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One of the most impressive scenes of the revolution was the arrival of the Preobrajensky Guards, with their Tau Markets of the sores Breadstutts ‘Toronto; Mar. 20-—Manitoba 00; do, Mies fc No.2" wheat, 4180) ye rail delivered Mont- W,. nomi No, 3 yellow, track “Toronto, au beck” $9 embarno. Ontario oats—1 065 nominal No: 8 white, Bento, fe, Fhomioal 0, WL79 to Sitio! aoe to. srelenta outside, td according to frelghte ou Danley Aadting. 1s, $1.22 to $1.23, accord~ inj relgnts outside, Bucket arnt ee nominal, according to trelehts 0 vant re 0 $1.42, according to ts outside. anktoba, flour—First patents, {i in fute nee ond patents, jute bakers’ in jute bags, according ‘8, track Toronto, “10, bulk seaboard, TO! 19. flour—Winter, to bay Li lots—delivered Mon iets real frelmhts, bags ineluded—Bran, per | OW. yer’ fon. $81; shorts, per top, $89; good feed flour, pet a Ba $2. rs 2. $12 No. mix F tom, $0 to $11, track HBoronto. Siraw——Car stots, per ton, $8.50 to $9, track Toronto. Country Produce—Wholesale Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 34 to, 200: gpenmery prints, 48 to Ac; solids, 42 to Py pou ‘Ib, 18 to 220; Drewsed poultry—Chickens, 28 to 2 owt, 20 te 22e; eae 22 to. bes sq) raha , 268 to ti twins, 27 to. ere Ret a aT to 2780; old, ee 280; twins, 264 to “White clover, ab ib, tins, 188 t 9146 12} to 180; i 2b tin Belech 2.60." cs Sarin th, te Di Imported, hand-p Rehadian, hand-ploked Canadian primes, $6. per 1b., 124 to 18c, 0 to $1.20, | Pana te 8.50; | do. bag, 8 oh 33, Der jenale Smoked is Hame, medium, 26 to ater don heavy, 28 to 24c; cooked, 47 to it ites eee abo; beakfast. bacon, 8, plain, 81 to 8c; bone- @ lard, tlerces, 23 to 284¢; tuba nat vo. it ee 234 to 23%¢; com- pound, Heroes, te, eats—Loni cles bacon, 20 to clear bellies, 198 to Zc. ic to 2 ae ‘st 2080 ber Ibi cava ores American seconds, 40 to 42¢, ce, Potatoes—Per bag, ar iota, i ov to 3 mA rar Winnipeg, _ Mar. las Wheat—No. 1 Roemnern, $1.8: Northern, $1,780; ed, 5: Barley— Fejeote 1 N.W.C. . 20—" he oS ae 1, Northern, Subd: (Non 3 | 0 $1,808; May, Regt rr arrive, $2.8 Zive Stock Marketa ‘Toronto, eens Lape ads jolce heavy steers, 10.85 to $11.6 Ko0d, $10.26. to 10.60; Behera! eaitis, Chote, $16.26 F ood, $10 to $10.10; canners and’ cutters, teers "to $5.8 milkers, good to choice, $85 to $110; do., GERMAN WORK PEOPLE SUFFER ARE THREATENING TO REBEL Standard of Living Lower Than That of Coolies—Urban Poor A despatch from New York says:— “Wage-earning Germany’s nerv have been worn raw by the increasing weight of suffering that the war has brought it. This class of Germans has become sullen, dissatisfied with the Government, almost rebellious. While| ants’ the middle class remains iptageely humble people want price—at the ice of their Soa of Nipace-Locsatser even of their Se prestige and position.” oe ment for the war, but a friend, Mr. Rot see claim to.an accurate knowledge conditions there. He. ws Sax _ |have hungered a1 worked for many aie hy gre Pitti Bons steadily the very coarsest Have Become Desperately Poor. oe the coarse foods in insufficient. The ave seen Peace throughout ipon bread, potatoes, sal “Pushed much farther by. ee ear, ling stress of rvati and loss of dear ones, a f aucoaa Ge pe ioe ’ war may well be hit od to the aleriee of cosas Eur lard of ving among the site @ coolle stan Their work any/}share in clothes and foods and other }| BREAK WITH cater creature comforts has diminished, and their amusements have entirely fallen ley The urban poor have te come desper or, and they ar Pewtining to tealize that each adel e war means that their =| Dh must become more and more 0) “tn the beginning all was excite- the formerly d | bustling manufacturing towns in ay Geni the streets were soon bate = set silently. ing, Afra 5 od ta seed or ke ; fotted annie by ane closed 4 by war. 8 grew between bles in the roadway. Now and again, oxen dragging primitive carts of farm luce lumbered throu; staurants and cafes were de: It cost money to frequent them, Lheet they had netoiies to i has ~ this beyond the means, The ration country: from Germany, y, | spares. ;Jegel and. ary out netore slanting the| . accomplished and med. each. 40 to $60 "5, $50 to $110; light sheep, reas $4 60.10 $2,505 q * medium ae, AG $12; “raeres. 