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History of the Company. That is the best
evidence of public esteem.
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ONE MEATLESS DAY WEEKLY
ORDERED IN UNITED KINGDOM
Potatoes Can Only be Eaten in Great Britain on Two Days in the
Week.
A despatch from London says; bread at meals served in hotels, re.•
Baron Deyonport, the British Food ' staurants, boardinghouses and clubs„
',Controller, has ordered that, begin-
ning April 15, in hotels, restaurants`,
"hoarding -houses and clubs, there shall
be ono nientiess day weekly. In Lon-
don the day will be Tuesday. Else-
where in the United Kingdom it Will
be Wednesday, •
The CotltrolIer has also ordered that
no potatoes or food containing pota-
toes shall be allowed, except on meat-
less days and on Friday.
The order imposes restrictions on
the quantities of meat, sugar and
The scale for meat is for breakfast,
two ounces; luncheon, five ounces, and
dinner, five ounces. The bread restric-
tions call for two ounces at all these
Markets of the World
nreadutnrre Whi}�
_Not 0, Nprth'een. t2 20i,
Nl�, t1, 4o„ $2A791
No, 2, clo„ 52104; No } wheal 5066,5x,
nominal t)'ao1 13„y 110110
Manitoba oats -No. 2 c, W., 72'1e;
3 01V.,
77740; 6X20;4 No,1 feed,
7710;
No, 1 food, 71550 all fall do1ivoryd,
Anl0rloan cove --No. 2 yeilol+'r •.51,17,
track Toronto subject t0 embargo,
Ontario .eats --No, 2 white, 70 to 720,
nominal; No
, 3 white, 80 to lie, norn1-
ual, according to freights outslde,
Otlteu'lo wt{eat---'No, 2 whiter, pot, ecu'
lot, 51.9'2 to 51.94; -ISO 8, do., $1,00 to
51.92, according to freights Outside.
Peas -No, 2 nomltlal, 40e0l'411W
frelirhts outside.
'Barley -Malting, .$1,21 to 51.'88, at: -
cording to freights outside,
Buckwheat --. $1.00, according' to
i'reighto outside.
to
llye-frets'.No,hisout2, s$1id,e08, to 51.00, aoaovdins'
Manitoba-tiour--x+'h'st patents, in into.
bags, 510; second patents, in jute ba#•°,
g9.50; strong bakers', In Jute bags,
7 oront°,
Ontario/ilour-'Winter, accordingsample, $8,00 to 58,10, In bags, tr•a
Toronto, prompt shipment; $7.70
57.80. ,bulk seaboard, export rade.
M e C lots,. 7�iv, lo6d n
freight/1, b .. 1 '1 1 'l -B • "Y,
$33'' shorts, ton, 45 4' • t i
dlings per ton, 543 to $45; good fe
flour, per bag, 52.70 to 52,50,
Day -Extra No. '4, per ton, 511,60
512; mixed, per ton, $0,80 to 511,.tra
Toronto,
Straw -Oar lots, per ton, 57 to 57.5
timely Toronto„
-to
PEOPLE OF HAMBURG
LIVING ON TURNIPS
Lack of I+'ood Has Now ,Sp •,eat: to
Kaiser's 'Beloved
Soldiers,
A despatch from New York says;
-Americans 7,_etnning an Wednesday
from Berlin and other German cities
on the Spanish liner Alfonso XII, said
they wero oonfident that Germany
would be compelled to plead for peace
before the end :Of the year, because
the masses of the people,wore stars,
ing, Up' to the present the lack of
food has only affected the civil popula-
tion, but now it has spread to t
CZAR HAS LOST ALL ESTATES
15 NOW COMPARATIVELY POOR
Application Made to Provisional .Go ern' 1
v. meat for Funds t �C4ver
Immediate Expenses,
A despatch from Petrograd says:
Commissary Titoff, appointed by the
Provisional Government to take
charge of the affairs of the ex -Czar
and his family, has applied for a
grant to cover immediate expenses.
