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VOL. XXV ALEXANDRIA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 19)8 No. 47

E. H. STIMSON’S at the firm’s advertisement fh this Bottling works, on .St. Paul Street issue. The efficie.nt staff here is al- Cbristmas Spirit Prevails where beverages that cheer but do ways at your service whether you ea- not inebriate are prepared for the ter the store as a purchaser or mere- Chr sfinas, with Its cheery thoughts ly through curiosity. kind deeds and joyous spirit of giv- market, is well worth a visit. Mr. ing, is at our tiireshold. War brings Stimson by close attention to busi- F, GROl'LN unprecedented conditions into our I ness, and a diligent study of the lives—it ci'.angos habits, upsets cus- wants of his customers has worked In the commercial block wc find a toms and disturbs thc^currei 1^. But,- I up a splendid trade. All the leading neat and tasty array ot watches, whatever betide, the Chri.stmas Spir- - brands in soft drinks are manufact- jewellry and other seasonable gifts it will c ntinue to glow. It Is part I ured here and connoisseurs tell us with prices suited to every purse. Mr. of o ir br-in of our civilization — I that for quality his beverages stand Groiilx will always be plea.sed to out prominently. h^lp you in your selection of a suit- sacred with its visions of happiness able gilt to every member ol your ami 'youth, friendship and fireside. JOHN ROBERTSON family. The fX)TOSion is one for the exchange Proprietor of the Alexandria Bak- of gifts, far giving expression of un- ery, needs no Introductions at our R. H. COWAN swerving love and affection ami much hands. He works early and late in Force of habit places “Cowan’s” tin.e ai;d tiiougiit are devot-ed that turning out the several lines for the hon e circle he brightened by ad- first on the Christmas shopping list which his bakery is fam.ous and his of many peo.ole, but tor those who dition of beautiful souvenirs. The fes- customers by no means are confined tival of Christmas, In an especial are undecided he extends a cordial to Alexandria. He will as usual tbis welcome to his store. While tl^main way, appeals to children, and in the year have a full assortment of fancy Friend Cowan, majority of homes the day is almost features of this business are 'ihard- cakes, confectionery, etc. for- the ware and furniture the shop haS been entirely'given up to them. With the Christmas trade. affairs of the universe gradually clear- converted into a veritable children’s Be sure to let all the pe.ople, big and small, know that I have sent you the biggest and best ing, the Yuletide will for the first MRS, BELCHER paradise with a wonderful assort- time in four years come to us re- Is making a gay display of Millin- ment of toys and games consigned to assortment of toys and gifts that ever came into Alexandria. Tell the mothers and fathers to be freshing and clean. Let us truly ery that must appeal to a marked him by Santa Claus. Cowan’s splen- give expression to the Christmas degree to the fair sex. Haying the djd services makes Christmas shopp- sure to bring the children to see me at your store every day commencing Saturday the 2lst. and Spirit at the same time not forgett- right goods on sale at right prices, a ing easy. ing how much we owe to our dear fair share of the holiday trade should JOHN BOYLE lads who fought and tell in Flanders reward her efforts. let us all join together to make this Christmas the best ever in appreciation of Victory and Peace This is a busy store at ail seasons and France, in defence of Canada. GEO. BARBARA The thrifty housewife is already hut at this particular time Mr. Boyle With love to all the children planning for the holiday season and located immediately north of the Ot- and his efficient stall are kept hustl- SANTA. with a lighter heart, pencil in hand, tawa House, was the first to Inaug- ing filling orders for the Christmas is making a list of her wants prior urate a Holiday Sale which \opened trade. He is a close observer of the to her .shopping tour. To facilitate in November and he is still doing a signs ot the times and knowing just matters and to make the shopping landoffice business and this firm is what particular brand of groceries, easier a representative of The Glen- adding its quota to the list of gift fruits or confectionery meets with rarrv News, on Tuesday of this week goods possibilities, especially in dry the approval of his many customers started out on a tour of inspection, goods, boots and shoes, rhbbers, etc. he has made abundant preparations w-ith a view of Laming first hand ,IOHN SIMPSON & SON tor the Christmas trade. Anything how advanced' the merchants are in One of I the most likely places in you want in the way ot Christmas Farnitare is their Christmas preparations. While town for Christmaa shoppers is the eatables you will get there and get it I Grand Display . our stay was short in each place vis- old time established firm of John to your entire satisfaction. ited, much as we desired to Iftiger, it Simpson & Son. For years they have Immediately opposite is the Fur- T fancy China, Statuary, Electric niture repair' shop of < Portable Lamps, Photo Frames, Mast Acceptable was sufficient to convince us that conducted a general store.in Alexan- ,\lexandria merchants have this year, dria, and the fact that they are now GEO. GOSLING Wine Sets, Framed Pictures, Tea An odd chair or table or a jar- even io a greater degree studied ' the enjoying the greatest cea of prosper- and Dinner Sets, Rayo Lamps diniere stand, à music cabinet, wants and rsijuirements of their num- ity in their historyls evidence that a w'elcomc institution to .Alexandria, as in many houses for some time ,Cut Glass Bowls, C&eseroles dressing fable, couch or any of the erous patrons and are in a position their methods and business ethics have to compete upon even terms -with the met and are meeting with the ap- past there has been odds and ends of Smokers Stands, Ash Trays, Jar. dozen of odd pieces in our Furni- sick furniture requiring the skill of a dinieres, Candlesticks, Shaving shops of towns of much greater pre- proval of their many customers. ture Department make most ac tent-'ons than the capital of Glen- Everything from a needle to an an- man of Air. Gosling's experience. If Sets, Cut-!ery, Etc. ceptuble gifts garry. chor is an expression which fitly des- you have any work of this character Of necessity we started due south cribes the range ot-stock carried by call him in. Remember a stitch in and made our initial bow to a tried them. time .saves nine”. and true friend in the person -pt WILL J. SIMPSON D. COURA'ILLE I GEORGE BOUGIE Gent’s Furnisher, all the year roundi The excellent and inviting appear- I The South End Grocer, and found has an extremely interesting shop, in ance of the main floor of this estab- him already as busy as a nailer, lar- which one likes to linger, particular- lishment, taking into consideration gely with Chri.stmas trade. This is ly at this season of the year. His the recent fire, was evidence ot the not surprising a.s Mr. Bougie loio-n'ing gent’s furnishing department is an enterprise and energy of the genial Ibis enstofuers’ requirements has exhaustive display of the newest fash- proprietor and members of his stafl- TO3TS, Dolls etnd O-etmes stocked up in every line in his husi- ions, styles and 'designs catering to They have made adequate prépara- ne.ss and purposes that his patrons the numerous wants of the well dress- tions for the Christniastide. Goods of wi’l receive the best of attenticn. ed nian. A goodly portion of the endless variety, suitable as gifts are by the tliousand to arnu8§^.;both old and you!-.g. Without a doubt the greatest coüeoîion The staff of life is .an Important ' main I'oor is de eoied to toys and 0.1 view here many of which will f.ictor and you will find it in al! its the stock this year seems bigger and gladden the heart of mother, wife or ever shown in Alexandria, and we would ask parents to be sure to bring the chiidren to puritv and i-tren-gth at better than ever. His will prove a daughter. The .goods are there for Verita'ule toylmd for the children of you at the prices quoted and the D.tNIS’ .Alexandria and vicinity and as San- saving thereon will he yours. see them at ta Claus is expected to shortly pay Shop. Fancy 'oread, cakes and con- MLSS CUDDON fectionery arc on his menu and ad- his annual visit special arrangments vance orders for same are most sat- are being made f.ir his reception and A'ou will have no difficulty in .find- sfactory and encouraging. A hint entertainment. Due notice of this ing this well known jewellery and should he sufficient. great event will be given in these fancy goods store, and a visit there- columns and not mereiv that wise old to at 'firtsent will prove particularly .lOSEl-H SABOURIN gentleman, hut Will -1. himsell will interesting as .Miss Cuddon’s care- Took time by the torelo-nk and ear- cordialiv welcome the little ones and fully selected lines of jewellry, sil- I ly in the week had his pretentious the grown ups as well. . verware, cut glass, statuary, etc. hat shop gaily decorated and the many MISS ROBILLARD been materially added to for the es- shelves temptingly arrayed with fresh Crossing the street we pay a limit- pecial benefit of the Christmas shop- I groceries, etc. He anticipates a busy ed visit to the Millinery 'establish- per. There is a double reason there- tiire of it, and if variety and quality ment of which Miss Rohillard is pro- fore why you should this week turn count: his wish will be accomplished. prietress. It was easily made appar- up this firm’s advertisement for the ■lOSEPHUS LALONDE ent that active preparations for the list of h-oliday bargains. Christirastide had been .going on here MELOCHE à SABOURIN General Merchant, Main and Derby for several weeks, tl'.e display of Sts., at this time of the year has on millinery being exceptionally fine. are directly along your path and display a particularly attractive line Miss Rohillard has evidently made a there you will find seasonable meats, MAIL TOUR LETTERS TO SANTA OLAUS AT COWAN’S. of merchandise, and anything you study of the requirements of her pat- fish arid fowl in tasty variety and want in the way of Christmas est- rons at this ' season and looks for- endless profusion, certain lines of ables you will also get there to your the latter, we are informed, may be. .1 ward to securing a goodly portion of entire satisfaction. the trade. somewhat scarce thfs year, but their ARTHUR SEGUIN customers will appreciate the fact 1. B. OSTROM So SON •that this energetic young firm anti- In confiing himself to a lew lines For over a quarter of a century cipated a shortage and made ample,, sees to it that they are complete in this has been one of .Alexandria’s provision for same. All that IS ne<, every particular, therefore if it is leading places of business. Here can confectionery, fresh fruits, fancy bis- cessary is to place your order for be found anything from a souvenir your Christmas turkey, ducks, etc. In cuits, you require he will only be too spoon ' to a cabinet of silver. Their good time. pleased to serve you. line of watches, rings and jewellery A. MARKSON should meet with the ^approval ot the JOHN McLEISTER The successful proprietor of the most exacting. Here you will also' Druggist and Stationer. The best Stone Store, Is a shrewd buyer and find a large and varied ' assortment ot goods at the lowest price consistent schrewd seller, handles only the best Christmas cards, to select from or with quality. Is Mr. McLeistcr’s goods and caters to a steady rather perhaps you require a special record motto. This year lor the holiday Meloche & Sabourin’s than an erratic trade. Just at pres- for your gramaphone, if so place I season he is making a specialty ot ent he is .holding his first “.After the your order early and thus guarantee Christmas Papeteries, hundreds to War .Sale” and judging from, the delivery in time for the holidays. select from in handsome boxes, Cash Price List steady stream of purchasers It is THE GLENGARRY AHLLS Christmas cards aufi ooklets, a 'WBU meeting with marked success. He Is For some years now ri.ghtly hold a selected line, ai- i tull supply of specializing in Furs and Ladies’ and place uniquely their own in the man- (tags, seals, tinse. cur.i, gummed rib- ForsXA/eek Dec, 1Sth to Dec. 21st, inclusive. Gent’s Ready Made Clothing, w-hich ufacturing wrorlil. being fitted with bons, etc. .Shop early and get best. for quality, price and general utility the latest and most modern machin- ! choice. cannot he excelled. ery under able mana.genient and oper- j FRANK KERR D. MULHERN ated by .an efficient staiT with Mr, W. .Vgent for the Slierlock-Manuing Peacock as head-miller. Their several I N0 present gives so great ^ and lasfrt Beef Pork S pecials I’iaro. in his spacious show rooms is brands of flour are pronounced grade j ing pleasure as a Book and nothing at present making a fine exhibit’ and No. 1 while the feed grinding and I that gives so much pleasure costs so •as might be expected Is booking a chopping de'v.irtiuent is daily being i little, '.vherefore give books thin Sirloin .Steak ,t.. 24c Steak 30c Pork Sausages ,. 21c number of orders for delivery at tested to its capacity. I Chri.stmis and you will find thekbut I you like or require at Mr. Kerr’» Clirist.mas. Mr. Mulhern stands so A. D. HacGILI.IVRAY & SON, Porter house Steak..... 24c' Ham 29c Bologna Sausages...... 13c iiigh in the regard ol the firm he re- Stationery Shop, at moderate prices. presents that they manufacture a spe- the most consistent house furnishing A year’s subscription to a magazlno Round Steak 24c 13c establishment in Alexandria. At the ' wo'jid be appreciated by some friend, Chops .... 2Sc Head Cheese cial piano for him that proves a pop- moment has many inviting creations ular seller. —li in doubt as to just which tm# Chops 20c of the furniture makers’ handiwork.— 1 to select consult Mr. Kerr. Rib 27c Blood Puddings 16c FEI.IX DAPR.ATTO Here may be procured ■ most approp- Sirloin Roast 20c D. DONOVAN Shoulder 27c I w'no is no-w comfortably established riate gift's tor f.ither and mother such: Porterhouse Roast 20c ill the Pigeon building, is agent for as an easy chair, writing table or No doubt your photo or one of the tiarness, the Brantford carriages and some other serviceable gift both use- family would be a valued gift and Rib Roast 20c Salted 30c sleighs, waggons, pumps, etc., and ful, and ornamental. Remember the appreciated for Christmas. Duncan Hind quarter, heifers & steers 14c should you require anything in his sign A. D. MaeGillivray & Son. Donovan can.supply the newest des- Shoulder Roast 20c line he will be found prepared to J. A. VALLEE igns at the lowest prices possible. II Front “ “ 11c quote prices. He also conducts a re- Now that the cold weather is with you are a Kodak fiend just remembeS Rump “ 19c Lamb pair shop and be the.order large or us the time is opportune for renovat- that he finishes up amateur worll small he will give it personal atten- and guarantees entire satisfaction, Chuck “ 13c Hind qr., light weight cows 13c tion. ing and remodelling one’s valuable Roast 40c furs and in this particular line Mr. A. GOLD Front “ “ “ “ 10c E. .1, DEVER A'allce is noted tor taste and efficien- Brisket “ 15c To attempt a description of the cy. Or it it is a suit to order you Merchant tailor, since estahllsSillB Chops. 35c toute ensemble of the goods found require It can he turned out prompt- himself in his new premises, adJoMH Neck “ 12c here would lead ore to exclaim with ly . and at a reasonable figure. ing the Bon Marche, finds his tiaM the Queen of old “Not halt has ever J. A. C. HUOT steadily increasing, and at the Flank “ , 12c Stewing 30c Dres.sed Hogs, per cwt.... $21.00 been told”. In addition to his gen- proach ot the Christmas season ft )• 1 eral stock, which he prides himself to The sign in the window ".Alexan- marked by more or less of a rush ol keep always up to date, Mr. Dever is dria’s Leading Store” aptlv describes orders for new suits and overcoats. displaying many useful Christmas this up-to-date business establishment Mr. Gold pays particular attentloli N.B.—Our prices i^ill be published weekly and are liable to change according to market gifts in fancy goods, china, glass- —SpecieJ prominence is being given to pressing, cleaning, dyeing and to- ware, dress and wollen goods, etc. at present to numerous lines of holi- pairing, done wiOl all possibto conditions. day goods with the added inducement Phone 43 An inspection of his stock wil! repay ■ promptness. one. ot slashing price reductions. No hir- ther proof is required than a glance (Continued on page 7) IN FULL MARCHING ORDER pull yourself on your knees, then to your feet and step into your section After a Trial' A Soldier’s Vivid Description of An of fours. THE SOLDe’S STORY OF THE Army March. Then comes another spell of it a Consumers arc possessed with a> faith and little worse as you start out tired, LAST MESSAGE I PINK-TAILED TANK enthusiasm entirely lacking before the quality Was just thinking I have often but you know that at the end is an Use spoken of marching, and I will give hour’s rest for dinner, so you “Carry yiAM actuailly demonstrated! you an account of a march with full on.” HOW TRAGIC LETTERvS REACH IA BRITISH LAND SHIP ON THE maching order, .as you might like to THE HOMELAND have an idea of what it means. These I want to say this, not that I‘m in WESTERN FRONT ' marches, however,, are not all as bad the infantry, not at all, for I’ve seen as I’ll paint this one. very little. Here's what I mean: it soup II First, we are warned to fall in at Of all the units in France the differ- The Courtesy of the HriGsh Soldier When His Majesty’s Ship “Here W« X o’clock, in full marching order. Let ence in corps, etc., the rank and file is Shown in His Care of a Fallen Are” Amused the Tommies and me tell you what “Full marching of the infantry have the most hard- Put in plenty of order” is. The skeleton equipment, ships, hardest work .- and absolutely Comrade’s Treasures. vegetables and Terrified the Enemy. that on which the various articles the least comfort, whether in or out I was warned for a bombing-raid rice or barley. fasten, consists of a wide, heavy, of the line, and arè lowest in grade Lumbering, rolling, dipping heavily "SALiuA' that was likely to prove a “forlorn Even with poor into shell holes, heaving clumsily out is the best flavored and the most economical tea . webbed, canvas belt with two shoulder of units. The most credit is due to ever offered for sale* BS straps; in the^front, attached to the them, for outside of fighting, which hope.” \ stock delicious of them, moving with a motion that strap, are the cartridge pouches, hold- all do, they, as I said, endure the Therefore, I wrote a' certain letter, soups can be can best be described as something putting on the envelope, “To be for- between that of a half-sunken ship But you 1 On getting the ing 120 1‘ounds of ammunition; on the most. made by adding Genuine belt on right side are the bayonet, The aviators fly so many hours per warded in the event of my death,” and a hamstrung toad, came His Must Insist j entrenching tool handle and haver- day and g.o way back of the line to and handed it to a chum to take care a dash of Majesty’s land ship “Here We Are.” sack; the last contains your shaving a comfortable billet and lots to eat, of—he was not going on the raid. Such was the appearance of a British outfit, cleansing and eating utensils, with things ready for them. The “I understand,” he said. tank that a writer in the Cornhill etc.; one the right side is the water artillery have gi’eater chance for That letter did not have to be sent, Magazine describes. It dipped its bottle. Then comes the real load: sleeping places and for carrying grub. for I was unhit. nose and slid headfirst into a huge the pack, a canvas valise slung on The infantry throw their load off their A Fallen Comrade. shell crater in ludicrous likeness to a JJboul the back by straps round your shoul- back and probably dig a hole in the We were waiting near a dump. An squat bull pup sitting back on his ders. It carries a greatcoat, sweater side of a trench at night and eat out officer of another regiment came up haunches as he is dragged into a Canada I''o«ûBoâr3’ Licence No. 13- L42 the coat, extra underwear, socks, hand- of their mess tin, w^ich they are and said: hole, and then as the Here W'e Are's kerchiefs, ground sheet and house- lucky enough to have. “There’s a poor laddie of your regi- face and gun-port eyes and bent- wife. Then add to that the box res- Im not complaining for I’ve not ex- ment lying out on the ridge yonder. elbow driving gear appeared above pirator, or gas mask, on the chest, perienced much of it, just enough to I thought you might like to know.” Food Control Comer the crater rim it still more ridiculous- entrenching tool at back on belt and realize that this branch of the service I followed his guidance and found ly resembled an amazed toad emerg- ing from a rain barrel. Fifty yards in your rifle, and you are ready. The deserve what they won’t get—the the body. I felt in the breast-bockef Get Government Feed. Our Children’s Health-—Or Unhealth? ^ your feelings. This is bad enough “F^ll in” always entails a seemingly most credit after the war. its wake a line of men followed to and found an envelope. It was a Government feed at reaspnable Here are a few extracts from the, Also his description of a primary unnecessary amount of standing fearsome task, but when I read in the pick up the pieces and the prisoners. room he visited in a city school around in platoons, which is rather prices may be secured by farmers The monster waddled #n, lurched, report of a physician on conditions | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. brilliant moonlight the words, “In the as he found them in a certain State j where a consumptive teacher had trying. While standing, a good way and live stock men through the Feed checked and steadied itself with its ■event of my death kindly forw'ard,” I Div.sion of the Li/e Stock Branch '.f stopped up thS ventilation system be- of easing the load is to place muzzle nose poised over a deep hole, halted to the south of us.. Do these condi-. The time is at hand, if ever, in Mr. was glad I had found courage to do cause she was chilly. of rifle under the pack, butt on the the Department o? AgricuTure. Ot- and backed away, and edged nervous- tions also prevaif in our own fairj Wilson’s view, for his vision of a it. The doctor draw's the conclusion ground/ and let your shoulders down. tawa, which has established reserves ly round the rim ' of the hole. It land? I am afraid they do. This! world federation to take on form and • Later two comrades were killed, and from his experience with parents You have only then to keep the pack at aifferent distribulmg centres as reached the barbed-wire entangle- is what he says: \ substance. . for several days I moved about a that medical inspection and care of balanced. At last we get the word fc-rows: ments and waddled through, bursting “Not to bring up a child in the: “It cannot be formed now,” said he battlefield carying those three prè- children must be made compulsory, and start off. One’s sensations and Re cleaned elevator sex enings, them apart and trailing them in long way he should go, jdiysically, men-| on Sept. 27. “It is not likely that it cious letters, and in danger of “going just as was found necessary in the forms of mild torture experienced ai'c $56.00 per ton, balk car load lots, tangles behind it, or trampling them tally and morally, is a terrible sm oft could be formed after the settlement. West” myself. I did not worry about matter of education. Why not? so varied that ‘T’ll describe them to Fort WTIUdm. Th-.re is an export calmly under the chuiming cater-pil- omission. | It could best be organized when peace the safety of the letters. I knew that Surely good health in our ^coming you. embargo on this c.aus of fc;‘l. lar bands. The infantry pushed on “That t)ie hpysical condition of our’ was being forged by the victorious if I “stopped it” others would take Feed corn $1.40 busKoV f.o.b citizens is of as- gyeat importance as First of all, we march at east, that and carry them until the chance came after it almost without casualties, for children is deplorable appears in tl\e| powers.” Tiffin, Ont. the tank was dra^^ing a huricane of education. In fact, there can lit- is to say, one may chat with his pal to send them to the loved ones in statistics of every medical inspection: Well, that means now—the present Linseed oil cake meal $64.00 per machine gun'bullets-that beat and tle education without good healtli back on left or right, sling the rifle, instead Blighty. that has been published, t time, when the knell of autocracy is ton, Toronto, and $66.00 per ton, f.o.b. rattled on its armoi*ed sides like hail of it, for diseased body means also of carrying it at a slope,* and smoke, Some weeks later I was wounded, “Who are we that seventy per cent.' sounding; when millions of long-sub- Montreal in oar load lots, packed in on a windowpane. It waddled in- a W'eakened mind. although it is bad policy to smoke, and came home. For four months a of our school children should have j merged people are rising to the sur- 200 pound sacks. differently through the stovni and, Your child and my child may be you need all your wind. One period comrade carried a packet of old let- rotten teeth? Who are we that' face; when the world soul has been It would be well for farmers to get crawling carefully across the German getting proper care. But are our is usually three-quarters of an hour ters, which I had left in my pack ' thousands of our children are borni purified by sacrifice and suffering together and order car load lots of trench, halted halfway over and neighbors’? Their tubercular chil- with a ten minute rest after. when I discarded it on the battlefield. of/diseased parents? Who are we| and bums with a holy zeal for the above feeds before winter conditions sprinklai bullets . up and dov/n its ren are a menace to ours. Isn’t it The first five or ten minutes all When he at last achieved leave he that thousands of our children, on ac-! rights of man—this seems to be the affect transportation. Address or- length to port and; starboai'd.-for a our right to see that they are taken’ goes well; you trot along humming brought them to me in Ehgland. count of vicious environment and moment, if ever, for the signing and ders for corn, screenings and oil cake minute, hitched itself over, steered care of?—D.H. or chatting, making more or less “I knew they were personal, old ' wickéd neglect, are allowed to be | sealing of a universal Magna Charta. meal to the Feed Division, Live Stock straight for a fire-streaming machine humorous comments on the various, chap, and I wouldn’t trust *errt to the diseased and refective? Who are But who shall widte it, and what Branch, Ottawa. gun embrasure, squirted a jet'of lead Helping OUI Returned Men. and what seem to us, peculiar houses shall be the terms, and how shall we post,” he said. Bran and .shorts upon which th«'e we., that because of forcing bad air, and vehicles., etc., which we see on into the loophole, butted at the em- Writing on “Invisible Wounds” guarantee the keeping of the faith? Those letters were doubly precious is an absolute export embargo, aro' bad foqd and bad sanitation upon our the way. We have apparently for- pfacement once or twice, got a grip Capt Arthur H. Samuels, says that No one has yet answered. The Presi- to me after that. sold through the regular trade at fi'x- children they take on tuberculosis and i gotten that we arè human pack mules. with its upward-sloping caterpillar die in early life? the greater percentage of soldiers dent-Jiimse.'