The Stanstead journal, 30 mars 1911, jeudi 30 mars 1911

[" rem a The Stanstead Journal.VOL.LXVI\u2014No.13.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1911.WHOLE No.3398.[NEARLY EVERYBODY \u2014and why should not everybody \u2014get their grists ground at the only mill in the world grinding at 4 cts.per 100 Ibs.Fazmers say they were paying 10 cts.per 100 lbs.before I built the mil), and that they would now have to pay 10 cte.if I had not built.You who paid 10 cts last autumn and winter have lost #60.00 if you had à $100.00 worth of grinding.You who now pay 6 ote.will lose $20.00 if you have a $100.00 worth of nding.My 14-inch grinding plates vs.others\u2019 12-inch\u2014the difference in diameter at the outer 12 inch.ge\u2014gives you one-fourth mere grinding.I will grind your grists free if I cannot grind it better and finer than any Corn 81.05 per 100 Ibs.; Corn Meal $1.10 per 100 lbs.A.G.CLOUGH.PEOPLE'S TELEPHONE COMPANY NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Connecting arrangements have been made between the People\u2019s Telephone Compan of Quebec and the Passampsic Telephone Company of Vermont whic! gives the People\u2019s Telephone Company connection over all the lines of the Passumpsic Telephone Company, through the New England States.On and after the first day of April, 1911, all messages going beyond the Village of Lerby Line, over the lines now owned by the Passumps Company will be checked Morgan.On all messages ce Telephone messages of 10c.to Newport, Derby, Holland and going beyond these points a charge will be made according to the toll rates now used by the Passumpsic Telephone Company.C.J.WRIGHT, Manager, and Sec\u2019y.-Treas.SARDINES Dalidet & Cie Brand Represents the finest French Sardines caught off the Brittany coast, scratched and broken fish culled out, packed in highest grade olive oil.With bones: Dingley 14e - - 18 cts.each Regularifs - - 20 60% Regular ce - - 25 «+ Boneless: Regular Xs - - 30 cts.each Sardines in Glass Jars Sharwood & Co., Ltd.Brand Sardines in Oil, [1 ¢ Tomato Sauce, « « Oil with Herbs, \u201c \u2026 « Lemon Slices.Norwegian, Small Size Fish Lightly emoked and packed in pure Olive Oli, 15 ots., $1.50 dozen.\u201cWhere only the best is good enough\u201d.The Daly Grocery Co.TOWN TOPICS.Mr.CO.C.Emerson of Portland, Maine, was in town on Monday.Mr.W.8.DuBois of North Troy, was in town yesterday and to-day.A few 1911 Diaries left; pocket sizes 2 and 3 days to page.JOURNAL Office.Mr, Alex.McIntosh of Montreal, the veteran cattle dealer, was in town Monday.Mr.Benjamin Cadiuex of Barford, was in town from Monday to Wed- needay morning.A new horse clipping machihe has just been installed at Geo.W.Hall\u2019s livery.See ad.Go to Lee Farm for your Baggies, Harnesses and Robes; they have a fresh carload just in.The annual village meeting is called for Tuesday evening, April 4th, at the Derby Line Hotel.The ladies of Stanstead College will be at home to their friends Thursday afternoon, April 6th.Mr.George F.Way, of Mancherter, N.H., the old time boot and shoe salesman, was in town Monday and Tuesday.Mr.Ben Wright is now representing an Ohio drug firm on the road.Mr.Wright was calling on trade in town yesterday.Mr.P.A.Bissonnet, M.L.A., has sold bis stock in trade at Rock Island to Mr.N.H.Biron, of Nicolet, acting for his brother, Mr.Biron of Drum- mondville.Centenary Methodist Church, April 3, 1911.Morning theme, \u2018The God- Honoring and the God-Honored.\u201d Evening theme, \u201cThe Four Shep- pere.\u201d W.8.Jamieson, pastor.Morrisville, Vt., has aocepted the proposition of Mr.Andrew Carnegie to give the town 95,000 for a library building providing the town will vote to raise $500 annually for its maintenance.Mr.and Mrs.Charles Carpenter, who have been very ill for some days, are now out of danger and are gaining rapidly.Both are able to sit up some each day and take a normal amount of food and very little medicine is necessary.Rev.George F.Fortier of North- field, has accepted a call to the Uni- versalist Church In Rutland.Mr.Fortier was a visitor in town last year in the capacity of superintendent of Universalist Churches in Vermont and the Provinoe of Quebes.TOWN TOPICS.Miss Esther Butterfield is visiting in Montreal.Miss L.Louise Leland returned to Johnson, Vt., Friday.Mr.Frank M.Little of Boston, spent Saturday and Sunday in town.See the Aluminum Cooking Utensils in Caswell & O\u2019Rourke\u2019s south window.Mr.Henry Gibson, of Rock Island, died of dropsy at Sherbrooke last night.Mr.Fred T.Oaswell and family are expected to arrive in Derby Liue today.It you know how to spend less than you get, you bave the philosopher's stone.Mr.Arthur T.Gregoire, of the immigration office at Newport, was in town Friday.Messrs.M.F.Biggins and E.H.Williams of Boston, epent Friday and Saturday in town.Dr.and Mre.Geo.F.Waldron and Miss Nancy returned from Boston the first of the week.Lee Farm is to be the headquarters as usual for Buggies, Harnesses and Robes.Carload just in.The snow fall for the week up to noon to-day is 6); inches, making the total for this winter 133}¢ inches, A fine new line of Team harnesses and driving harnesses at the Gilmore Harness shop, J.W.Downing, Prop.Mr.William Frewin, nephew of Mr, and Mrs.Ralph J.Hunt, returned to London, England, about à week ago.Mr.and Mrs.D.W.Davis started Wednesday for a thres or four weeks\u2019 trip west, Chicago and other points.Mrs.Aaron Pomeroy and daughter Blanche, of Coaticook, were the guests of Mr.and Mrs.B.P.Ball the first of the week.Mr.Harry N.Rickard, of the Cas- well & O\u2019Rourke store, returned to his work .Monday morning, after an illness of two weeks.Mise Shirley Smith has resigned her position with L.A.Bayley, Bher- brooke, and accepted one with the James A.Gilmore Oo., of this place.Congregational Church, J.G.Hind- ley, minister.Morning sermon: Visions and Visionaries.Evening: The Fitth Lenten Lecture: Compassion.Soloist: Miss Pierce.) For years the housekeeper has found Granite Iron Ware a great boon, but now it is to be displaced by Aluminum.See the south window of Cas- weil & O'Rourke\u2019s store./ Mr.A.A.Lamorey was at home over Sunday from his Barre store and le feeling some improvement in his condition.He bas been afflicted with rheumatism nearly all winter.Mr.Harry Stone, a brother of Miss Florence Stone, arrived frum England Friday.The young man came by way of Halifax.Mr.Stone said they had a very stormy passage part of the way over.Mr.and Mrs.Almon of Barford, moved into town Monday, renting s house of Fred Proulx.They have fourteen children.Two of their sons are carpenters and went to work at their trade Tuesday morning.We notice that the Rev.Oharles Reynolds Brown of Oakland, Cal., has been oalled to the directorship of the Divinity Bohool of Yale Oollege.We mention this fact because he was the pastor of the First Congregational Oburch of Oakland, the church home ot Mr.and Mre.W.Clark Hopkins during thelr long residence ia that A TOWN TOPICS.Mr.A.A.Lamorey is moving to Barre, Vt.Miss Natalie Blake will work for Miss Eva Dupuis this season.For bargains in Art Squares and Rugs go to the Colonial Soap Co.Mr, John Batchelder reports seeing a butterfly in his home Tuesday.Mr.Henry T.Ball is just getting in acarload of wagons and a full stock of harnesses and lap robes.Mr.David Wilkey ot Wells River, spent Sunday in town.He reported business good and his health Al.Mr.A.H.Visser, from Uoaticuok has been added to the staff of the Eastern Township Bank.Rock Island.Mrs.John Gilmore returned from Sherbrooke on Tuesday, where she has been visiting Mrs.E, Chartier for several days.The Haskell Free Library will not be open next Tuesday evening, April 4th, but will be open Wednesday afternoon and evening.Misses Paquin and Barbin, of Newport, have taken rooms with Miss Alice Kendrick and are working for the Monarch Shirt Co.Miss Annie Gilmore returned from Sherbrooke Tuesday, where she was the guest for several days of Mrs.Joseph Gauthier at the Chateau Frontenac.Mr.Fred Robbins, of the Robins & Gilmore Manufacturing Co., has rented the house on Caswell Avenue being vacated by Mr.A.A.Lamorey and will soon move his family here.There wili be no meeting of the Woman\u2019s Reading Club on the afternoon of April 4 Mrs.T.J.Noris being unable to have the Club meeting on that date has deferred it to a time which will be annouced later.The next meeting will therefore be held April 18, Mrs.Wright Hovey hostess.Recently Mr.John Sivright was showing us a diary kept by his mother, in which she recorded the fact that they tapped the sugar place in 1879 on the 8th day of April and finished sugaring April 28th.Evidently in the majority of the past 30 springs sugaring has not been commenced until April.The contract for the erection of George W.Hall\u2019s new livery stable at the junction of Maple Avenue and Railroad Street has been let to Huck- ins & Drew.The barn, which ie to face Maple Avenue, will be 30x80 feet.It will contain 13 stalls, carriage room, hay loft, office, bedroom, etc.To make room for the barn, the double tenement, which at present occupies a portion of the lot, will be moved westward 16 feet.The contract price is 81,600, which includes moving the house and construction of foundations.The cribbage players of the Colum- bian Club climbed the mountain Taes- day evening to vanquish the crib players of the Stanstead Club on the Plain, but they conld not hold their ground, and were driven in dismay from their position with a loss of between two and three hundred.This reminds us of a certain wag that saw a bull in a patch, and it occurred to him that it would be a fine act to get over the fence and hold the toro by the horns, and had a good laugh at the feat he was contemplating.He tried it and wben he was restored to consciouoness, said: \u201cWhat a fine thing it was that I had my laugh before I climbed over the fence.\u201d Etta Gould, wife of John A.Tilton, of Smith's Mills, died atthe home of Mies Nellie Field in Stanstead, on the 28th inst.At the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, a little over a year ago, she underwent -a serious operation for the removal of a cancerous growth from her chest.Although the shock, to her system was most severe, aad the operation was followed by pueumonia, she seemed to rally rapidly, and ber recovery was regarded as quite complete.Early this winter ber health again became impaired; something happened to disturb the natural manner of breathing and she became very nervous.She was again taken to the same hospital where she underwent a thorough X-ray examination without the discovery of anything radically wrong.She came home and for a while appeared to be improving, but lately became worse again.On Saturday she Was removed to Stanstead in the hope that a quiet rest away from children might prove beneficial.The recovery hoped for was not to be, and in spite of kindly and ekillfol attention the patient's decline was rapid and she paseed peacefully away at 8.30 Toesday evening.Deceased was a mative of Waterloo and was 8 lady of many estimable qoalities.She leaves a husband and five children.fos.CL ALTE.ee ed TOWN TOPICS Mr.and Mre.T.Frank O'Rourke went to Boston Monday night.The sermon subject at the Univer- salist Church for next Sunday is \u201cThe Ethics of Jesus; The Standard of Right Living,\u201d Service at 10.45 A.M.Mr.Sidney Stevens, manager of the local branch of the Eastern Townships Bank has not been in his usual health for some time past.He is absent from the office most of the time.Mr.Joseph F.Bowles of St.Johns- bary, the popular and well known wholesale grocery salesman, diedat his home at 2 o\u2019clock Friday morning, of pneumonia.He wasbornin 8t.Jobns- bury, Oct.20, 1860, and has been identified with its interests for a lifetime.He was first in the employ of E.& T.Fairbanks in the grocery department of their store for several years.He then went on the road for Mr.George C.Cary at the time Mr.Cary was in the wholesale grocery business at St.Johnsbury.Later he traveled for Martin L.Hall & Co.of Boston, but for eeveral years he has traveled in this northern section for the Holbrook Grocery Co., of Woodsville and Keene, N.H.Mr.Bowles was a very successful salesman and a great hus- tier, well liked by every one.He married Miss Josie Tabor of 8t.Johns- bury, and she survives him.Mr.Bowles\u2019 mother made her home with him, and he has two sisters living, Mrs.Frederick McGaftey, of Stanstead, and Mrs.A.B.Noyes, 8t.Jobusbury.BARNSTON.Mr.F.Baldwin met with a painful accident Saturday.While en route to Coaticook the sled tipped over breaking his leg.Dr.McCurdy was called and his patient is progressing favorably.The stork visited the village Satar- day, leaving a baby girl with Mr.and Mrs.Caron.Congratulations.\u201cAs precarious as a Jersey heifer\u201d is an adage justifiable in the case of a heifer owned by Mr.Morrison.She bas raised five calves and is only four years old this spring.Rev.Mr.and Mrs.McIntyre Bradshaw were at \u2018The Woodlands\u201d San- day, also Mesdames P.R.Thornton and Chester Cleveland and Mesdames Fisher and P.B.Buckland, Tuesday.Mr.J.N.Jenks is so far recovered from his two weeks\u2019 siege of la grippe as to be able to drive out in fine weather.Mise Gladys Dale has returned to her hospital work, after spending some weeks here, recruiting, among friends.Miss Shoolbred, who has been convalescing at \u201cThe Woodlands,\u201d will return to her home in Westmount, April 10th.Masters Wm.Buckland and Leland Buckland spent Sunday at home from Stanstead College.Mr.O.N.Remick, municipal secre- tary-treasurer, went to Quebec to interview the Minister of Agriculture concerning the ramor that the Government would pay 75 per cent.of the cost of a permanent road through the township of Barneton, which means a Macadamized road of crushed stone 8 feet wide.The Hon, Mr.Caron, Minister of Agriculture, positively denied having even made any such offer.His offer was 50 per cent.of the actual cost.It is now up to owners of autos to furnish the 25 per cent.or no Macadamized road will be built as the cost would be in the vicinity of 830,- 000 and the municipality of Barnston is of the opinion that 97,500 is as much as it can afford.Miss Muriel Buckland was quite indisposed last week, but is somewhat better.Mr.G.B.Hall delivered $500 worth of cattle and hogs to Mr.Roberts, Saturday.v THE LATE DR.WHITTAKER.The death of Dr.Whittaker of Newport, removes from his town and this section a very skilful and useful physician and citizen.Dr.Whittaker was born in Lawrence, Mass.in 1838 and died at the General Hospital in Montreal, Saturday, March 25th.About seven months age he went to the hospital and passed successfuly through a very critical operation for cancer.Up to a short time ago he bas been verycom- fortable and able to do bis work, but à recurrence of the affliction made it necessary to return to the hospital and he was subjected to another operation, trom which he was unable to rally; secondary pneumonia being the immediate cause of his death.The funeral was from bis late home, Rev E.G.Frenoh officiating.There was a large attendence of professional friends and citisens from tbe north end of the state, for he had a very wide aoquaint- ano through bis okill as a physician and popularity as a man sud eitisen.BARGAINS FOR they look almost like new.1 48in.x 1 40Oin.x 1 4Oin.x 1 40in.x SUGAR MAKERS who ought to have a better Boiling Outfit A few second-hand Rigs at close out prices.In such good condition that 12in.GRIMM 14in.GRIMM 14in.LEADER 13 in.Flat Bottom Rig 1 small Pan and Heater Rig.Don\u2019t use an old leaky Slow Boiling Rig when you can get a snap on any of these Rige.We have one new 36 in.x 12in.Monarch that we can ship on a minutes notice.We can deliver Tanks eto.promptly.Call 77-2, Newport, charges collect.