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aOlT.I E BRITISI PENSION LIST
eheme in Its Entirely Will Involve
a Capital Charge of
1996,000,000 and for the First Two Years $25,000,000,
A despatch from London saysMinisti7r of Pensions Ramos gave
solne astonishing figures in the House
of Commons on 'Wednesday when he
calve to review the operations of the
Pensions Department. He explained
Diet the Ministry had charge of the
following:
Disethied men, 140,276
Children of disabled men .. , , 167,544
Widows , . , ... . , , 62,796
Children of widows 12$,294
Dependent on deceased men , 29,882
Total on books 618,741
Besides those therewere 125,000
widows Who ere now drawing leper-
titian allowances, but will soon go oel
the pension 119t; 05,000'men in hospi-
tals, and 06,000 mon medically unlit,
Those egures brought the total /em-
ber of men, women and children to
778,741. Medically unfit, of whom
over 100,000 were not to be granted.
pensions, were to be put back where
the State found them: In exceptional
eases there would lee a gratuity of
£i00. The scheme in its entirety
would involve a capital charge of
£396;000,000, and for the first two
years £25,000,000.
LEADING MARKETS
Breaastuffs,
,-.Toronto, March 13 Manitoba wheat
New No, 1 Northern, $$30633; No, 2;
do., 8g3,024; No, 3, do., 31009; No, 4
81.869 track Bay ports,' all rail delivered
Montreal freights. No. 1, 93.06.
Manitoba oats --No: 2 C.W., 740 tO
709e; No, 3 C,W.. 73 to 740; extra No, 1
feed, 78 to 74o; No, 1 feed, 713 to 729c,
nomlnp;l, all rail delivered en route
C, Americantscorn—' No. 3 yellow, $1.212.
eUOntario embargo. 2 white, 65 to 670,
nominal;. No, 8 white. 64 to 66c, nomi-
nal, according to freights Outside.
Ontario Wheat—No. 2 Winter,. per ear
lot, $1.84. to $1861 No. 3, do., $1.82 to.
91.84, according to freights outside.
Paan— No. 2, 92,60, according to
freights u
g s o telco.
Barley—Malting, $1,22 to $]..24.
Buckcyvheat—$1.28, nominal, according.
to freights outside, '
stye—No. 2, $1.41 to $1.43, according to
freights outside.
Manitoba flour—First patents, in jute
ba e,. 60.70; second patents, in jute bags,
$860.8.200;, Toronto, strong bakers', hi jute bags,
.Ontario flour—Winter, according to
Sample, 97,05, in'bags, track Toronto,
prornpt shipment; 67,26 bulk seaboard,
export grade. -
21111feed—Car lots delivered Montreal
freights, bags included—Bran, per ton,
$28; shorts, per ton,$42; good feed
flour, per bag, $2.70 to $2.80,
May—IUstra No. 2, per ton, $12 to
To$12.58•ronto,mixed, perton. 99 to 911, track
Straw—Car lots, per ton, $6.60 to $9,
RIMILSSY track Toronto.
CANADIANS ESCAPED
FROM GERMANePRISON
BEFOREHARVEST Every German Soldier Longs to
Food Controller Says
Reserves of Bread Are
} Exhausted.
A despatch from Landon says: The
Prussian food controller, Dr. George
Michaelis, made in the Prussian Diet
on Wednesday what the Koelnische
• Zeitung calls a serious speech on the
food situation, says a Reuter despatch
from Amsterdam. Dr. Michaelis de-
clared that the distress was such the)
a inore severe state of clings, espe-
cially in the large industrial' centres,
could hardly be imagined. He indi-
cated the possibility that all surplus
stocks of grain would' be exhausted,
'and said that very radical measures
were needed to enable the people to
hold out until next year.
"We have in the third year of the
war," the food controller is quoted as
saying, "discovered that among all
sections of the people the general
"- feeling evidenced is not one of that
endurance for which we have hoped'.
