The Clinton News Record, 1915-11-25, Page 3BRITISri HOSPITAL' SHIP SUNK
BY A FLOATING RIM IN
300 Were SaVedle Of a Total Of
Recently COI1Vnyed Kill ACe
A despatch from London says: The
hospital ship Anglia, with about 300
•Wounded men aboard, in addition to
the crew, nurses and attendants;
bound from France for Dover, struck
a mine in inid-Channel and sank in a
very short time. About 85 men, most
of them seriously wounded, and,
therefore, in their cots, lost their
lives.
The collier Lusitania, which was
nearby at the time of the accident,
immediately went to the assistance of
•the Anglia, and her boats had just
been lowered when she also struck a
CANNEL
385—Vesse
os
'Mine and foundered. All her crew
were saved.
A patrol vessel succeeded in rescu-
ing 300 of the Anglia's passengers
and crew, including some flumes: A
number of .bodies were recovered.
The mine is supposed to have broke
from its moorings in the recent storm.
An official communication says:
"King George was shocked to hear
that the Anglia, whieh so recently
conveyed hien across the Channel, had
been sunk. His Majesty is grieved at
the loss incurred, but trusts that the
survivors have not unduly suffered
from their terrible exposure."
- Markets Of The World
Breadstuffs.
Toronth, Nov. 23. -Manitoba wheat
new crop -No. 1 Northern, $1.11%; lambs, cwt., $8.75 to $9.25; calves,
No. 2 Northern, $1.09, on track, lake inechum„to choice, $7.25 to $10; hogs,
ports, immediate shipment. fed and watered, $9.25.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 47c; Montreal, Nov. 23. -Choice steers
No, g Cm., tough, eeme, on track, sold at $7 to $7.25, but the bulk of
lake ports. the trading was done in stock rang-
• American corn -No. 2 yellow, 74c, ing from $6 to $6.50, and the mem-
on treble Toronto, mon and inferior grades brought
Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow,731ne, from $4.50 to $5.50, while butchers'
on track Toronto. cows sold at $4.50 to $6, and balls at
• Ontario ones new crop -No 3 $4.75 to $6.25 per ewt. There was a
white, 38 to 39c; commercial oats, 37 good demand for canning stock at
to 38e, according to freights outside. steady prices, with sales of cows at
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per $3.15 to $3,35, bulls at $4 to $4.50
e car -lot, 96 to 98e; slightly sprouted per cwt. Lambs, Ontario stock, $9 to
and tough, according to sample, 92 $9.25; Quebec stock, $8.50 to $8.75;,
to 95c; sprouted, smutty arte tough, sheep, $5.25 to $6 per cwt. Calves,
according to eamplo, 75 to 88e. . fair-sized lots of grass-fed stock, 3
Peas -No, 2 nonunal, per ear lots, to 6c per lb.; milk -fed stock, 7 to 8c
$2.10; samnle peas, according to ; per lb. Hogs, selected lots$9.25 to
sample, $1,25 to $1.75. e9.50 per cwt., weighed off' cars.
Barley -Malting barley, 56 to 60c;
feed barley, 49 to 52c, according to
$4,50; milkers, choice, each, $65 to..
$100; do., connnon and medium, each,'"
$35 to $50; Springers, $50 to $100;
lightkewes, $6 to $6.50; sheep, heavy,
$5 to $5.50; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50;
y ar ing ambs, $7 to $7.50; Spring
freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots, 78 GERMAN DESTROYER
to 80e, according to freights out-
side.
Rye -No. 1 commercial; 88 to 90c;
tough, 80 to 85e, according to sample.
1VIanitoba flour -First patents, in
jute bags, $6; second patents, in lute
bags, $5.50; etrong bakers', in jute
bags, $5.30, Toronto.
Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cent,
patentsa$4.10 to $4.50, according to
sample, seaboard, or Toronto freights
in bags, prompt shipment.
'lllfeed, car lots, delivered Mont -
STEAMED AWAY
Pursued British Steamer Into Swe-
dish Waters Where Her Designs
Were Frustrated.