* TRUE & BLANCHARD CO., Newport.but no men\u2019sand Cotton department.taken at market prices.CEMENT BLOCK, - (AOING OUT THE READY-MADE CLOTHING BUSINESS.I have left 50 Suits, sizes from the smallest to size 35, Will close these out at less than cost.Rubber and Overshoe Sale still on.dies\u2019 and Gentlemen's Fine Shoes, A dandy line of La- Don\u2019t forget our Print Maple Sugar, Potatoes and all kinds of Farm Pioducts Yours, IRA S.MELLOON, AYER\u2019S CLIFF, QUEBEC AYER'S CLIFF.From another correspondent.Mrs.Durocher, who has been apend- ing two weeks with friende at Massa- wippi, returned home on Saturday and was much pleased with tbe postal shower, in honor of her 65th birthday, which she found awaiting her.Mr.Dwight Paul, sr., was a guest of his nephew Dwight recently.Mr.Hollis Hackett, a well known resident of this place, has passed away and was laid to rest on Tuesday.Mrs.F.T.Vaughan and Mrs.A.E.Wiggett of Sherbrooke, were guests of Mrs.O.W.Vaughan on Tueaday.Mrs.Richard Hibbard, who went to the Montreal Hospital, has returned and will soon recover from her operation, which was very succeseful.Mrs.Noble Dean and two children of Minton, are visiting Mrs.Dean\u2019s parents, Mr.and Mrs.Irving Slack, this week.The work on the Government wharf is progressing rapidly and we are very glad to know the steamer will again run its regular trips upon Lake Masea- wippi.Mr.Augustus Solomon is again in the meat shop working for Mr.Niell.Mr.Frank Rexford and family, who moved to Magog a year ago, bave returned and are now living in their house on Main street.Itema from another correspondent on second page.NORTH STANSTEAD.Miss Veda Chamberlain of Ayer\u2019s Cliff, is spending a few days with her friend, Miss Bessie Curtis.Mr.and Mrs.Alba Huckins of Lowell, Mass, were guests at Mr.G.W.Schoolcraft\u2019s on Tuesday.Mr.and Mrs.John Gallaher spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs.J.Walsh.Mrs.E.Derusha, who has been very seriously ill for the past few weeks, is now able to sit up.The Helping Hand met with Mrs.G.W.Schoolcraft on Thursdhy.The weather being very stormy only a few members were present.The many friends of Mrs.8.Newton will be pleased to learn that she is on the gain.Mrs.Wm.Chamberlain spent Wed- pesday at A.E.Curtis's.NORTH HATLEY.Mrs.P.Gagnon has returned from the Montreal Hospital, where she has been for the past five weeks.She underwent two serious operations and is in a fair way to recovery.Mr.and Mrs.Charles Drew, of Dix- ville, are spending a few weeks here with relatives.Mr.E.McClary is spending a week at Massawippi and Libbytown.Mr.L.Drew is working at A.P.LeBaron\u2019s during his absence.Mr.Benj.LeBaron, who spent the winter in Detroit, was in town the first of the week.He will make his home at present with his son, W.B.LeBaron, in Sherbrooke.Mr.A, O.LeBaron is confined to the honse with lumbago.Mrs.Carlton Turner is on the sick st.Mr.and Mrs.E.McOlary were guests of her parents, Mr.and Mrs.A.Tyler, last Sunday.A gang of twenty men and two teams are at work on the Government wharf here.The rain of Monday and Monday night made a large flow of water and the snow storm on Tuesday was the saviog of a flood.March is going ont Ike & 100, soins 1 MASSAWIPPI.The discouraging weather conditions is the chief topic.Heavy snow storms, badly drifted roads and high winds combine to make the situation rather dubious.We are sorry to write of the illness of Mrs.Percival, which at present seems serious.Mrs.W.B.LeBaron of Sherbrooke, was here to see her on Saturday.There was an assembly of thirty-five people at Mr.E.Ham\u2019s on Saturday evening to amuse themselves in dancing to music by Mr.C.Sloggett and others.BASEBALL IN 1911.About 30 citizens interested in baseball, met at the Derby Line hotel, Tuesday evening and organized for the season of 1911.Rev.F.H.Cole was tbe choice of the meeting for chairman.After discuesion Mr.E.H.Cosby moved that matters be placed in the hands of Mr.Talcott O.Chapman as manager and Mr Roy F.Tel- ford as secretary and assistant to Mr.Chapman, this was seconded by Mr.Lacasse and carried unanamously by acclamation.Upon motion of Mr.Wm.F.Pike, Mr.E.H.Cosby was elected a member of the board, and the three gentlemen constituting an executive committee.Mr.John F.Phelan of the 1910 board of management, who acted in the capacity of treasurer presented his report for the year just closed; showing that the amount on hand after all bills were paid was, $878.47.The grand stand was built by Mr.T.O.Chapman, he financing it and was to be paid from its earnings; he received 225.00 from this source and the balance of $20.00 was paid by the treasurer, so that the stand is now the property of the association and this reveals that the net earnings last season was, 878.47.A vote of thanks was extended to Mr.Phelan for his services.Upon motion of Mr.Pike it was voted to play one game for the benefit of the International Cornet Band, providing the success of the season will warrant it; this being left to the judgement of the executive committee.The matter of joining the Eastern Townships League of Olubs was discussed pro and con, resulting in the election of Messrs.Chapman and Coes- by to attend a meeting to be held in Sherbrooke next Saturday evening by the clubs interested.This matter was left with the committee to decide if it is found necessary to do so at the meeting, but if time is given to consult the association before deciding they will do so.It was voted that the funde on hand be turned over to the newly elected board of management.The meeting was a very practical one as such meetings go, and the pgospects are most excellent and promising for a good season of ball.The consensus of opinion seemed to prevail that the club shou!d be made up of all home players, and if this is adheared to, the support of local interests can be depended upon.We are in a position to gauge the trend of public sentiment regarding home talent, and it Is most certainly nearly unanamous for all home men, and that favoritism be shown only to the best players, that all politics be eliminated in the selection of players, Cer ome on The \u2014\u2014\u2014 + P\u2014 0 70 rte tree cal Sh bt rm AYER'S CLIFF.On account of the bad condition of roads the Thursday evening Lenten services at the Episcopal Church will be discontinued.The Guild will meet on Thursday of this week with Mre.W.E.Learned.The Congregational Ladies Aid will meet on Tuesday, April 4th, with Mrs.OC.H.Libby.Mr.A.G.Clough attended the automobile show in Montreal last week.We are glad to report Mrs.0.W.Vaughn able to be out again, after an illness of several weeks.Mr.and Mrs.Forest Brooks of Wheelock, Vt., visited at J.F.Mao- Coy\u2019s recently.Mr.and Mrs.F.Rand visited in North Hatley on Monday.Mr.T.O.Norton, who has been sl for some time, is somewhat better.Miss Florence Place returned to her situation in Rock Island on Tuesday.Mrs.Geo.Woodard, sr., is reported gaining, after a long illness.Mrs.PF.Pierce, who was very ill all the early part of the winter, was able to ride out for the first time on Sun- ay.The millinery opening at the parlors of the Misses Baldwin brought out large numbers of ladies où Saturday, who reported \u2018the display a large and exceedingly pretty one.Mr.Hollis Hackett, who had suffered for some weeks with la grippe followed by pneumonia, passed away on Sunday night at the residence of Mr.J.F.MacCoy, where he had for some years made his home with his daughter, Mrs.MacCoy.The late Mr, Hackett, who had lived in this vicinity for many years, was in the 75th year of his age.His wife, who will be remembered by many with love and respect, passed to her rest three years ago, after much suffering.Mrs.Mac- Coy is the only sarviving member of his family, but he leaves a brother 89 years of age and several nieces, who reside in Boston, also nephews in Worcester and Gardener, Mass.There are here besides his daughter, two grandeons, two granddaughters and one great-grandson.The funeral was held at his late home on Tuesday, afternoon, March 28th, Rev.C.Moore speaking from John 11-26, \u2018\u2018Believest Thou This?\u201d The bearers were: Messrs.Geo.Worthen, 8.W.Sargent, H.P, Berry and Geo.Davis, Interment at the village cemetery.The flowers were many and beautiful; white roses and ferns from his daughter and family, calla lilly and fern from Mrs.Hill, petunia begoniag and ferns from Mrs.Wheeler, geraniums from Mrs.Hib- bard and ferns from Mrs.C.E.Standish.BEEBE.We wish to correct a typographical error in last week's items in the spelling of Evangelist Whiteside\u2019s name.Ray Beebe is at home from California, after spending a year and a half there.He speaks highly of California.Frank Hearle has bought the place occupied by the late Dr.Whitcher.Mrs.8.B.Norton is gaining very slowly.The Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church will be entertained at the home of Mrs.Henry Bigelow Friday afternoon and evening.All are cordially invited.The series of meetingt which have been held the past two weeks, closed Sunday evening with a well filled house and all listened to a very im- pressine sermon.The meetings have been well attended and quite a good interest shown.On the part of the Evangelist, not too much can be said of his earnest efforts to revive the Christian workers and to show plainly the way in which the unsaved should taka to lead a new lite.Evangelist Whiteside gave a solo, accompanied by his guitar, wbich could not help but stir the minds of the people.The choir of about forty voices, with the aid of a piano, organ, violin and cello, added much to the service.Many were sorry to have the meetings come to a close.The Evangelist goes from here to Mansonville and the prayers of the people go with him.CASSVILLE.Mr.and Mrs.A.N.Perkins and daughter Meryl, Mr.and Mre, G.W.Curtis and family, of Boynton, Miss Marlon Poole of Hatley, Rev.Mr.Goudie and Miss Goudie were guests at the home of Mr.and Mrs.J.F.Mc- Veay during the past week.Mrs.Geo.Rudd went to Montreal Monday to visit her son, Mr.Edward Rudd, who passed a successful operation for appendecitis at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Mr.and Mrs.Alba Huckins are visiting friends at North Hatley.Miss Pearl Thompson has been spending a few weôks with her aunt, Mrs.G.Thompson and cousin, Miss Bertha Thompson, at Brigham, Mr.and Mrs.Wesley Oass were recent guests of Mr.and Mrs.T.H.Langmayd.Mr.Henry Rudd, of Way's Mills, accompanied by his daughter, Amy, BRESETTE CORNER.beard here on Monday evening, March Teh.Sager makers in this vielaity are waiting for a change of weather.The W.C.T.U.will mest on Wednesday with Mrs.(Rev.) Marggrat.All should try to be present as an un- nsually attractive program is promised.Mr.Chas.Bennett, of Groveton, N.H., is visiting at his home here., Mr.J.W.McConnell is in the Gén- oral Hospital, Montreal, for the ve- moval of a catarsct from his right eye, VERMONT ITEMS.Pawlet is moving to celebrate its 150th anniversary on Anguet 36th.8.Johnsbury has appointed a committee to arrange for a monster 4th of July celebration this year.If beginning in season makes a successful celebration, this enterprising city should win out.Lyndonville has adopted a curfew ordinance, and from now on the children of the village must be within their own home by § o'clock p.m., or the police must apprehend them.The age limit is 16 years, \u2014 Senator O.8.Page\u2019s request for instructions relative to the proposed reciprocity agreement between the U.8.and Canada, is eliciting much comment from the state press, that is on the whole favorable to his course, A leading manufacturer and citizen of East Highgate, Mr.O.8.Rextord, died Thursday the 33rd.He has been known throughout New England for many years as a manufacturer of scythes.His father was the founder of the business over 90 years ago.Pp WILFRID LAURIER.Sir Wilfrid Laurier, as usual, took bigh ground in discussing the Reciprocity Bill.If said he, it is possible to bring about good relations with the United States, Canada will have rendered to England, nay, to the whole British Empire, a service unequalied in its present effects, and still more in its far-reaching consequences.The Canadian Premier cares little for the details of fiscal arrangements.He used to argue fluently and agreeably for free trade while in opposition, but easily acquiesced later in continuance of the protectionist policy of the other party.But he inaugurated Imperial pref- erance, and the men who now taunt him with waning loyalty are the men who did nothing for British connection when they had the power, let they alienate a loyalist group which, as it was said, loved England much, bat loved themselves more.Laurier\u2019s attachment to the British tie is both sentimental and practical.He is a great admirer of British institutions.As a French-Canadian, he says, \u201cEngland has given us freedom, and we are loyal because we are free.\u201d He agrees with the statesman of a former generation, who said the last gun in de- tence of British connection in Canada would be fired by one of his compatriots, In his labors for reciprocity, which date from his entrance into public life, forty years ago.Laurier has been moved by a desire for the good relations of which he speaks now.He knows that a powerful element in Canada, as in this country, would like to keep tariff barriers intact; but he also knows that there is a strong, silent element that favors, and even insists on, mutual reductions.It Is by studying and understanding this element and making himeelf its champion that he has won much of the sac- cess that has fallen to him.Selfish interests have trled in every way to discredit the new arrangement.Loyalty was the strong card.Trading with the United States would be treachery to England.Laurier ridicules that idea.Gentlemee, he says, will find it difficult to And in the arrangement the fatal germ that is to destroy Canadian autonomy.There was a lot of annexation talk fifty years ago; but the first reciprocity agreement checked that.Shall they now be told that, because certain Canadian food products can be eaten free by the American people, the British Empire will reel on its foundations?Let us, he ooncludes in characteristic manner, disregard these freaks of unreasoning panic.Sir Wiltrid, in treating questions of finance, has a genius for avoiding details.A Gladstone would probably have entertained the Canadian Commons on Monday with an elaborate discussion of the effect of each proposed reduction.But Laurier is no statistican, and, as he would pleasantly say, he does not need to be.That is Mr, Fielding's business.The question for him, as he said at the time a tarif! War was averted last spring, is not whether five cents or five and a half cents Is to be taken from the tarif! on feathers, or pote and pans.The question ie whether there shall and son, Harry spent the week-end at be good feeling or bitterness, whether the home of his brother, Mr.Geo.Rudd, of Ayor\u2019s Cliff.a measure rightly demanded by the people of both countries shall replace Mr.and Mre.William Ohamberlain [the present uanneighborly system, and two daughters attended church Whether Canadas is to be like China or bere on Sunday and were guests of like & member of tue British tamily.