The Huntingdon gleaner, 17 janvier 1918, jeudi 17 janvier 1918

[" ay.\u2019 Dom ter, ghs, be at I vdy hat, rter cal ing het.\u201d hun.hie vere e or ere ut 4 rses.Mes, ing.ried, uek- with ur vesh int » king soup Meve who Jen lg ou hs ple du with Fi don § nun i xvid oR per i - vile Kine IY ond ++++++++++e+4dett0004000000O Calley FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR PPOPPSP0000540040 LIVE STOCK NOTES.Don't kill the fine ewe lambs.Some one will want them to reenforce his flock.Should a horse seem weak or show difficulty in rising suspect feed at once and let all soft or unsound corn be rejected; also musty hay.A man who confines his pigs In a.wet, dirty pen is robbing himself.Give the pigs or parkers a chance and they will always keep their beds clean.Roots, turnips especially, are almost a necessity to the profitable handling of sheep.Skimmilk is always valuable.Middlings and some tankage are also valuable for pigs.Teach all colts first to walk fast.A fast walking horse is a Joy.PPOPPRRLLRCRFRPPPERPFTSISIOIO +++ 44#4 4446404004 RAISE MORE SWINE Hog Is the Most Important Animal te Grow For Meat and Money.The quickest and surest way of aug menting the meat supply next to the raising of poultry is by raising hogs, the United States department of agriculture points out.The hog is the most important animal to raise for meat and money.He requires less labor, less equipment, less capital, makes greater gains per hundred pounds of concentrates and reproduces himself faster and in greater numbers than any other domestic animal.As a consumer of by products the bog has no rival.No other animal equals the lard hog in its fat storing tendency.The most satisfactory meat for shipping CHESTER WHITE BOW.lung distances on train, boat or wagon and for long storage after reaching its destination is mess pork.There is no animal whlch produces more meat and meat products than tbe hog.Pork finds ready sale because packers have discovered many wuys of placing pork on the market in attractive and highly palatable form combined with most excellent keeping qualities.There is no other meat from which so many products are manufactured.Very near 50 per cent of the total value in dollars and cents of the meat and meat products slaughtered in the packing houses of the United States is derived from the hog.Our country leads by far all countries in the production as well as in the consumption of meat and meat products, Three-fourths of the world's international trade in pork and pork products originates in the United States In normal times, and the war greatly has Increased this proportion.According to the estimates, there was an increase of 9,680,000 bogs between 1010, the census year, and 1916, inclu- give.The increase at the end of 1918 was 3,148,000 over the preceding year, while it is estimated that there was a decrease at the end of 1916 of 313,000 hogs compared with 1915, If we expect to continue to provide meat to foreign peoples as well as our own people, every farmer must put forth\u2019 the best effort to produce more hogs.Hogs can be kept profitably upon many farms where they are not found today.Farmers who already raise hogs can produce many more, for there ir not much chance of producing meat this year in excess of the requirements More dairy farmers should raise hogs, for they fit In especially well upon dairy farms wbere skimmilk, buttermilk or wbey is fed upon the farm.À man who has skimmilk is in a better position to raise pigs than a mam who bas none.CURING ALFALFA HAY.Careless Handling Reduces Value by Shattering Off the Leaves.Saving the leaves and preventing leaching of nutrients by rains are given by the Ohio agricultural experiment station as the two essentials in making the best alfalfa bay.Curing the hay in bunches under cuvers is given as the most efficient method to barvest the most nutritious hay.Careless handling of alfalfa may re duce the value of the bay considerably The leaves coutain nearly three times as much nitrogen and calcium as the stems, chemical analysis made at the experiment station show.Handling the crop so that the leaves are not broken off will save these most valuable nu tritive constituents.Exposure of the hay to ruin Is an other sourve of loss of nutrients ib hay Dried alfalfa over which water wash ed lost 50 per ceut uf its nitrogen, 70 per cent of its phosphorus, 90 per cent of its potassium and 40 per cent of its calcium This represents the common loss in the value of bay exposed to the weather for considerable time when raing occur.Curing alfalfa In bunches, or cocks.preferably under caps, tends to elim.\\nate such losses.The hay may be ent one day, bunched the next and then cured In the cock for two days or more.Shattering cf leaves is thus prevented, the hay retains ita green color, and little of its value is lost Duck or heavy unbleached muslin cov.ern are frequently used to cap the wicks so that the hay is net wet by dow or rela, - cer\" \u2018THURSDAY, JAN.17th, 1918 ALL AROUND THE FARM SELECTING THE STALLION.Sire's Influence Is Predominant and He Should Be Chesen With Care.[Prepared by United States department of agriculture.) The stallion is the key to successful horse breeding and therefore should be chosen with the greatest care.The influence of the sire is predominant, because be directly affects a greater number of offspring than does the single female.Horse breeders should recognize the fact that it is not a pay- Draft stallion showing weight, tong croup.short, smooth coupling and well sloped shoulders, the head denoting intelligence and refine ment.» ing proposition simply to breed mares to any stallion that may be avallabie.A sound, pure bred stallion should be used if the Lest results are to be ob tained.The stallion selected should conform as closely as possible to the breed and type of the mures that are to be hred Stallions of pure breeding are.by vir tue of their unmised ancestry, possess ed of greater pre-potency than are grades or scrubs and will therefore invariably Impress thelr offspring with their breed characteristics und individual merit.A low service fee is too often tbe deciding factor with many farmers ap: mure owners in the selection of « aire.A low service fee ought never to be 8 temptation, but, rather, should be taken as a warning, A low fee is usually a sign of an inferior stallion.Colts from inferior or scrub sires will sel) for much less than those sired by the sound.pure bred stallion.Sound, high class horses are the ideal farm power, and good mares bred te pure breg sires of the same breed and conformation.pay good profits not only in the colts they produce, as has been shown, but also in the labor they per form, Pour borses render poor service and often cost more to keep than they are worth.The loss in feed consumed and lack of labor performed by the inferior and scrub horses of the country Is enormous.This expense can be greatly reduced If farmers and mare owners will breed their mares to the right sort of stallions and pre duce the kind of bornes the farm re quires and the market demands.The time to begin is now.All to.ferior pure bred colts and all grade and mongrel] colts should be castrated, Only the best mares should be retained and these bred to sound, pure bred gires.One of the best Ways to stimulate interest in the breeding of better horses is to arrange to bold a fall colt show A string of promising colts wiil affurd striking evidence of tbe result of breeding the best and prove a splendid advertisement for the com munity.REARING SPRING PIGS.Youngsters Should Have a Dry Bed and Be Carefully Fed.A comfortable house with dry bed ~ ding means much to the spring pigs, writes J.Coleman in the Farm and Fireside.Iu fact, all other conditions may be perfect, and yet if this point is neglected fallure may result.The pigs will soun learn to eat.The amount of feed can be increased as they advance in age, but they shouldn't be fed more than they will clean up nicely.An occasional scalding and sunning of the trough will keep À clean, The frst four months of a pig's fe determine largely what his after sue cess ls.Never let him lose his pig fat during thls \u2018time.grazing as sbun as the soll is warm enough by sowing rape or rape and grain mized, This can be grased by the pigs within six to eight weeks aft er sown, Allow them tu run on amy green crops, especially clover or vetch, as soon as they will graze.A succession of field grazing crope maturing through the summer and fall will supplement their dally grain ration and will enable them to produce their gain at a profit.Pigs fed on grain alone, with little or no grazing crops, will return Mttle or no profit.Cleaning Alfalfa of Weeds.Alfalfa which is two or more years old should be thoroughly disked or har rowed after the first cutting.Fields which are absolutely weedless do not need much disking or harrowing, bet the ordinary feld, where biue gram, redtop or similar grasses have come in, should be given a thorough disking or harrowing.On the average farm the disk is the best available tool which ean be used, or the spring tooth har row will deo.The ebject is te tenr ous the grass.\u2014Amaerican Agrenitesist.Li eT em li, SRE GPE CARNEGIE HEIRESS ~Daughter of the Captain of the Steel Industry.INTEREST IS PHILANTHROPY.In Case Mr.Carnegie\u2019s Health Fails, se le Reported, This Yeung Lady May Pind Herself One eof the Richest Daughters of America.Miss Margaret Carnegie 1s the only ehild of Andrew Carnegie, whose indisposition has attracted much notice.She is twenty years old and was grad- gated in May, 1916, from 8 New York private school, in which she took the English course.She was a leader in the school and achieved a high standard of scholar Prepare for ample ship.Her special interest is civic and philanthropical movements, and for two MISS MANGARNY CARNBUIR years, despite her age, she has beem vice president of the Armstrong league, which concerns Itself especially with the dissemination of information re garding the Indian and tbe negro It has been the policy of Mr.ard Mrs.Carnegie to shield their daughter as much as possible from publicity.\u201cShe is the only one of my treasures 1 want for myself.\u201d is what Andrew Carnegle says of his daughter, whe dovotes so much of her time and affee- tion.along with her mother, to the care and pleasure of the aged finan cler.The world awaits with interest the special use this heiress of the Carnegie millions will make of ber opportunity.DISH WASHING.How to Do This Drudgery Fairly Easily.Save up your soiled dishes and wash them only once a day.By so doing you can save something like an hour and a quarter a week.Kleven minutes per day was the actual time saved in a recent experiment.I'lles of dishes waiting to be washed three times a day year in and year out throw a damper over the finest of tousekeepers.If only the drudgery of dish washing coud be disposed of once a day instead of morning, noon and night kitchen work would be In greater demaud than it is.The careful housekeeper will always resent the suggestion that once a day is often enough to wash dishes.She eannot train herself to allow soiled plates and sliverware to stack up from one meal to the next, for she has been taught that such actious are the evi dence of shiftless, slovenly housekeeping.As a matter of fact, along with many other notions which are @xed in the uperution of the home Loth time aud energy sre saved by cutting out two of the three dally dish washing Jobs.The experience of one housekeeper bears out this statement as true, \u201cObe week | washed dishes twenty one times.sbe nays.\u2018The vert week | wushed dishes seven times.During the two weeks | planned the meals so that the sume number of dishes could be used on each day.1 found that while It took Hy two minutes euch duy to wash my dishes three times it took cnly forty-one minutes a day when | washed them all ut once.\u201d Thin statement takes no account of the Interruption of other duties, It dues nut estitnate the amount of gas or fuel saver by heating water to boll.1yy but once instead of three times a day stud nothing of the soup saved Maternal Diplomacy.The mother must never paint an on- desirable book as dangerous to the juvenile imagination, for youth always grasps at danger.It is much safer in taking away a book of this character to say that {t Le uninteresting and stupid; that it was only written Co amuse the very young or something of this nature.This robs it of all Lis feo mer s.:voë HUNTIMGDON, Que, ANADIAN : \u201cPACIFIC Po CHANGE OF TIME Will be mide Sunday, Janvary 6th, T B.PRIOLE, Agent FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About a Noted Athlete of Olden Times.