^ has pointed out only the Risk Life to Recover Token. ed prices of $31.00 per ton for brj^n band, climbed jerkily until it reared 1 Soon, however, one begins to realize goal to be Attained. “Ignorance is not our excuse and passing through reconstruction cen- I wonder if those at home who have and $36,. 00 per ton for shorts, f'ort on end like a frightened colt, ground he is carrying something. You feel If we are in earnest, if this pro- we are not ignorant. On the con- tres are, suffering from internal rath- received the personal treasui’es and William, plus freight and $42.-90 per its driving bands round and round, a heavy or choking sensation, like an posed league is to be more than a ton net cash, Montreal, including trary, we know, but we seem not to er than outward surgical injuries, attack of indigestion as though your letters of their dead know that gfeat and fell forward on its face. Then it understand, and certainly are not injurieSj men who are suffering from , mere international, declaration of couriesy of the British soldier? How sack.s in each case. Freight Will be •crawled out of the wreckage, crunch- lungs are being squeezed slightly. i comity or “renewed assurances of sufficiently practical to make use of shell shock, for instance. They look men risk their lives and crawl into j deducted or added to this price ac- ing over splintered beams and con- But that is a trifle, you think. You ! high consideration,” the Allies, as our knowledge. fit. “It will be difficult,” he says, “in No Man's Land so that a dear pal’s | cording to distance east or west of crete, halting every now and then to straighten up, take a deep breath I charter members, have a tremendous “Nowhere is there greater disobedi- many instances for the business man wife or mother—it is to his women- ' Montreal respectively, spray bullets on any German who and it is forgotten. In a minute or I task cut out for them. ence of the law^s of inheritance and eager to Open his door to the return- folk that the soldier usually addresses | There is also a supply of dried bqet showed himself, and turning aside to two the right shoulder begins to ache I But whatever else the charter pro- the laws of health than in rural dis- ed fighter/to understand why men that sacred letter—shall have the ' pulp or sugar .bt=v,t,maal accumulÿê'i' nose over any suspicious looking i â little with the heavy backward pull vides, it will fail, in our opinion, tricts. .'There, mating is wholly, en- who look hale and hearty enough will I very last message he ever wrote, \ at the sugar refineries in Western cranny before it plodded on in search I on it. You shift your rifle to the left j without a strong arm. ^Germany's tirely and absolutely haphazard. And be unable to go into certain jobs in- Through what infernos of shelling j Ohtario, selling at $35.00 per ton', of more trenches. i shoulder—that’s easier for the right, monstrous crime dwarfs all other there laws of health and well-being volving heavy indoor work. They they carry those letters! How they f.'olb. Chatham, Wallaceburg and The infantry followed, rounding un ! but soon the left starts to keep com- ! najtional villainies. But we cannot are largely ignored. Tn cities, the must not be passed by because their will add to their overburdened kit Kitchener, plus a charge of $5.00 per groups of prisoners who crawled, ' pany and you cannot shift any weight j shut our eyes to the fact that she conditions seem a w'ee bit better, for sacrifices are not obvious.” No small some token that Bill, or George, would \ton for bags, which amount is re- white-faced and frightened, from dug- i anywhere else. was not the first faithless nation in 'there tjphoid is less, tuberculosis is part of the keen intuition that knows I like his “missus” to have, and how funded on return of bags. Farmers outs and trench corners. Suddenly a ! Then you slip a hand behind you ' history, nor will she be the last. How how ..to/sympathize by silence and they carry such a treasure, and will within a reasonable radius of these trench wall gave way and the star-' perhaps less, and the death rate, and underneath the pack, raising it I shall we forestall the next one? not part with it until they can fisid points should look into the advantages board side of the Here We Are sank leaving out accidental deaths, is less. unobstrusive helpfulness and that is and shifting the weight to your arm. The imposition of ./the will of one i a certain messenger to take it to the of this feed, as it is desirable to use below the port. After a pause the cities, people more thoroughly so absolutely necessary in the great i This is a great relief, but only mo- group of men upon another group bereaved woman! it up in Canada. bands began once more to • revolve separate themselves from their sew- work of helping these men to “find ' mentary as the strain on the arm is has come tô wear a hateful mien No; there is no glory in war, but and to churn out behind them first, age and the bath is more in evidence. themselves”frests with the women of i boo great, and one lets the pack down through association with Prussian every community. If the x’eturned th«tre is love. a cloud of dust and clots of Adenoids and defects of the nose and 1 ai^in. Next commences across the I autocracy that in shrinking from it The existence of large grain-stocks and then a mangled debris of cloth- fhi'c-ai arc more prevalent in the man becomes discouraged and out- [ back of the neck and reaching into we may be in danger of failing into in Siberia is reported. CROSSING CANAL DU NORD ing ard trench-made furniture. On country than in cities, and this despite classed after leaving the reconstruc- j both shoulders a dull, heavy pain. This a pit. It is not the imposition, but Recruiting Officer (examining man the ground above, the infantry stood the purer country air. It, still may tion centres thé fault will be found to steadily grows worse. Another way the end in view that righteous men for the Army)—“How is it you are How “Tanks” i Enabled Infantry to shrieking with laughter while the be said the reason country air is so rest almost invariably with the wo- of easing yourself is to slip a thumb either abhor or praise. They praise, so small my man?” Three feet six— Here We Are pawed out and hoofed pure is because the farmer keeps the men who have sympathized in unwise under each set of shoulder straps and for instance, that community in which Rush the Hindenburg Line. I was brought up on shortbread and behind it into the naked light of day bad air inside. rather than helpful ways. Open com raising the whole equipment* a little. the lawful impose their will upon the condensed milk.” The floundering of the early Tanks a splintered bedstead, a chewed-up “As in the city schools, we also miseration is often nothing less than lawless. But, as you can imagine, you can only in the deep mud of Flanders roused blanket or two, the legs, back and find in those of the country the larg- refined cruelty and is never the best hold it for a very short time. The analogy between an individual jov in German hearts. Sui'ely this er jn-oportion of children are neglect- seat of a red velvet armchair, atom sort of help. Thus there is added From this time on it is a series and a nation must not be pressed too mighty engine of war could be de- i ed. Bad teeth prevail to such a de- another phase to w<^men’s war work, FOR CHRiSTMAOl gray coat and a forlorn and muddy of various changes and shiftings of far. But if the moral code—and this feated by a zone of soft earth or by ' gree that we express surprise when study of the best ways of helping un- pair of pink pyjamas tangled up \n a weights, none of which relieve you seems to be the aim—in a community shallow pools ot water! Therefore a'| Muskrat a good set is found. Coüghs, colds obtruiively. field boot. only to the extent of lessening it 4n of nations is to approximate the code line of trenches was cut and flooded | Coat When the drivers got their gru and catarrh” get every child one or subsisting in a community of indi- one place and increasing it in an- as defence, and failed. For, while • Loose box coat again and the Here We Are rolled two times, every school term, and Breakfast Cereals. other. ^ • viduals; if the strong are not to prey tha Huns were chortling and digging, ! effect, with con- r.)ajesi:i*a’ly forward and up the far- some sniffle through every day of the upon the weak, nor the foul upon the vertible collar. This is "now an appropriate time Oe has reached now that dull state our rrechanicians were planning new ^ ther jiide of the hole, one of the sol- year. fair, it seems to us that the well- Extra well made. to add the breakfast cereal to • the in which he has but one desire, and stunts for their ungainly toy, includ- : Length 45’’'. A diers dragged a long branch from the “Cases of catarrh, v.’eak and wa- mofning menu. The ' body for the intentioned nations in this compact, ingpthe carriage of a strong bridging-1 tery eyes, and running ears are found, that—to lie down and get off that popular seller. debris, slid it up one leg and down next six months w'ill require consid- conscious of their rectitude, must as- hurdle to repair gaps and span many dating from the time the help- i awful burden, anywhere, anyplace. $120 the other of the pink pyjamas, tied erably more starches, sugars and fats sume the right and the power by trenches. The great gulf of the Canal less youngsters had measles or scar- ! But the man in front of you; you can the boot by its laces to the tip and to maintain sufficient heat and : through moisture-dimmed eyes see force of arms, to discipline the ill- du Nord was anticipated deep enough French thrust the root into a convenient let rash. Emaciation f^om actual intentioned. energy. An ideal manner of supply- I his legs, the heels of his boots seem and wet enough to stop the British Seal crevice in the stern of the tank. So starvation is not occasional. In one ing this need will be found in the Otherwise, this war, which has rush to the Hindenburg line.* Ac- ! Splendid coats rural school of twenty-seven pupils, I to be coming back to you but never beflagged, she rolled her triumphant breakfast cereal and milk. getting any closer|^ he is plodding loosened the political cement of three cordingly, all bridges were breached ; that look well and found seven anemic, emaciated chil- way up over the captured redoubt and Table for Proportions along, and through your mind runs great empires, including Russia, and and the banks pulverized by shallow 1 wear better than dren, and five of them were actually any other seal. down the other side, with the boot One cupful of oatmeal to four the thought: , “He is carrying the has given to so many hopeful, mines. Then the enemy retired, lin- ; starving. One little' wizened girl Special price $112. tip bobbing and jerking and swaying cupfuls of water: cook for 3 hours. I same, load, full of that same pain. If but as yet impotent aspirations to ing the further bank with machine ! had had" one batter cake with mo- at the end of her pink tail. One cupful of rolled oats to three i he can keep up, I can,” and still your sovereignty, may prove a curse rather guns. I Persian lasses for breakfast, and in her din- cupfuls of water; cook for 2 hours. legs monotonously forge ahead. I than a blessing. Next morning the first Tank plung- j LAamb ner bucket for lunch were one soggy nSH OILS IN PAINT One cupful of farina to four cup- can’t explain it, but you are in a Sages have long dreamed of a world ed up the shell-rivcn road, and reach- ; and Mink biscuit and one apple. All of twenty- fuls of water; cook for 2 hours. state of semi-consciousness like one state. Its attainment is not impos- ed the elements of a bridge. The • Two of our seven pupils in the school needed Excellent to Mix With Red Lead for One cupful of cracked wheat to I walking in his sleep. Then you try sible, perhaps, though meantime man- arch “drushed,” as was expected, and ! specialties in medical attention. There was not a five cupfuls of water; cook for 2 ! to think of something pleasant. In kind has many a long and weary the great stqel moster sat down heav- ' which we offer Exterior Work. cnild tbat did not have two or more hours. ' I my case I try to picture myself at league to travel. Yet it may well ily in the ruins, immovable, the target \ exceptional v a 1 - Fish oil may be used to advantage decayed teeth. Every child had lies. One cupful hominy to six cup- ' home, and you may not believe it, be that in this proposed league of for every rifle and Maxim that could | as a vehicle for pigments in exterior suffered from one or more attacks of fuls of water;^cook for 8 hours. but it helps a lot. Some chaps have nations we of this age are levelling be brought to bear. . Under cover of 1 sd-called ‘cold’ during the winter, CUMMINGS & CUMMINGS pain;;s. For interior painting, how- One cupful of cornmeal to four fallen out, but you plod along. To fall the ground for the splendid structure a smoke-bomb, the crew scrambled, and sixteen said they had had colds 109a 8t. Paul Street, Montreal ever, t is not satisfactory, as it give.s out means the extra exertion of step- which another age will erect. It out of the upper manhole, and took j ever since school opened in the fall.” cupfuls of water; cook for 3 hours. RAW FURS; Highest Prices Paid. off noxious gases for a considerable One cupful of barlej' to five cup ping out of the ranks; your legs do may even be that we are privileged shelter where they could in the lee of The rest of the description of the time after it is applied. Those oils fuis of water; cook for 4 hours. not seem capable of changing direc- to lay the first stone. If so, let us the fallen giant. Then a second Tank which have the le^t of the charac- school and teacher kept me awake make sure that it is sound and four- One cupful of barley meal to four tion so you stay in your place praying waddled up. There was a halt, and j teristic “fishy” odor give the best re- nights for a week, so I omit it to save square. cupfuls of water; cook for 3 hours. for the welcome words of command: its team of engineers, rising "^appar- sults. Such oils may be used as One cupful of rice.to five cupfuls “Fall out”! ently from the earth, deftly reached vehicles for pigments to the ^ extent of water; cook for 3 hours. Perhaps one chap with a little more Using Up Straw Fibre. down certain steel joists which were of 75 per cent., the remainder of the CHRISTMAS One cupful of rye meal to four “pep” left in him informs us that we Experiments are being carried laid as a pathway from terra-firma to vehicle consisting of linsed oil. cupfuls of water; ççok for 3 hours. have ten minutes to go before the in Italy by a Milan company for the the tortoise top of the abandoned ma- Fish oil is superior to linseed oil will be happier for. you if you For variety add any of the follow- rest period. That ten minutes mag- manufacture of bagging, packing chine in front. in smoked-stack paint or paint that have provided the first step for ing: nifies itself into an eternity of time, material, cushion fillings, mattresses, With a mighty churning and grind- has to be applied to hot surface-* your children’s future. One-half cupful of seeded and chop in your mind, but here's where the ing, Tank No. 2 crawled out over No. Begin saving for them now by twine and rope from straw fibre of since it does not blister. It is also ped raisins. old thought of -mine so often comes barley, wheat or rice, according to 1, bumped on xo the centre pier of in demand for bafking japans where purchasing good stocks on our in: “There’s an end to all things, One-'half cupful of seeded and chop- the strength of the material wanted the bridge, made a few more bounces, a certaip^ degree of flexibility is re- and so will be to this march.” PARTIAL PAYMENT ped dates. and then crashed the crown of thé quired. is used, too, in the manu- When the time is up you stagger further arch, sinking to the çanaî PLAN One-half cupful of seeded and chop- “Judge not without knowledge, nor facture of enamelled leather and ped prunes. out to the right and let yourself level. Tank No. 3 Was on the heels So much laid by monthly actually without necessity, and never without printing inks. One-half cupful of peanuts put down, lying So that the pack forms of its predecessors, its Maxims and gives them ownership In any a back rest and also so that the love.”—Alex. Whyte. When red lead is mixed- with lin- Bècurities specially favored by through .the food chopper. six-pounders belching shells by the seed oil, chemical action follows you. Three tablespoonfuls of peanut weight is all taken off your back and string against the enemy’s post?, an^ shoulder^. Then for a moment the Ex-Empress Eugenie of France, which causes it to thicken up and be- Write at once for copy of our butter. widow of Napoleon III., has lived to covering the Working-party, Agalr come Unfit for use in a short time. free booklet telling you all about Try serving cereals with the fol- sudden flow of blood sends sharp, see the day she prayed for—the fall the bridging material was laid, an< The addition of properly neutralized this splendid saving plan. lowing in place of sugar: Place one- shooting pains around the cords of right smartly our third Tank hump- the neck, but that is over and oh the of the Hohenzollerns. fish oi:’; will, however, prevent this half cupful of syrup in a small pit- ed and wabbled across the improvised hardening action and preserve the cher and add two tablespoonfuls of blessed relief then. In a moment you span of steel, and came Into close Cambric was invented by a native paint iq a fresh and soft condition rt. M. Connolly & Co. butter. Heat until very hot, stir- feel fit enough to reach for a cigar- action, paving the way for our in- of Cambrai, named Batiste; hence for mai\y moirths. Members Montreal Stock Çxchangé ring frequently until creamy. ette. A drink would taste all right, fantry to complete the breach. t05-106 Transportation Bull(Ung but it is not wise, as you have an- our name for the article, and the —P MONTREAL « QUE. other walk ahead of you, to take one. French one, “batiste/' for the same Promises to many folks are like The Ottoman Empire is the slum I i JD’uIl silos mean big winter milk# Jhe ten minutes soon |>ass and you material. •V'* bft broken^ the jvorld.—’Sir Mark Sykes. THE NEWS, ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 13. 1918,

Buy froin our Debtors prrinrYTTTTy The Approach Demobilization of Troops BUY FROM Ol^R DEBTORS. of the .... THE demobUlza- Chairman William B. Colvet of the Our Subsenbers. Christmas Season tfoD of the Can-1 Federal Trade Commission made a £ Is always marked in onr ' adUn Bzpedi- speech in Cleveland last veek the im- tioQftry Force la per- port of which seems to have been business by the receipt of bape the most im* missed in a measure by the. telegrap- portant problem now hic reports of the same. We have not bothered you very much for your subscrip- confrootiniE the Do- In a ssmmary of the chairman’s re- NEW GOODS minion Government, marks it was stated in the dispatches tion- We are now speaking to those in arrears. It has not Nothing lacking here in Choice Family Groceries and the transporta- that “the United States must pro- been because we did not need the money, but we were always tion of the troops vide for the repayment of our loans We have the pick of the wholesale market," by reason of confidentjyon meant to come In and pay up, or send a Post from the fort of to the Allies or suffer utter economic our large buying. Let us have your Christmas order. landing to Cheir destruction.” What Mr. Colver really Office Order for the amount- We have treated yon well and homo destination is Raisins, Currants, Dates, Figs, Cherries in said and n.eint was this : know you will return the favor. When you read this look at a work which will Because the United States has be- require skilful hand- your-label. If it reads January, 1918, it means that yon owe Maraschino, Peels, Orange, Lemon and Citron, ling. On reaching come a creditor nation to an immense Canned Pimento, choice Canned Fruits, Vegetables Canadian soil, after and unprecedented figure it must co- ni from that date up to the present. There are some farther their hard fought operate in trade and commercial lines and Soups, Cranberries, Apples, Lemons, Grape- battles In foreign so as to help our Allies to pay their in arrears than that. What we want you to do, is to send ns countries, the veter- fruit. Shelled Almonds and Walnuts, etc., etc. bills to us.* what yon owe us. Do it at once. On January 1st, a regnla- ans will deserve all He stated that if America attempts Prompt service. Careful delivery. the consideration to monopolize all lines of products tion will go into effect that all newspapers not paid in advance that can be given to and does not take in exchange as Ctaadc Food Board License No- ^-9233. them. will be refused the mails. When you] are sending ia your It was therefore n 1 much of Europe’s commodities as we wise decision on the j send them, those nations will not be arrears, just add a year in advance and help ns to carry lh< part of the Dominion I able to pay their debljs. harden we have carried for yon. 5 OT Government when I It is obvious that if the United thej C dded that the | States seeks to exploit its economic Canadian Railway D. J. McDorjafcl I advantages without reciprocity it ÎTHE 6LENGARRY NEWS. War Board should Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Maughan. would tend to impoverish our debtors ^ Phone 36 Grocer- Alexandria ? appoint a committee and,' in the end, force them to repu- that wtM make all the arrangements necessary for the transportation of the diation, involving a fin-ar heavy loss soldiers through Canada. to us. The War Board so constituted the committee that it Is representative £jl JLSUL JUULJUUUUUL^^ of the three principal Canadian railways Ever since the beginning of the What is necessary, as well as lair- war officials of the Canadian Pacific Railway have been conspicuous as spirited, for the United States is that, leaders in the eouatry*s patriotic efforts, and now LMeutenant-Colohel Walter this country buy as liberaalv as pos- Maaghan, Assistant General Passenger Agent of the C. P. R., has been sible from our Allied debtor nations chosen as chainian of the committee that Is to undertake the responsibility and, through commerce and trade ’ for the train transportation of the soldiers to their places of abode in balances, help them to prosper. BARBARAS CahadA Lieutenant-Colonel Maughan’s long experience and his thorough Such am. attitude and efiort will knowledge of railroad affairs make him thoroughly qualified to fill the posi- both build up commercial reciprocity $5.»» for $4.»$ tion for which he has been selected. and good feeling as well as assist our In March, 1892, at the age of sixteen years, Walter Maughan Joined the Allies to repay their debts due us In staff of the Chadian Pacific Railway as a clerk in the Toronto offices. In coming years without increasing their Great Winter Sale September of the same year he was transferred to Hamilton to act In a burdens of taxation.—(Bufiialo Cour- similar capacity. In 1S95 he was again brought back to the Toronto ier). ( offices, and In March, 1897, he became city passenger ageht In the Queen GIVE City. On November 1st, 1913,. he became assistant district passenger agent Now Going On In Toronto. One month later he was promoted to become assistant general passenger agent in Montreal. War-Savings i ' Lieutoiant-CoIoDel Maughan Is representing the C. P. R. on the newly North Huron Significant With great success becau^ we are selling formed committee. Mr. H. H. Melanson will represent the Canadian Government Railways, and Mr. C. W. Johnston the Grand Trunk Railway. The result of the by-election in very cheap. Great bargains offered every By a oo-ordinatlon of effort It is believed that the representatives of the North Huron is significant of the Stamps day. You can’t afford to mi® them. It will three big Canadian railways can so regulate railway transportation arrange- trend of events. The Libéral can- ments as to insure the safe and comfortable return of the Canadian soldier didate was elected in a riding sup- pay you to visit our store. ]fear ia mind this men to their homes. The headquarters of the committee will be In Ottawa, posedly undefeatable from a Conserv- As Christmas Gifts ative standpoint. Of course it must is no fake sale but a Genuiite Bargain Sale. where the cwnmlttee will be In direct touch with the Canadian Government UY a War-Savings Stamp for $4.00 and A preliminary meeting of thd committee was recently held in Montreal] be said that an Independant Conserv- B when the Minister of Militia' was represented by Colonel E. E.- Clarke, ative was in the field. The campaign affix it to space No. 1 of the Certificate You will be surprised to|see that goods Director General of Supplies and Transportation. The problem of transpor- ■was given personal attention by the that will be giv^ you. Fill in the tation was discussed in all its pnasea, and the committee win leave nothing Hearst Government. Thé candidate name of the one to whom you wish to make this Christ- can be-sold for less than in |iny other store. undone to eneure safe transit, and feeding facilities of the highest char- having-the Government support went mas Gift—^tbe most desirable of Gifts, for it may well Call and get our prices. We just want you to acter for the Canadian soldier men who so brarely answered to the <^ll of down to defeat by a huge majority. mark the commencement of habits of Thrii^ the duty when thS country was In danger^ ^ ' Tlie result may be a foreunner of stepping stone to Success. get the worth of your monei. what is goin to happen in the next regular contest. By-elections in Can- The Certificate ada usually point the way to the res- In offering your gift you could say, ‘Tf you invest on her border, which she lost to Ger- ults of general elections. ' The result your savings regularly in War-Savings Stamps, you GEO. BAftBÀRA What Germany has lost many many years ago. in this instance indicates that rural win soon fill this certificate, which becomes Canada's Alexandria Next to Ottawa Hotel LOSSES IN MINERAL, WEALTH. Canada is asserting itself. The farm- ple^e to pay you $50 on the first day of 1924." X (New York World.) Fully one-third of all the iron de- ers are getting away from party af- *‘With every 25 cents you save you CB'\ buy a THRIFT What has Germany lost ? posits from which Germany derived filiation and voting for ,what they be- Stamp, 16 of which on a Thrift Card will be exchanged Crushed and defeated, the last her supply are no longer in her pos- lieve to be their own best interests. for a W.-S. S.” stragglers of her worn-out and hope- j session. The great Briey mining dis- Premier Hearst is not a strong man less army-rthe army which was to trict is at the moment occupied by in the Premiership. He was placed in **An excellent Uxoeetment for small that position over the heads of older savings; and a strong incentive to slash the way to world domidation— American troops. every-day economy." are shui! in-g "back beyond the Rhine, LOSSES- THROUGH WASTAGE. and more experienced members. Hon. taking their orders from the victor- The economic wastage due to the Air. Cochrane is credited with naming SIR THOMAS '^HITE ious .