The Stanstead journal, 5 mai 1910, jeudi 5 mai 1910

[" Te + 4 + .tro Mr.and Mrs.George O.Lang of Barton, Vt., were at Rock Island Fri- ¢ \u2018 The Stanstead Journal.pd VOL.LXV\u2014No.18.LEST YOU FORGET.Best Sanford Corn 91.49 6 Rowed Barley \\ 90 ots.Giant 1.00 Best Bran 91.18 Best Timot A.50 Shorts 1.90 Next Grade Timothy 2.30 Middlin 1.85 t Red Clover 17 ote.Heavy Manitoba Oats - 53 ote.Alsike 14% ote.Flour 2.90 $ Rowed Barley, reduced %1.02 Barb Wire, plain galvanized 2.60 6 Bowed Barley 99 cts.International Cement 480.per bag.A.G.CLOUGH, Ayer\u2019s Cliff.SUMMER DRESS GOODS.: Silks, s mercerized muslin, handsome patterns, a fabrio,t! THE GILMAN STORE Just received 20 different patterns of Gardenea ith genuine silk dot, good coloring, very at any lady would enjoy wearing, only 19 ._.___ cents à yard.CONWALL SUITING.For Suits and one-piece Dresses, no better material - ever showh for the price.36 inches wide, 15 cents a yard.LINENS.Heavy Linen Suiting, 25 and 39 cents a yard.: : SHEPHERD PLAIDS.50 inches wide, good heavy material, only 45c.& yard.DRESS GINGHAMS.815,13; and 25cents a y lot, ood assortment of patterns, HAMBURGS.A special worth 12 and 15 cents a yard, while they last only 8 cents a yard.GARMENT ened each day.arments and be sure of having the rig the right price.SILK WAISTS.A fine stripe, in blue, Taffeta Silk.A manufacturer these waists up at very much less than the New China Silk Waists.$5.00 Waist for $3.19.lin Waists._ EPARTMENT.New Suits, Coats, Oapes and Dresses are being You can find an; thing you wish in Ready-to-Wear t style and a perfect fit and at grey and black, made of guaranteed wished to reduce his stock and made actual value.A regulak New Tailored and Mus- ROYAL SOCIETY EMBROIDERY.Pieces and materials, with directions for making, all in a package together.nd, 80 Jou can see exactly how your completed piece will look., 50 cents and up a package.each Prices 25, 35, Also in stock a piece completed of HEATHERBLOOM PETTICOATS.A dispute batween some manufacturers enables us to offer a brella flounce triple r of $1.50.enuine Heatherbloom Petticoat, made with an um- e, with seven clusters of tucks.Also the new fitted front, over which the outside skirts fit so well at a special price OARPET DEPARTMENT.Don\u2019t fail to visit this department if you require new floor coverings or other house furnishings for the eprin .The n an Values yon will ind will be very difficalt to duplicate even s the city AXMINSTER RUGS.Perfect goods, 9x12 size #19.95.BRUSSELS RUGS, foll 5 frames, 9x12 TAPESTRY RUGS, 9x13 size size $22.50 and 925.00.$12.50, $15.00.Tapestry Rugs, seamless 10 wire, heaviest rug made, $18.50.BASEMENT STORE BARGAINS.Tape lc.a roll, Pins 2 cents or 3 for 5 cts., Safety Pins 2 dozen for § cts., Machine Thread, 200 y apers son a spool, 2 spools for 5 cts., 25 cts.a dozen, Darning Cotton 3 spool for & cts., Kitchen Knives, good steel blades, 10 cents.REMNANTS.Prints 5 cts.a yard, Gingham 5, 6 and 7 cts.a yard.Crash 614 ote.a yard.Towels, 10, , 15, 20, and 25 cts.a pair.GILMAN & COMPANY, NEWPORT, VT.- The Soda Season = Is Now On The rush at our Soda Fountain has now commenced.The reputation earned last season for serving the best Ice Cream will be maintained this coming seasou, our larger quarters will allow us to serve our patrons to better advantage.THE DALY GROCERY COMPANY TOWN TOPICS.\u2018been large, but there are some left.ay._ fay evening.served locally., Dr.Waldron\u2019s .be all taken.od on the best three acres of oats.The Village Improvement Soclety, wish, through the JOURNAL, to thank Mr.and Mrs.J.U.Baxter for the use of their parlors for their first meeting of Saturday evening, a liberal contribution to the cause.sr = .Tomorrow is Arbor day in the States.Buggies at Lee Farm.The sale has Mr.W.B.Goodrow of Boston, was _ in town Tuesday calling on his trade.One of our followers of Isaac Walton ht in over 100 speckled beauties This is Ascension Day, a general church holiday, and is very loyally ob- tenements in his block are renting readily and will soon Mrs.Susan Obase, widow of the late Leonard Chase died last evening, after a lingering illness.The funeral 4 will be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock at the Congregational church.5 The sum of 450 has been added.to the \u201c.prise list of the Stanstead County Agri- oultural Society, by the Provincial Government, to be divided and award- Mr.Charles W.Stevens left last \u2018might for\u2019 New York.His former home near that oity has lately been ander lease to a tenant.Having chosen this place as his future home, Mr.Btevens is now desirous of disposing of his Now Jersey property, and bis present 1p ie in that oonnect- TOWN TOPICS.Six desirable building lote, James Daly, Stanstead.49*3 Mr.J.A.Sullivan of Boston, was a caller in town Thursday.Mer, C.'M.Libby of Portland, Me., was in town Friday and Saturday.Mr.8.B.Bates is a frequent visitor in town during the surveying of the Derby Line streets.Mr.Wiliam M.Pike is building a garage for his Jackson car.Huckins & Drew are doing the work.Mr.O.Eugene Lee has sold his new house, the second one in the rear of the Congregational church, to Mrs.O.E.Kent.For a good shine go to Mac\u2019s shoe shining parlor.Shoes called for and delivered at your home.\u2018Say when \u2014Mac does the rest.\u201d Congregational Church: Morning Sermon: The Better Country of Desire; Evening topic: To-morrow.Thepas- tor at both servives.Mies Ruth Libby of the Academic department of Stanstead College, goes to Waterville, as principal of the academy at this thrifty village next year.The International Cofnot Band has revived and they are drilling under Mr.Ellis.There were 17 out Tuesday evening and everything promises well, Mr.R.C.Parsons is building a new structure on the river bank near his store.It is to be painted and will present a much more sightly appearance.We can\u2019t all have antomobiles, the majority must stay by the old standby, the road wagon.Lee Farm has a fine line of them and you had better see them before you buy of anybody.Look arcund, don\u2019t buy too easy.The People\u2019s Telephone Co.here installed the following \u2019phones in April: Mr.Morois, Beebe, Ed.Dan- forth, Stanstead, Henry Nurse, Smith\u2019s Mille, William Pomeroy, Stanstead, 0.B.Libby, Stanstead and James Probert, Graniteville.The Olympic hockey team have on exhibition in the window at Ben Stewart\u2019s the cup that they won this season.It is of beautiful design, being 14 in.high, 6) in.in diameter and rests on a handsome ebony base 6 inches in height.The cup is supported by tour hockey sticks, with a puck standing on its edge directly under their intersection and there are a quartette of beavers on the base of the cup.The inscription is; Senior E.T.A.H.A., Championship cup won by the Olympics 1910, Players J.Daly, Vapt; G.Taylor, W.Saunders, A, La- casse, R.Bassett, R.Seguin, H, Young, A.Molntosh, sub.The boys have reason to be proud of this beautiful trophey.Voy TOWN TOPIOS.Have you joined the Village Improvement Society?Mr.Walter Norris is epending a week at his home here.: , Mr.Charles Stewart of Portland, Me., was a caller in town Monday.Mr.PF.M.-Little, of Simons, Hatoh & Co., Boston, was in town over San- day.\u201cOlothes may not make the man, but they make a big diffrunce in his feelin\u2019s.\u201d Mr.Ralph Hunt is laying a concrete walk to bis residence, a much needed improvement.Huckins & Drew are bailding a garage for F.G.and B, F.Butterfield, at their residences on South Main street.Mr.and Mrs.Alfred E.Bishop have put out their latch string in the Dr.Cass house, and are at home to their friends.Col.W.W.Sprague of St.Johns- bury was in town Friday in the interest of the Nationol Life Insurance Co.of Montpelier.Messrs.Robert Blair and F.8.Proper of Hemming, Quebec, were in town Friday to visit children they have at the College.There is to be the usual races at the Stanstead Driving Park the 24th of May, Victorir Day.Everything pointe to an interesting epring meeting on that day.A harness is a harness, but there is more difference in them than in coons; to be sure they are all black, so are coons, but Lee Farm can show you the difference in value.Take a look at them.\u2018 Mr.W.H.Briggs, of the clerical force ot the \u2018\u2019Busy Store,\u201d has been advised by his physician to spend more time in the open air, and he has one to his home at Stanbridge East or the present.Mr.A.B.Cobleigh of West Derby, is assisting Engineer McIntosh in surveying the streets of Derby Line for the purpose of ascertaining what it will cost to grade and gravel them, making them permanent.At the mpeting of the ex-committee of the Village Improvement Society of the Three Villages several important matters were considered and will be brought before the general meeting to be called Thureday evening, May 13th.Mr.J.T.Flint ie working on the tenemente over his Rock Island store.This will add two very desirable ones to our home equipment for our working people.There isn\u2019t any danger of getting too many, for they are taken as fast as they are ready.Al the beginning of the last fiscal year Lyndonville, Vt., had an indebtedness of about $70,000.Last year it was reduced to $62,000.We are contemplating village improvements, here is an example of the way a Deighbor has found it economical to The steamer \u2018\u2018Yiocco,\u201d\u2019 Capt.W.B.Holbrooke, has been overhauled and made her trial trip of the season Friday.Bhe will be doing duty shortly.Capt.Holbrooke has been at Lake Park some time; Mrs.Holbrook went down Tuesday.She has been suffering from \u2018\u2018la grippe\u201d but is now improving.St\u2019 John papers contain the announcement that the official board of Centenary Methodist Church has unanimously adopted a resolution inviting the pastor, Dr.C.R.Flanders, to remain for a fourth year, One paper says Dr.Flanders will not begin his third year in the pastorate until June, but in the time he has been here his work has been so successful that the board took this early opportunity of dlacing on record its appreciation of his efforts.\u201d The May meeting of the municipal council was adjourned until Friday evening.Oouncllors Kathan, Norris and Crawford were present at the opening hour Monday evening.After waiting twenty-five minutes an adjournment was made; a moment later Mayor Lanctot and Councilors Ball and Fregeau appeared.One of the Councilors was out of town and some matters of importance are on the papers.\u2019 That Ayer's.Cliff may be chosen as beadguarters for the 26th Canadian Horse, the new Stanstead Oounty Regiment, is not altogether improbable.The matter came up at a recent officers\u2019 meeting, the Coaticook contingent expressing a willingness to accept the county seat as regimental headquarters.It is understood that Magog and Stanstead townships would favor the selection ut Ayer\u2019s Cliff owing to its central location and of course Hatley would be glad to have Ayer\u2019s Cliff chosen.po femme om amen we ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1910.TOWN TOPICS.Mr.A.L.'King ot Boston, was in town on Friday.Mr.E.A.Rodey and his son Ray are boarding at the Union House.Sunday\u2019s sun brought out the automobile parties and the spring millinery.\u201cEf you don\u2019t see what you want, ask fur it.Ef you don't git it them, Kick!\u201d News from Mr.F.T.Caswells condition is more encouraging, as he is now showing improvement.Mr.A.T.Savaria, of Waterloo wus in town from Saturday until Tuesday, the guest of Mr.Z.J.Hudon.Mr.and Mrs.Harris C.Colby of West Burke, were up Sunday to visit Mrs.Colby's mother, Mrs.Annie Gad- upee.Our local talent are thinking of repeating either \u2018Willowdale or \u201cMay Blossom\u201d soon at the Haskell Opera House.The local contractors are now preparing bids for the construction of the St.Josephs 8ociety\u2019s new ball and club rooms.Word has been received from Mrs.H.A.Clark (Lilla Carpenter) of her safe arrival at her daughter\u2019s in Cof- feyville, Kansas.The ex-committee of the Village Improvement lety met at the Ball apartments in the Derby Line Hotel, Tuesday evening.Lee Farm has had its beet season in the sale of carriages and harnesses, and there are a few left.Take a look at this stock before you purchase.Mr.H.M.McIntosh of Burlington, is here surveying the Derby Line street for the contemplated improvement to the roads or streets and sidewalks.Mr.George Ames, who is driving Mr.D.W.Davis\u2019 car this year, has rented the cottage on Derby Highlands recently vacated by Mr.E.A.Rodey.Lost\u2014a spring.It was a March affair, that is, it put in an appearance then.The finder will please leave it at the JOURNAL office and get his reward from the finding.Mr.John F.Paquette has sold the following lots in \u201cPaquette Village\u201d this week: One to Elmer Smith, two to Trefly LaRoche and one to Napoleon Hall.Houses are soon to be built on these lots.Mr.John Parker is preaching the gospel of village improvements inside and out of his home and studio.Carpenters, masons, painters, paper hangers and plumber are \u2018pulling his purse\u201d in earnest.Mr.H.E.Channell of Sherbrooke, spent Sunday here.He says the Three Villages are the finest he sees anywhere.They are getting ready for a great fair this year, the greatest in the history of Sherbrooke.We hope our friends on the farm will read carefully the article we publish this week on our Vermont page under the head of: \u2018For Better Dairying.\u201d It gives valuable information on cow testing associstions.The Derby and Holland farmers give very hopeful reports regarding the grasshoppers; the snowstorms, frosts and rains since the first warm time bave nearly exterminated them, this season, Capada\u2019s finny tribes commenced Monday to dodge and get under the banks, and some wish they had commenced Sunday.Vermont trout are having a comfortable time now and until May 15th, and then the angle worm with a pin in his throat will lure them.The M.Y.O.baseball team played the Pirates of Stanstead at the Athletic field, Friday afternoon.It was a well played and very interesting game and revealed some exoellent timber in these two nines made up of youngsters.The score stood at the close of the nine innings, 6-9 in favor of the M.Y.O%.\u2019 The trustees of Derby Line and Rock Island bave again rented dumping ground of Mrs.Leslie, and hereafter all garbage and rubbish damped must be confihed to the limits of the dumping ground, and infraction of this privilege will oblige the trustees to discontinue the privilege of all such, and this rule will be thoroughly enforced from now on.Mr.Z.J.Hudon, who for the past five years has been employed as salesman, by Mr.P.A.Bissonnet, is preparing to leave for his old home in Waterloo, his step-father, Mr.A.F.Savaria, ex-M.L.A, and a prominent Waterloo merchant, having offered special inducements to secure his re- tarn.Over twenty years ago Mr.Hudon served his firet term of two yoars with Mr.Blesonnet.and the usual seeding will be done x Prompt Response, Fall now, howeve: hundred.This is better value than Wheat Feeds at reduced prices and the bread don\u2019t dry up.Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Que., May 8rd, 1910, Touch the Button on the Electric Light Pole in front of TRUE & BLANCHARD CO\u2019S.GASOLINE We have been selling CORN MEAL for $1.25 per hundre we lack the \u201cnerve\u201d to ask $1.34 for Corn Meal which was not O.K.r, all sold and we have just unloaded two cars of Extra Kiln- Dried Yellow Corn which we guarantee to keep cool and sweet.Just unloaded a car of Choice Ontario White Oats at 48c.per bushel.Ground Corn and Oats (eqnal parte by weight not measure) at $1.45 per ran or Shorts at $1.00 per hundred.WHOLE No.3331.Measure and low prices AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES Tires 2823) to 34x4).Goodrich Tires, the beet we believe a man can buy.\u201cWe are the Goodrich representatives and have the bottom prices, AUTO OILS The Quality is very important.y PANHARD, PACKARD, HAROLINE, Auto and Motor Boat repairing.Good men and the tools to work with.True & Blanchard Co., Newport, Vt.ETC.% Purity or Quaker Flour $2.95 per bag, 86.15 per bbl., equal to any REDPATH\u2019S GRANULATED SUGAR AT COST.It you are looking for the Best Timothy Clover and Seed Grain give us a call and we will be pleased to show it to you.A.E.FISH & SONS, P.8.\u2014-IMPORTANT.We have another car of the famous other brands.Ca That will convince you.good line of customers, and get our HUBBARD'S BONE-BASE FERTILIZERS to arrive next week.The car will contain Complete Phosophate (for corn) Potato Phosophate, Market Garden Phosophate, Soluble Corn and Genera Crops, Potato Manure, and Grass and Grain Fertilizer.REMEMBER they contain not one ounce of sand, dirt or ground rock, but are s\u2018rictly bone base.Just try a few hundred in competition with any A.E.FISH & SONS, NEW COPARTNERSHIP \u2018HALL & CORDEAU TINSMITHS, PLUMBING, STEAMFITTING GENERAL REPAIRING IN OUR LINE.We are both practical workmen and shall give all work our personal attention, and by doing good, thorough work promptly, we hope to secure a share of the business.We have a well equipped, roomy shop in the Jondro block.Cive us acall.Peoples Telephone, HALL & CORDEAU, Rock Island.TOWN TOPICS.Harnesses at Lee Farm to suit anybody in quality or price.Mr.Jerry A.Hunt has practically two sales on Buick cars at North Troy.\u201cThe under dorg gits the symper- thy, but he prefers the gate receipts.