A despatch from Copenhagen says:
The British steamer Thelma's depar-
real freights -Bran, per ton, $22; ture from Trelleborg, Sweden, wheee
shorts, per ton; 823; middlings, per she had been lying since the begin-'
ton . $25; good feed flour, per baning of the war, was marked by an
$1.60. g, exciting naval adventure, in which the
vessel escaped capture by a German
Country Produce. destroyer through assistance rendered
by the Swedish torpedo boat Pollux.
' Where south of Landskrona, 16 mike
north-east of Copenhagen, the Thelma
was pursued by the Gefinan destroyer
W132 into Swedish territorial weters.
While the Germans were in the act
of boarding the stearnor, the Polux
forced them to return to their boat,'
Poultry -Chickens, 14 to 160; fowls, rend, running between the two vessels,
11 to Mc; ducks, 15 to 16c; geese, 14 informed the Germans that every
to $16e; turkeys, 20 to 22c. moans would be employed to prevent
Cheese -Largo, 17e5c; twins, 17%c, the Thelnfa from being taken.
Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario quot-
e a $ .10 to $1.15, and New Bruns -
wicks. at $1.15 to $1.20 per bag, on
track,
Wholesale Hay Market,
Baled bay, new -No. 1, per ton,
$16 to $17.50; No. 2, per ton, $13
to 314; ealed straw, ton, 86.50 to '37.
• Butter--Presh dairy, 28 to 30c; in-
• ferior, 22 to 24c; creamery prints, 32
to 380; do., solids, 81 to 82c.
Eggs -Storage, 30 to 32c per dozen;
selects, 35 to 36e; new laid, 42 to
45e, case lots,
Honey --Prices in tins, lb, 10 to
• 11c. combs, No, 1, $2.40; No, 2, e2.
Beans -$3.25 to 38.50.
Provisions.
•
Bacon, long clear, 16 to 15%e per
Th. in case lots. Hams -Medium, 185
to 19c,• do., heavy, 14% to 15e; rolls,
154 to 16e; breakfast bacon, 21 to
23c; backs, plain, 24 to 25e; boneless
backs, 26 to 28c.
Lard -The market is firm; pure
lard, tubs, 14e; compound, pails, 12c.
Business in Montreal.
Montreal, Nov. O3. -Corn -Amer!..
can No. 2 yellow, 77% to 73c. Oats
After an interval of silence in
which both warships cleared for ac-
tion, the German destroyer steamed
away.
AUSTRIAN .AEROPLANES
' AGAIN ATTACK VERONA
A despatch from Paris says: Ac-
cording to a Haves report from Rome
the City of Verona has again been
ateacked by hostile aircraft. While 28
were killed and 30 seriously injured
by a recent aerial bombardment, the
only casualty was slight injury to a
little girl: No great damage was done
to streets or buildings.
GIFTS FOR SOLDIERS
ADMITTED DUTY manE
---
Col, Hoclgetts, the Canadian Ited
-Canadian Western, No,2, 51e; No. Cross Comlnissioner in London, in a
3, 50c• No. 2 local white, 46%c; No. cable the Dominion headquarters,
3 local white, 4534,c; No. 4 local white, states that the treasury have given
44e/ec. Barley -Manitoba feed, 65eici directions that all gift parcels of
malting, 66%c. Buckwheat ---No. 2,
76 to 80e. Flour --Manitoba Spring dutiable goods sent to members of the
wheat patents, firsts, $6.10; seconds, Canadian contingents on duty in
$5. 60 strong bakers', ee,40; whiter G •ea t Brithin gee to be mbnitted duty
patents, choice, 35; straight rollers, free. The contents of the parcels
35,30 to 35.40; dm, bags, 32.50 to ehould be declared. Further, no duty
32.60. Boiled oats -13331s., 35.20 to is charged by the French Government
35.25; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.46 to en any geode sent to the Brinell
$2.56. Bran, 322, Sheets, 328. Mid- forceg in Frame,.
dlings, $30, blotrillie, $30 th $32. Hay m
-No. 2, per ton, car lots, 317.50 to
318.60. Cheese -Finest •westerns, CHURCHILL HAS LEFT
16% to 17c; finest eaeterns, 164 to FOR THE FIRING LINE
le%e. Buttei.-Choicest creamery,
31% to 32c; seconds, 81 to 31% c. •A despatch from London says:
Egg's -Fresh, 42e; selected, 33c; No.
