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NEWFOUNDLAND _ ‘BRITISH STOP _ _ WILL COâ€"OPERATE _ CERMANâ€"DRIVE N Z° T? S POHCy is both instantaneâ€" ous and cumulative. When the cow goes to the butcher, the source of perâ€" petuation is destroyed. With feed excessively high and dairying precarious the temptation to sell the cows is strong. The bad efâ€" fect of this policy is both instantame. "Lively artillery activity was disâ€" played in the regton of Monastir. In the nelghborhood of the lakes our troops have reached Mumulishta, on the west shore of Lake Ochrida, and Hill 1704, ten kilometres northâ€"west of Mumulishta. On Sept. 11 and 12 we captured 160 prisoners, two mounâ€" tain guns and three machine guns." A despatch from Paris says War Office report on the theatre operations reads : ENCAGEMENT NEaAR On the following day the schooner William, of Dublin, was sunk by a submarine. The open boat in which the crew left the vessel was shelled with shraprel, but only one man was wounded. boat containing the crew of whom three were killed and mainder badly wounded. A submarine sank the schooner Jane Williams, of Arklow, off the coast of Cornwall Monday by shell fire. ‘The gun was then turned on a A despatch from London says :â€" f cates that no Two cases of German submarines fir | fection had oc ing on the crews of sunken vessels afâ€" | ing forces, wh ter they had taken to the boats were | N€@r Sventsiar made public on Thursday. | theatre were 1 Turn Guns on Sailors After Boats Sunk. Uâ€"BOAT PIRATES MURDER CREWS erican Food Administration with the special object of arranging for supâ€" plies of salt pork and beet. A despatch from Ottawa There is to be close coâ€"oper tween '%,Newtoundland an dian Administrations. "F. McCrath. | Chateman al4 Chairman of Food Control Board Visiting Ottawa and Washington. ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS TORONTO A despatch from Petrograd says:â€" The Executive Committee of the Workmen‘s and Soldiers‘ Deputies and Peasants‘ Delegates held a general council on Thursday to discuss the action of General Korniloff. M. Skobeleff, Minister of Labor, anâ€" nounced that the Korniloff adventure had collapsed completely, _ and tht’] his Headquarters had surrendered. The Ministerâ€" added that soon mi whole administration and organizaâ€" tion of the Russian army would be | modified. He declared that the Govâ€" | ernment had acted in full aaoomant; with the Revolutionary Démocracy, | which had thus triumphed, but that | the victory ought not to lessen â€"the | vigilahce of the Government, becaule;" new attempts at a counterâ€"revolution ;u were possible through the criminal acâ€" || CIVIL WAR IN RUsSIA AVERTE ~ BY SURRENDER OF KORNILOEF en # Russian Minister of Labor Announces That the Entire Adminisâ€" . _ tration and OrmtionofAr-y Will Be Modified. I IN MONASTIR REcion killed and the re says :â€"The the eastern six, of 9b w it Says : â€" the dren. And so I prize this button more Than gifts of happier days, The glad mad hours we had before The parting of the ways. Thank you for the kindly thought, Brave soldier over there, You who own what can‘t be bought, A nation‘s honor share. Welcome to my coat sleeve, Little button fresh from France, Whispering to me "Do not grieve, We‘ve all a fighting chance." "ON RECEIVING A BUTTON FROM FRANCE." | _ In the region of Riga the German | cavalry was compelled to retire south of the Rigaâ€"Wenden Road, while in Rumania a height was captured from the Austroâ€"Germa®s after a vigorous fight, and more than 400 men made prisoner. _ German positions to the south of Sventsiany, which lies beâ€" tween Vilna and Dvinsk, are being heavily bombarded by the Russian guns. J _ 1. _ ,3 _ 6 °C war Office report indiâ€" | cates that no