we in the office : Rae The Milverton Sun and Monkton Times! ee lene The Sun Printing Office Main Street » = ae ee ~ Subscription rates:--One year, $1.50; 8 "months, 75c, in advance. Subscribers in a! | fears will be liable to pay $2.00 per year. . Advertising rates on application, Advertisements without specific directions will be inserted untilforbid and charged ac- cordingly. : / Changes for contract advertisements must by noon Monday, MALCOLM MacBBTH, Publisher and Proprietor. ---- , : BusinessCards Dr. M. C. Tindale, L.D.S. * Honor graduate Toronto University. CROWN and BRIDGE WORK a specialty, 7 '"Phone No. 38. Office: Over Bank of Nova Scotia, RIGID EMBARGO Sending of Supplies to European _ 'Neutrals Absolutely -- 3 Phohibited. : A despatch from Washington says: Great Britain's embargo on the. ex-. port of all supplies to the northern European neutral countries, just an- |}nounced, was declared after every phase of its possible effect was gone over in conferences between American and allied statesmen. A; American officials initiated the dis- cussions, and insisted that the British | step be taken to make sure that there be no nullification of the purposes the United States Government had in view in putting into operation its own embargo. The step indicated. that the allies have united in a decision that the neutrals must cut off the shipment of all supplies to Germany. Ameri- can Officials and some of the allies j|here have hesitated as to just how Dr. P. L. Tye Office: PuspLic DruG STorE, MILVERTON Hours: 10 to 12 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m, and 7 to 8 p.m. Legal far to go in demanding cessation of trade between the neutrals and Ger- many. At one time it appeared they wotild ask no more than that neither allied goods nor materials supplanted by allied commodities be sold in Ger- _|many by the neutrals. H. B. Morphy, K.C. Solicitor for Bank of Hamilton, _ LISTOWEL. MILVERTON, Offices: Listowel, Milverton. Money to Loan, 4 sess | ATWOOD, GERMAN ASSAULT REPULSED BY HAIG F. R. Blewett, K.C. Solicitor for the Bank of Toronto, Office : Gordon Block STRATFORD, ONTARIO Harding, Owens & Goodwin Barristers, Solicitors, &c. Gordon Block, - STRATFORD, ONT. Moncey to Loan. &. 7%. MARDIXG Ww. oflownxs w. BR. GOODWI™, ~ |} Enemy Attack in Polygon Wood Region Proves Futile. A despatch from London says:--An attack by the Germans Wednesday morning between Tower Hamlets and Polygon Wood, following a vigorous artillery fire, was repulsed either by j barrage or by British infantry, ac- '|eroding to the report from Field Marshal Haig. All the British posi- tions remained intact. The text of} the statement reads: "Shortly before dawn the enemy heavily bombarded our positions be- Veterinary. tween Tower Hamlets and Polygon J. W. Barr, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto. Treats all diseases of domesticated animals All calls promptly attended to. Wood; afterwards his infantry at- tempted to advance. Our artillery opened vigorously, and on the greater part of the front the assault broke down before reaching our lines. "In the area immediately north of the Menin Road, where a few of the Secleties. A oink enemy succeeded in passing through the barrage, they were completely re- tgs Milverton Lodge No. 478 : A.F. & A.M., G.R.C. Meets every Monday evening on or before full moon every month in their hall in J, B. Weir's block, Visiting brethren always welcome Geo. J. Coxon, W.M. W. J. Zoexer, Sea. Silver Star Lodge No. 202 Ley OF; Meets every Friday night at 7.30 in their hall over Bank of Hamilton, Visiting brethren always welcome W. Henry, W.K.Loth, G.A. Barth N.G, Fin,-Secy. ¥ ' commend, pulsed by our infantry. Our posi- tions are intact. _ "There has been great artillery ac- tivity on both sides during the day east of Ypres." os - GERMANS HAVE NEW TANK ARMED WITH 3-INCH CANNON. A despatch from the French Front in France says: The Germans are ex- perimenting with a tank armed with a three-inch cannon and machine guns. The forward end of the tank is fitted with a spur-like ram, while the upper Notary Public. '|part bears a superimposed cupola, W. D. Weir, - Notary Publi¢ Auctioneer for