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TT Farm and Garden BY ole ote ole ole ofa ole ote ole vie we ode ote ole \u2014 ole Je .oe oe \u2019 * M aaten ten ten fan tan tou Lanta tan?tout.PESTE ett ene te tent t et.FEET ATE ITT eT (3 2 onan ont coteotent.0 EET 20 UN cles tonton ton ton Ten! 201.LE PEER 0 0 CUTTING CORN FOR SILAGE.Proper Time Is When the Ears Are In the \u201cGlazed Stage.\u201d Tho New Jersey station draws atten- tlon to a tendency among some vf the best dairymen, wbo realize the value of corn silage as u feed, to put thelr corp into the silo at such un early stage of growth that it is practically impossible to make a first class grade of silage, eveq though 1t is stored in a - perfect silo: Silage cut at the right .xtline aud Kkept'in a good silo is,ane of the most economical and palatable feeds which can be fed to the dairy cow.It is economical because a large amount of food nutrients can be raised to the acre in the corn crop, and these putrients can be handled and stored in a most economical and convenient way when the corn is cut and put in the silo.Another point which is of considerable value is the action which the corn undergoes when placed in the silo.This is a fermenting process during which the sugar in the corn is changed to several acids.This softens the fibers, makes the protein more digestible and adds desirable flavors.The proper time for cutting com is when the majority of the ears are in the \u201cglazed stage.\u201d If cut for silage at an earlier period it contains such a CUTTING CORN FOR SILAGE.high percentage of sugar that the result will be silage containing such a large amount of acid that it will be unpalatable.It is much better to make the mistake of cutting too late rather than too carly, as the only objection to late cutting is the loss of moisture, with the result that the stalks contain too much air and are Hable to mold.This may be remedied by the addition of water while the silo is being tilled.Corn when cut during the \u201csilk stage\u201d contains practically half the amount of dry matter and food nutrients as corn that is cut for the silo from seven to fourteen days after the kernels have begun to glaze.This emphasizes the importance of allowing the ears to get well glazed Lefure the corn is cut for silage.\u201c Stacking Clover.Clover left in the windrow overnight and turned once or twice the following forenoon is ready for the stack or the mow the second afternoon after cutting, If the weather looks rainy It should be placed in cocks, covered well and left for some time.It is best to open the cocks and permit them to air awhile before taking to the stack, ta at at Ra tante den te te tu tau te ta tes tectecte-r te tou tente RHR REPRE FIR RL FH HRB P TTT + + 3 BUILD THE SILO NOW.¥ L J .+ + oo beat te te este kote stot teste toi te lents teste ute ste stonte sat EE ES SE EE EE EEE EE EEE Because it saves the whole crop, insures \u201cJune pasture\u201d in winter, saves labor and storage space, doubles farm capacity for live stock, prevents waste in feeding, saves a frozen corn crop and makes better use of graln feed possible, build a silo.The sllo promises a safe place to store corn that is overtaken by frost when in the milk stage.The crop will then make a fairly good quality of silage if it is cut Into the\u2019silo at once.The silo furnishes succulent, palatable feed of uniform quality that is ale ways near at hand.The silo preserves the corn crop with the minimum amount of loss, as the entire plant is made Gt for food.The silo doubles the number of dairy or beef animals that can be kept on a farm.The silo economizes space, time and bullding costs in providing storage room for the crop.The silo equnlizes the supply of feed by carrying a surplus over in good condition from one year to another.The silo can be used for ensiling clover or alfalfa during a spell of wet weather, when it would be impossible to cure it for hay.The silo furnishes the most economical.convenient feed for supplementing short pastures during a period of drought.\u2014Better Farming, Substitute for Gold, A substitute for gold is obtained by combining 94 parts of copper with six parts of antimony and adding a little magnesium carbonate to increase the weight.It le said that this alloy can be drawn, wrought, and soldered very much like gold, and that It also receives and retains a golden polish.1t is worth something like 26 cents a pound.Its Origin.She\u2014Who started the habit of calling a boat \u201cshe?\u201d He\u2014Probably the firsé man that tried to steer one.Keeping Birthdays.The custom of keeping birthdays t» very oid.Pharaoh's birthday festivi~ ties aro mentioned in the Pentateuch.Arabic Figures.It 4s now known that Arabic figures were not invented by the Arabs, bot by the early scholars of India.Singe Copier 4 Cr 1s 0.0 9 8 8 8 oo 3 > a TE ra PE EPP \u20ac Making the Little Farm Pay By C.C.BOWSFIELD 2.\u20ac 8.0 8 0 9 0 0 0 9 0 8 oO PETITE ee pv 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 TIE TIT TTT CR Salat tot ope Paca ETES EE CEE À bigh rate of profit in turkey raising is among the reasonuble certainties for smal) farwers.Experts say that the outlook for this industry is greatly improved.Prices are high, and risk and labor are not unreasonable, considering profits.One of the reasons for predicting success in turkey raising is that the disease known as blackhead bas Leen brought under control large part of the United States.If wad (00D OUTLOOK PPOR TURKEYS.flocks can be kept healthy there & no doubt about making money from them, as turkeys are goud foragers and pick up the greater part of thelr living in the fields.Turkeys of average weight are worth $2.50 in retail markets.Per- baps farmers will sell most of their flocks in a wholesale way and there fore can hardly count on more than $2 for each bird, but at this price there is casily a profit of $1.00.It is certain that turkey raising belongs in the line of mixed farming and should become a feature of many places where ten or twelve distinet products are brought forward.There are many mixed farming enthusiasts who wish to balance up their programs with poultry.They can accomplish this object in part with turkeys without excluding other fowls.Of course a field for range fs necessary either with turkeys or geese, and the different flocks will not interfere with each other, but if turkeys can have a small field all to themselves so much the better.especiitlly while the young birds are becoming hardy and vigorous.It is a wise plan to have a patch of ground fenced off for newly hatched poults, so that the parent fowls will not be giving the little things too much travel.This danger is over in the course of two or three weeks.It is a zood custom to turn the young birds over to broody hens, but as the latter are usually troubled with vermin it is necessary to apply ingect powders.Lard gnd kerosene may be applied to the hen, but not to poults.Dyrethrum should be dusted on the latter when lice appear.When turkeys are ban- dled in a careful way the business will almost equal that of chicken raising At any rate, it works well with a mixed farming program.Owners have only to bear in mind that they must engage in the business extensively enough so that ther can afford to handle it right.If it is worth doing at all it is worth doing well, and this principle should apply to all farming projects.Turkeys and chickens should not be treated as side lines and allowed to go along in n haphazard way The flocks need to be started right and given a good chance to develop in u healthy manner.Nearly all poultry raisers say the Bronze variety is Lest, possessing as it does hardiness with large size.All over the west the Bronze type is popular and gaining fast.Breeders are selecting the finest specimens that are obtalnable, and the new flocks now coming fortvard in such large numbers show good characteristics.Dealers expect to get a larger proportion of thelr fall and winter supply in localities which heretofore have not furnished many turkeys.Prices will be high vnough to afford farmers at least $1.50 net profit for each fowl, and In cases where they have private customers the returns will be still larger.In a general way turkeys require the same management as chickens, only they should have a wider range in pleasant weather than the latter.The poults require no food until a day old, but water and sand should be within reach.In the course of thirty-six hours n simple kind of feeding may begin.I'readerumbs moistened and squeezed dry are ns good as any other food.Curds or Dutch cheese is relished, and the little birds thrive on this in connection with such things as onlon tops and dandelion leaves minced fine.Corn bread Is about the best food when they are two weeks old, and a little later cracked corn or wheat should be provided.Thrown by Chargers.Napoleon's favorite charger, Marengo, whose skeleton is preserved in the museum of the Royal United | | throughout a , \" Fe Service Institution, threw his master : on two occasions; once so heavily that the Emperor remained unconscious for nearly an hour.King George's ancestor, William the Third, met his death from a fall trom his horse.The animal, a one- eyed steed, stumbled over a molehill with fatal results to its rider.Aftarwards the Jacobites used to toast \u2018Master One-Eye (that being the horse) and the Little Gentleman in Velvet (that being the mole.\u201d Wiiliam 1., too, though not unseated, cam.by his death through bis horse stumbling over some hot ashes at the siege of Mantes.King George II, had a narrow escape from death at the Battle of Dettingen, through his horse falling with him, and partly upon him.| Scott in his NOVEMBER Pr Ite ee ei SO Spirit of Napoleon Is \u2019 A Very Serious Menace When [t Is Uncontroiled 0000002000062 % 0 e302 04% s%0 0% 0s\u2019, d'est eat 0e eee tea e0te0®, aaa aia a Xa Na Ma aaa ee?tres entre, ORD CROMER, the famous British statesman,and essayist, has the following to say on the subject of Napoleon- ism, which has been so much discussed since the outbreak of the war.In spite of Milton's qualified condemnation of a desire for that fame which he thought was the \u2018last infirmity of a noble mind,\u201d It is certain that personal ambition, if properly directed, far frown being an infirmity, is a very meritorious moral attribute, Everything depends on the direction given to the ambitious effort.\"he most severe amoralist would nèver {pink,p!f condgmning thé spur which personal ambition gave to the actions of such men as Wellington, Nelson, or Abrabam Lincoln.Even the conduct of Cavour and Bismarck is capable of defence, for though the methods adopted by each of these statesmen were reprehensible, the main objects which they sought to attain were legitimate and patriotic.The same cannot be suid of Napoleon.From his carliest youth his conduct was wholly governed by that pernicious form of ambition which casts to the winds all moral congiderations in the pursuit of pure- dy LORD CROMER.ly personal aims.He disearded Corsican for French patriotism, not because he had any special sympathies for France, for, to the end of his days, he mocked at the inhabitants of his adopted country and regarded them as his dupes, but because his cool and calculating intellect led him to the conclusion that France afforded a more favorable field than Corsica for the operations of a soldier of fortune.For similar reasons he abandoned the Royalist cause.1t, he said towards the closc of his life, \u201cI had been a general I might have adhered to the king; being a subaltern, I joined the patriots.\u201d He felt no shame for the mendacity which distinguished him throughout whole of his career, and of which be was frequently convicted.In his case, the child was father to the man.He cheated at cards, not because he wanted to win money, for De Bourrienne says he always Te- turned whatever he bad won unfairly, but because he liked to cheat.When he was First Consul, he prompted his brother Lucien to write a pamphlet urging him to assume the Imperial title, and then proposed that the author should be arrested and punished for having written it.When Lucien complained that \u2018\u2018he had been made a puppet and then abandoned,\u201d Napoleon was not in the least abashed.\u201cThe fault is your own,\u201d he said to Lis brother; \u201cit was your business not to be detected, He eventually fell, as Prussian absolutism is destined to fall, because, in spite of his acutcly logical intellect and transcendent powers of organization, he altogether failed to recognize the moral and spiritual motives which guide individuals and nations.Napoleons arc, forlunately, scarce.The military successes of Prussia have been due not so much to the genius of any one individual as to the regular and relentless working of a machine-made system.But Napoleonism, in a bad form, survives, and it is all the more pernicious inasmuch as at present it is not guided by statesmen possessing the talents of either a Napoleon or a Bismarck, It has been incorporated into the national mind and life of an entire people, Napoleon crushed the Prussians, but thny have become the {inheritors both of lis principles and his methods.They way be devoid of his talents, but they endeavor to emulate his proceedings.He was, If not the author, at all events one of the foremost apostles, of that \u2018\u2018ab- golute war\u2019 which Prussian military and political writers regard as an ideal worthy of altainment, Lockhart records that Napoleon said: \u2018\u2018A real Frenchman could not, should not, rest until the scas are free and open to all.\u201d Again, be said: \u201cThere must be one Code, one Court of AD- peal, and one coinage for Europe, The States of Europe must be united into one nation, and Paris be its capital.\u201d The words are those of the dead French autocrat, in reading them we scem to be Neurkening to those of the .iving German Kaiser, Where the foriner failed, the latter will not succeed; nelther is it likely that any German Deranger will be abfe to invok' the Muse so successfully as to i:nhue future generations of Germans with a hardy belief in the magic of the Hohenzollern name.Snakes kill 21,000 persons yearly in India.Convenient Apology.If a boy 13 real naughty his mother apologizes Ly saying, \u201cHe's just like hig father.\"\u2014Judge.submarine fu: Napoleon.When Napolcon was banished to St.Helena various achemes were set on foot for his rescue.One of the most remarkable originated in the inventive brain of a smuggler named Johnstone, says London Answers.\u201cA submarine,\u201d says Sir Walter \u201cLife of Napoleon,\u201d \u2018was to be the means of effecting this enterprise.It was thought that * by sinking the vesrel during the daytime it might escape the notice of the British cruisers, and being raised at night might approach the guarded rock without discovery.\u201cTho vessel was actually begun in one of the building yards of the Thames, hut the peculiarity of its construction having occasioned suspicion, it was seized by the Government.\u201d ° \u201c Where the ., lips wben Ler sister broke , named warships afloat.Meistersingor, + 23 1916 \u201d 3% DEFY GERMAN CENSORS.À Parriotic Newspapers in Belgtu Are Continually Appearing.§ The Belgian Government auth ties at Havre, France, have recety information of the eontinurd appearance of patriotic newspapers ut Brussels and throughout Belgium, in defiance of the German censorship and despite all the efforts of the German military police.It is one of : the mysteries of the German occups- - tion of Belgium how these socret papers can b published, where thay engrave their cartoons ridiculing the Germans, and how they set the type and circulate the papers.There ls a price of 50,000 marks oh the head of the editor of the Free Belgium, but it keeps on appearing just the same.Several of the supposed editors are sald to have been shot.One man was sentenced 4 to twelve years\u2019 hard labor, others to three and eleven years, and a womas, Madame Scheupets, to five years; A file is kept at Havre of these .vas papers, as.a matter of curios- Free Belgium.whiob has givsh the most trouble, prints the following notices under its title: \u201cA bulletin of patriotism, submit- | ting to no censorship whatever, \u2018Price per copy elastic, from zero to Infinity.\u201cBusiness office: Not being handy to have an established address, we are installed in a movable automobile cellar.\u201cAdvertisements: nil under German have suppressed domination, our we advertising Business being page and counsel our patrous to keep their money till times get better.\u201cTelegraphic address: Care of German Commander at Brussols.\u201d Palaces as Hospitals.The necessities of war have transformed the uses of the Royal palaces of Europe.They are nearly all turned into hospitals, Such are the Winter Palace on the Nova, the Kremlin at Moscow, Tsarkoe Selo, end Livudia.ln Italy, besides the Quirinal and Queen Margherita's palace in the Via Veneto, the Queen is directing a military hosptial in a wing of tho Vatican; and not only Have tbe Royal villas at Mantua, Verona, and Monza been put at the dispusal of the War Office, but the Pope has done the same with Castle Gandolfo.Tho Ilysee Palace is given over to war work, and Buckingham Palace 18 not a hospital simply because there {8 no need for it, so the King and Queen use it largoly to receive soldiers and to en- tertaln the wounded, The paluces at Berlin and elsewhere in \u2018Germany are all turned Into military hospitals, and the Huns have devoted King Albert's palace at {irussels to the same use, although the Kaiser was highly indignant that the English turned his stately pleasure palace at Achillejon to the samo purpose for the benefit of the Serbian Army.The wife of tho unscrupulous Ferdinand has made part of his palace at Sofla into à uilitary hospital, but the Austrian invadors of Montenegro used the palace at Cetinje as barracks, Finally, King Alfonso has turned his palaces at Madrid into an Jnterna- tional War Office, where this noble neutral holds a court of appeal for condemned or missing prisoners.Telegrams arrive daily as well us lettors pleading for his intervention with the ruthless Prussian machine.stamps are enclosed, these are returned, for the King of Spain defrays all costs, and dalights in his task of mercy.She Succeeds in England.Mrs.Kathryn M.Stanton, aglow with the triumph of selling the centrifugal gun for which she stood sponsor, to the British Government, has returned to the United States, The naw weapon which she sold Great Britain is oporated without powder and Is nolsoless as well us smokeless, It hurls missiles with deadly aim, the missiles may be anything from an egg to a lump of dynamite.There Is no barrel to the gun, and it may be operated by any untrained man or woman, It 18 simple of construction, and all of its parts can be made at any machine shop with a cost of less than one-teuth of tho price of a weapon using explosives.Mrs, Stanton financed the hullding of the model and personally superintended the making of the gun.The weapon was tried out at Sandy Hook and the officers present acclaimed It as the weapon of future warfare, The United States did not care to purchase the Invention, so Mrs, Stanton sold to Great Britain, This is the second invention in a ghort time that was turned down by the United States and later accepted by Great Britain.While Mrs, Stanton was abroad her husband died unknown to her.The glad tidings she expected to convey to him were hushed on her the sad news to ber.