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Shefrield-Dencaster first air Mile
were carried (18 miles) in 9 1-2 11ftn-
utee.
The ductile hue occurred of arr. W.
Burnet, Lindley, chief COnstahle or
Leeds, -
In echool childreu'a sport at Guild-
ford were 2,241 entrants, some races
being ruu in 16 heate or 21 cempet-
'tors.
Miss Minatd has resigned the poet
or aead mistress of $t. John's infant
Sehool„ West Ealing, efter holding it
tor 37 years.
Mr. Arthur Quieten has resigned the
etheition or OW englueer to MOM%
A.rmstrong, Whitworth & go., NW -
castle, after 36 years' eervice.
Mr, W. A. Neseall has presented to
the Eton •College +Museum a fine col-
leetion of British birds' •eggs, in mem-
ory of his two sons who fell in. the
war.
The great vine at Hampton Court
Palace, planted in 1768, is bearing a
Cron Of about 400 bunches of grapes,
which are of the Black Hamburg .var-
iety.
Mr. Andrew Wesley Themes, one of
the oldest trade unionists in Bath and
the first Labor representative on the
City Council, of which he became an
alderman, has died.
Capt. T. C. Clay, who has died at
Holyhead, aged 83, was formerly Com-
Modore-Captain of the L. and N. -W.
/Railway Irish Channel tleet, and. had
made the crossing 20,000 times,
' While Walter Eve, 33, a boot:esker.
of Witham, Essex, was hammering
nails into a sole a brass nail new up
and stru,ck him in the nose. The
scratch became poisonous and caused
his death.
The Rev. Henry Mosley, rector of
St. John's, Hackney, has been. appoint-
ed Bishop Suffragan, of Stepney, in
suceession to the Right Reverend Luke
Paget, BishopeDesignate of Chester.
The death has taken place at New-
raarket at the age of 72; of Mrs.
Childs, Wife of John Childs, the former
Jockey, and mother of Arthur Childs.
the Chantilly trainer, and of the
jockeys Albert, Joe, Charles and Hen-
ry Childs.
The Rev. Canon Cyril Forster Gar-
bett, vicar of Porteee,, has boa ap-
pointed Bishop of Southwark in suc-
cession to Dr. Burge, who has gone to
Oxford. He has been connected with
Portsmouth for twenty years, where
Ilis powers as a preacher and an or-
ganizer are highly appreciated.
' Mrs. Eliza Anna Melville, who has
died at 90 at Bedford Parw, was at one
time a well-known exhibitor at the
ROyal Academy ief portraits and fancy
subjects. Probably her most cele-
brated sitter was Amy Sediweck (Mrs.
'Parks), the actress, whose portrait
was in the Academy in 1863. . •
• The war memorial for Birmiagham
Is to take the form of a hall of mem-
ory and of a new city hall.
Five panels of Flemish tapestry.
woven with scenes from the life* of
King David, sold at Christie's fOr
675.
• The King has approved of the. -18th
Hussars being called in future. the 18tb
"Queen Mary's Own" Royal Has -Bars.
eeir. J. L. Graydon, a director of -the
Palate Theatre, London, who has .1:lied
aged 76, was the pioneer' ()f quick
"turns" at music -halls. .
Mr. Henry Powler, one of he larg-
est dealers in lavender in the 'teem -
try, has retired ifom the Covent.Gar-
den stall which he has occupied sfar 37
years.
tr. F. J. Chittenden, the head pe the
'Whitey scientific station and jannra-
tory, has beim appointed. dIreetor • of
the Royal Horticultural Society's gar-
dens at Wisley. . ,
Drake's (silver map, a thin drafter
"Plate with the eastern hemisphere on
One side and the western on the other.
ehgraved at his Instance in the Netb.-
eflands, fetched £235 at Sotheby'e.
rhe latest official figures of sales of
(surplus Government property show
that the sum realized is pow over
2141,000,000, The total mechanical
transport sated to date amount to 21,-
739-,000.
Lieut. H, P. Charley, of ?dor Park
130,th, who gained the "Edmund
White", Exhibition at Bristol Universi-
ty., has resigned the exhibition, owing
to the nature and severity of ills
Wounds.
The 205 -ft. Vigo chimney, North-
ampton, the third largest id -England.
built 50,years ago, has been felled, a
2-1b. charge of gelignite being used.
at Is estimated to Infee weighed over
'2,000 tons.
Three Cromer fiahermen-e•John Da-
vies and his two sons—were puttingto
sea after crabs when a heavy sba
capsized the boat, and • they were
drowned. They had served together
In •a minesweeper during the war.
