The Stanstead journal, 13 décembre 1906, jeudi 13 décembre 1906

[" red all lie ou ve lie | be ns his Ir p voL.LXI\u2014No.50 ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD » P.Q., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1906 « A.E.Fish & Company\u2019s Only ten days to Christmas, and we haven't time to tell of the full assortment of Christmas Novelties as well as staple oods which we are selling at prices that ought to, and do pring customers from afar.essing contest is ranning well; prices on flour will remain until after the holidays at $2.15, $2.20 and 82.25 per bag.All Warranted, and a guess for every dollar you trade, pags we sell before Christmas.on how many A car of American Yellow Corn expected Monday or Tueaday at 56c.push.from the car.4 Ibs.Choice Crystal Mixed Candy for 25c., &c., &e.A.E.FISH & CO.A.G.CLOUGH, Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Que.Christmas Goods are all in.gee them is to buy.Largest stock for years to select from.Bring in your Poultry.Eggs, Butter «nd Maple Sugar in exchange.Car of New Corn to arrive, at 55 cents from Car.The best Kerosene Oil on these days at 15 cents gallon.1 Car of the best Old Yellow Corn on track Saturday and Monday, 15th and 17th 6! ce.from Car.Cash paid for Hemlock Bark, Railway Ties, Pulp Wood, Spruce Logs, ete.WANTED\u2014Teams and Men for lumber woods, DISTRICT OF ST.FRANCIS TEACHERS' MEETING.The programme for the annual meeting of the District of St.Francis Teachers\u2019 Assotiation to be held in the Pierce Hall, Stanstead College, on Saturday of this week will be as follows: 10 a.m.Reading of minutes, reports of Committees anc other routine business; Election of officers, ! Address of Welcome, Dr.Flanders; \u201cHeating and ventilation,\u201d Inspector R.J.Hewton, M.A; Discussion.2p.m.President\u2019s Address, W.L.Shurtleff, Esq., D.C.L., K.C.; \u201cCambridge,\u201d E.E.Boothroyd, Esq., B.A., Bishop's College; \u2018\u2018Unconscious Tuition,\u201d Rev.A.H.Moore, M.A., Rector of Stanstead.At the close of the meeting tea will be served in the parlors by Mrs.Flanders and the ladies of the College staff.The general public are cordially invited.N.T.Truell, Cor.Secretary.WOMAN'S READING CLUB.Last Thursday afternoon the Club were invited to \u201ctake their work\u2019 and spend an informal session at the College, it being Reception day.It was astormy afternoon, yet a good number went, The parlors were very cheerful and bright with flowers furnished by Misses Smith and Ball.A nice musical program was provided by Miss Smith and selections read from Russian authors by Club members.Delicious light refreshments were served.READ THIS! Premier Hungarian Flour $2.20 hag Bran, Shorts and Middlings at bottom prices.Canned Blueberries, Log- gie's make, 6',c.; Peas, \u201cLog Cabin,\u201d 71,6.; Corn, \u201cLog Cabin,\u201d 8c.; Tomatoes, \u201cLog Cabin,\u201d 10kge3 100 lbs.Redpath\u2019s Granulated Suglir 84.50; 7 bs.best Rolled Oats 25c.Men's Heavy all-wool Underwear 45c.E.R.WEBSTER.Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Nov.30th, 1906.\u2014 NORTH HATLEY.Weather cold; Saturday a.m., was the coldest, the thermometer registering 21 below zero.J.G.Simpson anchored his steamer due time as the lake froze at both ends the next day.Mra.Horace Hodge is staying with Mrs.H.L.Smith, who is improving.Mrs.Susie Embury of Qiver and \u201cMrs.Helen Emery of Hatley, who \u2018have been visiting their sister, Mrs.M, NM.LeBarou, returned to their | homes the first of the week, | Miss Myrtie Putney returned to her \u2018home, at Smith's Mills, on Tuesday.j Mrs.Ai LeBarou is on the siek fist.| Holland Knowlton is in bed with a | bad cold.i It is said that Mrs, Edmond Hawse.who has been suffering from a cancer, \"is nerly cured.| Mr.Elmer McClary spent Saturday | and Sunday at Mr.and Mrs.Alva Ty- i ler\u2019s.| weeks at the Dairymew\u2019s School, in (St.Hyacinthe.| are guests of Mr.and Mrs.Ned.Hart- Messrs.8.J.Clark, Leslie Bean, C.N.Hawes and Charles Hawes, while {out hunting between Brompton Lake and the Chain of Takes brought in a fine deer weighing 160 Ibs.and having here.Mrs.A, A.Willard, we are glad to say, is able to sit up some.Miss Bertha Reed has gone to Sherbrooke and is taking lessons in shorthand.Mrs.A.C.LeBaron and Mrs.Daisy | Richardson drove to Huntingville, Monday.{ Mr.Willard Bean left Monday for | Toronto, where he is engaged as an | electrician, ! Dan Abbott moved to his winter | quarters, up the lake, the first of the | week.Mr.and Mrs.Noble Dean were at Ayer\u2019s Cliff over Sunday.HEATHTON.Mr.Hobert Gay of Que., with his father, Mr.Henry Gay, of Beebe Plain, were guests of Mr.and Mrs.E.Clement, last week Thursday and Friday.Mr.Arthur Cooper of Stanstead, was the guest of his aunt, Mrs.Sarah Hill, recently.Rev.G.8.Clendinnen of Stanstead, preached an excellent sermon to an appreciative audience here, last Sunday.Mrs.Ernest Davis has received a I'beautiful upright piano case Organ, for a Christmas present, from her husband and mother, Mrs.Wright Pomeroy of Stanstead.The Organ was purchased from G.M.Moulton & Son, Coaticook, by Mr.Davis.Mrs.Hill, who had her shoulder dislocated last fall, is getting along nicely.Christmas Stationery at the JOURNAL office.PARSONS You will find in our store the most appropriate line of goods for Holiday Gifts to be found anywhere.Watches and Clocks.We have a big line of Watches at all Prices from #1 up; Clocks from 81 to .a vay clock.e can give you ex- alue for your money, no matter what you want, y £a Sets, Cake Baskets, Pickle x hen, Waiters, Berry Spoons, Ple Selves, Tomato Servers, Cucumber gover, Salad Spoons and Forks, Dies and Oyster Ladles, Chafin 4.aes, Chafing Spoons.You wi a in these lines many articles just ght for Christmas Gifts at from 25 Cents to 810 or higher if yon want them.Jewelry.New and Elegant designs in Jewel of all kings, Chains.Ouft Links, lelets and Rings galore.Cut Glass.The largest assortment ever shown in this place.The designs are very attractive.Silverware.A superb showing of Silverware, bought before the recent advance in Silver and offered at prices you can afford to pay.y Ebony Goods.A fine \u2018line of Ebony and Silver oods.irrors; Brushes, Travelin ets, Jewelry Boxes, Brush, Com and Mirrow Sets, in Silver and Ebony.China.We are closing out our stock of Fine China at 20 per cent.below cost.We have the largest and best stock of all these lines we have ever had, and are here to do business.Come in and eee them; we shall be pleased to thow you the goods whether you bay or not.R.C.PARSONS, Rock Island, Que.Derby Line, Vt.