«\u20ac A Tribute to Women.The light cruiser Frauenlob (Praise of Woman), some of whose crew bave been rescued by a British tugboat, was one of the most oddly- An early Henry of Meissen, sang the charms of womanhood so assiducusly that he came to be known as Fraucnlob, and on his Geatn in 1318 his body was carried in state by wo.nen to his grave In Mayence Cathedral.When first it Was decided to build a German fleet the women of Germany raised a lurge contribution towards its cost hy special collections among them- gives, To commemorate their ef- furts a cruiser Inunched in 1853 was called Fraucniob, und the name has sine been borne by five other war- Bb , 5.Reet $1 a Pound in Vienna! Fuus disorders bave ,proken out in Vi.nna, said a Geneva despateh to the Exchange Telegraph Company rec 'ntly.B.ef is gelling at $4 a pound and rice at $2 a pound.There i toriible distress among familles +f workingmen, the despatch added.An Infernal Engine, An English battalion was recently warned to keep a careful watch for any contrivances which the Germans might use with the object of producing poisuvnous gases, Shortly aflter- wards on taking over some trenches an old bagpipe was fouhd.At once the colonel, who possessed a rare sense of humor, sent the following message to brigade headquarters: \u2018A weird Instrument bas just been discovered in my trenches; it fs be- lteved to have been used for produe- ing asphyxiating nnises!\u201d Be Moderate.Do not cherish exaggerated bopes.No tree ever grew to the sky.\u2014 Youth's Companion.Chinese.There are no declensions, moods, tenses or inflections of any kind In the Chinese language.AVIATION COURTESIES Canadian Writer Duencribes Amenities of Warfare in the Air.A well-known Canadian journalist describes a remarkable air duel which he witnessed between a British and a German fying man, in which the former was the victor.\u2018Our aviator came to earth {immediately after bringing down the German, hoe says, \u2018and instantly ran over to the latter's wrecked twachine, whose pilot was stone-dead.He was a giant of a man, and was evidently someone of means, for he wore a really beautiful fur coat, and on his hands were diamond and other rings which must have been of great value.\u2018A little to my surprise, tbe British airman proceded to strip the dead man of his coat, and then to remove his rings and other jewellery, which he packed into a sort of tin canister, Juët as be had finished, an officer uf the corps came up and inquired: \u2018Got everything?\u2018Yes,\u2019 replied the fiyer.And the officer said, \u2018Right-o! on with you.\u2019 \u2018Then, to my further surprise,\u201d adds the Canadian, \u2018our aviator put the tin canister on ais machine, and, hardly pausing a minute, flew straight over the German lines, keeping so low that he would have been an easy target even for a rifle, but waving his handkerchief as he went.When he was over the Huns he dropped the canister, then wheeled and flew slowly back, while & German party ran out to pick up the utensil.I'm told that a courtesy of this kind nearly always follows the bringing down of a pilot on either side, and that the airman who conveys back his opponent's property flies in a certain fashion that reveals the nature of his errand.\u201d Few Troops This Winter.At the rate at which battalions are now being sent overseas there will not be more than about sixty thousand Canadian troops left in Canada at tho beginning of winter, although this number will, of course, be considerably augmented as re eruiting goes on.Last winter more than 100,000 troops were quartered fn November and December in the various centres throughout the Dominion.By the beginning of Novetn- ber there will be considerably more than this number in training in England, where climatic conditions are considered better for effective battalion and brigade training during the winter months.In addition tu this reason for sending the troops overseas this fall, there is the further reason that they will then be immediately available in the spring for movement to the front for what it is hoped will be the final big offensive, It is probable that a number of the towns throughout the Dominion which benefited from having military units quartered there during last winter will this year be without troops, as the billeting and small unit system has been abandoned, Most of the troops will be concentrated in a few large centres.At Toronto the troops will be again quartered at the Kxhibition grounds, and work ls now being begun towards getting the bulldings ready for them.The proposal to keep battalions at Camp Borden , during the winter in specially constructed huts has been abandoned, as being unwise in view of recruiting conditions.Canadians at Salonica.Prof.J.J.Mackenzie, B.A., M.B., of the University of Toronto, who spent some time at Salonica, attached to the University Hospital there, entertained the members of the Canadian Club lately with an interesting historical sketch of that ancient city, as a background for the work the Canadian doctors and nurses were doing in caring for the sick and wounded of the British expeditionary forces in Greece.Prof.Mackenzie pointed out that besides the University of Toronto Hospital there were two others, the British Columbia Hospital and the First Canadian Stationary Hospital.These hospitals were filling a definite Imperial mission in that they are all Canadian and are serving only Ilm- perial troops.The speaker told of the stormy history of Salonica from the time it was founded in 315 B.C.The great road built through the city shortly after it was founded Is still in existence and beside it the University Hospital is located.In turn tho Greeks, the Bulgars, tbe Serbians, and the Turks fought for it.At one or two periods in its history it was captured and looted by mercenaries.The Turks held the longest tenure of the city, ruling it from 1,431 until in tbe Balkan War of 1912, it was taken by the Greeks and held.Up to the time Dr.Mackenzie left Salonica the University Hospital was chiefly occupied in looking after medical cases, Cause For Congratulation.The Boss\u2014Mr.Stubpen, when yon came in this morning | detected 4 trace of liguor about your person.The Bookgeeper\u2014l'hat'a fine, sir: Fine! That shows how touch Letter your told is, s1r.\u2014 l\u2019uck.Buy Rubbers and Overshoes For Their Little Feet and at the Same Time Save the Expensive Shoes From Injury by Water, Ice and Snow The woman who has several little tots to provide with shoes will welcoine the announcement that, through the efforts of the Dritish Government, the price of rubber has been reduced go that the rubber shoes that keep the little ones\u2019 feet dry have not advanced in price, as other footwear has.Here's an opportunity for the mother to keep the kiddles dry-shod and, at the rame time, save the expensive little shoes, that havé almost doubled in price.Mothers should buy rubbers this fall, not only to keep the children\u2019s feet dry, but to keep the fall rains and the snow water from rotting the expensive leather in their shoes, The economical woman will appreciate this and at the same time hers will be a patriotic act, a service to the British Government, every time she buvs a pair of rubbers.21 Advertisment Ottawa Winter Fair HOWICK HALL, OTTAWA JANUARY 16, 17, 18, 19, 1017 $16,000,00 IN CASH PRIZES Wm, Smith, MP, President Columbus, Ont.W.D, Juckson, Secretary Carp, Ont.| HUNTINGDON, QUE.RICH WITHOUT GOËN, People Who Have Refused ta Vecept Pratitable Notoriety, Many recipients of the covered À C.have in the past had teanting offers from muse hall man.gore ta go on the stage and tell their tale and \u201cght their battles o'er ann A few have succumbed, but the rule has been refusal The famous Inck Binns of wireless fame, who kept the SOS.supnat po Ing when the liner wax «inking, might have made a fortune many times over if he would have con ent ed to exploit his bravery But he wouldn't.He rad \u201c1m oa wireless operator, not a music hall artiste, I'll stick to my joh And, to hia lusting honor, he did.At one of the big exhibitions In America the enthusiastic Scots built a replica of the birthplace of Robbie Burns, the national poet.Then the, sent à request to a certain old lady fn Scotland, who claims descent from the poet, to come over and sit in the house as a bit of \u201creal local color\u201d Neediras to say, the golden halt was a tine one, eapecirlly to an old woman who had never been overbur dened with \u201cthis world's gear.\u201d hat she said \u2018Na, na.Um no gawn tre be stared at by n lot 0° sills gowks wha tak\u2019 me for a new hm\u2019 oF wild beast, I reckon 11 stay in Auld Scotland.\u201d snd that 1x what she did.At the other end of the social scaler Royalties who have seen trouble have often been timportuned by publishers to pen their caperience.Sometimes the bit has been taken with a consequent TossVof caste.Some years ago the present king of Spain's mother, Queen Christina, was offered i \u201cKing's ransom\u201d by 4 Yankee editor if she would only can sent to allow her son, then under age, to sign an article whieh would be written for hin, She refused, of course, Tho Old Man and the Younes Witness The cuse, an a unter of tact, was of quite à trivial nature.but, for all that, the lawyer, who happened (0 he a young man, amd ambitious, dete inined to get at any rate some kudos out of it for himself, So when a diminutive, ragged lit tle urchin took his stand in the wil ness-box, he decided to make the most of an opportumty and estab lish a reputation for brilliance at that small boy's expense.\u201cYou say you are [fifteen years old?\u201d he scornfully inguired.\u201cHave you gol an occupation of any sort?\u201d \u201cYou Just loaf about stand alt street corners, ind so forth?\u201d \u201cThat's about it, mister.\u201d \u2018Nu,\u201d replied the youth, with lazy indifference.\u201cHum! And what does your fa ther do?\" \u201cThe old man?Oh, 'e don't to much.\u201d And the boy sunbed ng he drawled out the pords, \u201cYou mean,\u201d said the lawyer, \u201cthat your father is like you- a lazy, worthless, good [or nothing idier, one of those men whom \u201cMaybe \u2018a is uaybe \u2018e ainu't,\u201d (n- terrupted the witness.Anyway, you can ask \u2018im yourself.C's sit un\u2019 there on the Jury!\u201d DECEMBER THURSDAY Report changes required to our Local Manager lo-day.NUMA E.BROSSCIT, K.C.,.Advocate, of the city of Valley- field, will be at Moir's Hotel, i Huntingdon, on the cecond Satur- , day of each month, from 10 a.m.| to 3 p.m, {tra Quaity Granuir reve Anulated Cd Grama fo I Lge \\ 2 and 5-1b.Cartons 10 and 20-1b.Bags Don\u2019t buy sugar by the\u201cquarter\u2019sworth\u201d or \u201cdollar\u2019s worth\u201d when you can buy Lantic Sugar in these full weight original packages, con- tainingthe \"fine \"granulation every housewife likes.A \u201cThe All-Purpose Sugar\u201d Lon 11 ke lou Ivary chau es whi spain, apant, cath, Dughons, beuy grawiha, swellings Buil pf fn cenesa lee \u201cA svenss) Spavin Cure te SPAVIN Inthehandeofhorses A) QURE a men, veterinarians I and farmers for 3 yearn it has proved its worth in hundreds of thousands of canes, wr Værionr, Dec, fth, IMA Will you please mail to muy adress n copy of VONT Z'oratrce an the Porte, have been vain our vaduatle remedies for some tire, and foune them suse nud reliable.JUSEFIL L.RATZINGKER.SL a hottle-4 for 95, at drucgiats or write for Copy or out link Preatise on the Ilorne\u2018 free, Dr.B.J.KENDALL.COMPANY Enoshurg Falls, Vermont, U.S A, 117 pi Telephone Book.7 G Copy for the next Telephone Directory closes on the above date! q§ Order your telephone now, so that your name will be in the new issue! i Visiting Cards, 50 for 60e, 100 for 81.Business Cards, 100 for $1.25, 200 for $1.50, SELLAR BROS, HUNTINGDON, Que.THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE with which is united the EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.0,, LL.D., D.C.L., President IDEN AIRD, Genera! Manager.H.V.F.JONES, Ass\u2019t General Manager CAPITAL, $15,000,000 REST, $13,500,000 BANKING BY MAIL Accounts may be opened at every branch of The Canadian Bank of Commerce to be operated by mail, and will receive the same careful attention as is given to all other departments of the Bank\u2019s business.Money may be deposited or withdrawn in this way as satisfactorily as by a personal visit to the Bank.(, W.THOMAS, Manager of [funtingdon ranch Eod THE MERCHANT'S.BANK OF CANADA Established 1864 Paid Up Capital .Head Office Montreal eee.$7,000,000 Reserve and Undivided Profits .$7,245,14( President.Vice-President General Manager .209 BRANCHES IN CANADA \u2026 Sir H.Montagu Allan __K, W.Blackwell 2.E.F.Hebden SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT AT ALL BRANONNüste Farmers Business Solicited Careful attention given to Collection and {Disecwmt om ne Notes.Blank Notes furnished free for this puwrpess.HUNTINGDON BRANCH N.W, BPARROW, Manager * puhé.a +» VAR re @nas@ J.G.LAURENDEAU, K.C, Advocate, at Moir's Hoiel every first Saturday of each month.DONALD M.ROWAT, B.C.L, of W.de M.& II.Marler, Notaries St James street, Montreal, Money to Loan on First Mort- page security.Mr Donald M.Rowat, NP, of the firm of W.deM.and H, M.157 : Marler, Notaries of Montreal, has mado arrangements to come to Huntingdon from time to time and begs to notify the public that appointments may be made with Wm.M.Rowat, M.D, of Athel- stan, Mr Rowat will give special attention to the settlement of Estates and the careful investment of monies, JC.BRUCE, .(ieneral Inaur- anee Agent, Huntingdon, Fire, Life and Accident Insurance, County Building, Huntingdon, J.F.ROLLIT, Surgeon Dentist Kelly's Blpek, Huntingdon.Open all day.Rell Telephone No.104, - + \u2014\u2014 0 gaan oma ARTHUR W.SULLIVAN Q.L.8.&C.E.Suecessor to John FL, Sullivan QIN & CI Surveying and Engineering of water courses and Bounding of properties, Borunge, &e, attended lo promptly.Address: > O0.Box 124 Valleyfield, Que.or room 20, 59 St.Peter street, Montreal, Que.WHOLESOME BREAD Get your Bred from Pinson.neanlt Bros, Plain amd Faney Double Pan 20e, Milk Loaf 7 and 4 cents.Drop us a line and we will call on you.PINSONNEAULT BROS.Ormstown Kept for Sale in Huntingdon by H.A.TRICKEY, dealer in Groceries, Flour, Domestic and Foreign Fruits, ete.Phone 118, M \\ Mutualfire[nsurancebo.of the COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS (Incorporated 1852) Head Office .Huntingdon insures only Farm and lsolated Property.President, M.W.Luchy Directors-\u2014Anthine Doray, KR.K.Ness, Alex.McMillan.ANDREW PHILPS, Secy.and General Manager, PATTERSON & COMPANY, Advoentes, City und District Bunk Building, 180 St Jumes-st., Montreal.Mr Patterson will be ul Moir's Hotel, first Saturday of every month, A.R.LEDUC Notary Public, Huntingdon, Que.Successor to 1.I.Crevier, Notary Public.Office in the O'Connor lock, entrance next to Mori- urty\u2019s store.Money to loan.Extate and succession settlement.McCORMICK & LEBOURVEAU, Advocates, Commissioners for Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, British Columbia, ete.Rooms 41 and 42 Canadian Pacific Telegraph Building, 4 Hospital street, Montreal.Mr McCormick will attend the Courts in the District of Beauharnois, and will be at Moir lotel, Huntingdon, on the lust Saturday of every month.barring unforseen circumstances Telephone Main 2497.Claims for rollection may be left with Robt \" Ellerton, Hemmingford.Cornwall 7 Commercra/ the school you wil attend if you College + investigate Gives you the commercial training neede, whether you enter business or professional Le The instruction paralieis high achuol or Un.versity courses except that commercial wuld jecbs are mubutitudeu tor the sclunces an rolgn languages, Both sexes.Counnercin Secretaria) and shorthand courses, Position socured for graduates, A C.C.C, training ls à ways an desc.Students entering now ares no disad vantage.Bend for free prospectus.Address CORNWALL COMMERCIAL COLLEG CORNWALL, ONT.\u2018The rates of the Gleaner fo transient advertisements are 5 cents per inch for first insertio and 25 ceuts per inch for eac subsequent insertion.Advertise ments of 20 words or less 25 cent each insertion.No advertisemer inserted for less than 25¢.N notice taken of Card of Thanks of short advertisements unless a compinieu by the price, whic may be remitted in postag stamps.Obituaries and resol tions of condolence, reports marriage anniversarics, and tl like 5 cents a line.No advertis: ments inserted as reading-matte Obituary notices are not i serted.ou 0 The Huntingdon Gleaner printed and published week! Thursday forenoon at the villa; of Huntingdon, Que, by Sell Brothers.Subscription $1 p year.U.8.subscribers $1.5 Paperss discontinued when +t time for which they havè be paid expires.No exception this rule so that subscribers w desire to continue receiving t paper, should renew before the subscription has expired as ¢ noted on the address label.changing address, be sure to gi name of old post-office.Huntingdon, Que.Huntingdon, | | i ?Vice-President, Robt Blackwood \u2018 qe THURSDAY, NOV.23, 1916 wae Buntingdon Gleaner \u2014 SELLAR BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS \u2014 Huntingdon, Que., Nov.23, 1916 Notes of the Week.With praiseworthy promptitude Mr Mitchell made the financial statement of the provinee on Thursday.It showed incretsed revenue and also an increase in expenditure beyond the estimates of last year of over a million dollars.The income was close upon 91% millions, the expenditure was some $200,000 more, giving an apparent balance of $211,000.This does not include the outlay on good roads, which is treated as a separate account.Mr Mitchell stated that there had been spent on good roads 14 million dollars, of which 9 millions had gone thru the hands of the municipal councils, and 5 millions paid directly by the government on the King Edward, the road to Quebec and the one to Sherbrooke.Of the last loan for roads about half a million dollars is still on hand.The present intention of the government was to make another loan, so that the work of stoning the roads may continue.The net debt of the province now stood at 31 million dollars, which with the present income, the province could carry without difficulty.Mr Mitchell's estimates for income and expenditure for the coming financial year, were nearly equal, 9% million dollars.It was a plain, straightforward statement of how the province stands and altogether satisfactory apart from the large increase in ordinary expenditure.Before more money is spent on roads, a conclusion should be come to as to the plan of how they are to be constructed and provision made for keeping them in repair.As the Gleaner has repeatedly stated, macadam is not satisfactory and much of the money spent has been lost by imperfect workmanship and material.