Otte of the oldest parochial schools
-
In the city of London, that of St. Au-
dreW bY the Wardrobe, has been closed
begatthe of the absence of childten. and
wItidUn Dipds. The school dates
(hack to the 17th centure,
The coat O repairs and renewals of
disabled officers' artificial limbs, is
already borne by the State, and the
Pensions Ministry has decided that
this shall alial apply In future to sur-
.gleal appliantes other than artificial
limbs.
Beer, Bass and Guinness were the
names of heat winners at Hanwell
thildren's sports.
Sunday games are to he allowed in
the recreation ground at Brenthara
'Garden Suburb (Ealing), '
In a motoreecle race "flying" utile
near Folkestone, Lieut. H. Willianison
was first With a speed of 72 1-3 •Miles
art hoar.
gy. William" Court, of Leieester, has
been iippolnted city engineer of Peter-
barotagh at a eatery et 2600 per an.
num.
The spot on Chislehurst Common
Where the Ian German bomb fell on
Whit Sunday, 1918 is to be enclosed
by the Coneervittons.
The Bev. John Istelterrow, for Many
year 'Walker of the North Milted
Pres Church, Peniettik, Mid Lothian,
has died.
While Shooting at trews, Mr, John
Clarke, of Belden, Pembrokeehire.
Misused the birds and shot his wife, In -
Meting serious inIuriee.
A. neeklaoe of 62 latgo pearls of fine
(Meat et Chrlistle's realized 410,600.
A. brilliant Muff -chain of 207 gradu-
ated stones fetched £7,000.
Or. L. IL Wile is to be head of the
Stlintiralty Works Departinent, with
the title of Civil uglueer-in-Citief, as
Brig.-+Gett. Sir Alexauder Gibb j re-
. tiring.
giteed Anne teapot, VA litotes
kLgl3, found among artielet it by an
ot1 lady at Criektade, Willa, was sent
2280-233 an Qum
The death has occurred Of Miss Amy
Wigan, el Luddesdown, Kent, daughter
of a former rector. She Was one of
three sisters who daring the war kept
the etreets of the village clean, another
sister being chairman of the parish
council. °
Rolleston Hall Estete, Buda:I-on-
Trent, Is to be sold under instruc-
tions from Sir Oewald Mesley. The
estate or nearly 4,000 acres includes
most of the village of Rolleston, and
will first be offered as a whole, and
then, if not sole, in lots.
William Joseph Kidenall, a emall
holder, of Cottenham, was at Cam-
bridge remanded on a charge of mur-
dering a baby. leidman it was al-
leged, toolc.a hatchet ad attacked his
wife, who ga,ve birth to the baby only
12 days before. He thert killed the
baby with a blow from his.fist,
• A Kilmarnock (first) edition of
learns at Sotheby's fetched 4300.
Uxbridge Urban Council have given
a 48-hour week and a minimum wage
of 23 to their employees. .
Headmaster of Earl's Colne (Esetht)
Grammar School for 25 years, Mr, A.
T. Appleton, B, A„ is retiring.
A proposal to convert the Thames
into a fishery district and charge for
fishing is opposed by London angling
clubs.
aleesre. Cammell Laird are to build
a 20,000 -ten liner at Birkenhead for
the Cornpagnie Generale Traneatlan-
teethe
Admiral the Mardis of Milford
Haven has sold at Sotheby's his col-
lection of British naval medals for
21,419 2s. 6d.
Plerence Walkden, aged 21, who was
=relent only a month ago' was found
drowned in a reservoir atRadcliffe.
Lane.
Mr. Idris Thomas, of Pontycymmer,
who has been appointed manager of
the Ebbw Vale Company's collieries.
began life as a pit boy.
• Private White, North Seafford Regi-
ment, has died from injuries received
by being struck by a rocket at Cur-
ragh Camp during Peace celebrations.
The egg -laying record of six hene
kept in a 'cottage garden at Biggles-
wade (Beds) is: March, 141; April.
244; May, 193; June, 182; to July 25.
125—total, 885.
Guernsey States, who have 'decided
to buy Herm Island for 215,000, have
been informed by the Treasury that
they rauet also take Jethou for another
21,500.
• "Good. -bye, dearie; you are going in
a good cause," said a woman at High-
gate, as she kissed a al note handed
over in ponied of a fine for assault-
ing another woman.
David and Jonathan were the Chris-
tian names of two brothers, pages at
the wedding of Lieut.-Coramand Kem-
ble, R. and Miss Enid Pither, it
lioly Trinity, Sloane -street, London.
Sir Henry Webb, Bt., slainingengii-
eer and colliery director, has given
25,000 in memory a his only gnu, who
was killed in the war, for recreation -
rooms at South Wales Sanatorium.
D. Addison states that spode' arrangements have been made for Medi --
cal benefits for men invalided from
war services. • The approximate num:-
ber admitted to this behefit is 270,000
In England, 28,000 in Scotland, and 20,-
000 in Wales.