great amount of disafâ€" ;iectlon had occurred among the fightâ€" ing forces, who in the region of Riga, | near Sventsiany and in the Rumanian | theatre were vigorously on the offenâ€" ‘ sive against the enemy, and that along the line east of Riga and in Rumania at several points they had , won suc-‘ cesses over the Teutons. ' Honey, fruit jelli;s and Plain cookies e among the best sweets for chilâ€" A despatcly from Lond The Petrograd War Office "Despite bad visibility some artilâ€" ’lery work was carried out.by our airâ€" | planes yesterday. Photographs were ‘taken, and the bombing of enemy Iaerodromos, ammunition dumps and ,’ railway stations continued day and | night. Three enemy machines were driven down out of control. Two of our machines are missing." Heigt in Rumania Capturéd and 400 Prisoners Taken. RUSS ADVANCE TOWARD RIGA ’ui::-urun\}g tg rre!"xhts outsllde. * ; ";:-' “Ea;ly ”l’llis morning the enemy oué?d_?‘: 'fln' O'F:°°°m ':“ tt° ;“‘; ts opened a eavy bombardment on a‘ anitoba flourâ€"First paten 8, in jute front of more than a mile north and },’:{:;s-f’;;,?f",lfgg; vl‘-]f,’,'.},n’,g':o' strong northeast of Langemarck and attackâ€" Ontario flou.râ€"“'inten c'?rdlns to ed in considerable strength. After ;%ny:,lfi' s‘hll%rznoe‘nt}n bane "track HToraitto fierce fighting the attack was repulsed Millfeedâ€"Car _ lotsâ€"Delivered Montâ€" with severe énemy losses." real freights, bars includeAâ€"Ttran wha L & leavin‘s" L. _ 1 AAAUT| .Ontarle catsâ€"No.) 2 white, 60c, nomi sharp fighting, leavings a number * us ireients‘ Wf,a0¢ nominal, according dead and prisoners in our hands. [ Ontario wheatâ€"New, No. 2, $2.17 tc "We carried out a successful raid [4§$; heeqrpk t0 freights outside. during the night in the neighborhood ) Parieyâ€"â€"Manline new. t1 zo. io $1.22 of Ophy. ,a(r-{cordlr{'g tg x;rley(r)htn outdzailde.t irhinnfe "EKarly this moraing the enemy |."Y*â€"NO0. 2 $1.70,. According to fra "Last â€"night, after hours of lfuvy bombardment, the enemy raided our positions east of Bullecourt. He sucâ€" ceeded in effecting an entry in our trenches, but was driven out after sharp fighting, leaviuq.a number _ of dead and prisoners in our hands. "We carried out a successful raid tubects S ie‘ I A despatch from Lc The British official com sued on Thqrsday. says Bombing Muior ie antatarialts Ssd ts hss 9 c 1 10 i "ed, ought to be inflicted upon General Korniloff, and that the Government would do nothing to mitigate his fate. _ The Government‘s task now, M. Avskentieft continued, would be to struggle against counterâ€"revolutionary attempts, . safeguard national liberty and defend the country against the foreign enemy. * w | tivity of Gen. Kaledines, Chief of the Cossacks. M. Skobeleff concluded by 'lz:ng that in the new Government | the presence of any elements suspectâ€" ed of sympathy with Korniloff ought to be rendered impossible. C M. Avskenteiff, Minister of the Inâ€" terior,; said on Friday that as a result of the Korniloff revoit ail the Russian front for three days remained without the least defence and without comâ€" mand.. The severest penalty, he addâ€" bing of Enemy Lines Conâ€" tinues Day and Night. }agndon says :â€" The I)o:l:n.g: @)/ ¢ â€" Sss T NERE3 '*3'“ ; yeee>""H ,‘.‘. {,_"_,J’ w’b‘;s: (,( -, 8 c(\ CC é}, C o ‘l ?\ NJ ) Soez_| )_ C® LW â€"F. Bell _ London says :â€" communication, is ‘ sample, $10.20; in ngth. _ After prompt shipment. was repulsed Millfeedâ€"Car ~ l0 _ real freights, bags 1 + ahmuau . g. c TES â€"ARURIL Der 'ton. $35; shorts, do., $42; middlings, e artilâ€" gg.é;‘ls to $46; good feed flour, per bag, our air-{ Hayâ€"No. 1, new, per ton, $11.00 to s were $11.50; mixed, do., $8 to $9.50, â€" track enemy Toronto. an | "~ na m Minneapolis, â€" §é'5€"' 18â€"â€"6:)‘1'-11â€"1*10. 