This is human nature, but it is highly
deplorable, and may have most seri-
ous results.
"We have not perceived in the
towns that stern supervision which is
absolutely necessary in the distribu-
tion of foodstuffs. There has been
wide -spread abuse of bread -tickets,
entailing grave consequences as re-
gards our stocks. Bread tickets have
been illegally used on such a shock-
+'Slg scale that our entire reserves were
exhausted. So when potatoes failed
and bread was ordered as a substitute
there" was none available. Flour has
been similarly reduced, owing to simi-
lar irregularities in the mills."
Dr. Michaelis concluded by urging
the utmost severity to remedy the
short -comings while there was yet
time. Sume of the mills would have
to be closed and the municipalities de-
. prived of their autonomous powers.
Rationing and requisitioning must be
strictly applied with respect to eggs,
milk, butter, fruit and vegetables. He
added:
"We are coefrontetl with the
thought of what would happen if this
measure also should fail and what
grin sta./Nation there would be if sud-
denly during the closing months of the
economic year the should fine] there
was insufficiency and we could" not
hold out. The ensuing misery would
be indesclibnble,"
EMPTYING BELGIUM
OF ALL USEFUL GOODS
A' despatch from Havre, France,
-_,
sa,37 s.: General vet Bissin Governor
elnox
of Belgium, has issued a decree order-
ing the seizure throughout Belgium of
rtain articles for removal to Ger-
Many whet] the quantities held by any
• owner exceed certain specified num-
bers or weights. There are sixty
articles on the list, including table
cloths, i kins, silks, manufactured
or raw; waterproof stuffs and gar -
/Mute, oil cloths, woolen yarns, fibres
of every sort, animal stair, bristles,
felt, old or new blankets, tarpaulin,
leggings, knee bandages, and other
sanitary artieles. The country, so
cording to advices received here, is bee
ing emptied under this decree of
everything useful to Germany,
COUNT ZEPPELIN
REIIORTED DEAD
A. despatch from Tendon says :—
According to a Berlin telegram trans -
vatted by Renter's Amsterdam cor-
t'espoedent, Count Zeppelin died on
Tltut'sday forenoon at Cherloetenburg,
ileal.•Berlin, from ieflalnination of the
!lige.
Escape the Western Front.
A despatch. from London says: --
Privates (16367) Thurgood, of Van-
couver, and (24861) Sam Gordon, of
Montreal, taken prisoners in April,
1915, members of the original conting-
ent, have succeeded in escaping, and
have reached England. The men
state they had not much. difficulty in
escaping with the rivers frozen.
Parcels are reaching the prisoners
much more irregularly lately, which is
evidence that Germany's transport
difficulties are increasing. The con-
dition of the prisoners' -camps are not
so good as was once the case, but these
men think this is not due to theguard,
who are anxious to treat prisoners as
well as possible, in order to avoid trou-
ble in camp. When trouble does arise
the guards are packed off to the west-
ern front, Every German soldier ad-
mits he fervently hopes to avoid such a
fate. Thurgood and Gordon were
taken care of well after crossing the
frontier, and were sent to England
with seven other British who also
escaped and nearly 260 Russians. The
latter, say the Canadians, escape in
large numbers.
POTATO EMBARGO
IS NOT NOW LIKELY
Minister Finds Surplus of Some 'Two
Million Bushels.
A despatch from Ottawa says: An
ofdoial statement given ant by the Act-
ing
owing Prime Minister, Sir George Foster,
an Thursday disposes of the story that
an embargo will be placed an the ex-
port of potatoes from Canada. The
statement says:. "Information gather-
ed from official and unofficial sources
from all parts of Canada indicates a
substantial surplus of potatoes over
and above seed and feed require.
meats. Vader these ' cireunlstenees
the Gavernment dons not thtnic that
at present an embargo is justified."
