~ RUSSIANS HAVE UPPER HAND ALL ALONG FRONT OF BATTLE feutons Suffering Setbacks in Fighting, Both at Dvinsk and in the Volhynia Region A i igaies from Petrograd s the Russian eat and heavy guns and ai being byoe brought up coal to the ree immédiate- village. m out of village d_ off German prisoners. ‘The action of Daniusuavo, on the Viliya, is typical of this kind of fight- battle lasted several days. es oaneln = reserves and succeeded in advancing to within 200 yards of the Russian lines. Then wo Russian companies Boo, the advancing Ger- mans on the flank and held th while the artillery dealt that the Y was annihilated by the Russian bayo- nets. From the Viliya to the Pripet there hing all along has been taken out halio’s Leche hy rahe on the FROM SUNSET pale WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPLE OING. Progress of the Great West Told a Few Pointed Paragraphs. The city ferries of North Vancou- ver are losing $50 a {& big find of copper ore at Jones’ Uke is reported at Hope, B.C. J. C. Edwards is Vernon's, B.C., rew city clerk at $125 per month. ‘The market is growing in England for B,C. frozen salmon and halibut. The apple and plum paeHone for appendicitis in one oe n Italian at Kelowna was fined H00 a shooting four ducks out of man maid all day labor for the city of Kaslo, B.C., will be given to mar- ried men. The pie aliens at Fernie, B.C.,, are to be put to work on the roads in that title age that weighed 25 sauna was ‘cently shipped from Creston to ae! itr saw its motor Say en oe It came une Nel- | son for repi It costs $3.0 a head to take cattle) from -Slocan City e New Denver, a distance of 18 mi e Wks gnowsbeds’ on. the Kattle Val- ley, B.C, railway will require 900 in your right hand, remove the pin, tarlonds of mat oe ing ‘madly you. For being drunk and aisorderty, The jam-tin variety appeals more par- woman at Revelstoke, nt ticularly to the sportsman, as the ele- Pei toe eid toonthh: ment of chance enters largely into its t Cranbrook the Canadian Pacific Ayeee has raised the wages of all laborers to full scheduled pay. The total epple yield in B.C. this ited at 600,000 , boxes. The Blairmore Enterprise states that freight over the ' Crow’s Nest i wo years. the “Imperial Government from B.C. dealers. It is expecta that by the end Ys at Greenwood will ,000,000 pounds of sp tyea: J melter' turf out nearly 16, Phoenix, BC., citizens are now contributing $2,000 a month for pat- riotic Dus ‘poses. They have also’ two machin an indication that tourists are be- ginning to discover B. salmon the Fraser pectation ses ate expected for se Four years ago 58,000 cases were shot: by Nelson of his ed. wildcat was bd 2 house at South had been driven out of the forest by the fires. ——_+ MANY TYPES OF BOMBS. Requires Cool Head. The various kinds of bombs now being used in France and Flanders are described by an English officer in a latter from the are, he says, four main types—the “hair- brush,” the oprah. wo the “police- ’s club” m-tin.” Bomb throwers are ‘alluded a in trench ter, “is bats except that the bristles are re- ced by a solid block of high sue rive! The polic prance truncheo! gay streamers of tape tied to its tail to insure that it falls to the ground nose downward. Both these bombs peas on impact, and it able to knock them against anything y the back of the trench—when “Girone them he cricket ball works by a time |i ‘The removal of a certain pin | 31 fuse. releases a spring which Tights an in- rnal fuse timed to explode the bomb lin five seconds, You take the bomb successful use. timed to explode about 10 seconds after the lighting of the fuse. It is, therefore, unwise to it up and throw it back. en hand, ol is pane to hold on too long, as the and is ats to short cuts.” rae THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.—Rousseau. Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Sincerity is the way of Heaven.. shad le The surest way imposed upon is ies iit oneself Severe: thar othe: eople.—La Rochefoucau NOH uinks: “people” tagentag more closely than a common grief; it is the. great bond of “sympathy.