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tile Mother. little mother, ith Folks and the old; he children nome is & know her. it her nan ttoms mother her tree; Muffett, the simple, ithout fail, i till the ischold â€" of hddlers, all ied a cobâ€" to Al; lisaster m â€" rolling r water, iy teli me er, Jack mot vour wits A my in do re seems ‘an make the butâ€" 1008€ in her n 11e piCk six butâ€" the ave 18@ it ne * A despatch from London says: The daily report shows that the submarine campaign undertaken by the British navy in the Baitic is on a very extenâ€" Submarine Campaign is Evidently on a Very Exâ€" tensive Scaleâ€"German Hypocrisy sive scale, although complete details are lacking owing to the fact that the submarines are acting under the orâ€" ders of the Russian Admiralty. The sole facts published here are from Petrograd. It is known that over 30 German ships have been atâ€" tacked by British submarines since SHOT TO DEATH AS ENVOYS PLED THIRTY CGERMAN STEAMERS SUNK BY BRITISH IN THE BALTIC Execution of English Nurse at Brusâ€" sels Causes Wotklwi_de Horror. A despatch from London says: The world will read with indignation and horror the details of the putting to death by the Germans of Miss Edith Cavell, an English woman and head of a training school in Brussels, for helping English, French and Belgian soldiers to escape from Belgium. The full report 0. the cireumstances of the condemnation and execution made by Brand Whitlock, the American Minisâ€" ter at Brussels, to Walter H. Page, the American Ambassador at Lonâ€" don, has bean issued by the British Government, and tells of the greatest fight for a woman‘s life that was ever fought, and of unavailing efforts of nobles and neutrals to combat the calâ€" lous secret cunning of the Germans. There are 1 respondence, c written pages How the secretary of the American Legation, Hugh S. Gibson, sought out the German Governor, von der Lanckâ€" en, late at night before the execution, and, with the Spanish Minister, pleadâ€" ed with the Governor and the Gerâ€" man officers for the English woman‘s life, is graphically related in a memâ€" orandum from Mr. Gibson. This docâ€" ument makes reference to an apparâ€" ent lack of good faith on the part of the German authoritics in failing to keep their promises to inform the American Minister fully of the trial and sentence. Minister Whitlock telegraphed to Ambassador Page on the 12th: "Miss Cavell sentenced yesterday and exeâ€" cuted at 2 o‘clock this morning, deâ€" spite our best efforts, continued until the last moment." Secretary Gibson‘s report says that Conrad, an official of the German civil branch, gave positive assurances on the l1th that the American Legaâ€" tion would be fully informed of the developments in the case, and conâ€" tinues. "Despite these assurances, we made repeated enquiries in the course of the day, the last one being at 6.20 pm. Mr. Conrad then stated that sentence had not been pronounced, and specifically renewed his previous assurances that he would not fail to inform us as soon as there was any rews. "At 8.30 it was learned from an outside source that sentence had been passed in the course of the afternoon, before the last conversation with Mr. Conrad, and that execution would take place during the night." wWwIFE OF FORMER MP., A GERMAN, ARRESTED A despatch from London says: A sensation has been caused in the North Country, says the Evening News, by the arrest of the wife of William J. D. Burnyeat, who was a Member of Parliament for Whiteâ€" haven from 1906 to 1910. Mrs. Burnâ€" yeat is a German, the daughter of Col. Retzlaff, of Berlin. The couple own a fine house on the Irish Sea coast near Whitehaven, which recentâ€" ly was raided by a German submarâ€" inc. It was alleged at the time that the submarine was guided by signals from the coast. PROTEST FROM SWISS Is LODGED IN BERLIN A despatch from Berne says: The Swiss Government has instructed its Embassy at Berlin to lodge an enerâ€" getic protest against the new violaâ€" tion of Swiss territory by German aviators. The protest is occasioned by the act of an aviator in dropping