The Clinton News Record, 1917-02-01, Page 3GREAT ,BRITAIN TO REQUISITION ADMIT LOSSES
NECESSARY FOREIGN SECURITIES OF 2,000,000
Vol(lntsir ' Mobilization Schein° Having Favid, Compulsion is to Out Berlin Paper Claims That
be Applied to Molders, Germany Still Has 8,000,000
Available.
A despatch from London says: The
Metal Gtizetta announeea that by a
}low order -in -Council the Treasury is
tjmpowered under tete Defence of the
IBeain( Act to re iisition any foreign
ecurities which may beeeequired to
Strengthen Great Britain's financial
position and also to require holders of
Such :securities to make a return on
them to the Tret(suvy.
The order further^ forbids the trans.
for or sale of such securities outside
the United Kingdom. The order .does
not apply to securities owned by per-
sons not ordinarily residents of the A 4"PatOh flour Berlin Jays; kraal-
United Kingdom. mating the total Gor'men.lossee in the
The list of securities required by war at shout 2,000000; the National
the order will be published within a 4eitu g, of Berlin, says that there are
few days, and at an early date all availiible sufficient forces to carry on
holders will be requiredto make a the war fpr several yearn more. The
full return of their holdings. The
terms' and conditions under whieh the
securities are requisitioned will be
identical with those existing in the
newspaper gives available figures of
casualties, and continuos;
'The nest impression obtained from
these lets is that the number of dead
voluntary mobilization schema, which, le relatively small in view of the fact
despite the extra two shillings in. that so many powerful offensive cam.
come tax levied, apparently failed 'to paigns have been undertaken, as well
bring in sufficient $Ocurities, and hence as the defensive actions of unheard Of
!'fll lt' s h that f th Somme.
PREPARING FOR A FLIGHT IN
AIRPLANE ACROSS ATLANTIC
Swedisl> Avilt for Will Make's the Attempt in Mary From New-
foundland.
Left to•right in the photograph;
Capt, Hugo Stindstedt of the Swedish
army and Lieut. 14I, Nyegaard of the
French Aviation Corals,
Capt. x•Ingo Sendstedt arrived re-
eently from Trance, where he lead
been observing aerial developments
for Sweden, The captain is now in
New York, but will leave next month
for Florida to complete arrangements
for the construction o'f4 an aeroplane
which_I4e will See in his•attempt to
arms the Atlantic,
The iiiglitr will probably be made
the application of compulsion. c l cu le such as n o e om
This shows that the Germans are —
PREPARING DRIVE
'FOR FARM HANDS
"011N- Two Thousand Workers Will Be
Secured in the United
States.
A despatch from Toronto says: An-
other irdrive" for farm hands is to be
made inthe United States this Spring
by the siflleers di' the Ontario Depart-
ment of "Colonization and Immigra-
tion. Arrangements have just been
completed to send five agents into the
states, three into New York State and
two into 1411chigitn. The start is being
made oyer a month earlier than last
year and the work will be continued
for three months.
In that time, it is confidently ex-
pected, from fifteen hundred to two
thousand farm hands will be secured
to meet t'he pressing scarcity in On-
tario. The department's agents will
travel all over the two States, adver-
tising in local papers and using any
method that suggests itself to attract
men, They are authorized to guaran-
toe farm work at $85 to $40 a month
for experienced men and $16 to $26
foz• inexperienced men. Last year
about eh: hundred men were brought
into the province as a result of a six
weeks' campaign.
Although but Wiliter work is be-
ing done do the farms now the de -
'mend for workers Is so large that two
hundred applications have been receiv-
e ed from farmers anxldus to get first
call on the men gathered up. Most of
them are, prepared to sign good men
on at once.
MILLION DOLLARS
IN BANKS UNCLAIMED
Balances in Cash or Unpaid Cheques
or Drafts Total $1.131,269.
.A despatch from Ottawa says:
several thousand. people scattered
throughout Canada have carelessly
forgotten that they have more than
one million dollar's, all told, in the
chartered banks of Canada. The high
cost of living, the demands for war
contributions, and even the increased
taxations have not reminded them of
9t.
The annual Blue Book giving the
list of unclaimed bank balances was
tabled in the Commons on Thursday
'afternoon -by the Minister of Finance•
It: shows an aggregate of $960,085 in
unclaimed balances, and $171,284 in
unpaid certified cheques or drafts,
which have been in the hands of the
banks Ser five, year's or more without
anyone claiming ownership. The
amounts of unclaimed deposits vary
from a few cents to upwards of $4,000.