Rodney Elliott, 19, of Weston -super -
'Mare, only son of Admiral Elliott, was
saved frora drowning in Cork Harbor
by Arthur Thistlewaite, 15, ef Sutton
'Courtney, Berks. Both lads were on
'holiday.
Lieut. -Colonel Lord Manse Graham,
D. S. o., M. C., R. A., second on of
'the Duke and Duchess of Montrose.
and Miss Rachael Holland. younger
daughter of Lord and leady Knutsford.
to whom Queen Alevandra sent an
amethyst and diamond pendant, were
married at St. Michael's Church, Ches-
ter -square, letindon.
A new seam 'of 3,000,000 tons of
Rhondda coal has been struck.
Owing to drought, Carmarthen is
restricted to six houres water eupplet
daily. ,
dens, Philip Young, of Blaenavon,
who recently gave birth to triplets,
has received the King's bounty.
A. shell hilted rapier reputed to have
been worn by John Hampden during
the Civil War fetched 2.9e9s. at Chris -
tie's.
A prize given by the King for the
best scholar at Newport (Iele of
Wight) Grammar Sehool was present-
ed to Jack Deacon, of Carisbrooke.
iGellwell Park, a resident at Seward -
stone, Essex, has been given by Mr.
W. D. MaeLaren to the Boy, Smite
as a training school for scout masters.
alr. J. H. Silley, vice-chairman of
the Standard Shipbuilding Cdmpany,
has given 000 towards building a
town hall at Chepstow, hie native
place, as a war memorial.
Mr. William Mitchell, a well-known
brewer, weff owned considerable 11-
ce1ised prOperty in North Lancaehire,
has died at Lancaster, aged 77 years.
He began life as a coachman.
After being used as licenied prem -
lees from 1555 until four years ago,
when. it was taken over by the army,
the George Hotel, Northampton, was
sold by auction for 220,000 to a Irene-
matograph theatres tompany.
Mr. Henry Mitchell, who has died,
aged 83, was parieh Clerk of Acton
for 65 years. He reniernberell Acton
when it Was a village of 2,000 inhabi-
tants, and contained a pound of stray
anireals and a cage for Malefactors.
A man 6! L. 41n., fined at Willeedert,
hid under a railway carriage seat.
On July 18, 36M92 ex-Serviee Men
Were getting out of work donation.
Lord lerfiesey has Wonted the fa-
MOus yacht Sunbeam to the Nautical
College Pangbourne, Berke.
"The' Wormald Children," by Rom-
ney, fetched 2082 las. at Christieie
last picture sale of the season.
Anne pint tankard. In a Lend011 Ski*
room they realized £125.
Propoeed new MiniMunt wage ocelots
for tite corset induetry are ti!.10.1.an
hour for women over 17 and ie. 1.14d
for men oirer 21; piece -work bade
time rate, 91/24. an hour for women
and is. 314d. for Men.
A Roman coin, dated A.D. 272, has
been dug up at EastChurch, lele or
Sheppey.
It is proposed that the minimum (sti-
pend for Weleh Calvinistic ministers
be £200 for married men and 0150
for single.
Mr. Oliver Brooks, V. -C. (late of the
'Coldstream Guards), hoe had hie chilcl
baptizocl at Windeer "Oliver Victor
Loos.'
A high eltff seven miles west of
Calaie has been choeen as the site on
the French side a the Channel ter
a memorial to the Dover Patrol,
Jan es Adams, married, was charged
at Gewgaw with the uthrder of a sol-
dier's wife, whose throat he is alleged
to have cut in the presence of her sis-
ter's childran.
Yorkshire' miners have nominated
Mr, 'sae° Burns'unsuccessful at. the
last election, for Ponterraet, vacant by
the death of Sir Joseph Compton -Ric-
kett, Paymaster -General since 1916.
• Blinded in the war and trained at
• $t. Dunstan's Hostel, London, ex-Lce.-
Cpl. K, C. Getrell, Royal Sussex Regi-
ment, has opened a boot repairing
shop at 49, Borough -hill, Croydon.
Sir Auckland Geddes, President of
the Board of Trade, has foreshadewed
a subsidy to coastwise traffic. This
is to enable it to compete with the
railways, whose competition, helped
by a subsidy, has done it great harm.
Mr. Edward John Piney, 78, ex-Ad-
iniralty pilot, who piloted the gunboat
Thrush down the Medway to the Wore
upon the Kiag's taking command of
the vessel some 30 years ago, died re-
eently, and was buried at Gillingham.
Mr, Thomas Johnson and a youth
named Shaw, both of (Trentham, were
burned to death. while motoring near
Belton Camp. When their car ra,n in-
to the baplc and overturned, with them
beneath it, the petrol tank burst into
flames.