\u2014 Me.and Mre.J.F.MoVeay.Boston Herald.The fires thunder of the season was | JAPAN'S ŸY.M.B.A.Tue Letters Stand for Young Men's Buddhist Asseclation.Japanese Buddhism is remarkable for the great number of sects into which the believers are divided, Every conceivable tendency of thought is represented by a different grouping.Of late there has moreover been great activity in the formation of Buddhist societies among the educated people.Among organizations recently formed the Great Japan Young Men's Buddhist Association, which works among the students of the different Tokio universities, Is perhaps the most important.Many of its older members have attained high position fn the social and political world, says the Atlantic, and the society there fore enjoys a considerable influence among the intellectual classes.It includes among its members adherents of all the different sects of Buddhism, In 1872 Prince Iwakura went to America and Europe at tLe head of à mission.Kume, who accommodated the mission in the capacity of an expert on Chinese and literary subjects, was detailed with another member to make an investigation of the state of religion in the West.In their zeal to begin work they early on the voyage accosted a Roman Catholic priest and questioned him about Western religion.They got .an account of the Ten Commandments and of the Trinity; but soon the tables were turned and they were themselves questioned on the religion of Japan.The answers which they gave did not satisfy either themselves or their hearers.So a council of war was held in the smoking room that night.What attitude should the mission take when questioned about Japanese religion?It was first suggested that they might claim Buddhism as the re ligion of Japan, but it had to be confessed that there was no one in the mission who knew enough of Buddhism to give a trustworthy account of it, especially on doctrinal matters.Confusianism might be professed, but this would not help matters, as Occidentals look upon the doctrines of the great sage as merely a politico- ethical system.Shinto was ruled «ut, as it was then too little known in the West, and also because a religion which lacks sacred books and one whose observances are so archaic might not particularly impress the Western mind.There remained no alternative but to confess that Japan had no religion\u2014an unfortunate situation, because heathen are considered but little better than wild beasts in the West.The \u201cArt\u201d of Happiness.Life requires an art, and some people say that happiness is the whole of it.But if happiness is an art it is in many ways an illicit one.Studiously to try to be happy is to assume that one has a right to be happy, and this is to disregard the warnings of numerous sages.But even if it were not impiety to claim happiness, it would still be a futility.Happiness is a matter of temperament; thousands of people who have every reason to be happy (as we vainly judge) are unhappy, and thousands who ought, by all the rules, to be miserable, float buoyantly and jauntily on the troubled ocean of their affairs.One can waste a good deal of pity on men who deserve it but do not require it.The writer has one such case in mind.The man\u2019s business failed, mor could he rise again for all his efforts; the Il luck that pursued him was persistent, inexorable.His wife, who had graced his prosperity, was quite unable to redeem his distress; rather she saddled him with the blame, and became at once a provocation and a hindrance.His daughters made undesirable marriages, and his sons, instead of helping him out of the ditch into which he had fallen, ungratefully relieved his pockets of the chief part of what little remained in them.When the writer met this man, just after a particularly heavy shower of major and minor misfortunes, he experienced that kind of embarrassment which one has in speaking to a person about a heavy bereavement.But embarrassment was unnecessary.The mah\u2019s laugh was as light, his face was as free from lines and his step as springy and eager as in the days of his ease.\u201cI've got half-a-crown in my pocket,\u201d he said with a slap on his thigh, \u201cand I'm off to see the pantomime.\u201d And off he went like a boy.\u2014London Spectator.Self-Lighting Cigare.As in France, Germany has a tak on matches, and there have been several ingenious devices to defeat the tax.Of course, the chemist has had a look in, but the law was too much for science.Now another scheme is offered, a boon to smokers\u2014very young smokers, of course.Whether the inventor is a8 chemist we know not, but he has Invented the auto matic light.The substance is placed at the end of a cigar or cigarette.Draw It, as the case may be, across a rough surface, and the cigar or cigar ette lights itself.There is not much new in a preparation which lights when drawn across & rough surface.The old lucifer match was perfection in this way, but, alas for the smoker! \u2014London Globe.District of Columbia.The District of Columbia comprises an area of 69,245 square miles.The government consists of two civilian commissioners appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, and one army engineer officer, detall- ed by the Becretary of War, the three constituting the Board of Commissioners for three years.A WILY OLD BIRD.Fooled a Hunter Several Years and * Went Scot Pree.\u201cFor three successive seasons,\u201d says a writer in Recreation, \u201ca friend of mine started an old cock grouse on a sma'l hillside covered with sapling pines.Invariably the bird ran ahead of the dog, rose out- of gunshot on the further side and vanished over the hilltop.\u201cBeyond the hill wers only two or three bits of cover where he could hide, and these my friend most carefully threshed out.\u201d It was as if the bird had vanished into the upper air.\u201cOne day late in the season, after a repetition of this disheartening experience, my friend returned to the hilltop and took sober counsel with himself.The bird was somewhere, probably not far away.\u201cIf not in the covers, where?Three scraggly pines, half dead and bare of foliage at wide intervals, dotted the slope before him.Wildly improbable as it seemed he became convinced that the bird had taken refuge in one of them.\u201cDown the slope he went again and after a patient search detected the wily old bird calmly seated on the wreck of a crow\u2019s neat at the top of one of the trees in apparent en- Joyment of a trick well played.Needless to say my friend, in wondering admiration of the bird's sagacity, left bim to his well earned liberty.\u201d Large Families in Ireland.To have a large family in Ireland is always looked upon as a special mark of the Divipe blessing, and in connection therewith Mr.Robinson tells a good story.He was dining once at a house in Tipperary when a card was brought in by the butler and sent round the table.A tramp had two children in a perambulator, with seven others round him, at the door.He was looking for help and this was his modus operandi.He called at each gentleman\u2019s house and the card with the following inacription was handed in: Dear Friends: Having obeyed the Divine command to Increase and multiply I am_unable to support my already too large family.Your kind ald and assistance will be welcomed.Truly yours.~ PATRICK KEENAN.\u201cThis ingenious man always got help.\u2014Westminster Gazette.Municipal Golf Links.A number of cities in Great Britain have provided or taken over golf links for public use, among thèse belug Brighton and Nottingham, one course each; London, Troon and Boure- mouth, two each; Glasgow, Hull and Edinburgh, ten.Bradford is considering taking over a course now privately owned, and Liverpool and Manchester are said to be arranging for municipal links.Each of the cities mentioned receives from the links an income slightly more than the expenditure.The cost of laying out was: Bournemouth, $22,000; Brighton, $5,000; Glasgow, $366; Troon, $10,600.Certain of the incomes and expenditures were as fol lows: Bournemouth, $15,412, $14, 429; Glasgow, $5,648, $4,826; Troon, $4,594,$4, 477.\u2014 Municipal Journal.A Flying Frog.In Java and some other places is a remarkable flying tree frog, with a green back, a white belly and a bright orange colored membrane between its toes, which are tipped by circular discs.Like the chameleon, it can change its color to suit its surroundings.It feeds at night on insects, and when disturbed leaps out of the tree and salls away to safety.Some observers call it a frog, while others say it is a tree toad.The membrane between the toes probably acts as a parachute, and not as a flying apparatus.The toe discs, like similar enlargements on our common tree toad, must act like suckérs to hold the animal firmly in place against the trunk or the lmb.\u2014St.Nicholas, National Library Connection.To-day the collection in the Nation.tl library, in Washington City, comprises nearly 2,600,000 items\u20141,500,- 000 printed books and pamphlets and nearly one million other articles (manuscripts, maps, prints and music) \u2014by all means the largest collection of the western hemisphere, and perhaps the third largest in the world, They are increasing at the rate of about seventy thousand books and pamphlets and fifty thousand other articles yearly.The Golden Age.What Rousseau, under the name of the state of nature, and the old poets by the title of the golden age, place behind us, lies actually before us.It is a phenomenon of frequent occur rence, particularly in past ages, that what we shall become is pictured by something which we already have been; and that we have to obtain is represented as something which we have formerly lost.\u2014Fichte, Money for Science.According to Science, the Berlin Academy of Sciences has received a legacy of 30,000,000 marks (about $7.500,000), being the entire fortune of a millionaire named Samson, a Berlin banker, who recently died childless at Brussels, British Land Surface.Supposing the whole population of Great Britain stood at equal distanos \u2014FINE LINE OF Team and Driving Harnesses These are our own HAND MADE On nok the machine made) out carefully selected stock and A Trimmings.WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF HORSE FURNISHINGS, BLANKETS, HALTERS, ROBES AND BELLS The Gilmore Harness Shop, LW Downing, Proprietor, People\u2019s \"Phone.ROCK ISLAND, QUEBEC EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK| CAPITAL AND RESERVE, $5,250,000 HEAD OFFICE - Established 1869 - SHERBROOKE, QUE.WM.FARWELL, President.8.H.C.MINER, Vice-President.J.MACKINNON, General Manager.82 BRANCHES IN PROVINCE OF QUEBEC Montreal Acton Vale Johns Ayer's Clit Eitan 10 Bs.Oath BLE.gt Bet > ance yor's ey 3 Bedford Farpham 8t.W.St.Sel Prellghsbarg North Scotatown Peloetl Gran T Sherbrooke Beloeil Station .Hemm Philt Sherbrooke, Well Sé.-Ble Henryville Pointe aux Trembles Sherbrooke, Upper Bishop's Crossing Howick on tanbridge Black | Lake Huntingdon Stan Iberville Rock Island Button Bromptonrille Kaowiton Roxon pois oot nes Basin ow Rox! u Thotf Glarenosville St.Armand Station Thetford Mines, W.Charlemagne Lawrenceville St.Chrysostome Enfon ticook Lennoxville Ste.Eelisabet alcourt Cookshire t.Felix de Valids Waterloo Cowaneville Mansonville 8s.Ferdinand d'Halifax Wat ville Marbleton 84.Gabriel de Brandon Weedon Dixville Marioville 8t.George, Beauce West Shefford Megantic st.Hyacinthe - Mills Also Branches in Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia.Savings Department at all Offices.CORRESPONDENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD.RENIHAN BROTHERS \u2014Successors to\u2014 HALL & NETTLETON, Rock Island, Que, and B.E.RENIHAN, Derby Line, Vt.Combining the ownership of these two Livery Stables enables us to handle -the business to the advantage of all concerned.The stables will remain in the same locations and we can furnish any kind of a hitch on short notice, and be ready to perform any kind of work that comes in our line promptly.See us for your Livery Service any time in the 24 hours.We shall endeavor to im mprove upon the service all that is possible.Bell and People\u2019s Telephones at both stables.GRANITE IRON WARE \u2014AT\u2014\u2014 .3 Lincoln & Nason\u2019s We have a very fall Line of this Ware, and you will be surprised how little money it requires to buy a good many articles.8, 10, 15, 20 and 25 cents COVERS THE WHOLE LINE We are Keeping very full our stock of Postal Cards AND THE PRICE IS RIGHT \u2014\u2014OUR CONFECTIONERY DEPARTMENT is always active, people have found us Headquarters in this line, and they \u201ccome back\" to us for their confections.\u2014IF YOU USE\u2014 TOBACCOS and CIGARS see our department in this line, we have the goods and they are displayed to attract and it is becoming the smoker's place to buy.The Big Store in the Waldron Block NEW COPARTNERSHIP HALL & CORDEAU TINSMITHS, PLUMBING, STEAMFITTING æs.=: 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 \u2018good line of customers, and get our share of the business.We have a well equipped, roomy shop in the Jondro block.Olive us acall.Peoples Telephone.HALL & CORDEAU, Rock Island.HUCKINS & DREW General Contractors and Builders.% |DRAWINGS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF WORK FURNISHED.It you contemplate constructing any kind of a ballding tbie season, give us a chance to figure on it for you.== We have the workmen and the factory to out the mill work or fing you need, that is made of wood.set any- WE MANUFACTURE ss | een Custom Min Work, \u2026 Sectional 1 Veranda Screens, Factory at Derby.Offices at Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, Que.Blank Books at the Journal Office. He\u2014What a beautiful eomplexioa she has?Bhe\u2014Yes; it's a masterplece.EXPLAINED.te ee TheFeather Duster\u2014My goodness your stick is covered with coal dust and ashes! What bave you been doing?\u2019 The Broom\u2014I've been playing poker, \u2014 A HOME THRUST.Grace\u2014You looked really charn ing at last night's dinner.Helen\u2014Oh, you are so flattering: .Grace\u2014No, no, honest.I did not frnow you at first.TIME ALLOWANCE.It was getting towards the end of the week, and the Newspaper Man had not found a story for Sunday.In vain his eye traveled up and down the Pompton turnpike at Cedar Grove, New Jersey, where this particular Newspaper Man lived, but he did ndt see a tramp, or any signs of material for a \u201cstory.\u201d Finally, as he approached Meler's grocery he ssw the figure of a man approaching, but the Stranger did not look like a tramp.Slowly the man approached until be reached the smooth sidewalk in front of the store.\u201cCould you give me a match?\u201d he asked of the Newspaper Man.The Newspaper Man handed him a few matches, and as the Stranger sighed he said: \u201cYou might not be lleve me, but a match was my undo- \u201cAh,\u201d the Newspaper Man sighed too, \u201cthis looks like a story to p 2.\" Then aloud.\u201cTell me about it.Won't you have a cigar?\u201d ; \u201cThank you,\u201d said the Stranger, seating himself on an empty box out \u2018side the grocery door._.\u201cIt was this way,\u201d he began.\u201cYou see I used to work in à powder mill in Pennsylvania.Ever worked in a powder mill?\u201d The Newspaper Man had not.\u201cWell, 1 worked there as long as 1 could stand it.I quit because a match and a dog put me out of business.\u201cYou know, or don't know, that & match is the last thing allowed in a powder mill, naturally, too.All the lights are electricity, and if you are caught with a match on you, that's good-by.\u201cI worked in the grocery store at Powderton; that\u2019s not the name of the town, you can bet, but it will do.1 say I worked in the grocery store until everybody knew me.You see, strangers are not wanted in the powder mill, because the jobs go from father to son and naturally no strangers are welcomed, but as I had been in town for a long time and every one knew me, I was anxious to get into the mill and make more money.I was getting $2 a day in the mill as a starter.Soon I was raised to $3, which wasn\u2019t so bad.\u201cYou know how smart a dog is, and now I want to tell you of the smartest dog that ever was born.We called him Jim the Powder Dog, and he was that human he could detect a match on a man.Bill, he was the night watchman, owned that dog Jim and he was a wonder.Sometimes, 1 tell you straight, I think that fellow Bill had second sight, or something, the way he would get onto feliows having matches, he and his dog.When one is working where there is no smoking allowed he wants to smoke all the more, and you can bet that we fellows in that mill wanted to smoke mighty bad and we had to go up on the top of a big hill to smoke on the sly.\u2019 \u201cDangerous?Well, somewhat.Now, there was Charlie Parker, he was carrying a pail of nitroglycerine one frosty morning and he stubbed his toe and, you miglit believe it, but they only found twenty pounds of Charlie.But to go on about that dog.«1 don't just know how to go about it, but there was a girl in the case, too, her name was Marie.It seems to ease my mind to tell you about this.You see, me and Chris Thompson sorter shined up to that girl, and Chris had been there longer, much longer than me, and 80 he had the inside track.But Marie did think a lot of me.There was always a soft light in her eye when she spoke to me, and she sorter hinted that I had better look out, as there might be something doing.