\u201d Miss Lucy Kathan of Coaticook, is spending à few days witn Col.and rs.Haskell.All the farmers say they never saw the grass and pasturage in such promise as this season.Trustees and Quarterly Board meet in the Methodist Parsonage, Tuesday, May 10, at 7.30 P.M.Bix earnest citizens are chasing the villages for a unanimous membership to the Village Improvement Society.Heve you jined?The diamond at the baseball park has been moved to the north-east corner and the backstop placed in position this week.Mr.Louis Moreau is getting on finely with his house on the McKim place.Mr.Jackson has charge of the work for Huckins & Drew.Mre.Baxter is to renew all the trees on Elm street on the \u2018Baxter flat\u201d property that is needed this season.She will probably replace with elms.Mr.Charles Jenkins has been setting an example in home improvement by having the trees about his place pruned and put in excellent condition.A call at the store of the late William Spalding revealed the fact that they are enjoying a good trade, Misses Aldrich and Moreau are kept busy.This store retains its reputation for upright dealing.Our merchants report a better bue- iness of late.Sugar has been in good demand, on the Vermont side of the line at 10 cents for solid stock in good wooden pails, and the season\u2019s production Is better than normal.Many ladies feel they must send to Boston or New York for their kid gloves.The \u201cGood Quality\u201d store has just added a fine line of two button gloves in black, white and colors; they are splendidly made up from choice skins and will please the most particular.The price ie very reasonable, as they are selliag them at 81.00 and they have the shape and fit.Kathan & Hopkins are gradually adding to their stock the many up-to- date needs like this dollar two button kid.WESTERN INVESTMENTS.The West needs your money, You need the earning capacity of the West.First Mortgages and Gilt-edge agreements of sale will yield you at least 7%.Debentures will bring 5%.Tax Sales show 107.Conservatively selected Farm Lands and City Property will give you even greater returns.For Particulars Write: J.A.FLANDERS, Real Estate and Financial Agent, 215 Somerset Block, WINNIPEG.TOWN TOPICS.The Derby Line School Children gave a most excellent program Friday afternoon; because it revealed some of the results of their work that were pleasant to witness.The naming of several artists and the description of eome of their paintings and guessing by other pupils what they were was an excellent exercise of descriptive powers and comprehension.The execises that led up to Lincoln as the climax was of value in enabling the children to retain biographical facts.One of the pleasant features of the occasion was the preeseftation to the school by Rev.J.G.Hindley on behalf of Mrs.Bixby of a fine print of Abraham Lincoln, which was very gracefully received by the school.The drill in calisthenics by the whole school showed good training and that many of the children were making good progress.The program was followed by the citizens going through the rooms and examining the work of the school in the several grades and subjects and this was enjoyable.The whole affair was one that should have been seen and enjoyed by all of our citizens.The gift of the pictnre by Mrs.Bixby carrys a suggestion for others to contribute things for our school.Town Topics continued on page 5. \u201cing the day and she wad the recipient VERMONT ITEMS.John Dodge, of Lunenburg, celebrated the 80th anniversary of his birth Friday, April 22.\u2018 With last week\u2019s issue The Groton Times ceases to'be printed at Groton.The paper will be taken over by The St.Johnsbury Republican and still issued as The Groton Times.It is said that the fleld is too small to war- | rant its publication at Groton.Let Vermont's scale towns get together in this campaign.For governor, John A.Mead, of Rutland.For lieutenant governor Leighton P.Slack, of St.Jobnsbury.This will be a good way to get an even balance so to speak.\u2014St.Johnsbury Republican.Mrs.Valeria French of Proctorville, observed the 100th anniversary of her birth April 21.Having recently recovered from a rather severe illness a formal reception was deemed inad- .visable, but several friends called dur- of many beautiful flowers, letters, and other marks of esteem.The First regiment, Vermont National Guard, is named as one of the organizations which will attend the maneouvers of regulars and guardsmen at Pine Camp, Jefferson county, N.Y., between August 21 and 31.There will be cavalry, field artillery engineers, and signal corps men from the regular army.It is announced that the Senate committee on pensions consented to give Senator Page another hearing in the case of the widow of Gen.O.O.Howard, of Burlington, and unanimously agreed to double the amount voted at first.If its recommendation becomes a law, Mrs.Howard will, therefore, receive a pension of $100 a month.The American Press, in a recent issue, has a picture of Wallace H.Gilpin, publisher of The Barton Monitor, also a picture of The Monitor building.Mr.Gilpin is printing a paper for the benefit of himself and his subscribers.He appears to be prospering and his large circulation implies that his readers believe that they, too, are getting their money\u2019s worth.\u2014 Windsor Journal.The director of the state forestry nursery at Burlington has shipped to John Fose, of Plainfield, 10,000 four- year-old Georgia white pine seedlings which have been set out on land in Plainfield owned by the state.It is proposed to make this an object lesson to members of the next legislature, and those interested will be invited to visit thie state land in Plain- field to look over experiments in forestry now being carried on there.The Vergennes liquor license commissioners have granted licenses as follows: First class, Bartholomew Casey at the Stevens house; fifth class W.R.Warner & Co.and Timothy Neville.This is the location of the reform school and we are obliged to say that we fail to discover any element of aplift in the influence of a saloon in any town but that it should be permitted where a reform school is located, is certainly bad advertising to say nothing of the moral effect.\u201cVermont and Now Hampshire make a good thing from their maple sugar industry, but they might make a good deal more with a little effort.Just as in apple raising cultivation and attention to the trees will pay, and there is no reason why they should not be developed.Money from maple sugar and syrup is mostly \u2018velvet\u2019 and the farmers make a mistake when they do , not gather more of it.\u201d\u2019\u2014Lowell Cou- rier-Citizen.And yet there is hardly a more uncertain crop in all the farmer\u2019s business chances than this same maple sugar.It pays well when it does pay, and, on the face of the re- tarps of a favorable season, it would seem as if there could be no reason why a greater investment should not be made in the enterprise.And then the very next year the season will be so unfavorable that it is hardly an exaggeration to eay that it did not pay to put the buckets out.The maple sugar yield appears to depend pecu- Marly upon precise weather conditions in a season all too short at best.Mrs.Albert 8.Miller, who died at the home of her nephew, O.F.Boyn- ton, in St.Johnsbury, a few days ago, was born at Beebe Plain, Que., Feb.11, 1834, her maiden name being Jane L.House.She was the last surviving member of & family of five children born to Hiram and Nancy House.Sbe received her education at Derby Adademy and her early lite was spent in Beets Plain.Much of her later life was spent in Boston, and after the death of her husband, about 23 years ago, she made frequent visits to her nephew's home, before going there to reside.She is also survived by another nephew, Johnson House ot Clit- tondale, Mass., who attended the funeral and with Mr.Boynton accompanied the remains to Beebe Plain, fol: lowing a service at the house conduot- ed by Rev.F.8.Tolman.Mrs.Miller was a member of the Baptist Church at Beebe Plain.She has been in frail health for the past year following a severe illness, and has been able to be out very little this winter, but a cold and the grip developed very rapidly and her frail health could not withstand the fliness.A profusion of beautiful flowers bore silent testimony to her wide friendship.VERMONT ITEMS.Mrs.Hannah Stowe Slayton Holt of South Woodstock passed her 07th birthday anniversary April 13, being remembered in various ways.For Better Dairying.State Commissioner of Agricultare O.L.Martin has recently issued & bulletin called the \u201cCow Testing Association Number,\u201d which ought to There is a movement On foot to or-| be read by every owner of a dairy 18 ganize a Bradford Women\u2019s club, the plan being to make every woman in town eligible, if she cares to join.day night.The garage at Orystal Lake House, Barton, in charge of J.W.Murkland, is working to ite fullest capacity, with a \u2018prospect of enlarged facilities to meet the growing demands.Mr.and Mrs.Theodore N.Vail of Lyndon sailed from New York Wed- neaday on the steamer Oceanic, of the White Star line, for Southampton, England.They expect to be abroad for about two months.The Mothers\u2019 Club of West Charleston has received a gift of fourteen children\u2019s books - from Mrs.G.D.Pushee of Weston, Mass.These books are gratefully received as ome of the greatest needs of the library is books for the younger readers.Farmers and Books.The Concord Grange recently die- question: \u201cWhich Is the More Serviceable to a Farmer, Practical Knowledge Gained by Experience, or Knowledge Gained from Agricultural Books or Papers\u2019?We bave no knowledge of what was said on this question by either side but would like to offer a few suggestions.First, no farmer can prosper unless be has practical knowledge gained by experience.No matter how many theories he may have he must be able to apply them to actual conditions to make them of any use.Bo he must never expect to substitute | demonstrated beyond the possibility cussed the following book knowledge for practical effort.Book knowledge may, however, be more valuable and important to him than anything he would gain by practical experience alone because it might suggest to him methods for the application of his practical efforts that would bring more profitable results for his labor.Practical knowledge, that is the performance of the work in the way it was taught to the middle aged farmer of to-day as a boy, would keep him still trying to maintain the fertility of the soil by the use of barnyard manure alone.Book or theoretical knowledge has shown him that land cannot maintain its life on one kind of food any more than animal life can be supported that way.Practical knowledge would still maintain live stock on dry hay and dry The other kind of knowledge hae shown him that the rations must be balanced to give the most profitable results.So it will be seen that while the theoretical can never displace the practical in a farmer\u2019s life, it is of as much use and value to him.Farmers should not attempt to belittle the importance of \u201cbook learning\u201d but rather welcome it as far as it can help them towards more profitable and successful efforts.grains throughout the wiater.\u2014St.Johnsbury Caledonian.Practical Test for Boys.fects.opment\u2014St.Johnsbury Caledonian.invest in them or not.Ira E.Stewart shipped 357 pounds of sugar from Bristo] last week to the Vermont association of Washington, which held its annual sugar.party Fri- The offer of T.N.Vail to give through The Caledonia County Fair Association the boys of Caledonia county prizes for products from & given area of soil is one that should develop the boys in this section.In the first place it calls for a test of à boys practicability because he must work the matter out with his own hands.Then he must have a sense of proprietorship in the soil as this is die- tinctly his own venture.It will open the mind of the boy to modern methods because he must employ the best methods known if he is to win the prize.All of these things will tend to increase the boy\u2019s interest in agrioul- ture and so will have beneficial ef- There is one more suggestion In this contest.Here is Mr.Vail a man of immense wealth offering prizes, not for smart boys, nor boys with wealthy parents, nor boys merely popular in their neighborhood, but prizes for boys who prove by practical test that they cen do things.This is a call trom a wealthy man for the growing boys of, this section to take hold and show what they can do.In this matter Mr.Vail is voicing the call of the day for boys who can show they have ability to do things.In entering this contest the boys are fitting themselves to respond to the call that will come to them over and over sgain before they will be called successful.These reasons make it desirable for boys to enter the contest not simply tor the prize but for their own devel- With 125,000 American farmers entering Canada to take up land thie year, it looks as if there were reciprocity, somewhere, between the Dominion and the States.But Canada\u2019s resources are dawning on the country every day; how limitless is its wealth honestly dug trom the earth; how wonderfully and scientifically its pat- ural riches are being discovered and developed must imprees every intelligent vbeerver, whether he desires to Vermont.He answers the question, \u201cWhat is a Cow Testing Association?\u201d as follows: «A cow testing association is simply an association of dairymen formed for the purpose of learning the dairy abilities of their several cows.Itisa method whereby, through the employment of an expert who travels from farm to farm, this work is done for the varions members accurately, cheaply, easily.The proposition is one of Danish inception.It is said that the scheme originated with a woman, whose husband was trying to improve his herd by careful selection, by weighing the milk of each cow, testing it for ite fat content, and keeping careful record.She conceived the idea that their neighbors might cooperate in hiring a man to do this work, which could then be carried on in greater detall, with less expense, and perhaps with more accuracy than by the individual farmer.A community meeting was held, the plan ontlined, and the first association formed in 1895.\u201cThe cow testing association has had vogue on this continent for about six years, and such organizations are now being formed in many dairy sections.There are five or more in Maine, a few in New York, and Penn- sivania, many in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, and other etates.There are probably more in Wisconsin than in any other one state.Some 60 or more were recently at work in the province of Quebec and Ontario.The plan is a practical one, it is inexpensive, it affords reasonably accurate data, it possesses\\educational features, and it pays.All this has bean of doubt.The reports from the \"associations in Vermont are of a widely varying character.In one association one cow in four was kept at essentially no profit, or at a loss, while in another one cow in every four made more than 825 profit.This work bas only fairly been begun in this state and there is little money available for state aid.In Maine a considerable state appropriation is provided anda state dairy instructor attends every dairy test association meeting.A Maine bulletin issued tells what the members have learned from the Cow Test Association work in that state.The sentences printed below are said to be accurate quotations from remarks made by members of the different associations at the monthly meetings held during the past year and tersely express the appreciation these men feel for the Cow Test Association.\u201cI have learned the value of definite knowledge concerning one\u2019s busi- nees.\u201cI have learned the value of methods in conducting a dairy business.\u201cI have learned that cows vary in production of milk and milk fat.\u201cI have learned that protein is food requirements.\u201cI bave learned that the cost to produce a pound.of milk fat varies widely with different cows.\u201cI have learned that the consuming capacity of a cow often exceeds her producing capacity.\u201cI have learned something of the part the food nutrients play in the economy of animal life and milk production.i I have learned much concerning methods of feeding.\u201cI have learned the analysis of feed stuffs.\u201cI bave learned that cows vary if sometimes fed in excess.\u201cI have learned to have a genuine pride in good dairy cows.\u201cI have learned the importance of breeding.\u201cI bave learned that breeding operations should be carried on with intelligence.4] have learned that fads have no rightful place in the breeding of dairy animals.\u201d Commissioner Martin well says that fitty of these associations should be formed in Vermont.In this manner a dairyman may know accurately whether his herd is composed of the best possible cows or whether he is keeping some animals that are far from profitable.The dovelopment of this idea means much for the dairy industry of Vermont.\u2014Montpelier Journal.Paulhan the French aviator, won the 850,000 prize in the aeroplane race from Manchester to London England.W.J.Bryan flays Hughes, the new Justice of the Supreme court appointed by President Taft, and says, he is the friend of corporate interests.This same Bryan is vne of the cleverest advertisers in present day life, and it is s0 out of balance that he aiwaye wobbles on any question of publie policy, but manages to keep near the center of the atuxe each day in the year, it seems tu ve à continuous performance, and the oply fruitage is gratification uf vanity.THE GRANGE AT WORK.Py MorTINES WHITBREAD.The Good Book says: * They help- od every one his peighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.\u201d e .It is the lone snd lohesome farmer who gets narrow, contracted, selfish.Is was old Cain who first asked the question: \u201cAm I my brother's keeper?\u201d The grange is a great fraternity, or brotherhood of farmers.\u201cThe only expenditure that will make us stronger and better as a people are those that go into the development of industries and the higher education of the best people.