\u2014 HOW A FOOT RACE WAS LOST.i Fisot Footed Princess Teek Great De- Hight In Dieplaying Mer Marvelous Spesd\u2014Dalay te Pick Up Golden Apples Caused Her Defeat.Tonight, said Uncle: Ben to Little Med and Polly Ann, 1 will tell you about A FAMOUS RUNNER Once there was a git} who could run faster than any man alive.This girl was a princess, the daughter of the king of Acadia.Shs had been well brought up, but she cared more for playing ball and running races and such boys\u2019 sports than she did for the nice ladvlike amusements that ber mother preferred for her.Atalanta could run faster than the swiftest deer, it was sald, She was fond of darlug other people te mn races, and If they were strangers thelr surprise that a slender girl couM outrun them was a treat for ber at the end of the race.As she grew up any handsome young princes would \u201chave liked to marry the princess, but she would have uone of them.\u201cI won't have any or ¢ who can't rua faster than | can,\u201d the spoiled princess would exclaim.Bo whenever & new prince came along and asked ber to marry him she would say very sweetly: \u201cCertainly, sir, if you can beat me in a rade.\u201d Every time the young man would be beaten, But one day Hippomeses, à handsome young man of Acadia, said that he would llke tuo run a race with the princess provided she would marry him If be could outrun her.He was a very good looking young man, and Atalantu smiled at him as they started out, but she did not intend to let bim beat ber, When they had gone a little way and Atalanta was just a little in front of Hippomenes he reached into bis cloak and, drawing out a golden apple, sent it roiling in front of the girl.There was plenty of time, and she stopped to pick up the apple.Thus Hippomenes got a little ahead of her.When sbe caught up he threw another apple, and she stopped to get that one, sure she could make up lost time before the end of the race.But Hippo- menes had a third apple, and he threw it so cleverly that Atalanta lest the race.He reached the goal first, There was a grand wedding, aad Hip- pomenes and Atalanta would have lived very bapplly had they not chame- ed to offend one of the gods, For this they were turned {nto lions.Bo whenever you see a lion or a lloneas you can think of these two wonderful racers and the pretty story the eld Greeks made up about them.SNOBBERY BELOW STAIRS.The Way English Servante Ape Thelr Masters Alre and Graces Writing ea snobs in the New York Tribune, Frederick Townsend Martin the society millionaire, says: We are all familiar with the tuéi ereus enobbery ameng English servants that existed im the time of Mr.Pickwick Not se many ef us, however, appreciate what saohbery exists today in the realms of the servants hall | was ence visiting Baron Ferd! 2and Rothschild, wher, my valet came to me and asked if be could go to Loa don by tbe morning train and get back ip the afternoon.1 sald to him, \u201cWhy do you want te gor He replied: \u201cOh, sir, as we are only stopping here a few days, | did not pu ta my evening suit, and last night, you being a foreigner, | found myself ranked sbove all tbe others and had te take precedence of those who were traveling with dukes, earls and vis counts.1 outranked them all and took in the housekeeper to dinner.And my mortification was great when | noticed that every one of the men around the table was in evening clothes, and : sens was in my ordinary biack suit By the way, sir,\u201d he continued.\u201cper haps you, being an American.don't know that Le the servants\u2019 hall the valets and maids are always called after their mastery\u2019 and mistresnes\u2019 names.They don't call them Lady Seo-and-se, but cimply by the last same Thus, Karl Cork's servant would be called Cork.\u2019 Ané in the servants\u2019 hall they are oentef at the bouseteeper\u201ds tabie in exactly the same grade asd rank as that observed by their mastess and Mistresses apotais.\u201d ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.NO CREDIT.OF COMMERCE with which is united the EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK CAPITAL, $15,000,000 REST, $13,500,000 HOG PRODUCTION It is a matter of the greatest importance that Canada should increase her production of BACON HOGS and other live stock as there is at present a world-wide shortage of meat.Good markets for some time to come are assured.THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE will gladly make loans to assist farmers in good standing to acquire live stock.THE MERCHANTS BANK OF CANADA Established 1864 Head Office, Montrea; E.F.HEBDEN, Managing Director.D, C.MACAROW, General Manager, T.E, MERRETT, Supt.of Branches and Chief Inspector.Assets Over $136,000,000.236 Branches Commencing with a capital of $100,000 in 1864, the following comparativ figures show the growth of the Business of the Bank Reserve Year Paid Up Fund and Total Total Capital Undivided Deposits Assets Profits 1890 $5,799,200 $2,340,904 |$ 8,745,841 $ 20,717,737 1895 6,000,000 3,067,277 10,364,304 22,928,248 1900 6,000,000 2,650,686 16,178,408 29,683,621 1905 6,000,000 3,473,197 27,066,248 41,477,689 1910 6,000,000 4,999,297 54,091,275 71,600,068 1915 7,000,000 7,245,140 63,662,368 86,190,464 1916 7,000,000 7,250,984 72,640,828 96,361,363 1917 7,000,000 7,421,292 108,000,000 136,000,000 Huntingdon Branch - - - N.W.Sparrow, Manager Edison\u2019s Very Latest Amberola The Wonderful New Phonograph with Permanent Diamond Point.This is the famous Diamond Amberola, which haswon unanimous verdicts of superiority over talking machines that sell at three and four times the price of the Amberola.This latest creation of the master mind of the world's greatest inventor gives you the best Phonograph that you can get for the moncy\u2014as proven by the decision of thousands of phonograph experts.No Needles To Change Of course, there is no comparison between the needles, which must be changed with every record, and the velvety smoothness of the permanent Diamond Point, which is a part of every genuine Edison Amberola.The Wonderful Blue Amberol Records the rerult of this perfect phonographic recording, enable you to enjoy everything in music that you have ever wanted to hear, sung or played by the best artists in the world, Something for everybody in the follewing list.HEART SONGS \u2014 Love's Qld Sweet Song: Sing me Dream Girl O° My Old Kentucky to Sleep: Mine; Home.y A 4 oi a \u2019 ARENA { Pringle, Stark & Co., SACRED\u2014Draw Me Nearer \u2014Somebody Cares \u2014 Lord, I'm Coming Home.BALLADS\u2014Make Me Kin of Your Heart-Dearest an Beat\u2014{ am s Roamner\u2014Land of My Dr BANDS \u2014 Lucia Sextet \u2014 Isle D'Amour Waltz\u2014Merry Widow Lancers \u2014 Athol Highlanders\u2019 March, MARCHES \u2014 King of the Air \u2014 National Aida\u2014Beoils of London.INSTRUMENTAL\u2014Night- ingaie (Piccolo) \u2014Olé Black Jos (Plano}- O Promise Me fluegelhorn}\u2014 Romance (Violin) \u2014Serenade (cornet) Sony Bird (Balls), VAUDEVILLE \u2014 Uncle Josh's Rheumatism - Hotel Porter and the Travelling Salesman\u2014Shipmates.QUARTETTES \u2014 Bonnie Blue Flag \u2014 Darling Nelly Gray \u2014 Maplc Leaf Forever\u2014 Lead, Kindly Light.DANCING \u2014 \u2018\u2019aiso June \u2014 Sans Soucl Mazize \u2014 Girl from Utah Onc-Step\u2014 Babez In the Wood Fox Trot\u2014Ceclis Waltz Heslts- tien \u2014Castles\u2019 Half and Half.Huntingdon, Que.Emblem \u2014 114 The Huntingdon Gleaner is published weekly, on Thursday, by Robert Sellar, residing in the village of Huntingdon, Que, and printed at his office in the Brown building, Chateauguay street, in said village.Subscription $1 per year.U.S.subscribers $1.50.Papers discontinued when the time for which they have been paid expires.No exception to \u201chis rule so that subscribers who desire to continue receiving the paper, should renew before their subscription has expired as denoted on the address label.In changing address, be sure to give name of former post-office.The rates of the Gleaner for transient advertisements are 5( cents per inch for first insertio and 25 cents per inch for ead subsequent insertion.Advertisements of 20 words or less 25 cts.each insertion.No advertisement inserted for less than 25¢.No notice taken of Card of Thanks or of short advertisements unless accompanied by the price, which may be remitted in postage stamps.Obituaries and resolutions of condolence, reports of marriage anniversaries, and the fike one cent for each word, No advertisements inserted as reading matter, aobituary verses are not insert- \u20ac SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS THE CANADIAN BANK HE LL Sts Mail train No.80, leaving Montreal 7,26 n.m., arrive Huntingdon9.55a.m.Mail train No.82, lenving Montreal 4.40 p.m., arrive Huntingdon 7 06 p m, Mail train No 81, lenving Huntingdon 6.49 u.m., arrive Montreal! 9.80 a.m.Muil train No.85, leaving Huntingdon 2.40 p.m, arrive Montrenl 4,55 p.m.A.Philps, Agent.UrJ C.SHANKS®, M.D.,C.M.Graduate of McGill University HOWI K Office hours: 8\u20149 a.m,, 1\u20142,80 p.m.ahd 6\u20148 p.m.J.G.LAURENDEAU, K.0O, Advocate, at Moir's Ho.el every first Seturday of each month.NUMA E.BROSSOIT, K.O.Advocate .Recorder of the city of Valley- field, Valleyfleld, P.Q.Will attend all the courts in the District of Beauharnois and Montreal.Phone No.60 PATTERSON & JACOBS Advocates, Barristers and Solicitors, Bity and District Bank Building, 180 Se James street, Montreal.Mr Patterson will be at Moir Hotel, Huntingdon, first Saturday of every month.W, l'atterson, K.C., N.W.Jacobs, B.C.L.DONALD M.ROWAT, B.O.L, of W.de M.& H.Marler, Notaries 157 St James street, Montreal.Money to Loan on First Mortgage security.Mr Doneld M.Rowat, N.P., of the firm of W.deM.and H.M.Marles, Notaries of Montreal, has made arrangements to come to Huntingdon from time to time and begs to notify the public that appointments may be made with m.M.Rowat, M.D., of Athel stan.Mr Rowat wiil give special attention to the settlement of Fstates and the careful inves$- ment of monies.J.O.BRUOE, .Genersl Insur- auce Agent, Huntingdon, Fire, Life and Accident Insuranee, County Building, Huntingdon.J.F.ROLLIT, Surgeon Dentist Kelly's Block, Huntingdon.psa all day.Bell Telaphone No.104.Mr.L.A.Rousseau, Notary, has opened an office in the B.B.Kelly block, Iluntingdon, and will be there on Tuesday, every week, between 10 a.m.and 2 p.m ARTHUR W.SULLIVAN Q.L.S.& 0.Æ.Successor to John L.Sullivan Q.L.S.& CB.Surveying and Engineering of water courses and Bounding of properties, Bornage, &e., attended to promptly.Address: P.O.Box 124 Valleyfield, Que or room 20, 59 St.Peter street Montreal, Que.Mutual FirelnsupanceCo.of the COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS (Incorporated 1852) Head Office .Huntingdon (nsures only Farm and Isolated Property.President.M.W.Lushy Vice-President, Robt Blackwood Directors\u2014Anthine DVoray, B.R.Ness, Alex McMillan.ANDREW PHILPS, Secy.and General Manager, Huntingdon, Que.A.B.LEDUC Notary Public, Huntingdon, Que.Successon to I.I.Crevier, Notary Public.Office in the O'Conner Block, entrance next to Moriarty\u2019s store.Money to loan Estate and succession settlement.McCORMICE & LEBOURVEAU, Advocates, Commissioners foi Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, British Columbia, etc.Rooms 41 and 42 Canadian Pacific Tels- graph Buil ling, 4 Hospital street, Montreal.Mr MecTormiek will attend the Courts :n the District of Beauharnois, and will be at Moir Hotel, Hun*ingdon, on the last Saturday of every month, barring unforseen eireumstances, Telephone Main 2497.Claims for collect\u2018on may be left with Robt.Bllerton, Hemmingford. Ÿ AN.0 pu SHARE , AC at oe sac © Glesuer Notes of the Week THURSDAY, J AN.17th, 1913 \u2014p\u2014\u2014 This time last year we were confident 1917 would see the end of the war, and so it would, had not Russia played false, enabling the Germans to send at least a million more men to the French front, with all the cannon and war material pertaining to such an immense body.The result of Russia\u2019s perfidy is.that today the Allies are facing odds they Jid not count upon.But they are not discouraged.there is no wavering, no wilting before the mem ace of the huge German war- machine; our lads have proved their mettle during the strife of three years and are confident they «an defeat any force that may be assembled by the Kaiser with the view to overwhelm them.The coming struggle.in which they will be tried as they have never before been, they meet with daunt less spirit.And they are justified in that confidence.by the fact that, in the centuries of its history.Britain has never been beaten and never will ero ich beneath the heel of a conqueror.The captain faces the storm with un- blanched countenance because he knows his ship has ridden thru many a tempest, and the comrades beside him are true as steel.In all the letters received from our boys at the front there is no note of fear, they may fall but the glorious army of which they are members will end the war in triumph.Nobody doubts that our army will do their duty.aught else is not to be thought of.the men who won in the past few weeks at Vimy and Paschendale.who swept onwards in