The Stanstead journal, 22 janvier 1914, jeudi 22 janvier 1914

[" \\ N \u2014\u2014 \u201cThe Sta VOL.LXIX\u2014No.4.For The ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.'Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1914.@ \\ 3, Convalescent One Only the sick and the convalescent ly appreciate the comfort of À artificial warmth A G-E Electric Heating Pad © affords the right temperature continuously without requiring any fuss and bother to obtain it.It can bo operated from socket, The con: inthe parlor or ons cas be rates lamp ing the family circle to be ei the bed room.thus allow.J made complets on all occasions, Sherbrooke Ry.& Power Co, \u2018 Rock Island, Que.1 \\ > 2e A ANY TE J 2e = 11 NT il À \\ & yi Feeding Molasses.Pure Cane Molasses, imported direct from the West Indies, is the best Feed value on the market today.Recommended for all kinds of Stock by veterinarians and Agricultural Colleges.The retail price is only a trifle more than Bran and less than any other good feed.Write us for particulars and prices.Special prices quoted D AYER\u2019S CLIFF, ealers, delivered in car lots.A.E.FISH & SONS Quebec.Foux D\u2014Muff.Iuquire at JOURNAL Office.\u2019 TOWN TOPICS.Mr.Leon Lighton of Boston was in town Friday.Mr.À.B.Sillon of Boston was in town Friday.Mr.Bert C.Drew was confined at his home the larger part of last week by illneess.Tuesday afternoon, January 27th, Mrs.D.W.Davis will be hostess for the mid-year tea of The Woman's Reading Club.Mr.I.O.Blake of New York City arrived at Derby Line to-day being called here by the death of Dr.A.G.Bugbee.Mrs.Blake, a niece of Dr.Bugbee was unable to come.Mr.E.J.Pope of Southern Alberta is visiting at the home of his mothe\u2019rs Mrs.B.A.Pope, Dufferin Avenue, Mr, Pope speaks in optinistically of Alberta and other Western Provinces.He is accompanied by Mrs.Pope and Miss Muriel.After a short visit among relatives and friends in the past they will return to their western ome.The snewfall so far this season bas been too meager 80 make the record of interest.The total to Wednesday was 53 inches.With February and March to bear from, the total will probably pass the record or 1812-13.Thus far it has been a comfortable winter, excepting the three days last week when Jack Frost revealed his strength to the tune of about 40 below.Miss Jessie Oaverhill Cameron, who was considered one of the most prom- {sing and skillful pianists in this province, died at her home, 41 St.Famille street, Montreal, Saturday night.Mies Camèron had studied under some of the leading teachers of America and Earope.8he spent a portion of the summer of 1913 with friends near Georgeville, and in August came to Stanstead to give a recital in Pierce Hall, but the engagement was canceled owing to the sudden 'death of Miss Margaret Stevens.The Montreal Gazette speaks of Miss Cameron as being considered the cleverest of the younger generation of pianists in the Dominion.Friends in this section were deeply grieved by the an- nouncemunt of her untimely death.A few months ago she was taken il) apd tailed gradually until the end came.TOWN TOPICS.Mr.J.E.Brown of Boston was in town Friday.Mr.L.B.Pillsbury of Portland was in town Friday.Mr.Claude F.Mills of Portland was in town Thursday and Friday.Mr.M.J.Reynolds of Boston was in town Thursday and Friday.Miss Rath Goodsell of the Daylight Store is visiting her sister in Ayer\u2019s Olift.Dr.Hight, -chiropodist, will be at the Rock Island House the last Thursday and Friday of each month.Mr.E.C.Bethel of Pembroke, Ontario, will sencceed Mr.A.C.McPhee as teller and accountant at the Quebec Bank.The Junior members of the Camp Fire Girls will meet at the Guardians\u2019 room, Derby Line Hotel, on Tuesday evening, Jan.27th, instead of at the church.The Camp Fire Girls will give a Valentine party and serve supper on Friday evening, February 13, 1814, at tbe Congregational Obhurch parlors.Watch tor further particulars.Col.and Mrs.Charles E.Nelson left Tuesday afternoon for Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to visit their daughter, Mrs.(Lieut.) H.T.Aplington.They expect to be absent about two months.* The teachers of the Derby Line school attended a convention of instructors held at Boston, Friday, consequently there was a recess from Thursday evening to Monday morning.The International Cornet Band expects to give its minstrel show at the Haskell Opera House, Thursday evening, February 5th, The program ie excellent, and the young men are doing fine.Mr.J.M.Phelan, manager of the Quebec Bank, received notice Saturday that he was promoted to the management of the branch at Sherbrooke, to take effect February 7th.Mr.A.O.McFee will doubtless, succeed Mr.Phelan as manager of the local branch.Messrs.F.T.Caswell and D.W.Davis attended the agricultural meeting at Newport, Friday afternoon.The state Commissioner sof agriocul- tare, E.V.Brigham, and state Forester, À.F.Hawse, were on the program for addresses.It was a very well attended and successfhl meeting.nste y\u2014 TOWNITOPICS.Mies Esther E.Butterfield is visiting in Montreal.Mrs.A.J.Bissonnet spent last week at Quebec City.Mr.E.A, Rodey of West Burke was in town Tuesday.Mr.J.H.Bryce of Sherbrooke was in town Monday.Mr.I.F.Bryant of St.Johnsbury was in town Monday.Mr.W.H.Day of Concord, N.H., .was in town Saturday.Mr.W.Olark Hopkins went to Montreal Tueeday noon.Mr.F.L.Holt of Boston was in town Monday and Tuesday.Mr.I.H.McLeod ®t Bradford, Mass., was in town Saturday.Mr.George G.Carter of Atlanta, Georgia, spent Sunday in town.Mr.8.H.French of White River Junction spent Sunday in town.Mr.James C.Mooney of Cincin- pati, Obio, was in town Monday and Tuesday.Madame Armour of Prince Edward Island is visiting her eon, Mr.F.B.Armour.Mr.and Mrs.Kingst-ry Foster of Derby are spending the winter at Minton, Italy.Dr.Hight, chiropodist, will\" be at the Rock Island House the last Thnre- day and Friday of each month.Dr.Charles A.Moulton has been confined at his home far a few days by an attack of acute indigestion.Mr.and Mrs.L.M, Downey of Newport and Mr.and Mrs.H.F.Denni- son of Boston were in town Sunday.Mr.and Mrs.Walter Stenson of Newport have rented a tenement from Mrs.Charles O'Rourke on Maple Avenue.Mesdames Wells and Dorman entertained the Ladies Aid of the congregational cburch at the Wells home Tuesday afternoon.Mrs.A.E.Bishop entertained Mesdames W.H, Hovey, B.F.Butter- fleld, Charles H.Mansur, Misses Esther E.Butterfield and Katherine Flint, at her home this afternoon.Lost\u2014During the past week a purse was lost either in one of the stores or on the street.It contained between four and five dollars.The finder will please return it to the JOURNAL office.Ben Stewart has the installation of the clock in the tower of the government building about completed.The dials in the tower openinge give ita completed appearance, and add very much to the attractiveness\u2019 of Post Office Square.Lost\u2014in the shed at the Caswell & O'Rourke Store Co\u2019s store, 1 black far sleigh robe.It wae taken late in the afternoon of Wednesday, December 81st.I do not wish to make any trouble about this, and I am giving the party an opportunity to return it, and if it is returned I will drop prose- cation.Roy H.Cooper, Beebe.In connection with the missionary services of the Centenary Methodist Church thie year a novel feature is being introduced.Moving pictures of missionary life and work in China and Japan will be shown in the Border Theatre, on Saturday afternoon, Jan.24th, from 2.30 to 5.30.A rare treat is in store for those who attend.The regular admission price, 10 cts., will be charged.Mrs.Jennie Ray passed her 94th birthday quietly at her home on Railroad street, Sunday, January 19th.She was the recipient of \u2018a birthday cake and flowers from intimate triends.Mrs.Ray is unable to walk out now but is otherwise pretty well and takes an active interest in local and general affairs.That she may round out at least a century of life is the wish of many friends.Mr.Thomas C.Fletcher of Barnston, an old friend and subscriber, was a caller at THE JOURNAL office Tuesday.Mr.Fletcher pronounced bimeself very strongly on the county campaign against license.He said: \u201cEverybody knows where I have always stood.I bave \u2018taken nothing\u2019 with the boys for two or three years, but \u2018kicking\u2019 the editor.of THE JOURNAL into the street, by the booze party was the determining factor with me.1 shall vote and work for a dry county and I want everybody to know it, There are many others who think just as I do about it.\u201d No farmer in Stan- stead county is better known or bas more friends than \u2018\u2018Tom\" Fletcher.Everybody knows that he says what he means apd means what he says.\u201cI don\u2019t tbink there is a possible doubt, but that Stanstead county will go dry,\u201d said Mr.Fletcher.We thoroughly appreciate Mr.Fletcher's sym- pathy and enthusiasm.\u201cTOWN TOPICS.Miss Irma Moulton is visiting in Lebanon, N.H.Mre.S.T.Fregeau and daughter Bernadette left Tuesday for Boston.Dr.A.W.DuBois will be at the Derby Line Hotel Jan 27th to 30th.See ad.Mre.J.F.Paquette and sister Miss Annie Gilmore are visiting friends in Sherbrooke.Mr.and Mrs.F.S.Kenerson, from Newport, Vt., are visiting her parents Mr.and Mrs.D.Neveu, Sr.Dr.Hight, chiropodist, will be at the Rock Island House the last Thurs- Gay and Friday of each month.There bas been a marked improvement in Mrs.Charles Oarpenter\u2019s condition during the past two weeks.There will be a a card party and lunch at Maple Avenue Hall, Tuesday evening, Jan.27th.Admiesion 25 cts.Mr.William 8.Jeffers of Lyndon- ville, claims agent of the Boston & Maine Railroad, Was in town Saturday.Mr.and Mrs.Clifton.H.Clark from Plymonth, Mass., are visiting Mrs.Olark\u2019s parents Mr.and Mrs.D.Neveu, Sr.Mrs.William McKinley, grand mother of Mr.A.E.Bishop, who has latly made ber home here, has gone to Fitchburg, Mass., to spend a little time with her daughter, Mrs.W.H.Bishop.There will be a meeting of the members of the Universalist parish at the Cbureb, Derby Line, Tuesday evening, January 27.All are invited and urged to be present, as there are very important matters to be considered.Mies 0.H.Pope, who bas lately been visiting relatives in Hatley is in town en route to her home in Lowell, Maes.She is the guest of her friend, Mre.J.J.Parker.Last evening Mrs.Parker entertained a few intimate friends in honor of Miss Pope.Miss Juliette Eugenie Neveu, daughter of Mr.and Mrs.D.Neveu, Sr., was married Monday morning to Mr.Clifton, Narrisson Clark of Plymouth, Mass, the ceremony being performed by Reverend Father Buckley.Mr.and Mrs.Clark will reside in Plymouth, Mass.Speaking at a public meeting Monday night one of the teachers at Stan- stead College eaid the faculty had learned by experience that the saloons formed a very dangerous temptation to a certain type of boys.All other teachers in all other schools are of the same opinion.Are you on the side of the boys and the institutions which are doing so much for moral and social uplift, or are you on the side of the saloons which are dragging down the standard of living, for their own enrichment?Think it over.The other day a certain man living not more than & mile from this place was approached upon the subject of po-license.\u201cI can\u2019t eupport the movement; it would be bad business; I bave a lot of Work to do for\u201d\u2019\u2014(naming the proprietor of a local aaloon).\u201cDon\u2019t you pay him more than he you?\u201d queried the no-license man, \u201cGee, I should think I did; I pay him more than ten times as much.\u201d The license man probably spoke before be thought.When considering the bnsi- nees side of the proposition, think this over.If this man did not pay the saloon-keeper ten times the amount received, he would spend the money forthe necessities and comtorts of life.Netresult: Better business and a brighter home.Centenary Methodist Church.Missionary services in the Centenary Methodist Church next Sunday.At 10.90 a.m.Dr.Ewan will give an address on the Grounds for Faith in the Missionary Work being carried on in China.At 7 p.m.Dr.Stephenson ot Toronto, secretary of the Young People\u2019s Forward Movement for Missions, will preach.Sunday school at noon.Steangers will be welcome.Arrangements bave bees made to show Missionary Moving Pictures in the Border Theatre on Saturday afternoon, from 2.30 to 5.80 p.m.These pictures bave been taken in China and Japan and give a vivid idea of the work of the missionary in the foreign field.The regular admission fee of 10 cents will be charged.Do not miss this treat.Come yourself and urge your friends to come.Recent experiments conducted by the United States postoffice department with a view to increasing the weight limit of the parcels post.have proven so successful that parcels weighing 100 pounds soon may be shipped by mail.\u201cThe 100 pound weight limit has no terrors for me,\u201d said Postmaster General Burleson.\u2014 ad Journal.e THEATER OPENS AT 7.00 WHOLE No.3545.THE BORDER THEATER EVERYTHING NEW AND UP-TO-DATE | 4 BIG REELS 4 EVERY EVENING FILM STARTS AT 7.30 ° A New, Handsome and Commodious Building, Erected for the purpose, Seats, in Opera Chairs, 402.Admission 10c.RAILROAD & MAIN STS, ROCK ISLAND of wood any day.COW BOARDERS Farmers have been doing a great work during the past few years in the way of eliminating from their herds all cows that do not produce enough to pay their way, and those who have made careful tests have been astonished to find how many cow boarders they have been caring for\u2014simply loafers, sponging their way through life.Now, isn\u2019t it about time to apply the same test to SAP EVAPORATORS because any boiling rig that requires three-fourths to one cord of wood to make 100 pounds of sugar is a loafer in the truest sense of the word, and more especially so since the introduction of the MODERN MONARCH RIG which will boil sap for 100 pounds of sugar on one-third to one-half cord Now figure for a minute: in making 2000 pounds of sugar, the Monarch man saves ten cords of wood.10 cords at say, 81.50 only, is 815.00 .75.0 5 years .0 10 « .- - 150.00 20 * - - - 300.00 The Monarch at the end of 20 years has twice paid for itself, to say nothing of the splendid sugar produced, and the time and labor it saves.Isn't it about time the Sugar Makers were getting rid of their Sugar House Boarders?1914 Catalogue just out, sent anywhere on request.True & Blanchard Co., Newport, Vt.gallons of Syrup P.S.\u2014A letter in our files reads, \u201cSaved $70.00 in Wood, makimg 700 in our Monarch\u201d.¥ MASSAWIPPI.Mr.and Mrs.H.D.Turcott and two children of North Hatley were guests at \u2018Elm Cottage,\u201d Sunday.+ Mr.A.H.Ham and family of North Hatley were guests of his parents at \u201cPine Tree Farm,\u201d Sunday.Mrs.L.Hovey has received news of a grandchild, born at Chicago Sunday morning, the parents are Mr.and Mrs.Roy Hovey, and the child is a son.Miss A.Hitchcock has been quite indisposed of late.Mrs.Carrie Sharon has recovered sufficiently to return to her home at Brown\u2019s Hill.Mr.D.Paul has had a furnace added to the house be purchased here this fall, which, with other interior changes, make it a very pleasant home.Mr.Sidney Harvey of Montreal has been visiting Mrs.Shurtleff, his sister, at Coaticook, and his mother and family here for a few days.He left Monday for Detroit, where he has a brother (Herbert) and a positon.Our population increased by two today, each a daughter, in the homes of Mr.Carl Moulton and Mr.P.St.Laurent.Invitations are out for a dance at \u201cCottage Hall,\u201d Thureday night.Mrs.J.Earl Gibson gave a \u2018\u2018chain tea\" at Lakeside Farm last week.Her guests were: Mrs.8.Colt, Mre.E.Walker and Miss 8.Kezar.Several others were not able to attend through illness.The council met on Saturday.Mr.Wesley Reed was sworn into office.A report of the election of Monday last with papers were prepared to forward to the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, and the present members signed a recommendation to the same, paming two wen, Mr.Bond Little and Mr.E.Maxfield, as their choice, to fill the vacancies caused by the closing of the poli during the first day of the election.A petition is also presented the Lieutenant-Governor asking that Mr.Bond Little and Mr.G.Reburn be elected.This is the choice of the ratepayers of the south end of the town, who labour under a disadvantage.When the north end men choose their man, the south end citizens turn in and help elect him very willingly, but when the south end try to elect a man they want, the nortb end men vote against him.This Is not fair play.In the past six years settlers in Canada from the United States were 618,- 112.In the same period permanent residents in the United States from Canada were 594,919.AN OLD CITIZEN GONE.Dr.A.G.Bugbee failed to reach his ninetieth birthday by just four days.He passed away on Tuesday.The funeral will take place on Saturday, the ninetieth anniversary of bis birth.Dr.Bugbee was born in Lower Wat- ertord, Vermont, January 24th, 1824, He was a son of Dr.Ralph Bugbee, a practicing physician in that place, and three brothers entered the medical proféssion.They were Dr.Ralph, who located in Littleton, N.H., Dr.Frank, who went to Lancaster, and Dr.Lafayette.The late Abel G.Bugbee was a graduate of the Castleton (Vermont) Medical College.Later on he studied in New York City, where he had considerable hospitalexperience.Sixty-two years ago he came to Derby Line and began thô practice of medicine with the late Dr.Richmond.At that time Derby Line was scarcely more thana country crofs-roads and Rock Island bad only a few buildings.Within a few years Dr.Bugbee\u2019s practice had stretched out over a wide section of country on both sides of the \u201cline.