\u2014Dean Davenport, of the Illinois College of Agriculture.The Grange was the first organization to open ite doors upon a perfect equality for women, and to give to her the rights that belong to her.It is woman who rocks the cradle of nations, and molds the intant mind, ât- ting it to go out and fight the battles of the world.The Grange is making an earnest, and so far successful, fight, to maintain the present oleo law which it worked hard to get a few years ago.Remember, that the tax on oleo (uncolored) is but one-fourth of a cent a pound.The tax on counterteit butter (colored oleo) is ten cents a pound.The present law protects both the farmer and the consumer against counterfeit butter.There has been a whole lot of talk about the high prices of living, that farmers are getting rich, ete., but it is found by investigation that the farmer only gets one dollar out of every three paid by the consumer.Too many go-betweens; too many who \u201ctoil not, neither do they spin;\u201d too many trusts; too much unequal tariff, The Grange seeks \u2018\u2018to bring producer and consumer into the closest and most friendly relations possible.\u201d \u201cTake off the tariff on all food products; beef and all food ia cheaper in England, and Germany, and France, and so reduce the cost of living here,\u201d say some city editors.But farmers in the, Grange reply: \u2018Yes, food is cheaper in Europe, eoare boots, and shoes, and clothing, and watches, and agricultural machinery, and a lot of other things.Bo, if \u2018free\u2019 food, then \u2018free\u2019 manufactured goods.Tariff for all or tariff for none.A square deal.\u201d Farmers are not only the greatest producers, but also the gieatest consumers, because they are by far ahead of any other class.When farmers have better prices, then they have more money to spend for maunfactured goods, for labor, etc., and so all have better times.The Grange helps the tarmer get better prices, and to spend his earnings to the best advantage.Houlton Grange, has 1,015 members, runs a successfnl co-operative store, established twelve years ago, business last year amounting to more than $300,000.In connection with the store are a grist mill, a blacksmith shop and a starch factory, all operated for the benefit of the members.The fire insurance company in conuection with this grange carries $3,000,000 in risks.\u201cThe devolopment and conservation of rural social life I believe will have much to do in keeping our \u2018boys and girls contented and interested in the farm.In this the grange is doing some of its best work.I have noted that in the communities where the Grange is most active there is not eo mnch of the drift of the young people to the cities as is found in communities that have so far neglected the opportunities which the Grange offers in this direction.And this result, coming from the social side of the order, is not confined to favored sections as to natural advantages and environment, but is found in thickly or sparsely settled sections, upon poor us well ss upon good soil.Because of its county-wide, State-wide, and nation-wide connections, the young people of the farm have the very widest fleld for development and enjoyment of their social natures.I believe the Grange holds the key to the solution of the desertion of the farm, especially by its best crop\u2014the boys and girls.\u201d\u2014\u201cFarmer\u2019\u201d Wm.T.Creasy, Master Pa.State Grange.Plant plenty of the good ideas you bave received with the garden and farm seeds.GROSS COFFEE FRAUDS.According to Dr.Harvey Wiley, the department of agriculture has decided to take official cognizance of the methods of the coffees vendors of the United States.It has long been claimed that Brazilian coffee, all of which comes from the port of Santos, is sold as Mocha and Java, and that is in violation of the pure food law and that section relating to misbrand- ng.Doctor Wiley says not ten per cent of the coffee imported into the country comes from Java, and that the Brazillan variety is far superior in any case, both as to quality and price.The base of all the trouble seems to be New York and New Orleans, where coffee merchants put up private \u2018\u2019brande\u2019\u201d made from low quality ecreeninge and siftings and label these Mocha and Java.It the department has ite way, Brazilian coffee is to be treated justly and be permitted to travel under its own name in the near fature.- How Should a Obristiany Lady Dressel Fires, lot us read a fow verses from the 6th chapter of Matthew, 34th'and following verses.' Nowhere can I find in the New Testament that our Lord males any - allusion to the dress of women, nor do we learn by any instance that the matter of raiment was in any way connected with His ministry here.He dressed as was the custom of the country in which He lived, so that He was not distinguished by His clothes or the manner of wearing them.It seems to be the opinion of some people that they must dress in some way peculiar in order to show to the world that they are Christians, as if there were no other way to distinguish themselves from those who do not profess Christianity, or that any outward appearance could prove to the world their genuineness.In times of persecution the poor persecuted Obristians had to wear some very inconspicuous sign in dress that they might be known to one another, but in times of peace no such signe are necessary, nor will any outward sign of dress prove to the world a change from sin unto righteousness.A Christian lady may wear clothes of the same quality and style as those of others and still possess the love of God, and in my opinion may even be up-to-date imprevailing styles, and still love and serve God, but a true Christian lady will not give all her time and thought to these matters; she will have thought for the life which is to come, as well as for the life that now is, nor will she spend money on fine dresses which should baspent for other purposes.And if she is a lady of wealth, she will not by extravagance of dress be the envy of less fortunate ones, but she will in all things show to the world that she has \u201cwalked with Jesus.\u201d 1 firmly believe in having an independence of opinion in the matter of dress, and in being willing to acbord to others the same right.Let everyone dress as they think most proper and becoming, and let none attempt to display their goodness either by plain or other apparel, but rather let us look for the true beauties of character which are bound to shine out when there's a true Christian heart within.And for those who are not professors of religion and may appear frivilous and given to dress, let us still believe that there is good in them for it és there if we only look for it, instead of searching out their faults.As for those who expect by any peculiarity of drees to be known as particularly Christian it will be well that we look no farther than their dress, as that would likely prove tu be the principal part and bear inspection best.c.a°s.GEORGEVILLE.Received too late for last week.Rev.Mr.Venables, late of British Columbia, is expected to arrive next week to take up the work of St.Georges\u2019 Church, succeeding Kev.Mr.Bradebaw.The new clergyman will reside in Georgeville, instead of in Fitch Bay, and will be warmly welcomed here.Mr.Richard Scales has, we understand, eold his farm outside the village to Mr.John Bly, whose farm ad- jolued it.Mr.Scales contemplates taking a trip west.Mr.G.F.Greenwood recently paid a visit to his estate at \u201cTanglewood\u201d and while here planned extensive improvements to be carried out in the near fature.Among these improvements are a large round baru and up- to-date farm honse to be built on the property formerly known as the *Bre- voort\u201d\u2019 farm.A house to be built on the \u2018\u2018Tanglewoed\u2019\u2019 estate to be ocen- pied by Mr.Greenwood\u2019s gurdener.Mr.Greenwood also intends building a new forty foot motor launch.This work is all in the hands of Mr.J.E.Davidson, contractor.Mrs.J.T.Routledge has recently purchased from Mr.Benjamin Smith hie property on the Lake road.\u2018Mr.Smith intends leaving for England shortly.Rev.F.G.Vial of Lennoxville will hold service with celebration of Holy Communion in St.Georges\u2019 Church next Sunday morning.Several of our townspeople went to Magog in Mr.J.A.Camber\u2019s motor boat, \u201cThe Native,\u201d on Friday evening to attend the midstrel show there.Miss Allle McGowan has returned from Newport and will leave to take a school at Milan, Que., on May 1st.Mr.Haskell of Derby Line was in town on Saturday coming from Newport in his speed launch the \u2018\u2018Bella.\u201d Mr.Arthur Genge of Sherbrooke, was in town last Saturday.Mr.D.A.Bullock and family spent Sunday at their cosy cottage on the west shore of the lake.Mr.and Mre.Lee Jewett of Fitoh Bay will be employed at \u201cEllabank\u2019 fortheeummer.Mr.and Mre.J.E.Davidson spens the week-end with friends in Beebe, Que.Mr.C.C.Copp, Derbÿ, Vt., and Mr.Wray Adams, Fitch Bay, were visiting friends in town last Sunday.Mrs.A.G.Sherif?is in Montreal for à shoet time.\u201c \u2018 SUV NSE SE ICE FOR SEASON.OF 1810 - l am ready to contract ® | CAN NOW SUPPLY CLEAN ICE Prompt Service on \u2018both sides omp of the L d ine ERNEST W.CHANNELL, u Œamseils Stanstead, Que People's Phone.» * Driving Wagons! I have just received from the Cansds Carrisge Company a car load of - new Wagons, including .Buggies, oo Two and three seated Burreys, eto.upon which I am prepared to make the olosest prices consistent with high-class goods.Light Driving Wagons a Specialty.ed I can sell ypu any kind of a Wagon and rantee satisfaction n every respect.i \\ \"J.E.PERKINS, Jondro Factory Rock Island, Que.WARNING.Trespassing on my farm, near Fairfax, is strict] Yorbladen.ref any\u2019 person uty of violating this order will be prosecu to the extent of thelaw.agent in Btanstead, and is suthoriged to oute any offender.JAMES A.DAVIDSON.Fairfax, April 1, 1910 41% GEORGE T.BOOTHMAN, BUILDER Plans and 8 floations tarnished at short Notice.Estimates cheerfully given of Buildings in ood, Brick, Concrete or Stone.Derby Line, Vt., R.F.D.No.1.Telephone Stanstead Hotel, - Stanstead, Que.HAIR GOODS FOR SALE.Switobes, Puffs, Curls and Pompadours made of good quality human batr, also made to order from comb- ngs a MRS.D.NEVEU\u2019S Railroad Street, Rock Island.WANTED.TV or three stitchers.PEERLESS OVERALL OO.Rock Island, Que.FIRST-CLASS WORK REASONABLE GUARANTEED PRICES CHARLES E.HASELTON Manufacturer of and Dealer in all kinds of Granite and Marble Monuments and Head Stones Your Cemetery work such as Lettering and esetting is Solicited Beebe, Que, and Vit.Shavings and Sawdust Free while they Jast\u2014which will be about four weeks.If you want any, get a move on.We will deliver for you for the price of our team per der 83.00.We also have for sale one milllon five hundred M Shingles, 400 M feet of Lumber, a lot of Slabs, about 1,000 Fence Posts and 13 of the best Stone Drags you ever saw.Our prices are Mr.A.M.Banbornismy \u2018 prose: quoted at the mill, but we can de- \" ver any of the above at short notice.TILTON & RAYMOND, Phone.Smith's Mills, Que.PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the School Board of the Townships of Stanstead will to the highest bidder,ata mostine to Be held at D.= Doran's Hall, 8mith's Mi 1s, Que.on Saturday the fourteenth day of May, 1910, at the hour of two o'- clock p.m., the Land and fichoolhouse erected thereon, situate in school district No 11, Lot Ber resolution of the Bohol\u201d Board of We e olution of the 00) Township of Stanstesd .W.MORRILL, Chairman wows C.A.JENKINS, Sec\u2019y Treas.THE LIVERY STABLE OF THE ROCK ISLAND HOUSE is the best quipped establishment of its kind in this section\u2014Good horses, superior buggies, comfortable surreys.Rubber-tired Rigs a Specialty.H Clipping d hands at lf frags, Pre Light Jobbing promptly attended to.HALL & NETTLETON, Proprietors.Water Works, Water Power, Patent Solicitor, Surveying, Bell phone 349, People\u2019s phone.a. a.> ON THE LIMITES.This Marsh-Looking Man Knew Just How to Handle Babies.The merciless heat made the pas sengers gasp as, the Limited ployed fia way steadily across the Western plains.Dreary, monotonous, was the vista of sand and scrub which greet.od the eyes of the wearied travellers.To add to their discomfort, above the muffled roar of the train arose the continuous wailing of a child.More than one man cursed softly and sought refuge in another car\u2014all, as it happened, crow: looking passenger 5 \u201cWhy don't you quiet?\u201d he snapped.The mother, à foriorn-looking woman clad in rusty black, looked pathetically up at him.\u201cI've been trying to,\u201d she faltered.\u201cBut, you seg, the heat and the long journey\u2014\" A new expression stole over the harsh-looking passenger's face.\u201cGive it to me,\u201d he said in a tone of mar vellous gentleness; and the poor mother placed the fretful baby in his arms.keep that brat Whereupon he threw the child out of the window.Sold again! tinge THE REASON.S Discontented Wife\u2014Several of the men whom I refused when I married you are richer than you are now.The Husband\u2014That's why.\u2014Illus- trated Bits.» A Useful Garment.Clothier\u2014Were you pleased with the overcoat which: I sold you?Customer\u2014Oh, yes?all my boys worn it.\u201cWell, think of that!\u201d ; \u201cI do.Every time after a rain the next smaller one has to take it\u201d\u2019\u2014 Answers.Last Resort.Mrs.Crawford\u2014You say it is im possible to get any money out of your husband.Have you gone about it the right way?Mrs.Crabshaw\u2014l\u2019ve tried everything, my dear, except sending him a Black Hand letter.\u2014Brooklyn Life.Quite Enough Room.\u201cI fancy you've asked too many people.The table won't hold them.\u201d \u201cOh, no! More people can be placed at a table now than formerly.Why, a fashionable woman in evening dress takes up about as much room as a polled-up umbrella.\u201d\u2014Lippincott's.LONG ENOUGH.Transfent\u2014Kindly tell me whether this ticket will allow me a stop-over here?.© ftation Agent\u2014It depends.What do you want to stop for?Transient\u2014To visit some rather distant relatives of mine, the Jinkses.Station Agent\u2014Then you'll have plenty of time.This ticket is good + for the next train.Transient\u2014See here! Do you know how long I intend to stop?Station Agent\u2014Not exactly; but I know the Jinkses! Unfortufate, \u201cAh!\u201d said the candidate, \u201cthis is Farmer Whiffietree's place, I believe.And you have just celebrated your golden wedding, ! understand ?\u201d \u201cGolden weddin' nuthin'!\u201d was the response.\u2018I've just been sued for ten thousand dollars\u2019 wuth of breach of promise.You've got your card index mixed.\u201d Vigliant Fido.Ia the barber shop the scissors clicked merrily away, and the barber's dog lay on the floor close beside the obair, looking up intently all the time at the occupant who was having bis Rate out.Ne Chance.\u201cSupposing a child were born upon the high sen, his parents being Armeri- cans, would he be eligible for the Presidency?\u2019 \u201cMot if boys were still being born |\u201d œuidE SooK or ETIQUETTE -used to any better at home.Probably Complied by One Whe Has Suffered from Sad Manners.Persons traveling on the continent will find the most economical means small Oxford partaken of à seven-course a transatlantic steamer, it 19 remark \u201cPunk food\u201d sharp ly upon arising from the table, Otber- wise the crew will think you are Rot Upon returning from a country boarding house where the only excitement is wondering what form the ham will take the next meal, ft is well to speak of your vacation as \u201ca delightful experience at ¢ quaint old place close to nature.\u201d This sounds romantic and doesn\u2019t mean a thing.~ Young gentlemen desiring to play stuss over Sunday in the rear of a beer saloon may allude to their absence as \u201ca week-end spent on a duck farm.\u201d / When invited on a yachting trip always arrange to sit on the bight of the main sheet.Occasionally rap the deck sharply with your heels.This will please the owner of the boat immensely.If you can arrange to tie a few knots in the main sheet, all hands will usually take a pleasant little swim before the day is over.No picnic is complete without a young lady who thinks she sees à snake.It 18 not good form, however, to comment upon the bugs in the butter and the grasshopper in the pickle bottle.One must not be too literal in summer.- Those sitting on the rear seat of an automobile should always sing.Close harmony and the odor of gasoline make a very classy combination.It 18 not proper for young ladies to go bathing without a chaperon.If you have a chaperon, however, not much of anything else is necessary.At the seashore never throw sand in a gentleman's shoes.Put it down his neck.It will get to his shoes ultimately.If he's in a hurry for some in his shoes, he can put it there himself.There is plenty of sand.If you should find a magazine lying around at à summer hotel, carry it up into your own room immediately.If You don't the owner is almost sure to come back and take it away.Before the Drug Act.\u201cBefore we had governmental inspection of drugs,\u201d said a chemist of Washington, \u201cqueer things used to happen.Here is one: \u201cA Washington man was taken vio.ently ill, and his wife got him a box of nux pills.He took three and recovered.The remainder of the box was put away in a damp closet.\u201cSome time later, going to the closet, the man found that two of the six pills left in the box had sprouted.A healthy green shoot had sprung from each.Instead, you see, of being nux pilis, they were nothing but peas covered with a coat of flour.\u201d Positive Proof.A lawyer going into the parlor of his home noticed pencil marks on the wall, put there, as he rightly supposed, by one of his children.He called his little five and six year old son and daughter In to gee which one had done the mischief.Of course each one blamed it on the other, so the father said, \u201cWell, my son, a little bird told me he was sitting on the fence and saw you through the window marking the wall\u201d The little fellow answered, \u201cGet that bird and make him prove it.\u201d\u2014Delineator.Vegetarians In Dispute.English vegeiarians are awfully sore on the Japs for proving traitors to their old vegetarian mode of live ing, and are predicting endless calamity, even ruin, saying: \u201cWhen rice- eating peoples take up meat the result is always disastrous to their health.\u201d Japs know what to eat, and are too wise to listen to any British advice intended to weaken them as warriors.