Sherbrooke daily record, 31 août 1912, samedi 31 août 1912

[" Sherbrooke Daily Record.BstabtiHbtx) l*y SHEKBKOOKE, QUE SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 1912.ONB OINT BAD WEAIHEB DELAYS GATHERING MANY DEATHS OF GRAIN IN EASTERN TOWNSHIPS F guod Weather From Now on Will Save Crops\u2014An Early Frost Woulâ P60pl8 bUCCUIDb AftEF EOtiliy Cause Serious Loss in Many Sections\u2014Bay Crop Secured Was Above the Average\u2014Corn is a Poor Crop, But Potatoes Will Be Plentiful.From the reports sent in by Re-1 good, but on old and dry land was cord correspondents in different sec- : very thin and short, much of it being tions of the Eastern Townships it 1 full of paint brush and other weeds.will be seen that the hay crop secured was fully up to the average.The harvesting of the grain has been very much kept back by the recent heavy rains, and if an early frost should fall the result will be a heavy loss to many.The corn cfop is a poor one, generally, but the potato yield will be about the average.CROPS AROUND SUTTON.Sutton, August 31.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 The hay crop has at last been i all gathered and was, as a rule, a good crop, and those farmers who got an early start secured this crop in good shape, while many who started later had a tedious time in finishing up the hay harvest on account of the rains that fell almost daily for the last three weeks, up to the present, and is now delaying the gathering of Those who commenced haying early got a lot of it in in good shape.In conversation with farmers some say they have- a good crop and others say it is not half a crop, this is outside of what was spoiled.Grain that was sown before the cold, wet weather in May and June is looking fine and in good condition but is late in ripening.The recent wet weather has been very beneficial to crops of all sorts, bringing them along surprisingly.Late sown grain which is principally oats, is also looking well but is very late and much of it will have to be cut for fodder, which will help the shortage in the hay.Very little of it will ripen before frost.Potatoes are looking well but the growth is not half of what it was this time last year.Some small the oat crop.Oats as a whole are ] Pa^c^les in good ground^ are^ as good backward, though of course, i there ! as ever, but generally the plants are are exceptions.Potatoes are looking well and promise well, though many report but few in the hill.Potatoes are considered safe from early frosts now, but not so with corn, beans and tomatoes, as those things need from two to three weeks or even more of fine weather to mature.Should a severe frost come early in September, say by the 10th, the loss small and in digging for new potatoes there are only a few fairly good ones and a quantity of small ones.Very few new potatoes are on the market yet.Other root crops promise well, where they have been attended to, especially turnips, but very few of the farmers here plant I root crops.Garden stuff is looking well, but ) Specie of Mushroom.THIRTEEN DEATHS WERE REPORTED FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF FRANCE TODAY.Paris, Aug.31.\u2014(Special)Poison-scme fungi of the mushroom species are proving almost as fatal in France this summer as an epidemic of the plague.No fewer than thirteen deaths of persons who had eaten what they believed to be mushrooms were registered to-day in various parts of the country.Near Lethune practically an entire family died after having partaken of poisonous plants.The wife of a miner named Gernfsck, five of her children, ranging r- age from five to thirteen years, and lodgers in the Gernisck home beins among the victims.Gernisck himself and two other lodgers are in a serious condition.Near Nazieres a man named Bosser-ette and three children died, and the lives of Mme.Bosserette and a friend are despaired of.In the vicinity of Saint Die, Chief of Customs Clerk and his wife and five children, died to-day, and the remaining members of the family are in a grave condition.This is the heaviest death roll of a single day, but for the past fortnight several deaths daily have been reported of persons who had eaten poisonous plants.ROOSEVELT would be enormous throughout this 13 ,'ery backward.No tomatoes or entire section.The hope is that frost corn B ripen and very few squash may go by us till a later date, i °F Pur^P^lns- Cabbage are coming Among the farmers questioned for ; a*ong hne a'80 carrots, and such like, the Record, J.A.Robinson says \u2022 ! Apples are very scarce, as well as Hay good, equal to last season ; potatoes fine ; oats and buckwheat looking good ; corn late and result doubtful.\u201d Mr.Alec.Comeau : \u201cBetter hay crop that 1911.\u201d Mr.R.A.Wilson : \u201cBiggest hay crop in some time\u2014put in over 400 big loads.Corn and oats doubtful ; will cut both the coming week, and put all oats from eight acres into silo, mixing same with corn.\u201d Mr.Wm.Curley : \u2018\u2018Hay big crop ; oats and corn late and doubtful.\u201d Mr.Wm.JaCquays \"Hay good average ; potatoes late, but coming fine.\u201d Mr.C.W.Shepard : \u201cHay not up to last season and not so well secured on account of wet season.Oats, barley and corn poor and late, also beans and potatoes.Considers this a hard year for farmers and the loss will be much greater if we get early frosts.\u201d Mr.L.E.Dyer : \"Hay not up to 1911, being ten per cent, behind; quality was good and stored in fine condition.Potatoes first-class.Corn poor.Oats average.Turnips good.Beans late and not many raised here.\" Mr.Fred Sisco on Mr.0.A.Turner\u2019s farm, reports hay on all mountain farms behind last year.Oats and corn poor.Potatoes and buckwheat good.\u201d Mr.B.J.Cook : \"Hay crop double crop to 1911.Did not fall feed and secured in fine condition.Peas and oats sown together not up to last season.The dry weather at the start and later cold and wet checked the growth.Corn failure.Mangolds are good ; potatoes promise fine.Sold some early in August in prime condition at $1.50 per bushel GOOD AVERAGE CROP.Stanstead, Aug.31.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 The hay crop of the farmers of Stanstead for the season of 1912 has, in the majority of cases been very satisfactory.Several farmers when interviewed, stated their hay crop was better than last year.These were the farmers who commenced haying early.There are, however, throughout the connty' a large nfimber of men who got one-third of their crop in in good condition.About one-third was cut during the had weather and in many cases one-third remains standing now.A farmer who has travelled recently throughout the county states that there are hundreds of acres remaining uncut.Several farmers stated that their grain was all cut and a very good yield.Though thin on the ground it was looking fine in most cases.It can hardly he fairly estimated regarding the yield as the statements are rather divided.Those whose grain was in early have finished har vesting, while there are others who have large fields uncut.In all cases corn is very backward, if not a failure.Beans are also late.The potato crop is at present thought to be very good.A good yield and not rotting.As a general statement the hay and harvest, though ditlicult to secure, averages fi little better than last year.HAD A GOOD HAY CROP.Scotstown, Aug.31.\u2014(Special) \u2014 As far as can be found out by interrogating the farmers in this sce-| tion in regard to the condition of I.uuoi.w.cans\tfi ay crop and as to the quality, poor crop, if early September frost | lt ig /uite £vident that mostqof thy\u2019 Mr.J.Irving McCabe, of Cowansville, recently elected grand master of the I.O.O.F.for Quebec jurisdiction.Mr.McCabe is one of the youngest members of the order ever elected to this position.His interest in the work of Oddfcllowship among the lodges of Bedford district has, however, been such as to fully warrant his elevation to the highest office in the grand lodge.His knowledge of the order fully qualifies him for the position.It is expected that Mr.McCabe will prove a very popular and efficient officer ami that the order will enjoy a period of prosperity under his regime.The above cut shows the 50 lb.sturgeon caught this week in the Kt.Francis River by Mr.Antoine Du-breuil, barber, of this city.Mr.Dubreuil was fishing over the side of the boat with a small rod baited with a worm.After a short \u201chand to hand\u201d battle he succeeded in landing the monster.The fish measured 5 ft.1J inches in length and weighed 5IH lbs.In the olden days the St.Francis River, abounded in sturgeon and salmon, which came up from the St.Lawrence.The dams, constructed without fishways, have cut them off.Only occasionally docs a sturgeon get past.There is an agitation for the establishment ,of fishways in all dams.If the Government would insist upon this some exciting fishing might result.Great Crowd and Vast En-thiisiasion at Barton.IMPRESSIONS OF THE MEETING AS GATHERED BY A RECORD REPRESENTATIVE.If every man and woman who curries a flaming red bandanna in the State of Vermont votes for the Progressive ticket next Tuesday, the Bull Moose party will sweep the State, and if this feeling is reflected throughout the union, the \"Colonel\u201d will again he installed in the White House.This is the impression gathered by a representative of the Record who journeyed to the sister State of Ver mont yesterday to see politics as practiced by our American cousins.Yesterday the leader of the Pro gressives addressed a mass meeting at Barton, Vt.where a crowd of over 6,000 people listened to his eonlession of faith, and his self-described light for the people.To one who is ac customed to the rather sane antics of a large crowd during a Canadian election, as is the writer, yesterday\u2019s OAILV NWS MAIS Ml Nil MS Of IHi [ASM lOWNSNPS CAPTURED LARGE FISH.Bedford, August 31.\u2014(Special)\u2014 Mr.Pete Decelles captured a l?t lb maskinonge on Friday morning in the local river, It was a beauty.hits this section hard the loss be deplorable from long and crops.\u201d late ; farmers raised more hay than they SIR WILFRED LAURIER WILL TOUR QUEBEC FIRST MEETING WILL BE HELD AT MARIENILLE NEXT SATURDAY.Montreal, August 30.\u2014The first of FOi KILLED AND SIX WOUNDED.Swiss Soldffr Run Amuck.In His Native Towuu PANIC AROSE AMONG BESIEGERS AND A DOZEN WERE BADLY WOUNDED.Berne, Switzerland, August 31.\t\u2014 (Special) \u2014 A frenzied soldier ran amuck last evening and transiormed the little town of Romanshorn, on Lake Constance, into a miniature battlefield strewn with dead and dying.The soldier, who is a native of the town and is named Schwartz, was suddenly seized with a fit of mad ness.He seized his rifle and shot at everyone within range of the windows of his house.Four were killed and six men wounded in a few moments.He then barricaded himself in his residence.When night fell the house was surrounded by armed police and citizens, among whom an hour or so later a pan c broke out out when they heard shots.Thinking that the madman had come among them, the besiegers started firing at one another, a dozen of them being badly wounded.During the scare the madman caped to the woods.FARM PROPERTY BROUGHT $5,000 Denison\u2019s Mills, Aug.31.\u2014(Special) \u2014.Mr.Brouillard has sold his farm, known as the Kenzar farm, to Mr.Martell, of this place, for $5,000.MANY WENT TO HEAR ROOSEVELT.Stanstead, Aug.31.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 A large number from here went to Barton on Friday to hear ex President Roosevelt speak.STOCK FOR SHERBROOKE FAIR.Danville, Aug.31.\u2014(Special)\u2014The stock to be shown at the Sherbrooke Fair by local exhibitors was shipped to-day.CITY VISITORS DISCOURAGED.Bondville, Aug.32.- (Special)\u2014 Most of the city visitors, becoming discouraged at the continued cold and wet weather, have already left for their city homes, hoping that the weather man may act more kindly towards them when they return to Bondville next year.DUNHAM MODEL SCHOOL.Dunham, Aug.31.\u2014(Special)\u2014The Dunham Model School opens \u201e D.C.L., PreHlctant ALEXANDER LAIRD, .General Manager JOHN AIRD,.Asaiatant General Manager Capital $15,000,000 Rest $12,500,000 BRANCHES throughout Canada and In th* UnlUd StatM, Bag-land and Mexico.IThi» Bank, with It* large number of branche», I* particularly well \u2022quipped for the transaction of every description of hanklna basinet* Us Canada and Foreign Countries.Its amalgamation with the Basten* tTawmehlp* Bonk enable* It to serve the public tn the territory covereil by that In»tltntloa better than any other bank.Drafts and money order* on all th* Principal eoontrlee M the Irorla (**ued by every branch.Travellers' cheque* and letter of credit lisaed, eegotlable la all parta of the world.\t.\t.\t.Bills received for collection dp any place where there ta a baah ar banker, JirancIieH in Sherbrooke Dufferln Ave.(main office),\tWellington Bt.-,\tUpper Town (Ktnff E.WINN FARWaWj,\tW.A.BRIGOS,\tN, W.DINNIMO, Manager.\tManager.\t(Agent, ships.Representatives of the Record, (Continued on Page G) ing in Vermont at the present time.On Tuesday next the election of a (Continued on page 6.), F.B.McCurdy & Co.membero of Montreal stock exchange.SHERBROOKE OFFICE -\t.ART BUILDING, Next to Magog Bridge, centre entrance.- OUR OUT-OF-THE-CITY CLIENTS are most cordially invited to make our office their headquarters when they come to Sherbrooke to attend the Exhibition.Desk room, telephone, the services of a stenographer, and every convenience at our disposal will be gladly furnished.If you intend investing any money in the near future, no matter how small an amount, do not hesitate to call and see us, for we are always pleased to talk over investment matters with our clients or prospective clients.We anticipate the pleasure of your visit.F.B.McCurdy & Co.R.N.ROBINS Manager Sherbrooke Office.Other offices at Halifax.N.S., Montreal, Quo., Sydney, C.B., Charlottetown.P.E.I., St, John\u2019s.Nfld.St.John N.B., Kingstcm, Oat., Ottawa.Ont., Coaticeok.One.Cookshlre, One., Richmond.Qne., Rock Island, Que. PÀOH TWO.T SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1912.ST.FRANCIS DISTRICT LOCAL HAPPENINGS {MM fey Miy Kec«rt Garret- WINDSOR MILLS.Mr.F.J.Campbell has returned from an extended vacation in the ilnakoka Lakes region.Miss Thelma Meagher entertained about thirty of her young friends to k lawn fete on Wednesday.Mr.J.T.O'Reilly has severed his connection with the Gres Falls Company, Three Rivers, and has accepted a position with the Canada Paper Co.Miss Mackay from Sherbrooke where she was called by the illness of her mother; Miss Gertrude Ling to Sherbrooke.The Ladies\u2019 Circle of St.Andrew\u2019s Church was held Wednesday at Miss Andry's in Gresnlay, A very enjoyable time was spent.Mr.D.McCarthy has returned from Clarke City.Over two hundred people from Windsor Mills and vicinity took in the excursion to Ste.Anne de Beaupré recently.Arrivals and departures : Mr.H.M.Thorne, Sec.