The potato surplus in Canada at pre -
and above seed and feed require- three-quarter millions^ The eleven
remits for seed and food purposes un-
til the next harvest Is estimated by months' expenditure on capital se -
the Department of Agriculture at count was $239,697,008; on current ac -
about two million bushels. count, $113,161,357. In the same
period war outlay was $217,590,6'70,
BELGIAN INDUSTRIES about double the amount of last year.
ARE TO BE SHUT DOWN
• AMPUTATED ARM
A despatch from Amsterdam says: WAS PUT BACK AGAIN
-The Telegraaf says there will be an --
almost complete stoppage of industry Amaging Operation on Soldier Re-
in Belgium within a few dayee the - ported to be Successful;
Gorman authorities asserting that this A despatch from London says
Country Produce—Wholesale.
JERUSALEM SOON
TO BE BRITISH
Troops Are Advancing Through
Palestine Within Forty
" Miles o the City.
A despatch from Washington says:
—Jerusalem, the ancient capital of
Palestine, may soon.be in the hands
of the British as well as Bagdad, ac-
cording to despatches received here on
Wednesday. These reports say the
advance guards of the British troops
advancing through Palestine from
Egypt are within forty miles of the
city. One despatch had them at EI
Clialil, which is in the mountains of
southern Palestine and about twenty
miles from Jerusalem. The allied
troops are now invading Asia Minor
from three sides, one British force ad-
vancing into Palestine from Egypt,
another operating in the Tigris Val-
ley, while the Russians are fighting on
the Persian front.
"It is believed here that if the Brit- t
ish succeed in taking Jerusalem the s
American refugees there, numbering
over a thousand, will choose to remain
instead of attempting to proceed to ds
Beirut to secure transportation to the e
United States es they had planned. e
The British capture of the city would n
also open a new route out of Turkey
for the Americans who wished to re- b
turn to the United States in any event.
Butter—Fresfl dairy, choice, 87 to 39c;
ereurnery prints, 43 to 45c; solids, 42
co 480.
Eggs—New-laid, in cartons, 96 to 46c;
out 0f cartons, 42 to 43o.
Dressed poultry—Chickens, 23 to 26c;
fowl 20 to 220; dunks, 22 to 25e;
squabs,
6 to 82aer goose, 748 to too 4,60; turkeys,
Live. poult-iy—Fowl, lb., 18 to 220;
ehicicens, 1b,, 18 to 33e.
Cheese—New, large, 263 to 260; twins,
26 to 201e; trl,plets, 203 Co 36$0; old,
large, 2790; twins,'272 to 28e.
Floney—White clover, 23-1b. tins, 14 to
149e; 6-1b. tins. 123 to 14c; 10 -Ib., 18 to
1330; 80-1b., 120 to 130; buckwheat, 00-
1b. tins 9 to 99e. Comb honey—extra
fine and heavyweight, per doz., $2.76;
select, $2,60 to .92,76; N0. 2, 92 to $2,26,
Potatoes—Ontat•So, per bag, $3.80;
New Brunswick Delawares, per bag,
bertae, pet• bag', $3.76.
Deans—Imported, bend -picked, per
bush., $6.26; Canadlan,hand-pelted per
bush., $7.00; Canadlan rti tse 88.6'0 00
$7.00; Limas, per Ib`, 129 to 130.
Provisions—Wholesale.
Smoked meats--I-Tams, medium, 26 to
27e; do,;*heavy, 32 to 24c; cooked, 87 to
28c; rolls, 21 to 220; breakfast bacon,
27 to 290; baehs, plain, 30 to 31c; bone-
less, 33 to 24c.
Lard—Pure lard, tierces, 22 to 21990
tubs, 231 to 2280; palls, 229 to 28. c
compound, 173 to 179c.
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 18 to
139c per ib; clear bullies, 13 to 189.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, Mar. 13,—Corn—American
.No, 2 1•ellew, $1.38 10 $1.35. gats—
Canadian western, No. 2, 77 to 700; No.
75 to 76o; extra No. 1 feed, 75 to 75e.