\u201d He was especially efficient as a surgeon, and was occasionally called as far as Lyndonville at the south and Sherbrooke at the north.From east to west his regular practice extended from Patton to Stanhope and Norton.His professional reputation was of the highest and be enjoyed a very large practice.He retired some years ago, having acquired an ample competency, but for a long time he was actively interested in the affairs of the community, and it was only two or three years ago that he began to fail and afterwards became something of a care upon his family and friends.The Bugbee Business College and its endowment were gifts of Dr.Bug- bee to Stanstead Wesleyan College.Another contribution worthy of the man was the gift of the Bugbee Memorial Sunday School Library to Centenary Methodist Church, Stan- stead.Dr.Bugbee was the oldest physician living in this section of country; his was indeed a long and useful life.He was twice married and is survived by his second wife, a daughter of the late Elijab Read of Stanstead township.The Ford Motor factory in England recently beat by six minutes the record of the Detroit factory, building an automobile in 11 minutes and putting it on the road in 19. VERMONT ITEMS.The Rev.W.O.Bernard, rector of St.Luke\u2019s church, Chester, is to take charge of the parish at Newport Feb.1.Men in the employ of the state have done muob work around Putuey in locating and destroying nests of the brown tail mothe.The ninety-eixth birthday anniversary of Mrs.Eliza Huntoon, ot Cat- tingeville, (in Shrewsbury) was quietly observed by her family and a few friends Wednesday afternoon, Janu- aty 7, at her home.Corfflicting reporte are received regarding the condition of Col.Z.M.Mansur of Newport who is passing the winter in Burlington with hie son, Arthut Mausur.Colonel Mansur is in poor health and has recently heen worse, but is now said to be improving.o Burton À.Hatt, aged 50 years, who had been very ill of Brights disease for several months, died at the home of J.B.McLam in South Ryegate.He is survived by two daughters.Mr.Hatt was manager of the South Rye- gate Co-operative creamery for some years.The Howe Scale Co.of Rutland is preparing for a number of exteusive additions to its plant, which at present covers an area of over 17 acres and has a frontage of about a quarter of a mile on the Rutland Railroad.A large three-story building is to be erected, 190 feet long.A building 400 feet by 50 will be raised another story and a half.The federal government is doing a lot of work in those sections of Massa- chusette and New Hampshire bordering on the Vermont line in counection with the destruction of the gipsy moth, and in the spring the fedeval employees and those in Vermont will combine in this section in the work of exterminating both pests.At the annual meeting of the Vermont state board of pharmacists held at Montpelier Lhe following officers were elected: President, E.G.McClal- len, of Rutland; secretary, M.G.Beebe, of Burlington; treasurer, W.L.Gokay, of Bennington.The other two members ro complete the board are W.F.Root, of Brattleboro, and D.F.Davis of Lyndonville.It part of those hundreds of thousands of unemployed men in the great cities of the country should come into Vermont about a month later they would find plenty of chance to gain an honest living and something besides.Vermont farms are likely to feel the pinch of labor scarcity this year even more than ever, ucless the situation is relieved by the arrival of newcomers.Marcus J.Burlington, a graduate of the 1910 class of tbe University of Vermont, Burlington, bas moved from Pownal to Bennington and opened offices for the practice of civil engineering.He has -been cousiderably engaged in highway construction, mu- _ nicipal reservoirs, and dams in Massa- chussetts.While at the university he was a star catcher, partnering Ray Collins.John M.Hubbard, the assistant postmaster of Chicago, who was born in Saxtons River, is called the Santa Claus of that city.To his deek on the third floor of the federal building aie, by order of the post-office department, sent annually the large number of letters addressed by mail to Santa Claus.He sorte them into grades and some are turned over by him either to wealthy individuals who are looking for opportunity for worthy cases of philanthropy or to the different societies which work along those lines.Standardizing Maple Sugar.(Burlington Free Press.) It was good advice which the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers\u2019 Association received from A.À.Carlton, its president, at the raeeiing in Rutland.He said, in substance, that maple sugar is more and more used as a luxury, a delicacy, and therefore an effort ought constantly to-be made to produce a greater proportion of fine sugar and less medium and black sugar.To encourage this tendency and increase its advantages be urged that sugar makers join the association and use its copyrighted label.This is advice in the right direction.It will be the making of the Vermont sugar industry, if either by means of the label of the Vermont Sugar Growers\u2019 Association or by some other means, the fine sugar produced in Vermont can be put on the market in a form which will guarantee its excellence, and its Green mountain origin, Vermont is a email estate.Its output must always be limited.But it has character, and its producis have character.Distinctive, copyrighted labels will go far to capitalize the character, the distinctiveness, the reputation, the good will that go with the Vermont name.And this policy will apply to more things than maple sugar.Cold weather records at the following Vermont towns on Tuesday mo:n- ing January 14: Burlington 26° below zero, Sheldon 36° below, Berkshire 83° below, Euosburg Falls 32° beluw, Montpelier 36° below, Barre 30° , below, St.Johnabury 38?below, Lyn- donville 36° below, Darton 32° below, Orleans 34° below, Newport 40° below.The coldeat in 50 years at ail points except Burlington.Universalist Ministerial Conference.The mid-winter ministerial conler- ence of Unitarian and Universalist winisters of Vermont and the province of Quebec, was held in White River Janction Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 12, 18 and 14.At the opening session there was a discussion led by the state superintendent, the Rev.G.F.Fortier, of Rutland, on \u201cMost Pressing Needs of the Church in Vermont.\u201d Tuesday there were morning and afternoon sessions for the ministers, and in the evening there was a public undenominational meeting.At the meeting Monday night the address was delivered by J.N.Barss, euperin- tendent of the state industrial school, Vergenues, and chairman of the Bap- tiet social service commission.The address Wednesday evening was ell, secretary of the national social service commission of the Universa- list church.The Prison Monitor.Vol.1, Na.1, ot T'he Prison Monitor, the publication just started by inmates of the Vermont state prison at Windsor, is out, and in thought, tert, and type, is creditable to its producers.Prison journalism has become a feature of many penal institutions.It gives men of literary laste who are temporarily removed from life\u2019s activities, a chance to plirsue their ideas, jmprove their minds, and renew their self-respect.Some really remarkable productions have emanated under the inspiration of prison walls, not only in John Bunyan\u2019s time, but in modern days.It does these men good to feel that they still have a part in the world and that they are fitting themselves for a beter part when their deliverance comes.Jt also does the world outside no harm to be placed in closer touch with the minds of per- sous whom it is coming to regard more as erring, misguided or unfortunate brothers than as sinners to be shunned.WAY'S MILLS, Received too late for last edition.Mrs.John Hayes has returned to her home in Montreal, after a couple of weeks with her sister, Mrs.À.F.Clifford.Mr.B.Smith has purchased the property of the late Mrs.Sprague, and hae had electric lights installed throughout the buildings.Mrs.Heury Clifford is spending a few days in Newport, Quite a number attended the social at Mrs.Cramer\u2019s Tuesday night, in spite of the extremely cold weather.The Ladies of Way\u2019s Mills are organizing a club to be called the \u2018\u2018Per- serving Club\u2019?and will hold their first meeting with Mrs.Willis Cramer, Thursday, Jan, 22, from 2 to 4 p.m.Admission äcts.The object of thie ia to see, by meeting once a week and paying the emall sum of 5cts.how much they can get towards furnishing the new hall when it is completed.All are invited and everybody welcome.They hope all interested in the hall will try and attend.Their motto is: Friendship, Cheerfulness and Perservance.All will go home after a couple of hours spent in this social manner feeling that each is helping the same worthy cause.AYER'S CLIFF.The Ladies Aid will be entertained by Mrs.George Woodard, Sr., Tuesday p.m., Jan.27th.\u201cJerry the Tramp\u201d will be presented by local talent, under direction of Mr.E.H.Cosby, at the County Hall, Friday evening, Jan.23.Tickets on sale at A.E.Hard\u2019s store.From an occa~éonal correspondent.The Ladies Aid met with Mrs.Cass Tuesday, Jan.6th at 3 p.m.The annual financial report showed much progress as a result of energy shown by the ladies for the past year.The following officers were elected for 1814: Mrs.F.J.Robinson, president; Mrs.O.W.Vaughan, secretary; Mrs.Lyon, treasurer.The society meets fortnightly.DEMICK\u2019S MILLS.Mrs.A.L.Demiok of Derby spent a few days with her father, Mr.G.A.Bradford, last week.Mrs.Lizzie Mitchell and little daugb- ter of Orleane visited at Almer Smith's last week.Elder W.H.Osgood was in Beebe over Sunday.G.A.Bradford is some better at this writing.Mre.Mary Demick is staying with her daughter, Mrs.Charles Ames, at Derby Line.BEEBE.Services in Methodist Ohurch, Sunday, Jan.25th, The Rev.Dr.Steph- son, Secrecary of the Young People\u2019s Forward Missionary Movement, wiil preach at 10.30.Sunday School at close of eervice.The pastor will preach at 7 p.m.A cordialiovitation to all services.GRIFFIN.Church of England service bere Sunday, Jan.25th, at 11 a.m., ipstead of 8 p.tn.Rev.James Hepburn, MA., rector.All are welcome.given by the Rev.O.Skiuner, of Low- | .EAST BOLTON.Messrs.O.Jaby and A.Hastings are busily engaged and doing good work with the sawing machine in this vicinity.Mrs.A.L.Scott and Miss Minnie Scott were at Magog on Saturday.Mrs.John Patterson, who has been very ill, is improving under the care of Dr.Bowen.Mr.and Mrs.Albert Stone and Miss Maud Stone of Currier spent Saturday at A.L.Bryant\u2019s.Mr.and Mrs.W.H.Patterson and family were recent guests at J.M.Bowen's.Mr.J.F.Bryant and Rev.D.Brill were at Georgeville on Friday.There will be a basket social at the home of Mr.and Mrs.A.L.Scott on Friday evening.A good program is being prepared.Recived too late for last edition.Mr.and Mrs.J.Patterson went to Montreal on Friday.Mrs.8.E.Westover has gone to Boston to spend the remainder of the winter with her daughter, Mrs.Foss.Several from here attended thd\u2019 social at E.J.Manning\u2019s Knowlton\u2019s Landiog, on Friday evening.Mr.Wm.Bowen of Currier, and AM.Bowker went to Georgeville on Friday.The bell for the Methodist Cburch has arrived apd will be put up in a short time.Mr.Donald Patterson and Miss Lera Channell expect to leave this week for 8.W.C,, Stanstead.The W.C.T.U.met with Mrs.Bow- ker on Wednesday.Two dollars was voted to be seut to the Temperance Campaign Fund, other business was also brought forward and discussed.The next meeting will be a parlor weeting and will be held some time next month.The R.M.D.route No.1 from Bolton Centre has been granted, much to the satisfaction of a majority of the people, especially those who had to go several miles for their mail.Thanks to the effort of ons or two we have obtained a better mail service.The coldest wave of the season since Monday.Cattle, horses and peeple suffered with the severe cold.Mises Bowker, teacher of Lakeside school with three of her pupils are among those who suffered intensely on Monday evening trying to reach their homes from echool with her brother, Mr.A.M.Bowker.Miss Bowker froze her ears, face and hands; she suffered intensely.Miss M.Ball's toes and fingers were frozen; Miss F.Patterson\u2019s fingers were frozen.Mr.and Miss Bowker stuck by the pupils and got them home after wallowing in snow on foot and witn their team.On Monday Mr, John Patterson had a bard drive from Stanstead Plain, where he had been to take Miss Lera Channell and Mr.D.Patterson back to the College._ BRESETTE CORNER.Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Raymond and children visited friends at East Hatley recently.Rev.W.J.Tanner of Fitch Bay was in town for the week-end.Mrs.F.J.Luce and daughter Hazel of Milby were guests of her brother, Mr.P.H.Wilson, the latter part of last week.Mr.D.M.Wilson visited his daughter, Mre.E.Harrison, at Ives\u2019 Hill during the week.Miss Leah Bresette of Coaticook was at the home of her father, Mr.H, W.Bresette over Sanday.The Misses E.and L.Moy were recent guests at Edgelake farm.Four members of the North Hatley W.C.T.U., Mrs.Henry Merrill, Mrs.Jas.Robinson, Mrs, J.McCrea and Mrs.Carlton Turner, attended the Compton county temperance rally in Lennoxville on Jan.15th, and report a very helpful and inspiring meeting.Miss Laurel Merrill and ber friend, Miss Libby, from Sherbrooke, are vis- icing relatives and friends at Stan- stead and Derby Line.Mr.William Grainger has returned from the Moutreal General Hospital, baving passed a successful operation for the removal of a cancer from his face.Mise Beatrice Goudie of Martinville is spending a few days visiting in town.CASSVILLE.Mr.Percy Capsey of Oamrose, Alta., is spending a few days at the home of his biother-in-law, Mr.David Watson.Mr.Bertrand and family of L\u2019Origi- pal, Ont, have taken possession of the Lyman Libby farm while Mr.William Thompson and Mr.Libby and their famt'ies have moved to Mr.Thompson\u2019s farm, near Ayer\u2019s Cliff.Mrs.David Watson went to Boston Friday eveniag for treatment.She was accompanied by Mr.Watson and Di.Waldron.The many friends of Mie.Watson sincerely hope the treatment will prove successful.Mrs.Archie Blair will leave the Victoria Bospital, Montreal, Monday morniug and will start for home the same day.Her relatives and friends will be pleased to know her operation has been so successful, Mr.and Mrs.Walter Brown and daughter Alice of Rrowu's Hill have spent the past week at the home of Mr.and Mrs.C.J.Thompson.IL CCM 1 I= 1] \u2014=\u2014=s == =] KATHAN & HOPKINS] With the holidays over we are ready for the regular business of midwinter, and the good sleighing makes the natural demand for the season\u2019s goods.We are well stocked with WARM AND HEAVY FOOTWEAR for the out-door worker and our line of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers is full for the | winter requirements.4 N Men\u2019s Furnishings we have a splendid line of Heavy Underwear for the [| working man on the farm and in the woods.A good line of work Shirts, Stockings, Gloves and Mittens, Caps and Sweaters.In the garments required by the indoor worker we have a good line of lighter and medium weight | Underwear, Shirts, Collars, Ties, Gloves, Mittehs, Stockings, Night shirts and Pajamas in a variety of prices.WE ARE WELL wears DOMESTIC DRY GOODS | and carry a large stock of Linens, Towels, Table Cloths, Napkins, Scarfs, Doilies, Dress and Bed Linens.A EAA % NNN We carry a good line of Beds, Mattresses.and General Bedding.Carpet Sweepers and many of the good housekeepers requirements Crockery, Curtains and Wall Paper.A very good line of Draperies.TO THE HOUSEMAKERS-\u2014We- have a full line of Supplies that reach their needs, such as Builders Hardware, Paints and Oils, Glass and Cement.+ O matter what happens, everybody must have food, and in our large and well assortea Grocery Department we have every item needed for food.SM Canned Goods, Farinacions Goods, Dried Fruits, Green Fruits in their season, Vegetables, Pork Products, Fish, Cheese and Butter, Oatmeal, Cornmeal, Graham, Bread and Pastry Flour and a General Stock of Feed.Sugar by the pound, barrel or car.A fine line of Teas and Coffees.We are agents for Chase & Sanborns Standard Java.The \u201cGOOD QUALITY JAVA\u201d 28c.a Ib.If we haven\u2019t what you want, we will get it for you.We invite you to give us a portion of your business.We have the comfortable store, a Good Stock and every facility for caring for your wants.KATHAN & HOPKINS Rock Island, Quebec \u2014|c\u2014\u2014|]\u2014\u2014|\u2014\u2014l\u2014\u2014]c \u20141C1 EI 1= Mid-Winter Clearance Sale William M.Pike & Son Soon we must take our annual invoice, and to provide for it we shall commence our regular Clearance or Make-Way Sale on Friday morning, January 2nd, 1914.This is again your opportunity to buy many Staple Lines at Cost or Less, that we may come into the Spring with our shelves ready for Spring and Summer Stock.Big Discount Men\u2019s and Boys\u2019 Overcoats and Suits lc J = WE HAVE A LINE OF Boys\u2019 Reefers and Overcoats at $2.00 to $4.00 These are Sturdy, Handsome Garments for Play, School or Work, and are going at about 50 per cent of actual value.We had much rather sell them than carry over.They'll go, and you'd better be on time if you are interested.WE HAVE THREE MEN\u2019S FUR COATS that we are going to close at the unheard of price of 815.75.They are $25.00 Coats.We have a Great Big Line of Men's and Boys\u2019 Heavy Rubbers all Canadian-Made.Splendid Goods at Good Prices, and we also have the assortment of the Town in Rubber Shoes and Overshoes for the whole family.Buy Canadian-Madeé Rubber Goods.None Better.We have quite a number of Ladies\u2019, Misses\u2019 and Children\u2019s Goats to close and the price will leave nothing to be said if you are interested, for we realize that a last season's garment is more obsolete \u2018 than a last years birds\u2019 nest, therefore don't be slow if you want a coat for they are going.Everybody wears Stockings and we have Stockings for Everybody.We have an All-Wool Heavy Workman's Hose for 25c.Children's Scotch Wool School Hose from 250.to 500.In Ladies\u2019 Misses\u2019, Children's and Men's and Boys\u2019 we have Cashmere Hose in Plain and Ribbed in good values, A CASE OF MEN'S WOOL WORK SHIRTS The Shirt in Town for the purpose and the low price will surprise you The Dominion no longer takes the dust of New England in the manufacture of Men's and Women's Shoes.We carry the best lines obtainable.Here they are: The \u201cINVICTUS\u201d for Men and the BELL\u2019 for Women.Come in and see what we can save you in comfort, durability and price.William M.Pike & Son, Rock Island, Que. ~ REAL QUESTION OMITTED.Beebe Council Censures Editor of Jour nal For Article Published.DOES NOT DENY STATEMENT.Beebe, P.Q., Jan 17th, 1914.Dear Mr.Editor: - You say the question is \u2018\u2018will an open bar be a blessing or a ourse to Beebe?\u201d I say will a first class botel be a beneñt or a detriment to Beebe.- You put the bar first\u2014we the hotel.You complain of dragging your personal affairs into the discussion.I simply asked you a plain question \u2018do you call the place where you board a hotel or a ram hole\u201d?If a hotel call ours the same, don\u2019t call yours a hotel and ours a rum hole, and you reply by saying \u201cthis has no more to do with the subject than has the place where Farmer Jones hangs his mittens when he goes to milk his cows.\u201d It would seem to some people that the question was applicable to the subject and that a direct reply would have been appropriate.4 The words \u201crum hole\u201d belong to Mr.House.We may have used | expressions almost as bad, but as it happens we bad not used this particular one even in a general sense, and np reasonable man could expect us to apply it specifically to any particular place, if it be balf way decent.In epite of the fact that the correspondent had been indulging in the trick of answering one question by asking another [See THE JOURNAL Oct.30] our answer was quite as direct as the circumstances would warrant, The correspondent had used the expression \u2018\u2018rum hole,\u201d and we said: Mr.House may continue to call the place by whatever name he chooses without fear of burting our feelings.His belated complaint is not only unwarranted but childish.The correspondent has not quite correctly quoted the \u2018Farmer Jones\u2019 expression, but that is not im portant.\u2014Ed.Thir was the only instance \u201cwhere your personal affairs were dragged into the discussion\u2019 by me, either directly or indirectly.It is you who have injected something utterly foreign to the subject by bringing up the town hall transaction, but since you have transgreseed it is \u201cup to me\u201d to defend myself and in order to do eo I must digress, but that will come later.Mr.House is entirely wrong.He had sent us a copy of a \u201cbond\u201d in connection with the hotel project and in directing attention to the inadequacy of the bond as a safeguard of the public interest we referred to another bond, \u2018\u2018executed in connection with a certain municipal improvement,\u201d which was handed over at.the critical moment.It was Mr.House who introduced the bond into the discuss- sion.