The Clinton News Record, 1916-05-04, Page 20. I. MeTAGGART
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the office. Office open every
week -day. Mr. Hooper will
make any appointments for Mr,
Cameron.
CHARLES R. HALE,
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Commissioner, Etc.
REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE
Issuer of Marriage Licenses
HURON STREET, - 'CLINTON
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Work, Graduate of C.O.D.S.,
Chicago, and 11.C.D.8., To-
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Bayfield on Mondays from May to
December,
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-TIME TABLE. -
Trains will arrive at and depart
from Clinton Station as follows:
BUFFALO AND GODERICH
Going East, depart 7.83 a.m.
If II 04 5,9 P.M.
• 040 p.m.
Going West, ar. 11,00, dp. 11,07 &M.
" " dqPfire 1,415 PAIL
" ar 6,82, dp. 6,40 p.m.
" " departs 11.18 p.m.
LONDON, III.TRON & BRUCE DIV.
Going South, en 7,38, dp. 8,05 p.m.
If departs 4.13 Pan.
Going North, at. 10.30, dp. MAO 4.10.
departs 6.40 pare
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SCRANTON 00AL
In all sizes
OH ESN U T PEA
STOVE FURNACE ,
Also
SOFT COAL CANNEL CO4t7,
SMITHING COKE
standard Weight. Standard Quality
Its the good Coal.
Do you need hard wood or slabs ?
We have lois on hand at the right
We always keep a good stock of Port-
land 'Cement, and 8, 4, and 5 -Inch Tiles.
TRY L7S.
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Opposite the a T. R Station.
Phone 52.
Fertilizer
We carry a Complete Stock of
Stone's Natural Fertilizer. No
better on the market.
Hay
We pay at all seasons the highest
market prices for Hay for baling.
Seeds
American Feed Corn, Red Clo-
ver, Aksike, Timothy and Alfalfa
FORD {.3c McL,EOD
CLINTON.
:ow is Your
Cutiary
Supply ?
•You know that Jewelry Store
Cutlery is out of the com-
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is.
It carries a distinetivenees-
an air of superiority, that
comes from being made with
the greatest care and ut-
most.skill from the highest -
priced materials.
If you can use some of this
Cutlery in your home, you
will he proud of it every
time you see it on the table
Carvers, eased, $3.00 up.
Knives, Forks and !Spoons,
$1.00 doz. up.
Knives and Forks, steel, white
handles, $3.00 dos. up.
Let us ihow you our Cutlery
line. Let us tell you more
about why it is the most
desirable that you can put
your money into.
W. R. COUNTER
JEWELER and ISSUER of
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
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KUT RELIEF SHIP
AGROUND IN TIGRIS
Attempt to Send Supplies to Be-
leaguered Troops Failed.
A despatch from London says: A
relief ship sent by the British with
supplies for the garrison at Kut -el -
Amara grounded in the Tigris four
miles to the east of Kut, it was an-
nounced in an official statement on
Friday efening. "An attempt made
on the night of April 24 to send a
ship wibh supplies for the Anglo-In-
dian forces shut up in Kut, though
carried out with the utmost gallantry,
unfortunately failed," says the of-
ficial announcement. "Ouileroplanes
discovered the ship aground near Ma-
gasis, about four miles east of Kut."
Half a loaf is better than the aver-
age ham sandwich.
Constipation --
the bane of old age
is notto be cured
by harsh purga-
tives; they rather
aggravate the /
trouble. For a gentle,
but sure laxative, UliC
Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets, They
stir up the liver, tone the
nerves and freshen the
etomach and bowels Just
like an internal bath.
Woman's best friend.
From girlhood to old age,
those little red health re-
. etorers are an unfailing
waste an activeliveraint
a clean, healthy, normal
stomach. Take
Chamberlain's Stomach
Tablet at night and the
emir stomach and fer-
mentation, and tho
headache, havo all
gone by morning.
All druggists, 26c.,
orbyo,alI from
chystralain Malaise
s. .mennitlit Toronto m
Thero is a
Celd Day Coming
Wile not prepare for it by
ordering your winter supply
re Lehigh Valley Coal. Non*
better io the world.
House Phone 13.
Office Pbone 40.
A. J. HOLLOWAY
THE CHILDREN
OF TO -DAY
lust as they are -in their lo.
doer play, or at their outdoor
play -they are constaatly 1.
tering temptations for Dia
KODAK
Let it keep them for you di
they are now
Let it keep many other hare
penings that are a, source of
Pleasure to you.
8ROWNIES, 82 TO $121
liODAIIS, $7 TO $25.
