The Stanstead journal, 17 janvier 1907, jeudi 17 janvier 1907

[" + The Stanstead Journal.VOL.LXI1\u2014No.3 - WANTED\u2014DR WE ARE PAYING 8 1-2¢c.CASH FOR DRESSED HOGS.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17.1907.ESSED PORK A.E.FISH & CO.BOYNTON GRIST MILL.EXPECTED THIS WEEK 1 Car \u201cQuaker\u201d Flour, Bran and Shorts.1 Car American Yellow Corn.r and Feed have advanced \u201cfor cash\u201d every Saturday until further notice Best Flour \u2018\u2018Quaker\u2019\u2019 $2.25 per bag.Yellow Corn Fine-ground Corn Meal $1.05 per 100 Bran, Shorts, Middlings, Victor Feed, by the ton or bag at lowest prices.We make Custom Grinding a Specialty.Try us.Satisfaction guaranteed.PS.meal at 5 cts, extra per cwt.If Corn is not in for next Sat.w> will pat in old corn, a corn: but to encourage trade, we will sell 1 ct.per Ib.Respectfully, A.E.FISH.À.E, F.A.G.CLOUGH, Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Que.Two weeks\u2019 Cheap Remnant Sale From Jan.19th to Feb.2nd.During this time I will sell 50 different lines of goods at just one-half the regular price, regardless of cost.I can only enumerate a few lines here: Lace Curtains 45c., 65c.and 80c.pr, for 23c.and 33c.Boys\u2019 Mittens 20c.r.for 10c.50 Patterns of Lace and nsertion, both black and white, one- half price.FLOUR will surely be higher soon.Don\u2019v kick if vou have to pay more, Best Flour £2.20 per bag for a few days.Most of the mills are; asking from 5220 to &2.37'; for the! above grade of Flour in car lots.Best Rolled Oats 3 cts.per Ib., good fresh Granam 27, cts.per lb, 5 lbs.of the best Tea in the village $1.00, 5 lbs.regular 25 ct.Tea 90 cts., 100 lbs.Red- aths\u2019 Gran.Sugar £4.50.Men\u2019s Felt \u2018| afternoon card party.TOWN TOPICS.50c.Toques 35c.at Frank F.Harvey\u2019s, Derby Line.Mr.T.F.O'Rourke left this morning for 8t.Johnsbury on business.Mr.Charles Nurse is able to be out aguin after a long and tedious illness.Mrs.A.M.Aldrich and Mies Minnie Aldrich bave gone to Dunham fora two months\u2019 stay.Mrs.E.W.Hovey entertained thirty ladies Tuesday at a very enjoyable?A special train took a large party to Newport last night to attend the Lorne-Elwyn performance.Moca and Dog-akin Gloves, regular 81 and #1 50, now 75c.and 98c.at Frank F Harvey, Derby Line.| The Services on Sunnay at the Congregational Church will be conducted by Rev.R.C.Flagg, D.D., of Newport.Mrs.B.P.Ball gave a very pleasant | \u201cAt Home\u201d?Wednesday afternoon in! honor of Mrs.Denault of Toronto, | who is a quest at Brookline Hall.; The retiring councilors in this mu- ; nicipality, S.T.Fresenu, L.A.Lane-' tot and Dr.E.P.Bull, were roturned\u2019 by acclamation Monday.The Stanstead College and Newport | basket-ball teams will meet in a match, game, Friday evening, for the first\u2019 time this season.They are old-time rivals, and the game will be good.Wheeler's Steam Laundry, Bellows\u2019 TOWN TOPICS.Col.C.E.Nelson is ill with bronchitis.Ladies\u2019 Tams 10c.at Frank F.Harvey\u2019s, Derby Line.Councilors Sidney Stevens and F.B.McGaffey were re-elected by acclamation at Stanstead Plain Monday.Centenary Methodist Church, Rev, Geo.8.Clendiunen, pastor, will preach nex nday morning and evening.Meesrs.William F.Pike and C.Lee! Jenkins have gone to Montreal to witness the Stanley cup hockey contest between the Wanderers of Montreal and the Thistles of Kenora (Rat Portage).A letter from Mr.Phil.Girard, of ! Regina, Sank., states that he has trav- ! eledover the province of Saskatche- | of fine lands listed with him.Those | looking for snaps will do well to write him at bis present address, Valley City North Dakota.! Reports from various sections of Vermont and Quebec iudicate temperatures varving trom forty to forty-six degrees below zero early this morning.Forty was considered a \u2018warm corner\u201d Since Christmas the weather! has been exceptionally mild for the: season, up to the present cold'dip.Gen.F.G.Butterfield, Who Was appointed by the Government as a delegate to the National Convention for the purpose of promoting the foreign ; trade of the United States, is now in! WHOLE No.3179.Circular Saws, Drag Saws, Cross-cut Saws, Belting, Rubber and Leather any size, Rawhide and Indian Tanned Lacing, Rides or Cut, Lubricators, Injectors, Whistles, Oil Cups, Steam and Water Guages, Valves, Fittings, Packing.GASOLENE ENGINE SUPPLIES and a firet-clans man to do uny k Gasolene Engines.\u201d Both ind of mechanical work on Steam or 'Phones, prompt service.True & Blanchard Co., Newport.a GRANITEVLLE.Mr.P.Il.Armitage, wool merchant of Coaticook, was through here last week, and reports business good.Mr.McConnell, eye specialist, of Sherbrooke, was here this week.Mr.Delbert Lamothe, of Lake Newport, Vi.Mr.Leon Dunn of Richford, Vt.spent a fow days lust week with his\u2019 | Wan, And has several thousand acres, COUsin, Sum Dunn, at Lake View farm.Mr.and Mrs.BR.M.Reed and children, spent Just Sunday with her parents, Mr.and Mrs.George LL.Reynolds.Mr.Elmer Wright received n téle- phone message où Monday, of the death of bis brothers child at Newport.Mr.aud Mes.Charles Monroe went to Magog on Saturday, to visit relatives, returning Monday.Mr.A.W.Bulloek of Georgeville, visited his wife's parents, Mr.and Mrs.A.B.Davis, Saturday, returning home Sunday, accompanied by Mrs.Bulluck, who has been spending a week here.oots worth up to $1.75, for 90 cts.and 81.00.Two cars of Flour and Feed on Agency at J.A.Hunt's, Derby Line.understood tnat the delegates were the road.: M ' Laundry despatched Tuesdays and re- | SiVen a dinuer last wight which was E.R.WEBSTER.Falls, Vt, is the best in the state, Washington on tuat mission.lt is, attended by the President.Mrs.But- Mr.James Brodie returned on Sat- | cle home of Mr.and Mrs.Taylor, on Friday evening.furday, from a business trip in the in- \u2018 .3 \"terest of his quarry business.ceived Fridays.Mr.and Mrs.T.A.Wouls visited ; FITCH BAY.i Dell Drew, a former resident of this | village, but now of Los Angeles, Oal., | was calling on friends and schoolmates here and visiting his childhood | home a few days last week.Mr.O.W.Brown has returned from i Shore, is spending a few days in\u2019 the Sherbrooke Protestant Hospital, where he had a fiborous tumor removed from his cheek.Mrs.Bmith, who came here a few weeks ago from North Sydney, Cape Breton, to visit her daughter, (Mra.Rec.Bradshaw), died at the parsonage on the 10th inst, after a short illness, Her son was sammoned from Sydoey, and a daughter from Boston, Mass, who accompanied the body of their mother to her lite home, Much sympathy is toll for the famiy In their sid bereavement, as they ia strangers ina strange lund, The W.LT.U.met at the home of Mre.F,H.Rider, on the 11th inst, and a pleasant and profitable meoting was enjoyed by all.Subject, W.¢.T.U Mission Work.Two new members and two honorary members wore added Lo our number.The young people of this place enjoyed a pleasant time at the hospit- Edwin We are having the worst storm of 9, 113 Ladies\u2019 Fawn Suiting, 45 in.wide, Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Jan.9th, 1907.45c, for 22146.Ladies\u2019 Mixed Suiting, 45 in.wide, 50c.for 25c.Tweed for Boys\u2019 Suits, 40c.for 20c.500 yards of Flannelette, 3%;c.a yd.Pearl buttons 5c.a dozen.Men\u2019s all-wool knitted Undershirts, 65c.for 32c.Ladies\u2019 jready-made Tailor Suits, £10.00 for $5.00, $8.50 for $4.25, $6.00 for 3.00.Men\u2019s Rubbers, medium toe, 75¢c.for HEATHTON.Mr.Albert Kinney Heath of Cha- | tauqua, New York, was the guest of his mother, Mrs.E.W.Horne, two or three days last week, he also visited his uncle, Walter J.Kinney of Barford, and his cousin, Mrs.L.G.Moulton at Coaticook.Sunday he left here for Stanstead to visit hie 87e, : ; .Ladies\u2019 Rubbers and low Overshoes Sister, Mrs.H.J.Connor.He is look 60c.and £1.00, choice 30c.ing well and feeling happy and likes Caps, Linings, Dress Goods, &c., at| N.Y.very much.He has a lucrative half price.osition as manager of a farm for a Wall Paper 15c, 20c., 25e, and 40c., |?8 all for 10c.per double roll.While this two weeks\u2019 sale is on I will sell 23 Ibs.of the best Sugar for one dollar; $4.30 per hundred.| 40 bags of Redpath\u2019s to arrive in six days at £4.30 per hundred.Bran by the hundred or ton at $1.10! per hundred.i Ground Wheat per hundred $1.30.During this two weeks\u2019 sale I will also seli Corn at 55¢.bu.Best 20c.Kerosene Oil for 15c.| Ogilvie\u2019s Royal Household Filour, : which costs 25e.per bag more than\u2019 any other flour at the Cliff and is much the best flour, for 82.50 per bag.| Oglivi\u2019es Mount Royal Flour, guaranteed equal to any flour sold at the! Cliff outside Household baked side by : millionaire.His wife wrote him that on Monday, Jan.7th, it was 65 degrees | above zero, (and no snow.) Departures, are Mr.Stanley Cooper to his home in Stanstead, after spending a few days with his aunt, Mrs.| Sarah Hill; Mrs.Winnie Hastings, to | her home, after spending a few weeks at the same place, Miss Angie Heath and Miss Mary Heath to their schools | in Stanstead, Mr.George Feltus to his home at Beebe Plain, after visiting friends a day.LIBBYTOWN.Mr.and Mrs.Wheeler of Barnston, | | } I | Services wiil be held as usual in Christ Church on Sunday next.Preacher.the pastor.Offerings at both services for Foreign Missions.| All are cordially invited.| Mr.A.J.Morrill of Stanstead Town- | ship was kicked by a horse while doing | his chores Monday.The blow strack | his right hand lacerating and disabling | that member, but it is not expected that the injury will prove serious.Mr.William Rogers of the Canadian Composing Co., Montreal, is in ; town to-day.This company manu- | factures the Monoline -machines in\u2019 Canada for the Mergenthaler Linotype | Co.of New York.» The Eastern Townships Bank has! decided to open ap agency at Beebe ' Plain which, it is expected, will de- terfield is in Washington und Miss.Butterfield is in Montreal.The contest for municipal honors in ; Stanstead Townsbip resuited in the.election of Geo.A.Harvey and I.Wright Brainard, the former in place ; of James Brodie, the latter in place of | E.E.Temple.Mr.Brodie\u2019s term of | office having expired, he refused to again become a candidate, Mr.Temple was again in the contest, opposed by Mr.Brainard; Mr.Harvey was opposed by W.B.Bullock.The vote was | as follows: Mr.Harvey 109, Mr.Brainard 91, Mr.Temple 48, Mr.Bullock 26.Mr.and Mrs.F.Hall, on Tuesday.the winter and most of the news is, The Ladies Aid will hold their busi- ! or will ba, buried in the drifts, ness meeting for the purpuse of olect- | Rev.IL.Drew bas returned from ing officers for the ensuing year, at 8 Visit to his home in R.I, and re- the home of Mrs.John O'Leary, on , 8umed his labors here.Tuesday afternoon, Jan.22.We hope | = - there will be a good attendance: : GEORGEVILLE.Mrs.W.B.Bullock is expectod Master Allan Routledge returned home from Worcester, Mass., on Wed- | home last week from visiting his rel- nesday, where she has been visiting #tives at Raven's Craig, Montreal.relatives the past few weeks.She, Miss Molson has been atthe Mol- ulso visited in Lonsdale, R., while ab- i80n farm, \u201cFarm Hill,\u201d for several sent.days, returning to Moutreal on Tues- We called at Cedarville recently and , day.found the place ina thriving condi-| Mrs.A.W.Bullock has returned A competitive examination of can- [erty there seem to be delighted with didates for positions as rural mail car- | the place und exhibiting energy and riers wus held before Henry G.enterprise in fixing up their summer Blanchard at Newport Saturday.For homes.C.J.Lorimer and sun, have ; | the new route from Derby Line there | their new dock now completed which (tion.Parties that own cotiage prop- from a visit Lo her relatives at Gran- ! iteville.Miss Edith Ayer is the guest of her friend, Miss Nettie Shufelt, at Beebe i Plain.Mika (ladys Ayer is the guest of velop into a branch.The agency at «were six candidates, viz: Herbert B.| ghuts off wind and wave, and forms a Mrs.R.M.Moore at Mngog.the latter place will start under the :; ; + direction of the Rock Island branch-\"; les, Gerry Wheeler, Rev.Mr.Blod- ; craft.Arrangements are being made to hold a musical and literary evening inthe Pierce Hall, Jan.29th, under the auspices of the ladies of Christ Church.Miss Mabel Barker, the famous soprano of Montreal has been engaged and the Rector will give a Tice, Roswell Bennett, Orville Kel: large and spacious harbor for small Messrs.Hall and Moir are gett and G.8.Heath.The cxami- building u fine wharf.They have the nations are simple and practical.The: pier done and are now filling it with percentage necessary lo pass is 75, stone.It will be ready for summer and the position goes to the candi- (use.Thin dock makes more harbor dates receiving the highest numberof room and convenjent and safe quar- marks.The result of Saturday\u2019s ex- ters for their new Gasolene Launch aminations is not yeL known.{they purchaked last fall.There are Dr.Keyts has returned from a viait to gefatives in Conn.and Mans.{The Jake froze over here on the morning of the 12th.Not much ice yet is the spow \u2018ame upon it au soon, but the water ju coming up and it will freeze and make ice\" At a meeting of the directors of the Stanstead County Agricultural Society pr 4 ar on Jan, 9th.Mr.W.H.Rediker was appointed an honorary director for the west part of Stanstend, to assist side or your money returned, 82.19 per bag.These prices are for cash.; Visited their daughter, Mrs.E.W.sort lecture on Charles Kingsley.| now four gasolene and steam launches urther particulars next week.i in Cedarville, belonging t tiew Fo owes a Moos River, is| The meetings for the week of prayer : Eider H.B.Drew from Providence, | who own cottage property Fr ah ; > : : i R.1., has accepted the call to become.\u2018Mr.WE.Hunt, in his duties as di- MCCONNELL.|spending a few days with ner cousin, under the auspices of the Federation | ; to f the Advent Church at Aver\u2019 ; There were no less than five cottages rector Mr.M.Clement is moving his fam- | Mrs.Fred Perry.of Churches of Newport and West pastor 0 © ven urch at Ayer\u2019s ; built there last summer and others fin- | : i ill hold ice inthe Union\u2018, ily to Suncook, N.H., where the two | Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Breaky visited Derby were well attended and much Cliff and wi od service inthe Union ished up that were begun the year be- AYER'S CLIFF.MASSAWIPPI, Church Jan.20th, at 2.30 p.m.eldest daughters are employed.| relatives at Demick\u2019s Mills, on Sun- re ! , p fore.of Beebe! Mr.N.C.Kezar is working at Rock | day.| Island.| Mra.E.W.Perry is sick at this; On the evening of Tuesday the 8th,, Writing.inst, the friends of Mr.and Mrs.H.Spendlove, to the number of about 70, gathered at their hospitable home, the occasion being Mrs.Spendlove\u2019s Rev.and Mrs.Watson of Way's! Mills were in town -the first of the week.interest was shown; so much so that the meetings are being continued.Rev.Mr.Emery of the Universalist | Church, Derby Line, preached in the.Baptist Church, evening of this week, Mrs.J.T.Stevenson, son and Mrs.C.W.Libby, who has been daughter, J.Hal and Geneva A.Ste- birthday.Several came from Ayer\u2019s sick with the grippe, is somewhat \u2018 venson, lately of Boston, who have Cliff, North Hatley and Magog.Although coming unexpectedly they : were soon made welcome.Refreshments were provided by the ladies.During the evening Mr.Chas.Rexford | was called upon to present Mrs.\u2019 Spendlove with a nice willow rocker, a berry spoon, a lace collar, besides an envelope containing a sum of money ! 88 a token of respect.Mr, Rexford! addressed Mr.and Mrs.Spendlove in| his usual happy and humorous man- uer, to whick they replied in a few | well chosen words of thanks for the gifts received.The evening passed quickly away until a late hour, when the guests departed leaving best wishes for many happy returns of the day.SMITH'S MILLS.The dance at Riverview Hotel was | well attended, about twenty-five couples being present, and a very Pleasant evening is reported.Mr.Nathan Beerworth fe ill with la grippe.Mies Marjorie Baldwin has so far Tecovered.trom her recent illness, as to be out.Mr.H.L.Bigelow was in the place Saturday calling on friends, Mrs.J.M.Reed visited friends at at Newport recently.Mise Wilkins has reopened her school after à two weeks\u2019 vacation.» O.A, Baldwin who has been ill better.| | HATLEY.Mayor H.F.Pope was re-elected to the municipal council on Monday, Mr.Howard Slack in place of W.Reed who declined re-election.Several from Hatley went to Stan- stead on Sanday to attend the funeral of the honorable C.C.Colby.Mr.Calvin Perry is under the doctors care having been taken suddenly ill on the night of Thursday.Mr.M.J.Batchelder is slowly re- been visiting relatives at Rock Island for a short time, left Tuesday for their future home in Alberta.Mr.J.T.Stevenson hasbeen in Kamrose, Alta., a year and a half; his wife and children are going west to join him.! The First Universalist Church, Derby Line, Rev.J.Newton Emery, pastor.Public worship at 10.45 a.m.Sunday schoolat12 m.Y.P.C.U.meeting at 7 p.m.Subject of the, pastor\u2019s morning sermon, \u201cThe Story of Haman and its Lessons.\u201d Young, Mr.Sanford Emery has purchased | from Mr.Charles Cass his new residence opposite the parsonage.\u2018 Mr.Wm.Hurd has bought Mrs.A.| Pleasant street.: Mr.and Mrs.Slack are both suffering from la grippe.The family of Rev.Churchill Moore have been confined to the house the past week by illness.The Ladies Aid was very pleasantly entertained by Mrs.A.E.Fish Tuesday afternoon.Mr.À.E.Vaughan is spending a few days with his brother in Sherbrooke.Mr.and Mrs.L.B.Clifford nre on the sick list also Mrs.George Woodard, sr.NORTH HATLEY.- Mr.George Colt, we are sorry to Rev.M.Brundage Mr.J.Colt and brothers here, re- Plain, is building a two and a half ceived the news Monday, that their story structure, it is to have a veran- | brother, George Colt, of North Hat- da on three sides, also a balcony ley, had, during the night, heen afict- facing the water, in fuil view oi the beautiful mountain scenery on the opposite side of the lake.This building, when completed, will be one of the finest cottages now standing in Cedarville.Mr.Brundage has also placed a heavy stone wall across his lot facing the lake at the margin of the water, which adds much to the \u2018beauty of his place and serves as a\u2019 protection from the water.He pre- dictsa bright future for Cedarville, also success for Capt.Bullis, who is ! the sole proprietor of all the available cottage lots now for sale.I would say to all those who appreciate possessing a quiet summer retreat by the spark- People\u2019s evening subject \u201cPrayer for $AY» bad another shock Monday ling waters of lake Memphremagog, , covering from an attack of pneumo- Missions.