— Glol yoke of care is worse than tl ae ac Handling of “Cricket Ball” Explosive is inadvis- | $ uncertain in its action, i WHERE THE HE FRENCH WON IMPORTANT VICTORY; SOUCHEZ REET hes AND REMAINS OF VILLAGE The bare and bro! ken rafters of the Poofs of destroyed "co! the site of the "riage, ‘of Souchex, n left, and the burning houses in the north of Which for. weeks between the neh ilants and the entrench- e ve sisible the searred and gaunt ult the now-cele! key ia lel of the sector of. the fl oe Leading Markets Breadstuffs. Toronto,, Oct. 12M anitoba wheat, new crop—No. 1 Northern, $1.07 No. 2 do., $1. 06, on track lake ports, immediate shipment. . 2 CW, 48%e, 0. 2 yellow, 70%6e 70c, “new —-No, 2 wits, 87 to 88¢; No. 3 td 35 to 37¢; commercial oats, 31 to 34¢, ac- ane to freights outside. mtario wheat—No. 2 Winter, —per car lot, 90 to 92¢; slightly tough, | 80 r smutty, 65 to 80c, rts. P Canadian con n—No. 2 yellow, on track Tor: ario rae inal, per car lots, $1.25 to $1.40, SE to frelghts outside. ey-+Good malting barley, 52 to | common and medium, each, supplies of ammunition, supplemented Bde; Teal barley, 40 to 45c, according | §Bp; “Springers, $60 fost eight by what still comes from neutral lots, nominal, ac-| $4.95 Seah te Re sheep, bay LAND NN GREECE America, ssing of hea’ . ; 7, =. -2 +75; hey y . 0 vi cording to freights outside. petted Putin Jainbs, $7 to 8%. ; ca ey will, without doubt, alee the No. 2, nominal, 87e; tough | Spring lambs, owt $8.25 to_ $8.60; ahh Meertosen eats Ness rding to sample. | calves, medium to choice, $7.30 ie made enormous preparations. First patents, in| $i Fore cu cats, $10.40" to $10.50; | They Proceed to Frontier Without poe CE that econd patents, in| Go,, fed watered, $10.15; Regard to the Cabinet FRIED FOOD VERSUS BEAUTY. F gtrong bakers’ in| fob, ad purer ar ae Montreal, Oct. 12.—There enn Crisis. You pao ee Pretty If You Eat " per | te a ‘city 001 to choice | ite cent. patents, $980; seaboard, or Tos| tearea but the Offerings of fairly good | 2 amass Som sles rs Oe ronto freight, in bags, prompt ship-} stock were fair, ‘met with Greece is ve a coalition Govern-| The kalee foe to a good com- ment; 2 good demand and sales were ‘ade | ment iss Pane dismissing the plexion is fried food. One of the rea-| j me 2 eee delivered Mont-| at $6.50 to $6.75, while fair sold at | foremost Greek a Eleuther-| sons that English and Irish girls— sata ee Dae See 22;1$6 to $6.25 and the lower grades at |'ics Venizelos, fro vemiership, |in the Old Country—frequently have . mniddlings, per | from $4.50: to wt, There ‘dnd adserted penal control of the|such wonderful complexions, 44, that ton, $25; good feed ‘flour, per bag,|was an active demand from is li a el pac Government, King Constantine, bro-| fried food there is litt) One suse or canning stock, with sales of bulls | ther-in-law of the German Emperor, | of the principal reasons why. so many jat $3.75 to $4 and eee SE Reta pe ‘ Country Produce. nae ee and cows at 4 aria | sent for a former Premier, M. Zaimis, | Southern girls—who otherwise might ther Sanita 2 0 28; | st tock, $8 to 5, at Quebee at | Who has consented to form a coalition | be beauties—have such sallow com inferior, 22 to 28c; ‘creamery Drints, , | $7.25 to $7.75; sheep, $4.50 to $5.50 | Government. M. Venizelos will not be | plexions is because they eat a great ‘0 B3c; do., solids, 29 to vs ewt. Cal “as $3_to $13 each, | included as a member. deal of fried chicken, fri ‘hog wes—No. 1, 27 to 28¢ st “dozen, | 84 0 size and condition. Hogs, select-| The possibility ‘that Greece may | meat,” fried corn-fritters and all. the in_case lotss. extra at 30, to Ble. = tots, $9.90 to $10 per,ewt,, weigh: try to remain neut rest 0: To) Li ight (orholesale), 20, ed off cars, and the soueh heavy lots | stake the nation’s | Spidieih enjGnailiises dciedisdee.solioh the Austrians. On occupied by tl shee invade the enemy fro the Folgaria several villages hav ITALIANS NEARING ROVERETO ml WHICH IS REPORTED EVACUATED ::*- Many Small Engagements Around Gorizia, in Which Austrians Lost Numerous Prisoners treat toward Pot} rey crest and on ward Rovereto, which has $0 MANY | och orn slopes of Carso and Gorizia Hines hedns reported. at evacuated: Rw|iasntinber of ual oneagementashaye the plateau of | taken mu ve been cae repulsed, joking a num- ce, the Austrians bei rs, who drove | ber of