HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-10-04, Page 3HARD FIGHTING CONTINUES AND
SEVEN COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED
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British ImproveNew Positions Captured in Flanders and Take
1,614 Prisoners. \.
A despa h from British ,front in
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Brit-
ish
on Thursday continued tC strength-
en the line to whh they battled their
way on Wednesday, The Australians
completed their conquest of the Ger-
man positions at the eastern extremity
of Polyols Wood. Two places secured
here rerresented the only remaining
troublesome points along' the Anzac
front, which reaches northward to the
east of Polygon Wood,
There has been much hard fighting
in this section, but on Thursday the
weary Germans apparently withdrew
to more favorable ground further back
and the Australians pushed ;Forward.
To the'south of that point the Ger-
mans continue to hammer away with
their artillery at the British defences
a stride the Menin road and make
,tl.reats of an infantry assault. The
neighborhood of Hill 40, north-west
of Zonnebeke continues to be hotly
contested ground, with little give or
take on either side.
Consolidations have been complet-
ed by the British in a majority of the
places, the Anzacs having finished this
work.
The report from field Marsha
Haig en 'Thursday night refers only
briefly to the operations of Thursday
in Flanders, On the previous day
seven powerful hostile counter-at-
tacks, it says, were repulsed with
heavy losses, 1,614 Germans were
ssee an
taken prisoner.
Luring Wednesdays fighting large
numbers of British aeroplanes aided
the infantrymen,attacking the Ger-
�.
Markets of the World
Bieedrtuifa
'$olZinie, Oct 2 --Manitoba wheat—No.
1 Northern, ern, $2 23; No.:2, do $2,20.;
No 4, do. $2.17; No, 4 wheat, $2 00, in
liters Cott a William,
!mi c.yv, 2e tax,
storenYort Wllllam. 1 i
R.nlerican Ool'n--No, a yellow,, nog,
nal, track 'l'ovo17to,
Ontarto oats --No, 3 white, 42e, •nolni-
nal; No. 3, de,, Ole, ,nominal, according
to freights hta
d -e
Ontt wheat—New,
New No. 2, 8,17 to
$2.20, according 'to freights outSldo..
fess—No, 2, nominal,
Borley—Maltirn;; now,. $1.18 to $1,20,
a000reing to freightsutside, •
Rye—No, 2,, $1,70 according to
freights outside,
Manitoba flour—rivet patents, le into
bags, $11.6q„ gna, do 811;00•; strong
halters', do„ $10,e0, Talento,'•
Ontario pour -.-Winter, according to,
sample, $10.801 in hap,tragic Toronto,
pi'Om ted -Cant.
•with t M111foed—Car late—Delivered Mont-
effect. The German airmen pu up oi, s nor s, o„
do„ $45 to $46; gegd We'd $our, pot•
strong opposition and as a result the. bag,•$s26.
mads from low altitudes wi great
;,0111.
eal freights, . bassi inoluded-Bran, per
t t 836 1 t d $42 lddlinga
casualties among the flyers were high.
Fifteen German machines were ac-
counted for, but thirteen of the Bri-'
tlsh planes failed to return to their
base.
On the northern front of the new
offensive, in the region east of St.
Julien, sodte interesting German pris-
oners were to be found on Thursday,
A number of the prisoner cages were
filled with a nondescript lot of mid-
dle-aged men, who looked far from
men of the warrior type. They said
the Germans had used up all of their
1918 class, and that as the 1919 class
were not ready they were calling up
old men.
USE AIRPLANE TO
10111K_ CARRY WOUNDED
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Remarkable, Tests Carried Out
by Frenl`ch Army Officials.
A despatch from Paris says: Tests
made on Saturday at Villa Coublay of
an airplane fitted with two stretchers
for carrying wounded proved highly
satisfactory: s. Dr. Chassaing of the
.Army Medical Service and Corporal
Tetu represented wounded passengers
during a twelve -minute flight, the
equivalent to a fifteen -mile journey.
Corporal Tetu declared that this
form of transport was far superior to
an ambulance, of which he had vivid
recollections when wounded two
years ago. Dr. Chassaing removed a
muffler from his head and unfasten-
ed straps during the flight. He ex-
pressed the opinion,thet there would
be no unnecessary „pain to a wounded
passenger, because the equilibrium of
the airplane.is so perfect. The air-
plane was constructed by the Aero-
nautic Service of the army, which
hopes to use this form of transport
for the severely wounded, declaring
that the absence of any jolting fully
compensated the patient for any risk.
