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answ hÂ¥ §A. i1 exclamaâ€" to discover to resolve r his anxtâ€" me Infinite ding _ and gh vicissi. eaten and edness and he cry th‘s AT with nan Aml ead ‘sat he aa) an 118 he ‘Or, vle It Dav‘d Lloyd ( ad Secretary Fortunate is the man who has no time to take advise because he is too busy selling it. * A despatch from New York says :â€" According to a news agency despatch from London on Thursday the Scotâ€" tish miners have agreed to postpone All their July holidays at the request of Minister of Munitions Lloyd George MUNITION WORKERS LLOYD GEORGE, EARL OF DERBY _ â€" NEW BRITISH WAR SECRETARIES Erxrcctors A despatch from London says : A Canadian officer in a London hospital gtates that when he started in the reâ€" ONE PLATOON LOST Since it became the property of the Canadian Government this great herd has fared well in the new National Park at Wainwright. The park is beâ€" coming a favorite resort of the travelâ€" ler. It has an area of 150 square miles and is securely enclosed with a high fence of wire. ent attack he had one lieutenant and 44 men. When he finished, the loutenant was dead, he himself was adly wounded and he had only 27 en left. He said that he was glad ) be wounded in the big fight rather han to be sniped. " roundâ€"up "* lasted two months, und! was carried out by 75 cowboys, horseâ€" men picked for their ability from Al-( berta, and was accomplished with a| loss of less than one per cent. | on the 600 unsold head belonging to Paglo and Allard, and eventually they Were all bought for $200,000. _ The In 1906 the Hon. Frank Oliver, then Minister of the Interior, obtained for the Dominion Goye_rnmpr)t an option ued The herd increased under their careful supervision, and in a few yea‘s it became possible to sell speâ€" imens at high prices. Some idea of fhe average rate of increase may be deducted from the observed fact that haif the cows give birth to calves every year, while twin calves are not uncommon. As a rule the bison calf is a very hardy creature. There are Instances of the Pabloâ€"Allard calvel’ finding their feet in less than a minâ€" ute after birth and showing fighhz within half an hour. I mal â€" would eventuall'ymb;;c;;;',\;e.ry valuable. k C CC CC CHCTR TO the Mission of St. Ignatins, where they were kept as pets and became az domesticated as ordinary cattle. hen the heifers were four years old each had a calf. From that time on they gradually increased in number, until, in 1884, there were thirteen head, and finding the care <of them too great a tax the mission decided to sell them. Ten head were bought for $250 apieca by C. A. Allard and Michel Pablo, who were ranchinig on the reservation, and were Shrewd enough to see that specimens of what was even then almost an extinet aniâ€" in ABPtptramiats ds saschs cccacal d c t 13 rate of about 200 a year, until toâ€"day it numbers 2,077, History of the Hesd. The history of the herd, now the lanze-t in the world, dates back to 1873, when a Pend o‘Reille Indian captured four little bison calvesâ€" two bulls and two heifersâ€"by cutâ€" ting them out of a stampedeg herd on the Flathead Reservation in Monâ€" tana. In accordance with a pecullar characteristic, often noticed by old / plainsmen, â€" these young creatures ; obediently followed the horses of the | hunters who had slain or driven off | their mothers. | The report lhow; that in 1909, the herd numbered 402. then it has gradually incranuad us OO ICERE IT Ts CHUrLS to preserve the buffalo from the swift extfnctlon which threatened it a few years ago. This is shown in the reâ€" wrt on the growth of the herd at ainwright Buffalo Park, Alberta, just issued by J. B. Harkin, Dominion Parks Commi'suioner. Ing with From NoOw NUMBERS TWO THOUSAND AND SEYVENTYâ€"SEVEN. CANADA‘S CREAT _ BUFFALO HERD Renerally y évidence of The FOE‘S FOOD PROBLENM Bi, _ SAYS NEUTRAL DIPLOMATIST Made Them a Fortune. of Munitions and Recruiting Respectively to Conduct the Campaign. Indian in question gave them to POSTPONE HOLIDAY 117 MEN IN ATTACK Canadian Government is meetâ€" e .Â¥ & 1 a Nucleus of Four C 1873 It Has Steadily Grown. sigpal_ succ;ss-l-; its e with a peculiar !' n noticed by old’ young creatures | appointâ€" fondon says : A|the greatest German citiesâ€"not Berâ€" stationed in Gerâ€" ! linâ€"at a hotel whose name is familiar visited London, to thousands of Americans, a neutral rues here that ; WAs unable to arrange for a dinner Calves In Are Showing Unmistakable Evidence of Underfeeding. cruiting, has been 'fippsih};'d Un(ierl A witty girl Becretary for War. miakrimamial . | Chronicle. |__ A despatch from London says : The fKing has decided to confer a pecrage upon Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of | Foreign Affairs, according to the Daily mkoi s y be. TO CONFER PEERAGE April |_ _A despatch from London says :â€" The London Times understands that a ‘rising against the Austrians has brokâ€" en out in Montenegro. _ Its leaders is a former War Minister, upon whose head the Austrians set a high price. The Montenegrins who have risen have taken to the woodai parts of the country. . The rising is prompted by the destitution in which the inhabitâ€" ants have been left by Austria. | efforts ;‘ People Are Flecing to Relief Ships for " Refuge. 