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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-02-27, Page 2food Saving Continues at Rideau Hall Duchege of Pectronsbixe Believc3 in the NeGe,:wity for OontinuPd Effort r pod Val:sem:Van Tiirm,g;toul, tlw New Yo-ar. Extract from letter sent to the Canada Food Board by Her Excellerey the Duchess of Devonshire. 4-seedeese49-esedete4 e•-e-see-e-o-eleeeee ++++ +e+++- 0-++.1-+ 49-4 44 4+ , "I am much interested to hear of your efforts to encourage the use of codfish from the wonderful .Canadian fisheries as a means of • increesing the food supplies of the world. "The Duke and I fully realize the necessity for continued effort hs food censervation in order thee the starving people of the devastat- • ed eountries of •ihrope may be fed. ''We can all help to attain this end by making the fullest possible use of the natural reseurces of this country. We shall go on using large quantities of fish and vegetables at Government :House as long •as it may be considered advisable to do so." 4+49-4-499-49 +4-9 9-4449.9.99-94-44.4 09 44 99+9999 i>9- 494-..>÷+-44-... New Year is naturally.. enough a time to take Stock of the events of the past twelve .months to sum up what has been accomplished end to took intothe future. .A. New Year, with peace on earth again, is so verY strange an occurrence that at is hard to grasp its real significance. Taere is a feeling abroad that it is theend of things, rather than the ,beginning of a new, era of effort )frugality and subsequent prosperity. Thee is danger of relaxation and latitude which- could only be fate.' to the future ofthe country. We cannot afford to rest on eur oars at this juncture, no matter haw hard we may have striveu to •cope with -difficultiesduring the past • four years. ••• The women of Canada have been magnificent in el their war work and credit is especially due then i ter the ewhole-hearted way they have given ,themselves eel to the work of food .conservation. Women are essentially „the nation's foodsavers and they are briocipally responsible for Canada's recent izt sending foodstuffs overseas to meet the needs of Allied Europe, It Is not too much to say that they have forgedsone of the most binding • links in the chain which , was gradu- ally wound 'atoune the enemy. And ' the marvel of our voluntary food sav- ing, now that we can look squarely at results, is that no one actually- sue fereo any hardship from it; that we are all better In health and spirits, and that We have gained a more un- selfish viewpoint. We have a n.ew appreciation of the value of food that will peee.ent us from e'er again wast- ing it as we did in the oar days, We have come to emderstand the religion of sa.vine and to realize the place that food occepies in our new world-wide human relations. It is abundantly apparent now how toed control made sufficiency from shortagekept the rein on food prices and elicited a fine spirit of Volun- tary co-operatiart from the people of 'Canada. Figures furnish th.e most elo- quent testiMOOY to what has been ac- complished and some measure of the size of the problems which have had to be met may be gained from the fol- lowing table of the value of food- stuffs exported since the war began: Far fiscal year 1914-15 ..$187,011,30.0 For fiscal year 1915-16 .. 332,455,900 For fiscal year 1916-17 .. 482,619,400. For fiscal year 1917-13 .. 710,611,400 So much for the past, The great, objective has beou reached. The Can- ada rood Board accomplished what it set out to do, with the help of tee women of the Dominion. But there is much ta be done in the New Year, There are tremendous deticits in live stock in Europe amounting to some- thing like 12000,000 head, Milk is almost at theevanishing point in some countries, Great Britain will depend upon Canada and the tinged States for animal fats for sOlne time to come. Prance wit require many milions oe dollars' worth of foodstuffs from abroad for years to come. The troops will have to be'fecr tor two or three years yet before demebilization, is completed. The shortage of butter in Great Britain is slit very acute and the per. capita .censumption there re- mains only about one-eighth of the consumption in ,Canad. So that the clear ditty of Canadian woraen for the next few months and, indeed, for years to come, Is to prac- tise