According. to a rough estimate. of their
private fortune, it appears that
Nicholas IL owns net mote than
he £100,000 in cash and securities, His
wife's fortune amounts to £110,000,
; Young Alexis' is nlucll wealthier, as his
m.; allowance has been accumulating. He
d possesses about 2660,000," The for-
tunes of his sisters are estimated as
i° army. When the soldiers have their
to ration cut in half they will realize
Illfe d- ar c o • Montreal
ags nc uc oc can, a ton,
h s, pet o $ to $ � nd
' that the war is going against the
the passengers said, and this may lea
os1 to a revolt.
of
WELCOMETILE BIRDS.
o,
Prepare at Once to Receive Those
That Return in Spring.
c;
o If you want bird neighbors next
t Spring, begin this very month to make
ready for them. When a bird sees a
home he likes he will walls right in
Country Produce -Wholesale
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 90 to 41
creamery prints, 43 to 15c; Solids, 42 t
4$c,
Eggs--Now-laid in cartons, 41c; ou
Of cartons, 890.
Live poultry-_Albwt, 1b., 20 to 860
chislrens, 20 to 28c. ,
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 22„to 280; without hesitation. But birds, like
'meals. for:ilei t $4 00' tori$4. GO 2 tur8lceyss 26 bio other. tenants, insist oh.. certain condi.
In exp amine the as ti
order said he expected it to result in Cheese -040 w 1arse, 27 to 2780; twins,
', p 272 to 2736; cra lots, 275 to 2sc; cid, If one desires a bird neighbor which
a saving of 65 per cent. of the meat 1100Cge, 28$0; twins Oslc.
now consumed, 53 per cent. of bread t 116ct y 6 ib. tU clover,
10 11 c;�� 1U-7., tins,880
and 63' per cent. of ,sugar. Ole said 60 -ib., 13c; buotcwheat, G -Ib. tins, 10 to
he had. originally intended to order lose. Comb
j ob' heY- xr fi select,
heavy
two meatless days, but that ho feared $2.76; . o, 2; (35°2°1o$12% ,
Baron Devonport, 1 �' •' `ons. .
this would lead to an increase. in
bread consumption.
GERMAN "TANKS"
ARE LOOKED FOR.
Roads in Northern France Now
Quagmires After Heavy
Snowfall,
A despatch from Canadian Head-
gnai:'ters in France (via London), says:
---Twenty-four hours of snowfall has
changed the roads here into quag-
prires, and. greatly increased the
transportation difficulties. It has
also caused a suspension of artillery
activity, which had increased all along
the front, and become violent at some
points,
The appearance of Gorman "tanks"
is possible in this area. The value of
tanks in the German defence would
be considerable, and the enemy would
doubtless' conceal them as long as pos-
sible. On the Russian front they
have used armored cars, not unlike the
tanks, to cutwire with. Having fin-
ally determined to make a stand, he
will use everything at his command
to make good his position.
SWISS BREAD CARD
AFTER GERMAN MODEL.
A despatch. from Berne says: A
:,read card after the German pattern
is to be -introduced in Switzerland be-
fore the end; of the present month, ac-
cording to• an announcement made on
WEATHER DELAYS
WESTERN FARMER
Acreage Will Likely be Quite Up
to 1916 -Labor Situa-
tion Good.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: -
Winter temperatures still prevent the
west from commencing spring opera-
tions on the land. In no part of the
west have the farmers been able to p cbc ce, $9,60,
straight 54.25. $8.70 to 50; do„ bake,
start plowing or harrowing to any ex- y4s0 to $4.36. l�ouea oats -Barrels,
tent. Seeding, it is estimated; will $7.48; do„ bags, 90 105„ 53.60, Bran, $s6
K115
538. Shorts, $39 to $40, Mlddlings,
not be generally unser way through- g41 to $42. Mountie, 545 to 560. OOay
out the middle west until April 20. No. 2, per ton, car lots, $12.50,
The acreage already prepared for the -"
crop of 1917 in the form of summer- win
Winnipeg drain
fallow, fall ploughing and first break- nipeo,10-Oash q1. 9t ; Nne:-
N rtherh $1,855 No, 3 Northern', $
Ngg7;
ing is slightly below that of a year No. 4, 51.008; 140.5 $1.615; No, 6 $1.315;
ago. Given favorable conditions, reed, 41.00. pate-1Vo, 2 C.W.• 67'20; No.