1| A despatch from Rome says : The " eruption of Stromboli has become "| serious. The flow of lava is spreading ‘\ to the sparse coast settlement, burnâ€" \ing and destroying houses, and the "‘population is fleeing to the sea and _ taking refuge on relief ships sent from | Messina. _ Telephonic communication with Messina has been interrupted.( There are many signs of seismis disâ€" turbances throughout Italy. The heat | has been intense for the past two days, | | Earth shocks occurred Wednesday | | morning at Ancona, Rimini, Belvedere, | Marettimo and other Adriatie disâ€"| | tricts, but no loss of life has been reâ€" | | ported. | RISING AGAINST | British Money Used in Holland and \' Sweden to Buy Foodstuffs. |__A despatch from London says : | Neutral diplomats express the belief that the existing ordersâ€"inâ€"council will be superseded by the declaration of an actual blockade, in pursuance of jGreat Britain‘s avowed ‘intention of ‘ | strengthening her legal position. Noi | evidence of an actual change in the’ | administration of the blockade has Bbeen procurable since the announceâ€" ment of the abondonment of the Deâ€" claration of London. However, the| increased economic pressure on Gerâ€" many which recently has become apâ€" parent is due, according to the best informed neutral diplomats, to the British campaiign in Holland and | Sweden, resulting in the purchase of | products which otherwise probably | would have found their way to Ger-); many,. 1 BOUGHT PRODUCTS GERMANY ISs SEEKING. The population of Mexico, which numbered about 15,000,000 in 1910, may be classed at wf:ites 20%, Indians 38%, mixed bloods 42%. Mining is the Leading Industryâ€"Oil D Fields Are Rich, Mexico has an area of 767,005 square miles. Mining is the leading D) industry of the country. Mineral wealth is vast and varied’.' In addiâ€" tion to gold and silver are deposits of iron, copper, zinc, tin, platinum, lead, mercury, manganese and any number n | of others. While the silver mines are numerous and yleld enormous returns, ‘ there is little doubt that the coal deâ€" posits will become of even greater value in the future development of the ‘~ | country. _ The oil fields, â€" especially 3 | those of Tamauliva, near Tampico, t | and those in southern Vera Cruz, are Â¥ |a very important possession. The oils ' ~ | produced are not of the highest grades | t / but are largely used as power fuel. ’ »| â€" The eigricultrral resources of Mexico ‘ | comprise some of the cereals and other ( | food products of the temperate zone, | , | and most of the leading products of ‘ ‘|the tropies. Manufacturing industry | i has reached the stage of meeting a ) | great part of the home demand for manufactured goods, where the raw | material may be produced in the counâ€" ! t try, cotton manufacture being the | $ most important textile industry. To-! | bacco is equally so. The chief exports | & | of the country in the order of their ?; value are gold, silver, oil, copper, cofâ€" ‘ t fee, henequin or sisal, thistle and otâ€" 3 her fibres, cabinet woods, chicle, rubâ€" / P |ber and other forest products ; hides and skins, chicpeas, tobacco and sugar. The imports consist largely of railway | material, industrial machinery, texâ€"| g,} tiles, yarns for national factories, hardware, furniture, building material, | °* mining supplies, drutgs and chemicals, | ns wines and spirits, wheat, Indian corn, paper, and military supplies and pe equipment. L. STROMBOLI IN ERUPTION PR EVC *J _ °0 T2R RERILANO| Bleers, $9.25 to $9.50; butchers‘ (:la.et.'tle. | cholce,$9.25 to $9.50; do , good, $9.00 to | $9.15; do., medium, $8.83 to $9.00; do., despatch from London says :â€"| cgn}mon’.ssosdoo to’:fiz.'g’fi; lt])utcher:]’ bull{s, s | choice, 8 to .25; 0.. good bulls, ,ondqn Times unde'rsta.nds that a 145 to $7.65; do., rough bulls, :4.75 to against the Austrians has brokâ€". ggg gutcher%' £L". c;mlscoa. ds 00 éo .25; do., good, v 0 $7.50; do medâ€" t in M°“t°"°_g','°- Its leaders is um, $6.25 to $6.75; Stockers, 100 to 850 ner War Minister, upon whose Lbs., sds.1955 $°t.7i7géo %.oxch 2f§eeder:.q gE' Fr F orned, 0 1, § 4 to $8.85; the Austrfans set a high price. | canners and cutters, $3.75 to $5.00; milkâ€" Iontenegrins who have risen | ers, oholdce. gach. :75.’0‘0" to 895.0;)&0(10%.