-Treas.of the Canada Paper Co., Montreal, in town on business; Mrs.M.E.Mountain and daughters, Catharine and Adelaide, from Palmer, N.Y.; Mrs.J.Hadsell for Boston recently; Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Landry and children, Giles and Huldah, to White River Junction, Vt., for a couple of weeks; Miss M.Sampson and Mrs.Armstrong and daughter to Melbourne recently; Mrs.T.Costello and Mrs.J.McCormack to Sherbrooke; Mrs.J.McCabe and Miss Kleis McCabe to Sherbrooke ; Miss A.Dustan in Sherbrooke recently; Miss L.Patterson guest of her-mother here.The marriage of Mr.E.E.McCone to Miss W.Dillon takes place in Sherbrooke on Monday, September !ith.Mr.McCone is the son of Mr.E.A.McCone, of this place.Miss Bertha Chapman is seriously ill at her home.Miss Elma Dunn entertained on Thursday in honor ol Miss Geraldine Gongier, who leaves for Quebec shortly to attend school.Games were played, delicious refreshments served, and delightful time was spent by all.The infant daughter of Mr, and ¦ Mrs.Mathews still continues in a : critical condition.TIRES Goodyear Tires Goodrich Tires The Best Tins Moier Can Buy \u2014 The American Goodyear.NO RIM CUT.NON SKID.Represent the highest type of Tire Perfection and is the best Tire Proposition on the market this season.Guaranteed for 3,500 miles, but good for 5,000 to 10,000 Miles.Clincher, Q.D., or Strait Bead.\tQ.D.or Clincher.\tNo Rim Cut.30 x 3i .$19.85\t.32 I 3i .21.20\t 22.30 32 x 4\t 29.25\t 30.80 34 x 4\t 31.30\t 32.95 34 x 4| .39.65\t 41.70 We stand behind every Tire we sell.M S BLANCHARD COMPANY Proprietors of the New Fireproof Newport Garage.DIXVILLE.Arrivals and departures: Mise G.Call, who has been at her home in I Hereford, guest of Mrs.(Rev.) J.C.Tannar; Miss Ethel Swails, with friends at Island Pond; Mr.and Mrs.S.Bailey, visiting friends at Ayer\u2019s ! Cliff and attending the County Fair; Among others who attended the Fair were: Mr.G.A.Cushing and family; Mrs.W.H.Plowman, Messrs.J.B.and ,W.T.Parker, T.J.Grady and family, Messrs.Albert and Frank Humphrey; Rev.Albert Stevens of i Coaticook, calling on friends Thursday; Mr.W.T.Parker, G.T.R.agent, is enjoying a little holiday and during his absence the work will be taken by Mr.W.Arpin, Relieving Agent; Mr.and Mrs.Clyde Keysar of Colebrook, N.H., to attend the marriage of her sister, Miss Lottie Marsh to Mr.Archie Grady; Mr.Keysar home on Thursday while Mrs.Keysar and little daughter will remain for a longer visit; Mrs.R.C.Baldwin and Mrs.A.E.Parsons, to Island Pond this week called by the serious illness of their sister, Mrs.W.D.Ladd, who is suffering from pneumonia; Mr.Ora McIntyre, who has been with Mr.Chas.Rose, at Barnston, home again: Mrs.M.K.Bolger of Quebec, visiting at the home of Mr.and Mrs.B.Baldwin; Miss Lillian Damon of Coaticook, guest of her sister, Fannie Damon, on Thursday at \"Maplewood Farm\u2019\u2019; Mies Ethel Lorimer and Master Arthur Lorimer of Beebe, visiting at the home of their grandfather, Mr.Peter Lorimer; Mrs.Amos Hartwell, of Hatley, recently guest of Mr.and Mrs.J.G.Pare.Mr.T.R.Holmes has opened a boarding house for the accommodation of the travelling public.\u2022 BURY.The Box Social which took place at Brookbury on Tuesday evening was quite successful and was well attended.Home made candy was sold.Mr.J.H.Learned took the part of auctioneer.Arrivals and departures: Miss M.i When You Are At The mi .\t- Sherbrooke Fair Be sure and see our two large exhibits, one in the Main Building showing our Celebrated Valves, Safes and Scales and one in the Machinery Hail.We are showing for the first time at and fair in Canada our Wonderful Midget Flour Mill operated by a Fairbanks=Morse Engine This Mill will be in operation during the Fair and everyone should make it a point of seeing this wonderful machine and get a sample bag of flour.Fairbanks-Morse Gas Engines Fairbanks Standard Scales Fairbanks Valves Dominion Fireproof Safes and Vaults \u2018:o:- The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co.LIMITED 444 St.James St.Montreal ^ Ross, visiting relatives and friends j at Crossbury; Mr.and Mrs.Isaac | Bagley, visiting relati -es in Dan-ville; Mrs.Stearling and son of Len-noxvxlle, guests of Mrs Frank Cummings, recently; Mr.and Mrs.H.Coates, visiting at Mr.B.Coates; Mr.and Mrs.D.McCubbin, calling on relatives in Bury; Mrs.George Sawyer, in Cookshire the first of The week.Mr.John Manes has purchased an automobile.Mr.Sisco, who has been taking the services during the absence of the Rector, Rev.Mr.Lewis, at St.Paul\u2019s Church, intends leaving here on Friday.TRENHOLMVILI-E.The home-coming ot Mi.Elmond H.Brock, of Brandon, and of Mr.and Mrs.Norris W.Broca and daughter, Bernice, of Hayden, Colorado, was celebrated in the form of a Brock reunion at the home of their nephew, G.L.Brock, Elm Grange, Trenholm-ville, on Saturday, August 17th.Ideal weather favored the occasion so that nearly all the invited guests from far and near were able to be present, and numbered in all about seventy-five or eighty.About noon the guests had arrived, and tables being set in the shade of the trees on the lawn, they were very soon enjoying the bountiful supply of good things set before them.After dinner had been served the friends, who had been separated, some for many years, conversed freely about the changes that had taken place, both in the place and the people, while the younger ones enjoyed a few games.The-next item of interest was the appearance of Mr.Presby, photographer, of Richmond.Several groups were taken, one consisting of Mr.and Mrs.Lorenzo Brock, their son.G.L.Brock, and grandson, little George, and Mrs.Ernest Wright, formerly Florence Brock, a granddaughter.Next was a group of five brothers and two sisters of the Brock family ; Lorenzo Elmond, who had been absent thirty-seven years ; Norris, who has been away about thirty-five years since he first left ; Edson Herbert, Mrs.Perkins and Mrs.Taylor.Other groups were taken and finally one consisting of all the invited guests.Soon after the friends once more sat down to lunch and then the gathering broke up, after spending a very enjoyable day and one which they are not likely to forget for a long time to come.All relatives in this district were invited, and those present from a distance were Mr.Elmond Brock, Wisconsin ; Mr.and Mrs.Norris Brock and daughter, of Colorado ; Mr.and Mrs.Herbert Brock and son, Kingsey Falls ; Mr.and Mrs.B.Perkins, Mr.and Mrs.R.Taylor, Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Brock, Mr.and Mrs.Chester Brock and daughter, Marion ; Mr.and Mrs.Edmond Taylor, Mrs.Ernest Lockwood, Mrs.Greyson and daughter, Mr.and Mrs.Henry Lodge, all of Danville ; Mr.and Mrs.H.Perkins, Mr.and Mrs.N.Perkins, Mr.and Mrs.M.Wilkie and Miss H.Prince, Kingsey Falls ; Mr.and Mrs.Frank Brock, Richmond, and other friends from Boston.ASCOT CORNER.Arrivals and departures include : Mr.Thos.Wingeat to Vermont with friends and relatives ; Mrs.C.Fileau and daughter, Rosanna, of Somers-ville, Mass., guests at the home of Mr.Jos.Cyr ; Mr.C.McCafferty, of St.Ferdinand, accompanied by his sister, Mrs.J.J.Neagle, of Lyndon-ville, Vt., to their respective homes after being guests at the home of Mr.and Mrs.John Largy, Fair View Farm ; Mr.Edward Largee and two daughters, M sses May and Ruby, accompanied by Miss Edith Larigee, home from Quebec where they attended the Fair.They also visited Ste.Anne de Beaupre.Mr.Roy Harrison of Bury, guest of Mr.and Mrs.W.Rowe ; Mrs.A.McCafferty, Learned Plain, calling on friends recently ; Mr.Sam Dube from Quebec where he attended the Fair ; Miss A.Galvin of Sherbrooke, guest of Miss E.A.Largy, \"Fair View,\" recently ; Mrs.G.Lock from Sherbrooke where she was in the St.Vincent de Paul Hospital for treatment.She was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs.W.H.Pridden.Mr.Arthur Hedgcomb to Waterville, alter visiting friends and relatives ; Mr.Walter Wingeat from Ayer\u2019s Cliff where he attended the Fair ; Miss R.Larigee home from Sherbrooke.A large number of the parishioners from here took in the pilgrimage to Ste.Anne de Beaupre on the 26th inst.KINGSEY FALLS.Arrivals and departures: Mrs.H.J, Stubbs and daughter, Maude, in Montreal, recently; Mrs.Thos.Currie of Montreal, with friends; Mr.Horace Prefontaine, his holidays at South Durham with his parents; Mrs.F.B.Chadsey and daughter, Rita, of Danville, with their aunt, Mrs.J Grosset; Mrs.Geo.Michie of Pas-coag, R.I., guest of her sister, Mrs.Jas.Michie; Mrs.Darling and her children, who have been with her father, Mr.Robt.Brown, to their home at Peacham, Vt., on Thursday last; Mrs.Everett and Miss Flossie Taylor, to Lowell, Mass., after a few weeks with Mr.H.Noble; Mr.W.Sugden, of Toronto, with Mr.and Mrs.B.C.Hastings; Mrs.Frank Young and daughter, Alcba, to their home on Monday after a few weeks visit with friends; Mr.Charlie Walsh to Jonquiere for a few days; Miss F.Towne, to Danville, guest of Miss Bertha Sells; Mr.Jas.Michie, home from Providence, R,I., where he has spent the last three months, accompanied by his brother, Mr.George Michlc, of Dayvillc, Conn.RICHMOND.The Union services will be continued over Sunday, September 1st.Morning service in Ohalmer\u2019s Presbyterian Church at II a.m., St.Andrew\u2019s Church, Upper Melbourne at 2.20 p.m., and In Congregational Church at 7 p.m.Rev.G, H.Craik will be the preacher.The Rev.W.O.Rothney, B.A., wtll preach at the Ulvnrton Congregational Church (1n Sunday, September 1st at 2.30 p, rn.Arrivals and departures: Mrs.1.Lasonde, on an extended visit to Lewiston, Boston and Worcester, Mass; Mr.Mountain, Mr, and Mrs.ALL READY FOR A BIG WEEK (Continued from Page 1.) throughout the Townships, report that great interest is being shown in the coming Fair.The reduction of the price of admission from fifty to twenty-five cents has been very popular.At Barton yesterday, whenever the Fair was mentioned, interest was at once manifested.One gentleman stated that if the weather were fine a larger number than ever would be on hand.SHORT OF ROOM FOR EXHIBITS.A large number of men are at work to-day completing temporary arrangements for housing the live stock.In the Cattle Department there are over seven hundred animals.Several new buildings had to be erected to accommodate them.Every available foot of space in the Main Building is being utilized and some attractive exhibits have been arranged.THAT GIRL, MINNIE HA HA.There will be on exhibition at the Exposition Grounds one of the strangest of all human beings, Minnie Ha-Ha, the Australian Bush Girl.She is the only one that represents her peculiar race of people alive in America.Stands 3 feet 9 Inches in height, weighs 39 pounds, and when angry has the strength of two men combined.The many moods of Minnie Ha-Ha are a source of continued interest.One moment one is quiet and gentle, mimicking all sorts of people and things and the next moment she displays spiteful, weird and vindictive feelings, being turned by the slightest circumstance.She readily understands all that is said in her presence in English.Her own language, that of the Australian Bushman, she has forgotten, so long is it since she was brought to this country.Her restlessness is pronounced, she never sitting down during the day, and a nurse being required to keep her in bed at night.She relishes being on exhibition, and as this will be her first appearance in this city, there is no doubt but what That Girl Minnie Ha-Ha will be the leading attraction at the Exhibition, and she wants to see you.BAD WEATHER DELAYS CROPS (Continued from Page 1) though somewhat late, are looking fine and give promise of a good yield.The early potatoes coming along a little later than other years, made the price of early potatoes rather high.spite of this fact the hay is being secured in splendid condition and all report a record crop.The judges of farms and crops for the fall fair are at work now and say that potatoes are going to be an abundant crop.So far they are free from rust and rot.Farmers claim that the present rain is just what the potatoes require and that in the past two weeks potatoes have nearly doubled their size.This is a decided improvement GRAIN LOOKS WELL AROUND froni lagt year as potatoes were al-DUNHAM.\tmost a compiete failure.Turnips are Dunham, Aug.31.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 a splendid crop.The lookout for The haying season is over again.The grain is good.Oats and corn are continued wet weather made\tthe sea-\t1\tlooking splendid.They will be much son very long, but not much\thay was\t|\tlater\tin ripening owing to the badly damaged.The crop will aver-! wet weather experienced of late.Oats \" \u2019\tare extra fine having very long straw and the heads are well filled, and the «as suwu ea*iy is veiy gunu,\txaoC\tslow\tripening will give the oats a grain in many instances will\tnot rip-\tgood\tchance to finish filling out- en if we have early frosts.Potatoes Taking all things together this might are reported good generally.Corn is be considered a good year for erops ¦iv-io» TTAVSVT tttaII V» i i 4- WAnrlo r.\tin this section.age as well as last year.Not much are grain is yet harvested.Grain that was sown early is very good, hut late looking very well but needs a good deal of warm weather to ripen.There will be a heavy crop of apples and of good quality.The root crop is very good.WELL UP TO AVERAGE.Magog, Aug.31.\u2014 (Special)\u2014 Bx- C.Hill and children, 1,0ms irom Niagara, Toronto and other places, having made trip by auto; Mrs.A.Brousseau and children of Montreal, with Mrs.T.Hebert for two weeks; Mr.J.O\u2019Farrell of Quebec, a few days with Mrs.J.Deardcn; Miss Pierce, Mrs.Nicholson and Miss Nicholson, Mrs.R.Dyson, to Sherbrooke this week.Mrs.H.L.Maltby of Montreal and Mrs.A.O.Walker of Vancouver, formerly the Miss Golds of Melbourne, are renewing old acquaintances in Richmond and vicinity after an absence of many years.All kinds of school books and supplies for college and country schools at Bedard\u2019s Drug Store.\u2014-4- BROMPTONVILLE.Mr.C.Wiley, superintendent of the Tobin Manufacturing Co., has severed his connection with the company and gone to Boston.Mr.John Tobin, yard and lumber foreman for the Tobin Manufacturing Go., went to Ascot this week on business for the company.Mr.C.Carrier, who has been ill for several months, is now convalescent.Rev.Father Larocque and Mr.N.Ponton, accompanied by a large number of citizens, spent a day this week in the R.C.Cemetery, cleaning up and improving the grounds.Mr.P.Hebert, of Quebec, has been engaged- as superintendent of the Pearl Manufacturing Co.here, and took charge of the plant this week.Mr.Charles Maynard, of Stoke Centre, is in town this week.Mr.R.D.Tobin\u2019s son, who had a serious operation performed, as recently stated, is much improved and able to be out.GOOD HOME-MADE BREAD.Your baking will be successful if you use White Swan Yeast Cakes.Makes light, sweet and wholesome bread.If your grocer hasn\u2019t got it ffi cakes at 5c) send us his name and ask for free sample.White Swan Hnices & Cereals, Limited, Toronto Ont.JOHNVILLE.The item appearing in a recent edition of the Record to the effect that Miss Emma Muncaster is visiting her brother, George Muncaster, is incorrect.The item should have read that \"Mrs.C.H.Muncaster and daughter, of Sherbrooke, visiting at the home of her brother-in-law, Mr.Geo.K.Muncaster.\u2019\u2019 Mr.C.R.Westgate of Montreal will occupy the pulpit in the Methodist Church on Sunday, September 1st at 3.30.Miss May Humphrey to Montreal.Mrs.Alton Lindsay to Sherbrooke.