YEAR 83, NO. 5 SURVIVORS OF PERSIA Tell of Thei Terrible Experi- 'ences At Sea. 30 HOURS IN BOAT ed to adjust te lite, | jumy into the sea, where fet and) wed 15 minutes later." Two bank clerks going to Egypt | rushed to the bridge and dived into! . ithe water, from which they were | waved. Mothers who went in quest | of their children never returned. Only! i children were saved. } re et officer is sald tp have heen in his cabin at the time of the, Lexplosion. He rushed to the bridge 'und did sll that was humanly pos-| sible. He went down with the ship, hut was reseved from the water. He {thinks that the captain sank with lquiexty ma | . | that illness prevented: his coming. A lq y i telegram of regret was also receiv- | ied from Hon. T. W. M id ton, i hejd. { Ottawa, Jan. 7.--Reference to . : | Major-General Sir Sam Hughes in Beckles Willon's Life of Lord Strath- | cona has has drawn forth a vigorous - 'etter' from the Minister of Militia. ' | General Hughes asserts phat the au- | {thor is entirely astray in his facts | irespecting the incident referred ud | between himself and General Hut- | ton, who at the time of the South! African ar commanded the forces. 'in Canada. In his letter General i Ome Passengers Hughes declards that the letter re-| jane shin. although I a . { ferred to in the biography as pur-| 1 5a) y. i porting to be from him to General | ming. ; : : Hutton, if it exists, is a rank forgery. | {That He Kver Apologized to General Garry | Hut We | said pressure of public. business ; him in Toronto. ; | Hon Senator Derbyshire was chair- N DAIRYING -: at the citizens® meeting in ot x 'evening, wuen Mr. A. A. righ ex-M.P., a local authority on et ing, spoke upon the progress of J 2 dairying. " i Eastern Ontario Bai S| A. Maclaren, of the 0. A. C., fymen (Guelph, delivered an address * ae "Community Building and Association. ity Builders," in which the Sriucipe of co-operation was extolled. "New Possibilities in Dalry was the subject of an address Wilfrid Sadler, BS. A, of Macdonald | RENFREW College, who pointed out that in re- « A v < . May Be Others Saved AND = Many of the passengers of the. Persia believe that in addition to the: | bouts in which they were suved vot 3 i ehoats got clear of the sink-' The Tarheda From the Enemy Sul. | Sahel Jiches The chief officer of the marine Struck the Persia While | Persia, however, thinks that this is the, Passengers Were at Lun- improbable, and thdt if other boats cheon, were seen, as some of 'the passengers "London, Jan. 6,--The survivors of declare, they CAUSED MUCH HARDSHIP GREAT SHOCK, ' were empty boats thie British, steamship Persia, which | Which broke loose whea ihe seat; was torpedoed fn the Mediterranean | ©r turned over and a he last Thursday, reached. Alexandria, ton: This view i 3 supp Egypt, according to the account sen: Other surviving olicers. Ahi thoy by Reuter"s correspondent at that The survivors lost everything a y point, all bearing traces of shock and owned, and during the 30 hours t oy hardship. Most of them had badly|8Pent in the boats Sulfered severely hritised and damaged limbs. One wo. | from the cold. Roue of 4 oy liad i man is in a Hospital with a broken | Warm clothing. : There Py Bi leg. cient supply of water and provis y T ¢ v anid.| however, as the boats were already Fhe tragedy was enacted so rapid-} ed ii accordance with: mbring ly that the survivors say they hardly} lations i 7 3 realized What happened. The Dassen Kverything possible is being done gers were sitting quietly at luncheon, hore for the comiert of' the surtiv every one In good humor, and an at- {70 Charles Grant, of Boston, who. mosphere of* gajety prevailing. Five a0. Tar as known. is the only Ameri minutes later those who escaped were | an AOA able to tell the story of the : {ex story in boats or clinging to wreckage, and} otel is a guest on board the and the luxurious liner was eom- | 1 ited States ciiiser Des Moines. pletely Sone. : arted h | Sixty-three Lascars 2 among the dincheon had Just started w hen | FVIVOFS ineltde a fireman and sev- there came a terrific. éxplosion, Thet® al stewards. Only one of The stew Hiner trembled violently, and a mo- . dass wis davad ment ater I'sted sharply to port. | ardesses was Spe. Only those who left their seats in- 4 Several icans On Board. Stantly and those who had not yet Scyeral Suiexicn i Wale av come down to the dining sadon had! The satamen that there wale sev. HAY © No re anv i eral Americans or 8 = any Shasice to Sacane. Many SOC