general thrift; to aim at a nation of better and more frugal housekeep- ers; to co-operate food saving with money -saving. The continued use of fish and vegetables; a greater de - mend for tbe cheaper, rather than the more expensive, cuts of meatee and pare in the use of sugar and Iaare all essential if we are to met the more immediate demands epon us. Many of the food restrictions have been lifted but it is lett to the individual censcience of the woman in the home to continue in the way she has been going for months past and thereby to help along the work of reconstruc- tion. There is a stringent period ahead. .Annual interest upon our war debt alone will amount to over $70,- 000,000. The French people, set the whole world an example of industrial thrift when they went to work to pay off the crushing war indemnity levied on them by. Germany after 1870. What the French did then, Canadians can do now. If every Woman in the land throws herself heart and steel into this thrift campaign Canada's future among the natiOns is assured. A WAR -WORN CITY. &deems i,3 A.coltstolned to Short Peioci of Peace. What has happened to Soissons dur- ing the past two and a half years is no new thing, and, however much un- like war was the appearance of the littIe town, to those who passed through it in the early summer of 1914, the roar of guns had been heard around it less than fifty years before, and that fifty years had been the longest period of peace it had enjoyed perhaps in all its history. At the dawn of that history, Soissons is seen as the capital of the great Gallic tribe, the Suessones. The S'uessones occupied twelve towns, and their king,. Just. be - ore the coming of te.e Roman, was ene, of the most powerftil In all Gaul, Div/Vets was his name, and he ex- e‘v 4e.• -•e ; ',c*!'i. * •:,71,„....0 ,(., i ,r.1 • t.rol-r.:>..'' ' . • cmx twee:. e ▪ , TP.C."Zel 0 Z.,:k.tst'ss) OCRSIA ' •••7;.•:-‘, 0,04,c,,..1Lc L A es • • ',0.40100 oe::,..„... _ A ... 1.: v,.., ..•:,,.. ."}-;•• . N 4 4....,..... 4, , t ' • rn' ..' .0 (ilt) es, r.• 4,—, ,,, •Af ---.Ati, • v•- Tle,•.red t • 4. sr • `C .14 / .jrnA::,04,14,,::..‘ 4 DITEP PAN 4A .!\7 t'At‘seqz cs. % 4 A ,•• .. Nsh- eieteYse ta c en .0.esur1 eete weeee e-essereareere AnAD/A • • * 1 01 ill THE SLICING The above map illustrates the tate Of the Turkish Empire, if all the claims new put forward are realized (1) Bulgaria claims all of European Tutkey, outside of Canstantinople, basing Its elairas upon the territory won in the Balkan war of 1012-13. (3) Greece claims the island of Rhodes isnd the islands of the Greek Archipel- ago (now held by Italy), the Greorc shoree of the Aegean Sea and of the Sea of Marmora, including Content- eele and the adjoining regien, the coast Of Bulgaria as fixed by the 13a1- kan wars, and the Ala Minor litter - el, including Smyrna and Grelt mettle,- ments. (8) Turkey may thus be on fineat to the province of Anatolia, itoutit of the l3eti, of liderreora and tho Bleak ilea, with the toXCeption of tho toast eliding by Dream Siouteri, On th. eastern. shore of the lionavo01.0 OF TpRKEY, Bosphorus may be the neer eapital, (4) Arumnia, which has declared its independence, *mute the strip of the (iaucasus ceded to Turkey by Rusela by the treaty of 13rest-Litovsk, and the province of Oilicia, which would give it tho Mediterranean perts at • Adana and Alexandretta. (5) The Aruba of kiyria want their independ- ence, but this claim coufliets witit an agreement between Prance and Brit- ain lie which Syria, was to go to France., ((1) Paleetine will probably be dc Newel an inaependent jewish 8tattl utdef the protectorate of Great Britain. (7) 'Tho Arabs of Hodjae, vrite proecti loyal te Britain, Inati a eaten ef the v1t1do ot Necljae, and Syrll, (it) Meso,otainia, including the valleye )f tho_ Tigris, and ths Euphratia will Molsaitly lateen -1e part •Of the 110,41$11 Empire, in MUCh the same %ay es ICEYIA now 01 tended his authority, not only to the confines ot what is now northern France, but AIM amongst the ancient Britons, moss the narrow etrip of the Btraits of Dover, Then some years la- ter, came the mighty conquests of Julius Caesar, and in the year 13. O. 53, Ceiba, King of the Suesecntes, sep- arated trout the confederation et tbe Belgians, and submitted to Rome. ofteenr, It. la generally supposed, al- lude a to ;Soissons when he Speaks ot Novlodunum, but at the beginning ea the empire the city took the Dame ..of Augusta Suessiononuna, and aftet- Wards that of fluessioila, and became the Second capital of ,Gallia Belgica, of which Rheims was the Metropolis. The advent of the Roma -tee meaut here, as it meant everywhere, the coming of roads, and the roads along which, reehalt elleeliee and guns are, to -day, being (laity and hourly her- riea to the front, follow at allY rate the time routes as the great MilitarY roads which the Romans threw out in all directions from the growiug city on the bents of the Aisne to Rheims, Chateau - Thierry, •1340a1.1e, Theriot Amiens, and St. Quentin. Along one of these roads, one deg towards, the close a the third CeritUrY, came the two noblemen, Crispin. cute Crispinien. They were Christian mis- sionaries, and they first impught the faith to Soissons, teecbing and preach- ing in the city and round about, and earning their living the while by shoe- making. They suffered martyrdom in 297, and Iry reason of their craft be- came, in after years ,the patron saints of shoemakers. It was, however, after the corning of the barbarians, after the last of tbe Roman governors of Gaul, Syagrius, had been defeated close to the city of Clovis the Prank, that Soissons began to make history. It was here that Clovis married the famous Clotilda, around whom much' lege rul is woven, and It was here that, yielding to the plea: of his Wife, he finally renounced his pagenism an embraced nChristianity. Clovis after- wards settled in Paris, but Solssone was the capital of his son Clotaire, and it was not until many years afe terwards that the kingdom of Se's - sons was incorporated with that of Paris. Thereafter, on the, stage of Sots - sons' history appear many well known scenes: The Normans uuder Marla the Pet laying siege to the town in 886,; failing to take it, devastating the suburb of at. Medard, and returning to their own country; Charles the. Simple, defeated 'seaside the walls by tho supporters of Rudolph. of Bur- gundy and (Hugh the Gresat; then the coining of the famous Counts of Solas sons, who heal sway during the tenth! arta eleventh centuries, and. were for- ever at war, either with tee king or with their .own subjects. The most troubled period in the history of tho city, however, was probably daring the religious wars of the sixteenth con- tairyeTho place was sacked by Charles V. in 1544, and, in 1565, by the Hugue- nots, who laid the churches in ruins and, supported bd the Prince of Condo, Count of Soissons, kept pos- eession et the town for six months. Another bitter period was towards the end of the Napoleonic wars, in 1914, when Soissons was captured and re- captured by the Allies and the French. Aftee, Waterloo, it was not occupied by the Russianuntil the August of 1815. rinalle, in 1870, it CI pitulated to the .Germans, after a bombardment, of three days.—Christian. Science Moni- tor." 4-4 wai at Has England Done?" Righteousness Has won her war upon Ilypocrisr That some there be who, lost in 'little- - ness, And.ameitnidful of an ancient grudge, can "Now, what has England done to win this v.ar?" We think we see her „smile that English smile, And shrug a lazy shoulder and—just It IN'trnrCile$30 rale worth her while to name In her stupendous tack to make reply. What has she done! When with her great gray calm, Lithe, lean destroyers, grim, invincible, She .wept the prowling. Prussians flow' the sons; And, heedless of the slinking sub sub- marine, The hidden rn:ne, the Hun -made treach- eries, Her transports plied the water cease - You lesTelY awhat she has done? Have you: forgot Thattth'Ineeath the buying sons of Pales - She tfolgulltht auf., bled, nor wearied of the Till from that 'arid where walked the Neerarene She drove the foul and pestilential Turlt? to ask! tkon the tielda ▪ of Flanders and o% France .A. ni1Uo croescs mark a million Fr, aves; Upon each cress a well -loved lihiglish name, And, ah, her women! On that peaceful isle Where in the lio.wthoid hedges thrashes 1. sang, 4n21. meadow-larkS make gay the acented a r, 1%T0w blackened, chimneys rear their grimy heads. Smoke-belehing and the frightened birde have fled Before the thunder ot the whirring wheels. l3helni unlovely wall's, amid the din, Seven times a milllon noble women toll— with tender, unaccustomer fingers ton, Nor dream that they have PlaYod hero's part. v Great-hearted England, we have finklit the fight Together, and our mingled blood has flow •Pull well -we know that underneath that mask Of cool indifference there beats a heart, (1:lin as your own gaunt ships when daty calls, Vet -earm and gentle as your Sun -titer nalta.onigr: heart that beats throughout a Where kings may be beloved and mon- • Can tntielxac,elel.n:). republics how they may be • Ab! What hen EtIglarul done? 