the Counties of Perth and Waterioo. Conveyancer, deeds, wills, mortgages draw', and affidavits made. Village clerk, Office: Weir block, over Bank of Nova Scotia; and the armored plates descend suffi- ciently to protect the caterpillar wheels, which thus are almost in- visible, 623. EX-KING OF GREECE GIVES TO JEWISH FUND. A. Chalmers, - Notary Public Conveyancer, Issuer of Marriage Licenses J.P. for the County of Perth. Real estate bought and sold. A few choice farms for immediate sale. MONKTON, ONTARIO x A despatch from Zurich, Switzer- land, says: Former King Constantine of Greece issued from his retirement to announce a gift of 1,000 franes to ae Jewish refugees from the Salonika re. NEW GOVERNOR NAMED Nelson Merrick, - Auctioneer for Waterloo, Wellington and Perth Counties. Estimates given on sales of farms and farm stocks. Office, next to Bank of Nova Scotia, Linwood coe | FOR NEWFOUNDLAND. A despatch from St. John's Nfld., says: The appointment of Sir Charles Harris to be Governor of Newfound- land is officially announced. He will ' Hotels 2, succeed Sir Walter Davidson, ' The Queens Hotel Best accommodation for eommercial trav ellers and others. Two large Sample Rooms, QBO. F, PAULI, Prop., - ~ | HOUSES IN TOKIO Milverton, Oma, WRECKED BY TYPHOON. A despatch from London says: A Shanghai despatch says that as a re- sult of a typhoon which swept over Tokio on Monday, 100,000 are home- --- Are You Insured THE CANADIAN ORDER OF FORBSTERS offers protec- tection for wife and family at minimum cost. Investigate it C,Spencer,€.2, » N. Zimmermann,R.S Saka? S59 5 5 9 5 5 ss ss ee 8 eee EXPLODING A MYTH. Revelations at Petrograd Cheapen Hindenburg's Vaunted Victories. The much-talked-of '"Hindenburg's strategy" has proven to be a myth. In fact, the veriest novice in military af- fairs cquid have accomplished his greatest victory, which up till now has psi referred to as the "miracle of the _ Massurian Lakes," in which 100,000 Russians were captured. This highly- vaunted victory looks cheap in the light of the astounding revelations from Petrograd, which show that Ger- tan spies had obtained complete copies of all the plans for the Russian {nvasion of East Prussia. The testi- mony at the trial of Gen, Soukhomlin- off also showed that the Ministers and officials of the old Russian Govern- eer Rate Brongn$ up: 8 wholesale i m, and consequently no great military skill, far less genius, Bly re- Pky to achieve" victory over an " 'iy figniiag pnder auch gonditions, . 8 wonder {gs still that the old Rus- Ah Demat mai fe Soubwereg tat the on- tire army had been sold out by. the Russian Chief of Staff. The revela- tlons at Petrograd are only another proof of Germany's favorite system of arfare--that of spies and secretly- placed bombs, A properly installed lightning rod system rarely fails to protect the - property roddsd, - gla was able to put up as good a: de- fence as it actually did, partigularly ' she an. Ab -" less, and that 188 are dead and 217 missing, o---- Testing Sense of Touch. There are feelings and feelings. Some folks have very sensitive feel- ings; others are morally tougher. But if the question is physical merely, how delicate is your "feel-sense'--in other words, your sense of touch? A simple contrivance used by the psycho-physicist to determine this point is a little stick with a thread-- a fishpole and line in miniature. On the end of the thread (in lieu of a hook) ig a bit of cork. The fishpole is held in such a way as to allow the bit of cork to come gently into contact with your skin. If you don't feel it, trial is made with a big- ger cage of cork. It is really the weight of the cork that tells the story, and the smallest piece you are able to feel registers the degree of delicacy of your touch-sense. [BOMBING OF | fe 3aden--Italians Attack Aus- trian Naval Base. A- despatch from London says: While British and French ce con- tinue their bombing operations against | Germany's submarine base at Zee- brugge and points of military import- ance behind the lines, the French aviators are keeping up their attacks jpakers', do., $10.60, Toronto. prisal for shelling by German aircraft , of the open town of