1 stock, 30c; No. 2 stock, ,27 to 28e. W.inston Spencer Churchill, former
Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1.10 to -
Post Lead of the Admiralty and
$1.20. Dressed hogs---Abettoir Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
ed, $13 to $13,50. Fork -Heavy Can- in the uniform of Ids reghnent, has
ada short mese, bble., 85 to 45 pieces, lee for the front. His wife bade him
een .50; Canada short-cut back, farewell at the railway station, where
bble., 46 to 55 pieces, $27 to 327.50, he passed anrecognizal on the plat -
Lard -Compound, tierces, 375 lbs., form as he waited to enter a special
1.0,inc; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 10e4c;
)nue, world pails, 20 lbs. net, 13 to
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United States Markets,
Minneapolis, Nov, 23. -Wheat -- A deepatele ferns' Washington says:
December, $1.0014; May, $1.03% to Further investigations of the activi-
pure, tierces, 875 lbs„ 12 eto 121/se•
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NEW INDICTMENTS
POR PASSPORT FRAUDS
$1.03%. Cash --No. 1 hard, $1,07%;
No. 1 Northern, $1.02% to $1.05%;
ties of Austrian Consul -General vo
No. 2 Noethern 083/ to $1.o23.Nuber and hie associates will be made
Corn --No. 3 yellow, 68% to 69e5c. bY the Department of Justice as a re-
Oate---No. 3 white, 84% to 353e. stilt of it conference be New York be -
Flom' unehenged. Bran, 317.75 to tween A. Bruce Bielaski, Chief of the
$18. Bureau of Investigations and Dr. Jo-
Doluth, Nov. -23.--Wheat-No. 1 seem norkar, eo.„,mer A'esteeee ceee.
hard, $1,05%; No. 1 Northern, sul. A department, statement• an -
e1.04%; No. 2 Northern
$1. Ofele fele/liana N $1. 99%03% to
nouncing at this aleo eaid that ieforma-
December $1.00zee 'to $e, mon • ' may; tion had beobtained w3 -3m proem) y
; o. 2,
would lead to fulther indictments for
passport frauds.
NORWEGIAN STEAMER
IS SUNK'BN A MINE
Montreal,' Non 28. -The uotations •
were, Best heavy steers, 8.25 to --
38.59; •good heavy steers, 37.75 to ' '
A despateb from London says. Re -
$8; betchers' cattle, choite, 37.35 to Perth have reached here that the lejore
$7.50; do., good, 37 to $7,25; dee wegian steamship Ubilters struck a
medium, 30,25 to 38.00; do., common, merle and was sunk nem. Galloper
34.85 to 35.15; toddlers' bulls, choice, Light.
• 36.25 to $6.75; do, good bulls, e5.75 Twenty members of the crew of the
to , cm, rougn ou'lle, e4.76' to $5,25; Ulriken have landed on the east coast.
butehers' 05h08, $30 to $6.•50; They say their vessel was sunk in the
pr.
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toeiters, 100 I:0 ,j00 tbs,, 6,25 to ; The snrvivors assert that a G,reek
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The Week's Development in the War.
The week's fighting apparently has been very desperate on four frontiers but news over the principal cable
has been a• succession of unofficiEd despatches, one contradicting another. 'It is.obviotes that Von Hindenburg
is somewhat of a fellen idol; his desperate drives for Riga and Dvinsk b eve been ,inade with his customary
disregard of human life. The lessian counter -drives in other sectors of the eastern front have been in keep-
ing with, their plan of campaign, to wear down the enemy and keep him from detaching men for other fronts.
