The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

as petroleum, mean; fianke as Gwinner and Fur- + Sten' rat who know the havoc which PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DELUDED BY THE WAR CHIEFS. Business Men-and Financiers Know War Has Snapped Nation's Pe Prosperity. Fhe Copenhagen correspondent of the London Times sends an inter- view with a distinguished banker of a neutral country, whose lon standing 'business relations wit Germany required him to sp end seven weeks in that country re- cently. "Tt would be a grave fallacy,"' the banker says, "to judge German affairs by the German newspapers to-day. They must not only sup- press what the Government does not want printed, but are required to publish that, and that only, which the Government lays before them. Everything, for instance, tending to suggest that the rigors of war are slowly but surely under- mining the national economic fabric is strictly contrabrand." e 'banker's contact with Ger- man bankers and business men con- vinced him that they realize now that "Germany has been plunged into a tragic and pathetic adiven- ture. "Even th. reat industrialists 'of Rhineland - Westphalia, though many of their works are occupied in the production of war materials to a wholly unprecedented extent," he says, "are depressed and melan- choly over the awful struggle into which Germany has been precipitat- ed. They are men who cannot deluded by 'official optimism and bluster. They are men accustomed to deal with facte. Assured of Success, "The General Staff told the great captains of industry, who in Ger- many are a hardly less important factor in the conduct of a war than the staff itself, that the plan of cam- paign , reduced to essentials, was his: We shall smash France with- in three weeks, then wheel about god deliver Russia a knockout blow before she has had time to com- plete her mobilization. Belgium will offer only the resistance of sul- lenness. England will not 'come in' at all. e German Govern- ment had the positive assurance of leading Englishmen to that effect. 'Well, this hammer and tongs prégtramme has not been successful. Cogs have slipped at numerous vital points. Belgium's resistance, to be- was more than sullen, England did come in. Paris was not occupied by August 28, Jtussia, far from being out,' has not even reeled. Not a single one of the General Staff's phiectiv es a been attained. all di } er many on iietle but an enormous death roll to counterbalance the terrific effort the first hundred days of war have cost her. "These are the immutable things which thinking. business Germans see and know. They realize that, thanks to a very far seeing econo- mic and financial organization, their trade and commerce have thus far, barring the annihilation of the German merchant marine, been dislocated perhaps io no greater ex- tent than the trade and commerce of their enemies. They look across the Atlantic and see that even Ame srica, as could not be otherwise in a real world war, feels the blight of Europe and Asia's colossal blood letting. But what German indus- trial leaders also realize is that prolongation of the war into months and vears must. spell event- ual ruin. Effect Not Shown Yet. "T could see no signs that Ger- many, as yet, has actually felt the effect of her great adventure. But the cumulative effect of the condi- tions which war brings, especially pow that intelligent Germans know it is to be a prolonged Struggle, is measured at its full value. is ; becoming increasingly | ale toy to tien that they cannot win, "A military nation trained from the cradle up to believe in the might of numbers must, viewed merely om that standpoint, now see that 8 are overwhelmingly s ainst them. "Men like Ballin and Heineken, _ Whose liners tbs been swept from e seas as jf by some all devastat- ,ing hurrioa i people like the tex- Ls magnatég of Westphalia and axony, whdsé looms are silent hen "a ny American cotton can eres like ep, goo" 10a] magnates fe fia re Siemens-Schuckerts, who know at uninterrupted supplies of 'tate oe stuffs from abroad, such the financing ? war and stoppage exports work to German credits #t home and abroad, these men are Under no delusion as to what the ar is doing and will do, the more if develops into a protracted, vie- toryless affair of mere give and take GERMANY REALIZES PLIGHT! © | shelter house was empty. <7 "They are immeneely patriotic: ra of 7 St They cannot truthfully be described as downhearted or hopeless. They are not grumbling. But neither can they be said to be even remotely cheerful over the ul- timate prospect. The war has not yet sapped the prosperity at the zenith of which business Germany found itself three and a Half months ago. "But war has terribly jeopard- ized prosperity. "A man 'cannot tarry long in Ger many these days without having it borne in upon him with what fero- tion hate England. England is eral Staff's grand plan of campaign. England is epicted a to come with h -- WOLF LOYALTY. Striking Instance of Unselfishness and Affection. The old story of