Also full stock...of Flinn and
Supplies. We do Developing
and Printing Remember the
place:
THE
REXALL STORE
IT WAS ONCE AN
INSIGNIFICANT TOWN
F -EL -AMARA TAXES POSITION
.ON WAR' MAP.
Town On ,the Tigris, Once Little
Kaown, Das Attained
Importance.
"The remarkable achievement of the
English General, Townshend, in with-.
standing the siege of the Turkish
army at Kut -el -Amara since early in
December will ensure this insignificant
town, which is situated ou the east
bank of the Tigris River, a conspicu-
ous place in the geography of the
world war when the history of the
great struggle is written," says a bul-
letin of the National Geographical
Society of Washington.
"Before the English army was
hemmed in at this unhealthy coaling
station for steamers prying between
the great date port of Basra and the
important city of Bagdad, Kut -el -
Amara, 100 miles south-east of the
latter city, was nothing more or less
than one of the myriad out-of-the-
way places 'to fortune and to fame
unknown.'
Floods Not at Height.
"The town, which at the beginning
of the war was a Turkish post con-
trolling the lower reaches of the Tig-
ris is situated at the juncture of the
old river channel and the new, the
former forming the still navigable
Shert-el-Hai Canal, flawing into the
Euphrates. The' Tigris and th°
Euphrates, which approach within 85
miles of each other at Bagdad, are
nearly 100 miles apart at this point.
At Basra they converge and form the
Shatt-el-Arab, GO miles from the Per-
sian Gulf.
"All of the meagre accounts whic.h
have come tram this zone of the war
in recent months 'have emphasised the
suffering which the high waters have
caused the European troops. Un-
happily, these sufferings have not yet
reached their limit, for the Tigris,
which begins to rise in November,
is not at the maximum stage -LION'
the latter part of May. Then the
plains become vast marshlands and
the inland sea is dotted with islands
of date palm groves.
"Vflieti the Tigris is in flood in the
vicinity of Kutsel-Amara it flows at
the rate of four miles an hour and
brings down from the headwaters
quantities of :mice which is deposited
in banks and shoals in the river bed,
resulting in .frequent changes in the
channel.
"Numerous abandoned canals
weave their way through this section
of Mesopotamia and through the
country lying to the north-west of the
Tigris, between the river and the foot.
hills of Persia.
Garden Spot of Ancients.
"In a former age an extensive irri-
gation system made this land a won-
derful garden of fruits and flowers.
Centuries of disuse have caused the
canals to become choked with silt
and refuse, converting much of th
once productive district into miasma
tic marshes, which are a menace to
health and an offence to sight and
smell. Wherever there is an effort nt
cultivation however, the husbandman
is rewarded like the farmer of tbe
Nile delta. The finest dates in the
world are raised n short distance to
the soubh-east of. Kut -el -Amara and
exported from Basra. Rice, wheat,
barley, roses and licorice root are
grown. Herds of licireee, sheep and
goats constitute the chief wealth of
the nomadic tribes.
"When the veterans of the Kut -el -
Amara campaign return to England
a large percentage will bear as scars
of the siege the deep, disfiguring
`Bagdad date mark' or 'Aleppo but-
ton,' a painful, but not dangerous
disease prevalent' in Mesopotamia.
The `mark' is a boil which attacks the
face, neck, hands and soles of the
feet. Natives are said to escape with
one sore, as a rule but Europeans
often are afflicted with several, which
do not heal for a year. The marks
are of two varieties, the male and the
female, the first a dry, scaly sore the
other a running boil. If the survivors
should be called upon to make to sec-
ond campaign.through Aeiatic Turkey
in years to come they will be immune,
as the `button' seldom appears a sec-
ond time on the same person," .
a
• 1.6S3 OF APPETITE
The Magistrate -So you admit making these spurious pound not ?
The Piieoner-Well, your Worsh ip, it struck MC' that there was s ich
shortage of the genuine article. -From London Opinion,
HOLLAND'S FATE KEPT IN IGNORANCE.
Sivedish Professor Says Germans Are
GFRPTANY WON Not. Told Truth About War.
. The ithpression that the German
people are living isolated from the
rest of the world in dense ignorance
of what is happening beyond their
boundaries has been confirmed by the
Swedish professor Patrik Haglund,
who visited Germany recentlp on a
tour of observation. "The people in
the shops, in the streets, in the re-
staurant know nothing," says pro-
fessor Haglund. When he rnet old
friends or made new ones they "thor-
oughly drained" himat news., He
found that the censorship kept the
people "in ignorance of everything
that Might give rise to inconvenient
reflections." The papers contained
only official war news, and all of it
favorable to German arms, Picking
up a copy of the Frankfurter Neueste
Nachrichteu at a railway station,
Professor Haglund was amazed to see
spread all over the front page an
article entitled, "Assassination in
War," which told its readers how the
British Government had murdered
ten or more Englishmen whose of-
fence was that they had shown sjen
pathy for Germany.