Barley—'rating, 91.25. Finer•--eranl-
oba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 99,80;
000nds, $9,30; strong bakers', $9.10;
Winter utsnts,
83,80; choice,do$9.25„hg'
; straight
rollers, 3.50 to $4.10 to.
84.25, Rolled oats—T.9bls, 97.00as, to $7,15;
o„ bags, 90 lbs., 82.36 to $3.46. 3R.tlU to $33,05. Shorts, $3000 to B$r4an—
Ii6ddlings, $41.00 to $42.00. Aloulllle—
at' .00loo 9513050 IoIay9-24Neo0, 2, per ton, es eese—
'nset Westerns,0o0 2260 to Butte'' -t Choicest
reamers, 481°10 44c; seconds, 90 to 420,
ggs—Fresh, 3. to 440, _ i otatoes—T'er
ag, car rote, $3.00 to $3.60.
Winnipeg tirain.
Winnipeg,
1nNorthern, $l 879; prices s2
orthern. 81,841; No, 3 Northern, 91,782;
No. 4, $1.671; No, 5, 91.430; No. 6, 91.159;
cod, 81.00. Oats—No. 2 0.w„ 627c; No,
C.88., 60c; extra No, 1 feed, sac: No.
fend, eeere No. 2 feed, 589o, Barley—
o. 3, 1.04; No. 9. 99e; rejected, 84e;
sed, 84e. Flax—No,. 1 N.W.C. 92,607;
O. 2 CW„ $2.602,
DOMINION REVENUE w
GREATLY INCREASED N
War Outlay in 11 Months Double
Amount Last Year. N
A despatch from Ottawa says: N.
Dominion revenue for the. eleven
months of the fiscal year totals $205,-
417,089, as compared with $1541348,-
809 in the same period last year. For
the whole year the estimate is $225,- o
000,000 February revenue was $17;
613,476, an increase of about two and a
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, Mar', 33,—Wheat—May,
1.889; July 1,81; cash—No, 1 hart?
2.079 to $2.009; No, 1 Northern, 91.,009
o $2.039; No. 2, do., $1.949 to $2,029.
C rn—No, 3 ,yellow, $1.032 to $1,069.
Oats—No. 3 white, 67 to 59e. Flour—
nehanR, ect. Bran—$33 to $39,
Du7utin, Afar, 18,—Wheat—No. 1 hard,
1,000; No. 1 Northern, $1,062; No, 2,
,Tnty, 0.812 a41.519; , I inseed l-' Linseed—To arrive;
$2,$9; Achy, $2.91; SulY, $9.92,
.Live Stook Markets.
Toronto, March r3,—Choice heavy
steers $7.0,75 to $11.25; do., good, 910,15
to 3g10 60,. butchers' cattle, clnolea $10.25
to $10 501 do„ goad, $.1,90 to $SO 4n. do
model tun, $0,60 to $0'i6 do
1 common, 83 R oJsJ 15 i2 1L+MrB.3B881
to $3,90; butchers' bulls, choice, 95.75 to
do., m do., good buns, $8.90 t0 $9,00;
o., medium 'bulls, $7,90 to $3.00; do.,
rough bulls,, 95 to 95.26 .butchers' cows, ,
choice, 99.50 20 910; 60, good, I8.50 to
4
do„ niedtum, $7 to $7.25; stockers, T� 5 ENE Y511
7 to $3.60; choice i'eede42. $0 fo $10'
"ARMY BEHIND
ARMY" FORMED
Eighteen Thousand British Wo-
men Going to France.
A despatch from London says :—
Eighteen thousand women have volun-
teered to go to France and form a
British woman's army auxiliary corps.
These recruits for the "army behind
the army" will bo sent out in batches
of 200. Full
preparations have been
made for hotel billeting and accom-
modations.
Those directing the formation of
the corps say that the women are de-
lighted at the opportunity to serve the
army in the field, and keenly' devote
themselves to the required instruc-
tions in hygiene and discipline. Three
weeks are given to training before
the volunteers leave England. This
training .includes a military drill suit-
able for women, and each voluntter is
inoculated.