-tllies. ' , war w’ill reach a figure of amazing Mr. Hearst for the office of Prime Minister of Finance The German Grand Fleet, with proportions. Through lack of upkeep Minister. white Hags Hying above the German, I the German railroads could scarcely Until then the present Premier was FOR SALE AT has sailed into captivity, again fin- - be in worse condition. Tens of th- ^ that normal methods of taxation un- ties—something vastly different^—and, possible, place themselves In the posi- if London advices now reaching Can- tion of the father, mother, wife, sis- der the most favorable condition, ada are to be relied upon, there is ter. or other relative of the return- A. GOLD Alexandria, Ontario. would" not produce enough to pay the ing soldier, and deal with them as Merchant Tailor, - Main St., Alexandria. interest. some doubt as to whether Sir Rob- ert will be able to gain admittance to they would wish to be dealt with «I- .1 ; LOSSES IN COMMERCE. the Xmal peace conference at all. under slmllaj* conditions., *AJI this being accomplished. It Except for the trade with Euro- LIMITED TO FEW. twill add substantially to the Wel- pean states, all of Germany’s com- Thé difficulty in the way, it is said, lcome the company desires to give to merce is gone. Her overseas exports is that the conference will have to be returned soldiers, as well as to the before the war reached in the fiscal limited to a small number, making it comfort and convenience of relatives year 1912-Î3 a total of $1,494,000,-’ impossible to have the British Em- and friends who desire to welcome Ô00. What she may he ab'e to recov- pire represented by all, or perhaps by [them.” er will take time to tell. Her loss. any, of its Dominions. ’ In order that relatives and friends Advertise in The Glengarry News of trade in-four years might be figur- It is hinted that a limited number desiring to meet troop trains should ed at $7,000,000,000. ,of delegates, including possibly, one [have information as to the hour of or two overseas statesmen, may be arrival very particular Instruotions LOSSES IN SHIPPING. are given. "Station staffs.” sa.vs the Maple bis Wanted Throu,gh destruction, confiscation chosen to represent the Empire as a whole, but that, because of the direct circular “at destination points should or internment, Germany has lost the be fully and promptly advised of the great biiik of her seagoing tonnage. interest which South Africa and Aus- expected time of arrival of troop Hundreds of her finer .ships are now tralia have in tlie senfimen-t—owing trains, with all particulars available GOOD SERVICE j in posse.ssion of the .Ulies. Recent to their respective rights in German as to the names of steamships figures place ihc value of the ships East .Africa and the Gorman Pacific from which the passengers come, and now in .\nierican hands, including a colonies—the Premiers of these Domi- ‘any other known details. This In- I am prepared to pay $28.00 per 1,000 few of Austria’s! at $34,000,000. nions will have 'first claim upon se- Iformatlon should be promptly and lection. MONTREAL-OTTAWA-TORONTO feet for maple Ibgs delivered fat my LOSSES OF COLONIES. regularly posted on station bulletin and Inlermediat^ Points. These difficulties, however, are not boards and corrected from time to mill. We want pjooo logs, 8 and i2 feet All the German colonies, wherever accepted here as suflicient In, them- time as may he necessary. Operators situated, have been captured, Ger- selves to keep Canada from the peace [Should keep la close touch with the via cmtDIAN Govamiiient Road lengths preferred) and in order to secure man East .Africa, with 931,460 square Imovement of the trains so that the .conference. There is a strong feeling The Ottawa River V:d5 ■>, Kûleiiu, Lake Shore Dine, miles, is four times as large as Ger- —and it is likely to grow stronger as 'information posted may be up to the same we have d^ided to pay a higher many. The islands in the Pacific cov- minute. Train enquiry clerlts shonld the date for the opening of the con- BY DAY HY NIGHT price than other dealers. If you have er 96,160 square miles, and the Asia- ference approaches nearer—that the be at all times fully Informed in con- tic colony 200 square miles. All are nection with the trains and their Leave Montreal 8.15 a.m., Leave Montreal 6.15 p.m. extent of Canadian sacrifice during Except Sunday. Daily. logs for sale cc^e and see me before lost. These • were the basis of Ger- the past four years entitles Canada movement, and they, as well as other many’s hone for a great colonial station staff concerned, will be ex- Throug4i Parlor and Dining Through Sleeping and Club selling. . / to be. regarded as ' something more Cars. Cars. scheme. Their population aggregated than merely a portion of the British pected to deal courteously and pa- nearly 15,000,000, or almost one- tiently with all enquirers, giving Empire, adequatelv represented at the f .em correctly and clearly the fullest C. N. R. TRAINS. Ottawa, Toronto and west, operate to and from fourth as many as possessed by. Ger- peace table by Imperial statesmen. Montreal Tunnel Terminal. 415 I.a^r.'uichetiftre St. W., connecting many alone. information possible In response to •Tt Toronto on Monday, Woflnesda.y and Friday "with through CANADA’S RIGHTS. their enquiries. Tf-Tirs t.A and from Western'Canada and Pacific Cojist. LOSSES OF EMPIRE TERRITORY The feeling is, in fact, that Can- In the operation of C. P. R. trains, the troop train Is to be considered LOWEST FARES, THROUGH TICKETS AND RESERVATIONS Great slices of German territory ada, which went into the war as a EVERYWHERE. 1271 are at the moment being formed into nation, and of its own choice, and first. In the event of a troop train independent states. .lust how much locomotive breakdown on the road, ro’>•? nearest C. M. R. Ticket Agent or write, to General PaA*enger Cyrilk Lacombe which in four years of conflict sacri- Dept. 226 St, James Street, Montreal. . of Eastern Germany will be left when ficed its best blood and mortgaged the locomotive which can be made the process is complete may not now heavily its future, is entitled to be moot quickly available, even If taken Phone 81 Station, Alexandria be said. .Alsace-Lorraine, taken from directly renresented at the peace from a regular passenger train, is to the French following the Franco- be used to handle the troop train, so table, recognized there as the equal that it will incur the loest ponible CANADIAN: NORTHiRN>RAtLWAY Prussiah war, has been redeemed, of the other .Allies deciding the final delay. nenmark' may redeem a German state terms. THE NEWS, ALEXANDRIA, DEO. 13, 1918 Provincial County Roaiis Fighting German t'la’es The Municipai World in discussing I the matter of highways makes a sen- I sible co-mment when it observes : I ‘^Co-operative with provincial ! roads, but under county control, ccr- I tain roads may be designated by the ' Highway Department as 'provincial county ix)ads’—to such roads the pro- vince will contribute per cent, of the cost of construction and maint- ' 1 '.vv 1 ‘ - , 'VI ^ enance. These roads are intended to I enable the mere e:|Uitable niainten- j ance. of certain county roads of more than I,iC-l importance carrying a con- siderable i.r >portion of through traf- fc, but which the county may efli- cientiy maint-in; roads which are not of suflicient importance to be classed as provincial, or which it is not des- irable or expedient for the province to assume, as provincial highways. Wlietlier you are rich or whether you are poor ^ They continue to he country roads but because of heavy through trallic, re- THIS IS AN ceive an increased subsidy. “In general, they will form bran- ches of the provincial highway sys- tem, joining up cities and oth^r im- portant terminal points of traffic. They constitute an intermediate link EICEPTIDNU DCCASIDN FOR VDO. betw'C 11 the provincial and county road systems, and sliould be subject to special regulation. In time, some of them, with the development of the road system, may become provincial hig-hways, so th :t the regulations un- Nine days of real excitement at der which th^'v should be built and maintain ;d, more especially as re- it gards primary construction such as grading, bridges and culverts, should Alexandria's Leading General Store be of a kind read ly adaptable to a Fig-hting the fires started by the Germ&ns. provincial staiH' Prices slashed and slaughtered on all the lines, WHY ? to realize $16,000 of cash from our extensive and well assorted $30,000 stock. It shall have to be done, and will be done with your co-operation. On our part we will furnish It Pays To Take Care our entire stock at most temptingly low prices if yon will come and pick up the Of farm Machinery bargains and join the crowds that will start the lead Farm machinfty represents a finan- cial investment. Taking proper care of it results in a monetary gain;, leav- ing it exposed in tl'.e open at all sea- sons of the year must mean ecoiromic Saturday Morning, December 14th loss, not only to thé farmer but to the whole country. It is generally recognized bv authorities on agricul- . AT HÜOT S . ture that, if exposed in all sorts of weather, farm mac’iines depreciate more than they do from fair wear andi rear. That is to say, the farmer, who is careless in this respect pays for more than twice tie number of imple- For [Nine Days Only ments th.m he actually reciuires. .“tt the same time great manufacturing plants and small armies of workmen have to he kept busy replacin.g these ■ The reason why : losses, which, in thousands of In- ;.t.nces, are punh- and simply the ■ To protect ourtelves from the high war prices, we had placed several months result of carelessness-.and neglect. 1 To house implements properly, it ; ago, large orders in the various departments, and these goods have all been may not he necessary to have a spe- delivered to us at the pld prices and with the well assorted stock we had pur- cial implem ent slud. âlany farmers can utilize an unu. e! tarn floor, or a chased from our predecessors, we have been placed in a position that we part of some other huilding. Poultry must reduce our stock and that by offering same at less than half the price our '( Funeral of (îeneral Lipsett near the line. The cortege passing between men of a battalion or other live stock should never ‘ be competitors have to payi for same goods now, therefore to prove the above which the genial brought tp France. H.R.H, the Prince of Wales followed the cofSn, . . allowed access to the building, or part of a build ng that has been set statements, below is a partial price list of what we intend to offer during this aside for machinery, on most farms, week of Wonderful Bargains. however, a special implement house is desirable. A suitable building, if earefuliy planned to eomserve space, can be built at a reason.rbfe cost. our competitors' prices $1., Plans can he obtained from the Cen- $1.25, Our Pric-e .. 69c FUNERAL OF GENERAL LIPSETT tral Experimental Farm at Ottaw’a. Fur Department Misses’ rubbers in assorted toe c.iir 'competitors' prices 70c, Before implemfs are stored for the Ladies' black wolfcrine stole season they should be carefully clean- 80c, O r Price 49c and muff some of our compe- A limited quantity oi Men’s i ed and oilM. It is a good plan, after titors' prices $40.00, Our removing all dirt, to wipe the entire Buckle overshoes, our com- . Price $ 22.00 ■ petdtors’ prices $2.25 to machine with style, our which you can lend small savings to (Competitors’ prices $135.00, the Government at a rate of interest $150.00, Our Price $115.00 Dry Goods exceeding 41 per cent, compounded Ladies’ mink marmot .iackets, half yearly. This may be done by pur- our competitors’ price.s $115 $10,000 worth of dry goods to he re- chasing war saving stamps and thrift Our Price $ 95.00 duced to $5,000.00 without reserve. A good assortment of ladies’ & men’s stamps. A war saving stamp may sweaters to he cleared out. be purchased now by taking the surn $650.00 of hardware to be cleared ol Î4.00 to the postoffice or to a bank or any other agent and with it cut at 25c on the dollar based on buying a war saving stamp and at the old prices. We have a full abet- the same time securing a war savings Rubbers ment oi wool underwear for ladies, certificate. On January 1st, 1924, the men and boys. Also a surplus stock Government will pay back $5.00 for of fleece line underwear, tiis latter 400 Pairs line we will ofier during this sale at the outlav now made. By the pur- 69c a garment. chase of the war saving stamps each In men's, boy's, ladies’, misses’, & person is lending money at good in- children's, .good .stock, up-to-date A large assortment of XMAS goods terest and is helping in a very pat- style, at the following prices ;— to be slaughtered during the -sale. riotic endeavor. T1 e purchaser will Men’s rubbers in assorted toe, our Don’t MISS this RARE opportunity, become a war saver. The price of competitors’ prices $1.35, particularly at this time of the war saving stamps purchased by the Î1.40, Our Price year when vou require ao much goods. month in 1919 is as follows: J»«- LÀBM’ itibbtn iB BMorteOl sale CASH or uary, $4.00; February, $1.01; March, foe, our competitors’ price» fMs is tor only tans .$4.02; .\pril, $1.03; May, $1.04, .June, $1.00, $1.25, Our Price 59c produce taken as cas’n at the market $4.05; July, $4.00; august, $4.07 ; Boy’s rubbers in assorted toe, prices. September, $4.08; October, $4.09; November, $4.10: December, $4.11. The price is higher each month be- cause the stamps are bearinc inter- est. The thrift stamp mav be purchased tor 25 cents at postofiTice, banks, etc. J. A. C. HUOT A thrift card is given to each pur- chaser and when he or she have pur- chased 16 stamps at a ’total value of MILL SQUARE - _ » - ALEXANDRIA $4.00, the card may be exchanged at the postoffice, banks, agencies, etc.,, foe a war savings certificate at thé” value of the ccrtific.ite when the ex- r- f “Oot Mit Out”: This German hall mark chalked by one of the Cambrai randali on the bed- SEE POSTERS- if a pillaged reom it a good example of German humor. change is made. I Give the maiter consideration. The Right Way Is te Weigh. “How do I know that all these ac- fÜNNY F0LD ÜP5 GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX counts are correct, and that I made OUT WDTOID ÔW Domo LIHK a profit on my farm last year? Why, > By Andrew F Comer. M D J weigh everything.” Dr. Conier will answer all algned letters pretalntng to Health. It yott The banker was going over a farm fseetlon le of general Interest It will be answered^ througb these columns; If you can't help the wheels of pro-* account-book with John Blair, one of À loL H will be answered personally If stamped, addressed envelope Is •> gress to move more easily, get out of the most prosperous farmers in the •losed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe for Individual cases or make diagnosis the way and do not throw any monkey community. After asking himself Address Dr. Andrew F. Currier, care of Wllsoa Fubllshlog Co.. 71 Adelalds wrenches into the cogs. Th'C' writer By AsronoiaiBC. the banker’s question and answering 6L West, Toronta has no desire or intention to become ThI# Department It for the ute of our farm reader* who want the it in four words, the farmer explain- Jaundice. The urine is sometimes yellow but personal in this discussion, but hé ef an expert on any question regarding toil» teed, crops, etc. If your question hopes to say a few things which will It of sufficient genera! intereat. It will be answered through this column. I* ed. Jaundice is a group of symptoms, it may also be dark brown or even stamped and addressed envelope It enclosed with your letter, a coinplett “I know it phid >me to feed stock not a disease. In rural districts black. bring some of our less thoughtful and answer will be mailed to you. Address Agronomist, care of Wilson Publltning last winter; my knowledge really be- W'here certain sick people are said to It is important to notice that since less considerate farmers to a realiza- Co., Ltd., 73 Adelaide $t W., Toronto. gins further back than the feed lot, be suffering from “yaller jaunders,” in jaundice, particularly if directly tion that by their frequent and out- though. Every load of grain crosses and clearly due to obstruction, bile spoken criticisms of the various co-* Breeding, Feeding and Weeding The about one part of protein té six of attention is thereby called to only operative enterprises, which are de- carbohydrates and fat gives the best my scales before it goes into the cribs one phase which is common to sev- does not enter the intestine, consti- Dairy Herd. or bins at harvest time». That tells veloping as never before, they are The systematic ^breeding of the results in feeding. This relation is eral diseases including cancer, ma- pation will alternate with diarrhoea, me whether I’m getting any more laria, lead, arsenic or phosphorus the evacuations being clay-colored hurting the fanning business as » dairy cow is a subject that should be as the nutritive ratio. Thus by re- iTriAT HOUSE YOU SEE IS WHERE I LIVE whole. ferring to a chart giving the composi- grain from the use of fertilizers and poisoning and Bright’s disease, this and pasty. , of considerable interest to the gen- manures, or from extra care in clean- It’U SKETCH IT l«REF0R V tions to which they belong and which certain to get good calves. If itj dividual cows is of no little import- FARM VS. CTTY EMPLOYMENT are designed to aid them as a class^ were only more generally realized, j ance. Not infrequently, the cow that black when cancer is the fundamen- ures of treatment are hot alkaline tal cause. baths, rest in bed, vary simple diet They'know and realize right well that how true is the adage that, the bull yields the smallest quantity of milk By M. Rigby “in union there is strength.” is half the herd, there would be more j in a herd will be discovered by the Yellow is the constant color of the especially milk and plenty of sleep. mucous membrane which covers/the It is alw^ays of first importance to There is another very undesirable attention paid to the principles of, test to be as profitable as, or more In many sections it is not only the only enables them to keep a couple, of man loose in the land. He is of the breeding and their application. j profitable, than some of the heavy eÿes, also of the sweat, the tears, thq.. find out whether the jaundice is of a draft that has reduced the available goldfish for pete, they feel that some- milk, and the expectorated mucus if character to be benefitted by medical “rule or ruin” ilk. If the majority No co,w is' capable of doing her milkers. But the objeetjons in re- thing is missing from their lives, A supply of farm labor. Men and pneumonia present. - or surgical treatment. thinks a thing should be handled in a best without proper food. The feed | ga.rd to time, labor, etc., ftave never, boys have been drifting to the city man who has always worked with ani- manner different from that which he must largely depend on the surround-'to our knowledge, been made by any for ten years, or more because of the mals is always lonesome without had figured out in his own little brain, ing conditions, such as the adaptabil- person who has gn\en the system seemingly high wages that have been them. I know of one farmer who cost higher for winter lambs but the he kicks over the traces and tries to ity of the land to produce the neces- fair trial. paid in the factories. Some men who worked in a city for a short time in- fleece of the ewe suckling a lamb lacks | upset the whole thing. Such men de- sary crops, or the price at which they A spring balance is placed in a would have been owners by this time stead of farming as he would have in quality and w'eight when compared serve to be boycotted or o.straci ;ed by can be bought to advanta''' in the convenient place in the stable, as are if they had remained on the farm hre liked to have done. The vaudeville with the ewe intended for spring ' their colleagues. There are â great market. Whichever meth..,, nay be also thè^record sheets. When a cow shows soon became uninteresting, it The shepherd having in mind lambing. ! now working for wages and sjilnding Easter lamb production must not for-1 many people who criticise and knock pursued, there are certain principles is milked it only takes a few seconds most of their income to meet the daily was lonesome in the crowds and the more from force of habit, or a bad di- of feeding that should s^rve as a to hang the pail on the spring bal- advantages of city life seemed very get the fact that he is aiming to pro- j bills. duce a delicacy at a time when it is gestion than for the pui’pose of in- guide in compounding a ration, judg- ance, which instantly denotes the A wage of $5.00 per day looks few, but that man never tired of juring their co-operative institutions ment being used in applying them to weight of the milk plus the pail stopping in front of a bird store most difficult to place it on the mar-1 quite large to many farmers and in ket. His object is, to have his lambs ' or their business. Such men need suit individual requirements. All which, of course, has to be deducted addition when that wagq is gruar- where they had day-old chicks, merely to have their attention called fodders are domposed chiefly of pro- before the record is made. Another anteed, it seems to be a doubly fine pigeons and dogs for sale. The in the choicest possible condition at POULTRY to the possible injury which may re- tein, carbohydrates and fat. The feature that should not be overlook- familiar pets which he had owned Easter time. This entails more ex-1 ' of kU Undi. proposition. Righty now, "there are pense in the way of buildings arid sult and they will cut out the destruc- first of these nutrients goes to form ed is the interest it creates in those sohi^farmers w-ho can hardly resist back on the farm were of more in- Better qaaltt,' preferred. tive criticism. the hide, hair, hoofs, horns and mus- engaged in the work, hence better terest than all the diversions'*which ! fçed Jhan spring lamb raising, but Write tor piieee. selling their land, investing the I this extra cost may be overcome by It is always best to think several cle, and also enters largely into the care and more comfort to the cows. money in bonds and hiring out in fac- he had looked fonvard to enjoying in formation of milk. The other two I the handsome returns obtained for OTANFORirS, Limited times before we send forth a criticism In short, we find it a most important tories where their income will be the city, 1S8 ManelleM St. • - Montretl or a knock which wjll hurt. Speak go to produce heat, energy and fat. factor in building up and maintain- . City wages are not large when the j the product- Given a market within guaranteed. They forget the cost 1 reasonable distance, where special well, even of the dog! ^ It has been found by experiment that ing a dairy herd of living in the city. It seems as it cost of living is considered. Some [ To make co-dperative organizations men with special training do very prices may be obtained, Easter lamb it is good business to stick by the production frequently proves a pro- succeed-each must be willing to lay. a shelter; a well protected shed or a, farm in these uncertain times. villi in the city and many men acquire The Higheet Price aside his individual ideas and do aS' , that training from experience but the fitable side line. Unless this special cabin will do, provided it is dry, well The shorter hours of city employ- market is forthcoming it is not ad- the majority! says. He must sur- bedded and that it will house three ment usually appeal to the farmer. farmer who knows the fanning busi- 'render a portion of his individual ness knows a trade that is worth visable to attempt this branch of the is» RAW FURS or four individuals. 2. Give the sows One farmer who became tired of sheep business. to U8, no^atter what quantity. We freedom of action and merge himself The pig that makes a profit for the twelve and fourteen hours on the money to-day and he should try and access to a paddock or barnyard; ar- One of the greatest difficulties to pay the’^'hlghest price,-also express into the group. lie must be willing/' owner must! be strong and thrifty range that they not only can, but farm hired out to work in an automo- work where his skill will do most for charges. to bind himself to a definite contract from the start.^ The number in the the countey. be encountered is the tendency of must, take exercise in order to get bile factory where the men worked most ewes to conceive in the fall of ' and live- up to that agreement even litter and the vigour and sv.e of the ten hours each day. On the farm If a man knows where he is going Try once and you are assured of ; though there may come, a time their food. ' 3. Supply these food re- the year and drop their lambs in the satisfaction'. pigs are features that may be largely quisites:—succulent feeds, roughages, he had worked long hours, but the to land in the city it may be a safe ! when to do so would result in a‘ controlled by the management and adventure. He may succeed and spring. The Dorset Horned ewes mineral requirements and a light work had constantly changed and he are an exception to this rule. Un- ABBEY FUR COMPANY temporary financial loss. Co-opera- feeding of the sow during the gesta- meal ration carefully fed. never became entirely sick of one earn more money than he can obtain 310 8t. Paul W. Montreal, P.Q. tive organizations will, like all others,, on the farm. However, this is a poor like other ewes they will breed ai- al- tion period. In detail, the following ration is •1°'’ finished and anoth- Reference: Bank of Hocbelaga, St. have downs as well as ups. The Try to avoid the use of a “scala- time to speculate anfellow thin. Both conditions in the sire at clover hay, well cured and of the best piece of metal and then he took an- of much more than a living In the city You Can’t Afford for himself and the devil get the hi.od- breeding will likely mean a disap- and it will cost just as much effort For this reason the Dorset ‘fills a quality, fed in racks kept constant- other piece afid made three holes special place as a producer of Easter / to take chances ! ! ! ermost,” must be abandoned as a re- pointing litter,—^thin, weak, unthrif- through that, and so on for three and it may bring a smaller return. lic of pioneer days, and that a definite, ly filled. Meal in the form of bran lambs. Send your ty pigs. The boar should be well and shorts, equal parts, or ground weeks. It was the same job over If you have a good farm home and a optimistic, forward-looking class fed; vigorous and hard from plenty and over. He saw a brother labor- chance to earn $150 a month in the When the lambs are intended solely oats and shorts, equal parts, (parti- for meat purposes, it is not impera- spirit must be fostered. They have of exercise. cularly for the young, sow), 2 to 4 er in the next building was putting city, just take out the little note book learned, for example, that a breeder The sow at breeding time should on wheels and screwing on the hub and the stub pencil. At the top of tive that a Dorset ram be used. A pounds daily. Barley may be used compact, good quality, early mâtur- of Registered, high-class Holstein be in good flesh or, in any case, ris- the list mark $40 for rent. Count RAW cattle does not get anywhere so long also, sparingly. In ' general, avoid i ®®PS' He asked the foreman for ing in condition. Particularly, in the kids in the family and consider 1 ing ram of any of the mutton breeds corn except as one quarter of the a change of work. The foreman re- ! is satisfactory. as he knocks most other Holstein the sow, avoid a too-thin or an over- meal ration or less. Mineral re- plied in substance that the wheel- their appetites. Then note the breeders; that the farmer who runs fat condition. With either of these prices of food stuffs quoted in the I The ewes should be bred by July quirements in the form of ashes, man put on the wheels and the drill 1st to have the lambs approximately down the land of his neighbors never present it is useless to expect a pressmen worked àt their drills, and daily papers. Figure on more FURS sells his own to best advantage; and earth, sods, charcoal, etc. should be four months old at Easter, when they successful litter. Breed the sow as constantly accessible during the win- that they had no time for monkey- clothes for everyone in the family. It that the farmer who refuses to co- late in the period of heat as possible, work and every man stuck to his own takes more in the city. Don’t for- should d^ess from forty to ftfvy ter. Hairless pigs, or those lacking pounds each. Most sheepmen never operate with his neighbors in all for- ' —^with average individuals on the in evidence of bony structure, usual- job and minded his own business or get the laundry bills. . Electric light ward movements for the betterment second day. All evidence points to quit. This man worked on his and gas bills must be paid every wean the lambs but finish them as ly owe such condition to a lack of quickly as possible. A creep should 428 of farming and farm life is an alien the truth of the statement that a mineral requirement in the sow’s ra- drill press until he realized how fine month, also the telephone bill. WTien St. Paul St, enemy to his own'and the best inter- larger litter will result. it was to work in the fresh air and Cousin Bill comes in to speiid a week, be arrangee his own boss and he is now mak- he will need to be entertained. Pos- MONTREAL Boost and the world boosts with two features are of paramount im- In conclusion, pure, fresh, dry air, ing plans to return to the fanning sibly he will bring his family with suitable grain ration may be made of no matter if frosty, never killed or two parts bran, two parts oats, and Beins manufacturer#, and not buying to re- you, Knock and you knock alone.