sf cee ee Ae COs TS on was expressed of the B 's financial .advisers, to ects for Canadian trade, parti- ly in the Balkans. Regarding its to the latter, Six Georgge dh that Canada should ex- ution In view of the disturb- ed conditions existing {here. \ Sir George, who has made a warm friend of Canadia ond is widely known ritish | ae int __A despatch from London ks ys:-- -erimes daring the war exceeded the id; wholesale cruelty and horror of those] -- committed by Bulgarians against the [Seaees and. Serbians. -- Reuter's 'Yarns from official Serbian sources that the Commission which has been investigating outrages and which brought to light appalling and al- 'most unbelievable atrocities has in many cases secured the names'of the officers actually responsible: Among many Bulgarian documents which give this information is one whch specifically mentions a certain | Sub-Lieutenant Pelkov as having in the district of Viasotinci burned peo- American continent, also sajd missioneers; "Canada's contribution to the world at @, as well as the greatest con- k . to herself, will be to devote energies to the |} production of the values of which will be high / next four years at least." So unged that Canada pre- for the reception of big im- tion, fotlowing the peace sattle- ent and the restoraiion of stability 1 Britian and Europe, A result in Bnitain would be the creation of & much higher level of wages with in- creased efficiency machinery and me- » which conceivably would re- sult in fewer people being employed | and in a surplus of people who would - want to migrate to the new countries. He suggested that Canadian Federal and Provincial Governments and rail- ways should co-operate in a policy of 'preparing for the settlement of lange numbers of people who are bound to €o to the Dominion in the next few years. Z ne - SAYS BOLSHEVIKI HAVE WON _ GREATEST. VICTORY IN PARIS A despatch from Paris says:-- Prince Lyvoff, former Russian Pre- - mier, in a statement on Thursday _ strongly deprecated the decision of _the Supreme Council regarding Rus- » sia. "We never thought," said Prince Lyoff, "that the Conference would commence its peace work by renew- ing relations with our tyrants. . . _ The Bolsheviki have won their great- est victory in Paris the de- cision of the Council not only is of danger to us but to the whole world, Tt gives new impulse to anarchy." ; techs Chagos Great Krupp Plant at Essen Working for U. S. Government A despatch from Coblenz says:--- The Krupp plant at Essen began working for the United States Gov- ernment Tuesday. The task under- taken by the Krupps consists of mak- ing parts for 72 incomplete cannon, vejected by the American authorities as part of the war material offered by the Germans under the terms of the armistice. With the delivery of the parts for the 72 cannon the de- _ livery of 152 pieces of heavy artillery to the Americans will have been com- pleted. ee oe 3 Scere 'CHINA WILL REPATRIATE ALL TEUTONS UNDER SIXTY A despatch from Pekin says:--The Chinese Government has decided to sequestrate all enemy property in China on February 12. The law call- ing for the repatriation of enemey citizens will become effective March 1. The only exceptions will be doc- _ tors, invalids and all persons over 60 years of age. ? _-------- - @ ---~----~ ELECT 34 WOMEN TO GERMAN ASSEMBLY A despatch from Berlin says:--The former National Liberal Party was the only party which elected no wo- men delegates to the National As- sembly. The Majority Socialists elec- _ ted 15 women, the Independents three, the Democrats five, the Clericals ' seven, and the Conservatives four. The advent of women to the legisla- tive deliberations of the incoming German Republic is generally ap- proved, ! see a A Cockney Test, Too. _ A Frenchman, boasting in company that he had thoroughly mastered the English Janguage, was. asked to write the following from dictation: - "As Hugh Hughes was hewing a -yule-log from a yew-tree, a man dressed in clothes of a dark hue came up to Hugh and said: 'Have you seen my ewes?' 