Five thousand will be despatched to
France as soon as possible. The to-
tal number that can be employed on
the west front is not yet known, but
doubtless thousands will ultimately
be enrolled to relieve men of certain
duties in connection with the large
army undergoing training in the
United Kingdom.
Though the announcement that a
woman's corps would be accepted was
made only nine days ago, the applica-
tions for enrollment have been so
numerous that no more will be con-
sidered for the present. ' The women
act as., typists, shorthand writers,
cooks, waitresses motor transport
drivers, storehouse keepers, checkers
of unskilled labor, telephone, tele-
graph, and postal' workers, and aids
in miscellaneous services.
Women between twenty and forty
years of age are accepted. They
work forty-two Hours a week for good
wages. Enlisting for twelve months,
they receive a bonus of five pounds if
they re-enlist at the e4Sd of the year.
CANADA BUSY
BUILDING SHIPS
Shortage of Ocean Tonnage
Results in Increased
Activity.
A despatch from Ottawa says:—
Shortage of ocean tonnage and con-
sequent high charter rates have re-
sulted in increased activity in ship-
yards in Canada with a probability of
still greater activity in the near
future. Reports so far received here
indicate that more than ono hundred
vessels ranging in size from 260 tons
to 6,000 tors steamships aro now
under construction, Sailing vessels
are in the majority and most of them
are being built on the coast of West-
ern Nova Scotia. Indeed it is stated
that many yards in the Maritime
Provinces which had been idle since
steam replaced sail have now ships
on the stocks.'
Two yards at Toronto, those of the
Polson and Thor Companies are re-
ported to be building steel steamers
and there is activity in shipyards at
Port Arthur, and on the Pacific const.
Norwegian capital is said to be inter-
ested in steamers now in course of
construction,
is necessary owing to the ]tick of coal son of the Hon. J. O'Grady, a member m
and transport facilities. Practically of Parliament, was wounded several er
the entire population of Belgium will months ago in France in such manner sh
be thus unemployed, with such few ex. that his arm had to be amputated, The Si
ceptions as receive special permission surgeons cut off the arm, removed the ho
from the civil authorities to continue shattered bone and then put the arm we
inners and nutters, $6.26
ilkers, good to Ohojes, 885 to 411.:10;;5g! .
h. and med., each, $40 to $00; spring'-
s, $50 t0 $110• light ewes, $10 to $10.75;
cep, Itepv1. $x, to to 88960; ensuas, good
choles, $12 to $1:3; ;lambs, choice,
9,26 to $]6,' 40 medium, ' tgo$ to $12;
TM fed and watered, $15,76 to $101 de.,
ighed off cars, $16.10; do.,-f,o,)J;, 614.79
$14.00,
Montreal, Mar. 1.5,—Cholte steers,
0,75; o0t1 93 to $10; choice cows and
11s, $00; goad cows and balls, 8e to
60; canners' bulls, $6 to 86; canners'
Is, 65; calves, choice milk -fed, $12'
$14; others, $6 to $8; sheep, es to
hoes, iofllioats12915,501 to $15,75; select
$1.2,00.
their businesses. 1, t to
5,000 FORESTERS WANTED.
More Canadians Called For Owing to
'Timber Import Prohibition.
A despatch .from Ottawa says :—
A call has been issued for 5,000 more
Canadians for forestry work in the.
United Kingdom, as a result of the
prohibition of timber imports. They
will go over in drafts, Lumbering
experience is necessary, but military
medical regulations aro somewhat re-
laxed.