— portance—exercise and conservative business. It is absolutely true that him and theatre tickets are sold for tell wo always assure the fairest gradins and T. B. M. feeding. Over-feeding is, first, \,a harmed a healthy pig accustomed to the monotony of many kinds of farm cash. one part cilcake. Cracked corn and the highest market prices. Quick returns I direct loss of an increasingly valuable it gradually. Warm stuffy, damp- work is nothing compared to the Then make a little allowance for a iittle barley may be added to comfortab e”-quarters have caused ; „ ration as the- lambs learn to eat An Eye on the Future. commodity. Further, such practice doctor bills. Many a man picks up Maggie had a new baby brother, is ruinous to the unborn pigs. Sur- more crippled sows and ruined more. after day without a headaches in the city that he never more fvocly, Some succulent food litters than all other causes combin- ^ shou'd p.’so be supplied liberally to which everybody agreed was such a prising though it may be, more lit- I experienced on the farm. The auto- baby as had never been seen before. ters would seem to be ruined through ed. Be guided accordingly. Mill Farmers live near their work and I mobile which was housed in an old the young lambs as well as the moth- feedsof all kinds are scarce and high-1, ers. A plentiful supply of clean wa- One day the baby was being weighed, over-kindness than from neglect. i shed on the farm will have to use a and Magie asked what that was for, Make three rules in feeding and priced. Fe^ them sparingly, bub f^rth. In our largest Canadian cities, i rented garage in the city. It costs ter .should be placed within easy make the fullest use of roots and read:. Lrrge runs are not demand- “Oh,” said her father. “Uncle caring for the bred sow. 1. Supply a great many of the employes of the I money at every turn to live in a large George has taken a great fancy to clover hay. f:\ctories have to spend an hour go- j city and obtain many of the pleasures ed, but diy, light, clean quarters are Tôdaijr T© essemial for the best success. baby, and he’s offered to buy him for ing to work and an hour going home. that seem to come on a farm for a shilling an ounce.” practically nothing^ Of course, it Very careful managing of the en- To educate without religion is only In the winter when the street cars tire proposition is noce.ssary to make Maggie looked startled. “You’re to produce clever devils.—The Duke are crowded and the windo-ws closed, costs money to live on a fa^'m and it not going to sell him, are you, dad- Raw Furs costs a lot of work to obtain many of it a success. The breeding of ewes 0^ Wellington. J hour going home from work is in early summer, and the wintering WliSrEN dy ?” FOX, COON, SKUNK ^ ^ , J C H>.ue of the hardest and longest hours the things which do not mean an out- We want millions of muskrat, skunk, ; “Of course not, precious,” answered Dustless dusters can be made-by I The time spent be- lay of actual cash. It pays to bal- of very small lambs require consid- coon, mink. opo«i3um, fox,wolf—even rabbit 1. WANTED sprinkling cheesecloth squares with erable skill. Not only is the food skins —and will pay spot cash, highest daddy, proud to see his little giri 1/ween the factory and the home is ance up all of these tilings before prices! Funsten’s reliable gradinjÿrets you loved her brother so. SHIP NOW FOR HIGH PRICES furniture oil and rolling tightly ■)ver seldom considered by the farmer who making any important chaises. The eversT cent of value in your furs. We never night. Promise Impossible prices and then cut “No. , Keep him till he gets a bit thinks about the short hours of city average city man sees all of the good own on the grade. What your furs are bigger,” the child went on, “he’ll fetch We pay Express and Posta^rs. B>emit DAW CIIDQ*hiffhest worth Is what we pay—and wo pay in f ulL WitMn fi4 BOUTS. The Victory Loan total of $676,- workers things about a farm and none of the flnff rU no market prloee for Check sent you within 24 hours. more money- 'then.” Send for Illustrated Booklet and 000,000 is equal to nearly $84.60 for Most good farmers enjoy live stock deti-iments. The average farmer RAW FURÔ «nd GINSENG ROOT Write for Free Shipping Tags and Trap- pers’ Guide,^Market Reports, etc. Price List every man, woman, and child in and like to work with animals. They note* all of the desirable points about S2 year» of reliable trading:. Armanent after this war, if war is city life and sees none of the disad- OLIVER SPANNER & CO. Canada. The per capita, contribution make friends with their cows and Reference—^Union Bk. of Canada. Fans!en Bros. & Co. still a possibility, will need to be to thqlast Liberty Loan w^as $62, and horses and enjoy the presence of the vantages. By balancing these things Write for Price List and Tags IstwnsUonsI Far Bsehancs enormously greater than was any ffaxidenulste 69 2 Fansten Building 26 ELM STREBtv TORONTO! that was considered a wonderful family dog. When such men go to a farmer will see that he should be N. SILVER 9 armament before the war.—Mr. H. G# achievement. the city and find that their little fiat thankful that he has a farm. i ST. LOUIS, MO. Wells. THE NEWS, ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 13, 1918

est to have a Irok at the stock the .Montreal last week, where she in- loc.ll me-ith.nis h.'.vc on hand. They tends spending the winter months. can supplv vour wants as well and as- Mrs. -\rnott Robertson and chil- cheaply as tlu se v, ho acoonunodate dren are visiting friends in Mont- COUNTY NEWS you only when your remittance ac- real. There will also visit with her MARKSON’S companies the order. mother at Cardinal, (!nt., prior to MARKSON’S Maxville leaving for their new home in Moose • law, .Sns’\ Where good goods are A. Markson Where you will get best The many friends are pleased to Dyei cheapest. Bargains. know that Miss Edith McDougall has On the evening of Fridav tiie 20th recovered from her recent serious In- Mr. II. C'raic poid :\iontrea'. a visit inst a grand concert will be given in disposition. recently. the Workman Ilali, here, the.proceeds Customers tell us tliey Every article carries our MÎ.SS K. Villeneuve spent a few days Mrs. Ellen .Etewart who spent of which will yo towards the School like to attend our sales be The War is Over guarantee to give absolute some months with her daughter, Mrs. last week uviih Mo 'so (.'reek friends. Library fund. A prog’-amme of high cau:6 we offer genuine bar- Roe of t'arlet .in Place, has returned Miss Pauline Gagnon, of Moose order is being prepared for the occa- satisfaction. to tow'ii. Creek, Avas a recent guesi of Miss si<*n and a hig attcudance oi the gains. Mr. and Mrs, David I.citch of Agnes VUlenouve. nublic is looked for. Victory Won -- Now Peace Brantford, are at present guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. L, Huell were his mother, Mrs. D. Leitch, Main St. with Montreal friends for a few days. .An interesting and exhaustive art- north. Mr. 1. M. MacRae is at present icle on fittina receptions to ‘‘ Upt- Mrs. .S. Coleman has arrived from visiting fri‘‘nds at .‘^cotstowni, Que. urned .Soldiers” by Glen Robertson England to join her husband, Pte. After spending the sunmier months correspondent is reluctantly held over Samuel Col''man who Is now in the In the West, Mr. Norman McCuaig Jill next issue.—Ed.-News. ConvalcEC.nt Hospital, Toronto. returned here on Saturday. Mr. H. Algnire who had been on the Mrs. Rark of Montreal, was a rec- sick-list is, we are glad to report, ent guest of her sister, Mrs. M. Mac- Lancaster now convalescent. Rae. The glad hand is being extended to Mr. .Mex. D. MacRae paid the Cap- ita] a visit last week. MRS. ANGUS TOBIN. the following soldiers who have, ar- The keen and widespread sorrow rived frQm overseas: Ptes. Henry Mrs. F. MacRae of Maxville spent Leitch, Stanley Ferguson, William Tuesday at Mr. M. MacRae’s. caused by the death on Thursday, Sprott' and Adolphus Filion. Well Mr. a?id Mrs. W. .T. R\iell and fam- the 5th Dec., of one of Lancaster's done boys. ily of Gravel llili. were guests re- pioneer re.sidents, Anne "McPherson, AFTER THE WAR SALE! Remember the N'ew' Year’s enter- centlv at Fairview Farm. relict of the late Anffus Tobin Esq., tainment in the Public Hall, on Wed- Mr. .Mex. M. MacRae transacted was cîoiuent Testvti;rttiiv of the anec- nesday evening. 1st .January, 1919. business in Montreal last week. tionate regard in which that vener- Mrs. Duncan .1. Cameron has as her Among the friends from here w-ho able lady was held' hv the comiinainity guests her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jas. attended the funeral of the late Mrs. at large. Deceased who resided with I). A. Oameron, at îilaxville, were OPENED SATURDAY, NOV. 30th. Oameron and child of Saskatchewan. her son, Mr. D. P. •!. Tobin, was a Mr. Cameron is expected to join themi Mr. and Mrs. M. MacRae, Mr., and daughter of the late Mr. John "Mc- for the holidays. Mrs. G. L, Buell, Mr. and Mrs. .1. PhArs^n. River aux Rais'ms. and had ' .Mr. and Mrs.' Finlay Ro-bertson and M. MacRae ah1 Alex. M. MacRae. attained the ripe a?e of 86 >eirs and Mrs. Ira G. Matjerrison who have ft months. It was in 1854, the year been visiting friends here for some the main line of the Grand Trunk We have all learned many lessons from this great world wide war. One very important one is to economize. weeks, left for their homes in the Apple Hill Railway from Montreal West, was be-, The past four years have brought about many changes in the conditions of all businesses Many bnes of business West on Monday. ing constructed, that the late Mr. ' The following from Moose Creek Miss Myrtle Grant spent several and_Mrs. Toh’n took up the5r resid- are now under great strain caused by the scarcity of material and shortage of labor. Therefore we want you to att^ded the bazaar here on Thurs- days last week with Maxville friemls. ence here, being the first settlers, and remember the great success of our previous sales and that -‘We arc again to the front.” ^.^ayi Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Ross. Miss Mr. R. Mclfu.nig recently spent a their daughter, Mrs. A.'D. "McDoneli Mabel Blair, Mrs. D. D. and Miss few days in Montreal. holds the uninue distinction of being Alice Munroe, Mrs. D. McCulloch and Miss Margaret McDonald, Green- the first child bom in what is now Now is certainly the time to buy all your winter needs. This sale will provide offerings beyond the ordinary Miss Cassie Munroe. field, is the guest of her cousin, Miss i^nown as the viPa'e of T>ancaster. thus the wise buyers who respond early are richly rewarded with extra savings and satisfaction. ■ Meetings in the interest of the Margaret IMcDermid. Deceased was an excellent citizen, Dominion Alliance were conducted by Miss Mary E. McDontpl, Glen Roy, oh^ritahle, honest, industrious and Mr. C. .1, Bell of Toronto, in the Sundayed with her aunt, Mrs. Sam most exemnlary in the practise of Congregational Church, Sunday morn- There are special values, the kind of values that no other store can offer, values indeed even we ccnldnot olh Grant. her I'olv reli Churfh. Apple Hill, took Mrs. .1. Alexander of Alontreal. Am- tyÇïr hall an uii -lua^lfJ€^■- on.g relatives and friends from a dis- Furs. Furs. Furs. 'lloth financially and soeiallv. Thé le- place ;vi mday mornirig, 9tli inst., ÎÎ. Foley P.P. officiating. tance were her son F. -I. Tobin, .jeeipiE were the largest on record Re A. Macdonald P.P., Green- Alexandria, Aiiss .A. B. AlcPherson, The Best are the Cheapest. and the programmes , provider; were of 6ei

XMAS CHOCOLATES. "AÎ » •< For Sale Ostroms drug store has -taken the diristmas Spirit Prevails A Dorkity Organ, good as new,, ter. agency for Lowney’s chocolates and Personals etops and knee swell, t'ost $125— ' n tvednesdeiv of this weeki thcv re- (Continued from page 1) ■will sell cheap—suitable ior house or ceived a large consignment of both Mrs. G. Casgrain of Ottawa, was hall, .yppiv to D. Grav, Alexandria. I. SIMON here over the week end visiting her bui : and boxed goods. This will gua* There need be no hesitation upon ' ■ ■ 47-1. rantc-e .stricilv fmsh chocolates for ur.cie and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. James o'-'crvone fur the holidav season. our part to highly recommend an ear- Mcl’hee. . ly visit to Simon's where their elev- Miss Theodora McDonald of Mont- XMAS GIFTS. enth anmial sale is now in full prog- real, was here over the week end vis- Farm lor Sale ‘ress. It is needless to speak of the iting her mother, Mrs. D. A. McDon- East half lot 22 in thf 7th Lan.-as- IP'-N’T BK A SI.At'KER. gift goods possibilities to be found ald. ter, 100 acres, good buildings—conve- :\V. of .'.lexandrla's enterprising there, tlieir notable lines being dry Messrs D. D. McDonell and Donald niently situated—miles from the ' r.'.crc.-..-r- are advertising in the goods, dress goods, boots and shoes, A. McDonald of Green Valley, were Glen Nevis High Si-hool.—Apply vo News. Don’t be a slacker furs, ready made clothing, and sweat- among the visitors to Ottawa the J. •!. McGrego., INK.2, Dalhousie C'hristmas shopping early. ers. They have tried to secure the early part of the week. Staticn, Que. 47-i. latest and best on the market which Messrs Ewen MeMil'aii and Val. was worth buying. It is up to you | McDonald, of Munroc’s Mills, spent I'-I Memoriam to do the rest. When visiting this I the week end with friends at the well known shop give their lines Capital. For Sale N550. "Giengarry Grocery'’, conducted by Miss Mae McDonald, of Montreal, sive and widely known business is being carried on as usual under able, Appi-. to .1. .A. -lamieson, .Sec. Treas 1). ■). McDonald. By uniform tail was with lier parents, Mr. and Mrs. For Sale i R.R.i.. Glen Saridfield, Ont. 47-3. dealing and close- attention to the Ü. J. McDonald, 1-lig, over the week competent and efficient management as heretofore. He also takes this op- Lot 29—5th Kenyon, 136 acre», situ-] wants of the buying public he has at- end. ate close.to railway station, churches) tained this cnvi.b'e position. Vou Mrs. H. R. Kennedy of Green Val- portunity of thanking one arid all for the very liberal patronage accorded GChools and factories. Apply to Teacher Wanted will find in nis stock anything and ley and Miss Rosaline Kennedy of For S..S. No. 2 Kenyon, Normal everything for the holiday season. Sherbrooke, Que., visited friends in C. G. L'rquhart, on the Farm. Trained Protestant teacher. Salarv His trade in (ianeng’s and Moir’s town yesterday. him in past years and respectfully solicits a continuance of that generous 8S-t.f. $600 per annum.—Duties to cortmienee chocolates is immeense as well as in Mr. M. .Simon of Hamilton who .Tamiary 3. 1919. .Apply to A. D. other lines of c-on-lectionery. spent several days with his father, patronage assuring one and all of that courteous treatment and considera- McMaster. .Sec’y Treas., R.R.I., Dun- .1. A. McMILI-AN Mr. I. Simon and family, received the vegan, Ont. 47-2. may be absent through illness at glad hand from his many friends here. tion to which they are entitled A call at my warerooms will convince the Farm tor 8ale present, but his big business es- The Misses McIntosh, KenyOn St. tablishment, adjoining the Bank ol and Miss F. McGillivray, Ottawa most skeptical and economic buyer that Bast half lot 19-Sth Kenyon con- Annual Meeting Ottawa, is bein,g ably managed and Street, were in Xankleek Hill, on taining 100 acres more or less.—Ap- conducted by Messrs Morris and Ken- Monday attending the funeral of the ply to John A. McLean, R.R,2, The Annual Meeting of the Laggan nedy. If you have any idea of a late Mr. Donald McIntosh. Greenfield. 45^. Dairy .Association will be held Fri- Range for a Christmas present, in- Mrs. A. .J. Macdonell and Mrs. day evening, Dec. 20th, at 7 P.M. vestigate the merits of the lines on Jack Macdonell of Dalhousie Sta- Here is [conomy for You. Every Article a Saver. All patrons are requested to af.e.id. view th»re. Or if it is a question of tion, were the guests of the latteg’s J. GRA.NT, a set of harness where is the harness mother, Mrs. J. McDougall, Cather- 46-2. Sec. Treas. store at all equal to McMillan’s? A ine St., on Monday. ‘ Sale new cutter will be serviceaible as Messrs A. W. McMillan, R. J. Ken- One Holstein Cow, six years old — well as a means of giving pleasure, nedy, 4th Kenyon and D. J. McDon- good milker due to freshen about Wanted your requirements in this line can ald, Glen Robertson, were at the Dec. 20th. For further particulars ap- easily he satisfied at McMillan's. Capital the early part of the week. ply to Angus McCosham, Box 177, " WANTED AT O CE a reliable The clanishneas of the McMillan’s is Word has been received since the ar- R.R.2, Dalhousie Mills Station, Que. man to represent "THE OLD RE- proverbial as next door we found rival of Mr. D. Mulhem at Leth- 40-2. LIABLE FONTHILL NURSERIES’’ .4. W. Mc-MILLAN bridge, that the condition of his in ALEXANDRIA and GLENGAR- Alex. VVillie" as he is favorably j brother, Mr. J. B. Mul-hernv shows RY CO. a splendid opportunity for and familiarly known had no mourn-J some improvement which his friends an enterprising salesman. Write for ful expression in greeting us and lost here trust will continue. For Sale full particulars STONE & WEL- no time in expatiatfng on the merits Miss M. M. Macdonald, Greenfield, LINGTON. TORONTO. ONT. 43-4. of the pianos for which he is agent who returned recently from Ometmee, 1IWTH WELL ESTABLISHED and to bring out the tone of the es- N.D., spent the past week in Corn- BUSINESS. pecial make of gramaphone be is wall with her sister, Rev. Sister Isa- Furniture Repaired taking orders for, we listened with Seven acres best land, good dwell- bella, of the Hotel Dieu, who is indis- ing and barn — FEED GRINDING pleasure to a selection on tlie pipes posed. Geo. Gosling, Piano and Organ tirât brought memories of the old Mr. R. A. Macdonald and his MILL (With good trade). \ mile Tuner, .Alexandria, wishes to spform "Counties Own" celebrated band. Mr. daughter, Miss R. Macdonald, of from G.T.R. Station, Lancaster, one the public that he has opened a Re- Mc.Millan Is offering some of the best Greenfield, were in town on Tuesday. mile from South Lancaster Wharf.— pair .Shop on Main , St., opposite values on- the market in Pianos, .Messrs. .1, P. yfcCualg and Murci’ie Splendid opportunity for right man Cowan's Hardware Store where he is Gramaphone.s, Washing Machines, Campbell of Dalbou-eie .Station, tran- "to start in a well established and prepared to repair or repolish Pia- Churns, Etc-., at easy terms. sacted business here on Wednesday, profitable business. Apply to Joshua nos, Organs and all kinds of Furnit- I). CHARI.EBOLS & CO. Mrr. .1. D. McDonald Highland Chief Thompson or D. P. J. Tobin, Lan- ure equal to new. Bedroom sets re- ,caster, Ont. 46-2. Have a tidy well ordered meat Farm, returned from Montreal on grained in Golden flak, .Ash, Mahog- shop and “Dan's" greeting is always Wednesday where she spent a lew anv or Walnut. Old Rattan furniture a sunny and cordial one. While owing days with her little daughter Marjo- enamelled in. tints, or white and gold, to the limited space at their dispos- rie, who for the past four months These are the days Ave are told to save and we can help you on any Lost picture and mirror Irames regilded. al, the Christmas display at ' the had been undergoing treatment in the Ladies ball room slippers enamelled moment is not .so .-nuch in evidence, Roval Victoria Hospital, and was i Lost an Ayshire Heifer, 18 months to match any costume. nevertheless his old time customers this week removed to the residence article mentioned in our price list beloiv. Early in our experience we fore- old, with split ears. Finder kindly No furniture is too old or shabby appreciate the fact that thier holi- of her aunt, Mrs. Hoey, in that city. notifv Gedeon Bourgeon, St. Isidore, to be repaired. Prices Moderate. day wants are receiving first atten- We are Pleased to -.-lOt -q.i the little saw and prepared for the present situation and consequently are offering 46-2. 47-t.f. tion and for quality and variety will patient is doing nicely. equal any city meat market. values that are exceptional. What Geo. Bougie is to the resid- ents of tlie .south end and vicinity. Mayyvve draw your attenticn to the foIloAving lines arid ask you to J. E. LEDUC CORNWALL LODGE No. 38, B P.O. ELKS General .Merchant, is to those resid- tdilitiDiial lineals study the prices set opposite, prices, AVC confidently state that cannot be Will hold their ing at the slation a-id surrounding district. Starting in on a small OUT OF DANGER. equalled when'quaJity, etc., is taken into consideration. scale, by judicious management, close FIRST,ANNUAL BALL attention to business and possessing Personal messages from Dr. A. IN THE -a suave manner, .Mr. Leduc to-day Ross Alguire, w-ho last week was re- Music Hall, Cornwall has a well esiablisiicd business, carry- ported seriously ill in an English ing at all times a very exten.sive hospital, indicate that he is improv- liomatcliBble Variety of Choice. On New Year’s Eve, Tuesday, December 31 stock of General Merchandise. His ing rapidly. His host of Glengarry store is brimful of good things for friends are sincerely glad to hear the at 9 o’clock. the holiday season and already a good new'S. good Christmas trade is in progress. REFINED CHRISTMAS GIFT. iloparalleleii Range of Prices. Music by Prof- A. R. Brown’s Jazz Orcbestfa, of Montreal. ISAIE BIS.SONNETTE Correspondence Paper always wel- Ball tickets, $2.50 couple (Extra lady 50c.) who conducts a neat grocery store, come makes a quiet and refined Gallery tickets, $1.00.' corner Lochiel and Bishop Sts., has C'hristmas gift tor either ladies or HARNESS—Single harness, solid nickel trimming, .$28 to $30. Stage reserved for ball ticket holders only. also anticipated the demands of this gentlemen. Hundreds of boxes of fan- Team harness, complete, - ■ J50.00. cy note paper at McLelster’s Drug Tickets may be had on application to the Secretary, festive seas-jn and the numerous lines carried by him are now complete as -Store, Prices from 25c to $2.00 per CUTTERS and SLEIGHS—Handy sleighs, $35. Piano box cutters, $65. C. D. PHELAN, Cornwail. well as attractively displayed. box. ( f-: Sloop sleighs, 2^ in. runner, $45. Family driving sloops, $26. JOSEPH DORE GROULX’S JEW'ELLERY .STORE. Grocer, Bishop .St., supplies the Buy your Christmas gifts at Other .styles a.nd makes on view, upon which we are offering similar reductions needs oi that neighborhood and has a Groulx’s .Jewellery store where you number ol attractive lines on dis- pay for actual value not for appear- play and well deserves a call at this ance. .As I purpose looking up a new seasoa- place for the spring and wish to re- - -And now we have come to the end duce my present heavy stock to a Stoves and Ranges of our tether. The journey, though minimum I w-ill sell the several com- somewhat long, and in its'narrative plete Hues of watches, jew'ellery, Here We Are! entailing considerable -writing, yet rings, etc. at prices that will defy -4s sole represeriiative in this district for the Messrs. Findlay Bros., Carleton the work has been one of pleasure, competition. While it has berai my the more so, if it will be the means rule in th.; past to base my prices on Place, manufacturers of Stoves and Eanges, and having last spring laid in an entire fiating on our feef again. of bringing prominently belore the strict value, cut prices will prevail thousands of readers of Glengarry’s for this holiday season. If you wish carload, we find ourselves somewhat overstocked ar.d to clear will dispose of those Home Paper, the enterprise and ad- to avoid paying a price and a half vancement of our merchants general- for an article call on me and remem- on hand at'the fcdlowing prices ; ly- ber that I have a complete stock to As a last word may we remind our select from, the best that money can Our ttev/ stock of readers there are only nine more buy. F. Groulx, .lewellcr. Commer- shopping (lays. cial Block, .Alexandria. .Adv. It pays to shop in the morning. The Arkland Favorite, $liO. The Capitol Favorite, $651 Hardware The store is not crowded and their \ large assortment of Xmas pape- is room to move about in a leisdure- teries, cards, toilet articles, brushes, Just came in and our assortment of Shelf and Heavy Hardware ly manner and make ones selections combs and mirrors are on sale at Os- The Victor Fevorite, $70.00, with care and deliberation. The light troms drug store. The selection is is just as good as it ever was- i T O? is better, the salespeople are not tir- the best thei we have seen for a num- Owing to limited floor space in cur Furniture Department, ed and have ample time to give you ber of years. The above ranges have many satisfied customers in Glengarry and in many their whole attention. Shopping in HA.S NEW mSTRES.S. we are only carrying in stock for the present the morning pays even if it inconven- The Teddy Bear donated by Miss instances we have teen congratulated upe.n having the agency for this line which it iences you a little. Prepare for AfcCiillls of .New York, that attract- Beds, Springs and Mattresses Christmas now, the first real Christe ed so much attention and for the pos- is claimed has saved c’ollars and dollars worth of fuel. mas in four vears. ' session of which there was such keen Which we are selling at special prices competition at the recent sale under See our lines of Automobiles, Electric Lighting Plants, Gaso- up to the auspices of the Soldiers’ Comfort Club, has a new mistress. Miss Sheila Dalhousie Mills .VfcMillan, daughter of Mr. John A. line Engines, Milking Machines, Cream Separators, Agricultural DECEMBER 31st, 1918 McMillan ex-M.P. being the 1-ucky .MRS. F. H. BEAUCHAMP winner at the drawing which was Implements, Pumps and Piping, the more so if you contemplate —— It is our sad duty this week to re- held at Hector’s on Saturday even- cord the death <>f an old and most ing. installing any of same. respected resident of this place in the DIES IN SCOT! 1. T oys T oy s person of Mrs. P. H. Beauchamp who X Gunner Thomas Wims, son of Mr. Our expert who has had vast experience, is ready to advise and passed away on the 3rd inst. Deceas- and Mrs. P. I. Wims, of Belleville, ed was a victim of rheumatism for a Ont., and a nephew of our esteemed when requested to install if nece-ssary. Just arrived a rush shipment cf Toys- Will open it up number of years and for the past six townsman, Mr. .lames Kerr, Insur- first part of next week—good assortment. Good service- Right months had been confined to her ance .Agent, died recently at the 3rd room. The funeral on Thursday, 5th .Scottish Hospi a', Glasgow, from May we hope to serve you ? ' prices. Buy early. At the request of our customers, goods inst.. to St. Martin of Tours Church, broncho-pneumonia, following an at- bought early can be stored and delivered later on- ^ Glen Robertson, was a large and re- tack of influenza. Gunner Wims en- presentative one. To the bereaved listed with the 79th Battery at Mont- husband and family we extend our real, being previous to enlistment in sincerest svmpath--. the office of the Canada Cement Com- ., j pany. Upon arrival in the Old Coun- ' try he was transferred to the 4th C'HRIS'IM.AS C.-VRDS. : Division Trench Mortar Unit. This I J. A. McMillan D. CourvUlc C'hristmas cards and booklets In young soldier was a general favorite endle.fS varie'.y, :o suit every taste, | with all who knew him, had a fine The big, bright store Alexandria some nice topper plates, quiet and cheery disposition and manly charac- I M3in Street, Alexandria. refined. Lock them over at McLeis- j ter. Great sympathy will be felt for • ••••••ji*#*********.* ••******* ************* ter’s Drug St

