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P. | weight of which, sinks into the THE DAILY BRITISH W \ [WOLFE ISLAND NEWS i A REVIEW OF CROP CONDITIONS IS GIVEN On The Whole The Rains Have Done Wolfe Island Has Enlisted, Wolfe Good, Young Man Island, Aug. 16 The con {tinued wet weather it is feared will bring the of disastrous results crops A considerable portion the harvest remains uncut and farm- | ers find it impossible to operate the | binder on the low-lying land, the upon soft earth and becomes imbedded there in The harvest that has been cut] remains in the stooks in the fields and the weather man has not handed | out sufficeint dry weather to enable] it to be gathered. { It is stated' by some of the older| . | settlers that it is seldom if ever as | profilic a crop has been seen on the | island and all that was required was| & dry harvest to enable the farmers] to house one of the greatest crops| that was ever grown here. { While the wet weather may do| harm, in many cases it will do a] vast amount of good for instance to} pastures and root crop. The corn | crop which- at one time. was thought | | | would be considerably injured is ap-| parently none the worse. | The excursion to Alexandria Bay, | held recently under the auspices « i the Church of England, considering, the climatic conditions was a great! success. Over two hundred _took| advantage of it and it is stated by| those on board that Capt. A. McDon-| ald, of the Wolfe Islander, is to ve | commended for doing his part in making it a success; not only on that particular day, but since taking charge of the steamer as our receipts will go to show that they are stead-| ily increasing. Her earnings for this! year are so far: May, $1,080.89; June $1,326.23; July $1.403.36. The, past three months exceed the record of any previous year, while last year was the greatest in her history. Capt. | McDonald took command in 1914. This year promises to eclipse all for- mer records. The steamer has to her credit in bank for last year and up to the present time over $3,000. The] specials that are put on by her mana- ger are largely patronized. An unus- ually large number of citizens take advantage of the Thursday and Sat- urday afternoon trip while the spec- ial Saturday night trip te the city is welcomed by the Islanders, . A number of the chattels of the late Rev. Father Spratt were dispos- ed of during the past week by his brother, Richard Spratt, Lindsay Conjecture is rife as to.who shall be Father Spratt's successor. It is ex: pected an appointment will be made in a short time. Workmen are excavating, for the new church up on the site. They are securing the best of stone for build- ing purposes. The judge in the growing field crop competition visited here last week but owing to the way the grain was levelled to the ground it wopld be almost impossible to decide. The valuator"s appointed by the County sojourned through our island a short time ago, reviewing the crops while the island taxes at the present time are quite high enough, it is felt LINBURN 1S 1 HANLEY, C. P. & T. A., Cor. John- son and Ontario streets. Many, Thousand " ": Trip West? $12.00 to Winnipeg. Quebec, branches ) Renfrew. Particulars from F. CONWA For Harvesting In Western Canada. GOING DATES Auguit 10th and 90 --From Kingston, Tichborne Jot. Sharbot Lake, Renfrew and Hast in the Provinces of Ontario and neluding August 21st and 20th--From Toronto the Province of Ontario, stations and branches, but not East of or includ- Ing Kingston, Tichborne Jet, Sharbot August 24th and I8th--From Toronto and stations West and North in the Province of Ontario, but not including stations on line North of Toronto oi Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Y, C. . _ceas and Wellington Streets. Phone 1197, Farm Laborers Wanted "Return Trip Bast" $18.00 From Winnipeg. intermediate stations and - and East intermediate Sault Ste. Marie, Ont including Lake or TA, Cyty Ticket Office, corner Prin- mediate points giving ig destinal m nnipeg w Calgary, Edmonton, Northern Returning, halt nipeg, $18.00 fronr Winnipeg to ° GOING Railway. demand Write for Homeseekers' and awaiting the M. C. Dunn, City Agent, Canadian Northern Railway 30,000 Hervestrs Wanted @EXCURSIONS 7 to Winnipeg $12.00 Ottawa, Toronto and inter. good the West. h Jerl to Aho sxtuisionial, aa. Sean eves y " atoon, Ar) ver, Red Deer, Tannis and to all 1 Way. -a-cent a milé from all . DATES Aug. 10 and 26--From all stations Kingston, Harrowsuith and east in Ontario and Quebec on the Canadian The richest conntry in the West is served by the Canadian Railway, The for Harvesters along its lines very heavy and the wages high. Settlers' Guide, showing 35,000 free! or RK Ward, Station Agent. | 'conections to : , Swan er points on the points on C.N.R. to Win- original startidg a Northern =» pa | latter | were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John 1 Mrs | land will wed in the near future. | tions and amendments, $4.50; entering the result of their visit will be made known to us later by increased taxa- tion. v Thomas O'Rielly has disposed of part of his farm to Rodney Yott. The has given a contract to Mal- com McDonald for the erection of a dwelling It is Mr." O'Rielly's in- tention to retire from farming It reported that Daniel McGlynn is the farm that Rodney Yott renting will vacate Mis Cora Henderson, formerly of the Island, was quietly margied In Ogdensburg last week to Sydney M Marsh, Cape Vincent. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, city, McDonald for the week-end. Mr. ane J Donovan, Three Rivers, Mich., are the guests of the formers uncle, Francis Greenwood, they hav- ing motored from the former place. In the recent middle school! exam- inations results, the name of Mis: Helen Brown and Master Amos Friend are among the successful ones. Mr. and Mrs. Phanton Green have moved to the village and are otcupy- ing Mrs. John Ryan's house. Dr. and Mrs. Baker, Toronto, are visiting with friends here. Rumors states that a very prom!- nent young farmer and a young lady from the extreme foot of the Is- Mr. and Mrs, D. J. Dawson, New York, are renewing acquaintances here Mr. Fraser, teacher in the Collegiate, who has been enjoying a couple of weeks' holidays at the home of John McDonald, returned to the city last week. Allan Davis, son of Allan Davis, village, has proved himself to be one of the first heroes so far found on the Island. He has offered his ser- vices for the front, been accepted, and is now encamped at Barriefield. Squaring the Account. The Central Law Journal says that a Philadelphia tailor was shocked over the size of the bill rendered by a law- yer hie engaged to sue a customer, and later when the lawyer bought a suit of clothes the tailor retaliated by sending him a bill in the following legal terms: "To measuring and taking order for one suit, $4.50; warrant and instruc- tions to foreman for executing same, $3.35; going twice to cloth merchant, $2.25; fees to cloth merchant, $25; cut- ting the cloth, $8.75; materials for working, $5.50; sundries for working, $9; trying on of the suit, $2.75; altera- transaction in day 'book, $2; posting jp: ws i i) 1g ® : geil gEqsii figs" ! i : : £ EE 2 £ iif 5s i 311 FERRE 1EEE vie E Enel § THE 3EEy : HE £ : : ! : | | oe! lll ih leh | | i : if g § i { ih oy fit: Hed! ge ji i i 5 I ¥ £ £ ii i ih | i i i gF 8 i : g 3 » f i pe TE 3 3 3 A § 3 BLACK FOXES. How the Little Animals Have Brought Wealth to P. E. Island. Angus NMcTavish's hens and scracched coctentedly yard. was soft loam, a li'tle patch of gravel and a dusty expanse for dry baths The lord of the harem flapped his way to a stump in a corner of the low fence and posed there, the spring sun of Prince Edward Island waking his iridescent feathers to a jewellike blaze. His wives looked -at him proadly. And them calamity de- scended. A lithe ferm of a lustrous black, sharp nosed, sharp eared and bushy tailed leaped the fence gracpfully. A snap of the jaws and chanticleer lay low, his neck broken, while the hens fled screaming. heir lamentations brought the farme:'s wife. "Angus," she called, "there's a black fox in the fowl yard. Hurry!" Little need for the last word of ad- vice. "Black fox" on Prince Edward Island mean: wealth. McTavish and his wife joined in an earnest attempt to captur. the marauder. A gun was barred, for that would have 'meant injury to the glossy pelt. Maybe Rey- nard knew it, for he waited until his pursuers were close by and then with a defiant flirt of his brush skipped into the underbrush. And with him went a vision of thousands of dollars. + Thousands? you may say with an incredulous lift of the eyebrows. That's absolutely right, for the royal black fox has brought a vast income to this smallest of the Canadiar prov- inces. Canny Scotch farmers didn't need a second hint with such a chance for gathering in good dollars, and the result is what might have been expected. The black fox has been commercialized. It was a specula- tion at first, but to-day fox ranching has assumed th. proportions of a communal industry. The mere hunt- in their ing down of a black fox for his pelt | has been relegated to the dark ages. Now the fur farmers have kennels and a pair of live foxés for breeding purposes that have been capitalized at $30,000. Properly are these Prince Edward Island foxes known as '"'royal" silvers or "royal" blacks! catalogued at prices ranging from $500 to $4,000 each at winter fur auctions in London. Twenty skins from one island ranch three years ago averaged . nearly $1,400 each. Since that time the fine bred foxes | have been saved for reproductive pur- poses, but a test pelt put on the mar- ket in 1914 brought approximately $2,000, and in the Paris shops the current quotations (before the war) ranged around $3,000. When one vixen, or female fox, bears from twenty-five to thirty-five fox pups in the course of her ten years of "motherhood" it is little wonder that she is worth literally from two to four time: her weight in gold. A normal black fox weighs from nine to eleven pounds and is now selling, alive, at from $6,000 to $18,000; while an equal weight of refined gold is valued at but from $2,975 to $3,637! . The largest source of wild black fox pelts at present.ls north-western Canada. t Edmonton des- patches state that a consiflerable number of this season's take are valued at from $500 to $1,500. But Just as indubitably as the black fox skin has usurped foremost position in-the fur market so surely has the Prince. Edward Island pelt won first place among black fox furs. The first black foxes were captured and bred successfully on Prince Ed- ward Island in 1892, no less than three different individuals claiming the credit for the achievement. Last of the Blewetts. A cablegram