however, it is expected that tha acre- 3 C•W., 008o; extra No. x fees, 6640; No,
1 Reed, 64bc; et!'
42 feed, 64o. Barloy-
age under crop in the three Provinces No. 3, $1.10; No. 4, $1.03; rejected, 87o;
will be made fully as large as in 1916. Noa'2 c°6V., F$1217$.1.4°. 1 -.1""
w.0 $a;7i3:
Potatoes -On traolc Ontario, per bag,
53.00; Nec' Brunswick Delawares, per
bag, $3.30 to 53.40; Albertus, per bag,
$3,26,
Beans Imported, hand-picked, per
bush., 56.25; Canadian, hand-picked, per
bush„ 57.36' to 57.50; Canadian primes,
$7,00 to 57.25; Limas, per lb„ 13 to .132e,
Provisions-Wllolesala
Smoked meats -Hams, medium, 27 to
2sc; do.. heavy 24 to 25c; cooked, 30' to
390;, rolls, 24 to 26c; breakfast bacon,
29 to 32c; backs, plain, 32 to 33c; bone-
less, 86 to 300,
Lard -Pure lard, tierces 244 to 248c;.
tubs, 2410 to 2436; pails 24`$ to 26c; Qom -
pound, tierces, 179 to tic.
Cured moats -Long clear bacon, 21 to
22c per lb; clear bellies, 20 to 208c,
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Apr, 10-Oats--C.W„ No. 2,
?Se; C.W., No. 3, 760; extra No. 1 feed,
76a Barley -Man. feed, 61.00; malting,
$1.20. Buckwheat -No. 3, $1,32. Flour
-Man. ,spring wheat putents, Onto,
10.40; seconds, 59.90; strong batters',
0.70; tvinter stents lc
STEPS TAKEN IN BRITAIN
TO TRAIN CRIPPLED SOLDIERS
A despatch from London safe
The Ministry of Labor, in Conjunction
with .the War Pensions Statutory Com-
mittee, is eatable,,, .1g trade"advisor
follows: Olga, £530,000; Marie, 2370,-
000; Anastasia, 2880,000.
Since 1906 the civil list has amount-
ed £1,600,000 annually, but the enor-
mous revenues derived from mines,
forests and lands belonging .to the
Emperor's Cabinet has been swallowed
up by the vast sums required for the
maintenance of the Imperial resi-
dences
esi
dences, shooting boxes and a whole
host of retainers. Hence, in spite of
his great possessions the Czar appears
to be a poor man, inasmuch as the real
estate belonging to the Cabinet will
become State property.
IF YOU WERE BORN A AIAR73AN
You `Would Have Been a Different
Kind of Person.
"The bigger the planet on which you
live the harder it is for you to move
about. If you were suddenly trans-
ported to Jupiter, the largest of the
planets, and if you were able to live
on its semimolten surface," says
writer in the Popular Science Monthly
"you would find it hard to lift you
nests in n box, the first thing is to, arm. A steam crane would be a wel
find out what native birds nest in come assisthnce in moving yourybed
boxes," saysa writer in the Buffalo about. This v ace entirely to th
enormous gravitational attraction
Express."The next step is to find out which Jupiter would exert Upon you
which of those birds are"likely to be The bigger the planet the harder ar
found nesting in Buffalo next season. you pulled down to its surface, th
The species of bird desired being de- harder it is to put your foot forward.
sided, the third step is to make sure Mars is only one -ninth -as massive as
what size box is required by that spe- the earth. Hence you would weigh
cies, how Iarge the opening should be, much less on Mars than you do on the
whether the bird likes. a perch at the earth. A. Martian porter could easily
entrance, et what height the box carry as much as a terrestrial ele-
should be placed, whether it on a phant. A Martian baseball player
pole or building or in a tree, which could bat a ball a mile. A very ordin-
way the opening should face, whether' ary Martian athlete could leap with
th0 bird will take nesting material if ease over a moderately sized house.
placed near a nest site and what such Because his planet is not able to pull
material should be. him down with the attractive force
"If one decides to attract a bird that the earth exerts upon us, the
that does not use a box, there is a typical Martian has conceivably at -
wide field for study in learning just tained a stature that we would re -
how you can attract that particular gard as gigantic. Three times as
bird. Those who' have made a sus- large as a human being, this creature
cess of attraet ng birds and know how has muscles 27 times as effective. His
to do it, have learned in three ways, trunk must be fashioned to enclose
through reading, through observing lungs capable of breathing the exces-
and through experimenting. ,As surely sively attentiated Martian air in suf-
as favorable conditions are given, ficiently large quantities to sustain
your guests will appear and take pos- life. As a canal digger -assuming
session of the nesting site and of your that he had no machinery -he would
heart as well. But you cannot have be a great success, because he would
them'without infinite pains, infinite excavate a canal with the speed and
patience, infinite perseverance. . ' efficiency of a small steam shovel.
