The Huntingdon gleaner, 8 mai 1913, jeudi 8 mai 1913

[" } i 11 ! 45 > Aw | 2486 Single Copics 4 Cents MAY 8 1913 Let ~ HUNTINGDON QUE.DOLLAR A YEAR a Onaniv SEED GRAIN OATS Bumper King Abundance Tartar King Bammer BARLEY Duckbill (2 rowed) Mandsecheuri OAC.No.21 6 rowed WHEAT Red Fyfe White Fyfe Full line of SEED CORN Also, Good Stocks of FEED AND FLOUR McDONALD & ROBB Valleyfield, Que.Write for samples and prices Mutual Fire Insurance Goof the COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS (Incorporated 1852) Head Office .Huntingdon - Insures only Farm and Isolated Property, President, W.H.Walker, M,L.A.Vice-President, John Younie DIRECTORS\u2014John Younie, S.E.Ames, Anthein Doray, and M.W.Leehy.Andrew Philps Secy.and General Manager, Huntingdon, Que, Homeseekers Excursions Round Trip Tickets on sale to Winnipeg, Edmonton and intermediate stations.Every Tuesday, March to October, Return limit 2 months, OTTAWA 805 am, R40 am.9.15 am 4 pm, 745 pm, 9.50pm 10.30 p.m.Observation Parlor Cars Sleeper on 9.50 pm, train, TORONTO 905 a, and 10 pm.To \u2018Union Station, Parlor Car on Day Train.11,15 p,m.to Yonge-st.Station Elegtric Lighted Compartment and Sleeping Cars.T.B.PRINGLE, Huntingdon Wm.BRYSON, Ormstown D.R, HAY, Howick Agents McCORMICK & LEBOURVEAU Advocates, Commissioners for Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba Brit ish Columbia, ete.Rooms 41 and 42 Canadian Pacific Telegraph Building, 4+ Hospital street, Montreal.Mr McCormick will attend all the Courts in the District of Beauharnois, and will be at Moir\u2019s Hotel.Huntingdon, on the rast Saturday of every month, barr ing unfortunate circumstances, Tels- phone Main 2497.Claims for collection may be left with Robert Ellerton Hemmingford.NUMA.E.BROSSOIT B.C.L., Advocate of the city pf Valleyfield will be at Mbir's hotel llunting- don on the second Saturday of each month from 10 am.to 8pm.J.R.CLOUSTON, M.D, C.M.Que.Huntingdon, - PATTERSON & JENKINS Advocates City & District Bank Buill- ing 180 St.Jumes-st, Montreal, Mr Patterson will he at Maoir\u2019s hotel, Huntingdon first Saturday of every month.J.G.LAURENDEAU KC.Advocate, Valleyfield, will be at Hunt- ingdon at Moir's hotel, every first Saturday of each month, J.C.BRUCE Ucnéral Insurance - Fire, Life and County Bui'd- Agent Huntingdon.Accident Insurance, ing Huntingdon.For The Farmer EEE When you decide to buy new machinery, harness, or tools, come and look over my stock, get my prices, get my terms, examine the goods and you will buy from me, and be well pleased with your purchases for they will give you satisfaction.Every one knows I stand back of the machines I sell, they are good goods or 1 wouldnt sell them.The Latest Out \u201cThe Low Down Manure Spreader\u201d Have you seen it?Plows, Harrows, Seeders, Cultivators, Mowers, Reapers, Binders, Corn-cutters, Wind-mills, Gasoline Engines, Washing Machines, Cream Separators, Wagons, Carriages, Hand Made and Factory Harness, Harness Repairing, everything in the line of small tools which a farmer requires.All the very best and at as low a cost as they can be produced.À pleasure to show you our machines at any time, they are all labor savers and now when help is hard to get aregilt edge investments.A shipment of new buggies just arrived, if you are thinking of some thing fancy and at the same time strong and reliable, dropin any time and look over my stock.Telephone No.36, SAMUEL DAVIS Huntingdon, Que.FOR SALE One car Buffalo Fertilizer, Apply to F.A, McNair, Clyde's Corners.\u2018Phone 461-2, FARM FOR SALE The Farm oi the late J, D.Mae Donald, situated at LaGuerre, containing about 450 acres; 175 acres cultivated, 30 acres bush, balance pasture, largest part of which could be easily cleared and cultivated, Good house and outbuildings, and wells, Close to churches, schools, butter and cheese factories, Ideal farm for dairying.For terms and conditions apply to Mrs J.D.Mnc- Donald, 23 Bosset-street, Montreal, or J.A.McDonald, Valleyfield.In-Foal Mares Insurance The General Animals Insurance Company of Canada issues policies covering against loss of marethrough foaling ov other causes, also against loss of foal through being born dead or dyingwithin term of policy.It does not require, as some other companies do, that the \u2018mare be attended by a Veterinary Surgeon in order to claim should a loss take place.It also grants more insurance on foal than any other Company.Insure with a Canadian Company doing nothing but Live Stock Insurance and, therefore, giving prompt attention to its claims, and furthermore offering the absolute and indisputable security of having fulldeposit with Federal Governmentto guarantee policy-holders.For particulars apply to Dan Faubert, Agent.Huntingdon, Que.Inanumber of Montreal's churches Sunday, and presumably in churches everywhere throughout Christen~ dom, response was given to the request of the government of China that prayer should be made for the success of the new order lately established in the amcient empire.{Probably nothing of the kind was ever before noted in the world\u2019s history, It will be curious if it does not have its effect in making people of good will think more kindly of the men of the yellow race and their aspirations.A nation cutting away from restrictive tradition and seeking help to maka itsclf better should not cry in vain.ARTHUR W.SULLIVAN, Q.LS.& CE.Successor to John H, Sullivan, Q.L.S.& CE.Surveying and Engineering of water courses and Bounding of properties, Bornage, &c., attended to promptly.Address: P.O,box 124.Telephane 14, Valleyfield, Que.or Room 20, 50 St Peter street, Montreal.Que, PHOSPHATE Two carloads of Phosphate at Athelstan station this week.I will be there every Wednesday until the end of the season, Anv person desiring particulars can write or phone to Thos, Cogland, Herdman Phone 58 1-4 THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE SIR EDMUND WALKER, C,V.0, LL.D, D.C.L, President / ALEXANDER LAIRD General Manager JOHN AIRD Assistant General Manager CAPITAL, $15,000,000 REST, $12,500,000 SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNTS | Interest at the current rate is allowed on all deposits of $1 and upwards, Careful attention is given to every account Accounts may be opened and operated by mail.are welcomed, Small accounts Accounts may be opened in the names of two or more persons, withdrawals to be made by any one of them or by the survivor.es C.W.THOMAS, Manager of Huntingdon Branch, GRAZING WORK HORSES AT NIGHT.It ls almost impossible to Juy down 8 rule tout will apply universally in inÿ particoiur agricultural practice, sys the lows Bomestend.We bave always Leld the optuiou, and this oplu- lou 18 biased 00 a broad experience, (hat the average farm work horse, all things considered, gives ns good service during the spring abd summer mooths {f pastured at night as if kept ou dry feed during these sensons.That this does not express the unauimous vpinton ot farmers on (he subject is ludicuted by the views given by u Kapsus farmer in the followtug communication: \u201cI've piuch of the scarcity nnd high price ot hay aud grain Is being keenly felt.Many a poor team §s now having to work with the surength that cau only be gained trom greeu grasa.To work borses on grass 1s bad enough wben some grälo is given three times 4 day, but to cut out the dry feed en- firely, both hay and grain, and make the poor bensts subsist entirely on washy grass is almost inhuman, Yet It is being done every day in many sections of the country this season and 18 partly excusable on account of the scarcity ot feed of all kinds except what is growing in the pastures.\u201cA greut many farmers make a practice ot turning their work teams on pasture during the nighttime regard- Intelligence, good temper und courage ure all indicated in a good Percheron head and are proved qualities of the breed.The overwhelming popularity of Percherons on farms and in cities is ample proof that the type is the one wanted, Good feeding and shipping qualities, clean, properly sot legs, dense, well shaped feet and unusual endurance at severe work are sotue of the strony points of the vreed.less of the hay and grain they bave or how lavishly they feed it.They think it a good thing for their horses to have them out and filling up on green grass.Whiie a Idtle green grass is good, it can be noticed that teams not allowed any grass at all, but well fed aud cared for in the barn, will stand up to bard work better and will go through the bot weather of summer in much better condition than wheu allowed to ill every night on washy grass.The grass makes them sweat very easily oh hot days and tends to keep them soft.\u201d We acknowledge that grazing work borses at night does in a measure \u201csoften\u201d them.They sweat more eas- lly, it is true, and they require possibly a little more caution in handling than horses kept on dry feed.However, if a little common sense is used the first bour after they are hitched in the morning and If they can be fed four or five quarts of grain apiece after being taken in from the pasture we believe that there will not be much difference in the amount of labor per- tormed comfortably by the two classes of horses.The cost of the upkeep of work horses is a big item in these days, and, as this subscriber says, it Is excessively high this year.Under such circumstances grass is the cheapest food that can be utilized, as it saves buying bigh priced hay, and ip some cases it may save buying high priced grain.While we think that a borse doing a heavy day\u2019s work every day needs grain, yet on many farms where there is plenty of horsepower and the work Is not very strenuous in such cases where the horses are in fair flesh they may be taken through a working season in a very satisfactory manner on grass alone.Ye have always been a devout champion of grass as a food for all classes of live stock, and we belleve that its merit is not in any way less ened when it is used somewhat lib erally for tbe work horse.A NOBLEWOMAN\u2019S PETS.Lady Warwick's White Peacock Given To Her By Disraeli.Among the many things for which the Countess of Warwick is famous is her collection of pets at Warwick castle.The Countess has every opportunity to gratify her love for animals, vs the estate has special advantages for the care essential to the different species.The birds have almost the freedom of a forest home.The Avon River, which separates just above the castle, surrounds a little island on which kingfishers and wild ducks mingle together.Perhaps the best loved of all her pets is the famous white peacock, which was presented to the late carl by Lord Beaconsfield some forly vears ago, before that having heen the property of the author of \u201cLothair.\u201d It would thus seem to he quite an old bird, yet.iudged by peacock standards, it is not yet middle-aged for a companion bird, also belonging to the aristocratic breed of white peacocks, which never mate with any but birds of their own feather, is established as being more than a century old, though by how much there are no authentie records to prove.A very old family servant remembers it as having been a vigorous bird in his childhood.while his father, who died avery old man, remembered it as having been a vigorous bird in his childhood.Tt is still hale and hearty, though it is losing its feathers and generally beginning to look aged.Lady Warwick's most constant com.\u2019 panion is a fine collie, which is never happy save when at her heels.| | \u201cMother could never go about in disguise,\u201d says Lady Marjorie, the coun.| tess\u2019 daughter.\u201cShe would always be known by her dog.\u201d Lady Marjorie also is fond of pets\u2019 and many pictures have bean published showing her on the lawn with strange assortments of rabbits, lambs, terriers, collies, and the favorite donkey.Lady Warwick is one of the best judges of a horse in England, | and Jars horses as only those ze STARTED FROM TORONTO, Franklin's Arctic Exp-\"tion Recalled by Scott Tragedy.The tragedy of Capt.Scott and his brave companions 1n the Antarctic reminds a recent writer tha.one Arctie expedition may almost be said to have started from Toronto.This was that made by Sir John Franklin to the Arctic shores of this continent in 1825, Starting out from England Franklin and his party arrived at New York and.come on from thut place by stage and boat up the Hudson river.In due time the explorer arrived at Toronto, which was then Yurk.Franklin bad his boats put upon carts there at the bay and taken thence by ox teams up Yonge street.When the Franklin psrty reached Newmarket they stayed over as the guests of Hon.Peter Robinson, a noted resident and a relative of Sir John Beverly Robinson, Bart.Chief Justice of Upper Canada, who lived in York.From Newmarket it was but a short distance to where the Arctic voyagers really commence their long journey into the frozen wastes of the north.The boats were taken on to Holland Landing then the jumping off place for the north, and launched in the marshy little stream which ent thusiasts have long been trying to convert into a canal at great public expense.The place of embarkation was the canoe landing used by the Indians for ages.Here the boats commenced their journey.Lake Simcoe was passed, the Severn River navigated and thence by way of the shores of Lake Huron the party reached Lake Superior.Skirting its rugged north shore, Fort William was passed and Winni- peg\u2014TFort Garry\u2014eventually reached by the old Hudson Bay Co.\u2019s route.Thence the travelers went north through the interminable stretches of lakes and rivers that gridiron the vast northwest.There are several Arctic travelera in Toronto, among them R.F.Stupart, of the Meteorological Office.Mr.Stu- part went up in charge of the party of 1884.The party went out to report, among other things, upon the navigability of Hudson's Straits.The ship, which sailed from Halifax, touched at Baflin's Land and thence went through the icebergs to the bay, where the party wintered at Cape Prince of Wales, the extremity of Ungava Day.A Distinguished Sidesman.There is a very modest little Anglican church in Ottawa, where they possessed some time ago a unique, though unofficial sidesman.The chureh is situated near Rideau all, and many members of the households of the different Governors-General have worshipped there, though it has never been used for state functions.Larl Grey and his family were constant attendants, especially at the carly services.Some time nzo there was a little handful present at as early service, including a small 2roup from the Hall, but the congregation contained very few men, one being an nide-de.