\u201d morning, and died last evening., ! you can do no bette rthan locate at Ce- nia.Mr.Batchelder has passed his Messrs.Taylor and Blossom have New ' racross the end from second story, | ed with anothe ic 3 port Tuesday Severence's house and grounds on y, other paralytic stroke, from \u2018whieh, it is thought, he can not recover.Mr.iI.town, Miss Giladys Robinson spent Sunday and Monday with her mother.Miss Florence Place visited over Sunday at Mr.A.Bean\u2019s, North Hat- ley.The church pulpit has heen stained recently, and presents a much batter appearance that formerely.The Bible which rests upon it and is now showing the use of over forty years, was the gift to the charch, of the late Stephen Fuster.of Rock Island, who \u201chas passed away, but his \u201ckind deed\u201d and \u201cthought\u201d yet remains to testify to him.The post-office was moved the 15th, Coll of Coatlecook in in eightieth birthday, and until recently has been in a good health for a man of his years.The funeral of Mr.Bennie Kendrew took place in the Methodist Church on Monday afternoon, his sister accompanied the remains from the North-West.BARNSTON.Mr.Thomas Hunter, Sr., an old resident of Barnston, is seriously ill with pneumonia, and Mrs.Hunter is ina critical condition, very much the same.Their faithful children are caring for them.Calixte Dupuis and T.C.Fletcher were reelected councilors by acclamation on Monday./ W.RH \u2019 ; darville.It not only excels in the! Rev.W.R.Harvey\u2019s parishioners beauty of the natural surroundings, but from the old stand to E.8t.Dizier's is most convenient and easy of access, new place of business.Miss Agnes having four roadways running direct- , Taylor has heen engaged by him us ly into Mystic Park and Cedarville, have practically decided to give their ; popular pastor a three months\u2019 leave | of absence.The matter will be officially decided at a Church meeting next Sunday.It is altogether probable that | Mr.Harvey will sail for England | about February 8th.During his ab-! sence it is expected that the pulpit at | the local church will be supplied by a yoting gentleman from Montreal.Dr.H.D.Martin, the widely known eyesight specialist, will open an office, Jan.24th, at the Derby Line Hotel, where he can be consulted until Jan.31st.Dr.Martin enjoys the reputation of being skillful in his work and reasonable in his charges.His occasional visits here during the last 12 or 15 years have been of great benefit to many afflicted with eye for Jacobs\u2019 Rhuematic Liquid Cures the past week is gaining.Lameness.3 \u2018 : \u2018 * \\ oe fa Ave - re .* 5 s se + & Ad : + .troubles.returned from a business trip to Brockville and Montreal and have purchased a car load of the famous Canada carriages.Our Municipal Election passed very quietly, returning Bert Blossom and putting 8.A.Campbell in the place of James Fowler, who has moved from town.The gentlemen who left their black cashmere gloves in the Church, at Mrs.Hovey\u2019s funeral, will find them at Benj.LeBaron\u2019s.Mr.and Mrs.Ned Hartson returned Tuesday, after spending a few days with their parents.The annual \u201cOld Folk\u2019s - Basket Dance,\u201d will be beld in the Town Hall, Friday, Feb.let.Hubbard\u2019s Orchestra will fornisb music, Concert from 7.80 to 8.30.Spectators 25 cts admission.KINGSCROFT.Mrs.L.Edson started for Toronto, last*week Thursday to visit her two daughters, who are living there.Mr.H.Hollis H.Corey came home last Monday to visit his parents this week, and will return to Lennoxville next week to resume his studies at Bishop\u2019s College.He has been preaching at Canaan during the holidays, and while there received a gift of 830 from friends at that place.Mr.and Mrs.Charles Peck and ; assistant clerk.| Mrs.M.Harvey is doing an well as can be expected, with a broken hip.| Mrs.H.Ham will entertain the W.1C.T.U., Wednesday the 23rd.| Mr.Harold Bean expects to go to Montreal, to a hospital, this week.| _ | BOYNTON.Miss Bertha Demick, also Miss , Maury Hutchinson were guests at A.R.| Hill's last week.Mrs.Chas, Cox is reported quite ill at this writing.Mrs.Lyman Towle visited relatives daughter visited at J.B.Kent's last |8t Newport, a couple of days last Saturday.Call for Jacob\u2019s Rheumatic Liquid.\u2014 week, Mrs.Quimby visited at Stanstead Jot., last week Thursday.ae ONLY BEAST THAT FLIES BAT ONLY MAMMAL HAVING TRUE POWER OF FLIGHT.Wonderful Development Which Enables It to Skim the Earth In the Air, and the Modus Operandi of Its Use of Its Flying Apparatus\u2014 Some Interesting Natural History Notes\u2014Posts on the Bat.It is impossible on à summer evening for one having the use ul his eyes to avoid taking uote of the hurmivss little Flittermouse.Over every sient pool and pattering stream the littie animal cau be seen hawking for insects uttering us 1t flies 1ts queer sharp cry, though its voice is so high- pitched that it requires close attention before it can be distinguished.Though in nature we have other animals whose mode of locomotion is described as flying\u2014such as flying squirrels\u2014the bat it the only member of the manumalia having true powers of sustained flight.This flight entails a special structure of the lure-limbs.Though the bunes in these members are similarly place to those in other mammals they are modified to such an extent as to have obtained for the order the name Chiroptera, or wing- handed.It is the single bone cone prising the forearm which is of such great length, the upper portion of the arm being of ordinary dimensions.From this forearm depend four long fingers, the third being the longest, and a thumb.which is not joined like the rest of the hand with membrane, but is free, and terminates iu a hook, by which the animal assists itseli elimbing and attac.itself to we ete.The delicate membrane ete: the length of the arms and s.reaching te the hind legs.and a + ilar skin connect: the hind legs wi the tail This attachment necessitates the knee-joint being turned backwards, and gives the little insectivore a very ungainly motion on the rare occasions it seeks the ground.The teeth of the Bat vary with its diet, some species having cheek teeth furnished with points to pierce the out- gide skin of insects; other species living mainly on fruit, dispense with these cusps; and yet other varitivs, being blood-suckers, have front teeth of special formation for penetrating the skin of their victims.In the British members of the race the ears are well developed (some specimens having inner ears called the targus), those of the Long-eared THE BAT.Bat being nearly as long as the boy.The animal not ouly feeds and drinas while tlyving, but the female carries her young\u2014usually two\u2014tightly adhering to her budy.Our little flying-inouse is generally a nocturnal or dusk-loving cseature, and as its sight i= not great it is compensated by a seuse of touch so keen a8 to nearly approach a sixth sense.Spallanzani cruelly experimented by blinding a number, and yet the unfortunate little animals were quite able to avoid all the artificial obstacles placed in their way, even such impediments as threads stretched in varying directions across a room.This extreme delicacy of touch seems to be located in the elongated ears and wing membranes.Some members of the very large order (Dr.Dobson published a list in which he enumerated no less than four hundred different species) have this sense further developed in certain sensitive folds of skin surrounding the nose, these \u201cnose-leaves\u2019\u201d in many instances having whiskers attached.In winter the Bats seek some sheltered situation in deserted ruins, holes of trees, under the roofs of churches or houses, and attaching themselves Ly their hind claws, head downward, they become torpid.This hibernation happens at varying times with different varieties, the little Pipistrelle, the most common of our native kinds, seeming to be practically exempt, and even in the daytime on a sunny December day I have noticed it flitting about after the few flies which the unwonted sun has _brought to life.There is also evidence that certain members of the order migrate occasionally to warmer climes for the winter.The old English name of Flitter- mouse is a8 very good synonym for our common Bat, ite mouse-like form and shriek both contributing to the resemblance.The fur, on a cloge inspection, is found to be silky and reddish brown, shading to a lighter tint on the forehead.Underneath the hair is\u2019 darker.Though ita food is mainly composed of insects it does not ob- feo to a diet of raw meat, and has n known to invade larders on this errand.We all know the uncanny and fearsome position occupied by the Bat in folk-lore, and our ignorant and sup- emstitious forefathers are not to be blamed for seeing in the habits of the strange little fly-by-night portents and omens; but why the highly.wducated poet should abet this ignor.ence, as he usually does, is not =o easy to understand.In this department of our literature it is mostly described as \u201cdrowsy,\u201d \u2018\u201c\u2018torpid,\u201d or \u201clazy.\u201d Simply because the t pi the night for his ex ons no reason for this sweeping chargea .EX \u201c vs We might with equal justice cu:l the workman who gives us the oppuiluu- ity of reading yesterday's news luzy because his work is done while we are snoving.Further than Unis, Lie pod, utterly regardless of facts, oiten cilis the animal a bird.Spenser, in ius Vefatal birds,\u201d commences wits ba \u201cleather-winged bat\u201d and many others save their face by assutaing it to be a nondescript creature, isp leading the way by suy.ng.\u2018hui bird, half beast.\u201d Dryden porttic;s it thus: No bird, nor beast, but just a kind of bat, LA twilight animal true to neither | ciuse.i Not content with this inaccuraey, \u201cthe bard piles up the injury by enlling the animal everything but a gentleman.\u2018\u2018Obscene bird,\u201d \u201cfoul bird.\" jand \u201cvanspire\u201d are the common | modes of describing our useful little | friend.T am not here concerned with tropieal varieties, some of which | mensure 5 feet or 6 feet, from wine ta wing: but to so malign our nimble English specimen is unworthy of the poet's inspiration.R=TAINS HIS =EAD.Edward Corcoran, Poor Saddler of Dublin, to Get $1,000,000 of a Seattle Man As Heir-At-Law.Edward Corcoran, an old man who enrns his livelihood as n =nddier 1m Dublin, Ireland.stands the bot chance of being deelived the heir-u- law of John Soll 1 of Seattle who divd intestate, leoving an ectate vnis- ed at zemething like $ELOD00O0.OF 2h various cliiminty who hove apposed, he i= the only one who ha- furnished petizfactory proof of Lis velntion Fat the prospeet of Ot possessing his not upset Corvoran.EDWARD CORCORAN.He still works daily at his trade.He 1+ a man of sober habits and simple tastes.He realizes that at his age it is only for a few years at most that lie can expect to get any enjoyment out of the change in his lot.His poor relatives, whose numbers are increasing daily.show a much livelier interest in the matter than he dues.The case has excited deep interest in [Ireland because of the sensational investigation, which necessitated the exhuming of long buried coffins aud an examination of their contents.Soveral name plates, which had been rusted from tee caskets.were photographed.These photographs will form part of the exhibits when the case comes up for final settlement in the courts of Seattle.Many documents that long iad been stowed away in dusty pigéon- holes of the public record office in Dublin have bren examined.Those that shed any light on the case have been copied.More than a score of witnesses have been examined, and a dozen bwh iced lawyers, American and Iri-h, bave been engaged.Originally there were only two »laimants, Hannah Callaghan, a beg- var, who has since died, and Corcor- an.But the publicity given ta the \u201case caused claimants to spring up like mushrooms.Walter Thornhill, an attorney of Zork, who was appointed commission.ar of inquiry by the judicial authori- lies of Seattle to eonduct an investi- fation of the various claims.has fnished his report.It is known that it is in Corcoran\u2019s favor.bui the whole matter will have to be thrash.tû over again in Seattle.Meanwhile Coreoran is discovering that he has wore relatives than any vther man in Ireland.Lone St.Helena.Tt will never be possible to add to the tiagic interest centering around the island pri-on of the great Napoleon Bonaparte, He was nlone in iis genius, alone in hia career.alone in his fate.For vears the eyes of the world were upon the caged emperor, and St.Helena beeame a name to make monarchs and diplomats shudder and dread.Since the removal of the remains of Napoleon from the island where he died the place has been garrisoned by a small force and held as n° naval coaling station.It is now proposed to abandon the post, and the question arises.What shall be done with St.Helena?What it is of itself is nothing.but what it became through the accident of Napoleon's guarded exile there it can best remain by letting i revert to a wilderness, the sport of waves and tempest.When all the world is under the spell of progress, desolation is the fitting state for the petty domain over which Napoleon reigned by the grace of his conquerors afMer kingdoms and princelings n hich his sword had exalted cast him off.Wise Throurh Experience.At one of the London police courts a young hooligan was charged with assaulting an elderly man.\u201cYoung man,\u201d said the magistrate, \u201cI\u2019m surprised at a big, strong, healthy-looking fellow like you always getting into trouble.You seem to be continually wanting to fight.Why don\u2019t you go for a soldier?\u201d A smile illuminated the magistrate's face when the youth replied, J did once, your worship, and he nearly killed me.\u201d\u2014~London Telegraph.LAND OF RAINBOWS, Strange Sights Seen By Mrs.Leonidas Hubbard, jr., In Her Remarkable Journey Through Labrador.In her remarkable journey through Labrador last year, Mrs.Leonidas Hubbard, jr., saw many strange sights.Perhaps the most interesting of these was the caribou migration.\u201cOn August 8,\u201d she writes in the bulletin of the American Geographical Society, \u201cwe came upon the migration and saw one herd in which there were thousands.We did not find them again in such numbers, yet for fifty miles of our journey they were seen in smaller herds every day, and sometimes many times a day.\u201cThey were in summer dress of pretty brown, shading to gray and white on the under parts.The antlers were in velvet and of immense size, and males and females were already herding together.Apparently they had been in occupation of the country for some time.\u201cFrom Ptarmigan Point, on Lake Michikamats, to the head of Long Lake, on the George River, the country was a network of their trails, in the woodlands and bogs, cut deep into the soil, on the barren hill-sides broad, dark bands converging to the crossing place at the river.North of the Height of Land we passed at intervals long piles of whitened antlers; and along the shore opposite our camp of August 15, a broad band of white caribou hair, four feet above the river, told of their erossing and recrossing while shedding their winter coats, \u201cOnly once in passing this part of the country did we find trace of their enemy.the wolf.Throughout the journey we did not see any.but once, while running down the lower George River, & lonely ery eame down to us from one high up on the mountain side.\u201cThrouch the earibon belt other game wus more abundant also.Every day mother ducks with their flocks of little ones were seen, and a number ol geese were taken.Gulls and loons were there in numbers, and ptarmigan were very plentiful as far as the head of the Barren Ground Water; but beyond none were taken till we reached the post.\u201cAlong the lower part of each of the rivers signs of foxes in large numbers were found, and the lemmings on which they feed made us not a little trouble.They were about in thousands and the ground was so perforated with their holes as to remind one of a porous plaster.\u201cIn the lakes fish seem abundant, though we traveled too fast to do much fishing, and the nets were not once in the water.There are brook trout, ounaniche and namavoush, some whitefish, in the lakes; and in the lower George the sea trout and salmon.\u201cThe flowers are beautiful, though not so varied as in the home country.All along the Nascaupee blossoms of the Labrador tea filled the air with their fragrance and pale laurel grew in abundance.Now and then we crossed great beds of blossoming cloud berries and everywhere the star flower and bunchberry showed their white blossoms.\u201cOne day while ascending the Wa- pustan River Gilbert handed me a dandelion and during the day I saw several of them, Wnt did not again find them throughout the journey.On the upper Nascaupee the pak bells of the low cranberry showed in the carpet of glossy green and near the water the blossoms of the dewherry.\u201cViolets grew along both rivers, but most beautiful of all waz the twin flower.Its delightful fragrance first attracted my attention and looking down I saw the long trailing vines.\u201cAt Ungava masses of this beautiful flower creep along the foot of the mountain, while indoors in a pot on the window sill Mrs.Ford, the agents wife, treasures two tiny clover plants, almost afraid in her eagerness to believe that they really were clover.\u201cDuring the journey.which oceu- pied two months, from June 27 to August 27, the weather was wonderfully fine.We were in camp only eleven days on account of rain and the highest temperature reached was T7 degrees F.in the shade.The lowest recorded temperature was 30 degrees, though it was not the minimum reached.\u201cOn the morning of Angust 10, there was ice an eighth of an inch thich on a basin of water.On tho 13th.14th and 15th of the same month we had snow flurries.\u201cThunderstorms were rare, and compared with those in the United States very mild.On many beautiful days we had passing showers.Labrador is a land of rainbows.Nowhere have T seen their eolors so briiliant or so variedly manifested, They did not always appear in the form of a how, and once T saw them lie like a beautiful veil along the whole length of Rainbow Hill on the upper Nuscau- pee.\u201cThere was a wonderful clearness in the atmosphere, which made landmarks miles away scem very near and clothed the far distant hills with color indescribably beautiful.In the blue of the hills and the waters and the sky there was a peculiar silver- iness, which, with the white of the reindeer moss and the dark green of the spruce forests, touched in places with tertder green of the white birch and poplar.made a combination of color which, I think, can scarcely be surpassed in beauty anywhere in the world.In a way which I could neither describe nor understand, it was comforting.\u201cThe flies and mosquitoes, for which the country ia famed, did not wholly fail of accomplishing, their dire designs upon us; but their ravages are easily forgotten in the remembrance of the beauties of that lone land which can smile with so much grace, even though its mood has sometimes been one of such persistent cruelty.