prisoners in the hands of neighboring | Italians. A despatch from-London says: The township of Banets and forced his re- | \” Italians record another advance to-| ich. the ing the raitistenloiens rit $054 to $1005 do» ‘ALLIED TROOPS WEAKEN GERMAN SECOND DEFENCE Another Important Gain Has Been Made By the French in Champagne. A despatch from Paris says: Fur- gains by the Branly hat by the War Office. Tahure, less than two miles south of the ilway serving the German cone along the district between R ret dias Argonne, has been French infantry pushe reached the heights north of lage. These heights form part ine. forward and the vil- t of the German i case of the previous great success in this part of the front vic- tor ment of the German A ea French ten ae the task. 000 prisoners were tater by the French in these opera+ tions, which included aa in the environs of the Navarin fé A Rot jority a) papers shriek loudly about the allies’ offensive being smashed, Major Mor- ta miote exteniel pene tte piyey WEN has been the result of the Franco- British offensive which has been go- ing on eleven days ? Our higher com- and Ne ofits that the offensive is a failure. i i concealed uae themselves the Be ousness of the western situ pes struggle in t found its een them can te aac as Foe already, France will not leave the others in- active behind the front. Enormous : uu to 11440; Pe reta from that Cag ue 38. | cess of either party to the great war, Combs fone Ny per dozen, Re. “6 oC ae BEHAVE, ‘8 Tecognized in England, although it 2.405 io Galion sa | |is considered small. The hopes of fowls, 14 to 1 jacking G8 46 1se*| Coiidy Corountion A Mie perar Caticd Ve eae powers are tone en Popular ar eek ae to ing Reform Ar-ong Canines. _| 4 ein, Bn Rae tatess “14% to. 15 ic; twins, | 15_to tome es—The market is firm, with car lots quoted at 95¢ to $1 per ba a8, | happenings on the oeeasion of the on track, Provisions. Long clear, 14 Hams—Medium, | 2: boneless backs, 26 to 2534c. aalardcyTubs, 11% to- le; dow, Pale 0 12%es compound, fubs, 9% TOcr do. pails, 11 Business in pcateant. rari siralght soll s, bags, Three diamond drills are working the $0.05 te at Copper Mountain, near Princeton, ad ra clensivet heb Wak shaken $25. Mid- B.C., and more than 6,000,000 tons of Off the one bears the other Patiently. Mouillie, $30 to’ ore are in sig] Petrarch. car lots, year the acreage devoted to| The authors of a nation are like an} $ terns, Sititne. ‘vegetables in BC. 17,-| advance guard, Pioneers of friendship 1 00. All but 2,000 acres were devot-| 2nd i other ier leplccay, creamery ei to growing potatoe fais Oe Aleecand aaplas otherwise oe so mployes of ‘the Dominion | "emote.— rthur L. Salmi 35. Pota- Saarinen dredging fleet Compulsion is only ‘ustified Eeehan Se. Dressed waters have given $7,419 to patriotic | the experience of the country | has |h 14 to $14.25 face tha eae lah proved that uniformity in individual ess, bbls. Hodder of Kaslo, B.C. ig the| Conduct is necessary for eommon well- 50; Canada owner of a geranium 12 feet high,| beings and national progress.—Mr. Digeds, Whose foliage covers at-least 9 feet) Ramsay Macdonald, M.P. me according to the asta ian; Se ~ a ‘ierves la erg ms: have. a come Phehto bulld 82 bridges on the orn end. the Kettle V: Valley, B .C, ‘ailway, ‘They have already built. 26 of the hte plant/to utilize ‘the by- products A of coal will be built in Fernie. It ue ‘imated e in 100,000 worth of coal by-; Sean its wasted. Provincial fruit inspectors at Van- ‘er, B.C., condemned Louise, eals, eiune this year it served 16, 50. meals, In| fox SERBIANS BRING DOWN GERMAN. AEROPLANE A despatch from Nish, Serbia, says: Seven aeroplanes flew over Kraguye- vatz recently and dropped 30 bombs. Sharp-shooters of the Prince Regent’s Guard hit one of the aireraft, which vii directly in front of the palace. | s it fell the fuel tank exploded and ee machine and both of its occupants, | who were German officers, were burn- Kraguyevatz is some 60 miles | Hels east-of Belgrade, It is a town Oiahabitenta ‘anda has saiausl a powder mil} and factories the making of arms and ammuni- tion. TURKS RUSHED TO BULGARIA 10 DEFEND THE’ PORT OF VARNA pepeiieyed That Russia Contemplates the Landing ¥ of Large Forces at Once FS A despatch from London says: news agency des] om. Atl says-that Turkish forces hae “started | for Bulgaria, and are moving toward a| hat port. Bulgari has aaeed orice for more ne wet United States Markets. Minneapolis, | Oct.. 12.