\u201cThere was something doing, for soon I began to hear where this man and that were blown up and all that kind of stuff, and it did get on my nerves, \u201cImagination?Well, 1 guess yen, but a man can\u2019t stand hearing a thing over and over, especially if it's about being blown up.\u201cOh, yes, I could sleep all right; A NOVEL EXPERIMENT STATION.Founded by Women's Clube agd Tries Qut Housekeeping Devices.Now devices and economies for housekeeping will be tested in an experiment station of the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs, accord ing to & report published in the Boston Common.The results secured by appliances or methods which prove to make housekeeping easier or cheaper will be communicated to all the women's clubs of New Jersey, and as that State seems quite unlikely to be hampered by any of the prejudices against labor saving machines which keep the New England housewife mixing her bread and cleaning her floors by hand there is a probability that the club members will become the most up to date ana scientific housewives in the country.The idea of a housekeeping experiment station was first worked out by Mr.and Mrs.Charles Barnard, who, having moved to a suburban home after Mr.Barnard\u2019s retirement as a playwright and editor, found their neighbors groaning under a task which they had solved.The cause, along with the absence of gas and electricity, proved to be the lack of \u2018| xnowledge of the various means of making work almost if not quite play.For three years the Barnards have given -out the results of thelr tests, and the eagerness of women in all parts of the country to learn these facts 1s evidenced by the letters, which average fifty a day, asking for information or advice.The Ameer\u2019s Vengeance.When Sir Charles Euan-Smith, who died pot long ago in England, was in the market place of an Afghanistan town he was fired at by a native.He lodged complaint with the Ameer, who appeared to take no notice of the incident, merely remarking, \u201cThat's all right\u201d Sir Charles complained again and mef with the same reply.He still thought that the Ameer was treating a serious matter with -less consideration than it de gerved, but thought it advisable to say no more on the subject.About a week afterward he was invited by the Ameer to ride with him.They rode for some distance outside the town and passed gibbet after gibhet.At length Sir Charles said: \u201cYour Highness has been busy of late.\u201d \u201cOh, no,\u201d replied the Ameer, \u201cthey are your little lot.\u201d He had taken all the members of the would-be assassin\u2019's family and hanged every one of them.\u2014Chicago Daily News.The Fishhawk's Warning.\u201cThe fishhawk tells us when the shad begin to run up the river,\u201d sald a Gloucester fisherman.\u201cWe have learned that it isn't much use to cast nets, no matter how mild the weather may be, until Mr.Fishhawk swoops down on us.\u201cWhen he comes sailing up the bay we know it's time to get to work.Lots of farmers down Jersey would never think to start planting until the fishhawks come.I don't believe they have ever been later than April 12, though.Thy work their way up the coast from Florida and the other Southern waters early in March, when the fish begin to come north.They follow tbe big schools of herring, as a rule, because the herring swim close together, and the hawk has easy picking.The shad follow the herring, and when the fishhawk comes we know the shad are not far away.\u201d White Way in a Town of 1,500.The most remarkable example of street illumination that has yet come to our notice, says the Illuminating Engineer, is that of Winterset, 1a., a town which boasts of a population of 1,500 and has a real \u201cWhite Way\u201d flluminated by thirty-nine handsome cluster lampposts.This is at the rate of one lamppost for every 400 citizens, At this rate New York city should contain 120,000 decorative lamp standards.Taking Winterset as a standard of public lighting, the extent of oportunity for the sale of lamps and electric current for this purpose in the other cities and towns in the United States is something whose contemplation will make the central station dizzy.NOWTEN MAKI.Itfustration That Is Furnished by Veb eanio Islands Along Alaskan Coast.The making of mountains is illustrated by the Bogoslof Islands off the coast of Alaska.They are volcanic islands which seem to afford an example of Dr.T.J.See's theory that coastal mountain ranges are first thrown up parallel to the coast line of a continent by the explosions which result when the ocean percolates through its bed to the heated rocks below.Dr.See\u2019s suggestion is that successive percolations and the resultant explosions dig a trench in the sea bottom during the course of ages, one ridge of the excavated trench being thrown up seaward, there to wait perhaps for a million years till it is established as a submarine mountain range, and the sea drains out from between it and the existing continent.The Bogoslof volcanic islands confirm this suggestion, for they and the Aleutian Islands are part of a ridge which is being fc.aed more or less parallel to the northern coast line of North America.The ridge suffers many vicissitudes and the islands are never safe from sinking.The last of them, Perry Island, rose from the sea about the time of the San Francisco earthquake, 1906.Fire Island, its younger brother, rose in 1863.Castle Island, the oldest, had been known since 1796.The latest island was believed to have disappeared in 1907.It is now reported that Fire Island has vanished also.À party of explorers who lad intended doing a little surveying about the islands could not at first find them at all.Later it reports that the biggest of the three islands has sunk to & reef.Origin of the Club Sandwich.Alan Johnstone is sald to have originatea the famous club sandwich, and the story runs that on going to the club one night between midnight and daybreak he found the cafe closed, the cooks gone, and being nearly famished, he invaded the larder, toasted himself some thick slices of bread, sliced them through, buttered them while hot and laid thereon everything he found in the refrigerator, cold chicken, ham and lettuce, with a spoonful of mayonnaise., The result was such an epicurean discovery as is not often made, but the story was too good to keep; he confided the recipe to his cronies and it straightway became one of the popular dishes of the club menu, and so the father of the club sandwich, so deservedly popular, is the present British Minister to Copenhagen.Yearning for Light.\u201cWhen it comes to consuming gas in large quantities blind people can beat their seeing brethren all hollow,\u201d said an inspector of the gas company.\u201cI know two families where both husband and wite are blind.Every jet is turned on full tilt in their homes at night, and is kept going at that rate clear up to 12 o'clock.Light and darkness are all the same to the afflicted ones, but they insist upon illumination brilliant enough for a reception.And that partiality for light is not a whim peculiar to thosu two couples.Most blind people feel that way.They demand the light, and in all private homes and institutions where the blind are cared for the gas bills vouch for the strange fancy.\u201d Dental.The characters in this tale are called A.and B.A.has a frightful toothache, B.is playing the part of consoler.\u201cMy dear A,\u201d says B., \u201cyou must not succumb this way to the pain.You must not thrash around and bury your head in yonder pillow and indulge in such inelegant and thunderous language.Be a stoic, A, be a stoic!\u201d A.sits up.\u201cRats!\u201d he roars.\u201cStoicism leaves oft where toothache begins.\u201d Epigram! \u2014 Sickness Seasons.It seems strange to the uninitiated that there should be a \u201cseason\u201d for sickness and one for health, but such pc B.F.GROUT J Open Day or Night We have the store with the Rubbers, we have three agency, The Mishwaka Ball Band Rubbers, The A call on either telephone to the branch office of F.W.WHITE Stock and Bond Broker SHERBROOKE & ROCK ISLAND, QUE.Will put you in touch with all standard stocks listed on the New York and Montreal Stock Exchanges.Investment or Liberal Margins.A.R.CLEMENT, Manager.0 cx 38 comm me cm 0 cme cnn 3 {ous 3 NEW LINE \u2014AT THE\u2014 Derby Line Fruit Go.\u201d \u2019Teas and Coffees, New Canned Goods, Clam Chowder, Little Neck Clams, Pears, Plums, Pine Apple, Lobsters, Shrimps, Blueberries, Black Berries, Dried Beef, Figs in Syrup.A Large Line of Confectionery SEASON\u2019S F RUIT Oranges, Bananas, Grapes and Grape Fruit DATES, FIGS, COCOANUTS, NUTS, TOBACCOS AND CIGARS.\u2014_\u2014 R 00009 Automobile and Machine Works We understand every detail of the Automobile and Gasoline Engine business, and can give you prompt service.We employ experienced workmen; no boys employed on automobiles.$ DERBY, VERMONT Citizen\u2019s Phone ++.ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE BREAK IN THE WEATHER Rubbers and Rubber Boot Season WILL COME WITH A RUSH , according to trained no trouble about that, but during the \u2014_\u2014 1s the caso, according & Laie\u201d Straight Line Brand\u201d of light daytime I got restless.Said Something.\u201cEverything is very quiet just now,\u201d weight Rubber, the best wearing \u201cDay after day went by and I was On board an ocean liner were & said one the other day.\u201cSo many |fine rubbers in this country by act- *] hear, Mrs.Camewater, that your husband has bought an auto.\u201d \u201cYes he got tired of getting up at six o'clock to catch the train.\u201d \u2018What time does he start now?\u201d \u201cOh, about half-past five.You see he wants plenty of time in case anything should break down.\u201d A BOTANICAL CHILL.Mother Bug-=Willle! Willie! get 4 ape = sticking in spite of everything, for the light in Marie's eyes looked good to me; but I realized more and more \u201cthat my days were numbered.I wasn't afraid of being blown up, but I didn't want to leave that girl \u201cBy and by, what do you think happened?That dog got to following me occasionally.That always attracted notice, for he never seemed to like anyone save his master, and I wasn\u2019t a bit fiattered at his attentions.\u201cOne night I was walking along and that dog was behind me.Bill, the night-watchman, walked up to me soft-like and tapped me on the shoul der.\u2018Go to the office,\u2019 he said.That was all, 1 knew what that meant.1 man behind the desk.\u201cI did and there in one of my pockets was a match.How it got there never knew.I took my pay and went awsy.I have been walkmg almost all the way, trying hard to forget that dog, that powder mill and\u2014and\u2014 Marie.\u2018\u2019Mister, bave you got another lady and gentleman, accompanied by their young hopeful, aged 6, and as is usually the case the parents were very sick, while little Willie was the wellest thing on board.One day the parents were lying in their steamer chairs hoping that they would die, and little Willle was playing about the deck.Willle did something of which his mother did not approve, so she sald to her husband, \u201cJohn, please speak to Willie.\u201d The husband, with the little strength left in his wasted form, looked at his son and heir and feebly muttered: \u201cHow'dy do, Willle.\"\u2014The Lyceum: ite.A Fiddler's Velvet Crab.For the first time on the east coast a rare but ferocious species known as fiddler's velvet crab has been taken off Yarmouth, where it was captured in a shrimp net.It derives its name from the plushlike feel of its upper, surface, which is densely covered with short silky hairs.Its pincer claws are armed with extraordinary spiny processes, and its legs are marked with lines of brilliant blue in life, which rapidly fade sfter death.-London Standard.The English law prevents the shoot ing of game on Christmab Day or Sanéars.amenant nurses are out, the doctors have plenty of time and the druggists are complaining of slow business, but a little later it will be different.Our busy season begins usually when the opera does, though the two have no connection.Late November finds us all busy.February is one of our best months.\u201d \u2014 Sorrows of Childhood.\u201cBy George,\u201d said the expatriate, \u201cthe unnaturainess of living in an apartment never struck me so forcibly as when last night my two kids laid their letters to Santa Claus on the top of the steam radiator and went off to bed trying to figure how Santa Claus could come down the steam pipes and up through the coils.1 went out to buy a cigar before they could ask me.Poor little kids, no stockings hung by the chimney for them.\u201d eet A Peculiar Couple.Conversation had turned to the subject of two men, utterly dissimilar, who nevertheless roomed together.One of these men was generaly conceded to be a \u201cfreak.\u201d His name was John.\u201cJohn and Jim are certainly a queer pair,\u201d opined somebody.\u201cJohn and anybody are a queer pair,\u201d opined somebody else.- Poor John! rena pt $4 SRS ae opr ape Rg ual test; Winch Goodyear Brand of Rubbers in 1 ow priced goods, good value, no seconds or jobs carried, all new goods.Men\u2019s Rubber Boots at $3.Men\u2019s Storm King extra high Rubber Boots, $3.90 Ladie's New Rubbers at 45c.Ladie\u2019s Storm Rubbers at New arrivals in our Dry Goods Department.Spring Ginghams.Laces and Hamburgs.New Wash Goods., Tilton Wrappers and Tub Dresses.New Muslin Underwear.New Spring Shirt Waists.- Caswell & O\u2019Rourke 4 50c.New New £ The Derby Line, Vermont Made in grades for all classes of grinding.Fast cutting and durable.Fully guaranteed.SR.BAXTER & co.=» = MONTREAL.2e a .« PS mac ve The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISERD EVERY TEURDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING 00.Rock Island, Que.Ons your (advance payment) ' $1.00 if paid in six months, 1.95 As the end of the year, 150 When ses by mail to subscribers in the United Wtates the price will be $1.50 & year in advance\u2019 (ADVRARTISING RATES.Transient advertising 10 cents a line for tus first insertion and 3 cents a line for each subsequent insertion.13 lines to theinch.N vertisment received for leas than S0cents.Entered as svcond-class matter at the Post (fice at Derby Line under the act of March, 8 QUEBEC ESTIMATES.The estimates passed by the Quebec Legislature before adjournement last week include: Three items in the department of lands and forests, $75,000 for general expenditure, $10,000 for suspense account, $18,000 for forest protection.924,000 for the \u201cJournal of Agriculture.\u201d 980,000 for surveys, $85 for forestry service.$6,000 for the monument for the late Honore Mercier, for which $10,000 was voted last year.9125,000 for iron bridges in the Province.