WOMAN CONDUCTOR,
SCORES IIOR I18111 8E1C
A tlespatth from London sa. s 1•-
A train ear at I xeter ran away down-
hill, struck the parapet of a bridge
and overturned. One woman was. kill-
ed, and two Were injured, Tho wo-
man conductor stuck to the car with
groat pluck until Iltf;tlted off by a
h.ystet'ieal womah passenger, The
wetnalt conductor was only slightly
Inert, and notes n vi0to'y on behalf of
her sex in Iti man's job.
c again, setting the bone and sew-
ing tendons.
g s. The arm has now �1r
healed and is gaining strength, The $e,
patient can use it effectively, Th ul
only defect is that it is two inches
shorter than the other arm.
GERMAN PEAcp TERMS
READ LIKE A JOKE
A despatch fromnl'3avro says; --Tho
Gorman averment, according to in-
fot'mution received here through con-
fidential agents,' is considering the
publication of Germany's terns of
peace. Uncle these terms, Belgium
would be declared independent„ sub-
ject only to permanent German gar-
risons at Antwerp, Liege and. Namur,
and to the cgntsol by Germany of
ports and railways, Belgium, under
the tennis, would have no national
army, but would be policed by a gen-
darmerie.
A Nonentity.
Jack -•-.But what does ,your father
see in me to objeat to?
Edith—He doesn't
see snnytlnitig in
you. That's why lie objects,
IIIEAT CONSUMPTION
IN BRITAIN DECLINES
A despatch' from London says :—
There has been a substantial diminu-
tion of meat consumption in Groat
Britain as the result of the recent ap-
peal to the people by the Food Coon-
troller, asking that thele place them-
selves on ra.tious. In consequence of
this, it was stated in the .l3ousoofCofn-
mond 011 Wednesday, there is no in-
tention at present to introduce come
pulsory meatless days. The totems
allowed, it was said, an increased dis-
position an the part of the public to
adopt voluntary rationing, The Even-
ing News says that Ba,1on Devonport,
the Food Coetroller, has decided to
put into elfeet measilses to eegulate
the prices of bee0ti, batter, cheese alit1
lard,
Repeated Violations of Usages
of Warfare Are Enumerated.
A despatch from Petrograd says:—
The Russian Foreign Office has trans-
mitted eel to the
_ (iavernmenta of Ger-
many, Austria, Bulgaria and Tuckey a
leegtjiy protest against alleged viola-
tions of usages of w,;rfare, attaching
citations of ntmnerous specified in-
stances, and asserting tate right to re-
taliate in kind. The violations enum-
erated were compiled by a special com-
mittee appointed for that purpose.
Each citation, it is stated, was amply
verified, The abuses charged include
the use of explosive bullets, gas, burn-
ing liquid and poisoned missiles, the
poisoning of wells, misuse of Parlia-
mentary (Peg of truce) and Red'Cross
flags, killing of the wounded, throwing
of bombs upon sanitary trains and the
sinking of the hospital ship Portugal.
Ills Proper, Place.
"I'm surprised to hear you say that
you don't enjoy motoring with Mr,
Twobble."
"It's because I see so little of him
you know," said Mee, Twobbiit. `
"But if he's with you—"
"That's just it, 11e isn't with mo,
Most of the time ]re's uluder the ear,"
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that Loop not contain alum and
Which has ult Its ingredients
piaMly stated on the Mabel.
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WHAT TILE WESTERN PEOPLE
ARE DOING,
Progress of the Great West Told
in a Few Pointed •
Paragraphs.
Since its inception, the Poet Coquit-
lam branch of the Canadian Patriotic
Fund has assisted 31 families, includ-
ing 86 children.
