"ame 5% Bes ' Tas fee 'tain civic works which cost 30 per a. 'EWS OFTHE MIDDLE WEST BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI- TISH COLUMBIA. -- Items From Provinecs Where Man) Ontario Boys and Girls Are "Making Good." Fort Osborne is the military prison. Winnipeg's patriotic fund is past the $500,000 mark. : Ernest Hoad, of Frobisher, Sask., lost his left foot when he fell from a train. ; Many destitute Germans in Win- nipeg can neither obtain work nor charity. Charles E. MacKenzie, manager of the Canadian General Electric Company, died at Winnipeg. ' Edmonton women have formed Winnipeg lace, Winnipeg, was knocke wn and injured by a team of horses. Two-year-old Arthur Elias Wood, 145 High Street, Moose Jaw, ate patent medicine tabloids and died 85 a result. . Harold, the four-year-old son of John Woodall, 166 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, was drowned in the Red ver. Eighty acres of Shouldice Park, at Calgary, will be plowed and planted with potatoes by the .nem- ployed of that city. : Winnipeg will be the western headquarters of the Salvation Army in the new division of the or- ganization in Canada. . Horace C. Howard, veteran of the Riel Rebellion, died at-his home in Winnipeg. He had resided in that city for 26 years. ; Ex-Mayor R. D. Waugh, of Win- nipeg, will probably the Mayoralty of that city with Mayor eacon this vear. 'Bud' Brown, a Winnipeg color- ed man, was sentenced to a year in prison for stealing money from a O.P.R. passenger. William Gilmour, of No. 2 fire- hall, Winnipeg, was seriously in jured when car struck a fire truck on which he was riding. E. E. Jarman, 216 4th Avenue, Saskatoon, was killed by a street tar in Kildonan Subway, Winnipeg. He had been rejected at Valcartier. The Robin Hood Milling Com- pany of Moose Jaw, has given $1,- 000 worth of flour to the Patriotic Fund and the employees of the firm contributed $600. ; Mayor Deacon of Winnipeg is in- cent. more than the tenders esti- mated. Mr. A. G. Smith, 1712 Thirteenth Avenue, Calgary, claims that through the neglect of the city fumi- gators three of his family escaped narrowly with their lives. Sugar has advanced to $8.40 a hundredweight at Prince Albert, Bask Julian Georget, postmaster at St. Louis, was fin $15 for striking and kicking a St. Leuis woman while in the post office. An order for the extradition of J. A. Crisler has been granted at Calgary. Crisler is accused of mur- dering Julius Brown on a_ squat- ter's claim in Montana. He is eerv- ing a month's sentence in Calgary now. ae Saeneeee The Manufacture of Salt. The salt works at Carrickfergus, in Ireland, are making white salt from rock salt in a new way. Rock salt from the mine is now fed into this war will'also ultimately PROPHESIED WAR IN THE AIR. The Nations at War Have "Great Fleets of Flying Machines, The great war in the air, long heralded by poets and prophets, has me @ reality. The one strikingly new hase of warfare which makes the present European conflict different frém all the wars of all time past is the use of air craft. From the very open- ing of hostilities the aerial forces of @ nations involved. have taken part in practically all the opera- tions, scouting, attacking -- fort- resses and even battling against each other. The first spectacular climax came when a German Zep- pelin stole past the fortifications of Antwerp in the night and for the first time in history a sleeping city was bombarded from the skies. Here, at last, was the realization of the visions of the seers who had foretold this added horror of war, says Popular Mechanics. Hidden by darkness and with en- gines muffled, the Zeppelin dirig- ible which made the attack upon Antwerp stole over the city to a point above the palace which the Belgian royal family temporarily accupied. It hovered there a thous- and feet from the ground, an indis- tinct mass silhou against the sky. With a rocket-like fizz a bomb curved downward in.a fiery streak. (Buildings crumbled, carrying their sleeping occupants down to death or mutilation. The bombardment continued, projectiles exploding within the grounds of the palace and raining u other public buildings, even striking a hospital. Street after street was filled with debric. Sixty houses were practi- cally destroyed and 900 more were dama Machine guns fired shots into the inky darkness without ef- fect. In all ten bombs were hurled after which the craft lifted high and disappeared in the night. Some of the Zeppelins are known to be equipped with two-inch quick-fire guns which shoot shells of Belgian macarite, and some of the work may have been done by these. It is known also that the craft carry 220-pound bombs. loaded with a special bursting charge which can destroy practically everything with- in a radius of 250 yards. : In its first month this greatest of all wars has demonstrated that the nations'. airy navies are a factor of warfare to be seriously reckonded with. It seems to have been prov- ed, too, that no airship or aero- plane is safe against gun fire from the ground at a height of less than one mile. One of the important riences of a! - swer is that of