HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-05-17, Page 6VICIOUS FIGHTING • CONTINUES-
A'l' FRESNOY AND BOLLECOURT
British Take Another Portion of the German Trenches Defending
'!Lens and its Coal Fields,
A despatch from London eaye: Tho
Germans are keeping up with great in..
teneity their offensive against the Bris
teen around Prepay and to the east
of Builecourt, but are being hard held
by Field Marshal Haig's fercea, The
village of Fresnoy apparently remains
in the hands of the Germans after its
recapture Tuesday, but` the Canadians
and South Englanders are still holding
vantage points around it, from which
the Germans are vainly endeavoring
to expel them and pet an end to their
harassing fire..
To the east of Bullecourt, where the
British have established themselves a
scant two miles from the outskirts of
Queant, the Germans are' striving
hard to push back the British to pre-
vent the capture of the southern end
of the . Deocourt-Queant. line, ,which
would prove of great menace to
the important town of Cambra1, The
viciousness of the battle le indicated
by the German Wilda] communication`,
whioh announces that the fight for the
village le of a fluctuating nature,
The British evidently have pushed a
step forward toward the capture of
the town of Lens, and the important
coal flelde in its immediate vicinity.
South of the Souchez River during a
night attack another portion of the
German front and support lines, to-
gether with a number of prisoners,
was captured.
Per the most part the line where
the French are facing. the Germans
is undergoing a period of comparative
calm, except for artillery duels and
small German counter-attacks, none
of the latter of which mot with suc-
cess.
HOSPITAL WING
A
CAI�ADiN GIFT
Queen Officiates at Opening of
New.Section of Naval
Institution:
A despatch from London says:—
The inauguration of the new wihg of
the "Tesler Royal Naval Hospital at
Portsmouth on Wednesday by the
Queen WAS the final achievement of a•
movement initiated at the outbreak of
war by certain Canadian ladies. Mies,
Plummer, secretary of the Field Com-
forts, claims to have made the original
suggestion for the hospital ship, and
which found the ready support of Mrs.
Gooderhani, Mrs• Ellen Bruce and
-Lady Drummond, with the result that
$250,000 was collected. 0f this $100,-
000 was handed to the War Office for
Military use. Another amount was
devoted to the building of a wing to
the Chatham Naval Hospital and the
balance to Hasler. As the author-
ities decided against the hospital ship
the scheme for provinding a hospital
for naval nurses was accepted. This
new wing overlooking the most fam-
ous naval centre of Britain bears a
suitable 'inscription on behalf of the
women of Canada.
Tlie opening cereihony by her Ma-
jesty *as quiet but impressive, and
Sir Gegrge Parley's speech handing it
over, .emphasized the magnitude of
the war work carried out by Canadian
women.
A considerable number of Cana -
diens availed themselves of the in-
vitation to travel on the Royal train
to Portsmouth, and they were favor-
ably impressed with this permanent
memorial of the Dominion's interest
in the welfare of the navy.
LOAN FOR BELGIUM
FROM UNITED STATES
Will Remove Heavy Burden From
Great Britain and France.
A despatch from Washington says:
—The United States has arranged to
make a loan of $75,000,000 to Belgium,
which will be expended by the Belgian
Relief Commission.
-' The loan will bo advanced at the
'rate of $12,500,000 a month, of which
$7,000,000 will be available for relief
in Belgium and $5,000,000 for relief in
Northern France,
By making the loan the United
States will take the burden of the re-
lief of Belgium and France from the
i
• of Great Britain and France
shoulders
and conduct it from this country so
far as possible. .
ALLIED MACHINE '"
IS IRRESISTIBLE
A despatch from Rome says:—
Itudyard Kipling, who has been at the
fr.nt in France, and Las been making'
'a short stay in Rome, compares the
British army to a machine working so
perfectly that no human power can
arrest it. He expresses ,the greatest
admiration for the work of the French
and British, which, -he says, the Ger-,
'mans are now powerless to cheeik. The
1. esee—the heaviest in hietory—which
they have incurred by their efforts to
do so, must end, he says, in affecting
the morale both of the army and the
civil population of Germany,
3 -
U-BOAT "KILLER" IS ENDORSED.