} com. and med., eac .00 _ to .00 ; aken to t‘h? yvoodqi parts of t‘hei grlnge'rl. $50.00 to $100.00; light ewes, | y. The rising is prompted byi hgg’ to 210 5;); sbheep, hfi?vyi;'s‘zs] to | beuie® s s s s .00 spring lambs, per‘ lb., to 15¢; stitution in which th? inhabitâ€" calves, good to cholce, $9.50 to 81:’..50;l ave been left by Austria. | do., medium, §7,.25, to $8 50; hogs, fed ooorrmrrrrn lfi en ._ {a‘rild vr;'atered. ’811]1.6450 :n 8’111‘.5705: dé)" w;ig}h-; ed off cars, & 0 â€"40; do., f.0.b., | DNFER PEERAGE :312.90. 1 dulg ~31 <Bucth | Tontreal, July .«â€"â€"Butchers‘ steers, | VPON SIR EDwWArD GREY[ ood. $9.50 to $10.00; medium, $7.75 (3 â€"â€" Igs 75; common, $7.25° to $8.25: fair ; MEXICO‘S GREAT WEALTH THE AUSTRIANS reâ€" A witty girl fi;y be a drug on matrimonial market. _ According to official estimates, Mmore than 50,000 German soldiers have lost their hearing in the battles of this war. _ To enable these unfortunates to earn their bread after the war a number of schools have been estabâ€" lished with the aid of the Government, it LIVE STOCK MARKETS, Toronto, _ July 11.â€"Choice heavy steers, $10.00 to $10.35; fuod heavy steers, $9.25 to $9.50: miafia_le [CRVY ‘ Pmingp Sii_° q3A $17.00 to $18.00 Duluth, July 11.â€"Wheatâ€"On track No. 1 hard, $1.12; No. 1 Northern, $1.11 No. 2 Northern, $1.07 to $1.08; No. 1 Northern to arrive, $1.10%; No. 3 Northâ€" ern, on track, $1.03 to $1.05 Linseedâ€" On _ track, Jl.B!i; to arrive, $1.82; Jula'. $1.82 asked; September, $1.834) asked ; October, $1.82% asked; November, $1.8%2}. @ im.Cmull co t 2TC IPSNe ed at $6.10; first clears, _ 200 quoted at $4.90. Bran, $17.00 to Protast? Cyllclll . 1 T Alinneapolis, July 11,-\\'heatâ€"July. $1 074; September, $1.08§ to $1.081; No: 1 hard, $1.13%; No. 1 Northern, $1.07i to $1.091; No. 2 Northern, $1.048% to $1.074. _ Cornâ€"No, 3 yellow, 77% to (84c. Oatsâ€"No. $ white, 364 to 87. Flourâ€"Fancy patents, 10c higher, quotâ€" ed at $6.10; first clears, 20¢ â€" higher, quoted at §4 90 wull oke, 209 . 20 SonP 2CTIE 20. E20000 CeCCN 7y INC animais. ’ , Montreal, July ll.â€"Curnâ€"A‘merican’ Lieut. Harry Brodrick Ch"‘""}'» the ‘IV\VO 2 yellow, $2"to 88¢. OutAâ€"A(,qnufl_lun‘ wellâ€"known Eton, Surrey and Middleâ€" | lyestern, No. 2, 54%c; No, 8, 53¢; No. 1| ick d 1 mber | feed, b3¢c; No. 2 local white, b2c;No. 3) sex cricketer, and a popular me yilocal white, b1c; No. 4 10(,'&]‘ white, 50c. of the Stock Exehangp' has been reâ€" ‘Ilarleyâ€"Mamng, 15 to 16c. Flourâ€" d killed i ti ~1\§agnoituba n%flnswwll(\)eat tpxautents,b rli‘rsts. PO"I"t}:’ Cl e 'lme}:\ OY"L Kshire Miner. 80; seconds, 10; strong bakers‘ e Council of the Yorkshire Miners â€"90; Winter‘ patents, cholce, $6.00 to> Inkt ; is ie.zs; straliht prullers. $5.40 to $5.60; | Association, at a special meeting, re (I,t?ii br;gsdsit.wsst&tzgfl. };olled“?ul&g“, ported that 906 members had fallen 8, $5. 0 $5.45; 0., ags, 90 lbs., + m 2.40 to $2.60.‘ Bran, $40.00 "is $21.00. | during the'war and altogether 30,000 211503‘;:1.l 82‘3.207000 to‘\I O’A':l-m. fi'?gf)’"‘{" men are with the colors. * 0 s A e, 21. 0 ® 8 j o hoi Sn Athkem deth | The Ooedl oorernment Committee . to $20.00. Cheeseâ€"Fines westâ€" | q onaon County Counci 0 etns, 164 to 17¢; finest easterns, 154 to| j j j 164c. Butterâ€"Cholcest creamery, 30 to 4 tablet commemorative of Miss Eq:th g_f)ac;h H‘ieflconds.l 2;83 ;rzr 21{:!& lfixtgsâ€"kâ€"' Cavell, who was trained at the instituâ€" res 200; selecte * C; 0. stock, i i F s #§e; No. 4 "stock 270 Potawe,-_.p‘,ritl‘on, be placed in the London Hos bag, car lots, $1.$0, re m.o k220C% €1 500. NO | 2 ‘asfinern $1.10%; No. 3 N‘orthern §1,074; No. 4. $1.014; No. 6. P5fe; No: 8 | 220; feed, $7%c. ‘OGatsâ€"No. °3 °U w | 44kc; No. 3 C.W., 43%¢; extra No. 1 feed 43‘; No. 1 feed, 4%ic; No. 2 feed 41fc. Barleyâ€"No, 8, T2e; No. 4, 68¢; reJected, 63¢; feed ~gam‘ y t *.,88¢, WPARe L0 63¢; feed, 68c N. W.C., $1.594; No, 2 C W Winnipeg, Jul; =â€"â€"Wheatâ€"â€"Ro. 4 .\"l_l'[.megpnlls‘ Bavonâ€"Lnnl clear HamhMedlum, 231 204 to 210; rolls 19 bacon, 244 to 264c; â€" 27{(-; boneless backs, ardâ€"Pure lard, | and pails, 174 to 173 14%c. 50,000 Germans Deafened Baled hayâ€"Bes to t17.00; do., low to $15.00. Strawâ€"Per ton ED Em AC u\nDC. I’otatoesâ€"amrm; Ontar at $1.85, and New Brun per bag; Western, $1.95 k:‘neeu-New. large, 18¢; tw :I)le fyrupâ€"~1.40 to tlASO perial galion. Dressed poultryâ€"Chichkens 27¢; fowl, 23 ta, 25¢. I’otatoeaâ€"amrm; Ontarios in at $1.85, and New Brunswicks hér heme urlsl 20 PDRD irhie cxuaclat 0C I2 VeG CC U 08 to freights outside, Hu&w’noatâ€"l@omln&l. 1({) to T1¢c, acâ€" cofidlng to !lrelzhts outside. yeâ€"No. commorcm‘l 94 to 95¢, acâ€" coglnf to freights out{ de, anitoba flourâ€"Firs patents, in jute ba%s, $6.50; sicond pa}enta, in jJute bags, %‘6. 