0; Welghed off cars, $15.0 fob: Lele 20—Cholce steers, to se bs Butchers’ cows, $1.26 to bulls, $8.25 to #10) tame 25, $14.26; sheep, $9.20 to $10; hows. $16 to $16.26, weighed o! r Paes Cael SPRING FLOWERS. = |"They Are God's Gracious Gift to Rich i Poor. Let us all brighten our little oe rth by planti in ‘The good man of the house ean now fav {| find time to make Some shallow ees ze . rd the last of March fill the Hoxeuatode ohethied-falls ot cinderd| for drainage, and then fill up an e part. sharp ‘Atte ‘ter the boxes are flied and ready 4, |for the seeds, take boiling water and, rilizes the killing any animal Let it stand a urs Sprinkle the seed carefully over the to , jearth thus prepared; cover it lightly, ha thick oh not more en twice t] e seed, Set the -hoxes in wai sunny windows. Avoid overwatering; keep the soil just slightly and evenly damp till the seeds sprout. MAY MODIFY EMBARGO ON FRESH FRUITS A. despatch from Ottawa say! "8, |That there may still be a possib: of modification of the order prohibit- ing the importation of fresh fa) other than bitter oranges an into Great Britain a deca y a cable message receiv Gov- ernment here from the “Caloaial Offic e, message is to the effect that the the ie peoninitige of fruit imports into United Kingdom is still under consid- sa In the meanwhile, < ead it has been decided that over: plies of the navy, fnetading rifts from British dominions, should be allowed to be continued in spite of the prohibition. FIVE GERMAN SHIPS ARE SEIZED BY CHINA ol ut A despatch from Shanghai says:— The Chinese naval authorities early pyoiencey morning took possession ot the German steamers Albenga, Ar at tons; Deike Rickmers, 4,176 ton: Mei-Dah, 1,628 tons; Mei-Lee, 1682 ti tons, and Silkaing, seen tons The vaniels were lying in the Whang-Poo| i, e crews were put ashore, The taking over of tl without eee in- cident NY EFFECTED BY CHINA ‘A doaunicls: trois. Washington says: China has ree diplomatic rela- tions with Germany, taken possession fall “Gelman Gurctan’ ships in Shanghai, about six in number, piaced their crews on shore, under guard, and placed armed guards on the vessels, BOMBS KILL NURSES. P German Airmen Attack a Baapiielyg Near Saloniki.. iidespaten’ frou Saloniki says ~~ “Bnemy aviators again bombarded our hospital at Vertekop,” says a. Serbian ¢ official statement Wednesday, “causing heavy loss of life among both Ei yeas aps other buildings, and are di ely marked ‘with a red cross,” with | g f° | good potting soil made of two. parts j |leaf-mald; exo pacts good garden loam sai soil, |; lite or fungons| vessels was ' would ..| Wales is to Cerna Influence Overthrown, —_—_— Shales rags the might ne majesty ussi am- proud my son has ea serving ats the eaeiine of, the war in your allen Bre Rett cern to your \d come here at. ae first, ain when you. “mney, be required,’ “We ‘are ready,” = wered the opecty “show us the w: old authority ie incapable y,” id trust, wl will be able 0 nave Paad Bae our mother, Russia.” The soldiers marched out shouting, “Hurrah, Rodziankol ed in the same manner and men of the Grenadier Guards ait officers and pease of the Ninth Soe ph yi amid the aaa | Sane of the people. Russian Empress Hiding. ‘A despatch from Lonodon says: Ac- | cording to information received here | tente to the Russian: people distrustful during recent events us | the personal influence of Empress Al- aj whole regiment stood at salute sg followes rae of the true faith, let me as an old sities greet you according to our! rou. good health.” | “Your. Excellency!” came the thun- | derous respon: ‘ ride continued: “I want} to. eet you for coming to the help} .|eise the greatest influence over exandra. ‘was supposed to exer- peror Nicholas. It is stated that her. whereabouts is not known, but it is believed she is in seclusion, fearing -/the populace. A Petrograd despatch to the Daily Chronicle says the press of Russia has been placed under guard. m= ‘The Empress Alexandra before her|™ marriage to the Emperor of Russia in 1894 was the German Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt. © CLAR APPRECIATED. SITUATIONS PERIL He Evidenced His Wisdom and Patriotism by Laying Down Supreme Authority. oe despatch from’ London _says:— e Times in an editorial on the Rus- 0. aiton Court to realize his position with sufficient promptitude and might eith r @ revolution or defer his dee! has had enough wisdom and inselfish | patriotism not to take either of these] m civil war and © |his capital from xy ie Seyoeen§ is commented upon |editorially here by other newspapers with enthusiasm, main} ‘a great triumph for the Entente and a great disaster for 2he Central Powers. ‘The press deseribes it as the death of Rance bigaaat e warecranniae aid make eaniiig! slew hag me it as aging great influence in the exnue of liberty throughout the world sympathy are expressed his generous and lovable disposition, and on ardent desire to