eight bombs over Chaux de Fonds, causing the injury of four persons and considerable damage to property. Switzerland â€" demands compensation and the punishment of the aviator. WwILL LICENSE WOMEN AS ‘BUS CONDUCTORS A despatch from London says: In order to release men of military age g\ London it was announced at the olice Department that hereafter licenses would be issued to women to Wwork as omnibus and street car conâ€" ductors. A despatch from Rome says: The Entente allies are threatening to take yeprisals against Greece unless forâ€" mal assurances are given by Greece before the axpiration of a short time limit that she will not intervene in [te 194 ed Kept Facts Back. With Governor. cretary of the An Allies Place Time Limit on Greece ry of the American (Gibson, sought out nor, von der Lanckâ€" efore the execution, â€"uments in the cor ing in all 320 type is being carried out by only a fe#w submarines, has had remarkable reâ€" sults, comparing favorably, according the' operations began and the number is increasing daily. The work, which to naval experts, with the work of the entire German fiotilla in the same space of time. The campaign is causing intense anger in Germany. A peculiar feaâ€" ture of the outburst in the press is the complaint that it is a violation of rules of international law. The British "Superâ€"Bullet" Is Capable of This Speed. A member of the Royal Flying Corps, writing from an aviation camp "somewhere in Eugland," gives an idea of the routine followed by the members of the corps. f "The spot from which I am writâ€" ing," he says, "is an aerodrome perched on one of England‘s tall white cliffs. We of the RF.C. are composed principally of men who have recently passed the prodigiously stiff _ preliminary _ examination at Farnborough. Some of us await, day and night, orders which will send us skyward in pursuit of Zeppelins or Taubes; others are entrusted with the new machines turned out by the Royal Aircraft Factory, which we deâ€" liver ‘somewhere in France‘ in exâ€" change for machines which for variâ€" ous reasons have to be returned to the makers. Some twentyâ€"five minâ€" utes sees us across the Channel. For fiftyâ€"two minutes we glimpse things as they are at the base, and then havâ€" ing delivered the new plane we wing our way back with the ‘lame duck.‘ "Much of our time is spent in makâ€" ing ourselves proficient in practice flichts, in testing our knowledge of wireless telegraphy, in practising bomb dropping with dummies, and gencrally in possessing our souls in "We read of the insistent demand for the immediate construction of 2,000, 10,000, 20,000 machines, a deâ€" mand seriously made and as seriously deobated by writers who, posing as inâ€" structors of the public, prove that they are crassly ignorant of their subjoct. Even the minimum number quoted is a dream impossible of reaâ€" lization. Flying machines are not made in a day. Men skilled in the art of making them are scarce; enâ€" gines take time to build, and the soul of the machine, the pilot, does not learn his work in less than four or five months. A man may learn to fly, and often does, in six weeks, but that is the A B C of the profession. To be a serviceable member of the RF.C. means much more than mere fAying. i e s Up{xtience' until we get our orders and wing our way to ‘somewhere at the front.‘ "It is not generally known that: Britain now has Zeppelins, or rather,‘ machines of the Zeppelin type, equal | to anything the Germans have yet built. Only one, christened on account| of its glittering splendor, the Silver Queen, has been delivered, but therei are three others on the point of comâ€"| pletion. C f l "Then we have the ‘scout experiâ€" mental, a biplane of enormous strength and incredible swiftness. She is as yet unnamed, but to the members of the R.F.C. she is known as the Superâ€"Bullet. She can fly at the rate of 120 miles an hour, and by using the extra engine power with which she is fitted can increase her speed to 160 miles an hour. Moreâ€" over, she can climbâ€"and this is her chief advantage over all other maâ€" chinesâ€"to a height of 8,000 