0; strong akers‘, in Jute bags, $5.80, oronto Wny ! Ontarto flourâ€"Winter uc%ordlng to | gample, $4.056 to $4.15 in 8, track ";‘()rgnto. prompt shipment; &14.00 to | $4.10. bulk samhaar4 â€"DIRENt? - C Rat EVY d tC 0C cagons. 30 tso 320. ean@â€"$4.50 ‘to $5.00, the handâ€"picked. gheeu~New, large, 18¢; tw faple syrupâ€"1. 40 C+a~ k.9 coUuw®TBy PRODUCE Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, choice, 25 to 27¢; inferior, 23 to £4c; creamery, prints 29 to 316; Inferior, $8 to 290. Eggsâ€"Newâ€"laid, 28 to 29¢; "do., in cattons, 30 to 89% â€" Mins.la® TPRUDATG, p{‘ompt shipment, Millfeed, car lots, d‘;lvered Montreal freights, bags include â€"Bran, per ton, $19 to $20; shorts, per.ton, §43 io $24; middlings, per ton, :24 to $25; good feed flour, per bag, $1.55 to $1.60. UNITED STATES MARKETS &n« sn 4 UPH €2 UO to 89¢; fe’d. 83 to Sfa. lnÂ¥ to freights outs de. ‘easâ€"No. 8, nomlng according to sample. & cording to frei Barleyâ€"Mait to 6601 fead hs Ontario 8('(0)0!'((11".:' ariq to 9%(:: N American corn track Bay ports: Na G sb01Ck9+, No. 1 feed, 50¢ Bay ports! mulmrl. , Toronto, July 11.â€"Manitoba wheatâ€" No. i Northern, 81.19{: No. 2 do., $1.184; No. 3 do. $1.14%, on rack Bay ports, _ Manitoba ~c2id O 4k Ba @ hok O CC UnR MDple, $4.05 to $4.156 in ‘B 8. t pronto, prompt shfpmont:“!f.oo 10. buik seaboard, p{ompt shiprr I',"“,""“; Car lots, delivered Mant mss Lauss 17 Markets of the World p 3 en oo ie o m One of the outstanding figures Poincare of France. Calm, dignifie cruelly bled in the great strife, M. P« ‘The Russian Ambassador to France pare in the picture.â€"(London Daily BALED KHAY ED N PUT d #1,.008; No, 2 C.W., $1.564. MONTREAL MARKETS, real, July ]Lâ€"(,‘urnâ€"Amflricnn ellow, §2 to §8c. Oatsâ€"Canadian 1, No. 2, 54%c; No. 8, 53¢; No. 1 e; No. 2 local white, §2¢;No. 3 hite. Rln: N a 1__ P R@l â€" . X Bndsica‘ i l\nltoba oats avy 8 . knfi elt t °90 g4i2. a> ~C20° UANAdian . 2, 54§c; No. 8, b53¢; No. 1 0. 2 local white, §2¢;No. 3 b1c; No. 4 local white, 50¢. ing, 75 to 76c, Flourâ€" ring wheat patents, firsts, a #@ 4n> eou Pn * ton, $6.00 to $7.00 PROVISION® â€" > ie LCs en 0%c; extra $ Cicar, 18 to 19c per Ib. n, 234 to 24%¢; do., heavy, Us, 19 to 19%¢; breakfast 264c; backs, plain, 264 to backs, 29% ‘to 30%c. lnrq."tlerces. 17 to 17}c, $~ L. ' Best grade, Egr ton low grade, per ton m Amaes lc t 220 OO ATHE, to 17%c; compound, 14 to « 83 to sfo. nominal, accordâ€" hts outside. 2, nominal, 21.70 to $1.80; _ sample, 31 25 to $1.50, acâ€" frelfhts outside. alting | barley, nominal, 65 barley, nominal, 60 to 6%¢, + Frelthhe rucburns clear, 18 to 11.â€"Cash quotations Northern, $1124; No â€"No. 3 C GBAIN, Â¥r. Charles Seagers, who has been â€"Cash quotations:|sexton at St. Nicholas Cemetery, {‘g" +3 slNlozr‘t;né':# Rochester, for 50 years, has been preâ€" I:. % 95!(’:; No,ws,' senhted hby] the ci;izens of Rochester s sive y*>,GCWâ€"! with a hand some cheque. ;:;Xtrfio?\oz * F‘;:‘t}' Moltino disease, a cattle and horse ;slgcil‘.fi‘;ir\,gscli disease, prevalent in South Africa, I.W.. $1.56%. _ *| has been traced by the Imperial Inâ€" stitute to a poisonous alkaloid in a ARBKETsS, plant eaten by the animals. ; °_ A| Willie (to Mrs. Bayberry, who lives ‘abâ€"| next ‘door)â€"Where did you get your ent. | tongue? 14 Mrs, Bayberryâ€"What do you want _ _ | to know for? the| _ Willieâ€"It was mother who wanted lto know. â€" Lo $ . W,, Sic; No. 1 feed, 60%c; ton, ’le.oo ton, $138.00 atter â€" for & figures in the rresont great war, is President , dignifiedâ€"the elected head of a great republic. ife, M. Poincare presents a picture for admiration, Ito Franlce. and a French general are with Poinâ€" lam. Praghs lc d mee 3 do., 87 who has been appointed Minister of War, succeeding the late Earl Kitchâ€" emer. s RT. HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE, track 0 to Jute Brigadierâ€"General Colquhoun Grant Morrison, C.M.G., whose death is reâ€" ported in action, formerly belonged to the 1st Dragoons, was fiftyâ€"six years of age, and served in the South Afriâ€" can War. HPC Aninirtalin dect esns Tss ksics COs 200 20° T 2200 CHUTCH, his machine accidently discharged his Â¥r. Charles Seagers, who has been | rifle, He was fired at by someone in : sexton at St. Nicholas Cemetery, the village, which consequently was :| Rochester, for 50 years, has been preâ€" burned to the ground. The male inâ€" | sented by the citizens of Rochester habitants were cast into the flames. , with a 'hand.t;ome cheque. " Such atrocities," writes this officer, ( Moltino disease, a cattle and horse | " gro not to happen again, one hopes." disease, prevalent in South Africa, 4 f has been traced by the Imperial Inâ€" Inflaming the Soldiers ‘ ;t;;l:tza::n l:)yp :)li‘zo:z?;n?;kaloxd x 8 Another writer whose name is supâ€" | Lieut. Harry Brodrick Chinnery, the