The newspapers were filled with
propaganda articles, in which a speci-
men was a panegyric upon the new
Belgium as ruled by German army
officers and their civilian aids, "which
gave anybody with an ordinary sense
of justice little more," says Professor
Haglund, with reserve, "than a feel-
ing of discomfort."
That the German people had no
doubt of the satisfactory prosecution
of the War by the Government and
its successful issue was plain from a
talk the professor had with a doctor
about the value of the German mark
in Sweden. It circulates there at a
discount. The German doctor when
so informed asked how the Swedes
could be so mad as to depreciate the
mark, and he was dumfounded when
told that it was not considered to be
worth any more.
WOULD OPEN DYKES OR BECOME
VASSAL OF TEUTON.
King Alfonso Rae Done Much Work
for Relief of British
Prisoners,
The Liverpool Daily Post possesses
in its editor-in-chief, Sir Edward
Russell, one of the most capable and
experienced journalists in Great
Britain, whose weekly article, entitled
"From a Club Window," it is nob too
much to say pro -vides a mine of in-
formation for other less well informed
newspaper rnen.
In his most recent contribution Sir
Edward Russell directs attention to
two countries which he is convinced
must play an important part in the
hnmediate future of Europe. In Sir
JItiward's opinion, both Holland and
Spaiq, in the next few months, may
become of immense national worth,
and he gives the following reasons
for his belief:
"Holland has no doubt quite legiti-
mately made large sums out of the
war in its earlier stages by being the
main emporium for Germany. But
the fall of the mark, in spite of
strenuous Teutonic michinatione has
forcibly impressed the commercial
Dutch. Again, the recent outrages on
Dutch vessels have more deeply stir-
red the inhabitants of Holland against
Germany bhan the English realize.
Except during the Boer War, the
Dutch haws always exhibited most
friendly feelings toward England,
combined with the greatest distrust
of Germany. The Queen of Holland's
marriage was not very popular, be-
cause it created fear of Teutonic in-
fluence at coure
What Holland Dreads.
"Some six years ago, when the pre -
11(1, the Dutch
kipper classes talked of the war be-
e tween England and Germany as be-
- ing inevitable. If England was de-
feated, one heard on all sides, thee
Holland's only resource against an-
nexation by Germany would be the
opening of the dikes. That feeling
has never changed during the present
war, though Gernmuy has lavished
money galore on its small neighbors.
It con be said with emphasis that
never before has our Foreigh Office
been in such close relation to the
Dutch Government
"Before the cleie of the summer
some interesting developments are
quite possible in that land of sturdy
men, hard thinkers and good livers.
Nowhere, not even in Sweden, does
one get better food or see larger in-
dividual consumers of it than in that
country of superlative cleanliness and
geographical flatness.
"Spain is becoming of increasing
note because the strong pro -German
feeling found in certain quarters at
the outset of hostilities has sells -11)1Y
abated in the last two months. The
King of Spain has taken the place ear-
lier occupied by President Wilson as
the chief impartial onlooker upon
hostilities. If Germany wants peace
she will appeal for it through the in-
tervention of Alfonso. He has kept
aloof as far as possible, although the
Roman Catholic influence of his court
is probably pro -German. But he has
done immense and unacknowledged
work for the relief of prisoners, and
when English relatives now try to
trace a missing warrior the most
strenuous efforts are made to assist
them by the Spaniards. Portugal's
declaration of war against Germany
has made considerable stir in Madrid. I
Spain mill not light, but she may
have much to gain commercially if ,
she engineers peace.
"Peace, or • rather the cessation of
hostilities in the autumn, is now be-
coming a practical matter of hypo-
thetical discussion. It is because of
this increasing potentiality that the ,
coming budget; is viewed with com-1
parative equanimity, for it is under-
stood to be only a six months' budget, I
And after that? Well, we wait and
TO BE NEAR FIRING LINE.
Many Canadian Women Join Old
Folk in the Homeland.
More than ordinary Molest .,e,te
taehed to the passengers landed et
Liverpool from Canada, says the Lon.
don Chronicle of recent date. Of the
500 carried, 300 were the , wives or
- widows and children of Canadian
soldiers who are now fighting at the
front or have fallen in battle.
