HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-07-19, Page 3GERMAN CHANCELLO R HAS RESIGNED
GOVERNMENT MAY ALSO RESIGN
Intervention of Crown Prince Caused Resignation of Bethmann=
HolIweg-•-Kaiser Has No Yet Given His Decision.
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A despatch from Berne, 'Switzer-
land, says; -The Voissisehe Zeitmu;
of Berlin says the German Imperial
. Chancellor, Dr, Von Bethmann-Holl-
S eg, has resigned, ppaperor William,
the newspaper adds, has postponed his
`decision whether to accept the Chan,
ceilor's resignation.
• A telegram from Berlin on Friday
says that it was the intervention of!
the Crown Prince .that caused the
Chancellor to tender his resignation.
A despatch from Amsterdam says;
-A rumor has reached Holland that
the entire German Government will
resign with Imperial Chancellor von
Bethmann-Ho'llweg, the Main Com-
mittee of the Reichstag having re-
fused to vote a war, credit unless the
Government declares its policy regard-
ing peace and reform, which the Gov-
ernment.has declined to do. 'An Im-
perial proclamation is considered im-
minent,
The 'Voisrsieche. Zeitung and Lokal
Anzeiger, both of Berlin, agree that
the Chancellor resigned owing to a
letter from the Centre or Clerical
party, declaring that the conclusion of
peace would be rendered'more difficult
if he retained his office,
Dr, Theobald Theodore Frederic Al-
fred Von Bethmann-Hollweg, until his
selectio 'as Chancellor of the German
Empire was Minister of the Interior,
the fourth since Bismarck, He has
been accountable, under the constitu-
tion, only to the. Emperor, having
been a fellow -student of the Kaiser
at Bonn.. His.spectacular entry into
the war was in the rule of the words
"Scrap of paper" in his final inter-
view with the British Ambassador.
He was born November 29, 1866,
U. S. FORDS
TRADE WITH FOE
Washington Passes Bill Prohibit-
ing All Trade With
Central Powers.
A despatch from Washington says:
-Without a roll call the House has
passed the "trading with the enemy"
- bill, designed to prohibit all commer-
cial intercourse with Germany. and her
allies during the existence of the war.
The 'bill makes it unlawful for any
person, except with the license of the
Secretary of Commerce, "to trade or
attempt to trade with an enemy, or
for, or on account of, or on behalf of,
. or for the benefit of an enemy, either eludes the abdication of King Con -
directly or indirectly with knowledge stantine and important reforms which
or reasonable cause to believe that the ho expects to carr out under the new
person with or for, or on account of, >Y
or on behalf of, or for the benefit of regime of Premier Venizelos,
• whom such trade is conducted is an
ADDITIONS TO
GREEK ARMY
Senator Jonnart Tells of Impor-
tant Plans to Aid Allies.
A despatch from Rome says: -The
Greek army is to be.increased from
three to ten divisions, the recruiting
and complete equipment of which are
to be completed within four months,
according to plans outlined by Charles
C. A. Jonnart, Entente•High Commis-
sioner in Greece. M. Jonnart has
readied Rome on his way to Paris,
where he will lay before the repre-
sentatives of the Entente powers at
their forthcoming conference the re-
sult of his work in Greece, which in -
enemy."
SMALLNESS OF PALESTINE.
Markets of , the World NEWSTRUM ENGLAND
rtreaemaifte
-Toronto, ,lute memetenitoba wheats•- tZEW9 BY MAIL ABOUT JOON
s3•40, nominal•trmt,c!c Apr nous Rum, Arlo •IIiS'P"FAPLB.
No. 1"Nor they n $'A 44 No, 2 Ner there,
0, (0nitoba oats --No, 2 C,\Y,. 8280, 0l'aolc
!Bay ports
American Cern—N0, 3 yoliOW, .,11.99,
Ontario o
nominal, track Toronto.
Occur eek 1n the l'-'4"6 Lhai
rls No Oficial quotations.