\u2019 \u2019s ol at Queissc auë tbe péomies mate On Monday n bill to give women the conduct nf the suffragettes dis- The difficulty raised between the The warm spell experienced of late has had no parallel 10 memory of those living.The nearest Was 1896, when, bn April £1, it suddenly came put hot and continued so eight days, the highest reached be- wave set in on the 22nd April and that the government money would be paid monthly us the work proceeded, The contract with the O'Connor Bros.of Huntingdon was closed, work is to be commenced immediately on the cast side of \u2018the English river, from Bt Chrysostome to Aubrey station.Small-pox being prevalent im the parish, the health vfficers were requested to take all necessary precautions and oblige everybody to be vaccinated, Ste MARTINE On Monday, at the meeting of council, all were present.It was unanimously decided to macadamize about three miles of road this mummer, and to build u steel bridge over Sturgeon river.The contract for the whale wark was given to Narcisse Beaudrault, à son of Col.Benudrault of this village, his tender for the road is $14,000 a mile for 16 feet wide macadam, and $7650 for 12 feet wide, He puts jn and furnishes all cement pipes, all culverts and gradings, completing the whole road for that price, them being ma extra to pay by the corporation, He builds also the Sturgeon river bridge for $3500, which is to have cement abutments, with steel span and cement flooring, and the railings on each side of the bridge, that :e, the complete work according to the play and specifications of the government.The fine weather we are getting has advanced seeding.Many farmers were through last week, and we may say that every one will be thru this week.Grass is coming out fine.St.LOUIS DB GONZAGUE There was found om Saturday im a well on the property of Telesphore Monpetit, the body of Solomon Le- duc, who disappeared some time ago, Mr Monpetit while engaged in some work om his farm found an overcoat near an old wbandoned well.After examining the garment he thought that it was the property of Solomon Leduc, and brought it to the wife of Mr Leduc, who immediately recognized it as the coat worn by ther husband nt the time of his d'sappearance.A few friends of Mr Leduc on hearing the news af the finding of the coat went to the vVicimity and searched the well and to their horror found the body of Solomon Leduc.For some time past the deceased had been puffer- ing from mental disorders, and it is feared that' in a fit of despondency he committed suicide by jumping into the well BEAUHARNOIS The death occurred last week of Dr Cote, one of our three doctors.Dr Cote practised here for a good many years.Although he was not an old man, he had been failing in health for some time.The J.W.Kilgour & Co.have moved into their new offices.Altho the work of the finishers is not yet completed, they had to vacate the building, which they had been using, on the first of May.The Howard Smith Paper Co.are hoping to have their factory running in about two weeks.The work undertaken by the contractor, Mr C.E.Deakin, is about finished, and most of the machines have been placed by men who were sent for that purpose, so the mill is now assuming a business-like uppearance, It is possible u second machine will be installed next fall.The new building was erected to hold two machines, Those who are to be engaged in the paper-making are beginning to arrive and are finding great difficulty in securing houses to rent, for the houses which it was expected the company would build.have not been erected.When the work bf excavation was being carried on at this mill a sulphur spring Was tapped, from which a strong stream has been flowing ever since.The water {s very good, so it is the intention of the company to utilize it and carry it ail through the mill for drinking purposes.Our town water does not suit strangers, and a good many who have been using it have become quite ill.CHATEAUGUAY Caterpillars are shewing £hem- selves in almost as great numbers this spring as last.The unusual hot weather is developing them as rapidly as with vegetation.The ice storm of last March apparently did little damage to fruit or shade trees in this vicinity, and there is a great showing of buds on apple-trees and small fruits, The Chinaman has come to the Basin with his wWash-tubs.Sang Sing has issued circulars, with his prices listed, and gives the location of his shop as \u201cChateauguay Baain, west P.Q.,\u201d by which he means the south shore of the river.A Temperance restaurant, conducted by a capable young French woman, Madame Couillard, and her husband, has been opened onthe square fronting the station, and will fill a long felt want.Another bus, making three im all is being driven this year between the twovillages by Honore Barrette.Divine service was conducted in the old stone church, in the upper village, on Sunday, May 4, being the first of the monchly services to be held during the summer.The butter factory, Mr Jos.Reid proprietor, has commenced operations.The Band of Hope held its last meeting for the season on Thursday afternoon.Rev.Mr McLensan was present, and addreesed the members.Arbor Day was observed as a holiday in the day school, on Friday Five trees were planted and some practical demonstrations in housecleaning given to the scholars, who came in the morning with gingham aprons, to protect their dresses, and applied themselves vigorously to cleaning windows, polishing stoves, and sweeping and dusting.The change from the routine of book lessons was greatly enjoyed.On Saturday morning school was kept in order to receive Inspector Parker.After a brief visit to Miss Cunningham's primary classes upstairs, all the scholars were brought into the model department, where a Jocripture and aon d'taught by Miss rape, Parker declared to be FH LJ IN \" greatly pleased with the manage- \u2018ment of the school in general, and the progress of the scholars.The monthly missionary meeting was held at the home of Mrs Pen- wick on Monday, April 28th, with a good attendance, Mrs Young, of the Montreal society, addressed the meeting.The monthly meeting of the Temperance society was held Monday evening, May Sth, to prepare for the county convention of the W.C.T.U., meeting here the last week in May.This municipality received authority from government to borrow $75,000 for road work, two years ago.The first summer's work was accepted by the government's inspector, but the work done last vear has not been accepted, and no money is forthcom:ng.Work isat a standstill, Council met to-day, May 5th, and discussed the situation, A tender for macadamizing at $6000 per mile has been received from Zemophile Cecire, a former foreman, but mo decision has been arrived at, VALLEYFIELD The Presbyterian church Sunday school hud u concert in the Gault institute on Friday evening.There was a large gathering of members and friends.The program presented was a firsterlass wne and im cluded several amusing dialogues which were very cleverly stuged and great credit is due to those who took the various parts and also to the superintendent.Mr R.J.Thomson, who had the trammng of the company.The net profits amounted to some forty-five dollars, which goes to the building fund in uid of the mew hall which is rapidly nearing completion.Queen's park was the 5cene of great bustle on Saturday ufternoon, when the opening game nf the football season was played between Val- leyfield and Sons of Scotland, There was much excitement when the respective teams took the field a8 a good deal of feeling exists between the two on account of disputes of last season, Nevertheless a good game was played and ended in favor of Valleyfield, 4\u20141, Valleyfield team was\u2014Goal, Le- gros; back, Rateliffe and Chadwick; H.hucks, Dewhurst, S.Me- Cann and Taylor; forwards, McCann, Agnew, H, Thamson, H.Whitehead and Reynolds.The body of a man was found floating in the canal opposite the post-office on Monday afternoon, and was taken charge of by the police.The corpse was much decomposed through having been in the water since the 10th December last, as on that date the man disappeared from home, The jce merchants have started their rounds for the season, but the quality of the ice this year is not so good as on former occasions.Mayor Ostiguy has returned to town from his trip to Europe, where he has bought largely and no doubt he will present to his numerous customers a large selection of the very best furs the markets produce.The bakery business carried on by N.D.Rankin has been sold to James Mulos.HEMMINGFORD There was no meeting of the village council on Monday evening Cause, no one there.The Sunday trains commenced their regular trips May 4.The Presbytery of Montreal meet on May 12th, to induct the Rev.Mr Reid as minister of St Andrew\u2019sand Knox church.Workmen employed in excavating a cellar under the store of Wilmer P.Fisher, at a little distance came upon a wall with a pump in it.The pump, an old-fashioned wooden one, was in a good state of preservation.DEWITTVILLE To the surprise of the congregation here, for the first time since his accident last summer, Dr Morison drove from Ormstown and conducted service, Needless to add, he received a hearty welcome.HERDMAN This community was shocked by two unexpected deaths on the same day.On the morning of Wednesday, 30th Apri}, word passed round that Daniel McCann, after a brief illness, had passed away, nnd in the evening we were startled to hear John Crutchfield, apparently in his usual health, and while talking with his family, had suddenly dropped dead.Both were life-long residents of Hinchinbrook and both were nearly of the same age.Mr Me- Cann was mayor of the town und had taken an active part in publie affairs.Mr Crutchfield passed a quiet and useful Life.respected by all who knew him, The pnlcogea for removal of both leaves blanks that will not be speedily filled, ee) KENSINGTON Saturday, baseball teams from Kensington and Trout River Lines played a tight game of baseball on the latter's grounds, the score being 4\u20143 for the Yankees.Owing to the rush of work on the farms getting in seed both teams were without several players.From the showing made at the game, however, the regulars will need to exert themselves to show cause why the \u201ckids\u201d should not hold their positions on the Line up.We expect a wonderful crop of butterflies this year, though trees may be poor.Ce \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 St.SACREMENT COUNCIL Met Monday afternoon; all present Mayor Desgroseilliers presiding.Chief business was purchasing road-making machinery, T.B.Dore & Fils, and the Internationak Harvester company, and the J.J.Case Co, had agents present.After much discussion between agents and councillors, McRae moved that the following machinery be purchased from Dore & Pila\u2014 lst One Acme stone-crusher, 10 x 18, 61850, 2nd The portable bin and elevators, 87830, 8rd One sprinkler, 850 gallons capacity, $250, 4th One pick plow, 6935, .oe One portable scale, 10,0001b,, JINJIN DLILZ/AUN ° Further, to purchase: fram the In ternational Harveater Co.\u2014 6th One portable Gasoline or kerosene engine, 20ih.p,, $1090, 7th One gasoline or kerosens road rdller, 10 tons, $2875, Il the above machinery to be subject to the approval of the road department of the province of Que bec.' Moved in amendment by [Femple- ton, seconded by Lacoste, substitute a Dore steam roller in place of International gasoline roller, For the amendment\u2014Templeton, Lacoste, Turcot, and Desgroseilliers (mayor), Muin motion\u2014Angel, McRae and Anderson.The above machinery to be shipped at as early date ns possible.Mr Mahon's proposition was brought up again, but was laid over for a special meeting after information has been received from Quebec, ORMSTOWN WILLAGE COUNCIL Met May Oth; present: the Mayor and Ccuns.Cooper, Hastie, Reid, Chambers.Secretary\u2014Here js this petition of Rene Bourdon's, left from last meeting.Cooper\u2014Has Rene \u2018Bourdon rented the hotet from Messrs Sorgius & Landes?Mr Bourdon produced his papers to show \u2018that he had it rented for one \u2018year.: Hastie\u2014There is bne thing, we all know ¥hat this house had a bad reputation.I have nothing to say against Mr Bourdon, in fact he is a perfect stranger to me, but I think this council ought to imvestigate how this \u2018place is ta be run.Cooper\u2014I think we might give him a chance.We should havetwo hotels in this town anyway to ac commodate the people, and another thing is two omnibusses, one cannot take all the people.Reid\u2014He will have to run \u2018hotel according fo law or else will look into the matter.Mayor\u2014We will prosecube don\u2019t.Moved by Coun.Reid, seconded by Coun, Cooper, that the certificate of Rene Bourdon to keep a Temperance hotel £n the village be confirmed, provided he agrees to rus the hotel according to the law.Secretary\u2014I have another license here, sent in to my office by F.L.Giroux, the we if he Mayor\u2014What will we do about this license?Moved by Cooper, seconded by Hastie, that the certificate ol F.L Giroux lo keep a Temperance hotel in the village be confirmed, provided he agrees to keep the hotel according to the law, Mayor\u2014How nre phe taxes coming im?Secretary\u2014Slow, Secretary\u2014Here ÿs the certificate for £he Royal Insurance Co.on the water works pipe.Cooper\u2014What is the premium?Secretary\u2014$82.Hastie\u2014How tong is this for?Reid\u2014For 3 months.Moved by Hastie, seconded by Reid, that the council accept the policy issued by the Royal Insurance Co.to the amount of $8,000 insurance, on Wood pipe distributed on water pipe line, amount $32 for 3 months.Several accounts paid, Moved by Chambers, seconded by Hastie, that all the accounts be passed.\u2019 were ordered DUNDEE COUNCIL Met Monday; present: Gardiner, Fraser, Smellie, and Davidson.A resolution was passed applying to the government of the province for an allocation in conformity with the Good Roads act, 1912, The following bills were nrderod paid\u2014Frank Plamondon, $13.25, for repairs on bridge in Chenail; Dr Blackett's bill, 884.25.Louis Lahaire was appointed road inspector in place of James David son resigned.The secretary was ordered to advertise for tenders for macadamizing five miles of sideroad.T.W.Fraser was given the contract to build a concrete bridge over the Sulphur Bpring creek.HUNTINGDON VILLAGE COUNCIL Met Monday evening; Dupuis absent.Bills of George Munro for $300 were ordered paid, A bill from him for $60 for extra pumping was left in the hands of the water committee.A complaint from Mrs Adam Millar, demanding that the council plug two drains, which were causing their garden to ne tjooded, was left in the hands of the road committee, The Mayor stated that he had been notified by a citizen of the village that he had proof against the pool-room for breaking the law hy staying open on Sunday, and asked the council what he would do.The council authorized the mayor to take the necessary steps.Al representative of the Studa- baker Co.was present to put forth the merits of their sprinkling wagons.The road committee were ordered to get prices from other companies and report at once.One tender for the paving of the sidewalks was laid before the council, It was from D, McNair, who offered to lay sidewalk for $1.65 per square yard, except for 250 ft.which would cost $1.75 per yard, Crawford\u2014It js all very well to talk of building sitewafks When we haven\u2019t any money to pay for them.We had better wait until we re- ceivé more definite word from Quebec as to the road money due us before we enter into any contracts.* Mayor\u2014Coun, Crawford is right.The council is in bad condition financially, We have several bonds falling due, and there is no money in the bank to meet them.Besides the note of the Phoenix Bridge Co.falls due shortly, besides other bills against the council, Moved by Smaill, seconded by Will, that the tender of D.McNair be accepted, but ho work is to be done until the council has recewved the money from Quebec.Joseph Laberge appeared before the council and asked for water to his house on Lake street.The application was granted.A letter was read from the secretary of the Road department at.Quebec, saqliciog when the council - was Willing to start paymg interest on the $12,000 grant for stoning roads asked for.Moved by Smaill, seconded hy Will, that the mecretary notify the department that the village was willing to start paying interest from the 15th May.Moved by Lunan, seconded by Crawford, that the secretary notj- fy the Fairbanks Co.that the roof was recently blown off the water tank by the wind, that the accident was due to the faulty construction of the roof, and the council asks that the roof be replaced by the company, according to their contract.Adjourned to May 19th.HINCHINBROOK COUNCIL Met on Monday; present: Couns D Rowat, Nelson Goldie, Wm.Ander gon, Archd, Muir, jr, Wm, Wilson and Joseph Anderson.Coun.Muir was uappuinted mayor pro tem.On motion bf Coun.Toldie, sec onded by QOoun, Rowat, a resolution was passed, placing on record the councils sense of loss im the death of Daniel H.McCann, mayor, who was for many years a member of council, It was moved by Coun, Joseph Anderson, seconded hy Coun.Rowat, that Felix MeCormick be appointed councillor to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr McCann, Moved by Coun.Goldie, seconded by Coun, Wm.Anderson, that Wm, Isaac Blair be appointed road inspector in room of Felix McCormick for road division No.2, The following bills for work on roads, were ordered paid\u2014John Patterson, 513.72; do.