\u201d Turks In Byron's Placa.Europe has completely deserted Philhellenism.There is no longer a Byron to sing the Hellenic virtues, to fight for Greek independence and to die miserably at Missolonghi.Phil- hellenism has found a last refuge among the military and political chiefs of the Sultan.\u2014Courrier of Sophia.erenemagad = BIG ENGINEERING FEAT.DANCE OF THE LAMAS.Water to Be Transported 325 Miles to Adventures of a British Agent In j the Western Gold Region AL a Cost * of Fourtesn Million Dollars.It is expected that the next few years will witness, the development ol the most remarkable system of water carrying in Western Australia that hus ever been seen.The plan is to repeat, again and again, the successful engineering work that is now supplying the great gold mining region of Coolgardie, far out in the desert of the imterior, with plenty of water brought from the coast muuntains, 325 miles away.The Western Australia desert contains perhaps the lurgest waterless regions in the world, When David W.Carnegie made his second journe across it, several years ago, he traveled &00 miles without finding anything that suggested a permanent source of water.For many days he saw nothing but prickly spinifex covering the sand ridges, which were 40 to 50 fest in height, and extended east and west, parallel with one another.He wrote that he crossed more than 80 of these sand ridges in eight hours\u2019 travel.Great Thirst Region.But under repellant sands lie the great gold resources of Western Australia that are now supplying more of the metal every year than all the rest of the Commonwealth.When the rush of miners to this great thirst region began, the eager search and the frantic strife for water were sometimes tra- gical, The Government sought for underground sources of supply, but most of this water was found to be so impreg- uated with zalts that it was unfit for \"se, Engineers finally devised a plim oe ater delivery from the western cost mountains, about twenty miles +.the south of Perth, which involved the largest pumping scheme that lias set been carried into operation in any part of the world.The works were completed only two years ago, and they are attracting all the more attention because the population that is paying $14,000,000 for them is still small.The amount of rainfall in the basin of the Helena river, which flows through the Canning Hills south of Perth, is about thirty inches a year.It was found that by impounding tha river a supply of 5.000000 gallons a day would be available for transportation into the interior.Pipe On Surface.The problem was to transport this water a distance of 350 miles, for it was proposed to extend the aqueduct te the Kalgoorlie diggings, east of Coolgardie, and this has been done.Mundaring, the place where the Helena River was dammed, is only about thirty feet above the sea, but the surface of the desert to which the water was to be carried is about 1,650 feet above sea level, so the water was not only to be transported as far as from New York city to Lake Erie, but to be lifted during the process about 1,300 feet.The water which collects back of the dam in the Helena Kiver forms a fine lake seven miles in length.The big delivery pipe that carries the water is not buried in the soil, but lies on the surface or in open trenches, for there is no danger of freezing.There are eight pumping stations, a little more than forty miles apart, and the water is kept moving up the long but very gentle incline.It finally reaches a reservoir many miles west of Coolgardie, and from this point gravitation takes it to the 454.000 inhabitants of the Coeolgardie mining camps and to the Kulgoorlie region beyond.Mr.Keir Hardie, M.P.Mr, Keir Hardie, M.P., wha has just publicly celebrated his jubilee, has had a harder life than post of ni Par liamentary confreres.Tlis wage-carn- ing career commenced just after his seventh birthday.savs M.A.P., when for the weekly salary of three shillings he became errand boy to the Glasgow branch of the Anchor Line Shipping Co.At eight vears of age he assisted a lithegrapher at a weekly remuneration of four shillings, and at nine he became a \u201ctrapper\u201d in a coal mine, working his way gradually until he became a full-fledged miner at fifteen shillings a week.He worked in the mines, scarcely seeing daylight, save on Sunday, until his twenty fourth year.when he was eleeted Secretary to the Miners\u2019 Union.With this appointment began his political birth, and his progress is now modern history.His unconventional views have earned for him the nicknames of \u201cQueer Hardie\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Keir Hardie.\u201d His unparliamentary garb oe- easionally gets him into amusing situations.Tt is only a few weeks since n constable in the House took him for a plumber.and in Belgium not many vears ago, despite his particularly Scottish face, he was arrested as a confederate of Rubini, the Anarchist, and \u201call the King\u2019s horses and all the King\u2019s men\u2019 had to be moved before his release was secured, Quite recent- 1y he surprised the House by invading its sacred preeinets in sandalr.Such a thing had never been known, and many of the constables on duty were uncertain whether they ought to have barred his entrance.Club For Sweethearts, \u2018\u201cEligible\u201d clubs are booming, for despite the criticism that the original club at Hampstead has aroused, the \u201celigibles\u201d of Brixton are to have a club .in which they will be well Iook- ed after in the Brixton Parish lnsti- tute.> \u201cOne of my principal objects in starting the club.\u201d said its founder, the Rev.A.J.Waldron, the Vicar of Brixton, \u201cix to give the younger men a comfortable place where they ean bring their girl friends.\u201cNow there iz over an acre of bean- tiful laid-out garden attached to the club where they can walk and sit ir the summer, and where we shall organize garden-purties, and every Sunday evening the recreation rooms of the club will be at the disposal of the members and their sweethearts.\u201d The entrance fee is halt a crown, and the annual subscription, payable quarterly or yearly, fifteen shillings.Atte The Real Boss.\u201cDo you mind the motion of the ship much?\u201d \u201cNo, I don\u2019t, but I haven*t heard from the inner man yet.\u201d Bhutan and Thibet.Mr.Claude White, the British political agent at Sikkim, made two expeditions into Bhutan last year and during the late summer, details of which are now published for the first time, says The London Daily Express.During the first journey,\u2019 which was undertaken to invest the Tongsa Pen- lop, the ruler of Bhutan, as a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire, for the services he rendered during the Thibet campaign, the entire country | was crossed, and portions of Thibet which had not heen visited by white men were traversed.Everywhere Mr, White was received with absolute friendliness.The Tongsa Penlop himself undertook a difficult and dangerous journey of over ten days from his residence at Biaga to meet Mr.White at Lhakhang.At Lhalong Monastery, one of the most noted in Bhutan, the | chief incarnate lama is the nephew of the Tongsa Penlop.Here a great reception was organized in honor of the British political officer.As the caravan approached up the gorge towards the ancient monastery it was met by masses of lamas, all wearing dark red robes.White and the Tongsa Penlop had been escorted up to the monastery an extraordinary lama dance was organized in their honor.This took place in the courtyard of the monastery, the various dancers wearing grotesque masks of animals\u2019 heads.During the summer mission Mr.White was beyond the limits of Bhutan proper, and traveled for a prolonged period through hitherto unknown parts of Thibet.Mr.White came across the takin (Buducas axicolor), an exceptionally rare animal, whieh, so far as is known, had never been previously seen alive or shot by a European.Mr.White was presented with n very fine specimen by the Tangso l\u2019enlop, but it died in the Chumbi Valley on its way home.Its habitat is just below the snow line.This extremely rare animal, which in appearance is half-ox, hali- antelope, is stated by the natives to exist only in three places ir Bhutan.The foothills of Bhutan are admirably adapted for the cultivation of rubber, etc., and the people are extremely anxious to trade with us.Eventually, it is stated, they will form +a valuable market for Manchester cotton goods.Mr.White discovered a shorter route to Lhasa than the one now known.British Soldier and Religion.At the first meeting of the committee recently appointed by the British Secretary of State for War to advise the Army Council in all matters affecting the spiritual and moral welfare of the army met at the War Oi- fice.Mr.Haldane, War Secretary, made a brief address, in the course of which he said: \u201cNo soldier fights his best who is not an idealist, and touched with idealism about his duties.Every man has in him a latent spark which can be kindled and which can send through him that idealism which raises him to a different level of personality.There are times when the history of our race has shown that it is so,\u201d Aîter alluding to the stimulus of religion on the body and the fact still that the British soldier, simple as Le ix, is capable of being profoundly stirred by the broad features of religious life, which brings home to him the consciousness that he has a side of his nature in which he is more than a mere finite being, a side in which God is imminent in him.In conclusion, he said: \u201cI am very glad of the evidences whieh pour in on me from all sides of the fact that the increase in the education and the intelligence of the men of to-day, as compared with those of a generation ngo, are telling on the condition of the soldier in the army, and are beginning to raise him to a higher level.\u201cBut we want to stimulate this ad- vanee, and we feel that we can best stimulate it under the supervision and bv the advice of those who are concerned with relirion\u2014with religion in its broadest sense.And it seems to us that in the army is a field in which those who are concerned mav find sbandant onportunity of working together, as indeed they are alrondy doing to a considerable degree.\u201d Hich Priced Bumblebees.Many vears ago the farmars of Australia imported bumblebees from England and set them free in their clover fields.Before the arrival of the bees clover dis] not flourish in Australia, but after their coming the farmers had no more difficulty on that score.Mr.Darwin had shown that bumble- lices were the only insects fond of clover nectar which possessed a proboscis sufficiently long to reach the bottom of the long.tube-like flowers and at the same time a body heavy enough to hend down the clover head so that the pollen would fall on the insect\u2019s back and thus be carried off to fertilize other flowers of the same species.The bumblebees sent to Aus- tralin cost the farmera there about half a dollar apiece, but they proved to be worth the price.His Weapon, Tn some parts of Ireland it is a custom among bank clerks to speak of one another as \u201cofficers\u201d to the bank, but little Jim Bender, the recently imported Cockney waiter in a County Mayo hotel, was not aware of this custom, \u201cHave you seen any of our officers here this morning?\u201d asked a lordly knight of the quill of Jim a few deys ago.Jim glanced keenly at his interrogator, \u201cYussir,\u201d\u201d he answered promptly; \u201cit jan\u2019t three minutes ago since one of en went out with his sword be\u2019ind 'is sar,\u201d \u2014J.ondon Answers.When Mr.THE CHRISTMAS DINNER.What] we have for Christmas ne put your wits to use, ! ow, 8 we have a pair of A turkey, or a po à ducks, Maw'll be here for dinner, 80 we\u2019d better both eut loose: Now, will it be a roast of beef | A sucking pig, or goose?i Rich Uncle Ned will dine wit And I'm his pet papoose, h Help me out!\u2014a pair of ducks, A turkey, or a goose?us, ! Thus do these mighty auestions Our weary brain enthrall.There\u2019s just one choice in all the lot We cannot have them all.And e\u2019en in bed that question With sleep it nlavs the deuce\u2014 Will\u2019t be roast beef, a pair of ducks turkey, or a goose?, And even if I fall asleen.| als on the pleasant juice, nd try to choose \u2019twixt sucki i A turkey, or a goose.ne pie, On Bundava when I go to church, I haven*t an excuse | For singing: \u2018\u2019Lord.a nair of ducks, | A turkey, or a goose?\u201d I feel I'm going bughouse, As mad as any moose, Trying to choose \u2019twixt sucking pig, A turkey or a goose.One thing is sure: on Christma We'll have, when I cut loose.Day A sucking pig, a pair of ducks, A turkey, or a goose! \u2018 \u2014The Khan.A NEW WHITE PAGE.Various Life Marks Seen By An Observant Man On the Frst Snow.When nature turns the first white page of winter for the record of her infinite activities her children are alert and ready to inscribe the varied stories of their personal exploits and meanderings.Where the new snow slopes down in a cold, clean sheet to the curve of a hurrying stream a muskrat began the inscription withe out waiting for the guiding illumination of day.His babylike feet have left a firm and regular double track of distinct impressions in the snow, and between these runs the groove of his snakelike tail.The new snow preserves the record of his early excursion, even to the crystal drops that fell from his close fur as he left the water.He walked along the bank away from the stream for a short distance, sat up to look about over the newly whitened landscape, made a few distinct impressions in the snow with his fore feet as if curious about the new covering the world had put on, and then returned by a longer route, taking the water close to where he had emerged.There is dignity and deliberation in the trail of the muskrat, writes Mr.8.T.Woods, in The Globe.Beyond the high bank is a record s¢ small and faint as to indicate helpless weakness, almost lost in the broad white expanse.A field mouse with short, hasty steps made his laborious way for a few feet over the snow and disappeared under a small drift that concealed his further course.How big and impassable the world must have seemed to him when he floundered more than his depth in the little groove, while his tiny feet sank interminable distances in the shallow snow! In winter he may commit serious depredations by gird ling fruit and other trees under the snow, but his little track seems so helpless on the new page that he 13 almost forgiven in advance.A vagrant cat has been abroad, and her round paws have melted their regu lar impressions deeply and distinctly into the snow.This track moves along in a sheltering furrow and soon shows the record of & stealthy crouch before a spring.A few feet away some slaty grey feathers complete the story.Juncoes have been hopping all about the place, and the long springing strides of the swift rush lead to where one has been captured by the stalking enemy.The feathers are fragments from a tragedy.Beside the naked woods the trail of a leaping red squirrel has a much more cheerful aspect.He bounded along not in haste, but in joy, his broadly separated hind feet overreaching the close twin marks of his fore feet at every spring.From cone large tree to another he makes his way, seeming to inspect each ml hurry along.At the foot of a bluck oak the trail ends, showing that the happy squirrel chose an more athletic path among the branches.In the closer woods the tracks of a dog are scaitered about with an ir regularity suggesting human influences.Turning, doubling, crossing.and recrossing, his tracks lend about in bewildering uncertainty.The cau-e of all the excitement ir disclosed by the clear.quadruple track of a cottons tail beside a small viburnum bush.The long leaps that threw the dog off the scent make this trail difficult to follow.Cottontail was evidently in a hurry, judging by his long irregular bounds, but his separated hind feet oint his direction.Where the shrub.Dory is more open the dog finds his trail again, and both lead away toward the dark green cedars.Near a broken field a crow has stalked thoughtfully, etching his bold records along the white expanse.The scales of a pine cone scattered by a squirrel are littered about on the fresh snow.The new page is marked everywhere, but from the low, uncertain clouds the north wind scatters a feathery spray of snow ns if to efface the records of nature's handiwork and pre- gerve the open expanse in its virgin whiteness.A Changed Man.A man who, after being addicted to drink, had taken the pledge, was persuaded to attend ambulance classes.The Bishop of Londop, who told the story at a meeting recently, soon afterwards called on the mans wife and asked her how her husband was.\u2018\u2019He\u2019s a changed mnn, FIf.said the wife.\u2018\u2019Instead of spending his evenings in the public-house, he stops at home every night and ban dages the cat !** fp EY Ar me mr ' A Meal in a Moment Bovril will do it for you À meal prepared with the help of a chafing dish has a great fascination for many.But the woman who usesa chafing dish and hasn\u2019t tried what the adcition of a few drops of Bovril will do, has yet to find out how delightfully piquant and appetising, a chafing dish preparation can be made.Not only does \u201cBovril\u201d add to the richness and taste, but also very materially to the .nourishing qualities, and that\u2019s best of all.BOVRIL is A Household Necessity BLANKETS Bed Blankets 65c.to $8.00 Horse Blankets $1.25 to $4.00 i Best Line Shoes and Rubbers £ ° IN TOWN.| : King\u2019s Shoes and Stub-Proof Rubbers | : WILLIAM M.PIKE ROCK ISLAND HARDWARE (0.REMEMBER WE HAVE A LINE OF i BELTING AND LACING.= =\u2014\u2014 Ë Ë WATERMAN & HUNT, Proprietors.THE EASTERN Issues TOWNSHIPS Dratts | oney Orders BANK 1 Traveler's Checks Letters of Credit Payable Everywhere.Savings Department i Deposits of $1.00 and up- CAPITAL : \u2018J wards received.Interest credi- 83,000,000,00 | ted twice a year.RESERVE £ BRANCHES 5 5 81,600,000,00 H CANADA EST ABLISHED ] t t 1858.te : Fountain Rens at the Journal Office.| SUCCESS WITH POULTRY.4 Fow Rules the Vielation of Whieh : Leads te Cortnin Fatiure.To have success in the poultry busi ness the fock must he kept healthy.Here are a few suggestions for keeping them in good condition, says a writer in American Poultry Journal: Keep the poultry house warm and dry, for damp poultry houses are breeding houses for disease, Scald out the drinking vessels every few days and keep them as clean as possible.The hens should always have a dust bath bandy, winter and summer.This will help keep the fowls fre2 from lice.A little salt and pepper mixed with the mash Is good for the hens.An unsuspected draft striklug ¢he fowls at night while on the perches Is responsible for many a case of cold in the head and incipient roup.Stop up the cracks in the henhouse.