the hard lot of the wounded member of a wolf pack is not always borne out in Algon- quin Park, where every winter a score of determined rangers wage war with rifle and. poisoned meat 'against the timber wolves that swarm into the reservation from the bleaker forests of the north. respondent of Outing recounts a and affection among the members of We had made a long round over baits; and remained b ter an unexpected dip. When we returned at dusk the Our mate did not return within a few min- utes, ae so we started out along his trail. Before we had gone far, we heard his call, and later, in the candlelight of the shelter house, he told us a story that has made the wolf seem less repulsive. While he was in the midst of his lunch, sitting where he could see over the lake, a big buck and two does dashed from the woods about nine hundred yards up the shore. A minutes later a pack of eleven wolves came slowly along, their noses to the ground, and their tails wagging playfully as if engaged in a pleasant game. Before the ranger could get his rifle, three others broke cover a hundred yards nearer. At the first shot, one big fellow halted suddenly, and then com- menced to run in a crazy circle, His two mates had leaped into the air and disappeared in the bush, while wounded wolf raised his nose, and uttered a peculiar, ringing yelp. Immediately the whole pack -- and galloped fearlessly back. ranger emptied his magazine nt them without effect,--he admitted he had buck fever,+and the pack | 900 did not hesitate until it had = sur- rounded its wounded brother. Then, in a compact body, the latter in the eentre, they trotted across the lake. Thinking the wounded wolf would not last long and that the tracks would be easy to follow, the ranger finished his luncheon before start- ing in pursuit. After skirting the treacherous ice, he came upon the tracks in the bush on the far shore, and all afternoon, mile after mile, he followed the eccentric curves, evidently the course of the wolf that the pack was protecting. Here and there the snow was trodden as if the wolves had closed up on their injured mate to direct him into a straighter course. As the afternoon went on, he knew that he was get- ting closer, although he could hear no sound; at times the wolves had leaped away as if in fear, but had always returned to urge their mate to greater efforts. The trail led across Owl and Rav- en lakes, and then darkness was too near for the man to risk further pursuit. An hour's steady tramp by compass toward the shelter house covered the distance that it had taken four hours to traverse along the winding trail of the blood marks. -- --k_____ Indomitable Spirit. The indomitable spirit of the British soldier is strikingly illus- trated in a letter from a ndon aily Express phew, Lieut. lack Watch," writes, "was wounded on September 16 in the 'battle of the Aisne. He recovered in ve. weeks at a base hospital in rance, went back to the firing line, and got it again in the Jeg. He was lucky not to be killed oe The soldiers were mgr 4 and or- derlies were and forth with pails of jusaior soup Wolseley stopped one of them pw ordered him to remove the lid of his pail. The » man obeyed prompt- ly, and the General said : taste it." ""But----" began the or- denly. "Let me taste it, I say,"' claimed the General, testily. graceful !" he exclaimed. "It's for all the world like _ dishwater ! re 'That's what it is, sir,' said the on Shree or four vast firing lines. cious fury all classes of the popula- blamed for the collapse of the Gen- | s 'the one and ' only foe.' The -- eetilernent? is} A cor- | | striking instance of unselfishness | thin ice to axerninn, some distant | f the rangers had | ind at Linda's Lake | shelter house to dry his clothes af- | madly | Okanagan 'a the refugees sg 3 C7 j Ay / eat 1 7 es / y YYy 7, if Me Z 4 7, Vg % : A tt: GF a tii, . =. * 2 4 "3 > a : vo ERA yr SS Nee reondt = = ?P * -- -- ee Bad News From the Front. in To- The Kaiser and the Crown Prince learn that war is act what it was cracked up to be.--"Frise,"' ronto Star Weekly. qi NEWS FROM SUSE cols | WHAT THE WESTERN PEOPL : ARE DOING. Progress of the Great West To! fo a Few Pointed Paragraphs. ; Bert Campbell, of Vancouver, 3 sentenced to two years in_ for forgery, The United sae Guse Vernon; may ta well-known for trial at the Kamloops Assizes by. Justice Morgan. Considerable cattle stealing has been going on in the district for some time. Ash- eal - afflicted with the same com- Mn 'Norman Smith, aged 35, and rancher of Louis |Oreek, near Kamloops, was found Tdead with two bullet vyounds i in his 2 | body. The wounds were from a y-thirty rifle. He is believed to ve beén recently under severe strain. ----_s-----_-- " KIDDIES wos BRITISH. h Children "Are ----_ ve Our {ee and Belgian. kiddies Jove The ore from -th eat of oon iors es co flats assays $140 to $160 "Tin large clock for the new $41, st office building at G arrived and will be placed:i 'Ss. Woo a few The Lost Creek Mining Company will shortly conetruct a flume a its property at pong placer