'If you will wait until I _ hew this yew, 1 will go with you any- 'where in Europe to look for your - | ewes,' said Hugh." { s ee fi Set a eee Og During the last year British trade union membership has increased over 200,000, : ple alive. Moreover, in this com-- 'paratively small district 140 murders, '235.cases of flogging, 51 of torture, 21 | of rape, 187 of blackmnjil and 316 of ;arson have been proved during the | Bulgarian occupation. tn another district it has been prov- {ed that women had their flesh torn | off with pincers by order of a certain ; Major Murtsev and under the super- vision of a certain Sergeant Vasil, wijile in yet another district 500 men and women and children, by order of a certain Lieutenant Stojamov, were massacred with knives and bayonets. The spot where this occurred is mark- ed by skulls and bones. Wp sadam licciad 2----- ~~ SOME AMBITIOUS WILLS { omnes Curious Bequests Left by Well-Mean- ing Patriots. A lieutenant who was lately killed in France, and had been a lawyer in civil life, left £800 to the King, | "humbly requesting his Majesty to | apply the same to the reduction of! the national debt." An Irishman who left over a hun- dred thousand pounds to pay off the | town's debt had better luck, but as he expressed absolute conviction of the incapacity and idiocy of the pre- sent town council he made it opera- tive in 21 years! | Queen Victoria had some large lega- cies left to her for her private use, but the funniest was a "pet parrot" by an old lady with 100 guineas per annum for its keep! She made the amusing condition that "Her Majesty publicly exhibit it before the court twice a year,.to prove that the per- /$on entrusted with its care has not | wrung its neck." a $8,000,000,000 FOR } NATIONAL WAR BONDS | A despatch from London says:-- Tt is now agreed that probably no} H.R.H. Princess Patricia of Conmmaught and Commandet The Hon, Alexander Ramsay, Londion. R.N., D.S.0., from photographs just received from Markets of the World®": Breadstuf® Toronto, Jan. 28,--Mamitoba wheat --No. 1 Northern, $2.2414; No. 2 " Northern, $2.2144; No. 3 Northern, $2.17%; No. 4 wheat, $2.11 Mee > Ty store Fort William, not including tax. Manitoba oats--No, 2 C.W., 68c; Ng. 3 C.W., 65¢; - extra No. 65¢e; No. 1 feed; 6344c, in store Fort William. 1 feed, American corn--No. 3 yellow, $1.60; No. 4 yellow, $1.55. January ship- ment. Ontario cats, new ecrop--No. 2 white 68 to Tle; No. 3 white, 67 to 70c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat--No. 1 Winter, per car lot, $2.14 to $2.22; No. 2; do:, $2.11 to $2.19; No. 3, do., $2.07 to $2.15; No. 1 Spring, $2.00 to No. 2 Spring, $2.06 to $2.14: No. 3) $2.17; Spring, $2.02 to $2.10 f.o.b., shipping points, according to freights. Peas--No. 2, $2.00. Barley--Maiting, new crop, 78 to, 88c; according to freights outside. Buckwheat--No. 2; $1.15, nominal. Rye--No. 2, $1.40, nominal. Manitoba flour--Old crop, 'quality, $11.35, Toronto. quality, crop, $10.00, in bags, Montreal Ontario flour--War Toronto, prompt shipment. Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont-} to $10.00; real freights, bags included. $37.25 per ton; shorts, $42. ton, war old and Bran, 25 per 26 to 26%%c; prints, 2734 te pails, « c. : Monteal Markets Montreal, Jan. No. 1 feed, 82c, . Flour--New stand- '| A despatch from Berlin says:--It| | Were much higher than were first eup- 'jare included in the 28.