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ight or Day) should lay 1n Spring and ‘ hes in Pri celeb l‘ :ed Chicken Corn )ed Oats for Horses 5* and Wheat Chop 1 Chop ndfihole’fi rains Feed in Quantities Shorts 1335;991'11 Chop for O§§§§§§§OW 20 oooooooooonmm acture the standthe Pumping 0n the D ENGINE ’ COMPANY ld by Connor OQOOOOQQOOOOOOOOM bnada ISIS \\ to our '88 (h'1> h. All kinds In" 1 \\ Mills \\'€€’K H condition :'3 fed to; Ontario 1 32.75: Sunday ‘. At this office, 1917. Luan- )mer Spent a {8‘7 ht’I‘, MI‘. J33 r, returned m f0? the 0 has been ‘_ snug; II“. m 1t It. Mr. Visiting MP. and from IS NEAR RIOT AT MONTREAL “Margin" is the difference between the cost of food laid down in a ware- house of a company and the selling price. It. is obvious that a number of charges have to be deducted from “margin" before “profits” will be ar- rived a. Mayor Martin‘s demonstration on Fletcher‘s-Field. Montreal, on Sunday, drew a big crowd, and was almost re sponsible for rioting. During the course of the meeting an incident oc- curred that, but for the intervention of police officers, might have ended in serious injury for Lieut.-Col. I. P. Rexford, who was in civilian clothes, and a soldier of a Highland reinforceâ€" ment company. As it was, both were hustled by the crowd, and when they had been placed on a street car stones were thrown at the car, breaking the windows. A crowd of about 5,000 peo- ple broke away from the main body, and the harangue of Alphonse Ver- ville. M.P., to chase after Col. Rexford and the soldier. Neither made any attempt to run from the mob, leaving only under police orders, and under the escort of the police officers and of Mayor Martin. A remark made by Col. Rexford during the course of Mr. Verville‘s speech precipitated the trouble. The latter had‘ remarked that there were many Canadian soldiers in England who were kept there so that their physical condition would not be known in Canada. Mr. O’Connor, in his report, uses the term “margin" throughout, and does not specifically designate this as meaning profit. In 1916. the year when bacon prices soared most, the first company ex. ported 95,000,000 pounds of bacon, out of a total Canadian export of 169,000.- 000. The “margin," according to Mr. O'Connor, was 5.05 cents per pound, aggregating $4,898,000. The total bacon business handled by the company last year is estimat- ed at a hundred million pounds, at an average margin of 5.05 cents per pound. In 1915 the company exported 57,000,000 pounds, at an average mar- gin of 3.67 cents per pound, the total business of the company aggregating some sixty million pounds. In 1914 the company did a fourteen-million- pound business, with profits averaging 3.06 cents per pound. _ Commenting on the increased sell- ing price, and margin of profit last year as compared with 1914 and 1915, Mr. O’Connor says: “There is no evi- dence of correspondingly increased storage or other costs. The margin of 3.67 cents was suffciently satisfac- tory and profitable in 1915. Why not in 1916?" storage companies in Canada. Pos- sibly no more striking example of a monopoly of any one commodity can be cited from the records of any coun- try supplying the allies with food.” Mr. O’Connor’s report deals gener- ally with all commodities handled by cold-storage companies, but he pays particular attention in his deductions to the operations of the two biggest companies. In 1916. the year when bacon prices Mayor's Anti-Conscription Meeting Provided Some Excitement Their control of the bacon situation has been much strengthened since. In 1916 the two companies together sold a hundred and forty million pounds out of a hundred and fifty-one million pounds sold by all the cold- Air. O’Connor says: “The basis of a mon0poly in this commodity existed before the war. In 1914 these two companies exported more than half the total bacon exported by Canada. “It is not so," came the reply in English, and immediately the excite- ment grew tense. here were, however. 24 officers and ‘1 men not on board at the‘fime, thus bringing the total number of survivors to 97. A full inquiry has been or- ‘dered. Cost of Living Commissioner Submit: Report on Bacon H.M.S. Vanguard, Captain James D. Dick, blew up while at anchor on the night of July 9 as the result of an in- ternal explosion. ‘ The ship sank immediately and there were only three survivors among those aboard ship at the time of the disaster-one officer and two men. The officer has since died ‘ _. The battleship Vanguard displaced €19,250 tons and her complement be- fore the war was 870 men. She be- longed to the St. Vincent class of dreadnoughts and was launched in March, 1909. during the past couple of years, were given in a report presented to the Minister of Labor by Mr. W. F. O’Con- nor, Cost of Living Commissioner. A “margin" of some five million dollars last year