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rye and barley in the manu­ .> >•**- ( KEREMEOS ITEMS. | I CONCENTRATES | facture of beer and similar ** "J .a? liquors. Manure, weeds and TOWN AND DISTRICT offal now find a ready market Mr. Burkes of Victoria AVUS in The Standard mine at Silver- at distilleries. Mrs. R- S. Collin returned, town last week. ton has reduced its forco. The newspaper gang of Tuesday after a month at the Mis. Love of Olalla spent the Coke ovens may be built at Southern British Columbia met coast. weekend visiting with Mrs. Merritt in the spring. at Penticton last week and or­ ThojHedloy rink will probably Keeler. Owing to a lack of water the ganized a press association. The open for skating Saturday Travel by Auto... There was a small skating JRubh mill at Sandon has been editors presented such a hungry evening. party at Cawston on Saturday shut down. appearance everybody locked FOR RENT—Dec. 1, 1910, Neil Call up Phone No. 12 their hen coops.-Republic Jour­ evening. Near Prince Rupert on Por- McLeod's house. ,Apply C. P. nal, Wash. Dal ton. ^ 11 A good stock of Horses and Rigs on Mr. Geo. Cawston of. Prince­ cher island work will soon be­ -Hand. 11 Orders for Teaming ton spent "a few days'in town gin on a gold prospect. L. O. B. A. Elect Officers. O. II. Carle and D. J. Innis promptly attended to. last week on business. The RepubHc Journal says it of Keremeos were visitors in "- WOOD FOR SALE! Following are the 1917 offi­ town yesterday. Mr. Wamsley of Conconully is reported that tho B. C. Cop­ cers of L. O. B. A.,No. 184, elect­ passed through town on Satur­ per company will take over and ed at the regular meeting held The small boys are having PALACE" day on his way from Princeton. operate the Belcher mine. Monday evening: real sport coasting down the hospital hill. } Livery, Feed & Sale Stables Mrs. Brown and Miss Ram­ Pat Perkins and partners of Past Mistress-Sister A. Forbes. ,HKDLBY B.C. say spent the -weekend visiting Kaslo have bonded the Patricia Mistress—Sister I King. Ten per cent off on all toys l-'hono 12. D. J. IN MS Proprlotoi with Mrs. Crooker of Similka­ and Pat claims near Nelson to D. M.—Sister A. Jamiesen. next Saturday. See our ad. meen. Sandpoint.men for $15,000. Chaplain—Sister A. Smith. Hedley Trading Co., Ltd. 1 1 R. S.—Sister M. Jones. M. THOMPS N PIIONTS SETMOUR 591S On account •*of shortage of Mrs. P. Quant and daughter Mr. H. A. Barcello motored Treas.-Sister E. C. Bowerman MOB. WESTERN CANADA ,' } to Hedley on. Sunday, bringing coke Rossland, mines . have of Keremeos were visitors in stopped ore shipping for the F. S.—Sister A. Forbes. town last week tho guests of the Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. home with him his wife aiid D. of C—Sister Z/McOlure. Steel Manufacturers daughter: present, the employees being Misses Beale. placed on development work. Lecturer—Sister M. Beale. Sheffield, Eng-. . A beautiful white mantle Guardian—Sister W. Knowles W. T. Butler spent a part of Offices and Warehouse, 847-63 Bentty Street covered the ground here on But one out of- five copper I. G.—Sister Helen Robertson. this and last week in Spokane Vancouver, B. C. Friday night, the first snow of furnaces are now in blast at the , O. G.—Bro. Wm. Lonsdalo. and returned without a long­ the season. Trail smelter, due to .short sup Committee—Sisters Winkler, haired partner. R. F>. BROWN Cawston will hold their ply of coke. Lead and zinc Hansen, Stanley, Knowles* and Miss Avonia Jones came in Christmas, .tree.- entertainment plants are operating at full Jones. from Vancouver Tuesday to British Columbia Land Surveyor" on Friday; December 22nd, in capacity. - Pianist—Sister Hanson. spend the holidays with her Auditors—Sisters Beale and P. O. DKAWUR 100 the school house. *• • . ' -. In the Okanagan at Garnett parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. TEL. NO. 27 Jones. ,- Messrs./Summers and Hues- valley galena has. been found. Jones. PENTICTON, - - B. C. Four claims have been staked The officers will be installed ton of "•Princeton spent Friday Monday evening, 18th inst. There will probably be a and some work has been done. meeting of the Sons of Rest - "in town7 "-returning home on The ore so far assayed runs Saturday's^ train. Dick Burde Decorated. next week for the election of about $10 in silver, and $4 lead officers and tho cleaning up of P.Vy/; GREGORY *' Mrs. Chalmers, of -Nelson lec­ December 1st the Consoli­ For "zeal aud untiring energy deferred business. tured 011. gardening and home dated company declared the in the performance of his duty f I CIVlC- ENGINEER AND BRITISH canning Monday and Tuesday while under fire," Lieut. R. J. A number of deer were shot, COLUMBIA"LAND SURVEYOR usual two and one-half per cent by residents of tho town during in the-Institute room. quarterly dividend at Toronto, Burde of the 102nd battalion, * Star Building:,."" - Princeton C. E7 F., has been decorated on past week. Among the lucky Mr. Anstey, ^school inspector, payable January -2nd, amount­ hunteis were W. Corrigan, L. and-his "wife* spent a couple of ing to $210,695 on the company's the field with the Military Cross. The ribbon emblematic of this Rolls and V. Zacherson. WALTER CLAYTON ' C. E. HASKINR days in" town last week: and at­ issued capital of $8,427,800. tended the school meeting. , signal honor was conferred Mrs. W. H Meher arrived in Coal miners' on the Crow upon Lieut. Burde by the army town Tuesday to join her hus­ CLAYTON & flASKINS Mr. T. W. Coleman left on have returned to work while a commander after very con­ band, Corpl. Meher. They have Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. Thursday's train for Tennessee government official from Otta­ spicuous work in Northern taken the residence lately va­ where he will spend a month wa is investigating the increased France. He will be decorated cated by A. T. Horswoll. MONKY TO LOAN visiting with his daughter. cost of living for basis of wage with the modal itself by the A party of horso buyers were . PENTICTON, - B. C. A few Keremeosites attended increase. The miners ask for king-in a few days, when he re­ decision by December 15th. in town this week and n num­ the dance held i\t Cawston on turns to England on leave. ber of horses disposed of by Monday night, the opening of J. II. Thompson, manager of Lieut. Burde is well known local owners but tho buyer dis­ DR. J. L. MASTERS Newton & Sinclair's new store- the Echo mine in the Slocan, among printers and . writers in appeared before '"pay day." "DENTIST. Mrs. "W. M. Frith received the reports that in running a cross­ B. C.,' having worked on the sad news on Saturday that her cut from the big ore shoot re­ Victoria Times as a compositor Miss Beale this week received ..OFFICE IN COVERT BLOCK, nephew, Corpl.- A. F. Shaw had cently encountered in the lower twenty-five years ago, and later from the old country a number Oroville, Wash been killed in action on Novem­ tunnel of the mine, they have as a writer on the Vancouver of pieces of metal from tho first ber 19th. crosscut three feet of steel ga­ Province, tho Victoria Colonist zep. brought down in England. lena at a point about thirty and the Nanaimo Free Press. Thoy arc on exhibition in the Mrs. Kelly of Summerland feet from the big showing. - He is publisher of the Port Al- drug store. was guest of Mrs. McCallum on x berni News and ex-mayor of Santa Glaus is having a busy Friday and spoke at the meet­ that town,' ing held to discuss the con­ Junk from the Scrap Heap. time filling mail orders. He has Grand Union | solidated school question. By J. Peck MacSwain. appointed T. K. Rotherm and As far as can now be seen tire A. T. Horswell Hedley agents. Hotel Tho Boy Scouts with their Air has not been added to the year 1917 will be even more Letters left with them will re­ leader, Mi'. Stanton, and assist­ high cost of living. prosperous for the mining in­ ceive Santa's careful attention. HEDLEY, British Columbia ant, Mr. Kerr of the Bank of Prune pie on the coast costs dustry-than even this year of. Commerce,~went on a hike over ten cents a cut—and a durn records has been. It seems G. M. Gilbert, who left for the hills on Saturday, which small cut at that. reasonable.- to suppose that the England a. couple of months they enjoyed very much. metal market prices will remain ago, has returned to Canada Rates—$1.50 a Day and Up ; In the east banks will soon Mrs. Corbett will leave this at levels which will continue to and. purchased a. farm at Wels- First-Class Accommodation. accept eggs on deposit. They ensure -large" profits to produc­ ford, .New Brunswick. TIIM. let­ week for her home in Seattle, are as valuable as gold bullion. Bar Stocked with Best Brands after spending several months ers. The outlook for silver is ter to F. M. Gillespie he states of Liquor and Cigars here with her son, E. F. Cor­ British Columbia hotelmen particularly bright, those pessi­ that ho and the family are well bett, manager of the Bank of are kicking about high license. mists who have held the floor pleased with the location. Commerce. Mrs. Corbett finds After July prohibition will re­ are gradually ceding their' Last week this town came she has better health here and duce the license. So why worry. ground and thc optimists are near getting a six months' hoist g A. WINKLER, Proprietor. « will return after Christmas Only twenty-five have been now' confident that the Euro­ so far as business is concerned, and. probably spend the winter killed.during the 1910 football pean demand will be sufficient and was saved by. a. coinon, here.. 7-.' season. Football matches are to' ensure.'the stability of .the discarded 7-inch file. Through The Christmas Tree enter­ becoming as tame as .Sunday, market, and possibly send prices a .'mistake the current of the tainment will be held in the school picnics. much higher.—B. C. Mining crusher motor was turned on Exchange. from a lower floor iu the mill town hall on Wednesday even­ An auto struck a deer be­ ing, December 20th. It. will be and things began to sizzle. An HEDLEY MEAT tween Greenwood and Grand Postmasters throughout Ca­ old 7-inch file that was loafing a "giving" Christmas tree in­ Forks last week. The owner nada have received the follow­ stead of "receiving," the, same around the crusher floor drop­ was arrested on a charge of ing order from the postmaster ped on the motor, short-cir­ RSARHET • • • • as last year. The proceeds will killing game out of season. ' general at Ottawa: "You are be given to the Children's Aid cuited the current and prob­ This winter at Vernon the instructed to take every oppor­ ably saved the mill. This may fund of Vancouver. Admission tunity of warning the public 25 cents. chief industry is the intern­ tound like a pipe-dream, but it ment camp. There are over that the only safe way of send­ isn't,ainl the business men of thc The meeting held here on 1300 Germans in it. They are ing money by mail is by money town should frame that file. Friday night to discuss the con­ order, postal note or registered All kinds of fresh and not allowed beer or Iimburger The business man who today solidated school question was cheese. letter." With Christmas near cured moats always on well attended and the subject at hand tho sending of money neglects to advertise is pulling quite thoroughly discussed. Ono of those high cost of liv­ by mail is naturally increasing. downthehou.se over his head. hand. Fresh Fish on Everyone appeared favorable ing authorities says that half Many people prefer- to send a In times like these more effort to the scheme. Mr. Anstey, is required to keep up the good sale every Thursday. a pound of Iimburger cheese few dollars in a letter to send­ school inspector, gave a long would satisfy tho appetite. ing some present that might be name and business of a com­ speech on the question. Mrs. Quite true. So. would half a inappropriate. Money sent in munity when times are normal, Kelley of Summerland also told pound of decayed skunk meat. an ordinary letter may reach and the business house which R. J. EDMOND, Prop. how they had carried it out. its destination all right, but it does not make an effort in the Mr. Stanton also gave a short The Great Northern is erect­ is subject to many dangers. way of advertising to get and *& address, Mrs. McCallum ably ing an addition to the station to hold business soon will have filled the chair and explained at Chewelah, and the Independ­ A very successful smoker and no business to get and hold.—- GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL how badly such was needed. ent says it looks as if the wind concert wos held at the Nickel Enderby Press. Afterward an open discussion had blown a dry goods box up Plate mine Saturday evening. HEDLEY B.C. against the building.. Bar and Table the Best. Rates Moderate followed and refreshments were A full report of the event, which Some men work themselves First Clads Accommodation served by the women's Insti­ ; The British government has arrived too. late for this issue, thin trying to sidestep the boss JOHN JACKSON, Proprietor tute. prohibited the use of wheatf will appear next week. and kill time. fj. VOLUME XLl. NUMBER -IS. HEDLEY, B. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1916. r> .00, IN ADVANCE • •*.

rye and barley in tho manu­ KEREMEOS ITEMS. CONCENTRATES i facture of beer and similar liquors. Manure, weeds and TOWN AND DISTRICT offal now find a ready market "v. Mr. Burkes of Victoria was in The Standard mine at Silver- at distilleries. Mrs. R- S. Collin returned town last week. ton has reduced its forco. The newspaper gang of Tuesday after a month at the ' Mrs. Love of Olalla spent the Coke ovens may be built at Southern British Columbia met coast. weekend visiting with Mrs. Merritt in the spring. at Penticton last week and or­ Tho'Hedloy rink will probably Keeler. Owing to a lack of water the ganized a press association. The open for skating Saturday Travel by Auto... There was a small skating Ruth mill at Sandon has been editors presented such"a hungry evoning. appearance everybody locked Call up Phone No. 12 party at Cawston on Saturday shut down. FOR RENT—Dec. 1, 1910, Neil evening. their hen coops.-Republic Jour­ Near Prince Rupert on Por- nal, Wash. McLeod's house. ^Apply C. P. IF A good stock of Horses and Rigs on Mr. Geo. Cawston of Prince­ cher island work will soon be­ Dalton. "H«,nd. "TT Orders for Teaming ton spent a. fow days in town gin on a gold prospect. 0. H. Carle and , promptly attended to. L. O. B. A. Elect Officers. D. J. Innis last week oh business. The RepubHc Journal says it of Keremeos were visitors in WOOD FOR SALE! , Following are the 1917 offi­ town yesterday. Mr. Wamsley of Conconully is reported that tho B. C. Cop­ cers of L. O. B. A.,No. 184, elect­ passed through town on Satur­ per company will take over and ed at the regular meeting held The small boys are having PALACE, day on his way, from Princeton. operate the Belcher mine. Monday evening: real sport coasting down the Uvery, Feed & Sale-Stables Mrs. "Brown .and ,Miss Ram­ Pat Perkins and partners of Past Mistress-Sister A. Forbes. hospital hill. - — H1CDLBY B. O. '. .. ' ' say spent the -weekend visiting Kaslo have bonded the Patricia • Mistress—Sister I King. Ten per cent off on all toys Phono 12. , D. J. INNIS Proprioto. with Mrs. Crooker of Similka­ and Pat claims - near Nelson to D. M.—Sister-A. Jamiesen. next Saturday. See,- our ad. meen; . " . .. • • Saudpoint.men.for $15,000. Chaplain—Sister A: Smith. Hedley Trading Co., Ltd. R. S.—Sister M. -Jones.' N. THOMPS N r»ON*K SETMOUK 5911 Mr. H. A. Barcello motored On account.of shortage ,of Mrs. P. Quant and daughter MOR. WBSTKRN CANADA to Hedley on Sunday, bringing coke Rossland mines have Treas.-Sister E. C. Bowerman of Keremeos were visitors in Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. homo with him his, wife and stopped ore shipping for the F. S.—Sister A. Forbes. town last week tho guests of the Steel Manufacturers daughter. present, the employees being D. of C—Sister Z. McClure. Misses Beale. Lecturer—Sister M. Beale. Sheffield, Eng. -. ~ A beautiful white mantleplace d on development work. Offices and Warehouso, 847-83 Bentty Street Guardian—Sister W. Knowles W. T. Butler spent a part of Vancouver, B. C. covered the ground here on But one out of live copper I. G.—Sister Helen Robertson. this and last week in Spokane Friday night, the first snow of furnaces are now in blast at the , O. G.—Bro. Wm. Lonsdale. and returned without a long­ the season. * Trail smelter, due to -short sup Committee—Sisters Winkler, haired partner. R. F>. BROWN Cawston will hold their ply of coke. .Lead and zinc Hansen, Stanley, Knowles and Miss Avonia Jones came in Christmas, .tree, entertainment plants are operating at full Jones. from Vancouver Tuesday to British Columbia Land Surveyor ' on Friday,' December 22nd, in capacity. Pianist—Sister Hanson. spend the holidays with her TEU No.""i7 P. O. DKA-WKB 100 the school-house. In the Okanagan at Garnett Auditors—Sisters Beale and parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. valley galena has been found. Jones. Jones.' . Messrs. -Summers aud Hues- The officers will be installed PENTICTON, ., - - B. C. ton of-Princeton spent Friday Four claims have been staked There and some work has been ' clone. Monday evening, 18th inst. will probably be a in town7 returning home on meeting of the Sons of Rest Saturday's, train. The ore so far assayed runs about $10 in silver, and $1 lead Dick Burde Decorated. next week for the election of iMrs. Chalmers, of Nelson lec­ officers and the cleaning up of P. W. GREGORY December 1st the Consoli­ For "zeal and untiring energy deferred business. tured on. gardening and home in the performance of his duty CIVIL"* KNGINKKR "AND BRITISH canning Monday and Tuesday dated company declared the A number of deer were shot, COLUMBIA; LAND SURVEYOR usual two and one-half per cent while under fire," Lieut. R. J. in the Institute room. Burde of the 102nd battalion, by residents of the town during Star Building, - " Princeton quarterly dividend at Toronto, Mr. Anstey, 'school inspector, payable January 2nd, amount­ C. E. F., has been decorated on past week. Among the lucky and his, wife spent a couple of the field with the Military Cross. hunteis were XV. Corrigan, L. ing to $210,695 on the company's Rolls and V. Zacherson. WALTER CLAYTON C. E. IIASKINR days in town last week and at­ issued capital of $8,427,800. The ribbon emblematic of this tended the school meeting. signal honor was conferred Coal miners on the Crow Mrs. W. H Meher arrived in CLAYTON & AASKINS Mr. T. W. Coleman left on upon Lieut. Burde by the army town Tuesday to join her hus­ have returned to work while a commander after very con­ band, Corpl. Meher. They have Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. Thursday's train for Tennessee government official from Otta­ spicuous work in Northern where he will spend a month wa is investigating the increased taken the residence latelv va­ MONEY TO LOAN France. He will be decorated cated by A. T. Horswell. visiting with his daughter. cost of living for, basis of "wage with the modal itself by the . PENTICTON, - B. C. A few Keremeosites attended increase. The . miners ask for king in a few days, when he re­ A party of liorso buyers were the dance held at Cawstonon decision by December 15th. turns to England on leave. in town this week and a num­ Monday night, the opening of J. H. Thompson, manager of Lieut. Burde is well known ber of horses disposed of by DR. J. L. MASTERS Newton & Sinclair's new store. local owners but the buyer dis­ the Echo mine in the Slocan, among printers and writers in appeared before ''pay day." ' "DENTIST. Mrs. XV. M. Frith received the reports that in running a cross­ B. C, having worked on the cut from the big ore shoot re­ Victoria Times as a compositor •Miss Bcalo this week received , OFFICE IN COVERT BLOCK. sad news on Saturday that her nephew, Corpl. A. F. Shaw had cently encountered in the lower twenty-five years ago, and In tol­ from the old country a number Oroville, Wash been killed in action on Novem­ tunnel of the mine, they have as a writer on the Vancouver of pieces of metal from the first ber 19th. crosscut three feet of steel ga­ Province, tho Victoria Colonist zep. brought down in England. lena at a point about thirty and the Nanaimo Free Press. They are on exhibition in the Mrs. Kelly of Summerhind drug store. was guest of Mrs. McCallum on feet from the big showing. He is publisher of the Port Al- Friday and spoke at the meet­ berni News and ex-mayor of Santa Glaus is having a busy ing held to discuss the con­ Junk from the Scrap Heap. that towr- time filling mail orders. Ho has Grand Union § appointed T. K. Rotherm and solidated school question. By J. Peck MacSwain. As far as can now be seen the Air has not been added to the A. T. Horswell Hedley agents. Hotel The Boy Scouts with their year 1917 will be even' more Letter's left with them will re- - leader, Mr. Stanton, and assist­ high cost of living. prospeaous for the mining in­ HEDLEY, British Columbia ceive Santa's careful attention. ant, Mr. Kerr of the Bank of Prune pie on the coast costs dustry- than even this year of Cornmerce,~went on a hike over ten cents a cut—and a durn records has been. It seems G. M. Gilbert, who left for the hills on Saturday, which small cut at that. reasonable to suppose that the England a couple of months they enjoyed very much. metal market prices will remain ago, has returned to Canada Rates—$1.50 a Day and Dp In the east banks will soon Mrs. Corbett wilj leave this at levels which will continue to and purchased a farm at \Vels- First-Class Accommodation. accept eggs on deposit. They ensure largo profits to produc­ ford, New Brunswick. In a let­ week for her home in Seattle, are as valuable as gold bullion. Bar Stocked with Best Brands after spending several months ers. The outlook for silver i.s ter to F. M. Gillespie he states of Liquor and Cigars here with her son, E. F. Cor­ British Columbia hotelmen particularly bright, those pessi­ that he and thc family aro well bett, manager of the Bank of are kicking about high license. mists who have held the floor pleased with thc location. Commerce. Mrs. Corbett finds After July prohibition will re­ are gradually ceding their Last week this town came she has better health here'.and. duce the license. So why worry. ground and thc optimists are near getting a six months' hoist A. WINKLER, Proprietor will return after Christmas Only twenty* five have been now confident that, the Euro­ so far as business is concerned, 1 and probably spend the winter killed-during the 1910 football pean demand will be sufficient and was saved by a coition, WK*tlW*KKKW&KX*KKKK*^*XK here. season; Football matches are to ensure, the stability of. the discarded 7-inch file. Through The Christmas Tree enter­ becoming as tame as Sunday market, and possibly send prices a mistake the current of the tainment will be held in the school picnics. much higher.