Since the last report the total of un-'
claimed balances had increased by
$55,000. The Bank o° Montreal has
the laisgest total amount of money in
its coffers which noborly seems to
want. Its total is $111,270,
DIET OF 'PRUSSIA
BOASTS OF FUTURE.
A despatch from London says: The
President of the Prussian UPpet•
House, hi -a speech at the opening of
the Beesley, expressed hope that the
present year, "despite its disappoint-
ing beginning, might bring peace, ac-
cording to a Berlin despatch to Rau- r
ter's by way of Amsterdam. After
commenting on the rejcctien of Ger-
--- mnany:s. peace proposal by the Entente,
the President said: "The fateful hour S
of. the German Empire is approaching.
For the second time war has been de -
dared on us and to -day we, a more
srriolrs and .matured people, accustom.
ed in victory, ave standing behind the
Emperor: Our iron will shall turn
to deals and the sharp steel of a clean
sword in our hand shall hew the way
to a more Prosperorls future."
Friends are the people that make
life endurable.
Fifteen airships only were bei4ng
built by Britain on the outbreak of the
war,
BRMSH F DIRECT ®OD �k!A�T
DIVIDING BRITAIN
IN SIX DISTRRICTS
Civil Marshalling of Forces to
Carry On War at High.
Pressure.
A despatch from New York says :--
The Sun on Thursday morning publish-
ed the following special cable from
London under Wednesday's date:
The first steps toward civil mobs-
lization indicating Great Britain's
Adamantine determination to fight to
a finish and to victory have crowded
out any discussion of the attitude of
the United States toward distant
peace league schemes,
Labor's support, expressed at the
Manchester conference, has greatly '
gratified the Government and will
pave the way for Neville Chamber
rain's fast -maturing plans for mobs -
lining all industries and cutting down
the number of men working' in non-
essential trades to the minimum and
Chamber -
increasing to the maximum the effi-
ciency of all the vital trades.
expected that by b 1 t th
Mr, Chamberlain's scheme contem-
plates dividing Great Britain into six
districts, Wales and Scotland each
constituting a division, the other cen-
tres being Leeds, Manchester, Birm-
ingham, and Bristol. With these
points as basis, he intends to push all
the war work and food production to
the limit of the laborers' capacity and
maintain high speed until the war
ends.
The first call for volunteers radar
the National Service rule was made a
few days ago, There is no age unlit, p
and both mon and women are accept-
ed, Speakers are spreading alt over my motor cycle under the cover of an
the country to carry out a campaign of arch and reported to the general, II
recruiting similar to the Darby clays of was sitting ata table in the stuff
the war, when soldiers for fighting room of a particularly dirty tavern
were recruited. As fast as recruits At the far end a fat and fzightene
are gathered they will be drafted into woman was crooning to her child. Be
battalions according to their fitness side her sat a wrinkled, leathery old
for various kinds of work, the strong- man with bandaged head, He had
est women becoming members of the wandered into the street, and he had
Land Service Corps and the weaker been hit by shrapnel. The few wits
ones joining the munition -making he had ever possessed were gone, and
Rimy. he gave, every few seconds, little
{ - croaks of hate. Three telephone
PARIS IS IN THE GRIP operators were working with strained
OF ARCTIC WEATHER. faces at their highest speed. The
windows hall been smashed by shrap-
A despatch from Paris says: net, and bits of glass and ,things
France is in the grip of the severest crunched under foot, The room was
cold weather for many years. The full of noises; the cradle of the tele-
phones, the crooning of the woman,
the croak of the wounded old man,
the clear and incisive tones of the gen-
eral and his brigade major, the rattle
of not -too -far distant rifles, the boom-
ing of guus,.and occasionally the ter-
rific, overwhelming crash - of a shell
bursting in the village.
There was the sharp cry of shrapnel
in the street .add a sudden rattle
against the whole house. The wo-
mlm and child fled 'somewhere through
a door, followed feebly by the old
man. The brigade major persuaded
military auto wagons to' carry coal to the general to work in some loss un -
he small dealers who have no convey, healthful place, The telephone oper-
anoes. The cold has brought packs gene lmendeavored
vA moment's delay persuade the
of wolves into the department, anc( general endeavored 'tonthe
bears are ravaging the fields in the brigade major to go first, and we
oar Valley. found omselvea under a stalwart arch
_„--y that led to the courtyard of the tav-
ern. We lit cigarettes. The crashes
$300,000 IS PAID FOR of bursting shells .grew more fle•
-
more sparing of their forces than one
believed.
