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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT,, THURSDAY, MAT H, 1917 3 UNITED STATES DESTROYERS HAVE JOINED BRITISH FORCES Squadron Arrives Off Queenston and is Now Patrolling Seas-- Has Encountered German Submarine. Markets of the World BANISH THE No official q o freights o '--No. 2 W ) 76c, ioml- Ontai.. .. lot, $2.96 to $3.00; No. 2 do., $2.as Queenstown age across the Atlantic, but almost *2.88, according to freights outside - immediately after a formal exchange fre^outsti. ™ml™1 I of greetings with the British naval of- Barley--Malting, $1,40 to $145, nom ficials put to sea again for the hard ; n%^fn28 J^WM nominal, a. work that is before it. ! cording to freights outside, in war service. \ One of the American destroyers be- ' bMs" liMO^^fonS1 Patents8' in jute The American navy's actual entry gan war duty even before reaching bags, $14.90; strong bakers1, in Jutr into the war zone has already been this side of the Atlantic. This was ba§n'tarVo60flou°r--winter, according t, productive of a brush between a de- when it picked and escorted through sample, $13.00 to $13.10,' in bags, traci stroyer and a German under-water the danger zone one of the largest of T0MMreV£^r fo«PTellvered Montreal > freights, bags included; " A despatch from says: A squadron of American torpedo-boat destroyers has safely crossed the Atlantic and is patrolling the seas boat, according to an announcement by the -Atlantic liners. This action the British Admiralty, but the result pleased the British passengers of it has not been made publii The destroyer squadron arrived in Queenstown after an uneventful voy- CANADIANS PRAISED BY VIVIANI Extract From Famous Speech at Ottawa. Monsieur Rene Viviani's address before the joint Houses of Parliament at Ottawa, which is being reprinted in the original French in editions sufficient for every one who desires a copy, contained no passage more worthy of remembrance than that in which he spoke of the Canadian troops and of gratitude to Great Britain. The following is a translation from the Hansard report: "Yes, you Canadians, mingled with English and French troops without distinction of race or distinction of country, under different standards, have shown the same bravery. And let us not forget that in the month of April, 1915, at Ypres, in the north of France, quite close to Belgium, in that region desolated by floods, after the terrible assault delivered by the German soldiers by means of asphyxiating gas--that Germany which has derailed science, and which instead of bringing all its blessings to humanity caused to be cast on it all its evils and it's crimes--it was the Canadian soldiers who in that terrible day rose up and saved the day. And in many a combat and in numerous and recent victories they have stood firm. We see yet your young men, alert, agile, courageous, under their colors the first to scale Vimy Ridge, which had been reputed impregnable. Honor to all these soldiers; let us piously incline our thoughts before those who fight, before those who suffer, before those who have died. They knew well s what they did arfd wtiy they lefTyour land. They knew well that they did not bear their arms merely for Great Britain, or merely for France, invaded and attacked, but with a clear vision fixed upon the sky, beholding a higher ideal, they knew that it was , for the holy cause of humanity, of democracy and of justice. And it is under the aegis of these glorious and recent deeds that we have come tc visit you." board that they sent s greeting and appreciation mander of the destroyer. i to°; : . r bag, $3.00 RANCHING IN RHODESIA. Country Produce--Wholesale iter--Fresh dairy, choice, 39 to -Ints, 43 to 45c; solids, 41 Eggs--New-laid, in cartoi ut of cartons, 44c. Dressed poultry--Chicker lll,i?on. f--White clover 5-lb. tins, 14Jc; ; buckwheat, 6 Canadian, hand-n ; Canadian primes, 0; Limas, per lb., Smoked meats- Colonies to Furnish More Meat For British Market. Even amid the distractions of war Ho. <1°Z" $4'00 t0 *4i°; the development of our Colonies keeps Cheese--New, large, 27 i going steadily on. Attention is drawn %*J° JJ^-J?1?1**! 