In Pleaders and France there has been little outside of artillery and bom la fighting. The Italians, recently
offered a 'separate place, have been wiping out that insult from Austria by strenuous work. In Gallipoli we
have resumed the offensive, the British 52n6 Division oCcupying Turkish trenches on both sides of the Krithia
Nulla,
It was principally in Serbia that -the most desperate, and at the same time the most vaguely reported fight-
ing of the week. The French and British have shown increased strength, but the resistance of the Serbs is
about done.
BRITISH TAKE
TURK TRENCHES
Well-prepared Attack in the Darda-
nelles WaS an Unqualified
Success.
A despatch from London says;
Simultaneously with the arrival of
Lord Kitchener at the Dardanelles
comes an official report of the resump.
tion of the :offensive on Gallipoli by
the allies, nearly 300 yards of the
enemy's trenches being captured.
The text of the statement follows:
"In the Dardanelles the 52nd divi-
sion carried out a very successful at-
tack on the Turkish trenches on the
15th instant, for which careful pre-
paration had been in progress for a
considerable time.
SHOT AND SHELL.
Pointed Facts and Figures Concern-
ing the Great War.
Blue was the color of the seaman's
dress in the time of the Saxons.
The Union jack, in its present form,
was introduced in the year 1800.
No presents of wine or spirits can
be accepted by soldiers at the front.
The area of Japan is more than
double that of Great Britain and Ire-
land.
GERMAN LOSSES
ARE APPALLING
The Official List Shows Casualties In
October Alone Nuntbered
• 200,000. ••
A despatch from London says: The
appalling extent of the German losses
The majority of French soldiers es mevealed by a perusal of the official
have received new uniforms of stout casualty Iist isseed daily by the Gov -
blue cloth. eminent for the information of farni-
The expenses of the Austrian army, lies, although newspapers are pre-
en a war footing, work out at $4,- hibited from reproducing it.
000,000 a day. The outstanding facts in these lists
It has been suggested that a na- are the enormous gaps in certain regi-
tional cemetery shall . be instituted ments, and the frequency -seine which
for those who die in the war. entire battalions aro wiped out, the
A notice in "a Glasgow office win- remarkable small proportion of offi-
clow rens: "Business as usual diming cers lost mid the great number of
alteration of the map." volunteers killed.
"Three mines were exploded sac- Scoteleman" is a naval term for a The latest lists available cover the
eessfully under the enemy's trenches piece of wood, or hide, placed under losses foe October. For Prussia,
in the neighborhood of the Krithia a rope to prevent chafing. Wuerttemburg, Reveille and Saxony•
Nullah, and the infantry pushing for- All the parks and gardens and there are over 200,000 names, 651
ward immediately afterward cap- available open spaces of Vienna are to pages, and 1,953 columns. It will be
tui•ed about 130 yerds of trenches on be laid out as vegetable gardens, • recalled that at the beginning of No -
the east of the nulls& and 120 yards MiliterY obligations in Russia be- vember the Prussian losses alone were
on its west. The captured trenchee gins at the age of twenty, end is not estimated at slightly over two mile
were at once consolidated and bomb- filially concluded until the ferty-third lion.
ing paeties pushed on up to the corn- year.
munication trenches and erected bar- "In no crisis 01 receat times have
einades. the public been so calm or free from
"Simultaneously with the assault panic," is the view of the London
our artillery opened on the enemy's police.
reserve support trenthes, two 14 -inch Firing at its highest speed, a
monitors and H.M.S. Edgar (cruiser) French liattere. would take thirteea
co-operating, and maintained their fire minutes to cover every square yard
until the position was reported cosi- within range.
solidated. French knapsacks weigh 49 lb.,
"The enemy's batteries replied hea- which is considerably lees than their
'ern:v., but very erratically, and did weight during the Franco-Geeman
little damage. The Turks in the neigh- War of 1870. .
boring trenches, who fired heavily, It is suggested that chewing -gum,
were caught by machine gun and rifle which allays thirst and wards ff
fire and bombs, and suffered consid-
erably, their fire becoming very wild,
"A counter-attack was made, but it
was easily repulsed. Our caeualties
were under 50 killed and wounded.