which has been re- ceived recently from France by Jean Blewett, the celebrated Canadian au- thor, announces that her nephew, Private D. Blewett, has been seri- ously wounded in the recent fighting in France. He is 19 years of age and is a son of Willlam Blewett, of Kan- sack, Sask, Private is the last of a long and d hed line of sol- diers in the Blewett family history. The founder of the family came to Cornwall, Eng. from Normandy, France, with Edward the Conqueror, and all down the centuries the name of Blewett has been closely associated with Great Britains army and navy. One of the Blewetts was an admiral in the long #&go, 'and two great-granduncles of Private Blewett, he subject of this sketch, were cap- ns and two more. ts in the yal navy. Col. Blewett was killed clucked | It was a pleasan place. There | Their pelts are | HIG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1915. FINANGIAL MATTERS | $4,000,000 PAPER PROFIT FOR | STEEL INVESTOR. | Samuel Untermeyer; a New York! Lawyer, Reputed to Have Made a | Clean-up--He Bought Early. New York, Aug. 16.--Speaking of war stocks, there is a man named | { Samuel "Untermeyer in New York | | who is credited; with having made | | over $4,000,000 out of the rise in| | Bethlehem Steel. Mr. Untermeyer | lis a lawyer well known in Wall | Street. His profits, so far as the | price of Bethlehem is concerned, are | 'paper profits, because he refused the | offer to realize them in cash. He | {1s said to have bought Bethlehem common in the early days of its or- | ganization. Last year when it was | | begging for buyers at $30 a share | | several of his friends took his advice {and came in too. The par value of { Bethlehem, be it observed, is $100. | | When the stock rose this last week {to $308, Untermeyer, who had de- {clared to. previous bidders that he | was holding for $300, received an | | offer from a banking house for his | 115,000 shares.. 'He still refused to | sell. Hence his paper profits of | {over $4,000,000. | | Tramways Stock For Shareholders. | { Montreal, Aug. 16.--The new! { Tramways common stock to the am-| |ount of $1,000,000 will go to share- | holders on record September 10th |in the proportion of one share of {new stock for every three shares of] | old, according to the decision reach- {ed by the directors of the company. | The price will be at par, the first | payment of ten per cent. to be made | {October 25th when the subscription | | lists will 'be closed. For further pay-| {ments two months notice * will be | {given before any calls are made on | | the shareholders. Dome Mines Output. Toronto, Aug. 16.--The Dome | Mines statement for July is the best {in many months. The total value of | {the gold produced was $131,928, an [increase of $11,106 over June and | {$21,000 in excess of any previous] {month during this year and 1914, Commercial Notes. | The total production of 'steel in-| gots and castings in the United Sta-| tes in 1914 amounted to 23,513,000 tons. | The Baltimore and Ohio Railway has ordered $1,000,000 of steel rails and equipment. | Financial experts figure war de- preciation has cost holders of secur-| ities throughout werld $20,000,000,-| 000: . G. M.. Bosworth, vice-president of| the C.P.R,, has been named chair-| man of the board of directors of] Canadian Pacific Steamships, Lim-| ited. . | In the fiscal year ended June 30th | money sent abroad through the U.| S. Post 'Office Department was op-| proximately $55,000,000, or about half the usual amount. | Arrangements are under way for the sale to William A. Read & Co.,| New York of $9,500,000 two-year five per cent. notes of the Canadian Northern Railway. Grand Trunk gross earnings for| the first week of August were $993,-| 773, the largest figure for any sev-| en-day period in the calendar year to date. Ion Justification In Plenty. New York Herald. { If an object lesson were needed to! demonstrate to the world the sound- ness of the principle upon which this traffic in munitions is founded it is furnished, "good and plenty," by the! now raging. | Who will say that there is not ab-| solute justice and the highest moral-| ity in a practice that permits Bel-| gium and France and those who 'are fighting their battles to purchase] munitions whefe they may? Cer-| tainly no American who understands the principles of liberty and freedom | for which his country stands and has ever stood. The ery for an embargo upon ex- port of munitions from this country contains not a shred of Americanism. It is not only un-American but anti- American. It is simply and solely of Germans, by Germans, for Ger- many. And just as it is essentially pro- German and anti-American, so is it inherently and absolutely immoral. « Where the Submarine Has Failed New York Herald. A surprising feature of the Euro- Pean war has been the failure of the submarines to sink a single British troop ship. A constant stream of troops has poured Into France for more than a year, doubtless not less than an average of two thousand daily, and it would certainly seem that a submarine attack in this quar- ter would furnish a greater military objective that the trawlers, freigh- ters and even the destruction of non ants in the Lusitania. This submarine failure is proof of the effective meksures taken to pre- Yent the. operations of the German U-boats in 'English Channel. 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