—B. C. Mining crusher motor was turned ' on " ?-• Exchange. from a lower lloor in.the mill town hall on Wednesday even­ An auto struck a deer be­ ing, December 20th. It. will be and things began to sizzle. An HEDLEY MEAT tween Greenwood and Grand Postmasters throughout Ca­ old 7-inch file that was loafing a "giving" Christmas tree in­ Forks last week. The owner stead of ''receiving," the same nada have received the follow­ around the crusher floor drop­ was arrested on a charge of ing order from the postmaster ped on the motor, short-cir­ MARKET • B • as last year. The proceeds will killing game out of season. be given to the Children's Aid general tit Ottawa: "You are cuited the current and prob­ fund of Vancouver. Admission This winter at Vernon the instructed to take every oppor­ ably saved the mill. This may chief industry is the intern­ tunity of warning the public tound like a-pipe-dream, but it 25 cents. that the only safe way of send­ The meeting held here on ment camp. There are over isn't.and the business men of the 1800 Germans in it. They are ing money by mail.is.by -money, town should frame that file. Friday night to discuss the con­ order, postal note or registered All kinds of fresh and solidated school question was not allowed beer or Iimburger The business man who today cheese. letter." With Christmas near cured meats always on well attended and the subject at hand the sending of money neglects to advertise i.s pulling quite thoroughly discussed. Ono of those high cost of liv­ by mail is naturally increasing. down tho house over his head. hand. Fresh Fish on Everyone appeared favorable ing authorities says that half Many people prefer to send a In times like those more effort- sale every Thursday. to the scheme. Mr. Anstey, a pound of Iimburger cheese few dollars in a letter to send­ is required to keep up the good school inspector, gave a long would satisfy the appetite. ing somo present that might be name and business of a com­ speech on the question. Mrs. Quite true. So would half a inappropriate. Money sent in munity when times are normal, Kelley of Summerland also told pound of decayed skunk meat. an ordinary letter may reach aud the business house which R. J. EDMOND, Prop. how they had carried it out. its destination all right, but it does not make an effort in the ;:)i Mr. Stanton also gave a short The Great Northern is erect­ is subject to many dangers. way of advertising to got and &e J address, Mrs. McCallum ably ing an addition to the station to hold business soon will'have filled the chair and explained at Chewelah, and the Independ­ A very successful smoker and no business to get and hold.— GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL how badly such was needed. ent says it looks as if the wind concert wos held at the Nickel Enderbv Press. Afterward an open discussion had blown a dry goods box up Plate mine Saturday evening. HEDLEY B.C. against the building. - Bar and Table the Best. Rates Moderate followed and refreshments were A full report of the event, which Some men work themselves First Class Accommodation served by the women's Insti­ The British government has arrived too late for this issue, thin trying to sidestep the boss JOHN JACKSON, Proprietor tute. prohibited the use of wheat-r will appear next week. and kill time. Jf.

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Unpretentious Houses of This Ma­ terial to Be Found in Spain I\ ses ui ni^ Even the most aesthetically inclin­ INSURANCE ed of our American millionaires would hardly consider the luxury of AN EXCLUS1 VEL Y CANADIAN COMPANY living in a palace built of meerschaum ESTABLISHED 1890 The Family Doctor Tried in Vain to .Heal tiie Sores- as within the range of their fortunes, Excelsior Policies Are Money Makers Another Tribute; to This Great Healing- Ointment yet there, are many unpretentious houses of this material in the Span­ ish town of Vallccas. near Madrid, It may be intcrcsti:*'-; to note that.baby was terribly .afflicted with ccze- where a coarse variety of this sub­ Dr. Chase's' Ointment was originally ' ma. had her child treated by their stance is'to be found. On the other compounded to" ciirc a case of eczema own family physician, bin the IIIt'c hand, the Moroccans, just across tiie on a child. The disease'had sp.ead one got no better They tried- several Straits of Gibraltar, find that still an­ >s Richardson & Sons,. Limited almost over thc entire body and de­ remedies, but lhey all proved useless other variety of meerschaum lathers I GRAIN MERCHANTS fied all the regular treatments for in this case. Upon the advice of a freely and they use it, perhaps spar- ! such troubles. The doctoi was per­ neighbor, lhey got Dr Chase's Oint- ingly, as a substitute for soap. . Western Offices • - Winnipeg, Calgary, Saskatoon plexed, but finally hit on the formula mcni, and before ! the'' first, box was of Dr. Chase's .Ointment, and, as used the child was completely cured. Chips and, sawdust of the meer­ Specialists in the handling of farmers' shipments. -Write, wire many say, "il worked like a • charm," "I can also recommend Pi Chase's schaum pipe factories make an excel­ or 'phone our nearest -office for quotations or-information. healing up the nasty sores and leav­ Nerve -'Food to suffering friends who lent cleaning powder for removing Bill your cars "NOTIFY JAMES RICHARDSON & SONS, ing the skin soft and smooth. I know will be glad to learn oi some­ stains from costly fabrics. An infer­ LIMITED," to insure careful checking of grades. Liberal advances "That was a good many years ago, thing to relieve their nervous trouble. ior pipe is also made (rom these on bills of lading-. Quick adjustments guaranteed accompanied by and since then many thousands of You have my permission to use this scraps, the fragments being'bound Government Certificates of grade and weight. <-V cases of eczema, both in children and letter for the,'benefit ol others." together with some solution anc! then Vou tWII profit by Scndini; lis Samples and Obtaining- our Advice as to Best adults, have been cured, until today So soothing and healing is Dr molded into blocks. Destination before Sliippirur Your Grain, particularly Barley. Oats and Rye. Dr. Chase's Ointment is , recognized Chase's Ointment thai relief from Meerschaum is found in Greece LICENSED AND BONDED , Established 1857 as the standard, cure for itching skin itching and burning comes almost as and in Hrubschitz, Moravia, as well diseases. soon as the ointment is applied The as in Asia. Minor, and to a limited Mrs. Geo. McNair. River Charles. sores are cleaned by the action ol this extent in Pennsylvania. South Caro­ N.B., writes as follows: "We use Dr. treatment, and the'process, ol healing lina and in the upper Gila valley, near Chase's Ointment in our home, and is soon begun. By persistent use of Silver Lake.— N.'- iVi. Stone. New wouid ' not wish for anything better the ointment cure is effected 60 York. for cuts, burns and bruises A few cents a box. all .dealers, or Ir'tlrnan- years ago a friend of mine, whose, son. Bales & Co., Ltd, Toronto. Grand Complexion Improver! The Advertizing Sense of the Hen All He Had A" hen is not supposed to have Lord Northclifle. in one, ol his Better Than Cosmetics 470 Grain Exchange much sense or tact, yet every time tellers rorn the Ironl. describes she lays an egg she cackles foi the some ol IIIr rumor works of the greai When it's so easy to bring back WE GET RESULTS THAT SATISFY. fact. A roostci hasn't got" a lot of army now on lhe field. One de the bloom of youth to faded cheeks, intellect to show, but none the Mess part merit carer, for the property of when skin disfigurements can bc re­ Write for market information. most roosters have got sense enough the dead soldiers Tins is sen! in moved, isn't ii foolish iu plaster on to crow. Bui man, the greatest mas­ large bundles from the field, and each cosmetics? terpiece that nature could devise, will individual parcel finally sent to ils Go to the roo' of the tioublc—re­ often' stop and hesitate before he'll proper destination "1 watched." move the cause—correct the condi­ MINNEAPOLIS WINNIPEG DULUT advertise. says Lord Northclifle. "lhe."'.opening tion thai keeps you from looking as of one such palhctii parcel during the you ought Use Dr. Hamilton's Fills final checking \ It contained a few anil very soon you'll have a complex­ ion to bc proud of How much hap­ ST. VITUS DANCE pence, a pipe, a ' photo t.of wife and, bairn, a trench ring made 61.-the alu pier you'll feel—pimples gone, cheeks illinium ol an enemy fuze, a small rosy again, eyes bright, spirits good, CAN B£ EASILY CURED diary, and a pouch. It was all the joyous health again returned. Never man had " a failure with Dr Hamilton's Pills, A Tonic for thc Blood and get a 25c box today. '.'.:•.. Comlort for the Dyspeptic—There Nerves With Rest All That is no'ailment so harassing and ex­ World's Record Wheat Crop Is Needed hausting as dyspepsia, which arises fn' view of the various claims of •v. world's record wheal crops fori large . Many a child has been called awk­ from defective action of the stomach and livci. and the. victim of i! i.s to areas; the Crowfoot Farming Com­ ward, has been punished in school pany of Crowfoot, Alberta, submit a for noi keeping slill 01 foi dropping be pitied Yet he'can find ready re­ lief in'.. Par-melee's Vegetable Fills, a sworn statement' of their results for things, when ihe trouble was really the year 1015. which probably surpass St. Vitus dance. This trouble may preparation thai lias established itself by years of effective use There are all properly authenticated claims appeal al any age, bill is most oflen from othci sources From 1,356 acres niel between the ages of six and pills that are widely advertised as the thc Crowfoot Farming Company re­ fourteen. The mosl frequent cause greatest . evei compounded, but not ceived an average yield of 51 bushels, of the disease is pool blood, aggra­ one of them can rank in value with •*• 5b 1-3 pounds, per acre of number one vated by indooi confinement, or men Parmclec's. spring wheat. by actual selling tal strain at school. Under these weight, 400 acres of wheat averaged conditions the blood fails to carry Weary Variety Agent: And what's 5° \-Z bushels per acre. These re­ nourishment to the nerves and the yout particular claim to originality ? cords were established in the Cana­ child begins to show lisllessuess and Artist; I'm the only comedian who t dian Pacific Railway Irrigation Block r- inattention. Then il becomes rest­ has so far refrained from addressing less and twilclung ol the muscles and the orchestra as "you in.the iicnch." in Southern Alberta. jerkings of lhe limbs and body follow. ---London Punch t A remedy thai cures St. Vitus dance and cures n so thoroughly that no Minard's Liniment Relieves Meu- trace of the disease remains is Dr. ralgia." ¥. Williams I'ink Fills, which renew IE HEADACHES the blood, thus feeding and strength "What do you think of this extra ening the slaived nerves. This is the hour of daylight scheme?" only way 10 cure lhe trouble, and "What I'm for is more moonlight,'-' WITHOUT erae Tuberculosis Among Troops parents should lose no time in giv declared the romantic girl. — Louis- Applying Sloan's Liniment ing this treatment if their child villr Courier- Journal. By to More Soldiers Develop Tuberculosis . WATERPROOF COLLARS AND CUPMS seems nervous oi irrilablc. Mrs Wm. Forehead You Can Stop in Canada Than Overseas Something better than linen and bis Uiicidn A. Squires, Caniimglon, • Onl.. says: the.Severe Pains bills Wash it with soap. and warn Al "My only daughter, now fourteen Catarrh Cannot Be Cured Col. Thompson, of the Yukon, who stores or direct. State ntyle and «iiie Fa ye-irs of age, was troubled lor several with LOCAL APl'LI CATIONS, as ctiey Many headaches are of a neuralgic is in charge ol the convalescent hos 25c we will mail you years with Si. Vitus dance. She was -aiinoi reach ihe seal ot the disease. Catarrh origin The symptoms of such head­ pitals far soldiers in Canada, made THE ARLINGTON COMPANY OF is a local disease, fzre-ji\\y influenced by ion- the interesting..statement, bearing out CANADA, i.iraiw so bad that at times she would lose j ctituiiunal conditions, and in order to cure it aches are intense, and lingering pains 5S frcaer Annu. Torgnlg, Ontario control ot her limbs and hc-i face and FOII inusi lake an interna! remedy. Hall's in the brow, temples or back of the a previous 'report, thai more Canadian eyes would be conlorled VVe had Caiarrlt Cure is taken internally and acts head soldiers developed tuberculosis th tliroui'li the blood on thc mucous surfaces Canada than in England oi at ihe •medical advice and medicine, but it 3l the system. Hall's Catarrh Cure was prc- There is one certain relief thai lias did not help her In fad we thought :cril)ril by one of the best physicians m this becn known and recommended for front He said the ratio was OO to BOOK ON thc trouble growing worse, and fin .-ountry loi years. It is composed ol some 40. ^ ol the best tonics known, combined with years back. Sloan's Linimeni One DOG DISEASES ally we had lo take hrr from school Sorur ol the best blood purifiers. Tiie per­ application and the dull pain is prac­ Col. TJioinpson gives as the reason About a year ago wc began giving fect combination ol the iiifirrdictits in Hall's tically gone. It is easily applied for this thai tuberculosis in it's incipi­ And How to Feed .Vailed free to any address by her Dr Williams' Fink Fills, and by Catarrh Cure is what produces such wonder­ without rubbing. Rubbing is unnec­ ent stage is very difficult'lo diagnose the lime she had taken five boxes she ful results in catarrhal conditions. Scad lor and recruits who have a tendency to America's •- the Author testimonials," Iree. essary, as Sloan's Lintmetii quickly H. CLAY GLOVER CO.. Inc. was completely cured, and is now J I*. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo. O. tuberculoi trouble* olien develop it Pioneer penetrates to the seal ol trouble 118 West 31st Street, New Yorki fine, healthy girl I firmly believe we All UiuKU'-'ts. "'Sc. Aching muscles, rheumatism, bruis­ with the change in mode of life. Thc Dag Remedies Hall's t-'amily Pills lor constipation. L owe this lo I)i Williams' Fink Fills es, lumbago, chilblains, sprains and change lo barrack life frequently has­ and arc very grateful lor her restore stiff neck can also be most effectively tens the development of tuberculosis It's Sound ation to perfect heallli " treated with Sloan's Liniment. in these men A new story is at hand bearing up­ "The account of tins battle has a Cleaner than mtissv plasters or oint­ on the exasperaiing delay in complet­ You can gel these pills from any menu sound." ments, -it docs not stain the skm or Many mothers have reason to bless ing the Lambs' new clubhouse. Tho­ dealer in medicine or by mail al 50 ""vVhai do you mean?" clog the pores. Moilier Graves' Worm Ex terminal or, mas Findlay was one day passing iht cents a box oi six boxes for $2.50 "Il says the wcll-seasonrd Iroops because it has relieved the little ones clubhouse, where the work upon ih< from The Dr Williams Medicine Co.. Ai al! drug stores. 25c. 50c. $1.00. were mustered out and then pepper­ ol suffering and made them healthy. addition is still in progress. Meet­ Brockvillc, Out. ed with shot"—Baltimore American. ing the janitor, Findlay asked him how soon the building would be readi Too Good Education Progress The Friend of All Sufferers.—- Like foi occupancy. Forty-three new school districts lo "the shadow of a rock in n weary "Strange, "Mary doesn't have any The janitor, an Irishman, replied. were .established in the province of land" is Di Thomas' Eclectru Oil offers! She'd make some man a ood "Aboui the firsi of Ociembet " Alberta during the past three months. lo all (hose who sillier pain It holds wife." Findlay retorted: "You mean Sep- There aie now upwards of -i.^00 oul hope to everyone and realizes il "Yes. bin the trouble is everyone tober?" school districts in lhe province, org by stilling -suffering every where knows she'd make him a good hus­ "1 mean! what .I'said/' insisted tin aui/ed according to the density of ihe is .i liniment thai has thr blessings of band, too." janilot, "Oclcmber." population, but none more than five hall a continent, ll is on sale every "Bui there isn't any such 'momIt.' miles in length and breadth wlirre and can be found wherever Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff, declared Findlay erujuired for Their Itinerary "That's why I made it On ember.' The family was going on an onli'ig answered the janitor. •— New Yoil Crawlord. Did vou have any iegu- The Last Great West in lhe woods, and moihei was pack­ Telegraph "Madc in Canada" lai schedule when you wem on your ing the lunch basket. Northern British Columbia is lhe motoring lour'' "Let me see," she murmured "Fve ' lasi.gieai undeveloped west F.vcry Crahshaw. Oh. no. we lust naiur- goi lettuce sandwiches, olive sand­ where else in the United Stales and aily stopped wherevei the car hap­ li wiches, peanul butler sandwiches, Canari-i - settlement has proceeded pened to have its breakdown —ludge rapidly, bill as yel, m lhe north of macaroons, pickles, ginger snaps and this province the newromei has hard chow-chow I wonder if I've forgot­ ly- madc a place lor himself Those ten anything." Do its Duty who know predict, thai the "las! great "How about putting in something west" will be lhe gieale.sl of all; its io eat?" said father, sai rustically. Nine times in ten when the liver Is r^M St agncultural possibilities will give il m stomach and bowels are right lln? course of liriie a development that "I shall never scold my husband CARTER'S LITTLE is noI now even guessed al. Hut that again foi spending so much tune at LIVER PILLS developme.nl will have to be guided the club." gently but firmly com Best for. Quality, Style and aided by judicious ("overtime rilnl "Tell me aboui il." pel • laiy live* to and Value. Guaran­ assistance.— Vancouver World "Well, last night a burglar got **nto do its duty the house, and my husband knocked Cures Con teed for all climates. him senseless with the poker I've • tipation, A deaf man was being marrtrd, and heard several men speak ol him as a Indiges thc parson asked lhe usual ijtie.slion, poker expert, lie has evidently been tion. ASK "Do yon take ihis woman for your practising al ihe club foi just such an Sick lawful wife'"' emergency I" YOUR "h"!]?" said the deaf man. Headache, and Distress after Eating, Small PHI, Sm Il Dose, Small Pric* "Do yon take this woman for 3'otir Belle: They say that limmy makes a DEALER lawful wife?" this time a bil louder. heller approaches than any man in Csenume must bear Signature 1 he groom seemed to gel angry. the club. "Oh. I don't know." lie said. "S!ie Jack: I should say he docs! The. am'l so awful. I've seen ivuss than first lime 1 mcl him I leni him twenty N, U. W. 1130 her thai didn't have as much money." dollars.—Brooklyn Life.