"1f you do not possess these quali- Beyond that we cannot go. Intelli-
fications, better not'' try it,- If you do, .genre is not necessarily a human-attri-
go at it with a will. Do not expect to bute. It has so happened on this
learn everything in a day. See what earth that man has become the domin-
others have seen and then a great ant race, not because. of his physical
United States Markets deal that is your very own. Keep ac- prowess, but because of his brain. It
Mlnneapolia Apr. 10-Sv.14 t=may, curate dates and data, year after year may well be that the biological condi-
$1.975 to $1.979; July, 51.93, Cash -No, and in time you will -come into a herit- tions of Mars are such that. a creature
hard, $2,113 to 52.122; No, 1 Northern ago of nature lore that will make life very unhuman in appearance may
52.033 to. $2.052; No. 2 Northern, .23 to pp
$1 $2;06}• Corn -No. 3' yellow: $1,23 to worth living and 'keep you always have gained the ascendency in the
Plour8• uno hanged °' Bran ;87 00 to to 00 young at heart." . struggle for existence on a, planet that
is fast drying up.
HORSERADISH,
Directions for the Culture of This
Useful Vegetable.
A littlo horseradish very thinly
shaved from a fresh root is appetizing
with a slice of hot roast beef; when
grated with a little vinegar added it
is excellent with cold meat of any
kind.
No vegetable is more vigorous or
easier tb grow; still it is found in
few gardens. For best results plant
in an open space rather than tuck the
plants away in an unused corner.
Dig the soil two feet deep and work
a
y
e
e
Duluth, Apr. 10--Wheat-No. 1 hard, i Once satisfied with a nesting place,
Y 52.07; No. 1 Northern, $2.02 to $2.06; No birds are likely' to return season after
committees of equal numbers of em- 2 'Northern, 61.90 to 51.96; May, $1.98
ployers and work people represents- askeq; July, 51.628 asked. i season to the same location. They gen-
tives in the principal trades, to ad- L0V stook Markets f erally appear suddenly and may take
'vise concerning the training and em- Toronto, .\ pr, la-E#tra !possession without any formalities,
choice heavy Last season a wren took possession of
Wednesday. Ther ill b 225 theseploymenttra es disabled soldiers within steers. 11,70 to good
heavy near steers,a house before it had been placed tltese trades. The establishment of ro $10.60 1 butchers' heavy choice, '10.40
one-
grammes'of flour per dayissued for is intended to insure to 511; do., good, 610,25 to $10,40; do., o One bird -lover claims that
each person, of which one-quarter that schemes for training disabled men oleululn, $9,50 to 59.75; do., common, he has known a blue -bird to decide on
$8,40 to $9; butchers' bulla, 0hoice, $10
to 510.60; do.. good bulls, $0.25 to 59.76;
40„ medium bulls, 55.28 to 58.75; do,
rough bulls, $0.40 to $5.60• butchers:
may be used for cooking purposes''and shall be ful
three-quarEera for bread -making, thus sets Confer
-giving a daily bread allowance of 270
gramues. Tho bread card has been
found to he a necessity owing to the
fact that Switzerland's imports of
flour have been reduced by ono -half.
WOMEN WILL VOTE
AT COMING ELECTION.
Women will be allowed to vote in
the elections' to the Constituent As-
sembly in Russia, says Reuter's Petoro-
r grad correspondent. The correspond-
ent adds that. P.riilee Droll', Premier in
the Provisional Government, has so in-
formed a deputation of w0m0n who
waited upon him. •
CANADIAN SOLDIERS
ARE ON ALL FRONTS.
A despatch from London says: The
routing of the Turks at Gaza by Sir
Charles Dollen bas been followed with
keen interest by Canadians here. This
victory, together with the successful
campaign against the Cameronns 10
Africa, carries Canadian participation
In the war to all quartets of the war.
RUSSIA RELEASES 500
ENEMY HOSTAGES.