the relative value of the two general types of air craft; whether the lighter than air dirg- ible to which the Germans have mainly pinned their faith, or the heavier-than-air aeroplane, and lees expensive, which is the mainstay of the French, English and Russian air navies, is superior in war. A rather significant fact in this connection is that in almost every instance in which a Zeppelin is known to have been used for of- fensive work the dispatches have later reported its destruction. actual aerial strength of the various nations is more or less a matter of supposition, because of- ficial figures of this nature are gov- ernment secrets. In any case it would be possible for a power to have twice the number of air craft that it is accredited with in the current statistical reports. Purely from a numerical viewpoint, how- ever, it is supposed that France a gas-fired furnace. where it melts, and runs by gravity into successive | chambers. In two of the chambers | are three-inch pipes, pierced with many tiny holes, through which! powerful jets of compressed air are} forced, in order t© agitate the molt- en salt, and thus to make the slag and other impurities sink to the bottom. It then passes through a settling chamber, then to a reser- voir, and finally into rotating pans, in which the salt, now rapidly cool- ing, encounters rakes that agitate it in such a way as to crystalize it in various grades, and sizes, ready for the market. The three furnaces at Carrickfergus produce séventy tons of refined salt in twenty-four hours. The process is continuous; the salt is deposited in a finished state half an hour after it leaves the mine. a ae Of All He'd Done. Skinnem '(relating adventure}-- Yes, death stared me in the face and in those few seconds I thought of al] I'd ever done. Smart--Quite a little directury of names, eh! Relationship. He (rejected)}--I suppose now you are going to say you'll be a sister to me. . She--No,. Jack, Pll be a daughte to you, because you've been a pop- per to me A New Cut. Little Pauline came in, bringing a scratehed finger for salve and sympathy. "TI ent it on the ecat." she explpired.. and Russia combined are stronger in the air than the fleets of Ger- many and Austria. France is thought to have had at the begin- ning of the war 780 aeroplanes; Russia, 705; Germany, 560; Eng- land, 225; Italy. 225; and Austria, 142. Of dirigibles, France was cre- dited with 28, mostly of the flexible type and many of them old; Ger- many. eighteen, all in good condi- tion, besides ten Zeppelins in the course of construction; Russia, seventeen ; England, thirteen ; Italy, ten; and Austria, five. With such an array of flying men-of-war putting to the test new methods of dealing death and _ destruction, there is no imaginable limit to the awfnl possibilities of modern war- are. ---------- Valuable Inacouracy. Pat was a witty young recruit, who was taking instruction -- in marksmanship. The squad had finished firing. Pat was brought to task for his poor shooting, and told that he must do better at the next distance; there were to be seven rounds of quick firing. "Now, Pat." the sergeant told him, "fire at target number five. ' Pat banged away. and hit target number four seven times in succes- sion. "What target did you aim at "' asked the irate officer, "Number five, sor," answered at. "And you have hit number four every time."' "'Bedad, sor," retorted Pat, "that would be a grand thing in war. Shure, I might aim at a pri- vate and hit a gin'ral!" 'porary benefit' said to be derived @lirrance. =paym" iye, even (oy on YT REFERENCE NOTE IREEGREAT BRITAIN EGERMAny & EeSustaacnuneany § Grussia' _ Bivapan ( { | 4q } eet aea seen ATLANTIC Lge German and the colonies hak | MEBeeL6uM w [_jneureac are, & 4 8. "4 | " * 120 4 , 6 c 60 r 10 Lee pee ce By Far the Biggest Part of the World Is at War To-day. , . possession by a black line. Her African colonies were (1) German South-west Africa; (2) German East Africa; (3) Kamerun; (4) Togoland. The last THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE. Consumption Is a Preventible and]. Curable Disease. Consumption is chiefly spread from home, which becomes prin- cipally infected by the filthy spitting habits of the patient resident there- in. It.is more widespread than any er disease. It is an entirely pre- ventible disease, and t! rovin- cia] Board of Health calls upon all consumptives and their friends to assist in checking its ravages, Consumption is a disease of the business to provide extra nourish- ment for the needy. If the personal rules are strictly carried out, a consumptive may frequently not only do his usual work, or some other, without giv- ing the disease to others, but such occupation may improve his own condition and increase his chances of getting well. While consumption is particularly prevalent in the crowded sections of cities and towns, it is by no means infrequent in the less settled districts, and even in the country. This is probably due to lack of pro- per ventilation as well as improper construction of the houses. It of- ten happens in rural districts that of a hose dail k i lowe the