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The Seaforth News, 1919-09-04, Page 6�lt ii. au It ofi;p #pc nl sLto® tK1�A9TI�tIgi A Oitee and iV Bic i LIA ;:b0 ,; PASSES AWAY strong Unionist Premier of South Africa Victim of , Influenza. Pretoria, Union of South Africa, Aug.. 28. .General Louis Botha, Pre- mier and Minister of Agriculture of the Union of South Africa, died sud- denly early this morning, following • an attack of influenza, Right Honorable Louis Botha was born in Greyt'own,'Natal, in 1868. His family was of mingled Dutch and French blood, descended from sbme of those IIugenots who went to South Africa after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. • In 1907 Botha became Premier of the Transvaal, and three years later he became Premier of the South Af- rican Union. From the beginning he was a warm advocate of the union. He attended the Imperial Conference in London ire 1007, and was a member of the South African National Con- vention, afterwards visiting England 'with the other delegates in order to assist the Secretary of State in the passage of the South Africa Act through the Imperial Parliament. When the great war broke out Botha elected for the Empire. By diplomatic means he sought to hold the frreconcilea'bles in check, and when rebellion came he crushed it quickly. Then came his campaign against the Germans in Southwest Africa- The campaign was a master- piece of rapidity and efficiency. He took a force of from 40,000 to 60,000 men over sandy wastes of waterless country at a speed that seemed al- most incredible. He won the cam- paign, and destroyed another German dream, BOOM IIINDENBURG FOR GERMAN PRESIDENCY Berlin, Aug.. 28, -The National Liberals are booming Field Marshal van Hindenburg for the Presidency in the first elections to be held under the new constitution. The directorate of the party urges the obliteration of party lines in the initial election for President of the new Republic, and calls upon the voters to rally round the moa whose name has been an "epitome of faith- ful service to the country in war, in victory and in the hour of need." PRESENTED A BIBLE ' TO THE PRINCE OF WALES Upon his recent visit to Toronto his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales graciously accepted the gift of a Bible from the Upper Canada Bible Society. The presentation was very fittingly made at the Exhibition grounds, where for ninny years the society has had a booth for the disposing of Bibles to visitors at the Erhihition. The Bible was presented by Dr. N. W. Voyles, K.C., LL.D., president of the society, in a few well chosen re- marks. 90 DAYS TO REDUCE PRICES Time Likely to be Given Govern- meat to Prevent General Strike in Country. Washington, Aug. '28, -Industrial peace', in the United States: depends on the results the Government can show in the next 90 days in its cam ,paign to reduce the cost of living. That time limit was tacitly set to- day by the Executive Council of the railroad shop crafts in suggesting to union locals throughout the country that President Wilson's compromise offer in response to their demand for higher wages would be accepted, pending the outcome .of the effort to restore a normal price level. If the cost of diving does not come down, the 500,000 members of the shop crafts would reserve the right to strike for more money, and with thein probably would be associated the he- mainder of 2,600,000 railroad employ- es, all of whom have been considering the same problem. The letter of the Executive Coun- cil served to compose somewhat the uneasiness felt in official circles over the immediate labor situation and to focus attention on the legal measures being directed by Attorney -General Palmer and his assistant, Judge Ames, to take the inflation out of prices by punishing hoarders and profiteers. CANADA'S WELCOME GRATIFIES BRITAIN "People of the Dominion Are Surpassing All Expectations." A despatch f •om London saysi-All London newspapers are featuring the extraordinarily enthusiastic welcome the Prince of Wales is receiving in Canada. The Westminster Gazette says:- "No one ever doubted that the Prince would receive such a welcome; his position, his personality and the part he played in the struggle wherein the Canadians bore so great a share were sufficient to assure that. But the people of the Dominion are sur- passing all expectations by the hearti- ness of their welcome and by the keen pleasure they are obviously taking in the Prince's visit, In the midst of all these manifestations of nubile in- terest and of his own popularity, the Prince is bearing himself well, dis- playing that quiet courtesy and modem, esty which have already endeared him to the people at home." GERMAN PRISONERS WILL BE RELEASED Paris, Aug. 28. -An agreement has been reached between the French, British and Americans, by which the German prisoners held by the Britieh and Americans may be released lin- mediately. HONORING THE BRAVE. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales pros eating the Military Medal to Sergeant ,eoulanger of the famous 22nd, French Canadian Battalion,' at Quebec. i PE WHiCH ROAD? 'Which road? This is the question every country community is facing to -day. In OUR community there are only two kinds of people. And they travel on just TWO roads. There are the "HOME TOWN patriots" and the "Out -of -Town patrons." There is the "Trade at Home" road and'the "mail order" road. 'Which class are YOU in? What road are YOU taking? It should be EASY to decide. Every time we fail to patronize HOME IN= TERESTS we are boosting an outsider. Every time we take the mail order route we are boycotting our home town. Which ROAD? The only answer for US is the ROAD TO THE -RIGHT. LEADING MARKETS Breadstuffe. Toronto, Sept. 2. -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $2.241/2; No. 2 Nor- thern, $2,211/2; No. 3 Northern, $2.17• No. 4 wheat, $2.11, in store, Fort William. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C,W., 9014c; No. 3 C.W., 88%c; extra No. 1 feed, 88%c; No. I feed, 87%c; Noe 2 feed, 84%c, in store Fort William. Manitoba barley -No. 3 C.W., $1.35%; No. 4 C.W., $1,31%%.1; rejected, $1.28%, in store Fart William. American corn -No. 3 yellow, nom- inal; No. 4 yellow, nominal. Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 89 to 91 c, according to freights outside, Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per ear lot, nominal; No. 2 do, $2.03 to $2.08; No. 3 do, nominal, f.o.b. •ship- ping points, according to freights. Ontario wheat -No, 1, 2 and 3 Spring, nominal. Barley -Malting, $1.33 to $1.37, ac- cording to freights outside, Buckwheat -Nominal Rye -Nominal. Manitoba flour -Government stand- ard, $11, Toronto. Ontario flour -Government stand- ard, Montreal and Toronto, $10 to $10,60, in jute bags, prompt shipment. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mon- treal freights, bags included Bran, per ton, $45; shorts, per Taft, $55; good feed flour, per bag, $3,25 to $8.50. Hay -No. 1, per ton, $23 to $25; mixed, per ton, $10 to $19, track, To- ronto. Straw -Car lets, per ton, $10 to $11, track, Toronto. Country Produce -Wholesale. Butter --Dairy, tubs and rolls, 86 to 38e; prints, 38 to 40c. Creamery, fresh made, solids, 52 to 5212c, prints, 521 • to 53e. Eggs -49 to 50c. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 33e; roosters, 25c; fowl, 30 to 32e; ducklings, 25c; tuciceys, 35 to 40e; squabs, doz., $6. Live poultry --+S ring chickens, 28 to 29e; roosters, 25c; fowl, 26 to 30e; ducklings, 22c; turkeys, 30e, Cheese -New, large, 28 to 29c; twins, '281/2 to 292c; triplets, 29 to 30e; Stilton, 29 to 30c. Butter, fresh dairy, choice, 47 to 49e; creamery prints, 57 to 680. Margarine -36 to $8e. Eggs -No, l's, 55 to 56e; selects, 59 to 60e. Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, 40c; roostersv 28 to 80e; fowl, 34 to 38e; turkeys, 40 to 45c; ducklings, 34 to 35e; squabs, doz., $7. Live poultry -Spring chickens, 33c; fowl, 33 to 35e; ducks, 27 to 300. Beans -Canadian hand-picked, bus., $5.25 to $6.75; primes, $4.25 to $4.75; Imported, hand-picked, Burma, $4.00; Limas, 15 to 160. Honey -Extracted clover, 6 -Ib. tins, 24 to 25c; 10 -lb. tins, 231/ to 24c; 60 -lb. tins, 23 to 24e; buckwheat, 60 -Ib. tins, 18 to 19c. Comb, 16 -oz., $4.50 to $5 doz.; 10 -oz., $8.50 to $4 dozen. Maple products -Syrup, per imper- ial gallon, $2.45 to $2.50; per 5 imper- ial gallons, $2.85 to $2.40; sugar, lb., 27c. Provisions -Wholesale.' Smoked meats -Hams, med., 47 to 48e; do, heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 63 to 65e; rolls, 36 to 3Se; breakfast bacon, 49 to 56e; 'backs, plain, 53 to 55e; boneless, 56 to 58c; clear bellies, 33 to 35c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 34 to 36e; clear bellies, 33 to 34c, Lara -Pure tierces, 37 to 83c; tubs, 371/ to 38e; pails, 371/2 to 383/tc, prints, 39 to 40e. Compound tierces, 811/2 to 32e; tubs, 32 to 3214c; pails, 324 to 32%c; prints, 33 to 331/2c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Sept. 2. -Oats, extra No. 1 feed, $1.021/2; flour, new standard grade, $11 to $11.10; rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., $4.80 to $5.25; bran, $45; shorts, $65; hay No. 2, per ton, car lots, $21 to $22.10. Cleeese, finest westerns, 25e. Butter, choicest cream- ery, 56e. Eggs, fresh, 64 to 66; selec- ted, 59 to 60c; No. 1 stock, 53 to 556; No. 2 stock, 43 to 455c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $2.50 to $2.75. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, 882. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Sept. 2. -Choice he vy steers, $13.75 to $14,50; good he vy steers, $13.25 to $13.50; butchers' cat- tle, choice, $12.75 to $13.25; do, good, $11.75 to $12.25; do, med., $11 to $11.26; do, corn,, $7 to $8; bulls, choice, $10 to $10.50; do, med., $9.50 to $9.75; do, rough, $8 to $8.25• butcher cows, choice, $10.25 to $10,75; do, good, $9 to $0.25; do, med., $8.50 to $9; do, come $7 to $8; stockers, $7,50 to $10; feeders, $10 to $11.25; canners and cutters, $4.76 to $6.75; milkers, good to choice, $110 to $140; do, corn, and med,, $65 to $75; springers, $00 to $150; light ewes, $8 to $10; yearlings, $10.25 to $12.50;. spring lambs, per cwt., $15.50 to $16,25; calves, good to choice, $16.50 to $22; hogs, fed and watered, $21,255; do, weighed off ears, $21.50; do, f.o.b., $20.25, Montreal, Sept. 2. -Best steers, $12; choice butchers' bulls, $6.50 to $7,60; canners' cattle, $5 to $6• choice 'but- ohers' cows, $6 to $9. Milk fed calves, $10 to $15; grass-fed stock, $7; lambs, $14 to $15• sheep, $7; hogs, best sel- ects, $20.50 per cwt. off cars; other grades down to $16.50 per cwt. THE ADVENT INTO CANADA of H-R.H the Prince of Wales, K.G. Hail to our bright young Chieftain, Joyous envoy from the Motherland. Scion of a reign beloved, And heir to far-flung realms, Of valour proved on Victory's fields, Yet gentle, kind and lovable. Canada welcomes thee, With open arms and loyal hearts To her rich and vast domains. A free people acclaim thee By God's grace our future king, Our Empire's hope and bond, May the Laurel of Peace Encircle thy brow! And righteousness and truth Guide, help and preserve thee. In these happy moments May Canada adopt Thy motto, "Ich Dien." -Hamilton McCarthy. TO GIVE TO PRINCE FREEDOM OF NEW YORK New York, Aug. 28. -Mayor Hylan received a telegram from the Prince of Wales to -day accepting the Mayors invitation, sent by airplane mail, to visit News York and accept the free- dom of the city. The Prince said he expected to come to the United States in November, --s9. A Personal Question. "Person" in the dictionaries is des- cribed as "all Individual human being." But it is not so in England front a le- gal standpoint, as women do not come within the class. This was revealed recently when the Royal Astronomi- cal Society of London decided to ad- mit women as fellows of the council, The plan was found to be impossible until the society had its charter al. tered. SLAUGDT 't Of GIFTS T NGS CHRISTIANS IN WAR AND QUEENS 80,000 'Martyrs' in North-West Persia -Children Hacked ' ' to Pieces. A despatch from London ssays:-A terrible story of the martyrdom of. the Christians of Northwest Persia is told in the Daily News. It is nar- LEGACIES FROM SUBJECTS QUITE UNKNOWN. TO RULERS. King ,Edward VII. Recipient of Many of the Teetinonlats-$1,260 [Se rated by one of their number, Dr. queathed to Queen Victoria. Yonan. Soon after the war, began, Dr., Yonan says, the Russians came to dtlrumyah, in the province of Azar- ba)jer, and induced the Christians from Assyrian battalions to fight against the Turks. There was a bat- tle in Urumiyah in February, 1018, in which the Christians were victori- ous. After this the heroic, but small, Christian force fought fourteen bat- tles with the Turks and Persians and routed their enemies, But no help same from the allies and the defeat! of the Armenians cut off the Chris- tians from the Syrians. By the end of July, 1918, their ammunition was exhausted, and the Turks were at the gates of Urmniyalt, The Christians who dwelt at Salinas, a fertile plain on the north side of Lake Urumiyah, had been massacred and flight was the only course left to those of Ur- umiyah- So 75,000 men, women and children left their homes, in a vast procession, taking with them such property as they could collect hurriedly. Those who could not escape sought refuge in the American and French missions. Here terrible scenes were enacted, Monsignor Sonteg, head of the French mission, died a martyr'•s death and his brethren in religion were also murdered. Children were laid on the pages of open Bibles and hacked to pieces. Meanwhile the fugitives were attack- ed by the -enemy at four places and thousands were cut off and massacred. Children were snatched from their mothers and dashed to the ;'round. Hundreds of women were carried away Mussulman harems. In ail, 30,000 were killed, lost or •!raptured. e freproducIng Rare Carpets. Carpets now on display in a London shop will, in the opinion of the Times,. surprise those who are unacquainted with the strides made in the manu- facture of carpets by British factories during the war. The carpets are claimed to be exact reproductions of rare eastern carpets and are being of- fered at prices not much higher than those of ordinary loom production. The most remarkable feature about them is considered to lie the true ren - doting of that eastern lustre whioh has hitherto defied successful copying. Some of the most notable reproduce tions are those of the seventeenth cen- tury coronation carpets which were made for the Shah of Persia; the IRhorassan rug, and the famous car- pet manufactured for the Sheik Is- mail, the original of which hangs in. the Victoria and Albert Museum of London; anti there are copies of others from the cathedrals anaeart galleries of the world. The carpets vary in size and have all been made in a British factory during the post three or four years, "Housewives' Shoulder." Doctors have been puzzled by numerous cases with symptoms