\u2014 Manitoba undertook to erect a magnificent pile of publie buildings and let the contract to Thos.Kelly & Sons.Before the work had proceeded far it was seen the estimate was going to be far exceeded and that the Kellys were scamping the work.With a change of ministers came an investigation, which revealed, tho the work already done had swallowed the money set aside for it, the contractors had fraudulently changed the specifications.The estimate of the architect was, that over a million dollars had been paid for which the province had no value, indeed, worse than none, for the foundation was insecure and would have to be rebuilt.Kelly fled to the States, fought extradition, fought every attempt to bring him to trial.The government persevered and surmounting all the obstacles clever lawyers raised, got him before a jury which found him guilty of robbing the province.There were exceptions and appeals which ended in the verdict being upheld.On Saturday he was brought up for sentence and given 214 years in the penitentiary The evidence showed, Kelly had not pocketed all his unlawful gains , but that a large portion of them had gone to the managers of the Conservative election fund.His lawyer, in pleading on Saturday for a light sentence, declared Kelly \u2018\u2018was the victim of a system of long standing, and for which society at large was responsible; a system which had been tolerated and approved by a large section of the public, of providing campaign funds for the political parties out of government contracts.\u201d Should Kelly turn King\u2019s evidence, certain politicians will be sent to keep him company.The German submarine Deutsch- land, having taken as much nickel and rubber as could be packed into her hold, sailed for Germany on Friday morning.In the darkness two tugs pulled her out of the dock and accompanied her until she reached the open sea.On getting clear of the coast, the submarine dropped the hawser by which she was being towed and started to go on her long voyage by her own power.Whether due to bad steering, or to the darkness, neither of the tugs showing lights, the submarine hit one of the.tugs, upset it, and she went to the bottom carrying 5 of her crew.The blow had started the plates of the submarine\u2019s bow and she went back to New London to be repaired.No sooner had she docked than the owner of the tug put a seizure on her for the value of the lost boat and the relatives of the drowned sailors did likewise, f The correspondence relating to the dismissal of General Sam Hughes from the Dominion cabi- et has been made public.It is tediously long and deals with a great many points of little interest outside militia circles.The .trouble began in the Premier or- ê.+, ganizing a council in England to take charge of the Canadian troops, following it by appointing a cabinet minister to advise and decide questions without waiting for orders from Ottawa.Sir Sam took offence at these encroachments on his authority and said so in terms that the premier could not tolerate.As Sir Robert said, Hughes wanted to be absolute and do what he pleased without authority from the govern: ment.Doubtless there was frie tion long before the date of the first letter, the trouble only coming to a head last month.As a soldier Sir Sam ought to have set an example of submission to discipline.That the war is nearing à crisis is proved by the desperate steps out census taken by Germany to bring every available man.A has been ordered of all men who remaiu in their homes, giving their ages, physical condition and occupation.When these lists are ready they will be examined and all who can be spared from their families will be required to serve in the garrisons, releasing regular soldiers for the front, or if not able to carry a rifle.be drafted to work in munition factories.There are to be exceptions, for a job will be provided for every idle hand.Ina word the entire male population is to be organized for defence.France is preparing to do likewise.The British parliament still hesitates over conscription.The German plan of increasing its military strength by deporting Belgians and French in the sections under their control excites Ho universal horror.In one town it is stated the entire male population over seventeen was summoned to report at German Headquarters at 8 o'clock one morning in October.The priests, professors, teachers, local officials, members of the Food Commission and the physie- ally defective were dismissed, but 1,200 men, composing twenty per cent of the eligible males, both employed and unemployed, were selected and placed on cattle trucks and started for Germany.Being ignorant at the purpose of the summons the men had assembl ed without clothing for travelling and without food, and relatives who hurried to the station with food and clothing were refused access to the men, or to be told what place they would be taken, The men are treated exactly like negro slaves, with the further resemblance that they can purchase their freedom by paying the price their masters rate them at, not less than $250.Women are also taken when female help is needed.The difficulty of the Allies in dealing with Greece has come to a head, it having been given the choice of either joining them or of disarming their troops and dismissing the German, Austrian, and other hostile ambassadors.The Allies, as everybody knows, has a large army at Salonika which has done almost nothing to carry on the war.This inactivity has been due to the fact.that if it advanced northward the Greek King might send his army to attack them in the rear and cut them from their base of supplies.Before moving they had to be assured of safety.What the Allies have done now they ought to have done six months ago.Events have not been favorable for the Allies during the week.The hope that the Balkan situation would have been saved by \u2018the Romanian and Kussian armies winning a decisive victory.has not been realized.On the contrary the German-Austrian forces have had the advantage, and are slowly forcing their way into the interior of Rumania.The situation may be saved by the Allies yet if the setting in of winter does not suspend operations.The Serbians, helped by a column of Russians and a number of French batteries, compelled a strong force of Bulgarian and German troops to leave Monastir, the old capital of Macedonia, and are following up their advantage.This is a great victory for Serbia.In France there has been daily fighting both at Verdun and on the Somme.The Germans on the 15th made an attack in heavy force on the French positions,.The fighting lasted until dark, and during the day the Germans made six unsuccessful attacks, losing heavily.On the British front more ground has been won at the Ancre, but a sudden thaw has prevented further advances, The death of the Emperor of Austria, which took place on Tuesday is not expected to affect the war.He was 86 years old and took no part in public affairs, \u2014= ORMSTOWN Mr.D.J.Greig was buying horses for the French Army on Tuesday of this week.About 125 horses were brought before the inspector on the show grounds out of which 19 were bought.\u2014 At a representative meeting of Ormstown Vigilant Society, held ! in the Town Hall on Tuesday even ing, the following officers were elected Dr.A, McCormick, President, Neil Sangster, Vice-Pres | ident, Thos.W.Winter, Secy.-Tres Committee of management, : IT.W Eliot, Walter Rodger, Wm.Tait, John MeClintoek, Chas.Collum and Jas Carmichael, The idea ol this society is to assist in recovering property stolen from any o its members of the value of $5 and upwards, HOWICK Mr West who has beep working Daval Glen's furm on the Tulloch- cori coneession is vacating his present position and renting the farm of the late James Wilson, near Howiek.Althouëeh Me David Wilson, who bought and occupies the farm previously owned by Mr Cunningham near Allan's Corners, has i reasonable exeuse for retaining his sons af Lome to work his land, still his patriotisin led him to raise no objection to the second in his fanuly enlisting, The village council is determined to prevent snowdrifts on the streets, and has erected snow fences from beyond the GUT.depot to the southern end of the village, The social gathering in the Hall on the 10th just, netted ten dollars for the Red Cross, An appeal is again made to Howick vicinity for additonal aid to the Patriotic Fund hy Sir Tierbt 1, Ames, 21.704 has been raised already and he proposes that it be inereased to 42,500, J, M.Logan was taken to the General Tlospital with a badly lacerated hand, Tt is feared hy the doctors that amputation may be necessary.ALLAN'S CORNERS The November meeting of the Ys was held at the home of Mrs John Cullen on Nov.17, A large number were present.and there are thirty members now, The president, Miss Olive Greig, presided.A paper on The Evils of Alcoholic Liquors,\u201d was read by Leslie Cullen and was mueh ap preciated.Miss Olive Gioodfel- low sang \u2018Homes in Want and Sorrow.\u201d {iames was the next item on the program and at ten o\u2019vlock the pleasant evening was brought to a close.We were sorry to accept Earl Wilson's resignation as vice-president.Ear! has enlisted.STE MARTINE The wild weather of Saturday mady wany thik that the ice on the river would go away.The sudden return of frost has made the ice stronger, tud the roads are fine for wheels, The tender of Lorrain & Dag- Inæult for the construction of a steel bridge near the church in this parish, and uccepreu by the wunicipal council, was confirmed by the Department of Public Works at Quebee.The ratepayers will now be called onto vote a by-law for a loan of cighteen to twenty thousand dollars to build said bridge cover the Hoating debt | and complete the cement sidewalk to the G.T.R.station, Mrs Joseph Dubue who was sent to the asylum on the 5th oË this month, died on Friday and was buried Monday.Her husband is sick in Montreal and not likely to recover BEAUHARNOIS A successful free social was held at the manse Friday evening, under the auspices of the W.AL society, wheu Madame Bieler, of Moutreal,, Was present and delivered a lecture on **Women's Work in France.\u201d She spoke prineipally vf her sister's work, and pictured graphically the condition of things among the refugees who are now in Paris, and how her sister was instrumental in bringing together large numbers of families that had scattered, while fleecing from before the Germans, Madame Bieler has made herself responsible for the sum of $150 a month, for the support of her sister's work, and is giving a great deal of her time in lecturing in different places, to secure this amount.With the use of a map she brought the war situation in France very clearly before her audience.Dr Morison, in a few words, expressed the appreciation of all for the able address.After the lecture several musical selections were rendered by different ones, and refreshments were served as all mingled in social intercourse.There was a very good attendance of the English- speaking people in town, On Wednesday of last week Miss Elizabeth Hunter, in some unexplained way, fell while in the house.and striking her side against a table, fractured a rib.Altho she suffered considerably, it was not thought that there was any cause for alarm.On Sunday morning, however, she was not so well, ahd the doctor found one of her lungs congested.She was doing nicely nnder his treatment, but Sunday afternoon she unexpectedly passed away through heart failure.As she was over 80 years of age, it is thought the shock was too much for her.She had enjoyed life up to its close and had no appearance of being s0 old as she was, She was esteemed by all who knew her, as her life was a very kindly one.Her funeral took place on Wednesday norning.Th: collection taken recently in the Presbyterian church here for the deficit in the budget amounted to $153, VALLEYFIELD On Wednesday evening of last week the first of the series of concerts, held under the auspices of the Presbyteriap church management, took place in the new hall The artists engaged for the occasion were the \u2018\u2018 Musical Merry Mak era\u2018\u2019, a combination running under the Redpath Syndicate of New York.Each member of the com- pany was a specialist in his and THE HUNTINGDON GLEANER.her own particular branch and the programme they presented was of a high class order and was much appreciated by a large audience.On Saturday afternoon and evening, a bazanr was held in St Mark's Church hall in aid of the organ fund.The hall was beautifully decorated and there was a large display of all kinds of funey work, Musical selections were given during the evening and a number of side entereain- ments did good husiness, The usual dancing class has heen started again for the winter months, and is being well patronized by both English and French, ROCKBURN Tlie annual report of the Y dicates much wood work done.Liberal donations were made in provisions and money to the Soldiers\u201d Home and Queen fund.Miss, Evelyn Rennie stated weekly meetings were held from January to June during ased to amount of $33.89, On Nov.Ist, a hox was packed containing 20 Christinas parcels, comfort bags, towels and pillow cases, The treasurer, Miss Bertha Ros- eveur, reported #110,55 was taken in during the year, Expenditure #96,35, leaving a balance on hand of 814,50.The following officers were elected, Hon, Pres, Mrs, Wal- Lace Middlemiss, President Miss, Ada Steele, Viee-Pros, Miss Bertha Rosveur, Treasurer Miss, Ellen Gibson, Rec, Secy.Miss, Gertrude Middtemiss, Supt.work for soldiers and sailors Miss Tvelyn Rennie, Flower Mission Supt.Miss, Katie Lindsay, Literature Supt.Eddie Rennie, Press Supt, Miss, Gerteade Middlemiss, HEMMINGFORD .Complaints have recently been numerous that a \u2018blind pig was to be found on the back bush rou, near where the swamp road is being stoned.and another between Barrington and Sherring- ton.Last week Officer Fisher, hearing that these men were getting their supplies at Champlain, N.Y.and forgetting to pay the duty thereon.made investigations and seized eight gallons of high wines, Russel Keddy has joined the dental departinent of the army.HUNTINGDON VILLAGE COUNCIL Met Monday evening, Smaill and Will, Mayor- What about the little boiler?Dupuis\u2014I spoke tv Eben Henry attd told him we were thinking of purchasing a boder.Mr Kelly then advised me to wait a while, Kely\u2014uGeurge Munro said he saw by the Gleaner we were thinking ui purchasing a boiler to thaw hydrants, He suggested an electric machine, that 1 would be more convenient, 1 asked him to get prices, Mayour\u2014Did you get them?Kelly\u2014Nut yet.Mayor\u2014I1 have a letter from the Canadian Fire Underwriters, asking nie to see that our fire apparatus be put in good shape for the winter, Dupuis-\u2014At Kit Lefebvre's, the sewer is broken and should be repaired.Mayor\u2014The road had better look into and have it attended to Crawford\u2014That crooked pole at the O'Connor building, 1s it to be removed ?Mayor\u2014 1 asked them to change it.Dupuis\u2014They changed it today Mayor\u2014 Saturday night Mrs W.McDowell complained to me about the slot machines in the village.lt appears her boy, who is only eleven years old, has been putting money in them, Dupuis\u2014We don\u2019t know what power we have over the machines.I saw some sort of license on one of them.Mayor\u2014I1 would ask the secretary to write to the department of Inland revenue and ask if they are within the law, and if so, if license has been paid on the machines, Mayor \u2014We have a letter from the Northern Electric Co.quoting prices for 100 watt lamps.Kelly\u2014Speaking with Mr Dunn, he said the price of lamps at present was high, and as he intended to re-arrange the lamps, put some new brackets and repaint the old ones, we would do well to wait.I think it a good idea, winter is not a dark time of the year.Mayor\u2014Did you find out about our authority over selling bread?: Secretary\u2014T couldn\u2019t find anything in the new code, but it is in the old one.Mayor\u2014I asked Mr Philps to make enquiry at Quebec, and he said he would.At the previous council meeting this conversation took place-\u2014 Dupuis\u2014Tlas Mr Herbert Cun- ningbam a license to sell feed in the village?Secretary\u2014T think you had better get a lawyer's opinion about selling fron: a car.Dupuis\u20141I would be in favor of making a test case of this, and then the people would he satisfied Smaill\u2014Was he asked to pay?Mayor\u20147Yes, and he said he would not pay until he had to, At the meeting of Monday the subject was brought up again\u2014 Mayor\u2014In regard to the license for selling feed off the car, I think Mr Cunningham is liable under the new code to take one out.Dupuis\u2014Tet us pay a lawyer to colleet it.T do not think any one in town will object.In fact I think they would like to see it collected.Moved by Kelly, seconded ny Dupuis, that the oor and Secretary have the gfivice of a law yer with regard to \u2018collecting license for selling from a car on absent committee the matter in- Mary's ! which a large number of socks, quilts, ete, \u201cwere made from materials purch- | HORDE, ST ANICET COUNCIL Met on Nov.6.Absent Tho.Quennville, Neil O'Hare was appointed Special Officer over the water course running north of the Finegan road, to see that it is cleaned out from a certain 24 in.pipe opposite David Moriarty\u2019 to the cast as far as needed.On motion of J, T.Dupuis, seconded by Oscar Quesnel, Avila Caza was appointed councillor to finish the term of John Leahy.On motion of Ed.Cosgrove, seconded by J.T.Dupuis, the sec.was authorized to advance the con tractor for cost on the cedar creek sold by James MeGibbon, special officer.On motion of Oliver Dupuis, seconded by Ed, Cosgrove the bill of costs for carrying on the work according to provision of Process verbal of the Coffey water course, sold by James MeGibbon, special officer to the amount $191.25 he approved and paid, and that the See.