-*- SCOTSTOWN.Arrivals and departures include : Mr.Floyd Sherman home from the West; Mrs.I.Goudreau, Mrs.J.Goud-reati and Mr.Phil Goudreau, from Chesham, guests of Mr.and Mrs.J.H.Roberge; Father Rousseau on his way home to Notre Dame des Bois from Ste.Anne de Beaupre; Mr.Way-land McRitchie to his home in Holeb, Me.Mr.H.Vincent from La Patrie had the misfortune to break one of the axles of his automobile on his way home from this town last Wednesday.For sale, on Coleman street, a dwelling house and barn.A good bargain.Apply to M.A.McKenzie.-4- LAKE MEGANTIC.Beginning Sept.9th, Dr.G.S.Grégoire, M.P.P., will resume his practice of medicine here and will be pleased to meet his former clients, including his Scotch and English friends.A Good Place to Stop for Dinner.f Ask your friends.DERBY LINE HOTEL Oaragro attached.A.V.N.Cm.rjNH At MON, Derby Line, Vermont.Port of entry to U.B.cept that the chill wet weather has (GRAIN IS LOOKING WELL.delayed the farmers in this vicinity Tr- i j i *\t0,\t\u2022 i y rpu in their work, especially with the Kirkdale, Aug.31.(Special) e haying agricultural conditions are hay crop in this section was in great / ^ e average.It is expect- part harvested with very httis wet .\t.\t.\t___ f\u2014L weather, so the hay went into the barns practically undamaged.The prolonged wet weather of the last two weeks has been very Injurious to reaped grain, as it has been almost impossible to dry it, and its effect on late grain is to delay it in ripening.However, grain is filling nicely, while the straw is growing enormously.T* wlX\tW\t^ \u2018\tw\t-Z- ed there will be a slight per cent, loss on the hay crop due to the delay in harvesting.The weather during the haying season was very good, the hay being housed in good condition.Already harvesting the grain has begun and although late, localities differ as to quality and quantity.The year will be an average one.Potatoes are generally a fair crop and Mr.T.Tompson, who has been on a tat°es, «e generally a lam crop and trip through the French country, re- : f6 selhnS at f Per b,ushe1\u2019.Toma- trip through the French country, re ports a splendid crop being harvested, although under trying climatic conditions.Potatoes are a good crop, being fully up to the average.No rot has appeared as yet.Mr.C.N.Lyster reports a good crop on his extensive farm with the yield fully up to the standard.Mr.M.A.Gee reports fodder corn upon cultivated areas a good crop, and nearly as good as last year.Corn uncultivated, makes a poor showing.Mr.G.W.Cunningham reports the yield of hay nearly as good as last year, and was harvested in good condition, and being of better quality than' last year.Clover was very poor, being winter killed.A GOOD AVERAGE CROP AT BROME.Brome, Aug.31.\u2014(Special)\u2014 The expression of opinion re the hay crop for this vicinity was a little premature, as the crop proved to be more abundant than the farmers expected, before making an examination.Many stacks are in evidence throughout the Townships.The crop is above the average and the most of it was secured in fine condition.There still remains some uncut caused by the scarcity of farm help.Much seed hay is being kept, and three-quarters of the farmers will have enough for their own use.Mr.L.H.Lawrence, near Shefford Line, has a fine piece of second growth clover which he intends to thresh.The oat crop is quite promising, although not up to last year.An average crop is reported.Wheat, peas and buckwheat are but little grown in this locality.Barley is good and new seeding with grass seed looks fine.The acreage of corn is large but the crop is backward owing to the unseasonable weather.Much of the seed did not germinate, and weather conditions will have to toes are very backward in ripening, the gardens producing none as yet.Other vegetables are very late but a fair quality.Apples are being brought to town and sold daily although reports are that apples will be a poor crop.GRAIN WILL BE GOOD IF FROSTS KEEP OFF.Farnham, Aug.31.\u2014(Special)\u2014The hay crop was allowed to stand uncut much longer than is usually the case, but the yield was an average one.The early sown grain has ripened, been cut and rained upon by the recent great storms before reaching the barn so that it is very hard to say what the result may be unless the weather remains fine.In regard to late sown grain, if the frost keeps off the results cannot be otherwise than splendid.As to the question of potatoes and roots, the same answer prevails.The early planted potatoes and roots are practically a failure, owing to the very dry spell that prevailed at the time of flowering.The later planted potatoes are showing far better results.In spite of bad weather, most of the farmers who have followed drainage and irndern treatment, feel satisfied as to the prospective results of their labors.LOSS WILL BE SERIOUS.Bondville, August 31.\u2014 (Special)\u2014 A good deal of grain here is rapidly approaching the stage when it shou)d be cut.Harvesting, however, und«r the present weather conditions, is an impossibility, and unless a favorable change in the weather takes place almost immediately the loss to the farmers will, indeed, be serious.WORST IN YEARS AT ADAMS-VILLE.Adamsville, Aug.31.\u2014 (Special)\u2014 be very favorable throughout Sep- H,r°PS in t.his part of the town are tember if the usual crop of corn is .he, wol:st ia years.Grain of tember if the usual crop of corn is ^ wo, t ln years.Grain of all gathered.Potatoes are excellent and Kmlds 13 ,te ancl poor- Corn is poor if not overtaken by rust or rot will ! Sx Tery ate antl not likely to ripen.if not overtaken by rust or rot will be above the average crop.Root crops, such as turnips and mangolds, are reported up to the average.Gardens, however, are pronounced very backward, especially tomatoes, climatic conditions interfering.The general summary is above the average and with the present remunerative prices for dairy products and meats the prospect is bright for the farmer.FAIR CROPS AT DANVILLE.Danville, Aug.31.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 The wet, cold weather which has continued for some time has been a detriment to all crops and garden produce.The hay crop where timothy hay was grown was quite equal to last year, which crop was above the average.The clover, particularly on heavy soil, was below the average of even a poor year.There was a time at the commencement of haying where many got their complete crop into the barns in good shape Potatoes are fairly good.Root crop is good.HARVESTING AT FROST VILLAGE.Frost Village, Aug.31.\u2014(Special) \u2014The haying is about completed and harvesting of the grain has begun in this section.at WORCESTER SALT EXHIBIT.During the coming Exhibition a Sherbrooke, there will be an attractive booth in the Main Building devo-to the celebrated \"Worcester Salt.This booth will be in charge of Mr.C.E.Whitcher, the expert demonstrator of the Company, and the fine qualities of the various grades will be shown, and interesting information imparted.Mr.Whitcher will make it his special pleasure to discuss the advantages of the Worcester Salt with butter and cheese makers, and wilt nave some special souvenirs for distribution which will add to the pleasure of your visit.Be sure .-\u2014but some later haymakers, were not so v\u201c'-\tui yuur visit, ne sure fortunate as at the last the hay was j and cal1- Yours faithfully, Clough & injured by wet weather, but this oc- Co- Agents and Wholesale Shippers curred in comparatively few places.\u2019 for the Eastern Townships.The grain crop generally may yet ;\t- prove to be an average but will be\tLEARNED PLAIN rnieJ»/lPen«ng- Th^ w°ldd be fa-; Arrivals and departures; Mr WT cihtated by fine weather.\t' Sample and Mr.J.A.Young \u201e wJy ahe^ oriasteveear\t^ a' ^ Sherbrooke.ia town or, Sunday; Mr way ahead of last year.Some farm- , and Mrs.George Astell ami Mis* A r/laryeai^^he^oot^op ?n\tî\tï» *7* IvT\u2019 \u2019\u2019i' eral is reported good.Corn is a very Hurd of\tT ^ poor crop and there will be practical ! h A Stevensonï MW I Mr' sc rc\t' rsto this year's farm produce is ver»\t^ Haymond Stevenson, to Compton of this year\u2019s farm produce is very fair, indeed.Apples are plentiful and will be like roots, a good yield if there arc no early frosts.POTATOES WILL BE AN ABUNDANT CROP.I Waterloo, Aug.31.\u2014 (Special)\u2014, Farmers in this vicinity are late this year harvesting their hay crop owing to so much unsettled weather.In and Ayer\u2019s Cliff; Mr.Luther French and Miss Beulah Stevenson, visiting Mrs.Malcolm McCauley, at Fast Dtidswell; Mr.and Mrs, Heath, to Sawyerville a few days; Mr.and Mrs.Hood at Mr.H.Bowkers in Flanders; Master Curtis and Miss Gertrude Young, to their home in Ayer\u2019s Cliff after two weeks at their grandfather\u2019s; Mrs.J.A.Young and Olga to Sherbrooke.SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.The School for the English-Speaking Blind, Sherbrooke Street, Montreal West.UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF The Montreal Anflociution for the Blind WILL BE OPENED ON OCTOBER 1st, 1013.For the Education and Industrial Training of the Blind and Partially blind.Ccrtificat?d teachers have been engaged to take charge of this work.Modern Fireproof Building.Extensive Playgrounds.Applications for admission to be made to the Secretary of the Board of Managers, Mrs.P.E.Layton, 550 St.Ogtherine St., W., Montreal.Lt.-Col, E.B.Bustecd, President. 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UuHN J.GRIFFITH, AUCTIONEER, Real Estate Agent, Auditor and Ae-\u2022onntant, Sherbrooke, Que.u H BRYCE, ACCOUNTANT AND .Auditor, 15 Quebec St.Sherbrooka.ADVOCATES.IAWRENCE, MORRIS & McIVER, J Advocates, etc., Sherbrooka.IPO BERT W.WE STOVER, ADVOCATE.'j At Cowansville every Fri.and Sat.Montreal office.Royal Ins.Bldg.ET NICOL, ADVOCATE.95 WBL-.lington Street, Sherbrooke.c tATE, WELLS k WHITE, ADVO-cates, Quebec Bant, Sherbrooke.EONARD & JUNEAU, ADVOCATES, J 18 King St.Ï5ANNETON, LEBLANC & PANNE-ton.L.E.Panneton, K.C., J.A.Leblanc, K.C., Dorais Panneton, L.la.L.{Tel.37.Cramp, Ewing & McEadden ADVOCATES, 112 St.James Street, Montreal: G.B.Cramp,K.C., J.Armitage Ewing,K.C George S.McFadden.dally Reports From Corraspoadents 01 What is Going on.EAST HILL.After several months of illness and practical helplessness, Mrs.Gardner Sweet at East Hill passed away, as already reported, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.J.W.Partch, August 21st.Mrs.Sweet was the eldest daughter of the late Abel McCoy, of Iron Hill, and was born April 24th, 1834, and married to Mr.Gardner Sweet, elder son of the late Isaiah Sweet, of West Broil.?, in 1856.Four children were born to them, all of whom are living, viz.: Mrs.J.W.Partch, East Hill ; Mrs.Hiram Hunt-ley, Park Rapids, Minn.; Mr.Horace R.Sweet and Mrs.J.Laughlin, of Haverhill, Mass.In young woman hood deceased joined the A C.Church at Iron Hill, of which she was a member to her death.Though practically helpless and confined to her room for some months she will be missed by her children and a large circle of friends and \u2019neighbors.The funeral service was conducted at her late home by Rural Dean Carmichael of Knowlton and the remains conveyed to West Brome for interment.The pallbearers were Messrs.Rockwell, Metevier, Mason and Sanborn.Much | sympathy is felt for the aged hus- ; band, who, with Mrs.Partch, has ! been her constant attendant.Mr.Sweet accompanied his son on his return to Haverhill where he will remain for a while.Arrivals and departures include : Mrs.L.M.Ruiter home from East ! Hill after three weeks\u2019 absence ; Mrs.Jennie Partch of East Hill, in town recently ; Miss Dora Kathan, of East Farnham, guest at The Highlands, also Mr.H.Lucas, Mr.C.L.Render- : son of Montreal, Mr.and Mrs.The Shufelt and Miss F.Shufelt, of Farnham ; Mr.and Mrs.Edward Holgate and daughter ^ Annie, Misses Emma and Katie Brown to Montreal on Monday.Mr.and Mrs.F.D.Shufelt attend- ed the funeral of Mrs.G.M.Sweet, at East Hill on Friday.-g^\t-¦ in MILLINGTON.Arrivals and departures : Mr.and Mrs.Ernest Taylor and Master Clif-i ford Taylor, of Foster, guests of relatives in town the week-end ; Mrs.R.Ives and Miss Emily Ives Monday at South Bolton ; Mr.and Mrs.Hawley, Mrs.Miles and Miss Carrie Scott, of Sutton, guests of Mr.and Mrs.Charlie Patch ; Mr.A.C.Stevens, of Sherbrooke, at J.F.Bryant\u2019s ; Mr.Heald Patch, of Farnham, with his ! parents, Mr.and Mrs.Frank Patch ; Mr.Nutbrown, of Sherbrooke, in town on Monday ; Mr.Charlie Chee-uey, of West Burke, Vt., guest of his ; sister, Mrs.T.Downing ; Mr.Laurel Powell, Mrs.1).Powell, Mrs.L.Pow-| era and Miss Lenora Powers Saturday in Magog ; Mrs.E.Clossey -and Mr.P.Kirk home from Cowansville ; Mr.and Mrs.H.C.Bryant and Mas-1er Kenneth, of Currier, guests of | the former\u2019s parents, Mr.and Mrs.J.F.Bryant, on Tuesday ; Mr.George I Emmett, Mr.and Mrs.T.Downing ; and Mr.Charlie Cheeney at Magog ! i ecently ; Mr.A.Boright, of East ! Farnham, in town on Wednesday ; Mr.Homer Sargent in Magog with his sisters, Mrs.C.M.Vaughan and Mrs.R.Ives.Mrs.D.Powell gave a party on Saturday evening in honor of Mr.Laurel Powell, it being his 25tli birthday.At the close of the evening refreshments were served.ROSENBERG.Mrs.Hobartl Bessette of San Francisco arrived unexpectedly on the 20th.The past week she has been in Manchester, N.H.attending hhe funeral of the late Wm.Corey of that place and visiting her brother, Mr.\" Ti Ms.On her return Mrs.i esseU.will spend sometime with Mr.and Mrs.C.S.Reynolds, Miss Emily Bessette and other relatives.I'.xtremelir poor health has prevented Mrs.Bessette from taking the journey from California for many years Ladies\u2019 Dainty Neckwear 19c and 25c MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION.MONEY REFUNDED IF GOODS ARE NOT SATISFACTORY.Hunting Stocks\u2014also soft collars of fine pique with ties to match.35c and 50c are the regular values.On sale at .25c A beautiful assortment of fancy embroidered linen collars in all sizes and assorted widths.Regular values 25c and 36c.Special .19c \u2014Main Floor.JAS.A.OCILVY & SONS THE MA.IL ORDER HOUSE, MONTREAL 1 past, so that she finds great and saddening enanges in and about ner old home during the 2o years since sQe was last here.Both father ailu mother, Mr.and Mrs.R.C.Reynolds, have passed away since then.Mrs.Bessette is still very far from well.Mr.and Mrs.R.Valley and Master Rupert \\ alley to St.Albans after two weeks with Mr.and Mrs.C.M.Lapointe; Mrs.Irving Jenkins, from a visit of two months to her daughter, Mrs.R.W.Soule, ol Everett.Mass.; Mr.C.M.Lapointe, in Boston for a week or two; Messrs.J.j.Chevalier of White River Junction and Arthur Chevalier, of St.Al-1 bans, Vt., were at home for brief visits this week.Mrs.Martin Campbell, whose health has been very poor for a long time past, fell on the 23rd, injuring herself internally, though not very seriously it is now hoped.Though the pain was quite severe at first it has been gradually lessening and other symptoms show improvement.Little Roy Mouette, ill for some time with a 'difficulty of the throat closely resembling paralysis, is very much better.Mrs.Arthur Morvtte, who was also ill for a couple of days with something of the same nature, is well again.The Mississquoi Agricultural Fair was, as usual, largely attended by everyone about here.There were, however, few exhibitors from this section.FROST VILLAGE.Arrivals and departures : Miss Helen Bowers, society reporter of the -Montreal Herald, and Miss Avis Ingalls, of the Montreal Star staff, to Montreal Sunday evening after their holidays at the home of Mrs.N, i().Potter; Mr.N.Chamberlain in town recently; Mr.and Mrs.N.Potter and several of their city guests enjoyed an auto trip to Knowlton arid around Brome Lake Monday; Mr.E.