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THE GAZETTE. HEDLEY, B. C. France's Legacy After War New Railways Built and Other r".i- Improvements Made Through Exigencies of thc War When the merry'bells of peace ring throughout France, and her exiled VIANY MISLED BY OFFICIALLY CONTROLLED NEWS sons turn to their devastated homes OVER THREE THOUSAND COUNTRY ELEVATORS in Northern France, there will at least be some compensation for the Very Little is Known by the People of the Successes of the Allies deluge of blood and iron that turned Some Interesting Information Given by Mr. C. A. Dunning, their Edcnic fields into a hell. On thc West Front, and if Real Facts were Revealed, they Mr. Warner Allen, with timely General Manager of" the Saskatchewan Co-Operative Elevator Would Shake Foundations ot the Teutonic Empire thought, reminds France of what she will possess as a legacy from the Co., in Reference to Marketing Conditions in the __ o war. "There arc many places in Prairie Provinces France," he points out. "that have for In "An American's Report of Ten England ask, "Arcn'i they beginning years been clamoring for light rail­ o . Months in Germany," D. T. Curtiii. lo learn the truth?" I reply thai sonic way facilities. The exigencies of There arc in the three prairie pro­ of Boston, *"Mass., writes as follows: are, bin that thc great majority think modern, war have provided them to­ The cost of producing grain in Early in August last I was in Ber­ cxacilv what they are told. The vinces over.three thousand country Saskatchewan was stated by thc day with a profusion of railway com­ elevatois operating at thc prescnl lin. The. British-French offensive great newspaper searchlight today is munications, and when peace is de­ Saskatchewan Grain Commission lo which had begun on July 1, outward­ switched on l-Tindenburg. Almost all time with a total storage capacity of be approximately 62 cents to produce clared, however much the rails may about fifty-eight million bushels. Of ly appeared to attract liille notice in of these industrious human ants think have been torn up by shell fire, ihe and place at the railway poinl a German}'. Even in the highest mili­ of nothing bin Hindenburg. The loan these three thousand, a large num­ bushel in an average year, under aver­ tracks will slill bc there for future ber are owned by line companies. tary quarters it was considered Brit­ which is now dragging its slow use. age conditions by an. average farmer. ain's final bluff. Thc great maps in length along is the "Hindenburg Nearly two hundred are in "Manitoba At thc time this figure was made thc shop windows of every street loan"; Silesia has named a town Hin­ "Similarly, all along thc front roads operated by farmers' companies, two known there .was a great deal of criti­ showed no change, and still show no denburg; newly arrived infants are have been bioadcncd and multiplied. hundred and sixty-otic in Saskatche­ In certain districts, where the want of wan and about a hundred in Alberta. cism of it, but Mr.- Dunning said he , change ' worth noticing. "The maps loaded down with the name; lhe daily was glad to see thai this figure has water was the main obstacle to pro- | fh'csc""farmers' companies landled speak," say lhe Germans. tobacco stores display "Hindenburg been confirmed b:, the Census Bureau gress. hundreds of wells have been ; approximately one hundred million One hot evening in Berlin I me.i a cigars," and the, busi of the fierce- of the Dominion Government and the looking warrior is in every middle- L_,..I nn,i :, .,,.,,. i.„ ,iri, ... ,i,« t.n,j , -<-•------:•' -••- -, , "• ""- """"'"u" uovcrnmcrit and in- young officer whom I had known on obo.cdf hostililie. and sn madistricty tie s matwhic at hm e wer.tiuci bushels oi thc, 101-. crop and arc bc- Department of A<*n'culturc Trans a previous visit. 1 noticed he was ill class house. Thc deification of Hin­ | coming increasingly an impoi'.aut porlatiou and expenses to Liverpool denburg and the downfall of Eng­ practicallr\\ lwi£i iliyf ire barreriQlneln ansd wmeunpopulateh werde • f;u.l0-... ,-*-•. „ -,i, e handlin.: i g of th•e cro.p, of. . . .i„iii.imuii. iiuus and out ol" sorts. He fold me he had will enjoy abundance of water anc cost approximately 34 cents in aver­ been unexpectedly called to his regi­ land are the uppermost thoughts in Ihe West. age times from the ordinary Saskat­ the whole German mind. 1 hough a consequent prosperity Speaking al Kcgina on the market­ ment on the western front. "How is the factories which have chewan country point, which meant few thoughtful cynics in high'places "Then al ing of the grain through these clcva that when thc price of wheat went that?" I said. \lc madc that curious been constructed or the preparafon * _ . Q |") * general indescribable Germ an gesture which regard him as a well atlvei tized t0 rs V| A liml nff| below lhc dollar mark at Liverpool dummy. of acids, tar products powder, and ' lllan;]ircr 0f t'ie Co-operative Elcvator the farmer lost money. shows discontent and dissatisfaction. explos.vcs can bc easily tran-=ionncd I (Jompanv, showed in detail the vari- "These English," he. said,,"arc put­ into woiks that will UKIKC arttfic-ial j ^ . u-cn in the liandlinc; of lhe ting every man they have got into a OU> tc ps tu Substitute for Rubber penumes. photographic maienals. I a.op ;ls u.cl- a? l)ie varving k;ni|s 0f German Terribieness final ridiculous attempt to make us pharmaceutical products, and hot.) i documents used in the "movement of listen to peace terms. My leave was organic and inorganic chemical dyes. „ elevator cut short 1 his evening." We had a Australian Chemist Discovers Com­ lhc crop from l]le c0 mrv Never a More. Monstrous .Halliicina. With a view" to paving the way to­ glass of beer. "You have been to pound to Replace Regular lo the ocean port. tion Than That Which Holds wards this important transformation, Air. Dunning slated thai he had the England, haven't yon?" he inquired. Article J told him 1 had been there last year. a number of powerful associations opportunity of making comparisons the Teutonic Mind "They seem to have more soldiers A question asked in lhe legislative have been formed, of which one of in this direction when he was a For twenty-five months the Gcr* than wc thought," he said. "They assembly of Vicloria about steps to the most important is the "Syndicaf member of the "Royal Commissio.*. man soldier, like the German sailor, seem lo be learning the business. My prevent a certain valuable. Australian National des Matieres Colorante-*," appointed by the Government tonic has been sowing hate and loathing which is a combination of coal and battalion has suffered terribly." invention from falling into the hands lime ago to investigate marketing- and enduring detestation in thc metallurgical companies, papcrmak- conditions, and he had conic to the The next day there were other of the "rubber ring" have directed at­ ers. ilveis. textile manufacturers, c-ic. hearts of millions. lie has not won rumors in Berlin, rumors unknown tention lo a very interesting discov­ conclusion that the Canadian facili­ a world hy it; he has not won a war to the masses, ft was suggested to ery. Mr John Flint, Rushcuttcr's ties for handling grain with respect by it. The battles thai he has won me by a friend that if 1 wanted to Bay, near SydiiTy. has. like otheis Dreams of Annexations ; to legislative regulation, grading and | have been through thc superiority of learn the truth I should go lo Pols- all over the world, been experiment­ [handling generally were supcrior_to! his organization, or his preparation, dam and sec the arrival of the woun­ ing for years with a view to discov­ Germany Continues to Talk of Exten- ji,lho*sC of any olhei exporting cotin- not through the fear he has put in ded of the famous Prussian Guard, ering a substitute for rubber. He sion of Territory f'fhc Canadian facilities were far the hearts of his foes. There has who had had a terrible experience at claims to have solved the problem. never been a time when his foe — the hands of the English in Contal- His compound, which has been pat­ The national bond in Germany i** j more advanced and efficacious than that is, the individual fighting man —. maison on July 10. flc drew me ented wherever possible, is said to based upon force; nothing more true, nhose in Australia. In the Antipodes was afraid ol" him. aside and told me that the slate of have been partly the result ol" an ac­ And this is why the German people j the grain was handled in bags. Their What a strange delusion this Ger­ things on the Somiiic if known cident. He had been working for believe now, as they believed in ivS7(l, j girding system was known as the "'-". man idea is, at once ludicrous and re­ throughoul Germany would effective­ years upon a certain formula. that right is might. _ This is the ever-| A. Q.," or fair average quality style volting! How deeply into the mind lasting truth to which Prince Billow • and could not for one moment coin- ly destroy the pretension of the an­ In making up another formula he of the German has sunk thc chatter nexationist parly, who believed thai- gives utterance. There in noihing un- pare with the 'Canadian. Russia, as about a "superior race!" As if it were madc a mistake, and the resuli ex­ expected in il. But even if we arci ell, was behind in its facilities, and_ Germany had won the war and would ceeded the expectations which he W conceivable that people of the hold Belgium, thc conquered portion noi surprised al this opinion, ii makes | no onc \n '•'"uropc would buy Russian French. Russian or British nation cherished all along. To put his dis­ us pause to think. One of the. most I hcat without seeing it. with all iheir centuries of war and' of France and Poland. He told mc covery lo a severe lest, he made a w to go out to Potsdam with caution motorcar tyre, one-half of -which was intelligent men in Germany, one" \rr Dunning also rcfeircd to 'he courage, of battle and conquest bc- and warned me that 1 would have the rubber and the oilier halt ol* his com­ who.se political experience is ol thc agitation which is going on in some'hind them, could be shaken by the utmost difficulty in getting anywhere position. The tyre has been used widest, has only been able to draw ((U;ll-[Crs to permit mixing of grain in'mere prcscuie before them of troops near the.artillery signs al the railway onc . conclusion from thc terrible lhe terminal elevators and for pro-j of a nation which is but a newcomer for four months, has travelled 1,500 drama which is at present shakiui; station. miles and is still running. vincial grading. He thought it would i in the world and has seen its capital I asked another extremely well-in­ Europe to ils foundations, by the will bc the'greatest mistake in the world j occupied and its sovereigns liumil- formed friend if anything- parlicular Air. Flint admits that as regards of Germany—that is, that German to allow it. "The reputation of 1lic;iated, its armies routed and scattered was happening- in the war. and told actual wear his compound shows militarism must bc developed. "vVe Canadian Government grade ccrliii-|,-hy Frenchmen aud Russians more him I thoueht of going to Potsdam. slightly more depreciation than lhe must strengthen ourselves on our catc in Europe is loo valuable to'than once. m rubber, but it is doubtful whether an --•.if He said: "What for? There is no­ coasts and on our frontiers. The re­ lose," he continued. "Any mixing of _ Nor is it less preposterous for the thing seen there—the same old drill­ ordinary observer would notice it. sult of the war must not bc negative, Since then, however, he has improved grades would not deceive thc Euro- German to imagine that the men who ing and drilling." So well are secrets but positive. The re-establishment pcan miller for one moment, and our \ willingly and completely dedicate kept iii Germany. his_compound, and ils possibilities, as of the status cpio ante helium would a rival to rubber are plainly suggest­ certificate'-would bc held in the. same j their lives to the service of iheir /However, I went, and what T saw mean for Germany not a gain but a suspicion as that of the United j tonniry, who go forth to battle pre- ed by the fact that it can bc made al loss. Wc must insist upon an aug­ in Potsdam would,* if known to the a cost of 10 to 12 cents a pound. It States." v j pared to die, can bc frightened. Never German people, shake the very foun­ mentation of guarantees and of real is claimed for lhe new material that' securities." Canada is situated geographically! was Ihcre a more monstrous hallucm- dation of the 'empire. The" hypnotic at a. greater disadvantage than any i ation than ihat which holds the Tcu- it will serve all the purposes for Annexations and annexations, and effect of thc German newspapers is which rubber is used: thai it will not of ils competitors in the world's mar-J tonic-mind in thrall. The German not apprehended in Great Britain. still more annexations, such is thc kct. "We have a very long rail haul, I sees himself irresistible, terrible, all ignite; and that when heated it will theme of "Prince Bulow, just the same Those newspapers arc all directed not melt. and rail hauling of grain is the'most compelling; then he transfers this from the foreign office, which can as those oi Burian, Belhmaim, Tisza expensive, method. The UnitedI self-appraisal to the mind of his foe. manipulate 'the. thoughts .of these do­ and others. After four and twenty States can hardly bc taken into ac- T° ac.t upon the state of riiiiul he cile people and turn their attention to "Can you tell me where f can buy months of impotence) Germany con coun1 t because they are becoming less conceives to exist iu the enemy, he a particular part of the war with the a good, healthy rattlesnake?" fesses to what her intentions are. j an(j ( factor in the world's mar-i has recourse to devices which a fool- same celerity as the operator of a "What on earth do you want with What would lhey have been if, as •'led . Any grain which they export j »*"*h- nurse might employ to terrify ? searchlight can direct the beam to a rattlesnake?" she intended, she had won in sixj and which comes into competition nervous child. any part of the sky. For the moment "My cousin Bill in Florida just sent weeks? . . No. peace can be lust- j ing which is not founded upon the with Canada is chiefly exported from 1 here is only one thing that Ger the'whole German nation looks at the mc a pet alligator and 1 want to re­ the two coasts or close to the great nv.\x\ terribieness has accomplished in beam, nothing else. When people in ciprocate." - - complete and total defeat of Ger­ 115 many, a defeat which will enable the lakes, and thus thev have a short t' * world so far. It has dug a gulf conquerors to take lhe maximum of haul." ' between thc German and the rest Speaking- with reference to the Ar-lof civilized mankind. Millions of guarantees -against Prince Billow's nl e tor plans. ... : gentine. "Mr; Dunning stated that the[ . " the rest of 'their lifetime grain growing area is nowhere more I "•*•'..'" feel toward thc German as .most Prince Bulow knows the country than five hundred miles from water i ol. mankind feels toward a snake The will agree with him; bul in express­ transportation. This transportation ! crimes, the , offences against human- ing his views he pronounces the is not like our great lakes, which in-i itj\ decency, against all human and country's condemnation. German c n ne militarism and the German nation volves two or three transfers, but' ' '! '*}"' which has marked German is.one of the greatest rivers in thc j P°hcy since August, 1014, have open arc onc, he tells us. -Hence the neces­ etl :l sity imposed upon us of taking pre­ world. Ocean-going steamers come i . chasm that u will be m;uiv de right up to the ports. They have an cades before a new German spirit cautions in the future not only j could close.—Xew York Tribune against the military organization, but advantage in view of lhc fact that also against thc people who arc they have the .cheap peon labor, a J _ '. " identified therewith. — Lc Temps, thing not desired in Canada. Mr.! ^ Destruction ot Rheims French Conservative. Dunning pointed out that he was j Rhoims in time of peace Inn sis. Nausea smd Heartburn speaking at all limes of condiiio.'-s; thousand houses intaci; of thrsr. I WO as they exist in normal times and;thousand have been entirelv destroy You cannot have sick headache when 534,727 Teutons Takerl his whole address must be taken, ed and three thousand have hern your liver is right. Dr. Cassell's Instant The Paris Journal of September 1° from that point of view. [damaged more or less seriously l"hc Relief sots it right, and that is why it publishes a table of the prisoners and As to Australia, the wheal belt was.' Germans have KUUX at a disianre of cures sick headache and other***-bilious troubles so quickly, so booty captured by the Allies on the merely a belt and nothing else. The'just one mile from the Cathedral, and four principal fronts from July 1 lo surely, so thoroughly. Ifc is not violent, like so many prepara­ belt was round thc coast, for as J the Cathedral is in the verv heart of September IS. The captures of the tions, and you don't need to keep on taking it." It just helps everyone knew, the interior was a, Rheims. liven vviii; their held guns Kinrianian army and the Saloniki 1 : of .77 calibre stationed at Nogent your liver to regain its power, and thus natural action and great desert. In Australia the WiiC. army arc uol included. Thc figures ripened and was threshed right on 1'Abessee and in the famous tori of natural cure follow at ouce. arc: the field. There was no very great ! Brimont they can hurl shells upon ihe Machine Prison­ " Soisncs Sittings," a prominent English scientific journal, says expense involved, and they also had I Cathedral. Thc two greatest indns- (April 11, 1916):—" Providenoa has given us the brains to rioviso moans Guns Gnus ers an aihautagc in ocean transport:;-j tries of the city before the war were to compensate Natures for our ifl-traatment of her. . . . Tho moans French .. . . 1-15 729 .1.1,699 lion. The Australian tariff rcgula-; lhc woollen manufactures and the at hand oomo from natural sources, and we have thim embodied in British .. .. 109 )•?> 21,-150 suoh splendid combinations as Dr. Cassell's Instant Relief." tions with thc Motherland gave them j making of champagne wine- The Russian . . . . S-II 1.5S0 •102.-171 an advantage which Canada did not • Germans were unable to loot the bulk Take Dr. Cassell's Instant Iteliof for constipation, biliousness, torpid Italian .. . . 36 92 ;«,04S possess. Australia has a far mor.*|Of the champagne supply or to wreck liver, ei<-k headache, dizziness, speckn before tho eyes, flatulence and . windy spasms, acidity, heartburn, impure blood, and that dull, h