\u2014New York Press.Parisian \u201cSinging Are.\u201d The \u201csinging arc\u201d has been so far perfected that it is made use of as an advertisement feature of a Paris shop, The lamp hangs in front of the store and at all times during the day.and night there is \u2018a continual concert of musical features interspersed with vocal references to the virtues of the articles to be found on sale within the store.Fire Losses In New York.As to fire losses in New York city, it may be said that they amount an- manily $0 about $5,000,000, which does sot include expense to the city of some 300,000 false alarms.Since 1888 the loss from fire in the city aggre gated $130,000,000.This total represents 125,496 fires; or 4,600 fires a year, or 13 a day, or one in every two hours.Y.M.C.À.In Germany and America.There are 1,990 Young Men's Chris tion associations in Germany\u2014only 1,939 in America; yet, where the German associations have but 117,000 members, the American have 446,000.And German association property holdings have a value of $2,400,000 contrasted with a value of $40,000,000 ifn America.Tribute to Great Churchman.The magnificent memorial church, being erected in Birmingham, Eng land, through the generous contribu tions of world-wide admirers of the late John Henry Newman, is nearing completion.It has been built outside the old Oratory, so dear to the heart of the cardinal \u2018in the grand old Biate of Ohio.\u201d > \u201c| WORK NORE FATAL THAN PLAY Dr.Hutchinson Insludes Wine, Wem» an and Song in the Lat ter Category.Indisnapolis.\u2014Speaking at the com ference of hygiene of the National Education Association, Dr.Woods Hutchinson of New York said: \u201cWe hear much about the terrible ravages of death among those who enjoy themselves.They call it the result of diseases of play, but the diseases of work kill their bundreds of thousands, while only hundreds of thousands succumb to the diseases of play\u2014even including dissipation and wine, woman and song.\u201cWe say usually that when & man gots old he does not enjoy himself and that he does not have any pleasure.We say that when a man gets old he quits playing.The fact is that when a man quits playing he gets old.\u201cAnd it is said, too, that play costs money, and that you cannot play without money.It is always the things that are expensive and luxurious that men desire for their amusement and pleasure.But this is wrong, too, for the very best things for our plays are the free things.They are the things that cost nothing.That baseball should be an impor tant part of the education of children and that every schoolboy, and, perhaps, every schoolgirl, should play the game, is the opinion of William A.Strecher, director of physical training in the public schools of Philadelphia, expressed in the conference of hygiene of the National Education Association in this city.Each school should have a baseball club and the clubs should visit each other\u2019s grounds in the fashion of the professional leagues, Strecher added.Increasing attention must be paid to strengthening the bodies of children if their mentality is to improve, he pointed out, and he asserted that of all games baseball provides the best and safest exercise.x 22000000220009000\u20ac RACE SUICIDE 18 GIVING THE COUNTRY TO ALIENS.Plain Talk by a Paulist Priest to Chicago Audience.Chicago.Father Isidore, whose travels as a missionary have taken him into many countries, discussed \u201cRace Suicide\u201d with extraordinary bluntness before a large audience at the Mission of the Paulist Fathers in Holy Name Cathedral.Aside from his warnings to both men and women, he pre- dicted\u2014and even now saw coming to pass\u2014the destruction of the race that first settled this country, driven out of power and displayed by the more vigorous child-bearing immigrants.OCOCCOCOOOCOCC JU CAUGHT A WHITE MUSKRAT.Rare Albino, Say the Old Trappers of the Jersey Swamps.Caldwell, N.J.\u2014James Marsh, who makes a business of trapping in the Big Pice swamp near here, captured an albino muskrat.The creature has pure white fur and pink eyes.Old hunters and trappers, who have killed many hundreds of muskrats every spring for many years in the lowlands bordering the upper courses of the Passaic, Pompton and before have seen an albino muskrat, The usual color of the rodents fis brown, sometimes shading almost to black.Marsh has spent the last two months hunting and during that time has secured more than 150 skins of the dark colored muskrats.These with the skin of several mink, skunks and possums will net him about $150.AND HER NAME WAS \u201cMAUD.\u201d Mule Killed a Bear, According to Farmer's Story.Huntingdon, Pa.\u2014Daniel Shawley, a local farmer, tells a story of how he escaped death through the sagacity of a net mule, which kicked a black bear to death just as it was giving Shaw- ley a death hug.Shawley has lost several sheep through bears.This morning he went on a hunting trip with a shotgun.He had fired the two barrels at a bear when it closed with him.Shawley whistled for \u201cMaud,\u201d the mule.According to his story, \u201cMaud\u201d ambled to the scene of the struggle and let fly with both heels, killing the bear.Shawley exhibits a dead bear weighing 282 pounds to prove his story.May Smoke at Home.Buffalo, N.Y.\u2014A man can have the privilege of smoking in his own home if he supports his wife and family, according to a decision handed down in City Court by Judge Nash in the case of Mrs.Theodore Budaszenski against her husband for alleged non-support.Hempstead, N.Y.\u2014Great excitement was caused in Main street in this village when a Plymouth Rock hen rushed to the doorstep of a shop and lald an egg on the mat.The wife of the proprietor put the egg in the show window.London.\u2014 Never were hatpins 80 extravagant in size and costliness as now.The latest fancy of the smart French woman is to have beautifully Painted miniatures set into gold or ewelled rims to serve as the heads of atpins.Rockaway rivers, say that they never ' STYLE IN À CAVE.Novel Home of a Rich Arkansas Farm mer at Mountain's Top.H.8.Mobley, one of the most prom Inent and successtul farmers near Prairie Grove, Ark.an active member of the National Farmers\u2019 Union, has lived for years.in a cave at the top of a mountain 1,700 feet high.The Milwaukee Wisconsin says it is probably the most palatial cave in the world, with all modern conveniences, including hot and cold water, electric fans, electric lights and steam heat.The cave is seventy-eight feet long by twenty-five feet wide and thirty-two feet high.The walls are of beautl.ful granite, which has been handsomely.polished.The ceiling is forty feet thick.The front of the cave is of glass and the ficors are of hardwood.The flues of the cooking range pass out through the mouth of the cave and extend outward a distance of nearly forty feet.Movable screens permit the increase and reductions of rooms at the pleasure of the occupants.A fine spring at the top of the mountain furnishes water through a private system of water works.This novel dwelling is reached by a beautiful road ascending the crest of the mountain by easy stages and the grounds about the cave are kept in perfect condition.The occupants declare that it is the coolest dwelling in summer and the most comfortable in winter, and they have no fear of cyclones, which are frequent in that region.Neither heat nor cold penetrates the solid granite, Lincoln's Strange Wooing.Lincoln's wooing and wedding are of so peculiar a nature that they deserve notice in the annals of his remarkable life, as throwing a side-light upon one aspect of his character with which the general public fs wholly unfamiliar.This peculiarity can only be explained by his disordered state of mind when he became acquainted with Miss Mary Todd in 1839.His wooing was a series of morbid misgivings as the force of his affections, of alternate ardor and coolness, advances and withdrawals, and every variety of strange language and freakish behavior, continued until the appearance of his omnipresent political rival, Douglas, in the field of love gave it the much-needed matrimonial impetus.But when, after several months of courtship, the wedding day arrived, the bride waited vainly amid her silks and bowers for the recalcitrant lover.Friends discovered him on the mor row, hidden in an out-of-the-way corner, if not insane, at least sunken in one of those absorbing fits of despondent gloom from which he suffered at that time.Months later, when he was quite recovered, the wedding took place, this time with much less ostentation, thanks to the former ridiculous performance.Just to Remind Him.A Cleveland man, who visited friends in Hants, England, last year, tells the following story of a canny Scot, à beadle, whose habit 1s to show tourists the remains of the abbey in his parish.One day he had thus conveyed & party through the place, every member of which had tipped him with the exception of a crabbed old fellow of his own nationality.As the offender left, whispered in his ear.\u201cWeel, when ye gang home, if yo fin\u2019 oot that ye have lost your purse, ye maun recollect that ye havena had it oot here.\u201d\u2014Harper's Magazine.the beadle Restrictions on An Helress.The most recent addition to the ranks of the wealthy helresses of New York is Miss Katherine Bradley Bige- low, a little girl of ten years.Under the will of her grandmother, Mrs.Ellen M.Hennessy, Miss Bigelow inherits a fortune estimated at $500,000, which is, however, forfeited if she travels unaccompanied by a maid or chaperon of education and refinement or if she marries a divorced man or an actor.A Diplomatic Reply.An Eastern potentate once asked a group of his courtiers which they thought the greater man, himself or his father.At first he could elicit no reply to so dangerous a question.At last a wily old courtier said, \u201cYour father, sire, for, though you are equal to your father in all other respects, in this he is superior to you, that he had a greater son than any you have,\u201d He was promoted\u2018on the spot.Origin of Bridal Customs.As the wedding guests now gather together at house and church, so once did the bride's tribe gather together to rescue their stolen daughter.As now the wedding supper is prepared, so once did they sit down together in peace and amity after marriage by capture had given way to marriage by purchase, to the feast prepared by the bridegroom to propitiate his father in-law.Mind Like Other Products.As the products are improved by oultivation, so it is with the mind.Education brings the seeds of thought that have been produced by the no blest masters in the arts and sciences and Industries In all ages and all fands and sows them in our midst to spring up and fructify in accordance with the care we take in their culth vation.His Pride.A New Jersey man has been ar rested 23 times for beating his wife, and he says he is proud of his record.A wife who will stay around to be beaten 33 times probably ought to be beatea, hence the gentiemsa\u2019s pride Selections { ALL FRENCHMEN SAVERS.Government Bond as Small as a Franc May Be Bought.It you were a Frenchman with a very small surplus to invest; if, even, that gurplus were but a modest franc, you might become the holder of a French government bond.From the cradle to the grave the French subject is taught to save and to turn his earnings into safe income-producing account.The state pays a premium on thrift.It rewards its school chil dren for various good performances with a tiny bank deposit which invariably \u2018will have grown into goodly size when the recipient has reached maturity.Having nursed Its people through the early stages of economy, it directs their steps in the choice of investments, and even assumes paternal power in arbitrarily transforming the savings pank account into government bonds, or rentes, says a writer in the American Review of Reviews.Thrift is a national characteristic.France is a nation of little savers, of little incomes, and of little farms.Collectively, these exercise a tremendous power on the affairs of Europe.The holder of the one and two franc bond and the possessor of the bank account, se small that bankers of other countries would scorn it, have built up a monetary power that commands the respect of the world and, indeed, regulates the finances and politics of much more presumptuous nations.Bonds of states and governments, of railroads ith a government guarantee, bonds of cities and towns, of mortgage companies, are the Frenchman's choice.His portfolio contains the most varied collection of government securities imaginable.It is safe to say that in Paris coupons are cut from the bonds of nearly every government under the sun.Too often the Frenchman gambles and loses in mining shares.He will have none of his own country\u2019s industrial issues.Necessity of Alr Baths.The conditions and conventions of our civilization demand frequent bathing: any one suspected of avoiding a dafly bath would quickly find himself persona non grata in decent society.It is popularly supposed that frequent bathing is essential to health.This is quite untrue.Much of the benefit attributed to the water is in reality due to the complete exposure of the skin to the air.The respiratory function of the skin is of high importance, and although water may be dlapensed with, closing the pores to air would result in speedy asphyxiation.Tactics.So far as history gives us any information on the subject, the father of \u201ctactics,\u201d in the military sense, was the great Theban General Epaminon- das, who, at the famous battle of Leu- ctra, B., C.371, fought between the Thebans and Spartans, for the first time introduced the scientific mode of fighting.Prior to that time the universal rule was for the opposing armies to face each other and fight it out by sheer brute force and building tenacity, without any particular regard for scientific principles.Darwin and Wallace.In 1858 Wallace sent to Darwin a paper in which he sketched the outlines of a theory identical with that upon which Darwin had so long been at work.The same sequence of observed facts and inferences that led Darwin to the discovery of natural selection and its consequences had led Wallace to the very threshold of the same discovery; but in Mr.Wallace's mind the theory had by no means been wrought out to the same degree of completeness to which it had been wrought in the mind of Mr.Darwin.Amount of Rainfall.Recent authorities assure us that ff all the rain which falls upon the earth were allowed to accumulate in a basin of the same area of the terrestrial surface, it would almost be a collection of eight feet deep at the end of the year.The heaviest rainfall known upon the earth occurs upon the mountain slopes beyond the head of the Bay of Bengal, and amounts upon the average to 610 inches or nearly 51 feet, in the course of the year.One inch of rain implies a fall of 101 tons of water upon each acre of ground.\u201cHicksites\u201d vs.\u201cFriends.\u201d Hicksites are a numerous bedy of rationalistic Quakers in America, found- od by Elias Hicks (1748-1830), who in 1827 seceded from the Society of Friends and created a schism in that body by bis promulgation of Unitarian doctrines.About one-half of the \u201cFriends\u201d in America adopted his views.The Hicksites deny the miraculous conception, the divinity and the atonement of Christ, as well as the inspiration and authenticity of the Scriptures.Ominous.One of the first signs that a woman is getting old ls when she tells the story that she married before she Was 16 Rice Cultivation in Burma.Of the twelve million acres under cultivation in Burma, eight million are devoted to rice.What Not to Remember.There is a great secret in knowing what to keep out of the mind as well a8 what to put in.\u2014Emerson UEBEC CENTRAL RM way TIME TABLE.In Effect October, 4th, 1000.LEAVING SHERBROOKE.Naw York & Boston ExrRms\u2014Leave Bher- brooke 7.80 s.m., daily except Sunday, arrive Levis 1.00 P.M.arrive Quebec 1.15 p.m., Pull- man-car Springfield to Quebec also Pullman- car Boston to Bherbrooke connecting with Puliman-car for Quebec.PAssENGER\u2014Leave Sherbrooke 4.00 p.m., daily except Sunday arrive Levis 9.15 p.m., arrive Quebec 9.80 p.m.ACCOMMODATION\u2014 Leave Sherbrooke 6.40 p.m.dally except Sunday arrive Beauce Jct.8.88 ARRIVING SHERBROOKE.New York & Rosrox KxPREss\u2014Leave Quebec 2.90 p.m., leave Levis 2.50 p.m., dally except Bunday, arrive Bherbrooke bo p.m.Pullman-car Quebec to Springfield connect ing at Sherbrooke with Pullman-car for Bos- n.PASSENGEH\u2014Leave Quebec 7.80 am.leave Levis 8.00 à.m., daily except Sunday, arrive Sherbrooke 1.18 p.m.ACCOMMODATION\u2014Leave Beauce Jct.8.00 p.m., daily except Monday arrive Sherbrooke 4.00 a.m.Also connecting trains on Megant'c and Chau- diere Divisions.For time tables, tickets and all information apply to any of the Company's Agente.J.H.WALSH, E.O.GRUNDY, General Manager.Gen.Pues'r Agt.GROUT'S AUTOMOBILE AND MACHINE WORKS.The best equipped shop for automobile repairing and accurate machine work out side the large cities., Oils, Gasolene, Greases, Battearies, and all Automobile, Gas Engine and Motor Boat Supplies always on hand.I also build the best Circular Saw Rig in the market for the money, $35.00, including saw.filed and set.See it before you buy.Prices right, work right, and I am right here, ready to answer your call promptly day or night.People\u2019s Phone.B.F.GROUT.HAVE YOU A SILO?I have the agency for the Adirondack Silo for Stanstead and Orleans Counties and shall be pleased to hear from any who are thinking of putting in & silo; shail be very gled to call on such aud talk the matter over.shall be on the road after May 10th.in the interest of this silo in these counties.Address FREDERICK YOUNG, sow6 Box 107, Stanstead, Que.MILL WORK.The Comstock sawing and finishing mill recently purchased by us has been repaired.Our two mills will be operated for general mill work throughout the winter.Custom orders will receive careful attention.TILTON & RAYMOND, Smith's Mlile, Que.LOCAL AGENT WANTED.We require to secure the services of à reliable, energetic agent to represent us locally.Our Northern Grown stock is perfectly hardy and will succeed well everywhere.Nurseries located in the Rouville Valley, \u2018The garden of Quebec.