\\V.Bears to Sherbrooke Saturday; Mr.W.J.McClary to Millington; Mr.and Mrs.J.R.Goddard recent guests at Mrs.C.M.Martin's; Mr.Mason Mar tin to Port Arthur on Thursday ; Messrs.W.F.Sears and Geo.Ross, Editor of the Waterloo Journal, to Lawreneeville Sunday, Mr.and Mrs.W.J.McClary and daughter Eveline to Boston, Mass., Wednesday, guests of relatives.News has been received that Mr.Harold Martin, formerly of this place, was married recently to Miss Josephine McDougall, of Denver, Col., formerly of Waterloo.This place was visited the end of | the week by a.potu ly Clad, elderly lady, apparently irisan,e.She was soon taken in charge by the authorities and sent to the asylum at Mont real.\t* MADE IN CANADA htiAGIC EMM*, I bS G PURE RELIABLE WHOLESOME ECONOMICAL I # > # ( CONTAINS NO ALU M PRIZE LIST HORSES.Percherons.4 yrs\u2014F.J.Durkee, \u20222 years\u2014J.B.Deschei the is.iik very fine tastingeigar\u201d His the universal remark made when finishing the last sweet inch of the Fior do Claro the new ten cent cigar with the fascinating taste.Geo.Harold Baker.Advocate, Sveehburg Office open every day.Personal attendance Wednesday» and Saturdays.Appointments can be arranged for any tffiJe: Montreal Office : CHAUVIN, BAKER & WALKER.-.«.a.GRANBY.Miss G.Mills,: of Button, is guest of Miss 'Evelyn Giddings.Mr.R.H.' Smith, bf Montreal;^ spending a few fifty\u2019s in tb\u2019t*h.oi,r Mr.Nelson jPnrtié, of-the'ddnnk of Ottawa.Fort\u2019 'Cbuldrige, 'BVit.y is spending his holidays ift1 town with his father.~\t\" Mr.RichaVd Shonyo, of Magog, is the guest of his sister; Mrs.W.R.Seale.Miss Marion Clow is spending a week in Montreal.Miss Mabel Jackman entertained a number of young friends on Saturday afternoon in honor of Miss Mock, of Fort Edward.In the guessing contest Miss Mock won the prize, a silver thimble.Dainty refreshments wTTe served.Mr.A.K.Shipman, of Carthage, N.Y., is visiting friends in sown.Miss Eva Wallace spent Tuesday in Waterloo.Miss Maud Wallace left on Wednesday to take up her duties as teacher in a business college, Montreal.Mr.and Mrs.J.T.Parish and Miss Parish are touring through the White Mountains in Mr.Parish\u2019s motor car.I, Surveying.Patent Solicitor.-décru» Oot.3 .OH, 2j\u2014RojfiU E'lward, O''*\" ih Ool.in \u2022\u2018Koval iOahrfeiV Oct.30» LOai S'l-wRoynl iKdPkrd kov.13.Nov\u2019, tri - Royal \"George Jfov.87 Local Agent* : C.H.Fo,a.O.T.R.Agent; iû.H.H«W»1J.C.*>.H.A«ent.M> » t X \u2019\u2019 ¦(\u2018\u2019ANAnlAN NORTHERN 8.\t¦«\u2019 Cf^HPANY, LIMITED.ot contain acc'ian;! National Onuû an» Chcmicac Co.or Canada.Lioitcd.1SS war * : am ;\t' i ak/IC*;.\"qflj Seventy-five years ago our grandfathers made arduous pilgrimages to the Original Caledonia Spring to drink of delicious 'V * '\t¦ us Nlra I sV1' plj N A\t\u2018-j W*V*IP MAGI THE WATER 0FQVAUT?To-day, hundreds of thousands find it the same gracious, thirst - quenching beverage with the zestful saline flavor\u2014 it is also a wonderful specific for ailments arising from disordered Kidneys and Digestive Maladies.\t, HAG I Water can be obtained '\u2018Still\u201d or \u201cSparkliaA\" fi \\ssm At all cafea.hotel*, bar*.dru| store*, or from grocer* by case or bottle.Write forour book \"The Legend ol the Spring\u201d the oal&douja srkiMos co Limited Ctl*4«aU ipruig*.Oatorlo\t.Ifciiiniiin .\u2019i\u2019ll1''' Mêm jy® 4 iK ft, Hlb.À- \"III j ft! m, !v$ Ik \\Hid' r ) u k MUi Am v;1\\h ji1 11/ :| I .\u2022 ri' ¦ '« lui, \u2022v'X\u20181 ly.msofc* I McM'NoMY & CO.nm, mu jfii u .1 / i'll M Sherbrooke |\t| |(^\t- - -\t___\t,_\t___MlffllllKirftrrWfTT f The Crisp, Tasty Toast ¦sm Sold nvcrywhere.\u2022_\t\u2022_ In boxei, 25c.A peasant, \u2018tis my pride to he; Look round and round your hall and see Who boasts a higher pedigree! I was not fit, it seems, to dine With these fox-hunting heroes fine.But only came to bandy jests Among your lordship\u2019s hopeful guests There must be here some sad-'mistake\u2014 I would not play for such a.stake.a buffoon for drink and meat.And a poor earl\u2019s tax paid Ni, die, my heart, ere such Descends on Robert Burns A MATTER OF TASTE.(London Times.) He was the sort of young man who takes a girl out and talks a lot pretty things, but never dreams buying anything, not even a bar of cocoanut candy.They had been walking out together for quite a time, and she was getting a hit tired of it.One even-ins they came to a pause outsioe a gaily decorated confectioner\u2019s shop.\u201cLook, darling !\u201d he whispered gushingly, \u201cI can see your beautiful sweet face quite clearly in that window !\u201d But she was determined on making, a change.\u201cThat\u2019s all right, George, about sweet face,\u201d she said coldly; \u201cI Do You Want An Office?The entire second floor of the : Record Block will be converted into ; offices, on the removal of the Page Printing and Binding Company to | their new building Now is the time to speak if yon would be interested in a high, airy, well lighted office, in a modern building, centrally located.Single office or suite can bo ar- I ranged to your order.Plans are now being considered.If you are Interested Inquire.Food science has taught us that there is much body-building nutriment in the whole wheat grain which we do not get in white flour.The only question is how to make the whole wheat grain digestible.That problem has been solved in the making or TRISCUIT the shredded whole wheat wafer.It is the whole wheat, steam-cooked shredded, compressed into a wafer, and baked\u2014the maximum of nutriment in smallest Many people prefer it tu ordinary bread toast.Healed bulk.in the oven to restore its crispness it is delicious for luncheon, or for any meal, with butter, potted cheese or marmalades.\u201cTHE TOAST OF THE TOWN\u201d Made of Choice»! 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The voice museum, which was officially inaugurated in the basement of 1 i\u201e, PoUrn Gnilhnr in 1907.am tited of bearing wish you\u2019d remember my sweet tooth occasionally instead.\u201d -4-\u2014 publishes a A PRINCE\u2019S ROMANCE (London Standrad.) the Opera \"by Pedro Gailhar in 1907, I A Bucharest newspaper lias received\u2019another year\u2019s addition! remarkable story of a romance in t to its voice records of the best sing-|]ife 0f the young Bulgarian Grown ers who have been heard at the Paris i year.prince Boris is said to nave and also sojne|loVe with Princess Elizabeth, ewest Opera and elsewhere, vwso uo PERFECTION COCOA \u201cCouldn\u2019t wait, Grandpa\u201d -*.r ¦ ti few Cowan s Cocoa shares with mint the first place as a drink for children.A pure Cocoa, it contains nerve, flesh and muscle - building material.Made with milk it is a perfectly balanced food, as well as a drink the children love.YOUR GROCER HAS IT 208 The COWAN CO.Limited TORONTO ¦0mm $ PAGB tEN SHERnnOOKE DAILY RECORD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1912.Live Poultry of all Kinds WANTED We are paying 14c per lb., live weight, for chickens of all sizes; 12c per lb.for good fat hens, and 10c for ordinary or thin hens; 12c for ducks.These prices are clear to you at your station, as we pay the express charges.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS POULTRY.FARMS.A.P.HWhonse.Manager, ¦ -\tFoster, Qne.NOTICE-CRUELTY Any persons witnessing sets of cruelty to animals, please report at once to 8.P.C.A.INSPECTOR.HAS NO WEATHER SAYS DR.KL01Z SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.Ottawa ladles9 College Ideally situated in the Capital, ore o! the most beautiful chits i;i the world Offers Slatriculaticu, Arademie and Selective courses.Accepts pupils from 13 years of age and upwards.Parents seeking a good educational home for their daugtiters should write for Calendar and particulars.)6 it*.W.B.ARMSTRONG, M.A., PH.D.D.3.e*ESIDE.VT TRAFALGAR INSTITUTE (Affiliated to McGill Univereity.) 83 Simpson St.Montreal.For the Higher Education of Y^nng \u2018Women, with Preparatory Department tor Girls under 13 years of age.Acting President \u2014 Professor Wm.Peterson.C.M.G.M A.UL.D.Principal MoGill University.Vlce-Presinent\u2014Venl J.G.Norton, D-D.Archdeacon of Montreall Principal \u2014 Miss Grace Fairley, M.A., Edinburgh.The Institute will re-open TUESDAY, 17th September, at NOON.Entrance examinations for new scholars will be held at the school on Saturday, 14th September, at 10 o'-cloch a.m.For Prospectus, etc., apply to the Principal, or to A.F.RIDDELL, Secretary, North British Mercantile Building.80 St.Francois Xavier Street, Montreal.COOKSHIRE ACADEMY Will reopen on Tuesday, Sept.3rd next, under the following staff : J.T.Allen, B.A., Principal ; Miss A.McDonald, Model ; Miss H.Mackay, Elementary ; Misa L.Bailey, Primary.The results of the exams, for many years past is a guarantee for its efficiency.Class roams well ventilated, pure spring water on both floors, and : all other hygienic improvements installed.Boarding places at reasonable rates can be secured on application to Dr.Butler.Chairman of School Board.Dr.Klotz, of Ottawa recently delivered an interesting address on \u201cThe Moon and the Weather.\" He said in part: \u201cWe have learned of the physical i constitution of the moon, of her vol-: ume and mass, erf her phases and rotation, of her borrowed light, of her gravitational or tidal eflect on the ¦ earth\u2014and now what about her con-I nection with our -weather, what aibout change of moon, change of weather?\u201cLet us calmly do a little bit of reasoning about this; let us use just a little bit of common sense, and see what conclusion we inevitably arrive at.The change of the moon, what does it mean?Changing for more light or less, or less to more; that is all, and : that goes on constantly, uniformally from day to day.Practically, there is as much change on any one day as on any other day, so that change ! of moon as designating something apart from every day occurrence is in reality a misconception.Fven if we were to admit certain changes as something quite apart from other - Umar characteristics, we will ask, [ what is it that distinguishes them from other times?The only answer is, that the amount of light we receive is different from that at other times.We all know that the sun is the source of the circulation ot our atmosphere, upon whom depends our weather.Now, the light received bv the full moon is about the 1,600,000 part that of the sun, and, of course, for the cither phases, still less, vanishing completely at new moon, being on the average only the one millionth that of the sun, which is equivalent to saying that the sun gives us as much light and heat in 30 seconds as the moon does in a year.It is then reasonable to expect that the changes in quantity of this minute amount of light\u2014of which furthermore only a fraction is available for heat, for to have any effect on weather we have to deal with heat rays\u2014this diluted light, this homeo-| pathis emanation, would have any NA-DRU-CO SHERBROOKE ACADEMY OF MUSIC IRWEST SAWDOX, PRINCIPAL Provides the best tuition In all branch** by teachers specially chosen from the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra.Spécial course for diplomas In voice, violin, piano and harmony by the prln-cip&L Prospectus of monthly recitals and curriculum will be Issued early in the \u2022\u2022Ik\tii \u2022 Beii \u2019phone 833, North Hatley and Coatlcook visited Private School of Music MR.J.W.BEARDER.Fellow Royal College of Organists, London ; Licentiate Incorporated Society of Musicians, London ; Honorary Licentiate in Music and Examiner, Dominion College of Music, Montreal ; Examiner TpdiCJeol-ia College, London ; Professor of Music Protestant schools, Sherbrooke; Choirmaster Bishop's University.I«n-noxville ; Organist and Choirmaster St.Peter\u2019s Church, Sherbrooke.RESUMES LESSONS In Piano, Organ, Singing and Harmony, Sept., 1012.AT HIS RESIDENCE.89 Portland Avenue\tBell 'el.B*-.Over ISO pnpfls successful In highest examinations.Correspondense Course In Theory and Harmony.Royal Rose Talcum Powder 9 I \u2019HE dainty embodiment j[ of the queenly rose\u2019s fragrance.Made of beat Italian Talc, ground to impalpable finenes», to which ore added soothing, healing, antiseptic ingredients, Na-Dra-Co Royal Rose Talcum Powder keeps the skin soft, comfortable, healthy and beautiful.It is a toilet delight.25c.a tin, at your Druggist\u2019s \u2014or write for free sample to NATIONAL DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO.OF CANADA, LIMITED.MONTREAL.194 A WARNING WORD From the Herpicide Girl.Dunham Ladies\u2019 College DUNHAM, P.Q.Residen/Ja! 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Send 10c.in postage to The Herpicide j Co., Dept.K .Detroit, Mich., for sam-| pie and booklet.1 W H.Griffith special agent.UNIVERSITY OF BISHOP\u2019S COLLEGE Eenuoxville, P.Q.The only College in Canada with a three years Arts Course.Residental College for men ; women students admitted to Lectures and Degrees.Three years course in Arts , two years course in Divinity.In special cases the combined courses may be taken in four years.The College is situated in one of the most beautiful spjts in Eastern Canada.Bishop's College appeals to the keen student not having the counter attractions of a large city to distract the attention AH forms of recreation may be had.Including golf, boating, cricket, hockey, etc.Splendid Gymnasium, Four railway lines converge in Lennox-ville.Michaelmas term opens September 21st.Matriculation and Supplemental Examinations the 24th.Lectures begin the 26th.For information and calendars apply to the REV.PRINCIPAL PAR-ROCK, D.C.L., or to the Registrar.J.C.STEWART.LENNOXVILLE.THE BUGBEE BUSINESS COLLEGE KK-OPKNS SEPT.lOtlt, We teach complete courses In Bookkeeping * * 4 4 4 $ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 : 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 - \u2014 \u2014.Shorthand, Penmanship Conversational French.A FEW FACTS f The staff comprises four experienced teachers.The demand for our graduates is greater than we can supply.In two years the attendance was doubled.Our students bays the added privilege of taking up Music, Manual If they so desire.Write for Catalogue ta and Training, Etc., J.P.MoFADYEN, 8TANSTEAD, QUE.effect on our weather?Certainly not.And, remember that when it is new moon or change in Halifax, it is new moon in Ottawa, in Winnipeg, in Calgary, in Vancouver; indeed it is new moon in Japan, in Siberia, in Russia, in England, in Australia, in New Zealand, in Africa, in fact, everywhere.With one accord, however, our weather-wise moon prophets shout, \u201cchange in the weather.