274 to the fact that a first consignment of frozen meat from Rhodesia, sent by the British South Africa Company, nuchas been sold in Smithfield Market. j^f! The consignment, which consisted of Maple syrup--Imperial gallon, 88 quarters, proved of excellent qual- $1potatoes--On track Ontario, n ity and found a ready sale. It was $4.25; New Brunswick Delawat an experiment, but will no doubt lead pa£'i.$wniies,lage,r$tbo.Per baS to greater things. As a matter of fact, Beans -- Impr-'J it was larger than the first consign- b>us.h-A8-0^ 9f ment of frozen beef from the Argen- $ tine, which was received in 1885. That j consignment amounted in value to no I more than $1,715, but so rapidly has 3.„, the business grown that in 1915 the ^ value of meat imports from the Ar- j less gentine was $77,762,095. £ is not to be expected that Rho- ; pou' desia can ever produce as much meat 21c< Argentine, which, owing to its won-! 25c derful alfalfa fields, will always be of the largest meat-producing countries in the world. Cattle ranching in Rkodesia is only in its infancy; but great interest is being taken in large ranches are being established, and good cattle of all breeds are being imported in order to improve the native stock and produce large supplies of meat fit for the British mar-In the year 1915 only 20 per cent, of the meat imported by Britain came from British colonies, and every one woikd like to see this percentage increased, as it will be in the near future by Rhodesia and South Africa. 21-lb. tins, 141 L0-lb., lSJc; 60-lb. tins, 10 to i fine and heavy select, $2.50 to 26c; cooked, 41 to 3 27c; breakfast bacon, i, plain, 35 to 36c; bone- --Long clear baco NO MORE WET CANTEENS. General Adoption of Prohibition ii Canadian Camps. A despatch from London says: Under-Secretary of War Macpherson, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, replying to Sir Stephen Collins, said he had not received the report concerning the Canadian canteens found in the Militia Department. Sir Sam Hughes had discontinued wet canteens in training camps in Canada, but permitted them to permanent? corps in barracks. In view of the general adoption of prohibition it is presumed the wet canteens would not be re-established. Montreal. _ Western, No. 2, 86Jc; No. 3, 83Jc. ... No. 1 feed, 83Jc. Barley--Manitoba feed, $1.18. Flour--Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $15.50; seconds, $16.00; strong bakers', $14.80; Winter patents, choice, $16.75; straight rollers, $16.00 to $16.30; do., ba*8, $7.76 to $7.90. Rolled oats--Bbls.. $J>.76 to $9.00; do., bags, 90 lbs., $4.26 to $4.50. Bran, $40. Shorts, $46. Middlings, '548 to $52. Mouillle, $52 to $57. Hay--No. 2, per ton, car lots, $13.00 to $13.50. Cheese-- 42 t 42jc: seconds, ■niggs--rresn, no; No. .1 stock, Potatoes--Per bag, car lots, $3.75 Winnipeg Grain t, 1May {^2--Cijs2h77 1.35. Oats--No. 2 ... .Sic; IV,.,1. 7": KlaV "->.',, .. - fled,' 73ii Barley--No. 3 *" United States Markets leapolis, May 22--Wheal July, $2.41; September, I have just returned from a visit to some of the forestry camps which are situated in all parts of France, several quite close to the front, says Douglas Robertson in a London cable Nor^^l to The Toronto Evening Telegram. I $2.61 to $2/76.'* Corn--No*3 visited those in the Jura Mountains, j ^f^i^ °ca.ts~~at°entsWh$l within sight of the Alps and close to ' clears, $i3n50, jute!" Sothei the Swiss frontier. The section is so j chgn|f^h m^I--:Wheat-dry that it has never been cut, as the $2.81; No. l Northern, $ French thought it impossible to get j^iy'h$2n46J 2'7nominafy' Pi water to operate the mills, but a MUay.' $3.31; "july? $3.2s" Canadian engineer from Arnprior, $3-25; October, $3.16. solved the difficulty by a hydraulic pump. He invented a syphon that raises water V)0 feet, and there is . .how a large output. The forest is re- \ fto.VsVbutcters- ™iik choice. \u. miniscent of British Columbia, theii-75; do., good. $10.50 to $11.00; timber being spruce and balsam trees, |i"sj"t"' *£\t; ^ut'.'li'"^ buns."" tall and symmetrical. For quality Ot-.