"Nevortheleas, the losses mean an
enormous bleeding 1 of the nation's
body; but it is nob so great that Ger-
many will not be able to carry on the
war for several years more. If the
total Losses are calculated at about
two million the German reserves
would still number 7,000,000 out of
the 9,000,000 with whioh the war was
begun. On the other hand, large num-
bers of young men have reached the
ago of military service during the
war. According to'a conservative
calculation Germanyhas had in this
Way an addition 01 1,500,000 to her
force's.”
The National Zeitung. says that if
the soldier's who have passed the age
limit for military service have been
retained with the colors the net loss
as a result of the war thus far would
be perhaps 650,000, or at the most
one million and continues:
"Germany still has at least 8,000,000
men to use on the front or for the
navy, and therefore we do not over-'
state the case in pointing out that
Germany, by comparison with the for-
mer date (date not givenj,has a much
larger number of men on the : front',
For a bongtime to come it cannot be
any possi i i y e
compulsory military service will brealc
down, provided the difficulties of ali
mentation do not become so great that
the soldiers on the front .also have
to suffer from them."
THEIR LITTLE EVENING SHOOT.
'Adventures of a Dispatch hider on the
Western Front.
Imrode into Festubert, which was
full of noise, says Capt. W. H. L. Wat-
son in his Adventures of a Dispatch
Rider, and, hastily dismounting, put
thermometer in Paris registered 17
degrees Fahrenheit on. Friday . and
even in southern cities like Marseilles
and Bordeaux there were several de-
grees of frost. The number of deaths
from .cold and the sufferings of the
Parisians have bean aggravated by
the coal shortage, Edouard Herriot,.
Minister of National Subsistence, has
taken energetic charge of the sittia-
tion, en -operating with the city au-
thorities. M. Herriot has decided to
sell a large part of the reserve stock
of fuel to the publbe and has lent
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A WESTERN FARM. quent, and the general remarked in a
dry and iujured tone:
"Their . usual little evening ' shoot
before putting up the shutters, I sup-
pose."
But the Germans "searched" the
village. Now, to search a village
means to start at one end of the vil-
rage and place shells at discreet in-
tervals until the other end of the vil-
lage is reached. It is an unpleasant
process for triose in the middle of
the village, even if they be standing,
as fl were, . itt comparatively good
shelter.
We heard the Germans start at the
other enol of the village street, The
crashes .came nearer and nearer, un-
cia a alar: burst with a scream and a
tlnmderori J,roar on our right. We
putted haft y at our cigarettes for a
second, and a. certain dispatch rider
Wished. he were anywhere but in the
aurae(' village of Ji'estubert by Beth -
A despatch from Saskatoon says;
Phe Weltzen farm, situated eighty
miles from Saskatoon, on the Elrose
(C.N.R.) Line, has been sold to the
coltish Wholesalers 0o -operative So-
ciety for $$30,000, all cash. The farm
comprises Eten thousand acres, eight
thousand of which are under cultiva-
tion. -�� • �.- '
WILL CARL r FOR 200
BELGIA.N FAMILIES
A deekateb from Brantford says:—
Brantford and Brant county will un:
dertake the care of two hundred Bel-
gien families at a cost of $500 month-
ly, doubling their previous promise;
owing to public sentiment ailswe;•ing
to the appeal.
AMOUNT OF
OR CUTS
BEER TO BE BREWED
Only Half The Output of the Year Preceding the War Will Be
Allowed.
A despatch from London says: In
order to reduce the consumption of
foodstuffs, by breweries, Bacon De-
vonporl, the food Controller, has de-
cided that the quantity of beer to be
brewed for the leer beginning in
.. April shall be restricted to 70 per
cent, of the preview; output of the ,w;
p
year. This means that only 18,000,000
barrels of beer will be produced, about'
half the output of the year preceding:
tho war, Baton Devonport, in tx-
6 piaining tlid elljoct of hie- order, mid
the 1•ostrielidh roust Lot be deente.t a
moaned of temperance or of social
reform.
"The foot ie," the Food Controller
continued, the barley, sugar and
other need in ingredients c
n browing are
required fee food, In fact, it is really
a question of bread versus beer."