on Persia is credited to Lord Mon- paralyzed with fear and "sat as if Ra is OF Be Evening Neve glied to their seats. Their indecision! jagie Noda by, ! A ing leven ; ( rate i ord Montague is ) » aaa, % ar Potired Aarvivors from the Persia who were oo er landed at Malta. His account of the those who gained the deck lost their A Bl Sana, Mol isi footing and slipped Immediately. into, disaster ae cabled from Maltd q : thers' were swept News follows: Me Sea. --ils o ver "Our ship wag struck without any : It was possible to launch boats! warning at about 1.10 p.m. and sank only on oné side of the ship, and (in a few minutes. All our passengers only the promptest action by officers wers SRjvving ma When Ag and crew enabled them to launch |plosion occurre( SLC8, four hoats. AH the passengers praise abreast of Ue. forward ShEiae soa} He IR IRE RA EL crew. There were wo signs of panic, ® TE R. ge Fiveryone made the most of the few delet. Jt tires boats owaged, Mons remaining moments, yere eis ) -- persons were thrown into the sea. 'oman's Experiences. "The Persia then heeled over so iW aE ¢ "her | thuch'to the port side®™hat it was jm- | One young woman described her | Jossible to" stand. She then turned ot i 8 . v i waa June sifting: fin at table Over and sank, stern first, many = : : : ve 3 ions taking place when when the explosion occurred. I ran| eA hlogions | ro rg at once to my cabin for a life pre-| '"€ wils swept off the deck and porte, and twice as Shrgws gown sucked. down When 1 came to the in the passage by the rocking of the|* Rt, . ¥ ¢ 0 np al Surface I found myself surrounded by Sip, % Rol te by Sabin, saaiened human beings battling for dear He belt. an Fialied ? xh i «| life. We saw three hoats hottom had the ntmost difficulty Sepins upwards, and each struggled to get thy footing, afd wis again thrown hold of any wreckage floating about. | down. As | reached the deck the | "After we tid been 'in the water linér lurched heavily, and | fell: Aly eral Hours, Any Dotnet though badly shaken and bruised, [Several hours, many having d bt » rantime, we were finally res PA Ros rst the mean . 3 ¢ cued after great difficulty by the Al- "wi" FIXES ACHING fred Holt liner Ningehow and pro- ' SWOLLEN, SORE FEET ceeded .to Malta soon after daylight. | "There were sevgral Americans dn | hoard--yery nice ws, they geem- "Tiz" does comfort burning, calloused feet and corns, "TOMMY" W Home for a few dats' ( faces and caps decorated w * Christmassy Touch." FBR AB BRB BB Geb Bing att SPR ed The Brantford rink is very lighted, and unless there limproverfient O. H. A. games forbidden there poorly will be Masters, star defence player of the Berlin Union Jacks, juni OHA. has enlisted with the 118th Batral ion at Berlin He is also a famous ball player in those part So \ Ernie Jupp of last Varsity senior Intercollegiate champions will play with the Orillia Intermediates, his home town, this season He'is now 'a MHeutenant ig the 11th Pield Battery and is statidned at Orillia | At Boston, Matt Wel s, formér lightweight champion of ingland, gained a referee's decisi mn pver Char ley White, of Chicago The 'bout was of twelve rounds Montreal Wanderers B86t the services of Nick -Bawlf, the Otfawd forward, who has played on two N. H. A. teams Yawlf Canadiens' reserve Kennedy has promised him derers. Ottawa would him. year's on George to Wan keto have list, but Toronto News: Taki players and drilling N:H.A: style, require even it they were~ftars ranks. Gordon Meeking classy enough in the OH but he will 'take much use to, Ottawa Toronto Globe inquiring as to the Frank Heffernan, as suspended with the defunct Victorias, and now in New York, hoping to play with the Crescents. 'The O. H. A. has al ready replied to an inquiry from New York that Heffernan was spension on a matter of and ne question had about his amateur standing therefore, optional with he "York Club to include hin line-up against - another team: ng on O.H.A. ther nto the time, amateur looked ranks, to be extremely lucky to have | been" saved, Our chances of bhéing! picked up on a dark might from' a| piece of wreckage appeared extreme-| ly doubtful. There appears to. have] [ been very little panic, and the Las- cars acted very well, ed. "1 am How tired, A some time 4 Good-bye, sore feet, burning feet, swollen 'feet, tender feet, tired feet.! ~.; think it was due to the third of- Good-bye, corns, callouses, bum .0r "in charge, Donald MacLean, ions and 'raw Spots. 