Lord Alington'a big London land-
owner, who has died at the age of 60,
is succeded in the barony by his
younger son, the Hon: G. H. Stud, of
the Royal Air Force. His eldest son
died on Armistice Day from wounds
received in action.
John Bates, aged 92, was the oldest
of 179 veterans of both sexes , enter-
tained at a peace dinner at Wycombe;
153 were between 70 and 80, and 25
be'tween 80 and 90. The average of
the party was 76 years and the united
ages were 13,469 years.
Mr. W. Picot, his Majesty's Procur-
our at the Court of Alderney, has
died, in his 61st year.
Civil list pensions are being drawn
by 310 persons, the highest being
2300, the lowest aso, and the average
2 77.
In view of Treasury stipulations the
Guernsey States have decided not to
buy the islands of Herm any Jethou.
°Thomas Foster, sentenced to death
for the murder of his wife at Bethnal
Green on June 11, was executed at
Pen tonville.
Women and gids in Government
service at home and abroad numbered:
July 1914, 45,000; November, 1918, 220,-
000; July, 1910, 170,000. '
The Welsh National Eisteddfod has
been held at Corwen, Merionethshire.
The town was full of bards, penillion
• singers, and choirs from every part
of Wales and certain parts of Elog-
land.
While on holiday at Carmarthen,
Mr. IIenry R. 011eye B. A.. headmaster
of Llangollen secondary scheol and
the first headmaster to be appohlted
under the Welsh Intermediate Educa-
den Act, died sudednlY.
While a discharged soldier named
Groves, a patient in bhe Isle of Wight
Asylum, was being shaved by an at-
tendant he deliberately knocked tlib
back of the razor with his fist, so that
his throat was cut fatally.
Thirty thousand people attended a
fete in Pittville Park, Cheltenham, at
which more than 5,000 ex-Servece men.
were guests. Earlier in the day the
men were officially weleomed home
by tile mayor and each given 'cigar-
ettes and coupons worth 5s. for re-
freshments.
Civil rates paid to the staff of the
Civil Aviation Department are: Maj. -
Gen. Sir F. H, Sykes, • 22,000, •plus
2500 retired pay;Maj.-Gen. E. D.
Swinton, £1,800, leas 10 per cent. for
pension; Lt. -Col. W. 0. Itlikes,
21,000; Mr. G. Cf. •Coekburn, 2800;
and Mr.
3. M. Pearson; 2280, plus
William Joseph Kidman, a Cotten-
ham smallholder, was sent for trial
at Cambridge an a charge of murder-
ing his wife and his 16 -days -old babZ
It was statedthat he worried about
the cost of living, and seemed to re-
aent the baby's birth, 10 years having
elapsed since the birth of the previ-
ous one.
Mise Margaret Ethel Inge, Who,
with her mother, was joint maeter if
the Atherstone Hunt, had died at the
age of 2.0.
The number or vagrants in rirecen.-
shire, Glamorganshire, and Mon-
monthehire has increased by 20 per
tent. in the last three menthe.
The death has occurred of a mart
who had been taken to Chertsey
Workhouse se a baby, and had (meet
the whole 10 years <:.f his life there.
The Nottingham Corporation are
seeking power trout the Health Min.
Wry to spend 4200,000-410 per
house dealt with a sanitation
ocheme.
It wee etated at an inquest that a
mentally -deficient 'boy, *auk Ba-
nton. of Panteg (Mon.), deed on *
railway line looking at an apprestb-
ing trait till it killed him.
A Hayes( neweagent bought at a
liablington sale for 410 5s. s.Wflhia
to Clatietles, London, *bete it fetched awe marl taakard (1882) and a Quest
11. 111,
FLIGHT ACROSS
PACIFIC OCEAN
United States Navy is Now
- Planning One.
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POTATO CROP
TO BE LIGHT
pfrer.”,.4.1.01,11..,1111
Average of 86 Bushels to
Acre in Ontario.
Against 116 In a 36 -Year
Period.
Toronto Despatch —Estimates com-
piled from reports received, during the
firat two Weeks of the month from
growers and dealers indicate that the
average yield or iptatoes hi all the
countlea in Old Ontario will be 86
bushels to the acre. When it is re-
.eorded that the average yield per acre
for this area for the last 36 yeare was
116 bushels, the seriousness of the
drought from which this part of the
Province suffered will be appreciated.
Since the .reports upon which these
estimates were based leave been re-
ceived there have been copious rains,
so that it is to be expected the Crop
will improve.
The Western section of Old Ontario
has been the hardest hit. Essex
county reports the lowest yield of 49
bushels, and Norfolk 46 bushels to
the acre. Wellington county reports
the best yield of 160 bushels to the
acre, The districts in which the prop
Is reported as good are in Caledon
township, in Peel, the section sur-
rounding Orangeville in Dufferin
county, Mt. Albert in York county, and
Uxbridge in Ontario county.