The order of the Food Ctsntroller
will withhold from breweries 286,000
tons of barley and 86,000 tons of
sugar, which otherwise would be used
in Making boor, The order will ale0
effect a largosavingin Mercantile
tonnage aril land traitepoltt> and in.
er0180 the evailebie etipp4y of 1121)02
P61` inclu.,tcirl4 Of national lrtlportaneer
tine. There was ;Blether scream and
overwhelming relief, The next shell
burst three housed away, at our left,
The Germans finished "their little
everting shoot." Wo marched back
very slowly in the darkness to 1910
Vann,
n:,
GREEK GOVERNMENT
APOLOGIZES TO ALLIES
A despatch from London says :—
Ili compliance with one of the demands
of the Entente Powers recently agreed.
to by Greece, the Greek Government
on Thursday handed to the Entente
Ministers a nate formally expressing
regret for the events of early Iast
December, when .Entente forces at
Athens Wore fired 021 by Greeks.
To Indemnify Leases ily War,
A despatch from Paris says: , '71a
t
Chamber of Deputies hag unanimously
adopted a bill providing for the in-
deninificatior of persons whose houses
end properties suffered cbainago by
03066011 of the war.
Capt, Sultdstedt ie Sweden's fore-
most aviator, and holds the. record
'for long distance flight between
Stoelcho1nl and Paris, a distance • of
1,600 ]cilomotxes, during which he
was obliged to land only once for fuel.
When interviewed as to the flight,
he said it was no easy task that he
will' essay. The aviator must be
something of a navigator so that he
can act as hie own pilot, as the ma-
chine must fly above 12,000 feet be-
cause of air currents, precluding any
possibility of distinguishing ships and
in May. The machine will be ready
by the end of February, and two
months will be spent making trial
flights and in preparation. It was
the captain's intention to bring a ma-
chine with him, but it was impossible
to get itinade in Europe because of
the war demands. Ile said that the
Americannnade machines now com-
pare very favorably with those of
foreign manufacture.
using them as guides. The machine
will be a triplane and will have a
width of approximately 180 feet, and
will, require three propellers, with two
motors of abcut 160 horse -power each
propeller. . The captain may fly the
machine :from Florida to St. John's,
Newfoundland, and will then wait for
favorable weather and make the flight
across the Atlantic to some point in
Ireland. Later on' he will go to
France.
LEADING MARKETS
Breadstuffa.
Toronto, Tan. 30. --Manitoba, wheat—
New No. 1 Northefn, 52,01; No. 2 do..
52.03; No. 3. do„ 51.05; No. 4 wheat, $1.36.
traok Bay purls. Old crop trading 4o
above necrap.
Manitowba oats—No, 2 C. 52'., 710 ; No.
3 C.R., 670c; extra No, 1 teed, 670c;
No, 3. feed, 07c, tract, Bay ports.
American corn—No, 3 yellow, $1,19,
shipment within 30 days.
Ontario oats—No, 1 white, 04 to 66c,
nominal; No, 2 white, 61 to O6c, nomi-
nal, according to freights outside,
Ontario wheat—No. 2 Winter, par car
lot, $1.80 to 51,12 ; No, 3 do., .$1.78 to
$1,80, according to freights outside.
Peas—Ne. 2, $2.55, according to
freights outside.
Barley—Malting, $1.20 to '$1.22, ee-
cording to freights outside.
Buckwheat—$1.28 to $1.30, nominal,
according to freights outside.
Itye—No. 2, $1,40 10 31.45, according
to freights outside,
Manitoba flour --First patents, in Jute
bags, $0.40 ; strong cond patents,
aker a', In ute
hags, 59.00, Toronto.
Ontario flour•-1't'intor, according to
sample, $7.40 to $7,60, In bags, track
Toronto, prompt shipment; 57.25, built
seaboard. export grade.
aflllfeed—car Iota, delivered Montreal
freights, bags included—Bran, Per ton,
44 ; shorts, per ton, $83 ; good feed
aur, per bag, $2.70 to 5230.
Slay—No, 1, per ton, $12 ; extra No.
2, per ton, $12 to $13.50 ; mixed, per
ton, 510 to 511.50, track Toronto.
Straw—Car lots, per ton, $0, track To-
ronto.
• Country Produce—Wholesale,
Rutter—:!rash dairy, choice, 37 to 39c;
creatnery prints, 44 to 460 ; solids, 43
to 4830.
I,ggo—Ne, 1 storage, 42 to 48r.; stor-
ago, selects, 44 to 400 ; new -laid, In
cartons, 53 to OOe; out of cartons, b6
to 57e.
.Cheese—Large, 253 to "6r; twins, 26
to 2600 ; triplets, 200 to 964c.