'When came the call, She. counted not the cost, but gave her ---Arfid111 Setivage Owens, 1n N. Vales.. AIL what has England .donei No need Strange. that in this great war, when Big Storm Recalled,. - just thirty years age in hales:re, the worst storm in the history of the mated. States weather bueeitst gaged over the central Weet, taking a toll of more than 200 lives and kiillng thou- sands of farm enimals. "Old-timers" asserted there had been a storm of equal, it net Worse proportions, in 1880, but there are Ito definite records on the first storm, and It 16 known to have been more locally confined than the "great storm of '88." The storm originated in Nebraska foul extended to central Iowa, and Wisconsin east. ward mid to the Montalto, Bite on the west. The tereperature was about freezing What the storm etarted, but by the next morning it had -droned to .54 degreea below zero In South Da- kota. Grand Perks, D„ reperted a temperature of 52 degrees below, while at-Sit:tux city, Lt.. It was 28 be- low. Near Mitehell, 8, D., a farmer arid hilti ceeri were unable to teeth the hetts.e five rodi distant before the bey was frozen to death, cerisele,nea a, "still, stall vows that ova talks th14u4it its bat, 1 Canada's Military:. Staffs in England[ and at Corps. 4++-++4 i-$4,-+-+$4 4-4 4. -+++47 -e -e++4+++++++.1 -++++-0-4-4,4s ENGLAND. ellItiele or pIu GENER.AL STAPP— • Lima...General Sir R. E. W. Turner, V.(a, le.C.:11.0., 1).5.0. ISTAPF eileklaCeaR— Brigaaler-General eh F. Mclientald, MAW D,S.O. ADJUTANTeGlieNERAL--- OrtgadieraUeneral P. le. Theater, .0.B., C.M.G, QUARTIVRMASTER-GENNUA • Drigadiereeieneral II. el. Iiogarth, Mi1l,t•Wftsi1li.N1'..11.AI., ShavioEs.— ala3or-Cioneral el, 1, P. Foster, C. D, DIRECTGIR-Ohl.NiellAL •OF TIMBER (:,1Pli-Janioxs— DrIgadiersCieneral etelecolgal,B• PAYMAted'isiteeleeNelleAL— Brigadier-Gouerat J, af, Mas, C. M.G. RPSFAVVIg -ART' LLERy— llirgadierstioneral C. 11. Mactaren, D.8.0. • HEADQUARTERS, BRA.MStIOTT- 0,0.C.: Brigadier -General le, Henn le, 0.13., CeNI.G., el.V.O., D.C.°. HEA,DQUAR.TERS, SEAF0RTII- 0.0.ele Brigadier-Geeerel 11, M. D yen, D.S,O. HEADQUARTER% WHITLEY— (4.0.5.; 13rigadier-General la, W. li,EP.ATRIATED PRIS,ONER Ole WA Re-- BrigadiereCieneral V. A. S. Willlan:e. CANADIAN GEND.TRALS SECONDED TO IMPERIALS— 'Major-General Cr, le lIegbee, D.S.O. BrigaalereGeneral 0. J. Armstrong, cm..a. efajor-Goneral A. 13. eleRae, C.B. Brigadier -General 10. Hilliane CM . G., D.S.O. BrigatlieraGenerel F. M. It ,Sinis, C.M.G., • Drigadier-General A. C CritehleY. D.S.O. (seconded to II.A,P., holding brigadier -general rank In R.A.P. only). e CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY 100•11 GE, .SI,I3ERIA— elajor-Geueral 3..11, 10jrnsley, 0,13 , geven„ Brigadier -General H. C. .Bickford, C.M,G. CANADIAN ARMY CORPS. CANADIAN CORPS I-IEADQUARTERS— • Commander: Major-General Sir 11 W. Currie, K.C.B., K.0431.0. Gese0,1.1 "Ilrigadier-General N. J. Webber, CALG., D.S.O. A.A. taa.11.Ce: *Brigadier -General G. .1, Farmer. • 1ST CANADIAN DIVISION— Commander: ,Major-Cleneral A. G. Macdonell, C.B., C.M.G., let Brigade: Brigadier -General W. A. Griesbacb, C.M.G., DS:0, 2nd Brigade: (Under a temporary commander). 3rd Brigade,: Brigadier -General .G. Tuxford, C.M.O. 2ND CANA•DtAN DIVISION— Commander: elajoreGeneral S. E. U. Bursted, C• .M.G. etb. Brigade: Brigadier -General T. L. Tremblay, C.M.G, • 6th Brigade: Brigadier -General nose, D.S,O. • 31133 CANADIAN DIVISION— Commander: iMaJor-Genoral 0. W. Loomis, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. eltb. Brigade: lerigacliere ,General 3. A.. Clark, D.5.0. . 8th :Brigade: BrigadiereGerieral D. 0, Draper, D.5,0. Oth Brigade: Brigadier -General D. M. ,Ormond, 4TH CANADIAN • ...Commander: Major-General Sir D. Wateon, K.C.B.; 10th Brigade: aBrigadier-General It. J. F. Hayter, D.S.0, lith Brigade: Brigaeler-General V. W, •Odluin, 0.13,, 0,11,0., D.S.0, 12th Brigade: *"(Under a temporary commander). 