The Canadian steamer Kingsway has were reported as having occurred
2a 070i Vancouof
amongst the many thousands of men
20,000 ived poundsaof halibutver fromwitha thecargo nor- of the C.E.F. iii Canada, and this,
amo,
thein banks, notwithstanding the fact that typhoid
At Vancouver news has been receive fever is a disease especially affect..
ed by friends that Theodene Ludgate, ing young adults from seventeen tel
of Dead Man's Island fame, died in thirty years of age, and a disease
the east. which is endemic in all parts of Can -
It will take two weeks to repair the ads,
Grand Trunk Pacific steamer Prince This comparative freedom on thol --- ----1
John, which recently grounded at the part of the C.E.F. is seen to be. most'
Wrangell Narrows, striking when it is recalled'' that dur-
At Victoria a distinguished party of ing the Boer War one man out of
Japanese naval officers ed u',terms in 4
Hon. J. A, Macdoneld Chief Justicepon of South Africa was invalided through. y
every nine in the British
the Court of Appeal. this disease, and that in the Spanish- j
Sub.-Lieut.bWalter Holden Legge is American war, of 107,000 men in the
se -
of
CANADIAN TROOPS
FREE FROM TYPHOID
Only 167 Cases Reported int
Dominion During the
Past Year.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The Department of Militia and De.,
fence has announced that for th
twelve months ending December 81e
1916, 167 cases only of typhoid fever
A
A
just reported to have been accidental-
ly killed while flying in England. He
belonged in Okanagan, B.C.
Good progress is being made with
the work of constructing the , ferry
slip at Patricia Bay for the Canadian
Northern Pacific Railway Company.
A cable has been received at Van-
couver giving the vote on the prohibi-
tion referendum at 1,406 against and
221 for at London, England.
At South Vancouver the council has
authorized the signing of an agree-
ment with Spitzer, Rorick and Co., of
Toledo, Ohio, for a loan of $450,000.
The Craig and Taylor Lumber Co.
has purchased expensive timber limits
in Langley, and will instantly mill
with a capacity of 60,000 feet per day.
Well merited promotion has come to
811'. W. E. Ditchburn' of Victoria, who
has now been appointed chief inspect-
or of Indian agencies for the province,
At Vancouver the city council or-
dered that all the information collect-
ed by the high cost of living commit-
tee be sent on to Ottawa without com-
ment.
The Esquimalt Council are petition-
ing for aid from. the Provincial Gov-
ernment to make an immediate com-
mencement on the work at the docks.
Passenger traffic on the British Co-
lumbia electric city and suburban lines
in January numbered 2,514,132, which
is an increase of 191,846 over January,
7916
The, canneries located along the
Fraser River are reported to be mak-
ing active preparations for the coming
salmon season. This is the "big -run"
year.
Lieut. J. 0. 1liisquith; of the Royal
Artillery, is reported dead of wounds.
He served for. some time in the Royal
North-West Mounted Police in Can-
ada.
At Vancouver it was announced 'at
the C.P.R. offices that plans have
been practically completed for the two
new car ferries to be built for the
coast service.
WILL PLOW BY SEARCHLIGHT.
Britain To Lnport 2,000 Tractor Plows
From Anienica.
"Wo want 2,000 American tractor
plows for the use of a civilian army
of night plowers which we are about
to enlist throughout the British
Isles," said Sir Arthur Lee, Director -
General of Food Production to the As-
sociated Press. "We are going to
equip them with headlights for night
plowing. Laborers can only work
eight hours, but tractors can work
twenty-four hours. They will be
taxi -cab chauffeurs, who will be able
to learn their• mechanism in a few
hours.
"Behind every plow will be a skill-
ed farmer. They will be assisted by
camps at Tampa, Florida, and el
where, who had not left the shores
the United States, 20,000 contractea
the disease. The remarkable than
can only be attributed to the proses
of inoculation.
The Provincial Board of Health for
Ontario has supplied to date all the
typhoid and paratyhoid vaccine used
by the entire Canadian Expeditionary;
Force (about 450,000 men). -bean;
nearly 600,000 doses have been sup-;
plied free of cost.
TWO GARDEN FAVORITES. ,
Mignonette and Portulaca Should
Have a Place in Every Collection.
No garden is quite complete with
out mignonette and portulaca. Either
requires only ordinary care and culti-
vation and thrives in most any soiI,'
Naturally, the richer and deeper the
soil and better the care they receive
the better the results will be in the
,quantity and size of the flowers.