In Comparison With Great Events
CANADIAN RAILWAYS • That Have Taken Place There.
• RAISE CLASS RATES When one thinks of the great
•' events that have. taken place in the Choicest creamery. 360;_ seconds, 35.,.
A despatch from Montreal says:- eggs -!icon, 400; o. 2, ea, 370; No. 1
Canadian railways are increasing; their FIoly Land, the multitude of cities, stock, 33 to 340; No. 2, do., le to 8oc.
class rates from points in Canada to villages and towns, the countless mil- Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, old. $3 to
points in the United States in lions who have been born there and °
line with the decision recently
whose bones now lie in its rock- Winnipeg Green
given at Washington by the ribbed hills, the small dimensions of ��Wiel Winnipeg; �g. 1J.lyrtl17 C $2134;ash pr ces: 2,
recently given at Washington by the Palestine are almost startling. West ao., $2.51; No. 3, do., $2.28; NS.. 4, $2.16;
of the Jordan, where - most" of the' No. 5, 51.93'; N0, '0, $1.74; feel, 11,31.
Interstate Commerce Commission on historic events tookplace, them are Basis contract -July, $2.34; August,
the applic..tion of the. American come
(first 141.f:
alf!; $2.29, - Oats -Nn. 2 c W
only 3,800 square miles, including all , Ole; No. 8n 00., 7400; extra No, 1 feed,,
ponies foraaniese have been wdvance.allowed the geographical divisions now called. ft j0}No. o 2, 01.21; 24004. 1za-
These companies Palestine. Including the land both 'jetted. $1.14; feed, $1.14. Flax -No. 1
Y••e%' something in the neighborhood of east and'west of the Jordan, the total .y • ao.Og2S SI7,74; N•
0. 2 C.W., 12.735. No.
from twelve to fourteen per cent., area is 9,840 square miles. The —
which also will apply to freight con-
signed to Canada, and in order to.
maintain the seine relationship, Cana-
dian railways have advanced their in-
ternational,rates to the same .es -tent.
The new tariff will come into effect
between: July 16 and August lst.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 , 52,er, per car Reigns Suprolne ilc the Com,
lot, $2,3G to $2'•16; No, 8 $2,39 to $2,39,
acoordinpr
to .freights .outside, mtrgial World. .
Pens—Nn 2, nominal, according to
freights is outside.
Barley—Malting, nominal, ,oeoordlpg
to freights outside,
1aYe—No, 2, 12,05, nominal, according•
to freights outside,..
Manitoba llour—J.rirst patonts,.1n juts
bags,. 112.40;. second Patents, 'Lt -Auto
bas's, $11,90; strong bakers', '1n. Jute
bags, $11,50, Toronto,
Ontario hour—Muter, according C0
sample, $10,20 to $10.30, 1n. bags, traOlt
Tore/190, prehipt shlpanent
Millfeed—Car lots, dellvered Montreal
freights, bags inoluded—Bran, ler ton,
123; shorts, per ton, $88 to 589; mid-
dlings, per ton, 542; good feed flour, per
bag. $2.80 to $2,90,
Nay—Extra No, 2, per ton, $12.00 to
$12.60• mixed, per ton, 99 to 511, track
Torgnto.
Straw—Oar lots, per ton,.: $0, track To-
ronto,.
Country Prodtloe-Wholesste
Butter -Creamery solids, per lb., 33 to.
335o; prints, per lb., 34 to 345o; dairy.
per lb., 27 to 280.
, 17ggs-For doz„ 29 to 30c.
Wholesalers are se11Ing' to the retail
trade at the followingn'lees
Cheese --New, large, 228 to 23o; twins,
224 to 231o; triplets, 23 to 2310• old,
l9arge6630c; twins, 301c; triplets, 2020.
Bulien D'rbsh dairy, cholas. 83 to 84c;
creamery' prints, 36 to 370; solids, 23 to
0.