-- BRITISH NAVAL FORCES
BOMBARD OSTEND.
A despatch from London says: The
German naval base of Ostend, on the
Belgian coast, was bombarded by Bri-
tish naval forces. British aerial pat-
rols over the fleet encountered six
hostile aeroplanes and downed two.
"Naval aeroplanes," says an Ad-
miralty statement, "copiously bomb-
ed the Sparappelhoek aerodrome.
They made several direct hits, smoke
jleing observed from the sheds on the
south-west side. Several of our fight-
ing patrols over the fleet encountered
six hostile aeroplanes, two of which
they brought down.
"There was a bombardment of the
naval establishments at Ostend by
'our naval forces. Several hits were
observed on Anatelier de la Marine."
CLEARED HIS LAND
WITH ONE HARVEST.
A despatch from Zeneta, Sask.,
says: Charles Myer, who last Spring
purchased an improved section of land
at $35 an acre on credit and seeded
550 acres to wheat, has just threshed
12,000 bushels of No. 1 Northern, This
Aigrain will bring $25,000 at the fixed
price—more than sufficient to give
him a clear title to the property.
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TWO FOE SEAPLANES
ARE BROUGHT DOWN.
A despatch from London says: Two
large German -seaplanes have been
brought into Flushing, Holland, by
Dutch torpedo boats, and it is report-
ed that they participated in the . air
raid on England,,/sa'ys a despatch to
The Evening News from Rotterdam.
One of tlhe four German airmen was
seriously wounded. The three others
have been interned,
SOUTH -AMERICA
ONE AGAINST RUN
A despatch from La Paz, Bolivia,
says:—L1 Mario and El Tiempo, com-
menting on the measures being taken
by Argentina and Peru to obtain satis-
faction from Germany, say the mo -
merit is approaching fortthe complete
solidarity of South America. Discus-
sion of now treaties is in progress in
,Parliament.
RIG SHIPPING .PLAN
UNDER WAY IN U.S.
Year's Programme Involves the
Construction of Tonnage
Aggregating 6,000,000.
A. despatch from Washington says:.
The magnitude of the American Gov-
ernment''s shipbuii.'ding programme
was revealed in a statement by the
shipping board, showing that nearly
1,200 merchant vessels of about 6,-
000,000 tonnage will be completed.
within a little more than a year.
Completion of ships commandeered
in shipyards and of vessels actually
or•about.to be contracted for will
give the country a fleet of 1,600 ships
with a total'tonnage of more than
9,000,000. In addition to this, the
board will complete in 1919 vessels
already contracted for, and under ne-
gotiation of about 4,000,000 tons. A
billion dollars has just been asked of -
Congress to complete the programme.
The United States now is leading
the world in shipbuilding, and if the
Present rate of construction • were
kept up, would become the leading
shipping nation of the world in a
few years.
Total 'YieldsCrops,
of Grain 1917.
The preliminary estimate of this
year's wheat crop in Canada is for a
total of 249,164,700 bushels from 14,-
755,800 acres, an average yield per
acre of 16.88 bushels, as` -compared
with 17 bushels in 1916 and 29 bush-
els in 1915. The estimated yield of
wheat in 1916 is 229,818,000 bushels
from 18,448,250 acres, do that the
estimated total for 1917 represents an
increase of 19,851,700 bushels, or 8
per cent. The total yield of oats in
1917 is estimated at 899,843,000 bush-
els from 12,052,000 acres harvested,
as compared with 865,553,000 bushels
from 10,178,000 acres harvested in
1916, For, the prairie provinces it
has been necessary to deduct from the
sown areas percentages of 10 in
M 't b d 17 in Saskatchewan and
and o a an
Alberta for crops not ripened into
grain. The yield per acre on the har-
vested area is therefore for all Can-
ada 38.18 bushels, as compared with
35.91 bushels in 1916 and ¢6.84 bush-
els in 1915. Fo`r rye the estimate is
4,194,950 bushels from 211,870 acres,
as compared with 2,967,400 bushels
from 148,620 acres in 1916, the yields
per acre being nearly 20 bushels in
both years. Barley yields 59,318,400
bushels from 2,892,200 acres, .as
against 42,647,000 bushels from 1,-
703,700 acres in 1916, the 'yields per
acre being 24.80 and 25 bushels re-
spectively. The total yield of flax-
seed is placed at 10,067,500 bushels
from 1,242,000 acres, as compared
with 7,816,300 bushels from 622,000
'harvested acres in 1916, the average
yields per acre being 8.11 bushels and
11'1, bushels in 1916.