The drought which hurt the Old On-
tario crop also affected several parts
of Northern Ontario. This was not
the ease in Rainy River eistrict, how-
ever. There the potato crop was
hurt by excessive rains. It is esti,
mated that there will be 60,000 bags
of certified seed of the Green Moun-
tain and Irish Cobbler varieties avail-
able for sale from the north to Old
Ontario next year.
The yields in all districts in North-
eru Ontario are esthnated at. from
150 to 200 bushels per acre, although
around Kenora, the prospective yield
is 200 bushels per acre. This strong-
ly contrasts, however, with the yield
of past years of 400, and even 600
bushels •to the acre.
The crop, Mr. Justus Miller, Field
terop :Specialist of the Department of
Agriculture, states, in compiling the
potato •survey in the Maritime Pro-
vinces, is equal to last year and the
crop conditions' are good. In Mani-
toba the acreage is slightly less, but
it is estimated the yield will be about
the average. Saskatchewan and Al-
berta have short crops, but British
Columbia reports that prospects are
bright for a big yield.
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NOT NECESSARY.
"It would please me very much, Miss
Stout," said Mr. Mugley. "if you would
go to the theatre with mo this evening."
"Have you secured the seats?" engulred
Miss Vera Stout.
"Oh, come now," he protested, "you're
not so heavy as all that."
Man Who Did Atlantic Trip
Preparing.
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Washington Despatch —The, United
States etevy, having been the first to
send, a flying machine across the At -
Inlaid, covets the same honors On the
Pacific. Commander Read, who RAVI"
gated the NC -4 from Rockaway to
Plymouth, is understood to be prepar-
ing plans for the crossing of the Pa-
cific.
On itetOunt of the great distances
between Minable landing places on A
direct route, seaplanes undertaking
the crossing of the Pacific will prob.
MAY follow the northern rOUte, along
the Alaska coast and the Aleutian Is-
lands to. Kamchatka, and theme to
Japan and China. The distante front
San Prancisco to Honolulu is 2,100
miles, and no seaplane yet built is
capable of carrying gasoline enough
for that dietartee. The misfortunes"
that overtook the NC -3 and NC.1 itt
landing in the open ocean off the
Azores ehow that a seaplane takes
great aances In tenting down at sett.
At the same time, 'landings" and
"take -offs" have frequently been made
with telecom in the open sea, and the
navy may atteinnt the transpacific
flight in that way, having the 'plane
refuelled at sea from a mother ship.
Misery lorea soliteany, but it's a
poor rete. it Isn't apt to work both
ways.
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CI.A.NADIAX TOMER.
Britain to Use PliltIon TOM in
Housing.
Londou, Cable.— The trade cor-
respondent of the t)ally iftit, who
has been investigating the eongeetion
of the docks in London, cites a high
official of the port as saying: "The
one danger point is in regard to large
timber assignments coming on Gov-
ernment account for housing echeme.
A. mulUou tons are to some front Can-
ada. If it is shipped in steamers that
do not require deep water docks it
will not matter so much, but other-
wise it will need lightere to move it
to Meet's where it will have to be
stored, and that will accentuate the
shortage of general cergo veesels."
Another authority said: "Much
space has been used of late for rhod-
stuffs. If all this timber is brought
In ahead of the housing schemes for
which it is intended and te not stored
elsewhere there will be a direct effect
on the good storage accommodation,
and that may easily affect food
prices."
GRUESOME TALE
FROM RENFREW
/Two Young Boys Beat
Brother to Death.
Had Always Disliked the 7 -
Year -Old,
'Renfrew Deepatch—A, gruesome tale
comes from Griffith township, in the
southwestern portion of •Renfrew
county.
Three young boys, ,brothers, were
left alone•for the day on the farm of
a man nemed McMahon, -their father.
The two older onee, aged ten and
twelve years, started away to the home
of an uncle. The youngest, aged sev-
en years, wanted to accompany•them,
but they refused to allow him, and
when he persisted they beat him to
death.
The two elder boys had never liked
their younger brother, and frequently
abused him,
It does not eeem that any action
has so far been taken by the authori-
ties in regare to the matter. There
Is a feeling that the fratricides ought
to be sent to a reformatory or in some
iother way made to feel the enormity
of their crime.
--1-4-..----
EAGER TO GET.
"Now," began the moraliser, "take the
life of your neighbor, for instance. He—"
"I'd do it In a minute," interrupted the
demoraliser, "if the law would tolerate
It. He's learning to play the cornet.
• • *
in hie eagerness to lend a hand a
man sometimes merely succeeds in
putting his foot in it.
NEW CONCEPTIONE
OF THE EMPIR
Chain of Independent
States Around World.