3 yellow, $2.18 to $2.20. Oatsâ€"No. 3 No. 4, $1.184;° rejected and feed, $1.14. Flaxâ€"No. 1 N.â€"W.C., $3.18; No. 2 C.w., $3.11%; No. 3, do., $3.01. Winnipeg, Sept. 18â€"Cash prices :â€" Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern, $2.21; No..2, do., $2.18; No. 3, do., $2.15; No. 4, $2.09; No. 5, $1.85; No. 6, $1.75; feed, $1.66. Oatsâ€"No. 2 C.W., T6lc; No. 3, do., ssic; extra No. 1 feed, 651ic; hzg. 1 feed, 64§%c; No. 2, do., 63ic. Barleyâ€"â€"No. 3, $1.224; *n ob Sn verllllgio o k S me®y Wieay Montreal, â€" Sept. 18â€"Oatsâ€"Canadian Western, No. 2, Tiic; do., No. 3, T6ke; 'extm No. 1 feed, 76%c¢c; No. 2 local white, 68¢; No. 3 local white, 67¢. Barleyâ€" | Man. feed, $1.27; " do., maiting, $1.53. ‘Flourâ€"Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts $11.60; _ do., seconds, $11.10; _ strong | bakers‘, $10.90; Winter patents, choice, $12; straight rollers, $11.50 to $11.80; do., bags, $5.60 to $5.75. Rolled oatsâ€" Barrels, $8.70 to $9; do., bags, 90 lbs., $4.20 to $4.40. Branâ€"$34.00 to $35.00. Shortsâ€"$40, Middlingsâ€"$48 _ to $50. Mouillieâ€"$55 to $60. Hayâ€"No. 2, per ton, car lots, $10 to $10.50. Cheeseâ€" Finest Westerns, 21%; do., finest East-‘ erns, 2Mc. Butterâ€"Choicest creamerz. 414 to 4%¢; seconds, 41c. Eggsâ€"Fresh, b2e; selected, 47 to 48¢; No. 1 stock, 4$ to 44¢c; No. 2 stock, 40 to 41c. Potataes â€"per bag, car lots, $2.25. . Â¥ .0 OACOC CCMTCE, 2UZ UV £0C, Lardâ€"Pure lard, tierces, 25% to 26¢; tubs, 254 to 261c; pails, 26 to 264¢c; comâ€" gound. tierces, 204 to 21¢; tubs, 201 to 1ic; pails, 21 to 21%c. | Provisionsâ€"Wholesale _ Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, medium, 30 to 31¢c; do., heavy, 26 to 27c; cooked, 41 to 42¢c; rolls, 27 to 2§c; *breakfast bacon, 86 to 40c; backs, plain, 37 to 38¢; boneâ€" less, 40 to 4%c. Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 27 to 27%¢ lbs.clear bellies, 264 to 27c. Lardâ€"Pure lard, tierces, 254 to 26¢; tubs.{‘25£‘ to 261ic; pails, 26 to 264¢c; comâ€" nan» Stauics s emeud onl D Potatoes, on to $1.90. Beansâ€"No Canadian beans onam.nrket until last of October; imported handâ€" picked, $8.50 per bush; Limas, per 1b., 15 to 16c. P.olt%}\oes. on trackâ€"Ontario, bag, $1.85 ba aoge CCAOYET TT aol Honeyâ€"Combâ€"E weight, per doz., $: $2.75; No. 2. $2 to 5‘s, 16e per lb; 10‘ 15c. E CR CE EC TD TUC Dressed poultryâ€"Spring chickens. 25 to 30¢c; fowl, 20 to 28¢; squabs, per doz., $41 to $4.50; turkeys, 25 to 30¢; ducks, Spring, 22c. * Live poultryâ€"Spring â€" chickens, 1b., 22%¢; hens, 20 to 22¢; ducks, Spring, 20c. Honeyâ€"Combâ€"Extra fine and heavy weight, per doz., $2.75; select, $2.50 to $2.75; No. 2, $2 to $2.95:; tins, 23‘s and ?"s, 16e per lb; 10‘s, 15%c; 60‘s, 144 to be 4,, 3. _5 C1 °TS Are selling to the retail trade at the following prices :â€"â€" Cheeseâ€"New, large, 22% to 23¢; twins, 224 to 23%c; triplets, 23 to 28%c; _ old, large. 30¢; twins, 30%c; triplets, 30%c. > Butterâ€"Fresh dairy, choice, 39 to 40¢; ('re:‘z;nery prints, 42 to 43¢; solids, 414 to G. Eggsâ€"New laid, in cartons, 52 to 54¢; out of cartons, 45 to 46c. Butterâ€"Creamery, solids, per lb., 3 to 39%c¢c; prints, per lb., 395 to 40¢; dairy per lb, 33 to 34c. Fggsâ€"Per doz., 39 to 40c. Wholesalers are selling to the retail tn,l_‘d“e at the following prices :â€" Strawâ€"Car lots, per ton, $7 track Toronto. Breadstuffs ’ Toronto, Sept. 18â€"Manitoba wheatâ€" {No. 1 Northern, $2.21; No. 2, do.. $2.18; | No. 3, do., $2.15; No. 4 wheat, $2.09, in \store Fort Winia.l 25 228C Maws Auveasst CCCY 0P aWHP store Fort William nominal Manitoba. oatsâ€"No. 2 C, store Fort William, nominal American cornâ€"No:. 