| Mr.J.W.McKay is spending a few; Mr.and Mrs.C.Hartson of Fairfax, {the handsomest antlers ever shown Cowansville, .TOWN TOPICS.Mr.H.8.Hubbard of Sherbrooke is in town.office.Mr.L.D.Fregeau has been ill with quinsy during the past week- International Water Stock is al- beady quoted at 105 on the local mar- et.Col.C.E.Nelson is away on a business trip to Montgomery and St.Al- bans.Nothing is nicer for a Cbristmas present than a Fountain Pen.You can get the non-leakable kind at the JOURNAL office.| Eggs are Very scarce in town at 32e, ja doz.Farmers should see that those jold hens get busy with some green To Pocohontas in its winter quarters in: cat bone at Lincoln & Lincolu\u2019s.; Col.and Mrs.H, S, Haskell returned from Boston, Tuesday.We under.\u201cstand, however, that they will leave shortly for some point further south.| À monster closing out sale is being conduc.ed ao POA Bisons hy the Montreal Merchandise Bargain Co.Read their big advertisement in this pap +.i Mr.Willinm Boland, who has been remploved on the Fairbanks estate at (Bt Jonnsbury during the past few Months, returned io S:austeud, Mou- day.De.and Mes, HOC Rupz have -losed their house and gone iv Glace Bay, CUB., where they wili remain during the winter, with their dauzhter, Mrs.J.S.Whyte.F, W.D.Melloon is showing his handsome lines ot China, ete., in the room recenily \u2018reclaimed\u2019 from the horse shed.The display is very attractive.We are ordering half a ton of choice | turkeys and geese for our holiday trade.Come in early and get juat [ what you want.Lincoln & Liucoln, [The Little Butchers.\u201d | Mr.T.S.Haskell returned from \"Montreal Tuesday and is now enjoy- [ing the best of health.The many \u2018friends of the family are much grati- | fied by his recovery.Caswell & O'Rourke have a very attractive display of Christmas goods.;They have placed a 200 c.p.electric \u2018light near the entrance and are run- \"ning the \u2018daylight store\u201d of the i town.Preparations for the hall on New Year's eve are now well in hand.Mr.LC.©, Gardner has been elected Hon.! Secretary by the committee having charge of the arrangements.Music {will ve furnished by Madam Brock\u2019s Orchestra of St.Johnsbury.| Rev.William R.Harvey will resume : his duties as pastor of the Congrega- \u201ctional Church next Sunday morning, preaching at both morniug and even- ring services.Mr.Harvey has been enjoying life at the *\u2018Ilub\u2019\u2019 and has {received much benefit from his stay | there.He will arrive here to-night.| À basket-ball contest will take | place between Stanstead College and St.Johnsbury Academy at the College | eymmasivm Friday evening, Dec.14th, at § o'clock.The St.Johnsbury team is one of the best school teams in Vermont and the College has not \u201cyet been defeated.The many friends of Hon.C.C.Coi- by have heen much concerned in his condition during the past two weeks, since which time he has been under treatment in the Royal Victoria Hos- ! pita], Montreal.Latest reports indicate that he is slightly better, and all hope for his speedy recovery.© The First Universalist Church, Der- iby Line, Rev.J.Newton Emery, pas- ltor.Public worship at 10.45 a.m.Sunday school at 12 m.Y.P.C.U.meeting at 7 p.m.The subject of the morning sermon, \u201cWhat it is to experience Religion.\u201d Subject of the Young People\u2019s meeting, \u2018The neces- gity of Prayer.\u201d The allotment of stock in the International Water Company was made Tuesday.A total of 1,708 shares was subscribed by the public, to fill which the directors bad a balance of 450 shares, or about 13 per cent.Those who subscribed for from one to five shores were assigned the full amount; Those who subscribed for ten got six: for twenty, seven; for twenty-five.eight; for fifty, eleven.\u201cDon\u2019t send your money away to the big city store until you ind out what the merchants in your town can do.Their advertisements in this issue will be just as interesting as those of the millionaire merchant princes who are so anxious to secure your money.Stand by your own town, help to build it up by trading at home and let hundged miles away, hustle else- wher for thelr patronage.Christmas Papeteries at the JOURNAL : TOWN TOPICS.Fountain Pens at the JOURNAL office.; A new iol of groceries received for the Holiday trade at Abbey\u2019 store.Mr.John P.Bowen of Hatley, Sec- | retary of the Stanstead County Agri- | cultural Society, was in town to-day jon business in connection with the | society.The annual meeting will take place at Ayer\u2019s Cliff, next Wed- «nesday, {| Mr.Valentine W.Eaton of Boynton, i was in town to-day.Mr.Eaton has passed his 85th birthday, but is as | active as many men 10 or 20 vears bis | junior.He cares tor his own stock, cuts and hauls his own wood and attends to other duties about his farm.An effort is being made to organize a stock company to put a new steamer on Lake Memphremagog.In this \u2018connection Capt.H, W.Mann of Manchester, No Ho, has been in town this week.The plans are fora hoat 120 feet in length with a carrying CHOBE OF 20 pisses amd asp ed ol about 153 uote an heur.Mr.Byron Jo Cambell, who went west cu the harvest excursion at the end of August.Vancouver BC \u201cnude good in , where he holds a his profitable situstion With a large busi- Daniel Canipeetyf tte Luke Shore.and is BOW raving to induce his \u2018parents to remeve to Cie comtiereinl metropolis of the Paetie Provinee.Mr.William MeGre, another Lake Shore box, who went west with Mr.meeting with equal puecess in Vane couver, ness house.He ds a son of A special meeting of the municipal council was held on Tuesday evening to receive the report of the special CHRISTMAS BIGGER, BETTER, MO Christmas will not be Christmas Blanchard Co.