Each Regarding Self as a
• Centre,
•
London Cable --- (Reuter dee-
patca.)—Speaking recently at a lunch-
eon to Australiams here, Lieut. -Col,
Under.Secreeary for the Colo-
nies, expressed the opinion that we
mtist get away front trie tclea that
tweedy,' unity meant drawing to-
gether more closely to a centre in
London. The British Empire, he said,
must be regarded not as a group of
states around a common centre, but a
chalet or self -dependent states around
the world, each of which regards itsele
as the centre or a whe.le.
The Morning Post states enquiries
Show that this sentiment is acclaimed
in the dominions. It publishes an in-
terview with Senator Pearce, the Aus-
tralian Minister of Militia and De-
fence, who said that he welcomed this
new conception, of einpire, and added:
"If that conception dominates the
policy and action of the Imperial
Government and its -future relations
with the component parts of the
British Empire, it will be a long step
towards the realization of the aims
and aspirations of the British domin-
ions.
"We cannot ensure that the British
people be as well informed of the
dominions as we are of the mother-
land. without the aid of the British
press," he said, "If the people or
Great Britain are told only of our mis-
doings and ,our misfortunes, and not
of our resources and the use we are
making of them, and if the news of
our great dominions is treated as of
less importance than that of minor
European states,it must inevitably
follow that the dominions of the ein•
pire will take second place in their
thoughts."
NATURE ON THE JOB.
(Philadelphia Record.)
Nature, including the Immo, variety,
has wonderful ways of healing her
acaes. There has never been anything
of the reactionary about Nature in all
the ages of her existence. Though she
may seem at times to go back, she
doesn't really; it's our vision usually
that's at fault, and that whieh we
deem a retrograde movement is in fact
a return to the true groove from that
which we had considered her progress
was merely a faulty divergence.
• Take, for instance, the common be-
tier—which certain scientists have as-
sured us is a fact—that more boys
than girls are born during and imme-
diately after a war. This is Nature's
way of replenishing the forces deplet-
ed by the cannons. This condition
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Employers of the present day have
!nerd that te provids rest, recrea..1
neighborly duty of the business own -11
tion and hygiene, besides being the
er or manager to those of his fellow.'
men and women whose time and en-
ergy he purchases, is in tha highest
degree profitable. "ICieking" on the
part of an employee arises, as often
as not, from ill -health which can be
avoided by proper working condi-
tiorts, The picture above% the wo-
Inen's rest rooft in the new quar-
ters of the C.P.R. Telegraphs on
Alain Street, near Portage avenue,
;Winnipeg;
Looking deftly at the apparatus
on the tables, in the third picture,
ono will gee, side by side, tWO ma -1
chines—one with a keyboard like
that Of a:typewriter, the other with
a little tyjje-bearing disc teaching a
platen. These two machines are
the two halve, as it 'were, of one
of tho most wonderful contrivaticee
existetace—the automatic printer.
Messages tapped off, letter by letter,
on the keyboard of the first machine,
aro written out, by impulses which
travel thttheande of Miles over the
wire, odtelegraph blanks slipped mtt.
der the type -dist of the second matt
That is to ea, the keyboard
enachthe la the picture may be op -
elating a type -disc machine in Mont -
rat; and the type -disc machine in
thc. picture may be printing a MO.
Otago that ie beteg tapped off on a
keyboard machineitt Calgary.
The Operating DOOM, on 'the second
riser Of the neW hathe of the C.P.It.
Telegraph*, is 132, feet deo stad 28
v./ C. P. R. Oporators' Iinge New Work-Rocrti at Winnipcsi,
tot 'frautensb window in two
tiers, the, lower of clear Iglass mid
ihe upper couple, flood the apart. (2) Girl Telegraphers During the Reur Gir. ...„
styled With light by MeV; *Ma hilMtliato t (8) "The Automatic Printer" is Almost nurnan.
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ample illumination without glare,, ....dilutes main distrbutleg rank' for "Ass been tho main COnSidoratiel
tho rat
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moObeitithilesithy operators retais ood ye
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ere to have faith inNature, it must be
prevailed in the past. end if we 0 EAN TRAva
expected to hold tiow. Bat in certain
quarters the birtla rate has fallen off,
and hablee of either sex have ceased to
arrive as numerouely as they onee did.
There are some who call thie atata of
affairs a progreesive step; it is gen-
orally ect called by those who are moat
reeponsible for it. The "emancipa-
tion of woman" is another name for it.
There are others who, though heartily
favoring the granting or equal frau.-
eliise to the hitherto submerged mex,
deplere the feverish.eesire of the neW
freewomen to be done with all domes-
tic cares.
