The Clinton News Record, 1915-05-20, Page 6'MUST
ABANDON PIRATE
POLICY
Wilson Expects Germanys to End Submarine War
on Merchantmen
,e.
A despatch train Washington
says ; Germany must abandon her
enter e submarine programme
against merchant vessels if sh,e is
fully to satisfy the stand taken by
President Wilson in the note sent
to B,eelin. She meet disavow the
.Lusitenia and other outrages upon
'Amerieen life and property . of
which the United Staten complaine•
She must make reparation "so far
as reparation is possible for injur-
iee which are without measure,"
and she must take "immediate
steps" to prevent a recurrence of
• the eutbecks on the Ainericen flag
and on American live,s, and Aracris
can vessels,
No doebt exists her of the diffi-
culty of the position in which this
—ens note pieces Germany. Nothing less
than ft repudiation of 'all she has
done and abandonment of precti-
crilly all she hopes to do vvith sub-
marines against merchantmen )tard
an admission that ;she has violated
the law.of nations and huma,nity
wild enable Germany entirely to
meet the views so eaen,estlY 'cam-
municated to her by,i,he United
Stripped of its diplomatic 'dress,
the President's note. mitres .not
only the demands, but a, throat.
Stress is laid upon the expectation
of the United States for prompt
&Mien, and as, rogarde the most inn
portant demand, that of gu.areen
tees for the future, "immediate
steps" axe re;quired.
Finally, the plain intimation is
conveyed that the note its,ell is not
all Germany must expect if amy
action is nob forthcoming.
WILL LOCK UP
YALE PRISONERS
Those Not of Military Age and
' Women Are to Be Re-
patriated.
A despatch from London says:
remier asquith announced in the
ouse„ of Commons that "all rattle
mules over military age will be
atriated." Be ,also .said that
en and children in suitibble
will be repatriated, though
might remain. The GOVST41-
proposes to ;segregate all
male enemies or their own
and for the safety of the
ry, Premier Asquith told the
of Commons. In announc-
e alien policy of the Govern -
ie Premier said:
the moment some 40,000 un-
lized aliens, of wham 24,000-
1, are at large in this coun-
TheGovernment proposes
adult males of this class
fer their own safety and
the country, be segregated
riled. If over th,e military
should be repatriated.
eminent recognizes there
ases calling for exceptional
t. Women and children in
•ases should be repatriat-
ere no doubt will be many
hich justice and humanity
ire that they be allowed
Id be diffieult to, find a
m the fe.eling of righteous
aroused in • all classes
ntry," the Premier said.
It of this, unhappily, is
eit and unoffending per -
clanger of being made
enalty for the crimes
an' riots '•in -the East
an were renewed lilt&
'violence,- Wherever e
A' himself he was ab -
police• force has been
y drafts, sent to the
had difficulty in deal -
eery m'onels, Special
I to be called out.
of ,German establish-,
ided and eacked and
• scattered °Vet the
German's themeelvets
go into-hicling„ The
cases were defied by-
wds; and someoffieers
during ;their endue
at the Teutons. The
fittings of German
stores were hurled
lows to ;the streets.
eprieters were owed;
severely mauled. In
mix clethes, wore tern
eke.
n was thrown into a
with the reminder that
sts had been spending
rowning wome,n and
was euly saved from
e by the intervention
several instances of
hers trying to escape
s. They went rasing
eels at a ana,d
cias,es they ultimately
wn end their veluiele,s
of Russian Jewesses
g this teeming to the
police stations in the East End and
pleading for protection, explaining
that they were being mistaken for
Germans.
Reports ere retching the police
that private houses belonging to
wealthy Germans in the fasihione
able West End, are liable to be
burned. '•
Large placards in the windows of
aline.st all busineee houses, and Mar-
kets bear the wards : "No businees
transacted With Germans." ,
Anti -German euthreales of par-
ticular severity oceurred in the
neighborhood of the East :India
docks. Sixty or seventy Gernian
shops were wrecked. Giirmans in
the vicinity are uniting for Seat -
defence and pollee reinforcements
are being rushed to the scene.
Feeling, in Johannesburg.
•
"Anti -German feeling is nanning
high as the result of the Lusitivnia
tragedy; Extraordinary ,scenes are
being enacted in front of the town
hall, where crowds or citizens wait
patiently' for an opportunity to
sign petitions to the Mayor re-
questing him to call a mass 'meeting
to Yoke protests against Germany's
ection.
