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Godwin & Son 8¢ Brock Street Phone 494 Just Received a Fresh Lot of Jan' Beet, Can Catsup, Can Beans, Can Summer Vi for Soup, Can Apples (3 gal. size), Can Cher ries (pitted), Can Pears, Can Peaches Can Plums, Can Raspberries, Can Strawberries, Can Pineapple. E. H. BAKER Cor. Charles and Montreal Sts. Phone which made its first appearance | Russia. | CONSTANTINOPLE HAS LONG BEEN SLAV HOLY CITY. { | Great Britains Mistaken Support of i the Turk Prevented the Slav Em- pire Securing an lee-free Port Mauy Years Ago, Bat Russian Byzantium is Now Assured, HE Russian . Premier's an- nouncement in the Duma of an agreement made by Great Britain, France, and Russia, In 1915, consented to by Italy afterward, establishing "in the most definite manner the right of Russia" to the Dardanelles and Con- gtantinople, ~onfirms officially 'what has long been rumored and believed. The promise of such a realization of the gecular hope and necessity of Russia must be a powerful impulse to the national patriotism. The en- thusiasm of that vast awakened peo- ple is stirred not merely by the pas- sion, freshly seen again in the fall of Stuermer, to overthrow German dominance and influence, but by the opportunity to fulfill a strong and lasting aspiration. Economically Russia gains the long-sought outlet of the Black Sea and access to the Mediterranean. But there is much more-thau that in the Russian popu- lar feeling. Byzantium is a holy eity to the Russians, who have erusaded against the Ottoman infidels, A re- ligious emotion supplements the eco- ynomic motive, and to the Slav tem- perament is even more appealing. It was a long blunder of British foreign policy, the support of Turkey against Russia, a blunder apparently founded on the myth that it has been the permanent aim of Russia to de- prive Great Britain of India and achieve 'world power, A apurieus "Testament of Peter the Great," in 1811 and has been _ attributed to Napoleon, may have been the origin of the myth. Napoleon coquetted with Alexander I. about Constantin- ople, which he pretended to offer him, His talk 'of assailing India by land with Russiat assistance helped the growth of English. suspicion of Castlereagh was #0 afraid of her designs that at the Cong | of Vienna he objected to the cession of Poland to h.r. More than once in the nineteenth century it seemed that Turkey's hour to decamp from KEu- rope had come, Great Britain post. poned it, Nicholas I. naturally ob- jected to the possedsion of the Dar- danelles and Constantinople by a power of the first rank like England. Such a power established there could control the Black Sea and assail Russia in her weakest spot. To their occupation by a amall ppwer or to their linternationalization he would not object. in 1863, before the Crimean war, as in 1829, when the Russians got as far as Adrianople, his policy wis fair, He was willing to let England have Egypt if Russia's position in the Black Sea was not endangered. Hi views with alarm "The Russian Dan- | y fi IS or LL 1! stantinople. Bismarck the Rejehstag that if the England would not listen. She was Pp 4 * R ph Wi The Crimean war, many slaughters of Christians, the Russo-Turkish war, are in no small measure due to Great Britain's mistaken support of the nn. grateful Turk. After the war of 1877 she helped rob Russia of the fruits of her victory. Russia conspled herself by bothering her enemy in the East. On the Indian border, in Afghanis tan, in Beluchistan, everywhere, Russian intfigue and Russian force were felt or suspected. So Disraeli worked steadily into the hands of Bismarck. So for years Englagd ty steadily played (he game r enemies. "The more absurd sg | effort to attack India would be, the more it will scare the English," Na- poleon chuckled. Since the Entente of 1907, more especially since the wir, the Russian bugaboo has faded. Doubtless of it in England 5 too, the agreement mentioned by Premier Trepoff contains provision for naval bases or other privileges for the other contracting powers. A saying of Napoleon's, or attri- tinople low the creation of & Muscovite Con- once said in Dardanelles are key to world dominion the Sultan must have domtomed the since 1453. Dr. Paul Robbach of * Thought" fame, now ger." He is convinced that "cither Constantinople will mean world eg sa , (38) Fe an there are lingering dupes NM still. Doubtless, | | | Thousands Migrate in the Darkness During Fall, 1t is diffieult to believe "that at | times during the season of migration the sky at night is filled with birds {from dusk until dawn. Onward they { burry through the darkness. If they | see the earth below, it must be too {dim to guide them on their Journey. | 8ti1! they find their way