\u201d We furnish the most complete and up-to-date outfit free, our terms are liberal.Write for them, also for catalogue.LUKE BROS., LIMITED, International Nurseries, Montreal.SEED GRAIN Farmers should exercise care in the choice of all seeds sown.We are in a position to supply the best WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY, FODDER CORN, TIMOTHY AND CLOVER to be had and at right prices SEED GRAIN CLEANED for farmers at 2 cents per bushel.Guard against weeds and secure larger crops by sowing re-cleaned seeds.We also have a full line of Flour and Feed, Corn Meal, etc.FITCH BAY GRIST MILL KENDALLS SPAVIN CURE oY is the remedy you can depend on, No other preparation has done so much for the horse and the horseman, Kendall's Spavin Cure has saved millions of dollars for thousands of owners during the past 4o years.It is the quick, sure, safe cure that never fails to give the best results even when all other treatment may prove a failure.curesSpavin,Curb, Splint, Ringbone, Swellings, Bony Growth, Cuts, Sprains, Bruises and all Lameness.Kendall's Spavin eure because it cures the cause of the trouble, It leave 10 scars or white hairs should have a bottle of Kendall\u2019s Spavin Cure \u2014 the best liniment in the world for man and beast.No telle ing when yon need it.Get it now and 5 will have the right remedv when the emergency arises.$1 a bottle \u20146 for $5.At all dealers, Ask for free > y of our book \u2018A Treatise On The Horse\" \u2014 or write us.Be.B.J.KENDALL CO.Eassburg Falls, VS. The Stanstead Journal.PUSLIARED EVERY TRUNSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING 0Q.Rock Island, Que.One year (advance payment) $1.00 12 paid in six months, 1.AS the end of the year, 1.50 When seat by mall to subscribers in the United titates the price will be $1.50 a year in advance.ADVERTISING RATES.Transient advertising 16 cents 8 line for tie firet insertion and 8 cents a line for each subsequent insertion.12 lines to theinch.Noad- vertisment received for less than Scents.tol second-clans matter at the Post- offs rg ot Line under the act of March B, SCOTT FISH AND GAME CLUB.St.Jean de Dieu, Que., April 80th, 1010.Mr.Editor,\u2014It may interest some of your readers to hear from this section of the Province.I see by the JOURNAL that the dust has been flying in Stanstead for the last two months, while we are going around on snowshoes in the woods and the ice is still firm in some of the Jakes.To-day (April 80) it has snowed continually since early morning and quite cold, yet we are fully three weeks ahead of last season, as most all the old snow had lef in the sottle- ment and we do not expect to have winter much longer.I would like to just say a word or two to those who are interested in the Scott Fish & Game Club that it is time they were overhauling their fishing tackle to see that it is all right, as it will soon be time to test it in the club waters.The trout fishing will be at its best by May 24th; the club house will then be open and everything ready for the fishing season.I wish to extend a hearty invitation to the Editor of the JOURNAL to take à trip to the club this season and test the club waters for the speckled beauties.If this don\u2019t find ita resting place in the waste paper basket I will attempt to give your readers another short letter from this section of long winters and good trout fishing.Thanking you, Mr.Editor, tor all past tavors and trusting to eee you landing one of the big ones sometime during the present season, Yours sincerely, J.H.GORHAM.GRIFFIN.The annual meeting of the \u201cGriffin Hill Cemetery\u2019 association will be held on Saturday, May 7th, at 8 p.m., in the schoolhouse for general purposes.It is hoped there will be a goodly number present.Mrs.George Young of Derby, Vt., visited friends here recently.The remains of the late Mrs.E.B.Harvey of Apple Grove were brought here for burial Weduesday, April 27, Rev.J.Fowkes officiated.Sympathy is extended to the friends in their sad bereavement.A lady friend from Lowell, Mass., is visiting Mr.and Mrs.J.A.Huse at present.Mrs.Stone and daughter, Mrs.Em- bury, spent the week-end with friends in Magog.Church of England service as nsual, Sunday, May 8th,at3p.m.Rev.A.H.Moore, M.A., Rector.All are welcome.GRANITEVILLE.There is quite a lot of sickness in the place at present, no doubt due to the changeable weather.Mr.and Mrs.Alex Hamilton are re- jolcing over a son, born April 30th.Mr.Bert Steventon, wbo spent the winter at his home in England, returned the last of the week.Mrs.Samos Hamilton and children are visiting her sister Mrs.Frank Rollie.Rev.Mr.Jamieson of Stanstead filled the pulpit very acceptably here on Sunday last.The friends of Mrs.Dennison Ward will be pleased to hear that her health is improving quite fast now.GRIFFIN.The following is the financial report of work done on the Union Charch by the Helping Hand during the autumn of 1909.Total cash on hand 8182.10 Paid A.P, Davis, for work $14.51 * A.Putney, for work 2.50 * V.Brown, for work 11.25 \u201c Tllton & Raymond, for shingle 20.40 + L Carpenter, for timber 8.48 ** A.N.Tacey, for work 11.00 * H.Merrill, lumber 417 * W, Comstock.lumber 8.42 Miller & Caas Te Cash bal.in Treasury 41.08210 $182.10 MRS.W.H.MILLER, Treas, MRS.F.GIBSON, Sec'y.in spring and summer, it\u2019s tural time to store up Bath and Treaty for the year.Scot's Emulsion TOWN TOPICS.Centenary Church, Bunday, May 6, 1910.Morning theme.\u2018Mother, Home, and Heaven.\u201d Evening theme.\u201cMy Son, give Me thine beart.\u201d, W.8.Jamieson, Pastor.\u2018 The Avoual Meeting of the Women\u2019s Christian Union will be held in the vestry of the Congregational Ohurch on Wednesday afternoon May 11th, at half past two.A full attend- [annee is desired, as matters of importance have to be attended too.We called at the Frost bakery recently and were pleasantly surprised at the improvements evideutly made during the past year, and tbe magnitude of the business they are doing revealed the fact that this concern is keeping pace with the growth of the villages.First, it is an Inviting place, clean and wholesome; the stock of material is large, showing that they buy in a large way, and we learned incidentally that every item is a spot cash purchase and all discounts are eaved, this insures them the opportunity to have access to the best that the market affords, and these advantages in values are, of course, reflected in the goods they produce.The manufactured articles have a homey look and smell, and they are toothsome and good.Everybody prefers good looking food as well as the same quality in people, and real quality sticks out all over a loaf of bread.The color of food is one of the passports of & good baker to the stomachs of his community.We would rather bake the acceptable loaf of the people than to write their eongs, for \u2018\u2018the way to a man\u2019s heart is through his stomach\u201d and the Frost bakery\u2019s all milk and cream bread is as good as any mother can wake, will please the most \u201cfussy\u201d liver, and their whole line is up to thie standard.If your wife is ill and you fail to secure a \u201chired girl,\u201d telephone the Frost bakery to bave their wagon leave you what is needed, for they are helping us to solve the servant problem by baking wholesome, good tasting food.CASWELL'S MILLS.Mrs.Eugene Sanborn is visiting her sister, Mrs.Putney, of Derby Lie.Mrs.H.L.Osgood was in Coaticook visiting friends last week.Mrs.Chas.Lane, who has been quite eick, is some better at this writing.Mr.O.L.Ames has returned home trom Maine.; Mr.Ora Bushaw bas moved his family to Lake, Vt.Mr.G.T.Ames has gone to Derby Line to drive Mr.D.W.Davis's car; also Ray E.Ames to drive Col, Chas.E.Nelson\u2019s car this season.Eld.and Mrs.Hooper of Newport Center, were in town Sunday, April 24th.Elder Hooper preached at the A.C.Church.Minnie F.Flynn visited friends in Morgan recently.: School commenced here on Monday with Ira Pomeroy as teacher.Mr.George Boothman has moved his family from one of Casweil\u2019s tenements into Elmer Smith\u2019s house, Mrs.H.W.Demick is in Island Pond with her sister, who is very sick.Mr.George T.Ames has moved his family to Derby Line.Eld.W.H.Strout of Maine has taken the pastorate of the A.O.Church and moved his family here.HOLLAND.O.L.Kelley has purchased the Peter Morrell farm.Fred Demick has purchased a farm near Derby Center.Miss Campbell is teaching school in the Bazinet district.Miss Myrtie Gray is teachiug school at Charleston.The M.W.A.Camp, 12187, will attend the Advent Church next Sunday.Mrs.Josephine Davis visited her sister Mra.E.M.Grey over Sunday.Mrs.Hollis Wheeler spent a few days last week at Derby, with her sister, Mrs.Chavncey Elliott.Mr.and Mrs.EA.Batchelder have moved into the Methodist parsonage.The Auxiliary and M.W.A.will have a spelling match next Saturday evening.Elder and Mrs.M.L.Ames spent Tueaday and Wednesday in town.Mr.and Mrs.George Ames are moviug to Derby Line.: HEATHTON.Mr.and Mrs.A.A.Batchelder, Mr.Archie Bean and sister, Miss Blanche Bean, visited Mr.and Mrs.F.D.Gilbert at Morgan, Vt., recently.Mrs.M.8.Horne and Mies Marjorie Connor spent Tuesday at Ayer\u2019s Cliff the guests of Mrs.H.J.Connor and family.Miss M.N.-Connor visited her triends, the Misses Ruth and Muriel Ellis, a few days recently, before leaving for her new home at Fairfax, Vt.Mr.Roy Hastings left for New York the firat of the week.Mr.aud Mrs.Ernest Davis and son Melville, spent a day at Stanstead recently, the guest of Mr.and Mrs, Wright Pomeroy.John MacDonald, 8r., who has spent the winter at Worcester, Mass., has returned home and has sold his place here to Mr.Archie Cilley.There was a large attendance at the party at Mr.James Bullock\u2019s last Fri- day evening and all report a fine time.PIANOFORTE RECITAL.Lass Friday evening, Pierce Hall was fairly well filled by an attentive and sympathetic audience invited to enjoy the Stadent\u2019s Recital, given by Misses Elsanor J.Blair and Gladys A.Rutherford.The young ladies made » very modest appearance and showed beil- liant possibilities in their.rendition of the difficult classical music of which the program was composed.The Eastern Townships.College of Music 1s justly proud of ite staff of instruction and of the work done by its faithful students.Misa Redden, accompanied by Miss Alger, assisted by adding a bewitching violin number, and an en- Miss Alger was most happy in those accompaniments and réceived many an appreciative comment on ber euc- cess.An attractive element at these recitals is the tactful nahering done by the young ladies.Quantities of beautiful flowers were bestowed upon the young musicians, who made their first appearance at a public recital on this occasion, and served as an expression of friendship and interest, which must render more fragrant the memory of weary practice which has led them into the realm where music need no Jonger be drndg- ery but a joy.WAY\u2019S MILLS.Mr.and Mrs.Cloutier of Sherbrooke have rented I.E.Thompron\u2019s house for the summer.Mr.and Mrs.Fritz Daniels moved to Barnston on Monday.Mr.Frank Morrill of Stanstead is working for J.L.Converse and boarding at Mrs.N.Horn\u2019s.: We had quite a snow storm here Tuesday night.Mrs.W.Thompeon who has heen very ill for many weeks is very much day.Mrs.Humphrey who went to Sherbrooke Protestant Hospital for treatment has so far recovered as to leave the hospital she is at present stopping with friends in Capelton.Mrs.M.8.Horn of Heathton and Miss Marjorie Conner ot Ayer\u2019s Cliff were at J.L.Converse\u2019s on Tuesday.Mr.Frank Aldrich of Rock Island was at F.L.Bean's on Sunday.MASSAWIPPI.The annual meeting of the Massa- wippi branch of the Canadian Bible Society will be held May 10th in the church at 7.30.A lantern lecture illustrated with colored steropticon views describing the lecture will be delivered by Rev.Thomas Bennett, District Secretary of the Bible Society.All are invited to attend and take an active interest in the meeting.A collection will be taken to further the work, There are several civil engineers, employees of our Government, at work in this vicinity, surveying the country.Mrs.H.Hunting of Huntingville, has lately, with her little son, been a guest of Mr.and Mrs.Willis Hunting for several days.Mesers.Kezar and Hunting have a car of cement just in and have opened up their cement works for business.They have the contract to build a cement bridge at Abbott's Corner for the town, which will be a novelty and no donbt a precedent to be followed by more of the same kind in the fu- tare.Thursday, May 10th, is the closing of our school and it will be a holiday.yard by all who will spare a little time and extra labor in seeking them.The flag pole is to be erected that day in which the children are much interested and are anxiously waiting to see the new flag \u2018go ap\u2019\u2019 and it ie also an event which should please the elder ones.Another plan is that a \u2018substantial lunch\u201d will be provided at noon in the town hall for all who wish to come and work, not as an inducement, but for convenience sake and the sociability of it.The ladies will do this agreeable part expecting that the \u2018men folks\u201d will do the other part, set out the trees and raise the flag.Will you and you and you come and do all you can Snow fell last night enough to cover April weather.: Miss Margaret Stevenson ie poorly again.Dr.Brown was called to-day to see her.ley on Saturday.An old landmark was demolished a few days ago, the old Sumner Hitchcock barn, which has stood the \u201cwind and weather\u201d for over 75 years, being built to endure of heavy and strong timbers such as \u201cthose times\u201d could furnish.while the hards that built it have long rested fiom labor.BEEBe.A large number communed at the Sacramentai Servicu in the Methodist Church last Sand.» morsing.\\T'wenty five members were received into church fellowship, seven by letier and eighteen on grotvesion of faith, four received the Sacrament of Baptiem, Principal Tru man gave a helpful address On the power of Influence.Moulton on Fi .38.and Che \u2018 Yg\"» the same events dite Mies Houee, core which was loudly demanded.Do better and able to sit up a little every d Trees are to be set out in the school |5 the ground by morning.Just a bit of f Mies Mable Bean was at North Hat- The W.C.T U.will meet with Mre, condition.SRAVER'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS.Have you dys ?If you bave per Ton van togetridotit.You can by ng SEAVER\u2019S Dy TABLETS, Woe do not print any tures of before and after taking.Yon can get them by stan betore the looking glass.If you don\u2019t believe this, try the tablets and you will.We have proved that SEAVER\u2019S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS will cure dyspe; over and over n.Weare to demonstrate Ît in your case, and we tell yon how.Go to the store of J.T.Flint and ta package.Take it according to irections.tell the druggist so.If it doesn\u2019t, ste in just thie same, and tell him that, à he will band you right back the ducats Jeo paid bim.Do you suppose this of- er would be made if we bad any doubts about what the tablets wili do for you?any money out of it?But if you reall enjoy dyspepsia, and want to retain It permanently, let SRAVER\u2019s DYSPEPSIA ABLETS alone, for the tablets won\u2019t let dyspepsia alone.KINGSCROFT.Rev.Mr.Watson of East Angus, was calling on friends here recently.Mr.B.Corey has resumed his school after a few weeks\u2019 vacation.Mrs.Louise Stithe of Brown\u2019s Hill visited relatives bere last week.Mrs.John Treble and daughter Helen went to Sherbrooke last Monday, wherg she will pack her goods and start for Edmonton, Alta., ina few days to join her husband.She will be missed by friends here, who bave known her since childhood.Mr.and Mrs.Charles Smith of Comptou were at M.N.Corey\u2019s recently.Miss Dubois of Sherbrooke visited at Mr.Ledoux\u2019s last week.Mrs.O.H.Houle is at North Hatley with Millinery for a few weeks.Mr.8.L.Kent and Mrs.Glidden and family of Hatley were at M.N.Corey's last Friday.Mr.H.E.Pope and family of Hat- ley, were at Lyman Orcutt\u2019s last Sun- ay.- SzaTa or ONI0.CITY OF TOLEDO, .Lucas County.88.FRANK J.CHENEY makes oath that he is sen- for partner of the firm of F.J.CAENRY & Co, Ad Stave aforosmid ard thas sds: SoRnty an lo , an em the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS or Da oured by \u2018Fie eof Mare RE that cannot © © use LL'S CATARRA y FRANK.J CHENEY.Sworn to before me and subscribed in Presence, this 6th day of December, A.D.1986\u201d A.W.GLEASON, fsmar } Notary Public, Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.Send for testimonials, free.F.J.CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.NV sold b Druggiste, 756 Take a Family Pills for constipation.BORN.WHITE\u2014At Fitch Bay, Que., April 27th, 1910, a daughter to Mr.and rs.Blrry H.White.Children Teething MRS WINSLOW'S S800THING SYRUP has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SU 1 SOOTHES the CHI Druggists in every part of the world, Be sure and ask for \u201cMrs.Winslow's Boothing Syrup,\u201d find take no other kind.Twenty-five cents a e.CONCRETE AND STONE WORK.Cellars dug, Walls laid, Buildings raised.Prompt and satisfactory service, 51*1 C.A.GOODSELL, Stanstead, Plain.PLASTERING.The undersigned is prepared to do lastering of all kinds in a prompt and satisfac ry man: ner.Contractsundertaken, repairing promptly attented.JOSEPH SAUVE, 51% Ratlrosd Street, Rock Island.NOTICE.The People\u2019s Telephone Company.Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the People\u2019s Telephone Com- paar.will be held at the mpany s Head Office n Sherbrooke, on Tuesday, May the 10th, 1010, atd.P.M.sharp.1 Signed, C.J.WRIGHT, 8ec\u2019y- Treas.Crystal Lake Comatery Association.ANNUAL MEETING.The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Crystal Lake Cemeter: held at the Town Hall, Branstead Plain, on Saturday.May léth, 1910, at 4 o'clock P.M., for the election of Trustees and the transaction of such other business as {ray regularly come before said meeting.All shareholders and lot owners are requested to be Present, H.KE.CHANNELL, Sec'y Tress.Stanstead, May 8rd, 1910.51 Annual Cavalry Training 26th Canadian Horse (Stanstead Dragoons) At Farnham, June 13th to 24th, 1910.Several new men wanted, good pay.Plenty of rations.Horses 15 hands or over and service able.Same Cook as laat year.The equipment fesued as follows: Un Wednesday, May 23th, at Terrill Sugar t part of District, from 108.m.to 4p.m; on Friday, May 27th, at Griffin, for West.rom 10 &.m.to 4 p.m : on Sata , May 280h, at the Armoury for the Centre, HOMER @.CURTIS, Major C 8gn.siw2 26th Canadian Horse.Calf Skin Bayers Wanted.We want buyers and butchers to ship us Calf Skins, Hides and Bones.We pay highest prices.© pay apot cash.We pay the freight.We pay the customs.We furnish money.This is the Calf Skin season.Write us and we will show you how in can make money buying Calf kins for us.Write now.CARROLL 8.PAGE, Hyde Park, Vt., U.S.A.Box A.GOOD PASTURE TO LET.50w2 Apply to AMOS CAMBER, Georgeville.FOR SALE.' Reo automoblie magne ith po mmadar ou 4 , » P.perfect .W hill .dis hl PRE 5Biw4 American make, » , À.Rock island, Que.If it cures Joo step in and you see any way that you can lose! - \u20181A car of Atlas Portland Cement, A Fow Words With You About Bread BREAD is the staff of life, but it must be good, clean and wholesome.The Bread turned out of our bakery is made by machinery that is sterilized after each batch.The Bread being \"sealed In a wax wrapper as soon as baked, guarding it against dust etc.in handling and Atransportation.We are now turning out a new Loaf which has made a decided hit; all Milk be- Ang used for the Liquid and Creamery Butter for ~ the Shortening.It Is 10 cents per Loaf.You will find our Bread on sale at the following Stores and Places: H.A.Channell\u2019s and Daly Grocery Co., Stan- stead; F.W.D.Melloon\u2019s and Kathan & Hopkins, Rock Island; Tinker & Son, and Akin & : House, Beebe; Scott, Lineboro; Maltman\u2019s, Graniteville; C.L.Jenkins, 913 Main st, - Smith\u2019s Mills; Mrs.H.L.Batchelder, Boynton; A.G.Clough, Ayer\u2019s Cliff; J.H.Turner, North Hatley.FROST'S BAKERY, STANSTEAD.CHILDREN\u2019S BONNETS AND HATS Anyone looking for Childien\u2019s Bonnets or Hats will find .a new full line just in at MISS H.M.HEPWORTH'\u2019S FOR ALL AGES AND ALL SIZES.Spring House Furnishings Do yon intend to make any changes in your House Purnishings this season?We have a store with a complete outfit for Spring cleaning and .All the necessary Paints, Varnishes, Floor Preparations, Floor Coverings, Linoleums, Carpets, Rug Art Squares, Carpet Sweepers, ete.Now and large assortment of Curtains, Portiers, Muslin and Lace Curtains, priced from 39¢.a pair to $3.50, \u2018 Curtain Materials, Rods, Pulls and Fixtures, Refrigerators, Screen Doors and Window Screens, New Veranda and Porch Furniture.YES,\u201d WE'VE GOT IT! Which means a good stock of Builders\u2019 Tools, Builders\u2019 Hardware and Building Materials.12 Brands of Roof Materials.a car Stucco Plaster, the best by test, a car of Drain Tile, all sizes.The best stock of Painters\u2019 Supplies.For years we have been headquarters for Painters\u2019 Materials.Brushes bought especially for Painters.CASWELL & O'ROURKE.The Store with the Goods to Sell.erm mn 103 mms emma Sms femme cms £11 cms) crn FLIES! FLIES! FLIES! They are here and will increase from now on.Do you know they are the greatest disease germ carriers in the insect world?The mosquito is outclassed by the fly as a menace to health in the house.See our line of SCREEN DOORS AND WINDOWS Doors from $1.25 to $2.50 .These Doors are complete.Hot Weather will soon be with us.How is your REFRIGERATOR or havn\u2019t you got any?We have a good assortment from $9.00 to $14.00 YOU SHOULD SEE THEM BEFORE YOU BUY LAWN MOWERS From $4.50 to $9.00 THESE ARE 1910 PATTERNS AND RIGHT We are giving a good deal of attention to our Boot and Shoe Department, and believe we can show you the best line of Men\u2019s High Boots and Oxfords, for the old time price of $3.50, that there is in the Three Villages, and we have a Ladies\u2019 Tan Button Oxford at $2.25 that is good value at $2.50.Take a look before you pay more for the same value.î Don't forget we are Headquarters for all kinds of Seeds Take home a pound of our Special Java Coffee, itis the real Brown Penang.PIKE\u2019S remet Ps 0 re =.GEORGEVILLE.The Sacrament of the Lord\u2019s Supper will be administered in the Methodist Church next Sanday morning, and os Monday the ninth, the last financial meeting for the conference year will be held at Georgeville at 8 o'clock, this, preparatory to the coming oon- FITCH BAY.O.H.Jackman ef Granby le in town in the interests of the Nerth American Life Assuranes Co.Miss Bessie Deloff of Boston, Mass., is the guest of her sister, Mise Hannah Doloff.Congratulations are extended to Mr.apd Mrs.fi.H.White over the No trouble with Sunlight Soap, Just follow'the directions on the wrapper and Sunligh®doss the rest.Costs little\u2014does much\u2014 never injures hands or clothes.PASTURING Bers RATRAN Rock Island, Que.NO MORE CREDIT.On May 1s$, I shall adopt th tively no credit after that at sysiom, J.A.BRUNETTE, Bock Island, Que.- FOR SALE.Five r Cadillac Automobile 10 h.pin condition, well à * ) or CANES Barby Line, Vt.GIRLS WANTED.EAR a CEDAR POST.We have a large stock of very desirable Cedar Posts that we will sell in such quantities Jou may need, at the ri ht ee.a o.; CASH SYSTEM.dase pt hn ll lem ay will be kept Tovel.Don's PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the rate- Tera of the municipality of the Township of Stanstead, that ail taxes remaining unpaid on May 15th, 1010, will be given to an attorney for collection.x Per order Council.8, Sec\u2019y Treas.C.A.JEN Smith's Mills, April 20, 1910.2 FARMS FOR SALE.One 110 acres, one with abont 200 acras, side by aide, both under high state of cultivation, in the town of Irasburg, miles from village.Fine running water to all buildings.Good sugar places, about 500 M.ft.lumber on largest farm.R.I.D., phone in house, near school.Must De nold to close estate.For particulars write or call on .8 A.D.THURBER, Exr., Coventry, V#.EXECUTORS\u2019 NOTICE.All persons having claims against the estate of the late A.J.Davis are requested to present shesame to W.E.Davis, R.F.D.No.4, Ne rt.Vt.within thirty days, and all persons indebst- ed to the said estate are nes to make payments within the fame delay.AVIS, Mis BR HART.| Exectrs.Boynton, April 23, 1810, 30w3 BOOK BARGAINS.4 have a set each of Dickens, Dumas, Scott's a verler, Wilkie Collins and Shakespeare in bindings, practically new that I will sell « .owe E.A.RODEY, HIGH PRICES .FOR CALF SKINS.e are ing fancy prices this spring for all es of Beltagins.Ton have Taything in ne to sell, be sure to secure our quotations \u2018before selling elsewhere.We pay the freight.We pay spot cash.We want to arrange with some one every village where we have no t, to coliect Uslfekins, Beef Hides, Horse des, Sheep Pelts, Tallow, Bones, etc.We furnish money with which to buy and we keep our ers thoroughly ted at all times as to market values.rite for full partioulars.CARROL S.PAGE, 5ow4 Hyde Park, Vt.birth of a daughter, (Gertrude Fran- oes) born April 37th.- have arrived to occupy thelr new home here.few days in Moxftreal the past week.Lennoxville, was the guest pf F.L.Carr over Sunday, and took the ser- at Geurgeville.day, April 27th, at her home near the .| Narrows.Mrs.Copp had lived alone The funeral was held here on Thursday in the Congregational Church, Rev.J.J.Hutchinson officiating.The of a branch office of the Builder's funeral was held at the home and in- the faneral of Mrs.Rider\u2019s sister, Mrs.Harvey, at Apple Grove, Wednesday.| - Mre for her home at Richmond, Friday, where she will spend a few days be- icook.days longer.They have made many parture.Mrs.Harvey, on Wednesday at Apple a Grove.\u2018Sunday at 11 a.m.It is expected ference to be held in Brookville she first of June.: The L O.O.F.beld \u201copen night\u201d Inst Saturday evening at their lodge room here.Refreshments were served and speeches made.The evening was spent most plassantly.Mr.T.Wallace, until lately a resident here, at present residing at Abbottatord, Que., was present.\u2018 Mr.Thos.Stone has purchased from Mrs.Routledge the farm property recently soquired by her from Mr.B.Smith.- : Mrs.T.Sottiere had the misfortune to fall down a flight of stairs last week and suffered some severe bruises.She is now better.Mr.and Mrs.G.F.Greenwood have arrived at their summer home \u201cTan- glewood\u201d for the season.J.E.Davideon has purchased from Mr.Irwin Camber the hull of his launch, 1906\" and is putting into it a fifteen h.p.engine.He will now use the boat as a general purpose boat for towing and other work.Oapt.O.C.Bullock of Granby, was in town last week.W.,A.Murray of Montreal, spent a couple of days at his property bere recently.© Mr.and Mrs.Reed of North Hatley .B.H.Rider has been spending a Nuree Emma Houston of St.Johns- bury, Vt., is caring for Mrs.White.Mrs.L.À.Paul is in St.Johnsbary, for medical treatment.FA B.Rider of MoGill College, Montreal, ià spending a few daywat his home here.Co Rev.F.G.Vial of Bishop\u2019s College, vices in St.Matthias Church and also Mrs.Hattie Copp died on Wednes- there for many years and had been ill for about a month -before her death.burial was.at Geargeville.F.H.Rider left on Monday for Boston, Mass., where he will have charge Auxiliary Co., of Sherbrooke.His many friends wish him success.MAGOG.Mrs.Ellen Harvey of Apple Grove, Mrs.Emerson Drew of West Bolton, dled at her hoine April 25th.The Was in town on Monday.Dr.and Mrs.G.A.Bowen are spending several days in Quebec this week.Mr.H.Pearson of North Hatley, was in town Tuesday.Mr.G.Magoon of Foster, was inj town on Tuesday.Oapt.Bullis of Newport, Vt., was in town on Wednesday.We regret to record the death of Mr.C.O.Manning, which occurred at bis home in the Currier neighborhood on Thursday, April 28th.Mr.Manning has been in failing health for the past year, but the end came unexpectedly.The funeral was held in the MethoQist Church here Saturday afternoon conducted by the Rev.8.F.Newton, assisted by the Rev.Mr.Folcher of Esst Bolton, speaking comforting words from 1st Cor.15-35, and Acts 18-16.Interment at Pine Hill cemetery.The floral tributes were beautiful, Mr.Manning was well known all over the country and was highly respected by all who knew bim.His loss wi \u2018be deeply felt by the whole community, as well as by his tamily.He leaves te mourn his loss a wite, seven sons and three daughters, who have the heartfelt sympathy of the whole community in their sad bereavement.NORTH WATLEY.Mr.and Mrs.Benj.LeBaron and grandson, Harold Jackson, who have been touring through Germany, Paris, London, &c., arrived home on Monday.Mr.and Mrs.Archie Jackson, who accompanied them, are visiting friends in Boston and New York, and will be home this week.Miss T.A.Webster is occupying her home, after spending the winter at Ayer\u2019s Cliff.terment at Griffin.Mr.and Mrs.T.B.Rider attended .Fraser and son Campbell left fore going to their new home at Coat- Dr.Fraser will remain a fow friends here, who will regret their de- C.P.Rider, B.H.Rider and Mrs.A.L.Rider attended the funeral of Mr.and Mrs.Lewis Huckins of Rock Island, were in town Sunday.Mrs.E.P.Ware of Newport, is the guest of her sister, Mrs.F.H.Rider.Mr.and Mrs.Herbert Merrill of Smith\u2019s Mills, were in town Sunday.Rev.F.Vernon Venables of British Columbia, is expected this week to tafike charge of the mission of Fitch Bay and Georgeville.From another correspondent.It is with regret that we annonnce the departure of Dr.and Mrs.Fraser for their new home in Coaticook, and that they may meet with every success is the wish of their friends here; Dr.Fraser succeeds Dr.Finnle who goes to Montreal.We congratulate the people of Coaticook on their good luck in getting such a successful and skillful physician as Dr.Fraser bas proven himeelf to be daring his three years with us.Mr.Ezra B.Rider B.A.M.E, of Montreal spent Sunday and Monday with his parents Mr.and Mrs.T.B.Rider.Esra leaves this month for British Columbia where he will spend the summer.The Rev.F.G.Vial M.A.B.D,, of Lenoxville conducted both services in St.Matthias Church Sunday.The many friends of Mr.Vial were very glad for the privilege of listening to his practical sermons once more.Mr.B.H.Rider spent the week-end in Montreal.Mr.O.H.Jackman of the North American Lite Insurance Co.is spending a few daye in town.Mr.F.H.Rider left on Monday for Boston where he will open up an office in the interests of the \u2018The Builder\u2019s Auxiliary Oo.,\u201d designers of business systems.His many friends wish him success and good luck in this new undertaking.' Services at St.Matthias Church next progressing finely.Many of the cottages are being painted \u2018Sidney Taylor, with his men and brushes, is busy.The improvements on the roads and sidewalks are something wonderful.Mrs.Macca\u2019s and also Mr.Holt\u2019s cottages are being rushed to completion.Mr.R.A.McKay has sold bis farm to B.Johnson and will make bis future home in Montreal.Mr.A.P.LeBaron has purchased some young cattle to stock his farm which he lately bought.We are baving more rain of late, which is fine for the hay crop.Steven J.Clark and son Frank, our local hunters, have returned from Black Lake, where they captured one bundred and eighty-five muskrats.They sold the skins for eighty-five cents each.No scarcity of hay now since cattle have gone to pasture.that the new Incumbent, Rev.F.Vernon Venables, fermerly of Greenwood B.C., will conduct the service.EAST HATLEY.Mr.Tompkineon and family have moved from George Leclair\u2019s house on Massawippi Street, into the house on the farm of Mr.Avery Ives which they have rented upon shares.Mr.Stephen Parker has moved from that place into the vacant house just referred to.Miss Weston and\u2019 Mr.Brooke bave made marked improvement in their house and grounds, The former has been painted, including the roofs of the numerous wings and ells.The superfluous fences have been removed trom the road side with effect, as the grounds are always kept with sorupu- lous care.The services of the painter and paper hanger are in constant demand these days.: Asbley Lebaron has gone to Bell- ville,Ont., to attend s Commercial College.> The mammoth engine which furnishes the power for the various in- HATLEY CENTER.Mrs.J.H.Hunter of Coaticook, is being entertained by friends here this week.: Mrs.H.G.Sunderland returned to her home in Highgate, Vt., on Wednesday, after spending & few weeks with ber mother, Mrs.Jas.Greer.Mr.Chas.Oliver has so far regained his former health and strength as to be able to walk to our post office, We are glad to see him so well again.Mr.Harry Kesar lately suffered from indisposition for a few days, but is reported better again.The recent wet weather is retarding seeding operations, but is very beneficial to the grass and hay orop.The \u201cmill brook\u201d bridge has been temporarily repained so that traffic may pass on the highway once more instead of going threugh the pond.The council contemplates substituting dpstries of the Hatley Dalry Light the old bridge with a concrets one, Mr.CO.W.Cate\u2019s new cottage is Red BROWN'S HILL.Mrs.(Dr.) Gilfillan and Miss Vere Brown of Beebe, visited friends here os Sanday.The friends of Mr.Dearborn Brown were pleased to ses him able to ride out on Sunday.The farmers Club of this place recently gave Mr.I.Melloon of Ayer's Oliff an order for grass and clover seed 50 the amount of $300.Ayer's Clift, were guests of Mr.and Mrs.J.O.Rollivs on Sunday.Mr.and Mre.W.C.Dustin attended church here Sunday and were the guests of Mr.and Mrs.A.W.Brown.A heavy thunder and hail storm ra ôver here on Saturday morn- Mr.Willie Martin was ii Sherbrooke recently to secure a position in Jenckes Machine Shops.Mrs.A.B.Davis and Willie attended the Miller-Thompaon wedding at Rock Island last Wednesday.Mr.and Mrs.D.C.Waite and Master Sterling of Fitch Bay, spent Sunday at Mr.B.E.Waite\u2019s.Mrs.A.B.Stratton and two children spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents, Mr.and Mrs.A.F.Cur- BOYNTON.Mr.Raymond and Miss M.Gove of Ticehurst Corner, were the guests of Mr: and Mrs.Lyman Towle recently.Mr.and Mrs.W.C.Dustin visited friends at Brown's Hill Sunday.Mr.Chas.Merrill and daughter were at Stanstead Monday.Mr.Hall of Fairfax, was in town on Saturday purchasing muskrat skins._ Mrs.O.L.Hills and Master Raymond have returned from Milan and are with her sister, Mrs.Poole.Those who attended the farcial comedy entitled, \u201cFacing the Music,\u201d Pgiven by local talent at Ayer\u2019s Clift were: Mr.and Mre.A.N.Perkins, Mr.and Mrs.N.E.Fish, Mr.and Mrs.W.E.Dustin and Miss L.Hills.All felt well repaid for attending.The Woman's Missionary Auxiliary will meet at 2.30 p.m.on Saturday, May 7th, in theschoolhouse; when the mite boxes will be opened.Mrs.Edwin Hills is the guest of her sister-in-law, Miss L.Hills.APPLE GROVE Mrs.Harriet Copp, a life long and much respected resident of this place, dled at her home Wllinesday, April 27, after a few weeks\u2019 illness.The funeral was held at the Congregational Church, Fitch Bay, Thursday afternoon at 1 o\u2019clock.Rev.J.J.Hutchinson officiated.The interment took place at the Georgeville cemetery.Mr.and Mrs.Chas.Quebec spent Sunday at the home of Mr.D.W.Fox, Beebe.Mrs.Elson Harvey, who has been in failing health for several years, passed peacefully away on Monday, April 25th.The funeral was held from her late home Wednesday at 1 o\u2019clock, the Rev.John Fowkes of Georgeville, officiating, assisted by Rev.J.J.Hutchinson of Fitch Bay.Interment took place at the Griffin cemetery.Miss Mary Drew of Burlington, Vt., has been visiting at her home.Miss E.Temple was the guest of Mrs.Hurlburt last week.Mr.