À variety of food will help to kee) the hens healthy and will also be good for the egg production.The great factors in winter produe- tion of eggs are cut bone or meat.green food in some shape, clover or roots and exercise.Forcing egg production is a danger ous practice if the flock is a good one.Keep them in good condition, and they will do their part.Change the food for a day or two if the fowls have bowel disease.Half of the troubles of this kind can be traced to a lack of sharp.hard grit.The best condition powder for the poultry consists of clean quarters, good food and pure water.Homemade Feeder.Now that there is such a craze for the feeding of poultry from hoppers.with the resultant saving of time and labor, any device which seems to meet A GOOD FOOD HOPPER.the requirements of the everyday fancier is hailed as a boon.Most poultry- men are kept pretty busy attending to their pets and are willing to try anything which makes for time saving.The accompanying illustration shows a very simple three compartment foed hopper made from biscuit boxes.Six boxes will make five hoppers.The method of construction is obvious, If the illustration is closely observed with especial reference to the dotted lines.The Useful Trap Neat.An advantage of trap nest testing of birds is that the \u201cdrones\u201d can be sold off to the butcher and the feed bills reduced by tbat much.It is a fact that a third at least of the food we fecd is fed to *\u201cdrones\u201d\u2014to no purpose hens.How it would bring up the average of profit if those \u201cdrones\u201d were all culled out and got rid of and none fed except those that had proved themselves at least fairly good layers! It is the \u201cdrones,\u201d the no purpose hens, that lower the average of income for food fed.They are fed at a loss all the time, and the good layers bave to pay for their own food and the food of the \u201cdrones,\u201d too.before there is anything remailning for profit.Which are you feeding, \u201cdrones\u201d or great layers?Trap nests will tell you, Just as the milk scales tell which are the no purpose cows, says A.F.Hunter in American Poultry Advocate.Snufies In Belgian Hares.The most common disease and perhaps the worst that the Belgian hare Is subject to is snuffles.In the treatment of this disease aim to build up the system, says a writer in American Poultry Advocate.Give food that is extra nourishing, put a little tincture of iron in the drinking water and the animal will probably be able to throw off the disease.If you feed a mash put a spoonful of flaxseed in it, and if it is simply a case of sneezing and d!s- charge from the nose resulting from a slight cold nothing more in the way of treatment will be required.It will be well to spray the nose with lukewarm water to which a eiittle salt has been added.After spraying wipe dry.The Slate Turkey.The slate turkey is of American origin.This fow} when right is nearly blue in plumage color, the shade resembling that of the blue Andalusian, the female being much lighter in color than the male.The standard calls for a plumage color slaty or ashy blue, sometimes dotted with black.The standard weights are: Cock, 27 pounds; cockerel, 18 pounds; hen, 18 pounds; pullet, 12 pounds.Disqualifying weights: Cock, less than 18 pounds; hen, less than 12 pounds, Standard Breds Versus Scrubs.Wherever any one succeeds with barnyard fowls they would grow rich from standard bred poultry.Just try it, those of you who are doing well enough with the common kinds, and see what a difference there wil] be between 150 eggs per hen from each hen and seventy or eighty from the old kind, says the Feather, If you have not already done so, dispose of all fowls, young and old.not intended to be kept until another ven» Surplus cockerels are reta'ne\u2019' 'm winter or spring.when they -' 1 weighing about five to six pou, THE BREEDING PEN.= &n Exports Views as ty the Qualitios .te Be Perpetuntod.In the making up of the breeding pen there are a uumber of very important factors to be dealt with if success Is to be expected, and 1 will poiut out a few of the more Important ones to be dealt with, suye Itev.C.E.l\u2019etersen In American Pouliry Advocate, No birds should be used which are not sexually mature, healthy and iu full vigor, as only from healthy and mature stock can a healthy progeny be expected.If immature birds are used the progeny will suffer, which is proved yearly by the markedly higher death rute among the chicks hatched from such hunuiture stock birds.Stock of advanced age should not be vied either, as, for reasons that are obvious to the observer, no good results can be expected.\u201c There Is no need for me to expluin that the chicks are in everything es- sentiul the.creatures of their purents and of thelr ancestors; thastt is on the whole predestined by the nature of the germs from the combination of which the chicks emanate what they are to be, This is good and sufficient reason why the utmost care should be used In the selection of breeding stock and Information as far as is possible obtained as to the ancestry of the birds to be ured in the breeding yard, for by no means everything that Is glven us Is good.The parental germs themselves may, to begin with, be possessed of inherited deficiencies, or they may have suffered by injuries which affected the parental body, or they may have been imperfect because of the minature or advanced age of the parents, All kinds of malformations are hereditary and should under no circumstances be permitted in the breeding pen, however slight, as the tendency in covery instance is to exaggerate these deformities, I said all kinds, whether inherited or nequired, as the last kind will in time become hereditary, and even if in other respects the bird should be desirable leave It out of all consideration for breeding purposes, as the result in a very few generations will prove disastrous.Egnally unsultable for procreation are specimens whose physical develop- ment is not complete or whose sexual character is imperfectly marked.Remember that potency is just ns much hereditary as any other faculty and is indeed of the greatest impor tance, as this particular faculty Is the rejuvenator of our strain.And wherever a bird proves himself strong in this particular and gives ev- ; dence of eontinued strong potency for several generations such a bird should be treasured and his strong potentiality bred into the strain.\u201cStuffy\u201d Houses Cause Catarrh.A writer in American Poultry Advocate, In answering the inquiry of a correspondent whose flock 1s suffering | from acute catarrh, very saplently ob- ; serves: Unless you handle the affected birds carefully acute catarrh will run into the roup stage.1 have met many ; cases of this character caused by too | little ventilation at night.Close, hot, stuffy houses and coops are behind many of these cases.The gospel of fresh air Is doing much to prevent catarrh diseases in our birds.Increase the amount of air supplied your birds.Do this by removing windows\u2014making openings if needed\u2014and cover with : wire netting to keep out vermin.Get the chicks into large coops with wire front.Let all birds out of the houses \"In the early morning so that they may pass more time in the pure outdoor air.Add one-hundredth of a grain of nrse- nite of antimony to the day's drinking water of every five birds and then add Just a film of kerosene oil to each vessel.This is medicine enough.How to Confine Leghorns.The usual method of keeping ILeg- horns is to confine them In yards having fences about six feet high and with reasonable yard room they will rarely fly over, especially if there Is no post top above the wire for the birds to alight upon.Fowls almost never fly directly over a fence, but fly up on to the top of it and then fly down.Tak- Ing advantage of this habit, it Is easy \u2018to stretch a couple of strands of wire i above the fence posts with slim stakes to support them.When a bird flies up to light on the post top the wire prevents, and the attempt is rarely repeated.Caponising an 01d Practice.R.T.Will, writing to Western Poultry Journal, says: I notice numerous articles in the poultry journals these days explaining what \u2018capons\u201d are and the methods of procedure in the operation of caponizing.That caponizing is not a recent discovery is deduced from the fact that Shakespeare causes Hamlet to mention capons In a conversation with the king, scene 2, act 8, so that \u201ccapons\u201d were known In the sixteeen century and perhaps earlier, The Black Turkey.The black turkey is a native of Amer- fca.In plumage color it is a lustrous black throughout.Standard weights: Cock, 27 pounds; cockerel, 18 pounds; ben, 18 pounds; pullet, 12 pounds.Disqualifying weight: Cock, less than 20 pounds; hen, less than 12 pounds, The Dust Bath For Winter, If you have not already done so gather dust for the fowls' dust bath this winter.In the garden or plowed field is a good place, the dust being much cleaner than that in the road, 1lso more easily gathered, In culling it is well to remetnber that few fowls well cared for yield » \"wer profit than twice as many :sgiected, - a a.MERELY A MASTERPIEC Net 6 \u201cMosange\u201d In Levely BDéstion For the Junior Manager.A man who wanted to lecture called at a bureau presided over by two managers.He aroused their interest with a lecturer's art, says the Lyceumlte, but unfortunately the senlor member was Just starting on a trip and would not return for at least a month.The senior partner called the young man to one side and exacted a solemn ; promise that be would not visit another bureau or read his lecture to anybody until after he had given this particular manager a readlug and a chance to make Lim an offer a month hence, The interest of the junior member, however, was at white heat, and he kept sending for the young lecturer, Insisting that he come down to the office and read his lecture, The young man refused with as much tact as possible, but this only increased the anxiety of the junior, At last the young man told of the promise made the senior partner.Instead of quieting the junior manager, the announcement made him the more anxious, and finally the young man consented.The reading ended, the junior partner said: \u201cNow, your reading this has saved us all much valuable time, I'll tell you frankly, my boy, it won't do.There's no message in it; it is loosely constructed; the diction is poor.It won't do.Burn it and try again.\u201d When the senior partner returned he called up the young lecturer and soundly berated im for breaking faith, \u201cHow do 1 know you have not been to every bureau in town?You promised me on your honor you would read the lecture to nobody\u2014not even to my partner.\u201d The young man protested that he had not done so.\u201cWhy,\u201d exclaimed the senior manager, \u201cof course you have! IIe tells me that you came down here to the office two weeks ago and read him the entire lecture and that be told you It was no good.\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d replled the young man; \u201cafter much persuasion } did read him a lecture which he told me was no good, but it was not my locture\u2014It was Wendell Phillips\u2019 \u2018Lost Arts! \u201d THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.Wild dogs never bark and so always bite.A gray horse lives the longest, a black one the shortest.A coon\u2019s fur is so thick that it can rob bees without belng stung.A blue eyed cat is always deaf, but all deaf cats are not blue eyed.An Asiatic squirrel climbs a tree like a telegraph pole climber.It has large horny scales on its tall for the purpose.The flylng fox or troplcal bat will pass the night drinking from the vessels In which cocoa Is distilled and go home intoxicated In the early morning or sleep it off at the foot of the trees.The big snowshoe rabbit or northern bare 1s something of a dresser.It wears a white coat in winter and a gray one in summer, the better to con- cea) itself from its enemies by looking as the ground looks In the two seasons.Hard on Beggnara.The philanthropist, handing the beggar a dime, said: \u2018The world is in & bad enough way, dear knows, but I am not one of those men who say that it goes back Instead of forward.Take your case, for Instance.You are practically unmolested, aren\u2019t you?A few months is the most you ever get for begging.And do you know what would have been done to you In the fifteenth century?The first time they caught you begging they'd have whipped you at the cart's tail.The second time they'd bave slit your right ear and bored a hole In your left ear with a hot iron.Catching you a third time, they\u2019d have put you to death as a felon.\u201d \u201cGee,\u201d sald the beggar, \u201cwho'd \u2018a\u2019 thunk 1t?\u201d .It Is Woman's Way, When a woman undertakes to decapitate a fowl or anything with an ax she grasps the tool close to the head, raises her chin, squints both eyes, clinches two rows of teeth and hacks straight down, missing her alm by about two Inches.That was sufficient for a Batavia lady to sever her left thumb.Sbe was not a fainter and, replacing the thumb, which had been chopped at the first joint, bound*the : y parts together and has excellent promise of its complete restoration.The game Is not always lost when \u201cthumbs are down.\u201d Timely Precavtion.\u201cMaria,\u201d said Mr.Quigley, entering bis home in some excitement, \u201cI want you to promise me not to look at the papers for the next three months!\u201d \u201cWhat for?\u201d wonderingly asked Mrs.Quigley.\u201cI have just been nominated for a public office,\u201d he faltered, \u201cand I don't want you to find out what kind of man I really am.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 fheowd Came.\u201cExtry™ yelled the bright newsboy.\u201cAI about the terble wumpty\u2014er\u2014 wump!\u201d \u201cEb?\u201d asked the inquisitive old man.\u201cWhat did ye say.sonny?\u2019 \u201cI didn\u2019t say 1t\u201d repiled the boy.\u201cBuy a paper an\u2019 see.\u201d Always Gremiing, \u201cBinks ln always growling that be doesn\u2019t have justice done him.\u201d \u201cYes.When he gets a halo he'll prob- abiv say it isn't 8 square thing.\"\u2014New York Times.LINTIES ON THE BRAES OF YARROW.: (When Dr.Norman Macleod was traveling in Canada, he met a Scottish farmer who told of his rity and happiness in his new home, @ ut\u201d he exclaimed, \u201cthere\u2019s nag Ninties in the woods, and nae braes like the Braes of Yarrow.\u201d) My hame in Canada I loe; Ye\u2019'll gas far to find ite marrow\u2014 But in the woods nae linties sing, An\u2019 the braes are nae like Yarrow.The sun shines bright o'er this fair land, But I miss wi\u2019 heartfelt sorrow, The linties singin\u2019 in the woods On the bonnie Braea of Yarrow.My thankfu\u2019 hand As my flelds T plough and harrow, But still I miss the linties\u2019 sang On the far-famed Braes of Yarrow.heart makes willing | | | In Scotland, mist creeps o\u2019»r the hills | An\u2019 fills the glens sane narrow, But sweetly still the lintie sings | On the bonnie Braes of Yarrow.| \u2014Frances W.Gibson.| I | | LENGTH OF SENTENCES.Remarkable Little Study of Some of the Great Authors.The Farl of Clarendon, in his \u201cHise tory of the Great Rebellion,\u201d uses, perhaps, longer sentences than any other English author; some of his consist of 300 or 400 words! Rut these huge conglomerations are really made by joining a string of separate sen- ;tences by conjunetion.Milton also employs long sentonces; but as among then he interposes many short ones, lis average works out at fifty-one in the Areopagitica.Similar testa show that among the great writers of English prose, preachers, historians, and philosophers have the bigh- ext averages; and, as one might ex pect the modern novelists and journalists and writers of animated prose produce the sentences of shortest average length, There are, however, notable exceptions.Jeremy Taylor stands nt the head with the enormous average of ninety - words per sentence: but he uses many colons and semi-colons, while a large number of present-day writers neglect these two stops, and employ the full stop and comma almost exclusively, being thus obliged to put few words between full stop and full stop.After Jeremy Taylor comes Charles Lamb with sixty, awd, next to him, among twenty-six classical authors tested, is Swift.This is rather a surprise.It : shows that a plain writer may make very long sentences: while, on the other hand, an author who has a reputation for ornateness, such as Gibbon (whose nverage is twenty-nine), may stand quite low in the list.Gibe bon writes some very long sentences, but he reduces his average iu the same way as Milton does.Swift is more uniform.This, after all, is nate ural, The man who writes to produce striking effect will vary his sentence- | length purposely, and the plain writer will say directly just what he has to say.Bo we find that Sir Thomas Browne (forty-five) and Defoe, in \u201cRobinson Crusoe\u201d (forty-two), are almost equal in this respect; Hume .(forty), and Bacon (thirty-nine); Adam ' 8mith (thirty-seven) and De Quincey (thirty-three)-each of these three pairs consist of one ornate writer and one who is a severe practitioner of the | plain style.Dickens, in a narrative i part, registers an average of thirty- two per sentence; Dr.Johnston, in \u2018\u2018Rasselas,\u201d thirty-one; Burke, in { \u201cThoughts on the Present Discon- i tents,\u201d thirty-one also, hut in his I speeches twenty-two; Lord Lytton, in ! the descriptive and dialogue parts of \u201cPelham,\u201d \u2018twenty.Helow twenty we must make careful distinction.Jane Austen, in a piece of animated dialogue in \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d averages twelve.Thomas Hardy, in the same kind of writing in \u201cTeas of the D'Urbervilles,\u201d ranges between eight and ten, but when he is describing scenery his average is thirty-three, Of all English writers Macaulay is, in this respect, the most striking; in his \u201cHistory\u201d the average is only seventeen.The average of all these authors, and of some others not mention ed, worked out at 31.1.When a Man Could Live.The head master of a fashionable | school, as he sat in his office getting ready for opening day, said: | \u201cAt Eton, the famous English publie school, where some boys spend $10,000 or $15,000 a year, and where it is hardly possible to get through ;on less than $1,600, it only cost in Queen Elizabeth's time, $26 annusl- He took down a little book.\u201cThis is a copy,\u201d he said, \u201cof a ; manuscript, still preserved in Devon- shire, that gives the Eton expenses of the two sons of Bir William Cavendish, \u201cAmong the items are: \u201c \u2018Mending a shoe, 1d., for sweeping and cleaning the chamber, 2d.; a breast of mutton, 5d.: a small chicken, 4d.; Aesop's Fables, 4d.; two bunches of candles, 1d.; a week\u2019s board, 5 shillings.\u2019 \u201cThe total minimum expenses of an Eton boy in 1614\u2014board, tuiticn, everything\u2014were $256 a year.