Dressed p0u11ry—Chi0kers, 29 to 24c;
fowl , 13 to 200 ; ducks, 20 to 22o ;
squabs, per doz., $4.00 SO 54.50 ; tur-
keys, 20 to 00e ; ;mese, 10 to 18e.
Live pmrltry—Irowl, 15 to 17e ; chick-
ens, 17 to 20e.
Noney--Wldto clover, 23 -Ib, tins, 14e ;
5-113. tins. 13 to 1330 ; 10-1b„ 123 to
rad I 60-113.. 12 to 11c ; buckwheat, 60-113.
tits, 0 to Ole. Ootnb troney—extra fine
and heavy weight. per doss., 59,75 ; select,
12.50 to 52.76 ; No. 2, $2 to 52.25.
Potatoes --Ontario, per bag, 52.50 to
$2.60 ; British Columbia., per bag, 59.00
to $2.75 ;• New Brunswick Delawares,
Per bag, 09,75 to 53,00.
Beans-1mnnrtecl hand-picked. per
bush„ $0.26 ; Canadian, hand-plcked, per
bush., $7.00 ; Canadian primes, $6,00 to
$0.60 ; L rola$, per lb., 10 to 100c.
Provisions—Wholesale,
Smoked moats—Barns, medium, 26 to
26c ; do„ heavy, 29 to 230 ; cooked, 34
to 270 ; rolls; 29 to 00 ; breakfast
bacon, 95 to 20e ; backs, plant, 26 to
28c ; boneless, 29 to 321.
Lard --Yore lard, tierces, 210 to 21 c ;
tubs, 210 to 220 ; - palls, 22. to 2210 ;
compound, 103 10 11c.
Cured meats -••-Lona' clear bacon, 18 t0
130u, pct ]b. ; clear bellies, 35 to 183c.
Montreal Markets
blontro,ti Jen. 30.—Oats--Canadian
Western, l'bo, l , to ; No, 9, 60,, ; extra
NO. 1 feed, Ole 130.3•103—Manitoba feed,
51.00 ; malting, 51.30, Flour—Mani-
toba Spring wheat patents. firsts, $10
seconds 119,50 : strong bakers', 50.30 t
Winter patents, choice 59.26 ; straight
rollers 58.50 to $5.50: do„'1)005, 54,10
to 54,25. :'tolled outs-13bIs. $7,06- to
57,26 dn., hags, 00 1,s„ 58,40 to 53.50.
);trap 155.00, Shorts, 530.00, -Middlings,
32,00 10 540,00, Mountie, 548,00 to
43,0 '.flay --•N a, 2. per on, cm ' Iota,
”1.00, Cheese•- 91tu.st oswesterns 253o • tion. Regarding operations in the
rhos: ,•tate',30 25r, Rutter—Choicest United States, Sir Felix said: "In ad.
8.50 to $5,36 ; do„ common, 57.75 to
8.10 ; butchers' bulls, choice, 58.25 to
0.00 ; do, good buns, 57.60 to 55.00 ;
o., rough bulls, 55.16 to $6.36 ; butcher
cows, choice, 07.75 to 08,25 ; do., good,
47.26 to 57.40 ; do., medium, 50.35 to
8.60 ; stockers, 86,25 to 57.26 ; choice
°otters, 07,75 to $3.60 ; canner• nd cut-
ters, $4.16 to 56.50 ; M11kefe, choice,
each, 570 to $100 ; do., eau. and med.,
each, 340 and 560 ; springers, 060.00 to
5100 ; light ewes, $9,26 to $10 ; aheyfi,
heavy, $6 to 57.60 ; calves, good to
choice, $11.76 to 514; Iambs, choice,
13,550 to $15 ; do„ medium, 55.75 to
510.26 ; hags, fed and watered, $14.25 ;
do., weighed off ours, $14.60 ; do., 1.0,11.,
510.60.
Montreal, Jan. 30. ---Choice steers,$10
to 510.60 ; . good, $0 to $10 ; coloe
butchers,' rotes, 58 to 53.50 gond, 57 to
57.50 ; canners, 16 ; choice butchers'
bulls, $3.26 to 50 ; good, $7 to 58 ; can-
ners, 55.50 to 55 ; calves, 05 to $0 ;
milk -fed, $10 l0 511 ; lambs, 510 to
514 ; choke select hogs, off care, 514.50
to 525.
SERBIANS ENSLAVED
BY BULLAR CAPTORS.