'NG more shoe my, vigilance of the lpok-out amd the | tightfiess, nd more limping with pain | excellent seamanship- of the eaptain or drawing up your face in ABoNny. | or Ningehow in manoeuvring his ves- "Tiz™ draws out all 'the poisonous | a alongside the broken hoat that we exudations which puff up the feet. | 'ware rescued. Use "Tiz" and wear smaller shoes. "All the officers of the Persia ap- Use ""Tiz" and forget your foot Mis-| noapito have beh Tost. Robert Me- ery. Al! how comfortable Your! Neely, American Consul at Aden. is feet feel. known to have heen drowned." Get a 25-cent box of "Tiz" now at any druggist or department store, | Don't sufféy. Have good feet, glad feet, feet that never swell, never hurt, never get tired A vear's foot re-ito the will and expectations of some comfort guaranteed lh i : of the relatives. funded. In mA mai A German Spies Can't Fool Jeff Jostor been status of d been ipline, raised It is, New their The man Who raises his hat the highest in lady salutation may be a grouch in his own family Sometimes the last will is contrary American Pittsburg Gazette i tS i "Times When A SNARE LookouT TRYING Tr ~ / 21. Tp TH CAN OSE Folk. (ONEX GETTING NT! THEIR LIN | THE SPORT REVIEW | likely to 7 EARS HOLLY 'hristmas leave ith real holly he with smiling ries the the Princeton | Pittsburg 1wckey team came to old-time hgekey players of this city were surprised to see Jimmy Mallen with it in capacity as Mallen came to Pittsburg several years ago to play with the Lyceum team in the old local league, and Canada never sent a more popu to this ¢ity than he. He s a brother of Ken Mallen, who will recalled as a star. in the old Inter League He has played Halifax and Moncton Father Stanton, sponsor for the rack Ottawa University hockey teams in past years, was a visitor at the Boston Arena last week and had a fun®l of hockey experiences to re- late. 'The popular clergyman is now stationed 'at Lowell; ana 1s planning Ito attend all the important games at the Boston Arena and volunteer any advice that might promote interest in the game 'in this city, Father Stanton states fhat many of the: Ot- tawa University players of a year ago are now enrolled at St. Franeis Xavier College in Antigonish, 'N, 8S; The followitlg changes in the play- ing rules 'have been suggested by the Intér:Provineial Football 'Union and they will be discussed at the annual meeting the Canadian Rugby Football Union (1) To permit the substitution of players at any time, either from in- juries or-otherwise, but that ng play- er having been substituted be al- lowed to return, excepting at the commencement of a subsequent per- iad ve (2) To allow the side having pos ession of the ball to put it into play from' the line of s rimmage by throwing it over the line, 'but as in the case of an on-side kick, the play- er receiving the ball must be on-side. the coach lar player be national with Galt of An Odd Birth Notice. Ottawa, Jan. 7 A proud and pa- triotic new father inserted the fol- lowing birth hotice in .the Ottawa » paperg vesterday: "On Jan. 2. to Sergt.-Major and Mrs. E. ¥ Morgan, Cobourg street, Ottawa, a son. Both well 'Our King and country need men Sergt.-Major Morgan is. a stalwart Dominion Policeman iH s Try and make your boy a little more of a listener than a talker Capability has tor be closely con- nected. .with good salary . | milided the cou CONVENES AT | ANCIENT MEN HAD BRAIN | CAPACITY OF PRESENT RACE. | | Males Who Lived 160,000 Years Ago Possessed Remarkable Possi- bilities, Scientist Says, Kansas City A Star scientific {He denies absolutely that he ever | icent years, while Casada's popula- apologized to General Hutton, di-| eis { tion has been increasing, and an fo rectly or indirectly, or held any com-| AND KEEN INTEREST 18 BEING | crease in the amount of milk pro- munication with or concerning 'him. | SHOWN. } duced has taken place, there has been He states that after his return to! on a decline in the export of butter and {Canada he again, in the House of) The Importance. of Crop Rotation | cheese. This he attributed to a | ations" siatimens. reo iradicted| Kmphasized By the Dirsctor of (4st rat ar aon, and. Bo "You again state that it was final. Me Experimental Fam. { Dow exists in Canada for thé manu- ly through' Lord Strathcona's madia-, . Renfrew, Jan. 6 --The thirty-ninth | facture and sale of clotted cream and tion, when General Hutton arrived in |Annual convention of the Eastern On- { small cheeses. England, that Colonel Hughes 'was |!ario Dairymen's Association opened | tee | persunded to take a step towards here on Wednesday, the president, SIR JOHN JELLICOE'S | final reconciliation which resulted in|Mr. J. A. Sanderson, of Oxford Sta. | FIVE POUNDS 3 ! his being given a command in South | tion, in the chair. Renfrew citizens, A DAY | Africa." (he said; were justly proud of the ash "Permit me to. say that there, is| Drogressiveness of their town, and of| AS Compared With the { not one word of faet in all this. Nei- the distinction of being the cream- B rl Fri direc(ly or dndirectly has there | ery town of the province. He pre-| Salaries of tish Cabinet ever been, nor will there ever be, a dicted that in the near future this Ministers . step taken by me towards a 'final' or | would be one of the leading dairying -- |any - other 'reconciliation' with any | districts of eastern Ontario. "The Government must set an ex- {such person as General Hutton. The past year Mr. Sanderson | ample it Ministers expeqt their | "The loyalty of the colonies has termed a record one in all branches | speeches to be effective," says the too often beén put to-severe strain |of the dairying industry, this being Telegraph. > | and test by such characters. The | especially true of the cheese busi- "Is it seemly that Ministers should | marvel in the minds of. many is {hat {pess. A keener interest than ever | givide among themselves at a time of | the strain from such persons has | before has been shown by all CONCern- | g,anoial strin ¢ i 3 tat 4 ed gency a sum of about not long ago produced disastrous re-|ed in district dairy meetings, herd | £150,000 annually? | sults.' improvement work, the work of the "fe a Thy Is it in accord with the British district representatives, and the an- : nual factory meetings The com. | habit of mind that at such a moment 3 s, > | " parison carried on during the season ! the House of Commons should eon- between sound, well-cooled milk and | tinue 10. vote itself Payment at the {ordinary milk was bound to produce {rate of £400 for each member, ab- { the best results, | sorbing About a quarter of a million In the output of dairy products, | Stetling? as compared with 1914, there was a | 'Can anything be said in excuse decreage ih butter of 200,000 pounds, | for the allocation of a matter of £20, . {but the selling price was between | 000 each to the Lord-Lieutenant of Bentieuian, has f € two cents and three cents per pound | Ireland and the Attorney-General, tom the size oh oY ii iE "up out | Ligher. 80 the net returns would be | £10,000 to the Lord Chancellor? of, the misty past, man hago more | 2008 the same. The production of { We utter no word of criticism of. eal : = [cheese showed an increase of ahou the occupants of these offices No arain capacity now than he had 1256,-' = . " , o | a 000 wv " 15 per cent., while the average price} doubt they have to meet heavy ex- | Yedrs ago. There has long been | i o 8 V 5 i i : | was higher, being a fraction over 15 enses of wh h b % x lively canis . : € a r penses of which the public knows lit ively suspic'on that nobody in thé cents This increase in producti twentieth century hg rthi | od k a5 production, | tie, But are these sums which should { L ntury has anything on | together with the increase in price, | i { Socrates or Pla Aristot] ra} I * | be paid at a time when the nation i "8 0 'lo or Aristotle, andiwe | woulq net a total increase in value | h : are quite ready.to believe that there | of about $3,250,000 for the six! e Paorest and the richest Amongst ! Were cave men with stone AXES MOTO months from May lst to November | "5 'S being urged to tread the path than 100,000 years ago who had the | 1st. » : . | of rigid economy, and when taxation | Possibilities of being ~ Aristotles or | Mr. Sanderson congratulated the M38 reached a level never before at- | Edisons. ; {dairymen on the success of their ef-| t2/n€d? Do they reprosent value Discouraging? Not at all." The | torts for greater production, and on | Técelved by the nation, in accordance race seems to have enough brain ca-|the patriotism shown by dairymen| With the new standards to which all | [ pacity in general to get on: nicely. throughout Ontario in their splendid | the professional classes are being | The only trouble fs in getting it dul- | response to the different patriotic | compelled to conform? | tivated. . ; Soi} in "Let these salairies a, confrasted | Twenty-five hundred years ago a; Mayor-elect Roehester, in. an ad-| with the amount pid 46 the distin- | little people