camp The work will cost $100,000. Vancouver firemen have protested against the reduction in their sal, aries, claiming that they are most poorly paid: civic employees. Jean Goulet, of Elko, was attack ed by an epileptic fit on Friday the bank of the Elko River at Spar. wood, and falling in, was drow The construction of the new w at Halls Landing has been com menced by the Dominion Govern ment. The structure will cost $e; A fang of men are at work @ the Golden Fawn Mine at Sheep Creek and fine ore is being otic The whole camp is looking betten than it ever has. | In reply to-an appeal from Kam, loops for the institution of Govern* ment work' in the riding, it is an-. nounced that $2,000 will be spent! in the district. The Provincial Excoutiss has granted the sum of $1,500 for the) construction of the Rossland bridge, to replace the old one, which ba ay washed aw The Pacific, Peace Giver & Atha- basoa Railway Company will apply, to Parliament at the next n! for an act authorizing {t to con. warts and operate lines in the of 1,500, feet a depth of 1,500 fee i the eonale is heavily sator- me -- rae at @ sea oa thes gave chase result of the recent disas- situation is ex in a few days by installing a temp- orary system by the Northern In- terior ag mpany The body of Aledandes Burnett, ne of the four men who lost ives i in the auto accident near quitlam, was recovered from Pitt River by Indians. The remains Niven have yet to be found. An Indian boy, charged with the committed orderly saluting gravely. |stealing of cattle, was 4 Brith soldiers -- especially ~ Highlanders 'suburb: Inandl s dory in which was Captain ot prevails of honoring: of a block of wood, in which is rude- ly carved a bas-relief of the depart- a éd. These monuments are erected near the soldier's home, when it i of Struthers, Gunn and Matthew }.seen the . The men are always smiling, and ready for a game. Ina minute all the hardships of the bat- are forgotten as the little mites, whose fathers and brothers are driving back-the Germans, clus- ter round. "Monsieur, you sre very big and good, I am very little. You will k after us." A small French ur- chin made this remark as he caught hold of the hand of a sturdy High- lander and marched proudly down the street with him. didn' sald--"Righto, 'lad- said, but jhe die!" and @ave him a bution as a souvenir. In the North of France and in the s of Paris one may see the saine sight day after day--little groups of boys and girls waiting by the roadside or at the railway sta- tions, waiting to give the men a aad as they pass by? can speak a little English," Ny one eight-year-old youngster. A troop rag full of our men slow- y at that moment. "eep, eep, porter cried the boy. Then he added, as an afterthought--al- though it was early morning-- Gon' -night ! Goo' -bay !"' "Good-night" is the one word of greeting and farewell which the French children use. Some ofthem have tried to master some of the British soldier's popular songs, but y fies have found the words too dif- "My father has gone fighting the Germans,"' is the proud boast of al- Tost every boy and girl in ----, "He is going to bring me back + when he has Killed Gan ith little flags pinned on their coats, and carrying toy swords an guns, they play at war all daylong. --_-- Servian Monuments. Servia is becoming a country of alain in battle by the erectian Jace them on the field here he fe As the Servian es are now falling in the en- emy's territory, the monuments are necessarily raised in their homes, and yery few farms are to be found to-day in which at least not one of these crude carvings is not to be y are ueually painted in Vivid reds and blues. Above th head of the wooden figure is an in- scription ein the soldier's name. €| for he. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE- LAND'S SHORES. | Happenings in the Emerald Isle of ' Interest to Lrish- men. In the emigration from Ireland the males exceed the females by about five per cent. Seven. brothers of an Irish family | © named Carrigan, living in Loan- head, are serving in in the army. Marquis of ondonderiy have listed since the commencement the war. Youghal, with its population § of under 6,000, has up to the present | ™ sent 800 of its inhabitants to the front. A fire occurred at the stables of Carrol! Bros., Warrenpoint, result- ing in the destruction of a large quantity of hay. Under the new valuation of Dub- lin the tramway will receive an ad- ditional $30,000 a year out of the city police rate. collection was made last Sun- day in most of the churches of the Archdiocese of Dublin on behalf of the Dublin Hospital Fund. John Mitchell, of Kinnegad, was fatally injured when the horse he was driving bolted and threw him violently to the 3 pound. Lieutenant | --e ussex Regi- ment, who was killed in France, was the son of Captain . Hughes, late of Enniskillen, and now of Birr. At the Dundalk Petty Sessions the magistrates made an. order clos- ing for three months the public- +h from nine p.m. to seven The Dublin Board of Works has passed a grant of $100,000 in favor