--Oaiis--Extra, a Ps | (Official German Report Gives} -- _ Figures _ Mipureson Molnuteition Due to Blockade. is announced officially by. the German } Gevernment that a further investiga- from the Auiumn of 4916 until the, end of 1918, shows that the figures posed, More than 500,000 deaths, it is said, were caused hy mainutri- |. tion or undernutnition. Only civilians at, which, says the announcenrent, "if it. errs at all it is by giving too low figures." Only such cases were ineuded, it isi declared, as were definitely estabtish- | ed as being due to the causes named. | e officials intend to publish complete material on which the jn- vestigations were based, "to demon~ Strate thet this is not propaganda, but strictly for the purpose of establish- ing the facts." = ae. Ceara WHEN FOOD WAS CHEAP l . > An English Writer Quotes Prices in the Reign of Richard I. ard grade, $11.25 to $11.35. Rolled oats--Bags, 90 Ibs. $4.00 to $4.40. Bran, $37.25. Shorts, $42.25. Mouil- lie, $68.00. Hay--No, 2, per ton, car lots, $20.00 to $21.00. Cheese --Finest easterns, 24 to 25c. Butter --Choicest creamery, 53 to 54e. Eggs --Selected, 57 to 58c: No. 1 stock, 58 to 54c, Potatoes--Per bag, car lots, $1.70. Dressed hogs--Abattoir killed, $25.00 to $25.50. Lard--Pure wood pails, 20 Ibs. net, 31 to 82%c. Live Steck Markets Toronto, Jan. 28.--Choice heavy steers, $13.00 to $18.50; butchers' , cattle, chojice, $12.00 ito $12.50: do. | good, $11.00 to $11.50; do, medium, $10.00 to $10.25; do, common, $8.25 }to $8.50; bulls, choice, $10.25 to $11.00; do, medium bulls, $9.00 to ($9.50; do, rough bulls, $7.50 , to $8.00; butchers' cows, choice, $10.25 | to $10.75; do, good, $9.50 t6 $10.00; |do, medium, $8.50 to $8.75; do, com- jmon, $7.00 to $7.75; sbockers, $8.00 | to $10.00; feeders, $10.50 to $11.50; | canners, $5.50 to $6.00; milkers, good | to choice, $90.00 to $180.00; do, com. ;and med., $65.00 to $75.00; springers, | $90.00 to $130.00; light ewes, $9.06 i yearlings, $12.25 = «tc /$13.00; spring lambs, $13.75 i& $14.25; calves, good to choice, $15.50 }to $16.50; hogs, fed and watered, Hay--No. 1, $28 to $24 per ton;; $15.00 to $17.00. mixed, $21 to $22 per ton, track Tor-| onto. Toronto. Straw--Car lots, $10 to $11, track Country Produce--Wholesale Butter--Dairy, tubs and rolls, 38 to 39c; prints, 40 to 41¢ Creamery, fresh made, solids, 51¢; prints, 52c. Eggs--New laid, 58 to 60c The subscriptions to the National War | Bonds reached and passed a total of | £1,600,000,000 before the close | Saturday last, it is learned. The | Bank of England figures now available ishow that during the final week of | the issue applications were made for | £102,980,202, making the grand total 'for the Bank of England issue of ap- | plications of £1,549,605,815. To this {has been added £50,986,240 subscribed through the post office. The amount therefore so far realized by the Na- tional War Bonds is £1,600,592,055. Swit r S e OVER 3,500 INDIANS ENLISTED FOR WAR A despatch from Ottawa says:-- A report issued by the Department of Indian Affairs shows to what ex- | tent men of Indian blood enlisted An the Canadian forces. The report says that more than 3,500 enlistments were recorded by the department. This number presents approximately 35 per cent, of the Indian male popula- tion of military age resident in the nine provinces of the Dominion. It is pointed out further that many Indians enlisted of whom the department has notrecord, : : SSS RES Chai PETROGRAD EVACUATED BY BOLSHEVIKI TROOPS A despatch from Copenhagen says:--The Bolshevik forces ate evac- uating Petrograd and removing' all stores, acording to a despatch to the Berlinske Tidendem from Helsingfors. The despatch adds that Leon Trot- zky, the Bolshevik Minister of War, is transferring his headquarters to | Nizini-Novgorod, and that the anti- Bolshevik movement is growing daily. ~ 7 NAA FIX NATIONAL DAY ' OF INTERCESSION A despatch from Ottawa says:-- Sunday, February 16, has been fixed by the Government as a national day of intercession that the deliberations of the Peace Conference may result "in the establishment of a world-wide peace on a just and permanent foun- of | dation." ' Dressed. poultry--Spring chickens, 26 to 32c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 30¢; ducklings, 32¢;, Live pouliry--Roosters, 20c 27 .