Eggs -New -laid, in cartons, 37 to 880;
out of cartons, 36 to 26o. •'
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 30c•
fowl. 22 to 24o;,.squabs, per doz., $4.9d:
to 14.50; turkeys 25 to 30c.
Lire poultry -Spring chickens, lb., 20-
to
0to 220; hens, 16 to 120.
Honey -09 05=D\tra fine and heavy
weight, per doz., 12,75; select $2.50 to
$2.76;,. No 2, $2 to 52.25.
Beans Imported, hand-picked, $9.00 to
59.50. per bush.; Limas, p0r lb., 18 to 19c.
Potatoes -Red Star,new, bbL, 97.60 to
.50
t$80oscnd0bl6010 .0North to 6,78.
Provisions -Wholesale
Smoked meats -Hauls, medium, 30 to
31o; do., heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to
42c;. rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon,
83 to 36o; backs, plain, 36 to 37c; bone-'.
less, 39 to 40c:
Cured pleats -.hong clear bacon. 26 to
295cperlb.; clear bellies, 25 to 26c.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 27 to 271e;
tubs, 273 to 2791o; pails, 270 to 272c;
compound, tierces,- 215o; tubs. 2190;
palls, 22c.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, July 17 -oats -Canadian
Western, No. 2, 825e; do., No. 3. 815e;
extra No, 1 feed, 5150. noun -Manitoba
Spring wheat patents, firsts, 512.50; d0.,
seconds, 512; strong bakers', $11.50;
Winter patents. choice, 912.75; straight
rollers, 112 .to 512.30; do.. In bags.
$5.76 to $5.90. Rolled oats -Barrels, $9
to 99,25; bag of 90 lbs., $4,90 to 94.60.
mimeo -Bran, 33 to $34; shorts, $38
to 539; middlings, 940 to 942; moulllle,
544 to $49, flay -No. 2, per ton, car
lots, $11. Cheese -!ripest westerns,
215c; do., easthrna. 2130. Butler -
CD SUMPIDN OF WHEAT, BEEF
AND BACON MUST RE REDUCED
Every Man, Woman and Child in the Dominion must Help, Says
'Food Controller Iiianna-Use Perishable Foods.
. A deseetoh from Ottawa says:-- for export. Russia has been endue..
Hen, W. J. Hanna, the Food Controller, ing four meatless days a week. Home -
holds iii England are under voluntary
obligation to limit tear consumption
of meat 'to two and a half pounds par
person per week.
"The allies look to `Canaca to re-
lieve their food shortage. Both the
Producer and the consumer must as -
Slat to give that relief, the producer
be/ producing and conserving to the ut-
most of his capacity, and the consumer
by substituting perishable and conserv-
ing for export storeable foods. By
such joint action the soldiers of
Canada, the Empire and the allies will
be strengthenedin the struggle for
victory.
"Economy in the use of foodstuffs,
particularly of wheat,' bacon and beef,
is imperative. Wpste in the hotels,
restaurants, clubs and homes of the
Dominion is a crime,"
During the month of March, 9,209 soya that the consumption of wheat,
beef and bacon in the Dominion must
tons of fish arrived at Billingsgate or
about two thousand tons, less than fast .Ue reduced by at least oils -third to
!nest the needs of the allied armies
year.and people, Full ee homy in the use
Sergi,'Apedale, who lost his hear- of foodstuffs is.ur ged b the Control-
ing from shell shock, roeevered lt g- t e
when a "fin was suddenly 'firod'on a ler, who in his statement same
g y The consumption of wheat, beef
London stage, and bacon in the Dominion must be
The death occurred recently at
reduced by at least one-third to meat
the needs of the allied armies' and peo-t
pie. Every man, woman acid child in
Canada is under a direct war obliga-
tion to assist in that reduction. Tho
consumption of flour in England and
France is being reduced to between
three and -four pounds per person per
week. Canada end the United States
must reduce their normal consumption
of wheat by 160,000,000 bushels this
year. to meet the added requirements
London of Major Chas, Walsham
Maypard, who had served in the In-
dian -Mutiny, f,
At the annual meeting of the Hob -
burn Education Committee, W. A. At-
kinson was elected chairman for the
ensuing year. ..