London Reuter's Petrograd seri.
reapozident says: "The provisional
Government has ordered the release of
500 hostages• captured in enemy ter-
ritory. The Government considers it
an injustice to imprison people whose
only ofence. is «iclel'ity to their own
states."
fag
ly considered by the inter-
ned.
, MANY CIVILIANS' KILLED
cows, choice, 50.00 to $10;' do., good,
$9.60 to $9.95; do„ medium, 67 to 27.25; at home.
stockers $7 60 -
a box before it was nailed in place, As
soon as the owner's back was turned
the bluebird entered. and made himself
to 99 35. feeders, $0,60
BY BOMBS IN AMONASTIR 0110.25: ' canners and cotters, $5.26 to :
5.45; milkers,- good to choice, 266 to PLANS '
11.0;' do„ corn. and reed„ each, $40 to i
$1D to $21; ahem heavy, $8,50 to $9,60 France Laying
A despatch from London says..- 501 springers 550 to $210 light 0 s
POR THE iFUTURE.
Out thd' Cities to be
An official communication issued by calves, good to eholee, $12;50 to 16.60 '
the Selbian War Office, received here spring :salsa, each 212;50 to 45 50 1 Built on Battlefields.
reports that enemy aviators bombard!' nio ibis, choked $14:25 to $16.60, do
l off cars, 10.76 to $16,25; ido, et o,bd
sting gas bombs . • Forty-seven per $10 16 1 $1
Apr. 121. --Choice steers, 1
wounded. The killed and wounded ill,10f to s'i2; ggood, $i't 20 $11'.26; ,ower .
s,75t° fls, 6o;bu$16,00'cOws.consisted mostly of women and ahil- $s,76; 1>u1lo, 59.70 to 510.60; calces.
to $'12' e0 m
y' • i a iambs, $12 m
$10,6 to $12so; :togs; Fad and So certain is France that the lid in a liberal quantity of manure. Al- f
of victory will continue with her and
finally swamp her eneiiiies that she is
planning at this early date for the re-
construction of the devastated terri-
tory over which the war has bee
ing.
Even Paris; where the destruction of
war has not made reconstruction ne-
cessary, is to be changed so that its
strategical import to France may be
increased, the great , drive of Von
Klucls to the very gates of Paris hav-
ing taught the military men things
about defence that would never have
been learned otherwise. Paris is to
be reconstructed in pitrts, Entire sec-
tions are to be wiped out and wider
roads and avenues built leading to'
and from the city. '
French city planners under the su-
pervision of military engineers and
me °Moore are now laying out the
cities and the towns which are to rise
out of the nine of the Marne, Aix -
a -Chapelle, Verdun, Rheims and other
places which have been battered down
y the rain of shells which the Ger-
nans poured on them before being
driven back to their present positions.
BRAVERY OF WOMEN
IN WAR TIME
IN ALL WARS WOMEN PLAY AN
IMPORTANT PART.
A Few Instances of Courage and In-
domitable Spirit in Ivaco
• •of Dautger.
The woman at-home, thinking of her
loved one on the battle line or mourn-
ing the loss of husband, son, brother
or sweetheart, is one of the terror -as-
pects of war which comes before the
imagination of every one who thinks
of the subject and comes under the
knowledge of all persons having any-
thing to do with war.
The woman nurse in war has long
been known and though the present.
war may be very far from its end,
enough stories come from the red re-
gion to acquaint the world that brave,
heroic and devoted women are bear-
ing their share o.,,peril. A number of
stories have been printed of the valor
of Russian women in the battle ranks.
Valor of Russian.
One of these women, who has be-
come known to fame, is Madame Ko-
kovtseva, colonel commanding the 6th
Ural Cossack Regiment of the Rus-
sian army, and another is a Russian
soldier called "Yellow Martha" by her
army comrades because of her mass
of golden hair. It has been told of
Mme. Kokovtseva that she was twice
wounded while fighting in East Prus-
sia, and received the cross of St.
George and a pension as a reward for
her bravery. Mme. Kokovtseva's hus-
band served in the 6th Ural Cossacks
during the Russo-Japanese War, and
when the present war began she man-
aged to get into the regiment with
him. In the news reports of "Yellow
Martha," it has been told that during
the fighting at Sokatchew the banner -
bearer was shot down and "Yellow -
Martha" saw the flag fall and, rush-
ing in, seized it and started back with
it. Two Germans pursued her as she
ran to regain her regiment and she
shot both dead,
The woman disguised as a man has
been found in armies in all great wars.