Destruction A Pathetic Picture Cut Down Fatal Wounds Taste and Manners Who Will Help the When the Kaiser's Entrance to Paris Speed Up Ambulance Service From Good Taste Is Largely a Matter of Boys at the Front Of Militarism Was Foiled French Battlefields to Hospitals Experience Dr. Alexis Carrell has announced What is the difference between Contributions of Games and Musical Further Military Successes Required That illuminating writer, Mr. Ifil- an impending reform in the methods, aire Belloc, who has written a whole taste and manners? Instruments Forwarded Through to Break the Obstructive Will of surgery throughout France which It may be bad manners to knock a '"';;• the Ontario W. C. T. U. volume on the glorious victory of the is likely to result in a vast diminu­ ''.':'' of Germany man down; but it is not necessarily Marne, makes thc disclosure that the. tion of amputation and fatal wounds. The Ontario VV. C. T. U. in No* Kaiser himself was a witness of that bad taste. vcmber, 1914, became responsible lor We quote 'he final sen fences of a He said; A rich man in Philadelphia gave a IalT'the document which, being prepared pri­ first disastrous defeat of his arm­ necessary money outlay m ies—a defeat that nothing the Ger­ "Grafting of the tissue of the bone reception and issued invitatiom cards -'connection wit' h the work of a Y Al. marily for influencing opinion in neu­ upon which were engraved his pic­ tral countries, has not found publica­ mans have since been able to do and flesh hitherto has been next to C. A. representative in France. lu could retrieve. It seems that the impossible, owing to the difficulty of ture. This was not bad manners. It January of 1914 two such men were tion iii our ordinary press. After a was certainly bad taste. .•'.•••••,...' rehearsal of the necessities which Kaiser had prepared to ride forward transporting the wounded from the taken under our care. In all, we have brought the Allies into conflict with into Paris in all the glory of his field to the hospital before gangrene A large, handsome woman once Y. M. C. A. representatives. "shining armor," but he arrived at the German claims, and which com­ or infection have set in. broke] into a meeting of President • these—Capts. Oscar Irwin and Harry pel us to continue fighting until the plateau of Amancc only to see the "The American ambulance, how­ Lincoln's cabinet-,. .., interruptin...... * g the vVhiteman—died in France. A third. Prussian militarism is destroyed, the rout of his troops. Says Mr. Belloc: ever, has demonstrated the possibil­ proceedings. The homely Lincoln was' invalided home. Wc are now signatories of'this document, amongst "Thc little, aged figure of that un­ ity, with an efficient transport de­ arose and, addressing her,' said: supplying all thc needed support lor whom we note consistent supporters fortunate man, whose physical disa­ partment, of getting the ' wounded "Madam, what do you wish?" Capts. Ed. Archibald and Charters of our cause, such as Mr. Archer, bilities were perhaps in part respon­ soldier from the battlefield to the She replied: Sharpe. Professor Gilbert Murray and Pro­ sible for the war, was to be seen hospital within ten hours. Heretofore "I came in here to take a look at The following letter from Capt. Ed." fessor Hobhouse, give the following from the French lines watching, the the average time has been twenty- you." • Archibald has recently .arrived: "Well, madam," he replied, "in the account of our national demand: battle from the ground behind. He four hours, which entailed much loss France^ "When our ministers spoke of des­ was distant fronv the nearest obser­ of life and many otherwise needless matter of looking, I have a distinct advantage of you." Dear Mrs. Thornley,—I received " J troying Prussian militarism, they vers by more than the common range amputations. the marked Testaments and the leaf- of a field piece; he was caught-only . "The French Army Medical Service That was both bad taste and bad meant the ending of a system which Y K for which cce our heart / has compelled all Europe to arm, and by the careful" scanning of glasses; (frankly recognizes the splendid aimers on her part; on the part of i J^?P'thanks. " **- P- - but the figure and its surroundings Lincoln^ it was good manners anaimd i w„.,:„„ i»„- • .. i . now to send all its sons to die in methods of the American- hospital, Ccn ted ovcrs •million's. That system can be ended were unmistakable. Grouped about and has decided to speed up its trans­ good taste to refrain from throwing L?*^"*-J?, **PP°-.-- -° f him was the "brilliant staff" of the heK—r ou.....t. o-rf thii.e. window...:„,i , a„s. i.-.n. _....stric: *t I the - physical recreation and- sports. as soon, as Germany is ready to ac­ port everywhere and generalize the for the whole Canadian corps,, 1 am' cept what most other nations have newspapers and stage; and the "White use of Dakcn solution for the wash­ justice, he should have done m a osit Cuirassiers, which were to be the es­ Good taste is largely a mittpr e>f \' P ion to use anything in the long* desired, the settlement of inter­ ing of suppurating wounds, thus ren­ *-*l!way of outdoor or indoor games — national question by peaceful arbitra­ cort of his triumph, were massed to dering possible a vast campaign of experience, united to natural abili- thc left and behind. Pie had also put ties. bascball, football, lacrosse, tennis,; tion or co-operation in council, and grafting which will result in enor­ checkers, chess, dominoes, etc., etc.— not by the open or secret menace of on for that day the white uniform of mous progress in that branch of sur- To go up to your father-in-law at that corps and the silver helmet. It anything out ot which the boys could the sword." gery." your wedding breakfast with a bottle get pleasure and exercise! was pathetic and a little grotesque." of champagne in your hand and, slap Here, it. seems to us, is < the clear I 1 also want all sorts of small mu- statement of the first condition of a The Kaiser has had . many disap­ Prevention of Hail •W^»0?-lnhn SMS^ 5'"} |sical instruments-concertinas, flutes, pointments since, but it is .to be t settlement. It is not certain that any banneri'bu?^fched en2."- *«?'"- £"•*. n™*?*™'*^ military victory, however decisive, doubted if he ever experienced such a French Invention Which Is Said to ior they arc a rcat lactor in our eu bitter disappointment as he suffered pecially if the old gentleman is worth *- can in itself bring the ending of the . Prevent the Formation of Hail a million. tertainments. . Prussian system, or can even compel when he found that he would not be In most parts of Canada we are To be told that, your friend is too Wc have been having some trying the German people to desire its end allowed to enter Paris in the charac­ times lately and have lost a large' ter of conqueror.—From the Montreal particularly free from those disturb­ busy'to see you in his office and then instead of desiring to foster it for ances of nature which involve the number of our men. But there must some distant revenge. It is probable Herald. to call him up over the nearest tele­ destruction of life and property. phone, is "not necessarily bad taste, bc no pause in our service, whatever that further military successes for the casualties.—Yours in the work,. the Allies will be required to break Of course we have our own trou­ but bad manners. The two may go Germany's Crimes in Africa bles. In the east there are gales and together, but this is not an invariable Ed. is. Archibald.'" the old obstructive will of Germany. No one can read 'the accounts of But there are signs that, with the often high tides, which inundate rule.—Life. , . ',.•-. large areas. In the west there are !life aL thc front without realizing die gigantic loss of life she has sustained Enemy Officers Order. Atrocities, intolerable strain under which our and with the certainty of further dis­ the "prairie twisters," which some­ Saying Colonial War Is times wreck a whole city. But.no­ Pastoral Scenes Near men live. Again and again Capt. asters staring her in the face, she Uncivilized Archibald and other Y. M. C. A. wor­ is ripening for a repudiation of all thing like the national disasters of Not only does the Hun practice his other countries has ever overcome The Firing Line kers have mentioned the absolute her conquests." If Germany could r policy of blind, indiscriminate mutil­ us. . • • 7 Barbed Wire Used to Prevent Cows need lor recreation and-tne soothing be brought to such a definite repu­ helpful influence of music and games, diation, and to a clear expression of ation of the wounded, the infliction • But there is much' damage occa­ Knocking Over Aiming Posts of awful crimes upon the helpless sioned each year.by lightning and One can hardly... tell where peace in thousands of Canadian homes her willingness to enter such a Euro­ therc are just such unused articles as pean system as is proposed, a pre­ women and children in territory at hail. In Europe out of every 2,000,000 ends and war begins, in this country. liminary basis for negotiations would present occupied by himself in Eur­ deaths about two are caused,by light­ I saw a field with one or two rather Capt. Archibald needs, lhe boys have been reached. We should then ope, but in his insenatc rage he visits ning. In South Africa the number, is fresh shell holes in it, from which the have grown to men and gone their be some distance from concrete terms his_ spleen and hate upon harmless 55, and im this country not more than grain was being harvested. Farmers ways out into thc world; and the of settlement.—The Nation. natives of African territories. . The eight. •'•.•-. ,: ••". carry their operations up to and,even once cherished flute or mouth-organ London Daily Express publishes the Hail damage alone causes much de­ beyond our gun positions. In fact, we or football is lying away in some tor- following as proof of this assertion: struction in South Africa. Because drove.biii* guns aiid wagon into a field gotten corner. Look lor it, mother World Record Hen "War in the colonies is uncivilized of this the South African farmers are which had been manured and partly dear, and send it to us,'that it may and .does not come under The Hague particularly interested in a French plowed. A field of oats were neatly help those other brave 'lads to bear Produced at Gueiph convention." device known as "Parahail," which is stooked in front, and some of the their almost intolerable burdens. This remarkable statement was supposed to prevent hail from form­ stooks had to be moved out of the But if you should have nothing of Champion Barred Rock During Last made'by a senior German officer in ing in the upper regions. way. In some cases we have had to the kind—perhaps the grandchildren the Kameroons to a British officer. A parahail is simply .a tall steel and put barbed wire around our aiming have taken possession—and are still Year Laid 310 Eggs It is printed in a blue book published copper post extending down into per­ posts to prevent the cows from I minded to help, you can send us the Ontario's .Agricultural College at recently, describing such an astonish­ manent moisture, and it acts on 'he knocking them over. It is something money to buy anything you desig­ Guelph has produced, according-. to ing series of German atrocities and same principle as does a lightning of a nuisance to have to drive the nate. Should you decide to purchase the records in the hands of the De­ breaches of the rules' of war as make rod. _, beasts out' of the way .of our shoot­ yourself, please do not get several partment of Agriculture, a world- it impossible ever again to include No theory was involved in. the in­ ing irons; instruments when the money you ex­ rccord-beating hen. For some years Germany among the civilized nations vention. It was observed that in the pend would procure one article that' now the poultry branch at the college of the world. Even when carrying on his opera­ would give real satisfaction. F"or in­ vicinity of the Eiffel Tower in Paris tions in the war zone the Belgian has been specializing upon thc Barred The papers include a series of offi­ no hail ever fell. The same was ob­ stance, the 35c mouth-organ is not to Rock species as a utility breed of farmer maintains his reputation as a be compared with the 75c make in cial reports from October, 1914, deal­ served in other places where tall tow­ careful and skillful tiller .of the soil; poultry both for egg and meat pro­ ing generally with German cruelty ers had been erected. The French tone, range and durability, lhe key duction. During the past year one indeed, fields actually under fire ap­ shown to the native inhabitants of the Government became interested, and pear to be cleaner and better culti­ desired is C, if that is procurable. member' of the flock laid 310 eggs. Kameroons and East Africa. Terrible in 1915 exhaustive experiments were Where the keys are alike or can be This is the greatest number of eggs vated than some of those farther examples are given of German cruel­ carried out regarding the matter. It back. harmonized, trench concerts can be laid by any hen of this breed in one ty to natives, including women, be­ has been demonstrated that even otd- arranged. year, so far as official world's records cause of their British sympathies. inary lightning conductors have a In company with a friend I spent And that box of dominoes, or the are obtainable. The Germans hanged the King of modifying influence on the formation one of my days off in the inspection checker board or chess set — hunt of a Belgian grist mill operated by The world's record in egg-laying/ Bomking and shot several of his of hail. them up and send them along to the for hens of all breeds is 314 eggs in a wind power. The mill was. of the old people because they refused to take The theory is that atmospheric Dutch type, very old, it was built in City W. C. T. U. Headquarters, 432 year, and the Ontario champion had up arms against the English. electricity is necessary in order that Park Avenue, London, Ontario, Can­ ten days of her twelve-month still to 1785, and looks its age. Mills like The blue book also contains par­ hail may be produced. Otherwise this are erected on the highest ground ada, where all the supplies for Capt. - go when she fell a victim to the heat ticulars of the poisoning of wells in thc moisture falls in large soft flakes Archibald's work are being gathered. and suddenly departed life. Her available, so rs to take full advantage' (late) German Southwest Africa. of snow. Meteorologists never have of the wind. The mill which I visit­ Please do not forget the last two demise is believed to have spoiled a General Louis Botha states that on been unanimous regarding ideas of items of this address, for since the new .world record, since to the time ed is about 35 feet in height.- The the occupation of Swakopmund six the formation of snow, hail and fro­ building for holding the grain is fif­ war began many a leitei intended for of her death she was laying an egg a wells had been poisoned by means of zen fain—for, by the way, hail is not this town has crossed the ocean. day as regularly as clock-work. teen to, twenty feet high, twelve feet arsenic. In some instances bags full simply frozen rain. Therefore the square, is built on a single-beam or As fast as enough material is receiv­ Thc Ontario Agricultural College, of poison were found in wells. t electric theory, improbable as it may axis, and is some twenty feet above ed to fill a barrel, it will be shipped. however, has not abandoned the cov­ TMajor-General Dobell, reporting to seem, is not antagonistic to facts the ground level.. The sweep of the Both Capts. Archibald and Sharpe eted goal. The poultry department the war office on Jan. 28, from gen­ which we already possess. sails makes a circle of sixty feet. are anxious for Gospel portions. They this year has produced more hens eral headquarters, Duala, says that The posts used in the experiments The sails are four feet wide, .and are can also use an unlimited quantity who have laid an average of 200 eggs the Germans adopted a systematic in FYance cost about $1,000, and were covered with canvas. On very windy of the specifically prepared soldier's per year than ever before. Among policy of extreme brutality towards erected two and a half miles apart days the sail is shortened in order-to leaflets. These arc daintily gotten up these successful layers the daughters those natives who they considered each way. One post is reckoned to lessen the power developed. All the and $1'00 buys 50 copies. They carry of the dead champion stand among- might favor thc allied forces. "From protect about 4,000 acres. This cogs and wheels used in the gearing the Good News in winning language the highest producers, indicating that the military point of view," he says, means that the average annual ex­ arc of wood. A remarkable thing and attractive dress. they intend to keep up the family "they obtained certain advantage by pense per acre should not exceed two about the structure is that when\the Hoping, that those who are at tradition. their methods, in that the natives or three cents. ' wind changes the whole building is home may help promptly; -and r.hat So far as official records go, the were terrified, and afraid to give in­ It may be that the posts which turned 'around on its axis by means those who are still holidaying may high-water mark in egg-laying pre­ formation of their movements," have proven so effective under of a beam running out on a slant from not forget the appeal until-such times viously reached by the Barred Rock- French conditions as to interest the the building to the ground. This re­ as they can respond to it; and on be­ species was 282 for the year. This Frcuc.i Covernrr"*nt in experimenting sembles the trail of a gun in its ap­ half of the. Ontario VV. C. T. U. Hear­ record was made three years ago. Sugar's History with them iu the year 1915, will not pearance and action. In addition to tily thanking you, Mr. Editor, for-'he The average annual production of the prove practical under Canadian con­ serving as a lever the beam supports space so kindly accorded, etc.—(Mrs.) ordinary barnyard hen is 80 eggs per Has Been Known and Used Since the ditions. Perhaps our thunder and the stairs leading up to the mill. Al­ May R. Thornley, Pres. W. C. T. U. year. Beginning of Time hailstorms are of a different charac­ though the building is 130 odd years Patriotic and Missionary Board, 843 The experiments at the college arc ter. Nevertheless, the proposition is old, the mill is probably able to de­ Dundas Street, London, Ontario. The beginning of sugar's history velop close to fifteen horse-power in being carried on by Professor W. R. is lost in the mists of antiquity. wprth looking into. It might be that Graham, regarded as one of the best such posts would completely protect a fair wind, but on account of the It has becn known since the dawn rough, wasteful machinery, the grind­ War Reduces Crime and Insanity poultrymcn on thc continent. The of history, but not in all countries, thc surrounding areas from lightning. Provincial Department of Agriculture South Africa is, of course, much more ing capacity is not over one to onc Dr. William Graham, an authority and the Chinese appear to have de­ and a half hundred-weight per hour. on mental disease and crimonology, has already distributed 8,000 settings lighted their palates with some sort interested in this proposition than we of eggs through the district repre­ arc, with her unusually high lightning states: "The fact is indisputable," lie of sugar for more than 3,000 years. The carts used here are about as affirms, "that insanity, like crime, sentatives and the school fairs to It was known in India earlier than in death loss. Nevertheless, the prairie children in Ontario desirous of going provinces, with their occasional vio­ old and as interesting as the wind has lessened during the period of Europe, being made from a juicy grist mills, 'lhey are all three-wheel­ the war. It will not do to say that into the poultry business. — Toronto reed or cane. lent thunder and hail storms, should Globe. have a very real interest in a propo­ ed affairs, two good sized ones be­ the vast number of men called to One of the generals of Alexander sition of this sort. We should find hind and a small one in front. There the colors include some who might the Great is said to have carried su­ are no shafts, but there is a brake to j A Matter of Fact out more about what the French are otherwise bc reckoned among our gar to Greece in the year 325 B.C., doing. hold the weight in going down hill. | asylum population, for the greatest A visitor to a Sunday school was as Sir Walter Raleigh, some 2,000 These carts are used for medium to reduction is among women, 119 being asked to address a few remarks to years later, carried tobacco from heavy work, and, despite their ancient admitted in 1915 against 154 in 1913. the children. He took thc familiar Virginia to England. But even as Canadian Airman's Exploit appearance, they are much easier on theme of the children who mocked late as A. D. 150 sugar was stili a horses than the two-wheeled wagons .Discussing these facts, Dr. Bernard Elisha on his journey to Be'thcl — rarity in Greece. so common in England. •Hollander pointed out three main Warm congratulations appear in factors in the decline: The increased how the young ones taunted the " The famous physician, Galen, used the British press on the prowess of Somewhere in Belgium. — Gordon prophet, and how they were pun­ it as a remedy for certain maladies. Furrow, in Toronto Globe. prosperity of the working classes; Lieut. Ernest Hicks, who has just re­ the effect of military discipline and ished when two "she bears came out The invention of thc first process ceived the Military Cross after bring­ of the wood and ate forty-and-two for refining sugar is ascribed to the What Is Farming? hard work on men; and the more ing down two enemy machines and purposeful lives of women. of them. "And now, children," said Arabs, and a Venetian merchant is driving three others back over lhc I*"arniing is not breaking clods; he, "what does this story show?" said to have purchased the secret lines, and bombed trains. farming is not moving soil; farming "It is the discipline of work that "Please, sir," came from a little from thern and introduced the pro­ is not ploughing—these are some of leads to discipline of mind, and thus Hicks is a Canadian. It is barely prevents insanity." Dr. Graham in girl in the front row, "it shows Ifow cess into Sicily. four months since he made his first the little bits of inevitable, unavoid­ many children two she bears can The refining of sugar was first flight. He came over with the Prin­ able experience and labor. Farming his reports mentions neurasthenics hold!" practised in England about 1659. cess Pats and was wounded in the is gathering sunshine, preparing the as being specially benefited by the second battle of Ypres. He was af­ soil and the seed that the plant may war. Literally Construed 'You once kept a cook lor a whole terwards transferred to the Royal come and gather in sunshine and Publisher: What you want to avoid month, you say?" Flying Corps. strength from Mother Earth. This "We girls had hardships when we is writing over the heads of the "Yes." is better than speculation or making camped out—only one drinking gliss people. "Remarkable. How did you man- Crawford: Last autumn he sold his money on the stock exchange, where­ among five girls." Author: I know it. If you take this age ?" bungalow and bought a car. by the other fellow becomes poorer. "Horrors!" book, I'll be able to give up.my attic "We were cruising on a house-boat Crakshaw: Now he's sold ihe car It is gathering and humanizing for "And only one mirror." room and do my writing on the and she couldn't swim." — Pittsburg and rented the bungalow.—Dallas the service of the race the great un­ "Good night!"—Kansas City Jour- ground floor. Chronicle-Telegraph. News. used powers of Nature. nal.