on a favored OL in | dress of welcome, expressed regret| guished officer on whom our very { Soiithern Europe had piel fr in| that Sir Adam Beck is not giving the | exiftence depends. According to the * i building up a wonderful civilisation, | farmers and others of eastern Onta-! last Navy Estimates, Admiral Sir | But thére was a whole world of bar- | ria the same hydre-electric advan- John Jellicoe, in command of the { barians who weren't educated up to {tages which are being sscured in dif- greatest wir machine which ithe iit. They had the brains but wot the [ferent parts of western Ontario. | world-kas ever seen, .feceives £b a civilized 'background. They had a About 100 dairymen were present. gay. £1 825 annually with allowan- g00d physical inheritance, but not at the opening session, there Were | nes for servants and ent ald y i 8 8 a v ertalning social inheritance. It has faken | more at the afternoon session, while | whieh--raiee his emoluments to £8. most "of the ime since the age of, at" the évening meeting the attend: 467 a Aristotle to develop the right sur ance 18 500, inclusive of several "Is his splendid pertormance of roundings-and the general fuherited | ladies. + " ' 1 4 € Foire ts vtms as duty only of a value about one-sixth stock of ideas on a large scale to! C. F. Whitelay, of the Dairy Com- that of the Attorney-General's?" bring a considerable share of tha |missioner's staff, Ottawa, spoke on "Not content with fire hin; to millions of people of Europe 'to the | the importance of cow testing, and the nation the urgent fu ne oe { gateway of civilization. A good |urged dairymen not to look for 8] oronany an iris mid a many millions are still far { high average of milk i their herds; | ke y ions Still far removed | hig B h their herds sumption, the Government intends i1- from the door. but: rather to make individual merit | »" Nature generally does pretty well. | the watchword. self to sel an Example. says the It is nurture that is lacking. Hap- og | Chroniela Parliamen Bry NOrrespon- pily that is a commodity that oan he debt. "The Cabinet ls consuming a manufactured in wholesale of ecoM- | | scheme for an all-round reduction of munities seu themselves with energy | Ministerial salaries by one-third fo. the fob : 5 This would apply to Ministers with- tah out as well as to these within the Cabinet. - "It is to be hoped that official pen- | sions as well as salaries will be re- trenched. Our legal and judical pen- sions are on a very lavish seale. For example, we have three ex-Lord | Chancellors each drawing a pension {of £5,000 a year, viz, Lords Hals- | bury, 'Loreburn, and Haldane. There | is plenty of room for repunciation in Tie salaries of ouf six Law Lords | (£6,000 a yéar); and in those of our | High Court Judges, -£5;000 a year | each, with the exception of the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls, who receive 28,000 and £6,000 respectively, Importance of Crop Rotation. Prof. J. H. Grisdale, Director of the Experimental Farm, said he had lately travelled from the Atlantic to | the Pacific and back, and had never before seen crops so good jn all parts | of Canada. This, he held, could be repeated every year in'the Dominion | by proper crop rotation: "We could guarantee to this eastern part of | Canada," he declared, "such an era of prosperity as it has never before seen in the whole Dominion if every | one would set to work to produce al} \ he could raise by a proper rotation TT | of crops und follow it up." Refer- ring to the building up of herds, he thought that farmers could more safely buy a pure-bred bull and start to gradually work upward than jump at once into the pure-bred line. An address on "Farm Manage- ment" was to have been given by Mr. A. Leitch, B.S.A., of Guelph, but Mr. Leitch sent a telegram saying A A PN Mrs. Porteous Buried, Kemptville, Jan. 7.--The funeral of Mrs. J. K. Porteous, who died in Toronto on Wednesday of last week, took place here. Deceased was a na- tive of this place and was a daughter of the late Anthony Hunter. Be- | sides her husband she leaves a num- ber of small children. We are all inclined to excuse the fool who has money much quicker | than the fool without it. Outside of army discipline, quests are better than" orders. It's the gpilty that usually throws the first 'stone at guilt. . The fast young man will later on | observe the speed limit. | AAA A mi | ih i Ain re- If in the wrong, never consider yourself above apology, " : A Ar i i 'By Bud Fisher