$11; Jos.Laberge, 618.35; John Sloan, $6: John Arthur, $2.55; James Steele $1.50, and James Massey, $4.75.VALLEYFIELD CITY COUNCIL At a meeting on April 23rd a resolution was passed, asking the government, under the good roads net, to macadamize the road on Salaberry street, as this road being the boundary between the parish of Ste Cecile and the city, and there being more houses on the side belonging to Ste Cecile, it is a rural road and can therefore come under the provisions of the act.Coun.Cholette asked the council to consider the providing of water to the inhabitants of Ste Cecile nn the north side of the Grand Trunk rallway and others living close 10 the city limits, A resolution was passed ordering the water superintendent to prepare a plan for supplying the inhabitants of GrandwIsle.The secretary was ordered to get prices from the Canada Founary Co.for a pump capable «+ pumping 800 gallons a minute.Moved by Cossette, seconded by Fainault, that notice be given the Canadian Light, Heat and Power Co.pointing out that debris belonging to them at the head of the canal is encroaching on Vietoria street, and as the council would be held responsible for all accidents, the company is requested to take necessary precautions.MONTREAL SOCIALISTS Montreal Gazette: Following a procession of Socialists in which close on ten thousand people participated, the doctrines of Socialism and all the wrongs of humanity which could be righted by\" those doctrines, were expounded in ten different languages by some forty different orators on the Champ de Mars Thursday night.The proces sion, which was probably the largest of its kind that has ever been held here, was composed of anout tive thousand members of Socialist organizations when it commenced the march, but was later increased to almost double that number by crowds of sympathizers who joimed the ranks, these sympathizers being mostly trade unions, Headed by Albert Saint-Martin as grand marshall, the procession started from Prince Arthur and St Lawrenve streets at 7 o'clock.Following the Socialist band wis the Young Socialet Federation, accompanying whom were Miss Fann'e Rosenstone and Miss Ethel Sheîler bearing a bright red banner.Each of the other organizations also displayed a flag of like hue, but these all bore an inscription, some in English, but the majority in other languages.The procession was an orderly one and arriving at the Champ de Mars divided up into several groups.Each of the orators took up a position on the upper slop2s of the Champ do Mars, being surrounded by their respective followers, red bunners marking the vantage point of the speaker.Then in many languages, but all with the utmost of emphasis the lecturers commenced to expound Socialism, \u201cWe are satisfied that working for wages is not to our interest,\u201d said Mr Albert Saint-Martin.\u201cWe want workers to understand that so long as they work for wages they are slaves, Ay! over the world the workers who are conscious of slavery \u2018have amjted under one political flag and with one principle.That is the Socinlist party.The flag w red and the principle is the abolish ment of the capitalist system and the ushering in of the co-operative commonwealth, Someone has sajrdl our flag was red as the ome used at auctions, Indeed we are prepared to auction to those who will buy them, the mass of prejudices used by the capitalists to divide the workers, \u2018We have decided to put an end to it as you can see here tonight, We are of all creeas ana all origins and all nationalities, and are uniting to overthrow the system that produces drunkenness immoral- My and ignorance and produce a reign that gives equality.\u201d To another crowd the Young Socialist orators expounded even more startling theories, \u201cWe have nothing to lose,\u201d said one of their leaders, Mr L.Rubenstone, \u201cand the world to gain, We must get a majority in parliament and then we will confiscate all the industries.\u201d Another gentleman contributed tne cheerful thought that \u201cthe time is coming .when the Socinlista will tle up all the industries of the world.Withim a few weeks,\u201d he continued, \u201cyou will see a Canadian navy and we wil go \u2018to war with other workers, We will slaughter ome an- other\u2014and for what?\u201d None supplying an answer he was replaced by another, who continued in the same veln.\u201cWe are here,\u201d ' announced à negro orator, \u201cto protest against the expluitation of the workers.We are building dreadnoughts so that those across the water may exploit you, (Cheers,) Your minds are warped (further cheers) and no Wonder we are where we are.\u201d In other languages the same theories and the sume urguments were given, all attracting a fuir sized crowd, Meanwhile a party ol young ladies was taking advantage of the opportunity and selling Leight red Socialist tags for five cents.Some bought, while others were so well clothed in red already that they could scarce find room for even a tag.About 9 o'clock the procession formed again and started for home, accompanied by the band and each party singing the strains ol the Marsellaise being predominant.Th\u201d Socialists returned by way of Craig to the Colonial hall on Clarke street.Here there was more cloquente.which presently gave place to dancing.RELICS OF OLD TIMES Montreal, May 8\u2014For the past few weeks workmen engaged in tearing down an old convent at the foot of St Lawrence street have found a perfeet network of tunnels, secret passages und hidden chum- bers, The city recently decided to extend St Lawrence street to the waterfront, and to do so had to purchase an old convent which filled the space between the font of the street and the river, This it proceeded to demolish, wrth the resuit that all sorts of coins, medals.statues of the days of the Bourbons, ete.are being recovered, In addition there is a perfect network of secret passageways which extends far and wide, Ancient Coins Unearthed One of the relics found was a five-franc piece, which left the mint of Hrance bright and shiny in the year 1732, when Louis XV, ruled in glory over France and Navarre.This coin finally came to Canada, and must have lain undisturbed for years, till a workman saw something shining among a mass of fallen stones, and picked it up Another coin is of more recent date and bears the inscription, \u201cCharles X., Roi de France, 1828,\u201d and still another contributes an in teresting souvenir of the early days of the nineteenth century.It is a British-Canadian coin, commemorating the peace which followed the war of 1812, It is dated 1816, and bears the inscription, \u201cIsane Brock, the hero of Upper Canada,\u201d Hand-wrought nails and dried pieces ol timber have also been uncovered, : Marvelous Subterrancous Passages However, it is the tunnels that have aroused the greatest interest.Owing to the extraordinary number und the complete network of these subterranean passages it !s estimated that to duplicate this work to-day would cost a figure running well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars There was discovered yesterday morning a method of construction to render the top of the tunnels impervious to water, which if applied to modern * day construction of this nature would be of immeasurable value.In the old days, before cement existed, the craftsmen and masons arn- complished the desired end by placing over the stones forming the arch of the tunnels a layer of blue clay, with the result that the tunnels were rendered dry.Early Fortifications Another interesting feature these structures is the clever use made of flat stones, which were evidently gathered along the long reaches of the St Lawrence.Undoubtedly the structures were a part of the carly defences of the settlement as it was customary then to supplement the efficiency of the fortifications by complicated subterranean passages and tunncls, into which a garrison could retreat in case it was rendered necessary.The removal of the old hujlding reveals something of the early life of the little colony.of Brandon, Man, May 5\u2014The pub'ic market fully justified itsell as the best insurance against the high cost of living when, on Saturday, it Was the means of transferring many tons of garden and dairy produce from the producer to the consumer without the costly intervention of the middleman, Dairy butter, solid at stores around 40 cents, changed hands at 25 cents; eggs sold for 19 cents 4 dozen; potatoes 30 cents a bushel, und other products showed like substantial reductions.This was the biggest day since the market started nearly a week ago.A sim'lar market is to be started in Winnipeg on a larger scale.Quehee, May 5.\u2014The provincial government has received over 300 requests from municipalities that wish to improve their highways under the Good Roads Jaw.There will ve a great deal of work done this season in all parts of the province as at the present time 74 municipalities have gone through the necessary formalities and their demands have been ratified by the lieutenant-governor-in-couneil.The sum required for the demands of $3,000,000, and, roughly estimated this sum will suffice to build four hundred miles of macadamized highway.Municipalities in all parts of the province are applying for \u2018guarantees, but most of the requests are being received from the district of Montreal and from Eastern Townships, \u2018 The board of trustees, Chateau- gay, N.Y, have adopted an ordinance which limits the speed of automobiles on the village streets to 8 miles an hour.À penalty of $10 fine is made for violation of the ordinance and the trustees say the law will Be strictly enforced.Some reckless driving is reported and it js .to put a stop to this kind of \u201csport\u201d that the enactment of the new law was made necessary.\u2014 Record, the 74 municipalities is in excess of | LEGAL RIGHTS OF WOMEN Quebec, May 4.\u2014An answer to the statements of Dr Stowe Gullen, of Toronto, that women in Quebec are denied their proper rights and that \u201cglaring injustices\u201d are to be foun in the laws of succession and freedom of willing law 18 made ina letter to the Quebec press, which is believed to have been written by an eminent judge of this city.The letter says: The tawsof Quebec give the wife the full ownership of whatever movable property comprising monzy, stocks, etc, that the contotts may be pussessed Of at the death of the husband, whether acquired during the time of their marriage or before; and also oi all immovable property that may have been ac- yuired by the consorts during the time of their marriage, except such immovables as may have been :n- herited by the husband during marriage.In this province the husband, as a rule, is the party who carns the money, Moreover, at the death of the husband, the wife is entitled to the usufruct during her lifetime of onz-half vf all the immovable property that the husband owned at the date of their marriage, or inherited by him during marriage.Of these two rights the husband cannot deprive his wife by will or otherwise, So that, if the husband during his lifetime has earned, say $20,000 not invested in real estate before his marriage, his wife or her heirs are entitled to $10,000 in fuld property.And, over and above that, if he has inherited another $20,000 of immovable property from his parents, his wife is entitled to the enjoyment during her lifetime of one-half of this.And the husband cannot deprive her of these advantages by law or otherwise, This is the Que- bee law that is declared to be outrageous by Dr Stowe Gullen, of Toronto, province of Ontario.Another law which is involved in this term \u201coutrageous\u201d is the law concerning freedom of willing.This law was introduced in Quebee in 1774.It is contrary to the old French law heretofore jn force in Quebec, which did not allow a man to dispose of his whole property.It has always been considered a good law since then; and in France, where the old rule still holds, fre- guent complaints are heard against the law which forbids freedom of willing.Anyhow, so far as the wife is concerned, this freedom .of willing cannot deprive her of the property or u-ufruet above mentioned, and, on the contrary, it allows the husband io deprive his children,in favor of his wite, of the rest of his estate.And I may say that, as a matter of fact, wills are generally made in favor of the wife in some way or another.; The law of community and the law of dower above stated are very old, indeed; they have been in force for nearly fifteen hundred years.In France the sume laws have outlived the revolution.It may be that they want to be amended.I will not pretend that they do not need amendments, It would take too long to discuss here in what respect they need amendments, But legislators would do well not to act under the impression that they arc outrageous, Institutions and laws are based upon custom and tradition and are good examples of the survival of the fittest, And such as have lasted fifteen hundred years should be handled with due consideration and may be found difficult to replace with laws that will equally suit the customs and traditions of \u201cthe province of Quebec.London, May 3,.\u2014\u201cThe more I know about the British navy the more I have confidence in it,\u201d said Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, at the annual banquet of the Royal Academy to-night.The first lord said that the navy was great not merely in respect to numbers, but especially with regard to the quality of the ships and the men, London, May D.\u2014An end was put to-day to the possibility of secret proceedings in divorce and other suits in the United Kingdom by « judgment delivered by the house nf lords, sitting as the highest court of appeals, The case came up in the form of an appeal from a party who had been convicted of con tempt of court for circulating u report of a case heard with closed doors, The decision was unar- mously reversed.The lord chancellor declared\u2014\u201cEvery court of justice in the land is open to every subject of the King and a court \u2018has no power to sit otherwise than with open doors.\u201d Berlin, April 25 \u2014Roman Catholic clergymen are forbidden to either own or ride in an automobile, according to un edict published today in the Rhenish Prussian Bishopric of Treves, The head of the diveese declares that the use of \"automobiles is inconsistent with Lhe humility which should adorn the clergy, and, furthermore automobiling has been the frequent cause of the financial embarrassment of priests.| Despite the protests of her family and relatives, pretty Miss Mura Brooks of Westville, was married 10 Aubrey Davis at the county jail in Malone a few hours prior to his de- varture for Dannemora prison.Sheriff Edwards had made oll are rangements for the transfer when the marriage took place.Davis, who is about 80 years of age, was sentenced to a term of three years in Dfnnemora for grand larcemy.While employed at the residence of Town Clerk Main, of Malone, Miss Brooks was visited by Davis, who, in the absence of the family stole 4 large amount of jewelry and other articles of value, most of which however, were later recovered by the officers on the case.Miss Brooks knew of the theft, but kept it quiet until the case agaimst Davis was complete, when she made a clean breast of the affair.Davis is on old time criminal, having served a previous time in Dannemora, but despite this fact Miss Brooks remained steadfast to him during the whole affair, and her action Tuesday consumated an affair which has caused much comment about .Malone and vicinity.4 À à (*- Ÿ = # | 1 ' L \u2018 Majestic Hall This Week Come and See on FRIDAY .\u2018The Lady Barrister! a comedy subject of universal merit, On the same reel, \u2018Life in a Bulgarian village\u2019 Particularly ipter~ esting.\u2018Home can do More, Balck and White.SATURDAY \u2018Youre Wild West's Prairie Pur- eu?A Summer Idyl, TUESDAY \u2018Phe Last Resource 101 Bisson.In Payment Puil The Price of Money REMEMBER THE ACADEMY PLAY On FRIDAY, MAY 23rd It is going to be one of the lest Comedies yet staged in Huntingdon, The Cast is a popular one and the demand for seats is going to be unusually great.So Remember the date FRIDAY, May 23rd Don\u2019t Forget THE SECOND ANNUAL SALE CF REGISTERED STOCK Under the auspices of the District of Beauharnois Live Stock Breeders\u2019 Association will be held at ORMSTOWN, QUE.On JUNE 20th (Last day of the Show) Parties wishing to consign.stock are requested to notify either of the undersigned before May 1st, Geo, J.Bryson, Ormstown James Cavers, Ormstown G.McMillan, Trout River, Que.R MAXINE AND SOCIETY BRAND SHOES FOR WOMEN Prices $2.50 to $5 The Best Shoe Values in Canada Sold at Athens, May 6.