"A large German flag is spread
on the ground, where OM peti-
• tioners stand wbile writing their
names. Another Grai'ma'n -flag was
publicly binned in front of the
town hail. Placards have 'been dis-
played urging a boyeatt of Ger-
mane, and a Stock Exchange com-
mittee has adopted a resolution
asking members of Teutonic birth
to avoid the exethange during the
wee.
"The Mayor has .consented to
oOmply with the request that no
call a mass meeting.
-BOTHA OCCUPIES CAPITAL. ,,
'Chief City of German South-West
. Africa Has Been Ca.ptured.
A despatoh from London says:
'A -n official ,statement made public
at Cape Town and receiv,ed by the
Reuter Telegram Company ewe
that Windhoek, capital of German
SoutInwest African was captured
without resistance by Union of
South Africa forces under Gen.
Botha. The popullation of the
town consists of 3,000 Europeans
arid 12,000 natives. Gen Both•ais
troops took a considerable quan-
tity of railway rolling stook. Mar-
tial' law has been proolaimed
throughout .the conquered terri-
tory:
Gen. Botha, addressing his vic-
torious troops, declated that the
ea,pteire of the capital of German
South-weet Africa was of the "ut-
most importance to the Empire and
the Union of South Africa, 'as it
means praeticality complete posses-
sion of German South-west Afri-
ca,"
„ Continuing, the Geneeal dwelt
upon the responeibility of th,e Remy
of occupation to cars for Geranan
women and children in Windthe.e•k,
saying in this connection:
'I rely on your bon,or to perform'
this reepan,sible work well and
faithfully."
.1.
You can get a lot of things for
nothing that ndbody wants.
Mil i tary Ex a min ex—What m ust
a man be to be buried with mili-
tary ben ars ? Recruit—Dead.
•II\ CREASES IN TERROR
in Infantry Wretchedly. Inferior to Artillery
and No Attack itiaS Been Really Pressed Horne
A despa'tch front London says
'The great battle hangs in sus -
n:
pee, or, at , any. lai
te, n equi-
poise and, the Scene increases in
terror. Nothing is left of Ypres,
as raging fifes of „ehell,s knock to
atoms the xelies of what were once
its walls. Nothing could live in
the city and' there haive been fires
at Poperingise to give' the name of
only one 1;04M near the fighting.
"EVery read a'n,t1 eines esind ,hies
been blown up and shelled into
craters The Ge.rmens'haeo launch-
ed a new fleet of ee•IMplerme or have
1 stimulated new aetivity,ap "the 'old
ones. Some flew over Dunkirk re-
cently and oventlifferent 15anits: be-
hind Ypres,. The clear ,sky is
elou,d'ecl with the smoke of shrapnel
bursting around them.
"Our lines in front of Ypien are
like a piece of Galway bog elid,es.
To midi eXtent has the trenches
been knocked out of elhape'thuit a,
great deal of fighting iha11 'been in
the open &ad under the comer of
half dug Shelteen'or in pits made by
"The precision of tlble German
artillery 'has been use notable as its
fury and pace. Asia insult Of colos-
sal oeneentration of cannon our
lesseg linnye been heavy, No infan-
German Hussars Searelling a Russian Peasant's Shop fin' Ifidden.Russians.
GERMANS WORSE
THAN SAVAGES
Crimes of Unparalleled Horror
Committed by Ealeer's
Ann les.
A despatch from London says:
When Canadians, eacure in their
hoirree thousands of miles , away
from the devaiteted battlefields of
France and Belgium, hear. stories
of crime and„ outrage beyond the
conception of their wildest imagine;
tion, they may perhaps be excused
for being sceptical. But now the
last vestige of doubt has vanished.
The 'powerful light ;of sworn evi-
dence taken by a specially picked
Imperial Government committee,
under the chairmanship of Viscount
Bryce, former British Ambassador
at Washington, has been turned on,
and Geemany, in the eyes of the
civilized world, stands convicted of
having deliberately planned and
eaeried but wholesale massacres
of criine of unimagined homer.
Many months age Premier As-
quith maned this committee, whose
personnel in.olad,es end; men as Sir
Frederick Pollock, Sir Eduard
Clarke, Si;' Alfred Hoploineon, H.