Over, 70 dead were seen in the cap-
tured position, 'and a wounded pri-
soner reports, that over 30 were buried
by the explosion of one mine."
PRINCE EITEL OFFICER
CAPTURED BY BRITISH
A despatch from London says:
Lieut. Henri Koch, one of the officers
of the interned German auxiliary
cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, who vio-
lated his parole and left Norfolk in
the middle of October, has been taken
off a Danish stearner in the North SOa
by the British naval authorities.
Lieut. Koch, who was sailing as a sea -
main joined the steamer at Baltimore,
giving his nationality as Dutch.
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GERMANS IN SPAIN;
MADRID IS WARNED
---
A despatch from Paris says: Great
Britain has requested the Spanish
Government to keep a strict watch
along its coast line, especially that of
Morocco'to preventby violations of neu-
trality y German agents who ere be-
lieved to be supplying submarines
with fuel and food at night, says the
Journal's Madrid correspondent.
AITEMPT TO BURN
STRINGS OF CARS
A cicepatch •from New York says:
The authorities are investigating
theee separate fires which were start-
ed in two strings of freight cars in
the Erie Railroad yards at Weehaw-
ken, N.J., about 100 feet away from a
corral containing 500 horses waiting
shipment to Europe. Watchmen saw
three men flee from the yards and
fired several revelver shots, but ehe
fugitives escaped. The firemen who
extinguished the flames discovered
that waste from the journals of the
cars had beernsoeked in oil, placed in
the corners of empty cars and ignited.
The damage was slight.
Over 180 million Bibles and pore
tions of the Bible have been issued by
tho Bible Society in 870 .odd Ian-
neeges and dialects.
The list for October 23rd alone
gives 10,000 casualties, The Prussian I
list includes nine regiments of the
Guard, eighty regiments of Grena-
diers and Fusiliers of the regular in-
fantry, 81 regiinents of reserves, and
21 of the Landwehr, and many from
the field artillery.
The second battalion of a Guards
regiment lost 437 and only three offi-
cers. An example of the terrifle loss-
es of certain regimerits is furnished
by the 84th Prussian Infantry, whose
third battalion lost 532 out of a full
complement at 1,000. A battalion 61
the pangs of hunger, is a suitable the Prussian 157th Inenetim lost the
present for, the troops, following number's in four companies
Next Christmas is bound to pro. of 250 each: let, 176; 2nd, 188; 3rd,
duce far fewer novelties than usual, 171; 4th, 158.
as a large number of these come rn a similar manner companies of
from Austria and Germany. the 224t1 Reserve Infantry lost men
King Albeit of Belgium visits his as follows: 208, 205, 216, 194, 111,
various troops at the front so contin- 195, 157, 162, 164, 132, 216, The fell
unity that he has lately been living
day and night in his rnotorscar.
THE ET—leGLI-SI.T.--DT-SCRIBED.
Equipped with Victory and Terribly
Tenacious.
Mr. John Galsworthy, the novelist,
has a -"diagnosis of the Englishman"
in the Fortnightly Review: •
Mr. Galsworthe• thinks that for the
particular situation which the Eng-
lishman has now to face he is "terrn
bly well adapted."
"He does not look into himself; he
does not brood; he sees 310 further
forward than is .neeessarYi
aad he other half Imes?.
must have leis joke. These are fearful
Vulgar Voice in the Rear -It's a
arid wonderful advantages. . • From good thing some people mind thole
an aesthetic point of view the Eng- own business.