\u201d His Revenge.A Lancashire youth walked up to 8 counter in a certain postoffice and asked for a penny stamp.It appeared, however, that he had got to the wrong counter for postage stamps, so the clerk said sarcastically: \u201cNext counter.Can\u2019t you read?\u201d The lad said nothing, t went and bought the stamp, and, having affixed it to the letter he returned tn where the clerk was sitting and asked: \u201cIf 1 post this letter to-night will it Fe to London by to-morrow morning?\u201cCe * lied the clerk.lied the i pends » TT athe TR heii 7 En ans ~ Tm, - Ra set ee Bhai CT ar, a Tow né Ga CR SE ne he ity as gm Py LET vo The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rock Island, Que.One your (advance payment) £1.00 {f paid in six months, 1.26 At the end of the year, 1.50 ADVERTISING RATES.Transient advertizing lu cents a line for the first insertion and 3 cents & line for each sub- soquent insertion.12 lines totheinch.Noad- evrtiament received for less than b0rents.DEATH OF HON.C.C.COLBY.Sketch of His Notable Career\u2014Was Known as the \u2018\u2018Father of Protection.\u201d Stanstead County mourns the loss of its most distinguished citizen.Hon.Charles Carroll Colby died at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, January, 10th.His health had been failing for some months.Becoming worse in the fall, he was taken to Montreal with the hope that he might be beneflted by hospital treatment, but, thie was not to be; the sands of lite sifted slowly through and his illustrious career was peacefully closed at midnight last Thursday.: Mr.Colby was born in Derby, Vt., December 10th, 1827, the son of the late Dr.Moses French Colby, a distinguished physician of his time, who moved to Stanstead in 1832.Having chosen law as a profession, Charles Carroll Colby graduated from Dartmouth College at the age of nineteen years.Afterwards he studied law with the late H.B.Terrill, M.P.P., Stanstead, continuing this work in Montreal and Sherbrooke.ln 1835 Mr.Colby began the practice of law at Stanstead and at once came into prominence.Mr.Colby was first elected to Parliament as an independent supporter of the Macdonald- Cartier Government in September, 1867, and at the outset took bis place among the best debaters in the House of Commons.Talented, cultured, alert and resourceful, he became a force in Canadian politics from the very beginning.His speeches upon the Manitoba question, the banking and trade questions, received the hearty commendation of the intelligent thinking classes throughout the Dominion.His conduct during the first Parliament met such general approval that he was re- \u2018 turned to the second Parliament in 1872 without opposition.Daring the second Parliament he commenced his onslaught upon the insolvency laws which he continued from session to session until his efforts were finally crowned with sue- cess, the iniquitous laws being repealed.During the second Parliament he introduced the celebrated \u201cColby Resolution\u201d which so happily for the time settled the school difficulty in New Brunswick.The \u201cPacific Scandal\u201d furnished great excitement for the next general elections.The Mackenzie Government had come into power, but Mr.Colby was returned by acclamation.His constituents were so conscious of his wisdom and ability that he was - not asked before his election whether he intended to support or oppose the new Government.In 1878 he began his crusade for the tariff revision on account of which he was afterwards called the \u201cFather of Protection\u201d in the House.He was returned to Parliament by large majorities in each successive general election until that of 1891, when, owing to local party disaffection, he was defeated.In 1887 Mr.Colby was elected Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Committees of the Whole, House of\u2019 Commons.In the fall of 1889 he was called from England to take a seat in the Cabinet and was appointed President of the Privy Council of Canada, a position which had been previously held by such distinguished statesmen as Hon.8ir John A.Macdonald and Hon.Edward Blake.Mr.Oolby was in Parliament nearly & quarter of a century and during that time made many notable speeches, particularly upon the fiscal policy of the country.The proud position oc\u201c cupied by Canada to-day is due in no small measure to the wisdom and forethought of the distinguished parliamentarian who so long and ably represented this constituency at Ottawa.For a man of his ability it may be said that promotion came slowly.He was not a self-seeking politician; his parliamentary honors came to him unsought, and the consequence was that men of inferior abilities were promoted over him.Of him it may be truthfully said that he ranked in honor, influence and ability among \u201cshe foremost men of Canada.After Mr, Oolby\u2019s retirement efforts were made to induce him to again en- der the politioal arena, upon several accessions, but be stuck to bis deter- Mmination to stay out.He gave up his practice, compara- \u2018tively early in life,in order that he might devote his entire es to the interests of his country; his busi- without means.It would be only na- common ability would meet with success in the world of commerce and industry, unhampered with political du- retirement from public service.In 1858 Mr.Colby married Miss Hur- riet Child of Waybridge, Vt., who sur- sons, Prof.C.W.Colby of McGill University and Dr.J.C.Colby of Stan- stead, and two daughters, Mrs.J.F.Aikins of Winnipeg and Mise Jessie M.Colby of Stanstead.The remains arrived at this place in & special car Saturday afternoon, and were accompanied by a large delegation of citizens to Mr.Colby\u2019s late residence.The funeral took place at the Methodist Church, Sunday afternoon.Most of the adult population of Stan- stead, Rock Island and Derby Line | were present to pay a final tribute to | their illustrious fellow-townsman, A | special train brought a number of rep- 'resentative citizens from Sher- ; brooke, while many drove in from the surrounding country, and the magnificent edifice, Mr.Colby\u2019s church | home, was filled to its capacity.A 'short service of prayer was held at the | late residence of the deceased pre- \u2018ceding the service at the Church | which was conducted by the pastor, | Rev.George S.Clendinnen, assisted iby Rev.A.H.Moore, M.A., Rector of | Christ Church, Rev, William R.Harvey, Pastor of the Congregational, Church, Rev.C.R.Flanders, D.D., principal of Stanstead College, and Rev.À.L.Holmes, M.A.The bearers were Messrs.D.W.Davis, B.P.Ball, F.T.Caswell, Geo.P.Butters, Wilson Fairman and A.C.Cowles.Mr.Clendinnen\u2019s remarks so faithfully portray the life of the deceased that we publish an extended report of the pastor\u2019s address.The text chosen was: \u201cAnd Elisha said, I pray thee let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.\u201d \u20142 Kings 2, 9.As his master Elijah was about to be snatched away from him, Elisha had a great opportunity in the privilege of choosing a parting gift, and he made good use of it when he asked an elder son's portion of the great prophet\u2019s epirit.Elijah\u2019s answer asserts the difficulty of transmitting spiritual gifts, but assures Elisha that if by persistent fidelity to the end, and courage unfaltering even in presence of the dread messengers from the unseen, he will prove his fitness for prophetic gifts, they shall not be denied.We cannot agree with those who say that the prayer was not answered, Elisha\u2019s gentleness being nobler than Elijah\u2019s austerity, but it is easy to see that the very contrast between the two men intensified the kindly prophet\u2019s longing for that quenchless enthusiasm and devoted heroism that the master showed.The prayer was answered, and Elijah\u2019s interrupted tasks were carried to completion by virtue of the moral and spiritual reinforcement that came to his successor, and ere long Baalism, as a national force, was spent.Each generation of men inherits an unfinished task and with the task comes an augmented responsibility.And in view of this, nothing is more natural than the desire to inherit also the spirit and virtues of the departed So widespread and instinctive amongst men is this hungering for some form of continued communion with the righteous dead, that we may well believe that Elisha is not the only one who has received an answer to this particular prayer.Amongst the crude superstitions of undeveloped peoples we find many illustrations of this instinctive desire to bridge the grave, and in our own literature it also appears.You remember George Eliot's familiar lines about \u2018\u2018those immortal dead who live again in lives made better by their presence,\u201d not to mention other instances of the same class from more orthodox writers.How inevitable it is that we should pray for some mitigation of the disastrous losses which death inflicts, as we long \u2018for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still.\u201d How comforting is the hope we sometimes venture to indulge, that the evil so impenetrable to us is somehow transparent to the clearer vision of those who have passed beyond.Though we cannot yet go to them, we like to think that they are free to come to us, and that possibly in some way they still fulfill a ministry of love on our bebalf, However this may be, we all do feel to-day that while we lay away in ite resting place the body of our dear friend, it is at once our privilege and our duty to pray that his spirit may abide with us to inspire and conee- orate us as we attempt to carry on the work that ie left in our bande.Por we most say of the generation that je fast passing from us, \u201cother men labored, and we are entered into their labore.\u201d We inherit the ancompleted tasks.We go iste harvest fields where others sowed the seed.Whas- tics, somewhat advanoed in years, and | ever new equipment we possess we tural to expect that à man of such unties and there ia reason for believing that Mr.Colby has done so since his vives him.He is also survived by two | ! tunity have no conception of the com- of duty.Just forty years ago, when the first Church on tbis ground was in.course of erection, Rev.W.R.Parker, as pastor, was engaged in a series of evangelistio services in the brick building now used as Town Hall.The membership of the church expanded in that year from 91 to 150, and in the old Circuit Register still preserved, I found first on the list of those who then professed their faith in Christ and united with the church the name of the gifted lawyer, then in the prime of young manhood.Ever since that day he has been a loyal Methodist and a pillar amongst the officials of this church.Dr.Adam Clarke believed that a true Methodist could not possibly be a | vice.I wish all Methodists, of early and We have a notable instance of this bigot.later days, could be cited in the history of modern Japan, where in proof.of the opinion.At the Samurai, the ancient aristocracy, /&ny rate we all know that here voluntarily stripped themselves of was one who could be true to his their ancestral privileges and sacri- church, and yet never allow denomin- ficed princely wealth in order to lead ational interests to limit his generous their country into a new life amongst hospitality, his cosmopolitan friend- enlightened nations.ships, or his private benevolences.The rarity in this our day of this| He was a devout Christian, regular noble type of patriotism intensifies in his attendance upon the services of the need of this prayer for a double the church, deeply concerned in her portion of such a spirit.The beset- prosperity, and expressing his reli- ting sin of many of our best people is | gion in his daily life.the shirking of he responsibilities of One other quality I must mention citizenship.Many men who are gift- |ere I clsoe.This country needs, in all ed in personality and rich in oppor- her citizens, and especially in her political leaders, a spirit of incorruptible rectitude.That man who uses his exalted position as a representative of the people to enrich himself, and who thus pollutes the springs of national life, merits a worse penalty than the traitor who betrays his country in time of war.And the man who is only bonest enough to keep within the limits of the law while he plunders his fellow-citizens is the most dangerous of our enemies.But every public map who adopts Christ\u2019s motto, \u201cNot to be ministered, unto but to minister\u201d who gives his best to his country and looks to God only for his reward, this man is worth to Canada more than his weight in gold.Thauk God for such men in the honor roll of the past.Here lies one of them, as you all know.Thank God for the men of such a spirit who still live with us.They are none too many.Oh brethren, let us pray that upon us all may rest this day the elder eon\u2019s inheritance, the double portion of the noble spirit of our dear friend now called away.still need the spirit of the fathers, It is no exaggeration to say that Stanstead County mourns to-day the loss of her first citizen, her most bon- ; ored and representative man.Nor ido I hesitate to affirm that there is no | need 80 pressing in this County and lin the Dominion of Canada to-day as {the need of men possessed of the spirit of C.C.Colby.If I have any power to interpret the , man, bis was a spirit of high minded \u2018patriotism.It was that rare kind of patriotism that moves a man of genuine culture and lofty ideals to forego the luxury of private pureuits and devote his gifts to his country, not with any thought of personal gain, but only in the joy of unselfish ser- munity life and of its imperative \u2018claims upon them.When the people of ancient Rome lost interest in the arduous duties of citizensbip and failed in the high task of self-government, the Republic fel} into the hands of unscrupulous demagogues who exploited the state for personal ends, and thus the Romans lost their liberties.If Canada should ever lose her free- tdom, which God forbid, it will be in | the same way, for when the best- , qualified citizens shirk the duties of leadership, self-interest will prompt men of sordid ambitions to strive for place and power to be used for personal gain.This patriotism 80 necessary to a free people, and so nobly exemplified by Mr.Colby, is in its essence sacrificial.It demands a man\u2019s life energies.It absorbs his time.It exhausts his resources, both material and spiritual.It invades the sanctuary of his home.It steals away his com- forte.It assaults his reputation.It alicuates his neighbors.It compromises his dignity.It exposes him to the fiercest temptations.It shortens FOUND.the natural term of his life, if not by roman iy Bal paver can have same v ed the bullet of the assassin, more often Graniteville, Qué, to with us by the exhaustion of unnatural labors.These are some of the risks and OUNG WOMAN to learn typesetting and penalties of political leadership, and Musthove fêir education nro riiting office.they demand a courage as devoted as gnc who has had \u201ceme expérience ass school any that ever adorned the historic handwriting SOURR DEN Sant NG co eld of battle.Rock Island, Que.When I speak of Mr.Colby\u2019a patri- 2 otism I refer not only to the period when his gifts lent dignity to the 50 ton FOR SALE.8 good Horse Hay, and a lot of Straw House of Commons, but to the life |for saleat Fitch Bay.Call, write or 'phone long service which be gave so gen- Ws lcd: Newport Tia Marker, None \u2018erously to the community.His life Bay: 70 was bound up with the life of the people.To the end he kept in touch with the progress of national affairs, and no.real interest of the commubity wus beyond the range of his sympathy.What he has done for the life and institutions of this place no one will ever fully know.Principal Flanders could tell us that the College never had an abler or a better friend on its Board of Trustees.My predecessors in this pulpit, for forty years and more, could tell of the unflagging zeal he showed in the service of the church.You, bis friends and neighbors, will cherish while you live the precious memery of your unselfish, high-minded fellow-citizen.Well may we pray God for a double portion of his spirit of enthusiastic patriotism.His was a spirit of remarkable kindness and chivalry.He was nurely worthy of a noble seat amongst the Knights of Arthur's Table Round, and well may all Cana- diane of this our day entreat the Giver of all good to bestow upon us that spirit of tolerance and charity that quenches the bitterness of party strife and forsaking all sectional appeals, unites the whole community in one brotherhood of sympathy and inter- ost.As you all know, Mr.Colby entered the House of Commons in 1867, in time to sign the British North America Act.The Confederation of these Canadian Provinces was a great work, and for those were even entrusted with the responsibility of consumating it, and of nourishing the infant nation through its early years, it must have been a fruitful experience.The man who with sensitive soul passed through that experience must needs WANTED.FOR SALE.Farm of 120 acres, good state of cultivation, ood orchard, ruuniog water at house apd aro.situated on the hog of Lake Mem- phremagog near Narrows Bridge.a to MRS.M.J.BLAKE y No.81 Walker St., t£78 Lowell, Mass, LAND FOR SALE.Any one wishing a desirable situation on which to build may find same on Chase road, opposite (burned) Horace Holmes barn, is land will be broken up into small housa lots with streets at right angles to present street, or the entire parcel will be sold at a fair price.Land on each side of boundary line.Building plans free to each purchaser.JAMES T.BALL, Architect, No.11 Wareham Street, Boston, Mass.Mind Your Eyes! Are your eyes woak and watery?Are your eyes or lids red or inflamed?Does bright light hurt your eyes?Doyou sometimes see two objects?Are you troubled with floating spots before your eyes?Does everything look cloudy at times?Do your eyes smart and burn?Do vour eyes ache or the lettera run to- Rother when yon read?Do you see ag well with one eye an the other?Do you have pain in or around your eyes?Do you have pain in the side of your head or back of your neck?Are you troubled with headache and disei- ness?Come and tell me your troublee\u2014I will give you relief and good sighs, I have the most delicate and accurate methods for examination of eyes and become a better, a broaderand a the careful fitting of glasses.stronger man for having stood at the centre where the swirling currents of many diverse interests were with OR.H, D.MARTIN, masterful statecraft brought together into one channel.Eye Sight Specialist.Fow men were better fitted than Mr.Colby by natural temperament and ability or by thorough culture for a share in this dificult work.He was à representative Canadian, and to the oad of his career he steod strongly fer Office at Derby Line Hotel, Der Line, Vt., Jan.9 until Jen.Ben s 25 PER CENT.OFF BOYS AND MEN'S REEFERS.First-class Line of Groceries Always in Stock.WILLIAM M.PIKE.