-Treus be authorized to collect, the same for the intrest parties, The following bills were ordered paid: Gravelling on Dundee road $2T4, repair of road and cleaning diteh $200.County rate interest to covermment for good road Iloan 42,827,37., J.O.Clement for plank 48,95, JG.Laurendeau, K, (.for advice $6.er pe \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 LETTERS FROM THE FRONT | got a few shrapnel wounds and am now in England, or Blig- Iity as they call it, but I won't be here long for iy wounds are healing rapidly, 1 um not very optimistic.about the prospects of an carly victory.It is all very well to talk about the drive on the Somme but I was very much disappointed to sce what a short distance has heen gained.We went there from the Ypres salient and were in camp at Albert a week before we took our turn in the trenches.The British have held Albert for a long time, and it is near there the drive started ; even yet the Germans can drop shells into Albert.So you see we havnt advanced very far, six or seven miles.Really it is a sight worth seeing the Somme hattle field.Nothing green is left the ground is simply one sea of shell holes, the villages are leveled completely and only stumps are left where trees have been, It must have required au enormous amount of shells to do the damage that has been done.1 believe the Dritish are superior in artillery, acroplanes and the kind of meu, and if we were on the defensive, us the Germans are, nothing would ever move us.But it is cusy tu understand why we advance so slowly.The biggest difficulty is bringing up supplies.Everything is used from Motor Trucks down tu Pack Mules and wen with tow lines.The Germans are continually shelling the roads making it hard to get within wiles of the front, and when it comes to the tinal act, going over and taking Fritz's trenches, a few men with machine guns can almost wipe out a battalion.We were very fortunate in a little attack we made the day 1 got my wounds 1 dou\u2019t know how the Huntingdon boys came out, as 1 left at night and havnt heard much since.The advance was about a mile in width the 87th being on the extreme right.L think our width was about sx hundred yards, the 102nd were on our left and the nperials on their left.We had been in the trenches five days, It was first rainy, and then quite frosty, so we were cold and wet and miserable, 1 guess no body cared whether they were killed or not.The trenches were mud to the knees and we were caked with clay from head to fect.But at 12 noon on Saturday we were all ready to gg over the parapet and at 12.06 the artilery opened up on Iritz's trench about three hundred yards away.That was the signal for attack, so we crawled over and started at a slow walk, I only saw one man who looked frightened and he was an officer, Everybody else walked along as cool as could be till we got as close as was safe from our own shells, Then we lay down to wait for our barrage to cut off the German supports, and I can tell you the time scemed long, lying there with the Germans watching us and firing at us about a hundred yards off.But as soon as we started and rushed for them they gave up and came out with their hands up.I am a bomber and it was our job to drive the Germans away on our right.They fought rather better there and kept us throwing bombs all afternoon.It was fortunate that Fritz left lots of bombs in the trench as our own soon ran out, but we used theirs against themselves and kept them off.About four o\u2019clock they tried to come up with a flag and stretchers, but there seemed too be To many of them to take a rhance with, so we fired on them.Then they attacked us again and were still hard at it when 1 left, But we had a good defence made by that time and lots of men and they did'nt gain anything.Altho that trench did'nt cost us much in lives, we wer'nt the first who tried for it.I noticed, while we were going over, lots of dead men lying facing that trench, brave fellows who had fallen in some earlier try for it.A fellow cithér goes crazy completely or else he gets so hardened that nothing moves him, The first time I saw men blown to pieces, it was one day a shell dropped on our cook house and killed five or six, it made me shiver.Around Cour- celette the air is stinking from bodies rotting; the ground is covered with dead men lying with their rifles in their hands and their equipment on.1 have walked over bodies in the mud, and in the trenches here and there a white hand or face is showing through the mud; yet it did\u2019nt track, or any other place in the village.bother me.I have seen legs and arms and bits of cntrails lying | around, and two bodies complete- .ly naked, stripped by concussion ~ of a shell, 1 suppose.Really the | power of modern explosives is terrible.But there are also fine sights to be seen sume times too.If the Americans could only spend one night near the firing line on the Somme they would sec greater fire works than they will ever see at home, The artillery never seems to stop.One does'nt notice it much during the day, but at night it is just a continual roar We spent 27 days in the trenches at St Eloi, across the caval from hill 60.It was no fun, as the trenches are very close there and there was always the danger of a raid or gas attack, but it was a safety first job compared with the Somme.Your Brother.WALTER MILLAR Well, it is just a week to-day that we made the raid and captured a long wanted trench in which advance you no doubt have heard two of our boys were killed, Bob Henry and Pete Begin, I did not see Bob get hit but 1 saw Harry Johnston get it, and ! was in the same shell hole when Pete got hit.Ite was wounded just a little below the shoulder.1 put a bandage on the wound and stopped the blood, I thot he would be all right We had to make another advanee so I had to leave him, little thinking he would die.We lost quite a few men, but we took the trench where so many other regiments had failed.Tt was nice to see the Germans coming with their hands up above their heads, yelling \u201cmercy comerade\u2019\u2019.Just now we are u few miles behind the firing line getting rested up.Add.Hastie and Cecil Murray are in the Machine Gun section and they are ali right.1 have seen Wilbert Purcell, Herb.Partridge, Clarence Cluff and Bob Gardiner since T came here.Clarence is only about half a mile from us and 1 was down to see him the other night.I bave seen Jerry Me Donald a couple of times and J see Tom MeDowell nearly every day.Walter.HOW A TANK HELPED In describing the fighting at Lucre on the 13th Nov.a corres pondent of an English paper writes: lt was In the advance upon St.Pierre Divion that there oce- ured the most strenuous of the fighting which took place south of the river.llere a tank entered into the battle ahead of the infantry attack.lf ever one of these mechanisms falls into the hands of the Germans L suppose it will be impossible to describe the apparatus, but that seems unlikely.The tank is eery thoroughly qualified to take care of itself.This one lurched and courtsied into action with the characteristic gait of the beast that undulating belly crawl, which to me always suggests a vast, wounded reptile.Upon the lip of a shell hole it remain ed, and the Germans, taking it for stuck and helpless, swarmed out to meet it with rifles and hand- grenades.A hand grenade bursting against a tank makes a pretty firework, and upon all accounts it is a pity that those inside cannot see it.Probably they never know when it happens, Upon the occasion, at any rate, they merely hung where they were nad fought.is Majesty's ship Landerab or whatever her name was, for two lively hours, during which the tank showed to the Germans only its toad-complexioned carcass of inviolate steel and the spit of its guns , and then when they were due, up came the infantry and the fight was over.UNDERGROUND LABYRINTIL St Pierre Division was already known to the British as the site of that remarkable underground labyrinth, which the intelligence officers christened \u2018\u2018the tunnel.\u201d The village stands or stood upon a shelf of upland above the little brook of the Ancre, and below it the ground broke toward the stream.A perpendicular bank of clay some twenty feet high, showed toward the water meadows on the river side, and into this the industrious German burrowed wonderfully.His trenches were on the lip of the bank and under them he burrowed a vast refuge whose plan resembles roughly a capital \u201c7.\u201d The stem of the \u201cTis a gallery three hundred yards long, fully eight feet high and four feet wide neatly timbered in, traversed in methodical zigzags in order to increase its proportions without adding to its length from end to end, electric lighted.From the main galleries there branch minor passages leading to chambers where beds and bunks are fitted and where an enormous deposit of various stores have been discovered.Some of those chambers aim 80 close to luxury that the walls even are papered.The labyrinth is connected with the trenches above by broad flights of steps.The hole is so deep that it is not only proof to the impact of the largest shell, but the very barrage is inaudible from its chambers.Hither, when the squall of shell fire burst over the trenches the garrison could be hurried below under a roof of twenty fect of earth, and here, when the intelligence officers came {to explore, was the chief treasure.The clectrie light system had been disconnected when the British exploring party arrived.Search and examination had to he carried out with torches.The clectric torches of the explorers fiflared here and there till at length they found what they were looking for.Here twenty feet deep, and scores of yards in the Stuff gallery, was a mine of machine guns, They had been driven from their squatting place in the open by the thrash of British shels and carried hither for safety, It is probable the plan was to bring them up at the critical moment and flog back the at- tack with them, but the British barrage prevented that.Twenty nine officers and 1,300 men were made prisoners in and around the positions of St.Pierre Division.MORE FIGHTING ON THE ANCRE With the British Armies in France, Nav.18.\u2014British and (\u2018anadian troops won a battle in a snowstorm this morning.Advancing on both sides of the river Ancre in easterly and northerly directions they soon took about 500 prisoners and established a new line on both sides and at the edge of the village of Grand- court, for the possession of which severe fighting continued thruout the day.The attacks from the south were made before daybreak, while a stiff wind sent flurries of snow into the faces of the British soldiers as they pushed down the slope towards the marshes along the Ancre, Tt was the first snow of thé season, following two days and nights of intense dry cold, which hardened the swamp of No Man's Land after nearly three months of constant rainfall, thus giving the attacking infantry a firm foothold on the frozen ground.They advanced nearly a quarter of a mile on a three-mile front to the German position south of the villages of Grandeourt, Petit Mirau- mont and Pys, and occupied the trench without great resistance, except south of Grandeourt, where the batteries and machine vuns holding the sunken Pozieres road checked the British.Elsewhere the German trench was virtnally destroyed by the preparatory bombardment, the surviving Germans, including Saxons, formerly surrendering thru their officers who met the British as they came over the ruined parapet.Parties of British bombers advanced to the next German line which is the last on the south side of the Anere, raided the position and returned to the trench previously captured, which by now had been consolidated.Infantry detachments, working up the river bank from the western end of Grandeourt, got a footing in the ruins and craters and took the lower end of the main street paralleling the Ancre, of which the Germans hold the remainder.Today\u2019s successes give the British command of ruined villages, fortified farms, and other strong German points in the Ancre Valley.Tn the opinion of a staff officer, the German positions south of the Ancre are virtually untenabie as they are unable to bring up supplies and reinforcements, while the only available road is under bombardment.Prisoners taken- who were suffering from cold and exposure because of the lack of food due to the line of communications having been cut by the British guns, said they had received better food on the front line, when it was possible to get supplies, than when they were resting because of the policy of the German staff in trying to make duty in the front trenches the attractive end.A British chaplain, while searching the battlefield of the Anere for wounded hidden in the shell craters during the British advance, accompanied by a few soldiers came upon an isolated trench containing nearly 400 Germans who promptly surrendered.The chaplain ordered the men to file out upon the open ground preparatory to passing them back with an escort, when the German officer, seeing the small size of the force Lo which he was surrendering, tried to rally his men and overpower it.lle was about to kill the chaplain when a British infantryman shot him dead, whereupon the other Germans again held up their hands and shouted their cagerness to be made prisoners.At the war front a party of cooks were on their way to open a new army kitchen when unexpectedly they were met by a detachment of Germans, Thé cooks hid behind some brush and shouldered their pots and pans, which the germans mistook for weapons and the head cook went out and demanded their surrender.The Germans thought they were ambushed, and threw down their arms, which the head cook collected.Then to the intense chagrin of the Prussians, the party of cooks, armed with the German rifles, came out of ambush and proudly marched twenty prisoners back to the French lines, London, Nov.17,\u2014The people of London awoke this morning to find walls all over the city displaying huge official posters exhorting Englishmen to pray daily for their country, for their soldiers and sailors, Admiral Beatty's words are displayed prominently\u2014\u2018\u2018Until a religious revival takes place at home, so will the war continue.\u201d They are followed by General Sir Wm.Robertson's message\u2014\u2018\u2018 À serious Nation to seek Divine help would to our soldiers and sailors.\u2019\u2019 The poster ends with the following words, printed in \u201cWill you join those who every day at noon, and at family prayers at home, pray for our country, our sailors and our soldiers ?\u201d\u2019 In an address by the Rev.Mr.Shatford who has returned to Montreal after being 18 months at the front, he began by showing his steel trench helmet, specially devised for diverting bullets.Before their adoption it had been found that 90 per cent of the British casualties were men suffering from head wounds, since their heads stuck over the trench parapets and the Germans hit them.Since the adoption of the steel hats, the number of head wounds had dropped to a decided minorty so that they were a gr \u2018at life saver.He showed the difference between the French, English and German helmets.The French determination on the part of the | large type\u2014 ligh were light, artistic, and not proof.The British helm lle .ets i) trated their safe characterist and were not artistic, heavier than the French, but kept bultets away.The German helmet Was twice as heavy as the British de signed to protect the neck also, and was a coarse rude unbeauti ful thing, characteristic of their type.One peculiar feature of th war, he said was that the French and British scemed to have gy, ! ed dispositions, The French, ho become quiet, serious, purposefu] soldiers, full of national intent The British Tommies, just as breve, were, on the other hand, vay and debonair, full of cheer, on song as they went forward, The change was probably due to the fact that France itself was inva.ed, while the British were driving the enemy from French and Bel gium, not British territoy, ) PROHIBITION AS A WAR | MEASURE London, Oct.31L\u2014If Great Britain is ever won over to the principle of prohibition, I believe it will be on the ground of eff; ciency and national economy rather than on the ground or morals.The capitalists and great employers scem to be gradually inclining to the French view that liquor must be regarded gq an eucmy not so much to the iy.dividual as to the race.This impression was gathered from cor.versations with foremen and heads of the great industrial establishments which we recently visited.There are perhaps two northern cities which stand out prominently in regard to hard drinking\u2014they are Glasgow and Newcastle-on Tyne.Newcastle I was told the weekly drink bill runs to $100,000.The people are, of course, enjoying unusual prosperity, and no one in the city who wants work is unemployed, At Glasgow the question came up in conversation with one of the directors of the Fairfield Engineering Co., who when asked whether he would welcome prohibition,, said it would be a fine step.Notwithstanding the restrictions of the Central Control Board, he said, many of their workmen were drink-sodden all the week, Capt.Bean, the Anzac Eye-Wit.ness, questioned the value of the much,vaunted rum tot, and gave some instances of the degradation of officers on the field through the liquor habit, At Vickers, Ltd, at Barrow-in-Furness, | found the secretary of the cow- pany also favored prohibition, Men earned good money, he stated, but squandered it on Satur day and Sunday and very often failed to appear at work on Monday.A list of direct losses published in The Times, is most formidable.Dr Addison, M.P., de- vlares that on August 31, 1915, only 15 per cent.of muniitions machinery was working night shifts, when all should have been thus employed.A thousand troops were delayed in Southump- ton 24 hours on their way to the front on account of a drunken fireman.The First Lord of the Admiralty has received a report from the Captain-superintendent of the Clyde district to the effect that men were bringing or smuggling liquor into the yards in bottles, that prohibition of the sale of spirits and of bottles in public houses was necessary to get a full output of work.that the amount drunk by war workers and shipwrights was much greater than before the war.and that the construction of vessels was delayed through workmen abentings themselves on account of drink and + high wages.A deputation of shipbuilders to the government urged that there should be total prohibition.during the period of the war, of the sale of excisable liquor, as an emergency war measure, not only to public houses, but to private clubs and licensed premises, so as to operate equally for all classes of the community.Fram transport officers reports are emphatic.In twenty of the most eritical weeks of the war 26 ships were delayed off the south coast, resulting in a total loss of thirty- four days,, almost entrely through drink.Firemen went on hoard drunk, making it impossible to get up a full head ot steam, thus endangering the lives of thou sands of troops by making their vessel a target for submarines.The desertion of two transport crews is also charged to drunk enness.The direct losses have been under consideration by the Parliamentary War Savings committee.According to its report immense quantities of food materials, such as barley, wheat and maize, are used in Britain for the manufacture of beer and spirits.As beer and spirits are almost valucless as food, and can only be classed as luxuries, all this grain is lost for food purposes.If this grain were available for food both for man and beast, the prices of bread and meat would be low- \"ered.The use of this grain is undoubtedly furnish valuable help | evidently as important as the prohibition of the waste in the miiling process which makes flour milling process which makes flout Here is a cheap breakfast food and one more healthy than can be ~ hought shonld anyone feel dispos: ed to try it, let him take notice: \u2014 (ict some good clean wheat (Fall, if possible) and boil it for 1 hour the day before, then drain thr oughly.Next morning put it II\" to a granite vessel and pour boiling water on it.In ten minutes serve with a little brown supat and milk.I would strongly T° commend this diet for children for there is no diet better for nin-food.You feed children ©\" volled wheat or oats, and {hey simply swallow it, while the hoil- cd wheat must be thoroughly ma¥ ticated, whigh is the secret of health.emp mew mem meme =e a HA SA i ecex-#nocsee& eus + 6 + OO [Apap allet us- je, Wier Jets » de- auti- Deir pneh Vop- had eful sent, ae Eu ue 21 4 \u2018THE RIGHTS OF amm\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 MARCH OF THE PROHIBITION The Malone Farmer states that in the Presidental election, South Dakota went dry by 20,000 but woman suffrage failed.Michigan, South Dakota, Montana and Ne- praska have also gone dry, but Maryland and Missouri are re- sorded in the wet column, though some of the Maryland counties report heavy majorities for prohibition.Alaska also went dry.The majority In Michigan is now placed at 70,000.In Nebraska the dry majority is placed at 20, 000.The cause of temperance is rapidly moving on.To have carried four states dry out of six was a remarkable accomplish- meut and shows how rapidly the tide of prohibition is rising.