and he spent all his leisure time in fox
hunting. -
As Ileei rrmUoptd through the
streets of Orford and tEreo, the love-
ly' countryside that hies adjaierit he
was often pointed out: Iiia colleagues
would say --"`There goes young Haig.
He's going to be a soldier."
Tl is, then, is the type of man who
tilts at the fiat ?pped desk at (general
Headquarters with his finger on that
battle puree, responsive to its utmost
quiver. The marvel of motor, tele-
graph and telephone enables him to be
tt constant touch with every unit of
rigs command. Fellow ,),fin, through
- his clay's work and you".pee how the
acne of war is played•= -a war that,
fI�t
baying. 1
v g, tested the resources .and the
eeilfonay of all Europe, has' now ex -
tided 'is dread domain beyond the
Atlantic. to. the situ
e
eh
scope
•oh
Montreal NLnrltets.
5l nutset, I Lee 24- 4fa to -Lundten
Western, No: 3, se7c; extra No, I feed,
h3� lhnrl(-Jinni tcal rine 65p,trg. wheat
rat:,nta, teats, 01160; eueoti4e, 511,10;
1 :Cels. 41.1.,.91);si raittht rollers,
bag $5.20 to 45.271:i.I'.olled irate--Ilatr-
01 :ru lbs, $5.30. Illlfeed 13,a,r, 535;
shorts. $40 to $42, middlings 445 to
$50m0nillte, $511 to $7S fiat - No, 2
per u»e, a, iota, 0 115n, 1 I; is .e ]'inert
5,•;'ie 111 tto; ate., (•,I:,IP,'na. 213 C,
Butt. , t :nest uronci•}, 42}, to 43u;
s r1 41j 1r9 Lead-Ircl), 54 tn•
_ "eI I rl 45- N r 1 etn,.k 41, ; No.
it 37 Is 3Se. I ntt,1 ,0— Per bag, car.
1.t 6L0're 62
Winnipeg drain •
5!-io,;l Pet In,. .:_..lysed -tamest"na--
r 7 ,1,\1' sin•: Na, 3 t SV 74(c;
tri \ 1 Ie.aJ, 7Uto• N0. 1 feed, 731e;
\ 2 fr l lee, 1 aItet---Ns. 1 r„\V.,
41.37; \ 1 d .51 $1.20; refeele,l arta
feed.61.15. Max- --No. 1 N.\\ C 53.116;
t 2 ,t.tt , $2.1148 No, 2 U.\i $+.3011.
ignited States Marltets
Alf lnu 1 It tree. 24 --(oris No. 3
1.1100. 11 a to 51.60. itats No. 3
Rbilt. 705 I she. i'"lour ,aelianged.
Jiren t}4 he $10,5(1
of several cupolas.
Jerusalem has a population of about
70.000, of whom two-thirds are Jews.
The rest of the population is merle
up of Christians and Mohammedans in
the respective proportion of about two
to one.
From the viewpoint of architectural
charm the city's most striking feature
is the Harem esh-Sherif' -late dis-
tinguished sanctuary".-!vhich oerupie4
the site of Temple Hill, It is a rect-
angle, 600 by 300 yards. paved with
marble, with ancient stones of great
size at late corners. Prom the centre
of the marble pave rises the magnifl-
`' t" "s' as h °f ,' 4 cent mosque of Kubbet es-rakhrtt (the
"dome of rock," or sacred rock), an
octagonal building surmounted by an
imposing dome which was built by tits
caliph Abdel Malik, who reigned from
(186 to 7015.
Many Religious Edifices.
Near the temple area is the Via Do-
lorosa, or Roach of Sulferieg. Half a
utile to the west of Rabbet c's Sekhra"
is the world femme; Clmrch of the
hely Sepulchre. about the dtty, in-
side the walla and just outride, ere
noted religious institution. --the ;;Teat
Greek Monastery and the Coptic and
Franciscan, the Armenian and other
monasteries and the orthodox Greek
Church, There is the RP; eisn Cntlte-
dral in the Russian settlenir•nt in the
north-west eubuu'bs, the Getheeninne
,Church of the Russians t vh it h is just
outside the city to the wttet on the
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.,>� P'� �� � >;.? : a,' � q " ' � ,rutty(,,'•: slope of. the Mount of c)iives: and the
Jews have more utast seventy-five syn
ago.•ues within and around the city.
The religious edifices listed are but
a small pari of the -chute hes and mon.
k'' ^"`;' „ �.. Y1510 , i8kt"'e350t " •d' arteries of Jerusalem. Alec) the d:it.y
boasts of a great tuunber of c+dneattmt-
al institutions, hospittll,i and other
philanthropic edifices run Ity various
religions bodies of - all nationalities
from fel' parts of the world. Most of
these are in the suburbs, where ;Idea
the European consulates are cluttered,
The ancient citadel, a mass of great
walls and towers, is clo'te to the Ge
of Jaffa , In the outskirts oe the ei
are about'twenty-flea Jewish colo
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Li05 Stock. 1Prark515
I ones lost. 24 I ittta chides. heavy
steers, 1111 to -012; ,l. gust beery, •
110.75 t 411; hnl hest entrlt, thr,l ti;1
811.00 Ir. $10.7 i, (1, good, a
in, medium, $9 to 1735 1o.. t,+nnu4i1.
8 25 t" 40 1.11; b tt hctsf buil chntme,
'rough belie $ '2S to ever: butchers
n•. 5, ehr ..It to $10 d0., gond
oa 1r, .r, dn„ ulPrlinub S7.'i5 la $i•
pom_,;e
I moth ,m bulla $7.1n 'Io $7,35; (I!.i •
t'e'e vis rkera, t u to $$.11i; f,,kI I $D.111; to
110: 0;ot and ,if mere 4;Ira45,10:.
convey an runts, free 4frr I Ln 1 Ire. $ 15 t 1 k1•I (I;
, ,., rem and used,. $ 5 1u $90 sit lagena, j
age hosts
l t1 t B f 1 p tach 11tI to 1110, 1tghl 4113 ,i” tt 1$111
of: oji
Terns of t { t t{ tf '011rsf go to ,peri a $12.•k0 to, I0,zrr,
of that ceased it llas risen to 5460 a ton;
b r5, Watt ,6 to t( ', nge,
$i 50 to 51,1 65; la.rnhv $17,25 to 413.25;
u i
1er4 NI and w0rrat 41K, rte, 84'1i:bed
on (are,$$,18.25, do„ 1.0,1x., $1.7. •'i
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To 'Women.
I wish 1 could say something to you
to make you realize .y1ur worth, and
the high price you ought to sot on
yourself, Do you know you are the
one thing in the world the man wants
most of all? He may give hie 'onto
and Moe and money -le other things,
but for you he will give his soul'
'When washing white woodwork put
a little turpentine into the 'water and
it will he a great help.
Brazilian Government has decided to
send the six best nits of the Brazilian
hilt,y to I",irropean-waters.
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