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In peeling onions place them in a
bowl of water, and peel them so that
the water covers the onions, to prevent
the eyes from smarting.
If you get a grass or fruit stain on
a white dress, rub it with a little
paraffin before sending to the wash,
and that stain will come out in the
boiling.
Place pulverized pumice stone be-
tweein the layers of a folded piece
of soft muslin and stitch around the
edge to keep the powder from spilling.
Wipe lamp chimneys or window panes
with this dry cloth and they will, be
clean and sparkling almost instantly.
Enough powder will remain in the
cloth tobe used many tunes,
-"AY—No, 1, new, per •ton, $11.80 to
$11.80; mixed, do„ $8 to $0.50, track To-
rgnte,
Straw—Car lots, per ton, $7 to $7,60,
track Toronto.
Country Produce—Wholesale
Butte'—Creamery, solids per lb., 41
to 4115o; prints; per Ib,, 413 to 42c; dahry,
per. lb., 36 to 36e,
I➢ggs—Per dos., 39c.
Wholesalers are welling to the retail
trade at the following prices :—
Cheese:—New, large, 23 to 2H c; twins,
23"3 to .23311; triplets, 235 to.' 24o; old,
large, 30o; twins, 3030; triplets, 303e.
..-]Butter—Fresh dairy,_ ()holm, 09 to 40c;.
creamery prints, 44 to 45c; sollde, 43 to
493c.
Eggs—New laid, in cartons, 62 to 640;
out of cartons, 46 to 400.
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 25
to 30o; fowl. 20. to 22c; squabs; per
doz., $4 '.to $4.60; turkeys, 25 to 30c:
ducks, Spring 22e.
Honey—Comb—Extra line, 16 oz.,
$3.26; 12 oz., $2,75; No,.2, $2.40 to
$2.50; Strained tins, 23's and 6's, 170
per lb; 10's, 16*0,• 60's, 163 to 16c.
Live poultry—Spring• chickens, lb.,
22o; hens, 20 to 22c; ducks, Spring, 20o..
Beans—No Canadian beans on mar-
ket until last of October; imported,
hand-picked, $7,75 per bush; Limas, .per
ab., 15 to 16c.
Potatoes, on traolc—Ontarlo,. bag,`
$1.86 to 51,46.
Provisions—Wholesale
Smoked meats—Hams, Medium 30 to
31c; do„ heavy, 20 to 27c; cooked, 41 to
42c; rolls, 27 ,to 28e; breakfast bacon
lasso 948c; backs,44cpain, 39 to 49c; bone -
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 27 to
2750 Ib.; clear bellies, 260 to 280.
Lard—Pure lard, tierces, .26 to 2030;
tubs, 263 to 2650; Paris,' .263 to 270;
compound, tierces, 20 to 203c; tubs, 203
to 208c; palls, 203 to 21c.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Oct. 2—Oats—Canadian
Western, No, 2, 773c; do„ No, 3, -76c;
extra No, 1 feed, 76c; No. 2 local white,
710; No. 3 local white, 70c, Barley—
Man, feed, $1,29; d0„ malting, 52.50 to
$1.31. Flour—Man. Spring wheat
patents, ,firsts, 511.80; seconds, $11,10;
strong bakers', 510.90; Winter patents,
choice, $12.60; straight rollers, bags,
56.60 to $6,75. Rolled oats—Barrels,
$8.60 to $9; do.. bags, 90 lbs., $4.10 to
$4.36. Bran—$34 to $35, Shorts—$40.
Middlings—$48 to $50. Mouillle'..756 to
$60. Hay—No. 2, per ton, oar lots, $11
to $11,60. Cheese—Finest westerns,
215c;• do easterns, 2180. Butter—
Choicest creamery, 943 to 45c; do„
seconds, 433 to 445. Eggs—Fresh, 63
to 540; selected, 47 to 480; No. 1 stock,
43 to 44c; No, 2 Stock, 40 to 410. Pota-
toes—per bag, ear lots, $1.55.