feet in six and ‘a half minutes." Germans in Brussels, However, Fail to Appreciate Their Humor. Practical jokes continue to annoy the German authorities in Brussels, who have considerable difficulty in putting down this form of insult to the invaders by the Belgian popuâ€" Don‘t wrorry if you are dead in ‘love; you will come to life again. the : lace. Machine guns were recently installâ€" ed by the Germans on the roof of the Palais de Justice in order to command the Minimes and Marcelles districts, where the rougher elements live. Imâ€" mediately, as if by one thought the people of the neighborhood mounted imitation guns of stovepipe on their housetops, so that the whole district seemed to bristle with artillery. Governor General von Bissing made the jokers pay for their fun, howâ€" ever, at the rate of 15 marks for each offence. The official announcement of the fine accused the jokers of adoptâ€" ing "a method of raillery which could only be disastrous to the excellent reâ€" lations existing between the civil popâ€" ulation and the authorities." Historic Bandages. No greater curio will probably find its way to the front than one on its way from New Zealand, sent into the New Zealand Belgian Relief Comâ€" mittee by a Mrs. Lyell, of Nelson, a South Island town. This lady, whose grandfather fought at Waterloo, has dispatched as her contribution some old linen bearing the date of 1818 and made in Belgium. Strange if it again reaches the country where it was purâ€" chased nearly 100 years ago. favor of Austroâ€"H\mgar? Germany and Turkey in any case. If these asâ€" surances â€" aro â€" satisfactory, . then Greece, and Roumania as well, are to be allowed to choose their own time for intervention. 160 MILES AN HOUR. BELGIANS ARE JOKERS. |\ _ Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 Winter, per | car lot, 93 to 95¢; wheat â€" slightly | tough, 87 to 91¢; sprouted or smutty, |70 to 85¢, according to samples and . freights outside. i PP C + a um deca PP The Leading Markets Breadstuffs. Toronto, Oct. 26.â€"Manitoba wheat â€"New cropâ€"No. 1 Northern, $1.09%%; No. 2 Northern, $1.07%, on track lake ports, immediate shipment,. |_ _ _ _ _, Em e o e t e Manitoba oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., 52¢, all rail, delivered Ontario points. American cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, 72¢, on track lake ports. Canadian cornâ€"No. 2 yellow, 72¢, on track Toronto. Ontario oatsâ€"New crop-â€"â€"No. 2 white, 39 to 40¢c; No. 3 white, 37 to 89¢c; commercial oats, 35 to 87¢, acâ€" cording to freights _out§id£.' & I;lé;sy:â€"fi(;.mf,wnominal, per car lots, $1.60 to $1.80, according to freights outside. < «t No Nt r tuae 7. Barleyâ€"Good malting barley, 53 to 56¢; feed barley, 40 to 48¢, according to freights outside. Buckwheatâ€"Nominal, car lots, 78¢, according to freights oujcs_ide. FQ Ryeâ€"No. 1 commercial rye, 80c; No. 2, nominal, 87¢; tough rye, 70 to 75¢, according to samples and freights outside. _ * j Manitoba flourâ€"First patents, jute bags, $5.75; second patents, jute bags, $5.25; strong bakers‘, jute bags, $5.05, Torontg.y 5 e Dags, ©0.00, 1U°" C s . hss PA ialificeca us Ahs A dbdadat i\ Nt t Ontario flourâ€"New, Winter, $3.60 to $4, according to sample, seaboard or Toronto freights in bags, for prompt shipment. 4 C af ds L Legii on iass t c cce Gack P Aubchniel sdâ€" ds us t Aada it Millfeedâ€"Car_lotsâ€"delivered Montâ€" real freights. Bran, $22 per ton; shorts, $24 per ton; middlings, â€" $25 per ton; good feed flour, $1.50 per THE WEEK‘S HAPPENINGS IN THE WAR AREAS. The above map shows the war developments of the past week. Determined German attacks against the French lines near Rheims have been sorry and costly failures. Elsewhere on the Western front there has been little activity. It is reported that the Italian armies have begun a general advance with a view to relieving the pressure against the Serbians by drawing Austrian troops to the Italian front. The Serbs are heroically contesting every foot of territory against the Austroâ€"German advance. The Bulgarians have met with some success, and the Serbian army