411TOre'ljeLpEa.:172—iijer-flenerai E. W. B, Morrison, 0.13., 0:12.G., lot Division: BrigadieroGenerel in• C. Thacker, -Cleti.G., D.E.O. and Division: Ilrigadier-Gencral Id, Fanet, 3rd Division; Brigadier -General J. 5. Stewart, D. 5.0, 4th Derision: Brigadier -General W. D, M. King, C.M.G., D.S.O. 5th DiViSion: Brigadiereneneral W.0.41. Dodcle, C.M.G. CANADIAN ele.OHINE .0 UN COMM— Brigadier-Cleneral R. Brutinel, 0.11.G., D.S.O. 1 ' CANADIAN SECTION 0.1T -LQ..— • Brigadier -General 3, F. le Emburye C.M.G. CAVALRY— • Brigadier -General R. W. Patereon, D.S.O. ENGINEERS— Brigadier-'General W. D. Linesay, D.S.O. CANADIAN Rial,LWAY TROOPS— BrigadieraGenerat J. W. Stewart, C.1.1.0, CANADIAN AR:WY ilitEDICeeee SERVICES— • Brigadier -General A. '1'. Rose, 0.13., C.M.G. *imperial officers. . **Vico -13rigadiereGeneral a. II. eTacI3rien, D.S.O., wounded •and in hormital in England. *• Worth Knowing, A variation in the sandwich -bee may be produced by mincing olivOcs with a gherkin or two, mixing them with mayonnaise and spreading them on thin slicee of buttered bread. The stuffed olives are especially good for this purpose. A washing fluid which is ease, to make and inexpensive le made from a peund of sal ecida dissoleed in a gal- lon 01 water, and about a teacupful .01 the resulting fluid is used to a boiler of clothes. Rust may be removed from elate' elating by covering the spots with mutton fellow and letting it etand for several days. If this treatment is followed by a rubbing tvith powdered rottenstone and thee a thorough washing with -strong ammonia, suc- ceeded by clear water and a fleet polishing with dry whiting, stubborn aesos will yield. • For poOr man's pudding with trz [WES" raisine allow two tablespoonftee 01 rico to tele of sugar, one Fent table - spiraled of kilter and bait a eupful af Feerted raetem. Mix all tee ingredi- ents tegether, grete a littio nutmeg over the hip and pont' into an eirthern etrill:ne, alai. Cook in a moderato oven wry elowly until the miAture • talos the ceneistency of thich t:ch 'ream, st:rriult up from the bottom ceery 10 or 15 minutes. When the proper thiekness is obtained, brown tho eerface julehly and stand It °eye te become cold. • WITCHES' WARNINGS. Panlolls PropLeotez That Have- . 00111.9 True. Tbe Ilmnress Entreats, erohaely often r0ealls in her Ohl and Mil ea OW age t110 .IirOPilEil 0 V.:Prdg of 3 a CrY11.11 Wh011i she visited, veiled and disguised, mere. than a hall century ago, when one was liniurtohl. thefullblown of ner loveliness, the happiest and most enviable woman In To her amazement the eleivith greeted theyelled stranger w:th the words, . "Welcometo my hatable dwelling, 0 Empressr, tia-:„ atter .:41tusen1e Ilfai ex- pressed her astonishment' that he had so easily oh:covered her identity, .he eon.' tinned; "At your birth the stars foretold for yen great power and greater sorrow, for Your happiness will be only temporary, but your sorrow vill last forevw. You Inc doomed to lo. -t' your throne, your huNband, and your son, and to wander alone throngh the wo:10 like A IVA star. These events, lion -ever, will not happen at once, for the blow would hill you. To you, as an empress, it ',via not be per- mitted to enter the land of your hueband Ulla II: our SOP, except by permission. you will have to eeek a home with :Avengers, and the drefs of woe WM never leave Yeur Mira; your jewels 103 be but-tear- th1N)/118th." 11what'-terrible accuracy every word of his prophecy has been fulfaled . the world knows. . When the beautiful young Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria visited a villao fah' some seventy years ago in d's„suise and. in the company of her father, a 147PaY woman revealed her future to her. "I do not know who you are, young lady," the gypsy said, "btu you will ene day, and before long, wear the croWn of an empress. • You will be one of the greatest and most envled women in Eur- ope, but your he.ppincli will not last long. You w.:11 have many' many years 1 during which. you will walkalgini In the • shadows; one great trouble will follow another until--sbut no,. I will say no more, meek t that you will wear a double I crown, that,of an empress and a mar- tyr." • Within tour years