À.B.Harvey was in Sherbrooke recently on business.Mr.W.Redway of South Dakota, is the guest of his brother, Mr.Jerry way.MRS.E.B.HARVEY, Ellen E.Shaw, beloved wife of F.B.Harvey,, Esq.of Lake View Farm, Apple Grove, died onthe morning of April 35th, 1910, after a severe iilness of six years.She was married to Mr- Harvey on June let, 1854, and two children were born to them, Elison, their son, who lives near the homestead, and a daughter who died in early infancy.By religious choice, Mr.and Mrs.Harvey were Methodists and she very largely filled the character of the virtuous woman, whose story is found in the 31st chapter of the book of Solomon's Proverbs.She faithfully shared with her husband for over forty years the labor and cares of farm life.She was talented, refined and an ideal mother, gentle, kind, loving, wise in council, and carefnl to promote the best interest of her home.In 1004, she in company with her husband, tried to lift a wash tub filled with ice; it was quite heavy, and the strain was too much for her strength, she soon felt she had hurt her spine, and from that day on, she was never afterwards well; she sought medical aid but for sad days, months, and years life became a long painful experience, until last week, when the Good Lord released her and the.weary wheats of life stood still, in a peaceful, hopeful translation of spirit to a better world, having enjoyed or endured lite for the space of 64 years.Her fuueral took place at and from her pleasantly situated home of Lake View, Apple Grove, on the 27th, and was conducted by Rev.John Fowlkes, Methodait - minister of Georgeville.The singing was furnished by the choir of the Fitch Bay Congregational Church.Prayer was offered by Rev.J.J.Hutchinson, and the address was ven by Mr.Fowkes, and then all that was mortal of this dear lady was laid at rest in the Griffin Cemetery.Mrs.Harvey leaves to mourn, a hos- nd sister, Mre.T.B aad Power Co.was pus in operation modern in every detail.today.- Jot Fitch Ray, Que.Mr.and Mre.Charlie Robinson of | a \u201c THÉ HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES | proof of this state ment, call and inspect my stock.! have the famous - RHODES - RIPLEY -SUITS & OVERCOATS The kind that hold their shape and style until worn out.- ' You will also find in my store the well-kown WIDOW JONES LINE FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS Call and inspect these lines before buying elsewhere.Yours truly, LAMOREY.Trunks, Suit Cases and i Gs Bg «BUSY STORE\u201d We have a large Stock and the Patterns ang Grades have never been as good.Our line of MATTING SUIT CASES AND BAGS are sufficiently varied \u2019'in grade and price to meet the want of any one.Buy now while the sale is on.CANT YOU FIND A GOOD CHEESE?We always have them, and they are .Full Cream, Soft and Pleasing.WE HAVE THE Canadian, Stilton and French.If you come to us once you will always come to us for your Cheese, for we have the kind that makes your dessert relish as it should and makes a hard Cracker such a fine finish to a dinner.Remember, it is not «once in a while\u201d that we have them, it is all the tine.Don\u2019t forget our \u201cImperial Blend\u2019 Coffee for 18¢.Ib., or 5 lbs.for 90c.We are in the midst of a sale of 75c.and 91.00 Shirte for 49c.Great values.F.W.D.MELLOON, THE WHITE STORE.ROCK ISLAND, QUE.HUCKINS & DREW General Contractors and Builders.7 i Aras 0 ES D ton} DRAWINGS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF WORK FURNISHED./ If you contemplate constructing any kind of a building this season, give us a chance to figure on it for you.We have the workmen and the factory to get out the mill work or anything you need, that is made of wood.WE MANUFACTURE Storm Doors and Windows, Mouldings and Grills,\" Sash, Doors and Blinds, Turned Work, ; Doors and Window Frames, Door and Window Screens, Custom Mill Work.Sectional Veranda Screens.Factory at Derby.Offices at Derby Line, Vt.and Rock Island, Que.weal __csornes PEL QUARANTESD uns Not every \u201cclassy\u201d dresser buys his \u201ctoggery\"\u201d of us, but many of them do.Got yours yet?Nothing gets by us that's worth heading off.\u2019 A.G.GOODWIN, ; Outfitter to Men and Boys, e Half way up Half way down } Main St.NEWPORT, VT. (0.M en teens mae Le.I ' grass become deeply rooted, the work CULTURE OF THE ASPARAGUS.fmportance of the Proper Care of the ; Beds During the Hot Sum- { mer Weather.Asparagus 1s in the proper state for eutting when the shoots are two inches above the surface of the grgund and the top buds are close and compact.The shoots should be cut every morning.All small stems should be eut off close to the ground.Gardens ors use an asparagus knife, having a straight, narrow, tapering blade about six to eight inches in length and about &n inch broad at the haft.The knife should be sharp.Cut the shoots off slanting, about three inches below the surface, taking care not to wound or break off the young shoots coming from the same root.To have tender, melting asparagus, cut the shoots when six inches high, cutting level with the ground; the whole will then be tender.«All below the.surface of the ground 18 tough and stringy.The asparagus rows should be kept perfectly free from grass and weeds.Run the cultivator between the rows and close up the asparagus shoots by frequent cultivation and free use of the steel rake.The ground can be kept mellow and the young weeds destroyed without much work.If weeds and will be greatly increased.The cutting should cease as soon as the shoot appear small and weak.Close cutting will exhaust the ropts and succeeding crops will be diminished.' In the SmokesHouse.A method of hanging the meat in a smokehouse without reaching up or using a ladder is shown {i the accom~ panying illustration.The smokehouse may be of any shape, but it should be provided with cleats fixed to the sides, upon which the hanging bars rest.A pulley is fitted inside to the top of the bullding.and a hoisting rope is passed over it.The hanging bar is fastened to the rope by two spreading ties, so that it will not easily tip when loaded.The hams and meat are hung upon the hooks fixed in the bar, and the whole 1s holsted to the cleats, when the bar is swung around so that the ends rest upon the cleats.The rope ls then released from the bar by means of a small rod, and another bar may be loaded and ratsed in the same way.Eradicating Weeds.In many sections of the West when the weeds get too large for the hare row, farmers use what is known as à slicker.The detalls of construction are shown in the accompanying illustration.The slicker 18 usually about twelve feet wide, with four runners.The run- nérs are made of 2 by 6 or 2 by 8 inch scantling.Boards are nalled on top of the \u2018runners.An iron five-eighths of an inch in diameter 1s fastened at the back of the runners, so that it drags in the soil one to two inches below the surface.A thin bar of steel as long as the width of the implement, About two inches wide and sharpetied on the front, is sometimes used instead of the iron rod.The bar A Slicker, is bolted to the bottom of the back of the runners.The weight of the driver who rides the implement causes the rod or knife to run just under the surface of the ground.When the rod clogs it fs dumped by lifting on the handles, shown in the cut.It works very nice 1y when the soil is smooth, finely pulverized and reasonably free from stubble and other trash.When the slicker Is to be used care should b8 exercised in turning the stubble under well.Weeds In Unclean Seed.Most of our worst weeds are intro duced in unclean seed grain.It is more difficult to produce clean seed than it is unclean, and for that rea son many seed growers are tempted to sell seed which coatains many of the injurious weeds.One Small Salling font Carries Meet of the Pasesngery and Freight.*V¥sny falss and foolish reports about the Dead Sea\u2014that strange and interesting iske\u2014have been cireulat- ed,\u201d said Abraham $.Abrahams of Jerusalem and London, who is om & teur of this.country.\u201cMuch bas ap from time to time In papers and periodicals about steamboats navigating the Dead Sen,\u201d continued the banker.\u201cThis too is » fabrication.The only hoat on the Dead Sea is a small sailing boat about twenty feet long.\u201cThis vessel makes trips as the wind allows from the north end of the sea to the bay on the eastern side of the tongue that divides the water near the middle.At this tefminus some Jews are located.The whole concern is, in fact, in the hands of Jews, who, at a low rate, buy wheat and barley from the Arabs to be delivered on the seashore.From there it is shipped to the Jericho side and carried on dome Keys to Jerusalem, where it finds ready sale at a good price.\u201cWhen adverse winds blow the lit tle craft is in danger of being swamp» ed, for the so-called Dead Sea becomes a living mass of waves.Not long ago 1 spent four nights such as never will be forgotten on«these waters, and the smartness of the old man at the helm and his boy with the sails saved us from being wrecked again and again.A charge of one mejedie, which is about 80 cents a trip, ls made for each passenger, and for a unique voyage it is not exorbitant.\u201cThere is some talk about a small steam tug being put on the gen, but the authorities are loath to grant per mission.It will be a great boon when it does arrive, as it will bring the east and west sides of Jordan nearer to each other for çommunication and trading purposes.\u201d : Spinster*s Strange WiH.An extraordinary will has been left by an elderly unmarried lady who recently died in Vienna.Her property, amounting to about $250,000, is to be divided between her three nephews, now aged twenty-four, twenty-seven and twenty-nine, and her three nieces, aged nineteen, twenty-one and twenty.two, in equal parts on the following conditions: The six nephews and nieces must all live in the house formerly inhabit ed by thelr aunt, with the executor, & lawyer.None of the nephews is to marry before reaching his fortieth year, nor the nieces before their thir tieth; the share of the one so marrying will be divided.Further, the six legatees are admonished never to quarrel.If one should do so persistently the executor is empowered to turn him or her out of the house and divide the share.The executor is himself forbidden to marry or to reside elsewhere than in the house with the legatees.The old maid is said to have made this peculiar will because her nephews and nieces continually wopried her by asking her to give them money to enable them to marry\u2014requests she ale ways refused.\u2014Vienna Corresponds ence London Express.Value of Antitoxins.During the course of diseases caus ed by bacterial infection, certain poisons (toxins) are developed in the blood by the bacteria, or exist in the bodies of the bacteria.Nature, in come bating the disease, produces certain principles in the serum of the blood of the patient, called antitoxins, which antagonize the action of the toxins.These principles have not been isolated, but they are used to combat disease artificially by injecting blood se rum which contains them into the tissues of a person suffering with the bacterial disease to aid him in neutralizing the toxins resulting during that disease.Antitoxing combating the poisons of snake.bite, pneumonia, tuberculosis, yellow fever, bubonic plague, cholera and othe er allments have been prepared and used.The one most often employed {8 the diphtheria antitoxin, which is called simply antitoxin.\u201d Human Antiquity.The credit of inaugurating the line of research which haa resulted in demonstrating the existence of the hue man race on this earth for tens if not hundreds of thousands belong to the French scientist, M.Boucher de Per thes.Possessed by the energy and enthusiasm of a truly scientific spirit, he dgvoted himself from 1836 to 1841 te a thorough exploration of certain am clent caves, peat-moases and deposité in the vicinity of Abbeville and in the shape of arrowheads, flint axes, knives, hammers, etc., which started the Investigation that was to knock the sccepted chronology to pieces and establish for man a record for aath quity of which the world of this day had never dreamed.As May Seem Good.I am all thine, do with me as may seem good in thine eyes.Show me what thou wilt have me to do.As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are thy ways higher than our ways.We are impatient, for our life is but for a moment.Thou art from evet.lasting, therefore is thy patience full of long-suffering.\u2014Fenelon, She Didn't Went.An East Tennessee girl is credited with the foilowing reply to à question as to whether she had been to the fair: \u201cI didn't went, I didn't wan to went; and, if I had wanted to went, I couldn't have gottea to gwine.\u201d-\u2014Good Housekeepine \u2018erank and yet hold a job in a bank.I When They Register Their Names.\u201cDo | believe that 8 man\u2019s name as be writes it is an indication of his character?\u201d repeated a botel clerk who has been behind the counter in several cities.\u201cI don't know about; character, but I do know that the best of them unmask their resl tempers.ment when they write thefr names on 8 hotel register\u2014and ! hold that there's a difference between charac ter and temperament.\u201cA man may be bilious and yet have a good character.A man may be a knew a preacher who had a case of dyspepsia that would have made an angel jump over a ten rail fence, but he was all right on the religious goose, I'm talking about temperament that shows itself when a man -grabs a pen and writes his name on the register and where he halla from.\u201cWhen a man spreads a John Hancock brand of chirography on the book of arrivals 1 know what =e-t of room he wants.I know he : ».to have & bed in which he can wallow like a buffalo.\u201cWhen a guest writes his name as he would sign it In a lady's album J put him in the finicky class.I know he wants to thin glass from which to drink his wâter.\u201cThe arrival who uncovers himself the quickest is the man who tries to write differently from anybody else and has an acquired autograph.The man who develops the trait of getting something under false pretences begins by trying to assume an auto graph.I always know that this fellow wfll have a rumpus with the walter or the bellbop or the liquid dispenser.\" \u201cThere i8 one chap that reaches my heart\u2014the man who writes \u2018and wife\u2019 for the first time after his own name.He can't disguise the fact by his manner, to say nothing of his chirography, that he has just started on the firste lap of his honeymoon.He doesn't try to counterfelt his natural penmanship, but he writes \u2018and wife\u2019 as if he thought we were on, wondering how we knew it.\u201cAll things being equal, the newly married arrival is the most agreeable guest in the house.§ fellow with a new wife wears velvet shoes so that his kick is never felt.I think if anybody writes a perfectly natural autograph it is the man who has just been married.Then if ever a man tries to be just what he is.\u201d ru Sorrow.The late Miam M.Evarts used to tell a\u2019 good story about himself.While he was in the United States Senate his wife and children were in their mountain home in Vermont.Oné of the latter was looking out of the window thinking of her father and wishing that she could see him, when a donkey in a contiguous pasture came up to the fence, poked his head over the top rail, and brayed most dolefully.The child wiped a few lonesome tears from her eyes and them called to the donkey: \u2018Never mind! Don\u2019t be lonesome, for papa will be home Saturday evening.\u201d\u2014 Success.8un Cooking.A German, Baron Tehernhausen, was the first sun cook.He began in 1687 to boil water, and in 1688 he had very good success in holling eggs.Sir John Herschel and Buffon are other famous names associated with sun cooking.Sun cooking\u2014roasting and boiling by sunlight instead of coal or gas\u2014has been going on for three hundred years.There are sun stoves that roast a sirloin or boil a soup to per fection.They are only used, however, by scientists.Alaric the Goth.Alaric, the first of the barbarian kings who entered and sacked the Eternal City, and the first enemy who had appeared before ite walls since the time of Hannibal, is sald to have recelved as the price of his leaving the city (in A.D.408) 5,000 pounds weight of gold, 3,000 silken robes, 8,000 plecés of scarlet cloth and 4,000 pounds of pepper.In order to furnish a portion of the ransom it became necessary to melt down some of the statues of the ancient gods.Potato in Wild State.In a wild state the potato vine is very hardy and will grow to a considerable height.It ia sald that tne Indians did not cultivate the potato except for the leaves, which became known as their tobacco\u2014hence the leaves and stalks of tobacco are large, but there are no signs of potatoes at the roots.So much for cultivation.Fine Sample of Roman Villa.The beautiful villa unearthed at Pompeli 1s situated, writes the Naples correspondent of the London Dally Mail, near the house of Diomed.It consists of a row of ms of great elegance, the largest having a marble floor and frescoes on three walls, Friends and Enemles.Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in hia life when he has one too few: but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.\u2014 Bulwer-Lytton.Cost of Song Birds.The American consul at Hanover reports it costs $7,500,000 annually to feed the 5,000,000 canaries in the United States.Returns of the cost of feeding song birds at Rector\u2019s are not yet in.\u2014Washington Post.\u201cDer true sclence of gofernment iss vot eferypody knows and nopody does.\u201d\u2014Cleveland Nows.HOTEL CLERK KNOWS 'EM| ean Temperament of Guests Comes Out EE \u2014a.- oo .EARLY AMERICAN MINE .Pirst Production of Bituminous Goal < In This Country In Virginia.The first bituminous coal mined ia the United States, states the United States Geological Survey, was takes from what is usually termed the Ricb- basin, a smal] area in the southeastern portion of Virginia, near the city of Richmond This basin is situated on the cast ern margin of the Piedmont plateau, thirteen miles above tidewater, on the Jame River.It les in Goochland, Henrico, Powhatan and Chesterfield counties.