appears to be practically cut off from reinforcements and supplies. The French expeditionary force in the Balkans is operating against the Bulgarian armies. The British have effected a landing at Enos and may invade Bulgaria from this point. Cyprus has been offered to Greece as an inducement to join the Entente Allies, and pressure is otherwise being brought to bear, as it is hazarâ€" dous for the Allies‘ expeditionary forces to run the risk of being cut off from their base at Saloniki by a possible enemy. Greece must declare herself. The Germans are close to Riga, the Russian Baltic port, but this gain is offset by Russian successes at several points on the Eastern front, notably in the centre of the bag. | _ Montreal, Oct. 26.â€"Oatsâ€"No. 2 | local white, 47¢; No. 3 local white, | 46¢; No. 4 local white, 45¢c. Barleyâ€"| | Malting, 66% to 67c. Flourâ€"Maniâ€" | toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, | $5.85; seconds, $5.35; strong bakers‘, $5.15; Winter patents, choice, $5.60; | straight rollers, $4.90 to $5; do., bags, |\$2.30 to $2.40. Rolled oatsâ€"Bbis., $5.15 to $5.20; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.45 to $2.50. Bran, $22. Shorts, $25. Middlings, $30 to $31. Mouillie, $30 to $33. Hayâ€"No. 2, per ton, $17 to $18. _ Cheeseâ€"Finest westerns, 15% to 16¢; finest easterns, 15 to |\15%e. _ Butterâ€"Choicest creamery, 32% to 33¢; seconds, 32 to 82%c. Tggsâ€"â€"Fresh, 40¢; selected, 32¢; No. | 1 stock, 28¢c; No. 2 stock, 25¢. Potaâ€" toesâ€"Per bag, car lots, 95¢ to $1.10. | Dressed hogsâ€"Abattoir killed, $13.15 to $14.00. _ Porkâ€"Heavy . Canada short mess, bbis., 35 to 45 pieces, $28 to $28.50; Canada shortâ€"cut back, bbis., 45 to 55 pieces, $27 to $27 .50. Lardâ€"Compound, tierces, 875 lbs., 10%e¢; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 10%¢; pure, tierces, 375 lbs. 12 to 12%¢; pure, wood pails, 26 lbs. net, 13 to > Country Produce. Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, 27 to 28¢; inâ€" ferior, 22 to 23¢; creamery prints, 32 to 33¢; do., solids, 30 to 31%¢. L100 240018 hn / Ahnintimiuint Bb 4 tb w‘ /n Eggsâ€"Storage, 30 to 31c per dozâ€" en; selects, 32 to 33¢; newâ€"laid, 36 to 37e¢, case lots. TB 22 orae! uon eige C o retole t on o6 4.4 hoi d dltict + stt Honeyâ€"No. 1 light (wholesale), 10 to 11%4¢; do., retail, 124 to 15¢; combs (wholesale), per dozen, No. 1, $2.40; No. 2, $1.50 to=$2. ho k Oe lt 00 L0 ME 4CM + Retuts line. eree se ons esnt w d Poultryâ€"Chickens, 15 to 17¢; fowls, 13 to 14¢; ducklings, 15 to 17¢; geese, 16 to 18¢; turkeys, 20 to 22c. Cheeseâ€"Large, 16¢; twins, 16%¢. Potatoesâ€"The market is strong, with car lots quoted at $1.10 to $1.15 per bag, on track. Baconâ€"Long clear, 14 to 14%¢ per 1b. in case lots. Hamsâ€"Medium, 18% to 19¢; do., heavy, 14% to 15¢; rolls, 15 to 15%¢; breakfast bacon, 20 to 23¢; backs, plain, 23 to 24¢; boneless backs, 25 to 25%4c. _ s _ Lardâ€"The market is easier; pure lard, tubs, 12% to 13¢; do., pails, 14 to 14%¢; compound, tubs, 11¢c; do., pails, 11%¢. 13%c. Minneapolis, Oct. 26.â€"Wheatâ€"No. hard, $1.04%; No. 1 Northern, 1.00% to $1.03%; No. 2 Northern, % to $1.00% ; December, 97¢; May, 1.01%4. Cornâ€"No. 8 yellow, 69 to Oc. Oatsâ€"No. 3 white, 33% to 34¢. Flour declined; fancy patents, $6.45; first clears, $4.85; second clears, $3. Bran $19. Business in Montreal. United States Markets. Provisions. in in in l Toronto, Oct. 26. â€"Best â€" heavy steers, $8.25 to $8.60; good heavy isteers, $8 to $8.15; butchers‘ cattle, choice, $7.60 to $7.75; do., good, { $7.10 to $7.50; do., medium, $6.50 to ‘$7; do., common, $5 to $5.40; butchâ€" | ers‘ bulls, choice, $6.25 to $6.75; do., | good bulls, $5.75 to $6; do., rough | bulls, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers‘ cows, ichoice, $6.45 to $6.75 do., good, $6 | to $6.25; do., medium, $5.25 to $5.175; ‘ do., common, $4.50 to $5; feeders, good, $6.50 to $6.75 stockers, 700 to l900 lbs., $6.25 to $6.50; canners and | cutters, $3 to $4.50; milkers, choice, | each, $65 to $100; do., common and | medium, each, $35 to $50; springers, Duluth, Oct. 26.