\u2019s.THE BASEMENT BARGAIN Campbheil, is, We have miles and miles.We will expect you.Games, Children\u2019s Books-and it\u2019s great.the Busiest, Merriest place in Newport.goods enough for every Man, Woman, Boy and Girl within The Stanstead Journal.WHOLE No.3174.TRUE & BLANCHARD CO»S GREAT ANNUAL GOODS SALE RE OF IT THAN EVER! this year unless you've been to True & Jewelry, Daimonds, Watches, Silverware, Cut Glass, Fancy China, Dinner Ware, Lamps, Pictures.DEPARTMENT\u2014Full of Dolls, Toys, 5¢., 100., and 18¢.Counters will be Come early.True & Blanchard Company, The Christmas AYER'S CLIFF.Mr.Orange Slack, who wis em- pioyed by the Rutroad Company nt Newport, Vi, met with a very serious aecident, an engine striking him and thiowing him some distance agmnst the trozen ground, breaking his dent arat above the cibow and entting his face quite badly.Mr.Slack has now retuned to his home here comtortuble as could be expected, Mex.Wesley Cus in itl and attended by Dr.Brown.Misa Mabel Hovey has been in town à few days visiting her many trienda.Mrs.Bangs.and Ms, A.A.Drew are drilling the children for the Christmas entertainment.1 Rev.Charehill Moore and family pare expected to arrive Wednesday on the 11 train.and is ans PORT.commitie appointed in connection | St.George\u2019 Church was consecrat- with the stairs and path controversy.ed on Saturday.The Lord Bishop of The Mayor and all the Councilors Quebec, nfler having signed and re- Were present.The committee sub- | ceived the deed of the lot on which mitted a proposition signed by Water- | the Church is built, kindly donated by man & Hunt wherein they agreed to Messrs.Clough and Rexford, pro- remove the obstruction recontly ceeded to the Church, and, at the re- erected at the south side of their, quest of the rector, Church-wirdens building.allowing the corporation to | and several others, proceeded to con- rebuild the stairs for public use, with secrate the building.Despite the in- the provision that they, (Waterman clement weather, the Church was filled & Hunt, be allowed to move their by an earnest congregation who list- the merchants, who are three or four: building six feet to the south relinquishing \u2018hat amount of of space for the stairs on the north side of the building, the municipality on its part \u201cto renounce its claim to the old road bed to a depth of seventy-five feet back from the Main street.This plan will give to the municipality a pas- rage to Railroad street between the Roex Island Hardware Co\u2019.building and Mr.Flint\u2019s drug store.The proposition was agreeable to the council and resolution was moved by Couiei- | lor Holmes, seconded by Councilor Norris, expressing the satisfaction of the council with the efforts made by Councilor Ball to secure a friendly settlement of the controversy; their appreciation of the fair and friendly | way in which Mr.H.B.Stewart had, met Councilor Ball\u2019s overtures, aud their pleasure at receiving a satisfactory ofter from the Rock Island Hardware Co.Councilor Ball was appointed a committee to complete un amicable settlement with the Hard- | ware Company, without litigation, acting upon competent Jegal advice.The resolution was carried unanimously unless some hitch occurs, which is not expected, the stairs will will be rebuilt on the old site at once and the present plans of the Hardware Company contemplate the removal of the building next spring.When the stairs are finally placed at the north side of the huiiding they will likely be covered by a roof and lighted at night by electricity.tlement should be satisfactory to all parties.The village will have a walk, which is all that it desires; tae Hardware Company will have a perfect title to ite property, and Mr.Stewart, who gave a warranty deed, will be guarded against any flnancial loss in case of condemnation or confiscation of the property by the courts.It is one of the few cases where everybody wins.CRYSTAL LAKE.Mr.8.(i.Batchelor was in Magog on business one day last week.Our popular teacher, Miss Emma Lee visited her home at Fitch Bay last Sunday.Mr.Ibra Hamilton visited his parents, last Sunday.Remember the Christmas tree to be given in the school honse Thursday evening, Dec.20th.A good program is being prepared.All are invited.Prayer meeting held last week at the home of Mr.Homer Drew, was \"well attended, and a good meeting.© Buy your moccasons, snowshoes, | hockey sticks and pucks at Abbey\u2019s Store.The set- \"ened with rapt attention to the beau- Juful consecration service, and the | must carnest and appropriate sermon : preached by the Bishop whose subject wan, \u201cMy House shall | House of Prayer,\u201d followed by the administration of the Holy Commnnion toa goodly number of communicants, i In the latter service the Bishop was ;6ssisted by Rev.Rural Dean Parker, | Rev.Albert Stevens, M.A, and the \u2018Rector.The Revs.A.H.Moore, MA, B.Watson, M.A, and J.J.8.Sen- man, B.A, braved the cold and drove from their respective parishes to be present.After the services in the church was ended, the clergy and congregation repaired to the County Hall, where the good ladies of Ayers Cliff and the ; neighborhood around had provided a sumptuous dinner, of which upwards\u2019 of 150 partovk.While this part of the programme was being carried out, the Rector called the audience to order, and after having given a resume of the history of the building and enlarging of the church at Perryboro, gave an account of ita removal and re-elec- tion at Ayer\u2019s Chiff.The total cost was about £300, all of which he reported was already subscribed.He then introduced the Lord Bishop, who made a very neat, practical speech, referring to the faithful work that had been done by the Rev.A.Stevens, tev.Rural Dean Parker, having been called on, smused the company by telling them the best way to raire money for church purposes.The Rev.Albert Stevens also made a short \u201cbut very appropriate speech.Both \u2018the service and dinner passed off very \u2018nicely, and all the people, irrespective of denomination, vied with each other in their efforts to make the function a success, both socially and financially; | nor were their labors in vain, for up- | wards of 840 were added to the church | funds.BROWN'S HILL.| We are sorry to report Mrs.Harvey ! Vaughn not improving as fast as her many friends wish her to.Mr.Magoon of North Hatley was at Mr.E.E.Temple's, Tuesday.Mrs.A.W.Brown has been spending a short time with her parents, at Ayer\u2019s Cliff.Miss Pearle Brown apent Saturday and Sunday with her parents, Mr.and Mrs.C.R.Brown, Ayer\u2019s Cliff.Mr.Wolfe Libby of Boynton is working for Mr.J.O.Rollins.Messrs.W.H, and Gordon Temple were in Shefford om business recently.Mr.F.J.Brown was in the place last Sunday.be called a.Goods People, ' GEORGEVILLE.Tie Lake is frozen over in the upper part down to some distance he- iow Owl's Head and in the lower part, up to within a halt wile of this place.Droand Mea, WOM, Keyes were nt North Hatley Lat week, visiting reln- ves.Sha Koves remaining n few days longer on account of the cold weather.Me.Wlie Dativ sad his bride have returned from atop to Montreal and will reside at the McGowan farm, Mr.Chazies Boynton, who has been «Region, in the North-West, for four years, i< at home again for à vik it of à few mouths.The sleighing is now very good, and people can draw wood to keep them- | pelves from freezing.