Bar-le-Duc. More) than 15,000 pounds of explosives are reported to have been dropped on numerous German settlements, among | them the famous town of Baden,' famed as a health resort. Likewise the Italians are giving the Austrians little respite from aerial incursions, again having drop- ped four tons of projectiles on mili- tary objectives at. Pola, the great Austrian naval base on the Adriatic, and bombed other points of military advantage. \ i THE APPLE INSTINCT. Each Autumn This Delectable: Fruit: Has Old-Time Charm. ° | It is not without reason that the serpent chose an apple for the temp- tation of Eve, thereby insuring his chances of success, In due. course, the race of man falls anew each year when the first shining beauties ap- pear. There is something about an apple that starts a mighty longing in the human breast; perhaps a tang of the high and far-off times of youth 'which never quite fade; days when the long. grasses, wet with early October dew, reluctantly revealed to the late- rising sun the treasures hid in their tangled depths. -Days when you munched apple after apple on your way to school--and how they chilled ;your front teeth!--always finishing a core in time to hit the tenth fence post beyond. But you saved the ripest treasure, polished with care and dubious sleeve, for the adorriment of Teacher's desk. Was it always a bribe, that best, that choicest offering upon the altar of pe- dagogy? How you pined for it in se- eret, longed to bite into its seductive redness; but only while it lingered neglected. When the tutelary deity turned from the blackboard and actu- ally dropped her chalk in her delight, it wasn't a bad world after all, and' you wouldn't have the prize back for a king's ransom. How the _ heart warmed and expanded when you per- mitted it to be nosed about that the mysterious donor of the Biggest Apple was none other than yourself. Little did the admiring populace realize how your avid little soul reached out through your proud and haughty de- meanor to gather up hungrily every atom of glory. If Teacher knew her pupil--and_ it French Drop Projectiles on) es 'store Fort Wi on German towns and cities, in re-' | 'selected, 47 to 48c; Toronto, Oct. 9 No. 1 Northern, $2.23; No, 3, do., $2.17, in store Fo. intludipgi2¢ tax. f- S Manitoba oats--No. $2 CW 6 am anitoba wheat-- Now 2, do. Willi liam, sie; in. "American cor Ontario oats=No. 2 Ww , 62¢6,-nomi- 4 nal; No. 3, do., 61c, nominal, according to freights outside. : Ontario 'wheat--New, No. 2 Winter, $2.22 basis, in store, Montreal. Peas--No. 2, nominal. E Barley--Malting, new, $1.18 to $1.20; according to freights outside. ' Rye 2, $1.75, according to freights outside. ~ : ' Manitoba flour--First patents, in jute bags, $11.50; 2nd, do., $11.00; strong meg et. Ontario flour---Winter accordin to sample, $9.80, in bags, Montreal; 39.60. Toronto, prompt shipment. Millfeed--Car lots--Delivered Mont- real freights, bags included--Bran, per ton, $35; shorts, do., $42; middlings, do., Lie to $46; good feed flour, per bag, Hay--No. 1, new, per ton, $12 to $13, mixed, do., $9 to $11, track Toronto. Straw--Car lots, per ton, $7 to $7.50, track Toronto. Country Produce--Wholesale ,Butter--Creamery solids, per Ib., 41% to 42c; prints, per Ib., 42 to 424¢c; dairy, per lb., 35 to 36c. ; Eggs--Per doz., 39c. Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following prices: Cheese--New, large, 23 to 234c; twins, 234- to 239c; triplets, 23% to 24c; old, large, 30c; twins, 304c; triplets, 30%c. Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 40 to 41c; mia prints, 44 to\45c; solids, 43 to Cc. Eggs--New laid, in cartons, 51 to 63c; out of cartons, 45c. : Dressed poultry--Spring chickens, 25 to 30c; fowl, 20 to 22c; squabs, per doz., $4 to $4.50; turkeys, 28 to 32c; ducks, Spring, 22c. : f Live poultry--Turkeys, 22c; Spring chickens, -Ib., 22c; hens, 20 to 22c; ducks, Spring, 20c. Honey--Comb--Extra $3:25;...12 oz... $2.75; No 2, r $2.50; Strained, tins, 24's and 5's, per lb; 10's, 17 to 174e; 60's, 164 to 17c, Beans--No Canadian beans on market until last of October; imported, hand- picked, $7.75 per bush; Limas, per Ib., 16 to 16¢, Potatoes, on track--Ontario, bag, $1.35 to $1.45 » Provisions--Wholesale Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 30 to 31c; do., heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to 42c; rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 36. to 40c; backs, plain, 39 to 40c; bone- less, 43 to 44c. Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 27% to 28c lb}. clear bellies, 264 to 27c. 264 to 27c; 27 to 27h4c; Lard--Pure lard, tierces, tubs, 26% to 27%c; ails, compound, tierces, 21h, to 22c; tubs, 21% to 224c; pails, 22 to 22%c. Montreal Markets Montreal, Oct. 9.-- Oats--Canadian Western, No. 2, 774c; No. 3, 76c; extra No. 1 feed, 76c; No. 2 local white, 72c; No. 3 local white, 7ic. Barley--Manito- ba feed, $1.29; malting, $1.31 to $1.32. Flour--Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $11.60; seconds, $11.10; strong bakers', $10.90; Winter patents, choice, $12.00; straight rollers, $11.50 to $11.80; do., bags, $5.60 to $5.75. Rolled oats-- Bbis., $8.30; do., bags, 90 Ibs., $4.00. Bran, $356.00. Shorts, $40.00. Middlings, $48.00 to $50.00. Mouillie, $55.00 to $60.00. Hay--No. 2, per ton, car lots, $11.50 to $12.00. Cheese--Finest West- erns, 21%c; finest Easterns, 213c. But- ter--Choicest creamery, 45 to 463c; Eggs--Fresh, 53 to 54c; No. 1 stock, 43 to 44c; No. 2 stock, 40 to 41c. Potatoes-- Per bag, car lots, $1.60. seconds, 44hc. Winnipeg Grain Winnipeg, Oct. 9.--Cash prices:-- Wheat--No. 1 'Northern, $2.21; No. 2, do., $2.18; No. 3, do., $2.i5; No. 4, $1.94; No. 5, $1.85; feed, $1.73. Oats--No. 2 C.W., 68%c; No. 3, do., 659c; extra No. 1 feed, 65%c; No. 1 feed, 649c; No, 2, do., 638c. Barley--No. 3 C.W., $1.22; No. 4, do., $1.18; rejected and feed, $1.11. Flax--No, 1 N.-W.C., $3.10; No. 2 C.W., $3.04; No. 3, do., $2.93. United States Markets is surprising to remember how thor- oughly she did understand your shy} boy soul--she would detain you on a' casual pretext at recess time. She "never could eat all of it herself," but; if you would help her out? Of course, if she put it that way, the magnanim- ous benefactor must comply with the lady's request. Which circumstance may help to explain the daily pres- | ence thereafter on her desk of a suc-| cession of apples; until the grass dried up and the frosts came, and one's mind turned to other things than wo- men. The mists of memory dissolve, but the apple comes every year, bringing joy to the hearts of all who love its personality even better than its taste. Whether one knows a Baldwin from a Spitzbergen, a King from a Russet-- whether the autumns of boyhood found us answering the bell on the little red schoolhouse or the summons of some metropolitan hall of learning, they bring to all alike the instinctive apple hunger, which we must satisfy, as willing victims of a worthy passion. R o Neutrals' Exports to Germany. Of the total of animal fats used in 1916 in Denmark for the manufacture of margarine, 90.9 per cent. were im- ported from the United States. The total Danish production of margarine in 1916 was 124,781,620 pounds, ac- cording to data received by the United States Food Administrator. The sub- stitution of this margarine for butter allowed the exportation of all the but- ter produced, except 8.6 per cent., much of this exportation going into Germany. Holland, also a dairy coun- try, in. 1916 produced 396,828,000 pounds of margarine, of which 330,- 690,000 pounds were exported. Of; the 154,322,000 pounds of Holland but- ter produced, the exportations amounted to 92,593,200 pounds. How greatly these exports were to Ger- many's benefit can only be susmised. When making bread. always warm the basins and flour. The bread will be much lighter. Plough early in the autumn and then disk the land thoroughly where corn is to be planted next year in order to combat the corn root aphis. Minneapolis, Oct. 9.--Corn--No. 3 yel- low, $1.91 to $1.92. Oats---No 3 white, 68% to 603c. Flour--Fancy patents, $11. Bran--$30 to $31. Duluth, Oct. 9. --- Linseed---$3.214; October, $3.21 asked; November, $3.213% asked; December, $3.164 bid. Live Stock Markets Toronto, Oct. 9.