re- sembling, rheumatism among patients who have not hitherto suffered with rheumatism, The sufferers are nearly all married women and the pains of the new ailment are confined to the shoulder. The doctor who discovered the na- ture and the cause of the new pain is a deductive man with Sherlock Holmes in his method of diagnosis, who practices in London. He noted that almost all his shoulder -pain patients dwell at some distance, with nn uphill climb from tyre shops. Iie questioned his patients and elicited that they have to snake several trudges home weekly with baskets of house- hold provender that the tradesmen cannot deliver. "You have not got rheumatism," he told them; "you have strained the shoulder-musoles through carrying awkward weights. Your trouble is `housewife's shoulder.' Alm cure? 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Wilhelm once had left him by a Munich testator the sum of $25,000, 'as a• humble subject's Mark of ap- preelation of the splendid monarchical. and statesmanlike qualities which His Majesty 1 <as displayed, and to signify dissent from the -criticisms that afire from time to time leveled at him,' Not all the Germans who made their wills in favor of the Kaiser were so flattering, for once a tradesman h Berlin sought to make the emperor his heir only on condition that he should bring about certain changes in his mode of public address. The sav- ings of this tradesman remained in lila own family. Edward VII. was the possessor of a portrait that served as a constant re- minder of the most curious will that was ever made id favor of a royal family. The picture was that of Henry W. Gibbs, Q C„ C,B„ who, Tor a period of six yenta:, in the fifties, - was the private tutor of Edward, then Prince of Wales. In the will wherein Mr, Gibbs bequeathed this painting to his former pupil, he also left to Queen Victoria a packet of letters "id the red box that contains my patent as queen's counsel." To the present king, George. V. (then Duke of York), and to the then Duchess of Fife, Gibbs left the 'sum of one hundred guineas each, dhile to the Princesses Victoria and Maud he bequeathed $12,- 500 each. In the case of the latter, however, the will was revoked on the occasion of her marriage to Prince Charles of Denmark, but a codicil - made her the recipient of one hundred guineas, so that it should not appear that she was forgotten. Left All to Queen Victoria, An odd feature of legacies left to royalty is that they sometimes conte from misers, who, either through enmity toward their own kinsfolk or because they are friendless, make their sovereign their. heir. A well- known instance in this relation was that of one "Daddy East," as he was called, who, some thirty years ago, left every cent he possessed to Queen Victoria, East was' well known to Londoners who frequented the BIoomsbury region, It is said that he was the most successful beggar that ever prowled that quarter. Iie lived in a dirty cellar and dressed in rags, a circumstance that led no one to suspect that he was the possessor of quite a fortune, It would seem, however, that the police had their suspicions, for when he died a thorough search was made by them of his cellar, with the result that over 8500 in gold was found hid- den under the cellar floor. Another curious will, made in favor of a member of the Guelph family, was that drawn by an eccentric old country lady at the time Edward, in his younger days, was nickiieg his tour of India. The testator directed that 2250 should be forwarded to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, a sum which it was hoped "would help in some trifling degree to pay the enormous expense which the heir apparent'e trip had involved." 0 WHEN IS A PERSON o DEAD BY DROWNING? "Found drowned" is a note that ap- pears only too often on the report hooks of the life-saving stations along the coast, But what does the word "drowned" mean? Not dead, necessarily. A per- son may be drowned and yet may "come alive again." So it would at least appear from the records of the coast gd. Tiro lifeuar-savers of the coast guard are all thoroughly instructed in the art of resuscitating the drowned. They are frequently drilled in the practice at it and know exactly how to go about the business, The ancient method of rolling a drowned person on a barrel has been superseded by, more scientific processes, In many an instance where doctors have declared persons to be absolute- ly and hopelessly dead they have nevertheless been revived by per- sistent efforts. A standing order of the coast guard requires its life.' savers In such oases to keep on with the work for at least half an hour,' 'even where the heart has stopped, beating and there is no sign of life' whatever, 1 The stone which the 'buiideri $6.f jested, the same was made, time he5d4 lid the corner. --Ps. cxvdii,, 2.4 The only love worthy of the maim' ever and always uplifts. -MacDonald.. 'Sow calceolarias in light soil fez winter flowering plarltea Use strong tea in stove polish lite stead 4f }water, 4