A number of the women have Come
over to join their parents or other
relatives in England in hope' of hav-
ing an opportunity of seeing their
husbands who are now in the fight,
ing line, and also to put in some
. time in the varione
.
The scene at the landing stage as
the party disembarked and were
ranged up at the 'various examining
stands was. an interesting, one. Some
of the women were in deep ,lack.
Many of ;them wene surrounded with
groups of chubby youngsters all ex-
citement • with the .novel experience.
A pathetic figure was it young widow
in mourning whose husband had been
tbe war, with her four :little
ehildren, To a, gympathetie spectator
pf the Scene, who condoled with bey
on her lose, she sad defiantly, "Walt
till 1 600 a Gorman! I'll jet, thein
know what they .heve done l' Another
young mother ail the way from West-
ern Canada, also with four Children,
was so affected.'thet she broke down
as her :feet touched the land, In the
course of a brief chat one of the we -
men said, "Nfy .husband is eoMeWhere
in France, and I' mi trying to get
as near him as jposSitile. • Many of us
have come OVer to join. the old folks
here."
Wornen will never' be paid as much
or lecturing as men, because they do
too Much of it for nothing.
TELLS OF TEUTON CRUELTY.
-^
Russian Embassy Says Captives
Were Tortured and Killed.
Brutal treatment of prisoters by
deliberate torture and neglect is
charged against Germany in a report
issued at Washington by the Russian
Embasy for distribution in the "Unit-
ed States.
The report is accompanied by 14
photographs of soldiers who were tor-
tured because they would not divulge
military secrets and soldiers who suf-
fered wounds from explosive -or
clumelum-bullets. There are also
reproductions of two letters found on
the bodies of dead Germans, in which
the writers told of driving Russian
prisoners before them in it charge to
lessen their ovvn losses.
Instances where wounded soldiers
have met their death by being beat-
en, stabbed, shot or negleeted are
given in the report.
"There were no baths in the
camps," the report continues. The
prisoners were obliged to remain un-
washed and soon were covered with
vermin.
The food in the camps was describ-
ed by the soldiers as uneatable and
nauseating. "These conditions of
bad nourishment; combined with the
cold and damp, produced epidemic
cholera, hunger typhus, and the spot-
ted form of that disease in many of
the camps."
The report says that a large num-
ber of the cripples who were repat-
riated were not wounded M warfare,
but by Germans in the camps.
"On the night of the 7210 of May,
in the camp of Witteberg, seven Rus-
sian prisoners were shot for applying
to the commandant for better faod."
CHILDREN AND DISCIPLINE.
Make the Child Trust You, and Use
No Threats.
The following hints to teachers
winch appeared in the Educational
Review will be equally useful for
parents.
Prevention of wrongdoing is better
than punishment of the wrongdoer.
Exercise great 0400 111 taking a
stand that you may have no Oecasion
to retreat.
Fault-finding is not calculated to
cure it fault, -
Distrust in the parent breeds de-
ceit in the child.
A child properly employed gives no
trouble.
Be firm.
Be kind.
Bo patient.
Bo self-contained.
Be as perfect as you ask your
leen to be.
And above all, make no threats,
hone.
ENGLAND AGAIN AIDS ITALY.
Most Successfully Treated by Taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla. '
Loss of appetite is 30cc0mpanie4:
by loss of vitality, which is scriou4,1
it 18 common iu the spring be -.1
cause al; this time the bloocl is in?:
pure and impoverished and fails to
gi re the digestive organs what 1$
absolutely necessary foe the proper4---
pe1'f01]15530555e, of their' functions.
Hood's Sarsaparilla, the old
roli-
31,lo 11l1-Lbe-3.ear-r0550d nunlieine, is
especially useful in the spring. Get
it from your druggist. .133 pnri
Mg and enriching the blood and
giv-
ing vitality, vigor and tone, it is
wonderfully successful in the treat-
ment of loss of1 appetite and the
other ailments, that are so prevalent
IS( ibis time. It 18 not simply a
spring medicine -it is mind] mord
than that -but it is the ,best spring'
medicine.
Hocrl's Sarsaparilla rualcui the
rich red ble.od that the stomach and
other digestive organs need. Get
it today.
BRITISH BATTLESHIP
SUNK BY MINE
Russell is Destroyed in the Merliter-
raitean-702 Men
Rescued. ,
A despatch from London says:Alte•
sluicing of the battleship Russell Was
announced in the following ofiiicial
staisiment:-
"H.M.S. Russell, Captain. William
Bowden Smith, R.N., flying the flag
ef Rear -Admiral Fremantle, struck a
mine in the IVIediterraneen on Thurs-
day and was sunk. The Admiral, Cap-
tain, 24 officers and 076 men were
saved. There are about 124 officers
and men missing." Under ordinary
conditions the Russell carried be-
tween 750 and 800 men.