+.i A.J.BISSONNET\u2019S JANUARY STOCK REDUCING SALE OF MEN\u2019S AND BOYS® SUITS AND OVERCOATS.Enormous reductions\u2014from 20 to 50 per cent off our regular prices.OVERCOATS.Regular Prices, $12.00 now $8.00 10.00 «\u201c 7.00 \u201c 6 8.00 cf 5.00 « [3 6.00 ce 4.00 [3 \u201c 5.00 té 3.00 Men\u2019s Suits in all colors and styles, including our famous hand-tail Reliance Brand at same discount.vies 5 ailored Regular Price $15.00 now $11.50 sc s 10.00 ¢¢ 7,50 \u201c ce 8.50 te 5.00 8 se 7.50 4.00 , Men\u2019s Trousers, 15 per cent off regular prices.Men\u2019s Fancy Vests at $1.50 regular 82.50.Boys\u2019 Suits Regular $5.00, 3.95.« 88.50, 2.50.We also have several two-piece Suits for boys from 4 to 9 years, at 81.50, If you are in need of anything in the clothing line, it will pay you to inspect our stock before buying.Highest cash prices paid for farm produce.\u201cA.J.BISSONNET, ROCK ISLAND, QUE.H.GC.WILSON & SONS, PIANO WAREROOMS, ESTABLISHED 1863.JANUARY, 1907.A good pair for 98c.A prosperous and happy new year to our friends and customers all.We begin the new year with better facilities than ever for fur- niebing the best quality of Pianos and Organs and Music Goods at reasonable prices.Our largely increasing trade from year to year is evidence that we sell the class of instruments wanted by the musical public, and that our prices and terms are satisfactory.We have a lot of new styles in Pianos and Organs to show you this season, and we hope yon will see our stock and learn our prices before deciding to purchase elsewhere.Catalogues and full information by mail to any address.Sole agency for Heintzman & Co., Mason & Risch, Kranich & Bach, Wilson, Berlin and other fine pianos.Estey Organs, Wilson Organs.The Werlich Piano Player, Hardman Autotone Piano, \u201cEdison\u201d Phonographs.Send us Your name on a Postal Card.H.C.WILSON & SONS, 63 Wellington St., Sherbrooke, Que.Branch Store at Magog.FARMS FOR SALE.Small Cash Payments and Terms or on Half Crop Payment System.C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Buy Winnipeg Real Estate and double your Capital in a short time.Mr.Vaughan is now'in the East and has some rattling good propositions to offer.Write him at Ayer's Cliff, or call and get any information you wish re the west.the broader interpretation of Hie and A.E.VAUGHAN & CO.Wil wri che are qui will Sur Eve the Hut serr Was Tue Mas Bro gue Cur Mer and chin Tem Fite daug days Th box \u20ac in ti good = |e I A.REYNOLDS, D.D.8., WILBUR Ay »$., Boston, Mass.J.C, COLBY, B.A.M.D.Offices\u201d Qarrolicroft, ne.by Consultations 9 Poe a m., A oe 4 Both Phones.rte DR.C.L.BROWN, B.A., Physician and , Ayer's Cliff, Que.People's \"Phone.DR.H.P.STOCKWELL, Stanstead Plain, au th ot 9 : rat F uth ol vitee sud Tero Church.Bell and People's Telephones.DR.GEO.F.WALDRON.11 Place, fice and residence opposite the Haake! : offen Hours: Until 9 A.M., 1 to 8 and 7 to 8 PM.People\u2019s and Bell Telephones.F.W.FOURNEY, B.A, M.D., C.M., Physician and Surgeon, - Fileh Buy, Que.People\u2019s \"Phone.R.0.ROSS,B.A,M.D.,C.M,, Oâitee, first door South of Convent, Stanstead.Bell and People's Telephones.T.D.WHITCHER, M.D., Physician and Surgeon.Beebe Plain, P.Q.Oftive at Residence.Bell and People's \"Phones.C.1.MOULTON, L.D.S,, Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.te of Montreal Veterinary College.8 ae at Lee Farm, Island, Que.U.S.P.0.Address: Derby Line, Vermont.CHAS.H.MANSUR, Advocate, Rock Island, P.Q.Uffice over Wm.M.Pike's Store.M.F.HACKETT, Advocate, Solicitor, &c., Stanstead Plain, Que.Will attend all courts in the trict.Collections a specialty.H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.U.8.P, O, Address: Derby Line, Vt.EDWARD AUDINWOOD, Undertaker & Embalmer, Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, P.Q.L.H.RAND, Undertaker and Embalmer.Plates Engraved when wanted.Fitch Bay, Qne.BROWN'S HILL.Mr.W.A.Davis is quite ill \u2018at this writing, he is attended by Dr.Whit- cher.Mrs.Fred Dunn and Mrs.G.Vaughan are on the sick list.The election of councilors caused quite an excitement here Tuesday.Rev.Mr.Hutchinson of Fitch Bay will preach in the school house on Sunday Jan.20th, at 2.30 p.m.Everybody should avail themselves of the opportunity to hear Rev.Mr.Hutchinson, for you are sure of a good sermon.Intended for last week.Rev.Mr.Hutchinson of Fitch Bay was calling on bis people here last Tuesday.Mr.and Mrs.T.N.St.Dizier of Massawippi spent Sunday at Mr.W.Brown\u2019s.Mrs.Cox of Boynton has been the guest of Mra.Waite recently.Mrs.A.F.Curtis and Mrs.G.C.Curtis spent Monday at Mr.M.P.MerrilPs, Fiteh Bay.Misses Eva Sider, Edna Gardyne and Edith Temple, and Messrs.Hutchinson, Tippett and Rider of Fitch Bay spent Friday evening at Mr.E.E.Temple's.Miss Minnie Martin has gone back to Windsor to resume her studies.Master T.Rexford has been spending a few days with his sister, Mrs.A.W.Brown.HOLLAND.Mr.and Mrs.William Gray from Colebrook, N.H., visited triende in town recently.Mr.N.W, Gray had the misfortune to slip and hurt his side quite badly.Mr.Charles Smith has purchased the Harry Huntoon farm.Mr.and Mrs.O.B.Flanders of Fitch Bay, spent a few days with their daughter, Mrs.B.F.Stratton, a few days recently.There will be an entertainment and box supper at the closing of the school in the Baznett district, Jan.18.A good programme is being prepared.-_\u2014 TARIFF IN HOUSE, The tariff occupied the attention of the House of Commons throughout the day Thursday, the resolutions being disposed of iate that evening on the understanding that further discussion will be permitted later on it required.The items of the schedule Were taken up one by one, and some headway made.The policy of the Government was to defer discussion of any actual changes until the major Part of the schedules were disposed of, but the amendments proposed met With some criticlem by the Opposition, Sspecially the amendment which de- Slared that the anti-dumping clause should not apply to binder twine im- Tted from the United States and the one which the tariff made to read Cream separators shall be im- Ported subject to the » Me.Pielding IN MEMORIAM.His beart was kind, bjs instinots true, his mien of noble dignity, marked by perfect oourtesy.Modesty and Charity were his perpetual guests; he was content to sow while others reaped; his speech was balm to heal, not stings to wound.The mean, the petty things, he scorned.A good husband, a fond father, a faithful friend, a beloved and honored citizen\u2014one of Nature's noblemen, he truly was.He passed to sleep as the evening shadows brought to close the day of a well spent life.No more the kindly spoken word; no more the sunny smile; no more the cordial clasp of hand, but the memory of his living presence will abide as a bevedic- tion to us all.A FRIEND.A For The Stanstead Journal.Many people from the Eastern Townships and Vermont, who are spending the winter months in Pasadena, Cal., and many too who reside permanently in this beautiful city, had the pleasure of witnessing the Tournament of Roses, New Year's day.I venture to say that it was the sincere wish of one and all that their Eastern friends could view with them the beautiful lower be-decked equipages which formed the pageant that for eighteen New Year's days have aided in spreading Pasadena\u2019s fame.Tnder sunny skies with the majestic snow-capped mountains in the background, and the vivid green of lawns and trees enlivened by vari-colored flowers amongst which are nestled the artistic residences which have earned for Pasadena one of its many titles: \u201cThe City of Homes.\u201d It was difficult to realize that at home all was in the icy grasp of \u201cKing Winter,\u201d nnd equally difficult of realization was the fact that there would be no more winter at any time in this glorious Southern California, than on the mid-winter day when roses and white dresses held high carnival.At noon the vast crowd repaired to Tournament Park where the parade passed in review before the judges who found no small task in ascertaining the most artistically decorated turnouts on which to confer the prizes, At the Park the exciting Chariot races also took place.Last but not least was the Tournament Ball in the evening at magnificent Hotel Green.In the superb arched and onyx-columned ball-room, decorated by lavish hands with natural roses, the Queen of the Toruna- ment in her regal robes of ermine and velvet with her court of young ladies gowned in yellow silk passed before the brilliant assembly.With the ball ended a day long to be remembered by those so fortunate as to be in this favored land of sunshine and flowers.GRACE BLAKE, Pasadena, Cal.January 5th, 1907.ABBOTT'S CORNER.In the death of Mr.John Johnson, on the 8th inst, aged 72 years, one of our best known residents passed away the deceased having made his home here a lifetime and was universally respected in the community to which he belonged.D.M.Wilson was in Coaticook Monday, visiting his brother, John Wilson.Mrs.8.Skinner was in Milby over Sunday the guest of Mrs.F.J.Luce.Mrs.Laura Golden of Plainfield, Vt., visited her cousins, Mr.and Mrs.J.Jackson, recently.Miss M.Tyler is quite ill this week.A.H.Kezar is recovering from la grippe.D.M.Bean has a diseased hand supposed to have been caused by blood poisuning.BEEBE PLAIN.The Dorcas Society will meet at Joseph Lorimer\u2019s Friday afternoon.George Holdsworth\u2019s new saw mill i near Bouth Bolton is now in operation and lumbering operations are active in that vicinity.\\ Cummings and Son\u2019s steam mill, in Coaticook was burned early Mondsy morning.The loss also includes the dry kiln, work ahôp and considerable valuable machinery.The office, on the opposite side of the river, escaped.Alonzo Davey mysteriously disappeared from Knowlton on the Sth inst.He wae last seen on the lake near the place where ice harvesters bad been at work.There was consternation in the quiet village Tuesday night when the missing man\u2019s cap was found on the ice near the spot where he was last seen.A large quantity of ice was cut away and the lake thoroughly dragged that night and the following morning but uo trace of the missing man was found.The opinion has been advanced that he was not drowned but made a sudden departure for parts unknown.It is evident that Charles Reigel\u2019s old enemy is still after him.A correspondent of the News says: Mr.Chas.Reigal, of the Township of Magog, was arrested on Jan.4th, by Bailiff Gendron, on a charge of having threatened to kill his wife and child.It appears that Reigal, a laborer, had been imbibing a little too freely the day previous and being in a quarrelsome mood, had threatened to kill his wife; he set fire to a trunk and was in the act of throwing his child in the flames when he was prevented from doing s0 by Charles Bell who arrived on the scene in the nick of time to prevent a great crime.The unfortunate man was brought before M.C.Gould, J.P., and was remanded to the Court of the King\u2019s Bench at Sherbrooke, for sentence.Mr.E.W.Brewster, immigration agent for the Eastern Townships, has gone to England in connection with his work.Last season he helped out the scarcity of farm labor to some extent by placing six or seven hundred immigrants with the farmers of the Townehips.He will probably be able to do even better another season.His mission to England is to secure the right class of immigrants and point out the advantages the Townships possess as a field for settlement.All farmers desiring help, experienced or inexperienced, boys or men, should send in their applications to Mr.E.W.Brewster, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Co., England.The postage is the same as to any Canadian address.Farmers are not bound by these applications other than to give the men they get a fair trial.All immigrants are given to understand that their success depends entirely upon themselves.They are given the minimum and maximum wages prevailing and told that the amount they will receive will depend entirely upon their efficiency as farm laborers.At a meeting of the directors of the Stanstead County Agricultural Society, held on the 9th inst, the following officers were elected: President, WE.Hunt; vice-president, W.H.Dav- idsoun; secretary treasurer, John P.Bowen.Mr.Hunt filled the presidential chair after the resignation of J.J.Sutton at last year\u2019s fair.Mr.Hunt\u2019s services to the society have amply earned the continued honor which bas been conferred upon him.Mr.Bowen filled the position of secretary treasurer last year with marked ability.No society in the province bas a more eflicient officer.The other directors of the society are F.H.Kearnes and George W.Currier, Magog; C.H.Robinson, Stanstead; P.B.Buckland, Barnston; George W.Kezar, Hatley; J.N.Cushing, Bar- ford, M.Benoit, 8t.Catherine de Hat- ley.Honorary directors, S.W.Sar- geant, W.E.LeBaron, G.W.A.Re- burn, and W.H.Bachelder, Hatley; A.H.Moore, Magog; H.E.Baldwin, of Barford; E.V.Norton, Barnston; W.H.Bachelder, Magog; C.W.Morse St.Catherine de Hatley.The society has decided to offer prizes to farmers who keep their tilled land and roadsides free from weeds.This is an important step and should result in great good.200000000000 000000000000 Girlhood and Scot?\u2019s Emulsion are linked together.The girl who takes Scoffs Emutl- sion has plenty of rich, red blood; she is plump, active and energetic.The reason is that at a period when a girl\u2019s digestion is weak, Scoffs Emulsion provides her with powerful nourishment in - easily digested form.anti-damping It is a food that builds and keeps up a girls strength.ALL DRUGGISTS; mn HL cA PERBECTION PEU he a ASE when mother wishes \u201ca bite between meals \u2019\u2014 when father feels a bit hungry at bedtime\u2014how they all go for the pail of Mooney\u2019s Perfection Cream Sodas.VE A Specialist\u2019s Prescription for women Who Feel Tired and Run Down.A Remedy that Gives New Life and Vigor and makes Women Feel Good.\u2014\u2014 Dr.Hugo\u2019s Health Tablets for Women are the prescription of a specialist.We don\u2019t say that no other living physician could prescribe so good a remedy for women.But we do say this, The ordinary practising physician cannot prescribe so good a one, and no living physician can prescribe a better one, Dr.Hugo put into the prescription all the knowledge, experience and skill which he had acquired in forty years\u2019 practice as a specialist in women's diseases, and included as well the discoveries of all other great physicians, All that is latest in medicine\u2014all that has been found useful to women, is contained in them.Nothing useless has been included.Nothing useful has been left out.The result is, that every requirement of the female system in any possible condition is met by them, And this fact has been certified to by leading physicians and chemists on this continent, to whom Dr.Hugo's prescription was submitted.If you are in a run-down condition and don\u2019t feel as well as you would like to, or suffer from any menstruation difficulty, or weakness peculiar to your sex, avail yourself at once of the prescription of this great and good physician, The cost of 72 tablets, enough for an extended treatment, is only soc.Dr.Hugo\u2019s HealthTablets Make Healthy Women.EE MR.C.C.COLBY.(Montreal Gazette.) Mr.C.C.Colby was the last of a large number of singularly able men sent to Parliament from the English- speaking counties of this province in the days following Confederation, Ar- genteuil had Sir J.J.C.Abbott, who later became prime minister of Canada.Huntingdon had Sir John Rose, and Sherbrooke Sir A.T.Galt, each of whom held the portfolio of minister of finance.Compton bad John Henry Pope, one of the shrewdest men, who ever in sat in the Cabinet of Canada.Chateauguay had L.H.Holton, and 8hefford L.8.Huntington, All these were men of unusual force of character or strength as public men, and it is doubtful if any section of the country of equal size and population showed at one time so many publicists of such high national repute.Among them Mr.Colby took a place of no inferior order.From 1867 till 1891, or for twenty-four years, he represented Stanstead continuously, and when in 1888 he was asked to enter the Government ot Sir John Macdonald it was everywhere felt that the honor was deserved.In the election of 1891, partly because he gave his attemtion to other constituencies and so helped to secure the general victory that smashed the Wiman-Taurier unrestricted reciprocity platform, Mr.Colby was defeated in his own conasti- tuency.Instead of seeking another one he chose to retire from politice and gave his attention to his private affairs.He was à convincing speaker, had a pleasing manner and understood the people among whom he mingled.He outlived those who were his contemporaries in public life in the day of his strength.To most of the presant day his record is a memory.To those of the older generation, however, be will be remembered as a popular, kindly and strong man, the valued \u2018counsellor of bis party wben it was Done in tbe country and bad more perhaps, thas its of clever and Eble en 10 Gress ihe alters.E NATIONAL BANK OF DERBY LINE FOUNDED IN 18851, STATEMENT OF CONDITION DEC.31, 19086.RESOURCES.LIABILITIES.Losns and Discounts, - $418,018.41 Oapital Stock - = $150,000.00 U.8.Bonds, - - - 40,000.00] Surplus and Profits, - - 83666.79 Other Bonds, - - - 37,298.75 Deposits, - = 904,390.80 Cash and Sight Exchange, 56,990.91 Ciroulation, - - - 40,000.00 Five per cent.Fund - - 2,000.00 Banking House Furniture xtures - - 12,687.31 $566,989.68 566,969.68 The attention of those intending to open savinge bank or commercial accounta is respectfully invited to the accompanying statement and to the record \u2018of this bank which has carried on a successful and conservative business for fifty years.With ample capital and all needed facilities, we offer our customers every proper accommodation.In Savings Department we pay interest at the rate of 3 per cent.per annum, FREE OF ALL TAXES, and compound the same twice yearly.We solicit large and small depositors and assure all of the most courtecus treatment.We have boxes to rent in our fire and burglar proof vault for the safe-keeping of bonds, notes and all valuable papers.Correspondence is solicited and will receive personal and careful attention.D.W.DAVIS Cashier.FIFTY PAIRS AMERICAN BEAUTY CORSETS GIVEN AWAY The Fourth Annual Sale of these celebrated Corsets will begin JANUARY 18th, 1907.With every pair of thease superior white or gray Corsets sold, we will give free a pair of the same quality.This sale will last until 100 pairs are disposed of in this manner.CASWELL & O'ROURKE.DON'T BUY A SUIT until you have examined SEMI-READY CLOTHING Its superiorty is so apparent that you will recognize it at sight.No other ready-made clothing can compare with it.Winter and Overcoats are now shown.If Semi-Ready does not please you we can furnish a cus- tom-made suit that will, J.A.MANY, Up-to date Taylor, Rock Island, Que.Big Cut Prices on all Clothing D.C.WAITE'S, BOYNTON, QUE.Owing to my crowded store room J bave decided to sell the following goods at a big reduction for cash during the month of January: Men\u2019s Reefers, former price $3.75, now 82.98.