on bacon alone is declared to be the share of one company. An- other big company which shares for the most part the bacon monopoly of Canada, is reported to have cleaned up about a million and a half. Startling revelations of the money made by packing concerns in Canada. Probably 800 Lives Lost with H.M.S. Vanguard 33.32: Toronto Peeple Walked for Two Days and a Half After being on strike for two and a half days. the conductors and motor- men of the Toronto Street Railway returned to work, accepting an m* crease of six cents per hour all round. They had demanded an increase of 10 ‘cents per hour over the prevailing rates of 25 to 30 cents according to length of service. A Board of Con- ‘ctliation is to try to attect a final set: flement. There was an entire absence of violence during the strike, as the company did_not attempt to run cars. A coalition recruiting committee has been organized in Australia. 1 The new wool clip of Australia 11;. been sold to the British Government. : Binn Feiners were said to be receiv- gg financial dd from German 111' PACKERS’ BIG PROFITS BATTLESHIP BLEW UP A BRIEF CAR STRIKE July 19th, 1917. Movement is Decisive While the Austrian and German semi-official discussions continue to treat the Russian successes south of the Dniester as of an unimportant and local nature, and casually call towns like Halicz hamlets, The Tageblatt’s correspondent at Austrian Headquar- ters says it is idle to deny that the offensive has passed the stage of initial successes, and that the front north of the Dniester is affected by the “decisive changes south of the river.” Neither Lemberg nor Kovel is yet threatened, says the correspondent, but the Russian advance is moving in the direction of the important petrol- eum field at Drohobycz, southwest of Lemberg. He adds it is now clear that the revolution has affected the offensive power of the Russian army less than had been believed, and that the army is better equipped with heavy artillery than ever before. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Imperial Chancellor, has re- signed. The Kaiser has accepted the resignation and appointed Dr. Georg Michaeiis, Prussian Under-Secretary of Finance and Food Commissioner, to the Imperial Chanceflorship. Another development of consider- able significance is recorded on what appears to be good authority. A Berne despatch says an official tele- gram has been received there from Berlin announcing the resignation of Gen. yon Stein, the Prussian Minister of War.’ The importance of his re- tirement lies in the fact that the Prus- sian War Ministry is in reality the YVar Ministry for the German Empire and that Gen. von Stein is a staunch supporter of the pan~Germans, who are the bitterest opponents of the policy of peace without annexations or in demnities. The Germand, says this paper. used eXplosive bullets with their machine guns. The Russians took few pris- oners. In some houses the German gunners were found chained to the guns. - Commoner Replaces the Famous “Scrap of Paper” Man Lost and Regained The Russians were soon attacked, however, by fresh enemy forces, which were rushed from the fortress. After a stiff fight the Russians were compelled to fall back. Reinforced. they returned and drove the Germans out. Later the Germans, supported by an armored train. counter-attacked, and again occupied Kalusz. But they were once more expelled with heavy losses. Sanguinary house-to-house fighting, mostly, with the bayonet, en- sued until six o’clock in the evening. Attacks by Russian troops in the Lodziany region, southwest of Kalusz, in eastern Galicia, resulted in the Aus- trians losing their positions, 1,000 in prisoners and a number of guns, the War Office announced on Sunday. Elsewhere the Russians held their ground against attacks and took more than 600 additional prisoners. The Russians announced their occupation of the village of Novica. south of Kalusz. The fighting resulting in the capture of Kalusz subjected the revolutionary army to the severest test, according to The Rnssky Slovo, which says that the Russian cavalry entered the town and found it abandoned by the garri- son. Meanwhile no more light has been thrown on the many sensational re- ports current on the continent con- cerning the acuteness of the Berlin crisis. The Morning Post was the only paper in London to print the rum- or from Amsterdam that Emperor William had abdicated, in favor of his son Joachim. The telegram. said there was no confirmation of the rum- or. There is no further news concern- in‘g the reported strike of the Reich- stag, and refusal to do any more busi- ness until the political crisis was settled. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ADMITTEI) SERIOUS Enemy Begins to Regard Smashing Blows as Serious Menace Dr. Michaelis is three years older than the Junker statesman he dis- places. He is known to hold extreme- ly liberal ideasâ€"ideas quite the re- verse of those held by the military school of statesmanship. typified by von Bethmann-Hollweg. He is not a noble. When the Russians occupied Ka- lusz, after forcing a passage of the Lomnica, they had advanced twenty «miles northwestward from Stanislau In five days. Advance Twenty Miles in Five Days Toward Lemberg Now that Halicz is in Russian pos- session, the eyes of Gen. Korniloff's cavalry Cossacks are turned toward the'raflway centre of Styrj,’ a town of 30,000 inhabitants, a junction of the line from‘Lemberg to Lawoczne, and of a branch line to Chodorov‘z. \Iilitarv writers describing the de- fensive say its chief strength is.- on the east and northeast, but weaker on the south. There is ivvidespread expectation of an important counter- attack on the northern front. Another steps in the outflanking of the Austro-German armies pro- tecting Lemberg. on the east was achieved in the capture of vKalusz. Beyond the Lomnica River and south of the Dniester, west of Halicz, Gen- eral Kornilotf's advance continues. No Japs for Russian Front Answering a question in the Japan- ese Diet, Viscount Motono character- ized as untrue the report that Japan intended to bespatch troops to Rus- sia. He declared the Government had received no such proposal or request from any of the allies. RUSSIANS STRIKE HARD: HOLLWEG IS DROPPED Takes Over Britain’s crops 'on Rhondda, the British Food 0119;, ha: taken _ove_r the 9.011ng 317' f 8 qt wheat, barle}; ma Wm: . in . The Germans made a heavy attack on the salient west of Cerny, on the Aisne front, and penetrated to a sup- iport trench, but, after an all-night battle, they were ejected, except from ' some front line elements on a front of about 500 yards. 3 The ofiicial statement says:â€" '. “With the assistance of artillery fire 'of several hours’ duration, the Ger- fmans developed a powerful attack 'upon the salient of our line west of 'Cerny. Very violent fighting contin- ued all night, with alternate advances and retirements. In Spite of the large enemy effectives and the intensive use of liquid fire, the assailants were finally ejected from the support trench which they had penetrated, and .‘Were able to retain only elements of ‘rthe first line upon a front of about ‘ 500 metres. A strongly organized network of German trenches on a front of more than 800 yards and 300 yards in depth, north of Mont Haut and northwest of the Teton, in the Champagne, was captured by the French in a brilliant attack Saturday night, with 360 prison- ers, the War Office announced. An amendment was also passed pro~ viding a penalty of not less than three months, and not more than two years for refusal to act on a. boarfl or tribunal. Men marrying on or after July 6th, the day the principle of the bill was adopted, are to be classed as single. The selective board which will choose one member of each local trib- unal will consist of four from Ontario, four from Quebec, and two from each of the other provinces. The Conserva- tives will name half the board and the Liberals the other half. All the clauses of the bill have been adopted and the measure will go into effect immediately upon receiving its third reading. There is a radical rearrangement of the classes to be called out under Canada's Military Service Act. Hon. Arthur Meighen, Solicitor-General, an- nounced in the House of Commons that instead of calling out the young single men of 20 to 23 as the first class, that class will consist of all unmarried men between 20 and 34. These will all be called out together, but arrangements will be made to take care of them at tribunals ,etc.. at times sufficiently separated to avoid congestion. All will be treated alike so far as priority of selection is concerned. In other words, there is no longer any fear of the first draft consisting of young men from 20 to 23 alone; it will be a mixed draft of men from 20 to 34. Only Six Classes The married men, who formed the second three classes, are also com- bined into one class, so that there are now only six classes as follows: Class 1â€"Single men from 20 to 34. Class 2â€"Married men from 20 to 34. Class 3â€"Single men from 35 to 41. Class 4â€"Married men from 35 to 41. Class 5â€"Single men from 42 to 45. Class 4â€"Married men from 35 to 41. Class 5â€"Single men from 42 to 45. Class Gâ€"Marrled men from 42 to 45. Widow ers are treated as unmarried unless they have a child. Must Act on Tribunals An amendment was passed that an appeal from a local tribunal consist- ing of one or more county court judges must be heard by a judge of a higher court. Strong Position in the Champagne Captured from Huns ONLY SIX CLASSES UNDER REVISED BILL ‘mpcrtant Changes Made in Compul- sion Measure During the Com- mittee Stage “The artillery activity was likewise lively in the sector of Craonne. “In the