ied f°"f;':‘” (24 "."h";°§'e fls ,‘well-known Eton, Surrey and Middleâ€" hermapty mig € pul;:s * 0; d | sex cricketer, and a popular member | PUmanity, Prpresses his profou of the Stock Exchange, has been reâ€" fi'ngSt at the practices of the army! ported killed in action. in France. He speaks of the whq]e-; _ The Council of the Yorkshire Miners | “11: {:xl]age of f fown, ang asksdhlmf- Association, at a special meeting, reâ€" s}f ow comp }z:mt ;anG C k elo | :ported that 906. members hadâ€"Fallen fay R“SS"’"; T orce. m Tocls inst in during the war and altogether 830,000 | Nave so much worse. He fee s that in | men are with the colors. Ithe end this system of making war | The Local Government Committee{wm not succeed, and quotes tl}e old of London County Council report that |saying to the effect that "the mills of 1 a tablet commemorative of Miss Edith | the gogs grmd”s'l’owfi', but t:ey grl:d D Cavell, who was trained at the institu. | ©@xceeding sma * e speaks of the | tion, be placed in the London Hosâ€" | @Torts of the officers to rouse the fury |1 pital. e of the men. They tried by whatever A Brigadierâ€"General Colquhoun Grant | Means in their power to inflame the | Morrison, C.M.G., whose death is re. | Passions of the soldiers=so that they | & promdemid : Pevieeaget c T ie 0 Nee s ie " Do y is ie . F men are with the colors. _ _ The Local Government Committee of London County Cquncil report that acâ€" acâ€" Lieut. Harry Brodrick Chinnery, the wellâ€"known Eton, Surrey and Middleâ€" sex cricketer, and a popular member of the Stock Exchange, has been reâ€" ported killed in action. Heain cAubmnctadit c c d sc tic dsc The eiphteenth centenary of the death of Mr. W. E. Gladstone occurâ€" ring, celebration of Holy Communion took place in the Memorial Chapel of Hawarden Parish Church. With thte object of encouraging lo-! cal garden lovers to grow special food | products, the Notts Corporation have | decided to let out a number of plots | at 60 cents per annum. 4 Potatoes are being planted on nearly all the unoccupied land in the churchâ€" yard at Styal, near Manchester, and a big crop is confidently anticipated. In the village of Tatnorth, Somerâ€" sett, the curious custom of letting a field by auction during the burning of an inch of candle has just been perâ€" formed. P i OB Pnd n minite du oc i is c t 5 11 1 The English Coal Conciliation Board for the federated area have granted an increase of 3% per cent. in miners‘ wages. At a meeting of the Essex War Agricultural Committee it was stated that 6,500 women had registered for farm work,. The death has occurred at the rige of 94 of the Hon. Mrs. Robt. Dalzell, grandmother of the present Earl of Carnwath. ‘ A _ bouquet, presented by Lad Hampden, on opening | a Britisg Farmers‘ Red Cross sale at Hitchin market, sold for $65. Mirror phbia:)â€" German pri;t;_r;-e-rs- -n‘tnDouglaa Camp, Isle of Wifht, are engaged in cutting peat to relieve the scarcity of coal. BME * gne sls ul te s 0n onR ‘‘The L.0.0. ‘purposes ‘ to keep thé parks open an hour later because of the Summer Time Act. The Neighbor‘s Bov Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Eupremo in the Commerâ€" clal World NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE , is President 12 2OE C200 SHenCE aHCo Snauow 4,(00, and the Angloâ€"French <~>ces “ shroud and still everything. The 14,200. Multiplying the total . priâ€" | wounded, the dead are taken up ; on soners by two, to estimate the : :.1b€r‘ the conquered ground, guarded by a of killed and wounded, it gets : 86â€" |few sentinels, cvery one sleepgâ€"a gregate of, s1‘ rhtly morp than [« ©000, | sleep without dream ; the soldiers or more‘ thak Ttwerve army cor, .. . have the immobility of corpses. Sleep }' A despatch from Paris says : Cerâ€" man and Austroâ€"Hungarion los: > of the past month total half a n ion men, according to figures presen‘ [ on Wednesday by the Matin. It : rtes that the Russians have taken 2 300 unwounded prisoners, the 1 ‘ans 4,700, and the Angloâ€"French ‘ces 14,200. Multiplying the total â€" priâ€" soners by two, to estimate the :: :aberi TEUTONS‘ LOSBES are supermen, that they have been sert on earth for a Divine purpose, namely, to exterminate less worthy .people and establish themselves in their stead. _ They seem to regard their enemies as so many dangerous animals that must be destroyed so that civilization, German kultur, may flourish. se a t ssacs hi i 4 0 | would obey without question the most § |atrocious orders that might be issued. _IThey were told about the Russians ’ravaging Prussia, and were taught that after all it was the greatest kindâ€" ness they could do to the Belgian and French prisoners to kill them off. The Prussian Infection. But these men who displayed real humanity were the exception. _ The