$ib.60 to 111.00; do., good bulls,'$9. tawa lumbermen declare there is no-; ^)0-°"ugd1obu{]1sed""T thing in Canada to equal it. The pro- 'cows, choice. $10.25 to $6.5>i; 3 $S.85_; do.. , $9.0 i $16.7 army. ^ | to M-™^ ... $125;' do*.,'com. and med., "'< ARMY DRAFT BILL $60; springers, $60 to $110, PASSED BY U. S. SENATE.: '^/^chX,.' f - spring lambs, each. $5.50 to Col. Roosevelt's Proposal Has Received to^l&Bu^^iogs?"ed a"d ™ Annroval Ito $17-45'; do., weighed oft Approval. |tc |17M. do f0D ji6.oo h A despatch from Washington says: |to"J?Sfr< V, Jft,, % X'Tn. ye« After a long tempestuous debate, the lambs.' »Jj4.60 to $15.50; selected hogs, Senate on Thursday passed the army,317-75 t0 *18: r°"gh "ogs, $17.50. draft bill with the House amendment j 20,000,000* Starving, of last Saturday, which authorizes the The German population is pictured President to permit Col. Roosevelt to I ag comp0sed of 20,000,000 men either his proposed volunteer army for : under arms or engaged in occupations France. The final vote was 65 to 8. ! connected with the army, 8,000,000 Senators Stone, Norris, La Follette, members of the population who are Kirby, Hardwick of Georgia, Gronna, j weaithy and able to provide them-against it. j selves with sufficient food with their A despatch from London says: Despite the fact that the franchise age for women in the Electoral Reform Bill is fixed at 30, it has been learned that Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and other leading suffragists are satisfied ; Q0re" and Tramwell vc with the measure's provisions. The j The bill as passed provides for con- I money, 20,000,000 living on the soil suffragists believe that this concession i scription of men between 21 and 30 I and able partly to supply themselves is an entering wedge which ensures j inclusive, and raises the soldiers' pay ; by gr0wing their own foodstuffs, and the granting of full suffrage soon, j from the present graduated scale of j 20,000,000 poor in the cities who are They are determined to uphold the $i5-to $21 a month, to $30 to $36 a j starving. It is the last-named group Lloyd George Government. | month. _1 which is rioting in Germany._ DANGEROUS FLY CLEAN UP ALL PLACES WHERE FLIES BREED. Next to the Germans the Fly is the Greatest Menace to the Civilized World. No good housekeeper will allow a fly to remain within the four walls of her clean and orderly home. But unfortunately the mischief begins out-lide the jurisdiction of the housekeeper. Garbage heaps, stables, and manure piles form the pet breeding places and happy hunting grounds of Their natural affinity is for filth, but they are not at all particular and have no prejudice against the baby* milk, the food on the table or any thing else that may be eaten. This means that every dirty and danger-disease germ is carried by flies. They are the greatest menace to life and health known to the civilized world, if we eliminate the Germans. Destroy Breeding Places. The best way to guard against the summer crop of flies is, first, to kill, fast as they come out, all the winter flies that have been hiding in I buildings; second, to clean up all man-lure, filth and rubbish in which flies ! may breed; third, to keep traps set ir ! covers of garbage cans and on porches ' where the flies are thickest to catch I them before they can enter the house. Killing the flies in early spring [means that the mother flies are disposed of before they can lay eggs. Cleaning up all rubbish in the neighborhood means the elimination of flies from that neighborhood, because a fly seldom travels over five hundred yards from its breeding place unless, as frequently happens, it decides to take a radial trip or horseback ride. Trapping flies can be done successfully because they will inevitably enter a trap baited with food if no other food is left about. The first thing is to see that there is no rubbish in the house or garden in which flies may breed and live; the second, to enter a vigorous protest if any such places are discovered in the neighborhood, and to keep on making a disturbance until the menace is removed. This precaution alone may prevent an epidemic of