[See THE JOURNAL Nov.20th were not enough of them to make any successful opposition to the men elected.I trust that these facts will be an answer to the contentions that \u2018no considerable number are in favor of licems# here under present conditions.to say some things\u201d eto.Oh, yes, your grief was almost tragic.In fancy I see the tears streaming from your eyes like a crocodiles after a bath.And what an elevating spectacle to find a self-respecting Editor slying around with his muck-rake trying toprove that \u201can old friend\u2019 has sinned, and when he thinks that he has found out all about it, what joy?We had understood from what had been told us by several residents of Beebe that it was agreed in advance, upon a certain understanding, that the councilors named should not be opposed, and under ruch ciroumetauces itis only natural to expect that their petitions would be generally supported.We The reference to \u2018\u2018muck-raking\u2019\u2019 is a little far-fetched.Mr.House bad complained because we did not go to Beebe for our information, should dislike to think that their and now he criticises us for having main qualification for the position done 60.The first information of counoilors was their readiness to concerning the \u2018improvement support license, as the correspon- bond\u201d came incidentally from two dent would appear to contend.\u2014Ed.responsible citizens of Beebe during a conversation about the hotel bond at this office.Afterwards the editor was in Beebe and meade enquiries to verity the statement.Only responsible parties were consulted, and the \u2018\u2018bond\u201d was the only subject mentioned; no personalities were introduced.This method of proceedure cannot reasonably be called muck-raking.Our oid friend had viciously assailed us and, under the circumstances we would not naturally goto him for information, especially ae he could pot, in the nature of affairs, be ex- gocted to be very communicative.e did not approach the Mayor for reasons which must be apparent to every one familiar with the case, and that means about everybody in Beebe.But why drag this matter out.We mentioned the subject because we were practically forced to, and we said just as little about it as possible.hat we did say was said with no desire to discredit either the building committee, the council, the coutractor or the bondsman, but simply to show the inadequacy of a much weaker \u2018bond\u2019! which had been introduced into the license controversy.\u2014Ed.No man has a right to say that I \u201crejoice\u201d or \u2018\u2018gloat\u2019\u2019 over the strength of the liquor interests.The references made were simply to show that we here at Beebe must not be too sanguine of having a dry county and to make our plane accordingly.Another \u201cremarkable feature of my letter is the list of license and no-li- cense towns\u201d and \u201cThere are only three or four real towns in the license lists.\u201d What is a town?\u201cA town may conesist of twenty houses or 20,000\u2019 perhaps some wise mab from the east of Baebe knows more about what constitutes a town than does the authority quoted but I doubt it.And what an oversight to omit such a dazzling array of \u201cdry\u201d towns.Why should those places be listed when most of them have never been licensed and none of themfor a number of yeara?The list was given to show how many places bad been \u201cdry\u201d in the last few years and also to show that the most important ones of the Townships are \u2018\u2018wet\u2019\u2019 either from habit or because they consider it tbe best policy for them.It reminde me of a remark made by one of our citizens when epeaking of acertain Editor whom we will call Solomon.\u2018\u2019That man Solomon may be a mighty wise man and a great editor\u2014be knows an awful lot, but about three quarters of all he knows aint so, and the percentage of truth in what he hears ie still less.\u201d There would seem to be much truth in this assertion regarding the bond.Considering the evidence of Mr.Dustin given in his correspondence, and the resolution passed by the Council Jan.6th, a copy of which I submit, it would seem as if the Editor must have been looking through a kaleidoscope when he claims that \u2018\u201c\u2018more than one member of the Council \u2018told him things that were pure fabrications of a disordered intellect\u2014of course there is one word of four letters that expresses this same meaning, but some abnormally intellectual people don\u2019t seem to understand plain language.Copy of resolution passed by the In this Province a town is a municipal corporation having a charter from the Legislature; it must have a population of at least 1,500.The Town Clauses Act.Clause 1, Article 5268, of the Revised Statutes of Quebec, 1909, says: \u2018The Lieutenant Governor in Council, may by letters patent and in accordance with the formalities hereinafter described, erect any territory forming a village municipality into a town municipality ifit contains at least fifteen hundred souls.\u201d We do pot like to be over critical, but it still seems to us that Mr.House was attaching to a lot of cross-roads communities a dignity which did not belong to them when he named them towns.Twenty houses would have to be quite sizable in order to accommo- ate 1,500 people.We can see no logic in the çon- tention that because any place may never have had a license it is un- To us this resolution seems obiid- ish in the extreme.Without questioning the truth of THE JOURNAL'S statement, the council proceeds to censure \u2018\u2018the editor\u2019?for unfairly criticising Mr.Heuse.In what manner have we unfairly criticised bim?Oan the council truthtully say that the bond in question did not fail to protect the interests of the corporation at the critical moment?That is the vital point because that was the question raised in connection with the weaker \u201cbond.\u201d If arrangements could be easily made for the eurrender of the stronger bond, could tbey not, with at least equal facility, be made for the surrender of the weaker one?As to whether relinquishing the bond was or was not \u201cin the best interest of the municipality\u2019 we have said nothing; there seems to be some difference in opinion upon that subject.What little we did say was said for the pu:pose of showing the weakness of the other \u201cbond,\u201d nothing more, nothing less.Admitting, for the sake of argument, that the final \u2018\u2018arrangement\u201d was for the public good, does that disprove our contention that the bond failed in its mission to safeguard the public interest?Does it disprove one single word that we bave said?We have no desire to impeach the council, even though that august body indulges in the pleasant pastime of passing resolutions condemning \u201cthe editor.\u201d Most people would consider it more to the point if the couucil had first made some little effort to disprove something we had said, If some one will furnish conclusive evidence that the bond in question: (1) Was not a stronger instrument than the hotel bond; (2) Did not fail in its mission to protect the public interest; (3) Was pot surrendered before the completion of the public improvement undertaken\u2014it will be \u2018\u2018up to ue\u201d to retract or show the reason why.These are the arguments advanced insupport of our contention that the hotel \u201cbond,\u201d which had been flaunted by a correspondent, was not a sufficient safeguard ot the public interest.The real question has not been touched by either of our wordy correspondents and it is cleverly omitted from the council\u2019s resolution.If there was nothing weak about the traneaction referred to, if there is nothing to be concealed, if it will not prove the weakpess of the hotel \u201cbond,\u201d why not make a fair, frank and open statement of the whole affair, submitting all ot the particulars.After all this vaguery, bluff and bluster such an exposition would be refreshing.For reasons which must be apparent to residents of Beebe, at least, we have tried all along to eay just as little as possible about the affair, but our correspondents eeem to delight in keeping the subjeot before the public.If the controversy must be further prolonged why not discuss the subject in a rational manner?All the insinuation, elander and abuse that can be heaped upon the editor of this paper will not help the situation in the least.We shall certainly waste no time in replying to it.Then he prooseds to sermonise on the missionary business in Obina and forgets his second reason or possibly the Ediior may hove declined to print it.In any case he seems mis- trustfol of people who would be likely to handle the funds, * * * There are good and true men and women who would handle any fund for the good of the cause faithfully and account for it accurately.Further he says \u2018\u2018geograpbically speaking Beebe is not a hotel town and never can be.\u201d Some more free advice for Beebe, and just the same sort of reason in it as in the other free advice that he has offered to Beebe.Compare Beebe with Btan- stead as a favorable hotel location.Beebe:on the main line of the B.& M.Ry.while Stanstead ie three miles away at the end of the \u2018\u2018branch.\u201d There are several trains that pass through here in the summer that the \u201cbranch\u201d trains do not run to meet, and paesengers for Btanstead go from here by team or automobile.Beebe one and a balf miles from Lake Mem- phremagog, our famous summer attraction, while Stanstead is three miles further.What ie the use of further compar- fsons when any one knowing the facts must admit that Mr.Smith\u2019e geography and his arguments and advice are defective.We have no desire to discuss the merits of Beebe as a \u2018hotel town\u201d but it seems to ua that the correspondent should have found some stronger argument to meet Mr.Smith\u2019s criticism.North Derby is on the \u201cmain line?\u2019 and still nearer the lake, but it is not what would be regarded as a promising hotel town.We bave frequently heard men here complain that this is not a \u2018\u2018hotel town.\u201d Real \u2018hotel towns\u2019! are scarce; modern methods of travel tend to make them At 60 Years Of Ag THE KIDNEYS NEED HELP Gin Pills give them the strength of youth, ) 50 Broad Street House, London.I bought eome of your GIN PILLS at Victoria, B.C.last September.Imade inquiries in New York on my arrival there but was unable to obtain any information about them.Your remedy, I find at 60 years of age, to give me perfect relier and I regret very much that you have not made arrangements to bave GIN PILLS on sale in New York and London, as I urgently recommend GIN PILLS to friends of my age asbeingtheone thing that does me good.G.WOODFORD.If your kidneys need help, strengthen them and keep them well with GIN PILLS, \u2014the guaranteed cure for Weak Kidneys, Pain in the Back, Bladder Trouble and Rheumatism.soc.a box\u2014 6 for $2.s0\u2014money back if they fail to relieve.Sent on receipt of price if your dealer does not handle them.Sample box free on request.National Drugand Chem.Co., of Canada Limited, Toronto.National Lazy Liver Pills are a sure cure for Constipation, 25c.a box.200 more 80.\u2014Ed.Speaking of license laws I don\u2019t believe the Quebec law can be much improved, especially in regard to habitual drinkers\u2014here is an exract\u2014 i \u201cThe husband, wife, father, mother, | brotber, sister, curator, tutor, or em- | ployer of any person who has the | habit of drinking intoxocating liquor | to excess, may give notice in writing \u2018to any person licensed to sell intoxi- | cating liquor, or who habitually sells such liquor, not to sell or deliver the same to any person having such habit.\u201d I must confess that this part of the law is something that I did not know ahout until recently and under this article almost any babitual drinker could be deprived of his \u2018\u2018booze.\u201d 1 | Upon first sight the clause referred to would seem to be areal sateguard, but it is almost entirely negatived by the fact that there | are always to be found about lii| censed places individuals who, for Cramming down {ll-chosen food, and rushing back to work, leads straight to dyspepsia, with all it means in misery.Proper habits of eating, with a Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablet after each meal, restore good digestion, health and happiness.A box of Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets costs but S0c.at your Druggist's.National Drug and Chem- {cal Co.of Canada, Limited.» 148 Municipal Council of Beebe Jan.5th at which meeting six couccilors were present.\u201cWe the members of the Beebe Municipal Coancil at this our regular Mr.Smith saye that I agreed to not (| a small fee, perhaps a \u2018drink\u2019 are write any more.It beats all how I am | willing to obtain liquor by the bot- misquoted, really it\u2019s quite discour- | tle for forbidden persons, even if aging.What I said was \u201cI do pot | the Gealer refuses to sell \u201cdirect,\u201d intend carrying this discussion any! which is not always the case.\u2014Ed.worthy of mention insuch a list as that given by the corespondent in the JOURNAL of December 18th.\u2014Fd.and Dec.11th].It is he who now introduces the \u2018\u2018town hall transaction.\u201d Mr.House\u2019s contention that we \u2018injected something utterly foreign to the subject is both untrue and unfair.\u2014Ed.Another criticism was for using the word \u201cdeal\u201d which was referred to as You say, \u2018The insinuation of an alliance between thb liquor interests and no-license advocates could only have been born of pure cussedness.\u2019\u201d\u201d If \u2018the insinuation is pure cussednees\u201d\u2019 what words will express your opinion of the act?If no such act was contemplated why don\u2019t some wise prophet explain why the liquor interests offered to pay the Perkins Bros.a bonus to sell their property?On the face of it there seems to be no doubt that an understanding was reached by parties in anthority\u2014how high up these parties were I don\u2019t know, but in THE JOURNAL of Dec.11th (I think was the date) you report a meeting of the liquor interests at Sherbrooke, where you say a proposal was made to take over the Perkins Bros.property, but you did not know of the earlier meeting at Rock Island when the same proposition was made.It beats all bow wise some people are about their neighbors\u2019 affairs and yet know so little about their own.Perbaps the Rock Island meeting took place when the Editor was \u2018\u2018prospecting\u2019\u2019 in Beebe for evidence about a certain bond.The \u201cact\u201d is au impoesibilty; a myth, pure and simple.* * Regarding the Sherbrooke meeting, our words were: THE JOURNAL was informed in a fairly direct way that the established interests had offered to take over the Junction Hotel, lately acquired by the Perkins Brothers, at the last sale price, plus whatever expense has since been incurred,\u201d\u2019 etc.Thie report came to us from Beebe and, if we must admit it, the item from wbich the words are taken has caused us more trouble than anything else we have written in years.On account of Îte publication THE JOURNAL has since been defending itself against a charge of libel.No reasonable man would expect us to \u2018report\u2019 the.proceedings of the alleged Rook Island meeting, which so far as we are able to learn, has not yet been held.We are not quite so fond of trouble as all that.\u2014Ed.I have been accused of tactics to keep the license party together\u2014 judging by the number of voters signing the requisitions of Messre.Jenkins and Marois, the tactics seem to have been successful: Listen; out of à possible 215 names Mr.Jenkins aecured 181 and Mr.Marols 139 and-both of these candidates are avowed license .men, and were elected by acclamation.It ie true that some of the signers are opposed to license, but there session wish to express our disapproval of the statement made by the Editor of the STANSTEAD JOURNAL in the issue of that paper Dec.18th wherein be unfairly criticises the action of Mr.House, one of our board, regarding the relinquishing of the bond given in connection with the contract for re-modeling our town hall.We knowing the facts in this case wish to say that Mr.House's action in this transaction was in the best interests of the municipality and was approved by us.This resolution was passed unanimously.Most honorable men after receiving such evidence would retract and apologize.being something reprehensible.Using the same authority that gives the definition of \u2018town\u2019 I find that \u201cdeal\u2019\u2019 means \u201cto trade, to trafic, to negotiate\u201d some superintellectual people can\u2019t seem to understand ordinary every day english.This*would appear to be a case of getting into trouble by agreeing with a man.The correspondent bad used the word \u201cdeal\u201d and we said: \u201cThat is the fight name.\u201d Why he should be offended by that is hardly apparent unless he is more familiar with the definition given below than with the one he has quoted.\u2014Ed.DEAL\u2014\u2018\u2018À secret arrangement, as in business or political bargaine, to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties.\u201d\u201d\u2014 Webster's New International.MCCONNELL.Miss Bean of Capelton has been visiting her friend, Mre.Ethel Hibbard.Miss Bernice Keeler of Stanstead has been spending three weeks at the home of her brother Walter here.Mr.and Mrs.Keeler accompanied Miss Keeler to her home Saturday.Miss E.Hibbard has been at Windsor Mills a few days.Mr.Harold Hibbard has been quite sick with a cold, but Is improving.Mies Julia Bacon bas also been suffering from a very eevere cold and throat trouble.Mr.John Gamache lost a little girl from diphtheria last week.Mr.aud Mrs.Elmer Maxfield of Saskatoon called at Mr.Spendlove\u2019s recently.Mr.and Mrs.Sapscon from up on the mountain near Katevale, started very early on New Year\u2019s morning for Lennoxville with an infant, and the little one froze it\u2019s hands quite badly.Now in reference to the bond in connection with a certain municipal contract.In an issue of the JOURNAL the Editor was pleased to honor me in these words.\u2018\u2018We are sorry to bave to disagree with an old friend\u201d and then readers of the JOURNAL observe how he proves his friendliiness.Some busy body started a story about something belog done irregularly, and the Editor says \u2018but at the critical moment when the contractor got into a hole the chairman of the Improvement Committee deliberately handed the bond over to the signer.And when the Editor was looking for evidence - does he go to his \u2018oid friend\u201d for av explanation of the matter, when the \u201cold friend\u2019 was eup- posed to be the culprit and therefore as likely to know the facts as any one?Does heeven go tothe Mayor for verification of this story when the Mayor as head of the Council might be expected to know the facts?No, Ohno: His old friend must pot be disturbed, the Mayor must not be questioned.He seemed to forget that the only remuneration that a Councilor of these emall Municipalities over gets, ie the satisfaction that comes to him for having given the best of his time and ability to the service of the pablic, and to have that public approve, and yet the Editor for an \u201c*old friends\u2019 sake tries to rob him of this satisfaction.No wonder that Caesar cried \u2018\u2018and you te Bru- tue.\u201d .You were \u2018indeed sorry that Mr.House bas again introduced the so- called bond because that compels us HATLEY CENTER.Miss Madge Hunter of Hatley spent the week-end with Miss Bertha McKay.Mrs.W.Ernest Greer was the guest of Mrs.C.Pearley Young of Hatley on Friday.Miss Rose Olapham of Sherbrooke is the guest of Miss Rose Little.Mrs.E.J.Oliver was in Sherbrooke on Saturday.The 500 Club met at the home of Mr.and Mre.D.W.Little on Wednesday evening.Mre.E.J.Oliver and Miss Bonnie Oliver calied on the family of Mr.and Mrs.Ed.B.Pope on Sunday.Mr.Elwin Obadsey and the Misses Myrtle and Jessie Frappied were in town on Sunday calling on friends.further\u2019 and then he says \u201cbut I have outlived my probation period, have received my freedom, Mr.House has litted the ban.