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As a source of wealth, pasture lands Merman Loss in Colonies come next to minerals. Dr. William Sending Relief Supplies Good Seed The Prosperity of Macdonald, • the South African agri­ Is Canada's Gain cultural expert, who visited the col­ Turkey Now Admits , Starvation of Government Commission Will Inves­ Southern Alberta ony a couple of years ago/described Syrians tigate Grain Seed Conditions Phenomenal Yields of Grain Streng­ Invoice of Empire's New Possessions it as a land of enormous agricultural Captured in War The solicitations of the English Nothing is of more importance to thens Confidence in the Country possibilities, destined to become one and. French ambassadors at Wash­ the western farmer than he should t Because of Britain's mastery of the of the finest ranch countries in the ington, supported by many citizens have good seed. If he has poor seed,] The following editorial from The [even seas and by aid of her overseas world. Dr. Rbhrback, the German of the United States, for the trans­ no matter how early the season or Morning Albertan, of Calgary, is re­ dominions, the acquisition by con­ Imperial Emigration Commissioner, mission of relief supplies to the how. propitious are the growing con­ printed without comment. It tells its quest of vast German colonies has ta­ estimated that the grazing steppes, starving thousands of Syrians have ditions, ;his crop.cannot be good. own story: vern place.'' "777 stretching from the Orange River in The statements that Southern Al­ I at length prevailed. Enver Pasha, it The department of agriculture of berta can honestly make respecting For Canada the chief material in­ the south • of Kunene in the north, will be recalled, denied that starva­ the Dominion Government has always terest of these conquests lies in trade were equal in area to the German its grain crop this year are such, as tion conditions existed,'and that if it paid great attention to this question should prove a powerful incentive to possibilities. Canada's western ports Empire in Europe and' capable", of did, the Government of the Sultan of good seed and testing laboratories 1 e within easy reach , of Australasia, maintaining nearly 1,000,000 Europe­ prospective settlers. There is no need would adopt- its: own measures of re­ are provided at many prairie points of drawing the long bow, or of un-• l/hii.e. South west Africa is available-to ans. Stocks of live stock in 1914 were lief.' Events showed that the meas­ to" which farmers may send samples ler Atlantic ports. The future needs approximately 1,500,000 head, includ­ ures emanating from Constantinople seemly boasting. The plain narration ing'horses; cattle, sheep and'goats. of their grain so--that its germination of the facts will suffice. %i these new dominions are produced consisted of the usual border to "mas­ qualities may, be determined. All . With regard to agriculture, there sacre." From the reports^ which the thresh­ large measure, in Canada. This are already 1,330 farms, comprising these precautions, however, are based ers are turning, in, it is apparent that ountry with Its enormous surplus of 33,484,000 acres", but only 13,000 acres The facts established, the Wash­ oh the premise that there is good seed this season's harvest is an average gricultural products and its pheno­ arc under actual cultivation. Four- ington Minister at Constantinople available*'in the country, as there gen­ j one only in comparison with the phe- menal increase in manufacturing tenths of this area is in the Groot- adopted a firm attitude on the ques­ erally has been. Inomenal yields of a year ago. Meas­ (.•uipment • must look abroad when fontein district and three-tenths in tion, and now, after thousands of This year, however, it is stated that ured by all other standards, it is itself jie war is over for markets. It is of the, Windhuk district. Mealies, pota­ lives have been starved to death, the owing to the poor crop in. thc north­ something to wonder at. The case of tluq, therefore, that these new pro- toes, lucerne, melons, vegetables, military authorities at Beyrout have ern part of the United States our the. big Noble farm, on the Alder- ices should be known. grapes, and tobacco are the principal agreed to permit food and drugs to neighbors across the line will be com­ syde-Kipp branch of the C.P.R., Those, in Australasia consist chicf- articles grown. Much might be "done land under the aegis of the Red pelled to come to Canada for a great which is expecting to thresh at an of groups of -small islands stretch- by improved methods of farming and Cross and Red Crescent Societies. proportion of their supply. It is fur­ average rate of 52 bushels to the ] \g across the Pacific Ocean from ther said that there are already agems ,ie Philippines to the French Mar- by means of irrigation, since the land acre from 1,000 acres, and to beat the juesas, .which were' taken from is quite fertile. German authorities Pen Picture of Prairies from the. United States in the Can­ world's record, is only an isolated in­ jerniany in -August and September, had partly developed a huge irriga­ adian West for the purpose of, buying stance. Records of 40, 45 and 50 bush- • >l4,''by Australia and Japan. tion scheme to redeem an immense By a Western Author seed. In view of these circumstances j els to the acre are-being reported so 'The British Trade Journal, in the area for agriculture. "British occu­ the department of agriculture is about often that the narration becomes a "•sue of "August" 1, says: "As a com- pation," says a United States journal to appoint a commission whose duty commonplace. The'; fact is, every in reference to the conquest, "will Robt. J. C. Stead Contributes to the it will be to see that enough good farmer in • thc southern country who hercial community it behooves us to Wealth of Canadian Literature [ike stock' of these new acquisitions, lead, to far more rapid development, seed is kept in Canada for next year's'has cultivated his land properly is jhd to ascertain whether the plant­ with an influx of capital, especially in His New Novel planting. This is a wise and timely | achieving splendid results, and the for exploiting its mining possibilities. action on the part of the,government, i average production will be such that ers and .traders of the British Ein- Western Canada affords a natural l l e ('"ire ' cannot • turn them to good ac- setting for literary masterpieces, and one whose value will perhaps bcL ' . compiler of publicity pamphlets Thc Portuguese explorer, Diaz, more generally recognized in- • '-six I. will -hesitate 'to' print the figures for 'oun't. Here in brief is the official first landed on the coast in 1486. It with its wonderful background ot icar of 'avoice: has been suggested that the territory prairie and mountain, but, generally months' time than it is today.—Cal- i being denounced as a lier. Kaiser Wilhclm's Land, " 70,000 be renamed ,Bbthaland after Britain's speaking, literary men have as yet gary Herald. I Right here, in the fertile district -ptare miles of New Guinea. famous Boer statesman-general, who made no serious attempt to do the which is tributary lo Calgary, it can Bismarck- Archipelago, 22,640 conquered it. setting justice. Une average story be claimed in all truth that no more f'quare miles. What Holland is Doing abundant harvest and no grain of a of the West, written by someone who finer quality is being produced this CaVoline, Pelaw, Marianne, and The Old-Fashioned Hymns knows the country only from the car Splendid Work in Caring for Small year anywhere on the continent. Let lylarshall Islands, 1,000 square miles. window,'or from the fiction of others Nation of Refugees us realize that we are blessed indeed Of .these by far the most .valuable whose information was as meagre as One of the redeeming and out­ iu having the good fortune to c'.vvell the New Guinea section',' having a Old Hymns Sound Sweeter Than the his own, bears the mark of stage standing features of this desperate in such a region. As the mayor re­ population, according' to", thc latest Modern Compositions scenery in every chapter, and passes war has been the attitude of the marked after his recent trip, during '.etui-ns, of 450,000, including. 280 n C for "the real thing" only among neutral nations towards the distress­ which he saw with his own eyes the ... a- I ^ °' -* Tennessee darky got up in readers who have no personal knowl­ Europeans tobacco, x:otton,_conee,-| .t mass meeting of negroes attending ed belligerents who have sought their riches of the land, it is "a country of ind the cocoa-palm succeed well, and edge of the suLject. solid prosperity." """""" """' the national Baptist convention in Fortunately Western Canada is her­ hospitality. she forests contain valuable woods. Kansas City the other night, called It is scarcely realized how great j [Petrolcum deposits have becn discov- self producing a new generation of the choir down for not singing an old writers who promise to redeem the a strain it has been upon the resour­ ired-.near Eitapc. The imports in 1912 time hymn like it ought to be sung, ces of Holland, for instance, to re­ The Cattle King of Australia ,'ere valued at $2,300,000 and the-ex- country from the makcrbclieve litera­ and then showed them how to sing ture of the transient novelist. In ceive and care for the crowds of Bel­ Although Enormously Wealthy, Sits -.orts-at $3,020,000. it. gian exiles who have streamed over To the.east of New Guinea is the this respect it must be said that on Valise in London Street "Dat ain't de way my mammy used women have so far contributed rather her borders; but" it is really wonder­ Bismarck Archipelago, consisting to sing it down in de cotton fields," ful what the Dutch have done in the Smoking Pipe liefly of New Britain, New Ireland, more than their share. Airs. McClung he declared, interrupting the choris­ and Mrs. Murphy have caught the exercise of their instincts of human­ Wc have a cattle king in Australia, f-'New .Hanover, the Admiralty ls- ter, a modern. musician. ity. lands,:Buka and Bougainville. These breath of true western inspiration in Mr. Sidney Kidman. It will help to included, the area is about 31,500 "Amen!" shouted the older mem­ many of .their chapters,-and have al­ That they have spared neither per­ form an idea of the extent of his square miles, and . the population bers of the congregation, and then in ready made an impress on Canadian sonal effort nor money is amply realm when it is stated that the area .300,000; including .about 360 Euro­ a little while he had them all singing life. , Ralph Connor, although the borne out';.by the startling fact that of country held by him, mostly on peans. The chief exports are copra, the old hymn in a way that would best known and most widely read of in Holland's Budget for 1916 no less leasehold from the state govern­ [pearl shell, ivory,, nuts, sandalwood take you plumb to glory. 7 all Western Canadian authors, has than one-eighth, or thereabouts, of ments, aggregates at least 50,000 and tortoise shell, and there are many We didn't hear the ; singing, of been somewhat limited in his types the expenditure is allocated entirely square miles. These figures . may (,cocoanut plantations. of course/but we've heard some mod­ of characters. R. W. Service has to the maintenance and relief of tiie make Mr. Kidman look like a mon­ Belgian refugees. The" Caroline and Marshall Is- ern choirs, and also we remember written of the North rather than the opolist, but his biggest leaseholds how in the days of our forefathers West. The Dutch had nothing -to gain arc in places where nobody else went 1 lands form two distinct groups north either in goodwill or future interest, of New Guinea. They are of coral even white folks used to sing the old Robert J. C. Stead, of Calgary, and it is very likely.that but for him formation, and many are uninhab­ hymns. So we can imagine how it all promises to restore the balance of ihe but spontaneously local committees huge areas that are stocked -would ited." The Carolines were purchased happened. We are quite sure had we male sex, and at the same time make sprang up in all directions, and, in otherwise not have been utilized. His by Germany from Spain in 1899 for been there we should have added our a permanent contribution to.Canadian addition to general private hospital­ huge "out back" ventures, subject to about $4,200,000. The chief islands "Amen!" to those of the congrega­ literature, by his new novel, "The ity, camps were organized with extra­ drought like Australia is, entails cor­ f'in this group are-Yap, Ponapi, and tion. Homesteaders,", the. first copies of ordinary rapidity for the housing and respondingly big risks. Mr. Kidman relief of the destitute. Kusai, and its. area is about 560 Wc wouldn't say a word against J which have just arrived from Eng­ mentioned a couple of days ago, in square miles, the population being land. Mr; Stead is already widely ..One little Dutch village of 1,300 in­ reply to assertions that his holdings modern choirs or modern hymns for habitants made means to welcome 25,- f 50,000., The Marshall group consists the world. But we can remember a known as a virile and original-writer. were not sufficiently stocked, that last •oi two chains or sub-groups, one No author can claim more intimate 000 refugees. Since then the work of year's drought meant to him a-loss time, before the day of salaried choirs mercy and relief has proceeded along known as Ratal and the other one and anthems and such, when folks knowledge of the West, and none has of 28,000 head of cattle on one run lvno\Vn as Ratak, both ranging south­ shown greater fidelity or sympathy lines of well-thought-out and metho­ alone. He mentioned also by way of used to sing like _ they had religion dical philanthropy, as the problem east-to northwest. - The whole of the sure enough. They didn't put the in his writings. Three volumes of illustration of other difficulties, that Marshall Archipelagoes composed of verse which paid their way in a time of dealing with some 100,000 home­ when he recently bought "some" trills and quavers of the' modern sin­ less exiles called for something which .some thirty-three atolls, 160 square gers in their singing, perhaps, and the when verse was little in demand cattle, including 18,000 cows, in miles' in area. They were annexed to established him in the literary field. even abundant sympathy cannot con­ Queensland, with the intention of re­ Germany ab.out 1885. The population hymns didn't sound so much like a tinuously supply. cross between an opera and an old His recent verses on the death of stocking drought-afflicted holdings in is about 15,000, consisting mainly of Kitchener have been reprinted by the In four large camps are now con­ South Australia, the Queensland gov­ !'' Micronesians, who are skilled naviga­ cotillon tune as the new-fangled centrated some 16,000 persons," who hymns do. But they sang like they leading literary publications in all ernment concerned itself only with tors". The exports are chiefly copra parts of the Empire and the United have neither friends nor means to keeping down the price of meat with-, and phosphate. meant it, and while we are not a find hospitality like more fortunate musical highbrow; and could not tell States, and are universally regard­ in its own boundaries and refused to The Pelaw group consists of ed, as the finest tribute paid to the refugees. These camps are complete let any of these cattle go across the the difference between a sonata and cities of refuge, fully provided with twenty-six islands, of which six are a symphony if we heard them, we great general. A selection from border. • inhabited, the total area being about Mr. Stead's ' poems was also chosen hospitals, creches, dispensaries, isola­ Ranch king and millionaire that he will make bold to say.that those old tion wards,, and schools. Doctors, 250 .square miles. The group is sur­ hymns sounded sweeter as they rose some time ago as the inscription to is, Mr. Kidman remains surprisingly rounded by a coral reef. The popu­ appear on a monument in Aldershot nurses, and nuns give their services, modest in manner, speech and mode to the throne of the Most High than and they work in conjunction with lation is about 10,000. The Marianna any modern hymn that ever was com­ military cemetery. of living. He left his home near Ade­ Islands have an area of about 250 The Calgary author's first novel, the Society of Friends, whose organ­ laide, South Australia, when 13 years posed.—Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, ization, under the leadership of Miss square miles, a population of ' about Texas. "The Ball Jumper," published two of age, to make his own way in the 10,000. In this group the islands are years ago, won instantaneous recog­ Vullamy, is one of the most remark­ world.-. He was proud when, at the fifteen in number, and all, except nition as a distinctive type of Can­ able features of the scheme of relief. start, he earned ten shillings a wceit. Guam, belonged to Germany, which Poisonous Plants adian story. Those who have been But in addition to the poorer re­ A little story about him published in bought them from Spain. Guam had privileged to read "The Homestead­ fugees thus provided for, therc are the press during the week is worth been ceded by Spain to the United ers" declare that it reveals a literary over 80,000 being relieved otherwise repeating. It is to the effect that a States in 1898, and is used by the Some Plants Owe Their Defense to throughout the country. Deadly Poisons art and a skill of conception and con­ couple of years ago, finding that he Americans as a coaling station. Ten struction not excelled by any Cana­ Nor is the future of these refugees had a little time to spare, he visited of the group are of volcanic origin; . There are many kinds of prepared­ dian author. The story opens with overlooked. Holland's guests are not Europe. Arriving in London, this of these only four are inhabited; five ness in the plant world. Some plants the land boom of Manitoba in 1882, only given their livelihood now; they plainly dressed, weatherbeatcn man, are coralline limestone islands. All secrete a milky juice which exudes and closes with a similar boom in are also, one and all, accumulating in a slouch hat, and carrying a rather are densely wooded and the vegeta­ whenever the plant is injured, and Alberta 25 years later. It is a talc funds with which, in due time, they old-fashioned valise, suddenly turned tion luxuriant, the chief productions which usually covers the invader with to grip the hearts of the old-timers, may have every hope of starting to into High Holborn Road. For a min­ being cocoanut, areca palms, yams, a touch of raw india rubber. Others while carrying a plot of love and ad­ rebuild the ruins of their life in Bel­ ute he stood as if bewildered by the manoic, coffee, cocoa, sugar, cotton secrete resins, such as turpentine, gium. and tobacco. venture keen enough to whet the roar and surge of traffic. Then he others supply themselves with a de­ most jaded appetite. Reading-room, a theatre, a library deliberately dumped his valise down The possibilities of what was Ger­ fence of tannic acid, while still others "The Homesteaders" is published (liberally helped by the Society of on the pavement, seated himself on man Southwest Africa are as im­ manufacture poisons or have strong in England by T. Fisher Unvvin, Friends), all have their part; but it, pulled out his old favorite pipe, and mense as its area. This territory, oc­ scents like lavender and mint, or Limited, and in Canada by the Afus- meanwhile the inmates are busy with then, puffing meditatively, assimilated cupied by thc Germans since 1883, spines, like thistles, or thorns, like son Book Company. The first Cana­ profitable trades — manufacturing his new impressions and adjusted his comprises 322,450 square miles, which roses. dian edition was shipped from Eng­ boots, for instance, that command a bearings. Possibly some of the is six times-the size of England. Be­ While we dislike a plant that poi­ land on' September 5. wide sale, and under the special tu­ passers-by felt some pity for onc who fore the war its population included sons us when we touch it, yet if wc telage of the Friends, doing brush was apparently a weary wayfarer un­ 1-5,000 whites and 250,000 natives. Its investigate the reason for its poison and mat work of a quality so superior able to find any other resting place. three great natural resources are we discover that a vast number of Cutlery and Rust that they have, established a steady None of them guessed that it was the minerals, pasture land