\u2014Aleko Schinag who assassinated King George, on March 18th at Saloniki, committed suicide this morning by flinging himself out of a window of his cel.The Grey Nuns sold on Monday a property they owned on\u201dSt Catherine street, Montreal, for two million dollars, receiving down four hundred thousand as first payment, The early arrivals of flies should be sedulously killed, All refuse should be frequently removed and dust-bins emptied at short intervals.Chloride of lime should be freely sprinkled in all likely breeding places, and all food carefully protected from possible contamination, particularly milk, It will be found that flies will drink with avidity a mixture composed of: Two tea~ spoonfuls of formalin, one of sugar, half a pint of milk, half a pint of water, and be quickly destroyed.House flies, it is said, will not pass through an open window across which a piece of gauze is stretched, even if the meshes be an inch square, Certain smells offend their delicate nostrils.For instance, they shrink from the delicious odor of mignonette or that of bruised walnut leaves, It is interesting to note that a fly as a fly never grows, All its growth is done while it is a grub, and during its chrysalis stage there is no addition to its weight, so that when it appearsas a fly it is as large as it will be.The small flies scen in the summer either belong to distinct species or havo originated from larvae which were prevented from attaining their full dimensions owing to failure of their food supply.The house~fly breathes through holes in its body.not through its mouth, It is the solemn thought connected with middle life that life\u2019s last business has begun in earnest; and it is then, midway between the cradle and the grave, that a man begins to marvel that he let the day of youth go by so hall enicyed, It is the pensive autumn feeling; it is the sensation of half sadness that we experience when the longest day of the ycar is past, and every day that follows is shorter, and the light fainter and the feeble shadows tell that nature is hasten~ ing with gigantic footsteps to her winter grave, So docs man look back upon his youth.When the first gray hairs become visible, when the unwelcome truth fastens itself upon the mind that a man is no longer going up hill, but down, and that the sun is always wester- ing, he looks back upon things behind.When we were children we thought as children, But now there lies before us manhood, with its earnest vork, and then old age, and then the grave, then home.There is nr second youth for man, better and holier than the first, if M GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL IDOL SHATTERED .Not for a generation has Germany been so deeply stirred as at t present time, when Krupp's, the greatest of Germany's industrial institutions, stand accused of the most despicable and dangerous sort of graft.The Krupps, in fact, have admitted the graft, That they have made \u201cpresents\u201d to government em- Ployes in the war department was confessed the day after the bombshell had been dropped by Dr Lieb- kneeht in the legisiature, The minister of war was also driven to confess that at the moment an investigation was going on which had so far resulted in proving that one uf the officials of the great gunmak- ers had bribed government officials to secure certain advance information, The Makers of War That the great armament manu facturers of the world have an in terest in war is a proposition that no one doubts.They have exactly the same interest in war and rumors of war as the makers of umbrellus have in rain, Unlike the manufacturers of rubbers, however, who have no power to produce unfavorable weather at will, the armor manufacturers have shown some ingenuity in producing the sort of international atmosphere that benefits their business, It has been frequently charged that the makers of great guns and other armament have subsidized newspapers to foment trouble between two nations.Not until these Liebknecht charges has it been proved that they ever tried to bring about enmity between two peoples that would result in increased appropriations for armu- ment.The Socialist leader, however, produced a letter of instructions fromthe Krupps to their agent in France \u201cto leave no stone unturn- ed\u201d to persuade some popular French paper to publish a statement to the effect that France intended to double the number of her machine guns, The idea was, of course, that Germany would do likewise, and would give the orders for the guns to the Krupps.The Krupp Industries In fact, there is no one else to give them tr.Krupps are the armor- makers\u2019 trust of Germany.Small arms are made by other manufacturers, but the big guns are the work of the Krupps, as is all the armorplate used by the German warships, Some idea of the extent of the Krupp industries, for they are in five separate groups, may be obtained from the fact that 60,000 workmen and 6,750 engineers and clerks are employed by the Krupps, The industries supply the chief employment for three cities, one of them being Essen, a city of 150,000.which was raised from a village by the Krupp works, The profits of the business at the time of the death of Frederich Alfred Krupp ten years ago, was $5.000,000 per annum.it is a good deal more.London, April 24,\u2014The report of the census of Ireland taken in1911 shows that the total population was 4,390,219, or less by 68 550 persons than at the census of 1901, a decrease of 1,54 per cent, The following statement compares the religious professions of the inhabitants of Ireland\u2014 1901 1911 Roman Catholies .742 73.9 Protestant Epjscopalns 13,1 13.1 Presbyterians .\u2026 \u2026 100 100 Methodists .\u2026 \u2026 1.4 14 Others .13 16 As regards education, 3,2 per cent, of the population, of Y years of age and upward were unable to write, while 9.2 per cent.were unable to read or write, Of the total population 13.3 per cent, or 582,446 persons, were reported as being uble to speak the Irish language, and some of these 16,878 could speak Irish only, and 565,573 speak Irish and English.Hot internal applications by way of the mouth are valuable aids in the treatment of various ailments and disorders, even plain hot water many times being all that is needed.If any one doubts the value of heat administered through the stomach us a stimulant to the entire organism of the individual, let him try the effects of a bowl of well-sea- soned broth or soup, piping hot, when out of order.A well-known physician says: \u201cI have labored with patients suffering from severe shock, applying the whole category of remedies, hypodermically, and hopelessly in some cases, nothing bringing about the desired result, when a cupful of highly seasoned hot broth administered would almost instantly quiet the restlessness, stimulate the enfeebled heart to better work, cause the patient to drop to sleep, and, if any value existed in the hypodermic medication previously administered, peem to render it in a very short time of its fullest value and effect to the patient, diffused and directed quickly and easily to the parts and purposes intended; while, without the administration of heat internal.y, even hypodermic medication seemed as inert and valueless as though the applications had been made into a tin Horn.\u201d Every summer the question about how to deal with mosquitoes or mosquito bites is presented.Perhaps the following counsel on the subject, from a Massachusetts paper, may be useful\u2014The best antidote for the bite of a mosquito undoubtedly is ammonia, weakened with a little water or salt and water.Some people go so far as to press the poison out of the bite with some small metal instrument like the point of a watch key, before applying the antidote.This prevents the painful swelling that sometimes occurs, As in other cases, \u201cOne man's meat is another man's poison,\u201d and the same remedy will not apply to all individuals.Some find camphor most efficacious, and sait and water will not avail.Ammonia, however, seems to be generally successful as a neutralizer of the mosquito poison, Where there are large quantities of mosquitoes, and no reason for their appearance is apparent, it is well to look about the premises for something which attracts them, An uncovered barrel of pain water will bring them in hordes, and damp places and slagnant pools are spots where they delight to congregate.DIED + First concession of Hinchimbrook on 30th April, of pneumonia, aiter a week's illness, Daniel H McCann, mayor of Hinchinbrook, aged 85 years, At Dundee, at the residence ol her neice, Mrs H.B.Gardiner, April 26, Mrs Alvira Burnham, aged 79 years, Interment at Talcottville, N.Y.At Montreal, on May 1st, Isabella Marshall, widow of the late David Sangster, aged 83 years; burned at Lancaster.At his late residence, 114 First avenue, Ottawa, Ont, on April 23 Peter Henderson Ritchie, second son of the late John Ritchie, in his H2nd year, a native of Howick.Que.Interred at Riverfield, At Castor hospital, Alberta, on April 25th, Clementine Wilson, wife of T.E, McConkey, in her 82nd year, At Montreal, on May 6, at the age of 69 years, Wiliiam Ewing, seedsman, native of Stirling, Scotland.Atthe home of her daughter Mrs Baker, Manchester, N.H., on May 5th, Carrie Botham, wife of fhe Jato Jumes Twaddell, Burke, Suddenly, of peritonitis, at Coronation, Alta, on April 24, Neil Stewart, aged B88 years, formerly of Scotland.Mr Stewart put in a winter in Trout River 15 years ago, At his residence Godmanchester, on the 4th May, Andrew O'Connc r aged G4 years.CARD OF THANKS Mrs John Crutehfield and family desire to thank those who kindly assisted and helped them during their recent bereavement, Sales by A.PHILPS, Auctioneer On THURSDAY, May 8th, at the residince of Wells Lumsden, one half mile east of Athelstan.The following property\u20141 marc with foal, 1 4-vr.old horse, 16 mileh cows, 7 2-vr old heifers, 1 Zar old bull, 1 dise drill seeder (new), 1 buggy.The above stock are all high grade Holstein and Ayrshire.The 7 2-vr old heifers are due to freshen this fall.The whole to be sold without reserve as Mr Lumsden is giving up dairying.Terms 6 months.Sale at 1 o'clock p.m.On SATURDAY, May 10th, at the residence of Gabriel Prevost, at Powerscourt: 1 mare (weighing 14001b.), 1 2-year old filly, 1 yearling colt, 4 milch cows, 2 ©- year old heifers, 3 yearlings, 1 brood sow, 1 manure spreader, sulky plow, stone lifter, IL top car- ringe, 1 express wagon, hobsleighs The whole to bo sold.-& months\u2019 credit, To begin nt 1 o'clock p.m, SHERIFF'S SALE Fieri Facias De Bonis et de Terris SUPERIOR COURT Province of Quebec District of Beauharnois No.2331 LOUIS NAPOLEON MASSON \u201cbourgeois,\u201d of the city of Salaberry de Valleyfield, Plaintiff, vs, REMI S, JORON, notary, of the city of Salaberry de Valleyfield, in Ms quality of curator to the vacant estate ofthe late Murdoch Me- Donald, in his lifetime farmer, of township of Dundee, aforesaid district, Defendant, As belonging to \u201ces-qualite\u201d : A piece of land being and situate in the township of Dundee, and designated on the official plan and in the official book of reference, under No.6B, of the first range of the said township\u2014with the buildings thereon erected, To be sold at the parochial church door of the parish of Sainte Agnes de Dundee, in the county of Hunt- ingdon, district of Beauharnois, on FRIDAY, the SIXTEENTH day of MAY next, 1913, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon.Jean Bte.D'Amour, Sheriff Sheriff's Office, Salaberry de Valleyfield, April 8, 1913, the defendant FARMS FOR SALE Sale Judicially Authorized On MONDAY, AOth May, 1913, at 10 a.m., on the premises, will he sold at Public Sale, pursuant to Court authorization, the following immoveable properties belonging to the children issue of the marriage of the late Charles H, McFee and Tina Young, to wit\u2014 That farm lying and sitwite in the parish of St Jean Chrysostome known and designated on the official plan and book of reference of the raid parish, as lot number six hundred and eighty (680), contain ing eighty-one arpents in superficies, with the buildings thereon.And that farm lying and situate in the said parish of St Jean Chry- sostome, known nnd designated on the official plan and hook of reference of said panigh, as lot number six hundred and eighty-one (681), containing one hundred and fourteen arpents and forty perches in superficies, with the buildings thereon, These farms are situate pn the Russeltown road, about 2 miles west from the Flats corner.The conditions of sale will be given at Sale and may be krown by applying to the undersigned rotary.St.Chrysostome, Que., this 3rd May, 1913.J.E.Derome, N.P.Province of Quebec, Superior Court No.2861, District of Beauharnois.Dame Clara Brunet, of Valleyfield, duly authorized, has instituted an action as to property against her husband, J.Zephirin Boyer, of the same place, the 19th April, 1913, Arthur Plante, Attorney for Plaintiff NOTICE TO FARMERS Having secured from Neil Sangster for the season of 1913, his two Horses\u20141 Shire, weight 2160Lb, 1 Percheron, weight 18001b.Will stand in Huntingdon for season.For further particulars nee bills next week.Thomas Jolly, or Rockburn TEACHERS WANTED Two Protestant female teachers for the dissentient schools of the Parish of St Anicet, Nos.3 and 4 for term of ten months, school opening second of September, Salary $30 per month.Applications received up to the 15th May.Andrew McDonald, Secy.-Treas.Laguerre, Que.TEACHERS WANTED In the Municipality of Ormstown, (St-Malachie), for the following Schools\u2014 No.5 Upper Ormstown ** 7 Tullochgorum * 9 River Outarde * 11 Allan's Corners * 13 Tatehurst Term ten months.Salaries $27.30 per month.Schools open Sept.1st.Applications received by the undersigned, stating qualifications, experience and reference up to May 12th next.P.McLaren, Secy.