Ît was 20 degrees below zero hers ov Saturday morning, Dec.Sth, Friday and Saturday were the most disagreeable days of the winter so far.The next dunce will be at the Me- Gowan Hall un Friday evening, Dec.14th.Stoliker's Orchestra from Newport, will furnish the music.There will be an oyster supper by the trustees of the Georgevilie Methodist Church, at the home of Mr.James Allen, on the Magog rond, on the evening of December 3ist.Price -Z5ets.The public cordially invited.| Proceeds will he applied to the par- 8ONAKe repair.An entertainment will be given.| GRANITEVILLE.Mr.and Mrs.B.C.Howard of Sherbrooke, visited her parents, Mr.and Mra.Stephen Salis, recently.Mr.and Mrs.A.W.Bullock ot Georgeville, visited her parents, Mr.«nd Mrs.A.B.Davis, Sunday.' Mra.Frank Lee and Mrs.Charles Prim of (Henbrook, visited Mra, Myron Morse on Monday.Mr.and Mrs.George Moir went to Way's Mills the first of the week, to visit her sister, Mra.J, L.Converne.Miss Pearl Hamilton of Lake Park, spent last week with Mrs.Frank Rolling.© Mr.Jamen Syme, who has kpent the Aummer here, left for his home in Westerly, R.I, last week.While here he made many friends who regret his departure, Mra.Gladys Loe and two children, are spending a few weeks at Newport, Vi, visiting relatives.Mr.and Mrs.E.B.Tryon and Mra, Fred Hall, spent last Saturday at Cedarville, the guests of Mr.and Mrs.George Hall, The thermometer registered 20 bie- low zero on Sunday morning.Mr.George Armitage of Sherbrooke, was in the place recently, adjusting the claim of John Salla\u2019 insurance on his household effects, recently destroyed by fire.Mr, Harry Hutchins of Province Island, crossed over to Bullis Landing un foot, on the ice, the 7th of December., The annual Christmas tree and entertainment has been changed back to Christmas Eve.Dec.24th.The committee is training the children and we \u2018expect a good entertainment.j KINGSCROFT.The Archambault farm and cream- _ery han fallen into Mr.(iervais's hands, who has already taken possession.i Mrs.Archambault and two sons have gone to Holyoke, Mass.| Mr.E.C.Orcutt is on the wick list, \u2018not being able to sit up all the time.! Mr.J.A.Odell of Montreal was at | Mr.N.Corey\u2019s recently.| Mrs.A.D.Washburn of Alstead, N.| H., has been a guest of her cousin, i Mrs.Corey, also Mr.and Mrs.Zeph Johnson of Richford, Vt.Miss A.Vincent, our milliner, has gone to Sherbrooke where she has a situation.Buy Abbey\u2019s celebrated coffee at 18 cents a pound. Pr OR VERMONT ITEMS.Mrs.Joseph Waterson, aged 95 years, died recently at the home of her daughter, Mrs.W.Z.Pratt in Williamstown.The Woodbury Granite company of GEORGIAN BAY CANAL.Prospects of Its Being \u2018\u2018A thing of The Near Future.(Montreal Trade Bulletin.) NOTE THE DATE! WAIT FOR IT! SAVE THIS BILL! Bethe), have just sent 42 cars of cut! The recent statement of the Hon.granite lo Newark, NX.J., to be used : Rodolphe Lemieux, to the effect that flay ac A dt 2 gris ip FLO Wh TR Tn Mon k « camp on Hotham Sound.The steam er Kootenay made a special triv +.bring the man here, and it was found that he had a dislcæated leg, u twist it ankle, numerous cuts and abrasi ns.While large patches of skin had beun burned off by the heat caused hy the frictiin of his swift descent of the flumie.\u201cIt was an experience that nine out of ten men could not live through.\u201d saïd A.Davis, wha brought the injured man down.\u201cDemaresq shot down that flume with terrific furce, bruised an.battered.His contact with the {cy water revived him, and he struck out for the shore, but when he tried tn drag himself on the rocks he found the task impossible, His wife, who Was on an Island a quarter of a mile Away.was informed by her frightened children that a man in the water was shouting tor help.She unaided launched a heavy boat and put out to the rescue.To her amazement it was her husband she saved.By dint of hard exertion she managed to get him Into the craft and back to the house, and then came to the logging camp for help.Two camp mates put on Improvised stretcher in the boat and rowed 25 miles, with the waves break- Ing over the craft all the time.They hailed the Kootenay just before reaching Sechelt, and the captain kindly put back to Vancouver, although he was going north.\u201d ee World\u2019s Biggest Gardener.The biggest gardener In the world\u2014 the man why has charge of the gardens at the stations along the .P, R, railway system\u2014has Just sent out 150.- 000 bulbs\u2014tulips, crocuses, narcissus and other flowers that wil} burst intn bloom In more than a thousand gardens, as soon as the snow melts, The gardener is Mr.N.Stewart Dunlop, the C.P.R, claims agent and tax commissioner.Montreal, who Is head of the company's floral department.This 1s by far the largest supply that has ever been sent out.It represents a special effort, for it is Mr.Dunlop's intention that the tenth year of the existence of this garden project shall be marked by something extra in the way of station beautification, The transformation that has been effected all over the C.P.R.system by the gardens that may he seen everywhere between St.John, N.RB.and Vancouver and wherever the company has lines In the province of On- taris, is known to the obrervant traveler who looks out for the beautiful while journeying through the country.Where there were only ash heaps and sand beds a few years agn, and station surroundings that bespoke, If not absolute n«glect, nature In n state of wildness, there are now all kinds of artist'c flower beds and rosaries.shrubs that impart color, brilliance and sweet perfume all the summer._\u2014 The Fishing Was Good.It Is a long way \u2018round to get a Canadian fishing story by way of England, but here is à gond story, with an unusual ending, from The County Gentleman: \u201cA gentleman was fishing for salmon In one of the streams that run int» the Gulf of St.Lawrence, A friend, who knew the river well, pointed to a spot on the oppnsite bank where \u2018a salmon ought to lie, and then crossed the stream a little higher up.with a desire to have a peep over the edge of the bank to verify his bellef.As he made his way through some bushes on the other slde It would seem that a cast wound round his hat got Inns- ened.He approached the spot, and, lying prone, cautiously peered over the bank.In so doing, a fly on the loose cast of the hat gently touched the wat- 1 er, when immediately a salmon seig2q it, with a rush up stream, carrying hook and hat!