â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, $1.03%; No. 1 Northern, $1.02% ; No. 2 Northern, 98%¢; Monâ€" tana, No. 2 hard, 99%¢; December, 98%c; May, $1.01%c. Linseedâ€" Cash, $1.88% to $1.89%; December, $1.82%; May, $1.87%4. $50 to $95; light ewes, $5.25 to $6.50; sheep, heavy, $4.25 to $4.75; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs, $7 to $7.50; spring lambs, ewt., $8.60 to $8.90; calves, medium _ to choice, $7.25 to $10.75; hogs, off cars, $9.65 to $9.90; do., fed and watered, $9.50; do., f.0.b., $9.15. Montreal, Oct. 26.â€"Sales of choice steers were made at $7.25 to $7.50, good at $6.75 to $7, and the lower grades from that down to $4.50 to $5, while butchers‘ cows brought from $4.50 to $6.50, and bulls from $4.50 to $6.25 per ewt. The trade in canâ€" ning stock was active at prices rangâ€" ing from $3 to $4.25 per ewt. Lambs, Ontario stock, sold at $8 to $8.25 and Quebec at $7.50 to $7.75, while sheep brought from $4.25 to $5.25 per ewt. Milkâ€"fed stock, 8 to 9¢ and grassâ€"fed, 4 to Te per lb. Hogs, selected lots, $9.25 to $9.75 per cwt. weighed off :The halfâ€"crown (two and a half shilâ€" lings) has also been attacked in the ‘newspapers as a senseless piece of | silver, since the florin (two shillings), , with which it is so often confused by | English people as well as by strangâ€" ‘ers, is the proper multiple of a shilâ€" ;ling. Silver crowns have not been ‘ coined for many years, and they never were popular because of their bulk. cars. People Are Becoming Accustomed to Notes of Low Denomination. Now that tenâ€"shilling notes have come into circulation and the people are reconciled to their use, it seems likely that the halfâ€"sovereign gold piece of this value may not be coined again by Great Britain. At least, there is a popular agitation on against the small gold piece. According to a wellâ€"known banker, if £1,000 in halfâ€" sovereigns was shipped from London to Petrograd, gold equal to one of the pieces would be lost by abrasion on the way. Thus a large amount of gold is lost daily through the wear and tear on these coins. The small piece, which loses more metal through wear and tear than the sovereign, is not the only coin to be condemned by coinage _ reformers. Five Projected for Which Loan Is Concluded. Of the five railways projected in Eastern Mongolia and South Manâ€" churia, for which a loan agreement was practically concluded between the Pekin government and Y. Yamaza (then Japanest Minister to Pekin), the details, says the Far East, are as follows: First, the 120â€"mile line beâ€" tween Kaiyuan and Hailungcheng via Taolou, Takata and Tatuchuan; secâ€" ond, the 180â€"mile line between Changâ€" chun and Taonanfu via Huaite and Kuoerhlossu; third, the 470â€"mile line between Taonanfu and Jehol via Chihâ€" feng, and fourth, the 110â€"mile line between Hallungcheng and Kirin via Chaoyangchien, Panshibâ€"hsien, Shuâ€" angyangâ€"hsien and Machiatun. SMALL BRITISH COINS TO GO. to;)row;; a profifable feeder to the South Manchuria railroad lines. All these are considered as of comâ€" paratively less importance than the fifth line between Tsupingkai and Taonanfu, 290 miles long. This, when ready for operation, is expected NEW RAILWAYS FOR CHINA. Live Stock Markets. ‘SCORES PERSEHED INFACTORY WRECK \ President Poincare and Minister of ‘the Interior Malvy, who were immeâ€" | diately informed of the disaster, visitâ€" |ed the scene and gave directions to ‘the rescuing forces. Accidental Dropping of a Grenade Caused Great Explosion in Paris. A despatch from Paris says: Fiftyâ€" two persons are reported to have been killed in an explosion in a factory in the Rue De Tolbiac, while one hunâ€" dred or more were injured. Many of the victims were women workers in the factory which was wrecked, as woere buildings in the vicinity. An auto truck was being loaded when workmen accidentally dropped one grenade, causing an explosion, which was followed by two others in quick succession, a The explosion destroyed not only the main factory and other buildings connected with it, but everything within a radius, of 100 yards, and damaged buildings 500 yards