Charles F. Claw, a German, was
sentenced to six months' ilnpr'isone
ment for stealing £40 .from his wife,
who is an Englishwornan.
The villagers of Bebside are rais-
ing a fund to make good damage
done to the house of Private W.
Ramsay by fire.
At the funeral of•the late Dr. J. S.
Bamilton, honorary surgeon of the
Coalville Hospital, wounded soldiers BETWEEN ONTARIO AND `BRI -
acted as bearers, TISH COLUMBIA.
A baker was fined at the Old
Street Police Court, London, forty
shillings for selling. bread loss than
twelve hours old,
It has been suggested that after the
Miners' have finished their eight
hours'. work theyshould assist the
farmers at ninepence an hour.
. Col. Faber, M.P., has sent £50 to
the Mayor of Andover towards the
erection of a monument to Col. John
Ward; of the "Die Herds."
The Lord Mayor of • London has
received £1,500 for the Belgium
Relief Fund, contributed chiefly by
Japanese children.
The Lancashire Board of Education
will not allow children of ten years of.
age to be absent from school to as-
sist in 'potato planting. •
Sir Lionel Philips has been appoint-
ed controller 'of a branch of the Min-
istry of Munitions to deal with the
development of minerals. -
John Snaps, a veteran of the Cri-
mean war, the Indian Mutiny; Zulu
and Afghan campaigns, died recently
at Ormskirk, in his 80th year.
43,000 PRISONERS
IN RUSSIAN DRIVE.
From. Petrograd reports, the follow-
ing number of prisoners and'guns are
shown to have been taken since the
beginning of the Russian offensive in
Galicia:
Prisoners. Guns.
In the fighting around
Brzozany one -July 1
and 2 18,300 29
Around Stanislau and
Haliez from July 2
to 8 , • 14,000 55
From July 8 t'o 11 , 10,000 80,
Totals . •- 42,300 134
These figures do not include ma -
thine guns. Twelve of 010 '55 cannon
taken at Halicz are heavy pieces ._
Better turn back and read all the
advertisements in 'this issue, or you
may miss something important,
length of Palestine from north to
south is about 150 miles. It varies
in breadth from twenty-three to
eighty miles.
,A Famous Chinese Temple.
The Temple of Heaven, at Peking,
was formerly, visited once a year by
the Chinese Superior to give an ac-
count of his empire and its affairs
during the previous twelve months.
This was set forth in writing, and
the manuscripts were then placed in
the furnace and in that way con-
signed to the Emperor in Heaven.
The temple is one of the most beau-
tiful arid interesting sights of pictur-
esque Peking. The walls enclr4sing the
temple, the royal apartments, the al-
tar, and the grounds are three miles
in circumference, and the white mar-
ble sttudtures• have blue and green
porcelain tiles.
.'
If everybody would speak around
home in the same tone they use when
talking to their freends over the tele-
phone, this would be a happier world.
No use to water plants finless you
soak the ground way down' to the
roots. Hoeing or cultivating the soil
regularly and often. is „Much better
than the ordinary speinkiing.
FLANDERS TOWNS WERE
RAIDED BY BRITISH AIRMEN
Explosions and Fires Caused by Several Tons of Boinbs *Dropped
• on Electric Power Stations.
A despatch from Londpn says:•=
British naval aeroplanes Thursday
night carried out raids on military ob-
jects in and near five towns in Fland-
ers, says an announcement made by
the Admiralty. Fires 'and explosions
were caused by the several tons of
bombs dropped by the raiders. The
statement reads:
Bombing raids wore carried out
Thursday night by naval machines on
Varssenaere, St. Denis-Westrem, Gbis-
telles and Ostend. Railway lines and
an electric power station and railway
siding at Zarron were attacked by
gun -fire from the air and bombs were
dropped on a train near St. Denis
.Westrem. A fire was caused by
bombs dropped near the Ostend elec-
tric power Station, and a heavy ex-
plpsion also was caused at the Vars-
senaere railway dump, followed by an
intense conflagration, which was still
burning a half-hour later. Several
tons of bombs were dropped. All the
machines• returned safely.'