3 yell track Toronto. Markets of the World United States Markets _ qay, [3 â€" 1 _| _ VNSnIre i8 seen Presenting the Victoria whose son, the late Sergt. Sifton, gave his life in winning Gov. Hendrie and General Logie are seen on the extreme 1 hand, on the right centre facing the Duke. The presentation tional Exhibition at Toronto. Country Produceâ€"Wholesale Naan Winnipeg Grain Montreal Markets ~ P oi ieâ€"â€"NO. 2 CW., 67ic, in t William, nominal. *X in cornâ€"No: 3 yellow, nominal, onto. catsâ€"No. 2 white, 60c¢, nomiâ€" 3, do., 59¢, nominal, according s outside, wheatâ€"New, No. 2, $2.17 to hoi faul e us o Een NC Duke of Devonshire > â€"WWinter, @ecording to n bags, track Toronto, lotsâ€"Delivered _ Montâ€" s includedâ€"Bran. per do.. $42; middlings, Dx/iV/ First Public Presentation of the CELOE HROUE SRRERCTE . 4. do., $2.18; Toronto, Sept. 18â€"Extra choice heavy ‘heat, $2.09, in | steers, $11.35 to‘ $12.25; good heavy al. steers, $10.50 to $11; _ ‘butchers‘ cattle, C.W.. 673c, 1n’wchoice. $10 to $10.50; do., good, $9.25 to al. M $9.75; do.. medium, $8.50° to $9: do., llow, nominal, common, $6.85 to $7.15; butchers‘ bulls, choice, $8.40 to $8.75; do., good bulls, te, 60¢, noml-‘fl.fio to $8;~ do., medium bulls, $7 to nal, according $7.25; do., rough bulls, $5 to $6;° butchâ€" + ers cows, choice, $8.25 to $8.50; _ do., 0. 2, $2.17 to | good, $7.25 to $7.50; do., medium, $6.65 s outside. to $6.85; stockers, $7.25¢ to $8.25; feedâ€" ‘ ers, $8.25 to $9.25; canners and cutters, 1.20 to $1.2%, | $5.25 to $6.25; milkers, good to cho!ce.‘ de. s $90 to $130; do.. com. and med., $40 to . g to freights | $50; springers, $90 to $140; light ewes, ’ $10 to $11.50; ‘sheep, heavy, $6 to 87.50:, feupo in lute |yearlings, §14 tosf11.00; .caives, good to | 1.40; strong | choice, $14.25 .to $15.50; spring lambs, | lecording io | §1§0%,40 $L7L hok®, t6d Hs.30. : | | : 0., W & .25 ; 0., | ‘ack Toronto, I{.ofi).. 817.l e ed :Dcars $ 6' v ontreal, Sept, 18â€"Canners‘ bulls, $6 | vered _ Montâ€" | to sfi.zs;oecows. $3 to $5.25; good steers, | Qâ€"Brani Der â€"$9.75 to~$10; / medium, $8.75 to $9.50; | i 1middlings. |common, $8 ‘to. $8.50; butchers‘ bulls, a ctrten io hi tm cce at mroats on | ario lambs, $14.50 to i Quebec, .50 3 581140 0 | to $14: sheen, $8.50° to $0.50; choice! $9.50, / track | niizlk-ted calves, $13 to $14; good, $11 to ] $7 to $7.50, xg’lqtnn“ffif’f.ied' $8 to $10; selected hogs, 825 RUSSIAN CANNON TAKEN BY GERMANS AT RIGA. A despatch from Berlin says: The report from army headquarters says: "It has been established that the numâ€" ber of prisoners taken in the battle of Riga is 8,900, and that the booty amounts to 325 cannon, oneâ€"third of which are heavy pieces; several fully loaded narrowâ€"gauge trains, large quantities of pioneering materials, railway materials and alimentary supâ€" plies and numerous armored cars and other troop conveyances." | 39 A despatch from Canadian Army Headquarters says: In the Lens region, the body of a Canadian who had penetrated the enemy line alone during an attack was found surroundâ€". ed by the bodies of fifteen of the en-’ emy, whom he had killed with bombs | or his bayonet before he himself was | slain. No other instance is known in | the annals of the army where one man | has accounted for so many foes. i fcessful in developing an aeropianev;fi- ' A Subject About Which As Yet Little‘ gi;le itn Whi:lll)l'thhe IdJr;ilteg States will Is Known. re o establish definite supremac {ove’;' her enemics in the air.s Â¥ *. ‘What about your climate? Not the ’ The engine, which represents the Climate you may happen to live in, skill of a score of eminent engineers, | P"t the climate of your body...