$250,000 for rural roads, an increase of $175,000 over last year.During the discussion of $7,000 for railway subsidies Mr.Tellier, of the Opposition, pointed out that in 1803- 97 the Conservatives paid out 97,000,- 000 in euch subsidies, while the Liberals in 14 years had paid but $1,000, therefore it was no surprise that the Government had money on hand for large enterprises.There are two sides to this question.For instance, some will prefer the expenditures for iron bridges and improved highways.BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.In reply to the Mexican Government\u2019s announcement of the suapen- sion of personal guarantees, the insur- rectos have sent orders to their troops that any captured federals are to have their choice of joining the insurrection or being shot.Fire in the Triangle Waist Co.'s factory, New York City, Saturday, caused the loss of 142 lives.The victims were chiefly girl sewing mochine operators, and many of them were killed by jumping to the pavement from eighth story windows.Others were burned to death or suffocated.The building was only slightly scarred.Charles D.Sheldon, who is wanted in Montreal for operating a get-rich- quick scheme is now in jail at Pittsburg, Pa.Tuesday evening he admitted that his right name is Charles W.Robinson, and that he was formerly clerk of courts at Brockton, Mass., from which place he absconded in 1903 with $200,000.Since then he has \u201coperated,\u201d under different names, in Scranton, Pa., Montreal and Pittsburg, dividing his time betweeu Y.M.C.A.work and swindling the public. which nourishes and soothes the skin making it clear and white, Tansey\u2019sCold Cream \u2014 HONEV & CATMEAL) i This new cream will not turn rancid, +»: B does not promote hair growth \u2014is supetior to any other on the market.B jam Two sizes 35¢.aud soc, ut ©.H.TANSEY, DauaaisT, B pa 278 SHERBROOKE ST.W., MONTREAL Le) .A H.Cummings & Son, Limited MANUFACTURERS OF Lumber Shingles and Olapboards Superior House Finish, Flooring a speciaity.Orders left with 8.E Abbott, agent, Stan- stead, wili receive prompt attention.Mark Twain said: \u201cI never did have any foresight until the next day.\u201d MANY PURCHASERS of the Easy Washe Feel ihe same way.° LOST the price of the washer while considering the cost.MORAL-Buy the washer, save the cost while using it.\u201cThat\u2019s Easy\u201d C.W.STEVENS, General Agent.Ou sale by E.J, Tinker & Son, Rock Island Hardware Co.Daly Grocery Co.Quick Returns Honest Assortment Correct Market Prices Paid for all kinds of RAW FURS and SKINS Send your collections to REVILLON FRERES EBTABLIONED 1723 The Leader in the world's Pur Trade.134 et 136 FIcONI Street, Reutreat, Our - PRICE LIST FREB for the asking WE PAT NEPANSS CHARGES AMERICAN REFORMATION, BY THE EVANGELIST LUTZ Text: \u201cUpon this rock | will bulld my church.\u201d\u2014Matthew 16:18.Divided Protestantism reached its climax in America at the beginning of the last century.This land of freedom offered a congenial soil for its perfect development.Here we exhibited more fully than ever before the sin and folly of such divisions.The forces of Christ were largely wasted and defeated through sectar lan strike, and there was the bitter est feeling even between different branches of the same denomination.Infidelity was rampant in the land, and Christianity was at a low ebb.However, the love of the Master was strong fn many hearts, and these longed and prayed for better things.As by Divine inspiration, a great union movement sprang up simultaneously in different parts of the country.The outcome was what may be called the American Reformation, more properly, the Restoration Movement.The burning desire of the promoters of this movement was reunion of the divided followers of Christ.After a thorough and prayerful consideration of the \u2018subject, it was decided that the only possible basis of union is the Bible; and so the motto was adopted, \u2018Where the Bible speaks we will speak, and where the Bible is sllent we will be silent.\u2019 In the evolution of the movement for Christian union it was soon dis covered that human creeds, as standards of church or ministerial fellowship, are divisive in their nature, and prevent the reunion of God's people.All claim to get their creed from the Bible; but, since creeds contradict each other in doctrine, they cannot all be right.Human creeds are responsible for heresy trials, and have armed most of the infidel attacks upon the church.The only way to solve the creed problem is to restore the divine creed given by the Holy Spirit to the primitive church.This is none other than the divinity of Christ, the central truth of revelation and Christianity.\u201cThou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,\u201d \u201cUpon thick rock I build my church.\u201d \u201cThese are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that belleving ye might have life through His name.\u201d \u201cBe lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved,\u201d \u201cOther founds.tion can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.\u201d This is what the apostles preached everywhere, and required as a condition for baptism and church membership; and it is the only creed they ever re quired.The church and its members should be named after Christ because they belong to Him; for the same reason it ls wrong to call them after any other person or thing.A great hindrance to a practical working union of the followers of Christ is the babel of teaching and practice as to baptism, Does the New Testament teach this babel or has it come from human inventions and additions.It will be noticed that this modern movement for Christian union does not seek to introduce new doctrines into the religious world.It seeks rather the restoration of the old Jerusalem gospel with its doctrines, ordinances and fruits.Its promoters thoroughly believe in all the truths acepted by evangelical bodies and simply strive to remove the sectarian growths that have fastened them.seives to the old ship Zion during its course through the centuries.Christ declares that the evengell- zation of the world depended upon Christian union.Therefore, the ultimate triumph of His church necessitates the triumph of Christian union.We praise God for every movement that looks toward a closer union of Christians; but we are sure that nothing short of the removal of de nominationalism and the complete restoration of the one body or church of the New Testament times will satisfy the demands of God's world, A number of forces such as the Sunday school, Christian Endeavor, Young Men's Christian Association, Evan.gellcal Alliance and Church Federation are destroying the sectarian spirit, and the field is ripening unto harvest for the restoration of the unity of the early church with its coa- verting power.There are many sinners who are ashamed of their sin, but when a man descends to such a depth that he glories in his wickedness and becomes a mocker and blasphemer, outwardly contemptuous of religion, he has almost reached the unpardonable nadir of degeneration.\u2014Rev.C.T.Brady, Episcopalian, Toledo.Personality is the basis of all our knowledge.Persons are the most real and substantial objects of our knowledge.\u2014Rev.W.A.Cameron, Baptist, London, Can.The great principle of the Amer}.can revolution is the principle of !ib- erty to which our great-grandfatbers pledged their lives, futures and sac red honor.\u2014Rev., W.N.Todle, Meth oélet Sncingtclé, ML JEWELED BOOKS OF RARE VALU | Volumes Bound in Gold and Set With Precious Stones ~ Eagerly Sought SOME OF FAMOUS EXAMPLES Accerding to Ancient Legend the \u201cGolden Fleece\u201d was a Book Cow ered In Sheepskin, Teaching the Transmutation of Baser Metals.There is ay ancient legend to the effect that the famous \u201cGolden Fleece\u201d was a book covered in sheepskin, teaching the transmutation of the baser metals into pure gold.The Roman scrolls were adorned with bosses of gold or gems, and their leaves having been smoothed with pumice were scented with cedar ofl.The Byzantine emperors were great patrons of books, and \u201cthe By- gantine coatings,\u201d or book covers, were famous for their magnificence; they were of gold, silver, copper, gilt, set with jewels, and these mag- sive tomes were carried in imperial processions.\u201cThe Silver Book\u201d of TUlphilas, bishop of Moenia, a translation of the Gospels, was rebuked by St Jerome.\u201cYour books are covered with precious stones,\u201d said he, \u201cwhile Christ died, naked, before the gate of His temple;\u201d which has been compared to the saying of Sadi, the Per sian poet, concerning the Mohammedan scriptures: \u201cThe Koran was given to reform the conduct of men, and men have only thought of embellishing its pages.\u201d The books produced in the early centuries of the middle ages were of remarkable beauty, inwardly ana outwardly: religious manuscripts were enriched by illuminations within while their covers were of silver, gold or enamel encrusted with gems, They were bestowed as splendid gifts by bishops and princes on monastic houses and churches, where they were laid on the altar or chained to a desk.Such chained books were named \u201cCatenati\u201d; a rough outer covering protecting them of dark skin, or sealskin, and later of \u201cchrevotin,\u201d a sort of leather, or \u201csendal,\u201d a coarse silk.Buch coverings were also called \u201cchemises,\u201d as a \u201cchemise of sandal wood.\u201d These rare books were also placed In caskets, in shrines or \u201ccapsoe\u201d; in Ireland they were laid in satchels, otherwise named \u201cpolaires,\u201d or \u201cTiagha Ubur,\u201d and the Celtic bookbinding possessed a pe culiar beauty of its own.There were secular bookbinders in the Middle Ages who gradually forme ed themselves into guilds of craftsmen, but the monks alone united the arts of composition, caligraphy, illumination, bookbinding, setting of jewels, enameling and work on leather, silver and gold in one artist.The masterpieces of Kenilworth and Sitchen were granted unlimited rights of hunting that they might obtain \u201cstag hide\u201d for binding their books.) The European princes were great book lovers, and some of their collections are famous, though now dispersed far and wide, sometimes reappearing as treasures cast upon the shores of time in some museum or library.Theolind, queen of the Lombards, presented a magnificent Gospel overlald with gold, silver and jewels to the Cathedral of Monza.The dukes of Bergundy were renowned for their libraries.The \u201cBoce caclo\u201d of Charles the Bold was bound in red velvet set with five large rubies; another Bungundian book was velvet bound set with fifty-eight.pearls of great size, with a small \u201csilver instrument\u201d for turning the pages.\u201cPippes\u201d were also attached to some of these costly tomes; they were little bars of silver or gold, forming \u2018supports for markers\u201d; sometimes the \u201cpippe\u201d was set with rubfes, while the numerous markers were adorned with pearls.The library of Philip the Good of Burgundy in the fifteenth century surpassed all the European book collections of the time; it contained nearly 10,000 volumes, nearly all richly illuminated on vellum, with bindings of damask satin and velvet encrusted by jewels, with clasps of chased gold and gems.Bruges, where the ducal court was held, was filled with literary craftsmen, and some of their splendid productions are still to be seen in the Belgian Royal Library.Henry VI.ot England possessed a fine library.Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots and Catherine de Medicis were all book lovers; the Scottish queen usually had her books bound in dlack, but one notable voi- ume was covered in red velvet, clasped wth platina and studded with jewels.In 1583 the French king, Henry III, passed a law prohibiting the wearing of jewels by the middle class, with special permission to adorn their missals and devotional books with diamonds; they might have four diamonds om their book covers, the nobles five and the princes any gumber.In the middle of the sixteenth century when Rude wae sacked by the Turks magnificent manuscripts were ruined for thelr sewelis-\u2014Ladr'e Fletortat SPECTACLES FOR HORSES.\u2018 Adopted When orse is Young; Ef feot Remarkable, : At least one London firm makes ipectacles for horses.The object of these is to promote high stepping.The frames are made of stiff leather entirely enclosing the eyes of the horse, and the glasses used are concave and large in sise.\u2018The ground seems to the horse to be raised, and he accordingly steps high, thinking that he is going uphill or has to ste over some obstacle.: This system of spectaclé-wearing is generally adopted while the horse is young, and its effect on his step And action is said to be remarkable.It has been ascertained that the cause of a horse's shying is, as a rule, short sight, and it is contended that the sight of all horses should be tested, as that of children.It is maintained that by a little artificial assistance many valuable horses wkich have become optically unfit for work can be restored to use- tulness.\u2014Harper's Weekly.Among the \u201cExtras.\u201d .One of the things which help swell the traveller's expenses, both in this country and abroad, is the \u201cextra.\u201d It may or may not be charged in the bil}, but it is sure to be paid for.Probably even the most generous traveler, however, will have some sympathy for the gentieman in the following story, who was made to pay liberally for a certain annoying privilege.During his stay at the hotel the weather had been very hot.\u201cCharles,\u201d said the landlord to the clerk who was making out the bill to be presented to the departing guest, \u201chave you noticed that the gentleman in number seven has consulted the thermometer on the piazza at least ten times every morning dur ing his stay here?\u201d Charles replied that he had.\u201cWell,\u201d said the landlord, \u201ccharge him the price of one dinner a day for the use of the thermometer.\u201d \u2014 Youth's Companion.The Story of à Cabinet.The Swedish Consul at Marseillet has received a modest but interesting memento in the form of a cabinet for papers for transmission to King Gustav V.This history of the cabinet is interesting.It is made of juniper wood, and the tree was supposed to be a thousand years old when it was felled.It had grown on an estate near Marseilles which had belonged to the Clary family, One of the daughters married Bernadotte, the founder of the royal house of Sweden.Bonaparte, it is said, used to enjoy sitting under this tree.Some time before the death of Oscar II, the present King visited the home of his ancestress and expressed a desire to possess some souvenir of the place, and the cabinet is the outcome of his wish.\u2014London Globe.New Canals Dug.Coincidently with the rise of Germany's sea power there is going-on a remarkable development of the nation's waterways.Berlin is now ambitious to he a seaport dnd a project for a maritime canal from the Baltic sea is under way.The Kaiser Wil helm canal, only a few years old, has already been found to be inadequate, and a project has been adopted to double the width and increase the depth to forty feet at a cost of $1,- 000,000 a mile.Germany's example is felt by her neighbors.Brussels, Ghent and Bruges are engaged in similar projects, A Painter's Legend.Around Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, \u201cThe Last Supper,\u201d there hangs an interesting legend.The painter, it is said, sought a model for his Christ for a long time In vain before he discovered a beautiful youth who answered to his conception.At a later stage he sought a model of Judas, and, having found him, discovered that the foullooking man upon whom his choice had fallen was no other than the erstwhile beautiful youth who had sat to him a few years before.\u201cThe Luck of the Draw.\u201d The mistress was giving Harrie.the benefit of her advice and counsel, touching a momentous step the latter contemplated.\u201cOf course, Harriet,\u201d said the lady of the house, \u201cif you intend to get married, that\u2019s your own business; but you mustn\u2019t forget that marriage is a very serious matter.\u201d \u201cYis, mum,\u201d said Harriet.\u201cYis, mum; I know \u2018tis sometimes, mum.But, mum, maybe I'll have better luck than you did, mum.\u201d A Strange Fowl.A Southern farmer thought he heard someone breaking into his chicken-house.Going to mvestigate, he called out: \u201cIs anyone m there?\u201d \u201cNo, massa,\u201d answered a dass voice, \u201cnobody but jas\u2019 us chickens!™ Art To-Day.\u201cShe is being fitted for the stage.\u201d \u201cStudying hard, I presume?\u201cOh, no.Just being fitted with the necessary gowns.