--Extra choice heavy steers, $11.75 to $12.50; do., good heavy, $11 to $11.50; butchers' cattle, choice, $10.10 to $10.60; do. good, $9.50 to $9.85; do., medium, $8.50 to $8.75; do., common, $6.75 to $7.40; butchers' bulls, choice, $8.30 to $8.75; do., good bulls, $7.40 to $7.85; do., medium bulls, $6.85 to $7.10; do, rough bulls, $5 to $6; butchers' cows, choice, $8.25 to $8.75; do., good, $7.50 to $7.75; do., medium, $6.60 to $6.75; stockers, $7.50 to $8.75; feeders, $8.50 to $9.25; canners and cut- ters, $5 to $5.50; milkers, good to choice, $90 to $125; do., com. and med., $75 to $85; Springers, $90 to $125; light ewes, $9.50 to $11.50; sheep, heavy, $5.75 to $7.50; yearlings, $11 to $12; calves, good to choice, $15 to $15.50; Spring lambs, $16 to $17; hogs, fed and water- ed, $18.75; do., weighed off cars, $19; do., f.o.b., $17.75. Montreal, Oct. 9.--Choice steers, $10.25 to $10.50; good, $9.75 to $10; lower grades, $8 to $9; butchers' cows, $6.50 to $8.25; bulls, $7 to $8.50; eanners bulls, $6.40 to $6.50; canners, cows, $5 to $5.26; Ontario lambs, $14.50 to $14.75; Quebec lambs, $13.50 to $14; sheep, $8 to "$9.50; milk-fed calves, $10 to $14; selected hogs, $18.25 to $18.75. RUSSIAN FUEL GROWING SCARCE All Street Car Traffic Has Been Cut One Hour a Day. A despatch from Washington says: Strenuous efforts are being made in Russia to conserve all fuel resources. Petrograd, according to a despatch from W. C. Huntington, United States Commercial Attache at the Russian Capital, is being brought under strict fuel regulation. All street car traffic has been cut one hour a day. A fur- ther regulation compels the railroad companies to observe a rate of speed | that saves coal. The decreased speed ' rule is credited with surprising re- sults. It is reported that it saves eighteen per cent. of fuel, that thirty per cent. fewer cars are laid up, and a decrease in daily expenditures of 3,000 roubles is secured. Tutning something up beats waiting for something to turn up. $2. 20591 * nl y oe Ags No. 3 yellow, nominal, white. a Remarkable Photo Shows Bombing of German Munition Depot rps remarkable photo was taken inside the German lines from the aero- ' plane of the aviator who made a raid on a great Boche ammunition depot. The daring aviator starting out on the apparently reckless adventure of get- ting by the German lines and successfully bombing the Teuton stores of munitions, flew to a point above the depot and dropped quantities of in- cendiary bombs while the Germans kept firing a terrific fusilade at him. Despite that danger he kept at his task and earned his reward when he saw the munition store house burst into flames. The smoke from the burning Hepot can be seen ascending in the photograph. The aviator returned to his own lines safely but his machine was badly damaged. PROGRESS OF US. SHIPBUILDING Ten Months Gained in Building of Destroyers--Ready Early in 1918. A despatch from Washington says: --Such remarkable progress has been made in the quick building of the im- mense flotilla of America destroyers; to cope with the submarine compete | that the Navy Department now is as-| sured of much quicker delivery of the ships than was contemplated at the last estimate, which in itself was far | ahead of the original time. Progieas| on the ships now building and arrange- | ments for others to follow, it is said) at the Navy Department, are such that the American navy will lead the | world. with its destroyers within' eighteen months. It is now certain that all destroyers, now building will be delivered ready for duty in European waters early: next year. Many of ther. had not. been expected until the winter of 1918. Approximately, ten months had been saved. + -- SOLDIERS ALL. "Fisherman, mend your nets For the day's trawling! Cod and menhaden run Thick for the hauling!" "Yes, but beyond the mists Bugles are calling." "Writer, the world would count You with its sages! Far from the shock of war, Toil for the ages!" "No--I must write my life On Freedom's pages!" "Surgeon, you cannot go! Hear the sick pleading! 