Winnipeg Grain
Winnipeg, Oct, 2—Caen prices—
Wheat—No. 1 Northern $2.21; No. E.
$2.09$; No. 6N $1 4; No $6 $1.56 No,
$1..75. Oats No. 2 C.W., 68c; No. 3,
do., 6030; extra No, 1 feed, 0610; No, 1
feed, 658c; No. 2, do„ 640c. Barley—
No. 3, $1.25; No. 4, $1,21; rejected and
feed, $1.15. Flax—No. 1 N.-W.C., $3.29;
No, 2 C.W., $3.29; No, 3, do., 13.12.
'United States Markets
' Minneapolis, Oct, 8—Corn—No. 3 yel-
low, $1,97 to $1.98. Oats—No. 3 white,
08 to,60e, Flour—Fancy patents, $11:50;
first clears, $10,60; second patents, 55.50.
Bran—$31,60 to $32,00.
Duluth, Oct. 2—Linseed—$3,60 to
$3.64; arrive, $0.473; September, $8,60
bid; October, $3.470 asked; November,
$5.405; December, $3.40.
Live Stook Markets
Toronto, Oct, 2-17xtra choice heavy
steers, $11.50 to $12; do., 50od heavy,
$10.60 to $11; butchers' cattle. choice,
$10 to $10,60; (lo., good, $9.25 to $9.76;
do., medium, $8.50 to $5.76; do., com-
mon, $6.75 to $7.40; butchers' bulls,
choice $6.30 to $8,66; do., good bulls,
$7.40 to $7,86; 00., medium bulls, $5,85
to $7.10; do., rough bulls $5 to- $6;
butchers' cows, choke, .$3,25 to 18,60;
do., good, $7.50 to $7,75; do., medium,
$0.00 to 50.76; stockers, 77.00 to $8.76;
feeders, 58.25 to $0.16; canners and cut-
ters, $5 to 76.60; milkers, good to choice
$90 to $135; do„ oom, and med., $76 to
186; springers, $90. to $136; light ewes,
$0.50 to $11.50; sheep, heavy, $5.75 to
$7,50; yearlings, 711 to $12; oalVes, good
to choice, $15 to $15.60; Spring iambs,
$16 to $16,50; hogs, fed and watered,
$18.76; do„weighed off cars, $10; do.,
0,ab„ $17.00,
Montreal, Oct. 2 ---Choles steers, $10,20.
to $10.50; good, $0.75 to• $10; lower
grades, $8 to $9; butchers' cows $6.50
to $3.50; bulls, $8 to $9; Ontario lambs,
$15 to $16,26; Quebec, $14 to 714,00;
sheep, $8.50 ,to 510; milk -fed calves,
$14 to $16/'lows,' grades, 69 to 813;
selected hogs, $17,78 to 818,26.
DEFENCE AGAINST
HEAVIEST TORPEDO
A despatch from Montreal says:—
Major
ays:Major Douglas Hamilton, is perfect-
ing a device 'designed to 'make it im-
possible for Germany to sink ships at
sea. The details of the invention are
in the hands of the British Govern-
ment, also of the allied Governments,
A. ship . equipped with the device will
be tested by torpedo, fire in the near
futile°, and Major Hamilton' says he is
so confident of the success of his in-
vention that he is willing to take a
chance on,the ship experimented upon.
The resisting power of the device with
which the ships are to be protected is
said to be one thousand times heavier
than the heaviest torpedo or other pro-
jectiles made by the enemy.
ANOTHER U. S. LOAN •
MADE TO FRANCE.
A despatch from Washington says:
A further credit of $40,000,000 was
extended by the Government' to
From The Middle "West
RETWLEN ONTAI;IO AND 1/Il1c
TISH COLUMBIA.
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Items 11!rom Provinces Where a Man y
Ontario Boys qnd Gir s Aro
Livsig,
Major F. Caldwell and Capt, , M,
Moffat, t o ' Wihhlpeg officers, have
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won honors at the front,
'Fifteen foremen,'280 men and 32
teams' are employed by the Winnipeg
Street Commissioner's Department
keeping the streets in good condition,
A year ago 13. foremen, 230 men and
26 teams were at work.
-index in Winnipeg get al"i5rn-
Bookb s p
crease of $3,50 a week.