\u201d \u2014 Louisville Courier-Journal.A Common Cause of Incompatibility.Wite\u2014You're nothing but a big joke! Husdband-\u2014Well you never could appreciate a joke any way.Light Literature, DRINKING FOUNTAIN FOR CHICK x K Can Be Made at Home with Small .Cost, It is important that the little chicks have plenty of pure fresh water at all times.It is not always easy to provide ii, however, especially: when the chicks are supplied with water in the ordinary way\u2014in a shallow saucer or tin pan.If flithy drinking water is allowed to remain before the chicks any length of time they will Invarfably fall prey to some of the ailments to which they are subject.Drinking vessels should be thors oughly cleaned once a day and scalded once a week at least.(Galvanized or earthenware vessels are best.The larger the vessel, especially for adult fowls, the better\u2014the water remains cool much longer.In the warm weather the drinking veasel! should be set in a cool, shady place\u2014never an, where the direct rays of the sun fall upon it.The water in the little chicks\u2019 vessel should be changed four or five times a day and in that of the adult fowls at least twice a day during the summer months.Instead of using an old dish or broken crock for a watering vessel a water fountain can be provided at small cost.Gallon and two gallon containers are the best sizes for adult fowls.A very satisfactory Inverted fountain for the little chicks can be made from a tomato can by punching a few holes around the edge pear the top and after filling it and inverting the saucer over it quickly turning it up with the saucer underneath as shown in the illustration.Only a small amount of water is in view in the saucer at one time and yet as it Is used up the saucer is continuo sly refilled up to the top of the holes in the tin can.\u2014Indlanapolis News.The Cause of Limberneck.\"Limberneck with chickens is caused by the birds eating decaying flesh or filth containing maggots.The maggots lodge In the throats of the birds, causing peralysis of the muscles of the neck and consequent inability to swallow food.When affected, the chicken remains inactive In one place for days at a time, without control of its neck or head.Since there Is no longer power to take food or drink, it gradually dies of starvation and perhaps slow poisoning.Very few that become afflicted ever recover, Not much can be done with a chicken suffering with limberneck.Soft bread soaked with turpentine or kerosene is sald to be effective in removing the cause, if the case is taken in time Use Caution In Ralsing Squabs There is a great deal to contend #ith in raising squabs.It fs well to start with a few known mated pairs and raise and mate your own breeders; or, if buying on a large scale, as your birds mate up, watch them and remove to a permanent breeding place.It requires patience and lots of experience to succeed commercially.Give your birds plenty of Farm fresh, pure water for drinking and bathing, the best quality of grains and liberal supplies of grit and salt.A beginner should always consult some practical squab raiser before investing money.Necessity of Two Run-Ways.Where possible it is advisable to have two yards, one on the north side of the house for warm weather run and the other on the south side, Ground frequently becomes fowl sick from long use.It is necessary when this condition prevails to plow up the ground and plant it in some crop.By this means the earth will clear of poisonous droppings.Fowls on free range.where insects and green food are plentuful, will thrive on corn alone as a grain food.During the summer it should be giv.on only in limited quantities.i The acme of good poultry the successful carrying on of upon filth, Nee and other il fowls that lurk ia ambush ack and croviee ef the homes, become - EVERY WOMAN SHOULD in her bac r housework.She tells how cured herself.WILLIAMSDALE RASPY.\u201cI cannot refrain from writing you about the benefits I have received from taking GIN PILLS.I suffering dreadfully with my back and have suffered with it for twenty years, I tried thing but got no relief, until I GIN PIL, I have taken six boxes of GIN PILLS and now I have not the sign of au ache or pain in my back.IX am now 48 years of age and feel as well as I ever did in my life, There je nothing that can hold a place with GIN PILLS for curing Pain The Back to which women are subject.\u201d MrsS.MILLANOR P.RIFLRY.Try GIN PILLS at our Write for free sample box.#ell GIN PILLS at 50c a box\u20146 for $2.50 and money refunded if they fail to cure, National g and Chemical Co., Dept, s \u2018Toronto.Quebec W118 TIME TABLE.In Effect October 10th.1910.LEAVING SHERBROOKE.Boson & Nxw York EXPRRas\u2014Leave Bher- Quebec 1.mm.Dining car sherbrooke to ly except Sunday.Pullman buffet sleeping car New York to 8 ; through Pullman sleeping car Boston erbrooke daily connecting with Puliman car for Levis.- PASSENGNR\u2014Leave Sherbrooke 4.00 p.m.daily except Sunday, arrive Levis 9.10 p.m.Quebec 9.15 p.m.Dining car Sherbrooke to Black Lake.ACCOMMODATION\u2014Leave Sherbrooke 7.00 Lg ma daily except Sunday, arrive Valley Jota.m, ARRIVING SHERBROOKE.Boëron & New YoRKk EXPrzas\u2014Leave Que bec 3.00 p.m.Levis 8.80 p.m.daily, arrive Sherbrooke 9.00 p.m Dining car Black Lake to Bherbrooke daily except Sunday.Pull- men buffet sleeping car Levis to New York dally.Connection 1s made at Sherbrooke with through Pullman car for Boston daily.PASSENGER\u2014Leave Quebec 7.90 a.m., Levis 8.00 a.m., daily except Sunday.arrive Sherbrooke 1.15 p.m.Dining car Robertson to Sherbrooke.ACOOMMODATION\u2014Leave Valley Jet.8.00 p.m.pally except Sunday.arrive Sherbrooke 8.50 a.m.Also connecting trains on the Megantic and Chaudiere Valley Divisions.For time tables.toketa and a information [0 any of the Company's S'E WALSH, É°0.GEUNDY Generul Manager.Gen.Paas\u2019r Agt- WANTED.Two or three Mitchérs - co 0 - Rock Land.Que.WANTED.À limited number of Cedar Posts delivered on Boston & Maine Railroad.For specifications and prices apply to TILTON & RAYMOND, 81 Smith's Mills, Que.Water Works, Water Power, Patent Solicitor, Surveying, Bell phone 349, People\u2019s phone.FARM IMPLEMENTS.Farmers, I can save you from § to 10 per cent.on machinery and implements.I buy direct from factory and pay cash.If you buy of me you have no commission to pay general or local agents.No better implements on the market than Noxon\u2019s and Belcher & Taylor's.Don\u2019t buy without seeing em.CO.B.JENKINS, Stanstead, Que.N.B.\u2014I have some new varieties of potatoes for sale.GEORGE T.BOOTHMAN, BUILDER] Plans and Specifications furnished at short Notice.Estimates cheerfully Jiven ood, of Buildings in Brick, Concrete or Stone.Derby Line, Vt., R.F.D.No.I.Telephone Stanstead Hotel, Stanstead, Que, District of Sb.Francia | Saperior Court Dame Lona May King of the Township of Stanstead.ih the Distrios of Bt.Francis, wife of Wellington Joseph Bissell of the same place, er, judicially authorized a ester en Jastios vs.The said Wellington Joseph Bisse) op Detendans.An action for separati Toperty has bees fnnticuted ja this ae Ay de arth day H.M.HOVEY, A , Sherbrooke ith February an?(07 Piste FIRST-CLASS WORK QUARANTERD PRION CHARLES E.HASELTON ufact a Man: urer of aod Dealer in Granite and Marble Monuments and Head Stones Your Cemetery work such Letterin Rerctting fo Rotiotted s sod .Beebe Que.and Vt.b RARE CHANCE; Certificate for 100 shares .PEARS Sheri FL SHAT Tears, 0060! PLAY 46 À ~ Mass WANTED.he Jasd of April, to drive TEE Es EASE a FROST BAKERY, Srenstend READ THIS LETTER À A 67 CE, gaa ie Of Interest - 1o Women = ee Rvery Woman ould Be ln terested In This Cheap Milk \u201c Réfrigeretor-Directions for its Make Are Very Simple and alee Inexpensive.= if milk is not kept cold it ia a dangerous food for babies, for every min ute that it is much above the tempera ture of ice the germs of disease in- = \"grease in it at an alarming rate.Very imany babies die of summer complaint merely because their milk has been allowed to stand for hours in a warm room.The benefit of rigid inspec tion of the cow, the barn, the farmer, the dairyman, and the retailer is very largely of no avail if the product after reaching the consumer {s permitted to stand uncooled.Keeping the bottle in a refrigerator holding a small plece of ice does not make milk a safe food for the temperature is often fifty- freezing point.- - Many are unable to buy enough ice fn summer to preserve milk in ordl- nary refrigerators for twenty-four bours.Most mothers, however, buy a five or ten-cent cake every morning and by following the suggestion of Dr.Alfred P.Hess can make at home st small cost an excellent milk refrigerator that requires only a very little jce.In Charities and The Commons, & full description was given of this inexpensive ice-box devised by Dr.Hess of the Research Laboratory of the New York Board of Health, Since then his device has been recommended for use by the health authorities of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other cities.Where nurses have urged the mothers to construct this homemade refrigerator their attempts have met with success, In view of the im- -, portance at this time of year of the problem of reducing infant mortality, - part of the.directions are here given again: \u201cObtain a box from the grocer; any wooden box a foot in depth will an- made milk refrigerator; 8, sawdust; T, cylinder of tin or galvanized iron; C, can or pall, in which is placed the milk bottle M surrounded by broken ice, I; N newspapers nailed to lid of Fig.3\u2014Horisontal section of homemade milk refrigerator; M, milk bdot- tle; I, broken ice; C, can or pail for holding ice; T, tin or galvanized iron- cylinder to prevent sawdust, 8 from falling into space whem can is re moved for purpose of emptying water.swer the purpose.Buy a tin pail with.\u201c A cover, one deep enough to hold a quart bottle of milk and a slightly larger.pail without a cover.Place one inside the other, and stand them \u2018in the center of the box.Now pack sawdust or excelsior beneath and all about them to keep the heat from -getting in; complete the refrigerator by nailing about fifty layers of news \u2018paper to the under surface of the box Cover.\u201cThe refrigerator is now ready tor use.In the morning as soon as the milk is received, it should be placed \u2018in the pail and five cents\u2019 worth of ice \u2018should be cracked and placed about \u2018the milk bottle.The cover should be \u2018replaced on the can and the lid on \u2018the wooden box.Every morning the :melted ice should be poured oft.\u201d Flower Farming Big Industry.The United States now shows an Output of domestic perfumery of more \u2018than $8,000,000 a year, and to that : amount France adds another $1,000, +000.Most of the imported perfum- \u201c ery is in the form of the finest extracts, which are used by the American manufacturers ih making up their .own brands, for at present the do- - mestic makers seldom try to get their .attars from native flowers.In France flower farming is one of the staple in.dustries of the country and the - Quality of the flowers and the richness of their oder are unequaled except -\u2018only by a few of the choicest products -of Turkey, Arabia and Syria.In the valley of the Var in France more than 100,000 acres are devoted to the rais- - ing of flowers, and such figures as are \".available show tbat in 1908 the French manufacturers used 6,000,000 - pounds of orange blossoms, 5,000,000 pounds of roses, 2,000,000 pounds each - Of violets, tuberroses and cassia, besides smaller quantities of many other * blonsoms.Some of the oils, like win: tergreen, peppermint and spearmint, .now are made in this country, but the four principal animal perfumes, musk, Scivet, ambergris and castor, whose use gives permanence to the most -.delioate vegetable perfumes, all have + (9 be imported.and shrink away there, Mise Hecox Has Tended a Pacifie Coast Beacon for 27 Years.Mise Laura A.Hecox, who for twen- ty-voven years has tended the light of the Santa Crus lighthouse, has but recently returned to her post from the last of the six vacations she has taken during that period.Since 1881 this woman has had absolute charge of the light, and in all that time it has never gone out during the night.Miss Hecox followed her father in charge of the light.He was a retired clergyman, who took the work of car ing for the light when his health broke down under the stress of his pastoral duties.With him went his wife and girl, who cared for him as well as the light.\u2019 During the thirten years her father was in charge Miss Hecox was prac tically the real mistress of the light house.When his death came she applied for and obtained the work.Since that time she has been steadily at it, cleaning, tending and watching the light that it may be never dimmed.Then her mother died in the old lighthouse and the woman was left alone with her work.She loves it and is never satisfied if she is away from it for long.Her only recreation is an occasional visit to her brother, who lives at Oceanside, and gathering in sea specimens, a collection of which she recently gave to the Santa Crus brary.Fortunately for Miss Hecox the Santa Crus lighthouse is not built on à rockbound coast, but is bowered among trees.The light is modern, of twelve candle-power multiplied by reflectors to something like 665 can- dle-power.During the twenty-seven years it has been tended by Miss He- cox no ship has been wrecked on the Santa Crus \u2018coast\u2014Los Angeles Times.Proved An Allbl.This happened at a certain boarding place\u2014one of those where \u201ca few refined gentlemen may share an ele gant home.\u201d The gir! with the dun locks brought in the soup.When she came to Jenkins he noticed a long string of substance entirely foreign to the soup ît- self.It was a hair.In the dim light it looked as if it might have been from the dun head of the waitress.Jenkins called her attention to this, remarking that the best culinary authorities are agreed that a strip of cranial capillary substance is not essential to the success of a plate of consomme or other liquid nourish ment.She didn't follow him fully, but when she saw him holding up the quarter of a yard or more of hair, accusingly, she spoke up in her own defense.\u201cThat ain't mine!\u201d she declared, in an agrieved tone.\u201cIt couldn't be mine.Why, I ain't even brushed my hair since yestiddy!\u201d Advance of Forestry.The announcement that the largest owners of pulp-wood forests in this country have applied to Chief Pinchot of the Federal Bureau of Forestry for advice and aid indicates the advance which scientific forestation has made.It also suggests the possible working out of the problem of State regulation of privately owned forests.There has been question of the constitutionality of such regulation.But if the value of forestry can be demonstrated so that private owners voluntarily subject their wooded lands to the supervision of the State bureau the end will be accomplished., The action of a great paper company in seeking Mr.Pinchot\u2019s services may be followed by other forest owners.The Prison Fit.\u201cSomething always happens to a man\u2019s shape If he stays in jail long enough,\u201d said a warden.\u201cSometimes that change in figure is due to putting off or taking on flesh, but I have noticed that if a man leaves jail weighing to the very ounce what he weighed when he came in his clothes don\u2019t fit No matter what the scales say, & man\u2019s figure seems to swell out here to become elongated or sawed off during imprisonment.The clothes that he wore into jail may be first-class as to quality and fit, but when the .man gets ready for freedom they have a regular \u2018jail\u2019 set, and he.never can feel right till he gets a new suit.\u201d .Mixed Destinations.A man who rarely attends church was persuaded to go with a friend, & few Sundays ago.After they had left the building at the close of the service the infrequent worshipper discovered, to his dismay, that he had dropped into the collection plate a $10 gold piece instead of the quarter he had meant to give.\u201cNever mind,\u201d sald his friend, reassuringly; \u201clet's go immediately and speak to the minister.1 know him very well, and when I explain the situation to him you can have your ten back without the least question.\u201d \u201cNo!\u201d snapped the other, with decision; \u201cwe won't do anything of the kind.I gave the money to the Lord, and nowt can go to the devil!