-'- 'United States Markets
Minneapolis, July 17—Wheat—Jul!'
closed $2.2S; S6ptember, $1.20. Cash -
No. 1.hard, 52.50 to $2.56: No, 1 North -
01'11, $2.46 to $2.50; N0. 2, do., 92.35 to
53.•10. - Corn—NO. 3 yellow, 91.82 t0
51.83. Oats—No, 3 white, 71,1 to 720c,
Duluth, July 17 -Wheat -No. 1 herd,
92.41; No. 1 Northern, $2.90; No. 2, do.,
tem ber,, Linseed -52.98; Ot r, July, $,.OS, Sep -
Live Stook Markets
Toronto, July 17 -Extra choice steers,
011,20 to. 911.50; choice heavy steers.
110.60 to 511.10; butchers' cattle, choice,
10.56 to 511; do. good, 510.10 to 510.40;
0„ medium, 59 to 50.60: to common,
58 to $8.60; butchers' bulls, choice, $3.75
to $9.25; do.,' good bulls, 98 to 58.25;
do., medium bulls, $7.25 to $7.70; do.,
rough bulls. 15 to 50; butchers' cows,
choice, 58.90 to 99; do., good, 97.50 -to
$S; do., medium,. 57 to 57.60; stockers,
96.36 to $3; feeders, 58 to 99.10; can-
ners and cutters, $5 to $6; milkers, good
to choice, 590 to $96; do.. corn, and red,
540 to $50; springers. $80 to 990; light
elves, 99.25 to $9.26; sheep, heavy, $6.00
to 57.50; yearlings, $8.50 to $9; calves,
good to choice, $14 to 515.50; spring
llambs, lb., 160 to 170; lambs, yearnngs,
$16.25 to 516.361iodo-, weighed of0 toaas,
510,50; don f.O:151 915.50.
Montreal, July 17—Chotee steers, 511
to 511.60; good,.. $10.50 to $10.75;
butcher's' cows, 57.60 to 57.90; sheep,
$7,50 to $9; calves, $7 to 915; choice
selected hogs. 116.75 to $17;' good
selects. hogs, $16.60; heavyweight Hogs,
$15.76 to 116. --.
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A RECORD WITH V.C.'s.
Frem The- Middle West
One Battalion Won Six of Them in
One Engagement.
For•one battalion to win six Vic-
toria Crosses in a single action, is
surely a record, yet the Lancashire
Fusiliers, on whom the honor has
been bestowed have won. lasting dis-
'tillptuln. in every battle: in which they
have fought.- On the historic fielded
Minden so great was their bravery
and so heavy their losses that Prince
Ferdinand directed the regiment to
be excused from further duty. This
they declined -'to accept, After the
Peninsular War the Duke of Welling -
toy gave it unstinted praise. "I de-
clare," he said, "that of the many dis-
tinguished, regiments of the British
army which I have had the honor to
command, this, the best and most dis-
tinguishod, is entitled to all the euro-
ginnls I may have bestowed upon it."
NEW BRUNSWICK SURVEY.
Good Progress Reported nand -Splen-
did Results Achieved.