-to turkeys, 40c; | squabs, doz. $4.50!; geese, 25s. ; fowl, 24 to 30c; ducklings, Ib:, 85c; turkeys, 35c; Spring chickens, 25c; geese, 18c.! deal, and she has even done a little Wholesalers are selling to the re-} tail trade at the following prices: Butter--Fresh dairy, choice, 46 to 48c; creamery, solids, 51 prints, 52 to 54c¢ Margarine--32 to 34c. Potatoes--Ontarios, f.o.b., Toronto, car lots, 95 cents. Beans -- Canadian, bushel, $5.75 to $6.00; hand-picked, Burma or Indian to $5.00; Limas, 15 to 16c. to 53c; track hand-picked, imported » $4.75 Honey--Extracted* clover: 5-Ib, tins 23 too 29¢ lb.; 10-Ib. tins, 27 to 28¢; 60-Ib. tins, 26 to 2646c; 60-lb. tins, 21 to 22c, Comb: $4.50 to $5.00 doz.; $4.00, doz. Provisions--W holesale buckwheat, 16-02., 12~0z., $3.50 to Smoked meats--Hams, medium, 36 to 38¢; heavy 30 to 32c; cooked, 50 to 52c; rolis, 32 to 33c; breakfast bacon, 41 to 45c; backs, plain, boneless, 50 to 538c. 45 to 46c; Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 30 to 31c; clear bellies, 29 to 30c. Lard--Pure, 'tierces, 28 to 28 lec; tubs, 28% to 29c; pails 28% to 29%; prints, 30 to 804%¢; compound, tierces, 26%e; Montreal, Jan. 28.--Choice steers, 1 $12.00 to $13.00; good, $10.00 to $11.50; medium, $8.50 to $9.50; bulls $8.50 to $10.00; good, $8.00 to $8.50; medium, $7.00 to $7.50; cows, $9.00 to "$10.00; good, $8.50 to $9.00; medium, 7.00 to $8.00; canners, $5.00 to $6.50; calves, milkfed, $12.00 to $15.00; sheep, $9.50 to $10.50; lambs, $11.00 to $13.00. Italy's Princesses. The four daughters of the King and Queen of Italy are great favorites with the public. The eldest, Princess Yolanda, helps her mother a great nursing, one part of the Quirinal Pal- ace having been transformed into a sick ward for refugee children; in fact, rooms originally belonging to the Royal children have -aside for that purpose, and it was in insight into the routine of caring for patients. The other Royal daughters are Princess Mafalda, Princess Gio- vanna, and the baby, Princess Maria. Princess Mafalda is credited with hav- ing said upon one occasion that her mother was "the comfort of everyone in trouble." een Meee Seca THREE BRITISH DIVISIONS DISBANDING IN ITALY A despatch from London says:-- The British have three divisions in Italy which are being reduced by de- mobilization. Probably only a frac- tion of this force will be retained tained after general demobilization to form part of the allied army of oc- cupation in Austria, in accordance 2542 to 24%c; tubs, 25% to with the wish of Field Marshal Foch. Where Canadians Are--This is a picture of the U Germany, niversity at Bonn which is the hearquarters of the Canadian force on the Rhine. Many of our officers are demiciled in this building which faces the public gardens, been put); these that the Princess got her first | _ Hight bushels of beans for a bob! | Thirty-two pecks for a shilling! | Where? In Cheapside. When? In (1191. In that year twenty seams of beans were bought for twenty shil- lings, says an English writer, A seam was a load for a pack-horse, and con- sisted of eight bushels. Those beans were bought for the soldiers who went with King Richard the First to Jerusalem on the Third Crusade. And what did Richard the Tion- | Heart and~his courageous Crusaders ;have to eat with their beans during the voyage? Why pork, of course! Pork and beans. What price the 'pork? Well, eight hundred ~ hogs were bought, to be carried to Jerusa- lem with the King, for $289. That works out to-a fraction over 35 cents |per hog. So that in 1191 you could | "go the whole hog" for less than 'the present price of one pound of bacon! That wouldn't be buying "a pig in a poke," would it? . Meat at half a cent a pound, horse- shoes at half a cent each, boots at 50 cents a pair, an acre of arable land at a yearly rent of 12 cents, and a ship for $180, were also current prices at that period. But what about