system: Agee saner eae he bs eoaltio rt paket: pecton more liable to the/in the air, wi the rest: minute that they if see" thours of sleep,' in close, stuffy' hese ag indi, er the | 2oms. , This is suicidal. - scope. germs usually enter the indow be in the ae browthied: a Ww should always be The sputum, or matter coughed or spit up by a consumptive, con- tains these germs in immense num- bers,--frequently millions are dis: charged by a single consumptive in the course of a day. This sputum spit. upon the floor, wall, street, or u elsewhere, dries and is red to powder by a broom, the feet, etc., and floats in the air as dust. The dust particles contain the germs, which find entrance to the lungs with the air breathed. Dust in a room or covered conveyance is more dangerous than dust out of doors, where many of the germs are soon killed by strong sunlight, heat and rain, Carelessness in spitting reacts on the consumptive. Many a patient, well on the road to recovery, has re-infected himself by inhaling dust containing tubercle bacilli that he imself expectorated. Both self- interest as well as that of the gen- eral publie demand the greatest care in disposing of the sputum. Undoubtedly one of the common- est ways of spreading infection is the unconscious ejection of particles of spittle containing the germs dur- ing coughing and sneezing, and this can obviously be eliminated by always holding a handkerchief be- fore the face during these acts. The breath of a consumptive is not dangerous; it does not contain the germs. e danger lies solely in the sputum -or matter coughed up. Hence, it is not dangerous to live with, or work alongside of, a consumptive, if the rules given in this pamphlet are strictly kept. In a majority of cases until re- cently, consumption has proved fa- tal--it can, however, be entirely cured if it is recognized early and proper treatment is carried out. Consumptives are warned against the many cures' and methods of treatment so widely advertised. No cure should be anticipated from any kind of medicine, nor from any method of treatment except that universally employed by reputable asa which depends . very argely upon pure air and an abun- dance of nounsbing f The tem- from the use of certain patent i- cines has proved to be the stimula- tion caused y the excessive amounts of alechol they contain. After the stimulation, reaction sets in and the patient is worse off than he was before he began taking the medicine. In every municipality should be of patients -who cannot afford pay the customary professional fees of a physician, and all chari- provision $ table institutions should make it a or the treatment In many communities boards of health 'have enacted rules forbid- ding spitting in public places, build- ings and conveyances. The public should protect itgelf by seeing that these rules are enforced. Rules for Consumptives. 1, The sputum, or matter coughed up by the consumptive, should not be spit upon the floor, carpet, stove, wall or sidewalk, but always, if possible, in a cup kept for that pur- pose. Paper cups are the best, since they can be burned, and their contents thus destroyed, after be- ing used. When a metal, glass or earthen- ware cup is used, it should contain a five per cent. solution of carbolic acid (six teaspoonfuls to a pint of water) é> prevent the sputum dry- Ta ing and to destroy the germs.. The cup should be emptied into the wa- ter closet or privy pit at least twice a day, and thoroughly washed with boiling water. When of small cost. Whatever receptacle is used, it should ve @ cover so that flies may not have access to its contents, Patients too weak to use a cup should use moist rags, which should | at once be 'burnt. If cloths or handkerchiefs are used by consumptives, they should not be carried loose in the pocket, but in a waterproof receptacle, such as a tobaceo pouch, which should be frequently boiled. If handkerchiefs are used, they should not be put in a laundry other receptacle with other soiled linen, but should be kept immersed in a five per cent. carbolic solution or should be boiled at once in water for at least half an hour. A consumptive should never swal- low his sputum. Sputum swallowed may spread the disease to other or- gans. The hhands should be washed and the mouth rinsed out 'before eating. 2. Great care should be taken by consumptives. to prevent their hands, face and clothing from be- coming soiled by their sputum. If they do thus become. soiled, they should be at once washed with soap and hot water, 3. Consumptives should always hold a cloth or handkerchief before the face during coughing or sneez- ing, lest germs be scattered in the small particles of spittle that aré thenMorcibly expelled. 4. A male consumptive should be clean shaven. Hair about the face is apt to retain the germs exieting in particles of spittle ejected during coughing or sneezing. 5. A consumptive should have his own bed, and, if possible, his own room. Both the bedroom and living room should have as much direct sunlight as possible and should al- ways have an abundance of fresh air,--the window should be open day and night. Many consumptives have benefited greatly from sleep- ing out of doors in tents, on roofs or piazzas. 