Plans are being made for the re-
sumption of field work on the New the iuterllational boinulaly near
Brunswick forest survey of which P. Warner, Alta., were fined 810 and
Z. nvefiiill is in charge. A report costs for not having permits.
recently submitted by Mr. Caverhill ..
to the New Brunswick Government
THE CHILDREN'S WAR.
shown that, of a total of some 7,500,- mem_
000 acres of Crown lands, 550,000 This is the Children's War; because
acres have been surveyed and examine The victory's to the young and
ed by`the field parties. The mapping clean]
and compilation have been completed .0 to the Dragon's ravening jaws
fora total•of 371,000 acres. Of this March dear Eighteen and Seven•
area 76 per cent. is covered with mer -I teen. -
chantable timber', less . than 2 per I
cent. with second growth of less than Fresh from the Chrisom waters pure
merchantable size, 11 per cent. has'
Dear lads, so eager to attain
been tburllgd but now contains young To the bright visions that allure
The`Iinight's ordeal, the red pain.
Items From Provinces Where Many
- Ontario Boys and Girls Are
Living.
Lieut. E. K. Reynolds, a well-known
Calgary man, was killed recently in
an aeroplane wreck.
Julius McIfush, North Winnipeg,
killed 107,520 flies in the recent school
children's crusade.
Four hundred Seventh Day Advent-
ists are attending the conference be-
ing held'at Lacon}be, Alta.
St. Charles Camp, Winnipeg, is laid
out to accommodate 10,000 men. '
Winnipeg builders have agreed to
stand out against the 40 cents'an hour
wage demanded by striking building
laborer's.
The Grand Trunk Pacific have
placed a largo honor roll in their of-
flees in, Edmonton. Seven hundred
and fifty -former employes have 'join-
ed the colors since wat' began.
..The late Lieut.. Robert Coombes, of
Winnipeg, earned the Victoria Cross
for bravery.
The three small children of Mike
Bandura, living northeast of Innis -
free, Alta„ were burned to death
while playing with matches.
Six commercial travellers crossing
/Sweet clover is adapted to a wider
range of climatic conditions than any
o:f the true clovers.
forest growth in sufficient quantities
to replace ultimately the former for-
est, and on 9 per cent, of the area
mapped, fires have caused such dam-
age that satisfactory reproduction
has been made impossible. Of the re-
maining 2 per cent., less, than half
represents the area of lands cleared
or cultivated; and the balance is macre
up of caribou barrens, cranberry bogs,
swamp land not supporting commer-
cial growth, etc.
The cruise shows that the 282,064
acres of timbered land mapped to
date contains 447 million footed saw
timber and 728,000 cords, equivalent
to 364 million feet, of pulp wood, etc.
The grand total is thus '811 million
feet, or an average of 2,900 board
feet -per acre.
I.f it be assumed that the 871,000
acres mapped to date is fairly repre-
sentative of the 7,500,000 acres of
Crown lands, the total stand will be
in the neighborhood of 16,220 mil-
lion feet .estimated to be worth in
stumpage at least 948,000,000. Mr
Caverhill estimates that the harvest-
ing and marketing of this crop will
distribute among the people of New
Brunswick not less than 9300,000,000.
To conserve supplies doesn't mean
to hoard them selfishly,. Our folks
think it is unpatriotic in times like
these to buy or hoard necessary things
in abnormal quantities.• Loosen upl-
why squeeze a starving world?
Flea -beetles have in recent years
been very destructive to young cab-
bage, radish and turnip plants. To-
bacco dust, applied freely, will usually
drive the pests away. Lime flavored
'with Paris green, or slug -shot, will
also help in most cases. Lime and
tobacco dust, freely applied, will dis-
pose of the radish, cabbage and onion -
maggot.
ALL SINGLE MEN
TO 35 ONE CLASS
From Erin's Green Isle
NEWS" II/ MAIL FROM IIU!w
LANJD'S SHORES,
Happenings in the Emerald Isla at
interest to Irish-
men.
Owing to the scarcity of leather in
Dublin and other Irish cities, the only
choice for ordinary wearers of shoes
will be between sandals and doge,
Lord Frederick Fitzgerald present-
ed the Kildare Council with 61118, the
purchasemoney of land• bought from
the Duke•.of Leinster by the Council,
Claims .or compensation have been
Council cat
gado to t o Castlereagh
m
behalf of the two constables who were
wounded at Ballaghadereen some time
ago.