spite of mud and flood and all the hellish obstacles devised to halt them.have given assurance they are unconquerable.They will do their duty when the guns call them to battle.but are we doing ours?When with a shout they dash on the foe in deadly bayonet charge.have our soldiers assured knowledge that we, living comfortably in our homes, have seen to it, that if they are wounded, we have provided stretcher-bearers to carry them out of the noise and reek of the fight, that we have got ready ambulances to take them to hospitals where they will be tended as carefully as if mother or sister bent over them\u2014or.and this sad contingency we must face.if they die facing the foe.will we care for those who are dear to them?We have to meet the situation the prolonging of the war presents to us.The treasuries of both the \"Red Cross and the Patriotic fund are empty.Are we going to see that their noble work go on, or are we to sit down and say we are tired of these appeals and will give no more?It is not to be concealed that there are people who are saying they have done enough, and their so saying means they are willing to let the wounded and the dying soldiers perish, and that whoever may can look after their orphans and widows.It is humiliating to know that such mean spirited people are among us.By the election that was decided on the 17th of December, the Dominion, by an overwhelming vote, declared it stood by Britain in the war to the end, and its decision meant it would not only continue to help to carry on the war but provide for the wounded and for the little ones of the dead.We tell slackers and hard-hearted people we are going to do it.The appeal has gone forth for new contributions and they are going to be responded to better than in any one of the past three years, The spirit of our people is up and they shall speak not only as they did by votes and words, but by deeds.The Red Cross is sorely in need of help.The cost of material it uses has doubled and casualties at the front increase.The Orms- .town branch has raised a considerable sum by canvassing for ey v pu vas of Malone yielded 1680 members, How the money is to be raised is a matter of detail, that.friends will settle.The Hunting- don branches and groups need at least $5000 and with the fine spirit that pervades our people that sum can be collected by the first of March.Then let publie opinion be so emphatically expressed that our county council at its next mneting will vote other five thousand to the Patriotic fund.Ten thovcand dollars is within the ability of this loyal old county of Huntingdon to give in this day of necessity and it will give it, The call of our boys in France is ringing in our ears.When they are giving of the best of their years, and even their blood, shall we grudge to give of our substan- The sacrifice on our part is valled for not only because it is just that we should make it, but that we may show the double- faced.those who blow-hot-and cold, those who, as it suits their own interest, run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, that the people of Tluntingdon as a whole are for Britain and that, in this her hour of extremity.we are with her heart and soul.Canada is British and Iuntingdon, by her contributions to the Red Cross and Patriotic Funds means again to show what side she is on.A century ago the liberties of Europe were threatened by a tyrant.Fmperors fell before him, nations were overrun hy his armies, and it looked ax if Freedom was to bid farewell to the Continent.Bat Britain fared the tyrant.and, after years\u2019 of struggle, beat him and sent him prisoner to St, Helena, Again the world is threatened by a tyrant who wants to rule the world.a man with all the ambition of Napoleon without his genius.A man without a spark of chivalry.who will not fieht fair on either sea or land, wha seeks to overcome his foes by poison gas and squirting burning fluid.who sinks ships by attack.ine them concealed under water.who.last week, sent a ship laden with sick and wounded soldiers to the bottom of the sea who drowns indiscriminately wayfarers on the ocean, God's highway for all mankind, who in one vessel.the Lusitania, drowned 200 infants, who deliberately despatches airships not to destroy fortified places but to wreck the homes of inoffensive families.This wretch, who has made Belgium and Northern France scenes of unspeakable misery and death, who acknowledges no authority except that of the sword and daily sacrifices the lives of thousands that he may become supreme Pritain has undertaken to hunt to his lair.Joined by the American people.who are still more disinterested.she will do so, and establish a peace that will enable the farmer to plow his fields and the mechanic to go about his day's work unhindered and unafraid.Reader.are you not, go- ine to help?\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 In the Imperial parliament on ce?Monday the grave announcement was made that the government had decided it was necessary to call 450,000 more men to the colors, and that drafting would begin at once.These recruits will not be sent to the front, but will relieve the large garrisons maintained in England in case of invasion.It was explained that France had put forth her last ounce of strength in the armies.she had, that Ttaly had more than she could manage, and that it was essential Britain should have such a force in France as would hold the enemy until the Americans are ready.Britain, apart from the 400,000 men she has in the navy, has now four million soldiers in active service.pre Parleying for peace still goes on between the Russian leaders of Petrograd and Germany.The views of both parties are so wide apart that the prospect of an agreement is faint indeed.However, these negotations serve Ger- .many\u2019s purpose in keeping the members and is thns doing more .\"effective work than ever.Ouf v neighbors across the line took the - - same method, getting so many Fi members in Franklin county that i; £ ver A000 wax petted.The can- 4.Russians out of the fight, and enabling her to pour her troops into France.The disruption of- Russia goes on apace.Southern Ras- sia has taken form.in the erection of a new government, the Utranian, and several small nationalities are, setting up for eee AG HUNT INGRON LEANER.= themselves, Society is disorganized, with no prospect of improvement, \u2014\u2014\u2014 ee The turmoil of war has effected a peaceful settlement of the right of women to vote.In England, where the opposition was strong,\u2019 both the Commons and Lords have agreed to concede the long withheld right from women.A concession to opponents was fixing that only women who have seen their 30th birthday shall be given the franchise.The marvellous serviee rendered by women in carrying on Britain\u2019s industrial work has earned this boon.The United States cannot, under its constitution, pass a blanket measure, but both houses of congress have agreed on a bill providing for an amendment to the constitution, which goes for ratification to the State legislatures.There will be some delay, but it is now assured every American woman will stand the coequal of man in having a voice in the government of the country.At the approaching session of onr own parliament Premier Borden will submit the long desired measure, ee The legislature at Quebec has fairly settled down to the business of the session.Treasurer Mitchell was able to give a favorable report of the finances.Altho the expenditures had outrun his estimate there was a balance on hand around $160.000.\u2014___ Sunday was a stormy day in this locality but not to be compared with the weather experienced in the States west of the lakes and in Ontario.The worst blizzard for vears raged two days, stopping all traffic and much suffering coal trains being from milk and stalled.There was not much snow but the wind - blowing at the rate of 40 to 60 miles an hour drifted what had fallen before.In Chicago there was such a shortage of coal that many factories did not re-open Monday morning.Searcity of coal is being experienced all over the continent.The mines are not producing to their full extent and the railways lack cars to carry it away.The extreme cold has frozen rivers and blocked Atlantic harbors, entailing much hardship on all the large American cities.At New York 118 steamships were unable to sail for lack of coal.of troops for France is being hindered by this cause, Never was mild weather more ardently desired, \u2014\u2014_ The game of the Germans, in making air-raids on England, is no longer a safe one.British opinion was against retaliation.and the Germans had a free course in dropping bombs on defenceless towns, Persistent raids on London gradually changed the views of the government .which saw that the only way to stop the outrages was to give the Germans a taste of their own medicine.A fortnight ago a squadron of aeroplanes swept down on the town of Mannheim and this week the city of Karlsruhe was hombed.Possibly this caused a German submarine Monday night to steam close to the town of Yarmouth and, for 5 minutes, keep up a steady fire.It is estimated 20 shells fell on the town, whose chief industry is fishing, killing a sailor and burying a woman under the ruins of her house.Ten people, including several children, were injured.\u2018The property loss was small._\u2014_ Sifting the, masg of ,telegrams it would appeat the Italians are having the best of it.They have caused the retirement of the enemy \u2018from several points along the river Pave and greatly improved their own position, Deep snow on the mountains is rendering the situation of the invaders difficult, and they will either have to win a decisive victory or retire to winter quarters.A drive to capture Venice is regarded as a possibility, and for which the Allies have made preparation, -\u2014 France, popularly regarded as warm compared with the British isles, is having a long-continued apell of arctic temperature, Snow has blanketed Northern France for thres weeks, with steady + causing \u2018The despatching frost.Military operations, except on a small scale, are imprac- tieable, and what fighting goes on is confined tu the artillery, with interltides of patrol skir mishes and trench raiding.The Canadians, again es that strengthen their lines, As a rule the troops are kept in their quarters until the weather moderates, and it is a comfort to\u2019 know their dugouts arc warm and that rations are abundant, The troops the Germans are drawing from the Russian front are report ed by airmen to be arriving in a continuous stream of trains and are being posted along the French equally with the British front.Unhindered by mud or snow, airmen scour the enemy \u2019s lines, missing no chance to drop bombs and swooping ddwn ow any German airships that appear.The lists of killed and wounded tell of serious work going on even in midwinter.ORMSTOWN Death removes-in the person of Wm.Greig, Cairnside, the most widely known farmer in the county.The funeral on Monday testified tu this.The Montreal Gazette says:\u2014 The death is reported at his home at Cairnside, of William Greig, one of fhe best-known men of the district and held in high personal regard by a wide circle of acquaintances.Mr.Greig was a farmer, and took an active interest in the agricultural, municipal and political affairs of his home county.Ile was at times conneillor and mayor of the parish of Ormstown, a director, president of the Chafeanguay Ag- rieultural Society, and of the Couneil of Agrieulture of the province.Tn 1892 he was el- ceted a member: of the Legislative Assembly as a Conservative, his opponent.being Hon, J.E.Robi- donx.Mr.Greig is survived by five sons.and six daughters, the \u201clatter heing all married and -liv- ing in the neighborhood of \u2018their family horhe, ess BEAUHARNOIS - The \u2018annual meeting of St.Edward's church was held in the school house \u201cWednesday evening of last week, when most encourag ing reports were pr esented- by.all the organizations in the congregation.The amount contributed for maintainance of church work was $1511.After meeting all ex- _ penses there was a balance \u2018on hand of $210.The amount contributed for the Budgef was $913.In addition to this $492 were.contributed for other benevolent objects.Taking into account the amoynts contributed by the differ ent-societies there was a total of \u2014 $1842 paid to objects outside the - congregation, The total receipts for the year were $3354.34.The minister's salary was - increased by $200 although he had been paid an increase of $25 a month for the past six months.All officers: were re-elected for another year.Last week the ladies of the woman's missionary society decided to observe the \u2018week of prayer, so a8 program ranged for a.meecting each evening, to be held at the residence of Miss FInnter.which is most central for the town.The meetings commenced on Sunday afternoon when a large number attended, as the meetings were open for all.These meetings were found to be so helpful that at the close of the week it was decided to con- \"tinue them, 50 they are being held this week, The hutchers are busy harvesting their ice which sof very fine auality.VALLEYFIELD - \u201c On\u2019 Thurkday evening, in- the Presbyterian chureh :hall, the Girl Guides held an At Home, in aid of the new organization which has been created in our midst.Being a sister movement to that of the Boy Scouts, \u2018and judging'from the enthusiostie, manner in which the \"girls - were beceived: by \u2018all pres- \u2018ent, eÿerythini, pænts to the she- -cess of the society, which is under \u2018the tontfol bf Miss\u2019 H.Farley of the Gault Institute \"On Suridaÿ aftérnoon the Om.,adiang Played \u2018the return.Hockey \u2018mateh with -Bellerive club, whom they defeated so badly a fortnight 36, | \u2018At the start of the seéetnd game, x \u201cLook as if things were PEL Hh wt It we dpb, Moet Cow Ean LR Tease day FEET SRST TTR LL 7 SE SR LTT met lS BORE a A ee 1 ep oft ein AL ! i) hay f CNRS A 51 af de encamped in front of-Lens, have made advanc- and .a member - was ar- Soe RTT Lau 6 op going to be pretty even, but through sheer determination on the part of the \"Canadian forwards they seemed to take all the grit out of their opponents, and ran out easy winners again by seven points to one.