-Treas.Ormstown.Que.TEACHER WANTED For School No.5, Riverbank, mn the Municipality of Godmanchester, Term 10 months' teaching, commencing August 18th next.Salary $275.Applicant must have a diploma from the Protestant Board of Examiners.Applications received by the undersigned, stating qualifications, experience and reference up to May 14th next.Children\u2019s Dresses Go On Sule To-Morrow at The Pringle, Stark Co's at 26 per cent reduction We purchased the salesmen's samples ¢f a well-known manufar- turer of Children\u2019s Dresses, securing them at nu straight reduction of 20 per cent.We are going to offer them to vou at proportionate savings.The lot is lkrge.and comprises a great diversity of the newest and most attractive styles Every dress is made with the extreme care that A manufacturer naturally gives his sample line, These dresses go on sale to-mor- morrow at the following prices.Their equals cannot be purchased anywhere for icss to than a fourth more than these prices! Women's Neat Muslin Dresses An excellent assortment, sontain W.F.Stephen.ing the most attractive models Secy ~Treas.mude of high-class washable ma- mms Semen | terials, in neat patterns and colors, Wanted \u2014 Young girl to do Prices\u2014#2,00, $3.00 to $0.50 cach, general house work, good wages.Apply to Mrs Win.Tedstone, Hun- tingdon, Box 158 TO RENT 35 acres uf good pasture.Price casy.Apply this week to Robert E.Furey, Huntingdon, _\u2014\u2014 PLANTS FOR SALE Tomatoes, Cabbage, Celery, Chali flower and Cabbage Sprouts, Apply to A.Lassalle, at Saml.Davis's, FOR SALE, Rhode Island Red Chickens, a week old, Ten cents cach.Wm, Shearer, Trout river.To Printers The cylinder press used in printing the Gleaner is for sale to a cash buyer who will take it away at once.Enquire at The Gleaner Office.STORE FOR SALE The old Marshall Store for sale, now occupied by Pringle, Stark & Co.For full particulars apply to Mrs Wm, Middleton, Huntingdon, or Wm, Middleton, 318 St Paul-st., Montreal, White Wyandotte egus for hatching; from a heavy laying strain, Pure bred, 1.00 per 13.William Tedstone, Huntingdon 15 pure-bred Single Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs for THe.Off 1st prize cockerel at Ottawa Exhibition, 1912, Also Pure-bred Ayrshire Bulls, all ages, at very reasonable prices, T.A.Stewart, Hemmingford, Que.Purebred White Wyandotte Eggs For Sale Get rid of your mongrel hens.l\u2019ure- breds will 1 Give you move eggs from the same number of hens 2 Bring better returns for marketing 4 Enable you to sell cockerels and roosters at high figures, My hens are Martin's Regal strain White Wyandottes, excellent layers, good size, hardy and vigorous.Clutch of 15 for %1.50, 11.GOnARi>, Nuntingdon EGGS FOR HATCHING 15 Pure-bred White Wyandotte Eggs for T5c.W.PB, Stark, Kensington thing special at $1.00, Women's Knit Underwear Knit undergarments for Summer iWäil you here in comprehensive ns- sortments, including Union Suits as well as separate garments, You will have wo difficulty in finding here the very Spring and Summer underwear vou desire, All our prices are notably reasonable, from 15 to 50e each, See our new Lawn Waists, Some- $2.00 caeh Pringls Sok Go, HUNTINGDON, Que.Carriages and Harnesses Lawn Mowers, Shears and Lawn Rakes SCREEN DOORS Window Screens and Screen Door Wire RUBBER NOSE Ye & 44 inch that will wear for years Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Makes House Cleaning Easy ICE CREAM FREEZERS 2 0 4 and 6 Quart sizes WOVEN WIRE FENCING and Staples, Poultry Fencing at different Heights, GRAY ENGINES Oils, Gasoline and Batteries Braithwaite Bros.MAKE THE HOME BEAUTIFUL Farm For Sale Situated in the fourth concession, one mile north of Allan's Corners, all in good state of cultivation, with running water all scason from never failing springs, good house and outbuildings.A.Thompson, Allan's Corners, Que.FARM FOR SALE Farm one mile west of Powers | court, containing about 111 acres; running water.Excellent stock farm, For terms apply to Mrs Wm.Patterson, St Regis, Que, Tenders wanted for the macadamizing of the Cazaville By-Road,the Stewart By-road, and the part of Plank road that belongs to St.Anicet.Tenders to give price per | mile when the contractor furnishes | everything, material, labor and plant, and also price where the : municipality supplies the plant and | | TENDERS WANTED nothipg else.Specifications may be examined at the office of the ! Secretary-Treas, at St Anicet.The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.Tenders for said work Will be received by the undersigned Secy.-Treas.up to Monday, the second day of June next, at two o'clock jn the afternoon.Joseph Racime, Secy.-Treas, St.Anicet, May 6, 1913.Province of Quebec Municipality of the Township of DUNDEE TENDERS Tenders will be received by the undersigned until Saturday, May 31st inst.for macadamizing five miles of sjderoad, according to the Government specifications, commencing at the intersection of the Broken front road and the Murchison sideroad, building southward.The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted, T.W.Fraser, Secy.-Treas.May 6th, 1013.Pretty and Artistic Wall Papers cost no more than the other kind.But, oh, what a difference it makes to the house, Our Wall Papers are the kind that decorate and tend character and jndividuality worth having, Call in and see, them at \\Oney\u2019s Furniture Store.It is a plaasure to show our samples.\u2014 \u2014 Joseph Donohue Painter and Decorator HUNTINGDON, Que.ATTRACTIVE NEW STYLES \u201cWe invite the publie to inspect our New Spring Stock of Men's and Ladies\u2019 Fine Shoes, \u201cThe elegance and style shown in this season's styles © is characteristic of high- grade shoes, at popular prices.We have a complete line, all grades, and invite your inspection.\u2019 Prices Right R.E.KELLY & CO Huntingdon, Que.STRATHEARN MAC (13,196) Purebred Clydesdale, rising 8 years old: a good dark bay with good markings.Sire Lord Mac (imp.) 6015 (12,222), Dam Strathearn Gem, imp., 23,928, (18,601).He will stand for the season at his own stable.Terms, $7 to ineure a foal Geo, White, Whites Station HUNTINGDON \u2014~Monday evening Bishop Farthing held a confirmation service in St John's church, when the Rev.Harlow Godard presented a class of nine, There was a good congregu- tion, who were much impressed oy the bishop's addresses, Tuesday a meeting of tha clergy of the rural deanery .was held and kt was ofa profitable and inspiring nature, In the evening the Rev.Mr Shatford of Montreal, preached.He has no superior for .ncisive speech, getting to the heart of u subject and making ic clear tu the simplest understanding.Speaking from the words \u201cThe field is the world,\u201d he brought out the duty tbe declaration implied, and uhe need for professed Christians to du more in spreading the Gospel, The present situation in Capada, with its mixture of all races, many umperfectly cwvuized, demanded immediate action.The call ta ali the churches, was the need of larger vision and greater sacrifice, \u2014The funeral of the late Mr O'Connor was the largest peen for many a day, 115\u2019 rigs being count- od apart rom those on foot.The service in St.Joseph's church was unusually elaborave, He waa familiarly known, tar and wide, in this section und bad a kindly greeting for everybody he met, Mesorv- 2d ten years in Godmanchester council, two as mayor, and was warden for one, Associated with his sons, he helped materially in starting the movement for stoning the rouds, \u2014Thru Mr Waiker, M.LA, the corporation has received definite in formation that as soon as the De- purtment at Quebec receives notice the village is willing to pay interest on the loans, they will forward the delayed coupons.These, when pass od by the council, are to be sent to Quebec and the money for last year's work, plus $400 for work dono so far thip year, will be sent at once, At the council meeting on Monday the secretary was vrdered to notify the depagtment that the villige word pay the interest from Muy 15th, so the money should be forthcoming by June let.\u2014A representative of the Merchan!s bank was tn the village on May 1st and, after tookung over the country, rented the block formerly owned by MeNanghton Bros.They expect to open the branch fin a short time, \u2014At the sale of work at the Riverbank bridge on Saturday, the bids were higher than the Godman- chester council desired to pay, so no contract was given.L.& CE.of she Methodist church was held un Tuesday evening.The finances showed #9 on hand, also that $30 bad been went towards the support of Dr Ewan's hospital in Chentu, China, The following offi- cors were clected\u2014 Hon.President, Rev.Robt.Smith President, W.IF, Stephen Ist Vice, Miss Elsie Elder Znd \u201c Miss Ruby Flder 3rd \u201c Miss Alexa Chalmers 4th \u201cArthur Smith Secretary, Miss Elsie Antoine Treasurer, Lloyd Kelly Organist and Assistant, Miss Roxy Bisset and \u2018Edna Clouston, District representative, Miss E MeClenagham, ~The Consolidated Milk company began supplying customers im the city on Thursday, selling 800 gallons.Tho demand: has daily increased and those interested fecl encouraged.There are threa large shippers from Athelstan.\u2014Tuesday the heat was oppres- sive\u2014this (Thursday) morning a white frost.\u2014Tho ladies\u2019 nid of the Methodist church held a food sale in the church lecturo room on Saturday.Despite the fact that this is a busy season of the year, the pale was well attended; receipts 811, \u2014Out of respect to Coun, O'Connor the Godmanchester council adjourned on Monday to May 15th.\u2014The annual meeting of the Huntingdon Base~ball club was held in C, H.Lumb\u2019s tn Tuesday evening, There was «fair attendance of players.The financial.statement showed the club to have $40 in the treasury.It was decided to have the excoutive committee make an effort to form a leugue with Fort Covington, Buiehay and Ormstown, The officers f7r the ensuing year are\u2014 Hon, President, J A.Humter Hon.Vice, J.W.Stark President, L.W.Sellar Vice-President, M.Smith.Secretary, J.Lanktree Manager, H.F.Maclaren ~The fourth quarterly meeting of the Methodist church was held on Monday.The following Were clect- ed stewards: Henry Seely, R.S.Pringle, Dr Clouston, Samuel} Crutchfield, Joseph Carr, M.M.McNaughton, and W.F.Stephen, who was subsequently elected recording steward, Mr Btephen was also appointed delegate, to the district meeting in Montreal, A ur animous invitation was extended to Rev, Robert Smith lo remain for a fourth year.This Mr Smith accepted, \u2014J.C.Quinn has sold the wt on Wellington-street, adjoining Mrs Dunsmore's house, to Harold Duns more.for the pum of $110.THE U.S.CAMPAIGN OF 1818 TO CAPTURE MONTREAL To meet a demand for it, the article in the last (leaner Almanac has been issued in pamphlet form, with additions.Price 25 cents.Raise Purebred Chicks Macdonald College Stock 15 Pure-bred Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs for $1.00.Bred off Mac donald College stock A.L.Sellar I have invested in a French Coach Stock Horse.Any person wishing to improve their stock in the horse line will make mo mistake in patronizing this horse.He weighs 13001b., is well-built and is a good mover.His color is dark brown.Will stand at D.A.Mactarlene\u2019s stables, Kelvingrove, Terms, to insure, $7.All bills payable March1.1914./Phos.A.Hingston, Jr., =; Proprietor \u2014The annual meeting of the ££.1} THE ADJUSTMENT OF YOUR Spectacle Frames It sometimes happens that in tho course of wear or ns the result of an accident, the frames of your glasses become bent or twisted.This causes not merely an untidy appenr- ance, but may actually ennse loss in the efficiency of the lenses to the eye.I would suggest therefore that you call veeasionally and let me keep your glasses properly adjusted, This little service will cust you nothing, and you Will Le assured of per- feet comfort in the fit of your frame und at the same time obtain the maximum of corrective value the lenses, from Repairs to frames are done with the utmost promptness, and we guarantee the nont- ness and strength of the re- puirs.W.DD.SITANKS Graduate Optician & Jeweller Huntingdon, Que.Just A Few Pointers What is Home Without an OIL STOVE In Hot Weather?Hear, Discomrorts AND Exvexsive Fugen Bins REMEDY them by Buying a BON AMI OIL STOVE They work to perfection, Use 10 per cent.less oil and cook 10 per cent.quicker than any other oil-stave on the market.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Weare ready for Spring Work- Roorino, Srotrine, PLUMNING AND GENERAL JommiNe Work to Nice line of Ranges and Tinware on hand, A.N.McDonald Huntingdon, Que.done Give Satisfaction.THAT NEW SUIT You will need it.Why not order it now and get u little more pleasure out of it.Be= sides by giving us your order early you give us a better chance to give you a better job in every respect, Cali and see our New Suitings.Prices range from 815 ta $30.A pleasure Lo show goods, F.LEFEBVRE & SON Merchant Tail ors you our Paine?1 Pain: ?Paint?That is the questi r , Whether it is better in the end to suffer the sorrows and disappoint ments that poor paint will bring, or at the start provide the best that can be bought and end i there.There is but onc best, and that is THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT.With Paint you will need Brushes and perhaps Varnishes.\u2018These and all Painters\u2019 Supplies are to be found at ° John Hunter & Sons General Merchants and Millers Moose Jaw, Sask, May 2,\u2014W.8, Woodward, government immigration agent for Moose Jaw, returned from a trip through the burned area in the south country, where he gave relief to settlers suffering from prairie fires.A conservative estimate of the loss isa quarter of a million dollars.He found that Gus Linberg and daughter, Mrs Pease, had heen burned to death.and a son, Arthur, is now in Wey- burn hospital in a precarious condition.I The Store With The Nifty Goods Radium Silk Hosiery, a fitting compliment to the finest Clothes, Swell lines Silk Hoso in all sizes, in Black and colors, SOc, T5c, $1, $1.50, $2 a pair, Good lines Lisle Hose, 20c Good kines Misses and Children\u2019s Hoae, at CARY prices, Good values Ladies Summer Vests (Pen Angle made) at 15¢, or two for 25c.Good values Ladies\u2019 Summer Vosts With wing or strap sleeves, 20c or 8 for 50e, and fine lines ih Sik Lisle und Puro Silk, 85c, 50e up.Ladies\u2019 Combination Suits, made in both high and low neck, and loose or tight knee, good values at H0e Suit, and finer ones in Silk Lisle and Pure Silk at 81, $1.50 per Suit, Children's Vests in all sizes at low prices, GLOVES A se Fad I WE ard 2h ct \"3 We have a Ladies\u2019 Long Sitk Glove in Black and White, of good Silk, at 50e, aud it\u2019s a hummer Ladies\u2019 Long Silk Net (loves, in Black or White, at 50e, A dandy Z-button Net Glove at @5e Fine values in Short Silk Gloves, in all colors, at 2De, H0e, Misses\u2019 and Children's at Enay Prices, (loves at Perrin's Kid Gloves in good shades and all sizes, the Best value in Canada, at $1 a pade, \u2014 New lines Children\u2019s Dresses, fn all sizes, in White and good Colors, 50e, 75e, $1, $1.25, New lines Misses\u2019 Dresses, in ail Hizes, in White and Good Colors, Thc, $1, $1.25, $1.50, 82, New lines Boys! Wash Suits, the good kind, prices The, $1, $1.25, $1.50, 82 per Suit.New Hnes Boyw' Wash Blouses, 50e T5¢.Swell lines Boy Scout Suits, at $1.75 Snappy Styles im Men's Sailor Hats, with Plain or Cnfored Banda.Prices 50e, 75e, $1 to $2, Good lines Genuine Panama Hats $5, $R, $10, $12.Our Panamas are extra good values and are selling well.New Shapes jn Men's fancy Straw Hats, Prices 3hc to 42,50.Good lines of Boys\u2019 Hats, Misses\u2019 and Children\u2019s Straw Hatsin endless variety.New lines in Men's Ounce weight Felt Hats, New Pearl Grey Fedoras and Troopers.New lines Pocket Hats, at BOc.If it's Hats, we have them, and if you have them from us they're Right.The Home of Faultless Clothes and Scout Master Shoes John Hunter & Sons General Merchants and Millers Montreal, May 5\u2014A much stronger feeling developed in the market for cattle this morning owing to the smaller offerings and prices as compared with this day week show an advance of 25 to 85c per 100 lb.Prime beeves sold at 7.1-8¢ to a little over TY4c par Ib; pretty good animals, 54 tn 7e, and the common stock, 4 to 5c per 1b; bulls sold at 54 to 6c per Ib.Calves sold at 2% to 6%c per Ib.Sheep sold at from 54 to 8c per lb.There was nochange in the condition of the market for hogs, supplies being ample to fill all requirements and prices were um changed with sales of selected lots at $10.40 to $10.50 per 1001b, weighed off cars, MONTREAL WHOLESALE PRICES Flour\u2014First Patents $5.40, gec- onds $4.90 per barrel Straight rollers $2.40 to $2.45 ver bag.Oats 40 to 41c Hay\u2014Ordinary No.2 $12 to$12,50 Bran $20 Rolled Oats $2.03 Cornmeal $1 85.Butter, fresh~-made factory.25 to 254c, dairy 21 to 22c, Cheese, fodders, 11c Eggs, new-laid 21c Dressed Hogs $14.25 to $14,50 for abattoir killed.Potatoes, Green Moumtaëm, * 60 to 68c, for caz lots.Maple Syrup sells from 85 to 90c .per 8 quart tin, according to quality, while the lower grades are hard to sell.Maple Sugar 31 to 12q, \u2014 CHAPTER I.A Perilous Mission.Several of us had remained rather late that evening about the cheerful Are in front of my hut\u2014for the nights were still chilly, although it was May, nd the dreadful winter passed\u2014dis- cussing the improved condition of our troops, the rigid discipline of Baron de Steuben, and speculating on what would probably be attempted now that Sir Henry Clinton had succeeded to the command of the forces appos- Ing us.I remember Maxwell joined us, together with Knox of the artillery, each man with a different theory of campaign, but alike agreeing that, Ju spite of all we had endured during those months of suffering and priva- fon at Valley Forge, the time to strike once again was near at hand, Blthough our numbers were barely half that of the enemy.| It must have been midnight when I crept into a bunk, and even then ound sleep absent, my eyes gazing put through the open door to where he embers of the fire glowed red, and k sentinel paced back and forth in egular monotony.Suddenly he halt.d, and challenged hoarsely, flinging forward his gun.There was an indistinguishable answer, and as 1 straightened up the figure of a man blotted ut the doorway.