\u201d Could Use It.\u201cI heard of a man who laughed so hard at a story that he lost his voice.\u201d declared Kackson, \u201cWhat was that story \" asked Fam- {lyman, anxiously.\u201cI'd like to tell it to my wife.\u2014Tit-Bits.Foreigners, Beware! Magistrate\u2014\"You wlll be bound over to keep the peace for six months towards all his Majesty's subjects.\u201d Prisoner\u2014\"Righto, guv'nor! But \u2018eav- ' en \"elp the fust furriner I comes acrost.\u201d \u2014Sketchy Bits.It's hard to beat that, isn\u2019t it?! BUT TENT FAITHER'S FLOCKS.In summer time the wee lambs broose, The loch lies blue in shadow, An\u2019 little breezes \u2018ell thy name To a\u2019 the ferny meadow.Whan mither left me, puir lone lad, An\u2019 a\u2019 the warl was dreary: Sae kind thou cam\u2019st to comfort me Wi\u2019 blue eyes, saft an\u2019 cheery, It is no wise to love sae weel, An\u2019 thou sae grave an\u2019 tender; But whan thy blue eyes pitied me \"Twas a\u2019 ane holy splendor! An\u2019 I but tent thy father\u2019s flocks, Auld Angus Donald's laddie: Sae meanly clad the bitter wind Sweeps through my scanty plaidie.I maun\u2019s weel try to gain a star As thy sweet lips, my dearie: I maun\u2019s weel try to clasp the cross Of gold on Kirk o\u2019 Mary.\u2014Garnet Noel Wiley.\u201cDREADNOUGHTS\" OF THE PAST.Science of Naval Construction Advances Rapidly.History repeats itaelf.The sense.tion over the new battleship Dreadnought, which can outshoot a d out- steam any other battleship afloat, And for that reason would pro e sin- gle-handad a dangerous oppor mnt to the entiis navy of any other duwer, is almost exactly paralleled by the excitement crented in 1460 owing to: the launch of the French iron-plated frigate Gloire.! Her armour was less than four inches thick.A third-class eruiser of these days, therefore, would be able to riddle her like a sieve in five nunutes, and that without taking the trouble to even come within \u2018 range of lier guns\u2014such as they were.Nevertheless, she was rightly nd- judged the marine marvel of her day and generation.The wooden vessels ; of the world, including, of course, our own, were powerless against her.And in consequence we promptly retaliated by building the Warrior, our premier ironclad.She was the largest vessel then afloat, except the Great Eastern, and cost £400,000.From thence onward Dreadnought succeeded Dreadnought.Two years after she was launched, the Warrior was almost as obsolete as Nelron\u2019a Vietory, so bewilderingly rapid was the advance of the science of naval construction.But what most startled the nations was the exploit of the United States frigate Merrimac, which, plated merely with old iron raila, steamed into Hampton Roads early one morning in March, 1862, practically destroyed the American navy; thereby sounding the death.knell of the wood line-of-bnttla- rhip, and rendering obsolete the navies of the entire world.The New President.Sir David Gill, FRS, who has been nominated to succeed Prof.Ra Lankester as president of the British Association, has just returned from South Africa, where for many yeara he occupied the position of the King's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope, says M.A.P.Sir David is one of the greatest living authorities on the stars, and first began his rescarches at the Aberdeen Observatory.Later on he directed the observatory of the Earl of Crawford (then Lord Lindsay) at Dunecht, and organized the expedition to Mauritius for the observation of the transit of Venus.He has traveled extensively in the pursuit of his studies, and has taken many wonderful photographs of the heavena.Indeed, it was ha who firat pointed out the great possibilities of photography for advancing astronomical knowles ge.Sir David is à thorough all-round rcientiat, is a member of numerous important bodies, and has written many standard works on his favorite topics.In 1883 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Bociety, and was created a K.C.B.in 1900.Ethics Versus Grocery Bill.Curions pleas are sometimes made before judges, and some judges have a happy way of meeting these.There was that judge who, being told that a thief should be let oft bacause she waa afflicted with a disease, kleptomania, replied \u2018that is a disease I am sent here to cure, and I prescribe thirty days on jail diet.\u201d e othar day a somewhat new plea was set up at King\u2019s Lynn, England, when Rev., J.M.Barnes, B.A., a former Unitarian minister, was sued for a grocery bill.He claimed that, having no settled income, the debt should.be cancelled.Ethically, he could not regard himself as a debtor until the State guarantead him employment in keeping with his education.The judge said that Le would order Mr.Barnes, \u201cethically and with due regard to all interests,\u2019 to pay ten shillings per month.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 Sherlock Holmes a Myth.Here is another blow to the ideals of our childhocdli.Sir Howard Vincent, who has been for twenty-six years connected with the London police force, is certain that detective genui- ses of the Sherlock Holmes type exist only in novels.He believes that the regulation requiring detectives to first be policemen is essent:1, and Le does not think the rule keeps any | clever men out of the force.He be.| lieves that the success of the English police is greater in proportion than that of any other police force.À New ork paper says it is à « \u2018use for na tonishrfent to read that whereas in New York there are often two murders in a day, in London, with its six | millions of people, there are never | more than fifteen to twenty murders or attempted murders in a year.Record Sentence For Errers, ! A grammarian was talking about grammatical slips that, through their | magnitude, merited immortality.I \u201cThere is one sentence,\u201d he said, \u201cthat has lived for a hundred years on account of its tremendous incorrectness.In this sentence every word, every single word, is ungrammatical.\u201cThe sentence was spoken by a lit tle girl in & sheep pasture.Looking a à e flocks, she said to the shep- erd : pam shops ournr 1 \u2019 sen , wo! ne holds the mcord Ita clage.