- On Monday the employees of the Montreal Cottons, received \u2018their first bonus of four per cent on wages earned: dating from Oe- tober 1st 1917, A general feeling of satisfaction prevails amongst the workers and everything possible is heing done to rush forward the reconstruction of the power house, but it will be a considerable time before the conditions reach their normal, EE res ; _ RIVERFIELD The Riverfield Y society held their regular monthly meeting at the home of Mr.and Mrs.J.J.Craig.The meeting was largely attended and after the program a social evening was very much enjoyed, Mrs.S.A, Woods gave an interesting address on Patriotism as epplied to temperance, The \u2018president Miss Mayford Orr an- nnunced the amount of work done for *he Red Cross during the past 3 months viz: 153 towels, 5 prs.pillow cases, 13 flannel shirts, 40 - many tailed bands, 17 prs socks, and 11 prs, bed socks.They also contributed several bags of vee- : etables and much clothing to the Old Brewery Mission and gave #30.50 to benevolent and patriotic work, The Y is as much alive to the best needs of the country as at any time in its history.The Riverfield curlers played off on Monday to see who - would compete against Ormstawr: ~ for the Jubilee trophy.\u201cIn the.\u2018afternoon the two skips were Jad, An- \u2018rell and Jack Gruer, Angell winning bv 9 points.In the evening tha skips were Christopher Ww.Orr and Ernest Reddick, Orr winning'by 2 points.ATHELSTAN The annual meeting of the Ath- olstan Presby terian church was held Friday evening: There was a larger attendance than usual © and\u2019the gathering was fairly re- \u2018presentative of the different sections of the corigregation.Rev.T.- A.Mitekiell presided and Dr.Rowat acted as Secretary.Interesting reports were presented by - secretary of - \u2018Mr.L.D.Watson, the congregation, and the- secre- .taries of the various total amount raised fôr current revenue was $1370, and for missions $638.Repairs, amounting to $440 were put on the manse and a new stable was erectel which cost \u2018$682.Half of the ex- ~.pense of the latter is borne by the Elgin - section.\u2018The Women's * Missionary Society raised $838.81.The Sunday School $107.00.The Ladies\u2019 Aid $633.38.The retiring managers, John Graham, L.D.Watson and W.R.Anderson were re-elected.Robt.Waldie replaces R.C.Baird, who retires after 41 vears service, and to whom a vote of thanks was tendered.Rev.Mr.Mitchell reported for the session and gave a brief resnme \u2018of his pastoral work.The ladies passed round refreshments at the close of the meeting.Mrs, Tas.Brims entertained the Tiadies\u2019 Aid Thursday afternoon.There vas a gond attendance notwithstanding the inclement weath er.#50 was voted tn missions; £60 to war chaplains and $25 for renairs on the church, F RANELIN The municipal election for coun \u201c eillors took place last week on Wednesday and Thursday.The retiring councillors were Messrs Murphy, Rowe and Thibeault.\" Mr.Thibeault refused.the nomina tion.The English nominated two candidates, Mr.Murphy and \u2018Mr.Rowe.The French nominated three-candidates and after a close contest they won by a \u2018small majority.There were two hundred .and fifteen votes polled, the largest vote ever \u201cpolled in Franklin, The extreme cold has frozen pipes laid too near the surface, or where the pipes bring the water any distance from the spring.\u201cThis has caused considerable in- -convenience to those who depend- \u2018ed on the springs for their supply of water, .Conscription has touched Franklin lightly, as thère has not been any person sent from here yet.: 10 fe.MARTINE * Wednesday, the 9th inst, at the annual méeting nf the members of.the Farmers\u2019 jeluh of this parish, \u201cfour of the old directors were re- -dlootod with three now ones.The ; ARRAS Le Jed OL 080 0 LS 1m a A1 C8 PE n°\" organiza- .tions connected therewith.The - new board is as follows: F.Y.Le- A Red Cross Letter From gault, Barnabe Laberge, Omer Headquarters Parent, Treffle G.Brault, Joseph « Primenu, Zénon Legault, and Jos Edward Leburge.The income during the present CAT WB.\u2026errercresces [UT $240 23 T ec expenses durin same.219.17 Balance on hand.,.$20.63 \u201cThe Secretary- Treasurer is Nap.Mallette The same day the municipal election tuvk pla e, with two of the old councillors re-elected, Hors misdns Bonnier and Théophile Parent, the third one having sold his property and about tu lenve for Montreal, was replac-d by Zen.Muheu vË the lower village, Election is no fun in a dry town, and cuntrary tu oll times, the village was clear of electors within un hour and the cattle well attended to.Ibis always a surprise to see how pencenble wo nre now in the village since prohibition, HEMMINGFORD The municipal election in the township was but pourly attended, only three electors braving the storm.The retiring councillors, Adolphe Perras, John B.Beattie and Win Poussant were re-clected.in the village six were gominated, G.W.Keddy, T.G.MeCintchie, Robert Ellerton; James MeUanse, W.C.Collings, George Fisher, and the election was by ballot.Messrs Collings, Fisher and McClatehie were elected.ELGIN (COUNCIL Met Jun.7th, Coffey absent.The following bills were ordered paid: Geo.Reid on culverts $71; Committee expenses re gravel pit $2.25; Work in Dis.No.12 $78.62; Cleaning ditch, Wattie by-road, $29.44; Work on Lavine dis- \u2018charge $101.00; Wood for hall $4; Keep of John Stewart $61.50.The financial statement for last year Was examined and on motion of Stewart seconded by Todd, was accepted and ordered to be published in the Gleaner.Moved by D.G.McFarlane, seconded by Graham, that in future Road Inspectors are requested to present their bill for winter work at the May meeting, and summer work at December meet- in g.On motion of D.G.MeFarlane, seconded hy .David McFarlane, the Secy.was authorized to sell \"Lot No, 14a in 2nd range by Sher- riff\u2019s sale for taxes.Adjourned to meet Feby.4th.HINGHINBROOK COUNCIL Met on Monday 7th inst, All \u2018present.| - Moved by William Anderson, *segônded by McCormick that the following bills be paid, viz: road \u201cwork: David Cairns, $3; Fred Whalen $1.20; Jacob Helm $28.65 *W.C.Tully; $18.50; A.Travisee, \u2018sundries for hall, $1.95; Fred \u201cSweet, services as overseer on bridge, Rennie Byroad, $3; Hy.McMillan, - repairing snow plow, $4; and that a bill presented by Arthur Watson for damages sus- .tained to his automobile on \u2018the \u2018Vance sideroad, November 18th, \u201cbe rejected.Moved by Ross, seconded by Joseph Anderson, that the statement prepared by the \u2018 \u2018Secretary \u2018of the ordinary maintenance and permanent improvement of roads during 1917 amounting to $1254.13 be approved.The following canvassers were appointed and apportioned districts to.solicit aid for the Hali fax Relief Fund, viz; Allan Me- Naughton, Fred Cowan, Arthur White, Frank Ouimet, W.W.Pringlé, Allan Crutchfield, Ww.C.Tully, George Elder, John Fitz- simmons, Robert Anderson, Joseph Cowan, H.A.Oliver, John Cairns, W.A, Herdman, Thos.Ross, Wilbert McHardy, George A.Rennie, Jas.McCracken Sr.Moved by McNaughton, see.onded by Ross that the financial statement for 1917 be adopted and published i in the Gleaner.TETRA Toma The manufacture of flour of different standards will be stopped, and a single variety of straight blend will be turned out by \u2018Canadian mills, according to the decision arrived at by the embers of the conferences held Ottawa this week, at which mill ers, representatives of the Board of Grain \u2018Supervisors and the Food \"Controller were present.The, session was more protracted than was expected, and the final results\u2019have not yet been made kpown, The determination to abolish the manufacture of fancy flétrs was quite.definite, however Fancy bread will also be proscribed, and the product \u2018of the baker- ik Will coffprm- t0.a single étan- so a , Beas The Ton, AEE te Nes Mew re ml Ne Ce Pe mr wre te ze A, Carer qua RE a à NN Vg ele tam Fone = Do the women of Montreal, and Quebec provinee realize that the Red Cross supplies have been very much depleted by the heavy calls made upon them by the Halifax \"disaster.There is a great scarcity of everything to ship overseas, and the demands are for more and more of everything, I know that you are all weary and tired, but the men are weary and tired too, and they have to carry on, Cannot new groups be formed and new workers be found who will help the Red Cross in her hour of need.\u2018There are thousands today who have been faithful workers and will continue to the end, but will not those who have a little spare time come to our assistance now.It would be a sad day for us if we had to buy supplies when, I am sure, there are willing hands to make them.Think of our sick and wounded in the Canadian hospitals in Eng- - land and far off France, do not let them appeal to us in vain, I beg of yon all to rally to the Red Cross, and pray that the day is not far distant when our efforts may relax, and that 1918 will bring peace, President, Ladies\u2019 Executive.The Athelstan Red Cross Society wih to acknowledge the following donations\u2014 Mr].E Flynn.50 Miss BE.ANdETSON.\u2026.\u2026\u2026scccccreerscrecees $ 2.00 Mr George Elder.2.00 ot James Gauthier.50 « PJ.Savag 25 \u201c E.Lalonde\u2026 50 Mrs Holdsworth.\u201850 Mr James Anders 1.00 ** T.Mason., .50 John Hincks.\u2026 100 * Henry Woods.100 CHL WHILE cece 1.00 * Geurge AICHESON.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026rsere 1,00 ** B.AÉCHESON.ecvorerssresaserersess000s 1.00 \u2018* John Steel.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026reseres 2.00 COA DUrWArd ees .25 * BE.Boucher.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026eceseee 50 Mrs A.Rennic Mis McCrea.U.Ne Q.Club .Huntingdon County Council.150.00 Miss M.Henderson, Dist.School Bandage Fund, Elgin No.5.201 Miss Jean McDonald, D.S.B fund, Model Schoul, Athelstan No.6.2.00 Miss J Wilson, D.S.B.fund, Model School, Athelstan No.G.\u2026\u2026\u20260.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.2.60 Miss R.McCarthy, D.S.B.fund, Elgin NO.Z.uusoressssaserennessesasavess .70 Brooklet Souvenirs donated by Mr Hiram Maither\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026e 5.00 Miss Lottie Munro.