GREAT BRiïAIN DEMANDS I PILAND TO YIELD TO ALLIES’ SPECIAL ORDER $40,000,000,000 REPARATION FOR'WAR I DEMAND FOR EX-KAISER’S PERSON TO CANADIANS Dutch !,cgal Authority Declares Wilhelm Entered Country Under SIR ARTHUR CURRIE ISSUES Cos<: the British Empire That Amount—Germany to Pay False Pretence—Holds Hun Responsible For Outrages. * _ $2,000,000,000 Yearly Until Claim is Satisfied. STATEMENT TO TROOPS j Amsterdam, Dec. 8.—Dutch public i pixsenoe as soon as possible, is that A despatch from Ix>ndon says— Tne British claim, says the Daily I opinion concerning the disposition of ■ many persons in Germany have not Premier Lloyd George has announced Mail, has been prepared by a com- I the ex-Kaiser has been roused at last yet abandoned the hope of restoring Asks His Soldiers to Maintain Their r (ittee^nder Mr. Hughes; the Austra- a demand from Gennany of £8,000,- by the Inter-Allied Conference in Lon- ] the Imperial power, Glorious Record ^While Occupy- l an Premier, and Baron Cunliiffe. j don. The Dutch are now fully ex- | “It would not be surprising if 000,000 sterling on behalf of Great i. rmer governor of the Bank of Eng- I peeling an allied demand for his ex- tiîese people entertain relations with ing German Territory. Britain and her Dominions as repara- land, who is one of the principal m.'^m- tradition. ^ Germans in^ Holland,” the article Sir Arthur Currie has issued the tion for the war. This, according to bci’A of the committee. It adds thkt I Dr. Louis Isr.aele, a distinguished concludes. “Consequently, as long following special order of the day to the Daily Mail, is what the war cost it is expected the report will be pub- legal authority, in an article on the as the Kaiser is in Holland, the the Canadian troops forming part ol Great Britain and her Dominions, and lis^^ed Saturday. subject in the Amsterdam Telegraaf, germs of a political plot are ex- I the army of occupation: British taxpayers will be relieved of The Daily Mail says the French points out that the ex-Kaiser did not istent.” I “Some of you have already com- £400,000,000 per annum by the Ger- claim for reparation will be infinitely, come to ^Holland as a private person, London, Dec. 8.—If the allies in- . menced; while others are about to 4nan payment. large?- than that of Great Britain. arguing that the text of the abdica- sist on the delivery of the former j march on the Rhine, liberating Bel- CHEERING THEIR DELIVERKKS—School hoys In Ostend, orphaned dur- 1 tion, particularly his appeal to the German Emperor and Crown Priiice I gium in your advance. In a few days ing the four years of German occupation, demonstrate under the leadership I German people, to which he affixed to an international court of justice I you will enter Germany and hold- MANY LANGUAGES of their teacher. Similar scenes have been witne.ssed in .all the delivered the imperial signature and seals, “con- Holland will yield, but will first '.certain parts in order to ^secure the MESSAGE towns. stitute an imperial action on Dutch urge that the allies content them- j fulfilment of the terms of the soil, irreconcilable with the acts of a selves with an undertaking by Hol- j armistice preliminary to the peace TO BRITISH WOMEN AT PEACE TABLE private person.” land to intern them for life in one ; treaty. The rulers of Germany, hum- 5,622 BRITISH Dr. Israele’s conclusion is that since of the Dutch colonies, according to . iliated and demoralized, have fled, CANADA’S WAR the ex-Kaiser came'to Holland under an Amsterdam despatch to the Ex- j That unscrupulous nation, who in i914 Her Majesty Calls on Women of Diversity of Races Will be Pre- false pretences and since Holland thus press. I set at naught every treaty and violat- Empire to Work For Good sent at Versailles Conference. SHIPS SUNK BILL $1,290,000,000 received him under false premises, Holland, it is understood, will sug- j ed every moral obligation, who has- A despatch from Paris says:— “the Dutch Government is freed from gest that Herr Hohenzollem and his , since perpetrated the most ferocious" of Country, the slightest obligation to protect son be placed on an island in either i atrocities on land as well as on sea, Translators in 23 languages, includ 2,475 of These Sent to Bottom A despatch fi’om Ottawa says:— ing Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, and Dominion’s Expenditure Esti-1 him.' the East or West Indies, where he will I is beaten, famished, and at your The following message from her some not even so well known, have With Their Crews Beneath mated to March 31, 1919— I The Nieuws Van Den Dag says it be guarded by a Dutch fleet. I mercy. Justice has come. Retribution Majesty the Queen to the women of been called for by Brig.-General Them, \f A 4-1 I f I holds the opinion that the former It is also anticipated that Holland , commences. During four long years, the-Empire has been received by his y More Outlay Later. | German Emperor is responsible for will be asked for compensation for : conscious of the righteousness of your William W. Harts, who is directing A despatch '^from London says:— Excellency the Governor-General: the equipment of the American peace ^Ottawa, Dec. 8.—The Minister of i the apts of his troops in Belgium permitting a violation, of her neutral- ■ caus,e, you have fought many battles “A few months ^go, at the height During the war 2,475 British ships Finance has forwarded to Sir Robert j and France, for the ruthless sub- ity by allowing German troops to pass I and endured cruel hardships and now . delegates. The number required is were sunk with their creWs beneath of our anxiety and strain, I sent a I indicative of the diversity , of the Borden full particulars as to the I marine warfare and the aerial bomb- through the Province of Lumburg on I your mighty efforts are rewarded. message in the na'me of the women them, and 3,147 vessels were sunk war expenditure of Canada and as to j t)ardmefits of open towns, and that, their retreat from Belgium and re- , Your comrades are avenged. You ! races and countries before the Peace and their crews left adrift, accord- of onr lands to our men fighting for the annual pension burden which will j consequently, no Dutch Govern ceiving Cierman ships from Antwerp. I have demonstrated on the battlefield j Conference, either through participa- ing to a statement by Sir Eric Ged- Us across the seas. Now, in an hour tion in the war or by reason of result from the war. The total ex- ment with common sense would j This compensation, says the corres- I your superior courage and unfaltering of thankfulness and hope, I should des, First Lord of the Admiralty, in penditure of Canada is estimated at allow Holland to be involved-in war pondent, may possibly be the cession energy. ; treaties or other relations. an address in support of a fund by like to give a message to the women I The full list of languages $1,068,000,000 to November 30. To or have her food supply endangered of certain teiTitory along the Belgian No Relaxation of Discipline. of the Empire. During the wav they com- the jvomen of the Empire to erect a by reason of acts of friendliness frontier owned by Holland since 1839, I prises French, Itailan, Greek, Japa- March 31 next, it is estimated at By the will of God yoù have won, have been given the high privilege memorial to British merchant sea- $1,290,000,000. toward the former monarch. perhaps the southern part of Dutch I nese, Spanish, Montenegrin, Nw- men. Fishing vessels to the num- Another reason, the newspaper marching triumphantly through Bel- of service; they have risen to the wegian, Bulgarian, German, To this estimate should be added Limburg, the population of which re- great opportunity, and have proved Hun ber of 670 had been lost during the says, why Holland should be re- gion is claimed to be principally Bel- gium. You will be received every- ; garian, Turkish< Chinese, Portuguese the amount of war outlay which will where as liberators, but the kindness their courage, steadfastness and abil- period of hostilities, and thq mer- be incurred after March 31, 1919, lieved of William Hohenzollem’s gian. : Polish, Swedish, Persian, Russian, chant marine service had suffered and generosity of the population must ity. I have been allowed to watch which may exceed $300,000,000. The , Serbian, Armenian, Czech, Rumanian, casualties exceeding 15,000 men, Sir not cause any relaxation of your dis;- and app'reciate their work in many 1 Danish and Arabic. This, With p^sion load is estimated $30,000,000 WAvelil ! tons, 30c; in cases, 30%c; clear part.i of the country, and my heart Eric added. cipline or alertness. Your task is : English, makes the quota 24. per year and probably more. Canada’s lIlaFKClS 01 iDC If OllU i bellies, 28 to 2814c; fat backs, 26c. not yet completed and . you must re- Is full of admiration and gratitude net debt at March 31, 1914, was $866,- Lard—Pure, tierces, 31 to 31 ^c;' for what I have seen. I The knowledge of the languages I tubs, 31U to 32c; pails, 31 to 32^c;j main what you are—a closely knitted I possessed by translators mùst be 000,000# The net debt to March 31, Breadstiiffs [prints, 32Vè to 38c. Shortening, army in grim and deadly earaest. “Ï earnestly trust that though the j complete in order to get the precise 1919, is estimated at $1,500,000,000. thrill and glamor of wai; is over, the BRITISH WARSHIP Toronto, Dec. 10.—Manitoba wheat tierces, 25^ to 25%c; tubs, 25 to German agents scattered through the j meaning of treaties and documents, In addition to the above, Canada 26c; pails, 26 to 2614c; 1-lb. prints,] country must not be able to report to spirit of self-sacrifice and helpfulness I and not the ordinary speaking knowl- , willMl haveT. large1 claims1 • forJ? indirect• J- i —No. 1 Northern $2.24t^;No. 3 Northern,No. 2 27 to 27V2C. I which it has kindled wdll not wane in their masters any weakness or e"vi- ! edge. SUNK BY MINE consequential damage a.s well asjj2.17M;; No. 4 wheat, $2.11>/4, in dence of disintegration of your fight- the coming days. A new era is dawn- those occurrirfg out of the raids of'store Fort William, not including tax. Montreal Markets I ing Upon the w'orld, bringing with it ! The first effort will be directed at ^ . Manitoba oats—No. 2 C.W., 80^c; ing power. It is essential that on obtaining translators from a4nong Struck a Mine in Baltic—Eleven German submarines upon Canadian Montreal, Dec. 10.—Oats—Extra | the. march and at halt discipline many difficuTties, fresh responsibil- cbllege men or army men, and should fishing vessels. The final advertis- No. 3 G.W., 77Vàe; extra No. 1 feed No. 1 feed, (T2^/^e. Flour—New stan-' must be of the higljest standard. ities and serious problems to be faced. these be lacking others from various of Crew Perish. ing for claims of this latter character 77VsC' extra No. 1 feed, 77ysc;^ No. dard grade, $11.25 to $11.85. Rolled Every possible protection should be Parliament has -secured for the whole is now being done by the Secretary 1 feed, 76%c, in store Fort William. oats—Bags, 90 lbs. $4.85 to $6.00.' civilian occupations will be taken. A despatch from London says— Bran, $37.25. Shorts, $42.25. taken at all times to guard against country greater opportunities of more of State. ‘ , American corn—No. 2 yellow, hostile acts by organized bodies and thorough and varied education, but Eleven men are missing as a result $1.70; No. 3 yellow, $1.66; No. 4 Mouillie, $68.00- to $70.00. Hay—' of the British warship Cassandra com- yellow, $1.60; sample corn, feed, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $25.00 to to lessen the possibility always pres- it will depend upon the parents BRITISH TROOPS IN COLOGNE, ent of isolated murders or desperate whether these opportunities are used ing in contact with a mine in the $1.40 to $1.55 track Toronto. $26.00. Cheese—^Finest easterns,! PEACE PARLEY TO Baltic Sea last Wednesday night, ac- FIELD MARSHAL HAIG REPORTS Ontario oats, new crop—No. 2 24 to 25c. Butter—Choicest cream-j guerilla acts by factions. To the to the full. white, 75 to 78c; No. 3 .white, 74 to enemy, above all, it is of capital im- “We all rejoice that plans are afoot cording to an official communication ery, 61 to 52c. Eggs—Selècted, 65c; | LAST UNTIL MAY issued by the Admiralty. Torpedo- London, Dec. 8.—Field Marshal 77c, according to freights outside. No. 1 stock, 50c. Potatoes—Per portance to establish in Germany the for bringing to an end the.^ existence Haig, dn his official report Saturday Ontario wheat—No. 1 Winter, per bag, car lots, $1.70 to $1.75. Dress-! sense of your overwhelming moral of such bad and crowded housing as boat destroyers rescued the remain- der of the crew. The text of the Ad- night on the movements of the Brit- car lot, $2.14 to $2.22; No. 2, do., ed hogs—Abattoir killed, $24.50 to* and physical standing so as to com- makes home life ‘ almost impossible. Conference Will Open the First ish army in Germany, says: “Cologne $2.11.to $2.19; No. 3 do., $2.07 to $25.00. Lard—Pure, wood pails, 20] miralty statement says: $2.15; No. 1 Spring, $2.09 to $2.17; plete by the presence of your poten- To-day more than ever the Empire was entered la.st night by our ad- lbs net, 31 to 32^c. | tial strength the victories you have needs her daughters, for, in the larg- Week in January. “The British warship Cassandra No. 2 Spring, $2.06 to $2.14; No. 3 struck a mine in thé Baltic just be- vâneed troops.” A Cologne despatch Spring, $2.02 to $2.10, f.o.b., ship- Live Stock Markets j won on the battlefield. All external er world of public and industrial A despatch from Paris says—The in Friday's Rhenisch Westphalian signs of discipline must be insisted work, .women are daiiy taking a Inter-Allied Conference will reas- fore midnight Wednesday, and sank at ping points, according to freights. Toronto, Dec. 10.—Choice heavy • 1 a.m. Thursday. Eleven men are Gazette of Essen says that Cologne Peas—No. 2, $2.00. steers, $13.50 to $14.00; butchers’ upon and the example in this as in move important place. semble on December 16 or 17. The has been presenting a strange spec- Barley—Malting, new crop. $1.00 all else must come from the leaders. "As we have been united in all our meetings will be at the Foreign Office missing. Presumably they were kil- cattle, cnoice, $11.50 to $12.00; do. led by the explosion. tacle recently. Large numbers of dis- to $1.06, according to freights out- good, $10.75 to $11.25; do. medium, work, whether of hea-d or hands, in a in the Quai d’Orsay, and not at Ver- charged soldiers, youths and even side. $9.25 to $9.50; do, common, $7.75 to Justice, Right and Decency. reai sisterhood of suffering and ser- sailles. David Lloyd George, the “The remainder of the officers and Buckwheat—No, 2, $1.40. crew were saved by our destroyers.” school children, stimulated by offers $8.00; bulls, choice, $10.25 to $11.00; “Clothing and equipment must be, vice during the war, let us go on British Premier, and A. J. Balfour, Rye—No. 2, $1.58, nominal. do. medium bulls, $8.76 to $9.25; do, of rewards for saying guns for the Manitoba flour—Old crop, war if possible, spotless, well kept and working together with the same unity the Foreign Minister, expect to come GERMANY’S COLONIES Entente troops, or by getting the rough bulls, $7.50 to $8.00; butchers’ of purpose for the resettlement and here at that time to meet President quality, $11.35, Toronto. cows, choice, $10.25 to $11.00; do, well put on. Badges and distinguish- WANT BRITISH RULE artillery pieces to the right bank of Ontario flour—War quality, old good, $9.25 to $9.60; do. medium, ing marks must be complete, while reconstruction of our country. Wilson and attend the conferertce, but crop, $10.25, in bags, Montreal and “(Signed) Mary R.’^ the elections in Great Britain may the Rhine, were harnessing them- $8.00 to $8.25; do. common, $7.00 the transport should be ; as clean as A despatch from London says— selves to gun carriages bearing guns Toronto, prompt shipment. to $7.75; Stockers, $7.76 to $10.60; the circumstances will allow. In not permit them to remain more than Natives of Germany’s colonies want Millfeed—Car lots, delivered Mont two or three days. and dragging them to safety. feeders, $10.25 to $11.25; short, you must continue to be and RUSSIA TURNS BACK to come under British rule, said Wal- Bran, 35 ^5 5^. „,nkers, good 'to appear to be that powerful force 1,500,000 PRISONERS The opening of the Peace Congress ter Hume Long, Sec^ of State for $3^25 per ton; shorts, $42.25 per ton.; (.jjoice, $90.00 to $160.00; do. com. is sèt for the^rst week tn January. CANADA KEPT BRITAIN Hay—No. 1, $22.00 to $24.00 per $65.00 to $75.00; spring- which has won the fear and respect the Colonies, speaking at Westminster IN BUTTER TWO MONTHS of your foes and the admiration of The first meetings will be for the ton: mixed, $20.00 to $21.00 per ers, $90.00 to $160.00; light ewes, h despatch from London says—The on Thursday night. ton, track Toronto. the world. It is not necessary to say Russian Government has refused to actual framing of the preliminaries “Our representatives at the Peace $9.50 to $10.50; yearlings, $13.00 to of peace with the representatives of A despatch from Ottawa says—The Straw—Car lots, 1.00 to $10.50, $13.50; spring lambs, $13.50 to : that the population and private pro- admit 1,500,000 Russian soldiers who Conference should s^ that the case dairy industry throughout Canada track Toronto. $14.75; calves, good to choice, $15.00 ' perty will be respected. You will al- have been "prisoners in Germany and the enemy powers who will be pres- fo.’ our retention of those colonies is ent. will rejoice to learn, says a Food to $17.50; hogs, fed and watered, I v;ays remember that you fought for has turned them back to the frontier, put forward in full strength. It will Board statement, that its patriotic Country Produce—Wholesale $18.25; do. weighed off cars, $18.50. 1 justice, right and decency, that you according to a Berlin despatch to the The names of the French delegates be a gross injustice to our great Do- to the Peace Congi’ess have not as service, rendered in the recent supply Eggs—No. 1 storage, 53 to 54c; Montreal, Dec. 10.—Steers, $7.00 I cannot afford to fall short of these Express under date of Monday. The ni'nions to tell them that these colo- of butter for export to Great Britain selected, storage, 53 to 55c; cartons, to $11.00; butchers’ cows, $7.00 to essentials, even in the country incident is serious for Germany be- yet been announced, but it is under- $10.00; grass calves, $5.00 to $7.00; stood they will be three members of nies, which, in a large measure, they to meet a pressing emergency there, new-laid, 70 to 75c. Butter— against which you have every right to cause of the necessity of feeding these conquered by their blood and valor, has met with the most cordial ap- Creamery solid-s, 51 to 63c; do., I milk-fed stock, $14.00 to $16.00. feel bitter. the Government, and possibly a fourth prints, 63 to 55c; choice dairy prints, men. . member. The British delegates will be are to pass under the control of any- preciation from the British authori- “Rest assured that the crimes It is repotted that the ^Russian body but the Empire to which they 46 to 47c; ordinary dairy prints, 38 Premier Lloyd George, Foreign Min- ties and the people generally. TRANSYLVANIA PROCLAIMS of Germany will receive adequate prisoners have seized four ships at belong.’ It is entirely due to Canada that to 40c; bakers’, 30 to 3ac; oleomar- HER UNION AVITH RUMANIA punishment. Attempts will be Danzig, West Prussia, which the Brit- ister Balfour, Chancellor of the Ex- garine (best grade), 84 to 35c. chequer Andrew Bonar Law, (leorge the British butter ration, small Cheese—New, large, 27 to 27%c; made by insidious propaganda to ish Red Cross had obtained from the BRITISH DELEGATES though it v/as, was maintained m twins, 27 to 27^/4c; spring made, Berne, Dec. 8.—The National undermine. the source of your Gennans for the purpose^of housing Nicoll Barnes, Labor niember of the AT WILHELMSHAVEN War Cabinet, and a fifth delegate not the last two months of war. large, 27 to 27%c; twins, 27 to 28c. Rumanian Council of Transylvania strength, but you, the soldier citizens British prisoners. Comb Honey—Choice, 16 oz., $4.60 has proclaimed union with the King- of the finest and most advanced demo- yet selected. It is anticipated that A despatch from London says—The the peace deliberations will last about Conscription in Europe to $5.0() per dozen; 12 oz., $3.50 to dom of Rumania. Rumanian flags cracy in the world, will treat such AGREEMENT IS EXPECTED British battleship Hercules, with a $4.00 per dozen. \ are flying everywhere and great en- attempts with the contempt they de- ON TWO MAIN QUESTIONS four months, and, unless unforeseen naval delegation aboard^ escorted by May be Abolished by Congress Maple Syrup—In 5-gal. tins. $3.25. obstacles arise, that final action will thusiasm is manifest. serve. You know that self-imposed, five torpedo-boat destroyers, arrived stern discipline has made you the be reached toward early part of May. V A despatch from Dundee says:— Provisions—Wholesale A despatch from London says— -i in Jahde Bay Thursday, says a des- hardest, most successful and cleanest patch to the Exchange Telegraph The British representatives at the Barrelled Meats—Pickled pork, 15,053,786 GROSS TONS Two questions, understood to be en- ' SUNK BY SUBMARINES fighters of this war. Beginning by gaging the minds of the Premiers Crow n Prince Renounces ^ > from Copenhagen. Peace Conference \\dll demand gen- $48; mess pork, $47. the immortal stand at the second bat- especially are the freedom of the seas Succession to German Throne Jahde Bay is the port of the Ger- eral and absolute abolition of con- Green Meats—Out of pickle, Ic scription throughout Europe. less than smoked. A despatch from London says:— tle of Ypres'^ou befittingly closed by on which they expect to anrive at an man naval station at Wilhelmshaven. the capture of Mons your fighting A despatch from Paris says— O . Smoked Meats—Rolls, 32 to 33c; The world’s total losses of merchant agreement for presentation at Ver- hams, medium, 28 t o29c; heavy, 3() record, in which every battle you sailles, and Italy's claims on the Adri- Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm has No Longer Enjoy Immunity TRIAL OF FUGITIVE KAISER tonnage from the beginning of the to 31c; cooked hams, 51 to 52c* backs, war to the end of October, 1918, by fought is a resplendent page of glory. atic, affecting the new Jugo-Slav renounced his right to the Gorman Under Laws of Prussia TO BE HELD AT VERSAILLES plain, 46 to 47c; backs, boneless, 50 I trust you and the memory of your State, on which an understanding throne. to 52c. Breakfast bacon, 42 to 47c. enemy actions and marine risk was dead comrades demands of you to safeguarding Italy’s position without A despatch received in Basle from A despatch from Berlin says—-The London, Dec. 8.—Reynold’s news- Cottage rolls 36 to 36c. 15,053,786 gross tons, according bring back that glorious record, pure compromising the Jugo-Slavs’ terri- the semi-official Wolff Bureau quotes Prussian Government has formally paper claims that it has information Dry Salted Meats—Long clears, in official announcement. and unsullied to Canada.” torial and ethnological rights is being the Crown Prince in renouncing the withdrawn the privilege heretofore that the trial of the fugitive Kaiser. worked out. throne as having said: held by the members of the Hohen- William Hohenzollem, will be held at “I renounce formally and definitely zollern fàmily of immunity from law. BRITISH FORCES ARE Versailles. ENEMY KINGS WILL BE NEARING COLOGNE ORDERED TO RAISE HATS all rights to the crown of Prussia and TO BRITISH TROOPS the imperial crown which would have fallen to me by the renunciation of TRIED BY ALUED COURTS A despatch from London says—The the Emperor-King or for otlier official report from Field Marshal Amsterdam, Dec. 8.—^The British Haig on the movements of the army authorities in charge of the occupa- reasons. “Given by my authority and signed The Former Rulers of Bulgaria, Austria and Turkey Will Be of occupation issued by the War Of- tfen iiu-the German zone assigned to Brought to Justice as Well as the Hohenzollerns. fice on Friday night says: British army have ordered all the by my hand. Done at Wieringen, De- cember 1, 1918. “Our troops yesterday continued G^rmaè men to raise their hats to “(Signed) A despatch from London says: — ties upon OUI' prisoners and upon the their march toward Cologne and the Briti§h officers, according to an of- Sir Auckland Geddes, President of the .^ivilian inhabitants of the invaded Rhine. In the evening they had reach- ficial announcement in Berlin. They “FREDERICK WILHELM.” Local Government Board and Minis- lands,” he continued, “must stand trial the line Blankenheim, east of must do similarly when the British ter of National Service, in a public ad- and if they are condemned must suf- Schleiden, the River Erft, to south of National Anthem Is sung, the an- GERMANY HANDS TO~ALLIES dress, said that the line of policy ad- fer death.” Grevenbruic'h.” nouncement adds. 300,0(10,000 FRANCS IN GOT.D vocated by the Coalition Government It had to be proved how far the was a peace which, so far as the commanders of submarines acted un- Canadian Army Saddle Horse GERMANY’S FIRST PAYMENT A despatch from Paris says-^Tlie enemy powers were concerned, should j der orders, which they had to carry Brings $1,600 in London TO THE ARMY OF OCCUPATION Germans have begun restitutions. be based on stern justice, and so far ! out under pain of death, of how far They have delivered to the allies as those men who planned and started I they acted on their own volition, he A despatch from London says— A despatch from Amsterdam says: 300.000. 000the francs war weregold, concerned,which came should be ! pointed out, but if the atrocities at Canadian army horses brought satis- —The 'Çusseldorf Nachrichteu, a from the Russian treasury. The founded on justice of the nature I sea were committed on the volition of factory returns at a sale here. Tlie copy of which has been received here, Frepch have recovered a rich collec- meted out in the highest courts of the I individual commanders, he declared, Canadian animals brought double the cays Gen. Nudant, president of the tion of art works by Quentin. Delatur. land. Such men as the former Ger- j they, too, must suffer the extreme price paid for New Zealand animals. French ai-mistlce commission at Spa, a famous etcher, stolen from St. man Emperor, Enver Pasha and the i penalty. The Canadian teams were well match- has presented a note to the German Quentin, and paintings by Antoine former imlers of Bulgaria and Aus- 1 “To-day is the day of reckoning for ed and pn*oomcd and were at the top commiaeion demanding for the first Watteau, taken from the museum at tria, would be placed on trial and if ! our enemies,” said the Minister, “and of the London market. A pair of month for the British troops of oc- Valenciennes. The value of the re- ALLIES OF THE SEAS I iiti-'b. FreufJi suîd American sailors celebrating found guilly their lives would be for- j they will have to pay to the uttermost geldings was sold to a London cartage cupation 40,000,000 marks, and for turned masterpieces is estimated at the defeat of the Gernmns by ; liiüe parti at Ostend. The dog is an impor- feited. I farthing w’hat it is possible to bring company for $1,500, while a Western the French troops 64,000,000 marks. 2.000. tant member of the0 party. 00.000 francs.“Men guilty of unspeakable atroci- J cut of them.” saddle horse sold for $1,600. THE NEWS, ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 13, 1918