Hellman, devoid of high lights and --
shadows, coated with drab, and super- Prize money, abolished at the be -
humanly steady on his feet, is not too ginning of the present war, ,was
attractive. But for the wearing, tear- glorious perquisite in the "good old
ing, slow, and dreadful lousiness of days." Sometimes as much as $50)000
this war, the Englishman -fighting of was divided among the sailors.
his own •free will, unimaginative,
humorous, competitive, practical, ne- The first time a girl is engaged
ver in extremes, a dumb, inveterate she imagines. herself
as important
optimist, and terribly tenacious -le a heveine in a novel. . th
($
equipped. with victory." 70
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WAR GOES ON IN
GARDEN OF EDEN
BRITISH ARE VERY SUCCESS
• ' IN CAMPAIGN.
'Country is Very Productive and Co
13e Made Vastly More
What the feeliags of thetro
about approaching winter may
those who have spent the last
months in Mesopotamia and the P
sian Gulf cannot but feel that the e
of the long and trying heat will sp
a new lease of life to them. T
climate, one of the worst in the wor
has taken a heavy' toll of British a
Indian troops alike, 'and it spea
well for the spirit of the troops a
the enterprise of their leaders th
the operations have beett consistent-
ly successful since the expeditionary
force landed in November last. The
fruits of nine months' campaign in-
clude the defeat of the enemy on
three lines -the Tigris, the Euphrat
and on the Ahwaz line -and the o
vcuapaatbioliei coofunatrriy.enormous area
lu
• The troops who have opposed
13ritish advance are in the- ma
Tueldsli regulars, and in these a
included several of the Constanti-
nople regiments who were despatch-
ed to the southerncampaign before
Constantinople was threatened by the
'allies. The Turkish regulars were
loyally and ably assisted by Arab and
• Kurd levies; for Turkey, even in her
most distant Provinces, enforced uni.
versal military service. As might be
expected among an Eastern nation,
this lave was 'openly manipulated to
the advantage of local Governors.
The fee for avoiding military service
was as high as 25 Turkish, just be-
fore the British occupation, levied in-
discriminately on Mohammedans,
Jews, Christians, send Chaldeans. In
practice this system led to a not un-
successful result, ensuring to the local
Governors a goodly flow of cash and
to the colors sturdy country youths
who not afford to pay so high
a
ImIt the Garden?
The third class who resisted the
British occupation are the warlike
Arab tribesmen of the country. This
year two important actions have been
fought on the supposed site of the
Garden of Eden. Nothing will shake
the local conviction that in Kurna'at
the junction of the Tigris 'and the
Euphrates, Mesopotamia possesses
the original Garden of Eden, though
units of the garrison who occupied
its defences during the torrid months
of May and June express doubts on
its authenticity.
The first of these actions was a
lancl.fight, such a one as takes place
daily in Flanders. The second, over
identically the same ground, after the
floods had risen, a naval action in
which ships of the Ronal Navy were
able to participate.
Mesopotamia boasts a record vain -
anon of temperature, during the year.
Bitter cold and damp in wintee and
intense and inalarious heat in sum-
mer have added enormously to the
difficulties of the operations,
Trade in this • country of infinite
possibilities has faltered for many
years under the oppressive rule of
the Turk. Revenue to the Govern-
ment was often assessed at half the
produce of the land; 'and the only
savipg clause was that some of the
more powerful landowners were ac-
customel to refuseeto pay revenue at
all. Still, the Turkish Government
had their own methods of jogging the
memories of the recalcitrant, and
there are few Sheikhs or large land-
owners who have not served terms
of imprisonment in Constantinople,
varying in length from two to twenty
years, for arrears of revenue, often
contracted by their predecessors.
Grain and Dates.
The production of grain, where
every essential for its successful pro-
duction exists, was siiaeouraged by
trangling taxatioa, and the frequent
etion of the Turkish Government in
lacing an embargo on export did not
end to encourage trade in grain or in
ny other commodity.
The export of dates to Europe and
America is the chief source of wealth
on the lower stretches of the river.