distant. The explosion was followed by fire, but the flames were soon extinguishâ€" Of the 41 bodies recovered 31 are those of women. Forty injured perâ€" sons were treated at the emergency hospital which was quickly installed at the scene. Twenty others were removed to another hospital. It was said that the injured would exceed 100 in number. CA ;_e[;;);tflthat the explosion was the result of the work of spies was absoâ€" lutely denied. An Interesting Incident of the Great War. The letter of a French soldier, a translation of which appeared in an English paper, gives us a glimpse of the brighter side of war. The writer tells how the Germans assaulted the French in their trench and were reâ€" pulsed. They left many dead, and one man alive and unarmed, who, alâ€" though alone and deserted, was still fighting bravely. A French soldier was about to transfix him with his bayonet when one of his comrades thrust the weapon aside, and in adâ€" miration of the German‘s fighting grit tackled him and took him prisoner. He was fat and baldâ€"headed, and in answer to the question put to him said his name was Rudoiph. The sound of his surname brought laughâ€" ter, and his captor said: "Ah, well, my old Rudolph, you‘re a brave fellow. Return to your comâ€" rades, and tell them that we know a brave soldier when we see one." Fearing that he was to become the object of a grim jokeâ€"and perhaps to be shot in the back â€"he hesitated, when one of the French soldiers, pushing him forward, said: "Go on, you‘ll not be harined." Rudolph lifted his hands above his head and returned to his trench. Fresh French troops arrived to reâ€" lieve their comrades, and they were told about Rudolph. The following day, when firing had ceased for a time, the newcomers shouted across to the German trenches to inquire whether Rudoiph were still living. "Jal! Jal" was the response. "Show yourself, then Rudoiph!" they cried out. "We are newcomers. We have heard of your bravery, and want to see you." Rudoiph‘s head bobbed up above the trench wall, and, grinning, he removâ€" ed his helmet, patted his bald head, bowed, and disappeared, The French soldiers gave him three cheers, and one of them remarked adâ€" miringly, "I hope we may not kill him, for he is a brave chap, that old Rudolph!" BRAVE OLD RUDOLPH. But Eemy Was Driven, With Frightful Losses, Back to His Trenches, Completely Unsuccessful French lines between the Butteâ€"deâ€" Tir and Prunay, east of Rheims, for which preparation was made with a very violent bombardment, was made Friday. Suffocating gases were used in great quantities, so that they fairly blanketed the French lines. Three atâ€" tacks of remarkable violence were made by the enemy, but all were comâ€" pletely stopped in front of the barbed wire entanglements protecting the French trenches by the French artilâ€" lery and machine guns. ACROSS THE BORDER BLANKETED THE FRENCH LUNES WITH THER SUFFOCATING CASES WHAT ISs GOTNXG OX OVER INX THE STATES. Oklahoma City expects completion of Oklahoma‘s new capitol in 1917. . Dallas, Tex., is to have a new Postâ€"| The news from Paris of preparaâ€" office building within two years. tions for an immediate landing of Brooklyn, N.Y., finds auto thieves | Francoâ€"British troops in Macedonia, specialize in stealing expensive Cars. | and from Salonica that Russian naval Leach Cross, boxer, offered $83,000 | forces have already appeared off Varâ€" for some property being sold in New lm, should be a convincing indication York. 'to Bulgaria that the allied powers are St. Paul‘s three breweries @MPIOY | prepared to follow up the warning 1,700 persons, and pay out $1,300,000 | from Petrograd by prompt naval and yearly in wages. 5 !miliury action. The first phase of Miiton London, aged 91, of Lind@", | any such action is bound to be naval N.J., is candidate for justice of th¢ |jn its character, and will afford a furâ€" peace in Elizabeth. l,ther demonstration of the value of sea Philadelphia‘s public charges 128t | powor, ‘The geographical position of year cost the city $822,817.95 in th(‘i'Bulg;.