and' agricultu­ plants develop poisons and near pois­ An alloy steel has been devised in trade among thc many daily visitors cattle king of Australia, placidly, ral land. ons, and when we look over the list England which is non-rustable. It is to the camp. calmly enjoying his noontide "smoke According to a South African au­ we find that wc would be rather badly said that knives, forks and other cut­ oh" in the capital of a country smaller thority, who writes for The Cape off without them. It is true that most lery made of it will not even tarnish, Jericho Will Fall in the End in area than the total area of his Times, the diamond fields form a of them arc poisonous only when and if turned out by the factory Though Jericho will fall in the end, cattle runs. rich treasure house, the fields ex-1 eaten, and that few are poisonous to bright and shining they will remain we must not suppose that we have tending from Conception Bay for 260 touch, but they have all developed in that condition to the end. A little reached the seventh day of the trum­ Enthusiasm miles, the area being interspersed, these qualities in self-defence. washing is all that is necessary to re­ pets, much less tne hour of the shout­ however, with widfc stretches of Some of them store their poison in store it under any circumstances, There are just two kinds of farm­ ing. To close the line of. investment ers—the one who is full of enthus­ worthless sand. From 1908 to 1913 .their seeds, others in their root The new composition is not a high by linking up all the Allies on the gems valued at $35,000,000 were re-'stocks and others in their roots to carbon steel, as it only averages one- iasm and the one who doesn't care. Danube, and to do it before autumn It doesn't matter so much, after all, covered, chiefly by Germans. - It is protect their progeny from harm fourth or one-third carbon, and the is over, will still take all the skill and They do not go about looking for ingredient which imparts to it its what a man knows, for all of us would estimated that the fields already dis- vigor of the great league, and its ab­ have becn rich long ago if wc had •covered^ will last for twenty years. trouble or seeking whom they may peculiar properties is said to be lest political as well as military direc­ destroy, but they are prepared to re­ chromium, a chemical element some­ done as well as wc knew how. It is Copper mines rank next in import­ tion. After . the single continuous the enthusiasm, thc desire to do- bet­ ance, exports in 1913 being worth sist invasion of thc rights of their what similar to nickel. By mixing front is drawn round the Central Em­ $1,982,000. In this metal the country children. Nux vomica and aconite about 12 per cent, chromium with ter this year than last, that counts. mild carbon steel, thc new stainless pires wc may begin to play with the The man who is in love with his bus­ is exceptionally rich. Prospecting are two of this kind. scriptural analogy. Then for the Bib­ work has been done in connection Others develop alkaloids, like the compound is produced, defying acid iness, who takes delight in the grow­ as well as rust and tarnish. lical days, read months, and for the ing calves and joy in thc shooting with gold, tin, iron, lead, sulphur, etc., nicotine of tobacco, the quinine of shouting that went before the fall, the the cinchona tree, and the thcine of This sort is more expensive than corn, is the man who succeeds always. but the results have been somewhat climax of the Allies' artillery.—The What he doesn't know he will find disappointing, although immense de­ tea, to protect themselves. Strych­ the steel ordinarily used in making Observer (London). posits of iron and tin ores are known nine, digitalis and a hundred indis­ cutlery, but its lasting properties and out.—Prairie Farmer. to exist. A seam of coal has been pensable drugs that are poisonous its power to retain its brightness found, and the Germans had begun in overdoses are the gift of the more than offset its higher cost. No "Gullibly's son is a young man, I "You can't tell; that boy of Todd's to exploit immense layers of white plant w.orld to man as a by-product doubt if found useful for cutlery pur­ think, of great promise." may be a Congressman some day." and colored marble of excellent qual­ of plant preparations for self-de­ poses its use will be extended in other j "Have you been lending him money "Indeed! Why, I thought he seem­ ity. fence. directions, too, | also?"—Baltimore American. ed quite, bright"—Lif» A BRIGHT TOBACCO OF THE FINEST QUALITY 10 CENTS PER PLUG

-Opportunity's Little Ways as much as he ought for his own. If !'of thc boy and his pony , over thc Moving "Opportunity knocks at every you have anything ,co say about him;. mantelpiece. Lord Moorhampton no- Special Grades of Grain J man's door." .' you may safely tell mc. 1 for-one ticcd lhe glance; and was surprised For Seed Purpossc; "Dad." said the cigh:-year-old ol "Too often,' however, it is the op* don't believe this cock-and-bull story at her'-quickness of apprehension.vHe ! • • ' • ' _; thJ e family, "here's a book tha: says- portnuily to open a peanut ' sjtand, of Mr. Wright's about Mr. Ciprian's had made her leave her chair lor a that OrpHcus was such a fine musi­ 1 Order-in-Council Has Been Passed j - whereas -wc wouhl rather start a being drowned. Drowned, indeed " cosier one near the Civc, and was cian that he made tree and stones- bank." echoed she indignantly, as if it were standing, on thc hearthrug.. ,.;'. By Dominion Government ! move." a form of death wholly unknown and His countenance grew, grave. • "Sou.1' said f-iihei. -olemnlv, "Your- discredited. ;.' : ' With- thc object oi creating a spc- j "Yes," he. said, answering her look, cial grade of-grain of superior qua" sister Bess ha? Orpheus beaten. Her "Don't you think lie's dead, then **" "it is "the news of ray son which has ity for seed, the government piano-playing ha? made twenty fam­ demanded Mabin eagerly. "Have you jjisiressed me so much. After eight ; passed an'• ordcr-in-council. under the ilies move out of :hi> building in the- heard of his being alive?" years' absence, to hope to see him •! authority .of lhe Dominion Seed Act, last three months."—Puck. '..' Mrs. Lowndes, still looking and then to learn that he is 'dead, is J creating the following grades exclus- shrewdly at.'hcr. answered deliberate­ an experience too tragic not to leave iv'cly for seed purposes ly--. '•'.'• its. effects."' No. 1 Canadian Western seed oats "I. think: .there's more .than., one Mabin leaned forward, her face shall be composed cf No. 1 or No. 2 would be sorry to hear of his being flushed, her voice unsteady— C. W- oats, shall contain 95 per cent, dead, by drowning or any other iva.v" ''You arc sure he is—-not alive?" she of white oats,, sound, clean and free But I hough- I admit it's odd Mr Cip­ asked in a whisper. , from other grain, shall bc free from rian shouldn't have becn here by. this ; Lord .Moorhampton looked ciown noxious weed seeds and shall weigh time, seeing the ship . hc was .coming at her curiously. not less than .34 pounds .to thc bushel. by has arrived safe. 1 shan't believe • '•'I'm afraid .so,", he said , rather No. 3 Canadian Western seed bar­ he's been drowned till I hear it from shortly Then, as she drew back, and ley shall be composed of thc six- Medicine Which Made Sur-* somebody more worthy of belief than it occurred to. him that he had been rowed variety, sound, plump, free Mr Wright "•••• ••;•.•' ,. , unduly 'curt, he added in a gentle from oilier grain, of fair color, free geon's Work Unnecessary. Mabin hesitated. Then she said tone—"It has been an unhappy story from noxious weed and shall weigh quickly, in a low voice— not less than 45 pounds to thc bushel. Astoria, N. Y."—-"For two years 1 from tlic"first But .1 must hoi bore was feeling ill and took all kinds'of "'-(..••do know something about him, you with talk of this sort. It's lugu­ No. 1 Manitoba Northern seed aud I came here to tell it But now wheat .shall'be composed of 85 per _, tonics. I was gat­ brious, isn't it?" ing worse everyday. I'm here, I'm half afraid to speak." "Not to me," said Mabin earnestly. cent, of Red Fife, or S5 per cent, of Marquis wheat, sound, clean and free I had chills,my head Mrs. Lowndes looked at the girl "I should like to hear—whatever you would ache, I was earnestly as she said in a whisper— will tell mc about him." from other grain' and free from nox­ always tired. I could - a "Dou'i be afraid. Speak out, fell- There'was. no mistaking the. reality, ious-weed seeds, weighing hot less not. walk straight "' .il all you know to my lord. He's a'deal than 60 pounds to the bushel. It of her interest,-..and, drawn out of his because of tha pain it too'-easy-going; and too fond of his reserve by the pleading eyes, the sym­ For No. r. seed purposes Red Fife in my back and Iliad! Bovril makes other foods own ease, andoL seeing everything pathetic manner, Lord Moorhampton and Marquis wheal shall bc kept sep­ pains in my stoi"- nourish you. It has a Body­ go like clockwork round him, and at first almost timidly, like a man un­ arate, '•..".-; aeh. I went to*.* they take advantage of that. But lie's used to confidences, dropped into lhc No. 2 iwhcat shall be composed of doctor and he said I building power proved equal a man for ail thai, and if you-have narration of his son's story, grades No. 2 Northern, No. 3 North­ must* go under an to from 10 to 20 times the anything to tell he's the person to "You arc very good," said he. Then, ern or No. 4 slightly frosted -wheat operation, but I did of Red -Fife ."or .Marquis variety, and know it. Not any of the others, nei­ after a pause—"Ciprian was, a high- not go. I read in amount -of Bovril taken. when rc-clcaned shall be practically the paper about ther my lady noi any of them." spirited fellow, energetic, merry, a Mabin was thankful for this ad­ frce.Jrbm other grain and noxious Lydi.i E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ very devil of fun and mischief. But weed seed, and the, weight not less pound .and told my husband about it. I vice, which strengthened her in the before he had "been back long from course she'"designed to pursue. Hur­ than 5S pounds lo the bushel. . said ' I know nothing will helpme but I Oxford there was friction bclwc-en will try-'this.''. I found myself improv­ ^ riedly finishing hei toilet with the him and Lady Moorhampton."and fin­ For No. 2 seed purposes Red Fife ar help of lhc- housekeeper, she hasten­ and Marquis wheat shall be kept ing from the very first bottle, and in two ally a downright quarrel. The whole separate. weeks tithe I..was. able to sit down and ed downstairs, and crossing the hall details of it, indeed, I never knew. 1 No grain shall be accepted for seed eat a hearty breakfast with my hus­ al. .-the 'back so quickly' that Capt;-.in But he went away, suddenly, without band, which I had. not done for twoyears. oom Daluwine. who sprang up, from his which will require a large dockage to taking leave, after J had been drawn clean. -'..•••.•.-..:•'•' I am now in "the best of health, and scat-to intercept het, jus) failed to do into a quarrel in a way, J .have-since, did not have the operation." — Mrs. so, she fled along the passage behind 1 confess it, deeply regretted. He was, JOHN A. KOENTG, 502 Flushing Avenue, Nineteen ihe portiere, ...liid . knocked timidly-.at hurt, wounded, offended. How deep­ Old'-Uncle"'Jacob was'walking ma­ Astoria, N. Y. the library door. ly I never guessed at thc time. But jestically up and down lhc village street dressed in his Sunday suit. Every one dreads the surgeon's Imif« he never came back, never sent any and the operating table. Sometimes FLORENCE WARDEN news of his whereabouts, and'I'never "Hallo, Uncle Jacob,"- cried one. of .CHAPTER VI11. his neighbors, ''arc you having a nothing else will do; but. many times traced him, never knew where he had doctors say they, aro necessary when WARD. LOCK a. CO.. LIMITED Lord Moorhampton was seated al gone to, till a year ago. when Lady holiday?" a big wriling-lablc. turning over "Yes, 1 am." replied Uncle Jacob, they are not Le tier after letter comes Leocfoa. MdboHTKe. JUUJ Toronto Moorhampton's son was born, she in­ to the Pinkham Laboratory, telling how Unle bundles pi discolored and yel­ sisted upon my taking steps to have proudly. "J'm celebrating my golden wedding." operations were advised and were not low, papers He looked up with an Ciprian's death presumed. 1 did this performed; or,if performed,did nogood, ^ J eaget smile when • Mabin came in, and with reluctance, as you may imagine. "•Then why isn't your wife celebrat­ but Lydia E.Pinkhani's Vegetable Com­ rising, offered her a chair al the op­ ing it with you?" said the man. (C unturned ' But the result seemed to be satisfac­ pound was used and good health followed, posite side ol the table, and asked tory; for Ciprian got wind of it,.and "She ain't got aught to do with Above all she was tonscious of het il she could work the bar-lock sent a formal intimation, through a it," replied Uncle Jacob indignantly. If'you want advice writ© to such .-'. feeling ol disgust and a version t ' vpewntei solicitor, that he was alive, and that "She's the fourth." "Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co» from Joe Wrighi thai she fell as if Mabin replied that she could, and he was coming homo. Nothing more (confidential'*', Xynn, Mass. " • il would be impossible lot hei to re- he told her. with a nod of salisfac- than that. 1 wrote to the lawyer, say­ Correct Prognostication inaiti under the same rool wiih him 'ion, thai fie wanted her to take down ing that I should be delighted to wel­ The man who thought the first" five without showing openly how she felt, i notes upon it at his dictation. come my son back home again, and years of the European war would bc Be Kind to the Horse Aud for Captain Daltnaine with his "' am making a record," he said. I. Lady Moorhampton insisted that he thc worst seems to have hit it right. bold stare oi unwelcome'admiration 'ol our family history, and to do this should meet her brother in town as Follow the Golden Rule and Treat she felt only less distaste than she 1 have to go through cartloads of old soon as he arrived, to intimate to Your Horse as You Would Wish did for joe, Lady Moorhamplon's in­ letters and papers I'm afraid you'll him that she, for her part, was as famous brother find the work rather dry: most of the ready to forgive him as. T was. Her Him to Treat You "Lord Moorhampton doesn't seem young laches say so." brother, however, came here yester­ Bc kind to the horse, says The hard to, get on with," she suggested. "I shan't," cried Mabin bnghtl; . "I day with the news that Ciprian nad Indiana Farmer. Don't berate, him "Oh, no, he isn't He is loo easy," shall find ti very interesting. I know." been drowned on the voyage." because he doe> something which said Mrs Lowndes And, pursing up She was speaking from conviction, Mabin made no answer for a mo­ should uoi have been done. Per­ hei mouth, she changed the subject for Mabin was an intelligent girl, haps he had the right motive, Imt in in a significant manner. "Shall I see ment. Then she asked, in a voice and never having been subjected to his dumb way he was unable to ex­ what we can find you in the way of the crushing system of a High School which was tremulous and scarcely 1 press it. Pcrhap* he wanted to help a pair oi shoes' " or any of thc new educational fads, audible— you. Possibly lie' meant tm c\il, "No, thank you," said Mabtn "But! she was alert, and ready to take an "Do you know, Lord Moorhamp­ though outwardly he seemed per­ I should like to ask you a question. interest in new things. Lord Moor­ ton, whether your son was—was mar­ Did you know—Mr Ciprian ?" hampton found, to his surprise, when ried?" verse and stubborn. Give him credit Her agitation wa» so extreme as, he had been working for an hour He looked al her curiously. for at ieasr trying to bc good, for she put the question, thai Mrs. with het. that instead of offering him "No. 1 know absolutely noth'ng there arc few horses which arc natu­ Lowndes looked at her keenly the listless help of an automaton, about his life or his adventures from rally bad. ;..'.. "1 knew him from a baby." she an­ which was the most he usually got the time he left home eight years swered promptly "And a nicer nor from his secretaries, Mabin was of ago. Of all overworked women probably the Many persons rake u for granted swectcr-natured boy I never met" actual use to him. making shrewd sug­ "You don't know, then, whether he housewife is the hardest worked." She that when a horse does wrong lie in­ "Then you were here when he went gestions, grasping a point with quick­ had—a—a son?" has so much to attend to, with very little tended to do so, and they therefore away"" demanded Mabin eagerly ness, and above all showing a live in­ (To Be Continued.) help. Her work can be lightened if she puiiish him for it. Now, this action Mrs. Lowndes looked at her as­ terest and sympathy with his work. knows the value of system and she should only aggravates lhe. matter. a.nd if kance. He lost his usual cold manner and .try and take a short rest in the daytime. continued will result in an incorrig­ A physician who became famous almost "I'll tell yon about that." she said grew excited and eager; his quiet Light in the Poultry House ible animal, made so solely from around the world, Doctor Pierce, of mistreatment by his master. This hurriedly, "some other time—if vou eyes grew bright, his manner warm; Buffalo, N. Y., the specialist in woman's stay," she added-ominously and when al last he sat back in his Fowls Need Plenty of Sunshine and this only explains why some During Winter. Months diseases, for many years practiced medi­ horses are bad. Bui Mabin. was eager to hear more.'chair with a sigh of satisfaction, and cine in a farming district. He there ob­ "Tell me now. please," she said'said thai they had done a good after- It seems superfluous lo say that served the lack of (Sj'stem in the planning The best policy is io be kind to lhe -tniickly. I noon's work, she smiled back at him the poultry.-house should face the of the work. horse. Remember thai he is •« thiiuh The housekeeper looked at her! across the lable. and felt that she south so that as much sunshine as animal. Don't expect as much un­ possible may bc admitted through thc lf.it is a headache, a backache, a sen­ derstanding from him as you expeel shrewdly. (had made a Iriciul. sation of irritability or ^twitching and "Did you know him'" she asked*) "1 feel mosi grateful to you. Miss windows. The fowls need all the of men. Remember that ot all the sunshine they can get during the win­ uncontrollable nervousness, something suddenly, fixing upo n the girl a gaze I Wrest," he said, "and rather guilty at must, be wrong with the head, or back, a animals which aid man the horse from which there w as no escape having set you lo work so soon. I'm ter months.. The windows should bc woman naturally says, but all the time is the most useful. Civc him credit Mabin was disconcerted. at raid you'll find me a hard task- placed about eighteen inches from the real trouble very often centers in the for that. Don't think him mean, lor, "f I've met him—once," she stani- master, for you help one by your the floor and should be so arranged organs. In nine cases out, of ten the unless made so by man. he seldom rnered out, sympathetic interest, and make one that they can bc opened on pleasant seat of the difficulty is here, and a woman is. Don't punish him for every I'.ut it was vain to expeel to evade feel inclined to go on and on for ever. days. It is a good plan to use double should take rational treatment for its wrong he docs, for possibly lhey arc that searching look, or the frank in- You must need a rest. You would windows, not only because thc ' arc cure. Thc disorder should be treated not so intended. Try to put your­ «liiiiy which came at once— like to go into the drawing-room aud warmer, but also because they will steadily and systematically with Dr. self in his place, and don't forget- "I lave you met him lately-5 Don't have some tea. wouldn't you?" not, if tightly fitted, become covered Pierce's Favorite Prescription. that he is a slave. think I would • ask out of curiosity, But Mabin was not at all anxious with frost as a single window does, For diseases from which women suffer Be kind to him, and see for your­ Miss Wrest, but I've been here many to leave the society of Lord Moor- and will allow thc sun's rays to pene­ "Favorite Prescription" is a powerful re­ self if your work does not proceed years, I may truly say I'm the best lamptou for that of his wife; she trate thc interior of the building. storative. During thc hist fifty years it has more smoothly than ever before. Fol­ friend Mr Ciprian had here, barring i was dying, besides, to find a chance Where single windows are used, it i.s banished from tho lives of tens of thou­ low the Golden Rule, and treat your a good plan lo have a blanket so ar­ my lord, w!io is loo easy-going to do of telling him the story which was sands of women the pain, worry, misery horse as you would wish him to treat ranged that il can bc let down over and distress caused by these diseases. ready to her lips. you if your positions were reversed. "I could go on for another hour the windows on extremely cold If you are a auffernr, get Dr. Pierce's nights. Care must bc taken not to Favorite Prescription in liquid or tablet Investigate for once, and you 'will JUT-A Granulafed Eyelids, without feeling the least tired." she never say again that kindness doesn't said eagerly get the windows too large—that is, form to-day. Then address Dr. Pierce, Eyes inflamed by expo­ not too much glass in thc front of Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., and get pay. sure to Sun, Oust and Wind "No, no. I mustn't be- selfish. I confidential medical advice entirely free. shouldn't have asked you to work to-jihe house, unless thc roosts arc par- The official geologist of Newfound* • quickly relieved by Murine land estimates that the iron ore de­ Eye Hen-edy. No Smarting, day but for die fact that I've just had jtitioncd off or otherwise protected, juet Eye Comfort At some bad news which has depressed An ordinary sized window such as is posits in that colony are about J.o35,- "Waiter, it seems to me the por­ 500.000 tons. On Belle Isle. Concep­ If'oitr Druggist's 50c pei Bottle Murine Eye me and made me anxious to forget used in 'dwelling-houses is plenty tions have grown much smaller." §alveir.Tubes2Sc ForBookofiheEycfreeask it for a little while if I could." tion Bay, alone, thc estimate is put at large enough for a hoTTSc" ten by fif­ "Yes. sir, but see how thc place 35,000.000 tons. All thc ore from Pniggiits oi Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago Involuntarily Mabiri's eyes wander- teen feet, and should be placed has been enlarged."—Boston Evening ed, when he said this, to thc portrait lengthwise with thc floor Newfoundland is now being taken by 'Transcript. Canada for munitions purposes. Artist (pointing to his very suc­ cessful picture, "A Donkey"): What do you really think of it, anyhow? F.tithusiastic Lady: Lovely! And vou have put so much of yourself into it, foo!