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026es 5.00 Military Photos Enlarged By a Canadian firin employing returned soldiers as artists and canvassers.Interviews and dumonstra- tion of work given by local representative Pte.E.D.BOYLE, The Trench Violinist Address cards for interview to E.D.BoyLE, care of James Hampson, Huntingdon, Que.AUCTION SALES The undersigned has been granted license as Publie Auctioneer.Frep J.DoxxazLy, Glenelm, Que.Phone 604-21 The Farmer\u2014The effect of no- license in Malone has been so - marked that many have become converts to it who never were : 8 advocates before, If any liquor has been dispensed here since Oe- \u2018tober 1st it has been so slyly done and so carefully that it could not be traced and in such small quantities that no public intoxication has resulted.Police Justice Bige- low had from Oct.16th to Jan 1st this year only 5 cases of public in- toxieation, all of whom procured their liquor in some licensed town In 1916, during the same time there were 71 convictions for public intoxication in this court.Where main street used to be swarming with men at midnight under license 'a cannon ball could be fired through it now without hitting anybody.All are abed and up at work in the morning.One merchant who always favored license saw his cash sales this year for Xmas the largest ever known and is converted.Another tells of a fellow formerly addicted to drink pulling out a roll of bills and paying cash down for a suit of clothes, He had never been able to pay more then a couple of dollars down on the purchase of a suit before.A meat man says he has hosts of customers who pay spot cash for large quantities of meat Saturday nights who never had the money to pay for but the smallest, poorest cuts before.In these days of high prices, had it not been for no-licenee tha poor bills.would have been.enormous this winter, a Ps Jt : 1 Collected on Beaver creck, Financial Statement of the Township of Godmanches- ter from January 1st to December 31st, 1917, GENERAL STATEMDNT Arrears due as per audit of 1916.ncurerorereraresererause Patriotic tax.vorcnsenens Taxes imposed 1917, Tmi ls on $1,350,652 valuation.9454 56 Patriotic tax imposed.1409 01 $11,539 539.86 86 Arrears and rates collected 9522 20 Patriotic and Red Cross tax 1364 16 Arrearsof taxes as persheet 549 45 Arrears of Patriotic tax.104 05 $11,539.86\" oo Jr, oC | cnserserrsramensençna$ 405,02 Arrears and rates coliccted 962220: 8 Patriotic EEX .uncuvcesiavencairse 1364 16 work of\u20181916:.\u2018289 95 sidiiens D.Shearer, broken reach.178 John'Brady, valuator.38:00 \u201c preparingroll.5:00 M.McNaughton, valuator Fred Rennie, valuator.39100 Dr H.Clouston, re \u2018Noel Demers .cooovceernmreriecenseenns 28:50 \u2018Government coupons.12.00 Elder Brothers, lumber.16:89 Wm.B.Cameron, interest., 42.84 J.K.Dunlop, Rennie road.15; 100 J.H.Sparrow, auto repairs 229 O.Robidoux, jr., ditching.- 1187 Jury Fund.1200 Joseph Smythe, overseer, Ridge road.35 00 Merchants Bank, notes.2500 00 interest on same., 4575 Good Roads Association, ,, 210 Roads Department, interest ON EOUPONS, .\\vivvinrianns 261210 Joseph Fournier, contract.112 00 Joseph Carr, overseer River Toad hh eee 109 00 A.R.Leduc, N.P., deed re .gravel pit .6 00 County rate ,,,.374 50 Patrioticand Red Crosstax 1373 18 By-law and col, on same 25 00 Insane account, ,,.\u2026\u2026.458.73 Richard Walsh, tile .145 70 A.E.Mitchell, advice to Mayor,.covenviinnnen 200 Copies for 45 proces-verbals for Register.50 00 Fee to Registrar on same.1126 Auto trip to Rennie road.,, 400 Secretary's salary.,.300 00 Stamps and stationery.20 00 $30,795.01 ASSETS Arrears of taxes.$549.43 Arrears of Patriotic tax,,.108 97 McCarthy discharge .124 62 Cowan Creek .69 50 Hall Creek.58 42 Beaver Creek, Branch 8.6206 Department of Roads on coupons issued.rues 894 76 $1862.76 LIABILITIES Advanced by Secretary.$1411 50 Borrowed from Merchants Bank 0e esrenres 5000 00 Estate Martin Caveny,.,.,.50000 Wm.B.Cameron, note,.1700 00 Wm.Muir, note.100000 Wm.Martin, note.1600 00 Joachim Laberge, contract 25 00 Joseph Fournier \u201c 60 00 O'Connor Bros., contract.6534 60 + $17,731.11 ¢ Net Liabilities.$15,868.35 - Having examined the foregoing statement together with the books \u2018Received from Perpetuity acct.and vouchers of the Secy.-Treasr.1 find the came correct.Joseru WausH, Auditor Huntingdon, Que., Jany.5,4918 ! + -_ This large amount of Jiabilities is principally due to cementing the River road, for which the government has promised substantial assist:nce, but no money has as yet been received for said work R S.FEENY, Secy.-Treas, Financial Statement of the Hüntingdon Protestant Cemetery Company for the year ending Dec.31st, 1917, RECEIPTS To cash on hand.J 51201 88 Amt, received on Perpetul ty \u2018Received on Lot Assessments.\"4485 te Sale of LOtSiaeenens \u201c.\u201cImprovement of lot 1 Interest of Perpetu- or rity fand.WL * ACCOUNt.cocsc0c0000 Ressives from Perpetuity ac- \u2026pount for War Loan.191468 UF À or Victory Bond 8 OHN A.HUNTER Fe.DUNSMORE, west of Powerscourt, the follow cows, 6 due to.freshen: in March: jand, \u201cApril \u2018two fatrow, 1 Jegiatered \"Holstein \"cow, due.to- freshen; in arch; 3'grade Holstein heifers\u2019 rising 3 years old, due \"to.Ireshen this spring; \u20185 grade yéarling double wagous, 1 set of \u201cby héifers,-1 pe bobsleighs, 1manuresleigh,-1 top: wagon 1 milk'wagon, 1 dtimp cart, 2:coblers, it of .dise, spring-tooth and smoothing:harrows, > plows, 2\u201d cultivate nt Sharples creant'-separator, 2 30-gallo milk cans, 2 condensed milk cans; 3 cook stoves, 3 box stoves, 1 set \u2018double harness, 1 light double driving harness, 1 set single harness, 1 cart hatnéss, plow harness, corn shelier, set of platform scales, set of counter scales, set \u2018of steelyards, 100 bushels of ear corn, 50, bush.buckwheat, 25 bushels beans, 1 brass kettle, 1sink, 1.writing desk, 1cupboard, 1 wood vice, 24 egy cases, 1 patent churn, 1 grindstone, 2 crosscul saws, handsaw, and many other- articles not mentioned.The whole to be sold with.ott reserve as Mr Fee is giving up \u2018dairying.8 months'credit on sums over 810.Sale at 12 o'clock.noon.Public Notice ~All parties in arrears for taxes on their plots in Zion Church Cemetery, Dundee, must pay the same on or before the twentieth (20th) day of February, i918, or they will be given to an attorney for collection.D.].STEWART, JAMES McGIBBON, President Secy.-Treas.NOTICE Always in stock, Fenderson\u2019s Lumber, including Matched Spruce Scantling Birch Flooring Plank Ceiling Shingles Red Cedar Clapboards.W.D.McCORMICK, \u2019 Whites Station, Que.Phone 621\u201424 Hens and Calves Wanted 5 am willing to pay for Hens 20c to 25c per th, for good quality.CALVES 12c to 13c per tb.Max Boldovitch.Phone 70 -\" Huntingdon' TO ALL AUTOMOBILE OWNERS Your storage battery should be stored for the winter.We will do this for you.Store your batteries catefully, give them a freshening charge every month, add distilled water when necessary.Reasonable price for the season.8.CAZA, O'Connor Building \u2018 Huntingdon » THE HUNTINGDON GLEANFR vn, .DOBN n At Riverfield, Jan.12th, a \u2018daughter to Mr, and Mrs, John P.5+ perty\u20143.heavy work \u2018horses, 8 milch \u201cRY Hpwitk, for Monday, 21st, at; Gruer.At the Gore, on January 14, ty Mr and Mrs Samuel À \u2018Henderson à sun.- J MARRIED = At Brooklet, Que., on Jan.Tth, by the Rev.J.O.Dagenais, Bernice Florence, daughter of Mr.Archie Pollock of Rockburn, James Lawsongof Huntingdon.At 813 Shuter St., Montreal on Jan, 8th, by the Rev.T.Scott, Margaret daughter of Mr.and Mis.H.Ferns of Dewittville, to\u201d Geôrge M, Lindsay of Rackburn; Que, On Tuesday, the 15th of Jan: 0.\u2018unary, at Knox Church, Ottawa, by «the Rev.Robert Whyte, Violet OW Beatrice, eldest daughter of Mrs.John Monteith of Toronto, to Wil: liam Lanktree, second son of Joss Cu eo Carr of = -River.- ice that Disurit | Rone at the Temperance Hall, and at Ormstown: for Tuesday, 22nd, at 2 p- m,, at the] Macbougail Hall.\"These meetings arc called at \u2018ths request: \u2018of the Department of Agriculture.An'expert from Macdonald Collège will address the meetings.It \u2018ho er that all farmers will attend.= at SEED FAIR 4 The Huntingdon Agricultural Society, Div A, will hold their fifth Annual Seed Fair in the Dunsmore Block, Huntingdon, Que., on Wednesday, Jany.23rd, 1918 Open to all Farmers in the County.Eighty-five dollars offered in l\u2019rizes.in accordance with the Prize-list and regulations.Entries close January 21st.Judging Competitions Class 1.\u2014Open to farmers\u2019 sons \u2018and Academy pupils under 18 years of age.Cluss I1.\u2014Open to farmers over 18 years of age, not in competition I.For information end prise-lists apply to .F.STBPHEN, Secy.- -Treas.Huntingdon, Que., Jany.15, 1918 SHEEP BREEDING Tle Annual Meeting of the Wool Growers and Shecp Preeders\u2019 Association will he held at Huntingdon, January 256th This mecting is of great importance to all who are interested in Sheep, and a large attendance is desired, PROGRAMME 1.30 Judging Demonstration.(Moir Hotel stables) 3.30 Business mecting in County * Building, lor Election of Officers and other business.7pm.Address by a spraker from the Live Stock Branch.8.45 p.m.Discussion of business for coming year, Every sheep owner should be present at this micvel: g Jons PurcELL, President H, R.GRAHAM, Secy.-Treas.- tea E.N° Bu {DIN is.arrang- - - HOCKEY MATCH In the Huntingdon « Skating Rimk Friday, January 18th, 1918 A 8.15 P m TECOMAS \u201cof the Art Ross Intermediate League vs H UNTINGDON : The Tecomas eld the championship of the Art Ross\u2019 Lengue in 1917.this season will practically he al- tog ther a pew teamy us all the senior ayers äre doing their.duty in the army.Be Bure and be present for The first game of the season and cheer the boys on.Admission 25c aud 150 nr Beto Stock Tg pur eon.wo Bees Ebmaid Puy Skin di Rats, Yas Bite ds, Special EUR E N 1 D por veut Plvo Lu iv\" Fr lines! Jnekets, > AN 42-40; 10, i Yçent, di count wa M lou Jan ket, [er 3%, 40, 42.Sp iad a à pe y; cent.5.84 Ty \u201c Lai AN hes a, de mn.IS to.30, Pied Bit Si, 0), ap to § $3.00, Spreind «À Pein 10 per \u201ccout, > Ke ni Fras or vof online of: Taie - 4 Ha o Ses 24 10 6, Tegular prive 5300, Sale Price $2 Lits of Re anbants of DRESS GOODS.anil PRINTS, tied in \u201cbigrllez, to die solid at grently reduced prices.5 i égal re SALES/BY ( 0.A.GAVIN : Afictioneer: on \u2018MONDAY January 21st, at the residence of ARTHUR Luswg.one ile north of Dupuis\u2019 Corners; an Lake shore, the followity property\u20141 4-year old horse, 1 yenring colt, 15.milk cows, mostiy® srade Holsteins, 1-hull 2 years old, gr ale Holstein 6 grade Holstein calves, 1 hay lodder, fiey tediler, gang Plow, sisgle plow,.disiure sprender.25 tons of bay.and other fiticles not mentioned.Sad without reserve as Mr Leger is giving up the farm,\u201d 9 months\u2019 credit on all sims over $a.Sale at one o'clock pan.On + RIDAY, Juonary 25th, al the residence of the late ALBERT: Minpi Miss, one mile south of Roukhurn, the follow- îng property-1 4-year old'horse, 2 colts \u2018rising 3 years old, 2 yearling colts, 6 ood grade cows, 4 yearling heifers, calves, Massey- -Havsig driil scedur, corn planter, sulky plow, weeder, De Laval .cream separatur, set of platform scales, a quantity of bee boxes, milk and cream cans, and uther small\u2019 tools used about the farm; also one 12x24 ft.silo.The whole to lie sold without reserve as Mrs Middlemiss is giving up farming.Eight months\u2019 credit on sums over $10, Sale ati o'clock p.m.LOST On Thursday, January 10th, a lady\u2019s working bag, \u2018containing knitting, table linen, ete.Finder will please leave at Methodist Parsonage, Huntingdon, LOST, a dark brown.collie dog, - named Kaiser; missed Dec, 81st Beward for information where the dog is.John MeGibbon, St Anicet, R.D.2.Phone 644\u201412, Card of Thanks Mr and Mrs Joseph Sloan wish to thank their many kind friends and neighbors for their help and sympathy during their recent be- reaveinent.CARD OF THANKS Mrs Albert Mason and family wish to thank their kind friends and neighbors for the many acts of kindness shown to them in their recent sad bereavement.Acknowledgment The family of the late Mrs Thos Allen wish to thank the pastors, friends and.neighbors for kind sympathy in their recent bereavement.NOTICE All persons having claims against the Estate of the late Wm.Lindsay, Sr, of Rockburn, or those indebted to the same, are requested to notify the undersigned on or before Feb.1, \u20181918.THOMAS OLIVER January 13th, 1918 The local * HUNTINGDON \u2014The annual meeting of the lot holders of the Huntingdon Protestant Cemetery Co., was held on the 9th inst.In the absence of the President, Alex.Chalmers, the Vice-President, Thos, White, presided.There were very few lot holders present, which showed they were satisfied with the management of the Company.The report of the committee showed that the card index system of lots as prepared by the Secretary, had been completed and has already proved to be of great benefit in locating burials.The Committee also reported that they had in- \u2018vested $2000 of the Perpetuity \u2018Fund in the War Loan issue of last year and $500 in Victory Bon The money.