Eligazeth bad mar- ried Franz Josef, the young Emperor of Austria, and within' another year her young life ws laid In ruins. Her husband's unk1nd/les:3 and infidelity had driven ltcr In despair from Vienna to bcgin the long period of exile and sorrow and pitiful loneliness to which death at last put a merciful end when the aesas- sin, Luellen', stabbed her to the heart. The 111-staired career of the late King Alexander of Serbia was foretold' before his birth' by an inepired• peasant of 'Kremlin. "The chnd wi,o is about to be born," the pcaant deelar'ed, "will lutve. a rar more turbulent reign than les ,father, will many a woman from the people, and in his twenty-,•_eventh year w:11 cease to be king, his dynasty will cease with him.' How exactly this prophecy ',vas fulfilled is known to the world. Alexander lost hls head and heart to ])aa Machin, the beautiful widow of s drunken eng.- neer, and mo.rried her in spite of the strong opposition of his parents, minis - tens and •neopleand his foolish act was swiftly fatowed by that night of horror and tragedy In 19C2 when a band or con- ilx.rators brake into the palace, slew both the l.„ing and lils lowsborn wife, and flung their mutaated bodies out of the a indow. • E IVIP/il ES S 9 S WA CORNMEAL ROLLS. • Those rolls are made light with baking ponder. The ingredients re- quired are three-quarters of a cup of ccrnmeal to one and one-quarter cups of white wheat flour, three teaspoon- fuls of baldric" powder, two table- spoonfuls oWtter, one egg, half a cup of milk and a teaspoonful of salt. Sift together the dry ingredients and then cut in the butter with a knife or rub it in wIth the fingertips, Next add the egg beaten and mixed with the Iniseceesary add e little more milk to make a soft dough. Roll it on a floured board lightly, cut with a round biscuit cutter, foal over like Parker House rolls and bake. C *'4,N es..e . seeersee ea' .11 eate •".4 V? 4. eeeie ,era JfeAA•e'etinae,,e,,,,eeee 12 Vj• 4*. (1) Captain Geo. S. Webster, R.N.11., of the "Empress of Britain, • (2) Arthur E. Philp, Chief Engineer of the "Empress of Britain." (8) Six inch gun crew standing by the gun on the "Empress of Britain," ut right Chief Oilicer P. H. Moore, who gave the gunners the range. T1-313 eamprest of 'Metairie' which aboard, tfiat a German aubwrino ress. Only eight soldiers were boat sailed erom New Yore on Sun- elutched two torpedoes, one of which, by enemy action • The "Empress of dee Afternoon with 150 officiate lue toea luelcy zigszeg, nnesed the Russia," now it Liverpool, will take of the British War Mission, Welee.A. bow by three feet, and the other troop to Australia, and then reture and knights of Columbus workers, passed a dozen feet astern. At ;east to her reguler ratite acrose the Pact& bas already tovered 173,130 mike a (truce atta.clo were n14.1e 1111:10 the from Vanvouver re porteie thefar east strive the outbreak of hostilities. "Empress of Britain" during the War, 1110 "liThapreSs of Asia" will go back r when she was taken over by the by II -beats. VancOuvethrough the Panama British Government and hale trans Captain George S. Webster. rt.N.B., Canal with Canatliau troops enlisted ported 110,000 troops overseas. She who is the peesent eonirttanbr of the in Brltish Clolutubte, took thousatels of Australfane and "Empress of Britain," hen tnade 8/ Arthur 'Edward Philp, 0.13.E., Chief Britishers to Gallipoli, and vrae lute tripe velem the Atiantto Mae the I tabeineer of the "generals of Britain" of the transports assigned t* take outbreak of the war, When the -Nei-lend Senior Chief Engineer of •the them cieny. The Suez Canal beteg press of Britain' readied New York Vaatellan.Pacifie Ocean Servicee, Ltd., closed, she made a 16 montlus trip last Tuesday. the Led oboard 2,4al bas been on the Empress throughout around the Cape of Geed Hope with V; 11. troops, Weeding 400 'sick afid the ear and bas never nited a trip. troop e for German at Africa and wounded lteroea, tirid the la returnIng Ito was personally decorated IV Mut RIO for Mesopotamia. She made to Liverpool for mere. When this George for his orrice' and is an eight, trip$ with Came:than tromp* and work of repatriating II. E. troop. 