\u2018\u2018A suloonless nation in 1920,\" is not impossible, for politicians, if they retain their prestige with the people, will have to pay attention to the sweep of prohibition sentiment.Even Detroit, the largest city in Michigan, is believed to have recorded itself on the dry side us the result of the fight made there by Billy Sunday short Jy before election.Besides the South, which has become largely prohibition on account of the race issue, we now have in the cast, west, north-west and south-west, Maine, Michigan, Kansas, Nebraska, Towa, the two Dakotas, Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington.There are now 25 dry states out of 48\u2014 more than half of the 48 states of the country embracing at least 75 per cent of the territory, though not of the population of the United States.Last week\u2019s victory was the great «st for prohibition in all our history, Voting on a national prohibition amendment cannot be much longer postponed.When it does come it will be adopted by a sufficent number of state legislatures to put it into law of the land and the people of New York city.Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, (\u2018hicago.St.Lonis and San Fran- viseo will have to take it whether they like it or not.À little moral restraint in the great cities of our land would be good for the soul.Once turned to prohibition for a few years until these cities have time to sober off and they will never go back to riotous living.A great rainbow of reformation overarches the sky of the nation.PEDESTRIANS In the court of appeal, Judge Uruss gave u decision in a case of alad who had been run down while crossing the street and suil- ered permanent injuries.One Can not but be impressed with the con viction, that conditions of present day traffic and quite unduely adding to the perils of the pedestrian Forwerly, be had not much to fear but butcher carts and runaway horses.Now he must lookout for tram cars and for silently- running motor-vehicles which may come from various directions Because the great majority of pedestrians, for the sake of bodily safety, run for shelter like hunted animals when they hear the car gong or the motor horn, people are in danger of coming to think that such vehicles have some sort of way over foot-passengers.It should be made clear that such an idea will find no acceptance in a court of law; it should be made clear that the King\u2019s highways are for the use of all his subjects and all peaceful wayfarers, and that if there is to be regulation at crossings and busy places it should be in the way of giving the greatest protection to those who need it most.The Chateaugay Record reports that steps are being taken for the rebuilding of the Catholic church, burned last July.It has been decided to, change the location of the chureh, and for this purpose an additional plot of land has been secured from Louis San- comb on Belle avenue.This with the spacious corner of the Ree- tory lawn, will give ample room for the structure intended.The new church will be on the corner of Belle avenue and West Main street, he church wiil seat ap- progimately seven hundred, which is slightly larger than the old church.: \u2014The payment of an election bet\u2019 afforded much amusement to a large number o f spectators orf Friday afternoon, when policeman Ives agitated the business end of a wheelbarrow around the square, his passenger being T.H.Dwyer, of the Chateau.The vehicle was decorated with lithographs of President Wilson, and Tom bore aloft a large American flag, the procession being augmented by a whooping, shrieking bunch of youngsters, who thoroly enjoyed the whole affair.\u2014Saml.enderson, who recently removed from Herdman, Que., to this village, has purchased two build- Ing lots on the H.G.Douglass property on west Main street and will erect a dwelling house there in the spring.\u2014There is but little activity in the local potato market, the receipts not exceeding a few loads during past few days.The price will remain at $1.40 per bushel.\u2014The re-election of Wil- som was celebrated on the evening of the 14th by a big blow out.The intention was to have a bar- bacue, that is to roast an ox whole, but the weather made that impossible, so quarters of beef were bought and bagfuls of loaves, sandwiches made and served with coffee in the town-hall of which hundreds partook.There was a big procession, with much music with horns, bells and other noise making contrivances, the air Was filled with joy sounds, each endeavoring to outdo his near neighbor in the form of celebration.venus Mr Peter Reid, of the town of Chateauguay, to be a justice of the peace for the district of Beau- harnois, Dec.6th BAZAAR Dec.6th The Ladies of St John\u2019s Church of Huntingdon, will hold their Bazaar in the Basement of the Church on WEDNESDAY, Dec.6th, afterngon and evening.There will be well supplied booths for faney work, aprons, dolls, homemade provisions, candy, 10 and 25 ceut tables, etc.High Tea 25 cents.SALES BY C.À.GAVIN, Auctioneer On THURSDAY, Nov.30, at the residence of S- M.Gavin, Kensing- ton, the foilo Wing property\u20141 high- class Chapel ofgan, 1 large Criterion music box, 1 large Victrola Talking machine with 100 records, including a large number of Harry Lauder's latest pieces, 1 3-PI\u20acC\u20ac mahogany parlor suite, 1 quarter oak leather- covered sofa, 1 quarter oak large Davenport, 2 quarter oak Morris chairs, 1 quarter oak library table, 1 music rack, 1 cherry bookcase, 1 wicker centre table, 2 Chinese wicker chairs, 2 wicker rockers, 2 fancy wicker chairs, 2 bedroom suites, including springs and mattresses; other odd chairs, including wicker and quarter oak; 1 large Swiss Cuckoo clock, 1large Big Ben chime clock, 1 large iron clock, 2 small clocks, a lot of large steel engravings, a lot of mottoes, and other pictures, 2 verandah chairs, verandah swing, 1 large enamelled lined refrigerator, 1 small refrigerator, 1 extension table, 1 kitchen table, 1 sideboard, 7 kitchen chairs, including 1 armchair, 1 natural deer-head hat-rack; also carpeting, 1 Axminster carpet with border to match, 19x12, 1 Brussels carpet, a lot of choice rugs of various sizes, 1 carpet sweeper; also kitchen utensils, consisting of chinawnre, glassware, and crockery ware; also 1 eoal-oil heater, earthen preserve jars, 1 galvanized water tank, 50 pounds chipped soap, 1 brass kettle, gravity washing machine, with tubs and wringer, large wood heater, round oak range, 2 buggies, wheelbarrow, 1 driving horse, also a lot of bedding including blankets and quilts.The whole to be sold without reserve, as Mr Gavin has rented the mills and is giving up housekeeping.The furniture is all high-classed and as good as new.8 montha\u2019 credit, Sale to begin at 12 o'clock sharp.The subscriber has received instructions to sell by public auction on the farm of Amos Myatt, 3 miles S.E.of Herdman, first concession of Hinch- inbrook, on MONDAY, Dec.4th, 1916 \u201425 acres of Standing Timber, This timber consists of Elm, Basswood, Maple, White Ash, and Cedar.The elm and ash are good-sized for siw- logs, and tall and straight for building timber.There is a vast amount of wood for fuel.The basswood will cut a lot of frst-class lumber.Many maples are over 3 feet in diameter.A number of cedars are large enough for telephone polea.This timber will be sold in lots to suit purchasers, and 3 years\u2019 time will be granted for its removal.Terms\u2014$10 and under, cash; over $10, ten months\u2019 credit on approved joint notes.Sales by A.PHILPS, Auctioneer On SATURDAY, Nov.25, 1916 at residence of Neil and Thomas O'Hare, O'Neil\u2019s Corners, 2 miles north of Clyde\u2019 Corners.the following property\u2014Brood mare 8 years old, work horse D years old, driving mare 8 years old, sucking colt, 22 milch cows, 2 Z-year old NOTICE A meeting of the shareholders of the Huntingdon Rink Association to be held Friday Night, the 24 inst.at 8 o'clock in A.A.Lun- an\u2019s auto show-room.A large attendance is requested for election of officers H.R.Fraser Secy- Treas, = \u2014 _ \u2014\u2014 The opening of the Band of Hope will take the form of a Concert to be given in the lecture room of the Methodist Church on Friday.Nov.24th at 7.30.Music recitations and Lantern Slide Views.Mrs.W.F.Stephen will give the Temperance Talk.Half of the collection is to eb given to the Red Cross Society, Bvery- body welcome.Mrs.Davis and Miss.Rose: programme committee Mrs.F.G.Braithwaite accompanist.LOUIS DUROCHER [ am starting a boarding-house in Cazaville for travellers, and also for horses.Tt will be open the 1st of December.HONEY FOR SALE Mixed Clover and Buckwheat Honey in 5 1b, tins only, at 12e per pound.Reduction in price on a large quantity.J.R.Younie, ITowick, Que.FOR SALE, 1 secoml-hand Piano in good condition, also a Bell Organ.Apply P.O.Box 312, Huntingdon.LOST, Wednesday, 22nd, between Herdman and the farm of johnston Bros., a bag of wheat.The tinder will please leave it at Allan Anderson's store.$50.00 REWARD Will be paid to any person giving information that will lead to the conviction of the party or parties who entered the Corporation shed and broke the Godmanches- ter road roller and erushing engine.By order of the Council, R.8.Feeny, Sec.-Treas.Huntingdon, Nov.8th, 1916.PUBLIC NOTICE Is hereby given by the Session and Board of Managers of the Rockburu Preshyterian Church, that they have appointed a committee to arrest and prosecute any person making any disturbance ia the church, or outside of it, during Divine Service.Or any who in any way irreverently conduct themselves in or about the Church, as loitering in the church shed or grounds, or on the church platform.This is done to stop all who in any way annoy the people attending Divine service or any public meeting held in the church.Published by order of the Committee SHIPPING TAGS No.5 Tags, including printing in one color: 500 for $1.50 1000 for $2.00 2000 for $3.30 Sellar Bros.Huntingdon, Que Tenders Wanted For supplying each of the following Schools with wood for the coming year.Wood to be of No.1 quality, two feet long, free from large chunks, \u201c Hard wood may consist of maple, heifers, 4 yonrling hcifers, Z-yenr old bull, 5 epring calves, H spring pigs, 85 tons of hay, 400 bushels oats.quantity of straw, binder, mower, rake, new disc drill, 2sets disc harrows (one new), smoothi g harrows, steel land roller, 2 walking plows, 2-furrow plow, huy fork and rope, potato hiller, cultivator, root cutter, double wagon, milk wagon, buggy, cutter, 2 Bets bobsleighs, speed sleigh, funring mill, manure carrer, 90 feet track Ford automobile, Fa/rbanks-Moi se pumping engive, De Laval cream separator (new), 2 sets of scales.2sets double harness, 2 sets single harness, crosscut saw, hay knife, 6 swarms of bees, pails, milk cans, thaing, shovels, forks.and all small tools used about a farm.The whole to be sold without reserve as the Messrs O'Hare ure giving up farming.Sale at 11 o'clock.10 months\u2019 credit.On MONDAY, Nov.27th, 1916, at the residence of Arthur Anderson, 1 42 miles west of Anderson's Corners, the following property: 2 first-class mileh cows, 1 calf, 20 Shropshire sheep, purebred ram, brood sow, 3 {all pigs, mower, rake, seeder, straw cutter, disc and iron harrows, 2-fur- row plows, 4 walking plows, double wagon, milk wagon, manure cart, road cart, set bolsleighs, hay rack, cow rack, pig rack, stoncboat, pole, dog-power, grindstone, feed boiler, set double harness, 2 sets single harness, milk harness, cart harness, buffalo robes, blankets, rope and pulleys, milk cans, pans, pails, churn, ete, 20 tons pressed hay, quantity of loose hay, oats, seed barley, and straw; also a quantity of ilouschold Furniture, consisting of bedsteads, chairs, tables, washing-machine, hox stove; also sap buckets, sap paus, sap spouts and barrels, Sale without reserve as Mr Anderson has sold his farm.10 months\u2019 credit.To begin at 12 o'clock, Joturday, Oct.2nd 1916.At the residence of Mrs.John Holmes on the McDonald farm, 11% miles cast of Cooper's Corners, The following property: 1 driving mare 7 yrs old.2 Brood Mares with foal, Work Horse 5 yrs old, Work Ilorse 4 yrs.old, 15 Mileh Cows, 1 due to freshen in December, 5-2 yr.old Heifers, 8 yearling Tleifers, 10 Calves, 2 sets double harness, set milk harness, 2 walking plows, set drag harness, spring tooth harrows, cutter, 2 stoves, 16 geese, 35 hens, 10 tons hay.Sale without reserve as Mrs.Holmes is giving up the farm, Terms 10 months.Sale at 12 o'clock.\u2014 \u2014\" A farm hand, good for either dairy or ordinary work, wants a place.Apply at E, McCaffrey\u2019s store, St.Agnes.birch, or beech.Soft wood may consist of cither basswood, hemlock or pine.No.1, 6 cords of hard wood 2 cords of soft wood.4 cords of hard wood 2 cords of soft wood.4 cords of hard wood 2 cords of soft wood.8 cords of hard wood 2 cords of soft wood.2 cords of hard wood 2 cords of soft wood.Tenders will be received by the undersigned up to November 30th.C.E.Ewing, Secy.-Treas.Glenelm, Nov.13, 1916.To All Automobile Owners No.2, No.3, No.4, No.5, Your storage battery should be stored for the winter.We will do this for you.Store your batteries carefully, give them a freshening charge every month, add distilled water when necessary.Reasonable price for the season.S.CAZA Province of Quebec District of Beauharnois SUPERIOR COURT No.3868 In the Matter of The Vacant Suec- cession of the late Zephirin Boyer, in his lifetime Notary of Salaberry of Valleyfield, said district.PUBLIC NOTICE Is hereby given by Jacques Malouin, curator to the said vacant succession by an ordinance of His Lordship Judge Mercier, bearing date the 10th October, 1916, that All persons having the right to be present at the making of the Inventory of the property belonging to said Vacant Succession, are hereby notified to be and appear before Mtre H.Trudeau, Notary, who is the notary to receive and prepare said Inventory, at the late residence of the said Zephirin Boyer, in the city of Salaberry of Valleyfield, said district, where such Inventory shall be proceeded with by the undersigned.in the presence of parties interested therein, on Thursday, the 30th November, 1916.at the hour of half-past ten in the morning.Valleyfield, 17th November, 1916.Jacques Malouin, Curator to the Vacant Succession of Zephirin Boyer THE HUNTINGDON GLEANER BORN At Gloversville, N.Y., on Mon- and Mrs Biggs.D | | i day, Nov, 20, 1916, a son to Dr + i At Montreal, on Nov.18, 1916, Margaret Louisa McFee, wife of Henry K.S.Hemming, and daughter of the late Coll McFee and Catherine McNaughton.At Beauharnois, on Nov.19, in her 81st year, Elizabeth Hunter, formerly of St Louis de Gonzague.At Powerscourt, on the 17th of November, 1916, Mrs Edwin Burton, aged 66 years.At Medicine Hat, Alta, en Nov.17, Angie R.Dawson, daughter of the late Wm.Dawson, Rockburn, Que, and wife of Wm.T.Ligget.On Nov 4th, at the home of her daughter, Mrs Mary Whelan of 128 Third street, Newburgh, N.Y.Ann Campbell, widow of James McCurry, aged 86 years, formerly of Hinchin.brook.At Lust Nation, on the 21st Nov., Lumena, eldest daughter uf M.Taile- fer, aged 21 vears.CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our appreei- ation to friends and neighbors for their sympathy and assistance during our recent bereavement.\u2018Wm.Fortune and relatives Finding it impracticable to continue two lines of business so entirely different, I have decided to discontinue my Jewelery business.In order to dispose of the stock as quickly as possible discounts from 20 per cent.up will be given Clocks, Watches and Silverware A 30 per cent.discount off all Jewelery, with the exception of diamonds, These \u201cdiscounts bring many goods at less than they coull be purchased today at wholeside, No repairing will be taken in from this date on, unless it be to make good the guarantee on some article sold or previously repaired.B.W.ALLEN JEWELER Huntingdon, Que.The Fashion Book for Winter of the Celebrated Pictorial Review Patterns offers à wide variety of the newest and moat approved styles in Evening and Dance Gowns We urgently recommend to vou be- tore deciding on your Winter Dresses, to procure a copy The Winter Fashion Book It costs only ten cents when purchased with one 15 cent pattern.December Patterns Now on Sale At Miss E.McClenaghan's Milinery Store, Huntingdon TOYS GAMES CARDS BOOKS | For XMAS C.H.LAMB HUNTINGDON, QUE.TRY OUR BEST FLOUR THOUSANDS USE IT EVERYBODY KNEADS IT McDONALD & ROBB Valleyfield, Que.Have Just Received a Car of Cottonseed Meal We have in balanced cow-rations an ideal mixture of Cottonseed Meal, Gluten, Oil Cake Meal, Schumacher, and Bran; also Schumacher Provender, which ie & mixture of Corn, Oats, Barley and Cottonseed Meal.In order to get results you must feed a properly balanced ration.With our long experience in cow-feeding, we are able to tell you just what will give best results.We have rented the SAW MILL of S.M.Gavin at Kensington, and will give custom sawing special attention.We will also buy logs of all kinds, paying highest market prices.D.A.MACFARLANE Kelvingrove and Kensington Christmas Goods FOR THE EARLY BUYER \u2014\u2014 Our Christmas Goods will b opened MONDAY, Nov.27th.Christmas Calendars All prices, from 10ceach to $1.50 Christmas Papeteries Prices from 23¢ to $1.50 per box We have in stock 400 boxes o Christmas paper, prices ranging trom 35e to 50e, bought specially for Christmas, priced at 250.Christmas Tags and Seals Christmas Books for Children Partridge Board Books Francis Duck Books McLoughlin Linen Books Robin Hood Cast up by the Sea Swiss Family Robinson The Gospel Story Uncle Jim's Cangdian Nursery Rhymes Young Folks Painting Paint Books Handicraft Scrap look Book-making for Children With the First Canadian Contingent Friendly Gift Book Our War Ships Flags of the British Empire Christmas Post-Cards Patriotic Xmas Cards Golden Series Xmas Cards TOYS Automobiles Trains Steam Engines Carpet Sweeper Spelling Blocks Friction Toys Builder Toys Trumpets Ships Horses Mouth Organs Tool Boxes Furniture Windup Toys Model Builder Rattle Drums A Beautiful Display of Xmas Handkerchiefs For Men, Women and Children Never have we shown such à LARGE STOCK OF REAL NOVELTIES in Handkerchiefs.Some pretty Embroidered Handkerchiefs, Initial Handkerchiefs, Lace Edges, in Lawn, hemstitehed and done in faney boxes.Fine Lawn Jandkerchiets with scalloped edge and corner design of Pear Sheen design.Dainty Lawn Handkerchiefs with scalloped edge and floral cluster in corner of new embroidery.ALL PRICES, from 5e to 75\u20ac each, NEW BLOUSES CRESCENT MAKE The Biggest Possible Value.We did not put in stock a single Blouse until we knew it was the best possible value for the price.These Blouses are made of Silk Crepe de Chine, in the following colors\u2014Old Rose, Maize, Green, Navy, White, Black, and Light Blue.Regular $4.00, Specially priced for Christmas $2.95.ALL SIZES, 34 to 40 in colors, in white 34 to 44, THE WEATHER CALLS FOR Plush Coats These Coats are from 42 to 45 inches.Long, loose back or with self belt, big ¢ llar.Some have fur, others have beaver trimming.They are priced from $20.00 to $10.00, Just a few Northway Model Suits That must be sold out this season, each one has individual style of its own.We offer a Special discount of 10 per cent, OUR COAT SECTION 12 Ladies\u2019 Tweed, Serge, and Cheviot Coats.They are all worth $18.50 and $20.00.Our price for one week is $14.93.