average diary, the diary of an averâ€" age man, probably spoke of deeds of cruelty with the greatest philosophy. | It was war. If women and children were murdered, this, too, was war. If . on one occasion a captain summoned | his men, told them that a fortress to | be attacked was held by British solâ€" | diers, and said that no prisoners were | to be taken, this, too, was war ; the | British were their worst enemies. In r some of the diaries, Mr. Gleason says | in his article in the New Yory Triâ€" | bune, was to be detected the common | Prussian delusion that the Germans ‘ | _ In face of their testimony it is useâ€" |less for Germany to deny the barbarâ€" ism and cruelty of her invasion. Her own soldiers betray her. Often the |soldiers narrate deeds of cruelty in | the most commonplace language ; ocâ€" ’casiona]ly one will express his horror and disgust at the sights he has witâ€" nessed, at the deeds he has been obâ€" |liged to take part in. A Saxon officer, |for instance, mentions that a certain | village was given to .the flames beâ€" | )cause a German cyclist in falling from | revrcpthe has Antastrintinreicera ’is merely encoursiged ; among the | officers it is a law which may not be disregarded. ‘The French are in posâ€" Isession of tens of thousands of these books, the entries of the officers being l’made in ink, those of the private solâ€" dier in pencil. _ Each book contains the name and regiment of the author. Many of them are splashed in blood, and stained by mud and water. Some ‘ show that one of the last acts of the . wounded soldier was to make an entry, | Together they form the real record of | the war, so far as the acts of officers | and men are concerned. | C o0 2C 9 0 Aeroue uyl:â€"-’ SeCuer fustablished By These Nearly half a million Austrians and]trians Germans have been put out of comâ€" among Books. mission since General Brusilof begian |dead : Arthur Gleason, _ a well-knovnihi' great lrvance'- month ago. _ The fairly American newspaperman, has been grand total of prisoners to date is in | The lo permitted to inspect the most interestâ€" [round numbers 235,000, of which 4,500 | vance ing collection of relics gathered since 2re officers. * | marie i the war beganâ€"the notebooks and | _ The War Office announced the furâ€" | The diaries of German soldiers, found on ther capture of more than 10,000 Teuâ€" | culable their dead bodies or taken from prisâ€" | ton, of whom 5,000 were taken on the | 250 gu ners by the French. These books Dniester front. | of 700 a‘ve been preserved by the French| Without the actual figures reâ€" servati Government, and later on will form |garding the dead and wounded, careâ€" quantit the foundation for charges of cruelty | ful estimates by military experts, basâ€" telepho and bestiality made against the Gerâ€" ed on the best information, place the | of the man army in France and Flanders. tm The evidence contained in these books | will establish all charges made aâ€" IsommRs FIGHT and sle gainst the Germans ; it will make complis ridiculous tte excuses and denials of islecpi® Germans when the time comes for As IN A DREAM;' bep? | them to disavow the acts §ut tharked |their invasion of Belgium and th!flh x STRA ocupation of a part of France. o official statements by German his.| TAKE A NEW souL FPOR THE The y torians in the future will be able to TIME BEING. ship ha refute the damning evidence supplied | Brazila by these little books in which German x ling 6,4( sgldieu m?i of;ieterlh dedul%ribe what | Officers Psychological Analysis of | g’he' g they saw and what they did. Combatants‘ Feelings When ,;’l“s‘_rg Germany Condemns Herself. Armies Clash, 'ne:t wit A part of the outfit of every Gerâ€"| The regiments of the French army ; ‘T° **I man soldier is a notebook of the sort |have their newspapers, edited by ofâ€" ‘°: h :"' that women frequently use for houseâ€" | ficers and soldiers. One of these, "La r ’;"d' C hold accounts. A rule of the German | Revue Franco Macedonienne," of the 5* :.‘r e': army insists that soldiers record in ,’Orientll army, contains an unusual ‘m?n'f E these little books their own exâ€" | article, called " The Soul of the Comâ€" | ineg f' periences, for, as the regulation says, | bahnt," signed by an officer. It reads ;" hmes f' " by bringing together the various reâ€" | in part ; | 'l“ d° orts of active fighting, they are the | _"HoW are we to describe the soul | * ""’ _ gasis for the later definite histories of the combatant during the attack, COverin®g of the campaign. They should be in the battle ? The minutes are so Figure kept daily." It appears that among |intense, the preoccupation of the akfl srnn}ipr;;‘ the soldiers the keeping of the books to Attain so dbsorbing@ that ac.. 1b" |duce All Charges Made Against the Huns Established By These