of the Blackrock housing scheme. The work is to be started imme- diately. After having complained .of a toothache Michael Stewart, a herd, aged 32 years, dropped dead while returning to his home at Kilchreest, near Loughrea A fatal aicilans occured at Bally- Mascanlan, several miles north of Dundalk, when a watchman named Michael Carron was cut to pieces between Dundalk and Greenore. The Du operas Unban Council | oe dect to acquire the. locality own as Boresnation and other sites, for the erection of over one hundred thhouses at the cost of 8650 per house. A terrible explosion, caused by|* an escape of gas, occurred at 11 Upton street, Belfast. The house was partly wrecked and two of the inmates, Maude Beggs and Ada Bruce, were seriously injured. Lord Dunleath, of Ballywalter Castle, County Dow wn, has been no- ified that his eldest son, Capt. Mul- polisid, as the Irish Guards, 5 been kille action and that his second iC oS Gant and Adjutant in the 11th Lancers, has been ed. 52a wound- --_kr___. Mr. Bingham--Why did that wo- man keep you standing at the door lfan hour? His Talkative Wife--She said she hadn't time to come in. off A MOST UNPLEASANT Jt TAIN'S COURT MARTIAL. Lord Cheylesmore Tries Th Charged with Deréliction of Duty or with Spying Major-General Lord Gnesicem, has been. singled out by Lord Ki chener for the presideno> of th court-martial which is sending Ge man spies to be shot in the Towc of London, and which 'had before the task of examining the weight « evidence for neglect of duty again Rear-Admiral Troubnidge, personally responsible German cruisers Goeben and Bre lau escaped from the Bay of. Me: sina and got to Oonsbantino plc with embarrassing results to ti navies of the allies in #he Dard: nelles. The court-martial 'job" is th one least to be desired by high con manding officers, most. of who much prefer to be in the field en gaged in actual war operations tha presiding at @ court where men .« the highest rank in the army an ; Davy may have to appewr under th | Suspicicus scrutiny 'of an excite |nation, and where it is quite ne | ble tom condernn to death a so- | spy innocent when Lord Cheylesmore, al placed upon the retired list, « his services to the War Office . last Auguet he was soon Assigned to this Work. Cheylesmore is the last survivin son of an Americam mother, t only daughter and heiress of T. Harman of New Orleans, and a) English middle-class father, th founder of the silk brokerage firn of Henry Eaton & Sons at Coven w was made a baron b> Coie Victoria at her Jubilee in 1887 on account of his le.viath contri butions to her pet charities. The trial of Rear-Admira!l Tron bridge was held with ax much ge orecy as possible, none wf the - tails of the trial being given, mere the announcement of acquittal Troubridg i one of th cruiser squadrons im the Mediter ranean which the Goeben amd Bres lau succeeded in alucdiing, but hi superior Officer, Sir Archibald B y 4 sponsible that the German eruis were not captured. e courthmartia! bad li; in sentencing Lody to Popes of @ spy since he conte to_ his ore sad London ins single day, demand evan more strifi gent investigation and court-martiz for every "suspect" ragardiess 6: birth or influential Sonnections. Kaiser His Own Spy. e Kaiser himself ia publich scented as tis own chief spy ani is accused of having onganized his spy system in Enghand while } 4a guest at Buckingham Palase for, the unveiling. of -the memorial ta his grandmother, Queen Victoria, a fey years. ago, The Hank of Lonsdale, the Kaiser's old friend, and invati ably his host during visite to t country, is cache uncomfortable just now, paper has gone eo far as to inti that the Kaiser set motior plans to keep the north coast w surveillance while Lowd Bonsda). guest at Lowther Oastle Le aning in is extensive sh: oting shables at Rutlandshire to the King of the Bel gians for . the King's mumerou horses and State carriage sen: over from Brussals, Lord Lonsdale has attempted to pin ate the oper hostility shown to tw Lord Cheylesmore may jurced to preside at the court-martial un til the close < of -- war, in whicl case it may be that the fata of more than one great man--or Avo man--of his own acquatmtance ntas rest upon his decision, The h ysteria of war makes it impossible for the general public to maintain a om posed attitude in contemplating events disastrous or dangerous co the nation. Someone wil! always be pape. In Germany, zar Alexander [I « inn the English Duke of Edinburgh, who became Duke of Saxo-Cx bung. as n openly accused a iteulted as a Russian apy by tH residents of Gobi, among who she has made her home for man} years. ' SS Going Info Battle. A favorite atory of @ famous eral, who is now dead, yaa of t¥o the = mn = uchets Marie, daugh : 4 soldiersain a walltenown Sootti regiment, one o was goi into pee for the finst time, t crack of rifle fire was heard front, and the bullets began to e reorhit, feali 4 oe had come, shouted bo his the first line, "Dinna bob. G die, I'm abhind vy Men boast of their bravery ie they resist a smal! bonny bati on, a