typhoid, infantile paralysis or some other of the dread diseases which claim so many hundreds of our babies each year. Simple Remedies, there are children, wire fly and sticky fly paper are per-iio-safest, because it i» aar>&o*-to leave any poisonous substance standing about. But where it is safe to use poison excellent formula; BULLECOURT IN BRITISH HANDS ENEMY RETREAT ON FRENCH FRONT Sir Douglas Haig's Troops Complete Capture of Village of Bulle-court--German Casualties Heavy in Assaults on French Lines. despatch from London says: After days of most intensive fighting, which the position several times changed hands and men fell in hundreds in* attacks and counter-attacks, the British forces have at last driven the Germans out of the village of Bul-leeourt and once more are threatening the southern end of the Drocourt-Queant line, which Field Marshal von Hindenburg constructed to fend Cam-brai from the eastward advance of Field Marshal Haig's army. Thousands of fresh German troops recently have been thrown into the fray around Bullecourt, but their efforts have gone for naught in endeavoring to drive out the British from the entire village. Although several times the line has been bent by the preponderance of weight of the German formations, at no time have the British been forced to evacuate, holding here and there fringes of the outskirts and keeping back the Teutons until their elements were reformed with sufficient strength to drive in effective counter-attacks and regain their lost territory. Likewise to the east of Arras, around the Tillage of Roeux, the bafc tie has been waged with a viciousness scarcely ever before seen, and here also the British have been successful against the Germans. Although the forces of the German Crown Prince have renewed with extreme violence their attacks against the French north-east of Soissons in the sectors of the Moulin-de-Laffaux and Braye-en-Laonnois--three of them against each position--they were again repulsed by the French artillery and infantry, suffering enormous casualties. To the east the French troops near Craonne delivered a successful attack, capturing German trench ele- ITALIAN TROOPS CAPTURE DUINO Occupy Important Town Twelve Miles North-West of Trieste. A despatch from Paris says: A despatch to La Liberte from Turin reports that the Italian troops have captured the town of Duino. The despatch CRISIS IS OVER IN RUSSIA Noted Commanders Will Retain Their Posts. A despatch from Petrograd says:-- The Cabinet crisis has been settled. A declaration of the Government's policy has been accepted by the representatives of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates with merely slight Ko"-c and p.nrouraee the birds to live in the garden. The birds are interesting and help kefep down the insects and the little houses are quite ornamental. Bird baths A formaldehyde solution, made by' break the monotony and add to the adding three teaspoonfuls of the con- i beauty of the garden. The birds says an announcement of the taking of alterationS) and was signed by them. this important strategic point willj As a result of a meeting in Petro-be made officially. The town of grad of the commanders-in-chief from Duino is on the Gulf of Trieste, about al, the fronts except the Caucasus, 12 miles north-west of Trieste, Aus-; Gemj Brussiloff and Gurko have with-tria's principal seaport. drawn their resignations and reports Austrian troops have strongly coun-: of further resignations are refuted by ter-attacked the Italians in positions the definite announcement that all the they had gained in carrying out their commanders have decided to remain offensive movement. The enemy reac- at tneir posts. Thus, the crisis in tion, however, has failed, the Rome tne army> which formed an alarming War Office announces. The prisoners accompaniment to the political crisis, taken by the Italians since Monday has Deen averted. number 4,021. Five additional Discussing with the temporary Gov-small-calibre guns have been captur- ernment the serious condition of af-ed. The Italians have made further fa;rs at the front, the commanders de-progress in their drive, pushing