DIARIES OF SOLDIERS & GERMAXY Some Germans Revolt IN MONTH 501,000 WAR RELICS ntuliou :B s "One idea alone haunts the brain, where it tinkles like a bell _ You must advance! You must advance ! It imposes itself not as a duty, but as an evidence. And we advance, and ’we fall. The gaol is that tree over there, or that lump of earth I do not see anything beyond : I must reach it, and nothing, nothing, nothâ€" ing shall keep me away from that tree or that lump. ‘ " All fighting has an end ; at night . it calms down ; silence and shadow BETRAY " And in that dream what clearness of thought! This you must do, just this and nothing else. No hesitation. Responsibility, far from hindering the officer, sustains him. raises him up. " Dream, this continual bombardâ€" ment, which shakes the ground, crushes men, and throws others on the earth, their faces down. "Forced to wake up, you continue your dream, and from now on the ‘renlity appears only through your dream and you see yourself act. | There is a kind of duality in youâ€" | the physical person who creeps, falls | in the mud, lies «lown under the fire | of the mitrailleuses, sneaks from one !tree to another, and the moral person | who observes these strange proceedâ€" |ings, orders them and enjoys an asâ€" tonishing lucidness. ! i As in a Dream l Dream and lucidness here are the two words which seem to me to exâ€" press best the soul of the combatant. " Dream, this small wood, chopped by the fire, and through which, in a hellish noise, pale men glide, creeping on their knees and elbows. | ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS | _ "From that moment on we do not live in the present. The probability of death eclipses the past and forbids | the future. Such a state, lasting days and days, would be inconceivable and ‘also unbearable if the cireumstances did not make it easier by lessening | greatly the sensibility. | * First, there is the noise. Then afâ€" | ter the noise the fatigue which breaks | our limbs, the hunger, the thirst, the ,‘ | want of warm food which provokes a |kind of contraction of the stomach, ’really painful. But above all, that | | which enables a man to remain in the | fight without being demoralized by the losses, by certain sights, it is‘ sleep ; in the first hours there is no rest, and an immense expense of | physical _ and especially _ moral strength ; then, after a certain time, all disappears before an irresistible need of sleep. Every minute of quiet, under the rain, in a hole, in an open field, under a violent bombardment, we lie down and sleep, | | _ When, at 10 o‘clock in the evening of the 24th, we started forward toâ€" |l ward the furnace, we left behind in the bivouacs, with the ashes of the letters burned before our departure, our old soul, made of troubles, hope, fear, and love, and we put on at the same time as our equipment our soul of combat. ' "In the orders given since long | weeks the mysterious day of the atâ€" | tack was designated by the letter N. On September 22 we learned suddenly | that this was the day, Nâ€"3. Everybody | prepared himself. Letters to the | loved ones, letters of business and difâ€" ’ferent interests filled the bags of the postmen "I shall perhaps never see again such a prodigious moral spectacle as the one given by our bivourcs during the three days receeding the attack of September 2£ | _ _ Mow are we to describe the soul |of the combatant during the attack. in the battle ? The minutes are so | intense, the preoccupation of the qtn to attain so obsorbing, that even the man _ most 'Ec]ined to selfâ€"analysis ’abandom all thought for action. The atmosphere is so exceptional that even immediately after some difficult phases one does not recover his soul. _ "This is why there are so few books of war giving a faithful imâ€" pressjon of this transient psychology. | Yet f shall try it and take my exâ€"| amples from the participation of m{v, regiment in the last Champagne of.â€"| fensive. | The regiments of the French army have their newspapers, edited by ofâ€" ficers and soldiers. One of these, "La Revue Franco Macedonienne," of the Oriental army, contains an unusual article, called " The Soul of the Comâ€" batant" stined hy an aifina. q icy" German and Austrian Soldiers Captured, 230,000â€"Officers, â€"Wounded 200,000 to 220,000. A despatch frogpw Petrograd Sleep the Comforter LOSE 500,000 MEX _ â€" IN THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN â€" > "Edith, dear, tell mother why you won‘t learn to say ‘a‘." | _ "Well, mother, explaines Edith, | "It‘s because just as soon as I say ‘a‘ yo!:undfnflnr'lll want me to say + Mr. Capron and his wife struggled valiantly to teach their little daughter Edith to repeat the letter "a", Try as they might, the little girl refug to pronounce the first letter of