\u2014One of the agents of the department of social service, Rev.Mr.Smith, oceupied the Methodist pulpit on Sunday and gave information regarding its work.\u2014Mr.Faubert states the num- | ber of autos in this district has doubled during the current year there now being over 500.He has remitted $7,000 in licenses.~The Ys met at the howe of.Mr.Bicknell, Monday evening, and had a hearty reception from him and family.After Red ross work, six new members were received, lt was reported 23 who had been Ys were at the frart, and letters to them were arrare ed.lt was the largest meeting s HUNTINGDON.yet held, over 90 being present.The executive committee of the Frontier N,N Association met on Tuesday and revised the constitution as drafted by Rev, J.Anderson, More people visit the post office than any other building in the village vet it caunot be reach edb without going thru mud, The promised crossing aml the side walk in front of the hall are still ih the air.Last Week we gave the Mon treal quotations for produve dur ing the civil var.We now submit Beauharnois prices for Nav ember 1s63 Flour per quintal $2.00 to 32.050 Oatmeal do 220010 2080 Peis per TON, As to 70 Marles DOI.Hh to 67 Oats 10th, ta Is Buckwheat H6ih.Potatoes per mimat Sa to AO 20 to 25 Peans do Moto xl Onions per minot da to 60 Bugter per 1h 13 to 15 Fares per dos (410 11 Dressed Hogs per T00lbs to $5,50 Hay per 100 handles $8 to $9 OF casualtios at the front the only report as that A A.Lan berge of Valleatield is nnssing, Fred AD MeCrum of Cowansville, who attended the academy, has died of wounds, Mes, Saviee who addressed St Andrews Wo MLS, last week on her return to the city was met by the sad announcement sa 10 that hier sonngest san had been killed.Japan is reported to have en tered into an arrangement with Brazil for vadroad babibing aud colonization, plans have heen completed for a Japanese Brazil wan Tie of steamships between the two countries.These vessels are to bring 5,000 Japanese jimmi- grants annually, under reœulat ions fixed by the Brazilian government.The settlers are to raise rice, beans, potatoes, coffee, ete, ona large scale, The Duke of Sutherland is ad vertising in Aturerican newspapers an offer to sell the northern part of us Scottish estates, eluding about, 283,348 acres, While he as the largest land owner in Eugland possessing almost H00,000 acres, he is only one of the many titled men who are eger to sell part of their holdings becaus \u20ac of the heavy tax now levied on land, De spite the fact that fre ins an an come of a couple million dollars annually, because of the war tax he undonbtediy is being pressed to incet the deyy, and he is cager There seems, accordmg to the postal authorities, Lo be consider- | able ignorance of the rates on parcels to Briton and to the front.still in England the rate as cents per pound up to the maxi muni of 11 pounds.Ou parcels to men mn France and DBelginne the | rite is 21 cents up to three pounds and 32 cents on pareels wetghinge from three to seven pounds, maximum weight accepted for pareels to the latter countries is seven pounds, Montreal Gazette of 214 result of getting a few sups of gin On patrecls rome to en 12 from his Father's bottle yesterday | Peaneliamp, maoyning, Adrien Seanchamp aved 2 veurs sonof M.died before medical aid could reach him.Mrs, Bennelianp hid been out marketing yesterday worming, drinking, and when she returned to the house at abont 10 o'clock she found her baby unconsetous on the floor, with a gin bottle he.side it, while Beauchamp was iu toxicated.Ladies\u2019 Fur Sets In Dakota Wolf Russian Rat Sets Black Labrador Fox Natural Canadian Fox Natural Coon Natural Opossum FURS FURS Our assortment is larger this year, and our prices will compare with any first-class Fur house, quality and style considered.MEN'S COON COATS Priced from $75.00 to $135.00 Men's Fur-Lined Coats From $40.00 to $75.00, Trimmed with Beaver, P\u2019ersian Lamb and Otter.PYREX GLASS Dishes for Baking The ideal gift for every home.The greatest proof of Pyex effi ciency is Pyrex baked food\u2014the- lighter crust, the unburnt hot- toms, the well-baked centers, the light loaves that come from these transparent dishes, many shapes and sizes, from panckins at 15c to caseroles at $2.00.Ghingle Stk 4Ge, Huntingdon, Que.RUBBERS Our Large Stock of Kubbers is well-assorted, from the smallest size in infants\u2019 tn the largest size in men\u2019s, Pringle, Stark & Go.sment roll of the above Municipal- November 3rd, 1916 Province of Quebne Sehooï Municipality of ST, ANICET No.1 NOTICE Js hereby given that the asses ity has been hpmologated, and all assessments and rates must be paid within the office of the nn- dersigned within the nest twenty days.All special notices will be charged and interest at the rate of six per cent after the lst of December now next, M.W.Leehy, Sec.-Treas 72 Will he kept at the stable of the undersigned, one registered white Boar.Terms $1.George Ewart, ; about 900 men, ABAULSMILIEL by 4%) vo avs aJav HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK Athens, Nov.22\u2014The white Star line steamship Britannie Serv ing as à hospital ship for wounded soldiers, has been torpedoed and sunk.She was on her way from Salonika, with over a thousand wounded.The government had titted her as an hospital ship, with cots for 2,500 men.She carried usually, in addition to patients, 200 nurses and orderlies, and 100 surgeons, besides her crew of She had about 1, 200 souls on board when sunk, of whom over 1,100 were saved.Ful- lv 50 went down with her and 28 of the saved were badly injured.LATER Dress Goods SPECIALS \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014t\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 New lines Big values, 44 inch All- Cangured, ¢ later news leaves no doubt that the ship was sunk by a sub- marie, She floated for nearly an hour and got close to shore before snking.The inhabitants of the island of Zen saw the vessel sinking and the victims strugghng in the waves and promptly responded to the appeals for help.The mueies of some of those on board are very severe, especially the oce- upants of two boats which were vaughit by the propellers of the steanrer The women of Zea tore up their clothing to bandage the Washingtun, November The opening of wireless service between the United States and Japan through the Marconi Com.janv vas signalized todas with the exchange of messages between 15.- Wool Plaids, and two tone Shepherd Checks, in new colors, Specially priced 50¢ per vard.66 inch Meltons, in good shades, Special value 69e vard.40 inch All-wool Serge, in good shades, G0c yard.44 inch All-wool Shadow Stripe Serge, in good shades, 69¢ yard.5G inch Chiffon Broadcloths, in good shades, $1.00 yard.d6inch Marquesettes, in good shades 60¢ vari.36 inch Georgette Crepes, in good Gd shades, Dollar values, on Sale at 75¢.44 inch Black Satin Cloth, all wool and a wonder value at (9¢ yd, 36 inch Paillette Silks, in Black nnd all good shades, a winner at 79c per yard.40 inch Meltons in Good Shades, the President and the Emperor of Special values 39¢ yd, Japan, cH ineh all wool, serge in good | shades G0e yd.i O6ineh Chiffon Broadeloths in good shades $1.00 yd, FOUND, one Nutomolile Pander apply at Gleaner oflice, Chua, | 36 inch Asa À Her hushband had been - The Ideal Time FOR XMAS SHOPPING Now ourstock is brimming over sclections arecomplete, and choos- wig is a pleasure.In the selection of special engraved goods, in Gold or Silver, such ae Curd, Cigarette and other cases, Bracelets, Ringe, Watches, Charmes, l\u2019endante, ete.your purchase now, will not only allord a more complete line to pick from, but will allow ample time for perfect marking, initial ing or lettering hy the engraver.Our stock being bought in the open market and made up of the best makes, gives vou an opportunity of purchasing the very Latest in Xmas Gifts Certionly fine solid jewelry was never more beautiful and we pro mise an most fascinating showing.A heantitul display of Ladies and Gents' Umbrellas W.S.Brown Jeweller & Optician Huntingdon, Que.l\u2019rovince of Quebec School Municipality of Dundee TENDERS Wal he receive by the undersigned until Dee, Znd next, for supplying Schoots 1, 2, 4 and 5 each with ten | cords of sound body wood, free from clmnks, 16 inches long.Hard maple preferred, FT, W.FRASER, Secy.-Treus.Nov.14, 1916, FOR SALES, à Steam Hesting * Plant, with 17 radiators and 1000 fect of 1Ly and 1% inch pipe.Also à large glass show-case, 4 counter show cases, postal-card rack and 2 refrigerators.Apply to Jos, RrrtanGe.Majestic Building, Huntingdon.Farm For Sale\u2014Consists of 125 aeres, où good country system road, buildings fair, one mile from Bombay High School, churches, stores, Blacksmith shop and milk factory.Will be sold with or | without, stoek of 16 cows.Any one interested call on or address Mrs, Ida Sweet, Bombay, NY.72 TWO FARMS FOR SALE 1X5 and 150 acres, both well- watered and with good dwellings und outbuildings.Apply in writ- Huntingdon, for over a week.Will be kept at the stable of the undersigned, for service, a purebred Derkshire Hog.Dewittville Will be kept at the stable of the undersigned, one purebred Berkshire Boar Terms $1.Gus, Williams, Huntingdon, Will be kept at the stable of the unde:s gn-d, one regastered Berkahire Boar Terms $1.fohn' 8.Barrie, Montreal Wholesale Priees.Flour\u2014Patents first $10.30: see onds $9.80, strong bakers, per hag, $4.50.Oats-T4le.Bran $30.Rolled Qats-\u2014$3.60 per bag.clovver mixed $10.50.(\u2018\u2018heese\u201424 to 24100.Butter\u201443 to 4306, Egrgs\u2014-50e.Abattoir Dressed Hogs $15.75 to $16.Potatoes per 90lb.bag \u2014 Green Mountain $1.75: other kinds $1.65 The cattle market was stronger for all kinds, prices béing from 10 to 35c per 1001b better.Hogs, 73 Kilbain selects $11.26, sows $9.50.Prices are Right, 1 show case 7x4, 1 | | 1 ing 10 Drawer 1, Gleaner office, | There have been no new cases \u2019 of infantile paralysis in Montreal James Ferns, Jr, \u2018offev's Coruers | \u2014\u2014_ ; Hay\u2014No.1 #13, No.2 $11.50 - Silk Marquesettes in Food shades 60e yd.46 ineh Georgette Crepes in good | shades, dollar values on sale i nt The.! Dress Flannelettes 16c yd.Ten new shades fast color dress | Flannelettes, specially priced Ihe yi, 27 inch Embroidered Kimona l\u2018Iuninels an good shades 2Re.36 ineh full of quality colored flunnelettes 10e yi, ; Specinl value White Flannclettes Re per vad, Twilled Saxony Flanuclettes, Pikes and Blues, 10e vnrel.Children\u2019s Snow Ball Suits 82 per Suit ln Khaki, Grey, White, Suit consists of Sweater, cap and leggings Children\u2019s Long Red Leggings $1.00 pair.Ten dozen Boys\u2019 Pull Over Sweaters, sizes 26 to 34, all wool and the Bent Sweaters ever sold for One Dollar.Big value Men's Sweater Shawt Collar Conta, for hard wear.Some Sweater value at One Dollar.Big lot Men's Undershirts, samples, heavy weights, good big sizes Snaps at The, Ten dozen Men's lined Muleskin Mitts, snaps at 50e prar.Boys\u2019 lined Muleskin Mitts 25¢ pair.Twenty dozen Men's Work Shirts, good heavy quality, rizes 144 to 17, the Best Work Shirt ever sold for 506.FURS [FURS Our Big Fur Stock is complete in all that is New and Best in Furs of every deseription.Fur Conts for Men, in all kinds of Fur, Fur Coats for Ladies in all kinds of fur.| Fur Caps, [Fur Sets and Muffs, Our Furs are hought Right and Fur-lined Special value Ladies\u201d Couts, $29, Special value Ladies\u201d Russian Pony Conts, $39.Ladies\u201d Astrakan Coats $29, © Ladies\u2019 Natural Rat Conts 445 up.fadies* Black Coats, Fur-trimmed $150.00.| Men's Fur-lined Coats with Per- sinn Lamb Collars $29.00, Men's Fur Coats, Pricey from $213 to $300.00.kr | Good Cotton Crash He yard | Good Glass Towelling be yard_ + i Good White Turkish Towelling | 15e yard.! 14 x 46 Turkish Towels 39e pair.! Ladies\u2019 Flennelette Underskirts | 25¢ each, All Wool Hug-Me-Tights 99c * All-Wool Motor Hoods 50e Grocery Specials | | Clover Leaf, Gazelle, Shamrock, | Soek-Eye Red Salmon, 2 tins for 45c., 2 ting Choice Red Salmon 35¢ 4 tins Pink Salmon 25c 2 tins Tomatoes 25e 4 ting Pears 25e 3 tins Peaches 25c 3 tins Damson Plums 25¢ 3 ting Sliced Beets 25¢ 3 tins Pumpkin 25e 3 tins Pineapple 25c See us about Rubber Footwear : and Shoe values, John Hunter & Sons | GENERAL MERCHANTS AND MILLTRS ark CLOSING NOTICE and Trimmings, both untrimmed and trimmed, every Friday and Saturday until the close of the season, Also a nice assortment of Rib.hone at 15¢ After Dec.16th my Millinery Store will be closed until | There will be special rates on Hats Ï | Spring ojens.Miss E.Rodger, Athelstan % a a pnd rr te TW THURSDAY, NOV.23, 1916 Tue GASE SEX Copyright, 1913, by the Bobbs-Merrill Company CHAPTEn (IN.SAT there, with a crowd of children paddiiug on a raft vutside the window, and Molly Maguire, next door, the morning's milk up in à hauling pall fastened to a rope, her doorway being too narrow to admit the milkman's boat.and | told bim the whole story.\u201cHumph!\u201d be exclalined, when 1 bad finished.\u201cIt's curious, but\u2014you can't prove a murder unless you can produce a body.\u201d \u201cWhen the river gous down we'll find tbe body,\u201d said I, shivering.\u201cIt's in the parlor.\u201d \u201cThen why doesn't be try to get away?\" \u201cHe is reudy Ww go now.He only went back when your buat came in.\u201d Mr.Holcombe rap to the door and, flinging it open, peered into the lower hall.lle Wax too late.His boat was goue, tub uf liver, plle of wooden plat ters and all! We hurried w the rovw the Ladleys bad œcupied.It was empty.From the window, as we looked out.we could see the bout Altuost a square away.It had stopped where, the street being higher, a doorstep rose abuve the doed Ou the step was sit ting a forluru yellow puppy.As we stared Mr.Ladley stopped the boat, looked back at us, bent over, placed a piece of liver on a platter and reached ft over to the dog.Then, rising in the boat, he bowed, with his hut over his heart, in our direction, sat down calmly and rowed around tbe corner out of sight.Mr.Holcombe was in a frenzy of rage.He jumped up and duwn, shaking his fist out of the window after the retreating boat He ran down the staircase, only to come back and look out the window again.The police boat was not in sight, but the Maguire chll- dren had worked their raft around to the street and wers under the window.He leaned out and called to them: \u201cA quarter each, boys,\u201d he said, \u201cif you'll take me on that raft to the nearest pavement.\u201d \u201cMoney first.\u201d sald the oldest boy, holding bis cap.But Mr.Holcombe did not wait He swung out over the window dill, bold- ing by his bands, and lit fairly io the enter of the raft \u201cDon't touch anything In that room until | come back!\" he called to me, and, jerking tbe pole from one of the boys, propelled the raft with amazing speed down the street The liver on the stove was burning.There was a smell of scorching through tbe routus und a sort of bluish haze of smoke.| hurried back and took it off By the time | had cleaned the pan Mr.Holcombe was back ugaln in his own bost Be had found it at the end of the next street, where the flood ceased, but no sign of Ladley anywhere.He bad not seen the police boat \u201cPerbaps that is just as well,\u201d he sald philosophically.\u201cWe can't go to the police with a wet slipper and a blood stained rope and accuse a man of murder.We bave to have a body.\u201d \u201cHe killed ber,\u201d ! said obstinately.\u201cShe told me yesterday be was a Bend.Be killed ber and threw the body in the water.\u201d \u201cVery likely.But be didn\u2019t throw & here.\u201d But in spite of that he went ower all the lower hall with his boat, feeling \u201cDon\u2019t touch anything in that resem.\u201d every foot of the floor with an oer, and finally, at the back end, he looked up at me as I stood on the stairs.\u201cThere's something here,\u201d be said.I went cold all over and had to clutch the railing.But when Terry had come and the two of them brought the thing to the surface it was only the dining room rug, which [ had rolled up and forgotten to carry upstairs! At 130 Mr.Holcombe wrote a note and sent it off with Terry and, borrowing my boots, which had been Mr.Pitman's, investigated the dining room and kitchen from a foating piank; the doors were too narrow to admit the boat.But be found nothing more im portant than a rolling pin He was not at all depressed by bis failure He cate back, drenched to the skin, about 8 and asked permission to search the Ladleys\u2019 bedroom.\u201cI have a friend coming pretty soom, Mrs.Pitman,\u201d be said, \u201ca young news paper man named Howell.\u2018He's a nice boy, and if there is anything to this I'd like him to have it for his paper.He and 1 have been having some arguments shout circumstantial .evidence, too, and I know be\u2019d like te work on thie.\u201d 3 gave him a pair of Mr.Pitman's socks, for his own were saturated and while be was changing them the tele- pbone rang.It was the theater agala, asking for Jennie Brice.\u201cYou are certain sbe is out of the - ¢ity?\u201d some one asked, the same voice ts in the morning.\u201cHer husband says so.\" \u201cAsk him to come to the phone.\u201d \u201cBe fs not here\u201d \u201cWhen do you expect bim back?\u201cI'm 20t sure he ls coming back.\u201d \u201cLook bere,\u201d said the voice angry, \u201ccan't you giye me any satisfaction?Or don't you care to?\u201d \u201cI've told you all | know.\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t know where she 187\" \u201cNo.sir.\u201d \u201cShe didn\u2019t say she was coming back to rehearse for next weck's piece?\u201d \u201cHer husband sald she went away for a few days\u2019 rest He went away about noon and hasn't cowe back.That's all 1 know, except that they owe me three weeks\u2019 rent that I'd like to get hold of.\u201d The owner of the voice bung up the receiver with a snap and left me pondering.It seemed to me that Mr.Lad- ley had been very reckless.Did he expect any one to believe that Jennle Brice had gone for n vacation without notifying the theater?Especinlly when she was to rehearse that week?1 thought(it curious, to suy tbe least 1 went back and told Mr.Holcombe, who put it down in bis notebook, and together we went to the Ladleys\u2019 room.The room was in better order than usual, as 1 have sald The bed was made\u2014which was out of the ordinary, for Jennie Brice never made a bed - but made the way n mun mnkes ove, with the blankets wrinkled and crooked beneath und the white counterpnne pulled smoothly over the top, showing every hump beneath.1 showed Mr.Hol combe the splasher dotted with ink us usual.