Author of Gyroscope Submits Plan
That Amazes Naval Experts.
A despatch from Washington says:
ee It was learned Wednesday night on
unquestionable authority that the Na-
val elonoolting Board nae submitted to
nqeecretary Daniels and his advisers a
':definite and completed plan to cope
With the German TJ -boats which has
'proved a revelation to the best tech-
nical brains
ech-nical'brains in the service here,
DAILY WARCOST
1
5$37,000,000
Rlarliets of the Word.
4roaaritaga
Toronto ,May 15,•—Maultoba wheat*,
8411 eriolai quo (attune ,
80anitaba oats --Ns olxlolal quotallpne
American ,corn ---4o, 8 yellow, $1.71„
nominal, aubieet to embargo, traslc Wo -
route, 7 .
rill] harlo eats—No. 2 whlko, 70 to 78o,
nominal: No. 8 white, 70 to 77o, noinRutl;
a0o0r'aina to fro gifts eutsld
0114100who 4 �y o, 8 enter, per Car
1190 $2.08 to 53,001 No, $ do. 08,00 to
,tb$, a000rding to f1• ighta puisido,
i"eas- Notot 2, nominal, aocordini to
fretatrlt.ts ou sl4e,
'Barley -4 altthg, $1,40 to $1,42, 11001!=
nal
aeordln io freights
o
u
tside.
laycNo. 2, 1i22 to 51.08, nom
inal,
car !n lto fta troutside.
bags, $lj0,00; seoond patents, uteAanitoflour—First patents, in Into
ago, $14,G0• strong > t en a, in ate
age, Sieee.boropto.
Ontario flour—Winter, a000rdleg to
sample,' $1.2.09 to 018.00, in bags, track
Toronto, prompt shipment,
M1llteet3'—Cat' -lots, delivered'. Montreal
freights, bagn 1no3ad0a--Bran nor ton,
5$42; shorts, per ton, 540; middlings, pot
ten, $461 good feed flour, per bag, 58.00
to $8,10,
Hay—Extra N0, 2 per ton 512 to $18;
montixeo.d, per ton, ID to 511.00, traok TO.
b'aoHtrk Taw—Caroronto,Iota, per ton, $8,50 to $D,
Average Expenditure of Great
Britain for Military
Operations.
A despatch from London says:—In
the House of Commons on Wednesday
Right Hon, Bonar Law, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, referring to the west
front, said the rapidity of the attack
had forestalled the enemy, who had
to fight in the open, with heavy losses,
because he had not had time to pre-
pare trenches, Since April 1 we had
taken 20,000 prisoners, 257 guns, 227
trench mortars. While in the first 24
days of the Somme drive we advanced
three and one-half miles on a six -mile
front, we had now advanced fromtwo
to five miles on a 20 -mile front, where
there were twice as man r'German
divisions against us as on the Somme,
and half of them had to be withdrawn.
Our casualties in the present offen-
sive were from 50 to 75 per cent. less
than on the Somme. Our success was
largely due to our distinct artillery
superiority, in connection wit] which
the Chancellor paid a warm tribute to
the flying corps.
STEEL SHIPBUILDING
DIRECTOR CHOSEN
W. I. Gear Appointed by the Imperial
Munitions Board—Govt.
Action Expected.
A despatch from Ottawa says:—
The Imperial Munitions Board an-
nounced on Wednesday night that W.
I. Gear of the Robert Reford Com-
pany, Montreal, has been appointed
to, take charge, under the board, of
steel merchant ship construction in
Canada for' the British Government.
Mr. Gear will establish an office at
Ottawa, and will at once assume the
duties of his position. It is .under-
stood that Sir Robert Borden on his
return to Canada will at once take up
the question of further stimulating
shipbuilding in Canada, this being one
of the most important phases of
Canadian co-operation in war work
urged -by the Imperial- authorities in
'London.
• SAVE THE HEIFER.
Number of Cattle Decreasing, Price
of Food Rising. -
The first step to reduce the high
cost of food, according to W. Scott
Matthews, state dairy and food com-
missioner of Illinois, should bo the
passage of a federal law forbidding
the sale of heifers.