incomes? A cap- tain of a ship received $30 a year; a sailor exactly half that amount; a carpenter earned 6 cents a day; laboer got 4 cents a day; a woman cents, and a boy 1 cent. So that half the weekly wage of | laborer would pay the year's rent of |an acre of ground. He could easily afford a pound of meat a day. One and a half week's wages would buy a pig. Four week's wages would buy a pair of boots. Let us Now see how the king was | fixed financially. He wanted all the |money he could get to enable him to join the Third Crusade. He sold to William the Lion his--Richard's-- | '° right of superiority over the Crown |! of Scotland for $33,380. He sold the! Earldem of Durham to the Bishop of | He sold t a 9 ai ] | Durham for the same sum. A ithe Chancellorship of England to the Bishop of Ely for $15,000. And in similar ways he made up a total of $106,610, i On his way home from the war Richard became a. prisoner of the Emperor of Germany, who demanded a ransom of $500,000. To pay this every man in England Had to give a quarter of his income. : Some income-tax that! But it was paid. Amd Richard returned home. ae np -- "LA LIBRE BELGIQUE" | t { Secret of the Belgian Newspaper the Germans Could Not Suppress. Everyone remembers the newspa- per, La Libre Belgique, published in | Belgium during the German occupa- tion. For over four years this patri- otic paper defied to the utmost the German authority that had been set up; one may even say that it snapped its fingers at the German authorities, told them bluntly the truths they did not like to hear, and especially---that was its object--sustained the morale of the people in Belgium, And La} Libre Belgique succeeded from every point of view. This paper was edited and printed | ! for four years in the greatest sec- recy, without anyote\ever knowing who was either the founder or the administrator. Now that the Germans have left Belgium, the only person who knows the seéret is able to lift the veil from it. The founder was Mr. Victor Jourdain, director and chief 'editor of the newspapers Le Patniote® and Le National Bruxellois. His co-}! 'founder and manager was Eugene | Van Doren-Colin, engineer. ; Victor Jourdain died at the begin- it the age of oyer 80. = Skee: =e Seek a See y SS ee Se WHAT THE Plato. as + = WESTERN PEOPLE - AREDOING oe ae . Progress of the Great West Told fs a Few Pointed Paragraphs. ig : ; The Navy League Labor Bureau, in} tion of mortality, due to the blockade, | Victoria, is finding jobs for mobilized sailors. - many de- Struck by a anotor par, Willie Biggs, 'aged seven, was almost instanily kil- led at Vancouver. An impressive ceremody marked 'the unveiling of South Vancouver's | Victory Loan flag. "The establishment of a free port + zone within Vancouver Harbor is be- ng strongly advocated. Apparently overcome by heart- . \ failure, Ben Thomas Griffiths, a re- the turned soldier, fell dead at Victovia. Emery M. Prouty, who has been en- gaged in the spruce industry in B.C., died recently of pneumonia at Port- and, J. H. Brody, of Findlay,..Durham und Brodie, Victoria, died suddenly near his home at London, Victoria in 1876. He left Coroner Jeffs, of Vancouver, scored the city for traffic laxity, which he believed was the cause of a numberof auto accidents, Samuel Glazien, of Victoria, was arrested, charged with-carrying on a trading bysiness and not keeping nooks of account. gece South | Vancouver Soldiers' and Sailors' Mothers and Wives Associa- tion gave a Christmas tree-to the widows and children of soldiers. The forty-sixth annual report of the committee of management of the B.C. Protestant Orphans' Home was read at Victoria City Mall. A magnificent official reception. was held at Vancouver in honor of Hon. John Oliver upon his appointment. as } Minister of the Crown. A movement is on foot at Prince Rupert to take over the Prince Rupert Hospital by the city and appoint a board of five