\u201d All this is news to me\u2014what \u2018\u2018probation period\u201d has he outlived?How has his freedom been threatened and for what?Really I must disclaim all credit of having \u2018lifted the ban,\u201d in tact I must decline to be mixed up in anything connected with his \u2018\u2018probation?\u201d of \u2018freedom\u2019 or \u2018\u2018ban\u2019\u2019 until I know more about what he refers to.Speaking of the proposed fund for the prohibition fight Mr.Smith is \u201cpot in favor of a fund of that nature for two reasons.\u201d First that too many men who handle a fund of that kind have long and deep pockets.\u201d | Another question of Mr.Smith\u2019s\u2014 { \u201cWhy is it necessary to license a sa- \"loon if it is good in any community?\u201d | What an absurd question.It would i be just as sensible to ask, why license Doctors, Lawyers, and Preachers, why license people to get married?, About the only peopie who are not licensed are liars, thieves and * * * and they had ought to be licensed to keep them where they belong.In making what probably will be my farewell courtesy to the JOURNAL readers I might suggest that a truce be declared.Several of us are professedly working for the same great cause\u2014why not let us all pull together to attain the desired end, and possibly the nations of the world that are trying so hard to arrange a peace compact may follow our example, and then the millennium.GEo.H.HOUSE.SMITH'S MILLS.The Guild will meet with Mre.E.G.Wilcox on Wednesday afternoon and evening, January 28th.Every one invited.A very large crowd attended the dance at Fair View Hotel on Friday evening.The weather was all that could be desired and a very pleasant time was enjoyed by all present.Mrs.M.M.Longeway spent a few days recently with friends in Rock Island and Beebe.Miss Nancy Brevoort visited at the home of her brother, N.Y.Brevoort, a few days last week.\u2018 Mre.Bert Miller and sou Willard spent Sunday at the home of her father, O.L.Cass, at Oliver.Mr.and Mre, Lee Reed spent a few days recently with Mr.and Mrs, Peter O'Leary.We are glad to see Mr.Reed about again after his serious il)- ness.Mr.8.F.Wilson who has been staying at the hotel here, is at Sutton with his niece at present, sick with pneamonia.We hope he may soon regain his health.Mrs.\u2019 Albert Baldwin is at Sherbrooke staying with her daughter for a short time.PLEASANT HEIGHTS.Mr.Wm, Paterson and family were at Mrs.M.Bachelder\u2019s on Sunday.Mr.Leoyd Allen, Mr.Richard Allen and sister, Miss Ethel Allen, and Miss Eva Bachelder attended the dance at Swith\u2019s Mills, Jan.16th, and enjoyed a fine time.Mr.Earl Laraway has finished work for Mr.J, Wells and returned home.FOR SALE.à Wood Lot Apply + re a.ELA AUSTIN > Bebe, Que.SEVERE GOLD ON LUNGS AND CHEST QUICKLY RELIEVED by Na-Dru-Co Syrup of Linseed, Licorice and Chlorodyne Mr.J.Seward, Bromptonville, Que., writes : \u201c\u201cT'wo weeks ago I took a severe cold which settled on my lungs and my chest was very sore, breathing tight and severe hacking cough.I was feeling miserable.I bought a bottle of Na-Dru-Co Syrup of Linseed, Licorice and Chlorodyne and after a few doses I felt great relief and I went into a sound sleep, a thing I was not able to do for some nights.Next day I was able to be around egain, and before completing the bottle, felt as well as ever.cure.\u201d Na-Dru-Co Syrup of Linseed, Licorice and Chlorodyne relieves the irritation and \u2018\u2018stuffed-up'\u2019 feeling in the air passages, soothes the tickling which makes you cough, loosens the phlegm and drives out the cold before it gets troublesome.In 25c and B60c bottles, at your Druggist's.National Drug and Chemical Co.of Canada, Limited.322 It is a fine cough and cold Dr.Morse's Indian Root Pills are just the right medicine for the When they are constipated ~\u2014uhen their kidneys are out of order \u2014when over-indulgence in some favorite food gives them indigestion \u2014Dr.Morse's Indian Root Pills will uickly and surely put them right.Barely vegetable, th ey neither sicken, weaken or gripe, li urgatives.Guard Er children s Pealth by box of Dr.Morse's lsin the house, They ;; Heep the Children Well TIME TABLE.In Effect September 28th, 1913.LEAVING SHERBROOKE.\u201cONTON & NEW YORK EXPrEsS\u2014Leave Sherbrooke 8 00 a.m.daily, arrive Levin 1.16 p.m., Quebce 1,30 p.m.ining car sherbrooke to Thetford Mines daily except Sunday.Pullman buffet sleeping car New York to Levis.Pullman sleeping car Borton to Sherbrooke dally, connecting at Sherbrooke with Pullman car for Levis ExPRrEss\u2014Ieave Sherbrooke 4.00 p.m., daily except Sunday, arrive Levis 9 10 p.m., Quebec 9.15 p.m.Dining car Sherbrooke to Black Lake.ACCOMMODATION\u2014Leave Sherbrooke 7.00 p.m daily except Sunday, arrive Valley Jet.80 à.m.\u2018 ARRIVING BHERBROOKE.BosToN & NEw Yonk ExprEss\u2014Leave Quebec 8.0 p.m., Levis 8.80 p.m., daily, arrive Sher: brooke 9.00 p.m.Dining car Black Lake to Sherbrooke daily except Bunday.Pullman buffet sleeping car Levis to New York daily, connecting at Sherbrooke with Puliman sleeping car for Boston.ExrRE-8\u2014Leave Quebec 7.30 a.m., Levis 8.00 a.m.daily except Sfnday.arrive Sherbrooke 1.15p m.Dining car Thetford Mines to Sherbrooke.ACCOMMODATION\u2014Leave Valley Jet.8.00 p.m., daily except Sunday, arrive Sherbrooke 8.50 a.m.Also connecting trains on the Megantic and Chaudiere Valley Divisions.For timetables or further particulars apply to any of the Company's Agents.J.H.WALSH, E.©.GRUNDY, GF & Gen'l Mgr.P.A BURT C.DREW Contractor and Builder Plans and estimates furnished in any kind of material, wood, brick, concrete or granite.DERBY LINE, VT.and ROCK ISLAND, QUE.Water Works, Water Power, Patent Solicitor, Surveying, Bell phone 349, People\u2019s phone.HAVE YOU made provision for employment during the Fall and Winter months or do Jou winh steady remunerative work she year through?Write us and secure our agent's terms.We offer the bent in the business.Pay weekly, outfit free, exclusive territory.OVER 600 ACRES under cultivation.Established over 85 years.A reputation for high grade stock and fair dealing.A salerman can make money selling for us, We want an energetic reliable man fur your district.For terms write : PELHAM NURSERY CO.Toronto, Ont.N.B.Free catalogue on request.2wi6 .rer The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED BVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING 00.Rook Island, Que.One ysar (advance payment) $1.00 if paid in six months, 1.26 At the end of the year, 1.60 When sent by mall to spbsoribers in the United States the price w 81.50 à year in advance\u2018 Kntered nu second-class matter at the Pout- Qfflos at Derby Line under the act of March, 8 ADVERTISING RATERS.Transient udvertising 16 cents a line for tuo Gr-t insertino and 8 cents à line for each subsequent iusortion.12 lines totheinoh.Noad- Vertisment recuived for less than 5Uceuts.The latest letter on the license question at Beebe is certainly about the \u2018limit.\u2019 In our issue of January 8th, we said: \u2018\u2018Hereafter correspondents must confine themselves to the subject under discussion, omitting personalities, otherwise their effusions will not appear in this paper.\u201d In spite of this warning a correspondent has sent in a lengthy communication containing almost nothing about the question under discussion, while reeking with personalities and vilification.We can eee neither reason nor excuse for this, but we are publishing the communication with the excepthqn of two or three clauses which seemed to be especially boorish, or to have not the remotest connection with the subject which is supposed to be under discussion.In one of the paragraphs omitted the correspondent accused the editor of this paper of \u201cclaiming more glory than belongs to him\u201d and of having a \u2018swelled head.\u201d Of this our readers must judge.If they think we are deserving of this criticism, we have nothing to say.But we ask in all candor, what glory have we claimed?Have we claimed any glory at all?As we have said before we ask for no other fate than to be judged by what we have written.There is certainly no excuse for a saloon either in Beebe or any other village.That is apparently the reason why liquor supporters there have lost temper, and cannot continue & reasonable discussion, At the end of his letter the correspondent raises the white flag, eug- gesting \u201cthat a truce be declared.\u201d This is a splendid idea; and our only regret is that the correspondent did not show a broader Christian spirit in leading up to the subject.There is need for earnest coôperation and concentration of thought and effort on the broader campaign for a whole county free from the blighting effects of the open saloon.Banish the \u2018booze\u2019 and give the young manhood of the country a chance.Banish the thought of booze and work for a Bigger, Better, Brighter, Busier Beebe.In the letter referred to, answers to some of the points raised are inserted in *\u2018panels\u201d which distinguish the replies from the letter.This is done to avoid repetition and save space.Readers will please follow the correspondent\u2019s letter through before referring to the \u2018\u2018paneled\u201d\u2019 portions.Because the municipal authorities of Copperfield, Oregon, refused to enforce the laws regulating saloons, the state authorities took a hand in affairs, proclaimed martial law, arrested the mayor and other city officials, all of whom were locked up and not permitted to communicate with attorneys.The shloon had been running things with a high hand, and the state\u2019s action followed a petition from the citizens of the town.It was a woman, Mies Hobbs, who put the Governor's order into effect.It is the ealoon- keeper\u2019s disposition to ride roughshod over everybody that frequently gels him into trouble.In the case of Copperfield one saloon was owned by the mayor and another by a councilor.A more extended account of the affair appears in another column.Consumption Takes Hundreds of People Every day and the surprising truth is that most cases are preventable with timely, intelligent treatment.\u2018l'hese appailing facts should warn us that after sickness, colds, overwork or any other drains upon strength, Scott's Emulsion should be promptly and regularly used because tubercular germs thrive only in a weakened system.The tested and proven value of Scott's Emulsion is recognized by the greatest specialists because its medical nourishment assimilates quickly to build healthy tissue; aids in the development of active, life-sustaining blood corpuscles; strengthens the lungs and builds physical force without reaction, Scott's Emulsion is used in tuberculosis camps because of its rare body-building, blood-making prop- ertics and because it contains no alcohol or habit-forming drug.Be sure to insist on Scott's.Scott & Nowne, Toronto, Oitario.13-76 DINED AND TALKED.Successful Meeting Under the Ausploes of the International W.0.T.U.One of the moet pleasant and suo- cessful funotions in the thirty-seven years history of the International Women\u2019s Christian Temperance Union took place last Thursday.At the afternoon session Mrs.Ellen O.Rugg of Sherbrooke gave a report of the Brooklyn convention.Among those who took part in tbe proceedings were Mrs.H.P.Morrilf of Sherbrooke and Mrs.C.A.Searles of Beebe.A bountiful supper was gratuitously supplied by tbe Union.Through the press and otherwise a general invitation had been given to all friends, men and women, and many availed themselves of the opportunity.Following the supper and social hour came a programme ofa varied nature.On interesting feature was the part taken by men in the event.Rev.H, F.Hallett presided, and the firet speaker was P.8.Dob- son, M.A., classical master at Stan- stead College.The teachers, he said, were formerly looked upon as visitors; there seemed to be a marked division between the College and town.But now the teachers felt that they were members of the community, the only citizenship they have being here.Experience had taught the faculty that the saloons formed a very dangerous temptation to a certain type of boys.He had recently asked a student if he thought the closing of the bars would make any difference to the College and had been surprised by the earnestness of the reply, which was to the effect that it would make a very great difference.There was marked applause when the speaker said that Principal Trueman, in a recent letter, bad written that he would come from New York to caet his ballot for no-license.Rev.J.H.Hepburn, Rector of Christ Church, was the next speaker.Mr, Hepburn referred to the good work of the Union, as well as to the intricacies of the drink question.Opinions differed as to ways of handling the problem, but he could, by no manner of means, be induced to support liquor.Mr.J.C.Holland, the next speaker referred to the spread of the no-li- cense movement in Ontario and Quebec and expressed the thought that Stanstead County had stood still too long.While the no-license wave was sweeping other sections of the country Stanstead had waited until an acutal extension of the license area was threatened.Unless the people of this county were ready to admit their intellectual inferiority they should get into line with other enlighted communities and banish the booze.Rock Island\u2019s name had been dragged in the mud until the place was held in disrepute in many sections.Who has gained by it?asked the speaker.Is it not time for a change?Even if whiskey had to be eold, if it could not possibly be banished, he could not see why it should be sold in hotels.It was an element calculated to disturb and could by no possibility add to the peace and comfort of those depend- | ent upon hotels for food and shelter.The patrons of the hotels had no share whatever in the profits of the bars, although the hotel men tried to make them think they did; the charges of the license hotels were just as high as the charges of the no-license hotels, for the same accommodation.Rev.T.Anson Balpenny, pastor of Centenary Methodist Churob, Stan- stead, reviewed the situation in Stan- stead County concisely, clearly and earnestly.His was an eloquent campaign address.Mra, Ellen O.Rugg was the principal speaker of the evening.At the opening ot her address she said that one of the previous speakers had sounded a note of pessimiem; he was disappointed because Stanstead did not appear to be leading.Stanstead had always been a pioneer.The first Union formed in Canada was organized at tbe home of Mrs.Charles Pierce by Frances Willard in 1877.In 1888 other Unions were formed in Canada.The first bill for the probi- bition of the liquor traffic in Canada was championed by the late Hon.C.C.Colby in one of the most eloquent and forceful addresses ever heard in the House of Commons.The Dominion Plebiscite was in 1808 The Scott Act wave had rolled over the provinces leading up to National Prohibition.Sir Wiltrid Laurier promised that if the Pleblsoite carried in favor of Prohibition he would give a National law embodying it.The Plebiscite did carry for Prohibition by as large majority as had elected Sir Wilfrid to power.Bat he eald it was not large enough and would not give the law.In that contest Stanstead was the banner county giving 1200 majority for Prohibition.The failure to secure any result in legislation from that contest di-couraged probibitioniste.Another setback was the report of the \u201cCommittee of Fifty,\u201d men, who from their personalities commanded respect, who at their own expense toured the United States, Canada and Europe collecting statistics concerning the liquor laws and results and who reported adversely to Prohibition And in favor of Government control.Thelr dictum was: \u2018The elimination of private profit from the sale is the solution of the liguor problem.\u201d The South Oarolina Dispensary was one form of \u201cGovernment control.\u201d It wad on trial not only for that state bat for the whole South.° And so the nineteenth century closed in darkness to prohibitionists.Bas the twentieth century ushered ina new day.The Dispensary died and \u201cState Prohibition\u201d was the cry adopted by nearly all the Southern States.They voted it in and it has remained.Those who have read Mr.Skinner\u2019s letter giving account of his tour through those states have seen that prohibition does prohibit, that alcohol and drunkenness are absent and the temperance hotels are just as good in every respect as licensed hotels of the same price.In the province of Quebec the Roman Catholic church has done a great work in abolishing the bar so that 75 per ot.of the municipalities are under local option.Ontario and the other provinces are going on toward victory.\u2018 The uprising in Stanstead County is timely.It is something more than à Scott Act campaign.It is part ofa continental movementw The President of the National W.O.T.U., Mrs.L.M.N.Stevens has sounded the war ory, \u2018National Prohibition in the United States in 1920.\u201d Various denominations of the Obristian Uhorch arecatching up the slogan and endorsing it.The Y, M.C.A.and Temperance societies are pledging temselves to it.\u2018Soon the movernent will be continent'wide and the vast Prohibition forces pointing their energies in that direction.It is for this that Stanstead County is girding on its armor and the result will not be doubtful.; Mrs.Rugg gave two snatches from Rechabite songs which were both interesting and amusing.Sparkling and bright in its liquid light Is the water in our glasses; \"Twill give you health.\u2018twill give you wealth, Yel and rosy lasses.O then resign the ruby wine, Each smiling son and daughter, For there's nothing so good for the youthful 00! Or sweet as the sparkling water.For drinking brandy-sling, O what a foolish thing! It destroys the finest fooling, It sets a man a reeling, O, a great deal warse than stealing, This drinking brandy -sling.It will take the roofs from your houses, Bell all your sheeps and cowses, Put patches on to your trouses This drinking brandy-sling.Miss Robinson presided at the organ Mrs.Jennie Rugg Sangster of Sherbrooke rendered a piano solo most acceptably; Mrs.C.W.Wells sang a familiar bymn, \u201cThe son of God Goes Forth to war,\u201d with organ accompaniment; and Miss Irma Moulton sang a sacred solo, these numbers intervening between the speakers.ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.The Methodist Church, Beebe, is to have a new pipe organ.One-half the cost will be paid by Andrew Carnegie.The Rain or Shine Club of Judd\u2019s Mills will meet for dinner at the home of Mrs.Pardon Baldwin, Thureday, Jan.29th.Invitations have been issued for a charity ball in aid of the Sherbrooke Protestant Hospital to be held in K.C.Hall, 18 Gordon, St., Sherbrooke, Thursday evening, Jan.20th.Encouraging reports continne to come from Uoaticook in connection with the county campaign for no-li- cense.The Roman Catholic clergymen there are taking hold of the work in earnest.Assist the Busy Business Men in the no-license campaign; have a share in the work which has been undertaken for the general good of the people.Banish the saloon and protect the boys.Rev.A.E.Pates, pastor of the Methodist Church, Knowlton, died Sunday afternoon, after an illness of about a week.The previous Sunday he conducted services at Knowlton in the morning and at Brill\u2019s, bis West Bolton appointment, in the afternoon.Speaking in a temperature of only 40° at the latter place proved too mach for the preacher he contracted a cold which developed into pleurisy, then pneumonia.Mr.Pates was born on the Isle of Wight forty-eight years ago and came to Canada in 1898.Before coming to Knowlton he preached at Little Metis, Richmond, Lachine and Montreal.For several days after the June, 1918 Conference, Mr.Pates was in Stanstead aselsting Mr.Hal- penny on Conference work, and was bere again in November, preaching at Centenary Methodist Church, in exchange with the pastor.Drunkenness expels reason, Drowus the memory, Distempers the body, Detaces beauty, Diminishes strength, Inflames the blood, Causes external and incurable wounds, It's a witch to the senses; A devil to the soul; A thief to the purse; A beggar\u2019s companion; A wile\u2019s woe and child\u2019s sorrow.It makes man become a beast and self- murderer.He drinks to other\u2019a good health, And robs himee!f of his own.CARD OF THANKS.I have not power of language to express my gratitude for the kindness and tboughtfulness wbich prompted the sending such beautiful gifte on my 94th birthday.JENNIE RAY.BORN.MOULTON\u2014At Massawippi, Jan.29, 1014, a daughter to Mr.and Mrs.Carl Moulton.: ST.LAURENT\u2014At Massawipp! , Jan.20, 1914, a daughter to Mr.and Mrs.8%.Laurent.STATE OF OH10, OITY OF TOLEDO, { = Lucas T ° Y.FRANK J.CHENEY makes oath that he is sen- for partner of the firm of F', J.CHENEY & Co.doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and t at said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE.FRANK.J CHENEY, Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A.D.1886.A.W.GLEASON, {omar | Notary Public.Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.Bend for testimonials, free, .F.J.CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Bold b; druggluts, 73c.Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.OST-Between the residences of Chas.R Jenkins and J.M.Phelan, January 16th, a string of Gold Beads.Finder will please report at the JOURNAL office.dstf RANGE FOR SALE.\" I have a practically New Glenwood Range that 1 wish to sell.Anybody needing a good, reliable cook atove can buy this one right.W.H.KIKKLAND, 4512 Derby Line, Vt.DRY BLOCK WOOD.I have some good Dry Block Wood for sale.If you are in nesd, see George T.Ames at his garage at Derby Line.MARSHALL L.AMES, 454 Holland, Vt.WANTED Cedar Fence Posts and Rough Pulp Wood wanted; posts delivered at rallway, puip at mill, Rock Island.Inquire of Three Villages Bullding Association, Huck Island, B.B.MOKRILL, Secretary.TAILOR WANTED.Good opening for a tailor at once.For particulars write to P.O.box 19, Richford, Vt.FOR SALE.\\ Farm of 25 es, with house and barn, at Smith's Mills.nd under good state of eul- tivation.Part of purchase price may remain on property.Apply to, 17t J.A.TILTON, Stanstead, Que.L.O03T\u2014Between Beebe and Rock Island, an old black Hand Bag, with a brown wallet several dollars.Finder will be well y returning same to the JOURNAL contalnin rewarded Office.FOR SALE.25 ft.Cypress Hull, all mahogany finish.Shanl sell this immediately at a bargain.Call sndIw ve you particulars.Bie YR WORTHEN, Beebe, HOUSE FOR SALE.New house, built only six years ago, good wood shed, hen coop, pig pen, wood bara, large iece of land for garden.Apply to P MRS.FRANÇOIS CLOUTIER.ot Stanstead Plain, Que.Ifyou have Eye Troubles Headaches, Blurred Vision, or and Difficulty of that nature, do not delay until the disorder becomes chronle, consult Dr.A.W.DuBois AT THE DERBY LINE HOTEL January 27, 28, 29 and 30.Consultation avd advice free; eyea properly fitted at moderate charges.Public notice is hereby given that, under the Quebec Companies\u2019 Act, letters patent have been issued by the Lieutenant Governor of the province of Quebec, bearing date the 15th day of December, 1913, incorporating Messrs.Jay Howard Turner, manufacturer, Harry Brown Stewart, gentleman, Henry Gunn Kerwin, banker, of Beebe, Que., Wesley Wilder Réed, mill owner, Reed\u2019s Crosning, Que., Thom Lewis Turner, Laborer, Beebe, Que., for the following purposes; To acquire and take over the assets and goodwill of the Jnsnafacturing business now carried on by Jay Howard Turner, Beebe, ue, To import, manufacture, buy and sell all kinds of garments, wearing apparel, clothing, furnishings, fancy goods and kindred articles.To import, buy and sell all kinda of raw materials entering into the manufacture of these goods.To buy, sell and deal in by partial payments or payments in fall in Canadian or American Rallway or Industrial stocks or bonds, and to pledge the certificates for same with any bank, rust, company or broker.To do all such things that are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above ob- Jrcts or any of them, under the name of \u2018The nag Proof Company, Limited,\u201d with a capital stock of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), divided into four hundred (400) shares of fifty dollars (350.00) each.The principal place of business of the corporation will be at Beebe, in the county of tanstead, P.Q.Dated from the office of the Provincial secretary, this 15th day of December, 1018.C.J.BIMARD 44 Deputy Provincial Secretary.WORLD WIDE.Canada\u2019s Leading Literary Review \u201cWorld Wide\" ts a choice eekly, selection of articles and cartoons reproduced from lead: ing Journals and Reviews reflecting the current thought of the Old and New World To the busy man who wishes to keepin touch with the Worlds great events \"World Wide\" is invaluable.Trained experts select for him the really best articles of the week from the Worlds best publications.Almost every arti: die you wish to keep or send to a friend, \u201cWorld Wide,\" started twelve years ago, has found its place on the study table.Preachers, teachers, writers, and thinkers feperaily hail it as a most welcome compan: on.As a plewant tonic\u2014a stimulant to the mind\u2014\"World Wide\" has no peer at the price, no equal among the journaia of the day.As someone has said, \u201cWorld Wide\u201d {a a feast of reason\u2014an iftellectual treat,\u201d Principal Peterson, LL.D., McGill University, Montreal, says: \u201cI am sure \u2018World Wide' oughs to havea highly prosperous career before it.\u201d President Trotter, D.D., of Acadia University, N.B,, says: *1 Jnok eagerly for your weekly sollection of d things, and recommend the paper warm.y to my friends.\u201d * rofessor H.Rhodes, West River, N.B., nave: \u201cWorld Wide' is à delight to me.Read every word.\u201d 8.E Dawson, Litt.D., Ottaa.says: \u201c1 take à good many papers, but \u2018World Wide\u2019 is the only one which I read without GALL, & SON, skipping.\u201d **'World Wide\u2019 1s wonderfully well edited\u201d \u2014 Joseph Ryan.Notary, Cranbrook, B.C.Almost every article in almost every issua you feel you would like to put away amon oar Srensures.\u201d\u2014Editor, \u201cTelegraph,\u201d Wel- and, .\u201cPermit me to add one more appreciation from the Far West.\u2018World Wide\" w a mine of information.Good to have, hard to do without.\" \u2014Jno.Nicholls, Editor *'Sun.\u201d Gren: fell, Sank.On trial tn New Subacribers\u2014Three_montha for only 22 gents: Twelve months for only Hw ular rate, 41.50.Worl Wide\" ta published by JOHN DOU: \u2018Witness Block, Montreal, \u20ac FARM WANTED.I want to rent a farm on shares or outri and would take possession as soon ss Address \u201cFarmen\u201d Box R, JOURNAL Rock Island, Qu ® FARM FOR SALE The farm known as the J.cob Worth pla situated ou House Hill.about one mile Nor of the village of Heebe.Will be sold in part or the whole to suit Borohaser.HARLES E.HASELTON, oott que.hs, le.Office.e.wt FOR-SALE.Seventy-flve tons of nice hay on th« Young Farm in the Village of Stauatead Plain.Enquire on the prémises or of John Young.New port, Vermont.42! LOST Ou the road betwen Brown's Hill and Newport, a brown leather suit case with initials BR.W.un eud.Cuntained gymnasium suits, shoes, % Reward offered.Finder please notify Charles Wilcox, Ayoc's CH, Que.42tf PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given, that in accordance with Section Eight «.f Chapter One Hun dred and Fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of Canada.(The Canada Temperance Act) a etition embodying the xigratures of one- ourth of all the electora of Stanstead County.as required by the said Act.will be deposited in the Registry Office of the Registration Division, Cuaticook on the 28rd day of January instant, where the same will remain open for public inspection for a period of ten days from said date.F.WILLIAMS, Hee.No License League, Stanstead County.LUMBER We can supp!y from the Elwood Burbank mill, at Corliss, Barnston townsbip, Dimension Timber, Boards and Shingles, and make delivery at any point.The location is particularly convenient to Lake Massawippi pointe.For particulars address MERRILL & RAYMOND, Smith\u2019s Mills, Que.Or apply direct to lwood Burbank, Barnston.* 44w2 ESTRAY.Came into the enclosure of the undersigned .during the latter part of the summer a red snd white yearlipg heifer.Owner oan have ame 27 provine Proper RE CH PSON Cassville, Dec, 15, 1918.FOR SERVICE.White Chester Boar.FOR SALE.White Ash Lumber from 1 inch to 8 inch thick.Also Bry Bre Wood.E ant R.D.1, Derby Line, Vt.WARNING Sliding on the Plain and Foundry bills is strictly prohibited.Offenders will be sub: to flue for infraction of the municipal by-law which prohibits sliding on the highways named.48tf By Order of the Mayor.SCIENTIFIC WATCH REPAIRING and Engraving, Mail orders a specialty.Agent Stanley Motor Car Co, Newton, Mass.W.HIGHT, Sutton.Que.Stitchers Wanted Experienced and inexperienced girls will find steady and profitable employment.MONARCH SHIRT CO., Rock Island, Que.LOUIS HUCKINS CONTRACTOR and BUILDER Drawings and Specifications of any style or kind of a building in any kind of material, Wood, Brick, Cement or Steel.Rock Island, Derby Line If you want a Lake Cottage, Residence, Business or Public Building, see me.H.C.WILSON & SONS, Limited 60TH YEAR Tbe most up-to-date musical establishment in Eastern Canada.Bole agency for Ohickering & Sons Pianos, Pianos, Weber Pianos, recommend.Heintzman & Co.Pianos, Wilson Milton Pianos of New York, and others that we can Estey and Wilson Organs.The famous Heintzman & Co.Player- Pianos.The New York Autopianos and Wilson Player-Pianos.Band and Orchestral ¢ Instruments.Victor Talking Machine, $19.50 to 8250.00.Large stock of re rent.Artistic Taning and Repairing.Bargains in second-hand Pianos an Head Office and NEW WILSON BUILDING, $20.00 to $250.00.Edison Phonographs, cords for both instruments.Pianos to d Organs.Write us for list.Piano Salesroom SHERBROOKE, QUE.BRANCH STORES: Magog\u2014Rock Island.Prevent ana Cure ROUP coibs Don\u2019t let roup wipe out your birds and your profits.se Pratis Roup Pills or Powder.25e, k0c, and $1.00, Remedy 2 = VS It purifies the system and not only prevents but cures roup, eolds, fever, eatarrh, diph- © theria, T Yo 320 ete.Toinsure perfectly healthy strong, husky layers, add to the Poultry Regulator Fez t=, ss.$1.0.Refuse substitutes; insist on Pratts.Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back, 356 Get Pratte 160 Page Illustrated Poultry Book.Sold and Guaranteed by Caswell & O'R ourke Store Co., Derby Line, Vt.4006.\"VERMONT AND QUEBEC FARMS No.807.Canadian farm of 20 acres, 2 miles to North Hatley which is a railroad village, where there are stores, school and churches.district school.Cream good trees and 40 young trees.little rolling and free from stone.Only :5 mile to On main road, near neighbors, and can have telephone.Run- as.| ning water at house and barn.taken at door.Fruit orchard of 40 Will winter 12 head.Good loam soil, smooth, Page fences in good condition.house, 26x28, with ell 17x27, painted.Cement foundation.Oellar.115 story 4 rooms and pantry on first floor, 83 rooms, 1 closet and hall on second floor.All - rooms finished in natural wood.Furnace.Piazza.Blinde, screens and storm windows.Old style atock barn, 30x40, and 28x30.Basement used for stock.Horse barn 28x30.Has 4 stalls.barn.Lean-to 16x28.2 cows, 1 horse, 1 hog and 40 hens.is a good location for market gardeni is 8 summer resort.Price 22,500.Hen house for 1000 hens.Basement.Carriage house in main Will sell with this farm Ail hay, grain and some potatoes.This ng, being near North Hatley, which SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE.\u20ac.J.Oben & Co.Exchange Block, Our local agent for Quebec ReäT Estate i Newport, Vermont.8 Mr.E.G.Davidson, Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Que S HE Can.dry it tor a year.THE ALOON IS THE ecruiting OF.tation LL EE Business and Professional Oards.J.C.COLBY, B.A, M.D.Qffice a+ Carrollcroft, Stanstead.Consultations 9 to 10 à.m., 7 to 8 p.m., and by .appoilntment.both 'Phones.The Relation of Saloons to Insanity Filmore Condit in National Ford Magazine DR.C.L.BROWN, B.A.Physician and Surgeon, Ayer's Cif, Que.People\u2019s \"Phone.DR.H.P.STOCKWELL, .Stanstead Rlain, Que.Office and BAT Tai ee DR.GEO.F.WALDRON.Office and residence oppoaite the Haskell Place.Office Hours: Until 9 A.M., ! to 8 and 7 to 8 P.u.People's and Beli Telephones.C.|.MOULTON, L.D.8, Den tist, Stanstead Plain, Que.SYDNEY A.MEADE, Provincial Land Surveyor, Coaticook, Que.M.A.CASS, Undertaker Plates Engraved when wapted.Fitch Bay, Que.CHARLES E.BENNETT, Designer of Buildings, Machinery.Furniture, Gardenin Derby Line Ve.Consultation and Supertntendence.J.J.UNDERWOOD, Mason and Plasterer, General Coniractor.Stanstead, Que.EDWARD AUDINWOOD, Undertaker & Embalmer, Derby Line, Vt., and Buck Island, P.Q.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College.Office at Lee Farm, Rock Island, Que.U.8.P.0.Address: Derby Line, Vermont.WILBUR A, REYNOLDS, D.D.S., 288 Newbury 8t., Boston, Masa.R.C.ROSS, B.A.M.D., C.M,, \u201c Office, at residence of the late 0 McDuffeo.Bell and People's Telephones.H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.U.8.P.O.Address: Derby Line, Vt.M.F.HACKETT, Advocate, Solicitor, &c., Stanstead Plain, Que.Will attend all courts in the District.Collections a specialty.AYER'S CLIFF.The W.C.T.U.social held at the home of Mr.and Mrs.F.A.Johnston on Wednesday evening of last week was an entire success, there being a very good attendance in spite of the extremely cold weather.The excellent program \u2018included instrumental music by Mr.and Mrs.Johnston and Mies Hazel Dustin, a recitation by Mies Elsie Robinson, song by Mrs.Johnston, and selections from the phonograph, among which was a record made by Mr.Johnston, welcoming the guests, giving some facts and suggestions regarding the temperance campaign going on in our county and relating some anecdotes which seo pleased his audience that it had to be repeated.Altogether a very pleasant and profitable evening was spent, for, as Rev.O.Moore said in a short address later, \u2018Mr.and Mrs.Johnston are an ideal host and hostess, and we always go home from an evening in their home, feeling that we are the better for it.\u201d A Lodge of the Royal Templars of Temperance is being organized in our village by Mr.Mauchlan, grand organizer, who gave a very interesting address at the church on Friday evening.The parsonage is quarantined for acarlet fever, Master Ross Moore having a light case of it.The Ladies Aid will be entertained by Mrs.G.W.Woodard on Thursday, Jan, 27th.A welcome to all.Mr.D.E.Seymour and Miss Seymour of Sherbrooke were guests over Sunday and Monday of Mr.and Mrs.A.A.Drew.Mr.Fred Carleton of Sherbrooke was home for the week-end.Miss Flora Buck left on Monday for Sherbrooke, where she has accepted a position as stenographer for a time.Mrs.H.G.Berry isso much improved in health as to be able to visit triends at Brown\u2019s Hill.It is reported that Mr.A.E, Hard has purchased of Mr.A.E.Fish the corner store and adjoining buildings including the carriage shop recently occupied by Mr.W.E.Hurd.Mr.E.H.Whitcomb is closing out his store business, and offering great bargains for the next ten days.Mr.and Mrs.E.L.Parkhill visited at A.A.Drew\u2019s on Thursday.WAY'S MILLS.Mr.and Mrs.George Dustin of Maple Heights, Hatley, were week- ond visitors at the home of F.O.Daniels.Mr.and Mrs.W.Horn and Mrs.F.D.Gilbert are visiting relatives in Danham.Mrs.J.Howe and Mrs.E.Olement of Rock Island are guests at E.J.Gilbert's.Mise Muriel Buckland, oldest daugh- fbr of P.B.Buckland, is to be married Thursday of this week at her home here.Miss Mildred Buckland, our school teacher, is spending the week at her home, her place is being filled in the 80 hool by Miss Rose Horn.The Quebec Bank opened a branch & t Lennoxville Monday, Jan.10th, Ina previous article Mr.Condit produced the highest expert testimony proving pathologically that aloohol is a most potent, cause of insanity.1.Directly in thedrinker.\u20183.Hereditarily in his offspring.8.Indirectly as a contributory cause.Have Saloons Caused Insanilyf?\u2014Has Restrictive Liquor Legislation Diminished It?When we considered the financial resources of the liquor interests, their efforts to mislead public opinion, and the unintended effect of existing interstate commerce laws in lending the power and authority of the national government to the liquor interests in evading, violating, defying and nullifying state and municipal control of the liquor traffic; when we remember all this, it would not be strange if all the efforts to reduce dscape liquor consumption and resulting insanity had failed.What are the facts?Let us contrast recent hospital © reports from distinctly license states with others from states where public opinion and legislative enactment bave made radical reductiod in the sale of intoxicants: Manhattan Hospital, New York; Stockton, Cal.; Farn- huret, Del.; Northern and Mendota, Wis.; State, Nev.; Springfleld, M4.; Worcester, Tewksbury, Bridgewater and Taunton, Mass.; Overbrook, N.J., and Norwich, Conn.Reports from these liquor-using states show that of cases of insanity where the causes were known, 26.9 per cent were caused by alcobol.From the following states where liquor is largely excludéd: Eastern and State Hospital, Me.; Osawatomie, Topeka and State Hospital, Kan.; Eastern, Miss.; Morganton, N.O., and North Texas, Tex.We find their reports show, that of cases where the causes were known, only 5.9 per cent were caused by alcohol (and even this 5.9 per cent largely due to the surreptitious use of spirits\u2014Ed.).The Census Bureau reports that there was on January 1, 1910, in our hospitals, one insane patient, not including epileptics, for every 490 of our entire population.That while other factors besides alcohol probably affected, to some extent, the relative proportion of insanity in the various states, legislative policy regarding the sale of intoxicants overshadows all others, is indicated by the report.Case of Insanity Population Maine.