alphabet, and after several vain efâ€" forts Mr. Capron retired from the sfi"l.xtgle‘ dlacourw. says:â€"|latter at 200,000 to 220,000 This tendency to go against the stream is very strongly marked in a emall catfish, called argen, which forces its way up the torrential streams of the Andes, gripping with its mouth and usingy a toothed ventral plate as a lever. It can climb up many feet of smooth, waterâ€"worn rock. _ In recent years it has been recorded that in heavy downpours of rain the climbing perch sometimes ascends the dripping stems of palmyra trees growâ€" ingz be:fde the pools. In all likelihood the climbing of trees by the fish is very rare and half accidental, the inâ€" stinct of the perch being to go against currents. Mre One of the early observers of the climbing perch said that he saw it five feet up a palm tree, and a good deal of discredit has been thrown on the story. But it seems to be possible that the early observer was quite acâ€" curate. _ One of the most famous cases of a fish out of water is the climbing perch, found in estuaries and fresh waters of India, Ceylon, Burmah and the Malayan region, which can spend many hours on land, sometimes among thick vegetation, and has, like some other fishes of similar habit, an extra breathinig organ suited for using dry air. It seems to push itself along in a wriggling fashion with the help of strong spines on its gill cover and its central fin. Irs. Capron called the child to her , in an affectionate manner. ask. Has An Extra Breathing Organ for Using Dry Air. A fish out of water usually is reâ€" garded as the most helpless thing in the world. _ And it is not generally known that there are fishes that deâ€" liben(ely make excursions on ghore. The railroad connecting Chile and Bolivia, which crosses the Andes 14â€" 105 feet mbove sea level, provides oxygen chambers, in which passengers can gret relief from the rarefied air in the high altitudes. high frequency, high voltage currents of electr?clty, a London experimenter has made them grow more rapidly than those of the same age reared without the treatment. ’ Without stopping his train an enâ€" gineer can move a lever in his cab and open a recently patented switch to enable him to enter a siding, the switch closing when the last car has passed over it. By treating young chickens with high frequency, high voltage currents of elemclty, a London experimenter After a long investigation a French scientist has declared that tuberâ€" culosis can be transmitted by the perâ€" spiration of a person afflicted with the disease, the germs passing through the pores, Economy of fuel consumption in steamships often repuires the mixing of two or more kinds of coal and an Englishman has invented a coaling barge that mixes coal as it delivers it into a bunker. FISH REALLY CLMBEs TrErs A submerged omk forest â€" covering several square miles, from which logs more than 100 feet in length have been taken, was discovered by Rusâ€" sian engineers while dredging a river. bushels from the year before. Experts connected with the governâ€" ment of India are considering the use of submarine boats from ::ieb men can be released to gather pearl shells from the bo! of the n, A submort(tfil o.&t?or::r tovering Figures ;ompnledl;y the Italian goyâ€" ern show that the world proâ€" dum&.ooo,m ‘)ut‘-eln of wheat last year, an increase of 8£00,000,000 bushels from the vear before. The coal in one of the largest new mines in ‘fllm lies so near the surâ€" face of ground that it will be mined with steam shovels after the covering soil is removed, To enable migratory fish to riso over waterfalls, dams and other obâ€" structions in streams, a Canadian fisheries officlal has invented an autoâ€" matic elevator. The world‘s highest powered motorâ€" ship has been built in Italy for the Brazilfan navy, its oil motors developâ€" ln}hfi,loo horse power. e Spanish government is planâ€" ning to build an electric railroad from M::rld t{o fll:;'rendl frontier to conâ€" neet with French lines. Long Way Down to Z maue in solid ranks were enormous. ! The booty captured reaches incalâ€" | culable figures. It is judged that | 250 guns of various sizes and upwards ‘of 700 machine guns would be a conâ€" servative estimate. In addition, large quantities of munitions, supplies and telephones ‘imve fallen into the hands of the Russians and sleep well ; the task has been acâ€" complished, One thought of the fallâ€" en comrade, then the total oblivion of sleep!" itri-.nt predominate overwhelmingly among the prisoners, but among . the dead and wounded it is said that a fairly large percentage are Germans, The losses in stopping the Russian adâ€" vance on Kovel and in counterâ€"attacks made in solld ranic wrhie cesmm cLes STRANGE FACTS oP s« covering ENCE The Ausâ€" 4,500 acâ€"