A well-known figure has been re-
moved from the commercial life of
Dublin, by the death of Edward
O'Keefe, Sterling Park, Orwell road,
Rathgar.
The labor troubles in Dublin having
been settled, the Laird Line of steam-
ers have resumed their sailings be-
tween Dublin, Glasgow, Greenock and
Heysham.
A Belgian and his wife were sum-
moned before a Dublin Police Court
for selling cakes with chocolate cover-
ing without' the authority of the Food
controller.
An inspector from the Department
of Agriculture has taken possession
of a number of farms in Longford
which had not been tilled as ordered
by the Department.
CURE COUGH BY SUGGESTION.
Tendency to Cough May be Overcome
By Will Power. •
A man coughs in a crowded room
and forthwith a score or more of the
others join him. The coughs that from
small beginnings grow into a great
volume of sound are the bane of all
orators and lecturers. The reason
for emulative coughing is a Mystery
to the average layman, says D'i, Sad-
ler. The chronic cougher who seems
literally reminded to cough by hear-
ing some one else do so is impelled by
the power of mental suggestion.
Irritation of the throat membranes
is only one cause of coughing. Habit,
nervousness and trental states in-
duced by having coughed previously
are all contributing factors. "Fear
attention" is certainly able to cause
and maintain a formidable and annoy-
ing tendency to cough. I have con-
ducted experiments in lecturing to
students which have led me to this
conclusion.- I have delivered sixty -
minute lectures during the first half
of which only two or three students
coughed at all. Then I began to
cough myself, purposely, at intervals
of three or four minutes. During the
first five minutes of the second half
of the lecture eleven coughs were
heard; during the second five minutes
fifteen coughs; during the third five
minutes nineteen; during the fourth
seventeen; during the fifth twenty-
seven, and during the last five min-
utes
inutes sixteen coughs.
There is no doubt that most of this
coughing was stimulated by uncon-
scious suggestion, and that it was
really utterly unnecessary. Large
audiences are susceptible to the same
suggestion, although the degree of
susceptibility varies scunewhat in dif-
ferent audiences. Allusions to codgh-
ing will often be sufficient to cause a
person to cough. Yawning is largely
emulative. , Mention of yawning or
seeing some one yawn is often suf-
ficient to cause every one in a room
to yawn.
I once attended a man who had
coughed almost without intermission
for over three hours. He was physi-
cally exhausted by the recurring vio-
lent paroxysms of coughing. But
during my examination a child was
run over in the street in front of his
home by an automobile. In the en-
suing excitement the . man actually
ceased to cough for over half an hour.
When his attention adverted to the
fact he resumed coughing as violent-
ly as before. But this singular 'cir-
cumstance assisted me in persuading
him that his cough was really a sub-
jective affliction. By a strong effort
of the will he began to suppress the
tendency to cough, with the gratify-
ing consequence that he ceased to
cough entirely.
ALASKA'S RAILROAD.
Train on Narrow-Guage Track
Drawn by Dogs.
The "puptnobile" is a passenger
train drawn over a regular railroad,
track by dog -power. There is only.
one in existence. It carries . passen-
gers from Nome, Alaska, across thei.
level land near that town into the;
mountains.
The track is a narrow-gauge rail -1
road built in 1900. A high tax was
pla-cecl on the railroads in Alaska soon
after that, and as there was not
enough traffic over the roq,d to justify
the expense of operating locomotives,
the regular train service was discon-
tinued. Then the "pupmobile" was
instituted. The accommodation for,
passengers consists of a platform 011
which are two seats. To this from
seven to fifteen clogs are harnessed,
and the rate at which they travel com-
pares favorably with much of otic
"rapid transit," Furthermore, it is'
about the cheapest railroad to operate
that we know of. Six pounds of dog
meat a day is considered to be a fair
expenditure of "fuel,"
Going in double harness requires
patience and forbearariee till oath
member of the teagots used to it, 1
No matt or woman of the lillmblostl
sort can really be'- strong, gentle, plate
and good without somebody being
helped and comforted by the very ox-,
!stens of that goodness. a=
There is no lesson which history
teach 5 ins a clearly than, that free-
T.IIe wider Yo p t
or the idol; ioil diffuse and stimulate
the 5e38 of responsibility. -41r'1
Asquith, ,
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pave -
or
Will Constitute the First Quota
Under Military Service Act.