\u201cI'll take it off and souk it in milk.\u201d 1 said.\u201cIt's his fountain pen.When the Ink doesn\u2019t run he shakes it, and\u201d \u2014 \u201cWhere's the clock?said Mr.Hol cualbe, stopping in front of the mantel, with his notebook in his hand.\u201cThe clock?\u2019 I turned and looked My onyx clock was gone fro the mantel shelf Perhups 11 secetns stance, but tron the moment 1 mixsed that clock my rage at Mr.Ladley increased Ww a fury.It was ull 1 had left of my former gentility.When Uines were bard and I got behind with the reul us happened now and then, more than once i'd been tempted to sell the clock or pawn it But I hud never done it.Its ticking had kept me cowpuny on wuny u lonely night, and its elegance had help ed me to keep my pride and to retain the respect of wy neighbors.For in the flood district onyx clocks ure uot plentiful.Mrs.Bryan, the suloon- keeper's wife, had one, and | had ap- other\u2014that 18, 1 tad had.I stood staring at the mark In the dust of the mantel shelf, which Mr.Holcombe was measuring with a pocket tape measure.\u201cYou are sure you didu\u2019t take it away vourself, Mrs.Pitman?\" be asked.\u201cSure?Why, I could hardly lift it.\u201d 1 said He was looking carefuily at the oblong of dust where the clock had stood.\u2018The key is goue, too,\u201d he said, busily making entries in his notebook \u201cWhat was the maker's name?\" \u201cWhy, 1 don\u2019t think I ever noticed!\u201d He turved to me angrily.\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you notice?\" he snapped.\u201cGood God, woman, do you only use your eyes to cry with?[How cian you wind a clock time after time and not know the maker's name?It proves my con- tention\u2014the average witness Is totally unreliable.\u201d \u201cNot at all,\u201d I snapped.\u201cI am ordi partly both accurate and observing.\u201d \u201cIndeed! he said, putting his hands behind him \u201cThen perhaps you can tell me the color of the pencll I have been writing with.\u201d \u201cCertainly.fed.\u201d Most pencils are red, and I thought this was safe.But be held his right band out with a flourish.\u201cI've been writing with a fountain pen,\u201d he sald in deep disgust and turned bis back on me But the next moment he had run to the washstand and pulled it out from the wall Behind it, where it bad fallen, lay a towel covered with stains as if some ome had wiped bloody bands on it He held it up, his face working with excitement.1 could only cover my eyes.* \u201cThis looks better,\u201d he sald and be gan making a quick search of the room, running from one piece of furniture to another, pulling out bureau drawers, drawing the bed out from the wall and crawling along the baseboard with a Mghted match in his hand.He gave a shout of triumph finally and reappeared from behind the bed with the broken end of my knife in his hand \u201cVery clumsy,\u201d he said; \u201cvery clum- «y.Peter, the dog, could have done better.\u201d 1 had been examining the wall paper about the washstand.Among the ink spots were one or two reddish ones that made me shiver.And seeing a scrap of note paper stuck between the base board ard the wall I dug It out with a hairpin and threw it into the grate, to be burmed later.It was by the merest chance there was no fire there.The next moment Mr.Hol- combe was on his knees by the fire place reaching for the scrap.\u201cNever do that under such circumstances,\u201d he snapped, fishing amoug the ashea \u201cYou might throw away valuable\u2014 Hello, Howell!\u201d I turned and saw a young man in the doorway, smiling, his hat in his hand.Even at that first glance 1 liked Mr.Howell, and later, when every one was against him and many curious things we-e developing.I stood by him through everything and even helped him to the thing he wanted more than anything else in the world But that, of course, was later.\u201cWhat's the trouble, Holcombe?\u2019 be esked.\u201cHitting the trail again?\u2019 \u201cA very curious thing that ! just happened on,\u201d sald Mr.Holcombe \u201cMra.Pitman, this is Mr.Howell, of whom 1 spoke.Sit down, Howell, and let me read you something.\u201d With the crumpled paper still unopened in his hand, Mr.Holcombe took bis notebook and read aloud what he had written.1 have it before me now: \u201c \u2018Dag meat, $2, boat hire'\u2014that's not it Here \u2018Yesterday, Sunday, March 4, Mrs, Pitman, landlady at 42 Union street, heard two of her boarders quarreling, a man and his wife.Man's pame, Philip Ledley.Wife's name, Jennies Ladley, known as Jennie Brice at the Liberty Stock company, where she has been playing small parta.\u2019\u201d Mr.Howell nodded \u201cI've heard of her,\u201d be said.\u201cNot much of an ac tress, I believe.\u201d \u201c\u201cThe husband was also an actor, out of work, and employing his leisure time in writizç a play.\u2019 \u201d \u201cEverybody's doing It\u201d Howell idly.\u201cThe Shuberts were to star him In this\u201d I put in \u201cHe said that the climax at the end of the second act\u201d\u2014 Mr, Holcombe shut his notebook with a snap, \u201cAfter we bave finished gossiping,\u201d be said, \u201cI'll go on.\u201d \u201c \u2018Employing bis leisure time in writing a play, \" quoted Mr.Howell, \u201cExactly.\u2018The husband and wife were not on good terms.They quar reled frequently.On Sunday they fought all day, and Mrs.Ladley told Mrs.Pitman she was married to 8 Send.At 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon Philip Ledley went out, returning about 5.Mrs.Pitman carried their supper to them at 6 and both ate heartily.She did not see Mrs.Ladley at the time, but heard ber in the next room.They were apparently reconcil- ol.Mrs, Pitman reports Mr.Ladley in high good humer.If the quarrel said Mr.recommenced during the night the othe boarder, mamed [\u2018-ynuids, in the \u2018 + ® next room heard noting Mra PR man was up and dowu untll 1 o'clock, when she dored off.She heard no un- usuyl sound, \u201ciat anproshinately 2 o'clock in the morning, however, this Iteynolds came to the room and said he had heard some one iu a bout tu the Jower hull He und Mrs.Pitwan investigated.The boat, which Mrs.Pitman uses duriug o flood and which she bad tied to the stair rail wus gone, having been cut loose, Lot uutied.Everything else was quiet, except that Mrs, Ladley's dog bad been shut in oa third story room, \u201cAt n quarter after 4 thut morniug Mrs.Pitman, thoroughly awake, heard the boat returning und, golug to the stairs, met Lauiley coudhg in He muttered something about having gone for medicine for bis wife nud went to hls root, shutting the dog out.This is worth attention, for the dog ordinarily slept in their room\u201d \u201cWhat sort of n dog\" asked Mr.Howell.He had been listening atten tively.\u201cA Water spaniel.\u201cThe rest of the night or carly mornine was quiet.At a quurter after 7 Ladley asked for coffee and toast for one, and où Mrs.Pit- man remnrking this sald that his wife was uot playing this week and tad gone for a few days vacation, having left early in the morning\u201d Remember, during the nlght he bind heen out for medicine for her Now she was able to travel and, to fact, had started.\u201d Mr.Howell was frowning at the fluor.\u201cIf he wus doing anything wrong, he was doing it very badly,\u201d he suid.\u201cThis Is where I catered the cuse,\u201d said Mr Holcombe.\u201c1 rowed into the lower hall this morning to feed the dog Peter.who was whining on the stuirettse.Mrs.Pitmun was coming down, pale nnd agitated over the facet that the dog shortly before had found floating in the parior downstairs a siip- per belonging to Mrs.Ladiey und Inter a knife with a broken blade.She maintains that she bud the kuife_lust night upstairs, that it was not Roken tend that It was taken from n shelf in her room while she dozed.The question fs, then, Why was the knife taken?Who touk it and why?Has this man made away with his wire or bus he not?\u201d Mr.Howell looked at we and smiled.\u201cMr.Holcombe and | ure old enemies,\u201d he said.\u201cMr.Holcombe belleves that circumstantial evidence may probably hang a man; I do not.\u201d And to Mr.Holcombe, \u201cRo, having found a wet slipper and a broken knife, you nre prepared for murder and swlden death!\u201d \u201cI have more evidence,\u201d Mr.1lol- combe suld engerly, and proceeded to tell what we had found in the room.Mr.Howell listened, stuiling to himself, but at the mention of the onyx clock he got up and went to the mantel.\u201cRy Jove!\u201d he sald and stood looking ut the mark in the dust.\u201cAre you sure the clock was here yesterday?\u201d \u201c1 wound it night before last and put the key underneath.Yesterday, before they moved up, 1 wound it again.\u201d \u201cThe key is gone also.Well, what of it, Holcombe?Did Le brain her with the clock or choke her with the key?\" Mr.Holcombe was looking at his notebook.\u201cTo swinmarize,\u201d he said, \u201cwe have here as clews indicating a crime, the rope, the broken kuoife, the slipper, the towel nod the clock.De sides, this serap of paper may contain soe infurmadon.\u201d He opeoed it and sat gazing at it in his palin.Then, \u201cls this Ladley's writlng?* he asked tne in # curious voice \u201cYes.\u201d I glanced at the slip.Mr.[Tolcombe had just read from his notebook: \u201cRope, knife, slipper, towel, clock.\u201d The slip ! had found behind the washstund said \u201cRope, knife, shoe, towel Horn\u201d\u2014 The rest of the last word was torn off.Mr.Howell was suring at the man ted.\u201cClock!\u201d be repedted, CHAPTER IV.i I T was after four when Mr.2 Holcombe had finished golng x over the rou.1 vffeted to = make both the seutiemen sutlie ted, for Mr Pitman had beeu an Enghishiuan, and 1 bad got iuto the habit of baving à cuptui tn the after- nou, with a cracker or a bit of bread.But they refused Mr.Howell said he had promised to meet a lady, and to bring her through the Hooded district in a bout.tle shook hands with we und smd at Me Holcombe, \u201cYou will have lo restrain his en- thusiasin, Mes Piüman, \"Le said.ie is 0 bloudhiound ot the scent.IF his baying gets ou your nerves just seud for me\u201d He went down the stairs and stepped to the boat \u201cllejnetn- ber, Hotcombe\u201d be called.\u2018every well constituted wurder has (wo (bings\u2014 a motive and n corpse.You baven't either, only a mass of pitting detailg.\u2014 \u201cIf everybody waited until be saw flames instead of relying on the testi- mous of the smoke.\u201d Mr.Holcombe snapped, \u201cwhat would the fire loss be?\" Mr.Dowell poled his boat to the front dour und, sitting down, prepared to row out \u201cYou ure warned.Mrs.Pitman,\u201d he called to me.\u201cIf he duesn't find a body to tit the chews he's quite capable of making one tu ll the demand\u201d \u201cHorn\u201d sald Mr Holcombe, looking at tbe slip agaln I'he tall of the \u2018n' 18 torn off evidently only part of a word.Ilornet, Horniug, Horner\u2014 Mrs.Pitman, wil] you gu with me to the police station?\u201d I was more than anxious to go.In fact, | could pot bear the tdea of satay.ing alone in the house, with heaven Only kBows wuat concealed in the depths of that muddy flood.| got on my wraps again, und Mr.Molcombe rowed me out Peter plunged into the water to follow and had to be sent back.He sat on the lower step and whined.Mr Holcombe threw him another plece of liver, but he did not touch it We rowed to the corner of Robinson street and Federal\u2014it was before Federal street was raised above the flood ievel\u2014and left the boat in charge of a boy there.And we walked to the police station.Ou the way Mr.Holcombe questioned me closely about the events of the morning, and ! recalied the Ln- cident of the burned pillow slip.He made a note of it at once and grew very thoughtful.He left me, however, at the police station.\"I'd rather not appear in this.Mrs.Pitinan,\u201d be said apologetically, \u201cand | think better along my own lUnes\u2014not that 1 have anything against the police; they've done some splendid work.But this case takes imagination, and the police department deals with facts.We bave no facts yet What we need.of course, is to have the man detained until we are sure of our case.\u201d He lifted his hat and turned away, and | went slowly up the steps to the police station.Living.as 1 had, in a neighborhood where the police, 11ke the poor, are always with us, and where the visits of the patrol wagon are one of those familiar sights that no amount of repetition enabled any of us to treat with contempt.| was uncomfortable until I remembered that my grandfs.ther had been one of the first mayers of the city and that, If the EN VHE HUNTING: i sLEANER.AL tue door some ui touched me on the arm.It was Mr.Holcombe again \u201c| have been thinking it over,\u201d be said, \u201cand | believe you'd better not mention the plece of paper that you found behind the washstand.They might say the whole thing is a hoax.\u201d \u201cVery well,\u201d 1 agreed, and went in The police sergeant in charge knew me at once, having stopped at my house more than ounce in flood time for a cup of hot coffee.\u201cSit down, Mrs.Pitman,\u201d he said.\u201c1 suppose you are still making the best coffee and doughnuts in the clityef Allegheny?Well, what's the trouble in your district?Want an injunction aguinst the river for trespass?\u2019 \u201cThe river Las brought me a good bit of trouble,\u201d I said.\u201cI'm\u2014I'm worried, Mr.Sergeant.| think a woman from wy house bas been murdered, but 1 don't know.\u201d \u201cMurdered!\u201d he sald, und drew up his chair.*\u201cTell me about it.\u201d I told him everything, while he sat back with his eyes half closed and his tingers beating à tattoo on tbe arm of his chair.When I finished he got up und went into an inner room.lle came back in « moineut \u201c1 want you to come in and tell that to the chief,\u201d he said, and led the way.All told, | repeated my story three times that afternoon- to the sergeant, to the chief of police und the third time tu Louth the others and two de tuetives.The second time the chief made notes of what [ sud.\u201cKnow this man Ladley?\u2019 he asked the others.None of them did, but they all knew of Jennie Brice and some of them had seen her In the theater.\u201cGet the theater, Ton\u2019 the chief sithd 10 one of the detectives, Luckily what he learned over the telephone from the theater corrobor- nted my story Jenne Brice was not in the east that week, but should have reported that morning (Manday) to re I Told Him Everything.hearse the next week's plece.No message had been received from her and a substitute had been put in her place.The chief hung up the receiver and turned to me.\u201cYou are sure about the clock, Mrs, Pitman?\u2019 he asked.\u201cIt was there when they moved upstairs to the room?\" \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cYou are certain you will not find ft on the parlor mantel when the water goes down?\u2019 \u201cThe mantels are uncovered now.It is not there.\u201d \u201cYou think Ladley has gone for good?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cHe'd be a fool to try to run away, unless\u2014Graves, you'd better get hold of the ftellow, and keep him until either the woman is found or the body.The river 1s falling, In a couple of days we will know if she Is around the premises anywhere.\u201d Before I left ! described Jennle Brice for them carefully.Asked what she probably wore, if she had gone away as her husband said, | had no idea; she had a lot of clothes, und dressed a guod bit But ! recalled that 1 bad seen lying ob the bed the black and white dress with the red collar, and they took that down, as well as the bruwn vulise.The chief ruse and opeued the dooe for me himself.\u201cIf slie nctauliy left town ut tbe time yon mention\u201d be said.\u201cshe ought not to be hard to tind.There are not many trains be fore 7 in the morning.and most of them are locals,\u201d \u201cAnd and if she did vot, if be\u2014do you think she 1s in the house-or\u2014or\u2014 the cellnr?\u201d \u201cNot nnless Ladley is more of a fool than | think he Is,\u201d be suid, smiling.\u201cPersonally 1 believe she hus gone away, as he says she did.But if she hasn\u2019t\u2014 He probably took the body with him when be said he wus getting medicine and dropped it In the current souewhere But we mist go slow with all this.\u2018There's no use shouting \u2018wolf\u2019 set.\u201d .\u201cBut\u2014the towel?\u201d \u201cHe may have cut himself shaving.It has been done.\u2018 \u201cAnd the knite?\u201d He shrugged his shoulders good na- tutedly \u201cI've seen a perfectly good knife spoiled opening a bottle of pickles.\u201d \u201cBut the slipper?And the clock?\u201d \u201cMy good woman, enough shoes and +!ippers are forgotten jn the bottoms «of cupboards yeur after year in food tme and are found floating around the +reets to make all the old clothès men is town happy, | have seen almost everything floating about during one of these annual floods.\u201d \u201cI dare say you never saw an onyx vlock floating around,\u201d I replied a little sharply.I had no sense of bumor that day.Ue stopped smiling at once and stood tugging at his mustache.\u201cNo,\u201d be admitted.\u201cAn onyx clock Binks, that's true.That's a very nice little point, that onyx clock.He may be trying to sell it or perhaps\"\u2014 He did not finish.I went back immediately, only stopping at the market to get meat for Mr.Reynolds\u2019 supper.It was after half past 5, and dusk was coming on.1 got a boat and was rowed directly home.Peter was not at the foot of the steps.I pald the boatman and let him go and turned to go up the stairs Some one was speaking in the hall above.I have read somewhere that no two volces are exactly alike, Just as no two violins ever produce the same sound.I think it Is what they call the timbre that is different.I bave, for instance, never heard a voice like Mr.Pitman\u2019s, altbough Me.Harry Lauder's in a phonograph resembles it.And Voices bave always done for me what odors do for some people, revived forgotten scenes and old mem- otles.But the memory that the voice at the head of the stairs brought back was not very old, although 1 had for gotten it.I seemed to hear again all at ounce the lapping of the water Sane day liorning ns !t began to come in over 1he dooralli; the sound of Terry ripping up the parlor carpet and Mea Lidiey calling me : sie devil in the next room, in reply to this very voice.But when ! got to the top of the stalre it wus ouly Mr.Howell, who had brought his visitor to the flood district, and on getting her splashed with the muddy water bad taken her to my house for a towel and u cake of soap.I lighted the lump in the ball and Mr.Howell introduced the girl.She was a pretty girl, slim and young, and she had taken her wetting good naturedly.\u201cI know we are intruders, Mrs, Pit- man,\u201d she suid, holding out ber hand \u201cEspeclully now, wben you are in trouble.\u201d \u201cI bave told Miss llurvey a little,\u201d Mr.Howell sald, \"and | promised to show her Peter, but lie is not bere.