serve his peop! 30,000 PUBLIC HOUSES MAY CLOSE IN BRITAIN Solution of Difficulty in Restricting Be despatch from London says :— ‘Thirty thousand saloons in Great Bri- tain will probably be closed during the next few months, according to the ail. ‘The measure is proposed as a solutioh of the difficulty arising from mmpulsory restriction of in practical agreement Government in regard to the ae The closing of the saloons is said t have been suggested by some of the ; | brewers themselves, They contended ere were too many distributing jagencies and that a third of them could be suppressed without inconven- jiencing te public, while such a step mable the liquor trade ‘to be Conaeae more economically. The | arrangement seems to be, in brief, a | poolitte Ueeenent Ee the .riva | brewers which/own public houses. The brewers have feat sontewtne re- pores with the Home Office and the [recommendations drafted at these con- uishees will be submitted to a. gen- eral meeting of brewers OBI ECE ‘ORS TO BE [EMPLOYED A despatch pom tame Bee land, saya: Dartmoo: isons at ae on ithe Pence Wales Duchy esta ar be mptied of their convict inhabitants. on his property. To supplant it woe. joy in a single heart is to swerve creation nearer to the divine plan, i ‘d{every corn or callus IN AGRICULT URAL SCHEME} Wed: 0 0-0-0 0-0-0 00-000 WITH THE FINGERS ! SAYS CORNS LIFT OUT WITHOUT ANY PAIN Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or bottle of freezone at any drug store, |. which will positively rid one’s feet of without pain: or soreness Or the danger of infection. ue drug is an ether com- pound, and dries the moment it is ap- tied and does not inflame or even ir- ritate the surrounding tissue. Just think! You can lift off your corns an {calluses now without a bit of pain or | soreness druggist hasn’t l¥reezone hecan easily get'a small bot- tle for you from his: wholesale drug house, Pe rae S|FOR CARRYING LETTER NOT SENT BY MAIL American Sent to Jail for Three jonths in England. A despatch from London si At the Thames Police Court John Robertshaw, an American citizen and a fireman, was starr. with heving | in his possession a let ston otherwise ae thro the post, rived on SI a Norwegian ae laden with pears pid Psat © officer of tl stoms questioned the prisoner, ae produced the letter and said he was going to post it when h y reached Spa ae to Zeppelin raids that never had taken place ner Was. tenced to three months? eu Deieee nea MAKING WEDDING RD NGS A “NATIONAL SERVICE” Jeweler’s Plea to Escape Entisting Did Not Avail. A despatch from London A wedding-ring maker in applying to West Ham tribunal for exemption from military service, ead his firm is He was ordered to aul under the National Service eehem INDIA 'T0 CONSERVE MAN pony Be FOR WAR A despatch tea a London” says :— The Indian Government has prohibited of conservin; labor in connegtion with the wai GAS SUPPLY CUT OFF ‘ IN CITY OF ATHENS Aldespatch from pa bm ouranes ae Reuter’s At cables smis- | his, “| the German wall may _|TOWER. or. STRENGTH IN OF STRESS AND STRAT ane Light Upon His, Character. ‘The popular daireision, of Lord| eens str aes saben: But JA Book Lately Issued in London| ong, | | ents and reporters—who mi make a man, 80 far as‘ popular mele the “Lo published last month in Lo: don. The | ook contains many brief érals of the present war, and is a ting Socal ls of othe peculiar worth of the hero fie: bool ¢ {contains the Herren of all members of the aaoatth ae Government, a weal! portraits, reproductions Mi ae ae for soldiers, and his public utterances. 6 most interesting feature, hows, ever, seems to b symposium of | ‘appreciations Seiten by his collabor- ators in the task of guiding the Ei Graaper® the Assue. neral Sir William Robertson, may hope to do, the chief credit will Li for at into the Aeld. were Uttle short. of eee I doubt if ee same results |* any “When the War ce) e Bai not at all the kind of “K” some people thi tru ig charact him had little ki of the we ties arose, and those who enjoyed’ his confidence and got behind his na- turally nes and foppiaing exterior, rene him to be a kind id consider- 2 gentlenay, onary sion in a ersonally I feel m; self a ee than for having’ kabwn him.” Kitchener’s Army Organization. Naturally Joffre's testimony receives much prominence. Joffre likens Kitch- ener to eae eee of tory. tilities, ‘wi recognize as beara of ome neces- struggle in which his country was naaeeed he evolved the scheme of the new military organiz- ation that had to be set on foot; with tenacious will, undaunted by diffi- culties of sresnlaeisob, DipEUEON, or equipment, plan he had