11 °Meer of the Order of the British foe the iltst 4614111 Meethe of the wars. finished, $ho will return to her home Empire, HU osilelets OA transport* LotitgitlyedatuthiesoSt,outh Atlentie a* ait ati, poet, $t, Jan% Neer iereeetelea, cover four were, the Benin *ad Ale During tbi wer, the 0. 11.. 0 $ bent! expeditiob, the South atria* It Wais during one of the tripe ship* have trAASPOttiscl Ovir million war, end tbe proont w�*NUis woo* Alis 0,4144tis stith 0400 PoPPittOOPII KM mown Ort WAT OW* 1241011 r411 MAI% "PiS" • s . . . slOIL - A • 1.;•;"; GAGGED' GUNS. This unique surrender picture was talon on the quarter deck ef the Ger- man battle cruleer Seyollitz, near the Firth of Forth, after its surrender to Sir goVit/ Beatty. The guns, which were to have had their were closed by tomplens and will awake ne morn eehees. Eritish one cicera at the right, Germans on the left—London fenny Mali. J •3 b i 4 I rf birciPlicrals3.nr0.11111 Clnada Prince Edward Island's Ono Hundred thouriand Pc•oplo Oontri, buted a Million Dozen Eggs to Country's Food Supply Dur, ing at Year. (Po -operative Sritem c Wlerketing PouL try and Eggs Working Wel iti Ealtern Canada. (Oltiario h ruvielkleos,-5 2,523.271 proul.ore 25,2-5Zenetteite, ewe - .„ ilaallKODA .seeep,,Teeee.sor 455.614 4,556340003 ee• • 574,663 could of, tare 3.746.630 PRINCE vAEh :00,CC: 9 prire:6asvir 1.000.0000n. eapgs ao3 csiNta of" • A $. flew • • linittsivach 551.1389 eeeo pevkauhrs. 5113,890 eee.eeese • 01 s uebee L" trilc Loa:5.25,z prosasper 2.0.032320 eo; Saslutchetat ropsd.suon or 492,4'32 eaula proslasegs .„ 4,0)7.,,,,„4,9?. 432o t 111 a PORI SCOli eve, edeeteeni -492338 i,923.380 The s,tatement recbtly iaccredited ,to one of Ihe Dominion' s most .prom- Inent poultry etperte to the effect that if• everyone did Itis 'duty in the matter of keeping hens, Canadaisewar debt coul1 be speedily 'wiped ..out with the revenue • derived from this source, has given to the humble new distinction as a national asset. That It has already been tried and tested in this capacity, with the best re - suite is evidenced in tb.e case -of Denmark and—to come nearer home —in Prince Edward Island,,where co- operative egg-seIling has become more or less of a fine art. ORIGIN OF EGG CIRCLES. Ta explain tbe origin of the "egg- clecles" which are operating in die ferent parts of Canada to -day, and which are the greatest stimulus that poultry -keepers can have, it is neces- sary to turn to the commercial *his- tory of Denmark, It was between 1865 and 1570 that, Denmark opened up an egg export trade with England After a time it was found that the farmers were holding back the eggs so as to receive the higher prices that prevailed later in the season. This resulted in a falling off in the quatity of the eggs and a correspond- ing decline in trade. Some far-sight- ed men, seeing hew fatal the . tend- ency was, formed sosieties for col- lecting and selliug the eggs; so stamped and nninber:".d as to show from whore they came. This was really the nucleus ' of the co-oper- ative movement itt the handling oil eggs and it resulted in the restor- ation and growth of Denmark's trade with Great Pritaie. Iu.deed, the year- ly average went up from P5 tons in 1915. Prier to the formation of these societies France had the bulk of Bri- tain's egg trade, but by failing to espause the co-operative system, her trade dwindled. WHAT THE CIRCLES AIM'. The oceeperative egg circles, as we know 'them in Canada, are nothing more or less than associations organ- ized among farmers for the propose of marketing eggs frequently and re- gularly threugh a eommon medium, the object being to maintain the quality of eggs as they leave tho farm' and to place them in the hauds of the consumer in good condition and with despatch. It is estimated that before the adoption of the ca-operative,system, Canadian farmers loat between five and six million dollars anually as a result of carelesences in the handling and marketing of 'ma. This con- dition ne longer exists, however, and where circles are ia operation farm- ers are consistently making money on their hens, Prince Edward Ishend, with its few thousand inhabitants, hes perfected the syetem and sets the pac3 for the whele Doininien with its egg circles. Ontario, Quebec Nova ScAla anti Atherte have been progressive in this direction, but, for various reasons, little enthusiasm has ,been shown for peultry raising in the other provinces. THE mirmlo WEST. According to Mr. 