directors. Mr. George Easterbrook, manager of the Basterbrook Milling Company, died in his 77th year from pneumonia, after an illness of five months. Lieutenant James FE. Stephens, a son of Col. Stephens, of the Imperial army, : : Rupert in 1915, is reported killed in action. who enlisted from Prince An expert in Vancouver estimates that three years will be the duration of the shipbuilding industry on the Pacific coast. the world's demand for ships will be greatly reduced. After that, he says, Nanaimo will have a memorial 'monument erected to the memory of the Nanaimo boys fallen in action. Four captured enemy guns have been requested from the Minister of Militia and Defence. Midnight, the time of the arrival at Vancouver depot of the first party of returned men to reach the city after the signing of the armistice, saw a arge crowd assembled at the C.P.R. | station to greet the heroes with ring- | ne cheers. a < + Seven Sentence Sermons. If you have done something that is | good, forget it--and do something better---Lavater. * * * °, : If you would gain mankind, the best way is to appear to love them; and the best way of appearing to love i them ist o love them in reality.--J. Bentham. * * . ia . Our doubts are traitors and make * ee Ld { Kindness goes along way lots on | times when it ought ter stay at home. ;---Kin Hubbard. . * x * Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think, without oenfusion, clearly; To love his fellow man sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and heaven securely. Van Dyke. * e LJ » When men speak ill of thee, so live eT} SB UL svod pue suveq Yoog that nobody will believe them--- ew R- enn Semething In One Lesson. "Do you think you could learn to ove me?" asked the young man. "Well--I don't---know," replied the sweet young thing, thoughtfully, "T have $5,000 in Victory Bonds, | $10,000 invested in gond-paying stock, 99 and" | "Gon on; I'm. learning." "And $50,000 in, well-paying real estate." "All tight, deax; I've learned. Be- ieve me,/you're some teacher!" -- eee Ved eo The Iste of Pines promises to be- ; wh | come an important producer of jron,} ning of October last, in Brussels, at | copper, and other ores, as eleven mines | | have been located, ERINGING UP FPaTEER po ee semen! t BY GOLLY: FoR me e OWN SAFETY <1 HAD BETTER <1 Pian GIT AN oN WHEN oem T RIO oF I> VASE Sue > DHE cits 1OME AN! HT po WITH eet TIME THANK GOODNESS - ITS THE LAST ONE IN THe 9 SHE'S ANGRY -- \ ' GOT RID OF IT YOST IN TIME - | HEAR HER _ COMIN' UP THE STAIRS ' A. 4T SOUNDS LIKE | ; I "WHAT DO YOU MERN BY THROWIN' A VASE. OUT THE WINDOW AT KILL ME - Dh9N'T Nou? AE - YOU. FRIED TO ee ee ~ CHINN S AU 22. "off like« the [time has come, NEWS BULL AND M18 PEOPLE i i . rd Cceurrences in the Land That Reigns ~ 'Bupreme in the Commer: Een al World. =. a 1 was killed in action. : The Corporation of 'Sun paying £78,000 per annum bonuses. One of the newest war industries is the manufacture of dog wool into wearing garments. There has been fifty thousand paupers during the past year. | Nineteen Staffordshire miners were erdered to pay fines and damages for neglect of work, : The Actors' Association has decided to go into liquidation and bec me re- constructed as a trades union. A matineeand auction sale at Man- chester realized 'over. £8,000 for the King's Ras for the Disabled. Fourteen hundred -- British-Soldiers expressed their intention of becoming clergymen after the war, The death took place recently of W. R. Walker, who gave the King, as a cadet, his first lesson in diving. Major J. Mackenzie Rogan, the famous army batdmaster, has' been derland "on reduction «f{ cver in Fneland 2 2 cians' Company. ; Sir William Pickford, the new of the United Kingdom. - It is hoped to raise £100,000 for the Harrow Memorial School, and of this amount £42,000 has already beer sub- scribed. "The Manchester cotton employers have offered their tarders and