Profits are telt°, and as the dates
eecl liltis care or cultivetion, and a
ufficient livelihood is easily come
y, a more than ordinary dislike of
ork characterizes the inhabitants
f this part of the country, and an
idependence which is rarely to be
et with bn other highly populated
untries of the East. ,
During the first half of the year
eessive 'floods , inundated all • the
country in which operations were
taking place, An amphibious sort of
warfare was the result, where sol-
diers of the British and Indian -armies
and sailors of the Royal Navy met
one another half way.
WHY GERMANY RATES US.
The Rage of Them Is the Rage of the
Coated Rat.
"We all know that Germany hater
us, says the Ayrshire (Scotland)
UT' OP:e8stnotaIdtoisGthinger byanhY'8a1vews“.Y.SheSiiire
always in the right. She has been
able to persuade herself that she is
the Iamb in the midst of the wolves,
uld that she has been forced to fight for
her very existence. Likewiee, that •
What would be crimes and dire
offences if done by us, or by the
ens French or Russians, are virtues of
be, the highest order and approven of the
six gods of the Teutons in the highest
er- degree when they are done by her
nd As for her venommpewing against
ell Giseat Britain, we have got so used to
he it as to be able to regard it on its
id, higher side; as an evidence that Ger-
nd many has substituted for any sense
ks of huznor she ever had, selferighteoas
nd sufficiency that stifles everything else
at with which it comes into conflict She
has torpedoed ite the.saree as she did
the Lusitania; bombed it, the same as
she did some • Londoners and S07116
London buildings. This blind hate,
however, is not without its own rea-
es son. It comes not only from the
ce superiority of the British •Fleet that
of swept the sea of her ships, and caused
• her oversee dominions to vanish like
he mirages, but from the suffering that
in the lack of any foreign trade has
re made chronic to her. Hamburg and
Bremen, great pre-war sea -ports, are
eloped and dead, the docks are idle,
the big steamers are laid up, and
'the consequent rage of the people is
the rage of the cornered rat.' Count.
less • factories and workshops are
closed, the bread of the people is a
littIe flour and a big compound o/
potatoes, and it cannot be had with-
out daily bread tickets, one for break-
fast, one for lunch, one for dinner.
So every day the hate is nourished,
and there is no chance of ite being
lessened. Not yet awhile in any case,
When her needs have reached the 'in
extremis' point she will probably be
commandeered into a softer attitude
towards us. When it comes to that --
well, it will be time to stiffen our
backs and to weigh the real hate
against the compelled appeal to our
feelings."
complement of each company is 250. t
The 7th Reserve Infantry bost10
1,077 men out of 3,000. These losses
were probably suffered at Loos and
Tahure. The Landeturm generally
kept leehirel the firing line; yet they
show heayy losses caused by illness. a
In the 4th companies of the 224th re- e
serve, 819 men and five officers were
lost, The 133rd Saxon Infantry lest w
507 men ande seven officers. 0
11
Frank.
Social reformer (in stentorian 00
tones) -Do you know that one-half
the woeld doesn't know how the ex
HUGE COST OF WAR,
.Estintated Thai, It Amounts to. Sum
of $6,300,000,000 a Week. *
Tee Economist estimates.the cost of
e war at about 6126,000,000 weekly
0,300,000,000), or £540,000,000 (32,-
0,000,000) inozitbly. For the six
idf. belligerents the daily cost is as
lows:
Great Detain, £5,000,000; Germany,
e4,000,000; Prance, Russia, and Aus-
a, each 12,100,000, and Italy ell,-
,000-a total of £18,000,000
us, on tbe present scale, the cost
another year wood(' be 26,570,.
000,000.
Neutral aecounts represent condi- '
tions in Germany as increasingly
grave. In Great Britain, the prosper-
ity of industial districts continuos,
hut bankers feel that excessive ex-
penditures and boerowing must spell
inflation.
Bluejacleets wear their "summer
rig" --white caps and singletse-froin
May 1st to October lst. During the
rest of the year blue caps and jerseys
are coirmulsory.
t,i
Russia to Suspend Ali Enemy Enterpnses Th
• 500
foi
A despatch from Petrograd says: The Cpuneel of Mitisters has decided
to ospend all the remaining. compeer cial and industrial enterprises in
Russia belonging to subjects of enem y count -Hee. These number over one
thousand and employ thirty thousan d persons.