6. The rooms should be cleaned daily, but, to prevent the raising of dat, all dusting-must be done with damp cloths, and before eweep- ing, floors must be wel rinkled fection). No other persons can be allowed to ide therein until this rule has been complied with. 9. A consumptive woman should not nurse an infant. It drains the tg of the mother and subjects he child to the danger of infec- tion. A Few Ontario Statistics. Note the following figures show- ing the deathe from Tuberculosis in this Province. In 25 years (1880- 1904)--64,928. In 1904 there were 2,877 deaths out of a total of 30,920 from all causes, or 1 Darga out of age is immune from the deadly ef- fects of Tuberculosis, note the re- turns for 1904 :-- No. of deaths. Age 7 under ......... 1 year. BF sticawinos saarparens « 2 years 2B cece ccwcccceeens 3 years © sesaecnsswwwsem 4 years RT sikdiaceenessedies 5 years. OT sawies senses aca 5to 9 years. i Ae Sonne 10 to 14 years. 276 ccenevsoamacaves 15 to 19 years. 41D acactew were s os 20 to 24 years. 4IT cenesusewonsnees 25 to 29 years. BID seacss sPeeews 20 to 34 years, NO .ciseseserecases 85 0 39 years. BIS SSwaWil ee cidignn vary 40 to 44 years. BGR visekindeveweecic 45 to 49 years. BB siesiaess sinsinveneyc 50 to 59 years. 176 2... eee eee eee 60 to 69 years. 1048 oieceieaaw oeGa ee 70 to 79 years. TS cae cessmeewaae 80 and over. BD a vosicadiow silence Not stated. 2.877 All ages. When Scot Meets Scot, The lady was the owner of a small shop, writes the London Telegraph, and her squire acquired the habit of seeing her hegre, and carrying the cash bag um contained the day's takings. was generally heavy. "You must be doin' weel," re- marked the gentleman, frequently. "Oh, ay." the lady would reply, "it's a guid bit business."' But she did not disclose that be- sides the moderate drawings,. the bag*contained the counter weights. The canny lover only discovered that fact after marriage. Sunday Schoo] Teacher--"What do you. understand iby suffering for righteousness: sake?' Little Girl --"Please, miss, it means havine to come to Sunday Schovl,"' of the Irish Bn abroad, the volumteens will be in a state of cfticien< fence of the country. Po FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE- LAND'S SHORES. Happenings fo the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish- mca. Celtic Park, County Verry. bad been rented for the Derry Volun- teers as a parade and driil ground. Fourteen workers' dwellings are to be built at once wt Killarney, and coping, sixty feet in length, from the top of. Abbey Chambers, Dub- in. Recruiting is etitl proceeding ac- tively in Belfast. Men are joining the army for the Ulater Division at rate of from 60 bo 100-per day. The Edenderry Volunteers, num bering over three hundred, are pple ing marvellous progress under thein instructors, Gravy and Jo- seph Kearns. Bimultaneoualy with the formation 'or servi sy for the Since the outbraak of the war the staff of the Belfast Police Office has been hard worked tm receiving and mies arriving daily. . While David Wilaon, of "Gilfor: County Dowa, was changing a rifl it accidentally discharged and th: bullet enterad tie hip, imflicting a Sérious wound. In the Bullawn Volunteer Corps, County way, Over which the par. ish priest, Rey. J. Gormally pre- sides, nearly all the young men of the parish are enrolled. There has heen a aplandiad rally to the Cork Voluntear Traintag Corps, which has been established in con- nection with the Ohuroh of Treland Young Men's Association. A serious vase af cubtle maiming has been disvovered in Count? Clare, where the baila of eight cattle on the lands of Oahernamora, near Ruan, were found te have been cut off. . Some of the Dublin public houses whose hours of huéinoss were re- stricted by the military authorities rom 10 a.m, to | p.m., have been allowed 'to re-open for the full per- ied, ; r~The South Dublin Guardians have adopted the resslution of the Woodquay Ward 'Branch W.I.L., urging the corporation to proceed with building sshames in arder to relieve distress, A shocking tragedy occirred in Cork when a shoemaker named Mullanny shot deat his wife and al little son, and a daughter of 18,| wounded anothor danghter and them committed suicide ae neal . Medical Professor---Whai would you do in the case of a persen eat-! ing poisunous mushrooms? Srudent --Recommend a change of diet. Harry: aged six, onded his even- ing prayer with--"And please, God, take care of our soldierr." You have forgotten.our sailors,'" promp- ted his mother. 'Oh, they -an trke care of 'bhemsalyes." | \ =] attending bo 'batohes of alien ene- - rs with sawdust, y cost of each will be about per or tea leaves, all 81,000. : : . A consumptive sided lathe sslippaier sanspumany, Sjumaaes >. A copeumptive's soiled | 1 for putting up p ioe 'and bed linen should be handled as|an ¢ seditious character re- little as - le when dry, but|ferring to ceoruiting. should kept immersed in water]. James » & @rocer's porter, unti] the washing is e. was killed falling off the a " "4