\u201d I think I bad known it was my sis ter\u2019s child from the moment 1 lighted the lamp.There was something of Alma ju her, not Almas hardness or haughtiness, but Alors durk blue eyes with black lashes, aud Almas pose.Alma was always the beauty of the family What with the day's ex- cltement nnd seeing Almas child like this, In my house, | Feit things guing round and clutched at the stair cuil.Mr.Howell caught me \u201cWhy, Mrs.Pitman!\u201d \u201cWhat's the utter?\u201d I got myself 16 hand in a moment and smitled at the gir, \u201cNothing ut ofl,\u201d 1 sald.Indigestion, he sald.most likely \u2018Fou much tea the last day or two and hot enough solid toud, I've been Lvo auxious to eal.\u201d Idda\u2014for she was that to me at once, ulthoush | had Lever seen ber before - Lida was all sywpathy and sweetitess, Nhe actully asked mie to #0 with her to a restaurant and have a real dinner, 1 could Imaxine Alma, had she known! But | excused myself, \u201cI have to cook something for Mr.Reyuolds,\u201d 1 sad, \u201cand lu better now, anyhow, tuiuk you.Mr.Howell, may 1 speak to you for a motoeut He followed wo along tho buck hall, which was dusk, \u201c1 have remeuibereod something that 1 had forgotten, Me.Howell,\u201d 1 said.\u201cOn Sunday morning the Ladleys bad 1 visitor,\u201d \u201cYen?\u201d \u201cThey had very few visitors.\u201d \u201c1 see.\u201d \u201c1 did not sce him, but | Leurd his voice.\u201d Mr.Howell did tot move, but 1 fancied be drew his breath.in quickly.\u201cIt sounded-it was tot by nuy chance you?\u201d \u201cI?A newspaper man, who goes to bed at 3 a.m.on Sunday morning, up and about ut 10!\u201d \u201cI didn't say what time it was,\u201d L said sharply.But at that moment Lida from the front hall.\u201cI think | bear I'cter.\u201d she said.\u201cHe is shut in somewhera, whining.\u201d We went forward at once.She was called right.Peter was scratching at the door of Mr.Luadley's room, although | had left the door closed and Peter in the hall.1 let blm out, and he crawl ed to we on three legs, whimpering Mr.Howell bent over him and felt the fourth.\u201cPoor little beast!\u201d he said.is broken.\u201d He tnade a splint for the dow, and with Lida helping they put him to bed \u201cHis leg in a clothes basket ib ny upstairs kitchen.It was easy to see how things luy with Me.lowell, He was all eyes for ber.He made excuses to touch her hand or her arm, little ea- ressing touches that made her color heighten, And with it all there was a sort of hopelessness In bis nutnner, as if he knew how fur the girl was out of his reach.Knowing Alma and der pride.| knew better than they Low hopeless it was.I was not so sure about Lida.I wondered if she was fu love with the boy or only in love with love.She was very young, as | had been.God help her if.like te, she sacrificed everything to discover too late that she was only in love with love \u2014_\u2014 SURRENDER 70 CANADIANS, Major Ashplant of London Tells of Work on Somme, Major W.N.Ashplant, former City Engineer, London, Ont, who was wounded on September 2, and whe less than two weeks lner reported agnin for duty, wrote to his brother, Ald.H.B.Ashplint.under date of September 15, the letter having reached London recently.In the meantime Major Ashplant has been reported missing.He was with the First Brigade, and with him were a number of other Londoners, former officers of the 33rd Battalion, His letter gives a vivid picture of the Somme drive, Writing in the fire of the trenches, he says: \u201cWe are holding to (he right of the Windmill-Pozicres-Somme area, and having a look around at daybreak this a.m.in pouring rain and the shell-racked clay soil area, if I saw one J saw 400 dead bodies.We got a half hour's notice to move up from our camp at 3.45 p.m.yesterday, seven miles back, to continue this pressure.It seems pretty thick for us after fighting with 110 days\" incessant bombardment, then sent back twenty miles ostensibly for a rest, and only there forty-cight hours when orders to march back again by two stages in execrable weather, bl- vouacking en route a night at cach stage.Our artillery and infantry of course keep moving forward, and as we keep taking these villages, etc.(each unit putting up a \u2018show\u2019), it gives \u2018Fritz\u2019 no rest, and we have only tired troops in front of us, as his reserves are \u2018all In.\u2019 \"We've taken, I fancy, on our front alone around here the last week about 3,000 prisoners, and they put their hands up quickly enough now.Townsend and I had one salmon sandwich apiece and some cold tea since 1 p.m.yesterday.We were up all night to locate this accursed spot, and now at 8 p.m, neXt day still waiting for our servants to bring up our food from away back.\" Cholera in Japan.The watchfulness of the sanitary authorities in Japan in face of the cholera visitation is keeping the dis- case well in hand, despite the occur- | rence of fresh sporadic cases in places | far apart, It is noticeable tha most if not all now cases reported occur among those whose heads of families are seafaring men.The two cases in the suburbs of Tokio and the three at Senju are all saflors.Fishermen are frequent victims.Thirteen new cases at the port of Yokosuka, including five women created a scare there.A strict quarantine of 922 houses with 2,039 persons surrounding the houses of victims has been declared.Fried lobster was assigned as the carrier of one sufferer.The eating of sea fish is discouraged.There were nineteen fresh cases at Nagasaki dn September 1 with a total of 490 cases.Osaka had a total of 136 cases.The firat naval squadron in port at Yokosuka was ordered to Tatayama ten mliics away.Thore was a case at Fusan, Korea.Opening of schools has been gener- | ally postponed wherever the disease exists, A party of twenty-six Japan- | eso tourists coming eastward on train | from Hiroshima discovered that one ' of the members was {ll and left the train at Kanakami station in Okaya- \u2018 ma prefecture, Upon examination be was found suffering from cholera, and the party was dissolved at that gtatlon.Seven members of tho party weut to Tokio, and all were examined by the nuthorities of the Home Office.-\u2014[ast and West: Nev:s, FOR YOUNG FOLKS A Sleepy Time Story About a Great Soldier and Ruler.eet: EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE teen Happy Experience of a Farmer With the Head of a Mighty Empire\u2014Gener- osity of a Stranger\u2014A Good Riddle Washday In the Nursery.Tonight's story will be une with soldiers in it, said Uncle Ben to little Ned and Polly Ann.[I shall call it FOR JUVENILES.What Young Girls Will Wear This Early Autumn.Accordion plaited chiffon, navy blue, set up with navy serge, gives this charming frock.The low belt is picked out by bits of gold embroidery, and Le THE CROOKED FURROW.Perhaps you've heurd of Napoleon Bonaparte, the wouderful soldier whose skill in fighting the cueues of [france wou bin the love of the l\u2018reuch people and at last wade him thelr emperor.One day Napoleon, with one of Lis officers, was pussing along u country road when be saw a farmer plowing in a eld.Napoleon watched this man plowing for u minute, and then Le sald: \u201cMy friend, your furrow lis not straight.You do not plow right.\u201d Tbe countryman did not know that the little man in the shinple uniform was the head of the [French nation, and he answered rather sharply: \u201cIf you can plow it any better let me see you do so.\u201d Napoleon smiled.He way quite sure be could.Had be wot heen brought up in the country?And lie took hold of the plow and started out bravely.But the furrow was nothing but a lot of zigzags, and the farmer liughed long and loud as he took the plow from the hands of the stranger.\u201cEvery man to his trade, sir,\u201d said the farmer.\u2018It is plain that yours is not plowing.\u201d Napoleon put his hand into bis pock- ct and hunded the farmer a handful of gold pieces.The mun was amazed and told the next persons who passed him of his good fortune und of the stranger, The farmer went on to tell what the giver of gold pieces luoked like.\u201cWhy, tbat was Napoleon Bouaparte.the ruler of all France!\u201d the farmer was told.Overcome now with shame at his rude speech, the farmer put on his best cluthes and hurried to the paluce where Napuleon was staying, The place was so grand that the farmer ahinost lost bis head, but when he was shown iuto the rvom where Napoleon sat and the great man was Bo very kind be plucked up, courage to ask a favor, and that was that his son might become a soldier, \u201cMy son cares more for a gun than a plow,\u201d the old man explained.\u2018His furrows are no better than those of your excellency.\u201d Napoleon agreed to take the boy and promised that he would help bim to get on.\u2019 And he sent the old man home bappy with another handful of money and blessing tbat crooked furrow that bad made his fortune.A Riddle.What is that which is not useful to a car, yet always goes with a car\u2014in fact, without which the car could not move?A noise.Mother's Busy Day.No matter how often dolly is cautioned to be sure to keep her clothes clean, it seems impossible for her to keep herself neat.Such carelessness, of course, makes lots of work for dolly\u2019s Photo by American Press Association DOLLY\"IS A CARELESS CHILD.mamma, und she Is sorry when re minded (bat she 1s not fit to be seen.So dully's mamma has to get busy at the washtub to reinedy matters.Next time let us hope that dolly will try Hard to be tidy.Buys British Paintings.J.8.McFadden, of Philadelphia, who has devoted his attention exclusively to artists of the early British school and whose collection is reputed one of the largest in the United States, has added seven more ple- tures of the first rank, They include a Constable, \u201cThe Dell at Hel.iningham\u201d; a Raeburn portrait of Sir Alexander Shaw, two Romneys, a Norman Hirst, a landscape by John Crome, and a view of the Thames and St.Paul's by Richard Wilson, R.A, dated 1745.B.C.Compeasation Act.The British Columbia workman's compensation act will become effective on January 1st noxt, A.V.Pineo, solicitor to the Attorney-Gen- eral's office, Victoria, is being assisted in the preliminary work by F.W.Hinsdale, compensation expert, who assisted in launching the workman's compensation acts of Washington, Oregon, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, \u201cDinner of Deadly Enemies.\u201d Lady Randolph Churchill once gave at her house in Connaught place what she called a dinner of deadly enemies.It was thought, says Mr.G.W.Small.ey in his \u201cAnglo-American Memories,\u201d a hazardous experiment.\u201cIt proved a complete success.They were all well bred people.They all recognized their obligations to thelr hostess as paramount for the time being.In some © cases ancient animosities were soft ened.In all they were suspended.\u201d GRACEFUL LINES.a deep sailor collar takes a detachable one of white silk, The turban takes one of the new long, lowing veils.DON\u2019T GET ANGRY.The High Value of Being Tough Minded About Snubs and Hurts.Fauults of temper ure often a serious handicup, and the \u2018girl! who is con- stautiy \u2018getting mad\u201d is going to end by getting left when it comes to the attainment of success.In the first place, anger has been proved to be a real poison.It ex- \u201chausts you, and a violent fit of rage can make you really ilL \u201cSick with anger\u201d is not a mere phrase\u2014it is the truth.But aside from its cffects on yourself there is the effect on others.If you are constantly standing on your dignity and taking offense over trifles that were not meant to annoy you, you Will soon be disliked in the office, and you are pretty sure to get mad at the wrong tine some day und tind yourself fired by some one tired out at your constant flareups.It is certainly true that you find what you luok for, and if you are looking for sliglts and insults you'll find plenty.Suppose you do get u short answer once in awbile?Make allowances for other people's nerves as well as for your own.Don\u2019t think that the rest of the office is in league against you be cause sume of them are laughing over a joke you have not heard.I know a girl who can't see two people whisper- iug together without imagining they are discussing her and criticising her.This fs a form of conceit that is par- teularly weak and silly and capable in time of developing into monomania.The touchy, irritable and suspicious girl is laying out a hard road for her self.If you have tendencies in these directions set to wurk tv cure yourself If you don't you will be pretty sure to fall in your work and even more cer tain to fail in your life.Straight Line Skirts.The pew restraint of the skirt, which is still very full, hut with a straighter line than earlier in the year, make the softness and pliabllity of the satin fabrics useful.A charming frock seen a short while ago showed the grace of the new silhouette and pointed to the employment of satin crape as an effective material The color, a cool green gray, was brightened by steel embroideries upon chiffon, showing on the corsage as an emphasis of the square decolletage, at the wrists and on the slashings of the skirt, Everything that can be done to make the act of dressing a quick and easy process 1s done by the designers.Few women have time to waste nowadays.To Set Colors.The most common way to set colors is to use salt, about the proportion of a cupful to half a gallon of water, and before the goods are made up soak them in this mixture for a few hours.It bas been found by experimenting, however, that different colors respond to the different \u201cfixers,\u201d as they are called.and that it is well for the housewife to study both her material and medium.Salt has been found most satisfactory in setting browns, black and pinks.For blues use vinegar in the proportion of half a cupful of vinegar to one gallon of water.For lavender, sugar of lead fs more often used, a table spoonful of sugar to a gallon of water being the proportion.Biblical Reference.\u201cAnd who,\u201d asked the Sunday school teacher\u2014\"who was it that cried, O king, live forever?\u201d \u201cAll the life tnsurance agents,\u201d sug- zeated the small hoy whose father was an adjuster.\u2014Judge Origin of the Bagpipe.Neither Scotland nor Ireland can claim to have invented the bagpipes.Greeks, Romans, Assyrians, and Chinese all played bagpipes of sorts long before the time of Christ, and the instrument actually figures on one of the coins of Nero, who may have played it.The Breton bignon, the Calabrian zampogna, the German sackleife, and the French cornemeuse are all bagpipes under different names.° It was actually a Scotsman, and no less a man than the lord advoeate of the time, who publicly declared fifty years ago that \u2018\u2018the bagpipe is an English instrument, essentially English; the English were the original bagpipers.\u2018\u2019 He pointed out that, while Shakespeare often speaks of bagpipes, he never does so in \u201cMaec- beth,\u201d and that it is in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire that he localizes the pipes.To Chaucer and Spenser also thay are English, James VI.and other Scottish kings paid for \u201cInglis pyparis\u2019 'at their court, while Edward I, Edward 111, Henry VI., and Henry VIII.seem to have had native pipers.The Highlanders never used the pipes in war before the fifteenth century; the harp was Scotland's ine strument.~London Chronicls.ne A BETROTHED Lap The Daughter of the Former Leiter, Chicago, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 HER MARRIAGE A LOVE MATC Ma 8till In Her Teens, Lady Ire bles Her American Moth Said to Be Devoted to States.The marriage of Lord Curzon'y est daughter, Lady Irene Curzeg Mr.Guy Benson will Le à love my and the engagement bas Ustonishe] great many people, Who took | granted that Lord Curzon woyy ne Rese er ang the Uni LADY IRENE CULZON.sist upon his daughter marrying à man connected with one of the great houses of the peerage.Lady Irene will, however, inherit her fathers barony and becotne Baroness Ravens.dale after his death, in cuse be does not marry again himself and Lave à son to assume all of his titles\u2014Ean Curzon, Viscount Scarsdale and Barop Ravensdale.Only the last can de scend through the female line.Loy Curzon, in marrying the former Mary Leiter of Chicago, made a romautle marriage, in spite of the bride possessing an enormous fortune.The two were deeply in love, and when seps.rated by the Atlantic ocean during the vnguagement\u2014Curzon being compelled to leave America and return to London -they exchanged cablegrams of greeting every day.Lady Irene is very like her mother in appearance, being tall and graceful, and she is credited win baving a good deal of her fathers strength of character.The prospective groom is one of three sons of Robert Henry Benson, a very wedlthy Londoner, wlo is a tros - tee of the British Nutional gallery and i inember of council of the Victoria and Albert museum and of the Hoyal Coliege of Music, ali in London.Both Lady Irene and Mr, Benson are still in their teens.WHEN SWEEPING.Practical Hints About Mow to Perform This Household Rite.To find the necessary coverings op sweeping days has often sent the wall scurrying about for old aprons, sheets, towels and anything else she could lay her hands on to use for this purpose.One housewife has solved the diff culty in this way: She purchased a quantity of gray cambrie and made from it a large sheet, with which to cover the beds and sideboard.Smaller covers for dressers and toilet tables were made, and stil] others in suitable shapes were designed to put over lnmps, mantels and the Uke.She also made from the cambric a bag to keep tue covers in.This was hung fo the broom closet.While light, the cambric formed à perfect protection agninst dust, and 8 simple shaking when the sweeping was finished freed the covers from all dust that had settled upon them.80 that they required washing but once à month.The use of these dust covers saved much valuable time and extn work.The cost of such a set is mod erate, and it does not take long to wake them.Fall Silks.It is always interesting to know the materials from which the new frocks are to be made.The silk frock will not abate in favor, and silk will be used for afternoon and evening wraps.St silks and chiffons are exceptionally good, A striped chiffon with the stripe of sntin is printed with clusters of rich roses.A heavy satin for evening Wraps Is designed with groups of two wide stripes separated by two narrow white stripes, This comes in royal purple and fuchsin.Flowered silks on dark grounds for afternoon wear are Ur usual.There is also a new ponges crape for afternoon frocks.It comes in many colors printed with Turkish designs of rings and dots.A Luncheon Dish.Mix a large cupful of well shredded cooked, cold fish with a halt cupful of milk, a tablespoonful of flour and 8 well beaten egg.Place in a savcepid nnd cook until it thickens, Let the mixture cool.Roll it in bread or crack vr crumbs and fry in deep fat Uk \u201coughnuta.Marvels of India.What a wonderful country is India! There is only one India.Its marvel ure its own.There is the plague, th black death.India fuvented it.car of Juggernaut was also India\u2019s vention.