Those who "view with alarm" the
present condition have been asking
"how is the customary post-bellum re-
Dlenishineat of the male population tie
eventuate?" But Nature is at work,
°female Nature herself. The emend.,
nation, of woman affects not one clue,
but all. So those who were acme -
emitted to the performance of house-
hold duties for pay are seeking other
and more "emancipated" places. Ser -
Taut girls are hard to get. Therefore
those housekeepers who were once
liable to employ them, and who then
'found tline for dabbling ip. politics
Lad other things which are not really
Work, are finding it more and more
tiecessary to attend to domestic affairs
themselves,
Now', it is a well-known fact that
large families are n1 born to idle
'parents, but that the stork is a fre-
quent visitor at houses where "man's
work's from sun to sun, but
woman's work is never done." What's
Nature up to, anyway?
• • 4 -
CUT BOLSHEVIK!
FROM SUPPLIES
General Move May Succeed
Before Winter.
Block Aid From 'Petrograd
Very Soon.
Paris Cable — The euecessful
advan, of General Denekine in
southern Russia, taken in connection
with the British naval attack on
leronstadt and the movement of the
Poles and the Northwestern. Russian
army against the Bolsheviki, has at-
tracted much attention in Peace Con-
ference circles. The Russian Political
Committee in Paris is hopeful that
the general anti -Bolshevik movement
may be successful. before winter, in
spite of the reverses suffered by the
forces of Admiral Kolchak in the
East.
According to messages received by
the Russian Committee, the Donekine
forces are marching on Kiev, after
having taken Ieherson and Nikolaiev,
East of Kiev the Denekine forces have
occupied virtually all the important
railway centres as far as the Volga,
a distance of about 650 miles. Along
the Volr they are moving north to-
ward S ratov, having captured Zolo-
tus. Denikine now controls a great
section of European Russia, and holds
the sources of the chief coal -and oil
supplies.
The Peace Conference repeatedly
has had under consideration plans for
preventing theBeisheviki from get-
ting supplies without establishing an
actual blockado . against Petrograd.
There is much -objection to blockading
a country when ea state of war
against it has not been declared. No
plan has been devised which seems to
meet the situation, but the blockade
actually exists, because of the naval
activity in the Baltic Sea, designed to
protect the Baltic. States against the
Bolshevik fleet.
Cold weather will very shortly block
Petrograd from the Sea.
The Black Sea is dosed to Bolshevik
trade, and Germeny cannot send
goods to Moscow because of the
Polish barrier. Siberia is cut off by
the Kolchak forces, and the northerm
coast is controlled by the allies. As a
result it is iinpossible for the Soviet
Government to get gny large amount
of supplies froth foreign countries.
The announcement that the Ameri-
can' Government is sending Admiral
Kolchak a large quantity of shindies
is taken in Russian circles la Paris to
mean that the rnport of Ambassador
Morrison on the Omsk Government
was favorable.
AN EMPIRE
PREFERENCE
Britain to Start It On First
of September.
Sketch of the Lists ancl
Rates.
'London Cable '—iImperial prefer-
ence goes into effect on Sept. 1, The
Commissimiers of -Customs have is-
sued a list of articles produced hi the
British Empire to which preferential
rates are applicable, as follows:
Pay Five -Sixths of Full Rate of
Duty—Tea, cocoa, coffee, chicory, air -
rants, dried and preserved fruits, su-
gar, glucoses, molasses, saccharine,
motor spirit and tobacco.
Po Two -Thirds of Duty—Motor
cars, musical instruments, clocks,
watches and cinematograph films.
Wines and Spirits—Wine not ex-
ceeding 80 degrees proof (spirits will
,pay 60 per cent, of the full rate and
wine exceeding .30 degrees, 66 2-3. On
bottled still wines 50 per cent, of
the full rate of the additienal duty will
be eharged. Olt spirits preference
will be given by means of increas-
ing the duties on spirits not produced
hi the Empire by four shillings per
gallon on aerrumed spirits, three
liqueurs, and half a, crown per gal-
lon on spirits of other descriptions.
• 6 ir
„ WAS NEVER manntil.
One -Eye Jake—"Does the sun ever set
In the east, Pete."
Pete --"I don't know, Jake, 1 ain't been
further east nor Denver."—Widow.
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dI eTe atl Ftt,
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"What's up?" asked Ms as.sIstant
the bottlee danced en the shelves.
The chemist
"No. But do you retnember when Our
"nave you taking somethingri
water pipes were 1:rouert last winter?"
"Yes, but what—"
"Well, the plunwber who fixod them has
ntet come 111. to 11:LVO mi prescription made
There is nothing so powerful . 4gr
troth- ens Orton nothing so strange.
- -Webster.
RI_ .
Passenger :Fares Incremed
Both Going, Owning
,And Bfnt At Further Boosts
Soon.