"While the population of the Unit-
ed States has increased 24,000,000 in
the last 'fifteen years, the number of
cattle has decreased 6,000,000. If the
2,500,000 heifers now slaughtered an-
nually were allowed. to hear, they
would be ahcestors'of 45,000,000 cattle
in five years.
"Milk is one of our most import-
ant staples, and it costs far less for
itsactual food 'value than meat of
wheat: Approximately 98 per cent. of
our farms are undorstocked because
slaughterhouses will pay larger prices
for calves."
U.S. EXPERTS LEAVE
FOR RUSS CAPITA
Petrograd, where it will give as
eurances to the Riissien national aeth
orttioe that this country stands read0v
to furnish all the rolling stock an
other material that may be needed t
increase the capacity and officio=
of the Russian and Siberian railroads
Country Peoduoe--.Wholesale
Batter—Fresh dairy, choice, 30 to 4001.
orealnery prints, 43sto 4601 solids, 42 to
480.
IOgge--New-lahl in cartons,. 44 to 45o;
out of oartona Oto.
Dressed pouitt'y--•Chloltens 26 to 280;
fowl, 24 to 25c; ducks, 22 to 2Dc; squahe
per doyen„ $4,00 to 04:60; turkeys, 80
8eC3leeso—New, large, 378 to 28o• twins,
278 to 288o; triplets, -288 to 2860; old,
large, 29c; twins, 2080.
Honey—White clover, 28lb tins 148
t,
6
to 1 -lb tine 1480; 10 -ib 13801 00-1b
130;buokwheat, 110 -lb tins,' 10 to 3020.
Comb honey—extra • lino and heavy
weight Per dos. $2,76• select, $2.60 to
$2.76; No, 2, 52 dos,
.
Alapte syrup—Imperial gallon, $1.06 to
$1.7
L'ot6,atooc—•On track, Ontario, per bag,
varies, iper7bag 84 26 Albert y, pe ba
$4,00,
Beans—Imported, haad-piaked, per
hand -
bushel, $7,00• -Canadian; eland -picked,
tier bushel. 47,76 to $8,00; Canadian
18l tmo of Ober bushel, 17,50; Limas, per lb,
•Provision—Wholesale •
Smoked meats—Hams, medium, 22 to
30o; d0, heavy, 25 to 26c; cooked, 40 to
410; rolls, 26 to 27c; breakfast' bacon, 30
to 360; backs, plain, 84 to 35o; boneless,
36 to 88e.
Lard --.Pure lard, tierces 268 to 208c;
tubs, 283 to 262e; pails, 2021 to 27o• com-
pound, tierces 201 to .2080; tubs, 208 to
2020; pats, .202 to 210.
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 24 to
26c per lb; clear bellies, 24 to 250,
Montreal Markets
Montreal, May M.—Oats—Canadian
Western, No. 2, 87 to 88o; No: $, 86 to 87e:
extra No. 1 Peed, 86 to 87c. Barley—
Manitoba feed, $1,19 to $1,20, Flour—
Manitoba, Spring wheat patents, .firsts,
515.10; seconds, 514.60; 'strong bakers',
014,40; Winter patents choice, 014.00;
straight rollers, $6.90.
g 14.ob to $14.30; do,
13ble. 58.506 too 58.75; do, bars, 90albs.,
54,261 to $4.60. Bran, 542, Shorts,
546. Middlings $48 to $00. T.louillle,
502 to 567. Hay—...No. 2, per ton, oar.
lots, $13 to 513.50: Butter—Choioest
creamery, 428o; seconds, 41 to 4180, algge
—Fresh, 44o; No. 1 stock, 42c. Pota-
toes—Per bag, car lots, $3.75 to 54.00,
Winnipeg Grain
'Winnipeg, May 10.—Cash prices:—
Wheat—No, 1- Northern 52,94; No, 2
Northern, $2.91; No. 3' N' orthern, 52.96;
No. 4, $2,74; No. 6, $2.49• No. 8 51.90;
feed 31,40R-1. Oats—No, 2 o.W., si20; No.