\u2018 .The cos] beds are much distorted, and the coal is of rather low grade when compared with that from other districts with which it has to come into competition.The occurrence of coal was known in the Richmond basin ae early hs 1700, and in 1789 shipments were made to some of the Northern States.In 1822 the production amounted to 48,216 gross tons.At present what littla coal is produced in.this field is for local consumption only, To Walk Well.é Don't drag your feet or fling them or lag or stride.Learn to glide into a room gracefully.It 18 impossible for a woman to be awkward in her walk if she walks straight and keeps her knees stiff.The uct of swinging the feet out gives one a graceful gait.Walk slowly.Skirts wind agound your calves when you walk rapidly, and all semblance of grace is lost Walk in a leisurely manner, as if you were a8 princess, not a hurried, wor ried, overworked woman.Don\u2019t swing your shoulders.Don't swing your arms.Don't twist yourself in sinuqus motions.Don% contort.Don\u2019t wiggle.Hold your chin in.This is the most fmportant thing of all.Don\u2019t walk or look or act like an old person.There are no old persons in these days.Touch the ground first with the balls of your feet, with the heels striking an instant later.| World Not So Very Bad.That bad news travels fast is an old saying, and in the present-time of electric communication by land and sea, we' get Menty of bad news every morning.The fact that we hear of so many crimes and misdoings in every part of the world, far more than were reported a quarter century ago, probably accounts for a share of the downheartedness in respect to human nature, which oppresses so many of us at times.But the fact remains that the misdoings often get notice in the newspapers because they have some picturesque or interesting quality which obtrudes above the level of nor mal human life; if regular and decent living should\u2018êver become \u201cnews\u201d we all should indeed be in a very bad way.Hence, it looks as though we ought to realize thai the world is no worse than it used to be, hut that we know more about it, and if we are forewarned we should be the better equipped for ending ourselves and helping our weighbor.No Boxes for Two.Telephone girls sometimes glory in thelr mistakes, if there is a joke In consequence.The story is told by a telephone operator in one of the Boe- ton exchanges about a man who asked her for the number of a local theatre.He got the wrong number, and without asking to whom he was talking, he said: \u201cCan I get a box for two tonight?\u201d A startled voice answered him at the other end of the line: \u201cWe don't have boxes for two.\u201d \u201cIsn't this the called crossly.\u201cWhy, no,\u201d was the answer; \u201cthis is an undertaking shop.\u201d He cancelled his order for a \u201cbox\u201d for two.\u2014Boston Herald.Theatre?\u201d he Civilization and Eyesight.It is sometimes mistakenly supposed that primitive races have naturally better eyesight than civilized ones.That is not exactly true.Nature works more slowly than that, and in the records of power or acuteness of eyesight some French artillerymen proved to be as well furnished as the most keen sighted Arabs.Native races often appear to have keen eyesight simply because they know what to look for and where to look for it.But as soon Ws reading ls introduced to a race Bhortsightedness begins to appear with progressive frequency, and some striking Instances of this relation to cause and effect have appeared among the school children of Egypt.Visiting Cards.While it would be difficult to say Just when visiting cards were first used, we are quite certain of the fact that they are not of very ancient date, Apparently they were adopted in English society before they were general ly used on the Continent.It was probably about 1700 that they came into fashion In Great Britain, and it was as late as 1770 when they were introduced in Paris.It appears that the first visiting cards were regular playing cards, the backs of which were used for the address.Improves the Flavor of Rabbit.Few persons know that the flavor of gooked rabbit may be much improved, if, when cleaning Br\u2019er Rabbit, the small, waxy kernel or gland under the front legs is taken away.Cut directly between foreleg and body, and the small gland, about the sise of a pen, may be seen.It is \u2018white in colce.\u2014Madoline Pelton, a Recreation.CHINESE SMUGGLER \"15 VERY CLEVER In No Part of the World Are They So Daring as in the , Canton Delta KITTENS FILLED WITH ~ OPM Many Ways in Which the Seductive Drug is Brought in Contraband\u2014A Surprised Night Patrol\u2014Even Outcast Lepers Used.\u2019 | \u2018In all countries the evasion of fiscal obligations is considered no wrong, and \u201cpassing the customs\u201d is generally regarded as a tax upon personal rights.So much is this the case that those who render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's generally do so to escape a worse evil, and seldom from any moral conviction as to what is right and what is wrong.In this one respect, at least, East and West may be said to have met, for in no country - fn the world has the art of smuggling reached a higher standard than in China and in no part of China have smiugglers become so daring or se ingenious as in the famous Canton delta, whose innumerable and intricate wa terways spread their welcome arms to shield wrongdoers and embarrass pursuit, John Chinaman is a born gashbler, and as often as not stakes his acute ness against lawful authority merely for the love of play.- The heavy duty on opium and the comparative ease with which it can be secreted naturally place it in the front rank of desirable contraband, and many a ball of the seductive drug has found its way into Canton from that acknowledged base and happy hunting ground of criminals, the British free port of Hong Kong, without his imperial majesty Kuang Hau being a cent the richer.Many are the methods adopted and the precautions taken by those nimble evaders of the law.Floats and sinks, the outcome of the most tertile imagination and the most careful study, are the most frequent means used, and at a given signal from the shore the whole consignment ls dropped over board from one of the palatial river steamers running between Canton and Hong Kong, to be eventually picked up at a convenient time by receivers on land.On one occasion a.handsome cat, with kittens, was noticed on board one of these steamers, and after à time it was remarked that the Rit tens did not appear to grow any large er.An inquisitive custom house off.cer in Canton found upon examination that they were all dummies, filled with opium, and it was recalled that this lucrative imposition had been going on for weeks.Again, the Canton customs night patrol going the rounds of the crowded harbor took shelter one night from a violent summer squali under the huge paddle sponsons of a well knowh river steamer.\u201cIs that you?\u201d inquired a voice from above in Chinese, \u201cYes,\u201d replied the customs officer, with quick perception.\u201cThen catch,\u201d answered the mysterious interlocutor, passing down half a dozen balls of opium, the share.of which meant much prize money for the lucky gig's crew.The smuggler was, of course, walting for a confederate whom the customs officer unwittingly forestalled.On another occasion the inspector general of customs, Sir Robert Hart himself, was visiting Canton, and in the evening at dinner was obliged to apologize to his hostess.\u201cYou must excuse my costume,\u201d he sald, \u201cfor the customs have seized my boxes.\u201d It was indeed true, as one of his Chinese servants, never suspecting that the inspector general's personal effects would be disturbed, formed a syndicate with some enterprising friends, and half-filled one of the trunks In his charge with contraband.Salt, that daily necessity of life, be~ ing a government monopoly in Chins, ia subject to official regulations which add to its cost and lessen its quality.The duty indirectly paid on this article may be styled the income-tax of China, since all must use this every: where indispensable commodity.Salt, therefore, naturally comes within the scope of the contrabandist, and smuggled salt, by reason of its cheapness, commands a ready sale.It differs from opium, however, inasmuch as its bulk renders concealment difficult and landing it at its destination risky.The majority of salt smugglerf are, therefore, the Chinese ¢rews of the earry- ing vessels, working in conjunction with accomplices ashore.It is as often as not concealed among the bunker coal, and kept there until à favorable opportunity for landing presents itself.At one of the Mver ports some years back the crime of \u201csalt running\u201d assumed such startling dimentions that extraordinary precautions to put a stop to it were introduced, which proved efficacious for a time.Later, how: ever, it was noticed that sampans, or small boats, manned by those unhappy outcasts, lepers, were becoming more numerous, and it was soon discovered that they were engaged to land the salt, as it was perhaps not unreasonably sssumaeq_that customs officers, however zealous, would at least re spect the inviolabllity of these fatal craft, and it was not until the aid of the local magistrate was invoked that these adjunctive smugglers were for bidden the port.OLD PEOPLE SUFFER ° Here le a Case in Point.Of course you Imow a dull ache or sharp pains in the back come from sick Old age exacts its becoine weak or a ECONOMY IS PROMOTED by the systematic snd judicions care of money\u2014 by making frequent deposits in the Interest Department\u2014 by carrying an account in the Bhsiness Department and paying for everything by check.: THIS PLAN Co Curbs wasteful expenditare\u2014 - Keeps an accurate tab upon outlay\u2014 Eases business transactions\u2014 Advances business prosperity\u2014 Always helps business men.Begin today, not tomorrow or later, aak how now.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK Savings Bank Department at all Offices 87 - Branches Throughout Canada - 87 Correspondents all over the world.THE OLD ROCK ISLAND mmm GRIST MILL.- Under its new management, is now in ship shape and prepared to do custom grinding promptly and satisfactorily, no unnecessary waiting.The best grist that it is possible to make from your 47wd \"CATTLE PASTURAGE.Ihavetwo » Well-watered pastures, available for cattie, upon ressonable terms.4w3 MRS.M.J.SOUTIERE, Smith's Mills, \u2014 \u2014 B.E.RENIHAN PROPRIETOR OF THE DERBY LINE HOTEL LIVERY I am ready to perform any kind of work that comes in my line, promptly and efficiently, from a single hite drive to heavy team work.See me for your Livery Service any time In the 24 hours.I bave recently pri in a power clip: n o ping machine and shall be glad to clipping at any time.Patronize your home industries and buy Fertilizers from The Capleton Chemical & Fertilizer Co.Names and grade stamped on all bags in plain figures; and guaranteed to\u2019 stand government test.TRY OUR CORN SPECIAL or VICTOR-BRAND.You will ind our Fertilizers as as the best.And will cost you m $3.00 to 84.00 less per ton.See your local agent before buying, or apply direct to CARL LB.WAEELER General Agent, Way\u2019s Mills, Que.A Lazy Liver Upsets the Whole System., Br.Merse's Indian Root Pills Put Things Right Again.dite vor lo bo slesgiod ~ and ; poing al through symem, Spang ng the system, digestion, leaving the bowels constipated and making the sufferer .sable, This is biliousness, The quick, safe and certain cure Dr.Morse\u2019s Indian Root Pills.clear out the clogged-up system, stir the lazy liver, cleanse the stomach od bowels and purify the blood.\u2018The bile returns to its normal course, the food je again digested properly and all the disagreeable symptoms vanish, , Doctors prescribe Dr.Morse's Indian Roos Pills and they are known throughout the world as a en cure for all digestive troubles.are effective in strengthening weak and curing rheumatism, Made by W.H.Comstock Ca, Led, Brockville, Ont., and sold by all deslers ot age à box, n TORTURES with their BACKS ~~ \u2014 ; grain., L.ALDRICH, Miller./ ~ Mr.Woolley well says that a gen- \\ there has been a steady decline in the Lu _ TEMPERANCE NOTES.The action of the liquor men of Michigan In themselves placing on the statute books the most prete ?tious license law in the country shows that, twenty years too late, they have bearkened to the hint the New York Tribune that \u201ca high license stitch in times save nine Prohibition stitches.\u201d 1\" \u2019 What is a \u201cpractical\u201d man?One who ought to see that for hundreds of years mankind bas been trying to reform the liquor business without de- | stroying it, and yet insists that it should not be destroyed but reformed.eral horror of the liquor dealer has fastened itself in the public consciousness.When there is a similar clear perception of the position occupied by _ those whom the Pennsylvania Probibi- tion platform calls \u201cqreators of sa loon keepers\u201d we will be getting somewhere.Despite the fact that Allen County, Ohio, voted \u201cwet\u201d last November, number of saloons, and only two cities and two townships in the entire county are now wet, while ten saloons have quit business since last May.\u201cThe difference between \u2018a toy -watch and a real ons is that the real ones goes\u201d And those irreverent Texas brewers actually want to be shown whether the \u201creal ode\u201d is going backwards or forwards.A government mission of în- quiry into the liquor traffic recently began an\u2019 exhaustive examination into conditions in British West Africa.\u2026 The Roman Catholic Church is de coming an aggressive factor in the temperance movement in Holland, where there are 15,000 members in the Temperance Societies of the church.Compulsory temperance education has just become the law in the Transvaal.\u2019 Benighted Austria has made a beginning through its first National An- ti-Alcohol Congress, recently con vened in Vienna.Iceland is the first country in the world to reach National Prohibition, largely through thé efforts of the Good Templars.The affiliated church osuganizations of Hawall have presented a plea to Congress for territorial Prohibition.The temperance and Prohibition forces there have chosen for thelr fea.er Hon.John G.Woolley.Switzerland has by popular vote pat one alcoholic drink\u2014absinthe\u2014un- der Prohibition.The Swedish Parliament has 136 total abstainer members.About 95 daily papers refuse to insert liquor advertisements.The government is offi cially alding temperance instruction.Denmark foremost in the consumption of liquor, has 170,000 organized teetotalers, nevertheless, In all their vexing and planning to make the saloon better, the liquor men, strange to say, have never thought of the only effectual reform measure\u2014to eliminate the alcoholic liquors.Don't be too severe on thoge who vote \u201cwet\u201d in their city or county if you are regularly doing the same thing in regard to the whole United States of America.When Saloons Will Close.In refusing to grant a license for the sale of liquor in a New Jersey township the Judge In whom lay power fn the matter has made this statement: \u201cThere is one phase of this question which seems to have been ignored by counsel, the protest of 187 adult women of this township.They indeed are the chief sufferers, and have no other method of defence against the liquor evil than their protest to the Court.1 see no reason why their tes timony should not be accepted by me as to the actual conditions existing in the township.Their protest there fore must be combined with that of seventy-five worthy citizens resident of the township and must be control jing with the Court.\u201d There certainly can be no quarrel with this conclusion, nor is exception likely to be taken to the Judge's res- soning.It euly puts in words the fact that has been recognized wherever the crusade against licensing drinking places has been pushed vig: orouely.The antéealoon fights bave been won by the women who took part in them, and wherever the wom: on have bees united on the side of prohibitionists the liquor interests have been worsted.In many instances hysteria and frantic appeals have marked their campaigas but, success has always attended them in the end.The liquor manufacturers and sellers must acknowledge this and may as well make up their minds that when the women are practically a unit aggressively opposing them their cause is lost.\u2014Editorial in the New York Sun.Saloon Atmosphere.\u2018The saloon furnishes the atmos: phere where bribery is sasy and se .qure, and rallies the venal voters who constitute the bosses\u2019 power.\u2014Gov.ernor Dawson, Virginia.A Miracle on the Way.If by any miracle England was made sober, the average value of dife of the people would be increased one *% WHY THR PUMPKIN WALKED.Skunk Wad Forosd Mead in Hole and 90 Vegetable Moved./ A pumpkin was seen to walk across e fleld by Mrs.Samuel H.Hight, of whegan, Me.says the Lewiston j Journal, When she saw it she thought her eyes wads Beceiving her, but she soon perceived that the pumpkin moved a little way, stopped and then turned .in another direction.She watched this object for some time and told ome \u2018of her neighbors.The mystery was solved, but the two women did not dare to go nearer to the smoving vegetable, but called a man, who knooked the pumpkin over and found a pole cat \u2018pumpkin and stuck his head into & hole and was unable to extricate himself from it and had walked off as best he could with the pump kin on his back.\u201d .\u2014: Anxious Travelling.The } William E.Ingersoll, the noted life insurance manager, Was an authority on insurance rates.\u201cMr.Ingersoll knew the rates all over the world,\u201d sald a New York \u2018manager recently.\u201cThe Russian rates are very high.Mr.Ingersoll once explained to me, with a story, why this was: \u201c