A. L. Either (vice-chancellor -c,f the
University of Sheffield), Harold
Cox and Kenelm Digby, and in-
structed them to carefully ,eilt all
evidence of "outrages alleged to
have beess committed by German
troops during th,e present war."
This they hrive done, and their re-
port is a document :that will at-
tract worid-wide attention. The
report of ,this committee has re-
peatedly been asked for by indi-
viduals and newspapers during the
last few months, but the members
refused to be hurried, 'and only
published it after they had thor-
oughly established the authenticity
of every 'statement contained in it.
Couched in ,simple terms, the re-
port lays bare the story of a great
German army sweeping ;across Bele
gium libetislly with fire and sword.
Organized bodies of troops, direct-
ed by officers, systematically xnur-
derecl innocent non-combatants;
young girls and women were out-
raged, mutilated and murde,recie
children were the'object of the 01051
revolting of crimes. Breaking into
shops and private houses, Gei•man
soldiers looted the wine cellars and
for days on end debauched bhsm-
el oommitting crimes of every
description while in a state of in-
toxication. Anxious to be scrupu-
lously fair, the temmittee reports
that in seine cases Genian officers
themselves were 'horrified and sick-
ened ab whist was going on, Met
were foreen,te .00;ntinue the ,slaugh-
ter ordered by their eimenions, In
other cases isolated crimes were
committed by individual soldiers.
These were very numerons and
"more ,shocking than would be ex-
pected in warfare between civilized
p,owe.rs,"
CONDTrION OF THE CROPS.
Report Issued by the CenSus and
• Statistics Office.
Owing to the mild winter and the
•favonable contlitiens wihich pre-
vailed during the critical anon -the Of
M,arch. end April, the fall wheat
crop is reported as being exoep-
tionaLly good on April 30. In On-
tario wh'ere .1,043,000 acres wme
eown as estimated last fall, not
more than 6.8 p.o. 10 repoited as
winter killed, end in Alberta, with
230,006 acres estimated as sown,
the propOrtion whiter- killed is only
6.2 p.c.. Tifese proportions are
lower than in any years since 1903-
09 for Ontario ,and lower then in
any previous yea,r on r.e'cord for
Alberta,. Last year the percentage
winter killed was 19 in Ontario and
15.6 in -Alberta, In Ontario the
ane,a, winter leille,c1 amounts this
yank to, 71,000 aer,e,e, and in Alber-
ta, to 14,300 acres. These figures,
deducted from the erea,s isosvn,
lea,ve 972,000 acres 10 Ontario and
215,700 acres in Alberta as the
areas under fall wheat to be vested. With 10,900 acres in IVInni-
sobs., 4,100 acres in Sa,skatchewan
anci 6,000 acres in Ilritish Colum-
bia, the total ,a.re,a uncles' lail
wheat to be, ha,rv,ested tills year
amounts to 1,208,700 aores, as come
peee,d with 973,300 lecres, the area
harvested in 1914. Whilst there -
as previously repoine,d, the
areeeeown to yvheitt, jast fall wa,s 9
per dent. more then' the area sown
in the fall 'of 1913, the in,creas,e'cl
area to be harecete,d-, owing to the
email 'area winter killed, ,amennts
to 24 pci. Net iess 'ea-Heti:votary is
the annual, condition on April ,30,
which, measured by tthe Standard of
100, as representing a full orop
is 93 in Ontario; as comPtured with
81 limb yule-, and 83 in Alberta, as
try attack in 'the Ypres district bas
really been pressed home. In the
last few days at Ypres advances
have been n»ade alen'oet lazily anti
pla,cidly, The German etteff cern
not sow the ;ground they have so
thoroughly tilled and they willreap
no harvest, though the ploughing Is
terrible enough in itself. It has
seemed to some on the side of the
that they ere ergeged in a
warfare between human and evil
elements, so persistent.thas been the
rain of exple.sives and gas-fillecl„
berths, from the enemy, ,and then.so
stwerior is ,their osvii „power when
Ile human "gement ,comets into
play. The ocba�onot looe froni
the 'Dillies' own .artillery niceeasee
this feeling except at Ypres, where
the battle ebbs for a moment.
"Ifea,vy German reinforcements
debouched from cover ' of the
French towns o,counied by them, end
hold the ridge a Airb,ees. ;
vaneee. They took B signs. and Et.
' "The French contle ;their 4111,.horde of German pe sonern who
isnuende,red ivith certain readiness.