Lieut. Norman J. D'Arcy is a Win-
nipeg man ,to win the Military Cross,
Doc Qr Says ,luxated Iron Will
Iforec se'tr ngt'h of ;Delicate
People IO% in Ten bays
In many instances—Parsons have walls wlthout,beeernme tiled, N.ext;.talce
suffered Unfold agony for years doctor„ two five-grialn tablets ' of ordinary
in for nervous ltaxatmQ h'mn'thros times Por .day Vita!^
weakness, stomach, lneala Ymr five wovlca. ',coon test your
Ilver or kidney dlpoage or some other strength again and nee for yourself hpw
ailment when their real trouble was nmee you have gained, 1 have neon
leek of Iron inthe blood—How to tell, dozensel nor'Yo,u0. run-down people who
wereailing all the time double, and even
New •York N.Y.--Ina reee t lso..urse woe thea strength and endurance and
Dr, 30, Sauor, io Roston pinyslsia;i who bras 103 lr'elY get rid of then' sYmeteMs ok
stu..died widely both in this dountrl' and dyspepsia, liver and; other troubles 1n
In- great Uuropean' medical Institdtlonle, from ten t0 fourteen days' time simply
said: `i1 -you were t0 make an actual by taking iron in the proper form, an
bleed test on all people who are in you tills, after they had inHomeoasOS been
would probably be greatly astonished et (lecturing for months without obtaining
the exceedingly large number who lack any benefit, You can talk as you please
iron and u'ho are ill fol' no other reason about all the wonders wrought by new
than the lack of !rem. -The mttenlent Iron remedies but when you moms down to
le 8011171ed all their. rnultltlule of (lunger- 'hard facts there 10 nothing lute good old
ous pyi.rl toms disappear, Without Iron iron to Put color in your cheeks and good
the blood at 0nee loses the power to sound, healthy flesh on your bones, It 7a
change feed Into living tissue and there- also a great nerve and stomach strength -
fore nothing 100 ma does you any good; suer and the brat Mood builder in the
you don't get the etrengtll out of 1t, 'world. The may trouble was that the
Your food: merely. passes through your 'old forma at inorganic iron like tincture
system like corn through a mill with the of iron iron acetate, etc„ often ruined
relieve so wide apart that the/mill can't peoplo'S teeth, upset then' stomachs and
grind, As a.'.result of this eent10uOuswere not assimilated and for these
blood andnerve starvation, people be- .reasons they frequently did more harm
muTchhatfoWodinansipeBgecloinns, maletshouhgahlf on1a9s alrmtrseu'ogfeclcnooewkayodwsferaOkenunnds '0vhoeult s; p aa.annd
one-tenth
its size, is theestimate of 015101 d wh healthy int;
seine areis SOburdeneweak theyitcanun.hardly walls;
a food 'economist. some think they have dyspepsia, kidney
Winnipeg Armories Cari Only ac- yil ht others 010800003'rlind tried Sall day;
eOminodate 2,400 men, Additional,som0 00891 and irritable; some slcimny
quarter's will be found' for conscripted
men.
Frost damage to grain in Western
Canada this year is smallest in his-
tory.
E, A. Lowes, dean of the Agricul-
tural College, Edmonton, says there
will be a wonderful potato crop gar-
nered from Alberta fields this year.
At the experimental farm, Edmonton,
there are 20 acres growing which will
yield 500 bushels to the acre.
Fifteen children under one year of
age were received at the Children's
Shelter at Edmonton during August.
The city police service in Edmonton
costs the citizens $1;61 per capita, In
Calgary the rate is $1.31.
The Edmonton Exhibition Associa-
tion gave 284 nickel cases containing
thread needles and a thimble to the
and bloodless, but ail lack physics
)ower and endurance, In such eases it
16 worse than foolishness to take stimu-
feting medicines or naraeotio -drugs,
which only whipup your•fagging vital
Powersfor the moment, maybe at the ex-
pgnse of your life later . on. No matter
what anyone tells you, 1f .you are not
strong. and .well 1011 owe it to yourself
to make the following test, See how
long you can work or how far 100 can
30 PEOPLE IT
BY ONE BOMB
than good, But with the discovery of
the newer roans 00 organl0 iron all this
has been evsroome, Nuxate6 Iron for
example is pleasant to take, does not
:Mare. the teeth and is almost im-
mediately b
m-
medlately.b e n e a of al,•
NATA: Tie manukaoturers of Nuaated
Iron have such unbounded amlfldonoo in, its
potency that they authorise the announce-
ment that they will forfeit $100.00 to any
charitable Institution it they cannot tape
any man or woman under sixty who leaks
8, 00 and increase their strength 100 per
(cent, or over In four woolca' time, provided
ploy have no serious Mani° trouble. Also
they will rotund your money '1n any ease
In which Nuxatod Iron Coss not at least
double your strength In ten days' time. It
Is dispensed by all good druggists,
12 of Them Were Killed in Air
Raid on London.