just as sure- {ly as do those birds which travel by day. The day flyers are hardy | not hesitate to venture far from | cover. But the night flyers, writes | Frank M. Chapman in The Travels {of Birds, are the shy, retiring birds | of thickets and undergrowth, which | rarely go [ar from their own door- { step. Or, if they live in trees, théir | { flight is usually only from tree to | tree. The Thrushes, Warblers, Virels, and small Fly-Catchers are all nigh fiyers. - | Most of the Snipe live along the beaches or in treeless places, and, as we have learned, they travel by day. But that retiring member of this family, the Woodcock, lives in the dark, shady places and waits for the sun to set before he starts on his Journey. For several reasons, we know more about the travels of the night flyers than we do about those of the day fiyers. First, because many mere birds travel by night than by day; second, because practically all birds that fly by night are real migrants; third, because the night flyers seem unable to avold the lighthouses in their way. By night as well as day our ears can tell us much about the number of birds that are passing overhead. In- deed, during nights when many birds are flying, we can, from favorable places, such as high hills, hear their call-notes almost constantly. - The hill brings us nearer the birds, and the city lights bring the birds near- er to us. Light seems to attract them as it does moths. An ornithologist at Madison, Wis., states that on the night of September 14, 1906, no less than 3,800 bird calls were heard from one place. The average was 12 ealls for one minute. But at times s0 many calls were heard that it was evident the alr above was thronged with birds. Study the birds' time-table, and some night during the season of mi- gration go out of doors and listen. You may hear the chirp of Warblers, the metallic chink of the Beobolinks, the soft whistle of the Thrushes. Nothing I can write will make you realize more clearly how wonderful is the journey, through darkness, of these small feathered travelers. A Turkless Mecca, A sanitary pligrimage to Mecca should not pass without a word. In the t the devout whe journeyed ac the Arabian desert fell prey to many a scourge of disease, not to mention incursions of bandits. This year the returning travellers tell a different story, Among other things they tell of a Mecca minus the Turks who have ruled it so long, and of a Grand Sherif, a descendant of Allah who. has not only revolted from the Ottoman "Empire, but' has studied hygiene. The ceremony of receiving the Hely Carpet at Cairo on its return from Mecca took place in the pres- ence of the Prime Minister, repre- senting the Sultan, who is indisposed. The pilgrimage was accomplished this year without any untoward inei- dent. "All those who took part in it are highly satisfied with the manner in which the Grand Sherif of Mecca cared for th~ir needs. Especially re- markable were the hygienic preeau- tions taken 4 his highness, precau- tions to which the immunity of the pilgrimage from cholera and plague is in great measure ascribed. . There were about 30,000 pilgrims this year, including 5,000 Indians, 2,000 Egyptians, and 18,000 from the Hedjas. It is said that the Indians and joslems from other regions that th strikingly with those existing the war; when pillage and were of daily occurrence, and epidemics and terrible privations wed In the wake of the pilgrims, will go a long way to convince the Moslem world of the beneficial effects aceruing to It from 'the Grand Sherif's blow for independence. A ------ LL i, ~ Clérgyman Hun Prisoner. In the intérnment camp at Tabora, in German East Africa, the British rovers | | which are used to the open and do | EE din BROKE THROUGH ICE { But Had to Shoot the Horses--A Thrilling Story Comes From the Peace River District, Darlingside, Jan, 18.-- The mail carrier failed to get through with the mail Wednesday, .making the fourth time, so far this winter that he hag failed us. The ways of mail | men ane not always gasy. Even in { the cities the dutieg/ take the men out in all kinds of weather, but the carrying of the mall to Edmonton's hinterland requires considerable pluck and good staying qualities. | The writer has received a communi- cation from a friend at Peace River, Alberta, dated 8th January, in which hy recounts the heroism of a mail Learrier, one Roland Campbell, in the Great North Land, mail man be tween Peace River and Fort Ver- million. He says: 'Camphell left here about the first of Degember for bis trip of the winter, on the way down, and about 120 'miles down the river, he encountered slush and got his feet wet, The day was in- tensely cold, and soon both feet were frozen--one. to the ankle, With