A despatch from Paris says: The
following statement from the Serbian
Press Bureau is forwarded from Corfu
by the IIat'es correspondent:
"Tudor Javanovitch, escaped 'from.
Bulgarian slavery, has reached our
lines. I•Ie recounts that he, with other
peasants, was deported by force before
the Bulgarian retreat and compelled
to labor• in trenches under the artil-
lery fire of the Serbians and their al-
lies. Every male above, boyhood was
taken from all t' a villages into slav-
ery. Fifteen hundred were so taken
from Souhodol, under control of Ger-
man officers.” Javanovitch complain-
ed of poor food and hard labor, and
said numerous deaths resulted,
IRISH -CANADIAN RANGERS
ARE CHEERED IN DUBLIN.
A despatch from Dublin says: The
Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish -
Canadian Rangers, 700 men and 28
officers,, arrived in Dublin Thursday
afternoon and marched through the
principal streets to Wellington Bar-
racks. Crowds of workers watched
them march along the quays. When
the battalion turned into Westmore-
land Street the music of the bands
brought large numbers of people from
shops and warehouses. The fine ap.
pearance•of the men created a favor-
able impression. Also at' College
Green and Greet George Street crowds
collected. From here until Welling-
ton Barracks were reached the men
were heartily cheered,
BRITAIN FINANCES
HERSELF AND ALLIES.
A despatch from London says:. Sir
Felix Schuster, speaking on Wednes-
day at the annual meeting *d the
Union of. London and Smith's Bank,
Limited, of which he is the Governor,
discussed the British financial situa-
,rennet, 43 to 434 , seconds 809 to
4000. Fags`- to °sit, •60 to 56c ; selected,
44c No. 1 stuck, 480 ; No, 2 stock,
86e, 7?ntntoes—re• beg, car lots, $2.25
EC 02.50.
Winnipeg Citaln.
Winhineg .7511. 30--tvbnat- No. 1
Not thorn, 11,79 ; - No, 2, do., 51.700 ;.
No. ;I do., 11.71 ; No, 4,.$1.580 ; No, 5,
$1,97?' No.•6 51,003 ; feet: 710. Oats -
030, 2 C.W„ 62u;. No. 3, de 55c ; Ware
No, 1 feed, 000 ; No, 1 feed 64e ; No, 2,
do., 53e. Barley—No, 3 90e ; No, 4,
92o, rejected ,50; teed, 700. Flax --
No. 1 N,-W,C„ 52,031 ; No, 2 C.'Fv„
52.090.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, Jan. 50,--Wheat---May
closed $1,803 ; July .closed $1,80° ; cash
.No, hard, 'S1.94 to $1.86 Na
Northern, 1,570..10 $1:900 ; Na, 2 190rth-
4 to 1.503. Cern—
cra 07 0t4 $ Wo, 8 vel-
lovif, �to 98a, Oats --NO, 9 White, 061
to 5630. , :cloth Unchanged, Bran, 529
to 129,60.
Duluth Jab 30, --Wheat--• No, 1 hard,
61,89 ; No, 1 Northern, $1.56 ; No, 2
arthern,. 51.,53 to 10.30 , lay, $1.86.
Linseed -7.'o au'lve, 52,308 ; :May, $2.985;
July, 12,040.
Unto sheet Zllhrksts
' 1brento, Jan. 30,--17hetee hsA.vy stead:,
10 td:.510,761, Choice Heavy arrears 810
$1.0,90 ; .0(14;ga0d, $0.60 to 0,75
bittehenr rattle ebol0c' '$0 76 to $ 0 00
dation to loans, a great many Ameri-
can securities have been sold. It has
been estimated that £i350,000,000 of
American securities have been sold,,
but it is impossible to speak with eer-
taiitty of the figures which, however,
are very large, It roust be. remem-
bered we are financing not only nue
olt'n,'hut. oar allies' eegtiiremonts."
WAIT ft) IINI) IN AUTUMN.
Sir Gilllert Parka Says Economic Col-
Tepee of Germany Pending.
A des patch from Montreal says:
I Y
Sir Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist,
and member 'of the British house of
Commons, arrived in Montreal on
Wednesday from New York, where he
landed from a steamer 0n Aunclny,
Sir b'
Gilbert redacts that the
a Wilt will
P
end next autumn, if little e t t a s t e oarliail'
than that. The end will Dame, lie says,
thl•oaglt the 840101111e collapse of Ger-
Melly altd the smashing of the Gel' -
man livres An the western front' by the
>rood, $0.1a'ta $a,a it ; ' ee„ weenies Anglo-French 102000,
From The Mas dJe Vies#
•
BE'1'WEEN ONTARIO AND Ilii;.