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.1 590 New Hampshire.1 473 Rhode Island.1 436 Vermont.1 379 Connecticat.1 311 Massachusetts.1 200 The entire eight states having statewide prohibitory law\u2014Maine, Kaneas, North Dakota, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and North Carolina, had 15,806 cases of insanity in a total population of 13,805,821, or one to every 873 people as compared with one to 490 in our entire nation.Turning to the Northern Central group of states, we find Wisconsin, singular, distinct, conspicuous, in having many more insane in proportion to population than any of its neighbors.Why is it?Wisconsin had 1 to every 376 people Michigan \u201c 1 6 419 « Illinois \u201c1 437 ss Ohio \u201c 1 oe 49 u Indiana 1 s 609 * Why has Wisconsin an unusual proportion of insane?Its soil is fertile, its induetries prosperous, and it bas no unusual congestion of population in great cities.Is there any other explanation than that it has more saloons in proportion to population than its neighbors, that it has\\not kept pace with enlightened public sentiment, that only three states in our country have eo many saloons per capita.The beer said to have made Milwaukee famons, seems to have made Wis- CRYSTAL HEIGHTS.Mrs.Cart.Stoliker, who has been sick at the home of her sister, Mrs.Bert Mayhew of Magog during the past week, is much better.Mr.James Webster and family have moved into the Ralph Cass house for a short time.Much sympathy is felt for Mr.John Heath and child, who are reported to be very ill.Mr.and Mrs.L.L.Gustin spent Sunday at the home of Mr.and Mrs.T.W.Keet.Master Willie Keot and Mrs.L.N.Keet were recent guests of Mr, and Mrs.L.L.Gustin of Brown\u2019s Hill.Mr.Lewis Rexford was through here to-day buying cattle.Mr.Glen Flanders is in the place with his gasoline machine sawing wood for Mr.Ourt.Stoliker and Mr.Still- man Keet, who can well recommend him as being a hustler.IN MEMORIAM.In loving memory of Mrs.Stillman Knowlton, who departed this life on January 14, 1918.\u2018\u2018Gone but not forgotten.\u201d oconsin\u2019s insanity pitiable.Passing to the Mountain Group of states; we find Nevada had one case of insanity to every 316 people, an compared to one to 490 in our nation, and one to every 762 in the other seven states of its group.It has neither great cities nor excess of people of foreign birth.There is one sufficient explanation, one liquor store for every fifty-three people or more probably than in any other part of the Anglo-Saxon world.On tbe Pacific Coast we find California having one insane wreck for every 356 people, & much larger proportion than in the entire nation or the other Pacific states.Why?A land of wheat and fruit and gold and oil, of varied industries and rich natural resources, a land where labor is usually in demand and living may always be inexpensive.One explanation stands above all others.According to -the Internal Revenue Department, California has one retail liquor dealer for every 150 people, rankipg in this next to Nevada.New York Especially Insane.Crossing the continent, we find New York state, with a population of 9,113, 000 people had 31,265 cases of insanity as compared with 31,734 in all the fit- teen Southern and Southwestern states, Kentuckey, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, baving an aggregate population of 27,886,000 people.Other causes beside alcohol may affect ratios of insanity, but there is none in New York so vital, none equal in importance to the great fact that public opinion has permitted about 12,000 more dealers in alcoholic intoxicants to do business in New York State than in all the fifteen states of the South and Southwest The relation between alcobolism and insanity so evident in our nation, is also apparent across the sea.Until recently, no important advance in restrictive excise legislation had been gained in Great Britain.The per capita consumption of alcohol in various forms in the United Kingdom is now about 30 per cent greater than in our country.They have one case of insänity for every 357 people as compared to one to 490 here.Besides those technically insane, Great Britain has a vast army of epileptics and other mentally infirm people.The Royal Commission on Feeble Minded, reported in 1908, that there were at least 350,000 mentally diseased and mentally helpless, non-producing, dependent people in the United Kingdom.Doctor Clouston estimates the number to be in excess of 400,000 in a population much less than half that of our nation.Alcoholism causes insanity.Saloons foster and produce alcoholism, The fatal relation between them should be known by all men.To favor and defend ealoons is to favor and defend the increase of insanity.Surely, whoever would knowingly consent to the increase of insanity is unworthy of the respect of thinking men, of the blessings of civilization or the mercy of God.A Japanese friend was asked one day the meaning of their word Banzai, whether it ment the same as our Hurrah! \u201cAh, more, far more than that,\u201d he eaid, \u2018it means hurrah, burrah, for a thousand years.\u2019 When the people of each of our states and all our nation shall regard a bigh rate of insanity as disgraceful, when all shall unite against ite greatest cause then will have come a time of lasting joy for all who have sympathy for weak and tempted men.\u201cIt is not the will of your Heavenly Father that one of these little ones should perish.\u201d NORTH STANSTEAD.Mr.Caldwell and Mrs.Bachelder of Dufferin Avenue, and Mr.and Mrs.R.Harris of Beebe were recent guests at G.W.Schoolcraft\u2019s.Mr.and Mrs.Ralph Libby and child of Cassville were guests Friday at R.D.Byers\u2019.Misses Maria and Agnes Smith were guests at A.E.Curtis\u2019 Friday.Miss Annie MoNally was in Montreal this week.Geo.Goodsell of Waterville is visiting at his father\u2019s.DEMICK'S MILLS.The Ladies Aid of Demick\u2019s Mills mes with Mre.Eimere Smith, Jan.16th, for dinner.Number present 42; proceeds $5.40.The next meeting will be a union of the Ladies Aid of the A.C.Church, Demick\u2019s Miils, and the Ladies Aid of the M.E.Church, Rumery, Jan.28th, 1914.Everybody weloome.Mrs.Samuel Mitchell and little daughter, Leta, of Orleans, Vt., are visiting her sister, Mrs.Elmere Smith.Holland, to be held with Mrs.George GEORGEVILLE.Dr.Ernest King of Quebec and Miss Lillian King of Montreal were called here this week on account of the serious illness of Col.King, who sustained a fracture of the hip last Thursday.Hoe is attended by Dr.Bowen of Magog.Mr.and Mrs.J.D.Olark and dangh- ter of Lennoxville were guests of W.N.Ives this week.The lake has frozen across and provides & natural skating rink for old and young.Mrs.Davidson will entertain the Ladies Guild on Thursday, the 20th.Mr.and Mrs.N.Heath have moved to their farm at Fitch Bay for the winter, Mr.\u2018and Mrs.Davideon spent the week-end in Sherbrooke and North Hatley, being guests of Mr.and Mrs.J.Sampson at North Hatley.Miss Rolland of Montreal is the guest of Mrs.Routledge.Mr.A.Routledge bas returned to Bishop's College, Lennoxville, after a vacation at his home here.Mr.J.A.gnd Miss Vera Davidson spent Monday and Tuesday in Sherbrooke, and while there saw Miss Margaret Anglin, in \u201cAs You Like It,\u201d at His Majesty\u2019s Theatre.MAPLE VALLEY.\u2018 Mr.R.O.Flanders is confined to hie bed at this writing.Miss Iva Mosher has returned home from \u201cTanglewood,\u201d where she has been working a couple of weeks for Mrs.W.E.Peasley.On Monday a bee was held for the purpose of getting wood for the Advent Church.Mr.O.B.Flanders gave the wood.Those who attended the bee wére Messrs.Charles Brown, William Minor, Jasper Lewis, Bert Young, Mr.Meigs and O.B.Flanders.Mr.and Mrs.Bert Young went to Boynton Tuesday on business.Mrs.Sprague is working for Mrs.R.O.Flanders.DUFFERIN AVENUE.The Ladies of the Helping Hand met with Mrs.8.E.Abbott on Thursday, January 16th.Eight members and a number of visitors were present and a very pleasant afternoon was enjoyed by all.The next meeting to be gentlemen\u2019s night, Friday, Feb.6th, at the home of Mrs.W.A.Abbott.Miss Smith and Miss Agnes Smith were guests of Miss Bessie Curtis on Friday.Miss Cooke, who has been the guest of Mr.and Mrs.Fred Thomas the past week, returned to her home in Sutton on Tuesday.A PITIFUL CONDITION.The following extract is taken from a private letter dated Jan.14th.\u201cYou might be interested to know of à case in our town, \u201cA man working for $1.52 per day, with family of three children (and wife soon to be confined) was suddenly injured in the mill where he was employed and was taken to the Sherbrooke Hospital last night.\u201c\u2018An operation was performed in my presence and I can testify to the condition of his organs from alcohol.\u201cThere is no more food in the house than will supply the family for to-day, and not so much as a tea-kettle to heat water for the Doctor\u2019s use.In fact the Doctor, at midnight, fonnd them so cold that the children were gathered around the stove, and on account of the cold, he did not dare to expose the man for further examination at the house.\u201cAnother instance showing the terrible effects of the liquor traffic.\u2019 HOCKEY.The game of hockey between the College team and the Olympic 2nde, played Saturday evening at the rink, was one of the fast games.Every man showed himeelt a sport and played to win, and it was thoroughly enjoyed by about 150.Both being town teams the attendance would paturally be less, but those who staid away missed a fine game.The lineup: Olympic II Position 8.W.C, I Dorman G.Gordon Tilton P.Mullin McIntosh C.P.Costello Boucher R.Howard Smith O.Deane Telford RW.French LeBaron LW.Allard Referee: W.B.Frost.Timekeeper: V.Gobeille.At the end of two periods of 20 minutes the score wae 2 and 3.They then played periods of 5 minutes each way closing the game with the score 8 and 8.re A SOCK SOCIAL.A Uetle « sock » von give to yon, but not for you Please aie four > size by two and piace In pennies or in cents just twice the number hat you wear, we hope it ie immense, So 1e\u201d Jon wear à No.10 you owe us twenty Which dropped ped within the little sock will fill glee, \u2018Tis ally rs it is'nt much, and hardly any But f you only have one food we'll surely charge you double Now if Tones ave 8 a friend quite dear yon'd like h you Or if To A oe one who'd come we'll adly give you two, so at orget the date \u2018and place we'll an- awer when you knook, And welcome you with pren arms and we'll not forget the Sook.To be held at the home of R.D.Byers, on Thursday evening, Feb.§th, 1914.NEW COPARTNERSHIP HALL & CORDEAU TINSMITHS, PLUMBING, STEAMFITTING GENERAL REPAIRING .IN OUR LINE.We are both practical workmen and shall give all work our personal attention, and by doing good, thorough work promptly, we hope to secure a good line of customers, and get our share of the business.We have a well equipped, roomy shop in the Jondro block.Give us acall.Peoples Telephone.HALL & CORDEAU, Rock Island.\u2018PROVINCE OF QUEBEC Corporation of the County of Stanstead I do hereby give Public Notice that the lands hereinafter mentioned will be eold at Public Auction at the County Building, Ayer\u2019s Oliff, in the Town- sbip of Hatley, on Wednesday, the Fourth day of March next, (1014) at ten ock in the forenoon, for Assessments and charges due to the Muuicipali- ties for Municipal, School and other Taxes hereinafter mentioned upon the {anda hereinafter described, unless the same be paid with Costs, two days be- ore the Sale.MUNIOIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BARNSTON.Name.Cadastral Lot.Range.Acres.| Taxes.Estate William Wood 50 4 1 | 98.46 | MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BARNSTON.Densmoor Smith 4 9° 200 890.31 MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF HEREFORD.Louis Roy 21A &21B grd.100 | 827.63 Stanstead Plain, P.Q., 8th January, 1914.A.N.THOMPSON, Secretary-Treasurer of the County of Stanstead Big Sale of Enamelware RIDAY Morning, January 23rd, we are putting on sale some Enamelware just received.These @ Dishes are just what you want to fill in with.There are two lots, one of which we are selling for 5 cents each.Their real value is 10 and 15 cents.The other lot we are selling for 10 cents each, and are actually worth from 15 to 25 cents.See them in our window.Let us show you how far a nickel or dime will stretch.This sale starts Friday Morning and lasts two days, closing Saturday Night, January 24th.J.B.WATERMAN FIVE AND TEN CENT STORE WALDRON BLOCK, DERBY LINE, VT.\u2014\u2014 \u2014 The Gilman Store The January Clearance Sale is fast reducing the surplus stocks, because the prices are so very low.TAILORED SUITS 812.50 ones at $7.95, 816.00 ones at $8.95, $25.00 ones at 815.00 SEPARATE COATS AT EQUALLY AS GREAT REDUCTIONS FUR COATS $25.00 ones at $15.00, $35.00 ones at 820.00, 845.00 ones at $29.00, Better coats at even greater reductions, FUR SETS So many Japanese Mink Sets sold at the reduced prices that we have been able to take advantage of Manufacturer's loss on a lot of new sets this week.$32.50 and $35.00 Muffs or Neck Pieces now at $19.00.22.50 + 25.00 « \u201c \u201c ou 15.00.20.00 12.50.Cheaper Muffs and Neck Pieces from $1.25 up, and all at greatly reduced prices.ALL WOOL SERGE DRESSES 85.05 ones at 83.95.Better dresses at even greater reductions.SILK AND CHIFFON WAISTS\u20141 lot at 81.95, 1 lot at 82.95; have been priced from $3.95 to 85.95.White and colored Waists at 50c.that have been 79c., 81.25 and 81.50.MUSLIN UNDERWEAR\u2014at sale prices, that are just about }4 what the same goods will sell for this spring on account of the extremely high price of cottons.Flannelette Gowns, Pajamas, and Sleeping Suits for the women who want plenty of fresh air.$1.25 ones at 81.00, 81.50 ones at 81.25.Lot of 49c.Books at 35c.DRESS GOODS Bedford Cords, Suitings, etc.\u201c LJ \u201c \u201c\u201c Ll 500.ones at 330.à yard.Whipcord, 50c.\u201c + 250, + Crepe de Chine, 750.\u201c + 500, « Suitings, 66 in.wide, regularly 81.25, now at .69 \u201c \u201c \u201c \u201c .00, \u201c 50 Whi ord, 66 in, wide © 200, + 146 Silk Muslins, 25 « 215 French Flannel Waistings, 50 «\u201c« 29 Im.« \u201c 15 « 10 Corduroys are out still deeper, 100 « 69 \u201c .\u201c 39 Gauntlet and Fabric Gloves, regularly .69 now .36 Women Hose, 25 \u201c 3 Women's and Children's Fleeced Vests and Pants, 25 « 19 Children\u2019s Fleeced Union Suits, 50 «\u201c 39 New Chemisettes, 25, .50, .75 Hamburg Edge and Insertion, 734 and 100.ones, now 5c., 15 and 19e, ones, now 100., 25c.ones, now 15c., 35 and 400.ones now 20c.GILMAN & COMPANY, Néwport, Vt.a Blank Books at the Journal Office. TIN oe tern.* The Canadian Bank of Commerce Report of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting Tuesday, 13th of Shareholders January, 1914 The forty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Canadian Bank of Commerce was held in the banking house at Toronto to-day, 13th January, 1914, at 12 o'clock.The President, Sir Edmund Walker, having taken the chair, Mr.A.St L Trigge was appointed to act as Secretary and Messrs.Aemlilius Jarvis and Edward Cronyn were appointed Scrutineers.The President called upon the Secretary to read the Annual Report of the Directors,as follows: Report.The Directors bez to present to the Shareholders the forty-seventh Annual Report.covering the vear ending 29th November, 1913, together with the usual statement of Assets and Liabilities: The balance at credit of Profit and Loss Account brought forward from last year was .$ TT1,578 88 The net profits for the vear ending 29th November, after vroviding for all bad and doubtful debts, amounted to.8,893,951 10 $ 3,764,629 98 This has been appropriated as follows: Dividends Nos.104, 105, 106, and 107 at ten per cent, per annum .$ 1,600,000 00 Bonus of one per cent.payable 1st June .160,000 00 Bonus of one per cent.payable 1st Mecember.160,000 00 Written off Bank Premises .200000000000 500,000 00 Transferred to Pension Fund (annual contribu- ; tion) 00000000 vee 80,000 60 Transferred to Rest Account .RAA 1,000,000 00 Balance carried forward .384.629 98 \u2014\u2014 $ 3.764.529 938 In accordance with our usual practice the assets of the Bank hove again been carefully revalued and ample provision made for all bad and doubt- \u2018ul debts.The following branches were opened furing the year: In British Columbia: Comox, Courtenay, Pandora and Cook (Victoria), and Parksville; in Alberta: Highland, Monitor, Peace River Crossing, and Retlaw\u2019} In Saskatchewan: Kincaid.Rendlyn, Shaunavon, and Wiseton: In Manitoba: Kelvin Street (Winnipeæ); In Ontario: Oshawa and Port McNicoll: in Quebec: Upper Town (Quebec), and In New Brunawick: Campbellton, Moncton, and West St.John.The Bub-agencies mentfoned below have been made independent branches: Asbestos, Chambly, Clarenceville, Dunham, Iberviile, Lacolle, Roxton Falls, Stanbridge East, and Uppertown (Sherbrooke), all In the Province of Quebec.The branches at Stewart, R.C., Black Ike, Que.and St.Elizaheth, Que.have been closed and the.business of tMe branch at 867 Main Street South, Winnipee, has been transferred to the main office in Winninez.The business of the sub-agencies at Naramata, B.C., Beloell Station, Henryville, Lawrence- ville, St.Phillpne de Laprairie, St.Sebastien, Sweetsburg, and Upton, all fn the Province of Quebec, has been transferred to their respective parent branches.Since the close of the year branches have heen opened at St.Denis and Duluth (Montreal), Bath, N.B,, and Rristol, N.RB, Due notice has been received of the intention to nominate Mr.T.Harry Webb of Messrs.Webb, Read.Hegan, Callingham & Co.Montreal and Winnipeg, and Mr.James Marwick, C.A., of Messrs.Marwick, Mitchell, Peat & Co, Montreal, as Auditors of thix Rank under the provisions of sub-section 10 of section 88 of the Mank Act.The branches and encies of the Rank in Canada, the Tinited Siateq, Great Pritain, Newfoundland, and Mex- tco, and the departments of the Head Office have undergone the usual thorough Inspection during the year.The Directors wish aman tn express thelr appreciation of the efficiency and »eal *hown by the officars of the Bank in the performance of their duties.ALEXANDER LAIRD, Goneral Manager.! B.B.- President.Z.A.LASH, Vice-President.Toronto, 13th January, 1814.Before moving the adoption of the Report, the President called upon the Aeneral Manager to address the Shareholders: Genoral Manager's Address.Ye have closed our accounts for the ast year and have great pleasure and satisfaction In presenting you with a statement of the results of the Bank's business, which you will realize is the best record in its history, and should be a source of gratification to the Shareholders and those actively engaged In its administration.There \u201cas enough difficulty and perplexity In the general financial situation at the close of 1912 to make us apprehensive at the beginning of the rast year.Canadians had some reason to hope fur an early return to normal conditions, but wore doomed to disappointment, and the continuance of the unfavorable influences then evider.t, and the aggravation of some ol their worst features, has made the History of 1913 memorable in the annals cf International trade.While the year has been full of anxlety and much actual strain, there is cause for congratulation that, notwithstanding the long-deferred arrival of peace in continental Europe, the uncertainty as to hew the adjustment of immense war exrenditures will be made, and the diztressing delay in bringing order out of .:haos In unfortunate Mexico.the general position of financial credit has, on the whole, been fairly well maintained.In our own country we were seriously disturbed lest we should Have a failure of the crops, as this would certainly have added to' our difficulties, but we were fortunate in securing an abundant harvest of exceller.t quality.This was marketed with extraordinary celerity and re- allzed good values, which enabled us to make a substantial measure of liquidation of our debts and largely incrense our cash capital.Canada ls 80 clnsely allied with and Influenced by the movements of our neighbors to the south that there was great satisfaction when the radical and important measures Initiated under the recent change of administration were brought to a successful conclusion without any serlous disturbance in financlal affairs, Taken as a whole, and keeping in mind all the adverse conditions, the past year has been marked by astonishing evidence of strength to meet great emergencies.You wili readily see from the statements Included in the Report of the Directors that the Bank has had an- other satisfactory year in the matter GENERAL STATEMENT 20th November, 1918, LIABILITIES.Notes of the Bank in eireulation .Deposits not bearing interest .resessssaasns anus a -4'52,798,206 84 Deposits bearing interest, including interest accrued to date .vee Balances due to other Banks in Canada eee Balances due to Banks and Banking Correspondents elsewhere than in Canada .Rills payable .Acceptances under Letters of Credit 11111111 LL ace cause Dividends unpaid .Dividend No.107 and bonus, \u2018payable Jst \u2018December Capital pald up .RAA Rest .nanas ss000n 00000000 110000000000 0 00000000 192,818,716 24 683,237 12 10,071,816 73 8,615,787 65 1,941,644 19 \"++.140,015,509 40 3230,618,524 11 2,666 48 525,000 00 $16,000,000 00 SES 18,500,000 00 Balance of Profit and Loss Account carried forward ASSETS.» o 8 sesesesssssrsssacsssbertessirs oes 384,629 98 28,884,629 98 3260,030,720 67 Current Coin and Bullion .0.02$ 9,679,478 66 Dominion Notes .a\u2026+ruesossaece sua sa nas 0u000 .20,836,182 50 § 80,415,666 16 Balances due by Banks and Banking Correspondents elsewhere in Canada .Ralances due by other Banks in Canada Notes of other Banks .Cheques oR other Banks .ccecevennannes.Call and Short Loans in Canada on Bonds, Debentures and Stocks Call and Short Loans elsewhere than in Canada.Dominion and Provincial Government Securities .s.