Champagne, after important artillery preparations, our troops at 7.25 pm. attacked the German posi- tions at two points of the front. Con- ducted with exceptional vigor, the at- tacks were successful in attaining all the objectives. North of Mont Haut and on the slopes northeast of the Teton our soldiers gave proof of their spirit by capturing, to a width of 800 metres and to a depth of 300 metres, the network of powerfully. organized enemy trenches. The Germans react- ed violently, their counter-attacks fol- lowing each other the remainder of the night. All failed under our fire, with heavy losses, or after hand-to- hand fighting. The positions cap- tured were completely maintained. Agent Secured At Pittsburgâ€"Mine Owners Want Our Market Mr. C. A. Magrath, Fuel Controller, has returned to Ottawa from Washing- ton, where he had been in regard to coal supplies for Canada. He’secur- ed the services of Mr. H. P. McCue of Pittsburg. an expert on coal tranSpor- tation, who will o'pen an office in Pitts- burg. Mr. Magrath announced that he has arranged,with Sir Henry Drayton, Chief Rail-way Commissioner, to un- dertake to control the coal transpor- tation problem. . As regards the situation generally, Mr. Magfath warns both domestic and industrial users that they should lose no Opportunity to lay in,their fuel supply at the earliest possible mo. ment. the announcement himself in the house, in a speech defending his posi- tion as affected by the commission’s report. Chamberlain Resigns The announcement of nthe resigna- tion of J. Austen Chamberlain, Secre- tary for India which is the first fruit of the Mesopotamia commission’s report, lent a dramatic touch to the debate on that report in the‘British Parliament. Mr. Chamberlain made On Food Control Board Mr. G. C. Chipman, editor of The Grain Growers’ Guide, has been named by Premier Norris as Manitoba’s rep- resentative on the‘Advisory Board to assist Food Controller Hon. W~ I. FINE FRENCH ATTACK COAL FOR CANADA THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. Some Other Builders . Amour: odxor shipbuilders wixc were in public life one could mentzon. ion. John Lefurgy, Senator Yes £72131. \‘.'::,Ish, Mout. Govemor and Sen 1101‘ 1~io wlan, and Hon. \Villiam Strong of Prince Edward Island; Mr. 31011113. of Restigcucize. N.B.; Hon. Hobart a'oxmg, of Gang-ester; John A. Covert. ‘ S:r.t.~.3.in;"y, and Mr. Murchie, of C133. 11.9; '41 on. Josiah Wood. later lieut-cn .a.nt~go‘.'sr 132‘ of New BrunsWick, form- erly member for W’etstmorland; Sm;- Nrt:1.zmber1and,l\'e‘.v Brunswick Tl‘: next “as Sir Aibert Smith. 21 L'ermer Premier of th- Province ‘1'};0, ‘zougn a lawyer by profession zmiit and m1 11ed a good many 511135 111d accumulated thereby a substan £131 fortune. The third was Hon. J. 13.. Pope, of Prince Edward Islam who was a practicalshipbuider,1ikt at}: er. Then came. the Hon. A. \x 0.4311 afxe wards Lieu tenant-Gover nor of Nova Scotia,wi10. with a part 1 er bunt a number of ships at Crca Y1 Huge, i111 115 own count) 01 C01211esz- 31‘1)’ 111e111ber for Westmorl and; So: :1101‘ Muiihead of Northumberland; 13111115 Turner of Albert County; 11:1; l‘rooz) familv, of St. John, and Georgr I“. B rd, of Q eon’s County. Nova Scotian List- From Nova Scotia one might men Lion such men as James \V.L‘ar1::1;}.1 ael and the Nears-gor’s, 01 New U18": gow, itotou Com 1)‘; the Kitchens McKenzies, and Mohellans, of Rive; Leading Pubia‘c Men of Maritime Pro- vinccs Made Fortunes from Ship- yardsâ€"Long and Honorabk List “It is a remarkable fact that in In- dia, one of the most arid countties ii: the world there is one spot that. La» the. record rainfall of the. “hole earth,‘ said Dr. William Roberts, British agri cultural eXpert in India. “This p3 is Cherap nji, in Assam. It is in 1.. faith of the monsoon and in 11 1'11 ‘1 and there is almost constant rai 111.1:2 The average rainfall is 600 inches year, or 50 feet, which is nearly a too. a week This seems almost beyon: comprehension V’l 1en it is considere that the rainfall of the United States for instance, ranges from 16 inches to 35 inches. In some places there have been as high as 65 inches 01 \\ ater in a y 1,ar but this is the excep- tion. During the rain) season in Cher- apunji the waterfall is heaviest, but there is rain throughout the )ear. Notwithstanding this terrific moisture the inhabit'nts of the district raise vegetables and grain. They do this by building terraces which carry the wat- er off.” ~ \- o At such times of practice let him in- stantly and with decision and vigor snap back the tip of the/rod to the perpendicular. Ys’lxenever an opportun- ity seems to serve let him follow this practice. There are places in every stream where the angler meets with no encouragement and pushes onward. Before he presses on to new water the angler can give a little attention to his‘ strike. And heshouid do this