8 C,1 7811o•,. extra No. 1 feed 782c, Ear-
ley—N'o, 8x11.29• No. 4, 51.24; rejected,
1.02• feed, $1.02. Flax—No. 1 N.W.C.,
3.334; No, 2 C.W., 53.30; No, 3 C.W.,
3.108,
United Staten Markets
Minneapolis. May 15.—Wheat, May,
$3,02; July, 02,718. Cash: No. 1 hard,
58.268 to $8.283; No. 1 Northern, $3.010
to 53,168. CornNo, tt yyellow, 51.662 to
51.688. Oats, I'Jo. 8 whIte, 703 to 7230,
Flour, fancy patents, 516,20; first clears,
14.00; otherrades unchanged, Bran,
$3.1.50 to 535.00,
Duluth, May 10.—Wheat, No. 1 hard,
53.28; No. 1 Northern 53.20 to 93.22;
No. 2 Northern, $3.16; Northern,
53.20; July,
52.288 asked. Linseed, 53.60; May, 53.691
July, 58.42; September, $3.418; October,
02.00.
ALLIES CAPTURE
50,000 TM.UU`'O,NS
Toted of 00 Grins AiOo Taken
in
Spring OtTeniiive-
A. dospatoh from Loudon linea: The
recent partial success of the (Germane
at Fresnoy, on the Arras front in
FFennoo,hat) ;lot upset the British
plans of operation nor has it caused
eurprie,e said Major-General Feeders
ick 5, Maurice, Chief Director of Mili-
tary Operations at the War Office, in
hie weekly atatement on Thursday.
As a matter of fact, the General add-
ed, the British Stale has been surprised
that the Germans have not succeeded
before• inmelting gains in view of the
tremendous conntor-attacke whioh
they have been hurling against the
British front, The Chief Demeter con.
Unwed; ,
"Bodies of Teutons continually have
been sent against tho British over
open ground without any apparent
regard for casualties, but the. British
have held their line when it might
have been expected they would give
way, and have inflicted tremendous
losses on their opponents.
"During the month since the of-
fensive began we have taken twice
the number of pl'ieoners, four times
the amount of ground, and five times
the number of guna taken in the
Somme offensive. The British and
French between them have ,captured
some 50,000 prisoners and 450 guns.
If this is the result of defeat, then
we aro willing to go being defeat-
ed. We have kept on going and we
are going to keep on going. The Ar-
ras offensive is much bigger than the
Somme, and our next offensive will
be bigger than Arras.
Live) Mtoolr Markets
Toronto, Mai' 16.—Extra choice steers,
512.00 to 512.66; choice heavy steers,
11.35. to $11,76; good heavy steers,
10.80 to $10.76; butchers' cattle, choice,
.1 60 to 511,76; do„ good, $10.50 t•.,
medium,, 8.7to910,00; do.,
0• o
11.0 d „5
common, 0.50 tot $0.16;; butchers' ium
choice, $10.60 to $11.00; do., medium
bulls, $8.50 to $0.00; do., rough bulls,
$0.40 to $6.50; butchers' cows, choice,
59.75; t, medium, $7.00 to0$7. 5' ettoek
stock-
ers,
dos, 0
etas, X7,60 to $2.0 feeders, 09.50 to
$10,20; canners ,,and cutlers, 06,50 to
0,26; milkers, good to choke, $85.00 to
12G; do., coin and med., ack, 540 to
00.00; s ringers, $60,00 to 5110.00; light
Owes $12,00 to $16.00.; sheep, .heavy,
s:5d to 810,00; calves, good to choice,
12.00 to 513.00; spring lambs, each,
9,00 to $14.60. lambs, choice, 514,50 to
m 10.6 to 12.50;
• o medium, 0
1g26 d 5
g
hogs, fed and watered, $'16.86 to $17.00;•
do„ weighed off, cars, 517,10 t0 517,25;
do„ f.o.b.,010.15 to 10.40,
Montrea, May 15.—Choice steers,
512,25 to 512.76; good, 52.1,76. to 512;
lower grades, 82.75; butchers' cows, $9
to $11; bulls, 510 to $11.76; calves, $5,50
to '$11; spring lambs, $8 to 512; old
sheep, 510 to 511; selected hogs 517.75
o ata.
SINGING CANARY BIRDS.
Supply Has Been Cut Off by the War,
, and Prices Are High.