Some women were especially noted as
spies.
In most of the belligerent countries
women have taken the places of men
gone to the front and in hundreds of
occupations calling for strength and
stamina ars doing the work, of men.
Instance. From History.
The bravery of women in fight is no
new thing in Europe. Guizot, in his
'History of France from the Earliest
Times .to 1848," in telling of a battle
ought by the Romans, under -Marius,
ear Aix, on the borders of the
oenus, against Ambrons and the
cutons, wrote: "The battle lasted'
wo days, the first against the Am-
hrons, the second against the Teti -
ens. Both were beaten in spite of
their savage bravery and the equal
ravers of their women, who defend -
d, with indomitable _obstinacy, the
ars with which they ' had remained
"most alone in charge of the children
nd the booty. After the women it
was necessary to exterminate the
ounds, who defended their masters'
odies."
A Preventible Loss.
Among other diseases which cause
voc among growing grains, smut is
orhaps the most widespread. It is
Med that the annual loss due to
int in oats, wheat and barley
mounts, in an ordinary year, to
venteen tnillion dollars, or 6.2 per
nt. of the capital invested in those
ops, This enormous loss is almost
th•ely preventible by treating the•
ed before sowing in a solution rondo
om one pound formalin to thirty -
e gallon:; of water. Prevention of
is kind is most necessary in these
ys of high cost of labor and seed,
ed Monastic on Sunday with asphyxt-lwat0red, $16,00 to std,ao, do. w t h e
• sons were killed and twenty-nine I 14°'ni ea15.2s5,
(ren. Many houses were dextro ed t
m on grates. 55 to 57;
s iris ) '• 715; sheen, 59,60
to 510.60; nogg. 515.50 to 8010.70,
EVERY PASSENGER
LADEN WITH RUBBER
King a Busy Man.
King George is a busy man these
days, and devotes himself without A despatch from London says :--
ceasing to the business of kingship, A case in„the Prize Court disclosed
His army and lets navy and his air- that on one voyage the Helligolav,
ships -he thinks of very little else--. earl•l071 87 cases of dental rubber and
unless his consort and his "kiddies," on another voyage 48 cases were found
as he still calls thele, are sometimes in possession of the passengers. On
excepted. Nothing is allowed to in. several other ships from American
terfere with his work, and especially parts cycle tubes, rubber gloves and
not the clock, and if necessary he rubber boots were found lit consider- I
spends the whole day at his desk, able quantities. The court condemn- I
which is connected by telephone with ed the seized goods. I
these of the secretaries. With a wide
grasp and clear vision off public affairs
he would make a first-rate politician.
No Beggars iso Palmate.
Poor seed is dear at any price,
Which way aro WO looking? On
ahead, or backward where the way .is 1
all tracked up with mistakes? It b
makes 6o much difference, difference'1
Although the city of Panama is a with out own lives and with those of,
n ra7r-
cosmopolitan place virtually every the neighbor• folks. They tufo watch -
race being represented in its 60,000 in -
likely
us, whether we know it or not, tinct
habitants, there are no beggars likely as not they are witting their
ex-
cept a. few blind men. feet where ours have been,
Will. et .i
though horseradish is. a strong feeder
its roots should not come in direct
contact with manure. As the soil
soon becomes exhausted where horse-
radish is grown a portion of the hed
n
C
T
should be made up fresh every two lt
years.
AhaL est any piece of horseradish b
will grow if planted, even the end of e
a root that has been grated, the end c
with the clown, or the tip end of the a
root, cut off, before the balance is a
grated up for food.
Plant in the ,spring in rows twelve h
inches apart, with ten inches between b
the plants in the rows. The holes, •
which should be ten to twelve inches
deep, ran be made with a dibber, the
root cutting dropped in and the hole'
filled up. Shallow planting will pro-'
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autumn the roots will be ready for
use.
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apart on each side of the ridge, i
sorting the dibber at an eagle of ahout
orty-tire degrees. The plants grow
up straight. Tho tops of the ridges
are placed three feet 111)2127,
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in Argentina..