__ i who pooled their skill and trade | _ Persons differ very much in this reâ€" secrets in the war emergency, is ‘deâ€" , SP}TCt' % Some Derkpite. more than scribed by: Secretary of »War Baker | O}: ers,hsome give out more body heat as having in its test exceeded the * ;.,';I.Ot PS i : | highest hopes and expectations of all is matter is tested by an ME eli" War Department officials. ous little contrivanceâ€"a combination gine in which the United States will rely to establish definite supremacy over her enemies in the air. Combined Skill of Allied Engiâ€" " neers Produces Efficient Motor. A despatch.from;New York says: American inventive genius, assisted by the scientific minds of Great Briâ€" tain, France and Italy, has been sucâ€" cessful in de_veh_)pirlg an aeroplane enâ€" 1 44 % a, C=RT |$17.50 to $18 NEW AERO ENGINE A GREAT SUCCESS One Canadian Gets 15 Huns Duluth, Sept. 18â€"Linseedâ€"Septe $8.301; October, $3.304 asked; N ber, $3.30% asked; ecember, $3.26 white, 584 to 60c changed. resenting the Victoria Cross to Mr. J. _J. Sifton, of ve his life in winning this most coveted of all milita seen on the extreme right of the picture. Mr. Sifto uake. The presentation took place on the opening day Live Stock Markets c. Flour and branâ€"Unâ€" 18â€"Linseedâ€"September, Victoria Cross in D uff 3. Novemâ€" ) Mr. J. J. Sifton, of Wallacetown, Ont., st coveted of all military decorations. Liéug.- the picture. Mr. Sifton is standing, hat in | _A despatch from Adelaide, South / Australia, says: The Directorâ€"General of Recruiting states that arrangeâ€" ments have been made to send 50,000 ';of the original Australians home for , the holidays, irrespective of whether .'correspondlng reinforcements are | sent. The Directorâ€"General believes that the visit of these gallant men will lglve a great stimulus to recruiting. 4 AUSTRALIAN soLDiERS WILL HAVE a ] Body climate has a relation to vital activity; also to the nervous system. | But as yet very little is known about |it. The instrument here described, .[recording the temperature and moistâ€" ’ure of the wearer at all hours, furâ€" nishes data concerning the meteorâ€" ology of the individual that are deamâ€". ed of value. They may shed light upon the reaâ€" son why some folks feel the heat in | summer so much more than others.! This is evidently a matter of body| climate. | the History of Canada. This matter is tested by an ingeniâ€" ous little contrivanceâ€"a combination of thermometer and hygrometer in small compassâ€"that is worn for a few days next the skin, its record beâ€" ing noted at intervals. ’ American officials are considering proposing to the Russian Government that a section of the Transâ€"Siberian line be turned over to a group of Amâ€" erican railwaymen for operation. The Americans would train Russian crews who would be distributed to other sections as fast as possible. ‘ ! The breaking down of Russia‘s |transportation system has been one ,of her chief handicaps in prosecuting !the war. Thousands of tons of freight is piled on the ground at Vladivostok, which Russian railway men have found no way to move. The arrival of American locomotives in large numbers is expected to be of great asâ€" ’sistance in starting this freight west-! ward. 1 0 0 yel L0 Cabane mTe VEUeIq, ud SANGGLEe can railway men will be sent to serve as inspectors along the Transâ€"Siberian railway. ; _ _A despatch from Washington says: Immediate aid in solving Russia‘s transportation problems will be given by the American Government. Shipâ€" ment of locomotives and cars to Vladiâ€" vostok will be rushed across the Paâ€" cific in Japanese vessels, and Ameriâ€" Russia Will Receive Immediate Aid From U.S. Government. CLIMATE OF HUMAN Bopy TO SOLVE TRANSâ€" PORT PROBLEM HAVE A HoLipay. of the Canadian have A despatch from Ottawa . says: Thanksgiving Day will fall on Monâ€" day, October 8. This was the official declaration of the Secretary, of State‘s Department. Owing to some misunâ€" derstanding on the