this impediment he continued on his way, reaching Fort Vermillion in thirteen days, and staying there but thirty hours before returning te Peace River. Campbell aims to make the trip each month, and so there was no time to losé. On the return journey he covered the same route by. which he went, and when half way home had a serious loss. All at once the ice gave way, and the team and sleigh went into the water. Campbell seized the mail bags and managed to save them, and then gave his attention to the horses, In the effort fo save them he got wet, and finding he could do nothing effectual, shot the horses to prevent further suffering. Meanwhile, his clothing had frozen and he was in a bad way himself. Only one mail bag had got wet, and leaving the mall on the ice he retraced his steps to the nearest settlement, eight miles back, to get dried aut and if possible, to procure another team, Happily, he managed to do this, and, continuing the trip, arrived little the worse for his hard. ship, on the 4th, of January." : C. W. Fredericks, the postmaster, tells how Campbell said. "Here is your mail; when can you be ready with the Vermillion mail?" as if he had done nothing unusudl, men, getting wet in the weather such as has prévailed of late, would have perished, and as one reads mail got at such a price there is a deep sense of satisfaction that the days of hero- ism and of Strong men are not yet past, Henry Hunt has a staff of men busily engaged in filling ice houses in this vicinity, A Question of Loyalty, From time to time certain Con- servative papers of the city of Toron- to, such as the News, Melegram and Orange Sentinel, have, taken oc- casion to suggest that. the Libes Provincial governments of the three prairie provinces depend in large measure for thelr support at the polls upon what these papers are pleased to call "the Austro-German vote" with the very definite gsug- gestion that the disloyality of these Liberal governments is what secures for them the support of the disloyal "Austro-Germans." It is probably a fact that in Alberta and Saskat- chewan the Austro-Germans support the Provincial Liberals, just as in Manitoba they supported the Provin- cial Conservatives in the palmy days of Roblin and Rogers. Support of a Conservative Government by Aus- tro-Germans, it is to be presumed, is evidence of loyalty of the Austro- Germans, while support of a Liberal government by Austro<Germans Is evidence of the traitoroug of the Liberal party. But of the west may be they cept in them to themselves, Not so in the truly loyal province of Ontario, and in constituencies represented by Con- servative members of Parliament, The county of Waterloo, ig largely scent--not some of them at least hold pro-Ger- man views. They are so pronounced in expressing these views that . on SAVED MAIL WHEN SLEIGH Most | principles whatever | the opinions of the Austro-Germans! have, ex-| gard to the Libéral in the west very isolated instances, kept Jat occupied by people of German de-| Austro-Germans---and ; 1800 yards 8-4 imported English sheeting, at today's price of 45c a yard. This is a belated have been delivered some six months ago. To this at the old price an extra good value shipment and should morrow we will offer Sale Price 35c¢. We can recommend this quality soft make, with no extra dressing. STEACY' On Sale at 9 o'clock. for durability and quality -- a b THE MINISTER OF FINANCE REQUESTS THE PEOPLE OF CANADA TO BEGIN NOW TO SAVE MONEY FOR THE NEXT WAR LOAN OF FINANCE OTTAWA alty of the Conservative party is in question? That is the line of argu- ment which these papers hold in re- with much lesa excuse. The Con- servailve party of Canada has traded on its loyalty ever since its leaders signed an annexation manifesto in the '40's and their followers burned the parliament the Governo The events in the German Tory county of Water- loo, have an appearance of history repeating itself, Mrs. Cornwallis-West is to give up public work of all kinds. That is a concession to the proprieties or to her own sense of embarassment. What is important is that she also give up her not public activities as a sort of mu The . I've seen brave men die, but nome jtorial waters. The U buildings. and stoned. Blakemo Commercial Photography. Lt ie Off Coast of Rio Grande Do Norte ' Last Thursday. Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 22.--The first report indicating the general location of the German South Atlantic raider io 8 taking steps strictly to guard the neutrality of their terri Hor capture of neutrals and mek: nie wou ae fhe pone German sentiment: toward wider sub- | marining, made these possibilities wore ominious, Anions to B Tarks.* Washington, Jan. 22.--More than 1,000 Americans have petitiosed Am-