A despatch from Ottawa says; All
single men in Canada between „the
ages of 20 and 35 will be called up as
one class in the first quota under the
Military Service Bill, and all mar-
ried men between those ages will be
similarly dealt with as a single class.
Announcement to this effect was made
in the, Commons early on Thursday
morning by Hon. Arthur Meighen.
The change which, makes two big
classes of harried and single men in-
stead of six smaller classes was made
in response to a general demand by
the members of the House that the
young lads of 20 to 24 should not be
singled out and sent to the front
-while older men with no more ties or
responsibilities were allowed to re-
main at home.
The light 'is yet upon their curls;
The dream is yet within their eyes;
Theirl0cheeks are silken as a girl's;
The little Knights of Paradise.
0 men with many scars and stains,
Stand back, abase your souls and
pray! _w •
For now to Nineteen are the gains
And golden Twenty wins the day.
Brown heads with' curls all rippled
over,
Young bodies slender as a flame;
They leap to darkness like a lover -
To Twenty-one is fall'n the game.
It is the Boys' War. Praise be given
To Percivale and Galahad,
Who have won earth and taken
Heaven
BY .violence! Weep not, but be
glad!
.-Katherine Tynan,
MUNITIONS IN 1856 AND 1917.
Three Muskets in Three Months -
Victoria's Protest.
The statement that the output of
guns and shells in 1917 was more in a
single weep than it was in the whole
of 1914 recalls a letter written by
Queen Victoria to Lord Panmure in
1856, says a London paper. Her Ma-
jesty was still young in those days,
and what a Minister of Munitions she
would have made! "The returns of
the different departments for the last
quarter,;' she Wrote, "show a lament-
able deficiency in small arms. Fifty-
two for the whole of the United
Kingdom is a sadly small reserve to
have in store; we should never be
short of 500,000." The Queen was
struck also with the little work done
at Enfield: "It appears that during
the whole quarter this new and ex-
tensive establishment has completed
only three muskets."
ECONOMY IN USE OF
COAL IS URGED.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Mr,
Magrath, Canadian Fuel Controller,
in a statement issued on Thursday,
urges both domestic and industrial
users of coal to lose no opportunity of
laying in their fuel supply at the
earliest possible moment, and also to
exercise the strictest economy in the
use of coal, substituting wood and
coke, wherever possible.
V.C.
You say it was a brave, mad deed -
and yet it was no sin;
The man was badly wounded, so I ran
to fetch him in.
You know Im rather nervy', with -a
mad desire to fly;
I summed it up, and prayed to God
that I might nobly die.
-W. H. Stephens.
RUSSIANS MAKE PROGRESS
AGAINST AUSTRO-GERMAN ARMIES
Brnssilot'f's Forces Take the' Town of Kalusz—Advance of 20
Miles in Less Than 5 Days.
A despatch from London says :-
Another step in the outflanking of the
Austro-Gerrnan armies -protecting
Lemberg on the east has Ueen achieved
by the Russians, who have crossed the
River Lomnica and captm'ed Kalusz.
Beyond the Lomnica and south of the
Dniester, west of Halicz, General
Ko1'niloff's advance continues.
When the Russians occupied Ka-
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miles north-westward from Stanislau
in five days. In the same time the
Eighth Russian army took Halicz and
crossed the Dniester there and began
an advance between Stanislau and
Bohorodozany. A great wedge has
been' pierced in the Austro -German
lines south of the Dniester.
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