\u201d Unacoountable Mistake.All was quiet in the sleeping car.Suddenly the passenger in lower No.7 parted the curtain, thrust out a weather-beaten face and hailed the sable functionary who was tiptoeing ast.P \u201cBay,\u201d he grumbled, \u201cwhere\u2019s the piliers for this bunk!\u201d There are your pillows, sub,\u201d sald the porter.\u201cThem things!\u201d exclaimed the pas- \u201cSmash my toplights! 1 1tfe-preservers os WASHINGTON'S PALSE TEETH, They Are Preserved cs a Dental Curd osity and Rolle, ' It may mot be generally knows that the Father of his Country was ono of the first Americans to wear artificial teeth, By the time the War of the Revolution had ended he had parted company with most of the An ingenious physician and dentist of New York City undertook the then unusual task of re-equipment, and produced at length a full set of artificial teeth.These are now, of course, a dental curiosity.The teeth were carved from ivory, and riveted, wired and clamped to a somewhat ponderous gold plate.Three large clamps, in particular, figure conspicuously in the roof of the mouth, and must have caused diffi culty, if not anguish.There were an upper and an under set, and the two were connected and held in position relatively by a long spiral spring on each side.\u2014Harper's Weekly.Immunity.to Polson.The curious immunity of the hedge- bog to snake poison has often been the subject of scientific investigation.And some recent experiments show that it is also comparatively immune to the toxins of diphtheria and tetanus.The question therefore arises, does the hedgehog possess separate anti-toxind for all these varjous poisons?Such a number of separate anti toxins existing at the same time in the blood of one animal seems highly improbable.That they should be formed to order on the advent of the corresponding toxin is still more unlikely.A more probable suggestion is the existence in the blood of the hedgehog of one powerful anti-tox.n \u2018which is able to neutralize a number of different poisons, The hedgehog is apparently more resistant than most animals to cyanic poisons, but uot to others.\u2014London Globe.Warming the Devil, An almost incredible case of superstition is reported from Rihal, near Grosswardein, Hungary.The place has never before experienced an earthquake, but recently a series of violent shocks shook the neighborhood, some being so violent that the church bells rang.The villagers were greatly alarmed, and consulted an old woman quack of the place, who de clared that the shocks were the groans of the devil, who suffered cold and hunger.Thereupon the peasants threw a number of calves and goats into a chasm outside the village to appease the devil's hunger and set fire to the Bishop's forest in the neighborhood to provide him with warmth.The quack and several peasants have been arrested.\u2014Vienna correspondance the London Leader.An Aimshouse Class.Thirteen inmates of the New York almshouse, among them the once famous Harry Courtaine, the original Simon Legree in \u201cUncle Tom's Cabin,\u201d were confirmed by - Bishop Partridge, of the Protestant Episcopal church.Another notable member of the confirmation band was Judge Badgley, once on the bench in California and well to do, but then eighty years old and 2 public charge.Judge Badgley prided himself on having given more than $10,000 to charity during his days of prosperity in the west.Time to Get Well.Congressman Francis W.Cushma:,, of Washington, some time ago had occasion to visit one of the noted physi- clans at the national capital, and was compelled for many weary minutes to cool his heels in an ante-room.Final- 1y, his patience becoming exhausted, he summoned an attendant, to whom he said: \u201cPresent my compliments to the doctor, and tell him if I am not admitted in five minutes I shall get Well again.\u201d The physician found it convenient to admit Mr, Cushman at once.Trade in Sea Worn Pebbles, A new industry is being started in Seaton which will provide employment for people in the winter.At present à large business is transacted in sea worn pebbles which are imported from the French coast, and it is hoped to capture part of this trade.Trial orders from several large users of the pebbles are on hand, and gangs of men are engaged in selecting the pebbles from the beacn at Seaton and the neighboring villages.\u2014Lon- don Daily Mail.The wife of Gerhart Hauptmann\u2014 Margarete Marshalk\u2014before her mar- \u2018riage to the dramatist was for a long time a popular member of the Lobe Theatre at Breslau.She went on the stage for the second time, but not as an actress.At\u2018 concert given by the Verein der Musikfreunde, at Hirschberg, Frau Hauptmann played a Grieg composition, and, according to à report printed the folowing day, showed that she was an accomplished violinist.In his droll old book, \u201cTravels in England,\u201d Misson writes: \u201cEvery family against Christmas makes a famous pye which they call Christmas Pye.It is a great nostrum the composition of this pasty, it is a most learned mixture of neats\u2019 tongues, chickens, eggs, sugar, raisins, lemon and orange peel, and various kinds of Spicery.\u201d .She Knew Better.He\u2014I would like to know why you refuse to marry me?She\u2014Pardon me, Dut I don\u2019t think you would outfit which nature had given.him.| HOW FAR ARE WE RESPONSIBLE?| The dreadful spread of wickedness in the world is sufficient to alarm any one who will unload his selfishness long enough to think seriously about it.How far are we, you, dear reader, and this editor, responsible for the prevalence of the abominations in this world?The futility of this Inquiry is largely due to the immensity of what it comprehends, let us be more specific.Miss Sarah M.Banta, for several years associated in the work of the rescue mission of this city, relates with an immeasurable indignation, how she went into a home last winter where she found the most beautiful child she ever saw, only three or four years old, the weather wild and blustering with the thermometer registering away down below zero, and this child clothed with absolutely nothing but a thin unlined calico dress.What was the cause of this condition?Only this: the father and mother drink.That accounts for it all.The greatest statesman of the English-speaking nations, Mr.Gladstone, affirmed that it is the duty of.the government to make it as easy as possible for its citizens to do right and as difficult as possible for them to do wrong.In that part of the city where such brutes as that father and mother live they could not go from their rooms in any direction a half block without passing a saloon.By whose authority do these saloons exist?That father and mother deserve the worst kind of punishment for their worse than brutal neglect of their child, but what made them so brutal?What makes it almost impossible for them to break away from the drink?We are freely and fully trust ing God to bring the wrath of his indignation down upon every responsible person in this matter, and we are certain that it will be proper ly proportioned, but in the meantime, when the blizzard howls and the mercury slowly creeps down into the bulb we could wish that every unfaith- fui father and mother who have children of their own snugly tucked in their warm beds, well fed, weil clothed, and loved with deepest tenderness, might uot have another hour of sleep which should not be troubled with dreams of that poor suffering babe with her thin calico garment and naked feet, until they shall repent and set about doing what they are bound to do by every law of God and humanity to prevent another child from similar suffering.The Jjudg- ment day will reveal what we do not know now of the pro-rata of responsibility for the thousands of unclothed and unfed and unchristianized children of drunken parents.We can wait for we know God is just.Please do not write asking us to be more moderate in denouncing the drink curse, for we cannot endure such counsel of the ungodly.\u2014Wesleyan Methodist.How Drinker Shortens His Life.Additional evidence as to the effect of alcohol on longevity, and in support of the practice of some Insurance companies in giving more favorable rates to abstainers, is furnished by an investigation just conipleted under the auspices of the Associated Prohibition Press.Several months ago a special inquiry was directed into the causes of death of all men dying in Chicago at the age of sixty or over, whose deaths were reported during that month.Bach case was thoroughly investigated.The total number was 175.Of these particulars were obtained in 156 cases.A surprising fact was that, despite their having been residents of Chicago where drink is supposed to be dominant, out of the 1556 73 were found to -have been total abstainers.There were 75 moderate drinkers and 4 said to have been heavy drinkers.The average age of the drinkers canvassed was found to be 68 and 29-73 years, a difference in favor of abstainers was found to be 72 and .29-73 years a difference in favor of more than 3 1.2 years.In other words, the investigation showed that the drinking men had, by the use of alcoholic poison, shortened their lives by nearly four years.The Man Wanted.Where is the man who can play to slay the monster?Such a man would be the best man this country has yet seen.Lincoln was a wonder, because he slew the institution that held in bondage about four millions of a race that were not willing to be bondmen.But to-day there are more millions bound hand and foot by the monster Strong Drink than ever felt the terrors of slavery.Negro slavery could have a man or woman in its clutches and stil] not tiarm their souls.King Alcohol hurts not only the body, but in thousands of cases damns the soult When the time comes to harvest the wild oats you have sown, you can't hire anyone else to do the reaping for you.\u2014Socottish Reformer.Sdward Smith, M.D., says: NASDRUZCO [PAXATIVES Hunt's Monarch Sugar Tools FOR 1911 We take no second place as the makers of sugar rigs and the sundry items that constitute the tools of the sugar bush.We buy the very best Material obtainable, and we have all the new, desirable wrinkles that are needed for turning out the very best Syrup and Sugar.You will not make any mistake if you see us for your needs this season, and there is not any doubt but we can save you money.See us early and be ready in e.OUR LINE CONSISTS OF Monarch Evaporators, V Orimp Evaporators, Galvanized Steel Boiling Arches, Galvanized Steel Storage Tanks, Galvanized Steel Hauling Tanks, Tin Sap Heaters with Tubular Flues, Monarch Sugaring-Of Rigs with Galvanized Steel Arch.The \u201cHunt\u201d Metal Sap Buckets are the best in the Sugar Tool market.WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF SAP SPOUTS.We are placing in stock a full line of that best Granite Iron Ware for the kitchen.Remember it is the first quality, the kind that is completely covered with Enamel, and there is not any chance for those rust spots so common in the second grades that are sold at bargain prices.Our bargains in theese Goods are in giving you perfect Goods at reasonable prices.Don\u2019t forget to examine closely the Enamel Ware you buy.Hunt, The Hardware Man, At the end of the Bridge, - Rock Island, Que.U.S.ADDRESS: DERBY LINE, VT.WHEN IT IS GOOD SLEIGHING It is a good time to Purchase your Needs for SUGAR MAKING We Have Sugar Pails, Sap Spouts, Etc.When you get into the Bush you won't want to come to town for these things, and you will need Groceries and Feed during the sugar season.Come in with a double rig and let us sell you a full load of supplies to carry you through to settled spring roads.\u201cA STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE\u201d Look over your buildings now and decide what you will need to do to them this spring.We have the materials for this purpose.Hardware, Nails, Glass and Putty, Sherwin & William's Paints for interiors or exteriors, Wall Paper and Shades We have the finest and largest line of .Family Groceries in the Three Villages.We buy everything in the way to own it at the lowest possible price.If we save by buying in carload lots we take the advantage of this method of purchasing our stock, and you can avail yourself of this feature by buying your FEED, FLOUR, SUGAR, KEROSENE OIL and many other items of THE \u201cGOOD QUALITY\u201d STORE The commodious and most comfortable place to go for your needs, because we have the Goods and aim to give you efficient.prompt service._ Kathan & Hopkins, The Big Red Store, Rock island WHAT WE CAN DO.We can sell you a dollar bottle of SEAVER'\u2019S SYRUP OF TAR AND WILD CHERRY COUGH CURE for 50 cents and if it is not the best you ever used, bring the empty bottle back to us and get your money back.We will give it to you cheerfully and without argument.J.T.FLINT.\" BH ECI PROCITY years ending Dec.Sist, 1810, wae as WAY'S MILLS.: | : \" : follows: - 7 Mr.and Mre.F.Gilbert and Mr.and \u2019 ; Jos: ol .onteeal.|Mre.W.Horn were called to Heath- LESAGE S Cee \u201d 0771 [ton last week to seo their brother, Mr.le it a good thing for the|igs 5.70 71) |F.Gilbert, who is serlouely ill.Country as a Whole\u2014For the ne = Hy Miss D.Kimball, of Eset Hatley, Farmer In Particular?A group of men who believe that our commercial interests are imperiled by the recent reciprocity agreement have arranged for the publication of a series of articles expressing what in their opinien will be the actual results of reciprocity.This article ls one of series, and is received by the JOURNAL as paid matter.Unless the Canadian farmer can get more for his produce in the United States than he can get at home the United States market will be of no advantage to him.The government tells him that reciprocity will give him higher prices because of the United States market.Now it has been pretty well proved that the average price of farm products as a whole in the United States are no higher than they are in Canada.Remember we say the average.There are times when abnormal circumstances will make abnormal prices.There may be some times, owing to special circumstances, and some places owing to contiguity to- the market, that the American farmer may get a Now In October 1907, live begs soM ia Chicago as low as 23.50 per ewt., against $6.65 per owt.at the same time in Montreal.Daring the same period prices of hogs have averaged lower in Bufialo than in Toronto.price goes higher in Buffalo, bat commonly it is lower.For several months past the price of lamb has been one cent a pound cheaper in Chicago than in Toronto.It will be interesting to consider right here for a minute wby the Canadian price is kept up.It is kept up by the duty which will be done away with by reciprocity.For example to-day choice young Zeland mutton, 85-50 lbs.average, are selling in London for about 6c., freight and storage fc, duty 1jc (proposed) net cost per pound here 7{c.Canadian stock of the same class and description is now bringing in from 90 to 9c in Montreal.80 high comparatively 1s the price of lambs in Canada that there has just been received in St.John, N.B., from -Australia, 750 carcases of frozen lambs.the owners of these are of the spent Sunday at I.E.Thompeon\u2019s.Mr.Willie Perkins of Salem, Mass., is spending a few days with his brother, Harry Perkins.Miss Rose Horn, who has been moved to her home here from Hatley, is improving very rapidly at present.Mrs.Farnum Daniels and Mise Lena Qlifford spent a couple of days in Newport last week.Mr.and Mrs.W.H.Geddes spent Sunday at Urban Hanson's.Miss Lena Clifford is staying at Burton Sornberger\u2019s, Barnston.Messrs.W.and H.Perkins spent Saturday in Smith's Mills.Mr.