\u2018* Cloth Caps, former prices 50c., 75c.and $1.00, now 40, 50 and 75c.\u201c Buits, former prices from 86.00 to 910, now 85.00 to 86.50 per Suit.Balance of Men's and Boys' Underwear at Cost.A few Men\u2019s Overcoata to be closed out at bottom prices.Men's, Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Shoes at cost, and many other articles will be offered equally as low.Call and examine my stock before buying.Thanking you for past favors, and wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year, I am, Yours truly, D.C.WAITE.PROVINCE OF QUEBEC Corporation of the County of Stanstead I do hereby give Public Notice that the lands hereinafter mentioned Public Auction at the County Buliding, Ayer's CIHfF, Township of Hatley, on Wednesday, the sixth day of March next, 1907 at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon Por aaseagmanta, rates and charges due the Munici- will be sold at ality for Municipal, School and other Taxes heretnafter mentioned.upon the several lots of and hereinafter ribed, unless the same be paid with costs two days before sale.TOWNSHIP OF BARNSTON.Name.Ondantral Lot Haske.| 47% | Mixes | Tren | Tol Stephen Bmith | MA | 10 |16%7%%| sos su 316.52 Chas.P.Thornton Eatate | 17B\u201417R 5, 135454 | 006 81m $88.00 TOWNSHIP OF HATLEY.\u2014 ee mm me .Charles I.Knight wl nu | #5 | | sam A.N.THOM PSON, Becretary Treasurer of the County of Stanstead.Stanstead Plain, P.Q., January 8th, 1007.There will be no land sales by the County of Richmond for arrears of taxes in March, as there were only three parcels returned to the County Secretary, and the expenses of publications would be about 875.The lands were therefore withdrawn.The Montreal Witness says: The hockey match at the Arena on Saturday night was characterized by little good play and much brutality.Three men of the Wanderers\u2019 team were disabled by the sticks of the Ottawas, WORLD WIDE ARTICLES A Waly P ns of A icles and par: ng Jou + ting the Current Thought of both ispheres.\u201cWorld Wide\" in 8 marvel of interest and cheapness an à high class ecletric: it will com- re favorably with anything at several times ta price, For the small sum of one dollar and- & half it hringn every week for à year the beat articles that appear during the week in the lead pg British, American and Forei bh- cations.Of eourse it appeals to the the think- kers are : but thete wii find je .fall of rare as wisdom.ona wide in 1ta interests and has no age = .Theannusi enbeoription includes GA RICATURED.& most entertaining review and bad to be hel Off the 100.AL | of the past year.times, owing to beavy cloud of _Bampie copy fres of v4 Ted tobacco smoke, it was impossiblefto The sanual = ° vos from one puai to tbe ouees primer are 5 ALL & Sow » 4 0 edt, TUNEL be 1 IT IS NOT COMBINE and other railway associations in the United States, no doubt thorougbly appreciating the fact that without the aid of such associations in bringing about uniformity of methoda, etu., their work would be greatly hindered Recently a certain Toronto news- if not made impossible.paper bas been publishing a series of The public need more light, and ac- articles regarding the railways and curate, instead of misleading, infor- the Board of Railway Commissioners | mation on a great many railway ques- for Canada.In several of these art- tions, and I believe when properly in- icles the Eastern Canadian Passenger formed they are always reasonable Association is referred Lo usu \u201ccom- enough to appreciate what is clearly bination in restraint of trade.\u201d The for their own benefit, such as the following statement rez-rding the | railway associations referred to.\u2014 purposes and work of this Association | Montreal Herald, Dec.31st, 1906.furnished by à member of its Executive Committee, will ut the present: time be of iuterest.Declares Eastern Canadian Pacserger Association\u2014It- Aims l'ully and + Clearly Expluiued.A GOOD STORY TELLER.From Wi-hingoon (DD.(0) Post.ee eer VERMONT ITEMS.Canaan is to have » weekly newspaper.The priuting office will ve located in the Spencer block.Mies Anna Durocher of Salem-Der- by was united in marriage to Chas.Vizina Monday moruing, Jan.7th, in the R.U.Church at Stanstead.Frank E.Miles of Montpelier has resigned as deputy auditor of accounts aud will devote his entire time to the practice of law at Newport.He has been deputy auditor for about four ycars.William Goodro, a Barion barber, was found dead in bedon the morning of Jan.9th.Ilis deutb is ascrived to heart failure.The remains were taken to North Troy, where be formerly PTT rar = VERMONT ITEMS.At the annual meeting of the Vermont and New Hampehire Independent Telephone association held at Hotel Low, Bradford, Tuesday, the following officers were elected for 1907: President, H.W.Buchanan of Barton Lanaing; vice-president, O.D.Eust- man of Woocsviile, N.H; secretary and treasurer, G.W.Buzzell of Si.Johnsbury; executive committee, H.W.Buchanan of Barton Landing, G.W.Buzzell of St.Johnsbury, O.D.Eastman of Woodeville, N.H., Fred Mc@uire of Albany, The shocking death hy gas as\u2019phy- xintion of Mr.and Mre.George H.De- vino of Winooski, together with their C.Gleason of Warren, N.H., D, L.| I The purposes and work of this Ase sociation, are set forth in Articie 3 of its Constitution as toilows: \u2014 \u201cTo promptly secure to cach of the! Postal Commission to take over the: lU8 pleaded guilly in Windsor county parties authentic information in relation to tariff4, rate sheets and ticket | ED Li JA ; tenced Lo serve not less than five \u201cPBton Lig regulations of the respective parties: early history of Virginia, Maryland je more thun six years in state prisun, Main pipe in the street was partially and changes therein, and the due fil- and Pennsylvania, Especially does he | \u201c 9 Pp : ling and publication thereof; to aid in securing compliance with the laws relating to and regulating commerce; and to enable the parties heteio to mutually confer, ad vise au act in relation to the subjects above stated, and the proper methods tosecute the purposes aforesaid.Article 6 of its Constitution provides: \u2014 \u201cEach line party hereto shall fix and determiue its own reduced fares.Nothing in these articles ot organization\u2018shall be construed as giving authority to the said Secretary of the Association, or any person or officer of the Association to fix or determine\u2019 any rate for any party hereto, but each party alone shall fix and determine its own rates: and nothing herein shall be construed as preventing any party hereto after it has fixed such rates from changing them from time to time as it may elect.\u201d It wili be observed that it is dis- | One of the greatest pleasures of W.D.Buyce, of Chicago, a wel'-known publisher.who made a proposal to the postal business of the United States \u2018on a contract basis, is to tell of the \u2018like the stories ot the days when the i Indian lived on the Atlantic coast, and when the Iroquois held sway in what is now in New York and the southern part of Pennsylvania aud ithe Susquehaunocks were monarchs of the territory contiguous to the Potomac and Susquehanna Rivers.Mr.Boyce is an excellent listener, but he iis a better teller of stories of this kind.He knows many of them.Among the innmortal thirty-seven Who landed on Jumestown Island in 1607 was a Boyce, and from that Boyce sprung the ancestors of the Chicago\u2019 publisher.From his father and grandfather he has learned hundreds of stories of conflicts between Indians and settlers of the kind that the messenger boy loves to read while he delays the im- \u2018portant telegram intended for the busy and important broker.He sat in his room at the hotel last \u201cnight for nearly an hour entertaining resided, for burial.four children, was brought to light at Arthur Kellogg, of Windscr, hav- | 10.30 a.m.Jan, 6th, when the tamily home on Lafountain street was brok- court to placing au obstruction on the 0\" into.The house was not connect- : red with the gas system of the Bur- railroad track at Windsor, was sen- \u2019 ° lington Light and Puwer company\u2019s .e usible f h .t Joseph H.Merritt, aged 63, one of | spousivie or the tragedy.The the youngest soldiers in the runks of | house was full of gas from cellar to the Vermont troops during the civil | FATTO and the theory is, that it was died at Lis howe in the L: dis- | introduced into the house along the pra dies a the 4tl ane dis sewer pipe, the sewer main running puriet, Newport, on te 4th just, of parallel with the gas main in the typhoid pneumonia.Interment Newport Center 8L | street, Oo euler.i Mrs.E.C.Elliott of Barton was | Harry Davis, resident of Derby, \"taken violently ill while walking on | was committed to jail at Newport, the street Saturday evening and last Sunday, Jan.6th, upon complaint, 'stepped into the nearest house to ask i of Alonzo Hunt, also of Derby.It ap- for assistance.A doctor was hastily | pears that Hunt was in an intoxicated | \u2018summoned but did not reach the condition at the west end of the long | bouse until after her death.bridge.In his company were the res- | Governor Proctor has appointed | poudent, Harry Davis, and another | Edgar O.Siiver of Derby one of the | man Whose name is not known.Jt! > =! was decided that as Hunt was so bad- | flve commissioners to represent the ly dazed, he ought to be taken home : .\u20ac hat] « \" state of Vermont in relation to the \u201cand bis unknown companion started ! jOUL to find a team.Hunt alleges that | while he and Davis were together, his | .money, tothe amount of £5500 wus | > VW.! > mens m the New World.; stoien.Upon being brought to trial | i While sawing wood with a circular {on Thursday, Davis pleaded guilty to | saw at the home of Edward Boardman : petit larceny, admitting that he had! Jamestown Exposition, opening May 1, 1907.\u2018This Exposition is the tercentennial of the first English settle- ; ; vin Craftsbury, George Davi \u2018 | tinetly provided that each line mem- \u2018a party of friends with tales of events y, Beotge Davis stepped ; taken some of Hunt\u2019s money, but not ber of the Association reserves always to itself the right to take independent action.Therefore, the accusation which befell members of his family.\u201cMy ancestors during the latter part of the seventeenth century moved to Lon a rolling stick and was thrown, \u2018the acount alleged.Davis was given lstrikiug on the saw, a wound above his choice of six months at the House ithe knee, ten inches long and two in- of Correction or pay a fine of £50.00.| being inflicted.Sixteen GREAT BARGAINS \u2014AT\u2014 P.A.BISSONNET\u2019S STORE As long as they are In stock Dress Goods at from 25 to 50 per cent.Discount, | Ready-made Clething at 33 per cent.Discount, Wool Pants at 89c., Overcoats at 83.98 up.| | | A nig Assortment of Ladies\u2019 Fur Collars and Muffy at abont HALF PRICE.Ladies\u2019 Coon Jackets, size 34 and 38, for $30 and $35 A Black Astrachan Jacket, size 36, for $23.Aliso a Bulgarian Coon Jacket, size32, for $12, \u2018 Everything to be closed out at a great reduction as this business is to be closed cut as soon as goods are disposed of, If in n3ed of any Dry Goods, Furs, Furniture, Crockery, etc., it will pay you to investigate our closing out bargains.The Busy Store JUST NOW we are making special prices on Furs to secure their early removal, $7.50 Fur Collraettes $5.00; Fur Ruffs $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00.Also a few Alaska Sable Ruffs and Muffs to be sold right.LARGE STOCK OF CLOTHING Special values in Men\u2019s Suits made by the best that it is a \u2018combination in restraint Pennsylvania,\u201d said Mr.Boyce, by of trade\u2019 is absurd on the face of it,' way of preface to one of his stories.especially when it is considered that: \u2018In that part of the State the great the MAXIMUM FARFS of the rail- peace treaty of William Penn had ways in Canada are under tbe abso- | never been heard of by the Indians lute control of the Canadian Railway or it had been forgotten.Anyway, Commission.As clearly set forth above, the transportation lines in the Association are organized for the pur- : pose of dealing with applications for reduced fares for excursions, conventions, exhibitions, etc., with the greatest possible despatch and uniformity.What would happen if every one of such applications bad to be made to each separate transportation line?It is manifest each line would hesitate to name reduced fares without knowing what its competitors intended to do not only as to reduced fares, but also as to dates of sale of tickets, their limits and all other privileges.The line acting independently and most promptly would incur the risk of its competitor subsequently naming better terms, and thus placing it at a serious disadvantage, probably costing it the Joes of the entire traffic.Take, for illustration, Toronto's annual exhibition\u2014the many lines trying by telegrams and letters to reach their competitors to arrive at some knowledge of their ideas before acting independently and the immense delay and confusion sure to result, and compare it with the simple machinery of the Eastern Canadian Passenger Association, as indicated above, by which through personal conferences as frequently as required, all such applications are jointly and carefully considered and the conclusions reached promptly communicated to all interested through its secretary, each line fixing and determining its own reduced fares and reserving always to iteelf the right to take independent action.The fact is, that such joint consideration of applications for reduced fares is the greatest safeguard the public has against hasty, ill-advised reductions likely to produce disc:imi- nations and unreasonable rates, the very things the Railway Commission is designed to prevent.Remember the Eastern Canadian Passenger Association has nothing to do with the Maximum rates\u2014Parlia- ment has.given to the Railway Oom- mission absolute control over such rates\u2014therefore the Association\u2019s operations are confined to voluntary re- duoed fares granted by ite members to the public and even then always sub- Joct to the approval of the Railway Commission to the reasonableness of the rates.It is a pity such unfair efforts are being made to create ill-will between the public and the transportation lines, which the Association encourage and provide for, mean more intelligent understanding of the public requirements, greater uniformity of methods and better service generally.Instead of being \u2018\u2018combinations in restraint of trade\u201d they are designed to and do facilitate trade and are beneficial to the public in every The Interstate Commerce Gommie- sion in the United mas, Teich 1a es pocially charged with uty pre- vesting \u201ccombinations in restreint of trade,\u201d freely recognises and confers i.With the terriiorial, passenger, freight \u201c | they lost no opportunity to make life | miserable for the settlers.i One of the daughters of my great- | great-grandfather, Abbey Boyce, who at that time was only a little girl of 9, went out to the fields with her father and brothers one day, and while playing around she strayed away from them.Ever on the alert to bring grief and trouble to the settlers, an Indian, who was hiding behind a near-by bush, rushed out and grabbed her before she could make an outery.Fortunately her life was spared, and, indeed, she was treated as kindly as possible by the Indians, but she was taken away from her home.After many days of travel she was taken into one of the Canadian settlements and sold.The people treated her kindly, and it was two years before she found her way back home, so difficult and dangerous was traveling at that time.Io the meantime her family thought she had been taken by the Indians and promptly kilied.They mourned for her as one dead.Before she could be returned to her home, another little daughter came to gladden the hearts of her father and mother, and, in memory of the one so long thought dead, this new daughter was named Abbey.Hardly had she come to recognize her name before one day the elder Abbey flew idto the house and into the arms of the astounded mother.\u201cIt did not take long for the news to reach the rest of the family, and a general rejoicing followed.Baby was asleep at the time, and while the elder Abbey was relating her adventures and telling bow well she had been treated, and how, for some reason un- fathomed to the settiers, her life had been spared, a wail arose from an adjoining room, and it was only then that the family discovered that it had two Abbeys, and two Abbeys there remained.\u2019 VERMONT ITEMS.Joseph Kidder, the oldest person in Coventry, passed away at one o'clock Friday morning.Mr.Kidder was born in Irasburg, his father baving moved to that town 100 years ago next March.Mr.Kidder was 92 years and two months old.He has held various town offices, and represented the tow, at the legislature.He was overseer of the poor for several years and justice of the peace also.Carrying out the suggestion of the legislative iovestigating committee relative to action againet George T.Howard of Oraftebury, a former member of the state board of railroad commissioners, who is charged by the committee with receiving money from the state for services not rendered, Atty.Gen.O.O.Fitte Is col- leoting evidence to be submitted to the grand jury.Mr, Fitts has called upon Mr.Howard to refand to the state the money alleged 10 have been received as the result of improper charges made.started from spontaneows oom tion.' steam fron.a bout {ches deep, 4 h ; \u2018stitches were required to close it.Mr, COT2, the seventeen-year-old wife | Davis was taken to his home in Wol- cott.J.8.Sweeney, who will suon be appointed postmaster at Island Pond, has resigned the position of commissioner and collector for the unorganized towns and gores in Essex county to which he was recently appointed by Gov.Proctor.E.A.Bemis is a prominent candidate for the position, and has a strong and influential endorsement.The law suitentitled, Peter Morrill\u2019s administrator vs.Catholic Order of Foresters which was argued before the last March term of County Court, at Newport was passed upon last week by the Supreme Court at Montpelier.The demurrer was sustained and the defendant awarded his costs.The Supreme Court held that the action bad been improperly brought.Among the applicante taking the examination before the state board of medical examiners in Montpelier are: W.H.White, of North Troy; George C.Rublee, of Wolcott; F.L.Lamphere, of Barton Landing; James F.Quest, of Troy, N.Y; E.G.Twitch- ell, of Burlington; E.H.Carleton, of Hanover, N.H; Charles A.Smith, of Central Bridge, N.Y; P.F.Strapp, of Winooski; N.E.Avery, of Warren; G.8.Clark, of Richford; and H.A.Suitor, of West Burke.George Lumbra, son of Austin Lumbra, a large lumber dealer, was fatally injured Monday, Jan.7th, while working up a hemlock tree which had just been felled in Montgomery.He had some difficulty in cutting it as it did not lie on the ground and he stood on the tree to work.The tree started to roll, throwing Lumbra several feet against a rock and finally passing over his body.A physician was immediately sum- moved by the other workmen at hand but Lumbra was internally injured and died a short time afterward.The Ladies Literary Club of Island Pond has set in motion a scheme by which the pupils of the different schools in that town will be encouraged to learn habits of saving money.Pass books will be sold to each pupil for one cent.By means of rubber stamps the amount brought in by pupils will be recorded in these pass books by the teacher.When the sum of the savings is one dollar, a deposit will be made at the bank and a bank book given.This system has been pried in many places and it has Bown found to work successfully.The mountain of bituminous coal owned by the Central VermontRailway and stored in their yards at St.Albans burned nearly three weeks, all efforts to put out the fire baving failed.2,000 tons of the fuel was piled when the fire started and the flames spread until all was afire through the center from end to end.Tons of water were thrown on it.Finally in an effort to save what could be rescued a big steam shovel was pat to work and cars are being loaded and hauled AWay as rapidly as possible.The place resembled a miniature volcano, belohing forth flames, gas and bundred different points, The fire of Arthur Tate, who is employed by Daniel D.Donovan of Moretown, was farally burned Jan.20d, while at- | tempting to start a fire with keroser.e.She was pouring oil on the wood when the oil ignited and the blaze ran into the can, causing it to explode and | throw the burning oil all over Mrs.