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014 MAGIC AND RELIGION.Thelr Parting Due to the Advance of Civiiisation.In west Africa the bellef in a new birth without loss of Identity is proved by the fact that when a baby arrives In a family It ls shown a selection of small articles belonging to deceased members, and the thing which the child catches hold of identifies Lim as \u201cUncle Jabn\u201d or \u201cCousin Emma,\u201d and so forth.So fur as this hellef prevails lt ts held by some that garments once worn or other objects which have been In Intimate contact with a human be- Ing are penetrated by hia personality and remain, as It were, united with Lim for good or ill.In neanrly all stages of clvillzation now to be found In the world what we call supernatural beings were concerned with the initiation of the magician The schism between magic and rell glon was a later development of cliv- lization.When It occurred, ns the history of herosy In Europe and the witch trials teach, it wns rather magie In its antisocial aspect than In itself, which was reprobated and punished.It 1s strange In this connection to notice that the magician was only condemned when he departed from established custom and established beliefs which Involved a severance from the community and an imputation of antisocial ends.Practices essentially mage feal might be Incorporated In religious rites and exercised for what wns be- lleved to he the general good.In such a case they have continued to be exercised with general assent in the highest forms of rellgion\u2014Iondon Ios- pital.ODD MARRIAGE CUSTOM.Porches as Wedding Certificates on the Island of Jersey.Among Jerseymen proper\u2014that la to say, among the descendants of the orig- {nal Inhabitants of the island and not the English or French residents there\u2014 a very curfous and interesting old marriage custom exiata, Upon the completion of the ceremony and, If In strict necordance with tradl- tion, before the happy couple take up residence In thelr new abode the stone slab nt the top of the porch cantalning the front door Is inscribed with the in.tials of the bridegroom, those of the bride, the date of the ceremony and two hearts intwined, the latter being an emblem of their intermingled love and the whole forming a most lasting and public certificate of marriage, Occaslonally, however, a little difl- culty arises.The bride may meet with an early death, and In the course of time the widower may desire to reenter the holy state of matrimony.Having fulfilled his desire, It appears rather puzzling to know what to do about the Inscription, In some cases, therefore, the initials and date of the first wedding have been erased and those of the subsequent ceremony subatituted, while in others the Initials of the second wife and the date have been added below the first, a second pair of Intwined hearts being thought unnecessary, The letters are usually from six to nine fnches In height, so that they may be easlly read across the road.\u2014London Mail.Victims of a False Prophet.Just before the opening of the Kaffir rebellion In South Africa, about the middle of the last century, the soothsayers bade the tribes kill thelr cattle and destroy thelr crops of grain.The spirits of their ancestors were to arise and help them to exterminate every white man In the country.The advice was solemnly accepted.When the day of the great uprising arrived many of the rebels were already starving, But there came no ghostly herds of cattle out of the earth, no crops not sown with hands.Grim, terrible famine swept over the land, and In the months which followed, although the authorities did everything In thelr power to mitigate its horrors, 30,000 vietima of a false prophet starved to death.Ventilation, Have we ever stopped to think how our ancestors two or three generations back lived and flourished with little or No ventilation In their sleeping apartments?The night air used to be considered a very dreadful menace to health and a sure Inducer of colds.Bedrooms were kept closely shut, and yet our ancestors, many of them, were hardier than we and lived to good old ages.Animals burrow in @elr holes at night, breathing the same alr over and over again, while birds and fowls tuck thelr heads under their wings, Of course ventilation Is absolutely necessary for proper comfort, cleanliness and health, but people have lived on little or none of it for hundreds and thousands of years.Another Soft Answer.\u201cI'm glad to say,\u201d remarked Mrs, Strongminde !n an insinuating tone, \u201cthat my husband js not a sporty man.\u201d \u201cOh,\u201d replied Mrs, Kañyppe, looking very sweet and innocent, \u201cI'm surprised to hear you say that.! had always supposed that be must have married you on a bet.\u201d Buying or Selling?It Is told of the son of a horse dealer, a sharp lad, when once unexpectedly called upon by his father to mount a horse and exhibit ite paces, the little fellow whispered the question in to regulate how he should ride, \u201cAre you buying or selling?\u201d Begianiag Over.\u201cDid I hear you say, old chap, that marriage has made à pew man of zou?\u201d \u201cThat's right.\u201d \u201cThen that wipes out that ten I owe you.Now lend me Sve, wii your Milwaukee Sentinel SR mur ri es sa ES = 4 THE CHURCH AT GRIFFIN.The.Editor of the Stanstead Journal: The Spanish Cabinet has resigned.Dear Sir: \u2014The account in your is- Tho band of Russian revolutionists, sue of the 29th ult, \u201cfrom another known as the \u201cGroup of Toil,\u201d are currespondent,\u201d of the Georgeville leaving Finland for fear of arrest.Quarterly Official board meeting held\u2018 The keel- plates of a battleship to be at Griffin, bas been objected to ans larger than the \u201cDreadnought\u201d were obscure and misleading.Permit me |i at Portsmouth on Saturday.to state the facts briefly.The chair- | The Canadian Northern Railway has man of the District presided accord- ldecided on orders for nearly flve ing to discipline at the invitation of million dollars\u2019 worth of equipment, the pastor.Stewards were elected by A ; ballot and Society Representutives | Plans gre being laid to construct a eanal from Ottawa by way of the Nip- nominated, thus adding several new members Lo the Bonen Mr.W.II.igon and Albany River tu James Bay.Brevoort was re-elected Recording.The Canadian Northern expects to Steward.The pastor, Rev.D.Brill, - have trains running between Ottawa BRIEF NEWS ITEMS, ere _ on the C.P.R.