spin- ners an increase of forty per cent. over pre-war wages. Sir Charles Wakefield has made a gift of $600 a year for five years to the British Academy +6. establish a Raleigh History Fund. ' : The London Chamber of Commerce has reaffirmed its previous . decision against the nationalizing of railways. At a sale of 113 lots belonging to | the Alton Estate, Staffordshire, the sum of £88,500° ($224,500) was real- ized. AD, O. Edwards, headmaster of the Sydenham Church of England School, has retired after forty-six years' ser- ~ vice. a : Sarah Ballam was fihed £10 at Ed- monton for sending a box of matches by post which exploded in'the post office. Sir Alfred Mond, M.P., has contri- buted £25,000 to the Jewish National Fund for the purchase of Jand in Palestine. A letter posted six years ago at Donemara, County Down, Ireland, has just reached its destination at Wilms- low, Cheshire. Nottingham is threatened with a stoppage of the lace industry owing to the demand of the workers for in- creased pay. The late Colone] Roosevelt donated + fifty guineas from the Nobel Peace Prize awarded him to the King's Fund for the Disabled, Sets ioaet Cie ine ae BRITISH "SUPERSUBS" Admiralty Reveals Details of Craft Eauipped for 3,000 Mile Cruises. The Admiralty has. just permitted to be made public the real story of the submarine cruisers the British | successfully constructed at the time THE us lose the good we oft might win, !the Germans were boasting of their by fearing to attempt.--Shakespeare. | super-submarine, The British craft have two funnels ;and make twenty-four knots on the surface under steam power. They earry from eight to ten torpedcoe tubes, two or three 4-inch guns, and are equipped also with internal com- bustion motors for surface eruising. The batteries for the under-sea power can be charged from both the steam and combustion engines, aNd an in- genious scheme has been devised for dismantling the funnels quickly for submerging. : The vessels displace 2,000 tons on i the surface aud 2,700 tons submerged, They_are 340 feet long, have a beam of 26 feet and a cruising radius. of 8,000 miles. They are designed to be a match even for torpedo-boat des- troyers in surface fighting. : Tt is known also that. the' British have built successfully a submarine carrying a 12-inch gun, although the details of this craft have not been / made public. The new ideas embraced 'in the construction of the era?t include the "cushioning" of the boat to with- stand the terrible concussion of the 'gun, This ideacis represented' unoffi- j cially 'as havihg been successful, So > 'faras is known, the new craft never "enemy - jwas.employed against any 'vessel, -- -- 3 ee ane -- Heat Valugy of Wood. In a discussion by the Forest Pro- | duets. Laboratories, Montreal, of the | heat values of dvy wood, it is stated | that the-helow amounts of wood have equal heating value to one ton. of. anthracite: 1.00 cord. of birch, 1.15 cotds of tamarack, 1,20 cords of Doug las fix, 1.50 cords of packpine, 1.65 iand. 2.40 cords of cedar, | parison is based on the supposition that the calorific value of the coal received in' Canadh last winter wa much lesa, possibly as low as 10, Btu, which, in comparison, would decrease the aboye-stated quantities of wood by 23. per cent. ei oy a Basy Way 'With Faults. -- You will find t less easy t vpro faults than to choke them b virtues. Do not think of ye still lese of others' faults. In. person that comes near you Jook what is good aud strong; honor » rejolee in tt; and, a8 you ean, py imitate it: and, your faulta will ¢ dead Jeave: when hee oe Be < ae admitted to the freedom of the Must~ a cords of poplar, 1.60 cords of hemlock -- This com- -- FROM ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOCT JOUN _ Lieutenant E. C. Hocking, R.A.F.,y son of Joseph Hocking, the riovelist, -- atte president of the Admiralty and Di-- -- vorce Courts, fias been made a peer -- *