\u2018thus invested will give a return of about $75 Committee age suggested the levelling of The finances accounts es Arrears of assessments due, $168.50.Balance due from Dr.Gardner, who recently came from one ofthe four - Canadian clearing hospitals in France Tremendous quantities of dress-.will have 10 or 15 cuts to be attended ings are needed, every man to.The class of material in dressings has improved greatly since the start of the war and is now excellent.These clearing hospitals are from five to eight miles from the firing lire, but we are liable to be bombed or visited by planes: The nursing sisters in them are indifferent to the danger and resent it, if sent away when a plane threatens, Dr, Gardner counts the Canadian nurses *the best.They are not so young and take their work seriously.In England.and France all the young men aré in uniform, and women are nobly doing the work formerly left to men, Dr.Gard- _ner'does not think the war is near its end and is sure they need more men.After an enjoyable supper «the ladies were ready for the new \"guests and evening entertainment An informal programme was oar- ried out, and\" much of the local musical talent, as well \u2018as Mrs.Gibson from \u2018Roekburn, responded.Acted charades added var- Hoty and\u2019 a pleasant evening closed with\u2019 refresliments for all, Mr.and Mrs.Graham took \u2018much trouble to.mako a stccess of this meeting and were rewarded.by a hearty \u2018response, despite th favorable weather.The total T ceipts, afternoon and evening, were #100085.This amount.in- = cludes the fees paid by 22 new Sug fo.the inercased cost of labor it.takes more to con duet the affairs of the company each year.On: \u2018motion the old Board af Trustees was re- elected as follows: 1 White, Wm, © on} ; Crawford, John A.cu \u2018Rich: ard Booth, David: Biggar, H.Tannahill, J.W.Stark, J.C.Brice and J.C.Düngmore.At a subsequent- meeting of the Trustees, Alex.Chalmers was.reelected: President.andi Thos\u2019 \u2018White Vice-Pres.Also W.: F: Stephen .\"wag re-elected Secretary-Treas.with an-increase in salary of $25, The Committee of Management ré: elected: J.C.Bruce, J.A, Hunter and J.-C.Dunsmore.tion the usual assessment pu was levied on each:lot in the cemetery où which the perpetuity had: not.been paid.Jas.McCracken was voted a bonus of $25.for extra work during the winter, payable the 1st of May.The Secte- tary was instructed to collect the balance due on lots sold, also.all .arrears of assessment, \u2014Those who took a lead in the recent federal clection, being \u2018of the opinion that it was desirable to have : permanent Unionist organization, ready to call snpport- ers together should occasion require, arranged frs a meeting in this village to consider the proposal.There was a fair response, and a number from several sections ofithe two counties met Tres day forenoon at the county huild- ing.Tt was largely an informal meeting and after a free exchange of views, it was decided not to go on with an organization until there was .a fuller representation of the electorate of Chateanguay- Huntingdon, it being urged the notice calling them together did not specify its object.It was arranged another meeting should be called and a wider invitation extended.Delegates were appointed to watch the counting of the soldiers\u2019 votes.The meeting was harmonious.\u2014J.Irving McWilliams writes from hospital at Cambridg :, England, Dec, 20 \u2014Was wounded on 28th Nov.in both legs, but am getting on all right.Expect to spend my leave in Glasgow.\u2014In the list of Godmanchester collections for Halifax, $1 from John Todd was not reported.With the limited space now at its disposal and shortness in help, the Gleaner is compelled to discontinue publishing lists of small contributions unless paid for as advertisements.\u2014The inclement weather on Tuesday afternoon did not prevent sixty ladies from attending the At Home for Red Cross Benefit at Mr.H.R.Graham\u2019s, and, in the evening, many more than that number, of men and women, boys and girls, filled the house.The afternoon was spent in sewing and knitting, at intervals accompanied by music and a short talk members, D'active and 13 assoc- inten, A\u2019 donation of $6 from, Mr.W.W.Pringle (B vdsettlem it), aida éheqire from Mr.C.field for $4, bal fice from Choral: Sibi of whichilie was Treas, lay evening.the Rink.As- sociationshad the first ban \u2018night of the season: The'b d, which.was free with its müsic, gave much; \u2018pleasure to tho skaters, and it is hoped that the directors will see fit to have more band nights this season than in the past.\u201d he rink i is receiving increasing offs.couragement from the skaters.\u2014The first game of curling for the Lunan cup was played: Saturday evening.The team, who defended the cup from 1917, lost by one point.THe ice was in good\u2019 shape and the heads well _ contested \u2018as; the score points out, for a twelve end game.The teams were as follows: Defenders Challengers G Cecil Stark @, N.Crutchfield: |W.Sparrow W.J.Goundrey \u201cJ.A.Tianktrée w.J.\u2018Walsh JW.Stark J: L.Cliff (Skip)\u201411 (Skip)\u201412 \u2014Un Ww ednesday eveuig, gw, istrict Vepüty Arthur A.Lang, accompanied \u2018by Last Grands\u2019 rs.St, Lows, iH.chambers, James liunter, D.J.Mcliwen, loss Bryson, Jos.1, deddes and Alfred Sadler, of Ormstown, installed\u2019 ihe officers of Excelsior Lodge, No 17, LO.O.#., Huntingdon, as folle ws\u2014 Jr.P.G., George Ww.Cole, jr.N.G, \u2018George Munro V.G., Douglas Elder Rec.\u201cSecy., John Grant Fin.-Secy., R.Hastie Treas., John A, Brown Warden, Rufus Kelly Conductor, P.M.Elder Chaplain, Adam Maitland In.G., James C.Fortune 0.G., Ruy Sparrow R.8.8., Berton Rankin L.S.S., Walter H, Arthur R.S.N.G,, John A.Ross L.S.N.G., C.W.MeClatchie Despite adverse weather conditions, our air service within the past few days has executed bomib- ing raids on the enemy for fifty miles around Jerusalem.Patrols are steadily clearing the country of Turkish outposts and around Jaffa is now clear of them.There is no change in the local potato market, although the mild- \u2018er days of Monday and Tuesday brought out a considerable supply of tubers for shipment, A dollar per bushel still rules.The severe weather which has been experienced here for the past two weeks, caused a loss of hundreds of bushels of potatoes to the farmers in this town \u2014Chateaugay Record.Montreal, Jan, 16.\u2014The tying up of the railways by storm has made the market bare of cattle.Trade was slow except in choice steers for which as high as.$12 was paid.Good butchers cows fetched $9.50, canners $5.50 to 46.25.Calves were strong, advancing $1\" per 100 lbs, while hogs were $19.50, although a few choice sold at $20.THURSDAY, JAN.17th, 1913 White Sale \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Stacks of new lines of White Gouds, at prices mneh lower than today\u2019s market values, and in both quulities and prices, that it will be hard to duplicate later in the sensun.It will pay you to buy your White Goods Now.Wonder assortment fine Swiss Embroideries 15¢ yd.Winner assortment.ioe Swiss Ewlroideries 10e yd.18 inch fine mercerized Swiss Corset Cover Euibruideries 26¢ yd, 27 inch Swiss Flouncings 48¢ yd Special assortment White Torchon Laces 5c yd.36 inch end Hine White Cottons 16e yd.3G inch White Lonsdale Cambrics 18¢ yd.Snap White Lawns, 86 inches wide 13¢ yl.36 inch English Nuinsooks 20c yd 86 inch Canadian Nuinsooks 15¢ yd.36 inch White Saxony Finnnelette 22¢ yd.27 inch White Muslins 166 yd.36:inch White Curtuin Muslins 15c yd.Ten dozen White Crochet.Quilts, 8pecial values $1.29 Five thousand yards pure Irish) Linén Crashes, in good widths and-old reliable qualities, specially priced 100, 12e, 15e yd.Fine lines fancy Huck Towellings specinl values, 13e, 20c, 25¢, 8 c.A winner White Turkish l'owel- ling 18c yd.White Muslin Tea Aprons 10¢ - Good Igrge size Kimona Aprons 48¢ Children's Bath Robes, all\u2019 sizes, $2.25 Ladies\u2019 Pure Wool White Sweaters $2.05 160 While Waists | 7 ae Fine quality Ladies fine, Muslin Wuists, Pique Wajata, - Voile Waists, sizes 84 to 42.Winners ,.ab: 760 Fine- lines Ladies\u2019 White Underskirts, 49c, 70e, BDc, $L.49 Fine lines Ladies\" White Night- Dresses 49c, 99c, $1.49 Fine lines Corset Covers 40e Ladies\u2019 White.Flannelette Night- Dresses 99¢ Children\u2019 8 White Flonnelette B Dresses 49c Lai White Combination.Sait Tbe, Ladies\u2019 White Silk Waists $2.20 Wihite Crochet Cottons be ball White Hosiery Specials Children's Little Dnisy White ; Cashmere Hose Z9c Ladies\u2019 White Cashimere Hose \u2018890 Ladies\u2019 White Silk Hose, sizes 84 to 10, 26¢ >.Lady Lise Hoge, sizes 8 to 10, A regular 35 center.Get them now 266.Men's White Dress Shirts 90a Ten dozen Men's Flannelette Night Robes, extra good quality 88c White Soup Plates 69¢ dozen White Ten Plates 59c dozen White Dessert Dishes 49¢ dozen Twin Bar White Castile Soap 6 bars 25c 20 dozen Men\u2019s White Canvas Gloves 3 pairs 25c.The Sale That Saves You Money John Hunter & Sons General Merchants .and Millers Montreal Wholesale Prices Flour\u2014 Firsts $11.60, Seconds $11.10, Strong Bakers $10.90, Oats No.2, feed 92 to 9214e, Shorts $40, Bran $35.Hay No.2 $14.50 to $15 Clover hay #11 to $12.Butter, new made creamery 4312 to 44c.Cheese 21440.Eggs, new laid 70e, cold storage 46c.Dressed Hogs $27 to $27.50 Country dressed light weights at 425.25 to $25.50 per 100 lbs.Potatoes Green Mountain $2.25.The latest despatch from Palestine tells of unusually cold weather for that country, Snow fell in Bethlehem on Jan.7th, ye Fm Ts fs re Sue me THURSDAY, JAN.Te, 18 HEMLOCK OR OLD DAYS ON THE CHATEAUGUAY arene CHAPTER IV.(Continued) \u2018Now, mem, you'd better go home and leave SEERA Jim alone.\u201d \u201cYou tell me he\u2019s wounded, and who can nurse him like his old mother?\u2019 \u201cBe reasonable ; the doctor said he was not to be disturbed.\u201d \u201cOh, I will see him; look what I have brought him\u2014a napkin full of the cakes he likes and this jug of syrup.\u2019\u2019 (\u2018Leave them, my good woman, with me and he will get them.\u201d .\u201cNo, no.1 must see my handsome boy in his uniform ; my own Jimmy that never left my side until he \u2018listed the day before yesterday.The sight of me will be better than salve to his hurt.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t let you in; you must go to the colonel for an order.\u2019 \u201cAn order to see my own son! Jimmy, don\u2019t vou hear me: tell the man to let me in.(A pause.) \u2018Are vou sleeping.Jimmy?It's your mother has come to see you.(Here she knocked.) Are you much hurt?Just a scratch they tell me: perhaps they will let you go home with me till it heals.O Jimmy, 1 miss you so at home.\" Again the woman knocked and placing her ear to a crack in the door listened.\u2018He ain't moving! Soger man, tell me true, is my Jimmy here?\u201d \u201cHe is, mem: yon must go to the colonel.I cannot let you in: I must obey orders.\u201d \u201cIf Jimmy is here, then he must be worse than they told me.\u201d \u201cVery likely, mem: it is always best to be prepared for the worst.\u201d \u201cHe may be dyin' for all you know.Do let me in.\u2019 \u201cThere is the captain passing; ask him.\u201d \u201cWhat's wanted, Bill?\u201d \u201cThis is Jimmy's mother and she wants to see him.Come and tell her.\u201d \u2018That I won\u2018t.\u201d\u2019 answered the captain, with an oath, \u201cI'll have a hand in no scene; do as you like to break it to the old woman,\u2019 and on the captain passed.\u201c\u201cWhat does he mean! Jimmy ain't to be punished, is he?He would not do wrong.It was just Tuesday week he went to the pasture for the cows and as he came back, there marched past a lot of sogers, with flags aflying and drums and fifes play- in\u2019 beautiful.\u2018O.mother,\u2019 says he, \u2018I would like to join \u2018em,\u2019 and he kept a coaxin' an\u2019 a worryin\u2019 me until I let him come up to the Corners an\u2019 take the bounty, which he brings back to me, dressed in his fine clothes, the lovely boy.\u201d \u201cNow, good woman, you go home, and I will send you word of him.\u201d \u201cThat I won't; if he is here I must see him.Word came this morning that the Injuns had sprang on to the camp, an\u2019 there was a soger killed, stone dead, an' two taken prisoners.An\u2019, says I, lucky Jimmy ain't one of them, for so they told me, an\u2019 I will hurry up my chores an\u2019 go and see him this ev- enin\u2019, an\u2018 here l am.An\u2019 at the camp they tells me he is over here.Won't you let me see him?\" \u201cYour Jimmy, mem, yes your Jimmy is\u2014My God, I can't speak the word.Here take the key and go in; you'll find him right in front o\u2019 the door.\u201d The door opened and Morton saw a tidy little woman, poorly dressed, step in.She looked wonderingly around, glancing at him in her search for her son.Not seeing him, she stepped lightly towards a heap covered with an army blanket, of which she lifted a corner, gave a pitiful cry, and fell sobbing on what lay beneath.To his horror and pity, Morton perceived it was the corpse of a youth, the head with a bloody patch on the crown, from having been scalped.\u2018\u2018This is what Perrigo's men did,\u2019 he thought, \u2018\u2018and this is war.