—-Wheat, No. 1 hard, $1.10%; No. 1 Northern, $1.05% to $1.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.01% to 66%; December, $1.03%; May, $1.07. Corn—No. 8 Oats—No. 8 white, Flour advanced; fancy first clears, '$4.85; 3. Bran—Si9. 12. + No. 4 rd, $1.07; No. 1 forthern, $1.06; ‘0. 2 Northern, $1.06; Montana No. 2 hard, $1,064 Deana $1.02%; May, $1.05%. Linseed, ca $1.87; December, $1. 79% » Oct. 6 Plots ‘unsettled; rye "four firm; fair $s 40; choice to ere 5. ras to $5. a steady. asy, Paci const, 1918, 18 to lee, Hides steady. Leather firm. z Live Stock Markets. oront ae tet quot to were:—Best hea pany teal $7.75 $8; Dutehers? tattle, choice, u 60 to $7.75; do.. good, medium, onte fis 75 a $5 to $5.40; butchers’ +25 to $7; lon ee bulls $5.75 t 6 do., rough’ bulls, $4.75 t butchers’ cows, choice, $6.45 to $6.75. lo., good, $5.25 to $6: d $5 a .75; do., common, 0 t $5; feeders, good, $6.50 to $7; stock- ers, 700 to 900 Ibs., $6.25 to $6.75; ners and cutters, $3 to $4.50; | by the Japanese to pre | onation next mb ma; [apts d that the police authorities aa | Salonica decided to kill all vicious and | dogs in the prefectures his Majesty will tra ae the , on azaki silk-we silk worms were reai care. The ra sent recently working gi at 40 vel oom in in Kyoto—the silk, with which the ceremo: 3) of the Emperor at the eeoniten this fall il ape woven. At the w silk was Met and | Tegart ants to orate supporting the Quadruple Entente, -| Household Department throug! “a ay Aichi Prefectural Office. vent untoward befor Landing Proceeds. The landing of French and their stray.| ity across Greek territory through which | r will proc duritg the wathout renard tp, tle Cabinets Japan behavior troops hens. “the numbers, T e | illed 374 a bad | mined opposition to the landing French troops. at prompt despatch | er Venizelos “ot | _Siatatnentts cevidenhly based on offi- that in Aichi A raw | French troops had begun, and m nial dress |8O mention of the incident gestion cota, potas "not che Im; On Sunday rted in the Much as its own bulk of w: wearing ‘white | One always gets full mployed. The | Ornamental — handkerchiefs (the poe at 6 o'clock and finished | ouees to be worn in the hat ntlemen as tokens. BULGARIA, or sug: 's therefore | said here that the King ia not taken | Cons at Atl Sens after the ae of ade ing room, the a as ected | @ stand against the landing, “but red wi ‘ost ; merely zee with enizelos in 0 the fixed policy of Greece Gold weighs ae twenty oe as measure when one acquires a peck of trouble. used by WARRING ON ALLIES, - Sea, im case Budapest AUSTRIA- HUNGARY OLEMBERG PRZEMYSL 5° Le R BUCHARES ws in her interests with the MAY FACE RUSSIAN INVASION: C ae at: ‘OCRAcOw xp shows how Bulan will’ be menaced by Russia on the pacts Central Por | that is readily | King may find it best to bow ae i Indicative of the minute care taken | the wa of the people, as he has done | it’s a sure thing that a diet of it will spoil one’s looks, Food is of value to the body in ae portion to its Ea A food ted is quickly | m digested food on earth. reakfast yf oatmeal Dprridge and milk will be digested in enty-five minutes; | breakfast of fried ham and fried pota- anything is fried the grease makes a coating roi it)” like a bo of armor-plate. And if once you try to figure out all e cher changes mical shi inside it, you ittle chance to be changed quickly in- to blood Fried food is an armor-plated var- iety. of comestible which doesn’t make effort to absorb it amount of bile is produced, and the typically yellowish complex- ion of the billious person is the result, food and have a good complexion. MACHINE GUN 1 CORPS IN THE BRITISH ARMY A patch fro 1 London says: British nilitary authorities have re- cognized the importance of machine een such a’ strik- gun corps King’ oe oe of the step is made in the Official Gazette. jac already has organized a machine gun battalion—the 86th of Hamilton. RRNA E Ee es ALL BRASS UTENSILS IN VIENNA TAKEN UP A despatch ‘from