thicknesses; overcast roughly through Hoinemade Ornaments for both thicknesses at the sides and the foot, and through one thickness at a A Famous Wheat Grower tlie Christmas free time at the top. For the lantern urnament cut a rlAT Western 0&aa4ft c»& pro- If the ornaments for tlie Christmas piece of paper seven inches by four. dues best irhoftt ot this oo&* Fold it lengthwise through the cen- Uneut U oacfi mors dsmocstrat. tree are made at home, each child ed by the fàet ihât st the Int«rnar can have a share in the fun, and so , tre; with the scissors slash from the ! centre fold to withlng one-half inch of ^11 Prr»duota Exposition at feel a personal interest in the evork. City the other day, the sweep- It is well to decide on a general col- the edges. Open the fold, and paste stake prise for the beet half bushel or sclicme and keep to it. Red and the short ed..ei togeti.cr; paste a of hard spring wheat—a $500.00 sil- s> gold make a brilliant combination , strip half an inen wii'.c liy live inches ver cup—was awarded to a Western rod and silver are pleasing; gold and long at opposite top side's for a han- dle. Canadian farmer» Soaker Wheeler, of silver are always good, and so are Hoethern, Saskatchewan. This Is the ^^4 the pastel shades ot pink, bine, green third time that Mr. Wheeler has won and la'.ender when combined with the premier prize, one of the most gold and silver. coveted amongst wheatgrowers the Take, for example. the red-and- : Little Gekes tor the iiofiilBys whole continent over, at this exposi- gold combination: the tree can be tion. He was awaked the sweep- Now that The Fo^'d• Administration stakes prize for wheat at the expo- hung with garlands of red tissue pa- sition at Witchita, Kansas, in 1914, per, w'heel ch.i.ins of red or gold pa- has incr«aied the sugar allowance, •and again at Denver, Colorado, in per, ring garlands of cold paper and simple and ec 'nomical cai.es like the 1915. Wheat frprizes. of paper, cormidopiaS'made of gold kinds of ca’.e that c^ii he made fr^m In addition to the foregoing and to a paper with a transparent covering of crdinaiy cake ami cooky tnixtures and kkrge number of ribbons, <^ups and v.'.re(i tarlatan, banners ol red cartridge irom common cake and crackers com- gold prizes at minor events, it was Every housewife knows and paper .ornamented with tiny gold bined wi.tb' fruit pas^e or other sim- he, who in 1911 won the thousand dol- stars, gold paper panners ornan ented ple jriling. Any kind of dried or can- lar gold prize donated by Lord dreads the old-time wash- with red (ihristmas seals, little boxes died fruit c n be used to make a Shaughnessy, President of the Cana- day, with its worry, its day- / of gold and red paper, filled with paste. A good combination is one of dian Pacific Railway, at New York hememade candy—a'1 can be hung raisins, ûLS. conserved chi-rries and Land Show, for the best bushel of long rubbing, its exposure to heat and steam and cold. But— from the tree with gold cord or red choice primrs mixed in ei^ual parts, milling wheat grown anywhere in the mercerized floss. ' , chopped in a food chopper, and after- two Americas. ' In every case Mr wheeler has exhibited Marquis wheat, The red-and-gold combination sug- wards moist:n?d and flavored with a 66 little oran,.,e iiiice.' Flacked away in a vkriety that produces In very heavy gests possibilities for othercolor yield, and matures somewhat earlier combinations. Garlands of pop corn jars, the mixture wiir remain fresh It’s All Right’’ and soft. than other varieties. It was perfect- in deep pink and white are very dec- ed a few years ago by.Prc^essor S. A. SPEC I^A>VARI> erative. Pine cones can be silvered ; I Another good paste requires two Bedford, of Brandon Experimental when you use Comfort Soap. It cleanses the clothes icicles can he made from silver paper , thirds cupful of granulated sugar, Farm, and Dr. William Saunders, of Mernifional Soil'ProducfsEx|ui5iriH or from paper of pastel shades. t two teaspoonfuls of cocoa, one leivel Ottawa, after several years of experl- KANSAS errv. MO. ^ honestly, heartily and harmlessly—it saves time and rub- , làblespoonfui of butter and two ta- mentalizatioa to obtain the best vari. DIRECTIONS FOR M.\KINO OR- llBvT BUSHEL HAHD SPUING tUfesr NAMENTS. blespoonfuls of cornstarch. Stir the ety suited to Western Canada. The P..SCNTCD my bing. Try it Rnd heuve a brighter, cleaner, easier wash-day. Pop corn, cranberries and all gar- ingredients to ,ether and let them'boil prorinoes of Manitoba, Saokatehewan fl'anedian PaciFic Kailwa|,. lands should be strung on linen for'.ten minutes. If this pastels and Albwta oontaln 4fid,0 PUGSLEY, DINGMAN & CO.. LIMITED, TORONTO „ 23 Gilded or silvered pine cones, acorns, firm, jelly-like consistency. If you are hi^wdaos fanning land. Only cultlTated eonstituttng th« r«*) *laat chestnut burs, and nuts of various v.dsh, the cocoa can be left out in about were actually under beat weat” of the costtnent. kinds in the shell can be hung by red cooking and nut meats, cucoanut and mercerized floss. If there is any trou- fruits added after the filling has been ble in tying the floss round a nut, a removed from the fire. GRAMAPHONE RECORDS. drop of sealing wax will hold it! Le non 1 dy fingers are excellent for place a tall, pink bonbon encircled by candied violets. Have you received the latest catal- COMFORT SOAP The delicate-pointed icicles are serving with’ afternoon or chocol- ogue of "Victor Gramaphone Records? made from twenty-inch lengths ol ate. They are made by spreading Cherry squarts are attractive and If not, let Ostrom’s Drug Store have paper, half an inch wide, wound in a lemon butter between lady fingers. To economical. They are made from left- your name and one will te sent post- tight conical spiral and bound at the make the lemon butter, put one quar- over loaf cake cut into one-inch cubes paid at once. Place your orders for fop with red floss. ter cupful of butter and three-quar- , and heated for a short time in a hot any special records eirly and they ter cupful of su.gar into a double boil- \ oven. When the cubes are crisp en- PROBING MEAT PRICES. i KING WINTER HERE. his return to Toroii-co Friday, tion,i The chain garlands are made Irom will guarantee delivery in time for Heads of the big packing coiripan- Western Ontario trip. "The statemeal strips of paper three quarters of an er. .^dd the srated rind of cne lem- ough, dip them into icing or melted Christmas. Something like winter has prevailed inch wide and four and one half in- on and the strained .juice of two lem- chocolate and ornament each -;vith a ies, ■with other leaders in the . food since ti e c..min,g of WIecember. The to the contrary made by some news ches long pasted or sewed to form ons with three be.tten eggs, aJid stir fresh or a candied cherry. industry in ( hicago and the nation, ground is while with snow but the papers in reporting the recent Wfo- links, each one of which is slipped the mixture ovi^r the fire until it Only simple ingreaients are needed will be inviieq to tei! the ITnitied cover,ng is a thin one, and there is a I nipeg convention was incorrect; there through the preceding one before it Is thickens. That filling, which can be for cinnamon flats. Sift together nine States district attorney, and prob- general wish for mere snow. was only a recommiendation to that pasted. ] tinted pink or green with pure cake heaping eablespoonfuls of flour, 2 ta- ably a federal Grand Jury later, Farmers oi Ontario May l'et Have effect. The farmers of Ontario have colorine. is enially gfot when useOO through the fingers of the left hand of each an oysier cracker dipped in AVING labor in stable and to JANES KERR, ALEXANDRIA, ONT. 8.45 p.m. S also agent for Cheese Factory Supplies TTOTAU A&SET& — »l30A>OOiOOiO to crush it .gently. With needle and ic-ng. or an almond. Cap the whole home, by the use of machinery, 10.04 p.m. Sunday cmly. linen thread, stinz the circles through with a cand ei cherry. Another ‘Tire- is one of the great economic phone No. 82 Ottawa 11.50 p.m. the crushed and doubled sides. The less'’ receipt produces cinderellas. A problems engaging the atten- East bound—iG.20 a.m. cailv. Ar- garlands are extremely efîective in cinderella is merelv a plebeian ginger- rive Montrsdl 12.15 p.m. 4.52 p.m. MUTUAL CONHDENCE FOSTERS SUCCESS red, and are also pretty in the delic- snao changed ma'icTlv into a fancy tion of farmers to-day. Through the ate shades. use of machinery they can produce dally. Arrive Montreal 6.55 p.m. Mutual confidence Is essential between two partie* cake bv means of d»te paste mixed For all particulars apply to if the be.st results are to be obtained from tbeii The stars are made irom six-and- with chî-rries and nuts. even more, at less cost, than in years G. W. SHEPHERD, business relations. one-half-inch squares of paper. Fold To make hidden treasure ^cakes, past, tvhen labor was plentiful, anc and crease a square diagonally each '■ Agent. Many businesses have been assisted to success bake any ^rnod cake mixture in tiny tolerably cheap. WiCTORY because the firms or individuals took the bank ■way. Open it again, and fold it in two moulds, and when the cakes are cold oblong sections; then fold if again, td Probably never before in tha his- ^ BONDS into their fullest confidence and profited by the cut off the tons of them, scrape out tory of the farming world have sn advice obtained. form small squares. With the scissors the centres and fold in a filling of A BIG DRIVE slit the small squares on the folds to many farm problems been solved by Highest prices paid. In your business transactions you would be well small squares. With the scissors slit ch^^rr -;^nd-»iut iemg. Penlace the tops advised to consult our local manager. He will be and cf'ver them with plain icing. a single piece of machinery as has All issues. For stenographers. For the past year glad to help you with his counsel, 207 the small squares on the tolds to Flowering nlmonds are made from now been accomplished by the gaso- the Civil Service Commission has ■within an inch and a half of the thft same foundation as the treasure line engine. In the stable it can be Consult us before buying or been scouring the Country for com- centre point. Open the folded paper, petent stenographers. On' Feb. 18th, cakes and ?re baked in the same employed to advantage in grinding selling elsewhere* UNION BANK OF CANADA turn back the uncut sides of each every branch of the Service was plac- HEAD OFFICE W/INNIPEa MAN. shane. They are treited differently, feed for the stock. It can cut féed and small square to the centre diagonal however, by being dipped into green ed under the Commission wl’ich means crease to form a point. Since the Icing and decor^^ted on top with ensilage. It can pump water for th«=> Investment Securities Co. that the dennands are now doubled. Alexandria Branch - - J. E. J. Aston, Mgr. star is to le hung from the tree, blanched almonds arranged round a house and stable whenever one paste a small square of paper ot the 22 College Street Dalhousie Stn. Branch >■ P. W. St. Louis, Mgr. same color on the exposed back, and nink c^ndv cenir*'. ‘^till another var- pleases; a hydrant on the lawn, and Gowlln; Business Colieie also put a small holly paster in the iation of That cake tm^na-ration is in the stock yards to which a hose TORONTO, - ONT. St. Polycarpe Branch - L. P. St. Amour, Act. centre of the front for strength as December roses. Ba^e P e mixture may be attached for washing the OTTAf*A in Small cem pan«. Hollow out the bugsy. sprinkling the lawn, flushing well as for decojatlve purposes. little cakes, cove-r the shells with pens and stable and for other pur- Makes a specjalty of preparing, can- For a five-pointed star, cut five pink icing, and in th° centre of each poses. is f source of much satisfac- didates lor these exaujinations. Start three-and-one-half-inch squares of pa- tion, pleasure and comfort. OTTAWA NOW and be ready for the Fpll per; fold and crease them one ■way By means of a line shaft a gas Round Up. Ou'r sebod is epen all ESTABLISHED 1874 diagonally; open them out fiat. From engine may operate many labor-sav- summer. one creased corner measure two in- ing machines at the same lime, it ches alo-ng each of the two adjoining can run the grindstone, root pulper, W. E, Gowling, Pies. 95 BRANCHES iN CANADA sides. From these points fold the Strong Men fanning mill, cronn. separator, churn, H. W. Braithwaite, Prir. two remaining sides into the diagon- The Nation needs strong sheep shearers, hprse clippers, rotary WINTER FAIR Capital Paid up ..... $4,000,000 al, crease. You now have one point ; curry-comb and the milking machine, tfe co-mpleted five can be laid one men and the right time to with which it is possible to milk two upon another and pasted together. cows in about six minues, including Howick Hall, Ottawa Monej to Loan Rest $4,750,000 The cornucopia is mà'de from an begin to huUd up strong man- the time required for changing and' WHEN YOU WANT A LOAN setting. Further assistance may be eight-inch square of gold paper and a hood is during the groiving GIVE ME A CALL. I AM IN A seveminch square of red tarlatan. had by attaching the power for re- ■ ■' t , I , J Perforate the paper and the tarlatan period of childhood. Many frigeration and i r circulating milk Jaii’y 14,15,<1B, 1/, 1J10 POSITION TO 'GIVE .“iPECIAL •quare where they overlap to lorm mothers remember, with keen over a cooling surface—a practical i TERMS (‘F PAYMENT TO PEJ',- BOARD OF DIRECTORS ,'#e horn. I.ace them Avith threads ol necessity. ; ROWERS. : HAVE ALSO CONSl- alored raffia, sweet grass or (loss. satisfaction, the days when No longer need the preparation <^f $16,000.00 John B. Fraser,’_Vice-Preis whitewash and ITS application 'viih a ^ DERABLE PP.IVATE .MONEY AV- Hon. George Biyson, Pre.ç. The litfle boxes are made from brush be consigned to warmer re- AILABLE. ANGVS MCDO.NALD, squares of paper. For the low, flat In Cash Prizes. Bussell Blackburn Alexander, MacLaren gions, for the engine can punip the ALEXANDRIA, t-t.f.- box cut a six-inch square; fold over mixture from a tank or barrel ■ Sir-George Burn Hon. M. J. O’Brierr each side one inch. Open the paper, SCOTTS through a hose attached to a spray- pinch the corners together to form a ing outfit. It is possible to pump Excellent classification for all clas- Sir Henry K. Egan Hon. Sir^Geo. H. Pertey ses of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Wanted box, make small perforations where it two hundred feet. W^hen the' job Hon George Gordon E. C. Whitney they .join, and tie the corners With is done the hose should be cleaned Poultry and Seeds. f F*n»iers and ’others to get my raflia or floss. EMULSION out by having fresli water pumped Large Harness Horse Classes. I priCM on Renfrew Kerosene Engines, s I For the high box cut a nine-inch through it. was one of the determining Renfrew Cream Separator», Renfrew GENERAL MANAGER ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER square. ^Fold each point toward its The gasoline engine solves for the Pure Bred Stallion Sale. Scales, Gilson Gasoline Engines, Gil- opposite ro:nt, leaving three inches factors in building up the strength, farmer the problems of comfort in ♦»he house, safety in the stables, and For P.aihvay rates see local agents. son l^lo Silos, Gilson Ensilage Cut- D. M, Fin-nie. H. V. Cann. from point to point and three inches of their children. SooH^S is a ters, Oilson Threshers, Tractors, Cir- from psint to fold—lhat is, dividing a great deal of drudgery generally.— source of nourishment and strength *^rof. John Evans, 0. A. Coi)ei>- Apply to iLe .Secretary for Prize cular Saws, Drag Saws, Grinder», W. DLTHIE, CHIEF INSPECTOR it about into thirds. Next, fold back uuelpn. lisU. Belting, Maple Leal Evaporators and each point to its side told. Open the that ought never be over- Tanks and Buckets, Galvanised Rool- ——— ,1 paper and crease through the centre looked by the mother of W. D. ..l.ACE.SON, Secretary, Ing, Stoves and Ranges, Pump Jacks, Items accepted for at right angles. Pinch the paper in- today who is anxious about , Carp, ^nt. Besttf’s Pumps, Litter Carrier», »ta- ward on these creases to form com- 'ble and bam equipment. COLLECTION ers, and paste firmly. i her fast-growing boy or girl. ‘'W.wrSMITH'llTp'ffpTCs.';' 1 For the tarlatan stocking cut two Scx'tt Ik Bowot. Toraito, Ost. Subscribe to The^News L,5., Columbus, Ont. r Mep^NALD, on any point in Canada, United, Sta^s or, ejaewhgTR. 1» U THE NEWS, ALEXANDRIA, DEC- 13, 19.8

] Spread the butter eveiily over the , parison which sort of tree would you woraer. c>iit on the salt, fold over be? Are you living a life that is ar- Farm, Buttermaking the butter, and w'erk, by using only ' tificial, of are you being your own gentle ,.ie sure. Other metnods, suen ] best self? Are you mi^'ng an ap- BELLA MILLAR as a sliding or cutting movement, in- • pearance that is all “put on,” or do jure the texture of the* outter. I others know you tor be ■what you I 11 t e DUtter is too bard or too 'seem? Are the things that your Simon’s Eleventh A. dairy instructor once said “But- the flavors, but more labor Is involv- soft, give but a small amount or friends praise you for ykiur oryn ■ or riaaWng beghis la the stable, but it ed. wording, put the butter in a suitable another's that you have borrowed for pocs ii>t t-nd until the finished prod- Place the can of cream is a vessel place until it is of proper firmness, the occasion ? 'When yoiir short day uct regiches the table of tl« consum- of hot wafer on the stove. Bring the then finish the working. is done will you be forgotten or will er. ’ Kealiaing the truth'of that cream to a temperature of 145 deg', 'I'he salt snould be evenly distribut- you leave the world fi'cher than it . . ANNUAL . . statement,. cure should be exercised in to 150 deg. F. Hold it at that tem- ed, otherwise the uniter will be un- was? tVill the distance of the separ- everv sbsi) of 4he work and the dairy- perature for twenty minutes, then SAr,TING 1.S THE CHURN. ating years lend enchantment to the ■laii's' watchword " Cleanliness ” cool rapidly to 60 deg. or 65 deg,, Haie the b. tter in an even 1-ayet A'ision that f l e . world has kept of one should :ift adopted. and add a culture to ripen the cream. over the bottom of the churn. Silt ; who lived not for praise hut for the In any line of worx it is necessary Cream fro ■m cows that have been over it one-half the amount of salt ' harvest time of a useful life? to have !ïood raw material in order a long time in milk is sometimes dif- required, tip the churn forward to to. jjjca.o "a ii^st-claas article. In the ficult to chum and can be rendereii cause the butter to lap over. Sift manufacture of butter, if the raw churiiable by means of pasteurizat- on some more of the salt Up the material, the milk, does not receive ion. B.id flavors are, to a certain ex- churn bac-iward to cause the butter , tent, eliminated by this treatment. The Hospital for Sick Giiiidrefl proper c.>.rrt, the niost skilful maker to fall over, then add the remainder TORONTO cannot ,ic,:duce the best quality of È .S'Ometimes cream held at a low of the salt. Tip the churn back and i temperature develops a bitter flavor. War Laid Heavy Hand on Children's FIFTEEN DRY SALE butter. wrth a few times, then put on the Charity. “Prevention is better than cure," The trouble may be kept in check by lid, and give a iew revolutions, very I keeping the cream at a higher tem- sloiviy. * Dear Mr. Editor; — thus every eSort should he made to I perature to encourage the develop- The annual report of the Hoepttar Continues until December 31st, 1918 If possible, allow the butter to keep dust and dirt of the milk pall. I ment of the lactic acid bacteria, lor Sick Children, Toronto, marks s •ks soon as possible after milking, re- stand 'or an hour or two before new record, despite the Iiea'ry handi- which cause the souring; or, pasteur- working. If this plan cannot be fol- »ove the milk from the stable and ization may, be reported to. cap the war placed nj^n its work. train it through a strainer that Is lowed, it may be worked immediat- The task ot ministering to the snf- Cream w'hen ready for churning ely. The amount of salt required can erfectly clean and sufficiently fine to should have a pleasant acid taste and fering youngster* ot this province was srevent tiny particles '.eing carried he estimated irom previous churn- no light one In view of the Hospital's We are Leaders. When we make sales and reduce smell. It should he smiooth and glos- ings. Use a little more salt than dirou^, sy and periectly tree irom lumps. splendid response to the national call ,CREAM[N<5- THE MILK. when salting on the worker, as more 25 doctors and 43 nurses from its the’eost of living—we force other stores to join in, but W6 Cream should not be allowed to be- drains oS. forces have seen service overseas.. CreStm. sep.^rators are very largely come over-ripe before churning. If for used In .our farms to-day, and have PKINTI.SG AND PACKING BUT- Yet the nuihber of-patients treated deserve your patronage first. many advantages over the gravity any reason a churning Is put oS for is 6,048, or 1,308 more than last rear. a day, thé development of acid can TER. qrstem of creaming milk. However, All butter packages should be put Of these In-patlents, 769 were from be checked by lowering the temperat- 266 places emtside of Toronto. ■oihe stilt u.se shallow pans and deep ure o{ the cream. up neatly and attractively. The one OMIS for creaming purposes. pound brick print is the style most The tireless efforts of the staff We save you actual money during these sales. Remember we guarantee every Shallow r ins. There will be an excessive loss of made j^oeslble also a redaction tn the fat in the buttermilk if swett cream used. It lis filkd by pressing the average length of stay necessary tor ffheii using shallow pans, the milk is added to the ripened cream, just be- printer down into the butter, then the little patients from 24 days In article in oar store to give absolute satisfaction and every article is reduced ia price Aould' he -strained into the pans as fore churning. cutting ofi the surplus butter with a 1914 to 14 this year. •ooin hd possible after milking, and ladle. The prints should weigh 16J- These resnlts show that the Hos- Those piinted below are only a few of the many bargains in store for you. The balance of •Hi^ ha aa-iwed to stand perfectly ‘ Although a mild-flavored butter is in deraiand, only a limited amount of oz. nheji made. pital has again pal<* to the children our sale will be devoted especially to Men’s and Women’s High Class Ready to Wear Clothing stni in a pure air, free from draughts sweet-cream butter is required for ,The parchn;ent paper should be of rich dividends of health upon the In- «t a temperature of about 50 deg. to the Ontario markets at the present good quality, of proper size, and vested kindness of its srfpporters. arid Furs as well as all other departnients. Don’t fail to attend this sale. M'deg: P.'for 21 to 18 hours. time. Those catering to this trade should be dipped m cold water be- There has been careful stewardship Remove the cream while sweet by should cool the cream and chum at fore wrapping it on the butter. of the funds entrusted -to the Hospital. first loosening the cream Irom the the temperature that ' will give an On the average farm It requires There has been saving—almost scrimp- pans ^y ni^ns of a piWn-bladed knife; exhaustive churning. more than one churning to fill a large ing—^in every direction except where We take farm produce in exchange, same as cash. then ' tip the pan and allow just butter package, therefore great care it would prevent the Hospital’s sooth- CHURNING. , « ing the suffering or"shortenlng the enough skim milk to run oyer to wet On many thermometers at 62 deg. should be taken in order that the ■the tin biîto.ce gliding the layer of flavor, color, and salt shall be uni- sickness of one child. The dally cost We will give special prices for dressed poultry. the word "Churning” is printed. If of operation was held at the lowest cream into the cream can. the manufacturers placed it there as form throughout the tub box or Beep Setting System. crock. Line tubs and . boxes with point which s-oulJ still allow the The day is past for the use of the a guide, many have mistaken it for a children entrusted to the Hospital to rule. heavy parchment paper. Crocks should get the best medicine' and the best of clMdlow ,p.