\u201d Don't you think this is a pretty big contract to turn the crank at this particular moment of \u201cchange,\u201d to change the weather over the whole globe?Think of the very marked change we had a week ago to-day, that storm; it was on the 22nd; new moon or \u201cchange\u201d was on the 18th.Furthermore \"Old Probabilities\u201d knew that change of weather and storms were coming, for the day before it was about 700 miles to the southwest of us, and our weather generally comes from the west.A beautiful example that of simultaneity 0f \u201cchange of moon, change of weather.\u201d But this is not all.Popularly, there are four changes of the moon in a month, although the new moon change holds, I think the principal place as weather changer.We thus have a \u201cchange of moon\u201d every week through the four quarters, so that we have four yanks of the weather crank per month, simultaneously over the whole world.It is so rational, is it not?The whole scientific world or at least the whole world of meteorologists is trying to learn to predict changes of weather by studying the dynamics of the atmosphere, the dynamics of the sun, the rotational effect of the earth, the modifications by land and sea, and yet has failed to discover so simple a rule as \u201cchange of moon, change of weather/\u2019 As I have already said, in reality there is a change of the moon every day, every instant, which shows the absurdity of selecting any one of four changes as being more potent than others, which are continually taking place.This superstition of the moon and weather is deep-rooted, I admit.It exists over the whole earth, amongst civilized and uncivilized peoples.If any of these moon-weather wise would take the trouble to note the 1 state of the weather day by day, and compare such with the phases of the moon\u2014or change of the moon\u2014 they would soon discover the unreliability of anv prediction they might make, in short, would find what scientists have found by close study and observation in every civilized country over the globe that there is i absolutely no connection between the moon and the weather.Now, this belief in the influence of ' the moon on the weather, I venture to say, has not been evolved by any : person from his own recorded obser-! vations, but it has been handed down | from generation to generation, from father to son, from mother to daughter, and it is so much easier to believe a thing than to try and find it out for yourself.If by chance, change of moon is immediately followed by change of weather, the fact is riveted in the mind to perpetuate the tradition, and if it doesn\u2019t fit\u2014well, it\u2019s forgotten.Hence, we have the spectacle, the sad, deplorable spectacle, in this year of grace, 1912, in this age of enlightenment, of men and women clinging to this false weather-god.And who are these people that entertain this belief, are they only our ignorant, our common plebians?No you will find included, men who are intelligent, who are learned, even professional men and men ornamenting the bench, infected with this \u2018bacillus lunae.\u2019 To this weather superstition is associated superstition of the influence of the moon on man and beast, animate and inanimate matter, for example: sleeping in moonlight causes deformation and distortion of the face as well as sickness (a common belief among sailors'); fish are poisoned when exposed to moonlight; the full moon drives away clouds, the French cover this by the proverb\u2014la i lune mange les nuages\u2014(why not the i sun?); farmers kill their hogs at certain phases of the moon, so that the fat swells and not shrivels in converting it to lard; similarly shingles aie lai.i that they will not turn up; fence posts are set so that they may he drawn down and not up; sweet peas, i other peas and seeds are planted to conform with the phases of the moon \u2014and a lot of other nonsense.My friends, all this is humbug, humbug, humbug.The moon has no more to do with the weather and those other things than I have to do with the digging of the canals of Mars.Hence, I ask you, implore you.beseech you, entreat you, exhort you, beg of you, to spread the i gospel of truth, combat this superstition, destroy this false weather-j god.crush this belief, build a funer-! al pyre and burn this heirloom of j ignorance and superstition, although : such heirlooms die hard.-4- : LABOR UNREST STILL ON THE INCREASE.' Industrial conditions were seriously disturbed by labor disputes during July, the number in existence in that month being considerably greater than the number existing during June.The number actually commencing, however, during July compare favorably with that of the previous month.In all forty-six disputes were ' reported to the Department, an increase of nine as compared with June and an increase of twenty-eight as compared with July, 1911.About 117,000 employees were affected by ¦ these disputes as compared with ir>,-000 during June and l!l,000 during j July, 1911.A termination of the j Garment Workers\u2019 strike in Montreal occurred during July, which caused \u201e resumption of operations by more than four thousand employees after nearly (.wo months of idleness.Few of the disputes commencing during July were individually of serious ! consequence as factors in distribut ing industrial conditions.SHIPS MADE UNSINKABLE LESSONS TAUGHT IN TITANIC DISASTER RESULT IN CHANGES TO GIGANTIC.(New York Evening Post) The cable brings the news that the W\u2019hite Star liner Gigantic is definitely for additional luxurious accommodations, squash or tennis courts, or Turkish baths, etc.The public will gladly assent to any inconvenience I (lue to carrying transverse bulkheads : JO or 40 or 50 feet above the water ¦ line, and the cutting up of the ship into smaller spaces by more longitu-j dmal bulkheads if it be but understood that this splitting up of the ship means additional safety.the Cadet Association have agreed, (secondly, according to general prin* \t\t BRITTLE GIRL.,\tU j it.¦ v ü i iiLying kelPless in an armchair at to be provided with an inner bottom j the Homoeopathic Hospital in Great at a cost of no less than $350,000 | Ormond Street, London, W.C., is a __________ girl of fifteen named Edith Winter eaoacitv Still another shin of Boundary-lane, Camberwell, S.E.\u2019, capacity, otm anotner snip who is suffering from a mysterious disease which is causing her muscles I o turn into bone.It is the same dis-j Ça&e that attacked Allan Rushbrook known as the \u201cbrittle man\u201d who left the same hospital partly cured some months ago.The disease began to de- and the loss of 250,000 cubic feet of carrying now being planned is also to be safeguarded in this manner.Thus one great lesson of the Titanic disaster has been learned, and by this action another step taken toward the day of the practically safe passenger steamship.Gratifying as this is, it remains a sorrowful thought that this change in construction was purchased by such a frightful waste of valuable human lives, particularly as other types of ships have long had these double bottoms\u2014our own battleships, for instance.Even before their day, however, there was a great ocean vessel of the Titanic\u2019s class as to size, which had such a double bottom, and was, therefore, much safer than the ill-fated White Star liner.We refer to the Great Eastern, the cableship built 54 years ago, in 1858, of which the editor of the Scientific American, Mr.J.Bernard Walker, writes in his just published book, \u201cAn Unsinkable Titanic,\u201d that she \"probably would have survived even the terrific collision which proved the undoing of the Titanic.\u201d That this is not an idle fancy appears from the fact that one of her voyages to New York the Great Eastern struck submerged rocks near Montauk Point and tore two great rents in her outer skin equivalent to a rupture 10 feet wide and 80 feet long.Yet, despite this damage, which Mr.Walker thinks was probably greater in total area than that suffered by the Titanic, the ship came safely to New York\u2014because she had an inner skin.In the history of engineering the Great Eastern has long been a most interesting phenomenon, for she was no less than 692 feet long, being unsurpassed in size during the remainder of the nineteenth century.Not until the Celtic came out in 1901 were her length and size exceeded.The two great engineers who designed her \u2014the most distinguished of the middle period of the nineteenth century, Mr.Walker calls them\u2014John Scott Russell and I.K.Brunell, were fully 42 years ahead of their time in the construction of this vessel.Yet the sinking of the Titanic could have been prevented had the builders of our modern vessels hut patterned their craft after Brunell\u2019s ship.Surprising as it seems, the Great Eastern had not only a cellular double bottom, but water-tight subdivisions of the kind that has been so slow to come into use.Yet in 18'62, when the single-screw China, the newest of the Atlantic liners, apnear-ed, she was but half the size of the Great Eastern, and without her safeguards.These were so great that Mr.Walker does not hesitate to describe the Great Eastern as \u201ca ship which stands as a model for all time.\u201d Indeed, it is simply amazing to read, in the year 1912, that the designers of this ship of 1858 provided a double skin, really two separate hulls \u201cplaced one within the other, and firmly tied together by a system of continuous longitudinal and lateral web plates or frames.\u201d The double-skin construction extended entirely around the hull, being carried up to a plate-iron lower deck from 8 to 10 feet above the water line.The entire space between the two skins was divided by 34 longitudinal frames into separate water-tight compartments from the aftermost bulkhead right through to the bow.Curiously enough, the forward part of the ship was protected against the effect of collision with icebergs, even then recognized as a menace to navigation, although there were not.then ocean liners plowing through the fog at 25 knots an hour.Indeed, to quote Mr.Walker again: \u201cThe water tight subdivisions of the Great Eastern were more complete than that of any ship that was ever constructed for the merchant service, more thorough even than that of recent passenger ships which have been designed for use as auxiliary cruisers in time df war.In addition to the great protection afford-ed by her double hull, she was subdivided by nine transverse bulkheads, which extended from the bottom clear through to the upper deck, or to a height of 30 feet above the water line.\u201d Yet on the Titanic and nearly every merchant ship afloat to-day the bulkheads are carried up to one-third or one half of that height, ami often end at a deck which is in no sense water-| tight.The Titanic had not only no inner skin, but no watertight decks and no longitudinal bulkheads, yet her owners, like her hapless passengers, thought that she could not sink ! \u201cIt was,\u201d writes Mr.Walker, \u201cthe existence of so many unprotected openings in the bulkhead deck of the Titanic that caused her to sink so soon, as well as the absence of adequate bulkheads and the inner skin.Who was really responsible for all this ?Why, the feeble, almost criminal British Board of Trade, which so carefully figured out that twenty lifeboats could accommodate 2,500 to 3,fl(K) people.\u201d Mr.Walker is emphatically of the opinion that a passenger ship can he designed so that, just as Brunell wrote of the Great Eastern ; \u201cNo combination of circumstances within the ordinary range of probability can cause such damage as to sink her.\u201d It is not, of course, possible to subdivide a modern merchant ship into the 500 compartments of the battle ship Kansas, which it is supposed would keep afloat even should two or three torpedoes lie exploded under lier.But ttie expense of a return to the principles of the Great Eastern can surely not be deemed excessive ; the $350,000 which the inner skin of the Gigantic will cost could not he considered for a moment demanded j velop soon after birth, and she was taken to the hospital a month or s0 ago.Since then a few signs of improvement have been observed in her condition.She cannot walk or even stand unsupported, and can hardly move her head at all, as the muscles of the neck and on either side of her face have largely turned to bone.The muscles of the jaw have also hardened, and it is with some difficulty that she is able to eat.Great care has to be exercised in moving her.\u201cIf she were to fall the hardened muscles might break,\u201d said a doctor recently.\u201cWhen I lift her,\u201d said one of the hospital nurses, \u201cI feel as though I am holding a handle of sticks.\u201d It is four years since Edith took her last walk.Corps have already been formed in conut( tic.a with certain areas, and both teachers and scholars are said to be displaying considerable enthus-iasui.Much is expected from the scheme an a means of recruiting for the territorial force, but whether ' the boys join the force or not, the : habits of discipline and comradeship should exert an influence of consider-aile value and one which will benefit both the scholar and the state.-4.- CHARACTER FROM PIPES.A French specialist has recently published the results of a scientific study of pipe smoking which he carried out.M.Watteville has studied collective psychology and the design of tobacco pipes with equal affection i and thoroughness.He owns a collection classified in two ways, first according to nationality of origin, and THE TRY Alex.Ames 8 Sons, Ltd.279 Wellington Street Drugs Deaden Pain They Don\u2019t Cure It Pains are Nature\u2019s warning that something is wrong.By drugging yourself into insensibility you don't remove the cause\u2014you merely cut the wires of the alarm bell.STANLEY\u2019S POWERFUL WHITE LINIMENT (25 CENTS A BOTTLE) Is better than a whole colony of drug stores.It is a harmless vegetable remedy which gets to the root of most minor ailments.Rheumatism, Boils, Colic, Insect Stings Sore Throat, Neuralgia, Lame Back, Old Sores, Headache, Bronchitis, etc., are among the complaints which readily yield to Its soothing influence.ASK FOR FREE CIRCULAR AND NAME OE DEALER WHO CAN SUPPLY YOU.FRASIER, THORNTON & CO.Limited Que.G < ciples and proportions of design.Aa the result of much research he baa summarised his discoveries in the fol-* lowing eight clauses \u2022 1.\tThe pipe is closely related to the character of each race.The cigaretta and cigar are cosmopolitan.2.\tThe activity of a nation is proportional to the length of its stem.3.\tThe shorter the pipe stem tha more laborious the nation.4.\tInversely, the longer the pipa stem the lazier the nation.5.\tThe thriftness of a nation is ia proportion to the size of its pipe.6.\tThe more wasteful the nation the larger the pipe bowl.7.\tThe manner of smoking a pipa betrays the mental character of tha nation.8.\tTell me what and how yon smoke, and I will tell you what you are.AUSTRALIAN FREE LUNCH.(London Chronicle) Melbourne, where the \u201cfree lunch\u201d has flourished for many years, is the scene of revolt against that popular institution.The rebels are not the free lunchers, but the hotel-keepers, whom custom compels to provide the gratuitous midday feasts for everybody who buys a glass of beer.Melbourne restaurants recently raised the price of meals, and the consequence is a runious rush to the free counter lunches in the hotels.In London the cautious luncher finds only free biscuits and cheese.One leading Melbourne publican, who thinks the free lunch should be suppressed by legislative enactment, has given a history of the institution.It started with biscuits and cheese, developed into sardines, sausages and sandwiches and has now culminated in \u201cnoble joints of beef, pork and mutton.