A despatch from London says:—
The inquest on Thursday elicited °that
thirty people had' been hit by one
.children exhibiting in the school work bomb which fell outside a hotel on
department who were not fortunate Monday evening, twelve of whom were
enough to win prizes. • killed, All were either in the street
On one farm near Lethbridge, Alta,, or doorways, having gone outside to
the owner expects to sell $600,000 'see the raid, Tuesday night a bomb
worth of crop. fell in the street adjoining some' small
American harvesters are crossing houses. For a distance of one hundred
the border into Alberta at the rate of yards the interiors were badly smash -
100 a day.' This is due to the harvest- ed by concussion, although the houses
ing in Montana being practically over. did not collapse. In one room a man
The influx is reducing the wages from 'and his wife were Milled. Next door
$4,50 and .$5 per day to $4. a woman was killed. In the same
Thirty-two soldiers returning from house a woman and baby were blown
the -front to Saskatchewan homes were into the street, and both critically
given a luncheon at. the Assiniboia hurt. A little further down the street
Club, Regina, and a ' motor trip a man entering his home was killed,
through' the city.
The cost of living in Winnipeg now FIRST CANADIAN TO GET O.B.E.
is from 20 to 30 per cent. higher than
it was a year ago. 'Order of the British Empire Con -
Winnipeg plans to double its library ferred on Montreal Manufacturer.
for blind readers. They have 76 vol- The Order of the British Em ire
umes at the present time. was instituted in June last for the
Winnipeg jitney men have been purpose of recognizing "the manifold
ordered to furnish bond against dam-,
age to persons or. property.
The Edlnlonton Auto Club relieved
the street car tie-up considerably by
giving free rides to the working peo-
ple,
William Diamond, a master of arts
graduate of the University of Mani-
toba, has been awarded a fellowship
in the University of Chicago.
Flight -Lieut. A. W. Carter, of Cal-
gary, has been awarded the Distin-
guished Service Cross for skill in air-
craft near the Ypres salient.
D. S. MacKenzie, Alberta's Deputy
14finister of Education, has resigned
from that important position to be-
come bursar of the University of Al-
berta.
A western farmer donated a volun-
tonr's pay to the local patriotic fund.
It is calculated that there are en-
listed in that part of Alberta between
Crows Nest and Bow Island and south
of the Crow line between 3,600 and
5,000 soldiers.
A convalescent home and a voca-
tional training school is being planned
in Lethbridge, Alta.
Of the 22,000 harvesters passing
through Winnipeg, 3,000 hands were
obtainable for Manitoba farms.
The Canadian Council"of Agricul-
ture held in Winnipeg recently advo-
cated increase•111 heroes' pensions.
Sixteen girls from a Winnipeg de-
partmental store have formed a stook-
ing club, and will help with the har-
vest.
Let There Be Light.
In the summer'of 1916, the Com-
niission of Conservation conducted a
detailed survey of 400 representative
farms in Dundee county, Of these,
less than one per cent. practised sys-
tematic selection of their seed grain,
similar to that followed by the Can-
adian Seed Growers' Association.
Three per cent, treated their seed
grain for smut. Only nine per cent.
grew wheat, but practically all grew
oats. Of the latter, slightly more
than half know the name of the vari-
ety grown. forty-three per cent: did
not know the varieties of any of the
grain sown on their farms.
Brooms should always hang when
hot in use. IIave a hole bored through
the handle four inches front the end
and large enough to slip over an or-
dinary nail. When left on the floor
services, voluntary and otherwise, that
have been rendered both by British
subjects and their allies in connection
with the war."