«n system for creaming be well glazed, having no breaks or milk. If yi)u have not -a separator, There is no standard temperature care. for churning, as conditons vary and cracks. And yet so jiigh has risen tne cost of then the deep setting system. As large pac'aâges are often held every Item in the HoepItaTs budget—In When using' this method^ tlie cans of many things should be taken into Get your share of these Bargains to day consideration; for example, low for some time, endeavor to make the labor. In fuel, in fpod, and, above all, milk sho iid be plac-cd in ooLd water best quality of butter, for packing. In medical sopplles—rthat the mlnl- '■tiot kept it a temperature of 15 deg.churning temperatures may be used when we have sncIi conditions as rich Pasteurizing the cream, and washing Sinm expense of taking care of one READ THESE FEW NEW PRICES: F.j or lower, for 21 to 38 hours. By and working the butter twice are child for one day has risen from p2J4 His- system ice is Tequired, unless the cream, not too much in the churn, back In 1914 to 23.21% tn 1918. Ot succulent feed, and cows fresh In means that may be employed in the Space will not permit the printing of them all. water ha :ctd enough to cool the manufacture of butter for packing, i that, $1.66%—the amount per patient milk to, and maintain it at, 15 deg. milk. per day that the .official Government The place of storage is important, I 18 only. young, men’s finest • worsted the sale $59.00. ' while creaming. If the cans are Choose the temperature that will grants do not cover—must come from brng the butter in nice, firm gran- and should be clean, cool, and of ' and t-vieed suits, hand tailored, reg- Men’s fur lined coats, black Beaver .ot‘prbyided with taps at the bot- even temiierature. voluntary contributions. flrjf Goflils, Oress EDods ular $35, sale price $26.75. shell. Otter collar, reg. $65.00, now ow, a coneshaped dipper should 5 be ules in from 21) to 30 minutes. During the past four years debts .A range of temper.itures that will Protect the packages in transit were Incurred to the extent $100,- 20 men's .'suus, balance of our ear- tor $37.50. ised for removing the cream. Loosen Dress Goods, All wool fast Colors, ly Fall stock, in Greys and Browns, Men’s Siberian BuSdlo Coats, reg. jhe cream frotn the can v/ith à knife. cover most farm conditions would be from sun, dust, and rain, 000, which the Trustees felt assured in all shades : —54 to' 58 deg. F. in summer, and j The object should be to get the would be wiped out by the publie as regular $25.00, $30.00 and $35.00, to $50.00, now $36.75. ,, Dip the , ïkiiiïti-.e: in skim milk or I butter to tie consumer in the best Regular price $4.00 j^r yd. for $2.95. clear at $21.75 per suit. A big stock of Ladies Marmot and '■water, tU'er. lower it, point first, into 56 to 64 deg. in winter. soon as the war drew to Its close, and .Always strain the cream into the ooudition possible. those heavy demands eease which Regular price $3.00 per yd. lor $2.15. Men’s Overcoats In heavy all wool Muskrat Jackets, Fur Stoles, Muffs, the can, and allow the cream to flow Regular price $2.85 per yd. for $1.83. Caps, etc., at below factory prices evenly into it. churn, u-sing a perforated tin strainer THE CARE OF THE DAIRV have been made upoo the generosity tweeds, Chincillas, Irish Freizes and, . . dipper. • The sniail w'r.lte specks some- UTE.sBILS of the loyal people of this provtoee. 34-36 wide Striped Flannelette, Whitney C'lothe.s, all styles. Regular today. The loss oE rat in the skim, milk by times seen in butter are caused by Dairy tinware should be rinsed in The time has now e‘6me when it Is ne- worth 35c, 4 yds. for 98o Prices $35, $40, Sale Price $27.75.1 gravity cr-vr.'.ming. even uii'ler the best particles of curd which sh-ould not lul:e-v arm water, the be washed in cessary to make known the Hoapttal’S Fast Color Prints, regular price Regular Price Overcoats, $28.50 andl conditions, is much greater than have been in the cream and would hot water coiitiining a little wash- dire need of ftnanetal assistance. 35c, Sale Price 22?c per yd. $30.00, Sale Price $23.75. • jdien cearjr,.’uga[ force by means of a not have been in the churn if a ing soda, using a brush on both the If this 43rd Chrlstmi» appeal tall» 500 yds. Fancy Curtain Muslins, *®eacn separator, is appilei. to rally the friends of this Charity fc regular price 40 to 50c per yd. Sale A lew odd lines of last year’s stock' -strain'.'! had l.e n us-ed. These part- inside and outside. : e-t, .scald thor- Us support, It will be necessary » to cleat at only $18.75 per garment. | Bgots, Shoes S Bobhers ■ CREAMSSPARATORO. icles injure botli the appearance and ! ougiUy with boilfag wat-cr, -and place Price 20c. jThe surroundings 'Oî ■! sepa-'j tor, as mortgage Its land, gildings and plant. Ladies Pjbhed Underwear, regular Boys’ and Children’s Overcoats and] keepin.g quality e.f the butt'ir. where t'ney will, drain and dry. .Sun- By the bounty of the late John Boss Suits, III “all srze.5 and styles, the [ Men's $8 and $9 shoes, all leather», <■•1 ai pll .ts partSj sh.oui’1 he kept j shine and .fresh air are beneficial. price 65c per garment, lor only 45c all styles, for $0.25 per pair. j In iar:n dairies the barrel churn is Robertson that properly has Just been per garment. \ ery 'nest of woollens, at Factory ; lus'ed :md having it about one-third I The churn s’aould be scalded with cleared of debt for the first time stnee Cost Price to-day. J We can save you Men's $7 and $7.50 shoeS( all l^Ath. tmmiiifiateiv i fier ■ separati'ag, the ■ ii.ll 'A ill make th'.' work easier. .A boiling -,vat r, then curded with cold It began Its ratnlstry of healing merey. Ladies Ribbed Underwear, Regular big money in clothing. ers and all styles for only $3.8f pH ;ea,ni shcal-d be aîiov. ei tc cool ■great many of the long ci'.uraings are v.'ater ! eiore using. .After using, re- Little children have lost a ofr price 90c for 65c- pair. .. Bickty d,t laoit 5S deg. bet .'re adding caused by h,’.' ng too m'ach cream in , move particles of butter with hot hearted friend, and the provioeê » Ladies Heayy Fleece lined under- Women's $7.50 and' $8.00 fine shoes, it to the criam can. the churn. .Vn-other cause of long '.vater. Wash with i'.ot water that noble benefactor. It Is for the puhHe wear, Regular price $1.50 per gar- for only $6.15 per pair, all leather», The bre-im .sh-oiiid iie of su-ch a rich- Krurning is having th'i cream too contains a little washing S')da, then to decide whether his life-work WM ment, for 90c. all styles. ness th-jit 'Tiun .1 to 3.1 lbs. of butter cold. If after churning about thirty sc.ald with boiling -waterl Leave the be shadowed with a mortga» writhm Ladies and Boy’s Heavy Ribbed all Women’s $6.00 shoes lor $4.55. can ' he‘n.. - ; from, . of minutes, th-ire is no sfgn of butter lid off when ;.ot in use. less than a year of hts passing. Wool Stockings, Regular $1.50 per Gents’ Fitrnisliinss Women’s $4.00 shoes for $2.95. cream shccM coatam from 25 to 3') cotaing. raise fee temperature of the The butter wor'ner, iadle, and prin- What think yon? pair, for 90c. Men’s Tan Leather fi’op Snag Proof .per cent. .i;t»r fat. This cm be re- cream ,a few degress. Takei the cream ter .should be scalded with hot water, Send your answer »s soon as no#- A btg range ot Corsets, Gloves, Men’s fine , Mocha Mitts, regular Lumbermen’s Rubbers, Red Rubber glda.ted by the .screw on the secarat- from the churn, place the' e-àn in a scoured with salt, and cooled with slble to the Secretary-Treasurer Ho#- Blouses, Sweaters, Hosiery, Ribbons, price ii2.s0, sale price $1.95. Sole, Regular Price $4.50, Sale Price tr bowl. vessel of watfu water and stir the cold water loeiore using. .After using, pltal for Sick Children, College Street, Laces, Etc., to ie sold at factory Men’s fine Mocha Gloves, regular $3.63 per pair. Ta.king a rich- cream .’or buttec- Toronto. Meanwhile the Charity wifl cost prices. price $2.50, sale price $1.95. cream until the required temperature ' remove aiu- butter with hot water, “Carry on.” trusting fn your support Men’s Black Leather Top Snag Proof 'making ni-tp,ns ie.ss tabor, lower churn- i.s reached. ' scour with .salt, and .scaid with boil- Ladies’ 21.50 White Coutile Corset, Men's fine Mocha Gloves, regular Lumbermen’s Kubbeys, Regular Price ing temperatures, and less loss in the ing -water. Place tl.e woodenware » IRVING B. ROBERTSON, tor only 95c. piTce $2.2.5, sale jirice $1.63. $4.00, Sale Price $l95. •buttermilk.. With very thin cream it Is difficult Chairman of Apneal Committe# Men’s Worljing Mitts genuine horse- to gather the butter and it mav be where it will dry, but do not put it Ladies’ $1.85 White Coutile Corset, Men’s Low Lacfed Gum Rubber», CARE'Aîiï R-IPElNCr OF CREAM. in the sun, or it will -warp --.nd crack. for only $1.25. hide, wool lined, regular price $2.50, hecessaty to draw off part of the sale price $1.90. eyelet, solid heel. Regular Price, This cream can . should be large buttermil'a and continue the work, re- Ladies’ $2.50 White Coutile Corset, $3.25, Sale Price $2.40 j)er pair. ! enough to hold the creajm tor one lor only $1.75. Men’s Working Mitts genuine mules- Boys’ Leather Top Snag Proof volving the churn slowly. kin, wool lined, regular price $1.85, cbiemafg m’l should be provided with If the butter breaks and will not T OF REVISION 6 lbs Each, Grey Woolen Blankets, Rubbers, sizes 1-5, Regular $ 3.29, • cover, reg. $5.00, sale price $4.10. sale price $1.45! Sale Price $2.65 per pair. gather, 'out remains about the size of ilossofli Hjiii liilsel Men’s pull over working mitts, A simple and cheap cream stirrer clover seed, take the temperature of 7 lbs Each, Grey Woolen Blankets, Boys’ Low Laced Rubbers, sizes 1-8, consists o; 4. saucer-shaped piece of In the store window at holiday TOWNSHIP OF LANCASTER. reg. $6.00, sale price 24.75. horsehide, regular $2.50, sale price Regular $2.75, Sale Price $2.10 pet the contents ol tie chum, add a $1.90. tin about fcliree Inches in' diameter quart or two of water a few degrees time there is an evergreen tree cov- Notice is hereby given that a Court pair. WijHi a ifmg handle of heayy ' iron warmer, revolve the churn a few ered with shining bits oi tin, colored will be held pursuant to the Ontario Men’s ^pull over working mitts, Men’s Fine Plain Over Rubber», (tinned') ifastened to the centre of it. tinses, let it stand à minute or two, paper, sparkling dust on snowy cot- Voters’ Lists Act bv His Honor the horsehide, regular $2.50, sale price Regular Price $1.55, sale price $1.19 .ŸPhien qotiectmg cream for a churn- then dca woff part oi the diluted but- ton, candies and other decorations. Junior Judge of the County Court $1.90. per pair. ing, cat6:^h'>iild be fcakén to keep it termilk, and continue the churning. Over it the electric lights play, draw- ot the United Counties of Stormont, Ladies’ Neadj-to-wear Men’s pull over working mitts, Women’s Fine Plain Over Rubber», te. a elèaàii 'cool place, and to stir it li a rich cream thickens during the ing the eyes of the people who pass Dundas and Glengarry, at the Public horsehide, regular price $1.85, sale Regular Price $1.10, Sale Price 89c ..ilwTDUghly lïora the bottom of the process of churning and concussion along the street. Gro-wn folk as well Library, Lancaster Tuesday, the UTth price $1.4.5. per pair. ♦an ,every rime, fresh..eeatn.is added. ceases, add enough water at the same as children admire the tree and praise day of December,'1918, at 5 o’clock Department Men's pull over working mitts, Boys’ Fine Rubbers, sizes 1-5, Spl# ' CREAM RIPENING. ' temperature to dilute it so that it its sparkling finery. ' P, Mf to hear and determine com- Muleskin, regular price $1.10, sale Price 90c. Üàbuxal Ripening, j , A week later you may be passing plaints of errors and omissions In 50 Ladies Costume Suits, regular price 65c. will drop again. values $20, $25, $30, 1916 model, for Girls’ Rubbers, size 11-2, Sale Prie# -tn farm biitterotabing, cceata Is Difficult churnings ate caused m a along the alley behind the store. the Voters' l.ist of the Municipality Men’s all wool tweed work shirts, 70c. ■■rcry,otten ripened naturally, that is, There are on the ash heap lies the of the Township ot Lancaster, for only $7.50. regular price $2.50, sale price $1.65. number of ways but can be avoided it A few 1916 model Ladles All Wool Child’s Rubbers, size 4-10, Sal# «0 Toulburs'’ or -''starter” is added,, a little thought is given to the ques- mafgnificent tree of the show win- 1918. Men’s Linen Collars, regular price Price 60c. fcut the latio acid bacteria present in Overcoats, regular $25, $30, tor onl 25c, sale price 19c. tion. dow, but how bedraggled and desol- Dated at North Lancaster, the 5th $7.50 each. All Women’s, Misses’ and Children’» the cream at* allowed to develop. When the granules of butter are ate it is now’ The candles are bum- day ol December, 1918. Men’s Fine Cambric Shirts, regular Boots, Shoes and Rubbers at corres- This meithod- ' may be used, if the $35.00 Ladies Tweed or Chincilla about one-half the size of wheat ed out; the wax smears the foliage ; ARCHIBALD J. MACDONALD, price $2.00, $2..50 for only $1.45. pondingly Low Prices. flavor is satisfactory, the tinsel is spoiled; the cotton with Overcoats, this year's latest styles, Men’s Fine Cambric Shirts, regular grains, add a couple of quarts 'of 16-2, Clerk. düpamng 6y Using Cultures. water several degrees colder than the its sparkling dust Is cover^ with for only $21.00. price $1.85 for only $1.20f 'A..ypulbure may be obtained irom the temperature oi the cream and con- ashes and dirt. Its day of glory has $40.00 Ladies Tweed or Chincilla Men’s Heavy Grey Coat Sweaters, 6aoîetiol6g;-cal tlepartment at the tinue churning until the granules are passed swiftly; It is now counted as Overcoats, this year’s latest styles, regular $2.50 value, for only $1.45. ffollege, or irom a d'atry supply house the size of wheat grains, when the worthless, and its beauty, a thing of lor onl'v $27.50. Men’s Heavy Ribbed Wool Under- Groceries and diieoi'i-u.s ior its propagation churning as a rule Is completed. the past, is forgotten. $45.00 Ladies Tweed, Chincilla and I wear, regular value $2.50 per garment and use arc sent 'Out with it. ' If butter comes with the first drawn A few' months l-ater an apple tree AUCTION SALE Velours Coats, latest stvles for onlv : for $1.65 per garment. 4 lbs rolled oats tor onlj-..,. 35» To oirty on a culture from day to huttermiik, it is a sign that the comes into bloom. The buds open, $31.50. / .Men’s Fleeced Lined Underwear, 2 Plugs McDonald Chewing To- day - pasteur, e .some s'ri.im mirti: bv cli'UuniHg is not quite completed. Give aud beautiful l)l"issoms cover the The undirsigne'i will oiler f-ar sale $40.00 Ladies Bl.ck Pl'ush Coats, for ! regular price to-day $2.75 per set, bacco lor only 25o beating it » I8l> or 185 'leg. F., hold a tew more turns to the churn. branches. You bury your face in the by P'ablic Auction on the farm ot the $28.50. j sale price .$2.15 per set. 2 pkgs. Old Chum Smoking To- it .at that temper iture. for i>) min- WA.SHING THE BUTTER. .sweet îîowers^ and tlunk of the days late Peter Rankin “■ Ladies Separate .S'nirts to 'oe sold bacco. for oiUy'7 25c then cool it to ‘jd 'Or 35 deg. After drawing the buttermilk, rinse ahead when you will he returning to at belov/ to-dai-’s wholes ile nrice. 5 bars Cosmos Laundry Soap, «lid -add fr;;a cue to two ouieoes of the butt r with two or three quarts the tr-'e. Soutli Rail lot 3-3tli locliiel lor only 25o cm.tuce for .:ach '-en pounds of milk. of water before putting on the wash Weeins pass. The blossoms have fad- 4 bars Comfort, Sunlight, Gold Let. it stand uiidisturb'Oil until next wate’r. jed and iallt-n to ihe ground, but the ON WF.DNESDAA' FURS FDRS Soap for only 30c day 'when it .sh-ould be ni.x-ly 'C-oagul- in winter, it is necessary to temper true ‘Ivr'-s. and in.stead of the ilow- December 18th, 1918 75 cent Green Tea for only 55o- -T ated and ready f-or use. the wash water, taking in'to consider- er.s. iiitl' apple.S'caver the tree. For Men's, Boys' soil Rich Furs for Men and Women at 60 cent Green Tea for onlyj 45c Sjt using a culture /to assist in ation tiie cwiid:ti')n oi the butter and month-s they grow aia.i irpen until at The following Farm St-ock, Prod- Below Factory Prices Today. 45 cent Green Tea for only 33c uce, Farm Implements, Etc. : Our .Stock is limited. 800 Ibsi Black Tea for only 60o neiam ripen ng, '.he b'Uttermaker has 'he ten: re roture of the-room. Choose hsT. from evV-rv hrc^rich ihe rosv cheek- Ladies’ Hampster lined black cloth more Oohtt;. '. oi the flavor and ks aiÿe such a t'eniperature tliat the butter ed irnit i^'.vyou t-' come'and be Nine milch cows, 1 bull, 2 horses, 3 Cidren’s Clothing 3 pkgs, spices for only 25c pigs, 125 tons hay, 20 loads unth- Wats table eoliars, teg. $43.08, sale to make, a more unifonti produ'.'t. wiit lie in a nice condition for wor'u- rcfresh»>i. ptio# $27.50. 22 cent coal oil for only 19o In farm dairy work soma sour ing. What a :li.;erencû i;etween the two reshed oats, .50 hushel-s wheat, 3 urwing to bfg scarcivr or woo! pri- tl.60 and $1.39 brooms for only 75e bushels of peas, all farm rmachinery Ladies’ Hampster lined black Bea- cream, sour skim milk, or buttermilk Always pat in plenty of water, rer trees’ One was taken out oi its place ces are going higher. ver Cloth Coats sable collar, reg. 25c mixeiT pickles, 12 oz. bottles, may be.use.', if the flavor is alright. volve the ciiurn quickly a'oout a dozen in life and made to appear what it including binder, manure spreader, 25 only Men’s Blue Serge Suits, all sale price 20c seeder, mowing machine, hay rake, $75.00, during the sale $35.00. 3 cans comfort lye for 25c One 'method is 'to add one or two cup- ■-i'lnes, then allow the wash water to was not. It showed a beauty that sizes, Regular val'ue to-day $35.00 Ladies’ Black Russian Beaver Cloth 4uLs of culture to the cream can when drain. Gne wash watit 'will lie suffi- was not its owm. It was covered' hay loader, disc harrow, harrows, Sale Price $24.79. 2 pkgs shredded wheat while they plough, fanning mill, etc., etc. Wag- Coats sable collars, quilted lined, beginU'l'ng to collect cream for churn- cient, if the water comes away clear, with a finery that was all “put on,’' 15 only Men's All Wo,ol Botany reg. $35.00, lor during the sale $18.50 last for '. 25o ing. By doing this the sweet cream and the butter Is firm. and when the occasion fur which it gon, waggon box, 2 carriages, double Serge Suits, hand tailored, regular 3 lbs Hand Picked Beans, for 25# becomes inO'" lii ted with bacteria that SALTING AND WORKING THE had been prepared had passed the tree and single harness, sleighs, truck price $45.00 while they last $32.75. Ladies’ Black Astrachan Jackets, 6 Bars Castile Soap, tor 25c wiU produce a desirable flavor. BUTTER. was forgO'tten and rlirown out as scales and many other articles too 25 only Men’s All wool Mixed reg. $55.00, for only $27.50. 4 Sacks Table Salt, for 25c Another method is to keep the -Salt to sait the customer, or mar- worthless. numerous to mention. Tweed Suits, hand tailored, regular Men’s Muskrat lined Black Beaver 9 lbs Granulated Sugar (with cream .sweet until twenty-four ho'-irs ket, using a good dairy salt. Al- The other tree remained what God Household furniture will also be value $35 to $40, Sale Price $26.75. shell Otter collar, reg. $85.00, during other goods), for $1.00 tefo-ia churniiig, then heat it to 55 though some markets require three- made it to be. Its beauty was not sold. deg, ,F, and add from one cup to one fourths ct an ounce to the pound oi put on fre-tn without, but grew from Sale to commence at 12 o'clock sharp pint''oL huit-ce for each gallon of butter, others prefer less. within. Its value was not just for a Terms ; $10.00 and under, cash. •cream. When the, cream begins to The butter may be salteii on the day, but the passing of the beauty of Over that amount 7 months’ credit thicken, coo! it to churning temper- worker or in the churn. spring brought the w'ealth of a full on furnishing approved joint notes, 5 ature, or lower, and hold it at th-at .Salting cn the Worker. fruitage in the fall. Honor followed pet cent off for cash. femiierabure -over night. The lever butter worker is inex- praise, for the riches of its harvest Isaac Simon Pasteurize and Add Cultureu pensive and suita'nle for farm dairy were bett*?r than the beauty of its JOSEPH LEGROULX, d'h Is method of cream ripening is work. It consists of a V-shaped bloom. Auctioneer. Main Street, Alexandria, Ont. conumonly -sed in creamery practice. table, si'inpie in construction, and a The Scriptures many times com- Executors Estate Peter Rankin, By it we have the greatest' control of 'o'.e or lever for pressing the butter. pare men with trees. In such a com- Proprietors. OPPOSITE UNION BANK BRITISH ARMY TRUCKS PEilCE MONUMENTS | FUNERAL OF GENERAL LIPSETT Great Service Rendered by Corps MANY LANDS Which Had Small Beginning. j I “War-Time Cookery” m One of the lesser-known branches i of the British army organization, but : FREE MEMORIALS Ari'ER GREAT which has played a most important ' j WARS OF THE PAST part in the war, is the mechanical i I Send name and address for transport section of the army service corps. I new “War-time Cookery” This Symbol of Perpetual Peace in South Before the war the British War I book contains recipes chosen America—New York Statue of Office owned only about ninety ve- hicles of all kinds, but privote manu- : I by the judges as the best and Liberty—Bristol Monument. i facturers had begun to build a “sub- I P most practical recipes submit- The only joint peace memorial in I sidy” type vehicle designed to meet j the world is one erected by the two I military requirements. When war | ^ ted in our recent cash prize South American Republics of Chile broke out steps wei’e taken immedi- | I competition. It is intended to and Argentina a few years ago. A ately to construct^the “subsidy” type Tong and bitter 'dispute regarding the, in large quantities. At present the I assist in Jhe ednsimation of boundary line between the tjvo coun- number of vehicles on the books of , I food and to effect savings in tries had brought them to the verge the mechanical transport branch run ' of war, when they finally decided to int« five figures, and the personnel of ; I home cooking and baking. refer their case to Queen Victoria for the corps has grown in proportion. | settlement. Her Majesty forthwith Overseas the motor vehicle is put : ^ Approved by Canada Food Board appointed a commission, whose deci- to every possiUe use in maintaining •cion was announced by King Edward the army in the field. The vehicles ^ ADDRESS and accepted. In gratitude for their are used to transport food, are put to deliverance from sanguinary conflict various services in the medical corps, |E.W.GiUettCo.Ltd. draw the larger guns and howitzers, the two republics entered into a i TORONTO, CANADA treaty of perpetual peace, and, to carry ammunition and troops and dis- : symbolize their resolve, erected on tribute mail and water. Special ve-1 the new boundary line, where it hide.' carry anti-aircraft guns, while ; crosses one of the highest passes of others are used for tethering obser- ! Uncle John Told Her. the Andes, a great figure of Christ vation balloons. j Little Dot—I know something my cast from the metal of discarded can- Funeral of General Lipsott near the lines. Taking the coffin from the gun carriage. H.R.H. To maintain this great number of teacher doesn’t know. non. The figure is so placed that its the Prince of Wales following the coffin. vehicles there" are hundreds of sta-1 Mamma—Indeed! What is that? *• hand is outstretched in benediction tionary and mobile workshops with i “I know when the world is coming complements of mechanics. Both men ' over both countries, on either side; shelters roofed with, to an end and she doesn’t. I asked France’s Gift to United States. and women are drivers. ( her and she said she didn’t know.” corugated iron, fitted up as messes,'^- It is said on one day one ammuni- j England can boast a peace monu- THE DESERT MT as orderly rooms, as sleeping apart- ' “0, well, who told you?” ment in the form of an obelisk known tî6u unit ôf forty lorries, working “Uncle John said the world would ments, have been built into the pro- j twenty miles out and then home, can • as Stoodley Pike, a notable landmark tective banks. All about lie scattered come to an end when children stopped near Hebden Bridge, half way between OT EUROPE load, carry and unload nearly 500 j asking questions that nobody could the flotsam left by the ebbing tide; tons in twelve hours at the expendi- ' Leeds and Manchester. Its construc- remains of old furniture looted frop!V tion was commenced in the summer ture of 700 gallons of gasoline. The | STRETCHES ’ ACROSS FRANCE French villages, pieces of German tonnage carried is equivalent to near-1 of 1814, but whefi Napoleon escaped uniform, discarded shirts, battered Vinard's Xiinlmant Cuzas Cold», Sto. from Elba work was suspended and ‘AND FLANDERS ly 15,000 rounds of sixty-pound shells, j was not resumed until after the de- steel helmets, cartridges (loose and I When sweeping day comes remem- claration of peace following Waterloo. in their clips), rifles, shells, gas hel- i ber that the hair of the ivoman who By a strange coincidence the column A Wide Tract of Land Over Which mets—each and ,ever y one in itself à I was cured of painful Goitre by sweeps should always be covered. sign that the H^n has met defeat. fell on Wedne^ay, February 8th, War Has Passed and Left Be- MINARD'S LINIMENT. 1854, the selfsame night on which the The British army wastes very little BAYARD McMUUN. Canadian consumi>tion of butter Russian ambassador left London. hind Desolation and D^ath. to-day, and step by step the salvage Chatham, Ont. could profitably be reduced by 25 per men follow the Army, sweeping up cent., according to a Canadian auth- When peace was again restored after The broad belt of ruin and desola- I was cured of Inflammation by the Crimean War, a new Pike was the litter of war. MINARD’S LINIMENT. ority. If such measures were adopt- tion, which years of s^tionary war- “The Deserted Village.” ed it would release for export 56,- designed and $3,000 collected for its fare have spread right across France MRS. W. A. JOHNSON. erection. The total cost was over ' The German made himself quite Walsh, Ont. 000,000 pounds, per year. Another and Belgium, is an extraordinary, a technical advisor states that national $4J600, and thé balance was defrayed dreadful place. For years to come; comfortable in France. Dating the I was cured of Facial Neuralgia by bV a Todmorden Worthy. THe second long months of comparative quiet, MINARD'S LINIMENT. consumptioh averages 28 pounds * to a generation to which the present head per year. monument—the existing one—was great cataclysîh is a mere name, it when on the drilling grounds and in Parkdale, Ont. J. H. BAILEY. completed in the summer of 1857. the factories of Great Britain and will be one of "the wonders of the worn BAL1Ê The famous Statue of Liberty, world—or, let us rather say, a stu- France the day of reckoning with erected on Bedloe’s Island, New York “kultur’ was being prepared, ‘Ihc in- WALIi BQtriPPEO N'BWSPAPBfl pendous monument of civilizatiofi’s “0, my sjsters, children small, and Job printing plant In E^astern Harbor, was, at its unveiling in 1880, shame. It is the waste of war incor- vader made himself quite at home in Ontario, insarmnéü carried tl.SOS. Will heralded as à prophetic symbol of village, field and forest. How bitter- Blue-eyed, wailing through the city. ro for 11,100 on eulek aalcL Box If. porate, a pregnant illustration of the Our own babies cry in them all. Wilson Publishing Co.. Ltd., Toronto. the ending of all war. This colossal appalling futility of war—of that ly he must hate thé British, who, on figure of “Liberty enlightening the the glorious First of July, when the Let us take them in to pity.” WSEKLY NBW8PAPER FOR SALB which for forty years and more the in Naw Ontorio. Owner Kolnff U world,” is made of bronze, and, in- guns of the Somme roared out their —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Frareo. Will aeu lt.000. Worth d^bla cluding the . pedestal, has a height of Germaq people have worshipped as a (hat amount Apply J. H.. ojo Wilson national ideal. The Hun has left be- challenge to German supremacy, pav- PUbUshinK Co.. Lirafted. Torottta 305ft. 6in.. and is 40ft, square at the ed the way for the Nemegis which Minard’s Zilnime&t Cnrea Distemper. base. It is the work of Auguste hind him mile upon mile of trenches and acre upon acre of barbed wire has overtaken Germany’s crime STORM WIXTDOWS FOR SALS. Bartholdi, a native of Colmar, in Al- against civilization. In a, forest clear- fbr home, with a fleet of British To destroy odor and bad taste of sace. It occui*red to him in 1874 that entanglements. These are the char- ’planes hanging on to their tails. GET OUR PRICE LIST SHOWINO acteristic features of the desert zone. ing one may see where the invader scorched food as soon as detected, cost of windows j^Jazed complete, any Erance should pr-esent to America built hi«nself an Arcadian settlement plunge pan or kettle into cold water, j size. HaJllday Company. Box B, 81, some symbol in connection with the The whole countryside of France and Hatnilton. Belgium is scarred with the '«crumbl- of log houses, each with its little “The Canad^n Service Flag.” In a few moments the bulk will centenary of .American^ Independence. verandah, comfortably furnished and Dear little flag in the window there, separate from burnt part which sticks BCX8CSALA RE 0 08 The scheme took shape, ad the great ing evidences of our enemy’s/beaver- like industry. lit -by electric light. Into this peace- The neat tucked vest is a novel fea- Hung with a tear and a woman’s to bottom leaving little or no trace. CANCJER. TUMORS. LUMPS. ETC., monument was completed in 1884. ture of this new model and the cuffs tnternaJ and «ztarnal. cur^ with- Dug*outs Made To Last. ful spot, where the Germans.in spring prayer, «ut pain by our homo treatmeoi Writ# A Plumber’s Lasting Work. and summer must have lived a truly attachéd to a foundation to corres- Child of the Maple Leaf, strong and There is no meal at which apples e« boforo too lato. Dr. Bollraatt Medical The oldest outdoor stàtue in ,Eng- What thought must have been ex- idyllic existence, the great British pondf^ McCall Fattern No. 8663, true. cannot be served in one form or an- Co,, Limited. Coilingwood. Ont. land incidentally commemorates the pended on the laying-out and siting shells came screaming, smashing the Ladies' Dress. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 Oh how proud we are of you. other. defeat of the Armada, and is to be of those endless mazes of trenches! huts to atoms, flattening out the roofs bust. Price, 25 cens. found at Bristol. It is a leaden sta- What sweat poured out of German with the ancient trees sent crashing This pattern may be obtained And now'you come in this frenzied tue of Neptune, cast and erected by soldiers and poor persecuted, under- down, drenching the forest and stifl- from your local McCall dealer, or day YOU CAN’T CUT OUTÎNTMI IA Dyspepsia Cure I a patriotic plumber of the city in the fed prisoners of war in their digging! ing the vegetation with that deadliest from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., To speak from the window, to speak but you can clean them off promptly with j M. D. advUets “Per»on« who A year following the triumph of the What long nights of relentless work of all German inventions—poison-gas. Toronto, Dept. W. and say, suffer from severe indigestion ^ English, and occupies a prominent in the dark—often under fire, often Now the clearing is deserted ^nd mel- “I am the voice of a mother’s son position'in the main street of the sea- interrupted by the dazzling brightness end constipation can cure them- ^ ancholy, a sinister picture of des- “WHAT OFVTHE NIGHT?” Gone, to be gone, till' victory’s won, HMiay selves by tskihg fifteen to A port. of the star-shells—do these innumer- truction. The ferns have grown in I am the flag of the service, sir, Westminster Abbey abounds with able belts of barbed wire, belt suc- Silent Listeners Who Guarded Eng- and you work the horse same time^ thirty drops of Extract of Roots ,2 and out of the ruined planking of The flag of your mother, I speak for Does not blister or remove the all sorts of curioiis things, but one ceeding belt, now rusted and broken the huts; the bark has crumbled off land’s Shores in War-Time. after each meal and at bedtime. § her, haSr $2.50 per bottle, delivered; 2 This remedy is known as MolMr ^ would hardly look for the grave of and useless, represent! And the dug- the splintered verandah rail, the thick The sentry paces slowly up and Who stands by the window and waits Will tell you more if you write. a spy in the historic building. Never- outs scooped into the ibowels of the undergrowth which almost conceals down along the sea-wall. Seawards and fears, Book 4 R free. ABSORBINE, JR., 2 Srljel’sCaraliveSympin thodru» % theless, such a grave is to be found, earth, well constructed, timbered, the shell craters smell evilly of dead his gaze takes in the stretch of But hides from all the unwept tears.” tlte antiseptic Imiment for mankind| ? trade.” Gjt the genuine. 50c. ^ which contains the remains of the often lined -with sacking! They were things. But the picture is comfort- gleaming mud that ' seems to reach ^ reduce* Varicose Veins, Ruptured * end $1.00 Bottles. t S most famous spy of his day—Major built to endure, built to last as long | Muicki or Ligaments. Enlarjred Glandi. Wen* ing, notwithstanding, for the aban- out right to the limit of vision. For Cytta. AW* pain «ikicMjr. Pfiçe *1.25 a MUs Andre. The monument was erected as Germany’s enemies did not tire of I thinkjthat the word “England” is at druftUii or delirere4. doned clearing speaks of the discom- this is the East Coast of England, merely used as a short eciuivalent for at the express wish and command of hitting their heads against the “steel fiture and retreat of the Boche. and the tide is right out, a very long , W. F.YOUNO.F. D.F.,516 IYBURS IWf., Meatreat, Can. King George III. During the War of wall of the. West.” The steel wall “Great Britain and Ireland,” which, [ MaoiOluc aud ADsorDlaew Jt.» are Bade la Canada. . The Trail of the Serpent. way out. after all, is the correct appellation Independence, Andre was requested to bent and broke; the dug-outs remain- Landwards his eye sweeps across find out all he could about the doings ed, and are there to this day—hor- The live German has fallen back of the British Isles.—Lord Denbigh. Caticara Heals from France, biiit he has left his dead miles of desolate mai’sh-Iand, \rith no of the enemy; but, unfortunately for rible caves, untenanted, forbidding. sign of habitation, except f(4 tele- GET SLOAN’S FOR himself, his identity was discovered, The sunken roads which run be- behind. In the valley and on the If lemons are eld and dry place plain, on hillside and on ridge, amid phone wires that run towards a small them in a pan of hot water and keep and he lost hîS life, the Americans tween the Helds in so many parts of hut in the near foreground. . The hut Sore Rgd Pimples hanging him at Washington. For ^ France bear many traces of the long the desolation of empty trench and the water at an even temperature YOUR PAIN RELIEF msting wire, the German graves blends so well with 'the surrounding for a few hours. As a result the forty years the dead officer lay in his ^ sojourn of the uninvited guest. Deep drabness that only a sharp fye would spys grave, but his services, though dug-outs yawn from the high banks stand. Here there is a single cross lemons will become fresh and juicy You don’t have to rub it in Burnmg and fin* not of an enviable character, were hastily nailed together and put up see that it was there. again. recognized. His remains were brought over a filled-in shell-hole; there a No sound seems to break the still- to get quick, comfort- ness except the shrill cries- of the tated. Lost Seep. to London, and the major was buried more elaborate memorial—a handsome MONEY ORDERS. ing relief in the Abbey as a man who had died solidly carpentered oross, with the sea-birds as they wheel and turn over Buy your out-of-town supplies with **My face broke out in pimples th*l while in the discharge of an office dead man’s style and title set forth the glistening mud. And yet the Dominion Express Money Orders. Five Would heal up. and then break out entrusted to him by the State. in full beneath a florid representation sentry has stopped his pacing, and Dollars costs three cents. Once you’ve, tried it on that stiff again. It was very sore and — ■ ^ . — of the Iron Cross. In every village in a semi-strained attitude appears to joint, sore muscle, sciatic pain, rheu- V red, and all the time itching churchyard, beside the heap of ruins be listening intently. He turns about matic twinge, lame back, you’ll find * and burning, and I irritated FEEDING THE REFUGEES and hurries into a small, box-like re- German steamers will do most of a warm, sootljing relief you never > my face by scratching. 1 where once the peasants worshipped, the ocean greyhound business for a thougiit a liniifient could produce. ^ lost a lot of sleep. but a little apart from . the broken cess in the wall, and, with his gaze British Army Furnished 20,000,000 sweeping the sky, he commences to year or two, but it will be under Won’t stain the skin, leaves no “I had the pimples for ^ Rations During November. and often violated tombs, the Ger- British and American colors. The muss, wastes no time in applying, sure over five years. Then I used man dead are buried in rows,^ the speak into the telephone: to give quick results', / A large bottle Cuticura Soap and Oint- The British army is rendering great “There, sergeant?' Right-o! Sounds Cunard and Anchor Lines alone lost assistance to devastated and impover- dates on their crosses clearly record- twenty-three liners during the war. means economy. Your own or any fnent, and two cakes of Cuticura S^p ished Northern France and Flandei*s. Tüereal Food ing the ebb and flow of the tide of of aircraft from east, apparently other druggist has it. Made in Can- .and one box of Cuticura Ointment war. ’ I British. Yes; all right. I’ll spot him ada. Get it today. * healed my face completely.” (Signed) During November the army furnished elemen-ts of in a minute.” Mlnard’B Xilniment Cares Elpbtberia. Miss Zoo Parkes, Otlerville, Ont., to the American Commission for Re- It is an eerie thing to wander : March 13, 1917. through the desert zone. The Army ; He has had twelve months of this A Dominion Government report, lief in Belgium 20,000,000 rations, wheat and baF wo^rk, and his trained ear tells him Skin troubles are quickly relieved by which were badly needed, for quick has moved on with man and horse, states that in some parts of On- Cuticura. The Soap cleanses and puri- distribution among the hungry peo- ley so made as limber and lorry., tent and hut. There almost exactly the type of ’plane it tario farmers are reported as win- fies. the Ointment soothes and heals* tie. are no civilians, no shops, no houses, is by the sound of its engine, which, tering from twenty-five to thirty per For Free Sample Each by Mail ad- no barns. The fields lie fallow, torn water-borne, reaches his ear before cent, more hens and pullets this year Kills ï>ain dress post-fcard: ^‘Cuticura, Dept. A, This aid came at a time when the to be rich In his eyes can pick out the ’plane’s Boston, U. S, A.” Sold everywhere. commission was unable to get pro- and rent by the shells of four years’ than last. This is not a general 30c., 60c., $1.20. visions through speedily enough from su^ar, and campaigning, gashed and seamed by shape and markings. condition, however. There will be Holland. British officers and soldiers trenches. The countryside has re- He watches silently for a moment little increase in poultry until feed ready to eat lapsed into primordial desolation, and or two, and then: becomes cheaper. are also giving* largely from their “Got him! Yes, British, 2,000 feet own stores, and the British army is is waiting for man with all the re- ; providing great quantities of kero- from package sources of civilization at his hand to up, heading sou’-west now,” he says. build and plant and sow as he did While the sergeant is receiving this sene and candles for the homes and message he is repeating it aloud, and shops; otherwise darkness would pre- with milker at the beginning of time. One may walk for miles in places amid every the telephone orderly is entering it Hotel Del Coronado vail in most^of the towns. into the message book, with time and SuccdV of a different sort, but cream. 7%af/s evidence of the recent presence of Coronado Beach, California man—the cold, open-air hearths, the date. The sentry’s message finished, equally valuable, is being afforded the sergeant rings up headquarters by transportation of the refugees. odd bits of clothing scattered about, the remains of food—yet as far as and repeats it. K the message shoqld WTiere the balmy yet invigorating climate makes This timely aid'saved many who be “apparently hostile,” then/ the would otherwise have perished by the eye can reach there is no sign possible the enjoyment of outdoor sports through- GrapeRiib of anything living. The desert is a wl'oU of the machinery that defends ?he wayside. out the Winter months. One seldom sees a lon*y nowadays desert indeed. But its veVy silence these islands from air-raids gets mov- without seeing it jammed with re- A Substantial tells of German hopes dashed, of Ger- ing. If the message is confirmed, pos- POLO, GOLF, TENNIS, MOTOÏtlNG, fugees, both French and Belgian. The man plans foiled. Soon will come the sibly from some other post, then the Governments tried to prevent the re- Food fruits of peace and once again the air-raid warning, “Take action!” is FISHING, BAY A;4D SURF BATHING fugees from returning to the de- desert places of France and Belgium , flashed far and wide. and Economical The authorities know dt what e.xact vastated districts, but they preferred Ctnade 8o«r

Ian McDonald, of Green Valley, was! united in marriage to Mr. .lohn Myles- McDonrll, Glen Robertson. The bride Personals looked charming in a suit of taupe colored broadcloth with hat to Mr. -1. A. McLean of Greenfleid, Î.IE HIM. match. Alter luncheon the happy cou- was a Newscaller yesterday. ple left for a short honeymoon, to live you H ide up your miad yet Mr. .1. A. McDonell, Lochicl, was a .iO shall be mayor? points v.est. They received many business visitor to town yesterday. beautifiii g’R.s. Later a reception SAVE TIME AND MONEY. Mr. U. .1. McDonald of McCriniiuon You can save time and you can save was 'n.'ld'at the groom's home, Glen was a Nswscjller on Wednesday. Rolwr'.son, Conzratula'tions. Usual urone^ in your Christma-s shopping by ] Mr. -i. Hoyle was among the husi- reft'Tag the advertisements in The , ness visitors to Montreal this week. Glengarcv News. , Mr. M. V'aohon of Glen Norman FO?. MONTREAL MARKET. I was in town on Monday, OBITUARY Our local drovers, the eirly part of j Mr. .Jack McLean of Green.'.eld was the. week, consigned to the Montreal j here for a few liauis on Saturday. Market, sever.il cars of mixed stock. I Mr. Geo. McD mald of Montreal, CH .-USTMA.S I'.NTEKT.A LAMENTS. ‘ w.is ill town on Saturday, The various Glengarry Sunday Sonools are busily,^gaged in pre- j Mr, ard .Mrs. ..John Campbell, Skye, paT.iig for their .Cwstm-s entertain- ’ wore in ^ton n on itloiid-ay. nteats, which are expected to be out '■ Mr. ,:iftd Mrs. T. Roussin, Glen of 'he or Unary, freed as tiie country I Norman, were visitors to town on IS Irotti the gloom cast by the war. 'M)nday. VI iTROLA itRCORDS. I .Mr. Neil McDon tJd, I-'is'-c'.s Corners, It is not too late even yet to or- j was a business vi.sitor to town on der from Ostroms drug .store any Mon'day. c'cial records you may desire for ’ Mr. Du'Danis, Police Magistrate,' .las. Ddivery guaranteed. j Cornwall, was in town m a business ' visit on Saturday, ..\NDSOME MONUMENT, I Mr. A. H. Fraser, iUcCrimmon, A. monument has been erected in i was in town for several 'nouis on t. Finnan’s Cemetery, by Mr. John , Monday. (greetings from Santa Claus /headquarters v.Iu.shoIm, of Lebret, Sask., to the I Mr. and Mrs, P. Seguin, of Glen memory of his father, the late Mr. Robertson, spent Saturday with 'Theodore Chisholm, 3S-2nd Loohiel. friends in town. It is the product of the Alexandria Mr. M. F. McCriuimon, Cotton A hearty wish, a fervent hope, that Christmastide may bring Marble Works, is out from Vermont Beaver, transacted business here on marble and is of artistic design. Monday. To you and yours, Good Gheer, Good Health; Good Luck in everything VOTF^S $12,500. MR, DONALD MacINTOSH We understand that the drive in aid Mrs. M. Houle of Coteau Junction of the Salvation Army- Fund that spent the latter part of the week On Saturday morning, Dec. 7th, with friends here. 1918, one ot the aged residents of tvas scheduled for the middle of Jan- Mr. Geo. Campeau of Rigaud, Que. uary, so far as this county is con- was here for severaj days on business Vankleek Hill, in the person of Don- cerned, will not be necessary, as the bent last week. ald Macintosh Esq., passed peace- ' Cisunties Council In session last week Messrs Donald and Duncan Fletcher fully away at his late residence. voted $12,500 towards that end.— A of Dunvegan, were .here for several Union .Street. He was in his 86th most generous contribution. year. I’e was born in the Gore of Then another Christmas with its joys, its noise, its bustle and frolic will be with us. The little people will be talking of and ; hours on Monday. / watching for Santa Claus and his reindeer and his sleighful of Toys and Presents, the Jumping Jacks and Drums, and Trumpets CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. Mr. Wm. St. .John and his sister. Lochiel and was married in 1867 to In a circular letter, addressed to Miss Eva St. -Iohn left on Sunday Margaret, eldest^aughter of the late and Horses and Carts, Locomotives, Pianos and all the rest of the many grand and beautiful things will be in demand. th* Fire Chiefs of the Dominion, the , for Montreal. Mr. George Munro of Dalhousie Mills, Cah-dian Fire Underwriter’s Associa- Messrs Angus MePhee and .1. T. who survives him, together with a tion, through the secretary, John A. MePhee trans'cted business in Ot- faniiily' of three sons and five daughn Roleitsun, of Toronto, calls atten- i tawa on Monday. ters, Alexander of -ome, Alaska ; tion to the increase of fire hazard George, Vancouver, B.U., Dr. Gus. during the Christmas seas in through I Mr. Charles McDonald, of Laggan, j was among the New.scallers on Mon- ■J., Devils Lake, N. Dak., Mrs. A. Ihe using of Christmas greens, harv- |day. Kyle, Huron, S. Dak., Mrs. Leslie est specimens, draperies, scenery, Simpson, Hawesbury, Mrs. James option to represent show, etc., for Mr. and Mrs. L. Lymburner left Browning, Montreal. Mrs. Albert Mc- decorating purposes. The use of in- the early part ot the week to enjoy a Laurin, Dalkeith and Miss Donalda, Cammable materials is contrary to ' short holidiv with Montreal friends. V'ankleek Hill. He also leaves- one afl insurance laws. 1 Mr. W'm. McLeod, Bonnie Brier, brother, Duncan Alaclntosh Esq., of SKATING AS USUAL. I McCrimmon was a visitor here on London, Ont. Our store is now a regular fairyland. Dolls and Toys and Pre.sents and Decorations worth coming miles to see. Everything The icebed of the Alexander Rink , Saturday. to charm and delight the hearts of old and young is here. Stacks and Head's of Candies and Nuts and Fruit and good things to ■irijoining the Hall is now being pre- Mr, aad Airs. Tames McDonald, R. In his early manhood, when much eat- -Hundreds of beautiful and useful gifts for everybody- No one h s been forgotten. pf Glengarry was a forest, Mr. Mac- pared and if cold weather prevails ! R.I. Dalhousie Station, were here for 0 0 "or a few days there phould be sfcat- a few hours on*. Tuesday. intosh took up lumbering as .a busi- like such things as we have at our Men’s Furnishing Mr. D. H. tVw'ar ot Glen Sand- ness. For thirty-two years he was cg. This rink has been kept up for Co’unter. A nice warm Dressing .Gpwn and pair of jveral seasons now raaih'y tor .the field. was a business visitor to town connected with different lumbering Men onvenience and healthful amusement on Wednesday. concerns on the Ottawa River and Cosy Slippers, a beautiful rich silk Neck Scarf, some in Western Ontario. For the next six- .f our young people and it is’ to be I Messrs Fr“d AIcLeod and Donald of those exquisite Ties in Persian and Oriental patterns. Ombres toped that hearing this fact in mind , McLeod ot Dan' e"an, were here on teen years he was connected with the substantial support will be given the ‘ business Wednesday. late James Rayside ex-Al.L..A. in the. and all the latest colorings- A nice pair of Suspenders or .Aimlets, enterprise durins t’ne coming winter. 1 Amonr the Newscaller on Mond.ay lumbering trade in different parts, a few of the latest Collars, a good pair of Cuff Links, a Watch Fob, ORDERS BY MAIL, was Mr. T. H. Dewar of Glen Sand- including an extensive business in his Send in your mji!: ir.iers for native county. In 1893, he moved to a Wrist Watch, a suit or two of Pure Wool Underwear in two- Christmas Cards and tjoocn.-r.s co Me- Mr. and AT W. . I, AlcDonald of I Dalkeith where, for twenty years., he piece or combination, a warm Coat Sweater, some Hosiery or Pure i carried on 'nusincss on his own ac- Leister’s Drug Store. Aiezindrli. I V t, were here yesterday Linen Hand'herchiefs, a set of Military Brushes or Travelling Toilet DANGEROUS 1 I \ T s A R. McMaster. count. He retired six years ago, Boys and girl; of them ATrs F Vr na:d o[ Regina, Sask. mo ing to' 't ankieek Hill where he Case,a Club Bag or Suit CaSe, au Umbrella, a Cigar, Cigarette Sender years, are indi.lg the rrri'/en in ih's week on a visit has since resided. Case or Tobacco Pouch, a‘Wallet or Card Case, some of the latest dangerous pi-acti e ,'0 •Us no .her s «rs. D. A. McArthur, At the Service, which was held on patterns in Shirts. Warm Gloves, Caps, Etc., Etc. tatteys’ sleighs c. ising : 0 n •'’ather Monday afteriioon at Knox Church, tfcz 'Aircr and at rear r t e of Tiealandia, the pastor Rev, c. A. Ferguson bas- will be pleased w’ith some of our Dainty Handker- 'rtves. The p a :id endett visit to her ed his remarks on Revelation 2-10 chiefs, which we are showing in nice Xmas boxes “Be thou fiiUifiil unto death and I i. 1 AlcCuaig ot I,ag- ladies put up in quarter dozen, half-dozen, and .dozens- ..ESOLUTION uF t jND ) BN ran will give thee a cto.vu of life”. He At the Counties uounca sa d Minager Union was assisted 'ly Rev, ,\. Lee and A Manicure Set, a Toilet Case, Travelling Case fitted with Persian neld last week, at Cornwal! ces-j’cx- B n smitiis Falls, was here on a Rev. Allan Morrison, of Kirk Flill, a ivory articles, Picture Frames, Morocco Shopping Bags, Music Rolls t;ons ot condolence were pMsed with ’ ft o;t ^h' latter part of last former pastor ot the deceased. Comfy Slippers, Boxes of Choice Confectionery, Perfumes, Card the relatives of the iate D-raald A- The pallbeanrs were Messrs Cases, Brooches, Beauty Pi.es, Necklaces, Hand Mirrors in ebony McArthur Es;., o: thi.s place atw Annng -h* business visitors in Woods, W. A. I'iieiu’y, John R. A' or ivory, Jewel Bo.xes, Mantel Ornaments, Etc-, Etc. Alex. R. McDotJ.,ali E-i o ' eciiie! town on Friday was Air.' Arch. .1. Leod, .James Xk Macintos'n, J. Township, both of whom f;c A'ra.;.!,-,Ai!d, mernhunt, North Lancas- vaars Rayside and Dr. W. Catta'nach. Bibles and Hymnals—Leather and Cloth bound, also in one served faithfully and well in that ter Among those attending the funeral body. . 1 1 ' I nm ■y,Mr. D. D. AIcRae, carpenter, left from a distance were Air. and Mrs. volume, Christinas Cards, Booklets, Picture Books. Building Blocks, EXAMINATION DATES FIXED. ' e e N ',jrt of the week for Port Kenneth Hope, Air. J. X. Macintosh, Games, Holly and Mistletoe Wreaths and Sprays, Seals, Tags, The holding of the m-ids urn nice Cit- i* i! i-jrn.,e, Out., where .he will be èn- Aliss Macintosh and Alessrs A. and aminatlons will be defetr*! in ej.cn gageii for .some days in installing W. D. .Ardl-ty, of Ottiiwa, the Misses Xmas and Toy Candles, Etc., Etc , completes an assortment of case for‘a fortnight ia\ accordince new Dost Office Sttings. Macintosh and Mi.ss Florrie AIcGilli- Christmassy things that you will surely be delighted with. with the following .soheiue. .Junior vray, Alexandria, Messrs Kenzie and High School Entrance, July 2. 131!) ; N. Morrison, Aliss McLeod, Aliss AIc- Junior Public School Graduation, RICDONAT.D—AlcDONALD. Guaig, Mes.srs .John and AI. Mc- ^SHOR' EAR LV .9- June 30; Lower Sciiooi, July 2, Mid- On Nov, 28tb, a quiet wedding was Cuaig, Dalhousie, Mrs. D, D. AIc- dle School, .July Ifp Pass Matriouia- j soie.ninizeii at St. Raphael's Church, Ciiaig, Bainsville, Aliss H. MoCuaig, And now may we urge you once again to kindly shop early. You will have more time than in the rush of . the last day or tion, July 2; Upper .School ami Hon- I by Rav. Father Campbell when Miss T.ancaster and Stuart Rayside, of or Matriculation, June 30. two, see a better assyrtment, be bettor served and assist us greatly. We will do our very best to serve you and will deliver all : Jane AlcDonaid, daughter of Mr. Al- Montreal. heavy parcels in time if you live in town. Kindly lake all small parcels with you. If you desire we will lay a.side anything you buy and deliver it for you when ordered.

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.SANTA CLAUS writes us that owing The Greatest Christmas Ever ! A Joyous Time to being so terribly busy he will have to come this season also, through the ntght- He will And it is approaching so fast that in but a little over a week it will be For the arrive abgut midnight, Friday night and will rounding the comer upon us. The eKcitement and joy of it is hold a reception for all little people in his now in the air—a happier Christinas to look forward snuggery at our store on to than we had thought possible a few weeks ago. Wee Girls and Boys Satorday moralni, December 21 nf longei*. ir stock is complete and laryer tliao ever. Prom ID o'clock until 12 o’clock Amongst those which will be in popular demand are Diamond and Wedding Rings RIOTURe TREKT Î For Ladies For Gentlemen Itessrs. Sauve, proprietors of ‘’Hectors'* Theatre have again promised to give an Entertainment specially for the children that day, at 4.15 o'clock p.m„ to last one hour. This will enable all children to be home in time for tea. Tickets are placed at the ^ Wrist Watches Wrist Warches small sura of 5c. for both old and young—no war tax. As this will be the wind up to a big time we trust that the children and White IvoCy Dressing Cases &arf Pins, Cuff Links their parents will fill the Theatre. And now may we again repeat what we said last season : “Let us get.the Christmas Spirit** and all unite to give the children a big, jolly time. Let us try to pub aside for the time being whatever may be troubling us and in Ebony Dressing Cases Tie Clips, Signer Rings trying to make others happy it will do ourselves good and give all these little men and women something to look back upon with Toilet Rolls Fo*bs, Cigarette Cases pleasure. Let us t»*y and make it AN OLD TIME CHIIISTMAS, Manicure, Sets Military Brushes Wc again wish you a Very Merry Christmas and Happy and Prosperous New Year. Photo Frames Fountain Pens Necklets Cameras, Desk Se:s, Etc Pendants For Children •I* Will. j. Simpson Brooches Silver Sets, Drinking Cups Statuary Simpson Block Fancy Pins, Lockets Cut Glass Scapular Medals and Alexandria, = Ontario. Silverware, Etc-, Etc, Gold Filled Rosaries.

Eyeglasses and Spectacles for Father, Mother, Sister or Brother . . , N.B.—Our store will be open from now on Ageat for Columbia Gramaphontrs and Records, Nuntil 10 o’clock each .evening, 23rd and 24th until 11 p.m. M. CUDDON .. Phone 47 Jeweller and Opticiian Alexandria

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