\u2019\u2019 The public are charged with abusing the system.The more the}\u2019 get the more thev are willing to take.Well-to-do people regularly get a comfortable free lunch with their glass of beer.LONDON SCHOOL CADETS Loioon\u2014The London education com-mittee has decided to permit the enrolment in cadet companies of boys in the London schools.The idea governing the decision, which was sub-rr Uteri to the committee by the Imperial Cadet Association, is to encourage the boys to undergo a training which should have the effect, when they leave school, of causing many of them to join the territorial _ force, \"he Loudon county council has agreed to allow the school premises to re used as company headquarters and f r training purposes, and the school organization as a means of intercommunication between schools', subject to certain conditions to which Ames\u2019 Sugar Cured Corned Beef Ask your Dealer to show you the new TOOKE \u201cSAKTA\u201d.It\u2019s a collar that suits most men.\t97 Collar style and comfort resolve themselves into choosing that particular TOOKE Collar which suits you best.Made in many styles and heights, and in Î4 Sizes \u2014¦ They Fit.made wrrtHL THg liŒSiiiiii Ipliiillililiî ap as * BY APPOINTMENT PEBRINS SAUCE with Salads.The Original & Oemiine WOBCESTEKSHIRE.J.M.DOUGLAS & CO., MONTREAL.CANADIAN AGENTS.â The Rock CiTylçBAeeoC?^\tLimited.Quebec EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK The original and leading brand since 1857 59 9273344307^^ 999999999^^1 77 SHERBROOKE DAILY RETORD, SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1912.PAGE ELEVEN.Market Column DAIRY PRODÜCt BUTTER MARKET STE.ADY AND MORE DOING.Montreal, Aug.31.\u2014With continued curtailment of produc tion, and a steady demand from tha Northwest, the Coast and the Iccal trade, the situation Is anything t>ut favorable to those who have been, holding oS in expectation of laying in their winter supplies at lower prices, which are now on .a par with those ruling at this time last year.At country points sales, bave taken place at 25Jc.to 26c., costing 26c.to 26Jc.laid down hare.Importers in Vancouver have already contracted 25,000 packages of New Zealand butter for delivers; between November and next spri\u2019jg, indicating that buyers in Vancouver and Victoria do not expect to BU all their requirements from Montreal ; but during the next three months the Northwest and the Coast 1 will require many a carload of butter from this city.Last year up to this date we had shipped 79,025 packages to England, whereas this season we have only exported 70 packages, and they went to South Africa.As mixed farming is being forced up-! on the agriculturists of the North- Two Lots ONE A CORNER LOT -ON- Portland Ave.HAftOLES \\ x \\ Balance Easy Terms ROBERT SEIVERIGHT REAL ESTATE and CUSTOMS BROKER PHOIsE 342 2 YORK APARTMENTS UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN MONTREAL SYNDICATE.A syndicate composed of well-known Montrealers was formed last March to purchase a farm close to St.Lambert\u2019s at a low figure.Since farm was purchased the electric car line have decided to extend their line close to property and it has thereby increased greatly in value.The final payment for five years on mortgage comes due in September.This has been all provided for with the exception of $1,500, which syndicate have authorized me to offer publicly in sums of five hundred dollars each at same price and basis as original syndicate members paid for their holdings last March.Full particulars of property, list of shareholders and map of South Shore forwarded to serious enquirers.Or, if in Montreal, call and I will motor you over to see the property.\\A/- 222 St.James St., MONTREAL.The Merchants\u2019 Bank of Canada Quarterly Dividend Notice is hereby given that a dividend of Two and One-Half per cent, for the current quarter , being at the rate of Ten per cent, per annum, upon the paid-up Capital Stock of this institution, has been declared, and that the same will be payable at its Banking House in this city and at its Branches, on and after the 3rd day of September next, to shareholders of record at the close of business on the 13th day of August.By order of the Board, E.F.HEBDEN, Montreal, 26th July, 1912.\tGeneral Manager.I is the keynote of success in the profession of a life insurance man.Enthusiasm for the work; enthusiasm for the Company.CONFEDERATION LIFE ASSOCIATION has room for good men in the Townships who are honest and have the ability to write life insurance.E.E.McCONE, Dist.Agent, E.T.* ART BLDG., SHERBROOKE.west butter factories are increasing every year ; but it will be some years before production can overtake the consumption of those vast areas of the three provinces, a though eventually they will undoubtedly have surpluses to export.In the meantime, however, they will require large supplies from the East and the antipodes.A good portion of the stocks of butter held in this city is stored for account of the Northwest and the Coast.The receipts of butter for the season up to yesterday were 284,822 pkgs., as compared with 316,713 boxes for the same period last year, being a decrease of 31,891 boxes.In creamery butter we hear of sales of car lots for Northwest shipment and Vancouver at 261c.and 261c.Choice peas 12.25 to $2.35 but very few are to be had.BARLEY\u2014New malting barley is quoted at 75c.to 80c.Feeding barley, 60c.to 63c.as ta iuantity.HOPS\u2014The market is quiet and prices are nominal.Advices from England report crop da age by weather.There is a decidedly easier feeling in the American market, some heavy contracts having been placed for the 1912 crop in Sacramento at 171c.and in Sonoma at 18c.*Oregon growers sold so many- hops some time ago at higher prices that they are now awaiting developments.MALT\u2014The market is steady at $1.20 to $1.25 per bushel for old.New season not opened.CHEESE MARKET FIRM AT THE ADVANCE.Montreal, Aug.31.\u2014The market has assumed a decidedly firmer tone, both here and at country points, and a considerable amount of business has been done since our last report at £c.to lc.advance.Sales of 20,-OOO to 25,000 boxes have been reported to us ranging from ISJc.to ISfc.for Western and at 13c.to ISgC.for Eastern, a few undergrades bringing | 12|c.to 12ic.The statistical position continues | in favor of holders, the total exports for the season up to the close of last week showing a decrease of 63,329 boxes.The total receipts for the season up to yesterday were 1,080,751 boxes, or 36,826 boxes less tha nfor the corresponding period last year.The stocks in this city are known to be considerably less than those of a year ago.PROVISION MARKET.DRESSED HOGS EASIER.Montreal, Aug.31.\u2014The market for live hogs is easier.Packers arc paying $8.50 per 100 lbs., weighed off cars for choice stock while inferior grades have sold down to $7.50 per hundred pounds.Dressed hogs are, also easier at $12.50 to $12.75.COUNTS PRODUCE.GOOD DEMAND FOR EGGS.Montreal, Aug.31.\u2014There has been no further change to note in the egg market this week.The advance in prices reported by us a week ago has been fully maintained and has not in any way curtailed the demand, which keeps exceedingly good, clearing up the receipts as they come in.Wholesale houses have not been using their fall storage supplies to the same extent as they did a week ago, preferring to keeu them until later on.We quote selects 28c.to 29c.No.1 storage 25c.to 26c.Straight receipts 24|c.to 25c.There is not much inquiry for second grades which can be obtained at 20c.a dozen.HAY AND SiRAW MARKET PRICES ARE FIRM FOR NEW HAY.Montreal, Aug.31.\u2014The last re ceipts of old hay have now been marketed.A few straggling lots of inferior grade have come in, but all attention is now devoted to the new hay, prices of which are firm at $16 for No.1 grade and $11 for No.2, with No.3 selling at $12.50 and clover and clover mixed $11.50 per ton.The local market is active.Exporters state there is a good inquiry from England as the hay crop over there has not turned out as well as expected.Latest cables quote as follows : Liverpool 95s., London at 100s., Bristol 93s., Manchester 95s., Glasgow 85s.to 90s.We quote prices more or less nominal as follows : No.1 quality $16 ; No.2 good, $14 ; No.3 hay $12.50; Clover, $11.50.ARMAGEDDON.(Boston Globe.) Armageddon is the name given to the whole of the great plain of Es-draelon, the greatest plain in Palestine.It is of great fertility, and has been of much importance in the annals of Palestine.Armies and caravans from all directions must pass through it and owing to its level character, it naturally became the field on which were fought the decisive battles for the defence and possession of Palestine and Syria.It was the scene of the triumph of Ba rak over Sisera ; of Gideon over the Midianites, as well as the final defeat of Saul by the Philistines, and of Josiah by Pharaoh Necho of Egypt.The great contest between Elijah and the prophets of Baal took place on its western border.It was through this plain that Jehu came riding to Jezeeh.The armies of Assyria and Egypt met there repeatedly, and in modern times the plain has figured in the wars of Napoleon.To the writer of the Apocalypse the plain became the battlefield on which the kings of the earth and of the whole world gathered for the battle on the great day of God.Col.Roosevelt used the expression in one of his speeches as referring to the struggle which he is making a gainst the evil forces of the old par ties.| from 4(x> to 500.Uoe of these women j will spend a day on a \"oniaii a plan , waist, receiving for ner work from cents to cents.From It* cents to ; Jo cents a day is paid the lace maker: i who make Sicilian hand-made laces.The I working day in Fioreoce is ten hours, I and girls employed on line itUKerte waist; tand underclothing receive -It) cents to at i cents iw day for hand work and do cents I to\tcents for machme-made under THE KOTHCHILDS AS WHITER tLondon Chronicle.) ÜSHg iïSSké from ft ikwass Hpavin, Rina: Bone* u:-:~ v jri», ftitfo La 1! Splint, Cnrft.Sido lKino or similar trouMc and gets h-or^ jrCns scium!.lines not.blister nr renjov** the hair and horse can bo worked, purr* 1» In pamphlet triih rich bottle tells bow.f'.OÛ a bottlo Ue\u2019trcrcd, |Ior«e Hook 9 FÎ free* ABSORBI^K.JIL,\t\u2022 r «an> kind.Kc.rioYi-» r \u2022 \u2022-nfni£wciii«>KS,Bnlaigwt U tonds ' Gcitro, \\\\ .lïmises, Varicose Y vins.Varicosities, o'd Sor-s.Allays Piin.WU1 tell you cnoro It yon - i it v $l and f: n bottle at dcalew or de 1, vered- Manu\ts rod only by VI.f.YOtNikP.D.r ISO Ljrmans hida.ft.ureal, Ca- European Capital He\u2014Why do you women naunt the bargain counters trying to get something for almost nothing?She\u2014Why do you men keep going to the poker clubs for the same thin^?\u2014 Baltimore American.BEAN MARKET QUIET.Montreal, Aug.31.\u2014The bean market continues quiet.Stocks are light and of inferior grade.Prices are purely nominal at $2.75, There are quite a few hand-picked imported beans on the matket which can he purchased at much lower prices.NEW HONEY IN DEMAND.Montreal, Aug.31.\u2014There has been quite an enquiry for new honey, hut none of the wholesale houses have any supplies.A few small parcels have been shipped into some of the leading wholesale grocers.MAPLE PRODUCTS QUIET.Montreal, Aug.\t31.\u2014The maple product market is quiet, maple syrup bringing 7Jc.to 8Jc.in tins as to quality, and 6ijc.to 7c.in wood.Maple syrup has sold at 9c.to 9|c.THE GRAIN TRADE WE OFFER A LIMITED AMOUNT OF THE 6o|o FIRST MORTGAGE GOLD BONDS.OF THE St.' Sugar \" \" \u2022 Limited Due June 1st, 1832.Interest payable 1st June and December.Denominations $500 and $1,000.SECURITY\tTotal Bond Issue .$2,000,000.00 Total Net Assets .3,846,446.00 EARNINGS\tAnnual Bond Interest.$120,000.00 Average Annual Nat Earnings, 6 years (or 4 1-5 times).503,221.00 SINKING FUND :\u20142 p.c.Sinking Fund operative after 1915.Bonds Redeemable at 110 and interest after 1916.Pr ce\u2014On Application.We recommend these Bonds for conservative investment.Securities Corporation L irnited, 804 DOMINION UNDRESS BUILDING, MONTREAL.U.it, Swcnerton,\tManager.k»lVVlWWVVVS»N*iVVVVVNN^'»vN^A>!d for execution Mr.J.A id ihs 1>a CHIC IMS\tDAILY > MEMOF* A.NDUrvt > OPEN EVENINGS until 9 O'CLOCK H : LET US LOAN YOU THE MONEY AT 5 PER GENT TO BUY, BUILD Pay Off Mortgages or Improve Real Estate.SEE OUR PLAN.Write, Phone or Call.The Canadian Home Investment Co.Limited.155 Wellington Street, 9-11 (lenest Bldg., Tel.907./ \u2022 r\u201c-j A True Strength Giver V,\u2019 u depressed and f irod\u2014 a;u.1 ,t;e not good\u2014take a col; \u2022 of CAMPBELL\u2019S QUININE WINE A glassful before meals will soon bring you back to strength and vigor.Campbell's improves the appetite, helps the system to assimilate the food, makes good red blood and robust health.A course of Campbell's is excellent if you get the genuine with Campbell on the oOttle.The Sisters of Lord St.Leonards The King has granted to-the three sisters of Lord ftt.Leonards the same title and precedence as though their father, Mr.Henry Frank Mugden.had survived his brother, the late Lord St.Leonards, and had succeeded to 'he I barony I Sold by all Druggists.K.CAMPBELL, A CO.IWfrs.MONTREAL*; The \u201cIDEAL\u201d Gas and Gasoline ENGINES Suitable for all kinds of work.Simple to Operate Easy on Gasoline Always Ready GALL AT OUR WAKLKOOIHS GoolitSliapley & Muir Co.(Limited.) E, A.FOX, Manager.202 Wellington St.In nu y KnroPenn Correapoadence flr»t writing in .nt ry.11 >t}lng full 4«taiia at imiDOR ANT) KAKTHQUAKK A Kharp.but short, earthquake sho« k , was felt iu Upper Hurmu ;>n May kb*, m Majrmyo.the hot weather capital of the province Severe damage wag done to Government House (official rcaldence of I lieutenant governor) ami other Government buildings by fall lug of chimney stacks through the roofs.The railway line between Mavmyo and Lash in\tis blocked on account of landslides and twisting of the rails.The Goteik Via- j duct Bridge, which was built by an Am- 1 erlcan company.i« uninjured.Hcvere shocks were also felt in Mandalay.Where I considerable damage was done to several i Pagodas ami buildings No lives were ! lost Consular and Trade Report a.The international Bankers Alliance 14,\t1(1,\t18 Bloomsbury London Fin*».5p.c.to7p.c.IWTEREST H.upon your savings when invested in standard Municipal, Public Service, o Industrial Bonds A list of high grade bonds in denominations of $100.$500 & $1,000.sent on request.W.J.HENDERSON 52 Commercial Union Building, MONTREAL »^ ^-a* ^ \u2022*?¦** I Furnaces 5 J The best in every respect.J Now is Hie lime to install * \u2014-\u2014\u2014 -*\u2014 J DIhcuhh the nmtterwlth the t\tLoeiil Agent RUPTURE (SHE DATES AT BOTTOM) Truss Torture One© Thought Necessary, but Now Your Search for Rellof fa Ended.Wonderful Method Retrain» Rupture Without Knife, Danger or Pain.J.Y.EQAN, Specialist of Toronto OM-fashlpned trass torture Is no longer necessary.