\u201cMajor Lawrence?\u201d \u201cYes.What 18 it?\u201d I swung to the floor, unable to recognize the voice.he man\u2019s hand rose to salute.\u201cI am Colonel Gibbs\u2019 orderly.Gen- on Hamilton wishes you to report t once at headquarters.\u201d \u201cThe Potts house?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d I dressed hastily, my pulses throb- Ing with eagerness.Whatever the message meant, there was certainly some purpose of vital importance in gending for me at this unusual hour, d 1 was boy enough still to welcome uy form of active service.No duty bf the war had 80 tried me as the long nter of waiting.Yet, rapidiy as I prove the orderly had disappeared efore 1 got outside, and I picked my way as best I could alone through the darkness, along the rear of MclIntosh's buts, until I reached the low fence sur- finding the Potts house.Here a sentinel challenged, calling the corporal of the guard, and in his company I rudged up the path to the front door.ere was a light showing through the window to the left, although the shade was closely drawn, and a guard Btood within the hall.At the first sound of our approach, however, a side door was flung open, letting forth a gleam of {lumination, and | perceived the short, slight figure of Hamilton, #s he peered forward to get a better glimpse of my face.8.\u201cAll right, corporal,\u201d he sald terse- Y.gripping my band.\u201cCome in, ma- for; your promptness would seem to Indicate a readiness to get into serv- Joe once more.\u201d .\u201c1 had not yet fallen asleep,\u201d I explained, \u201cbut we are all eager enough Yor action of any description.\u201d | He amiled cheerity.\u201cYou will soon be busy, never fear.\u201d He closed the door behind us, and, ith a glance, I viewed the room and ts occupants.It was a small, jow ellinged apartment, containing a table, a few chairs and a high commode.A few coals glowed In the {de fireplace, and the walls were ingy with smoke.Three candles, al\u201d \u2018eady burning low, gave fitful filumi- tion, revealing four occupants, ait OWn tome.At an open door to the Fight stood à sweet-faced woman, glancing back curiously at my entrance, and I whipped off my hat bow- fos low.Once before I had seen her, istress Washington, and welcomed the gracious recognition in her eyes.Colonel Gibbs stood before the fire lace motionless, but my glance swept Past him to'the calm, uplifted face above the pile of papers littering the table.He was not looking at me, but his eyes were turned toward his wife.\u201c3 \u201cIt is not necessary for you to re- re,\u201d he said quietly, \u201cWe shall not n this gentleman except for a few: ments.\u201d \u2019 \u201cIt is not because of the majors I withdraw,\u201d she replied pleas \u2018aatly, \u201cbut the hour is late, and | am esy tired.Good night, all.\u201d Washington's eyes ware upori the until it closed; then he turned: ghtly, facing me.Before he spoke en Hamilton broke Ia: | \u201cThis is the officer, sir, recoïnniend- by General Mazwell\u2014Major Law- of the Maryland line.\u201d _1 Bowed silently, anid the command.rose to his feet, extending his hand.\u201cNo doubt we have met before,\u201d bho slowly.\u201cYou have been with us some time \u201d \u201cYou coulé not bave been at Valley: Curing the past winter, how- \u201c1 was with tbe Marquis.5 o® Albany.\u201d 19 6e Ia Foy = RSA a Bare \u201csm pe Aid ll mg, idl ae a Had # \u201cA young officer, Hamil- You bave recollection.ton, but capable, no doubt.uscd him before, you said?\u201d \u2018Yes, at Long Island, sud lhe entered New York once at my request \u201d Washington's gray eyes were still on my face.\u201cLawrence name.\u201d \u201cNot exclusively,\u201d I returned, \u2018as our branch are Virginians.\u201d The stern lines about the mouth relaxed into a smile.\u201cIndeed; from the eastern shore, then.1 recall now having once met a Judge John Lawrence, whoso wife was à Lee.\u201d \u201cMy father, sir.\u201d His hand rested firm on my shoulder, as his glunce turned to Hamilton, \u201cl require no further commendation, colonel.You will find the papers tn the second drawer.Please explain all the details carefully to Major Lawrence.\u201d \u201cThis is a simple duty, major,\u201d sald Hamllton, \u201cbut may prove a dangerous oue.You have heen selected because of previous successful efforts of à similar nature, but the commander-in- chief does not order your going; we seek a volunteer.\u201d \u201cWithout asking the nature of the service.\u201d I answered sincerely, \u201cI rejoice at the privilege.\u201d \u201c1 knew that, Lawrence,\u201d heartily, \u201cThat answer accords with vour well earned reputation thoughout the army.1 will explain briefly the situation.Eurly this evening our pickets\u2014 or rather some partisan scouts near Newtown\u2014captured a British officer, ln fleld uniform, on his way from New York to Sir Willlam Howe in Philadelphia.The prisoner was brought here, and on examination proved to be Lieut.Edgar Fortesque of the Forty- second regiment of foot.These troops came over with the last detachment, und arrived in New York less than a month ago.On searching Fortesque's, clothing we found this dispatch,\u201d holding out a sealed paper, \u201cwhich we opened.It is not of any great military importance, being merely an order for Howe to proceed at once to New York, taking with him certain officers of his staff, and plac'ng a naval vessel at his disposal.\u201d He paused, turning the paper over in his hands.\u201cHowever,\u201d he went on slowly, \u201cit affords us the opportunity we have long been secking of getting a competent military observer into Philadel: phia.Now that Sir Henry Clinton is in command of the British forces di- Tect!ly opposing us, it is necessary that we know accurately their number, state of discipline, guns and any point of weakness in the defences of the city, We require also information regarding the division of troops under Sir Henry's command\u2014the proportion of British, Hessians and Tories, together with some inkling as to Clinton's immediate plans.There is a rumor abroad that Philadelphia is to be evacuated, and that the British forces contemplate a retreat overland to New York.Civilian fugitives drift Into our camp constantly, bearing all manner of wild reports, but these accounts are ro varied as to be practically valueless.We must possess accurate details, and to gain these a man would need to be in the city several days, free to move about, obis a Massachusetts \u201cNo Doubt We Have Met Before.\u201d serve, and converse with the officers of the garrison.Do l make myself clear?\u201d ; ! \u201cYes, sir; you propose forwarding the dispatch by an officer who shall impersonate this captured lieutenant.\u201d \u201cExactly.Fortesque is a young fel low of about your age and build.He, has been in the army only eights months and in this country less than thirty days.It ls scarcely probable.he is known personally to any of the, present Philadelphia garrison.There: 18 & risk, of course, but in this case: it would seem to be gmali.\u201d\u2019 He picked! up a paper from off the table.\u2018Here: ie an officer's roster of the forty-sec- ond regiment.It might be well for Fou to familiarize yourself with a few of the names.\u201d I studied the list a moment, bending down closer to the nearest candle, wiile rapidly reviewing in my owa mind thee duty required.I had no thought of refusal, yet appreciated to the full the possible danger of the venture, and feit anxious to make no serl- ous mistake.I had achieved a reputation for reckless daring, yet this kind of service was hardly to my ilk.ing.To wear Britleh uniform meant my condemimtion as a spy, If discovered, and a death of disgrace.! had been within the lines of the enemy often before, but always as a scout, wearing the homespun of the Mary- dand line, bat this was to be a mas.Qquerade, a Juggling with chance.I! was not greatly afraid of being unmasked by the officers of the garri- \u2018son, but there were those then in Phil- '\u2018adelphia wlw knew me\u2014loyalists, se- icret sympathizers with our cause, and not a few (deserters from the army\u2014 \u2018whom I might encounter at any turn in the road.The prospect was not alluring, yet a glance aside at the profile of Washington, now bending low \u2018over 2 mass of paptys, instantly stif- tened my resolve.It was work I had no excuse to shirk\u2014indeed no inclina- tion-\u2014s0 I returned Hemilton's glance of inquiry frankly.\u201cYou wich me to go at once?\u201d i \u201cThe earlier the better.I will furnish passports through our lines, and \u2018hard riding will put sou across the \u2018neutral ground by daylght.\u201d CHAPTER II, Within 41e Enemy's Lines, A long caval ry cape concealing the :British uniform: I wore, my horse and myself were fa ried across the Schuyl- itl, Just below: the mouth of Valley creek, and thete, amid the silence and darkness of tin: eastern shore, I parted with Hamil} on, who had accompa \u2018nled me thus far, whispering final \u2018words of instruction.My horse was a 'fresh one, chosen from the stables of the Life Guard put the trappings were \u2018Of the British wervice.Within five minutes ! was \u2018out of sight of the picket fire on the river bank, riding steadily southeast through the night, \u2018every nerve alert.An hour's riding found me well peyond our outermost 'pickets, yet, in Mesr that 1 might encounter some bcidy of Srregulars, scout \u2018ing the neutral ground, I held on to my Passport until I perceived the fret flush of dawn 11 the east.Then, con- \u2018vinced of close pnoximity to the Brit + PES ponts, Anbla 4} eke, 1d + ; i cane mend RÉ SR ; seeuing every bit of concealment pos- ible, it was already sunrise before I plunged suddenly into a Hessian Picket post, the distant smoke of the Philadelphia chimneys darkening the \u2018sky ahead.Unable to speak German, \u2018my uniform won sufficient courtesy, 80 that I was escorted back under guard to an outpost of the Queen's Rangers, where I explained my presence and rank to a red-faced captain In Tory \u2018green, so insolent in manner as to be \u2018insulting, until I exhibited the sealed dispatch, and demanded to be escort- \u2018ed ut once to Sir Willlam Howe.This brought results, and I entered the city under escort of a dozen horsemen, their green coats faced with dingy white, cocked hats flapping as they rode, It was thus we came to Callowhill, and the encampment of British grena- dlers, an officer of the Fifty-fifth regiment volunteering to guide me to Howe's quarters in High street.He Was à genial fellow, and poluted out various places of interest, ns we rode more slowly through the streets close along the river side, questioning me often upon affalrs In New York, to which I returned such vague unswers us pleased ne, paying smail heed to the truth.All along tlie river were tedoubts, well garrisoned, with black gun muzzles pointing out across the water.Many houses had been razed, and their debris, together with the fire ruin of the past winter, guve to everything a look of desolation, Much artillery wus parked in the state house yard, and several vessels of War were lying at anchor in the stream, while the entire shore line wus filled with burges, decorated as for a fete, t larre force of meu luboring about them.My companion, observing my interest attracted In that direction, retned up his horse to explain.\u201cThose are the galleys being madn reudy for the Mischlunzn, Fortesque,\u201d lie sald, waving his hand.\u201cYou came \u2018to us at a lucky hour.\u201d _ \u201cThe Mischianza?\" I asked, puzzled by the strange term.\u201cSome festival, you mean?\u2014some gala day?\u201d \u201c'Tis an Itallan word, they tell me, signifying medley.The officers glve it In farewell to Sir Willtam, who will sail tomorrow.A pretty penny it costs.See, there is Major O'Hara now, one of the managers; there are three others, Sir John Wrottlesly, Ma- Jor Gardiner, and the chief engineer, Montresor.Do you know them?No?\u2018Oh, 1 had forgotten you have only just arrived, You will know tLerm ere long, \u2018however, for they are the leaders in such affairs.That is Cuptaiu Andre \u2018there with O'Hara.\u201d He waved his band, and the younger officer lifted his cocked hat in acknowledgment.\u201cLot us spur over there, Heutenant, until I \u2018get you a ticket of invitation.\u201d I followed.careires of the loss of time so I could both see and hear.\u201cAndre, this {a Lieutenant For \u2018tesque just In froma New York with dispatches for Howe.1 have promised him a ticket for tonight.\u201d The young ofticer laughingly extend- \u2018ed a hand.© \"The more the merrier, Cralg.With the Forty-second I sce, sir; knew your \u2018colonel well, You'll ind America isn't 80 bad, after you get used to it.We've had a gay time here, eh, O'Hara?The best of liquor, and the prettiest of girls, and now we'll show the town \u2018something it won't forget in a hurry.\u201d He held out a card to me.\u201cRather ornate, considering the printers in ithese colonies: designed !t myself.\u201d It was certainly a handsome souve Intr, perhaps six inches by four in \u201csize, engraved us in a shield, yielding \u2018a view of the sea, with the setting 'sun, and on a wreath the words, \u201cLucco discendens, ancto splendore resur- gam,\u201d while at the top was the gen- \u2018eral\u2019s crest, bearing the words, \"Vive vale.\u201d \u201cA flne concelt, indeed,\u201d I confessed, \u201cand if the pageant be equal to its promise \u2018twill be well worth ithe seeing.What is the purpose, gentlemen ?\u201d : \u201cTo give Sir William fit farewell,\u201d feturned Andre, pleased at my un- stinted praise.\u201cAnd now that the \u2018Lord has sent us a fine day, I can \u2018promise a festival worthy the herald.But, Fortesque, if you would have audience with Howe, 1 advise ycu to get \u2018on, for he will have few spare mo- \u2018ments between now and day-dawn tomorrow, We parted with much bowing, Craig and I gulding our horses through the crowded streets, being kept too busy avoiding accidents to exchange conversation.Howe's headquarters on High street were not pretentious, and, except for a single sentingl posted at the door, were unguarded.I v.ag admitted without delay.An aide took my name, and within a very few moments Sir Willlam himself entered through a rear door, attired in field uniform.He greeted mm» with much pffability, glancing hastily over the papers handed him, and then into my face.\u201cThese do not greatly change my former plans,\u201d he sald, \u201cbut I am glad 1 Explained My Presence to a Red- Faced Captaln in Tcry Green 8o insolent as to Be Insulting, ito know I can retain my present staff.There was no special news in New \u2018York, lieutenant ?\u201d i \u201cNone of particular importance, 1 believe, sir.We landed only a short time ago.\u201d ! \u201cYes.I understand.You were for- [tunate to get through here so easily\u2014 'the Jerseys are a hotbed of rebellion.{Do you return with me by water?\u201d { \u201cI belleve that was left to my own léiscretion.1 should be glad of a day jor two in Philadelphia.\u201d : \u201cEasily arranged.While I shall leave the city tomorrow so as to give {Clinton a fair field, I shall remain on \u2018Lord Howe's flagship for some little \u2018time previous to final departure for iNew York.You had better mess here with my staff.Mabry,\u201d turning to the \u2018aide, \u2018see that Lieutenant Fortesque \u2018bas breakfast, and procure him a pass ood indefinitely within our lines.You 1 pardon my withdrawal, as the offi- [oors the garrison promise me an ngly busy day.We will meet no doubt\u201d He clasped my hand warmly, and thdrew, leaving me alone with the de, half-ashamed, I confess, of hav.been compelled to deceive, Yet very ease of it all stimulated en or, and 1 conversed lightly with over the mess table, and, when orderly returned with the neces.fer Dass, 1 was keep ta.start ui ne 5 da de ! ' -e \u2019 - .