part of department officials or newspapermen, it was anâ€" nounced in many of the papers that Thanksgiving Day would be on Octoâ€" ber 1. However, the officia! statement of the State Department shows this to in Wisietars . cedA lsnls "The total recruits in combatant ’arms during the same period was | approximately 800, making a net | wastage of approximately 7,475." THANKSGIVING pay | "The casualties at the front in | the Canadian expeditionary force for | the period 16th to 31st of August, ‘1917, so far reported, were 7,086. "The discharges in Canada the same period for various was 689, making a total was 8.275. "This covers the period of excepâ€" tionally severe fighting in and around Lens, where the Canadian forces were heavily engaged. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Minister of Militia and Defence has issued the following statement to the Canadian Press: CANADIAN CASUALTIES > FAR EXCEED RECRUITS Vancouver‘s treasury is richer by; $1,000 and its assets reduced by one | steam fire engine, the sale of which | was put through to a mining man who wanted an egine to pump water into | his sluice boxes. | |_ At Vancouver a motion te hold an ’investigauon into the poor scholastic | standing attrined by pupils of the | High schools of the city, in particular | the King Edward High School, was ;unanlmously adepted by the Board of |School Trustees. At South Vancouver difficulty is beâ€" | ing experienced by the Dominion Creâ€" osoting Company.to secure a sufficient | supply of creosot® to keep their reâ€" | sorts in operation. | 1" Mr. Thos. Kirby, a wellâ€"known resiâ€" _ dent of Chilliwack, and a returned I’soldier, has been appointed by the Proâ€" ;vinclal Government to a position on | the Fraser River bridge, under Superâ€" intendent Thos. Gifford. | Many parties of farmers and ranchâ€" r\em are going into the Peace River country from as far south as Texas ‘in the United States and from as (arf south as the Argentine Republic. | Announcement is made in the curâ€" rent issue of the Provincial Gazette that butcher shops, meat merchants and fish stores in Victoria from now on will be exempt from the provisions of the Weekly Half Holiday Act. For his brilliant work in the recent fighting in the region of Ypres, Flightâ€" Commander Ray Collishaw has been awarded the Distinguished Service Orâ€" der. This is the third decoration won by the young av&or. a native of Nanaimo. «9e .2 A girl of twelve at Vanvouver avertâ€" ed a serious fire to property on Homer street by calling up the Fire Departâ€" ment on noticing the presence of sm6ke. The Williams Shingle Mill at Jarâ€"‘ dine was burned to the ground by fire | which is supposed to have surted] from the electric dynamos which operâ€" ate the plant. l It is officially announced that Sergt. A. Fisher, formerly of Néelson, his reâ€" ceived the Military Medal for excepâ€" tional bravery under fire at Vimy Ridge. Flags at halflâ€"mast throughout New Westminster symbolized the deep perâ€" sonal regret of thousands of citizens over the death of Sir Richard McBride. Mrs. Robert Shannon, of Vancouver, was chosen to be sponsor for the fifth ocean boat launched at North Vanâ€" couver. 4 *% A ratepayer of Port Coqultiam, who lives in Newfoundland, sent a generâ€" ous contribution to the local Prisoners of War Fund. The fourth annual gala and aquatic sports of ~the Vanvouver Amateur Swimming Club took place at English Bay. FROM SUNSET COAST an error, TO BE OCTOBER 8th. ada during ious â€" causes wastage of rieties of milkweed are excellent and palatable food, though most persons have never been wapprised of this fact, and it is notorious that the milkwoeds grow in nearly every place where they can find a foothold, ! Then there is pusley. It is a very common, juicy