3. ld, Bergey, poultry epecialist at gho Manitoba Agricultural' College, co-operative hanaline, of eggs has hardly had a fair trial in Manitoba. Ills depart - meet is at precent eoncerning ilsolf with encouraging farmers to take bettor care of their eggs, and thie repaganda is having pee results. ONTARIO AND QUIeillEC. Frogrese is reported both in Ont- ario ttn0 Quebec, In "Ontario 24 cir- cles had shipments in 1914 represent - lag mesa values to the circles ot $104,227. This went Up in 1017 'le e2,19,3a7 1e Ouebee the eggs •are i.satlicred by the twa liutdree rela t• ogrieultttral emoperative aSSO:d- .0"1$ throughout the Provie ant aro tc M. to the Central co•operathe Associations to be handled. NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW IIRTINe- biereasing Intl:ILI% evidenced by the farmers ot Nova Scotia in the co- • operative systen1 of handling eggs. Content tanics have been taunt in Velem Vette of the proVince where the egge are stored in the flush ;.?,os. AO% to be told when tho supply tails • off, During 1011 the 07011 Shipllea trot different eireies in Neva SeetIl were TalUed et 1310,019, In New Brilr511 , eolitatribia. Isppoilatiese,of 392.480 5,921000 cglo 41.1.110r1 t.14.,vaisAseits., 0.gi Z. `cessadt losoor„sc..- 8'5.1 2Cieleee e94.60. Brunswick endeavors are being made to speed up 'the production of poul- try en•cirder that there may be suffe eient eggs available in the near fu- ture to Jeetify the formation of egg Oran. • ..PP.aNCE EFAVARD ISLAND. Despite un entire population that fall+ belew the average of our larger cities, Prince • Edward, Island is in he vanguard in this work, The Egg and ,Poratry Soiling Assoetation has a splendidly equipped plant at Char- Icttetown, where all the eggs ere re- ceived, candled' and done up for ship- • ment. In tlie •busy season something lie° 0,000 dozene are handled in the course o2 a week. The amount of business -done by the egg circles on the Islaiid during 1917 was $305,923, representing a total oi.939,000 dozens Of eggs. This includes $14,00,0 of eggs shipped. to tanglana. Last year nearly 1,000,000 eggswere handled. Inother words.'10 dozen a per capita. The eggs are seeded end a .high standard of quality: is insieted epon. It is inter- esting to note that about five years 'ago the eggs produced on the Island were notoriously bad. There- eves practically nothing worse in the egg line ie. all .Canada. The Poultry Div- ision of the Federal Live Stock. Branch sent Mr. G. A. Benson down to Prince 1,1dwara Island and, he suc- ceetled in getting the industry on a sound basis. It has expanded with ex. traorainary rapidity. There are now between 50 toe' op circles operating seugessfullye A Board of Seven dir- ectors in elected and the officers of each circle are required to •put up a collateral demand note In favor of • the eAseeciation., for an amount not exceeding $25. Each cirple has- it$ oVn egg collector and .members are 7eQu'red to deliver all theireggs, not to be used for their cwa heteekeep- ing cr -breeding. purposes. The eggs • must be unbeeken, clean and not mere than a week old. Da.ch circle reperte annually to the Association. Arrangeraeots ure made for •the as - 'stance of .the circles in case of the Aseeceition sustaining financial loss, lete.:ED FOR A great mimeo of revenue to the Dominion is being neglected where na attempt is made to organize egg circles. Denmark's strength, com- mercially, has centred wholly in her co-operative agricultural system and • her central marketing agencies. Ob- vionsly her egg trade increased by leaps and bounds after th's syston was adopted. Similar results might.be attained. in" Canada, and it is no Utopian dream to hope that there may yet be a chain of these circles from coast to coast and that Poultry and egsg may figure teem Prominently .aniong the important Amrees of roveaue te the Dominion. There are opportunities at the pre- sent moment te establish a greater export trade. with Europe inthese onnincdities. Bute -Meal enterprise is leedrel to get tho circles sucessfully wider way and to sustain thein there- after, •- CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS. W. Mandere, the new freight traffic manager for the weetern divit. lon of the Conedlen National railway* wweisrinfio:44,7any liters were! freight agent of the Citriesilen Nerthern at '