At no time in the war &eve is,ur men
,spoken with wore whases'ale, ad-
miration of the work of .the Primula
gunner and gime, 'although at, that
point the battle has not yet readi-
ed its; dimax.
BATILP..111P ...GOLIATH ..SUNK
British Submarine E-14 Avenges By Sinking Two
Turkish Gunboats
A despatch from London says
The British babtleabip Goliath' has
been torpedoed in the Dardanelles.
It is feared 500 live,e have been loot.
Announcement of the loss of the
Goliath wits made in the, House of
Comanon,s by Winston Spencer
Churchild; -Fillet Lord of the Ad-
miralty.
Mr. Churchill also announced
that the British submarine E-14
had pe,nethated through the Darda-
n,elles and into the Sea of Mar -
moms, sinking two Turkish gun-
boats and a Turkish transport.
The..Golieth was torpedoed ,and
sunk by Turkish destroyers last
night.
The Goliath was attacked and
sunk while protecting the flank of
the French troops in their land
operations.
Despatches to the Admiralty
from Vie -Admiral lsfionnes De Re_
beck, commander of the Bris,h
fleet in. the Dardanelles sphere of
operations said that twenty offn
cern and 160 men of the, Goliath's
crew .had been csaveld. • The battle-
ship normally carried a oomplement
of 750 men.
The Goliath was a sleben ship of
the Canopus, Ocean, Glory, Albion
and Vengeance. She Was .earnina,nd-
ed by Captain Thomas L. Shelford.
The Goliath was one of -the olcler
British baittleghipe of the pre -
dreadnought type,. She was, built
in 1898. Her oempl.ement WaS 750
men.
The Goliath was 450 feet long on
the iva-tei: bino .ancl 74 feet beans.
Her displacement was 12,950 tws.
She was armed with lour 12 -inch
'and twelve 6 -inch guns; twelve 12 -
pounders, •eix 3 -pounders and two
machine guns. She had four tomes
do (tubes.
••••=,
compared with 87. For Ontario the
figure is :higher than in any year
since 1910, when 954 was recorded;
for Alberta this year's condition
was only exceeded last year and
in 1911. The condition for the
whole of Canada, an April 30 Was
91 which, 04:inverted into a stan-
dard of 100 as representing the
average condition at the' same per-
iod for the eix years 1909-1914, in-
dicates a condition of 112, or an
antieipisted yield per sere of 12 per
cent. in excees of the avenage, pro-
vided that oonditione between now
and harvest thim are not abnormal.
Hay and clover, as in the case of
wheat, the anio,unt of winter kill-
ing proved to be anueually small,
net more than 10 p.c. being the
estimate for all Canada as com-
pered with 14 p.c. last year end 22
P.�. in 1913. The average condi-
tion was 91 p.c. of the stentland or
full crop, as oompered with 86.7
p.c. last year (May 6), 89.6 p.o. in
1913 and 74.6 p.c. in 1912,
.5
RUSSIAN DRIVE
MOVES QUICKLY
New Offensive is Forcing Austrians
In Rout to the Pruth
River.
A despatch hem London says;
The Russian offensive qn far East-
ern Galicia toward,s Bukowine 10
meeting with continued success,
acoordin,g to the official report re-
ceived from Petrograd. Counter-
atta,cks by the Austrians 'have fail-
ed entirely to check the advance of
the Itissnace, and the enemy's
forces were in disorderly retreat,
Isis formations b,ecorning demoral-
ized when the Czar's troops pene-
trated es far as Iloeciclenkes
town some 20 mile.s north of the
Plea River,
Two Austrian b,atialion,s were an-
nihilated by the Russian artillery,
and several thousand men were
taken prisoner. A number 01 guns
and 50 ammunition caissons els,o
fell into tile Russians' hands.
is n,o °facie] news from
Petrograd concerning the • Austro -
German atta'ek in West Gellicia
and the Carpathians, etteept for the
statement that the, fsgliting de-
creased in intensity on a great pert
of the fron,t. An earlier officiel
note, referring to the eriemyLs euc-
cees during the last fortnight,
eays : "The Germann have gaped
DO' tactical success. Onr re,eerve,s,
by a flank bloke, enabled .our ,aenny
to rearrange a line of 'advantage-
ous positions eliminating all fear of
final retreat. Our ermy has re-
ceived strong reinforcements, ,and
is ready to exect hearty revenge."