£etful of haviag been up and in sadaie æll night.Mabry could not leave his duties to accompany me, but cour- teouslÿ furnished a fresh horse, and assigned a private of dragoons to guide me about the city.By ten io\u2018clock we were off, my only fear being the possible meeting with some nc- .Quaintance, In this, however, I was happily dis- isppointed, as there were few civilians .on the streets, the throngs of soldiers, ietf duty for à holiday, with all disci- Ipline relaxed, being bolsterous, and considerably under the influence of Miquor, The uniform worn, together \u2018with my dragoon guard, saved me from trouble, and I found the fellow isufficlently intelligent to be of value.1 dare not make notes, and yet recall clearly even now the stations of the troops, together with a clear mental outline of the main defences of the \u2018city.I made no attempt to pass beyond the limits, but, from statements of the dragoon, and various officers with whom 1 conversed, mapped in Imy mind the entire scheme of defense.1 visited a number of these eucamp- ments, finding in each merely a small Euard retalned for the day, the majority of the troops being off \u2018on liberty.\u2018Soon after noon these began to throng the water front, eager to view tLo coming spectacle.I was, myself, In the Yager's camp, finishing a late lunch, with a few officers, when the mnnouncement came that the water procession had started.CHAPTER III, The Pete and Mischianza.I confess that up to this time I had lexperlenced little interest in the af- alr, After Valley Forge It was hard for an American soldier to admire such boys\u2019 play, or to enter into tho spirit of British fun making.Besldes itho dazger of my position, the fear ?some slip of tongue betraying mae the knowledge that I wus In the very heart of the enemy's camp, with grim, \u2018stern duties to perform and a return Journey to accomplish, kept me nerved to a point where 1 thought of little else than my task.But now I dared \u2018not remain indifferent, and, indeed, the enthusiasm of my companions became contaglous, and I joined with \u2018them eagerly, as they hurried forth to the best point of view.Once there the sight revealed aroused me to an en- thuslasm scarvely less than that of those crowding about.Few, indced, havo ever wimessed so gorgeous a spectacle as that river presented.Well out in the stream lay tho vessels of war\u2014the Fanny, Roebuck and Vigilant\u2014together with a long Hne of.transports, stretching as far as the \u2018eye could sec, flugs flying, and decks crowded with spectators.The pageant \u2018came down with the tide, moving In three divisions to the inspiring music \u2018Of several bends, the oars of galleys \u2018and barges keeping exact intervals.\\As they pass:d us the officers beside \u2018Me named tbe various occupants.In \u2018the leading galley were Sir William, Lord Howe, Sir Henry.Clinton, the officers of their sultes and some ladies.\u2018In the last of the boats stood General Knyphausem, the Hessian commander, Between these were flat-boats, covered with green doth, loaded with ladies \u2018and gentlemen, or else containing bands.Six barges, darting here and there, kept open space amid the \u2018swarms of small boats.Everywhere the eye swapt over a riot of color, and \u2018the ear caught u babel of sound.As \u2018the last barge glided by the man next ame growled in disgust: \u201cThose are lucky dogs off duty to- \u2018day.\u201d HIs aye caught mine.\u201cWhy \u2018don't you gc after them, Fortesque?\u2018There will te plenty of fun afoot \u2018yonder where they land.\u201d \u201cWhere is that?\u201d \u201cAt the old fort; follow the crowd, and you'll not go astray, Have you a ticket?\" \u201cCaptain.Andre honored me with one this 1norning.\u201d \u201cThen you are good for the first row.Don\u2019t miss it, man,\u201d with enthu- @lasm.\u201c \"IWill be such a si zht as has mot been witnessed since the Field of the Cloth of Gold.\u201d \u201cA passage at arms, you mean?\" \u201cAy! as gorgeous us those of the old-time knights; a fair conceit as I read the program.I'd be there now \u2018but for the damned orders that hold me here.If you ride hard you can make the spot betore they come ashore.\u201d here was no reason I should not 80, und much In the glittering prospect appealed to me.Five minutes later I was trotting out of tha Yager camp, Pressing passage through the crowds, \u2018already headed southward, the dragoon riding silently :it my heels.Mounted men that day \u2018were few, and, doubtless believing we were connect \u2018ed with the bageant, th » jam sullenly parted, and gave us opening, so we reached the site of the old fort as the barges began dischar:Ang their oc- Cupants.A glance a»out, however, convinced me as to where the lists Were to be run, and I h:aded my horse in that direction and gt ined a polnt of vantage before the thn mg pourzd in, I was somewhat to \u2018the right of the big stand, the restive [ncefs of my horse keeping the crowd away.and with a clear view as far as the river bank.It wae, maybe, 400 yards down & gentle slope to the \\riter's edge, \u2018Where the line was forming.This pas- \u2018Bageway wus lined witls.onlookers, held back by numerous gaurds, while to my left extended u sjuare lawn, perhaps 150 yards each wuy, surround- «ed by a double rank of grenadiers, the \u2018bayonets gleaming on their guns, This open space was equipped with everything needed for the coming tourney, and on three sides were tiors of raised seats.I had barely obseirved all this when the guns of the Roe'suck, echoed by those of the Vigllarst, began to boom à salute, and the head of the \u2018column of marchers began slowly mmounting the slope.The costumes (worn were as varied as those of a imasquerade, representing all the changes since the days of chivalry.\u2018The whole line glowed with color, and gleamed with steel., Like some great serpent, glittering dn the sun, this procession passed un- \u2018der the trlumphal arches and disappeared as its members took prescribed positions on the stands, or in the pa- \u2018villons bordering the fleld of contest.As thus arranged the grouping of colors was most brilliant.In the front of each pavilion were seven young ladies, attired plcturesquely in Turkish costume, wearing In their turbans those favors with which they meant to reward the knights contending in their honor, Behind these, and occu- Pying all the upper seatw, were the maidens representing the two divisions of the day's sports\u2014ladies of the Blended Rose and ladies of the Burning Mountain.From the crowd surging around I heard name after name mentioned, as famous Philadelphia: belles were pointed out, not a few familiar to me.Even as 1 gazed upon! that galaxy of beauty, half angry that Americans should take part în such e spectacle of British triumph, the field: was cleared for the lists, and a sound, of trumpets came to us from a dis tance.i Ont into the opening rode the cow tending knights, attended by eaquires; on foot, dressed in ancient habits of, White and red silk, and mounted on ray horses.From tbe other dir andPrañge, riding black steeds, while! to tle center ad d the herald joudly proclaiming the challenge.I knew not who they all were, but they made à gallant ahow, and I overheard! many a name spoken of soldiers met; fn battle\u2014Lord Ca , Captain Andre, Major Tarlton, Captain Scott, Ay!\u2019 end they fought well that day, those White and Black knights on the mimic fleld.At lust the two chiefs\u2014Lord Cathcart for the Whites, and Captain Watson of the Guards, for the Blacks =-Were alone contending furiously, when the marshal of the field rusheg in between, and struck up their weap- ong, declaring the contest done, the honor of euch side proven.As the company broke up, flowing forward to the great house beyond, the vast crowd of onlookers burst through the guard lines, and, like a mighty torrent, swept over the field.It was a wild, Jubllant, yelling mass, so dense as to be irresistible, even those of us on horseback being pressed forward, helpless chips on the stream.I endeavored to press back, but my restive animal, startled by the dig of the spur, the yells, the waving of arms, refused to face the tumult, and whirled madly about.¥or a moment I all but lost control, yet even as he plunged rearing into the alr, I saw before me the appeailng face of u woman, How she chanced to be thero alone, in the puth of tbat mob, I Know not; where her escort had disappeared, and how she had become separated from her party, has never been made clear.But this I saw, ever as 1 struggled with the hard-mouthad brute under me\u2014u slender, girlish figure attired as a lady of the Blendrd Rose, a white, frightencd face, arms outstretched, und dark blue cyes ba- seeching help.Already tho front of the mob was upon her, unable to swerve aside because of the thousan:!s pushing behind.In another moment \u2018she would be underfoot, or hurled into the air.Reckless of all cle, TL dir in my spurs, yelling to the Light Dragoon beside me, even as my horse leaped.I scarcely know what hs p- Pened, or bow it was accomplished \u2014 only I had the reins gripped in ny teeth, both my hands free.That \u2018n- stant I caught her: the next she was on my arm, swung safely to the saddie, held to me with a grip of stecl, the animal dashing forward bencath bis double burden into the open fiend \u2018Then the dragoon, riding mad'v gripped the bit, and the affair wir over, although we must have en loped a hundred yards before the \u2018trembling horse was brought to stand, Leaving him to the control of the soldier, I sprang to the ground bearing the lady with me.We wor behind one of the pavilions, facing th house, and she reeled as her fes touched the eurth, so that I held he from falling.Then her lashes lifte- end the dark blue eyes looked into 1+ face.\u201cYou must pardon my roughness.\u2019 apologized, \u201cbut there wus no tit for ceremony.\u201d She smiled, a flood of color comi.back into the cleur checks, ws s drew slightly away.\u201cl appreciate that, sir\u201d frank shaking out her rufiled rkirts, \u2018a you hive made knighthood real.\u201d \u201cTaen,\u201d 1 ventured, \u201cmay T hope i relvive the reward, fair lady 7 She laughcd, a little tremor of ne vousness in tle sound, but her cv: full of challenge.\u201cAnd whut is that?\u201d \u201cYour name; the hope of better ac quaintance.\u201d Her eyes swept my uniform que: tioninglr.\u201cYou are not of {le garrison?\u201d \u201cNo; a courier just arrived fren New York.\u201d \u201cYet an officer; surely then you will be present tonight?\u201d \u201cTle privilegs is mine: if sufficient Iy tempted 1 may attend.\u201d \u201cTempted! How, sir?\u201d \u201cBy your pledging me a dance.\u201d She laughed arain, one hand grasping the long s'iken skirt, \u201cYou ask much\u2014my name, a better acquaintance, à dance-all this for merely saving me from a mob.You are not a modest knight, T fear.Suppose I refuse?\u201d \u201cThen am I soldier enough to come unasked, and win my welcome.\u201d \u201cI thought us much,\u201d the long lushes opening up to me the depths of the bLlue eves.\u201cI promise nothing then, nor forbid.But there is Captain Grant seeking me.If I do not speak of gratitude, it is nevertheless in my heart, sir,\u201d she swept me a curisey, Lo which I bowed hat in hand, \u201cand now au revoir.\u201d I stood as she left me, staring while she crossed the lawn and joined a dark-faced officer of Rangers.Once she glanced back over her shoulder, and then disappeared In the crowd of revelers.I had not intended to remain in Philadelphia through the night.Al ready I had secured the information sought, and now must consider the safest and quickest method of escape.It seemrd to me this night, glven up to revelry, afforded the best possible apportunity for my safely passing the British guard lines.Tomorrow disci.cline would be resumrd, the soldiers \u2018You must have dreamed; perhape 'you recall the suggestion?\u201d \u201cl took it to mean thal you would \u2018not be altogether averse to meeting me agaln through the kindness of \u2018some mutual friend.\u201d \u201cNo doubt you have found such a friend?\u201d : \"I have scarcely seen a face I know tonight,\u201d I pleaded.\u201cI cannot even \u2018guess from what place of mystery you \u2018appeared so suddenly.So now I \u2018throw myself upon your mercy.\u201d + \"1 wonder is it quite safe!\u201d hesitatingly.\u201cBut, perhaps, the risk in jequally great on your part.Ahl the Tights go on again.\u201d ; \u201cAnd the band plays a Hungarian waltz; how better could we cement friendship than to that measure?\u201d \u201c \u201cYou think 80?I am not so sure, and there are many names already on my card-\" \"Do not look,\u201d I interrupted swiftly, \u201cfor I claim first choice sinoe this afternoon.\u201d \u201cYou do?\u201d and her eyes laughed into mine provokingly.\u201cAnd I had forgotten\u2019 it all; did I indeed promise you?\u201d .\u201cOnly with your eyes.\u201d .\u201cOb, my eyes! always my eyds! Well, for once, at least, I will redeem\u2019 even that visionary pledge,\u201d and her, glance swept the room hastily.\u201cBut I advise that you accept my surrender, quickly, alr\u2014I am not sure but this, was Captain Grant\u2019s dance, and be is coming now.\u201d A Morphine Bullet À A Pittsburg scientist has patented a bullet carrying a tiny grain of morphine in one side to relieve the pain of & person or animal that it wounds.New Jumping Jack One of the newer German toys is a jumping (Jack mounted on the end of a , movemen ng regulated by blowing through the tube, [A First Use of Coal (] D Cogiand Coal THE BISON'S ASYLUM WAINRIGHT PARK IS HOME OF THE LAST BIG HERD.The Majestic Animal Which Roamed the Prairies In Countless Heads a Generation Ago Is Now the Subject of an Anxious Census on the Part of Zoological Experts\u2014Hay Kept for Emergencies.Tu see him in the cramped paddock of some city \u2018zoo,\u2019 with his wicked little eyes looking out sullenly from under a vast mat of dingy hair in wouful need vf currycumbing, the buffalo hardly appears a subject for romance.Who, seeing him alone in igs nuominious captivity, can imagine this dismal, slow-moving beast leading a herd\u2014thousands strong\u2014in mad ca- Tecr across his native plains?Yet, if such fierce joys have been denied him, it is only because he, like some of \u201chis betters,\u201d has been born too late to fit a changed environment.But if we go back n few years\u2014a very few years\u2014und transport ourselves to our own great plains, where the railway and the steam plows and multitudes of newcomers from west and cast and south wre turning the ancient sol and cutting the prairies into wheat fields, we shall find the buffalo a favorite with romance.Be- twoen them, he and the Indian have lent to the \u201cGreat Lone Land\u201d a touch of vivid life that heightens all our interest in it.More than anything stationary, the sweep of the winds, the wanderings of the explorers und the redmen, the unrestricted roaming of the buffaloes teach us to Tenlize the spaciousness of the plains.When eye and mind are disquieted by the ugliness of man's first at tempts to make himself at home in # new region of the earth, it is well to have poets to remind us that \u201cthings are not what they seem\"; that there may Le poetry in the struggle of the dweller in a miserable little shack to subdue wild nature to his will, and that.as Kipling asserts, romance, in this ace of steam and machinery, is still king, working his uncongidered miracles in our \u201chack.ward-gnzing world.\u201d But if the railways have not killed romance, they have almost succeeded in destroying the buffalo.Line after line, in crossing the prairies, divided the herds and made their feeding-grounds so accessible to the white hunters, armed with the latest appliances of slaughter.that the extinction of the animals was freely prophesied.Happily, romance stepped in to avert the expected doom.In other words, the \u201cconservation\u201d idea seized the imagination of the people, and the buffalo fownd protectors in the Governments of the United States and Canada.For years the later has owned a small herd in the National Park at Banff.More recently, in 1908 and 1909, the Dominion Government has become possessed of à much larger herd, erstwhile the property of Michael Pablo, a Mexican half-breed.in Montana.The interest ing story of the \u2018\u2019rounding-up\u201d and shipping of these animals to Canada\u2019s new National Park in Alberta has already been told in these columns.The park eomprises about five townships, and ertends from Hardisty, on the Edmonton and Saskatoon lranch of the Canadian Pacific, to Wainwright, a divisional point on the Grand Trunk Pacitic Railway.At present this little town, which is not much more than three years old, depends for its prosperity almost wholly on the railway, Lut some day, I was told, it will be a goud \u201cfarmers town,\u201d for the land in the neighborhood is well adapted for mixed farming.Already, moreover, ils proximity to the Buffalo Park induces many a passing traveler to stop there on his way eastward or westward, and the townsfolk joyously anticipate that this unique attraction will in the years tn come \u2018\u2018draw visitors by the thousand from all quarters of the globe.