Hume says: a citizens of - Vienna warning that all ee hcimantis De on November fa object of ascertaining whether the present requisitions for such utensils are being evaded. % ‘The Inventor of Shrapnel. It is interesting to recall just now (says The Westminster Gazette) that the inventor of shrspnel —biavennns General. Henr, — gained uch of his military experience in 1, the Duke = moe per annum. e for ee generations ceed at Bradford-on-Avon. ye re taken es assault, and the victorious | bee tio ro must, however, ath to this declaration hi rest Neither man’ nor womon can eat fried MM 0, when houses. will is searched with | e tel} ‘us, 240 warless CAMP COOKERY AT THE FRONT HOW THE KHAKI-CLAD “CHEFS” CARRY OUT THEIR WORK. Field Cooking Is Hard Work, for ‘Which Only Trained Men Are Suited. the whole twelve epee ef tts European a Oder ritish sol sre he went ‘ied aaa a bold Raienoar ut it is true, weet in the case of stragglers small parties of men wl cut eir regiments. Even in thes cases they usually had their “iron es, eats e “iron ration” consists of 1202. of ‘biseate lb, of preserved meat, loz. of meat extract, 802. of aed and ugar. The ration,” Loos, is strictly ‘eabebed; used only in emergency, and may not be touched except by the orders of an officer. “Dixies” Vary in Size. active service rations are pre- and their ‘ing for eight eh ‘argent ci the troops are on. the means of “galloping cook gy are ovens mounte: drawn by two hiteee: oven is a platform on which the cooks stand, The ethod of cooking food in “dixies” Hit interes! trench are ranged a line of “dixies,” surmounted by a third row, which fills in the sec bere fe two rows on the ground, athe “dixies” are ane a8 fuel a lit and the food ry cooks ‘OOPS: hg training at home cither under savas, in huts, or billet. ed. Soldiers in camp y|their food Sst tg in field kitchens. in some cases special are is- sued, but as a general ealetthe cools construct their own in which case e oven is set and encased in wet clay, which rapidly hardens, Tommy Has a Hay Box. Pau seein know all the tricks of more likely to ae out ‘00 When this happens the soldier partly n. the ket! ing i the pot goes on stewing for hours, m of cooking for soldiers that restorted to velairs ie billeted the meat is issued d in bulk from the regimental Sonera il stores company quartermaster-sergeants, The store- e meat up, and issue it. te billet where they often haben get it cooked for ein by their jlandladies. It has been said that women wpa be far more usefully employed tl men as Army cooks, but that is sdlate lous, In the first place, women would bear the strain of ana Soca. i nding es they the strength and hardihood neaded to quarter and cut up a car- A “ach sergeant-cook is properly qualified at a school of instruction, as well as a een Broperien of his assistants. alify at these courses of ipneistion is by no means a simple matter, One of the most amazing features: r has been been prepared under the most adverse circumstances, officer who was wounded early in the war stated, when writing home from hospital, that the thing which could be obtained at almost any time, and that a plate of “pontoon,” as Momitty calls his stew, be ready at the end of the.long day’s march. ee Our Debts. n making @ pretence at be- ing Sone: will try to pay: for wn But having admitted: what it gets—the rain sunshine and: the breezes of heaven— with Get waving Lhe ae it ind bloss ing eat "of fields. It is w a mo sponge, lmfiee always and never responding to ver, It gives ee everything, with an added some- thing of its own. The earth is honest, day ‘ai his life, sta yom all Wey fee all possible ways. LUXEMBURG PROTESTS CAUSE OF. AIR: RAID A despatch from” Tiondon says: The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, accord: ie to Amsterdam advices, has pro- ted to the Entente powers against fe raids over that country aimed at the German headquarters. mee ae, SEN Less Than 240 Warless Yes From the Christian era fill the pre: , g. time, as Hath Pin d ehidaas ere have been fewer than’ years. Up ta the middlg,of the nineteenth centufy it was rou; ted that Se *7000,000,000 di fi be+ most heartened the men to endure the _ terrible rigors of the retreat from. that-a c of hot soup,