and fleshy weed, which sprawls itself over the ground and ’whléh is more often called "pig weed" .fl;;n pusley from the fact that pigs their elders, the hogs, are fond of it Pusley makes an excellent salad whuouhhlnmeduuan of preâ€" paring it. -‘-'l“\o h:l‘lslloot_s of the various vaâ€" many â€"«parts of the world, but which ; looks not at ali like its cultivated desâ€" cendants.. All the edible beans and peas, of which there are a surprisingâ€" ly large number of varieties, are sprung from wild plants, with pods containing inconspicuous beans. So it 4s with the potato, the sweoot potato, carrot, parsnip, turnip, rhubarb and every other vegetable and fruit of which man ~can think.~ The end of turning wild things. into cultivated thl:ka has not yet been reached. * Modern Vegetables Were All, At One s | Time, Wild Plants. Leg The fields and woods are full of plant n'torms which, though edible, are not p | eatenâ€"that is, the plants are not eaten . : by the great mass of mankind. And it ‘ 4s remarkable that men do not eat _! these plants, not because they do not 1 like~them, but because they do not , know that they are edible, and even though they should learn that they .‘ may be eaten with safety and advantâ€" ; age, would not have the slighest noâ€" tiomâ€"how to prepare them. There are _ many of these plants growing profuseâ€" ‘ly along the quiet byways of the counâ€" «~try and over the untilled fields borderâ€" ing the highways and the byways, ’which. while edible in their present wild state, are susceptible of being deâ€" | yeloped into that form of focd generalâ€" ‘ly called garden or table vegetables. | _ There is no vegetable that man eats toâ€"day that was not at one time a weed or a wild plant. The successive years or centuries . _of cultivation have so changed its physical appearance that there remains little outward similarity between it and its wild ancestor. All &:'&Hnl of cabbageâ€"kale, cauliâ€" flower;. Brussels sprouts and kohlâ€"rabi â€"have been descended, or perhaps asâ€" cended, from a small and meanâ€"lookâ€" ing wild plant that exists to day in | The thirtyâ€"third annual meeting of ,the City of Dublin Nursing Institution | was lweld recently, when efforts woere Jml.de to standardize the status of | nurses. Mr. Justice Madden, at the Tyrone assizes, awarded £1,800 against the Strabane and Castlederg Councils for the malicious burning of two fax mills. A deputation waited on General Fry last week at Dublin, to discuss with him the subject of the promised War Office Receiving Depot in Ireland. At a meeting of the City of Dublin Grand Orange Lodge, resolutions were passed urging the Government to enâ€" force the Military Service Act. The French Cross of the Legion of Honor, which was awarded to the late Major William Redmond, MP., has been presented to his widow by M. Paul Cambon. j The Department of Agriculture have | prohibited the exportation of horses | from Ireland, except those shipped unâ€" ‘der military authorization. The firm of R. and A. Wiison was fined five shillings at the Dublin Police Court for selling two doughnuts with sugar on the outside. The Ballinasloe Agricultural Show has been fixed to take place early in October. The demonstration. plots in St. Stephen‘s Green, Dublin, are being largely patronized at the present time by amateur gardeners. The Durlop Rubber Co. have deâ€" cided to use Glencullen granite in the erection of their new building in Dubâ€" lin, instead of English cut stone. The effect of the check on the exâ€" portation of timber from Ireland has been to start all the saw mills workâ€" ing at full time. A\ WEEDS USED As Foop. W. Smith, of the Royal Irish Rifies, was awarded the Bronze Medal for rescuing a woman from drowning in Belfast Harbor. The committee in