(ialllng, slinpiiig trusses and barbarous methods of treating rupture are done ting rupture are done away with by'the wonderful Invention of a specialist who lias devoted fifty years to this ono affliction.The marvelous new EUAN \"CURATRUS\u201d gives to the ruptured Instant relief, rest and seeurlty where all others fall.It stops all Irritation and resteres every part to Its natural position as soon as it ft used and for all time and old style trusses are thrown away.\u201cEflAN'S CERATPUS\u201d cures are absolutely without operation and the cost Is small.Multitudes of cured men, women and children testify.Also endorsed by many physicians.Where others fall Is where I have my greatest success.Nothlngcomplicated.no pain or Irritation, but just a natural retentive method.Immediate relief guaranteed.Nofakesorltes \u2014Just straight business.Do not lay this aside, or delay, but tear off free coupon now.Free Consultation Coupon.This coupon, upon presentation to J.Y.Egan, rupture specialist, 331 West King Street, Toronto, who will visit the towns (on dates mentioned below) will entitle bearer to free consultation and examination of samples.Ask at hotel office tor Dumber Of my room.Note date*.Sherbrooke \u2014 New Sherbrooko Hotel, Sat , Sun.Mon., Tues., Wed.(all day and night.) Five days during Exhibition, Aug; 31, Sept.1, 2, 3, 4.Dr.L.C.Bachand SPECIALIST KYK, KAIL NOSE, THROAT, AND KLRCT RO-THER AP Y.At St.Vincent Hospital 9 to 10 a m.; at 17 Brooks St.12 to 5 p.m.Free consultations for electrical cures from 10 a.rn.to 5 p.tn.daily except Sunday.17 Brooks Street - We are making the finest Sepia Photos In the Eastern Townships and the equal ; of those made anywhere.We are being ! told by strangers every day they have never seen better anywhere.We w ant i you to call anil soa our iit*w Studio ; one of the few up-to-date In the province I of Quebec.GEO.JOHNSTON.24 King Street.Glen Vilia Casino at NORTH HATLEY, QUE.IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.^ Full meala, dainty lunches, ice creatfl.Cord and hot drinks at.all hours.Private Parties provided for by appoint-ment.Boats, canop-i, bowling alleys, billiard ami pool tables.Spacious hall with piano, (orchestra when desired.) Beautiful lawns and groves.Storage for twenty automobile*.Full particulars on application.MRS.O.DAIGNE AULT, Frofij 6851 45 158453 56 FXGE TWELVE.' SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, SATURDAY.AUGUST 31, 1912, THE ONLOOKER COMMENTS Hie Exhibition Si'«son Iro m Asco t, Herefon i.Safest foP IbodUtensilsr tenser is a pure, hygienic, cleanser Y entirely iree Irom acids, caustics % and alkali.Avoid dangerous |4 .chemical cleansers\u2014Old Dutch : Jis a mechanical cleanser, its hne particles quickly loosen and remove all grease\"\" \u201drn ICH On the 26th day of Augus t, IbYl, there was held at Crosby\u2019s H otel, in Sherbrooke, a public assembly tor the purpose of forming an agricu Itu ral Society.At that meeting an ass >o< ia-tion for the promotion of the i al erases of several farming communia ies in the townships, was formed, vr.itb G.D.Innés, of Brompton, as f.i st President.On the committee of mi n agement were representatives the townships of Compton Eaton, Newport, Clifton, Orford, Westbury, Dudswell,\t1- bourne, Shipton, Brompton at d Windsor.Sherbrooke County, at the t time, was so very extensive as bo include these several townships, an« 1 the Society was called the Agricultui -al Society of the County of Sherbrooke.\ti On the 5tb October, about two | weeks later, the Society held its fm rt exhibition of stock.The press report of this auspicious occasion stated that a great quantity of stock arrived on the grounds, all of excellent quality.The premium list three prizes in each of nine classes, horses, brood mares, bulls, cows, two and three year old steers, bucks, ewes and boars.The prize list required only half a column of space, and among the prize winners were Wm.Farwell, Geo.Lines, E.Clark, Lee Terrill, Major niomas Austin, -Samuel Brooks, Col.Morris, Tyler Spaf- 1 without the trouble of remembering I back ten or twenty years to a school lesson.And what is more \"valuable\u201d information than the child gets at school?queries the adherer to accept- I ed ideas of education.If you are a ! business man you can answer the i question readily enough.Were you ! taught the trade relations of Canada \\ to other countries?Were you taught to express yourself in correct English, concisely and convincingly, so that the fact of your being an edn- i | ful.Nearly all our communities are ! interested in their individual advance-| ment, and are willing to engage themselves in any move for progress and betterment.\"Good enough,\u201d is a phrase that is fortunately becoming I absolete.Courageous Mr.Borden.The Hon.Mr.Borden has braved the dangers of Militant Suffragettism and faced an English deputation with the calm assurance that he is quite uninterested in their proposal, even if they do send emigrants ofl to Zealand and Australia, rather than cated man is felt and.appreciated bv i every customer?Were you so drilled | ^anada> in c°nse'1j?e\u201cce; Let US h°Pe in mathematics, ii.-penmanship, and in letter composition, as to keep your bookkeeper and stf nographer busy in meeting your critical needs?Yet a common school education should have equipped yom with all these, and an adequate general knowledge besides.Were you taught to be observant, to exercise critical taste in regard to literature, to know the lives of great and successful men, who have the valiant Canadian Premier will reach home without any untimely catastrophe, without having a hatchet playfully thrown at his head or a sound shaking, or his hotel set afire as a souvenir of bis encounter with the fearless suffragettes.Onlooker.\u2014-4- A CLAIM FOR BERMUDA.(Halifax Herald) Noting an article in The New York .Evening Post on the dedication of made ! the Halifax Memorial Tower, a cor-the world advance in science, religion! : respondent writes to that paper In short were you ! claiming that the Assembly of Ber* school - ruuda ranks next to the British Par-! liament in point of age.He says : \u201cIn reference to your included | an(j commerce?truly educated during your days, or did you leave the school room with a smattering of knowledge?Accordingly as the individual answers this question does he pass, favonably or unfavorably, upon the accepted courses of study in the Schools.j The \u2018\u2018Quebec Teacher ford, Ralph Lindsay, J.Jordan, Sul- | ajjjej an(j t]jere are many wijo agree livan Fisk and M.Mallory.The first j ^gj.There has been an increas-exhibition lasted only one day and j ^ bombardment of accepted forms besides the judging of live stock, a\tecjucatjon for years, and ploughing match took place on the .prornineDt people have protested farm of Tyler Spafford, Jr.\t: against education which does not Commenting on the event, the re- e(juca£e_ jjut improvement always | of positive port of the Fair states.On the j comea slowly, and meanwhile the whole, the fineness of the weather, the children must overeat mentally wheth-great quantity of excellent stock of ^\t-t cauaea hrain indigestion, every description exhibited, the la rge news article in to-day\u2019s issue, saying that \u2018in 1758 was created in the pro- j vince of Nova Scotia the first representative Assembly in what are now the colonies of the British Empire,\u2019 may I call attention to the claims : of Bermuda, England\u2019s twenty-square is unfavnr.mile possession in mid-Atlantic ?Bermuda's House of Assembly first met in 1620.Its legislative functions were subject to the by-laws and regulations of the Bermuda Company until 1684, when the company\u2019s charter was abrogated.In 1687 the Crown reestablished this body of elected representatives, and it entered the field Why Should I Use Cuticura Soap?« There is nothing the matter with my skin, and I thought Cuticura Soap was only for skin troubles.\u201d True, it is for skin troubles, but its great mission is to prci'iKi skin troubles.For more than a generation its delicate emollient and prophylactic properties have rendered it the standard for this purpose, while its extreme purity and refreshing fragrance give to it all the advantages of the best of toilet soaps.It is also invaluable in keeping the hands soft and white, the hair live and glossy, and the scalp free from dandruff and irritation.While its first cost is a few cents more than that of ordinary toilet soaps, it is prepared with such care and of such materials, that it wears to a wafer, often outlasting several cakes of other soap, and making its use, in practice, most economical.Cuticura Soap is sold by druggists and dealers everywhere, but the truth of these claims may be demonstrated without cost by sending to \"Cuticura,\u201d Dept.7M, Boston, U.S.A., foraliberal sample cake, together with a thirty-two page book on the skin and hair.meeting of hardy and respectable yeo men to vie with each other in en deavoring to improve that section: of the country in which they reside 5 a day in which amusement and utility ! were so happily blended may truly J be said to have been a day of plR as-J are without alloy, and if the Co unity I of Sherbrooke go on with the s;ime spirit ana energy that it has commenced it bids fair to rival any section of the Province in Agricultural improvements.\u201d Since that exhibition nearly tbfree-quarters of a century ago, Sherbrooke County has grown very much smaller in area, but its agricultural \"meet\u201d very much larger in scope and influence.Airships and midw ays are a long cry from a day\u2019s gathesring j for the showing of live stock.The j agricultural feature is but one among j many, in the annual fair of to-day.! Racing, vaudeville attractions, side- j shows, manufacturing exhibits, tflor- | 1st, fancy work and cookery contests, j make a complete organization which ; is little akin to the stock show and ! I Ploughing Match of seventy-five years : ! ago.The county fair is modelled after j the larger exhibitions.On a srmaller ; I scale is found each department for | j prize contests, the Midway, and the j j race track.The Missisquol County j Agricultural Society, the first of the ; Fall Fairs this year, is eighty-four years old, taking precedence by thiri teen years of that infant Sherbrooke County organization of seventy-one 1 years ago.Stanstead County Society has sixty-seven years to its credit.When i Was a Boy.There comes a time in nearly every wanderer\u2019s life, toward middle age or after, when the mind irresistibly turns back to the days of sixteen, eighteen or younger, and a longing arises to visit that corner of the world where youthful troubles and joys were first experienced and bitions awakened.Your staid business man will drop his interests and travel across continent or ocean to see the home of his childhood, walk along familiar paths, visit the little school where he was taught those ; first a b c\u2019s, of learning, and sit in law-making from that .date.No constitutional change, in i fact no change of importance has taken place in Bermuda House of Assembly since the proprietary company's charter was annulled.Its I powers are as wide locally as those of the House of Commons, and Bermudians contend that their Parliament is, next to the Mother Parliament, the oldest in existence.\u201d HATS IN HISTORY.Ojcmdon Cmeen.) Very interesting are these few facts about hats in the past.The headpiece worn in each particular epoch would seem to denote its salient features.The am- Liberty cap signalized the days of revolution, the cocked hat the period of the Empire, and a noted French caricaturist made the Napoleonic hat to portray the rise, tne downlall and the climax of the Napoleonic dynasty.There are quaint traditions anent hats.Those who go behind the scenes at the Theatre Française remove them as they would do in church.Quite historic is the hat worn by George Fox, which he i refused to remove in the presence of the DYNAMITE PLOUGHING IM SOUTH AFRICA HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH THE SUB-SOIL.I (Christian Science Monitor.) Capetown, Cape Colony.\u2014 Expert-ments have proved the new method of dynamite plowing to be of substantial use in breaking up the soil where the surface layers are very dense.Already many of the South African farmers have embraced the new idea and are highly in favor of plowing by dynamite.Speaking in a general way the theory is that beneath the tilled surface lies a very dense layer into which the plants\u2019 roots find it difficult to force their way, and so fail to use all the resources of the soil which lies below.The farmers find dynamite to , be both cheaper and better for sub- ; ¦ soil plowing, as the latter costs quite i a large sum per acre.During the experiments, which were ' made in Sumerset W\"est, South Africa,: j by Kenneth Quinnan, it was discovered that when a charge exploded from three feet to four feet below the sur- face, the effect was to produce large I fissures in.the earth for a great distance, and the plants\u2019 roots were not long in making use of the opportunities this opened up to them, for finding new food at a lower strata.The experiment was carried out in an orchard where the orange trees were famous for the beauty of the fruit which they produced some years ago, but of late these had declined in the value of the yield.The question | arose of removing them and replant- j ing the orchard, but as the investiga- ' tion showed that the top soil was gravel and clay to a depth of about 18 inches, beneath which was another 2i feet of hardpan, attention was j turned to dynamite.Holes were drilled beneath the; , orange trees about one inch in di- ! ; ameter, and in the centre of the ; square formed by four trees, and j : about 12 feet from each tree, into | this a charge of loose dynamite car- ! I tridges was put, the hole being filled* up on top with earth.The result was , that the explosion ran along under ] ground and thus disintegrated the soil which had refused to give way to the spade.Before long the benefit to the trees was most apparent.Following this experiment others have been carried out and have gone to prove that the operations can be carried out without mischief to the crops.All over the Union farmers are being encouraged to make these experiments, and wherever they are tried they gain in favor with those : who understand.Roughly the cost per acre is said to work out at from I £2 10s.to £5 10s., according to the i character of the soil and the trees.Makes a man feel good that same pew in some Church where !