One of the sidelights of the great
war is furnished -by the disappearance
from the market of singing canary
birds, of which ninny thousands were
formerly imported annually from Ger-
many, where their breeding and train-
ing occupied many of the peasants of
the Hartz 1enantains and :neighboring
e districts. War, conditions, it is said,
have catered the birds practically to
8 disappear in the Hartz. The services
of the inhabitants have been other-
: wise required and the birds have lack-
-. ed their customary supplies of food, so
nt that the region will have to be restock-
ed after the war before a fresh sup-
- ply of the familiar senators is avail-
. able for export. As a consequence,
the price of canaries, which before the
d I war: was about"$3 or $4' in Chicago
o hied stored, has jumped to $1,2 or $15,
y: ed there are few to be' had at any
. price.
Every Assistance to Rueeian Railroad
Will Readily be Furnished
A despatch from Washington says
—The United States Railroad Cern
miseion to the Russian Governme
left Washington on Wednesday £os
NEW OFFENSIVE
IN MACEDONIA
From The Middle West
RETWE'RN ONTARIO AND fftl,
TISH COLUMBIA.
Items From Provinces Where Many
Ontario Boys and Girls Are
Living.
Pour hundred trees were plautod In
Henderson Park, Lethbridge, last
Week,
This is the latest spring the. Foote-
nay valley has ]known in almost 25
years,
One big farming concern.nt New
Dayton, Alta„ had 200 acme seeded
last week,
A farmer` in the . vicinity of High
River, Alta., sold 4,000 bushels of
wheat last weak at $2.2,4 per bushel.
Ile bag still 18,000 bushels of grain
on hand.
At least '500 cars of potatoes will be
shipped from Alberta to the United'
States this spring..
Alberta's provincial .police are to
be more closely modelled after the
R, N, W. M. P. in - regard to ,uni-
1o'rms, mounts, etc,
The British Columbia branch of the
Great War Veterans has been formed.
Sergt. Charles Pendry; a Creston re-
cruit, was killed in action recently.
A six-year-old Vulcan boy, whos'
leg was broken, crawled on his
hands and knees quite a distance to-
ward his home before he was discov-
ered.
Retail price of flour in Prince Al-
bert, Sask., jumped 20 cents per hun-
dred one day last week, and two days
afterwards another 20 -cent rise was
announced, $6.50 and $0.40 being the
prices last named.
On the arrival of a troop train at
Cranston, B.C., recently, the marriage
of Quartermaster-Sergt. Murer and
Miss Mamie Folds was celebratedin
the dining car while the train made its
usual 10 -minute stop.
Because of heavy snowfalls in the
Rocky Mountains a warning to the re-
sidents of Edmonton of the possibility
of a big flood in the Saskatchewan
River this summer is given by those
who have recently travelled through
the section.
British Attack on Four -Mile
Front and, Occupy
Bulger Trenches.
A despatch from London says:—
With the advent of Spring weather in
Macedonia contingents of the Salonika
army have become active, separate
successes having been scored on Wed-
nesday by the British, Serbian and
Russian forces.
Attacking on a front of about four
miles in the Lake Doiran region, Brit-
ish troops on one wing took Teutonic
allied trenches on a front of two
miles and on the other flank advanced
on a front of about a mile. At the
Cerna bend the Russians carried sev-
eral trenches by assault, while north
of Monastir the Serbians occupied two
points of support and took a few
prisoners. A Serbian official state-
ment, dated May 9, reports violent
artillery duels along the whole Ser-
bian front. The Bulgarians bombard-
ed Monastir with asphyxiating shells,
the statement adds. A number of
civilians were killed.
•
ANOTHER MORAL TRIUMPH.
China's Victory Over Opium is Bright
Chapter in Her History.
Moral triumphs seem sometimes
very slow to win, and yet every day
brings ono to its consummation.
At last the Indian opium traffic with.
China has come to an end, and Britain
wipes out an old and ugly stain, and
tho new republic is emancipated from
a great evil.
In 1907 the British Government en-
tered into an agreement with the
Chinese Government, fixing a ter
years' limit to the importation of In-
dian opium into China, and the ten
years expired on the 31st of March
last. China had herself more than
lived up to her part of the bargain as
tothe reduction of the cultivation of
the poppy and the consumption of
opium; in fact, the edict prohibiting
both was promulgated in 1906.