:
ON THE VERGE
• OF AN UPESING
•
All or Mexico to Take the Field
,negainst Carranza.
A despatah from Washington says:
Reports received within the past 24
hours at several of the Europsnn Em-
bassies here have aroused grave ap-
prehension in regard to the Mexican
situation. These reports were to the
effect that the Carranza Government
is on the eve of a complete collapse,
and that conditions in and around
Mexico City are more threatening
than they have been at any time since
the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz.
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BRITISH THROW BACK
ENEMY AT ARRAS.
A despatch from London raysp-The___
report from British heticirmarters in
France issued by the Official Press
Bureau 010 Friday night says that in
the morning an attempt by the Ger-
mans to enter British trenches north
of Reclincourt, just north of Arra,
was repulsed. The artillery bombard-
ment has been violent both east and
west of the IVIeuce in the Verdun
region. East of the Meuse the Ger-
mans shelled the French positions be-
tween the Cote du Poivre find Doua-
mont,
'WOMEN TURN M ACEIN
Working for Britain in Cense-tiding
Aeroplane Parte.
Overalled, leather aproned, rapped
and goggled ---displaying nevertheless
a woman's.genius for niaklilg herself
attraetive w la evei gun -a -some
eighteen women are being trained in
the Nottingham (England) Dillgate
workshops of the Women's Service
Bureau in the skilled engineering
work of welding joints and lino.iingle
sockets needed for the construceen of
emplanes.
As fast as they. are trained
111010 are placed in Covet-mu...a. fac-
tories, where they receive the same
pay r
_as men. The woman wieldeis
another instance of WOBIEITI'll adapta.
bility to work believed to be out of
her province, she bends over an exp.
acetylene blowpipe with a feene of
6,000 Fahrenheit that can make rthel
mm like sealing wax. Though her
eyes are protected by goggles of color-
ed glass, a rain of bright sparks im-
pinge on her face and neck, let she
hoods them not, 1I00' obviously does
her complexion.
She saws, files and hammers steel,
and the women sveklers' workshop is
filled with it hundred loud or shrill
clamors of metal, but the nerves of
the women welders are unaffected,
Miss Woodward, 'the principal, de-
clares that many of these women, who
have never done manual work before,
find their work "a nerve tonic," and
that headaches are left at borne.
Then the Fight Started.
"I don't see why you are so down
oe,,JHoen
ecien."ce tried to rob me of my
rePutoaus
ti°rilio"
"Yuldn't have stopped him."
GENERAL CONSCRIPTION ACT
10 Freighters to 'Carry
As a result of the 00(801011, of 13aron
rdaYer des' PI:niches, formerly Italian
Ambassador at -Washington, to 1.02, -
dos, the British Government has y; fig George
agreed to, place at Italy's disposal sev-
enty freight vSssols of about 6,000 London to Confer With Lord Kitchener.
tons eaeh to transport to Italy 350.000
CERTAIN IN GREAT RETAIN
Makes Journey From Windsor to
tons of Wheat at once and 50,000 tons
ef coal it month for the State rail-
ways ,daring, the war,
The Italian •GoVernment 'undertakee
to charter:these ships at the sanie
rates paidby the British Admiralty
for 5101318 requisitioned for the public
service. To expedite the discharge of
eprgoes in, Italian porta the Italian
J9vein1ien , will, when necessary,
militarize 'liarbor laborers, who will
be considered as soldiers and be bound
to ohey.the naval authoritieSin every-
thing connected with the hours of
work and the amount of 'cargo unload-
ed
A despatch from London says: Con-
siderable gossip was occasioned Iso
political circles on Friday night over
an official announcement that Xing
George made it journey from Windsor
to London in the afternoon with the
special purpose_ of a conference with
Premier Asquith. and Earl Kitchener
and immediately returned to Windsor,
The War council 0:± the Cabinet
sat for two hours on Friday morning,
and assembled, again in the after,
noon for another long session. Whe,
ther another Cabinet crisis has aris,
en is not known. It is possible that
the Ring's visit to the Premier and
War Minister bad to do with the so,
curing of the King's approval of the
new military bill. The universql
opinion is that there no longer 10 any
alternative to the introduction of
general conscription bill, with PO,
sibly a clause eying another month
for a isial of a scheme for the voluns
tiny recruiting of married men.