\u201d he continued.had received a letter with eight names appended, announcing withdrawal from Church membership.Of these eight, one was a non-resident, one had already forfeited membership, and two others have since explained that they signed under a misapprehension, This letter was read to the Board, and, according to custom in such cases, was left to the direction of the pastor.One of these asking to withdraw was the organist at Griffin, and the Board, at the suggestion of Mr.Brill, consented to her resignation and courteously recorded a vote of thanks for services rendered.Of course the chairman did not move any resolution and could not according to parliamentary practice.Mr.Brill moved and Mr.Creller seconded the motion of thanks.Permit me to say further that Mr.Brill has the cordial support of his Board and his people over the entire mission, and though some one at Griffin seems to have attempted to injure him, his record is must honorable, his motives most Christian and his success undeniable.According to the official register the membership at Griftin, in spite of several removals, has increased by one-third under his ministry, and the old Union Church, newly renovated by the cordial codperation of its two congregations, is evidently entering upon an era of prosperity.Sincerely Yours, G.s.C.Stanstead, Dec.6, 1906.BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.Statistics of last summer\u2019s census in Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, show that the three Prairie Provinces together comprise a population of 806,928, just twice the population of Montreal and suburbs, by Lovell\u2019s census, taken about the same time.Wilbur Glen Voliva, the successor to John Alexand-r Dowie, has decided to give up trying to pay the debts of Zion City.He is to leave it in the hands of its creditors and fare forth to found a new Zion.He says the new Zion will be conducted ou socialistic lines, but he, himself, is to be both its spiritual and temporal head.Leonard Henry Courtney, who has lately been elevated to the House of Lords, at a dinner in his honor Friday night, declared the House of Commons to be the most inadequate and least trustworthy reflection of the publie mind in England, and that the chief strength of the House of Lords was derived from the imperfections of the Commons.The litter he called the embodiment of all the prejudices of position and the former a congestion of democracy.Imperialism, he denounced as a temptation of the arch-imperialist, the devil.The citizens of any prosperous town are always public spirited and united, Stand tog-ther.work tor the interests of the whole town.Always stand ready to do your part.Don\u2019t grumble and spend your time in prophecving failures, but help to make every enterprise a success, be it great or «mall, Be energetic and enterpriving and your example will be imitated.CAUGHT COLD ON THE CP.R.A.E.Mumford tells how Psychine cured him after the Doctors gave him up \u201cIt is twelve years since Psychine cured me of galloping consumption.\u201d The speaker was Mr.A tall, and looking just what he is a husky healthy farmer.He works his own farm near Magnetawan, Ont.\u201cI caught my cold working as a fireman \u201c1 bad night sweats, chills and fever and frequently coughed up pieces of my lungs.1 was sinking fast and the doctors said there was no bope for me.Two months treatment of Psychine put me right on my feet and I have had no return of lung trouble since.If Mr, Mumford had started to take Psychine when he first caught cold he would have saved himself a lot of anxiety and suffering.Psychine cures all lun troubles by killing germs\u2014the roots of the disease.PSYCHINE 0c.Per Bottle Larger cisse 81 and 95-all Sruggiste.8 T.A GLOOUM, Limited, Toronta.wy, .E.Mumford, six feet \u2018 |and Montreal by next September.i The act of the Ontario Legislature | regulating Sunday labor has been con- | frmed by a proclamation from Ottawa.| Morris Quinn, formerly of Kingston, :Ont., was buried alive in a grain ele- ; vator in Hammond, Ind., Friday.I The French Government is planning |A two-track railway tunnel under the Seine between Havre and Rouen, to | cost ten million dollars, | The directors of the Zoo at Barmen, | near Berlin, are at their wits\u2019 end to ! find a dentist able to fill an elephant\u2019s | aching tooth.: The house in Adams, Mass, oceu- | pied by the late Susan B.Anthony, the famous woman suffrage advocite, | wis destroyed by fire Friday night.| It is said in London that the British! South Africa Company has offered the Salvation Army free vf charge a million :1eres of land in Rhodesiu.| Mr.Dillon Wallace says the time may come when Labrador will be to Canada what Alaska is now to the United States.Durine the storm on the Georgian Bay on Saturday, six Indians were: drowned in MeGregor Harbor, almost in sight of their home.| The Emperor of China has issued an edict ordering that the use of opium; in the country, and even the cultivation of the poppy must cease Within | ten years.Peasants in the famine-stricken dis- ! tricts of Southern Russia are reported \u2018to be in such straits that they are selling their daughters into Mohammedan slavery.With hope of checking the rapid jdecrease in population in St.Pierre rand Miquelon, the French Govern- \u2018ment is revising the customs tariff of the islands.The San Francisco Relief Committee | \"handled in all £6,213,279.28, and report ra balance on hand of £1,935,146.60.{The cost of administering the fund | was less than four per cent.| Westmount voted out the water bylaw on Saturday by a majority of 344.| \u2018The councillors all made speeches at | the close of the polls, each declaring .that he bore no ill-way to any.| I Mr.Charles M.Hays, as representing the Grand Trunk Railway, was convicted on Saturday in a Toronto, Police Court for not supplying third | \u2018class carriages and two-cent-a-mile \u201ctickets.| \"A deputation from Valleyfield and Beauharnois waited on the Premier .Monday to ask that the water power, \u2018of the Beauharnois Canal be devel-' ; oped, aud part of it preserved for local use.| | The Steamship \u201cMonarch\u201d is a total | wreck on Isle Royal, Lake Superior, | ' 40 miles from Port Arthur.The crew, \u2018and passengers had an almost miracu- i lous escape.One only of thecrew was | i \u2018drowned.