set himself e pte SST British regiments are fighting with push and vigor that is al larshal Joffre ctor toucng words: “Tt was under the flag of France that ann pane Englishman first seks an Tt is for the common of France ey rerent Britain Aes he has fallen, a soldier, His send a has gece me as rriend ot my country. A Typical Briton, Count Cadorna, Chief of te Ttal- jan army, describes Kitchener as Rie of the mal ae on * Bony Tron a a soldier with [blomaey—botd ai Bee ike that | “Rven in his appearance he seem- led to give a wonderful reproduction will which they contribute great common enterprise. He com- | municated.an item of controlled strength; one divined that he was an ile by a limites energy, that difficulty could 81 until he ee. ae eal 3 t, if a soldier ard an estimate of another | ™ eoigiees rene to sn for all i short a time, I woul which I most supeedlatad in tie late Field-Marshal was the sureness of his judgment. aes Kitchener gave ai this eee that the eke spol of gas qoatell on Inesday ig to exhaustion of the atock of al sea Iil-Guided Zeal. _ William We a plats 1p. erator, had us She hustled for William ny the Hate 6 enthusiasts in the tine | Wilbertorce atta ‘The lady stepped forw: “Gentlemen, I thank ney oe eels “put, believe me, I do not wi bet liss Wiberfores forever.” = im je" Mor 1914. 1015, ie conildtetng an urgent re- r when, on the ave. of the war, owed so clear a vision of the natu which England had to nM x His Human Sas We get from the Marquis de Chas seloup pasuee a Rae scene of Kitch- I “01 in the winter of quest taff. The Marquis, a eigen foe who had hur- ried to London with the nae and the “Chief, ” were i only people pre- sent. The situation had been probe and. a ae. epee trees that have {before hey: rob your orchard. military tree: or dred por, bury them mor . COUKen Na gathering of re top ugh the |1 wearing down em.” ope ith these of d and of one. of the best ‘friends t ation of calm serenity and unshakable the | ted is ality | of the struggle and of a part in it i sentences which still ring in my ears — and between which were great silences! wif he were gasping - for breath: “Tell Joffre .”. . tell my friend Joffre . that I am very sorry . + 370 very’ sorry that I can do no more,’ “As I have finished writing aw what he dictated, I turn round and — gaze at him and af ishment I see that tet Marshat Earl hes tat do no more’ look and, as if he were himeelf, and of what he seem: | sider a weakness, he quately put puts back © his spectacles,” as SPRING WORK IN THE ORCHARD. /A sharp pruning-saw, sharply used, means a sharp appe' A prompt cutting-back may help 1 to been a by, 208 orchard. It will pet you do the nae a axe and. strike the one he never Si ne patisfied with the aan around the foot of a fruit g from trunk or main branches, are hicron them off If n 8 arrive in # frozen) for e ground, to thaw am 8nd hetee th em. handful of ceruliass right up near the base a the is a el open your aie wider—seatte ss hand a the ie far. out, wherever foundation in.fact, so |T0ots owle: m ining rules: Remove pru ‘s branches that pul top in the wrong dl di. ‘ection. nn. ane andes ‘that wert ae interfere with cultivation, ches that are too high for, rrespol with pes sahee planting trees. In March, before the buds swell) spray fruit aur for fangous troubles; such as peach leaf-curl,. scab of pi and apple, trait rot, leaf- a Diight, Bordeaux mixture is the sta But remember “that lime-sulphur mixture is also a Zonet San may attack your trees if aed vubbi is left on the ground. wounds with a coat of good ee paint. ‘iis helps to keep out the bins prevent disease and decay. 3. Spra: the trees with a solution ‘a one gellon commercial lime-sulphur to nine gal |e i, clone to. the right season for the lime-sulphu: Grape or Peasahe cuttings can” -éight inches long, faeiag buds, and packed is id 4 moss in the cellar until planting time this spring. Make cuttings as early as possible, Ei San Jose scale is very ti rather flat and round, pressed ate scale is a small, round, silent elong- ated, black point or nipple. eae in- fested ‘trees: are covered. thickly _ that the bark may be omnes hid- den in places, and a a Ress or scurfy appearance. The dard rem~ — ee is the lime-sulphur iia which can be bought ready-made of seeds: men and ia spececoapsl or can be made at ed), h : ing previously mixed it in a bee with Then gore. Hivhy peghsure pump is essential satisfactory wi ‘oat every par- — ts of the tree before ‘the buds swell the sine and do a thorough Jeb. $——— African Giants. are many giants in Africa Liulelely and thoroughly, Se Secretary of ‘State fe