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NEWS FROM ENGLAND
Nun; al' Mm2, ABOITY 401111
8(J1.5, AND 1118 Pt1Ot'LE.
Deaerrencea Is the Land That Reigns
lupreme ie th. Comms*
dal World.
Owing to the high price of paper
Bangor greengrocers have stopped
using paper bags,
No more licenses will be granted
for the importation of hops grown
within the Empire.
The amount subscribed by the citi-
zens of Deal and Walmer to the
new war loan was £300,000.
The offices of the Ilamburg-Ameri-
can Steamship Line in Cockspur
Street are to be sold by auction.
The amount paid in for the year
1916 through the sale of stamps under
the Insurance Act was 279,409,150.
The Northamptonshire Assizes were
cancelled, as there were no cases for
trial on either the criminal o1• civil
lists.
For taking a photograph at a
searchlight station, John Turner, of
Ranelagh Avenue, Barnes, was fined
210.
A fine of 210 each was imposed on
Professor and Mine. Linda at New-
port, Monmouthshire, for fortune-
telling.
James Thirsk, who died recently at
Beverley, was the last surviving son
of a family of 15, all of whom were
over 80 years of age when they died.'
The death took place recently in
Birmingham of Sergt. John S. Par-
kinson, a survivor of the famous
charge of the Light Brigade at Bala-
clava,
ORIGIN OF POSTAGE STAMP.
Hon an Englishman Devised These
Little Bits of Gummed Paper.
It is not yet eighty years since the
first postage stamps were used. The'
idea of putting on letters these little;
bits of gummed paper with which we -
are all so familiar in,.scme form or,
other, and which indicate that the'
postage has been prepaid, originated,
in the mind of an Englishman, Mr.l
Rowland Hill. It is said that the fol -I
lowing incident led him to see the ne-'
cessity for some such scheme, and to'
think seriously about the matter;
He was staying at a little village inn
in England, when he heard a maid whet,
was working there having a discus-
'
sion with the postman about a letter
he had brought her from her brother.
In those days letters were invariably
sent C.O.D., and the person to whom
they were addressed paid the charges'
and received the missive, or, if he did
not care to do this, the postman kept
the Ietter. There was one shilling due
on the maid's letter •(imagine paying
24c postage on an ordinary letter
nowt), but she claimed she did not
have the money, and wanted the man
to let her have it without payment.
This he refused to do, of course, but ,
Mr. Hill was sorry for the girl and
paid the shilling. She did not seem
particularly elated, however, and upon
investigation•iulr, Hill discovered that
the envelope contained only a blank
sheet of paper, while the message
from her brother was written in a
faint cipher on the outside of the en-
velope. The girl had read the -mess-
age while haggling with the postman,
and had often cheated the government
out of its clue in this way.
Mr.'Hill's scheme not only provided
;for postage to be paid in advance, but
it greatly reduced the rate, one penny,
or two cents, being all that Was re-
quired to send a letter that did not,
exceed half an ounce in weight. It,
was in 1840 that the first stamps werei
issued. There was a black one -penny'
stamp on white paper, containing thel
head of Queen Victoria, and a two-,
penny blue.
PATHETIC SCENES ENACTED.
French Soldiers Greet Relatives Libor-
atcd in Advance,
Hundreds of scenes which even;
Bernhardt could not approach in circ -i
uratic art were enacted in various vii -1
101(005 when"the French soldiers, after
the recent big advance, found them-,
'lelt'es once more in their lions towns,
and clasping again their parents,
wivos, and children after nearly three'
years' separation. Points, who ,hash
not heard from !:heir families since
the. 01tbrealc of the war, when they,
anti been invaded, found their loved
noes safe although amid scenes beg-,
gaming deserip7iorl.
Of eatlrse in many cased trench- -
hatdened poilus sprang" from the
rense entering their native villages;
and rushed to their old homes, only'
to flint a gaping .;hole in the 8081,
where shell had obliterated the hoc:3e,
and to hear the neighbors recount how:
11710 inhabitants had been killed, Int
other cases only deserted homes •wero'
found, as the people lead been sent;
into Gerin:uly,
Make every foot of ground bear its'
crop this year. Ronleinber, earth is
not, idle, 10 is good aced or weed,
In Rocks and heavy breeds gest
erally the April batched chick is worth