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MARKETS OF THE WORLD
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE
CENTRES OF AMERICA.
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, May 18.-F1our-Man160ha first
petards quoted at $8,10, Si, jute has; sea
ond patents, 87.60; Strong ibadcers , $7.40.
Ontario.wheat flour, 50 nor cent, patents,
quoted at $6.15 to $6.15, seaboard, and at
$6.15 to $6.20,. Toronto freight.
Wheat -Manitoba No, 1 Northern quot-
ed tvt, $1,67; No. 2 at $1.64 1-2, end No, 3
at $1.62 1-2. Ontario wheat its nominal at
$1.48 for No. E at outside points.
Oats -Ontario erupted at 60 to Me, out.
side, and at 63o, Toronto. Western Canada
No: 2 quotod 56 67e, and No. 3 itt 65 1-2c,
Bay Tombs,
Barley -The market Is nominal. good
malting grades, 7316o 75c, outside.
Rye -The markel by dell at $1 to $1,05,
outside,
Peas -Prices are nominal.
Corn -No. 2 'new American qUoted nt
225, mi1f,, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 80 1-20,
Bay ports.
Buckwheat --No. 2' quoted at 80 to 82e.
outside.
Aran and shorte-Bran le glutted at
$26 a. ton, and shoats at $28.
Rdlled oats -Car lots, per bag of 90 lbs.
$3.25.
Country' Produce.
Butter -Offerings are fairly large, and
prices steady. Ohoice dairy, 24 to 26o;
inferior, 21 t,o 23o; creamery prints, 32 to
34a; do„ solode, 29 to 320.
Bgge-The placket Is eteady, with ewes
at 22c nor dozen, in ease lots.
Beane -The market is quiet at $3.10 to
03,15 for prime, and $3.20 to $3.25 for
handpiolted.
Poultry-Oltioltens'dressed, 18 to 000;
ducks, dressed, 15 to 170; [fowl, 13 to 150;
turkeys, dressed, 20 to 21.
Oheese-The ,market is steady, liming
quoted 6 18 Mc for largo, and at 19 to
19 1-4c for twins,
Potatoeo-Ontarto, 60 to 659 per hag out
of store, and 50o ,irt oar iota. New Bruns.
wicks, ca,r lots, in tom. bag.
P roc !Mons.
0ured meats are quoted as 60050w1;--
13ncon, long clear, 13 3-4 to 11c per lib. in
case lots. Iteans-dtedium, 17 to 17 1-20;
do., heavy, 1412 to 120; 'rolls, 14 25 14 1-20;
breakfast haunt, 18 ,to 200; backs, 21 to
220; boneless haetts, 73o.
Lard -The anarket le quiet, with prices
steady; inure lard, tabs, 11 3-4 ito 12e; do„
palls, 12 to 12 1-20. Compound, tabs, 9 3.4
to 1134:.; do., pe416, 10 to 10 /-4c.
Baled Hay and Straw.
Dealers are paying as follows for car
lot deliveries on track here: -
Straw is 'quoted at $7.90 to $8.50 a ton
in car lot deliveries mi track hers.
Ifay-No. 1 hey is quoted. at, $17 to
$17.50; No. 2 at 014.50 to 815.50, 0.0,1 No.
3 at 312 to $13,
Business in Montreal.
um,$8; do., 'medium . 57.10 to $7,50, do'l{
common. 06.50, 574 blackens'
Choice, $6.76 to 37.601 do, good bulUs, $6.20
to $6,65; via., rough hulls, 55.20 to ,06; but -
Chem' covs, chokes, 06.75 to $7.50; do.,
good, $6.25 to, 5565;d, medium, $6.60 to
$6.25; do., common, $5 to $6.50; foeclers,
good, 06.60 to 57,25; stogitera, 709 to 1,000
416 to 417.25; canners and cutters, $4
to $5,; antihero, cOslo;, each. $60 .to 895;
Io., oonrinon and Iniediarn, each, 035 to
045; springers, $50 to 076; light, ewes, $7
to .$8; do:, heavy, $5 to $6.30 do., bucks,
53.50 to $4.60; yearling Jumbo, $6 to $10;
spring iambs, $8 to $11; calves, $5 to $9;
hogs, fed and watered, 09.15 In $9.20; do.,
off ears, 59.0 ito $9.50. .