| \"At Fort William, Friday night, the: working house of the C.P.R.elevator D, the largest single grain elevator in the world, was destroyed by fire with three large tanks in the structure, | causing a loss of £17,000.| Henri Sansregret, a Montreal Street | , Railway Motorman, whose car struck | land run over John Morrison at the | corner of Park Avenue and Prince ! Arthur Street, June 24th, has been | \u2018sentenced to six months for manslaughter, The Austrian Lower House of Pari liament has passed the third reading \u2018of the bill granting universal suffrage to every man in Austria over twenty- | tour years of age who has been one year resident in the voting section \u2018and {a able to read and write.Tha conditions in German South- | West Africa were the cause of a terri- ( fic onslaught on the colonial adminis- I'tration in the Reichstag on Saturday by Herr Bebe), the leader of the So- | cial Democrats.Some of the accusa- (tions were unprintable, but some of | the mildest were the charges of blowing natives from the mouth of the cannon and filling baskets with child- ,ren and throwing them into the rapids | -of the river.| The Colorado River has broken through the great Hind dam, which was built to force it back into its old channel, and is again pouring luto the Imperial and Coachella valleys and into the Salton 8ink.A quarter of a million acres of farming land with the homes of a thousand people is being inundated.The Southern Pacific will have to build 40 miles of new road, and the irrigation works about Yuma, near where the Colorado empties into the head of the Gulf of | NEW GHRISTMAS GOODS A.J.BISSONNET\u2019S Don\u2019t | They Fail to Examine | Who Call Early our | get | Christmas Stock.Choice Bargains.We have this year a better stock of Christmas Gifts than ever before.Something that will be useful and appreciated by all members of the household.Assortment and values are both a little ahead of previous years.No Trouble to Show Goods.Glad to see you anyway, but think you will find the Article you are looking for.A.J.BISSONNET, Rock Island, Que.P.S.-\u2014Remember, we give 4 lbs.Royal Mixed Candy for 25¢, tr ROCK ISLAND HARDWARE C0, Useful Xmas Gifts COPPER, SILVER, NICKLE-PLATED WARE IN Tea and Coffee Pots, Tea Kettles and Trays, Carving Sets, Pocket Cutlery, Asbestos Sad Irons, Bread Makers, Skates, Sleigh Bells.Phonographs, Phonogragh Horns and Records.WATERMAN & HUNT, Proprietors.0030260000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 ; i | 3 3 : ë 3 | California, will have to be abandoned.# { THE BUS ~~ For some time the \u2018\u2018Busy Store\u201d has been recognized as headquarters for Christmas shopping in this place.This year we have laid in the largest supply of Holiday Merchandise we have ever had\u2014 all bought and marked to sell.Everything the newest and best; appropriate gifts for everybody\u2019s needs.Y STORE China Department SUTHERLAND ART WARE New designs, hand painted | with Canadian Coat of Arms and | Maple Leaf Garlands.Also | with Old Country views and | Birnam Woods scenes, all hand | painted artistic in design and | especially appropriate for holiday gifts.BASALTINE WARE Black, hand painted, with Canadian Cont of Arms on each piece.Something entirely new, very attractive, and thoroughly in good taste.WEDGEWOOD New desigus with Canadian Cont of Arms; also the standard patterns.Beautiful hand en- eraved designs in rich, artistic colorings, PRATT'S \u201cOLD GREEK\" WARE | Dull black finish with Greek | Figuae Decoration in white.| Sleds, Hockey | | LIMOGES CHINA We have a vood stock in a variety of patterns.In all of the above lines we have Plates in all sizes Cups and Saucers, Cream Fiat Dishes, ete.Pitchers, **Royal Bayreuth'® China, **Royal Suhl'' China, \u2018Royal Vienna\u2019 China.Le JAPANESE CHINA A very pretty line sold at \u201cpopular\u201d prices.Miscellaneous decorrtions, and \u201cR\u201d Blue and Gold decorations.This is a very popular line.We have a large stock of all the dishes made in this ware.The prettiest ware made for the money.Prices are within the reach of | all.We also have a complete line of staple Crockery.Special values incltding Dinner Sets, Chamber Sets, Glassware.A grert variety of China and Glassware at 5,10 and 25 cents.It is impossible for us to mention more than?goods are the best that can be bought: will be treated courteously whether y Avoid, if possible, the final rush, but come anyway.The Busy Store.We have many things to delight the Little Folks.Dolls, Toys, Games, Picture Books.Snowshoes and Indian Tan Moccasins.For Decorative Purposes we have Genuine Evergreen Wreaths, Genuine Christmas Holly, Christmas Bells, ete.you will make a mistake if you do not look our lines over.You ou buy or not.Come early while the assortment is complete.F.W.D.MELLOON LAMPS We have a nice line of Lamy of all Kinds, bought especially for the holiday trade.- { NOVELTIES Toilet Cases, Collar and Cuff Boxes, Photo Cases, Necktie and Handkerchief Cases, Glove Boxes, Manicure Sets, Shaving Sets, Smoker's Sets, Writing Companions, Jewel Boxes, Ink stands, Scrap Albums, Souvenir Post Cards and Post Card Al- hums.All the latest Novelties.PERFUMES A fine stock of goods at popular prices; also Roger & Gall- et's Perfumes, the best made.FURNITURE | { An clegant line of Willow and Oak Rockers, Parlor and Extension Tables, Ladies Desks, Flat top Desks, Combination Desk aud Bookeases, lron Bed- steaes White Enamel Dressers | and Commodes.Sticks, Skates, | | | | f | Wool Art Squares and Rugs.In our regular lines we have much that will appeal to families who want to make serviceable gifts, There are Priestley\u2019s Dress Goods, Standard of the World.Sweaters for Men and Women, Boys and (irls.À large variety in all popular colors at popular prices.Toques and Tams, Sashes and Wool Mittens and Gloves to Mateh.2 % wo / vi Ladies\u2019 Waists, Skirts and Wrappers.Ladies\u2019 Folt Shoes and Overshoes, Ladies\u2019 .Belts and Ties.Fur Muffs, Ruifs y and Collaretts.Ruffs from 81.00 up.| Gloves and Mittens, Ties, Handkur- chiefs, Way's Mufflers, Braces, Hose.Nice line of Steamer Rugs.Also Housekeeping (Goods of all Kinds.Special values in Table Linens, Towels, &ec.Grocery Department We have a splendid line of Groceries, Rasins, Currants, Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel; Spices and Essences.Candies and Fruits of all Kinds, 2 lbs.Mixed Nuts 25¢.2 Ibs.Ribbon | Candy 25c.a small portion of what we have in stock.Our Rock Island, Que."]