ahead dared that the unfortunate phrase Mount Vodice, and also south of "peace without annexations" had Grazigna, north-east of Gorizia. found its way to the army, and was there translated into an argument against offensive warfare. This and other harmful doctrines pervading the army '->nrl the inahiUi««^he officers satisfactorily to explain them had ruined discipline and destroyed the authority and prestige of the officers. Entertain The Birds. IMPERIAL WAR CABINET TO MEET YEARLY IN, ENGLAND Success of Imperial War Conference Makes It Part of the British Constitution. The "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" were: The Pyramids of centrated formaldehyde solution com- drinking and bathing always interest. Egypt, Pharos of Alexandria, Walls mercially known as formalin to a spectators. When birds realize they; and Hanging Gardens of Babylon, pint of water. Similarly the proper will not be harmed or frightened by: Temple of Diana at Ephesus, Statue of concentration of sodium salicylate cats, dogs or by people they become ■ the Olympian Jupiter, Mausoleum of may be obtained by dissolving three very tame and bold. I Artemisia and Colossus of Rhodes, teaspoonfuls of the pure chemical (a | ' . " powder) to a pint of water. Or mix together one tablespoonful of cream, one of ground black pepper and one of brown sugar. This mixture is poisonous to flies. Put in a saucer, darken the room except one window and in that set the saucer. Take five cents' worth of oil of lavender, mix it with the same quantity of water, put in a common glass _ atomizer and spray it around the i rooms where flies are. In the dining A despatch from London says:--In room spray it lavishly even on the the House of Commons on Thursday table linen. The odor, so refreshing Premier Lloyd George said he desired to most people, is very disagreeable to report to the House a very im-to flies. portant decision which had been ar- Geranium, mignonette, heliotrope rived at as a consequence of the re-and white clover are also offensive cent meetings of the Imperial War to flies. And especially do they dis- Cabinet. like the odor of honeysuckle and hop It was desirable, he said, that the blossoms. j House sliould officially and finally be -*- made acquainted with an event which Never Again. | constituted a landmark in the consti- A recruiting sergeant stationed in i tutional history 6f the British Empire, the south of Ireland met Pat, and ask- The House would remember that in to join the army. The latter December last the Government had in-refused, whereupon the sergeant ask- vited the Prime Ministers, or leading ed his reason for refusing. I statesmen, of the overseas dominions Aren't the King and the Kaiser and India to attend sittings both of sins?" asked Pat. ^e Cabinet and the Imperial War Con- Yes," said the recruiting sergeant, ference. The former body had beld Well," said Pat, "begorra, I once fourteen sittings, and the British interfered I'm not going h was in session the overseas members had access to all the information at the diposal of the Government, and occupied a status of absolute equality with the members of the British Gov-erruaent. It had prolonged discussions on all the vital aspects of British Imperial policy, and came to important decisions which would enable us to prosecute the war with increased unity and vigor, and would be of the greatest value when negotiations for peace came to be discussed. The fresh minds and new viewpoints which the Government's colleagues from overseas had brought to bear on the problems with which they had been so long engrossed, said Mr. Lloyd George, had been an immense help to all of them. So far as the Government was concerned they could state a family squabble, and Cabinet became, for the time being, j with confidence that the experiment . the Imperial War Cabinet. While it; had been a The Boings 0-€" tlie 33-ul£Ts8. HOW DO VOU DO MRS. PUFF, | AM THE NEW PASTOR AMD l*KV MAKING Ai FEN CALLS TO GET. I OH/iES, ACQUAINTED WITHTHe J \C0rle RIGHT ^ COHGRE6ATIOM MR. DUFF,IM THE NEVA PASTOR. I CALLED OH MRS. PUFF THIS MORN IMG AMD THOUGHT I WOULD t i PROP "