\ri,n makes her particularly vulâ€" single item of coal, lnorable to attack from oversea. Three clerks in New York naturul-I Moreover, the water communicaâ€" ization bureau were dismissed 19 | gone to her coasts, both in the Acgoun taking tips from aliens. | R | and the Black Sea, are at the present Latest Happonings in Big Republic Condensed for Busy Readers, taking tips from atiens. Seattle street railway demands regâ€" ulation of jitneys because they are severely cutting profits. _ ‘The loss of weight in cattle from the August fly pest in Kansas cost the beef men $2,000,000. f mi“(;l: loss of his left arm in a plan ing mill at Woodside, LL, John Roc mer was awarded $10,000. _ A fire department school is conâ€" nected with the west side branch of the Y.M.C.A. in New York. Barney Himmelstein, aged 32, has been sent to Sing Sing for life from Brooklyn as an habitual criminal, Herbert L. Flynn, $10â€"aâ€"week clerk for New York City, got away with $2,800 jury pay from one office. v-'H;t l;):;,ho auto of Arthur Hetzelâ€" wood, of Cornwall, N.Y., Ruth Fink asked first "Is my skirt soile_d'.'f’ A despatch from Paris says: The _ Offered a lift in an auto during a storm, John Whitehead was held up and robbed therein at Cle\jel_and; -...;ol-l;lvl:li)}nhng. cashier of the Dresâ€" den National Bank, near Zanesville, O., is short $74,892, and out on bond. Mieg mem dn Oe n aennene o es Cennine m Peter Pacha, aged 15, arrested in New York on suspicion, had 500 movâ€" ing picture theatre tickets on his perâ€" son. James Ruddy of Perth Amboy, N.J., lost his ticket from Elizabeth and was killed while walking the tracks home. Chac Abaearn trick evelist. went Chas. Abearn, trick cyclist, went from Cincinnati to New York to go to jail for nonâ€"payment of alimony to his wife. Sebe Teblow, ranch cook, gathered $15,000 worth of pearls from mussels in the Concho River, Texas, in one afternoon. Inspectors seeking bombs on the Rotterdam at Hoboken found two German stowaways anxious to fight the allies. John.wl'-l. Wyeth, â€" manufacturing chemist, New York, died of paralysis at Chicago, while autoing across the continent History Finds Cases Where 'I‘||ey'1 Were Devosed. | Napoleon III. believed, perhaps with : justice, that his crown rested on his. emulation of the military feats of the great Emperor, but his soldiers found him out, and when he announced that he was going to the Crimea to put himself at the head of the allied forces the soldiers intimated plainly that they did not want him. The end came just before Sedan, when he anâ€" nounced that he had handed over the command of his marshals and should serve in future as a common soldier. Francis Joseph wisely allowed others to bear the shame of the abortive campaigns of his earlier years by keeping a good deal out of the limeâ€" light, and Victor Emmanuel without a Garibaldi might have waited long for the accomplishment of his ambiâ€" tions. In the present war it is genâ€" evrally said that the Kaiser has long ceased to exercise more than a nomâ€" inal control over military operations, and it is even whispered that Hindenâ€" burg retains his great command in spite of the royal desire to get rid of a man of inconvenient frankness. Caloutta Helps War. Calcutta residents, says a Daily Mail correspondent, have overâ€"subâ€" scribed a sum of £75,000 required to place a convoy of 50 motor ambuâ€" lances and a contingent of motorâ€" cycles at the disposal of the War Ofâ€" Speakers of the British House of Commons gencrally receive a pension of $20,000, and a peerage on retireâ€" ment. "You are charged with permitting | your horse to stand unattended for | over an hour," chanted the mgis-, trate. "Well, I defy anybody to teach the brute to sit down," protested the‘ prisoner, before being dragged away. LEADERS THAT DON‘T LEAD ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO & ; The front attacked has a length of iwhlyfiw-lhcnflmwenm of a previous failure of the Germans ‘in their attempt to cut through the {mew French lines in Champagne. The [artillery preparations were unusually | thorough and the gas blanket was exâ€" ceptionally dense, but the French ‘guns and machine guns