Montreal, May 113.-'05e best steers offer-
ed gold at •88, itnd the lower grades from
that down to 06 per cwt., •While, butchers'
cows Ibrought 34 to $7; and bulls Prom
$4.50 to .37 per OWL., 058 t0;qua,lity, The
trade in cheep and lamhs was quiet on
amhe ount of tcontinued small ofrerinms.
and sales of both were made at from $4
to $8 each, as to size and quality. mho
tone of 'the market for calves wits easier,
butthe demand was geed 00prioes rang
-
in,„. from $2 to $9 each, as to else and
quality. The market for dressed hose
Ws S firm, Ivith tt good demand for 011 of-
fet•ings, ind sales el soleoted loto Were
,niade at $9.50 to 59.76 por wt.., weighed
off oars, and In one or two instances as
high as $10 was paid far a mall lot.
Montreal, May 18 -Corn -American No.
2 yellow, 82 to 830. Oats -Canadian 1•Yeet-
ern, No. 3, 66 1-10; do„ ex.tra No; 1 feed,
061-20; do., No. 2 local white, 66c; do.,
No, 3, 65c; do., No. 4, 64c. Barley -Malt.
ing, 850. Flour -Man, •Saring 1,(11011.t pa1.
ants,. firsts, $8.20; do, seconds, $7,70; do.,
strong bakers', $7.50; do, Winter patenta,
choice, $7.90; do., straight rollers, $7,40
to $7.50; do., bag.s, $3.50 to $3.60.. netted
oats -Barrels $7 to $7.15: do., Ihn.gs. 90'
lbs., 33.85: Brun, $26. Shorts, 028. Mid-
dlings, $33 lo $34.. Moulin@ $36 to $38.
Hay -No. 2, per ton, car iota; $1.9 to 52060.
Cheose-iFinesh wegterns, 18 1.2. to 19; do„
finest eastorns, 18 to 18 1-41 Batter -
Choicest creamery, 51 to 011-10; do., SOC.
nods, 30 1-2. to 30 3.4e. Bags -Fresh, 02
to 23c; do., selected, 24 to 250; do„ No, 2
stock, 200. Potatoeg-Por ibag, CELL' lots,
42 1-2c. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, 213
to $13,50. Pork-dleavy. Canadahort
Mese, Ole., 35 to 45 pieces, 838 elo,, Can-
ada short cut book, dalds., 45 to 55 pieces,
$27.50. Lard -Compound, tierces, 375 lbs.
9 1-24;. do., wood pails, 20 lbs„ 10c; do.,
pure,, tinrees, 376 lbs., 11 1-2e; do., Pure,
wood nails, 20 tbs, net, 120,
Winnipeg Wheat,
Winnipeg May 18. --Cash -quotatdons--•
Wheat -No.' 1'Nor6hern, $1,61; No. 2 North-
ern, $1.58; No. 3 Northern, $1.54 1-2; No, 4,
$1„50; No. 5, 91,45; No. 6, $1.,40. Oftts-'No,
2 .0.14'., 63 3.8e; No, 3 0.W., 60 340; extra
No. 1100,8, 66 3-4o1 No. 1 feed, 59 Me; No.,
2 feed, 58 7430. Barley -No. 3, 700; No. 4,
65c; food, 630. Flax -No. 1 'N,W,C,, $1,82;
No. 2 0.W., $1,79.
United States Markets.
Mint oapolts, May '10.--Whont-No, 1
hard, 411,6154: No, 1 Northern, . 51.8514
to $1.59 1-4; No. 2 Northern, $1,52 1-4 to
91.58 1.4; July, $1,49 1-8. Corn --,No, 3 yel-
lew, 71 1-4, to 71 No, Oats -No. 3 white,
51 3.4 to 62 1.4c. Flour and (bran Unchanged,
Duluth, Minn., May 18. -Wheat -.No,
hag& $1.60 1.4; No, 1 Northern, $1.59 1-4;
No: 2 Northern., $1:62 1,-4 to $1.55 JWLY.
51.55 R. Linseed, $2.01 1-2; July, $2.04.
Live' Stock' Markets,
Vomit°, XitY 15.-03ntoliers' cattle,
choice, $8.25 to 58.65: do., good. 87.60 to
Alice's Opinion. ,.
In his very, very ,early yoeth, Mr.
Mtannser quid been a peaty ohild.