charge of the art sale in aid of the Jrish War Hospital Supply Depot report that the total reâ€" ceipts amount to nearly £4,000, Dr. B. W. McKenney has been apâ€" pointed certifying surgeon at Linaâ€" skea, in succession to Dr. T. Knox, deâ€" ceased. The Irish Forestry Society held their annual excursion on the castle grounds of Sir Thomas Dixon, Bart., at Clonsilia. ,eo-tnct- for the supply ‘of peat fuel from the Bog of Allen. A mansion erected at a cost of £10,â€" 000 was given by Miss Carleton to the Portadown Child Welfare Committee. Mrs. Aune McMorrow, of Camall, County Leitrim, has died at the adâ€" vanced age of one hundred and six From Erin‘s Green Isle The military have entered into large today in ‘t wait to be the last the war may all be past) Get a move on! Go sign your name toâ€"day Be in the game to play) Line up beneath the fiag! {Don‘t you love the dear old rag?) Get a move on! If you think the (And you‘re not this country can poi: orders, the contract alone calling for the tomns per month, which 108,000,000 lbs. per ye wme sugar supplied white granulated, an« feulties of the proj never been the sligh satisfying the War ments. Naturally the It was also incumb search for further pot tory sources of supply with the raw material, eously, to foster the from British possessic with this industry, direction much has bee The question at tha to make good the 800 formerly came from sugar refinery cannot 1 The sugarâ€"relning i; United States had fa} what evil days, man G@eed having fallen | American interests, r portunity to retrieve ) in this field, at once abandoned factories, 0« and brought them into more. Semiâ€"refining u, tions also underwent a lation. the boys come baci have to clear the track ¢ And get a move . Bome 25,000 Ibs. per day n; mediately earmarked for our troops in Planders alo; qmantity at once commene somewhat | startlingly | to with the thousands of men the colors. 108,000,000 Pounds Por From the domestic poin only one course was ope authorities. ‘The household many interests in which s an important part must Eo mlone will be to blame, ywou‘ll have to bear the = In one stroke our su cut in half by the super mm Oormuuy furt some 50 per cent. of o situation was undeniab; ty, but the Governme grappled with it by as; sponsibility for the pur tribution of the comn the _ specially created known as the Sugar Naturally the Army | c foremost; no stint in + be countenanced | for Of sugar. . British refin buted 800,000 tons of thi balance representing in hl'lq refineries. The J yield was practically nil we have never enthusia; braced the cuitivation of : This is approximate eneâ€"thirteenth of our â€" mual consumption of 1913 the nation requir Ing its way through 121,1 sugar per annum. arms. Assuming that « this huge force receive 2% ozs. per day, then o made in the House the Prime Minister Great Britain has 51 On the basis of 1,0( represents a daily c 125,000 and 187,500 1 among the home troop Flanders. It is possibl. more wvividly the m ments in this connectio calls that, according to what has been ounces for Front. Until one sees stati scarcely believe how m jam is mecessary for s my‘s sweet tooth, 11 Work Mr. Prederick A. tory of the industria] n the resources of the ; is mainly concerned wit The army is a heavy sugar, seeing that the di sued ranges from two 0 case of the soldier at ». part of every life In Order That the Army M plied, the British House A CALL TO ARMsS WORK OPTHE sucar BION INX ENGLA Ar a slacker‘s name« Get a move on‘ Get a move on! Get a A Grave Situation too prou move on req d must go that thige 800.000 +. life is to learn wrongly done. uj fightir ably righ â€"D.0.E militar tion wh to the on t Short of HMi ps and e to by hame 0 cl d keep flock muct supp D« 1‘C n n n m V