| Tate.Mrs.Donovan ran upstairs and seizing quilts and other wraps succeeded in smothering the flames on Mrs.Tate.She carried the woman down stairs, cut off what clothes remained on her, summoned doctors by telephone and then went back upstairs.She found the inside of the room on fire but succeeded in quenching the flames.The doctors found that aside from Mrs.Tate\u2019 feet which portion of her body under her corsets, her whole body was terribly burned.They dressed her wounds, but she died during the day.ABBOTT'S CORNER Intended for last week.Mr.H.P.Abbott and family bave moved into their new house on the hill.We sincerely hope that they may live many years to enjoy the fruit of their hard labor, in building this beautiful up-to-date home.Mr.H.P.Abbott has leased his farm to Mr.C.Knapp of Hatley, who now occupies the old Abbott Homestead, for many years the home of the Abbott family.Mr.J.W.McKay has leased his farm to Mr.W.Pope, lately of Eus- tis.\u2018 Mrs.H.P.Abbott was in East Hat- ley, Tuesday.Mr.D.Cass is home from Montreal, where he has been spending the holidays.Mrs.J.A.Plumley of Massawippi, is a guest of her niece, Mrs.Merritt LeBaron.Mr.and Mrs.E.Harrison and Mr.Henry Wilson of Springfield, Mass., left for home Saturday, after an extended stay with their father, Mr.D.W.Wilson.Mr.J.W.McKay, proprietor of the Hatley Centre Creamery, is advocating the formation of a cow testing association in this section.Mr.McKay is assurred by the authorities at Ottawa that an expert will be sent free of charge to lecture and test the real value of each cow as a milker, separately, (in an association) thus giving farmers an opportunity to weed out the poor animals, who are of little value as butter producers.Mr.Me- Kay intimates that a public meeting will be called in the near future to bring the matter before those interested and invites farmers to communicate with him in regard to the question under consideration.4 James Kelly, the farmer near Masson, Que., charged with the death of the emigrant boy, Arnold Walsh, has been found guilty of manslaughter.For Over Sixty Years.Mra, Winslow's Soothing Syru; has been for over sixty years mi ons of moth ors for their of fidren while teething, with per- 1008 succean.It soothes the child, softens She , allays ail pain cures wind colice, and is dis: relieve rem the x tle 54 trhaa, I$ will n were protected by her shoes, and a \u2018makers in Canada.A guarantee of satisfaction with every sale.You will find just what you want in our Grocery Department.Oranges 10c.a dozen.F.W.D.MELLOON, THE BUSY STORE, ROCK ISLAND, QUE.MTER GOODS AT THE Mammoth Store! FULL LINES OF | DRY GOODS Underwear and Hosiery for Everybody.Ladies\u2019 Coats and Skirts Finest Stock of Groceries in this section.BUILDERS\u2019 HARDWARE.Nails, Glass and Hinges for Fall Repairs.KATHAN & HOPKINS.| .Sold of the world, twenty sure and tor * \"and Grès m0 Stationery.at the Journal Office. \u201cAND BREAK COLTS CORDIAL INVITATION PRESSED TO WORKING GIS Mile.Robitallle Tells How Mrs.Piniz ham's Advice Helps Working Giris, Girls who work are rticularly susceptible to fs male disorders, especially those who are obliged to stand on their feet from morning until night in stores or facto- Tien .Day in and day out the girl toils, and she is often the pread-winner of the family.Whether.she is sick or well, whether it rains or i shines, she must go to her place of em- loyment, perform the duties exacted of j r\u2014smile and be agreeable.i Among this class the symptoms of female diseases are early manifest by weak and aching backs, pain in tre | lower limbs and lower part of the stomach.In consequence of frequent wetting of the feet, periods become pain- fal and irregular, and frequently there are faint and dizzy spells, with loss of appetite, until life is a burden.All of there rymptoms point to a derangement of the female organism which can be easily anid promptly cured by Lydia E.Pukha\u2019's Vegetable Compound.Mlle.Alma Robitaille, 76 rue ft.! François, Quebec, Quebec, tells what this great medicine did for her.She writes : Pear Ars.Pinkham :\u2014 \u2018Overwerk and long hours at the office, together with à neglected evid, brought on à very serious female trouble ufitil finally I was unabie 10 g0 to work.Ithen thought of à friensl who had taken Lydia FE.Finke lams Verctatie Compound when her health was in the same condition that mine and stridiglhtway sent out for a bottle, Sénished that an took two more before Ircally began toimprove but after that my recovery was very rapid and I Was soon well aud able to go back to work gain, I certainty think your medicine for sick women worthy of praise and am indeed ; glad to endorse ity\u2019 It is to such girls that Mrs.Pinkham holds out a helping hand and extends a cordial invitation to correspond with her.she is daughter-in-law of Lydia E.Pinkham and for twenty-five years has been advieing sick women free of charge.Her long record of success in treating woman's 1lls makes her letters of advice of untold value to every ailirg working girl.\u2018 BLAIR'S LIVERY You will find good rigs and teams o of all kinds, prompt service and cour teous treatment at our stables.We are prepared to do HORSE CLIPPING Any obstinate animal handled.Kickers and Balkes \u201c treated.\u2019 JOHN BLAIR, Prop., Rock Island, Que PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that th: law forbidding trotting or bridges will-be rigidly enforcec in this municipality after October 15th, 1906 E.W.HOVEY, Sec\u2019y Treas.Rock Island, Que., Oct.2, 190\u20ac T FOR SALE.8 good Cows for sale; also a lot of Grain, 8hoats and u quantity of Hemlock Plank.: ; Apply to MKS.BROWN, People\u2019s Phone.Fairfax.Minister Speaks to Mothers Tells His Wife's Experience for the Sake of Other Sufferers.The following letter has been sent to Dr.T.A, Slocum, Ltd., for publication.Dr.T.A.Slocum, Limited :\u2014Dear Sirs: Within the last two yours my wife (who is of a delicate Constitution) has had two severe attacks of In both 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Dr.Root'a Kidney Pills are a sure and t cure for Rheumatism Bright's Pain in the Back and ail fo of an orms asey Trouble, Mc per box, at ail away \u2014 an unimaginative Council that only be\u2019 eves what it - \u2014 MUST EMIGRATE OR DIE POVERTY ISLAND WHERE TNE SIMPLE LIFE PREVAILS.E: Distress Among Lewis Fishermen =Failure of the Herring Fishing Puts Many on Verge of Starvation \"Always Poor\u201d Is the Normal Condition of the Islanders~Ceaseless Round of Toil, Edgar Wallace, special correspondent to The London Daily Mail, -7rites from Stornoway as follows: \u201cHundreds of fine young men have emigrated from Lewis to Canada and the United States during the past - few.weeks.The herring fishing has n a failure, and many hundreds more will be on the verge of starvation during the coming winter, and must emigrate or die,\u201d\u2014Telegram from Mr.Gallow.y Weir, M.P., to The Daily Mail.This is the i:land of the poor \u2014 a little kingdom of perpetual overty.Sometimes men go away to the east coast and come back with fabled wealth\u2014£50 or £60 and more.There are stories here of prodigious catch.:, and these are the things that fishermen who meet at nights can think on hopefully.Always Poor.The Isle of Lewis is always pocz.Buch is its normal condition, but when the fishing fails, as it sometimes does, something happens on the islend that is almost too drgadiul vo contemplate.It was the summer fishing that failed this vear \u2014 and because it has failed there are all sorts of innocent-locking resolutions ou the agenda of the Koss and Cromarty County Council; resolutions that vaguely refer to special powers granted in certain Acts of Parliament, to rates and levie: that tell the average man nothing.The poverty of great towns we know, but in London, as in other large centres, there is always the : charitable neighbor round the corner, and the !ricklayer out of work may becom: a road-sweeper and live.But here i.L-wis, cut off from the world .by forty miles of grey, tumbling seas, with its salvation in the County Council that sits a hundred miles County sees, and refuses to see anything\u2014 (the fishermen who can catch fish must go hungr- to his nets and lines till the fish come.Astounding Poverty.Undeterred by the smug resolution that this same county council passed recently that \u201cthere is no evidence of unusual destitution in the Isle of Lewis,\u201d I have come to see what normal destitution looks like, and to-day I have had a first glimpse.Please God I should never see abnormal poverty if this be normal, for here in these islands of Great Britain I have seen men and women living like animals in dens to which the home of the cave-dwellers is Paradise.And people go walking about the streets of Stornoway as if nothing were happening.You see women procrastinating in drapers\u2019 shops and men drinking at one of the three bars.And you hear the laughing chatter of girls, and are im- ressed by the magnificence of the Focal magistrate\u2019s castle, with its flagged turrets and its sweeping lawns.Nothing Unusual.With these things in your mind ou are inclined to think that there 8 much to be said for the view ex- ressed by the County Council of Ross and Cromarty, and that there is no evidene of unusual destitution.There are 22,000 people in the Isle of Lewis, and a halfpenny rate on the rateable property in th: whole district produces\u2014less than £26.Take in the burgh of Stornoway, and lump them together, and the rate would produce £63.So it is obvious that o can do nothing locally; and that i8 why, being powerless, we become philosophical, and such of us as can afford to eat food fit for human consumption and live and sleep in real houses are apt to see nothing unusual in the dreadful condition in which these people live.Terrible Spring.Five miles out of Stornoway is the village of Ton.\u201cGo to Tong and see prosperity,\u201d said a guide.So across a bleak bo in a blinding northeaster I dre : to see the pros- erous side of Poverty Island.Fhings are well with Tong because of the potatoes, and not alone the potatoes, but the crop has been a good one.Therefore, Tong will tide over till the \u2018terrible spring comes, and the question has to be decided, Shall we eat or sow, for we must go hungry to feed the ground?Food and seed are synonymous terms, You will understand better the abject condition of th.people when I tell you that their lives are made up of one ceaseless round of toil to snatch from the earth sufficient to feed them, and little more.They labor that they may grow; they grow that they may eat; they eat that they may have the strength to labor; and so goes the weary rvele.Primitive Life.It is the :imple life; it is also the primitive savage life, and it is the most dreadfully hopeless existence I have seen.Here is a home in the prosperous village.Imagine walls built of loose stones with earth between.They rise five to six feet high.The roof is made of a wooden framework covered with layers of turf, and over this a thatch of straw.There are no windows, but a hole in the roof lets out the smoke of a peat fire.Inside there is a rough division which separates the living- room from the byre.Often as not animals and inmates share a common room.Pensioned At 100, Having reached the age of 109, Michael Cummins, who has been in the service of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company ever since he was engaged as a navvy in building the first section of the railway, has been placed on the pension list at Tullaveen (Limerick).: WHERE LOVE (8.\u2018hen I come home at night, and she My wite, with ora tas girlish art, M me, and folds her hand in mine And Says: \u201cThe day was long, dear Then does my day again grow bright, And lite once more seems strangely sweet, While all we cares that thronged my ay Have turned to blossoms at my feet.What matter that across the way My neighbor dines on princely fare?dine on herbs with love and\u2014Her, A king\u2014what do I know of care?\u2014Florence A.Jones.\u2014 PARENTS\u2019 MISTAKES.Lord Lytton Takes Them to Task For False Ideas.\u201cLet girls marry at eighteen and boys at twenty, and the world will be relieved of some of its gravest problems.\u201d\u201d This was the advice given by a speaker at a conference of the Parents\u2019 National Educational Union at Brighton recently, following an address by Lord Lytton.Lord Lytton gave what he called \u201cA young man\u2019s lecture to his parents.\u201d \u201cThe time has come for parents to realize they have made some grave mistakes,\u201d he said.\u201cIn the first place, it is a mistake for a rich father to bring up his son in ignorance of the responsibilities of an inheritance.Some fathers go on ns if they expected to live for ever.Ever boy should be taught how to handle money, not alone for his own sake, but because he may some time have charge of other people\u2019s money, \u201cBut a question more vital still is that of sex.There is a tendency among parents nowadays to assume an unwise timidity in speaking of such matters.If instead of being timid and obseure in their advice parents would be quite frank it would prevent much evil from which the world now suffers.To many girls the real meaning of marriage is a sealed book, and this is largely the fault of their mothers.From whom can they better look for advice than from their mothers?Yet the latter often remain silent because ofa want of courare to spenk plainly.\u201cSociety is full of misery due to the blunders \u201cof parents in failing to speak out.How much of the evil in our great cities comes from this it would be dismal to contemplate.As a young man, I say to fathers.\u2018Speak to your sons, and remember that the best education a father can give is in the example of your own life.\u2019 It was here that M.Roger Goeji Hampson, n Belgian professor, suggested fixing marriageable ages at cighteen for girls and twenty for boys.\u201cWith this encouraged by parents, all the evils we have been talking of would disappear,\u201d he said.\u201cThe great trouble is that men and women marry too late in life.Let us urge them to marry earlier.\u201d Lady Campbell suggested that there was a growing disinelination to marr among girls.\u201cIt is due to a selfish love of luxury and a dislike to begin married life in a humble way,\u201d she said.\u201cGirls want to begin where their parents left off, and not at the beginning.If it were not for this selfish consideration of luxury, we should perhaps have earlier marriages.\u201d Officially Dead\u2014Yet Writing.The Scotsman publishes the following amusing letter, signed \u201cW.A.C.\u201d \u201cOn the monument of thie Scottish Horse my full name and regimental number appear as having died of dix- case in South Afriea.When E observed my name among the fallen in the papers at the time I wrote to the re-i- ment\u2019s headquarters for particular: anent my demise as if a friend oi mi:rr.By return I received my birth-plsec, age, date of enlistment, ete., and 1\": I had died of disease at Carlo.South Africa, on the 13th of Janu.1902.I immediately replied, malig myself known, but I suppose it is against military rules to write to men who are officially dead, as I have never received any reply.Like Brady, | can decorate my own monument both in Edinburgh and Johannesburg, but have also been unable to get either compensation or pension, though invalided home at the end of the war, and discharged as \u2018unfit for further service,\u2019 after nearly two years in the field.The most amusing part of the whole thing is that I am both officially alive and dead.Previous to joining the Scottish Horse, I served sixteen months in the Scottish Sharpshooters.Being born in Wales, on joining the Scottish Horse, rather than lose an old hand (the rule being that you must be born in Scotland) the lie was put into my mouth to that effect.Hence 1 am very much alive as an old Sharpshooter, but dead and buried in South Africa at a place I never was at as a Scottish Horse trooper.\u201d Last Senior Wrangler.The Senior Wrangler will soon be an institution of the past.There is to be a senior wrangler and a \u201cwond- en spoon\u2019 for one more year, and then they will be.known no more at Cambridge, except as a tradition.Such was the outcome of the voting which took place in the Senate House at Cambridge the other afternoon upon the twelve resolutions embodying the salient changes proposed by the special board for mathematica to be made in the mathematical trios.There was a big muster of mem- ers of the Senate.In the gallery ladies and undergraduates were both well represented, and looked down on a scene which was decidedly exciting.The cards having been counted, amid a sudden hush the figures were declared as follows: \u2014Placet, 201; non- placet, 187.There was much more voting to be done, but the placets had won, and their numbers increas ed, while those of their opponents diminished.Thé order of merit was abolished by 206 to 169, great cheering attending the announcement.Exception, Myer-\u2014Most people consider young Pyker rather fast, do they not?Gyer\u2014Well, his tailor thinks he\u2019s the slowest ever.\u201cIs bi Not Noissless.» s noiseless powder a success?\u2019 \u201cNot from the reports I've heard.\u201d ++ BATTLES IN THE AIR.THE GRZENHORN IN STOC