when- ever a floating leaf or twig near his fly attracts his attention. If he earn- est-1y trains his arm to respond quick- ly to his‘ mind he will be somewhat prepared for an actual attempt to hit the rising fish. WHERE SHEPBUILDERS EEE’IAR‘EE POLH‘ECIANS In buying new stock, get something just a. little better than the average of the neighborhood, something you can take a pride in and show to your neighbors and friends. When a farmer goes about stating that farming does not pay he adver- tises his own failure, not the unprofit ableness of farming as a whole, Milk is said to keep longer in red bottles than in the usual kind‘ because it is the rays near the violet end of theISpectrum that aflect it. Forlearning a prompt strike when using the dry lure it is suggested that the novice frequently practise his arm and wrist in the endeavor promptly to retrieve his line. This should be done even when no trout has shown itself or any offer has been made at the feathers. Let the angler who desires to train his arm for a prompt recov- ery of the line imagine that a trout is making an attack on the fly. Must Know How to Buy Buying is one of the important parts of farm management. A great many farm failures are due to poor judg- ment in buying, particularly those cases Where commodities are bought on credit. The two-edged weapops are found among the earlies’g specnnens of Jap- anese metal workmg- British scientists have discovered in New Guinea 9, race of pygmies living at an altitude of about 2,000 feet. 2%"ET’EES? PLACE 0N EARTE Hints to Beginnersâ€"Practice Quick Retrieving and Strike Lucian, in Vancouver News-Ad'er .iser. gives some most interes‘tizzg 'acts about shipbuilding in the Mar Lune Provinces in tue olden days. 7h: says: The revival of wooden ship- aiding recalls to mind a neat num- u" 01' Canadian public men who we: e ahi; buildeis in the early days. The 3212;: tour "Mini stars of Marine an .1sl1eries in Canada were shipb build- ‘s and ship owners. Hon. Peter :cheil. one of the fathers of (‘0:1 1.1erazicn, built ships at or near *4- Town with Average Rainfail of 680 Inches a Year Better disk the stubble before sum- Lera‘dcr Wcastlz in us own county 0‘. If you do not know about the wonderful mountain scenery, in- cluding JaSper and Mount Robson Parks, traversed by the transcon- tinental line of the Canadian North- ern Railway between Edmontor. and Vancouver, get a copy of our hand- some descriptive booklet. to be had ’”W§§§§§ 09900999 000990 66606§§§06060WWNN9 North Haven, Conn. â€"“ When I “as 45 I had the Change of Life which is a trouble all women have. At first it didn t bother me but after a While I got bearing doun pains. I called 1n doctors who told me to try diife1ent thingsb but they did not cure my pains. One day my husband came home band said,‘ Why don’t y ou t1\ L3 dia E. Pinkham’ 3 Vegetable Compound and Sanative \Vash?’ \\ ell, I got them and tookb about 10 bottles of \ egetable Compound and could feel my self regaining my health. I alSo used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Sanative W’ash and it has done me a great deal of good. Any one coming to my house who suffers from female t1ouhles or Change of Life, I tell them to take the Pinkham remedies. There axe about 20 of us here who think the world of them.”â€"Mrs. FLORENCE ISELLA, Box 197, North 11211 on, Conn. Many distressing Ailments experienced by them are Alleviated by Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She Tells Her Friends to Take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Remedies. You are Invited to Write for Free Advice. No other medicine has been so successful in relieving woman’s suffering as has. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Women may receive free and helpful advice by writing the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine 00., Lynn, Mass. Such letters are received and answed by women only and held in strict confidence. NEW CANADIAN NORTHERN 'RO CKIES Here is Proof by Women who Know. Lowell, Massâ€"“For the last three years I have been troubled with the Change of Life and the bad feelings common at that time. I was in a very ner- vous condition, with headaches and pain a good deal of the time so I was unfit to do my work. A friend asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- ble Compound, which I did, and it has helped me in every way. I am not nearly so nervous no head- ache or pain. I must say that Lydia E. I’mkham’s Vegetable Compound is the best remedy any sick woman can take.”â€"Mrs. MARGARET QUINN, Rear 259 \Vorthen St, Lowell, Mass. Not Worth Pooling Harperâ€"You can't fool all of the people all of the time. Sharperâ€"I don’t want to. Lots of people haven‘t any money. for the asking, from A. H. Jackson, town agent. 12 3 Hose-Anna and such Tunes Sheâ€"D0 you play on the piano? Lieâ€"Occasionally. I am a fireman. Page 3.