The story of the thrusting of opium
upon China makes a dark chapter in
the history of Anglo -Chinese relations,
and thele will be great satisfaction in
the fact that at last that chapter, as
far as may be, has been blotted out.
And China's victory over the opium
habit is certainly ono of the most re-
markable and splendid chapters in
her history. , The only parallel to it
in modern times has been Russia's vic-
tory over the-tlrink evil.
One Hundred All Right.
Two Englishmen were one day
walking along a road in Kerry when
- they met an Irishman.
"How many of us are here now?"
they askoce jokingly.
"Pm nof such p. mullet= as all
that," said Pat, Thepo's,100 of us,"
"Oh,' said the -Englishman, "how
doyou make out that?"
",Well," said Pat. "I am the one and
I you are the two naughts."
"Can she be seen?" sniggered Kath-
leen. "Shure, an 01 think she can+
she's six feet high, and four eeetewidel
Can she be seen? ' Sorra a bite& any-
thing Ilse can ye see,whiin she's about."
—4--'
E OVED
I�SZKY R
FROM COMMAND
WAR Krrli JN$,
Anluspmellt Welch They Furnished
tho Otlieers of the Rmdon,
• The .ofneere of the famous Gorman
commerce raid6r Emden did not real'
ize how much amusement a cyt that I'rogrt m of British Shipping',
fgund its way on board the, vessel at
'liaing'tne was to provide for them dun's Minister to Meet the Sub
hrg• their long and adventurous voy Meititce,
age. '
Not long after. their motnentouis A. despatch from London sayal
trip began the oat bad a litter of kit- During a discussionof the ehipPillgg
tens, whose. adventures Lieut. Capt. problem in the House of Lords oil
von Macke of theraider describes in Thursday, Zerl Curzon said that th .
his book, Emden, One day, he says, Admiralty had the first claim and the
as I was, lying in my hammocik, I saw Met call on the national shipbuilding
Lieut. Sohall sleeping soundly upon resources. The result of the British
his mattress directly under mo, and naval prog'r'am, he stated, would be
just beside him on the sante ouch lay that after the war Groat Britain':6
the old oat with all five kittens "'After naval tonnage would Oxeenteethe navel'
I had quickly awakened tllo ele,oping tonnage of ale the othernations of ilio'
oflicen noir by, so that they, too, world,
might enjoy the little donnoetic scone, In making' his statement in thel'
• on
an
some aLaid Curzon o Lieut', 'Sen 1 House of Lords,ee
n d al. Ile, H e
however, not fully sharing our pleas- nounced that the pr'ogr'am of the Min-'
"If
re,, got up and hurried away. icier of Shipping Provided for rho ere-+
After that the cats were the ack- ai tion each year of mereanttlo shipping
nowledged property of the officers' aggregating 8,000,000 tons gross.
Moser and we made a little kennel with The Government, acid Lord Curzon,
accommodations for'all of them send was taking the most drastic steps in
put it in the room in placeof an old its power to acquire merchant ships by
sofa. Thanks to the anxious oaro of building' or purchase and after the
the officers and their attendants, the war, he predicted, tie British mer -
kittens thrived. In a short time they cantle fleet would be equal to or bet
had grown so that they were able to ter that, before the war•. - '
make excursions in the vicinity af. Lord Curzon gave figures showing,'
their home. From then on the mei) tLat before the war the United King-'
could walk only with the greatest care, dom lad '45.8 per cent, of the mer -1
for the little animals were accustomed oantile ships under 1,600 tons each,
to swarm round the places where one and 45.2 per cent. in December, 1916,
was most likely to set his feet, Es- In ships exceeding 1,600 tons each,
pedal care was needed after dark, and he said, the United Kingdom had in
because manoeuvres occurred almost Tune, 1914, 8,900 vessels of gross ton -
nightly the kittens' quarters had to he. mage totalling 16,900,000 tone. Tho
locked as a protection for the inmates. corresponding figures in March, 1917,
To tell them apart we put colored lie said, wore 3;500 ships aggregating
ribbons round their necks and one daynearly 16,000,000 tone.
we had a christening ceremony. The I£ the Shipping Minister's program
captured steamships were selected as was to bo realized, it would be neces-
godparents, and immediately a little nary; he said, to provide an additional
Pontoporros, a little Lovat-Indus, a 100,000 workmen and to double the
Cabinga and a King Lud began to weekly supply of steel, while, at the
run round on the table. It was more same time, allowing the present Ad -1
difficult to name the fifth kitten, for miralty program to proceed.