\u201d \u2019 The park was prepared for the reception of the buffaloes by enclosing it with a fence of strong steel wire ten fect high and 75 miles long, costing a thousand dollars a mile.Strong as it is, many people douhted whether it would serve its purpose, but the animals have taken kindly to their new home and show no wish to esca At present the park is prae- tically in a state of nature, but is ultimately to be improved by the planting of additional trees and the making of roads.In ite present condition, however.it seems an almost ideal home for the ancient \u201cmonarchs of the plains.\u201d The land is rolling, and the .Battle River flows across a corner of the park, whilst smaller streams and little lakes, hillocks and sandy \u201cwallows,\u201d poplar Lluffs and sloughs give variety, both in contour and coloring, to the scenery.Within the vast enclosure pasture is always abundant, but, lest at any time a great snowfall should bury {t too deep, there is always on hand a lentiful supply of hay for the whole herd, which (counting the 850 animals brought from Montana, an additional 50 collected from other places and a number of young animals born in the park) now numbers considerably over a thousand, and is said to be the largest herd in the world, So that no visitor may go away disappointed, a space nf two or three square miles has been enclosed within tbe park near Wainwright, and here live 80 or 90 of the buffaloes, Visitors are forbidden tu enter the park on foot, and the animals, from same hereditary instinet, will not allow a man on horseback to approach them.but they show no fear of per sons in u carriage \u2014 Toronto Glube.ama =, \u2018Cabbage Worship.The cabbage was adored by the Egyptians, who raised altars to it.Afterward they made this strange god the first dish in thelr repasts, The (reeks and Romans ascribed to it the happy quality of preserving from drunkenness and looked upon it as a sovereign remedy against paralysis.Canadians In Literature.\u201cA.C.J.\u201d writes to The Daily Mail as a Canadian who has published novels in New York to complain of how dependent the Canadian author is upon the American market, He says: \u201cThe Canadian author's first attempt is with the New York magazines.These are ready to take Canadian stories, provided they are constructed on certain lines.They must preferably be thrilling tales of mines and lumber camps.livery character must speak a dialect of sorts, save the hero\u2014generally a mining engineer, always the son of an American millionaire\u2014who must use the latest slang.He always marries the daughter of the wilderness.No Canadian in the story must be anything save a hewer of wood and a drawer nf water.\u201cOur own Canadian market is stil) too small to be taken into independent account.To suit the English taste the Canadian story must be placed in the new western provinces.There must be English settlers, aristocratic remittance men, or mounted police, the whole seasoned with a plentiful dash of Imperial sentiment.\u201cThere is splendid scope ahead for the author whn will write of the great questions that are stirring Canadian national life, but they must be able to find an audience.\u201d Quebec Bridgs \u2018Designed.Some of the details for the Quebeo bridge are now available, the revised design for the structure being sufli- ciently advanced.The main span is 1,800 feet long.The top chord members of the cantilevers will consist of double lines of sixteen inch I bars, The bottom chords will have the ener.mous dimension of 7 feet height by 10 feet width.\u2014\u2014 ' Points for Mothers Your Daughter's Friends.Here is 2 question that every mother of a growing girl should conslder very carefully.How can 1 have more good times with my daughter and her friends?Have you made friends with your daughter's friends?Do you know who ber friends are and who are their friends?It would seem from a study of social conditions that more than half the mothers in this countfy pay little attention to their children\u2019s associates outside the home.Perhaps your plea for this neglect~for it Is a neglect, a neglect of duty\u2014is that the housework and the care of younger children wlll not permit you to spend any time getting ucquainted with young Etbhel's friends.Ethel enjoys their company, and you would pot wish to hurt ber feelings by suggesting that she should not associate with them.Ethel must have her fun while she is young, Five mornings a week ten months in the year Ethel has to get out of bed early, dress, have breakfast and hurry off to school.Perhaps she returns at noon for a hasty lunch, perhaps not, but after school hours sbe must practice ber music, study her lessons for the next day and attend to some small duties at home.The evenlngs are long in winter.As a rule, there are few amusements at home, and the young boy and girl seek pleasure at some neighbor's house or get permission to attend a moving ple- ture show.On the way to either place Ethel meets a boy friend or several boys and girls, who suggest a walk or a visit to some boy's or girl's home where they can \u201crough house\u201d unrestrained.Very often a dance ball claims the boys and girls of fifteen and older.Surely there has been enough written about the dangers of the public dance! The boys Ethel knows come to your bolue infrequenutly.They are at thy awkward age, when the thought vi meeting you and Ethel's father is most distasteful to them.Ethel knows how they feel and courts their favor by arranging meetings outside her home\u2014on the corner or at some girl friend's house where there is less supervision by parents than at her own home.You, however, are really relieved by the thought that you do not have to meet and help entertain these young people.You say to yourself: \u201cOb, well, ff she likes to be at Anna's house let her go.1 supposo they do have a better time there, where they do not have to take care not to waken a baby.\u201d And so Ethel is allowed to go out in the evenings according to her own sweet will.She forms the habit, and few are the evenings spent at home with mother and the other children.: If trouble comes to Ethe! she is to blame.She is reprimanded, upbraided, and if she is a girl of spirit the chances are she leaves home entirely to join the army of working girls\u2014or comes to \u201ceater barm.Care of Children's Eyes.One of the most important organs in the human body is the eye.Yet parents coustantly jeopurdize their children\u2019s eyesight by allowing them to read or study in insufficient light or light that is harmful to the delicate mechanism of the eye.Light should always fall over the left shoulder of tLe rcader.By so doing the rays of light follow the line on the printed page, and the vision also following the line from left to right meets with no resistance in the way of light waves, but, on the contrary, is aided in its work chair with the shoulders touching the chair back; then when they do lean forward to write they will instinctively move forward on the seat and retain the erect position of back and shoulders.This is 2 most important matter for many persons have had to gl through life with a distressing curve ture of the spine simply because in early days they have been allowed to sit with bent backs over thelr books.\\ When Baby Travels, There are all sorts of fitted baskets for all sorts of purposes, but the one that most appeals to mothers is dedl- cated to baby on his travels.Some of these are wonderfully elaborate affairs in a morocco case, but ope within reach of the average income is of wicker.with stout straps and a firm wicker handle, light enough to bo easily carried by a maid.In tbe basket are a bottle for keep- Ing liquids at an even temperature, two boxes for food, a feeding bottle with special cleansing brushes, a mix- fog cup, funnel, lueasuring spuon, napkin, bib, thermometer and a watch warranted to keep baby\u2019s meals us accurately on time as If in bis own nursery.Homemade Shoes.Soft suede makes deligbtful shoes for the little one, and it is quite a simple watter for a mother.with a little practice, to make them herself and to decorale them with tiny flowers or leaves.The stitching should be doue on the machine und the pattern quite simple, so that there will be no unnecessary seams.Silts may be ent found the top through which tu ruw #0 lacey, Tropical Plants, Many tropical plants possess light giving qualities.Not only are their blossoms and stems lnminous, but their Juices are phosphorescent.The Huntingdon Gleaner is printed apd published weekly, Thursday morning, at the village of Hunting- don, -Que,, by Sellar Brothers.Subscription $1 per year.U.S, sub- acribers 1.50.Papers discontinued when the time for which they have been paid expires, No exception to this rule so that subscribers who desire ta continue receiving the paper, should renew before their time is up, The date to which every subscription (a paid is denoted on the nddrasa-lahal The rates for the Gleaner fot transient advertisements are 50 cents per inch for first insertion and\u2019 26 cents per inch for each subsequeut insertion, No notice taken of Card of Thanks and other short advertisements unless accompanied by the price, which may be remitted in postage stamps Obituaries and resolutions of cen folence, reports of roarriags anui versaries, and the #ke, 5 cents line.Wo advertisenm.ent innerted a reading matter \u2019 BEST WAY TO MAKE MUSHROOM BEDS First Necessity is Fresh Stable Manure, Whether in Cellar, 8hed or the Open\u2014Keep it Damp As to the making of a mushroom bed, it does nor matter whether the bed be made up in a cellar or shed, or In the open, the first necessity is found in a good quality of fresh stable mag.\u2018ure, from which, as It accumulates, all long straw is shaken out and put uside to dry.If ali the dung needed, and it should be not less than a big cart load, can be got in at once quite fresh and not heated, so much the better.If it has to be got in driblets, «hen it must be put out thinly on the floor of a shed where it will not heat cr become wet until enough is collected.Then it must be thrown up into a heap, be fairly well damped, and allowed to lie until it begins to get warm.Then turn it again inside out and leave it, turning it again a third time.If at etther turning it seems dry, well damp it again, Then, after 4 few days the bed can be made up very solid wherever iL is to be.jy under cover then flatwise and a solid foot thick, If outdoors, then as a ridge three feet broad at the base and two and a half feet high, trodden firm and made neat.Outdoors the bed should be in @ sheltered position and on a dry bottem.In both cases, give the bed all over a gentle damping with water, then cover it up thickly with with straw litter or mats to help the beat to rise, as so soon as that is at its height the bed mey be spawned, EGGS IN WINTER + Six Essentlals That the Supply May be Maintained 1.Early hatched pullets or yearling hens.Early pullets are the most pro- liffe layers See that the pullets selected for the laying pens come from hens that have a creditable record in winter performance.Like begets like, and pullets from heavy winter layers will lay better in winter than stock indiscriminately selected.2.Dry, light, well-ventilated houses.A house witli lots of windows and well ventilated is always dry.As good a way to ventilate a poultry house is to use cotton or muslin in ons or two of the windows instead of glass.If a straw loft can be pul in so much the better.Let in the sunlight and fresh alr, $ An egg-producing ration.Give the hens whole grain, mashes, green feed and meat.Whole grain, wheat, cats or barley is the backbone of the ration, mashes of ground oats with the hulls sifted out, shorts and bran glve variety, and arc easily digested; green food keeps the blood cool and glves bulk to the ration; meat supplies protein from which the albuminous portion of the egg is made, Grit for the gizzard and oyster shell or lime in some form for egg shells, Supply what else is required to form the egg.4.Water.Hens will get along without water, getting what moisture they uced from eating snow, butt hey do batter where a supply of clean water is avallable most of the time; if possible all the time.6.Exercise.Make the hens work for their living.Fat.luzy birds are never record winter layers.Exercise.keeps hens warm, in good condition and contented.It is most easily provided for by feeding whole grain in a litter.Short straw, or chaff, makes\u2019 the best litter.Have eight of ten inches of it on the floor, and make the birds dig their living out of it.Change the litter frequently.6.Cleanliness.Have a dropping board beneath the roosts and scrape it clean every day.Have road dust or dry ashes or sand in convenient boxes for the birds to take dust baths m.If dust baths are provided, there is little danger of a flock becoming infested with lice.Occasionally emear the crevices about the roosts with kerosene and before winter sots in well clean out, whitewash and fumigate the house.FISH-EATING COMPULSORY When It Had to be Observed Two Days Every Week \u2014 Fish-eating, which has found such a strong advocate In Sir James Crich- ton-Browne, wes at one time compulsory hy law on at least two days in every week.In 1593 Queen Eliza- bath's Privy Council issued a mandate ordaining that it should \u2018not be lawful for any person within that realm to eat any flesh upon any days observed as fish-days, upon pain of forfeit of $15 (equal to about $150 at the present day) for every time he offended,\u201d and, further, that \u201cno fnn-holder, alehouse-keeper, or common table- keeper shall utter or put on sale upon\u2019 a flsh-day any kind of flesh victuals upon pain of forfeiture of $25.\" This: Act was prompted by the fact that the fishing industry, which provided; the nucleus of her Majesty's Navy, both in the matter of men and of vessels was suffering so severely by the growing indulgence of tho people in beet and mutton that many of the fisherfolk were abandoning the trade.This the Privy Council rightly Judged to be a danger to the realm.WANTED AN EARTHQUAKE The late Dr.Maclagan greatly ap- prectated the point of a reply which the witty vicar of a sleepy Yorkshire village sent to him when asked to lend his church for the purpose of giving the people of the district a \u201cquiet day\u201d for meditation.\u201cMy dear Lord Archbishop,\u201d wrote the vicar, \u201cyour very kind letter to hand.But what the people in this village want most in their spiritual life is not a \u2018quiet day,\u2019 but an earthquake.\u201d _ = MOA NOW EXTINCT | Great Bird of New Zealand Twelve Feet High La #3 \u2014_\u2014 A gigantic extinct bird of New Zealand (the moa) possessed the most massive bones of the entire class of birds.The bones of its feet almost rivaled those of the ground sloth, or the elephant, In size.In the museum in Canterbury College, Christ Church, New Zealand, there are two specimens of the moa which measure 12 feet 3 Inches In height, such remains hav- Ing been found In the peat bogs of New Zealand.In the seaside sand dunes and caves were preserved the ligaments holding the bones of skeletons together, also pleces of dried skin and feathers, efc.The moa is more nearly allied in structure to omus, cassowaries, and kiwis than to the ostrich.It closely resembles tho kiwis except for its short beak, and for having aftershafts after its feathers.x , vas Ra #- "]