The first Canadian to receive this
honor is Mr.' Charles Blair Gordon of
Montreal. As reward for the accept-
able services rendered by Mr. Gor-
don for nearly two years as vice-
chairman of the Imperial Munitions
Board, he has had the second class
honor, namely, Knight Commander of
the Order of the British Empire, con-
ferred upon him by IIis Majesty the
King,
Mr: Gordon is one of Montreal's
most successful manufacturers and
financiers. At the age of eighteen he
set out to make his living, and at
forty had amassed a fortune. He is
President of the Dominion Textile
Company, Limited, also of Penmans,
Col-
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,Limited, and of the I C
lieries, Limited. Mr. Gordon is on the
1 directorate of the Bank of 14lontreal.
His interest in higher education is evi-
denced by the governorship of McGill
University which ho occupies.
MANY PRAIRIE FIRES
IN SASKATCHEWAN.
, A despatch from Prince Albert,
Sask., says; Large quantities of hay
have been destroyed by prairie fires
in Northern Saskatchewan. The prili=
cleat losses are in the Star City and
the Tisdale districts, Fires are also
ina broom soon loses its shape andlwill
France. This brings the total ad- raging
France.mber towns noi'ihhas ieef
vanecd the allies up to $2,460;400,000. Inot do good tvorlc. enveloped in smoke for several days.
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FULL SUCCESS
FOR ITALIANS
Complete Mastery of the Bain-
sizza Plateau Gained by
Gen. Cadorna.
A despatch from Washington says:
Austrian counter-attacks on the Ital-
ian front have all failed, according to
a semi-official despatch reaching.
Washington from Rome on Thursday.
The message said that the present
situation of the Italian offensive sur-
prises, and that the Italians have
practically cleared the Bainsizza Pla-
teau, and are holding all the territory
they have thus far gained.
"The present state of affairs on the
Austro -Italian front," the message
reads, "appears to be full of promises
and surprises. The enemy, believing
the supreme solution of the war can
be expected only by fighting, is
strengthening his defenses and ac-
cumulating great quantities of mate-
rial desperately, and is doing every-
thing possible to forestall a future
Italian offensive, which is expected.
The Italians have practically cleared
the Bainpizza Ptatean, and are hold-
ing all the territory conquered. Ac-
cording to the statements of prison -
era; it seems that the Austrians are
quite discouraged. At present the
greatest activity is being displayed by
Italian airplanes, which are scouting
over the enemy's rear lines, where
the Austrian troops are resting,
spreading fear and terror by their
bombing operations."
COMPELLED TO WEAR
CHAINS ON HIS FEET.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
The result of the trial of General
Soukhomlinoff proved to be a surprise
to the general public, who foresaw
the acquittal of Madame Soukhomlin-
off and expected that the former War
Ivlinister would be found not guilty,
The Procurer -General declares that
the verdict cannot be quashed on a
technicality, as no higher court ex-
ists.
Soukhomlinoff's sentence, life im-
prisonment, carries with it the se-
verest form of incarceration, called
"Katorga." The first ten years the
convict passes throng different
stages of punishment, including
chains on the feet, sometimes, on the
hands, also, and he may be dhained
to a wheel -barrow. The next several
years, "on reformation," are spent in
prison without chains. Next, "on
probation," until finally the stage is
reached where the convict is set at
liberty in a village, from which he
must not depart. The several stages
are shortened by good conduct, and
the convict finally has the chance to
become a free Siberian settler.
Heart -Rending French.
When on a visit to London M. Ribot,
tite French premier, sat at dinner -be-
side a well-known financier whose
Fre eh was none of the best. Not
knowing that M. Ribot spoke English,
the man of millions opened the con-
versation somewhat as follows:
"Monsieur," he said, "eska-ah-aska-
vtlo-esk voo vooly, lna: voo-ly ma
dunny—"
"My dear sir," the minister blandly
interrupted, "do, I beg 0f you, stop
conversing in French. You speak it so
well it makes me home sick.
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A Girl's Ambition.
Elsie (aged 5)—I do hope some
Dutchman will marry inc when I grow
up,
Aunt Mary—Why, clear?
Ellsie—Because I want to be a
duchess.
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Peragraphw
The thirty-fourth session of the
Provincial Normal School, Vancouver,
has begun,
Capt. W, B. MeedonaltiR,N, a na-
tive of Victoria, has been invested,by
the Khedive of Egypt and made a
Commander of the Order of the Nile,
I,ieut..'Harry N. Wooton who won
the MilitaryCross overseas is home
,
in Victoria on six months' sick leave,
Halibut has reached the highest
price ever on record at Prince Rupert,
carload lots selling for 161 cents per
pound.