concentrated their fire on the advancing Germans ‘so effectively that one after another | each of the attacks spent itself before twire cutting could be carried out, and the Germans, with frightful losses, ifell back .to their trenches completely | unsuccessful. AT THE MERCY OF ALLIED FLEET i Moreover, the water communicaâ€" tions to her coasts, both in the Acgoan 'and the Black Sca, are at the present time, and will be, whatever happons, lcontrolled by the floots of the allios. |However formidable she may prove ‘from a military point of view her naval force is practically negligible, ‘and would be quite unable to prevent ! a landing on her shores. Bulgaria‘s Naval Weakness on the Bea Makes Her an Easy Prey. A despatch from London says: Of peculiar interest at present is the following article by the naval corresâ€" pondent of the London Times:â€" The only harbor of importan which Bulgaria possesses in Mac ‘ donia is Dedeaghatch, which has be ‘sevenl times visited by our shi since the operations began in the Ds i danelles. This place, whore the B; | garians landed in the opening stag ! of the first Balkan war, is connect by rail both with Salonica and Co | stantinople through Adrianople, 1t \unlikely that there will be any gr« \ difficulty in occupying it. It is, however, in the Black Sea the Bulgarian coast presents n points on which a descent migh made with advantage. Neither V nor Burgas has fortifications « modern, formidable character, as as is known, and little trouble sh be found in disposing of the fow pedo craft, Our Russian allies | asserted their mastery in the D Sea in such a way that this sh present no difficulty, and they | also organized sufficient tonnage the transport of an expeditio force. “'l:t;-phce such a force on shore perhaps even to make a feint of d so, should have the effect of detail perhaps even to make a feint 0t doing so, should have the effect of detaining a large portion of the Buigarian army, which might otherwiso . be placed on the frontier of Serbia. The potential threat of such an oporation seems already to have been made. In both seas the work of the allied feets will, it is likely, afford adequate proâ€" tection against submarine attack. An accident ended the ecarcer of th e youngest air sqauadron commander in the royal flying corps when Captain Gilbert W. R. Mapplebeck, D.S8.0,, was dashed to earth recently w testing a new French monoplan« Englead. :>â€" Captain â€" Mapplebeck, a â€" Liverp boy, had not yet attained his 2: year, and received his commiss only about six months before the 0 break of the war, after finishing course at Hendon. It was on August 13 of last y that young Mapplebeck flew over France to join the newly arrived | tish expeditionary force. He was first British airman to make a rec naissance of the German lines, later the first to drop bombs. Dur later the first to drop bombs. During the retreat at Mons he scouted above the advancing Germans and by his reâ€" ports kept the British troops from be ing overwhelmed. On September 29 he was shot in an air duel 6000 feet above the German lines, yet managod to reach the British lines, although h« was unconscious when found. He was shot through the obdomen. His moâ€" ther went over to France and nurs »d him back to health, She has now reâ€" ceived a letter of condolence from the King. The airman‘s Distin@uished Service Order medal was received in the King‘s new year‘s honors. On leaving the hospital Captain Mapplebeck declined to return to England or to accept less hazardous duty, and was soon back in his maâ€" chine. On march 11 he took part in the first meroplane raid to be made in the night against the Germans. Of the threce airmen raiders one was killed and another brought to land near Lille. Setting fire to his maâ€" chine, he escaped into the woods, where he hid for three days, subsistâ€" ing on the chocolate he had carried with him. Then he found shelter in a French peasant‘s family, and later worked his way to Holland and then to Encland as a French peasant. AERIAL HERO KILLED the First British Airman» Drop Bombs. m ht h as 1 h h a qh wh U U Ar 1d iT h t m