\u2019 Here two women, warned by the sentry of wrat was passing, entered and did what they could to soothe the distracted mother.The succeeding half hour, during which preparations were made for burial, was accounted by Morton the saddest in his life, and when the detachment arrived with a coffiin to take the body away, and he saw it leave, followed by the heart broken mother, he breathed a sigh of relief and took a mental oath that it would go ill with him if he did not help the poor woman to the day of her death.Some biscuits were brought to him, the bucket refilled with spring water, the door closed, and barred and he was left for the night.Weakness from loss of blood made him drowsy, and forgetting his miserable situation, he slept soundly until morning, when he woke, feeling more like himself than he could have believed possible.His wound felt easy and he was glad to find he could move without much pain.The doctor looked in, nodded approval of his condition, and said he would send him some breakfast.Partaking of it sparingly, Morton felt stronger and turned his attention to his personal appearance, and with the aid of the wet cloth improved it somewhat, The day passed without incident, no one interrupting the monotony of his imprisonment.From the sound of waggon-wheels and the hurrying of messengers to and from the tavern, he surmised the army was preparing to move, and that in the bustle he was forgotten.The following morning his vigor had returned to such a degree that he fell to examining his prison, and as far as he could, by peeping through crevices in its walls of logs, his surroundings, with a view to endeavoring to escape.He had finished breakfast, when an officer appeared, who introduced himself as Captain Thomas of the staff, and announced that the General wished to see him.By leaning heavily on the American, who nroved to be a gentlemanly fellow, Morton managed to hobble the short distance to Smith's tavern, and was led directly to the General's room.On entering a Morton say a fine-looking old gentleman of dignified bearing, whom he recognised as the one he saw inspecting the troops on the evening of the surprise.He sat in a rocking chair and before him stood a rough-looking farmer, with whom he was speaking.Waving Morton to take a seat, he went on with his conversation.\u201cYou tell me your name is Jacob Manning and that you are acquainted with every inch of the country between here and Montreal.I will give you a horse from my own stud, which no Canadian can come within wind of, and you will go to the British camp and bring me word of its strength?\u201d \u201cNo, sir,\u2019 replied the backwoodsman.\u201cYou will be richly rewarded.\u2019\u2019 \u201cThat's no inducement.\u2019\u2019 \u2018\u2018Fellow, you forget you are my prisoner, and that I can order you to be shot.\u201d \u201cNo, I don\u2019t forget.But I'd rather be shot than betray my country.\u2019 \u201cYour country! You are American born you told me.What's Canada to you?\u201d \u201cTrue enough, General, I was brought up on the banks of the Hudson and would have been there yet but for the infernal Whigs, who robbed us first of our horses, then of our kewows, and last of all of our farms, and called their thievery patriotism.If we Tories hadn't had so much property, there wouldn't a ben so many George Washington-Tom Jefferson patriots.When we were hunted from our birthplace for being loyal to the King we were born under, we found shelter and freedom in Canada, and I tell ye, there ain't a United Empire Loyalist among us that wouldn't fight and die for Canada.\u201d \u2018You ignorant boor,\u2019\u2019 retorted Gen.Hampton hotly, \u2018\u2018we have come to give liberty to Canada, and our armies will be welcomed by its down-trodden people as their deliverers.I have reports and letters to that effect from Montreal and, best of all, the personal report of one of my staff, now dead, sent on a special mission.\u201d \u201cDon't trust \u2018em, General.We who came from the States know what you mean by liberty\u2014free- dom to swallow Whiggery and persecution and robbery if you refuse.The Old Countrymen are as stiff as hickory against you, and the French\u2014why, at heart, they are against both.\u201d \u201cTt is false, sir.I have filled my regiments since I came to this frontier with French.\u201d\u2019 \u201cIt wa'n't for love of you; it was for your $40 bounty and a dollar a day.\u201d The General rose and throwing open a shutter, that had been closed to exclude the sunshine, revealed the army in review; masses of infantry moving with passable precision, a train of artillery, and a dashing corps of cavalry.Proudly turning to the bush farmer he said: \u2014 \u201cWhat can stop the sweep of such an army?England may well halt in her guilty career at the sight of these embattled sons of liberty, and loosen her bloody cluteh upon this continent of the New World.\u2018 Neither the sight of the army nor the pompous speech of the General appalled the stout backwoodsman, who replied.\u2018\u2018The red-coats will make short work of \u2018em, and if you don\u2019t want tp go to Halifax you'd better not cross the lines.\u201d General Hampton made no reply; his good- sense apparently checking his pride, by suggesting the folly of arguing with a backwoodsman, who had chanced to be taken prisoner in a foray into Canada.Summoning an orderly, he commanded that Manning be taken back to prison and not released until the army moved.\u2018\u201c And now, Lieutenant Morton, for so I under stand you are named, you are the latest arrival from Canada; and what were they saying of the Army of the North when you left?\u201d \u2018\u2018They were wondering when they would have the pleasure of seeing it,\u2019\u2019 replied Morton.\u2018Ha! it is well to so dissemble the terror our presence on the frontier hag stricken into the mercenaries of a falling monarchy.They will see the cohorts of the Republic soon enough; ere another sun has risen we may have crossed the Rubicon.\u2019 \u2018The wonder expressed at every mess-table has been the cause of your tarrying here.\u201d\u2019 \u2018So I am the topic of the conversation of your military circles,\u201d\u2019 said Hampton, with a pleased expression.\u2018\u2018And what was their surmise as to the cause of my tarrying here?\u2019 \u201cThat you were awaiting.orders from General Wilkinson.\"\u2019 \\ The General sprang to his feet in anger and excitement, \u2018\u2018What! Do they so insult me?Look you, young man, are you telling the truth or dare you come here to beard me!\u201d \u2018\u2018On my honor, General Hampton, I only repeat what I have heard a hundred times.\" \u2018\u2018Then, when you hear it again\u2014that I avsait orders of that impudent pill-maker who masquexad- es at Sackett\u2019s Harbor as a general, say itis a liel General Hampton takes no orders from him; he dis- pises him as a man and as a soldier\u2014a sol dier, quotha! A political mountebank, a tippler, a swindler, and a poltjoon.Here I have been, 1-eady to pluck up the last vestige of British authority on this continent for two months past, and been h'inder- ed by the government entrusting the Western wing of my army to a craven who refuses to recogni ze my authority and who lets I would wait on I dare not.\u201d \u201cI meant no offence by my statement,\u201d\u201d said Morton, as the General paused in atrid:ng the : room.\u201cIt in well for you that you did not, for J: brook no aspersion upon my independence or my reputation as a veteran of the Revolution who bas done somewhat to deserve well of his country, and that is implied in alleging I take orders from Wilkin ison.\u201d (To be continued) THE HUNTINGDON GLEANER.THE PEACE RIVER \u2018When I first moved into the Peace River country, four years ago, I spent eleven days in covering the old Hudson trail from Edmonton to Grand Prairie.And that was considered a fast trip.Others spent from three weeks to three months on the road.To-day anyone can make the journey by rail in a day.That is an indication of how rapidly the finest prairie country on the American continent has developed.\u201d The speaker was Mr.C.A.Me- Donald and one who knows Canada, and particularly Western (Canada, as few men know it.Born in Grey county, he moved with his father to Manitoba twenty- five years ago.From Manitoba he went further west, dwelt for a time south of the international boundary, and is now living twenty-five miles north and 120 west of Edmonton.A Province in Extent The Great Prairie country is 125 miles long from east to west and about 30 from north to south.It is a rolling country, with a gradual rise for three to ten miles and then a fall in the other diree- tion, It is a well watered country.From any one of its numerous elevations three to ten \"lakes can be seen, and there is ample rainfall.The rolling nature of the land assures splendid natural drainage, and the soil is good from the deepest valleys to the highest crests.There is no alkali in Grand Prairie.Eight Successive Crops of Wheat What can we produce?Everything necessary to human comfort Tall wheat has been grown in a small way and spring wheat in quite a large way.Marquis wheat matures perfectly.Seeding sometimes begins in March, but usually runs from the 1st to the 15th of April.I have known oats sown on the 9th and 10th of June to give a good crop.Henry Roberts has grown eight successive crops of spring wheat.There is no fear of loss by frost if seeding is early enough on well-prepared ground.Small fruits, such as berries and currants, yield laxuriant- ly, and some apples have been grown on an experimental way.Wonderful Stock Country It is, however, as a stock country that Grand Prairie stands pre eminent.Horses will rustle for themselves all winter; cattle require winter\u2019s feeding, but no shelter is necessary.Our cattle are mostly of the beef-breeds\u2014 Shorthorns, Herefords and Angus but we have a creamery\u2019 at the town of Grand Prairie.Cold in winter?Yes, but I have never seen a day in winter that I could not drive twenty miles so far as cold is concerned.There is little snow before Christmas, and we seldom have over two feet of it.Fuel there is in abundance.Up to the present we have have depended mainly on wood, but nearly the whole country is underlaid with soft coal, and there is a hard coal equal to anthracite sixty miles from the town of Grand Prairie.$1.92 for Wheat Prices?Good for what farmers have to sell, and moderate for what they have to buy.No.1 wheat was selling when I left at $1.92 per bushel, and lumber can be bought at $25 to $30 per thousand.\u2018We have modern conveniences.There is a good hospital at Grand Prairie town, and fifty cars are owned there in which owners ean travel all over the Prairie country.We have two grist mills and a number of saw mills.All buildings are as yet of frame, but we have good brick clay.What Land Costs Land prices are moredate.Fair- lywell improved farms can be had at $15 to $25 per acre, and within five to fifteen miles of the railway T have seen most of the West, but no part of the vast territory beyond the great lakes is to my mind equal to Grand Prairie.\u2014 tr MESOPOTOMIA Canadian medical men played a prominent part in the British campaign in Mesopotamia for many months past.Their work, together with that of the Imperial medical men, was largely responsible for the excellent health of the fighting forces, according to Capt.C.J.Willoughby, 14 Big- gar avenue, who has recently returned from that theatre of the war.After leaving Mesopotamia, Capt.Willoughby who is attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps, and who is home on leave gerved for a month in India, and three weeks in Egypt.Contrasting conditions existing in the two PETE TTT CU armies, Cat Willoughby sald\u2019 that when the British captured Bagdad a large number of Turkish prisoners were taken, who were sick with typhus.Up until the time he left the British had not one case of typhus reported in their army.Wiped Out Mistakes Capt, Willoughby, with a large number of other medical men, including twenty from Canada, was sent to Mesopotamia shortly after the investigation conducted into affairs there early in 1916.At that time the British Government took over the direct management of affairs in Mesopotamia, taking it out of the hands of the Indian Office.Immediate steps were taken to correct the errors made in the past and the unsatisfactory sanitary arrangements, One of the causes of complaint was the suffering the men had to undergo from insects.Mosquitos .and sand flies were the worst.The sand flies made life miserable for the troops for about three days after landing.The men were affected as from influenza for about a week after.The British Government investigated the in- seet pest, and at once installed ice plants and erected new hospital huts.Scorpions were few and those that were to be found were around the base, i Railways Needed People often ask, said Capt.Willoughby, why it is the armies in Mesopotamia do not progress faster.This is the chief reason: The supplies have to be moved from Basra to Bagdad.One transport can take about 150 to 200 tons, and it takes two weeks to make the trip.If we had had a railway there we would have taken the whole of Mesopotamia long ago.Must Keep Mesopotamia The general opinion there is that Britain will have to keep Mesopotamia to keep German influence out.Germany sought to stir up unrest in India, but if Britain retains Mesopotamia, instead of allowing it to fall into the hands of the Turks, it will be impossible for the Teutons to exercise that influence.If Britain does keep it, she will establish a base there.