The first Good Roads Convention of
British Columbia, held at Penticton,
Was very successful, the lower main-
land and interior being well repre-
sented,
Propaganda by the Food Controller
to bring about the consumption of less
white bread is resulting in Nelson in
some increase in the public demand
for brown bread, •
The offices of the Municipal Hall at
Cerrisdale were overrun with flowers
and vegetables when the annual hor-
ticultural fair was successfully opened
by Reeve Fletcher,
During last month, the driest of the
year, and the driest August in sev-
eral years, the fire loss for Vancouver
was $2,188, of -which $1,598 was cov-
ered by insurance.
Mr. J. K. L. Ross, naval lieutenant
and chairman of the Dominion Pen-
sion Board, and Lieut, -Col. R. H. La-
blatt, a commissioner, have arrived in
Vancouver for the purpose of coming
into personal contact with pension
conditions in British Columbia,
Badly battered and bearing unmis-
takable marke of her submersion in
the waters off Privett Island, thb
Union Steamship Company's well-
known coasting steamer, Cassiar, ar-
rived in port at Vancouver in tow of
the B. C. Salvage Company's steam-
er Salvor.
Lieut. Geoffrey Murray Downton,
who for some years was engaged as a
land surveyor in Vancouver, has won
the Military Cross for conspicuous
gallantry and devotion to duty.
The first appointments to the local
tribunals under Mlle Military Service
Act have been completed by Judge
McInnis for the Vancouver judicial'
district, and they include a woman.
;The formal opening of the new mili-
tary annex for sick and wounded sol-
diers, attached to the Vancouver
Gen-
eral Hospital, has been celebrated,
Lieut. -Gov. F. S. Barnard opening the
doors.
A report has reached Vancouver
that the Federal Government proposes
to take oder the evaporators handling
vegetables and that the control will be
exercised before many weeks have
passed. '
An urgent call for women helpers
has come from the fruit canners of
Kelowna, B.C. Fruit picking in this
district has now passed over the peak
of the crop and the packers are now
entering the tomato season.
-A giant cabbage, weighing some-
thing over twenty-four pounds, was a
fair criterion of the kind of garden
produce to be found at the second an=
nual flower show held by the Garden
City Women's Institute, Victoria.
SUBMARINE WARFARE
Some Necessary Provisions of the
Terms of Peace.
The object of Germany's submarine
warfare is not so simple or purely
military as ane would thinlc. It is, on
the contrary, twofold—military and
-economic, says a retired Rear Admiral
of the U. S. Navy. She is not only
endeavoring by her submarines to cut
off all supplies of food and ammuni-
tion now coming from abroad to our
allies, but, with an eye to the future,
is ruthlessly destroying all shipping
she can find, Whether neutral or belli-
gerent, while she herself is building
merchant steamships with frantic
speed in order, when the war is over,
to have a vast amount of tonnage in
readiness with which to monopolize, so
far as possible, the world's carrying
trade. The German 'means to make in-
humanity profitable. It is for civiliza-
tion to prove how grossly wrong he is.
Therefore if the Allies win in this
struggle against barbarism it is in-
conceivable that the terms of peace
shall fail to include the provision that
no German ship shall be permitted to
navigate outside of German territorial
waters until every vessel her subma-
rines have illegally sent to the bot-
tom of the' sea -shall have been re-
placed by Germany. In addition,
every German official, no matter how
high his rank, who has authorized or
directed this assassin's employment of
the submarine and every German cap-
tain who has sunk unaffending non-
combatants must be hanged for our
der.
No man can order another Iran to
commit murder—cringe is individual—
and the murderer should with his own
life pay the penalty of his guilt.
In these conditions there is no trate
of a revengeful spirit. These things
must be done on behalf of civilization
end humanity, lest the German use of
the submarine become a precedent for
future wars, which God forbid.
Diekie's Deduction.
A teacher asked her class to write
all essay 011 London, She was alr-
prised 30 rend the following in one a -
teinpt;
"The people of London are noted for
their stupidity."
The young author was asked how he
got that idea,
"Please, miss," was the reply
gays in the textbook the population of
London 16 very dense."
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