W, Nk U, 1130 THE GAZETTE. MEDLEY, B. C,

Too Complicated for Comfort The Orkneys in Pawn Thc laic Gihnan Marstou of New Hampshire, was ait'iiing a complicat­ Could Be Kedeemed By Denmark By ed case,-and looking up. authorities V3£? 1 f Payment of Pledge -^DE IN CANA^*^ back to Julius Caesar, At the-end of -<3!5 •or ah. hour and,a, half,, in the most in­ The Orkney Islands, says Pear­ ^ •(•<&>• For maklnc tricate part of his pica, he was.pained son's Magazine, do not really belong coap. to sec what looked like inattention. to Great Britain in the sense that •em For soft»n<"I It • was-'.as •"he had feared. The-judge they were, ever ceded by treaty or irowmg 'taff water. r~* are dependent on nourishment for growth. was imable to appreciate the nice acquired by conquest. They: were "^OSSS?* For. .removing [ points of his argument. :"„7 simply transferred by Denmark to Their health as men and women is largely (paint. • 39PS* Scotland in ,1468,;...in pledge for the established in childhood. For dlalnfoctlnc I "Your honor," ho said, "I beg -your [ refrleroratort, pardon; but do.'you follow mc?". payment/of the dowry of the Princess If your child is languid, bloodless, tired when rising, with­ • Inkav closets,! "I have so far," answered the judge, of Den mark, who was married to out ambition or rosy cheeks, Scott's Emulsion is a wonderful drains and for BOO. [ James III., King of Scotland. In the help. It possesses nature's grandest body-building fats so ' other purpoaos. shifting wearily about in his chair, "but I'll say frankly that if 1 thought deed of transfer, which is still in delicately predigested that the blood absorbs its strength RKFU6E SUBaTITUTBfc I could find my. way bad:. I'd . quit existence, it is specially mentioned and carries it to every organ and tissue and fibre. right here."—Argonaut. that Denmark shall have the right to First it increases their appetite, then it adds flesh— strengthen* ^jjf redeem them at any future time by the, bones—makes them sturdy, active and health}'. jriiL paying the original amount of thc dowry with interest to date. No c!coho! or sarcotic in Scott's Emulsion, just purity and strength. decreased Wheat Yield 13-""" There is no likelihood, however, ,-vsc wr-iKSWBo w.tfjzxmx0of* m et-r-feN: a-:--. For Canada This Year that Denmark will ever attempt to , "porr.inion Government's Estimate Is exercise her' right of redemption, be­ Cure skin troubles by applying oint­ cause sixty thousand florins, the The Bigger Scope An Aeroplane Factory for a Total Crop of 159,123,00 ment to the surface skin. You must original amount of the dowry, plus The following is quoted from a reach the underlying tissues where Bushels compound interest for 448 years, letter written by Harry~"C. Williams, Government Will Make European thc disease has its roots. Ordinary would amount to perhaps a trillion •• The wheat crop of Canada for the of Pambruiii, Saskatchewan, dated Aeroplanes in Canada ointments cannot, do this,- and that pounds, and that is a bit more than September 24, 1916: I'Before coming present year will be only 159,123,000 is why the relict they give is only ibushcis. as compared with 370,303,600 thc islands are worth. here I was one ol the advertising If the Government's present plan'3 temporary. forces of one of- the most progressive are put into effect, Canada in thc Sbushcls in 1915, according to an offi­ - cial estimate. . Thc average yield per Zam-Buk, on the contrary, ha3 Worms, however generated, are papers in the Southern States, in,ad­ near future *will not only have' an "acre, was estimated at 15 7-S bushels such power of penetration, com­ found in the digestive tracts, where dition to being a stock-raiser. I used aviation school, but also a factory for from a harvested area of 10,058.300 bined with unusual germ-destroying they set up disturbances detrimental to boom- my section, and justly so, manufacturing European aeroplanes, acres, as compared ivith 29 bushels properties, that It reaches and de­ to the health of the child. Therc for it was one of nature's paradises, including aircraft motors which have from a harvested area of 12,986,400 stroys all germs in tho underlying can bc no comfort for the .little ones but • here one has a bigger, broader not hitherto been built in Canada. acres iu 1915. - tissues. Then the healing essences until the hurtful intruders have been scope which eclipses ray former home The Imperial Munitions 7 Board will promota tho growth of new flesh,- expelled. No better preparation for a hundredfold, and 1 confidently ex­ supervise the aviation school, half of A marked-decrease in the'produc­ which gradually develops until the tion of oats also was indicated by ihe this purpose can be had than Miller's pect . to bring at leasl ten families the staff of competent instructors is diseased patch is entirely replaced Worm Powders. They will immedi­ being provided by the Imperial gov­ estimated vield of 338,169,000 bushels by new, healthy tissue, and a com­ back with mc or place them in com­ from 9,795,000 acres, a yield of 34.55 ately destroy thc worms and correct munication with you to let them be­ ernment and also the employes for plete and permanent cure ifl ef­ the establishment and operation of SSushcls per acre, as against 45.76 fected. the conditions that were favorable to come citizens of the Best West—the their existence. the factory.. It is understood that bushels last year when the produc­ Zam-Buk isobest for eczema, and Last West—the Canadian 'West." tion was 520,103,000 bushels from a the British Government will then take fill skin troubles, ringworm, ulcers, the,,output of the factory durina the harvested area of 11,365,000 acres. abscesses, salt rheum, chronic ' Standard Type in Stables Thc barley crop was cslimatcd at Modern efficiency is rapidly' evolv­ war. . '.",.:•"-.'" eores, blood-poisoning, boils, pilesi Canadian aviators at the tront 32,299,000 bushels from 1,32S,S00 cuts, burna, scalds and all skin in­ ing a standard type of barn and sta­ acres, or 24.31 bushels per acre. Last ble. This barn is about thirty-six feet have been eminently successful and juries All druggists, or Zam-Buk HARD ON LITTLE ONES establishment of the school is a just year's crop, was 53,331,300. and the Co., Toronto, 50c. box, 3 for 51.26. wide, and as long as may be neces­ acreage 1,509,350. sary to accommodate thc number of recognition of their services. In the Thc probable production of rye was cattle kept on the farm. This pro­ Canadian fall weather is extremely Som'me the Canadian aviators have announced as 2.05S.500 bushels from vides for two rows of cattle and gives hard on little ones. One day it is played a' prominent part. At the out­ 101,420 acres, or an average yield per the owner an opportunity to regulate warm and bright and the next wet break of the war some Canadian mili­ acre, of 20.30 bushels as against a to­ the inside furnishings properly and to and * cold. These sudden changes tary authorities had little confidence tal production in ,1915 of 2,394,100 bring on colds, cramps and colic, and in the aeroplanes as fighting scouting instal feed and manure carriers, and craft. The use of those machines bushels-from an acreage of 112,300. to use milking machines. Thc manu­ unless baby's little stomach is kept right the- result may be serious. have proven their value, and Canada facturers of the inside furnishings will sooti have an aviation branch of . Whether-the corn be. of old or new' Stole Serbia's Crown ."Jewels for dairy stables have standardized There is nothing to equal Baby's Own It is slatetl Irom Ccttinje that thc Tablets in keeping the little ones the service in keeping with its vari­ "growth, it must yield lo Holloway's their stalls, stanchions and mangers ous other military forces. Corn Cure, thc simples! and best cure betrayal of a peasant, have at last to conform to these measurements. well. They sweeten thc stomach, offered to the public. Austrian authorities, thanks to ilie In building a new barn or remodel­ regulate the bowels, break up colds been able to lay hands on the famous ling an old barn it is always better and make baby thrive. Thc Tablets Important Measures ol the Monastery of Det- to consult an expert and have definite arc sold by medicine dealers or by "Isn't what they call 'the approach" The New '-"iiglish Armies mail ai 25 cents a box from The Dr. Tt is the soul ol Kngland which in chani, in New Serbia, valued at sev­ plans to. follow while the work is be­ an important consideration in golf?" eral millions ol Iratics. ing done.—Successful Farming. Williams Medicine Co.. Brockvillc, "Very important. You've goi to two years hari made an-army thai s Out. not content to-hold its ground against King Peier stopped at Detchani have the kind of a job thai will per­ an army at. which Prussia has been during ihe greal retreat of the Ser­ mit you to approach the golf links bian army, and it is rumored, though What Strict Accountability Means • early, in the afternoon."—Washing­ laboring for three centuries. It is President Wilson's strong plea to .the. Englishman who has beaten thc there is nothing io vouch for its ac­ ton Star. curacy, thai the ciown of Serbia was the electors of thc United Stales is German. It is the itilanlrymen from that he "has kept his country out of the other side of the Channel and hidden by the monks ol Detchani, in a safe hiding-place. The Ausiria:is the war." The All-Highest also has the other side of the sea. (he Lnglish kept most of Germany out of the war mail from the Thames, lhe quiet Ifave (omul tiie hiding places in the catacombs anil thc ossuaries of lhc for thc time being, but lie has not country, and the industrial hive, the kept the Germans out of it. Nor has Scotsman faithful to-his kilt. the convent. Cases of precious stones, ancient gold, arid, silver, money, gold the President of the United States Canadian who defendstwo countries, kept Americans out of the war. Over, -"FORTHEJ& KIDNEYS old and new, the Australian, bronzed chalices, and sacerdotal -vestments covered with Cyrilian characters. a hundred of them were killed when lARTYFT TO PAiNS ifi by the sun and like a young Greek- the Lusitania was torpedoed without god. It is these .men who have pp. Viennese antiquaries are- said to have proceeded there to value lhc warning, many more were blown to THE BACK to rout the inosi famous regiments of pieces on their own soil, and so far the enormous empire of prey. — Lc treasure on behalf of the Austrian Halifas. N.S.. Jan. 15, 1916. Trcasur*'. the murderers have not been held to About eight months a£o I re3.1l Figaro, Paris. "strict accountability." — Victoria your advertisement in on» of tho Halifax paper* oflfertns a freo Times. sample, of Gin Pills for tn» Sid­ •A -Scottish farmer was being iities- neys. I had been a martyr for tioned by a lawyer in a local cotirl. His Name Was Walker' years to intense pain* across tna "You affirm thai when llns happened back and decided to try Gin, Pills. Minard's Liniment Co.. Limited. Severe Elderly Lady: Why are you Before I bad finished tno third you were going home lo -J meal"'" not at the front, young man? said lhe lawyer. "Lei us' he ipnir cei Dear Sirs,— I can recommend MI­ t>ox I found myself ror ih» firm; Likely-looking Recruit: Have yo'i time in years perfectly freo from tain-on this point, because it is a very NARD'S LINIMENT for Rheuma­ pain. important one. "Be good enough to ever seen me walk, madam? tism and Sprains, as I have used it Severe Elderly Lady (rather abash­ Yonr? sincerely. tell me' what meal 'it was vou were for both with excellent results. Mrs. (Jane) Percy. going homr to " ed and fearing she had made a bad Yours Truly, blunder): No! AU rlragjrista sell Gtn Pills as "You would like io l-tio.w whs' 50c a Box. or 6 Doles for $•* So, 11 ''.•'"' T. B. LA VERS,. Likely-looking Recruit: Well, ma­ S&mplo rreo 11 you write to meal it was " said lhe Scotsman St. John. dam, you watch me walk to the next JTATIONAX DBDG ft OKEMTr!A.li "Yes, sir. I should like io know," corner. (She did, and the miscreant CO. OF CANflJDa. CltUTEO replied the lawyei iinpie.ssivrlv promptly disappeared from view.) - lomnw, Out. oa • "Weel. then, it was just'oaintraII" Minard's Liniment for sale every­ where. fMt WtWrsEWCH BEMeDV. W.I M.2 a*. Cheerful, Chubby Children Used in freocfc Make the Home Happy Hospitals nrilK Unity of French and British The Neighborhood Club ffr-at success, CUKES CHRONIC WEAKNESS LOST vtGoa ft VIM KIDNEY BLADDER. DISEASES BLOOD rOlSOa. In any neighborhood there arc cer­ PILES EITHER NO DRUGGISTS or MAIL SI POST 4 CT» Complete Harmony and Singleness Weak, puny babies are a constant tain problems, both business and so­ fOIJGERA CO 90 BEEKMANST NEW YORKorLYMAN BRO« care to tired mothers and are subject cial problems, that ought to bc solv­ roaONto WRITE FOR FREE BOOK TO DK LE CLEHQ . of Purpose Marks All to many diseases that do not affect MED CO IIAVERSTOCKRO. HASIPSTEAD LONDON Sua. Operations ed These problems cannot bc solved rR> NEW DRAGEE 1TASTELKSS) FORMQP EASY T0 TAOI healthy children, by the individual, but they can be «EE THAT TRADE MARKED WORD 'THERAPION IS O* There is an aspect of the Franco- Keep your children in good health. solved by groups of individuals. No 8RIT. GOVT STAMP AFJ-IXEO TO ALL GENUINE fACK&Tlt. British offensive that one hears noth­ See that their bowels move regularly otic outside the neighborhood is in­ ing about, and that is thc comple.e -especially during the teething period terested in them. You and your harmony of the armies of the Allies This is a distressing time in the life neighbors will build up your neigh­ in their field operations. Never be­ of every child and the utmost pre borhood or let it go into dry rot. Thc fore in history, we believe, have two caution should be taken to keep them neighborhood club is the real work­ The Soul of a Piant » is the Sunny nations fought side by side iu a great well and strong. ing unit in any comprehensive plan Action. Insist on the war without friction, confusion, cross- for rural organizations In this con­ purposes and heartburnings. There By thc consistent use of nection, all people are agreed that Dispositions have been mistakes and badly timed rural organization is a great need of Otto Ifigel Piano Action movements in the great campaign in n w's the day This docs not mean that the mul {"food digestion fro Prance, but nothing was said about neighborhood club cannot bc affili­ hand in hand, and one them except bv the critics al the rear, ated with other neighborhood clubs who were more . concerned about Soothing Syrup the country over in lhe attacking of of lhc big'.q-cst aids to it is possible to avoid many childish good ^digestion is a regu­ claiming credit for .France or for problems that are larger than the England, as the case might bc, than ills now so prevalent. community Thc place to start work, It Doesn't Pay lar dish of in doing justice (o the commanders It is a corrective for diarrhoea, colir however, is right in your own neigh­ and to the spirit of their men. Have and other infantile- ailments. It soothes borhood.—Thc Farmer, To buy inferior articles men of one race ever gone into battle the fretting baby and permits the for home use, no matter with more singleness of purpose and child to sleep well and grow healthy Dragged Down by Asthma. The how small the article is. high courage than the soldiers of It brings comfort and relief to both man or woman who .is continual!;- France and of the British Empire? It child and mother. subject to asthma is unfitted for his With matches, as with has been an inspiring spectacle, and This wonderfully delicious or her life's work. Strength departs everything else, it pays surely the world would never have and energy is taken away until bfcj to buy the best. wheal and barley food is so beheld it if the traditional enemies becomes a dreary existence. And yet | processed that it yields its did not believe their cause was just this is needless. Dr J D. Kcllogg's, and that the consequence of failure Asthma' Kcmcdy has broughi a great \ nourishing- goodness to the would be disaster irreparable. — Nc Soothing Syrup v system in about one hour—a change to an army of sufferers. It York Sun, Makes Cheerful, relieves the restricted ait tubes and record for ease of digestion. guards against future trouble. Try Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc. Take it all 'round, Grape- Chubby Children it. •'SILEiNT PARLOR" Nuts contributes beautifully Trade was bad. At thc end of an­ Is absolutely non-narcotic. It con­ The head of the firm was consult­ to sturdiness of body and a other blank day the discouraged tains no opium, morphine nor any of ing Nelson, the janitor, relative to the radiant, happy personality. salesman called on another prospec­ their derivatives. It is soothing, pleas­ qualifications of an applicant for a tive customer and asked to show his ant and harmless. For generations place as assistant janitor. mothers in all parts of the world have "Do you know this btf'y's reputation Every table should have its samples. used it and millions of babies have daily ration of Grape-Nuts, "No, there is nothing I want to­ becn benefited by it. for truth and veracity?" he asked. Will save your time and day," said thc customer. "Yas, sub, yas, suh, I guess 1 do," temper, for they are gx>od "But will you just examine my line Buy a bottle today and responded Nelson. "There's a Reason" of goods?" the salesman persisted. have it handy "Well, what is it?" strikers, SAFS, SURI;, and Canadian Posttitn Cereal Co,, t,td.. The customer would not. Relieve and Protect Your Children "Well, suh, he always tells de trufc, Sixii-NT. Windsor. Out. "Then," said thc salesman meekly, I reckon, dat is, I neyah is ketched "will you let mc use a part of your Sold by all druggists in Canada and him in flo lie, lull 'bout- dis here ALWAYS ASK FOR counter to look at them myself, as I throughout th/ rworld v'ras'ty bizness. I'm gwintcr be fair ; 1= have not had the opportunity for wid you. some say he will an' some- e= EDDY'S — w. N, U. 113C some time?"—New York Times. say he won't." THE GAZETTE, HEDLEY, B. C.