TISK
comvism,
Items From Peoviiices Where Many
Ontario Boys and Girls Are
Living.
The sOhool teachers of Torleton,
Saslhe, arc petitioning for hlghsr salar-
ies,
Capt, Hansen is recruiting a Dont^
;zany of Scandinavians in Saskatche-
wan,
Vivo times as many enlisted In J'.an•
Aibo
uery,rta. 1916, as in December, 1010, in
Second Lieut, Douglas Brown, of
the Bank of Ottawa, Regina, has boon
killed in action.
Late Capt. Geo. Purvis, at ono time
a western rancher, has been awarded
the Military Oros$,
l41elfort, Saabs„ was without light for
several days owing to a breakdown in
the power house.
Edmonton housewives have pledged
themselves to support the Red Oros
through monthly subscriptions,
The sum of $1,200 was donated to
the Red Cross Society of Calgary by
the Blackfoot Indians of Gleichbn,
Hales Barton, Moosemin, has re-
ceitred. the Military Cross for bravery
in connection with Field Ambulance
work,
The Grain Growers' Orkin Com.
pany, with headquarters at Winnipeg,
Manitoba, has Just concluded the most
successful year in its ten years' his-
tory, with a net profit 02`5571,455.
Saskatchewan has enlarged its po-
lice force in order that it may take
over provincial duties of the North-
West Mounted Police so that the lat-
ter will have more time to guard the
border line.
The Department of Agriculture of
the Dominion Government is carrying
on illustration work in crop produc-
tion and cultural methods with farm-
ers in the provinces of Alberta and
Saskatchewan,
HALF MILLION SPENT
IN RELIEF- WARRANTS.
Government Gave $100,000 For Fire
Sufferers, $400,000 For Seed
in West.
A despatch from Ottawa says: A
statement of expenditure under Gov-
ernor -General's warrants during the
current fiscal year tabled in the Com-
mons on Thursday shows that the
Government appropriated and expend-
ed $100,000 for the relief of suffer-
ers by forest fires in Northern On-
tario last summer, and $400,000 for
the purchase of seed grain for farm-
ers in distress in Manitoba, Alberta
and Saskatchewan,
NEEDS OF., BRITAIN •
TO BE FIRST SUPPLIED.
A despatch from London says: The
British Government has refused per-
mission to the Hadffelds, Limited, to
proceed with work on the contract for
shells for the American navy "so
long as the exigencies of war con.
tinue." The announcement is made in
the form of an official notice by Dr.
Christopher Addison, the Minister of
Munitions, in which attention. is called
to the fact that the entire steel out-
put is under his control.
FRENCHMAN BAGS
27 GERMAN PLANES.
A despatch from Paris says: An of-
ficial statement issued on Thursday
says:
Lieut. Guynemer on Wednesday
brought down his second German air-
plane for this day near the railroad
station at Chaulnes. This brings up
to twenty-seven the number of enemy
airplanes destroyed by this pilot.
Lieut. Herteaux on the same day
brought down his seventeenth air-
plane, which crashed to the ground
near Parvillers."
FRANCE TO ADVANCE
FARES O.N RAILROADS
A despatch front Paris says :—Pre-
liminary steps toward increasing rail-
road rates fifteen per cent, were taken
4%edrtesday when the consulting com-
mittee of the French companies and
Minister of National Subsistence and
Labor Ilerriot approved the proposed
measures, .A hill to increase the rates
will be int-'2bduced in the Chamber of
Deputies shortly.
PEACE rvrTit VICTORY
IS ONLY SOLUTION.
A despatch .from London says: The
Bishop of Sheffield, presiding at a'
diocesan. vonfereltee recently and mak.
ing reference to President Wilson':
;address, said he believed with his
whole heart in ultimate and complete
'
m •h war. '
victory r e v Iso' had be-
lief
-no b
lief whatevef in peace without victory.
It was "a positively ludicrous impos-
sibility, The bishop deprecated they
talk of waking compromises with evil.