À.H.Dyson spent a few days in Rock Island last week.There must be a fairy Who looks after Ha Or else who mended coat?Mr.Fritz Daniels of Barnston, was in town on Sunday.Mr.and Mrs.Daniels have both been quite ili with 1a grippe.The stork called at the home of Riley Morrison on March 15th, and left a fine baby boy.Mr.PF.H.Morrill of Stanstead, was in town on Wednesday.Mr.Albert Davidson and Miss Mable Davidson of Libbytown were visitors FERTILIZERS Made in Canada from slaughter house tankage and Bane meal as base Warranted best on the market cansidering price GROWN WITH NO.162 1 Use them and get extra Large Crops and Specia Prize $4.00, $3.00, 2.00, $1.00.go Brobe To members Stanstead County Agricultural Society.On best half bushel Potatoes, any variety to be shown at Fall Fair, grown with our Fertilizers.\u2018 Certified invoice of Fertilizer to accompany exhibit, We make special brands for Potatoes, Corn.Grain, Hay, Fruits, Tobacco and Vegetables., \u2014FOR SALE BY\u2014 A.E.FISH & SON, Ayer\u2019s Cliff little more for some of his products, |°0Urse figuring ou paying the three |g; Alpert Gray's on Sunday.B.E.GOYETTE - - Magog .cent duty and selling them in the Mar- \u2019 But the general average for the itime Provinces at 5 ttle better price We had no mail from Tuesday until 44, w, BURTON, .- waterville UNFERTILIRED average farmer will not show him to be a gainer.In considering the United States than that ruling for Canadian lamb.Under the reciprocity arrangement Saturday, owing to the bad state of the roads.Mr.and Mrs.L.Bean spent Sunday or send orders to Head Office, Lesage Packing and Fertilizer Co.Ltd., 102 Nazareth Street, Montreal, Que.this duty would be reduced to 1jo.This is getting away a little from the United States market, but it is worth while to know what makes the Canadian market a better market for the Canadian farmer than the United States market, and just what the Canadian farmer must lose in order to gain the United States market.at J.R.Bean\u2019s, South Barnston.Our postmaster, E.Southmayd, is ill at this writing.Intended for last week.Mr.Norman Wheeler, a former resident of thie place, died at his home in West Derby on Thursday, March 16.Mr.Wheeler had spent nearly all his prices the Canadian farmer should not compare the prices he gets with those of Boston, New York and other large cities.He could not get these prices.From these prices must be deducted the cost of transportation to get his products into those cities, and he must Chas.Wilkins, Gen.Agent, Superintendent of Eastern Townships, : SL * East Farnham, Quebec AGENTS WANTED IN UNOCCUPIED TERRITORY remember, too, that he will have to pay more to get his products into these cities than will the United States And when he has gained it he has got\u2014a market not as good as that now at his own door.life in this place and vicinity and was a very highly respected citizen.He had been a great sufferer for many CANADA CEMENT COMPANY farmer who lives nearer to them.P a ears, but bore his sufferings with Let us compare some of the United Vois the Canadien on wil 8; reat patience.He leaves a widow, LIMITED States prices with those of Canada.dear for his whistle.PAY seven children, two brothers, one sis- The Montreal Herald, a Liberal newspaper, compiled a table of comparative prices in Montreal and Bos- \u201c ton the week the reciprocity arrangement was made.This statement was prepared with the assistanoe of prominent produce dealers and food experts.Here is wbat it showed.Cheese, eggs, live poultry, carrots, celery, lettuce, onions, squash, tomatoes, beans and cranberries all commanded higher prices in Montreal than in Boston.The best creamery butter was then à cent and a half per pound higher in Boston than in Montreal, while storage oreamery butter was one cent higher in Boston.Since then butter prices have declined in most of the markets of the United States.Reference was made in the last article to the fact that the pricz ot butter was some flve cents ber pound higher in Canada than in New York.Mr.Gage, president of .the Toronto Board of Trade, recently prepared a table of prices in Toronto and New York, comparing the Toronto market reports with the New York Commercial Bulletin.The table follows.Toronto New York Best creamery butter in prints, wholesale 26 Prime chickens .18 to .20 Prime turkeys .20 to .22 Ducks 18 to .20 Geese 15 to .16 Bacon 16 to .161; 1645 Hams 18% to .15 14 There was recently published at the request of the United States Senate, Senate Document No 849 of 1911, which was the report of the American tariff board of experts on the comparative prices of products on both sides of the line, mentioned in the treaty.This is an official compilation by an outside source not subject to suspicion as being favorable to Liberal or Conservative and has been accepted by all as authoritative.Now this statement shows that Canada sheep, hogs, etc.were in January 1911, bringing higher prices in Canada than in the United States.It further shows that general farm produce is sometimes higher and sometimes lower according to the article and the and the special circumstances.Here are a few comparative prices as between Detroit in the United States and Windsor, just opposite, in Canada.28% 15 18 -15 to .16 14 Detroit Windsor BROWN'S HILL.Miss Una Webster of Ayer\u2019s Clift, was a guest at her uncle\u2019s home last Sunday.Miss I.Pearle Brown, of Beebe, was home over Sunday.Mr.Chas.Brown returned to his work in Boston, Mass., last Saturday, after spending the winter at his home here.Mr.W.H.Temple is the firet on the Hill to treat his neighbors to new sugar.Miss Catherine Rexford returned to her home in Ayer\u2019s Cliff, on Monday.Her sister, Mrs.A, W.Brown accompanied her and will spend the summer at her old home there.Mr.Ivas Whipple, of Ayers Oliff, has rented Mr.Wilder Brown\u2019s farm for the coming year.Miss Vera May Brown spent a couple of days this week with her cousin, Miss Webster, Ayer\u2019s Cliff.HEATHTON Mrs.Ozro Bean and two sons, Morton and Charles, of Montreal, are guests of Mr.Bean\u2019s parents, Mr.and Mrs.O.M.Bean, for a few weeks, while Mr.Bean is visiting his brother Melvin and family in Boston.He contemplates looating there in the near future.Mr.Flanders Gilbert is ill and his physician has advised him to go to the hospital in Montreal for treatment, unless he gains more speedily, which his many friends hope he may.He is a highly respected young man and one that our church and community needs.We hope for him a speedy recovery.Miss Ruth Ellis, who is attending school at Ayer\u2019s Cliff, sppnt the weekend at her home here.We had the greatest snow storm of the season last Wednesday and Thursday, while the crows are out trying to remind us that spring is very near, yet it seems more like January.E.T.C.M.RECITAL.Last Friday evening the students of the Eastern Township College of Music held their annual mid-year Recital in Pierce Hall.An excellent and varied programme was rendered, giving outsiders some idea of the talent in this local institution, and the capable training which is being given.The programme opened with a short play, in one act, given by six of Miss Welssenburger's young lady pupils, each one performing her part very creditably.Mies Irma Moulton, Mise Lottie Mc- Dowell and Mr.Taylor contributed vooal numbers which proved very enjoyable: Wheat, No.4, red 98 1.01} A violin solo by Miss Beatrice Webb, It certianly ought to give you confl- 1 ad by several industrial corporations with beneficial results, vis., to enable employes to Corn AT 58 a violin duet by Miss Webb and Mas- | dence when you know that every 50c.system, already adopted by several large Po! Poh will be attracti \"wo \" the empie \u2019 Oats, standard 844 .39 ter Tommy Wells, and two trios for box ot SEAVER\u2019'S DYSPEPSIA TAB- [become the possessors of Preferred and Common Stock at prices w w attractive em, the employes pay Beets 50 .39| violins and \u2019cello, by Misses Alger and LETS contain 20 da eit you ars and ing a fixed amount per share per month out of their earnings, and the Company carrying the stock for them, charging Potatoes 40 .50 House and Mr .> Miss Ware ihe tum.decidely benefited all you need to do [a rate of 5 p.c.interest.It the pian is put into effect, all dividends will be credited to the employes applying for the Beef, steers, heifers 3.60 3.05 pile all of which were much enjoyed ey aE the Healer amd oe stock.Said stock will be held in trust for the employe for a term of five years, excepting in exceptional cases, sueh Beet cows 3.00 3.50 by the good-sized audience.TABLETS are sold right on their own as death, when his heirs will receive what benefit a deceased employe has derived from subscribing to the stock.Stockers\u2019 feeders 2.45 8.70) Piano solos were given by Miss Hall merits.They cure indigestion simp- Milkere, springers 20.00 95.00 and Miss House, and a piano duet by jy by toning up the stomach and a Your Directors feel that the , 88 herein outlined, will, as nearly as possible, make the interests of the con- op Misses Waldron, and Reed each young y go that the food will as po Lambe Aver ge.sib indy stving an Intelligent interpreta: Be tiate and give strength to the oye: sumers, tue cugiores and the shareholders identical, and will inure to the most enduring and beneficial resaite for y ; on her work.tem just as nature intended.SEA- |all concerned.Sheep 2.00 2.55| we feel that congratulations are due VEI DYSPEPSIA TABLETS are All of which Is ily submitted ering farther hous, and the.Splendid\" work \u2018Gems uy the Hoes |» bos sod If If dons Kiyo 70 DOF ern.work done the stu- a box and see ont give yo wa ys eu dents; which certain Selects t energy, new ambition and nov cours On behalf of the Board of Directors, / ahoep, ._ ou de aus ave credit upon thelr and Bant- lage carry out your plane sod dally WILLIAM O.EDWARDS, ter, several grandchildren and nieces and nephews to mourn bis lose.The funeral was held in the Union Church on Sanday, March 19, Rev.L.H.Fisher of Barnston, officiating.Beautiful flowers were in evidence and the church was tastefully draped and trimmed for the occasion, which testified to the love and esteem in which he was held.The bearers were: Messrs.H.Rudd, W.Brown, J.Hurd Mrs.Norman Wheeler (wife) Messrs.Amos Wheeler, Charles Wheeler and Norman Wheeler, sons; Mr.and Mrs.E.R.Cramer, Mr, and Mrs.Henry McDonald, daughter; Mr.and Mrs, Orange Wheeler and Mr.Sylvester Wheeler, brothers; Mr.C.McGivern, and Miss G.McGivern, grandchildren; Mr.and Mrs.O.H.Remick, Mr.and Mrs.E.Bryant, Mr.and Mrs.Oran Wheeler, Mr.Henry Wheeler, Miss Grace Wheeler and Mr.E.Perry, nieces snd nephews; Mr.and Mra.8S.Hill.The interment took place in the Barnston cemetery.One son, Mr.Homer Wheeler, of Jefferson, N.H., and one daughter, Mrs.F.Grism, of Boston, Mass., were unable to attend the funeral.CURRIERS.The weather is rather treacherous these days.Mr.P.Roy was busy a part of last week with the snow roller drawn by four horses.Mr.and Mrs.Ernest Hopps from Miletta were at Wm.Bowen's on Sun- ay.Mr.and Mrs.Geo.Patneaude and child from Magog, were in the place last Sunday.Rev.W.T.Brown from Sherbrooke, conducted the service here in exchange with Rev.L.M.England on Sunday, March 19.We expect a post office in this place in the near future.Sealed tenders for the conveyance of the mails three times per week each way between Currier and Magog.Tenders will be received at Ottawa until April 28th.DYSPEPSIA ON THE DECLINE.Seaver's Dyspepsia Tablets Cure Forty.nine Cases out of Fifty.Why anyone in Derby Line should continue to suffer with indigestion when a box of SEAVER\u2019S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS, will cure, is certainly a mystery J.T.Flint has\u2019 been selling SEAVER'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS for some time, and I know from actual ex- erience right here in my own store fou: what SEAVER\u2019S FAMOUS DYS8- EPSIA TABLETS will do, and if you inquire of J.T.Flint the druggist he will tell you he never knew a remedy to prove so decidely beneficial in the treatment of indigestion, dyspepsia, palpitation, sleeplessness and other forms of stomach trouble.and A.H.Dyson.The mourners were: | Annual Report of the Board of Directors TO THE SHAREHOLDERS: Your Directors beg to present herewith the annual statement of the affairs and financial position of the Canada Cement Company, Limited as of the 31st December, 1910.In presenting the Balance Sheet, we call attention to the Company\u2019s strong financial position as disclosed by the large amount of cash on hand, and other quick assets, and the comparatively small amount of current liabilities.After providing for interest on our Bonds and Dividends on our Preferred Stock for the year, we have been able to set up reserves for depreciation, extraordinary repairs and renewals, bad debts, etc., and carry forward a substantial balance to surplus Account.The consumption of cement during the past year was not as large as anticipated.Our business also suffered on account of the Railways not being able to meet our full requirements for cars during the heavy shipping season; consequently, we carry.over from last year 781,116 barrels of cement.Early in 1910 the price of our product was fixed at a lower price than cement had ever been sold for in Canada, excepting for a short period in 1809, but your Directors are pleased to state that the anticipated savings in manufacturing and distributing our products were such that they were able to still farther reduce this price.We trust, when you consider the above mentioned conditions, and also the fact that during 1910 our plants were only operated to 57.8 per cent.of their capacity, the profits shown will be satisfactory fo the Shareholders.During the current year, we look for a larger natural demand, which demand will be stimulated by continuing to manufacture a strictly high grade article, and by selling it at the lowest possible price.This anticipated increase will enable us to operate our plants to better advantage than in the past, but we do not expect that the demand will be sufficient to enable us to put into operation either of the two plants which have been idle since the organization of this Company.However, it is confidently expected that the increased demand, and increased output, will result in further savings in the cost of manufacture and distribution, and it is the policy of your Directors to give your customers the benefit of these reductions.The Shareholders\u2019 profits will depend on the increased volume of the Company\u2019s business, the policy of the Company being the maintenance of such a stable position as will insure regular and uniform payments of interest on its bonds and dividends on its Preferred stock, and at the same time be in a position to withstand any unforeseen emergency that may arise consequent on business depression er otherwise, which condition naturally necessitates the accumulation of, and the maintenance of, a large cash reserve, It Is also the policy of the Company to equalize the price of cement throughout Oanada in so far as the physical conditions make such possible, and in furtherance of this policy, your Directors have arranged to purchase a site near Winnipeg, on which they will erect, this year, a mill to grind clinker, which clinker will be shipped from one of our Eastern mills.The buildings, machinery, etc., will be planned so that, should it at any time in the future be advisable, a Burning Department can be added, and the clinker produced on the property.Aud further, an agreement has been entered into whereby this Company expects to acquire, in the near future, a property at Exshaw, which, added to our Calgary plant, and the projected plant at Winnipeg, will put us in the position of anticipating any extraordinary growth in the consumption of cement in the Creat West.With the view of educating the public, and popularizing the use of cement, in addition to the ordinary advertising, the Company has published a small book illustrating some of the many uses to which cement may be pus, for which book there has been a great demand, 35,000 applications for same having been received during the past six months.: For the purpose of stimulating interest in the Company on behalf of the Employes, both in efficiency and cheapening production, as well as creating a feeling of mutual goodwill, your Directors deem it expedient to introduce à \u2018 President.wR n "]