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.} 6884652 83 22,122 47 8,106,280 00 8,418,425 14 \u2026\u2026.\u2026.16,431,430 44 9,610,560 08 16,154,360 88 3,484,605 06 British, Foreign, and Colonial Public Securities and Canadian Municipal Securities .Railway and other Bonds, Debentures, .Deposit with the Minister for the purposes of the Circulation Fund .sus0n0s0a0sa0 300000000020 2 020000000020 00000500 2,481,989 71 .18,091,224 04 788,500 00 $ 97,808,316 14 and Stocks .Other Current Loans and Discounts iñ Canada (less rebate of interest) Other Current Loans and Discounts \u2018elsewhere than \u2018in Canada (less rebate of interest) .Overdue Debts (estimated loss provided\u2019 £1 J JPY 136,474,874 82 18,103,015 15 eevee 487,654 72 secs usecctensancuuss0 Real Estate (including the unsold balance of former premises of the Eastern Townships Bank) .c.cecessececccnsses 979,915 61 Mortgages on Real Estate sold by the Bank .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.0.488,607 33 kK Premises .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.+.0oo,scoosscc0000en [A 4,281,481 60 CP ASROÛS .0.00000000000s vevsencsecocesses 21,411 08 abilities of customers under Letters of Credit, as per contra.BB WALKER, President.2 A.LASH, Vise-President.1,941,644 19 $260,030,720 57 ALEXANDER LAIRD.$ 15,642,923 18° of profita After a very oareful revaluation of our sssets, making liberal allowances for depreciation in securities, and providing for all bad and doubtful debts, you will be pleased to know that the Directors remembered the staff, to whose faithful and gealous efforts our success is largely due.Before closing the books a substantial sum was set astde out of the year's earnings and distributed as a bonus, leaving the declared net pro- tits $3,993,961.10, being 10.88 per cent.on the Capital and Rest combined.We were enabled to pay dividends amounting to $1.800,000, including the usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent.per annum, and extra bonns dividends of 2 per cent.for tho year; and we have reason to hope that wa shall maintain this rate until the Rest equals the Capital, and thereafter make the permanent basis 12 per cent, with whatever advantage may come with extra good fortune.In our last Repcrt the urgent necessity for providing an extension of the.Head Office and Toronto Branch premises was referred to; and arrangements have since had to be made for the temporary accommodation of some departments cf the Eank outalde the present bullding.We are now pleased to say that we have purchased the two properties adjoining, and will proceed to consider plans, although we do not expect to make much pro- grees towards altering or erecting a building for two or three years.We have aoquired prorerty in Windsor, Ontario, where a suitable office bulld- ing will be erected during the coming year, and are also engaged in planning the erection of an adequate butlding tn the City of Quebec.In both these places it was absolutely necessary to provide for our growing business.Bank Premises account now stands at $4,281,481.60.and fn this connection we would direct your attention to the Îtem of $979,- 915.61 in the statement under Real Estate.This includes bank premises acquired by the amalgamation with the Eastern Townships Bank, which will be disposed of in due course at considerably more than the book value.With this sale and the sums from time to time written off Bank Premises we should be able to keep this account within reasonable bounds and still show our properties at approximately 60 rer cent.of their value.The enrolled members of the staff row number 3540, an addition of 544 during the year.In accordance with our plan of contributing to the Pen- son Fund, which includes provision \u2018er the widows crrhans, and other dependents of deceased employees, we have appropriated $80.000.It will interest you to know that the Pension Fund now stands at the magnificent sum of over $2,000,000.This, of course, includes the contributions of the members of the staff theraselves.This large amount has been placed in the hands of a Bonrd of Trustees charged with its administration for the benefit cf those who have given long and faithful service to the Bank.We are pleased to record our eppreclation of the able manner in which this trust has been exercised.A large portion of the amount has been invested in Western farm mortgages, and the whole fund is earning at the rate of about 64 per cent.rer annum.The Importance of making every reasonable effort to create a loyal and efficient staff cannot be too strongly emphas!zed, and your generous ald in the direction of strengthening the tles which bind its members perpetuates what is best In our service and ls creditable to the institution.The fund has been actuarially examined from time to time, and we belleve that it is on a sure and sound basis.We hope In the near future.with the accretions from well-invested funds, to increase the maximum pension, You will notice that ufter paving dividends, making appropriations for Bank Premises nnd Pension Fund, we transferred to the Rest account $1.- 000,000 ond carried forward a balance of $3%4.528.98 to Profit and Lnoss account.We reported $16,422,864 note circui~tirn in November, 1912, and reached a maximum of $16.545.225 in November, 1913, The lowest point.$12.522,000 occurred in May last.The early movement of the crops relieved the pressure hut we took advantag- of the emergency provisions of th~ Bank Act.and at the date of our statement we had $642,923 cireula- tion outstanding in excess of cour paid-up capital.Our deposits show a decrease of $4,803,746, but this i: accounted for by the adjustment of several large amounts which were held in special accounts, and the withdrawal of Provincial Governmer funds.The ordinary depdsits show an increase; current loans and discounts were $154,676,889, and call an.short loans $25,764,910, compared with $163,753,562 and $17,783,049 in our last Report.The total current luans were $180,341,800, a decrease of $1,104,80¢ for the year.We show an increasc of $9,595,701 in Government and other securities, and $2,:60.630 in cash, We think it advisable to give you an assurance that in the midst of the troubled and dangerous state of affairs in Mexico our interests are being safeguarded and every precaution exercised in handl'ng a difficult problem, Our Manager enjoys our full confidence and he has shown unusual ability and judzment under these trying circumstances.We deemed it prudent to restrict the opening of new branches to the carrying out in some measure of a program we had planned eurly in the year; and we consequently confined ourselves to districts where we had no representation, except _in some cases where we opened for the protection of other branches.The geon- graphical distribution of branches 1913, was as follows: Alberta .eeee ve.B3 British Columbia .44 Manitoba .sou.28 New Brunswick .b- Nova Scotia .eve eaves.13 Ontario .ent sovsvouceu.8 Prince Edward Island .56 \u2018Quebec .FA Saskatchewan Yukon .Total in Canada Newfoundland .London, England United States .Mexico ere reas0cs es0u 080000 Total number of branches.373 The number of the Banks Shareholders !s now 0,026, as against 6.686 General Manager.& year ago, An Increase of 870.The followiac table indicates how widely and agencies as at 30th November.| Shareholders are scattered, not ony in Canada,.but abroad: 6,026 ° $15,000,000 There has been a widespread agita- as to the supposed need for greater recognition of the claims of farmers to accommodation from the banks, but investigation does not support this contention, s0 far &s this Bank is concerned.A carefully prepared statement of the business of this Bank in the three Western Provinces showa the percentage of total deppsits to total loans in this district to be 55.55 per cent, which means that for every une dollar on deposit in these Prov- .nces we lend two.A compilation of the figures of the business of this Bank in Saskatchewan made at the request of the Royal Commission on Agricultural Credit appointed by the saskaschewan Government gave the percentage of farmers\u2019 loans to farmers\u2019 deposits in this Province as 278.29 per cent, while the percentage of farmers\u2019 loans to total deposits was 88.25 per cent.This means that for every dollar which the farmers of Saskatchewan have deposited with us we ave lent them nearly three.These facts should convince those interested in, this important subjec* that our farming customers have been grr -oronaly treated by us The decennial revision of the Bank Act was an important feature of the last session cf Parilament.A most searching examination and discussion of every rrvvr'vable phase of banking as it affects this country resulted in a measure evident'y framed with the object of meeting every reasonable requirement, and the Act ls generally regarded as a plece of unusually good legisiation.The most prominent of the new features are the provisions for the creation of a Centra! Gold Reserve, and the appointment of Aud!tors for the independent examination of banks.In viow of what has been accomplished :n spite of so many advetse influences and taking into account the natural disposition to look at the bright side of things after havinr passed throush a trying period, it is not easy to fcrecast what the coming year will bring.We are inciined tv the thought that with the correctior and adjustment of important matters now pending\u2014such as the settlement o! European pol!'tical and financial diff!- culties and the attempts to bring about a return of peace and prosperity to unhappy Mexico (an important factor in the situation)\u2014we shall see à revival of better conditions and our problems may be easily solved, W-¢ fear there will be a slow recovery.and great circumspection will be required before wo again sail in amooth waters.We are likely to have an accumulation of idle money in the financial centres, but this will probably not have any appreciable effect on rates for general business for some time to come, because of the depression In all first class securities anc the difficulty of disposing of the large amount awaiting a favorable market On the other hand, trade has heer prosperous and is fundamentally sound, and while considerable restriction must be expected.we are hopeful that the coming year will be one of reasonable prosperity.The President then sald: President's Address.At our last Annual Meeting for the first time we presented the information at our disposal regarding industrial conditions in Canada, and in the foreign countries in which we do business, in the form of an appendix to the ordinary Report to our Shareholders The advantage of presenting the views of our chief officers regarding the various districts directly to the Shareholders, instead of compressing them iniv the addresses of thc President or the General Manager, seemed clear, and we :hink the experiment has justified itself, and may be adopted hereafter.A year ago the ude of expunsion seemed still to be in flood, although in some quarters a check was either In plain sight or had here and there made itself felt.Money for certain purposes, notably in connection with real estate, Was not so easy to obtain as .u former years, yot little heed was apparently paid to the oft-repeated warn- \u2018ngs of bankers and others who tried to forecast the future, although at the end of the year we must conclude that, after ail, such warnings did have some beneficial effect.Clearly we have come through a time of difficulty in a most creditable manner, and we can look forward to the future cheerfully if the spirit of prudence which now characterizes our people remains unchanged at least until another goud crop has been marketed.Much of that part of our expansion which went toe, far reminds one of the, diseases through which the young have to pass.We are doubtless glad if they escape them entirely, but we have no reason to expect that they will be so fortunate.Some undue speculation in real estate, and some over-building in connection with public improvements, is inevitable amidst such astonishing growth and prosperity, and it would be foolish to expect anything else.We are now realizing more accurately the value of real estate, and through the process we are gaining an experience which is absolutely necessary to the foundations of a sound prosperity.The Western country os a whole will not again have to suffer from this particular allment of young communities.We have repeatedly deplored the fettering of the country by the high rent- charge which inflated real estate values impose, and the unfortunate effect of such a rent-charge on the cost of living, and if there is now to be a ! pause in the upward movement of val- {ues there will in any event be a corresponding gain to all landless peo- e Immigration has not yet been much checked by the curtailment of industry, indeed, except from the United States, there has been a large increase during the year.The British immigrants exceed in number the combined total of those from Europe and Asia, and very much exceed those from the United States.The largest increase as compared with the figures of previous fears, however, Is in the division which includes all countries $ except Great Britain and the United States.Here the Increase, December figures being estimated, is 82 per cent.From No.of Amoupt.- Shareholders\u2019 H Ontario .1,468 $4.077,860 Quebec .1,163 8,011,900 Maritime Provinoes 758 1,671,660 Zeters Provinces 126 58,700 reat Britain .1,738 3,815,650 United States .684 2,609,860 Other Countries .106 168,200 tion in the Central Western district \u2014\u2014\u2014_ , .Great ritmo the pater.4.29 cent, hi from the hcl Las there has been a decrease of 17 per cent.There is thus a total increase of 68 per cent., as against 13 per cent.in the previous year.The total number \u2018of immigrants, December figures again being estimated, was 417,709, as compared with 395,804, the revised figures for 1913.The total for 1913 is made up as follows: British, 156,873; United States, 115,805; all other countries, 145,031.These figures are again eloquent in explaining the conditions of our foreign trade, the total of which for the year ending March, 1918, passed the billion mark for the first time, being $1,086,175,000.\u2018The imports were valued at $691,943,000, and the exports at $398,282,000, showing the largest excess of imports we had ever had, namely, $298,711,000, In the aix months of the current fiscal year ending September, the complete figures for which have been published, there is some improvement in the proportion of exports to Imports.and since Sap- tember a greater improvement has taken place As to our exports we are glad to report an increase during this period in every group, while there has been a decrease in many of the classes of imports.We again draw attention to the large proportion of our Imports, which consists of iron and steel in various forms, not only as raw materials, but as manufactured goods.The total value is about $140,000,000.May ws once more point out that in the main these are articles used in buliding, or in equipping the country for {ts future, and that such purchases differ in effect from the import of foodstuffs and other rapidly perishing objects?At the same time we regret that the greater part of these iron And steel goods is not made in Canada now, as certainly will be the case In t!me.To the extent to which, by making these goods in Canada, we could have lessened the debt represented by the securities we have sold to pay for the diffefence between imports and exports, we have burdened ourselves for a long time to come.Of course, while workmen are busily engaged in other things, as they have been in Canada, it may be said that they are not available for more work in iron and steel, but as scon as railroad and other bullding lessens in volume, not in the aggrezate but in proportion to other industries, we may hope that we shall be able to make in Canada the larger part of the tron and steel goods now imported.The increased output of our coal and lron mines, of cur blast furnaces, and of our manufactories, which would result, would be of inestimable value to the country as à whole.It was evident to any student of the situation a year ago that Canada, and other borrowing countries, would be put to a severe test duripg 1918.What we were not prepared for was that this country should be gingled out as, in some mcasure, chief among the sinners of this kind.It is well, however, to remember that when money becomes scarce in the great markets of the world, the chief borrower is always told he has obtained too large a share and that he must stop borrowing for the time being.We had scarcely realized that Canada had become the chief borrower, or practically so, and somewhat resented bzing he!d responsible for a situation created by the combined financial requirements of all the active mercantile nations of the world.However, we have had our warning, and shall doubtless act upon it.The tact remains that under all this pressure England has taken more of our securities this year than ever before.She has patiently remembered that we are obliged to finish the many sound and Important enterprises, publie, semi-public, and private, which had been undertaken before the financial clouds began to gather.That such enterprises will command the money of the investor in preference to loans for the rehabilitation of forelen countries devastated by war, or in preference to securities based upon new ventures, we need not doubt, and ou\u2019 of the vast sum available \u2018each year in the markets of Europe for new investments we may be sure of getting a generous share, We shall have to face a keener analysis of the nature of the security offered and the neces- gity of paving higher rates to the Investor, and we shall do well tn abstain during the next year or ro from seek- Ing to market any unnecessary securities, In order that.ve may do what we can to restore the balance between the investment resources of the world and the securities offered for sale.It is pleasing in th's connection to see that the higher rates of interest ofernd have opened the markets of the United States to our securities to an extent quite unusual in the past.Now that we have come to a slight pause in the growth of North America, it is well to bear in mind some of the more important things accomplished during thls perind of expansion.In Canada, in addition to growth In many other directions, we have in sight the completion of two new transcontinental rallway svstems.and while thev have been bu\u2018lding the existing ays- tem has successfully established ite claim to rark as one of the foremost {railway systems in the word, As re- :&ards the United States, the Panama Canal -1s practicallv finished: a tariff adjustment, the mere thought of which would have created panic a few years ago, has taken place, leaving the out- lonk in this reepect a certainty instead {ef an uncertainty; a Currency and | Banking bill, for which the country has been waiting about 20 vears, has been passed, and a move reasonable attitude has heen adopted towards the question of railroad rate adjustment.These are all events of the greatest importance which must profoundly affect the futuré of the two countries, and so far as Canada {8 concerned we may surely feel that we are now entering upon a new and more important phase of industrial life.for which our equipment is more adequate than ever before.No more positive evidence of the need and value of such equipment could be offered than the ease with which the present year's crop was harvested, moved, and warehoured.This has been done in a manner which would have seemed Impossible only a few years ago, and the value of the smoothness and rapidity with which the work was handled can scarcely be estimated.In connection with the opening of the Panama Canal, there will be held at San Francisco in 1915 the Panama- Pacific International Exposition, for the purpose of impressing upon the world the vast change In its commerce like- lv to accrue from this new waterway.Tt is peculiarly gratifying to know that in this exposition Canada, wn ones a very prominent place.to AN a building covering 65,000 the Canadian building any previous exposition, and in this epace the natural products of our country agri- ture, horticulture, mine » fleh, game, etc, will be adeq displayed.We understand ate the.intention of the Government to make this one of the best exhibitions that has ever been placed before the public in the interest of this country.We turn to the Clearing House returns with unusual interest at such a time as the present There are now 22- Clearing Houses i» Canada, but leaving out two with records for part of the year only ani comparing the figures of the 30 in operation a year ago, we find that there have been ten increases and ten decreases during the year, as compared with inereases tn every Clearing House the previous year.The increase in the total is 1.87 per cent.as against 13.74 per cent.