It was different from the others. Its HARDY PLUMS.
little eorawny body wabbling round on
spindle legs was provided with an ex-
ceptionally large head with big, gleam. Varieties Beat Suited to Climate and
ing eyes. Some one suggested the Soil Conditions of Canada.
name Diplomat, but we finally called There are great areas in Canada
it Little Idiot. where the European plums, such aa,
Frequently we allowed the kittens Lombard and many others, do not suc•
to play in the sunshine on the cabin coed, either the fruit bode or the trees
roof, and the officers who were off being injured or killed by winter.
duty constituted themselves as a There are two species of wild plum,
corps to guard the anintele and see however, in Canada, the cultivated va;,
that they did not fall overboard, riches of which enable one to grow
In spite of our watchfulness, Little this fine fruit in very cold regions. In
Idiot played us a trick one day. At Eastern Canada the common. wild ape -
the noon meal hour he was missing, cies is the Canada plum, Prunus nigra,
and a most diligent search failed ve while in Manitoba the common native
reveal his whereabouts. Tho rd, but species is the American plum, Prunus
of the "kitten watch' were positive americana. It is surprising that trees
that he had not fallen overboard, but of these plume are not planted by;
still wcls Wer d not find him. We were everyone having a garden when there]
all very sorry, but at the evening is room enough to have a few trees,
rounds were relieved when soma one as they bear young and bear abund•1r'
discovered him in the storeroom for antly, and the fruit of the beat cults"",
shells, sleeping quietly behind a box rated varieties, while not as good as'
of ammunition. He had made his way the best of the European sorts, is ex-�
into the room by a dangerous jump of cellent when eaten raw and make
about eighteen foot from the cabin very good jam when properly cooked:
through the ammunition hoist, and At the Experimental Farm, Ottawa,
had landed safely. Severaibclays later, over 100 varieties of these plums have
however, he injured himself severely, been tested during the past twenty -
and his career ended' eight years. The outstanding or most
HER DAUGHTER. widely useful variety of the Canada!
_ plum has been found to be the Cheney,
How a Doll Brought Comfort to a a red variety of fairly good quality
Little French Orphan a hied cooks welt. The Assiniboine, a
Many stories told of children in the new variety, is'` very promising. On
devastated regions of France and Bel- account of its earliness, the Cheney is
glum are too pathetic to be endured Particularly useful in the prarie pre•i
Others illustrate the natural resilience vtnces where many of mine vatietie
of childhood, and teach us how a little are too late to ripen. Few of the
joy may help in bearing a great ser- American sorts usually offeree] for sale
row. are sufficiently early for the prairies,
Little ere in, in a ruined village, most of them having been originated
"somewhere tMa Marie,
France," hadr seen her hi the states of Minnesota and Iowa,
crippled father, her mother and two where earliness is not so important.
Seedlings of the native Manitoba sorts
little sisters killed when their cottage are now being grown at the Experi;
fell about them, knocked to pieces by mental Farms on the prairies to ob-
tain other and better ones. The Ma-
cards,With her
aged 'randmother
g g for plum, which has been brought to
and an aunt site fled to the fields, and notice by the Brandon,Farm, is a very]
3,000,000 TONS
OF SLIPS YEARLY:
Famous Russian General Ts
Superceded on the
Northern Front.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
General Ruszky has been removed
from the chief command of the army
on the northern front. He remains,
however, a member of the Council of
War.
The Moscow executive committee of
the Workmen's and Soldiers' Dele-
gates is opposed to the idea of a coali-
tion Government, and advocates the
immediate summoning of an all -Rus-
sian congress of soldiers' and work-
men's delegates.
The Provisional Government :will,
however, insist on coalition in order
to force the Socialite to share in the
responsibility of the government of
the country. They have repeated the
appeal recently issued warning the
people against anarchy and civil war,
with a possible return to despotism.
THE GOLD -BOATS.