His friends did not believe this
wag possible, and even he had for-
gotten about it until one day
he unearthed a painting of him,self
,
at that period from among the old
lienber.
This he handed lo his wife 04
some compensation for his present
somewhat worm-eaten appearance.
`There, Aliee " ,said Mrs. Musson -
ser, proudly exhibiting the pictiirer
to the servant. `That is a. portrait
of yo,ux master, painted when he
was a thild."
Alice gazed open-mouthed at the
production.
"Lor', mum," she said, atter
some moments, "what a pin, it: is
we have to grow up, ain't it?"
Why Adam and Eve Were Happy.
The teaeher in one of th.e Lon-
don Blinn schools was talking eibout
the •delights of the Garden of Eden,
its limit trees anti ;bright flowers;
and the rfiaold Efe our first par-
ents led in it. 'She then asked the
question :--"And, children, why
was it that Ad,am. and Eye were so
happy, so perfectly happy there?"
"Please, madam," answered the
child promptly and eagerly,
" 'mule they was always in the
country."
Kept from Celais.
despatoh from London says:
Donald MacMa,ster, IC.C., informs
us that a friend of his who has jest
returned from Germany sity,s the
feeling af hatred .surnong the Ger-
mans is now stronger 'against the
Canadians then, the rest of the
British foes. They say: "If it
hasl not been for the Canadian rats
WC ehotrld 'have been through to
•
Stating the Question.
"Robby, you must go to church
with me this m,erning."
"lVIamina, why don, you .say,
'Bobby, w•ouldn't you lie to go to.
church with mei'
"Well, Bobby, wonldn't srou like
to go to 'church with Me this mora-
ine'?" .
rx:ope.ir
To the end Of' --his--d,aers Lord Rob-
erts always glept in a camp bed.
It takes 2,309 silkworms to pro -
dime one pound of silk.
. NO eorrect rhyan,e has even been
found Inc the word "month."
Don't believe all you hear, or say
all you believe.
Many a Irian is able to lead the
simple life because his wife takes
in boarders
Old Roisleigh--"C,onsent to you;
marrying my deughte.r No, sirr
You have no prospects; have you ?"
Impeceniou.s ISuiter—"Well, sir, if
that's the way yon feel about it, I
can't Say that I have,"
What a Million
Mothers Avoid
More than a million careful
mothers have intuitively
know:idle dangers of poison-
ous fly destroyers, They have
known that such preparations
contain arsenic in deadly quan-
tities. They have realized the
peril to little children that ac-
companies theme of flYPolsons„
But for tliose who' have not
learned of these dangers, we
quote' from EL recent issue of
the Child Bettertnent Magazine,
which comments "yin; thirty -live
eases of children being poisoned
•••,,, last year: .
"The danger to ,children la
great, and the dangerto adults
is bytle means inconsiderable."
In thelDeeember issue 'of the
Michigan State Medical Jeurnah
an editorial on the same subject
cites 47 Mises andgoes on to atate:
• "Arsenical fly polAons ars as '
dangorous.as the phosphorus
match. They should be abol-
ished. Thera are as efficient
and MOM sanitary ways of
catching or killing files. And
fly polsons,-if used at all,
should not be used in..homea
where them are children, or
where ehiidrenwisit."
"Ma Sanitary
• Nan -Poisonous
FIY Deanne
HOLEFOOT
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Mode in Canada 133,
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PUT SQUARELY
UP TO THE KING
Italian Cabinet Asks His Majesty
to Take Commantl,. of the
Situation.
A despatch from Rome says:
With the rejection by Italy of the
final offer of thrritorial and other
concession,s on the part of Austria
and the opening of Parliament at
hand, it is believed here that the
Cabinet will ask King Victor Em-
in•anuel to take supreme command
of the situation and truet to his
judgment to do what is hest for the
interests of the country.
The Giornale the organ
of, Baron Son•nino, the Foreign
Minister, in' an editorial on the
actual situation in Italy which h,as
arou.sed wicle's,pre,ad interest, says:
"Italy is d,eternained on th.e rea-
lization of her national aspiratione,,
oast what it may. Ibis for tide rea-
son that the Government hastened
war preparations which, wihen
completed,caused'Austria 10 dreg
-compensations, thus recognising
th.e claims of Italy.
Tried to Arrange Peace.