'Tis not for such as you Bullets are speeding!" "Hush--for I see in France Liberty bleeding!" "Mother, keep back your lad, Though his mates scorn him! Better their jeers than that Your heart should mourn him!" "Cease--for his country's cause My arms have borne him!" "Pastor, now more and more Men need your preaching! How shall they find their souls If you stop teaching?" "Yet, on His battle line God id beseeching!" --D. M. Henderson. % Efficient Agriculture ,in the world, Denmark is devoted al- j ture. With the most efficient agriculture most exclusively to crops and herds. It not only obtains the highest aver- age results per acre in the cultivation of the soil, but also uses the agricul- tural production as raw material for a national industry in further manufac- It is in the finished form of butter, cheese and other food products that contain more labor value and less raw material that Denmark exports the output of its agricultural and herd- ing industry. Two-thirds of the population are engaged in agricultural pursuits or in handling agricultural products. From Erin's Green Isle NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE- LAND'S. SHORES. Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish- men, Farmers' societies have been form- ed at Ballycullane, Adamstown and Rathmore, in the county of Wexford. The Cork ID.A. Executive have under consideration the establishing of an aircraft industry in that dis- trict. At a meeting of the North Dublin Union it was decided that all women workers be given four shillings a week as a war bonus Some of the Dublin retail tea es- tablishments had to close their doors on a recent Saturday, owing to the heavy rush of business. The Islandanny bridge, which spanned the River Feale from there to Duagh, has been swept away by un- usually heavy floods. Lady Barrett, wife of Sir W. F. Bar- rett, has been made the recipient of the new Order of the Commander of the British Empire. P. Nolan, secretary of a local enter- tainment, was fined £12 at the Por- tarlington Sessions for failure to col- lect the entertainment tax. Owing to the great scarcity of milk, the price of butter has increased thir- teen shillings per firkin at the Nenagh butter market. The Lords of the Admiralty have appointed J. C. Perry, J.P., Dublin, to be an hononary Heutenant of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The allotment holders at Charle- ville passed a vote of thanks to Dr. Robert, of Sanders, field and providing seed potatoes for the poor. The sum of £37 was raised at Portadown by the sale of flowers in aid of the Cripples' Institute and Homes of Rest at Belfast and Bangor. A very successful fete was held on | the grounds of the Howth Lawn Ten- nis Club in aid of Cross Society and St. John Ambulance Association. --_--_--_-%-- ------ No Advance Payments. You'll never make A single sou By any deed You're going to do. On what you've done Lies fortune's chance Life never pays Us in advance. % * The Sunshine Path. A sunny path winds past my door, 'Tis brightened either side By flowers of peace and happiness, And nooks where songsters hide. I planned the sunshine path myself, Its borders and its bowers; I planted little seeds of love, And God sent me the flowers. SRS TOSLECE ar Wal neck A spoonful of lard in boiling starch prevents its sticking in the ironing, Beeswax, covered with several thick- nesses of cloth rubbed on the hot iron prevents the starch collecting on it If clothes are sprinkled with hot water they iron better. for securing a | | but i] Smet ape NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN | BULL AND HIS PEOPLE Qecurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Commer- cial World. Lodgers in England who buy the' own food, will be allowed to get the: own sugar cards. -- : SAE S5 The Parkinson Stove £055 of Birm- ingham, were fined £112 for imprope ly using coppér in the manufacture | water heaters. Pipa : Lord Roundway has become presi- dent of the Association of Wiltshire- men in London, in succession to the | Hate Sir R. Burbidge. The Board of Agriculture says that -- children under twelve years of age -- should not be released froni school at- tendance. se : nee M. C. Luschene, F.S.1, of Farnham Common, -has been appointed honor-_ ary secretary. of the Royal English Arboricultural Society. : Capt. F. Hurley, who was photo- -- grapher