Montreal despatch—On and after to-
morrow, Aug. 20, there will be it de.
cided increase in all passenger rates
on the North Atlantic, both miming
and going, between all relate in
France, Great Britain and Canada and
the United State. The increase will
amount to a flat rise on minituttnt
rates for alt classes, as tolloWs:
First class, increase $15: seand
class, Increase VO; third class, in.
crease p. The increase Will go into
effect to -morrow morning, and freal
this time on all paseeuger rates on
the Atlantic between 'American and
European porta will be subject to
advanced charges.
Xt was stated at the steamship office
that the ad.vance bad been decided on
at the headquerters of the leritigh
lines early this month, owing to in-
creased cost of labor, crews and sup-
plies for the passenger vestsele. 'the
decision was reached in England end
was later submitted to a meeting of
the North _Atlantic conference, which
includes practically every Atlantic line
running between British and French,
and American and Canachan Porte,
when the increase was agreed to, with
-
the date at which, it should go into
effect.
It was stated by steamship officials
of the various lines concerned here
te-day that the there:used rates would
only go a short distance in naeating
the increased cost ot handling ship-
loads of passengers, owing to Nate
incidental to Strikes in various points
on either side of the Atlantic, with
the increased wages that had to be
paid to crews, and the mounting ex-
penses for food and other supplies.
Incidental to this was the fact that
the companies needed increased earn-
ings, and, working together, agreed to
charge the increased rates, Any pro-
spective passengers who apply for
accommodation to -morrow on any
boats from Montreal, Boston, New
York, or other American ports tor
England or Prance, or from BrItish Or
French ports to this side of the At-
lantic, will have to face this increased
charge, or stay at home, as no lines
are using lower rates.
The interep,se ,does not at present
apply to rates for Mediterranean ports,
but it is expected that the latter Will
lose no time, in taking advantage of
the opportunity to increase their rates
in accordance with the increased
earnings on the Straight Atlantic line.
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4
FRANCE KICKS
ABOUT PERSIA
Says Country a Virtual Bri-
tish Protectorate
And Fears Effect On Sy-
rian Conditions.
Paris Cable — The Anglo-Persion
Treaty continues to be the topic of
the deter in French and Peace Confer-
ence circles, the French discussing
especially the probable effect of the
agreeirient upon French interests in
Syria. .
The Eche de Paris, which is credit-
ed with tefleeting the views of the
French Peace Delegation, publishes
the full text of the Anglo -Persian
agreement, and in its comment says:
"If the above stipulations -do not
constitute a most complete Protector-
ate, then words have lost their mean-
ing. Doubtless nowhere is a formal
Protectorate mentioned, and doubt -
lees a clause announces the independ-
ence and full integrity of Persia, but
the substance of the agreement will
fool no one." .
A strolog party in the French Cham-
ber of Deputies is advocating the ex-.
tension of °French infience in Syria.
Hwy Franklin Boetilion has given
notice to President Deschanel that he
will interpellate the Government on
the question when the Chamber meets
again on Aete. 2¢
The French press does use the
word "Protectorate" in connection
with French influence In Syria. The
papers argue that front time imme-
modal France has had great intetests
in Syria, aneclaim that untft such
time as Syria is able to govern her-
self France should be designated
afford her such financial Willi as site
needs to help her through her period
of formation.
Ict this connection the papers ate
somewhat caustic in their eomment
on the news that Prince Pelsal, son of
the King of the Hedjaz, is returning
to Paris to resume his *lase at the
head o fthe Arab delegation. They
print reports that the Prince is dila
satisfied with the prospective Syrian
settlement.
"Let Great Britain Make a sign,"
says the Republique Francais, "and
Prince Felsal will submit. France le
not used to dealing with straw men.
The Conference believes it Is ACCOM,
plishing miracles he procrastinating
0.11d. in postponing the Settlement of
difficulties, enstead of solving there
immediately. Nothing embitters don -
filets more than to leave there Ixt
suspense."
The Figaro says that the Angke
Persian agreement is equivalent to a
Protectortae in Persia, and quotee the
Morning Post, of London, as saying:
"Were we not concerned in this mat.
ter, we should say this was a Pro-
tectorate."
6 •
SONNY'S POSER.
Father—"Everything X say to yelt goes
In one ear and out the other."
Youngster (toughtfully)—"Xe that what
we have two _emirs for, rather?"
flE IXAD EXPERIENCE.
She—I never could ace why they. call a
boat "else,"
ne—EvIdently you never tried to steer
one.—London Ideas.
Weary Waggles (the tranm)—"A,n` tO
think we didn't g0 to that free concert
las' night!"
Dusty Ithodes--"W'sd"
Weary Wagglem—"This here paper earl
the music was IntoxieatIn`."
BXPLATNED.
I contend," said the lawyer for the
defence, " that a tomato, however well
timed, could not have tvmsed a black
eye."
"But It was in a tin, your honer:"