French Warships Caplure Austrian Submaa ines
A clespatc:h from n02110 sales; French warships have ,captured. two Ger-
.:Min submarines flying Austr' n flags off the African coast. One was cap-
tured oft' Tunis, the other Venaica.
SURVIVALS IN CLOTHES.
Some Styles of Servants' Costumes
Are Familiar to Us. ,
By a large number of interesting
survivals, says the London Times in
its report of Mr. Wilfred M. Webb's
lecture before the Ethnological So-
ciety, dress illustrates the innate con-
servatisin of humanity.
Among these survivals is the han
band, the original purpose of which
was to hold ot piece of cloth or linen
around the head. A picture exists of
an Egyptian figure dated 3500 B.C.,
the headgear of which consists of it
piece of linen, with a band tied round
it that terminates in two tails at the
back. A survival of that is to be' -
found in the tails of the present-dae
Scottish bonnet and of the sailor's
cap. Again the clocks on stockings
were origintilly a species of ornarnen.
tation put on to hide the seams where
the stuff was joined together, The
"points" on the backs of gloves origi-
nally were strips of braid used to,
cover the seams in the gloves of early
times.
Men of fashion, when they tired of
particular suits of clothes, have al.
ways given them away to their ser-
vants, and the, practice has resulted
eremite styles of servants' costumes
familiar to us in modern days. The
groom, for example represents a
gentleman of the beginning of the
nineteenth century, and he still wears
the belt that ladies used to hold on be
when riding behind on the pillion.
The footman, with plush beeeches and
powdered hair, is it gentletnan of the
time of George III.; the, sheriff's
coachman, with full -skirted coat and
wig', is a gentlemen of the time oi,
George II.; and the Lord Mayor's
coachman and suite axe very fine
gentlemen of the time of George HI
In the twentieth century we hand at
our evening clothes to the waiters
who stand behied us sit the dinnei
table.
e.
CITY THAT' RULED KINGS.
Alexander the Great's Frightful
lt
In ancient daeresvtell:geein.mt.ident wit of
the young Greece -Egyptian dandy
was proverbial, says Mr. Arthur le,
P. Brom Weigel! in "Tbe Life and
Times o:f Cleopatra." That was espe•
daily true in Alexandria, whose peo.
ple were characterized by the Emper-
or Hadrian as "light, wavering, set'',
nous, vain, and epiteful, although at
a body wealthy and prosperous,"
No sooner did a statesman assume
office or a king come to tee throe(
than the .wags of the city gave him
some scurrilous nickname that stuee
to him throughout the remainder oi '
his life. Thus'Ptolemy IX, was called
d
Bloate," Ptolemy X., "The
Vetch," and Ptolemy XIII., "The
Piper," Seleueus they learned "Pick-
led -fish Pecldlen" and in later times.
Vespaeian was named "Scullion.'
When King Herod Agrippa passed
through the city on his way to his in-
secure theme, these young Alexan
Orians dressed up an unfortunate
madman whom they had found in thz
streets, put a paper CrOW11 upon his
head and a reed in his hand, and led
him through the toivmhaidng him as.
King of the Jews; and that in spite
oe the fact that Agrippa was the close
friend of Caligula, their emperor,
Against Vespasian they told With de.
light the story of how he had pestered
one Of his friends for the payment el
a trifling losea of six obeli, and some
c\ovanalel34inif,todeio.ertcitlida solnigin
leylwidhlicehlfiett
ceilacefianci
dresding himself like Alex:
andee the Great, although his stature
was below the average; but in that
case they had not reckoned with their
man. Ms frightful revenge upou
them .was the almost total extermina-
tioe of all the well-to-do eoung mee
hi the city, whom lie' ollecteet toge-
`?
thee under a :Ealse preinese, and the,
butcheeed in cold tele°