to Sir E. Shackleton's Antare- tic Expedition, has been appointed photographer to the Australia forces. -- The British Government have had 437 aeroplanes and seaplanes given as -- gifts from' different parts of the Em- pire since the beginning of the war. The Royal. Humane Society's cer- tificate has been awarded to Marie Sharrat of Windsor, for jumping into -- the Thames and rescuing a child: _ Col. H. B. O. Savile, one of the old- est officers in the Royal Artillery, was puried with military honors at Bristol. -- Owing 'to the shortage. of paper the new London telephone directory will not be published before January next. A memorial to the Southend air raid victims is: being erécted in the grounds of Prittlewell Priory. Of eight new magistrates appointed | for Dudley, Worcestershire, three of them represent labor. An Army Council order has directed -- the release of a certain quantity of sole leather for civilian use. : At an education conference at Bed- ford, Lady Betty Balfour stated that it took her children nine years to learn to write and nine more to learn to spell. , W. Courtald, of Essex, has given £2,000 to the Braintree School, "as scholarships, on condition that no son of a German parent shall ever benefit by them. For_rescuing two of the crew of a British shipwrecked vessel, Hans Jer- genson, a Swedish captain, was pre- sented with a piece of plate by the British Board of Trade. ------------ END OF A FAMOUS LINE ---- Almost a Century Since the Allan Line Had Its Inception With the complete merger of the - Allan Line in the Canadian Pacific company, one of the oldest of house flags disappears from the seas. It was in 1819 that Alexander Allan sent © out his first little brig, the Jean, from , Greenock to Quebec. Soon after he_ had five ships in commission, andyfrom that day to this the Allans have play--- ed a large part in the development of trade between Great Britain and Canada. Later on they established services to Philadelphia and to Boston, the line remained essentially Canadian. Although it was not a direct com- petitor with such great lines as the Cunard and the White Star--for the former remained out of the Canadian trade for many years and has,only re- cently returned to it--the Allan Line was nevertheless a pioneer in a num- ber of improvements in steamship con- struction which travelers have long taken as matters of course. Thus the first steel steamship to cross the ! Atlantic was the Buenos Ayrean, built in 1879, two years before the Cunard- er Servia. The Parisian, built in 1881 was the first to have bilge keels. The Allan Line left to others, to be the British Red sure, the amazing increases in size and speed which have marked the las' quarter of a century. It did not join in the race for records which be- gan with the Etruria and Umbria, and which led to the building of the Teu- tonic and Majestic, the City of New York and the City of Paris (now the New York and Philadelphia), the Deutschland, and finally such mon- sters as the Lusitania and Mauretania, the Olympic and Vaterland. But in 1881 the Parisian was the most famous ship of the whole At- lantic fleet for beauty--a fine staunch vessel, still afloat in the service of the British Government. And the later and larger ships--the Virginian was the first steamship in the At--- lantie service with turbine engines-- were always well equipped and com- fortable. These will probably cross the ocean for many years to come under the Canadian Pacific flag. But many will regret that a name with such a record of honorable achieve- ment as Allan is to be only a memory, Up to the present 49,600 Iron Crosses of the first class and 2,200,500 of the second class have been awarded. / . Fhe Doings ef the Dufts. EEE 4 SHEE SYCH A GIDDY Vane al 4 , a a | OH HERE COMES DELLA FAD! | SUPPOSE WE'LL HAVE TOLISTEN LOT OF SILLY TALK -~_>--- ro) > Re. I THINW DELLA 1S A MIGHTY SENSIBLE GIRL MY SELF Ott HELLO ~ | JUST STOPPED To SHOW You JIMMY" MY NEW PET -- SEE I CARRN Hit \N MY MUFF THE SAME. AS MRs, VERNON ASTLE DOES : THE DARNED THING ISA WE! | MUST RUN ALoNG NOW, IVE GOT To GET HOME AND GIVE JIMMY His BATH-- GOOD WE | HAVE. NOTHING To SAY -- NOTHING To