1,480 clram AN PAPERS
SllsPSIN1) PIT I11.1C'r1't'1UN,
A despatch front London say::: The
Cologne Gesell*, says no fewer ' titan
1,480 Clornlan neWspapere and peri•-
odicals are no longer able to appear,
SF\ EN 'I l bzlirNH 1 ] 0481'11,8
I)li$'I'RO2' 1!E13 .I8T RUSSIANS
Au official report from Petrograd
says: -"On the Meek Sen one of our
submarines sank four sehe0ner,1 near
the Bosphorus. Three purer 83.1t0o3r-
ars that were encountered 1,y the snh-
marine were obliged to beach them.
solves, breaking up in the prevailing
storm,"
THE HABIT OP COURTESY. '
Value of Good Breeding as a Cultur4
'aud Social Asset,
Courtesy has never been made id
course of study in schools, except at al
few "finishing" schools, and then thel,
teaching aimed. more at fine manners'
or politeness than at colu'teousness
At last, however, leading educators
show signs of beginning to appreciate
the value of good breeding as a cul -4
tural and social asset.
Good manners are not a mere effect'
tation. They are personal capita
end soical training. They ase worths,
more for getting on in the world thani
are some of the studios, pursued by'
boys and girls. Schooling
-which fail
to instil the habit of courtesy is worth'
but little more than the polite manner.
which has no backing in schooling,'
Bad manners lower their possessor'
and injure him in business and society.
The time for learning good manners'
is when young, .for then ons is less'
conscious or himself, but it is never'
too late to acquire them, though mord
difficult in mature life, because one;
has then become self-conscious.
Good breeding, when once acquir7
ed by the child, becomes second na
tura as good manners and grows into
the very life of the man or the wo-
man. To this end it might not be
bad idea if the old-fashioned dancing
master could again be made one of
the teachers in our schools, for he
made it his business to teach polite
manners and good behavior in com
pany and at home. The family is th
place where these fine and useful art
should be taught, but homes !lack
them, because the parents themselves
were not taught. In England, France
and other European countries, where
good old ideas of family discipline
prevail still, good manners among the;
children are the rule.
4;
THE MOSQUITO PERIL.
Medical Discovery Showing Danger,
From Malarial Parasites. '
One of the greatest discoveries in±
the history of medicine was that of,
Dr. Ronald Rosa, who, at Calcutta, in
July, 1898, found that the spores of
As Dr. Ross himself- wrote, "The ex-
act route of infection of this great
disease, which annually slays its mil-
lions of human beings and keeps
whole continents In darkness, was re-
vealed, These minute spores enter
the salivary gland of the mos- ;
quito and pass with its poisonous sal-'
iva directly into the blood of mon.'
Never in our dreams had we imag-
ined so wonderful a tale as this." Un-
til lately it was not known whether
a disease-spreadingmosquito could
infect more than one person. Re-
cent experiments have proved that an.
infected malarial mosquito can infect;
several persons without again ob-
taining blood from an original source
of infection, and that an infected,
mosquito retains her ability to infect.
with malaria for at least twenty-five.
days. Even if a mosquito empties
her available supply of malarial para-
sites into one matt, she may infect a
second man a few hours or a few
days later through a new generation
of parasites. This is a most import-
ant discovery, for it shows that the
individual disease -laden insect is a
veritable machine gun in point of;
danger, and it emphasizes the neee3-I
city for stamping out the breeding
planes of the malarial mosquito.
A woman will admit many things,
but that she is heavier than she was
a year ago is not one of them,
FOR
HEADACHES;iiILIOUSNI? aS
CONSTIPA'T'ION,
INDIGESTION
Nearly allonr minor aihneets, irnd ma n,y
of the serious 'ones, too, are tractable to
some disorder hr the stomach, liver, and
hoWels. 1f yell Wbsh 00 avoir: the nl14-
riles of indigestion, a,.idity, heartburn.
1laltdon e, Iteada.ilee, C0rr'tir':ltirnl, and
a hoot of other distressing ailments, Tori
must see to 13 that Vont atom irh liver
and bowefe,ire equal to
the work Ilret have t»
doItis a:hnple matter
to take 30 drops of ifotiter Seig t'o Syrup
daity,aftct meals, yet thousands of former
Sufferers have hauishrd indipes:101e be.
lat ansa, constipation, and All their din•
tressing coeseetwie s itt just this simple
Nay. Profit by their experlenee, as a
tlfgostive tonic and stom..r•In,s remedy,
Mother Seiged'ss Sryyr+Iulpp 3', *'b;mpassetl.
1 C'V tin a3
Somebody loi Them.
,
You haven't kissed Ins fu •
a
u�t
N
,
weeks," bitterly complained the scion.
tist'e wife,
"Are you sure?" he 61100Lientd, ab-
sently. "'Chen who is it 1 have been
ldssing I"
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