\tOUver he was accustomed to go as a child.Usually such jaunts are disappointing.For the man is ever trying to feel as he felt when a boy, and that illusive mental condition has passed him forever.Morover his old chum Jack is half a continent away.His little sweatheart is dead ten years ago.The old preacher or priest has gone to bis reward.These inanimate thing* are simply memories of what once was, mere weeping willows over a neglectful grave.Yet these memories draw back these men and women who have travelled far, draw them as irresistibly as a magnet, the needle, so potent, is even the memory of youth.Tfie Road to the Border The offer of Premier Gouin to the petitioners for a macadamized road And these Associations, with the nu- | from Sherbrooke to the boundary, Cromwell.The puritans had taken the time line, relasing to remove theirs before this.Many a good man lost his head in consequence.The question of not removing the hat was one which the Quakers upheld for generations.The tall chimney-pot hat, to -which men have been faithful, originated in the middle of the nineteenth century, but had its predecessor in the Flemish beaver hat and fine felt-crowned ones.The steeple crown hats or sugar-loaf hats supplanted caps in Charles I.\u2019s time.We seen them worn by women in Wales no war! ays.With the Restoration came the low, broad, soft hats, with their sweeping plumes ; the brims grew wider and wider, and then one side was turned up.Pepys tell us that hats were worn at dinner in his day.Frederick the Great wore a most enormous cocked hat.The military cocked hats recalls some of the vagaries of the past in headgear.It was in 1837 that the silk hat was made to be worn in lieu of beaver.Ecclesiastical hats have been badges of dignity, often denoted by color and by the number of tassels.James I.wore the tallest hat.perhaps, that has ever graced a royal head.MORE WOMEN EMPLOYEES THAN MEN.I There are more women employed i in London than men, according to a j report recently presented to the Lon-don Ccunty Council.It seems that at the present time there are some 71,000 employees in the factories, workshops and workplaces of the City of London, and that of these 37,000 are women and 34.000 men.These figures take no notice either of the army of lady clerks and typists, or of the still larger large: force represented by what are km.wn ns outworkers\u2014those who come into tfie City and take their work tome rude for quoting the Scriptures in his own favor, sala, with a triumphant sneer, \"All flesh is grass,\u201d and pounced upon the unhappy Cuvier who at trus crisis üiscreeny awo&e irom.nis dieam.London Telegraph.-*:-\u2014- ON HOLY GROUND.(From the Universalist Leader) The polling-booth is a sanctuary.Here the sacred trophies of the agonies oi ages are preserved inviolate, price bas man paid lor the right to rule himself ! He wùo would enter the polling-booth with prejudice or malice or sordid selfishness in his\tif tsÏÏ7cï'h oi profaning the altars of the Most Hig i.Under God we hold and exercise dominion over palm and pine.Let every 'vo ter prepare himself by heart-searching for his duty next November\u2014it is a sacred duty.The ballot is a sacrament.Tnere can be nothing holier in human life than determining the paths that, under God, the American people shall tread for the next four years.The ballot is a political sacrament.To Sivf it high and pure life\u2014to get from it high and pure life for the nation this is way, and revisions are.\tand Tagalog, Portuguese, the ^enli anu Mandarin in China, *$iamese an ^\t* The total Issues for 1HH, the ninety^ sixth year of the existence of the Ameri can Bible Society, am0\u201cn^etd\u201e^se being 3,700,000 volumes, most n{ tlieaen, tA portions and not entire Blbles\" latter, however, there were.hi 10,000.The total issues of the society during its ninety-six years reach the during\tninety-four million gigantic figure A 5(52,000 TRIP.\t_ (From the Troy Standard Press-) It has remained for Yankee ingenuity to estimate what it costs a man to live irom the cradle to the grave.A Boston, man, after long and \u2022 painstaking re search, has discovered that it costs thousand dollars a year for the aver age\u201d well-to-do American citizen maintain himself from infancy to *l Of course, many manage to get _along on much less, and many spend a to old consid- Ou IIIU.LIl IGDO, anvj.\t-1\t,\tr- __ erabiy more, but according to the fig- ures the average man generally lives __\ttne j sixty-two years, and when the final ba- cail that gives worth to manhood, this is the sacred worship of the patriot.For lake Mempliremapg\u2019s Breezes Take Bfearner \u201cAnthémis\u201d\u2014Mondays and Saturdays leave ifago.g 8.50 a.m., arr.Newport 11.45 a.m., leave Newport merous other Townships Societies of this nature, are all in a flourishing condition, successful and promising organizations.The county fair has become, in many sections, an insti- seems very reasonable and just.The policy of helping those who help themselves is a wise one, usually resulting in aid being secured where most deserved.A macadamized road tution.The county residents anticip- | ja so desirable that the Government 12.50 p.m .\tarr.Magog 3\t.40 p.m.\t Wednesda;\tFs aaff Fridays\tleave\tMagog 11.30 a.m.\t, arr.Newport\t2.20\tp.m.leave New;\t\u2022art 4.gKj p.m.,\tarr.\tMagog 5\".00 p.m.\t\t\t Connectio]\tns made with Ca\tnadian\tPacific trains Mag.\t>g and Newport\t\t For Infor\tmat;on see Cai\tladtan\tPacific K.R.Agcr\tit.Sherbrooke.\t\t \t\t\t ate the fall gathering and enjoy it.j j And there is no doubt that the small I ! fair and the large, are very useful in i i assisting agriculture, in improving ] I garden and field products and in en-j couraging better breeding of live ! ! stock.To-day is the opening day of the E.T.Agricultural Exhibition, its ! j 29th annual, and one of the import- would he burdened with petitions for such highways, should it build one gratis for a community, or communities, The Premier states his willingness to co-operate in any enterprise of the kind, and to establish this precedent of co-operation.Good Roads enthusiasts can ask for little more.The matter is now up to the muni- ant fairs of this section.For two or > cipalities, for final decision.If they three years past this fair has ex- j think the road worth 81,000 a mile The Army of Constipation I* Growing Smaller Every Day.CARTER\u2019S LITTLE LIVER PILLS are responsible\u2014they c only give relief\u2014 they permanently cure Coftifipo-ilion.Millions use them for , BTuns- ness, lndt£filion, Sick Htadacht, SallotiSkbi.Small Pill, Small Dose, Small Prlca, Genuine must bear Signature I perienced disappointment in weather and attendance.It is to be hoped that ; a turn in the tables of fortune will I bring reassurance to the directors, I and that the weather prophet will show a smiling countenance to rec-j ord crowds during the entire week of exhibition.to them, it is theirs at the price.Cramming THe Child Hie Eastern Townships Hotel Uefittpd.-\t- New MunaKement.Rates fl 50 and 52 00 per day.(THE MOST CENTRAL HOTEL IN THE CITY.RAURETTE & LA VIGNE, Prop*, EW 207.Craig iSt, .Went.UÿfcUvflb j The letter from a \u2018\u2018Quebec Teacher\u201d ! referring to overcrowded courses of study in the schools, concerning which complaints are regularly heard, expresses *a feeling of discouragement which is felt by many educators.The child of the modern school overstrains his brain trying to accumulate useless facts, lists of capes, counties and boundaries, that he forgets, as soon as he safely can, while those thousand-: of useful things which mean real mental development and success in life, are allowed to slip by.Valuable information must he put aside, to enable one to fill the mind with , '\u2018lists\u201d and \"dates\u201d which any handv alias or pocket book of information gives to the busy taau or woman Another Board of Trade.Lennoxville is the latest recruit to the Board of Trade ranks in the j Townships, and purposes being an I active exponent of the principles of j getting on.Any town is desirable j from a residential standpoint that is not \"dead,\u201d that is not so contented : with itself as slowly to eat out its life with the stagnation of satisfaction.The young people are more willing to stay at home, and outsiders are glad to \u2018\u2018come in.\u201d Given a small town with wideawake citizens and i you have as a good a place to live ; in as any of you can find.The townships have few \"dead\" i towns, for which they may be thank- BRAKES FOR AIRSHIPS.Recent events have demonstrated once again the imperative necessity for equipping aeroplanes with some form of brake, which will arrest progress when rolling j on the ground.To take only a single I example among many that could be \\ cited, an Whit Monday Mr.Sopwith, j accompanied by a passenger, ilanded i somewhat too near the sheds at Hen-: don.Although his engine was switch-\u2022 ed off, the machine had so much way on ; that the friction of the wheels on the grass\u2014which is the only means for i bringing a Blériot to a stop\u2014proved in-; sufficient to arrest its course, and the monoplane was in imminent danger of being crumpled up against the sheds, when its wing fortunately struck an-| other geroplane, thereby bringing it to i a stop m the nick of time.The difficulty : of designing a suitable form of brake I is that it must act directly on the ground, and there is a danger that its ; action may be too sadden and violent, and lead to the upsetting of the aero-; plane.Various devices have been tried.The new Coventry ordnance biplane, for instance, has a steel tooth fitted to the rear of the skids, which, when released, enters the ground, and exercises a powerful retarding effect.A similar device wae fitted to the Albatross biplane exhibited at the Paris Salon.The chief requisites for an efficient type of brake are that it shall only come into operation when applied by the pilot ; that its effect shall not be too sudden or violent (anything in the nature of a grapnel is therefore out of the question) and that it shall not affect the balance of the aeroplane.Three negatives which will make a good positive.\u2014London Telegraph.CUVIER AND DOG TEETH.A story is told of the great French naturalist.Cuvier, which illustrates the general conclusion that animals with both horns and hoofs do not possess dog teeth (or only small ones), and are herbivorous.It is stated that on one occasion, wden Cuvier was ill and feverish at ni^ht, he was visited (in his dreams) by no less a personage than his Satanic majesty.\u201cCuvier !\u201c said that potentate, showing a row of gleaming white teeth, \u201cit is all over with you, I am going to kill and eat you !\u201d But here Cuiver's great knowledge of animal structure and habit came to his aid, and he retorted, \"That is nonsense.Look at your hoofs and your horns.You are not a carnivor.You have no me teeth.You have not even a of any.kind in the front part of upper jaw.You are herbivorous, simply cannot do it.\" Nevertheless, the Evil One appeared to be in no degree abashed, and, with his well-known aptl- Above all let us so think, speak, act that when the votes shall be counted ^ve shall not be ashamed of ourselves ; for we shall have opened our minds for the truth and voted with illumined consciences.ance has been struck it is found that he has paid out sixty-two thousand dollars for the privilege of being born, living and dying, in the\tit- And the most of us will agree that it is well worth it.can- tooth your You MEN WHO STOOD FOR HONOR.(From the New York Evening Post) It is interesting to note, in connection with the vote on the Panama Canal bill, that base standpatters voted to sustain the national honor.Gallinger, Wet mo re, , Root, Penrose, Oliver and Crane, as j well as Lodge, all put themselves on re- j cord against the bill.In the passionate | insurgent country of the West their vote will doubtless be cited as providing the merits of the bill, or it will be explained that they took this action, not because of the violation of the treaty with its solemn and sacred obligations upon the United States, but because of the provision forbidding any railroad-owned ships to use the canal.It is hardly possible that senators will get , credit for living up to the duty of inter- j veyed it to Salyan.national fair dealing and good faith.There may have been mixed motives in their vote.Yet they have rendered a genuine service to the country, for it can be said that at least fifteen members of the Senate voted that the word of the United States, after it has once been given, is an obligation which cannot be set aside by any sordid consideration.the short TRAGEDY- OF \u2019FHE ALPS.Salvan (Valais)\u2014Particulars\tof the and Mile.Borel show that the two young ladies, who were descending Dent Luisin, intended to take cut, and instead of keeping to the path went over an ice field at the extremity of which there was a chasm about feet deep.Mile.Stucki fell oyer the precipice, struck her head against a rock and fell into the bed of snow.Her companion, in trying to go to her rescue, attempted to climb down the and also slipped and fell.She had, however, sufficient strength to drag herself to the Salanfe Chalet.This took her three hours.\t.On her arrival a rescue party immediately set out to find Mlle.Stucki.I hey discovered her mutilated body and con-~ *\tThe condition of Mile.Borel whose parents arrived this morning, is so serious that for the present she is forced to remain at the Salanfe Chalet, -where doctors are attending her.\u2014Reuter.THE MUCH-TRANSLATED BIBLE.The Bible continues to break all records for translation into alien tongues.Another language has just been added to the long list by the completion of the Ibanag New Testament in the Philippines.The Old Testament is being brought out in the Panayan dialect, and the Pentateuch in Pampangan and Cuban is ready for the printer.The Kurdish New Testament is well under WHY THE DOCTOR REFUSED A FEE.-(Londoc Chronicle.) I was born In Bon., and a fellow student, an Enjrfishman, was taken WL,1J: sudden and serious Illness.I propped him up, ran to the chemist at the corner and asked for a doctor.There was a doctor\u2014by a happy chance\u2014lodging in.the room above.He came and attended my friend, with much attention.After some hours, when the matter seemed over, I asked him what was the fee.He threw up his hands and protested in his best English : \u201cI charge\u2014-nothing 1 I am on my holiday.\" PRESIDENT SUSPENDER NONE SO EASY A DRUG THAT HAS VANISHED.A curious echo of the world's use of drugs came from the Commercial news of last week, when It was announced that owiiiK to the collapse of the kola nut trade the Elder Dempster Line had suspended their special steamer to the Gold Coast.Inquiry among experts show that, the trade has entirely gone.The kola nut is rarely seen in this country.Indeed, at the present time there Ik a kola nut famile in England, and although the demand is at no time a large one, the buyers for the big drug brokers report that they are quite unable to obtain them.Sometimes known as the guru nut.the imports are chiefly from the West Indies, west Africa and Ceylon.And lately small quantities have come from Java.The nuts, rather larger than walnuts, come to this rountry dried and packed in bags nnd sell at from 4d.to f>d a pound.j The large quantity of caffeine contained in the kola nut makes it a valuable stimulant, and remarkable stories are told of leat.H of endurance and fasting I accomplished by natives In tropical conn- j tries, among whom the chewing of the nut is a passion.The kola nut must not be confused with | coca (containing1 cocaine), the dried leaf a South American Shrub, which, like the mit, is of bllter taste nnd a strong stimulant to muscular action, enabling prolonged action to be undertaken with (¦alight sense