"When the Au•stro-Italian nego-
tiations were initiated Signor Gio-
litti unfortunately hampered thein'
successful con,olusion by his inop-
pertan,e letter affirming that war
was unnecessary. Owing, however
to elm G,Mernment'a firmness and
detenninatien to resort to war, the
converstitions w.e,re resumed. 'Ne-
vertheless, Auetria,besides offering
insufficient concessions, attempted
a dilatory policy and tried seoretly
to conclude a separate pease with
Ramie.
"The Italian Governmentthere-
npon opened negotiations with the
allies, which immediately served to
inoreeze Austria's offers."
The expression "pigeon English"
arose from the ,Chirtese attempt to
pronounce the' word "business,"
width, through viirieus forms, be -
mime ",pidgin," and then "pigeon."
"Pigeon. English" is a strange jar-
gon of many languages,. b ,
ut `busi-
ness" is carried on ,by it.
DEATH ROLL IS APPALLING
Enemy Sacrifices Men By Thousands in Effort tai
Reach Ypres
A despatch from Isend'on says:
Officers arriving from France tell
that the British troope., infuriated
over the Intsitenia clis,aster, ere
fightiug Nvith, greater 'Nigel: end
more fiercely tha•n ever before.
The news ,speeeel quickly through.
th,e army, arousing the inte'n,s,e,st
indignation.
The Morning Post ,coxresponsient
in Northern France eve "At no
time have ;the GeS1110118 displayed
greater determination to break
through at all costs, siscrificing
large numbers of men, violating
every ride of God anti main in a
desperate, almost despoiling eit-
11011. The fighting between Ypres,
and Hill 60, whicfo we still hold',
lies been of the m.ast despe•rato de-
scription. Despite lois,ses, we dmve
held our own. ,
Last Obstacle to Lille.
"On the next sector, that of the
Anbets ridge, the action hao b,e,en
a quite efferent natare, Fel-
lowieg up ,our quiet, but steady,
pr6gness around Armentieres and
lieupline,s, both of which places
ere new under hieavy bombardment,
we were enabled to launch an at-
tack upon )111-50 ridge, thie last ob-
steele between ns and the pleine
which, teed to Lille,* eome five or
six miles Away.
"Swinging Anemia at Fromellee
to ,the left of °tie ,orld Neuve 0he-
pelte b abb1 gretiod, the horse sho,e
ridge here runs in a north-easterly
direction and beifore Promeiles
there dies a small weed; eimilax to
Pieties weed, which preyed a
stumbling block ,a,t, Nenve Chap,e,11,e,
This was quietly 'oeptured by our
Indian treo.sin—Ph
atens and Oink -
"We opened then upon the ridge
'ab°laba'ddilnerrb
nob eisieetei
Neuve Chapelle,oontineed for a
much' long,er Rein.ed. It was found
th,at, peofiting by previous ,experi-
enee., the German,s Med greatly
strengthened their defe,n,ces with
dugouts and 'shelters made ,o,f eon -
;orate 'and steel. Thus it fell out
that, after having eerried the ridge
and the first lines of the Gelman
trenohes, apparently obliterated by
ournantitlemy fire, we were e,atighlb
by concealed machine guns cunning-
ly placed, so that they shoald es-
cape, the general devastation.
"When these opeeed on us .06
ishort range our po,sition was made
enteirable, aced we had to tent/opt
eueselv,e,s with the footing of the
Lower slopes of the , ridge in the
meantime. To ine,et our onslaught
nt Aubees the Germans lave
brought up evm
ent asses 'of men,
end they haapparently tre.en ,co,n-
ea:denting at Lille. '
"Preceded by a terriblcs bom-
bardment, our troops delivered an
etteek upon Inc famous reil‘vaer
triangle west of. La Bassee, wibeiis
embankments 1sc1 been oonverted
into e strong, efficient fortress, So
stieng have they made their 'trendi-
es with concrete ancl iron plates
that it was found our artillery had
reelly made very little impression
tp“oi.tlicn. nl,yn wise
ulealts.vere1)IeyoeAirlnieeneiy also rw
aded -to
strait:Aegean. s He left hie two first
tillio41"1.1.117c1143rgt3ro ofbelin:111e'bilara'd4lincleiltmt7b-:11.1itia31
was therrefone haandess, Mit he was
waiting for our infantry in this third
At the earns time the now
famous: brick fields of; thisnent 01
the ',conntry were v,miteble 1:taiga of
Machine