\u201d At the beginning of hostilities the Arabs were none too friendly to the British, but within the last year and a half they have become friends and now openly ask that British rule be established.They have adopted a neutral attitude in so far as the fighting goes.Irrigation and Railways In the opinion of Capt.Wilo- ughby, river navigation will never be of great service to the country.The rivers are shallow, and flat bottom boats can only go inland about one hundred miles.The whole thing in Mesopotamia will have to be irrigation and railways, he said.Before the war England and Turkey had agreed to a scheme to irrigate the country.London, Jan, 10.\u2014An instance of German cruelty toward defenceless seafaring men, even more cold-blooded than usual, occurred Wednesday in the North Sea.A drifter, or fishing boat, of eighty- seven tons was about its lawful business and was caught in a blizzard.Suddenly through the thick snow shells began to fall about her.One man was killed and the boat was upset.The rest of her crew of about a dozen managed to support themselves by hanging on to the keel, although one was badly injured.The U.boat saw something had happened.It drew near the capsized boat, coolly and carefully surveyed the seamen half-frozen in the water, and then submerged, Fortunately a patrol boat which had heard the shots hurried to the scene and saved the trawler\u2019s crew.=) London, January 10.\u2014The submarine warfare has gradually taken on a new phase since the wintry weather get in.Submarines of the so-called cruiser type are now doing most of the sink- ings, while the smaller submarines apparently are confining their work largely to mine-laying.The reason for this shifting is that .small submarines are not good surface craft in stormy seas, while the cruiser type has proved wonderfully seaworthy, being actually more manageable than the mod ern torpedo boat destroyer in: heavy weather.These cruiser submarines carry two 5.9 guns and sixteen torpedoes, and can remain at sea six weeks.The Germans have built a considerable number of these super-submarines since the first one visited Ameni- can waters, but so many of them have been lost that there are now not more than seven or eight operating.These, however, are maned by the pick of the German navy, and their power for harm ' may be judged from the fact that these seven or eight vessels are able to keep up such a heavy toll of sinking among allied shipping.| A considerable proportion of the recent sinkings have been accomplished by gunfire.The eruiser submarine guns no longer are of the old type, which folded into the body of the craft when it submerged and had to be unfolded before the U-boat could get into action.The new guns are of a species known technically as \u201c\u2018wet\u2019\u201d\u2019 guns, being constructed of material which sea water does not harm.They are mounted on stationary platforms.Therefore they are always ready and can be fired the instant the deck of an emerging boat is above water.Last year 367 Norwegian vessels with an aggregate tonnage of 566,000 were sunk, an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Copenhagen reports.Since the beginning of the war 215 Danish ships with a total tonnage of 224,000 have been sunk, and 234 Danes have been killed.The greatest folly that has been shown in the making of agricul tural Old Ontario has been in the wholesale removal of timber from land unfit for growing anything but timber.The greatest present folly in the same connection is in the failure to take immediate steps for the reafforesting of areas unfit for profitable cultivation Brockville, Jan, 4.\u2014In response to an agitation in the local press the Protestant ministers of Brock- ville met with Fuel Controller Dewey this morning and decided upon holding union services for the balance of the winter, thereby saving approximately a hundred tons of coal.Five of the Protestant churches, starting the 13th inst., will meet in Wall Street Churches, and the three Anglican congregations in St.Peter's.Previously one Presbyterian and one Methodist congregation had agreed to unite.Chicago Ill, Jan.9.\u2014Prediction of a radical advance in the price of men\u2019s clothing, charges that wool growers, not satisfied with an advance in the price of wool from eighteen cents before the war to 75 and 80 cents a pound at present, are hoarding up for still higher prices, and plans to memor ialize Congress for Government control of both wool and cotton prices were features of the meeting here today of the National Clothiers.A noble Lord, when leaving one of the official motor cars, asked the woman driver to come back at a certain hour.She replied \u2018All right.\u201d The noble Lord then said, \u2018I am accustomed to being called \u2018My Lord.\u201d The woman driver replied, \u2018And I am accustomed to being called \u2018My Lady.\u201d \u2014Manchester Guardian.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 GETTING AFTER CHILBLAINS.Some Hints About Remedies For Thess Winter Pesta.Here are a number of cures for frosted feet or chilblains.Some are very simple.Soak the feet in water in which potatoes with their jackets on have been boiled.Soak the feet in strong brine.Soak the feet in bran water containing three teaspoonfuls of murlate of ammonia.Rubbing the parts briskly, but gently, with oll of turpentine.Keep the frosted parts moist with the following: White castile soap, one dram; tioetare of cantbarides, two ounces.Take equal parts of tincture of 10- dine and solution of ammonia and paint the bitten parts morning and evening.Another preparation that is good is the following: On¢ ounce of spirits of wine, ten drops of tincture of arnica.Rub well into the frozen parts.Here is an ointment that is recommended: Pure carbolic acid, thirty grains; tannin, thirty grains; tincture of fodine, thirty drops; simple ointment, two ounces.Apply twice a day.This is best prepared by your druggist, A very simple one is to apply to the affected parts compound tincture of benzoin.A NATION MADE OVER All Great Britain's Industries Harnessed for War.The British army bas undergone changes of a far-reaching character since the outbreak of war in 1914, and it now possesses many branches unheard of in pre-war days.Every resource afforded by the manifold capacity of this great industrial community bas been, harnessed to the war chariot, says a British statement from official sources.There are certain respects in which the problem by which the British army is faced is unique; and one of the most striking of these is that it must be capable of campaigning in any part of the world and in any climate, In the case of armies like that of Germany, on the other hand, the problem of preparation for war was relatively simple.The ground on which the army was destined to fight was known; it was an army designed to do battle in a particular theatre\u2014Europe.In consequence everything could be, and was, planned along certain well-defined lines.In the present war the importance of field works was apparent at a very early stage, partly owing to modern artillery and partly to the confirmed entrenching habit of the Germans.One of the cardinal instructions given by the German commanders to their troops on first invading France and Belgium was\u2014 \u201cmake trenches everywhere.\u201d In tact all the continental powers had in addition to their corps of engineers large numbers of trained pioneers, organized in battalions, and suitable for use either as fighting troops or in the construction and maintenance of field works and communications.The absolute importance of the last-named can perhaps only be realized by one who has seen the roads during an advance.But, while the continent was to this extent prepared for trench warfare, as was natural in the circumstances, it was otherwise with Great Britain.In the British service only the Indian army possessed pioneer regiments, these troops being always necessary in conducting campaigns in the hill country.When the need for this class of trogps became evident, steps were taken Lo form pioneer battalions for the expeditionary force.From the first they proved their value.The pioneers are prepared to fight or work as may be required.They perform such services as the construction and repair of communication trenches, fire trenches, and dugouts, the digging of trenches and wiring.Their duties are manifold, and there is no- form of usefulness at the front which the pioneer does not at one time or another find himself called upon to undertake, His activities range from carrying up ammunition to retrieving the wounded or holding a fiercely disputed trench or sap.- In the great advances on the Somme and in Artois the pioneers performed work of the greatest importance.The duty of consolidating the captured ground and connecting it up with the old front line of the attackers, largely fell to them.In many places they took part in the advance as infantry, in others they kept the advancing lines supplied with ammunition and water, and beat off counter-attadks.Their losses have been heavy, but they bave accomplished their tacks in the face of every obstacle.As a rule, the pioneers remain in the vicinity of the trenches all the time their division is in the line, and do not go back for rest, except at long intervals.The pioneer is as yet a new type in the British army, but he has long since passed the trial stage, and bas proved his worth and steadfastness.His metal has been tried in the crucible of war and very thoroughly it has stood the test.Drunkenness Decreased, During February of this year the weekly convictions for drunkenness in London fell considerably below the lowest level of 1916, and ia many areas were reduced to proportions not previously attained.The Metropolitan police area showed a total cf 409 for the week ending February 25, against a weekly average of 560 in 1916 and of 997 for 1915.Manchester gave an average for the four weeks of February of 30, as compared with 50 for 1916 and 83 for 1915, Edinburgh figures have fallen to 44, as compared with 75 last year, Glasgow had only 180 convictions for drunkenness, compared with 522 in 1915 and 319 in 1916, Aberdeen and Dundee are also satisfactory.The general result ie that in January and February.1917, in the scheduled areas there has been a decrease of about 21 per cent.from the weekly average for 1916.Home Grown Salads.Make winduw boxes for the back windows and in them sow thyme, parsley, radishes, lettuce, carrots and cucumber seed, also some onions.Four such window boxes, if replanted every three weeks, will furnish enough greens to supply a family of three for the summer.Spring Hints, Begin now to feed up the prospective work-horses.Let them go into the spring drudgery well and strong.Curry better than usual and provoke an early shedding.Oats are good for this and should always form a part of the vernal horse ration; also a little of the oil meals.If you have any old wheat stubble plough it under before April and thus bury any Hessian fly there may be in it.If you wish to grow something to can grow asparagus.A bed of it lasts 25 years if put in right, and it is one of those crops that the drouth never affects.It beats the drouth.Put in half an acre, get a canning plant and be through with your work and worry by the first of May.Grow some big gourds for the houses.Wrens like them better than those made ornately.If the hole does not exceed an inch the sparrow cannot enter it.Put up a new gourd One ounce sal ammoniac dissolved in one cup of vinegar.Bathe with soft cloth or gause.It gives immediate re- lef.turpentine, two drams; olive oil, four drams.Mix and apply to parts freely nigbt and morning.Another, used by an old lady who says it ls excellent, is as follows: Mix four ounces glycerin with one dram carbolic acid.Paint the affected parts with this once or twice dally, using a small brush in applying and giving another application before retiring at night.Bind the parts with soft cloth.\u2014\u2014\u2014 every year or two, and this form of cleanliness will keep the birds.A bluebird likes a tomato can on the shady side of a tree.Punch a nail ' hole on the lower side.Citron ointment, one ounce; oil of , r side Take the dead wood and a portion of the old large green wood out of your currant bushes.Keep new wood coming up and every few years have new clumps coming on, Sufficient shoots from buried lower branches will be furnished for renewal, otherwise plant tips in the fall.Cut off all dead or withered tips or branches and burn.Use bordeaux for molds, ote., and white hellebore tea for the currant worm.It will not poison the fruit.Do not depend on birds, no antter bow many you have, "]