Mignonette is usually treated as an
annual, the seeds sown every year, but
if the plants are preserved in pots
over winter in a few years the stem
will become woody and a shrubby,
plant result.
The scent of mignonette is always
strongest when it is grown in light;
sandy soil; when grown in rich loam
it is inclined to lose its fragrance.
For early flowering plants seed can
be sown in April. For tree mignon-
ette, as the plants are called when
they become shrubby, take a strong
April seedling, pot it separately and
nip off the flower buds as fast as
they appear, cutting off all the-1owoi •
side shoots in the autumn, giving the
plant the appearance of a small tree.
At that time transfer to a larger pot
with fresh soil and keep it growing in
e, warm place all winter, repeating the
operation the following autumn. Do
not permit the plant to bloom until
the third season, after that it will
flower every summer for a number of
years.
Portulaeas thrive most anywhere
and will grow and flower where prob-
ably no other plant will do so won.
They prefer a light, warm soil, where
they have the full benefit of the sun.
The seed should not bo sown until the
ground is warm. Nothing is gained
by early sowing. The plants grow
rapidly and make a fine display of
flowers from July until cut,dowree by
frost. Portulaeas are exeeilent 'fol'"'
rock work and on sunny banks.
BRITISH AVIATORS
STILL MASTERS OF AIR
A despatch from London says:-,
Replying to a question in the 7Tn,,ee
prisoners, conscientious objectors, o£ Commons on Wednesday, James
Members of the home defence forces MacPherson said the Government did
and women. In this way ni a hope to
not accept the accuracy of the report
produce enough food to make us in-
dependent of outside help as long as
recently sent from Berlin that the
Germans had Brought down eighteen
War lasts. We do not believe we aeroplanes of the western front in ova
will be able to produce sufficient to day. False statements such as '!noes
feed the population in time of peace, Were made in order to elicit the truth,
but are confident we will be able to T can assure the members," he added,
grow enough to stave 088 starvation "that we.still maintain mastery of the
air.,,
during the war.
"Fol this we thank the German --......„1,______...
submarines. They already have n-.._e—e—e—p_-e---p—,0_0-0--0-0
given England an agricultural policy
which i destined tomake h
S t e1 to a
large extent self-supporting. The
subnterines also have revived rural
life, and given the farmers a minimum
wage, and generally nmacle our na-
tional defence more effe'ctivo than a
thousand speeches in Parliament."
Huge Bullfrogs,
0r T WITH 1'IN(rLRS
How to loosen a tender corn
or callus so it lifts out
• without pain.
LIFT CORNS .
Let .folks step on your feet here-
after; wear shoes a size smaller if you
The largest bullfrogs in America
like, :for corns will never again send
are to bo foutid not in Canada, as itas electric sparks of pain through you,
been generally supposed, but in the according to this Cincinnati authority,
Southern States. The New York Zoo. Ile says that a few drops of a drir
logical Park has about a dozen specie called freezoue, applied directly upon -'-
'none of these immense frogs (Rana a tender, aching corn, instantlyre-
catesbiana), each of which weights sieves soreness, and soon the entire
corn, loot and all, lifts right out
over two pounds. Ono of them
weighs two and one.half pounds and
is eighteen inches long. Its hoed is
over throe inches wide, Its voice is
like a prolonged deep bass chord from
a groat organ. The true Southern
bullfrog (Rana gryli0), on the other'
hand, seldom weighs over half a
pound.
This ding dries at once end simply
shrivels up tate corn or callus without
even ir1•ltating the surrounding them.
A shall bottle of freezoue obtained
at arty drug store will cost very little
but will positively remove overt/ hard
o: soft cion or callus -from one's foot.'
I'f your druggist hasn't stocked this
.Don't think that by being miserable stew d'nig yet, tell ltlm.to getsniatl.
freozOne for you
here on earth you will be Any happier Bottle of Elio. ]lis`
ill
heaven—ityou happen to got 'Boron vi1o1'esale drug !louse.
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