est position in the empire. It has taken Britain nea rly three years to place a man of action at tiie Goleman&Go. head of the government. There must be in the army a man © © © of action resourceful enough to fiefliey Trading 60, LM i lead six million of the bravest 89* troops in the world to victory. PAINTING "The Big Store" It is not improbable, that Lloyd PAPER-HANGING George will find the man or men best fitted to do the work, KALS0MINING and do it quicdly. TERMS MODERATE The Kamloops Standard-Sen­ tinel is, guilty of a 28-page DALY AVE. - - HEDLEY, B.C. To-Day special issue. This splurge is unpardonable considering the Saturday, Dec. 16th. General present price of-;paper, uuless the outfit is owned by a stock company or politicians. How­ Merchants ever the issue, is a very credit­ Be Nickel Plate able one even for Old Man AllToys Simpson, who is an expert, and BarDer_SliOD who boosted Cranbrook until Including Sleighs and Children's Furniture there was nothing left but a SATISFACTORY, SANITARY hole in the 'ground,-'• where.the TONSORIflL SERVICE town once was. Kamloops has This shop it equipped with had two booms in thirty years, Baths and all the latest F*&\r Cent-lO KEREMEOS, B.C. both the result of railway con­ Electrical Appliances. struction. It is doubtful if there is as large- a business turn­ over annually in Kamloops how f. T.BUTLER, - Prop. SING LEE as there was previous to the Laundry, Contracting of all advent of the railway. It is kinds, Ditch digging, Wood the same with dozens of other Sawing, Clearing lana, Cook­ B. C. and prairie towns. 7Nb A. F. & A. M. boosting on earth can keep the ItEGULAR monthly meetings of Special Display ing and all kinds of Chinese Hedley Lodge No. 43, A. F. & A. M., Labor.c price of 50 cents an acre grazing A aro held on tho socond Friday in saoh month in Fraternity hall, Hedley. Visiting KEREMEOS, B.C. land up to $10 a front foot. Gifts may be left till Christmas Eve if desired. It takes something more per­ brethron are cordially invited to attend. 0. H. SPROULE, S. E. HAMILTON manent than a gang of navvies W. M to make a town. What is ueeded Secretary in British Columbia is govern­ and ment laud at 50 cents or a dol­ L. O. L. Similkameen Advertiser. lar an acre to bona fide settlers, The Regular meetings of Hedley Lodge 1714 are held on title to be granted at the end of the lli-rit and third Monday in five years without extra cost every month in the Orange Hall tiedley Trading 6o. Ltd. Subscriptions in Advance Per Year.. ..•...' $2.00 if sufficient improvements have Ladies meet 2nd and i Mondays '' fUnitodStatos).. 2.50 been made to warrant a certifi­ Visiting brothern are cordially invited cate of title being granted. W. LONSDALE. W. M. Advertising Rates H. K. HANSON, Sec't. "Measurement, li lines to the inch. Today the inducements to Transient Advertisements—not exceeding one inch, $1.25 for ono insertion, 25 cents for settlers on the land .are greater ench subsequent insertion. Ovor one inch, MONTHLY REPORT 12 'cents net- lino for lirst insertion and 8 in New Brunswick and Nova XMAS GIFTS centa per line for each subsequent insertion. Scota than in British Columbia. Transients payable in advance. This week a letter was received Contract Advertisements—One inch per month Hedley Patriotic Fund Com­ $1.25;,ovor 1 inch and up to 4 inchos, $1.00 in town from a former resident por inch pel-month. To constant advertisers mittee u taking larger spnce than four inches, on of Hedly, au Englishman who application, rates will bo givon of reduced had worked a. number of.years The Hedley Patriotic Funds Now is the time to choose while the good assortment las;-; charges, based on size of space and length of time. in the Daly Reduction com­ committee submit the following Toys for the Children, Nice Boxes of Candy for the Ladic •-. Cer-tlflcato of Improvements .$10.00 pany's mill, stating that he and report covering collections made (Where more than one claim appears family had settled on a farm in. for the month of Oct., If your Smokers' Sundries for the Men, Gramophones for tiiv in notice, $2.50 for ench additional chum.) New Brunswick. He had suf­ name does not appear your ."*-•••'',' :* - Home, at JAS. "VV. GIUETI. Publisher. ficient money to buy and make subscription has not been re­ necessary improvements on a ceived during the mouth. In home here, but the best land is some cases subscriptions are ROTHERHAM'g 3 Hedley, B. C.. Dec. 14, 1916. in the hands of speculators in paid in advance and have pre­ this province who ask about viously been acknowledged. If ** He who does me once, shame on him; ten times the actval value, you are in arrears please hand J. G. Webster. 5,00 T D Morrison .'-., He who does me twice, shame on me." and there aro so many extra your subscription to the Treas­ R. Clare.. 4.00 T. Olson.. •> li'.! charges and so much official red urer. Collections made as per J. Hardman 4.00 C Olson '.' .',. IC.J M. MoLeod.; : 4.50 F Peterson •-••:7L Commencing this issue The tape in obtaining a title, that list, month of Oct., $933.55. Of R. L. Jones..: 3.50 TE Rouse 7';.;.ua Gazette has been reduced in it was much cheaper to pur­ this amount $158.65 was sub­ A. P. LoouierV. 3.75 VV Snyder...... i 2**T chase an improved farm in New scribed for the Hedley Enlisted A. J. King.. 4.00 w "wnis. :.:,... • '-2.-'| size to meet existing business Brunswick. Aud, apparently, Men's Fund. The balance, A. B&im...... 4.00 Richard Clare...... "..., ,"..7iJ conditions. For six months the F. Bentley 3.50 ti. I. Jones v .'. more important to him than $77490, was subscribed for the A. W. Harper...... 3.50 G G Bowerman.. ,-i:oiI nowspaper part of the business the money consideration was Canadian Patriotic Fund. J. Giuiie.... .7 .. 3.50 RSedlund... has been.run at a loss of over the fact that his children would Following will show, the J. Jainieson....-.....-...... 3.50 J. Watson.... 7...... '•'• oQl VV. Knowles .-...... 5.00 VV C Graham...... 7 .... "> 7.?i thirty dollars a month, so more grow up among British with amounts remitted to the Cana­ W. W. McDougall'.- 3.50 British ideals—U. E. Loyalists. VVTims ...... :... !.0<)] time will have to be devoted to dian Patriotic Fund: J. Donnelly ...... 3.75 D Winger. .'.'•' ..... 3.7c October, 191-1..... $1001 75 T. L. Terry. 3.50 P Williiims. .'.OGl the job printing department ^ The Kamloops Standard-Sen­ January, 1910. 597 00 Leo Brown. 3.50 J Fife...... •:.ooi and less to the paper. It is tinel asks this pertinent ques­ G. E. McClure. 4.00 J'Njiff.... !.oc;j T February, 1016.... 772 00 3.50 tion: "If 3 OU send east for your D. Curry...... D Henderson..... •••so] needless to say that the com­ March, 1916...... 752 75 W. Robertson. 3.75 D Miner..... KWi: mercial advertising in the paper printing and we send east for April, 1916...... 747 50 F. Decario.....,, 3.50 E Hossiick...... :;*.50."| our hardware, groceries, shoes, May. 1916 747 95 A. Appleton... 3.50 Thos* Browii, two months S'.OO has been disappointing. On 3.75 clothing and other necessities, June. 1936. 791 85 N. Stechishin.. K Steffason ...... :;.75a taking over the plant we found what will become of our town?" T. Bysouth.... 4.25 A Smith ...: ; 1.251 July, 1916...... 737 15 L. BHSSO 3.75 JScutt :i.75'J that about half of the adver­ This is a question that the mer­ August, 1916. 747 50 J.'R. Brown... 4.25 D Rankin ..." tising was padded. We should chants of other towns than September, 1910... 776 10 E. Berg. 4.25 C Nelson. ±]0'J J. Coulthard... 4.25 have gone more fully into the Kamloops are planning to find October, 1916 774 90 E Medicli...... 1.25. f an answer for. J. Grieve.....;. 4.25 E Johnson 1.25 business details, so it is a case J. Galitzky.... 4.25 H Jackson ...... '..'.;...:. 2.K/ 4.25 of "stung again through care­ Nothing startling has occur­ $8446 45 M. Gillis N Eglt.... 1.25 i C. P. DAI/TON, R. Humbly 4.25 JDeGroe.. 1.25) lessness." Then the subscrip­ red in the war zone in the past J. A. Holland... 5.00 HEOLKY—TOWN I,IST. week. The Roumanians have Sec.-Treas. J. Hancock. ... 4.25 tion list was in a sad muddle. W. J. Coiniack .!:50l been able to check the German We hereby certify that we J. Hossaok 3.75 J. K, Fraser. ;00i Some never subscribed, others have examined thc books and P. Johnson 4.52 G. P. Jones 1M.00.J advance to some extent. The S. Johns 2.50 who subscribed never intended Russians are pressing forward accounts of the Hedley Patriotic Miss A AIcKiniion. 2.0'r Funds Committee and find the P. R. Johnson 3.75 W J Forbes 1.50- to pay. All subscriptions not in the north, and the Serbs and 0. G. Johnson. 4.25 above statement to be correct. G. A. Riddle 3.00' paid in advance will be struck French in the south. On the O. Lindgren.. 4.25 H, D. Barnes .y.oo H. D. BARNES 1 A ,., L. S. Morrison 5.00 C. P. Dalton ! west it is a huge pebble mill Aut,,to 1.50, oil the first of the year. A state­ F. M. GILLESPIE/ ^- H. H. Messinger 4.25 A, T. Hoi-swell 3.00 with thcTFreneh and British as G. Malm 4.00 F, M. Gillespie. ment will bc sent to each sub­ pebbles and the Germans tho J-AYI'OT.r. OI*I)L.'CTION*S, SKI'T, 1910. 10.00. J. Martin 4.25 A. Winkler. 5.00, scriber within the next ten days. material being reduced. It is W. Sampson $ 5.00 K. O. Peterson 5.00 J. Jackson •Ar. L. Ge/.on 5.00 5.00.; No further notice will be given. simply a question of pebble G. Prideaux". 5.00 T. H. Rotherham 5.00! Friend 8.00 Prod Pearee 4.25 VV, T. Butler 3.00 We should apologize for all this supply, and which wljl last tho D. \V. Knowles 5.00 A. Rawnsley. 4.00 longer, the grinders or the C. Barnuiii l'.wi: shop talk, but we aro in the hole Will. Lonsdale 10.00 B. Rewcorl 4.25 G. AloEachren 5.00: ground. A. Oli.re 5.00 Geo. Ransom 1.25 Miss Roche 2.0(1 about $500 and six months lost 8. L. .Smith, ~.... 5.00 W.Ray 4.00 J. .1"). Brass 5.00 ainco coming here. Wo pay our G. E. French 3.50 C. Ratise., 4.75 R. J. Edinond .'UK),' John Smith 4.50 J. Roden > 2.75 F. H. French 5.00 accounts promptly, and we ask P. Murray 3.00 W. J. Stewai t .' 5.75 W. A. McLean 5.00- those owing us to do the same. P. G. Wright 4.00 C. A. Melquist 3.75 Jas. Stewart 2.(K) C. A. Brown 4.50 Casper Steen 3.75 MissL,. Buale 1.00 j If wo could "get from under" it V. Zackerson 4.00 W. XV. Savage 3.50 John Alairhofer .3.00,' wouldn't bc necessary to pub­ H, P.. Hanson 4.00 A. W. Vance 4.75 MissE. Clare 2.00' W. Mat hew •1,00 J. Williamson 4.00 James Clarke 2.50 lish this notice R. S. Collin 5.00 8 DogH("lin 3.75 James Ci itehlev t.oo; TRADE MARK* J. W. Wirth 4.50 C K Ericson 4.25 The Daly Reduction Co.. iO.OOi 4.50 Tho rearrangement of the DESIGNS W. W. Corrigan W. T. Grieves -1.25 R. J. Corrigan 1.00: COPYRIGHTS AC L. C. Rolls 3.75 A. Nyborg 3.75 G Lyon 5.00 i British cabinet, with Lloyd Anyone sending a sketch and description may 3.75 quickly ascertain our opinion froa whether an R. Boyd XV. Trezonn. 4.25 F Lyon 3.00) George at its head will probably Inrentton Is p»obably patentable. Communica­ P. Millett 3.75 T Baird 2.00 A. J. McGibhon...... 2.50 j tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents 5.00 mean a more vigorous prosecu­ senintfreet free.. Oldest agency for securinsecuring.patents.g H. F. Jones K Jackson...., 4,25 Friend 5.00 j Patents take(alien throiifjh Mann SL CO." recelT* T. O. Porteous. 4.50 J AlcCaulay.., tpec.ial notice, without clmree, in the 4.25 Miss M Beale 2.00 tion of the waiv Thero must G. VV. Wirtanen 4,50 Joe Gerules... 2.10 E D Boeing 5.00', be something more than ordin­ S. O. Knowles 4.00 OT Norman... 3.75 J Murdoch 1.00 Scientific Jftnericait. T. Henderson 4.00 GR Allen ary in tho little chunk of Welsh Ahandsomoly illustrated weekly. I.nriett clr- 4.50 J Beale 3.00 cnlatl — Terms, S3 a H. T. Rainhow ;... 4.50 J Thomas 4.25 Bruce Rolls 2.50 energy or he would not have yeareolatio: n of any scientist! Journal. , - : four months, *L Bold by all newsdealers. G. Knowles 5.00 A Amey. 4.25 Geo Shelder 3.00 been able to overcome caste 36 8 1 G. Stevens 4.75 L Barlow 3.75 PHeldstab 4.50 prejudices and attain the high- MUNN & Co. - ™- *--"- New Yorfc T. B. Willoy 7, 4.00 Otto Johnson. 4.25 S E Hamilton 5.00 Branch Offlcr. 6Zb V 8U Washington. D. C.

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