In California Ships Float in Seas of
Their Own Making.
Up in the deserts of California, hen -
deeds of feet above sea -level, scores
of great ships float in little seas of
their own making.
These are the gold dredges. The
Parts are hauled over a sage -brush de-
sert, and put together on dry land. spent a night of exposure and misery
The navigable water begins with a :in a driving rain. Before morning the
dry pit, in which the hull is assembled grandmother was dead, and the aunt
and calked. Water is brought from ' died of pneumonia soon afterwards.
some creek, then the great steam- :wounded,
herself, who had been slightly
shovel starts work, and presently the wounded, became very ill, and when
dredge is digging away into the soil :the crisis of her sickness was over
with her chain of buckets, scooping it: she still hovered feebly on the verge
out to a depth of fifty or sixty feet, : of death. She was 'a dent- little girl,
Lind always increasing the size of the - and the nurses in the hospital to
lake in which she floats, which she hadbeen carried were wor-
All the soil she digs is worked for rias about her.
gold. She can make a profit if there' But ono day there was a distribu-
is only ten cents worth of gold in each tion of gifts and comforts from Am -
cubic yard. erica, and Marie received a doll. It
But each dredge costs three hundred made another creature of her; the
to four hundred thousand dollars, so brightness returned to her eyes, the
only rich corporations can afford this smile to her lips, a flickering color
way of getting gold. There is to -day to hev thin little cheeks.
in the West a fleet of at least one hun- I "You are really better, Marie," one
dred and fifty of these great craft, not of the nurses said to her the next day.
ono of which ever saw the sea, or any "I believe that dolly is going to cure
navigable lake of river. yon; she is better than the doctors or
--- —'—� 'nurses. We shall be jealous,"
Quite Visible, I "But it is quite natural," explained
The scarcity of servant gibs led to Mario a little anxiously, for she did
a
certain wealthy American lady en- not wish to be thought ungratefel.
gaging a. farmer's daughter from a Everyone has been kind to me, but I
rurnl district of I1'eland. Her want did not belong to anyone any more. I
of familiarity with town ways and i thought I had no one in the world no
family at all—and behold! Here is my
language led to many amusing scones. ]little daughter!" '
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early sort.
At Ottawa, where the season ie long,
enough for most of the American va-
rieties, the Brackett, Terry and Ad,'
miral Schley have proved to be three
of the best. Other sorts more genet
slly known are De Soto, Wolf, and
Ilawkeye. The wood of the American
alums boing brittle dogs not stand the
heavy snow in Eastern Canada very
well, the result being that the trees
are often badly broken unless they
are headed back each year to make
them stocky. The Canada plum, how-
ever, makes a very strong tree, hence
the Cheney is additionally valuable on
this account. The earliest varieties of
the Canada -end American plume are
ready for market before the European
ones, hence it has been found at Oti
taws that the prices obtained for thane
are nearly always quite. remunerative,
and the profits probably greater than
from pinnis in the best'plun districts,
Another hardy plum is the Omaha;
which experiments at Ottawa have
shown to be one of the best for that
unit of Canada, and, it is believedt
for districts having a somewhat simii
ler climate. •This is a hybrid between
the Japanese plum and the American;
and has combined in it the good pointe
of both, being, like the American
hardier than the Japanese, but having
the thin slain and firm flesh of the lat.:
tor. The Omaha ripens about the mid.
die of August, a time when there is
usually a good market for plums, dc
It is desirable to have more thstln
ono variety of tlfese hardy plums i!
the best success is to be obtained ae
they are more or leas self -sterile and
each variety requires another near it,
blooming at the same time to ensures
a good crop for both,
Wild pingo in some parts of Cart,
aria do not usually develop well owirtg
to dieesee, but it has been found at
the Elcperiniental Fenn at Ottawa
that thorough splaying 07012' year
will usually ensure good fruit,—Ex-
perimental Farms Note. .
Aocoi' Ing to estilnatee made by
owhere of farm tractors the length oil,
life pf tiro ttoc ehine, ie used for plow,
Mg) Manatees according t0 the number
41' plows pulled Batter material and
cenotrsctiert in the larger and heavier,
tractors is coa*idet:ed rosponsible fors
hilts,