& yemr ago.Increases appear in the figures of seven Eastern and three stern cities, and decreases in those of eight Western and two Fastern cities.After th¢ phenomenal increases in 1912 we may be glad that we have held our own in 1918.Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg, three olties which acount for 72 per cent.of.the total, all show Increases.The building permits of the four chief cities were as follows: .square feet, comsiderad) bly larger then 1911 1913 1918.Montreal .314,680,000 $19,642,000 $27,008,000 Teronto .34,374,000 37,401,000 27,038,000 Winnipeg .17,660,000 20,478,000 18,621,000 Vancouver .17,662,000 19,388,000 10,428,000 We have made the comparison for three years in view of the contraction which hag begun in some cities.Toronto has just kept even, Ænd the decline in Winnipeg ls trifling.\u201d The marked contraction is in Vancouver, and this no doubt represents conditions in many other Western cities.In Montreal, however, there is a great increase In value, although the num- her of permits is practically the same.The figures for Montreal always exclude large suburbs, the building in which last year ls sald to spproxi- mate $10,000,000 in value.The comments of our Canadian, United States, and English officers upon the trade and financial situation are so ciearly set forth that I hesitate to repeat in any form their conclusions.It may be well, however, at such a difficult time to sum up the case as concisely as possible, The world has two problems before it: (1) How to render available a supply of money sufficient for the carrying out of such physical betterments as must be financed by the sale of securities?(2) How to enlarge the credit facilities of the world for those shorter term transactions which consist of the manufacturing and distributing of perishable goods?The first problem can only be com- fortab:y soived if there is sufficlent money saved\u2014that is, profits with- urawn from active use in business, or income not expended by the owners, etc.\u2014to provide for the necessary borrowings of those who are expending money on permanent improvements.For some yeurs the world has been more extravagant than in any period known to history since Roman times, and this extravagance has been accompanied by a rise in, prices which has made it very hard Tor those who are not extravagant, and who are the most regular in saving money in ordinary times, to put by the usual margin against life's contingencies.When securities cannot readily be sold.because of a shortage in these savings, the money necessary for the short term transactions above referred to is used to some exient, but the strain produced by this cannot continue indefinitely, and such permanent improvements must lessen In volume until savings catch up and the equilibrium has been restored.The situation during the past year, however, has been aggravated by many other factors.In many countries, notably in Canada, where large sums ate being \\ expended on permanent npruvements, \u2018here is a relatively small number of Lhose who have savings to lend, and the wants of all the borrowers in all such countries have exerted upon the lending countries of the world a combined pressure greater than ever before known.On the other hand, to the extravagance of individuals represented by motor cars, palatial houses, social display, etc, beyond the capacity of thelr incomes, have been added colossal expenditures in war an on armaments, and for many purposes which are useless from an indus- irial point of view.Armaments are necessary as part.of the po- iice system of the world, but the money sunk in thelr creation is none the less a sad burden to the industrial world.We have thus come to a time when, coinciding, as they do, with the hoarding of money by timid owners consequent upon the Balkan and Mexican troubles, the unusual requirements coming from an almost worldwide prosperity cannot bo fully met All business activities, therefore, throughout the world must be lessened in volume until things right them- gelves, which they will do quite speedily if people generally are willing to profit by the lessons to be drawn ro! recent experience.The motion for the adoption of the report was then put to the meeting and carricd.Amendments to the bylaws regulating the number of Directors of the Bank were passed, and Mr.T.Harry Webb, C.A., of Messrs.Webb, Reid, Hegan, and Callingham, Montreal and Winnipeg, and Mr.James Marwick, C.A., of Messrs.Marwick, Mitchell, Peat, and Co, Montreal, were appointed Audifors of the Bank, thelr remuneration not to exceed the sum of $15,000 for the year.The usual resolutions expressing the thanks of the Shareholders to the Board of Directors and also to the staff of the Bank were unanimously carried.Upon motion the meeting to elect Directors for the coming year and then adjourned.The scrutineers subsequently announced the following gentlemen to be elected as Directors for the coming year: Sir Bdmund Walker, c.v.o., LL.D, D.C.L, Hon, A.Cox, John Hoskin.K.C, LL.D, J.W.Flavells, LL.D, A.Kingmen, Hon.Sir Lyman Melvin-Jones, Hon.W.Edwards, Z.A.Lash, K.C, LL.D.E.R.Wood, Sir John M.Gibson, KCMG., K.C, LL.D.Robert Stuart George F.Galt, Alexander Laird, William Farwell, D.C.L, Gardner Stevens, A.C.Flumerfelt, George G.Foster, K.C., Charles Colby, M.A, PhD.Gea W.Allan, H.J.Fuller, F.P.Jor At a meeting of the newly Directo held ORK FOR NO-LICENSE, GREATER PROSPERITY AND HAPPY HOMES FARMER'S WIFE ALMOST A WRECK Restored to Health by Lydia E.Pinkham'\u2019s Vegetable: Compound \u2014 Her Own Story.London, Ont.\u2014*\u2018I am a farmer\u2019s wife and a very busy woman.Last summer .= 1 was taken with { severe pains in my ] back so bad that I R tor and I was under his care for some time, but he did me little or no good.One day a friend of mine told me to try Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s Vegetable Compound as she had been greatly helped by it.I began taking it and soon got well, and my periods became natural again.Since then I have had perfect health.Infact Ihave never felt sowell in my life.Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s Vegetable Compound is & medicine many women need.If you think this letter will help other women please publish it.\u2018\u2019\u2014Mrs.K.C.YOUNG, Tambling\u2019s Corner, London, Ontario, Canada.Women whosuffer from thosedistress- ing ills peculiar to their sex should not doubt the ability of Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s Vegetable Compound to restore their health.If you have the slightest doubt that Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s Vegeta~ ble Compound will help you, write to Lydia E.Pinkham MedicineCo.(confidential) Lynn,Mass.,for advice.Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman, and held in strict confidence.A.H.CUMMINGS & SON LIMITED Manufacturers of Lumber, Shingles, Clapboards, Superior House Finish.FLOORING A SPECIALTY.Orders left with 8.E.Abbott, Agt., Stanstead, will receive prompt attention.EVIDENCE The best evidence that this bank is giving satisfactory service to its clients, is the unprecedented number of new clients who have recently opened accounts here.Many of these new accounts were opened at the recommendatien of our old patrons who desired their friends to share in the conscientious service we are giving.We have accomodations for many more, and our officers will be pleased to interview those who desire efficient coëperation.Capital 850,000.Surplus $80,000.Resources, $1,400,000.OrLEANS Trust COMPANY NEWPORT, VERMONT HORSE SHOEING I have\u201d secured the services of Mr.N.A.Macdonald, formerly of Vermont, who has had 25 years\u2019 experience, and has no equal in this section on difficult horse shoeing.He was for five years veterinary horse shoer in Boston.If you have any difficult or \u2018\u2018fancy\u2019\u2019 shoeing call and see us.Special attention given to Interfering, cross- firing, knee-knocking and sore footed horses.All kinds of shoes turned to order.I cerry a good stock and can do all kinds of Job Work at short notice.A trial will be appreciated.J.H.McNEIL Railroad Street.near Main ROCK ISLAND, QUEBEC HIGH CLASS SHOE REPAIRING Having purchased the plant and business of the Rock Island Shoe Man- afacturing and Repairing Co, I am prepared to do all kinde of reparing in the most skillful manner.First-class workmen; prompt service.Soiled tan shoes dyed; a lasting black guaranteed.A trial is all I ask.ISRAEL BELISLE Basement Jondro Factory, first door East of Upper Bridge.FOR SALE 15 hp.Fairbanks Morse Gasolene Engine new: G.B.PARADIS & FILS, Stanstead, Que.sott STITCHERS WANTED By \u2014\u2014\u2014 PEERLESS OVERALL CO., Rock Isiand for a Horse Save a horse and won't have to buy one, Don't sell or destroy any horse on account of Spavin, Splint, Ringbone, Curb,SprainsorLameness.Spend one dollar for a bottle.KENDALL°S SPAVIN CURE has saved a great many horses \u2014 has put them back to work, even after they have been given up; Over 85 years of success have proved its value.Mr.J.M.Grondin of Bt.Lin, Que.hare been using your Spavin Cure for many years always with excellent results\u201d ao honest PEL pt ste \" ores for £3.00, \"A we Treatise on the Horse\" free at druggista or from Dr.B.J.Kendall Co., Enosburg Falls, Yermont, U.S.A.TEXT\u2014And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.\u2014Rev.20:10.- 4 The ancient conception of the two opposing principles in the uni verse, although often perverted, 18 a correct one.There is an eter nal, unchangeable and infinitely pow- ertul, holy and loving God, and there is a mali cious, wicked and .powerful being in the universe whose name is in the text.Whether it is a pleasant thought or not, the devil is the god of this age, and is: given great power, and, apparently, anticipating his doom, he is intensely active.Being wicked, he would make wickedness universal, and he uses all possible methods of corrupting men, ereated in the image and likeness of the God he hates, and unfortunately succeeds with a vast number of them.The Method of Deception.The devil now uses the method of deception rather than force, which in some ages of the world was used very generally.This deception may be of several kinds.The devil may asume an attitude of Bpecial sanctity, or goodness; he may direct the thought of man to the acceptance of error; or he may delude man to the reception of something that is branded as truly religious.Taking.up the first form of deception, the devil appears sometimes as an angel of light He appeared in a glittering and fascinating form to Eve in the Garden of Eden, and worked the ruin of the race mor ally, Many believe that the Anti christ, who will presume to take God's place, and thus clalm supreme sanctity, will be the devil himself.As we observe the present havoc in religious thinking, and study its evolution, we find that many of those who were champions of doctrinal error have posed as most serious seekers after truth, and have the reputation, ofttimes well established, of being men of sweet temper, most encouraging manners and captivating courtesy.This is not strange, for men of an opposite type, as champions, would at once dereat the devil\u2019s purposes.The method of delusion by leading men away from the truth has one of its strongest features in the persuasion that men should do their own thinking on religious subjects.The specious plea is made that the Christian religion is one of rationality and that therefore men must think out its great problems for themselves.They are urged to let nothing guide them in thinking, not the Bible, nor Christian teachers, but that they should start almost anywhere and work the problems out.The result is Inevitable, for man\u2019s thoughts are not God's thoughts and God's thoughts only are correct in this sphere, man is ever learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.Indeed, he ordinarily gets further and further from it.Fortunate is the man who sees that he must have some safe starting point for religious thought, and that be must hold himself loyally to the lines of its development.Satanic Delusions.We have the delusion of universal salvation based on a false conception of the character of God, emphasis being placed on the love of God, which is unscripturally defined, the justice and holiness of God being practically eliminated from thought.All those yielding to this delusion are not in the denomination known as Universal- ists, whose courage in professing what they believe fs in itself worthy of commendation.There is the delusion of religious formalism.Men and women are persuaded to attach themselves to re ligious socleties without any demand being made on them to put into thelr ltves the principles of Christian religion, nor for the necessity of a new birth and genuine repentance and simple faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and man.Those ylelding to this delusion have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof.There is the delusion of false op timism, which, while not strictly religious, eventuates as religious delusions do.The principle that God is on his throne and all is right with the world, has almost universal approval, being echoed from thousands of pulpits.We are in a period of delusions along Biblical lines as in no previous age.A man or woman gets some root of religious thought, and purening it independently, discovering that in or der to its wider acceptance it must have Biblical indorsement, flies to the Bible and selects from its contents that which osteasibly supports the theory proposed.Within the last twenty-five years there have been several such delusions, and hundreds of thousands of men and women have be come their victims.These delusions are propagated pt tha avnnnan af mil.Ions of dollars.GREAT VOGUE OF THE PEARL imitations Now 8o Perfect That Often Moet Expert Gem Appraisers Are Decelved.\u201cThe pearl is the fashionable jewel now in Paris,\u201d says a woman just returning from that city.\u201cLong ropes of pearls are worn in ways fashion has never dreamed of suggesting be fore outside of the Orient.\u201cOne woman f saw had her long loop rope of these exceedingly becoming gems passed directly over ber fore head, the strands crossed at the back of her head in a pretty way over her low coiffure.The long remaining leop tell down from the back of her head across her shoulders, making a deep necklace that reached to the waist.\u201cWalst lace, I should call the rope of pearls 1 saw wound about another woman circling, as it did, her waist and hips, falling over the filmy drapery of her frock entrancingly.\u201cI have seen ropes of pearls draped from over one shoulder down to entwine waist and hips.I have seen a rope caught up into the hair over one temple with a tall aigrette ornament.Caressing cheek and neck, the rope was looped down to the corsage, where it wandered about in a most capricious way, enhancing the folds and frills of the frock across the bust, The woman who wore her pearls in this way had also another long loop rope about her neck.This bung to her knees.\u201cNeedless to say this vogue for lavish use of pearl rope could be indulged in by only a few women if the real article were used in their make-up.But imitation pearls come now so perfect, not only in color and sheen but also in weight, that often a most expert gem appraising eye would be de ceived by them.\u201cNo gem i8 so generally becoming as the pearl.It betautifies a beautiful woman and does not mock at the lack of beauty in a plain woman, as other stones do.It treats a poor complexion with such kindness that somehow the complexion brightens to a near approach to beauty by Ite exquisite touch.It responds to all the fair loveliness of youth and softens age as by magic.It blends with any costdme, any color and fabric.A simple frock loses nome of its simplicity of tone if pearls are worn with it.An elaborate frock does not become overelaborate with pearls as an accessory.\u201cPearls may be worn at simple oc casions and not give the wearer a jewel-loaded look.They may be worn at the most formal occasion and add to the festiveness of attire,\u201d KNEW FATHER WAS AT HOME \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Youth's Attempt to Collect Insurance \u201cor Injuries Recelved ls Not Successful, His arm was in a sling, he was limping badly, his nose was out of shape, one of his eyes had been blackened, and he was proceeding toward an insurance office.\u201cYes, Mr.Spooner,\u201d asked the cour teous manager; \u201cwhat is the exact na ture of your claim?\u201d \u201cI have fallen down a long flight of steps and sustained damages that will disable me for months to come,\u201d re plied he, \u201cand I think that one hundred dollars damages should be awarded me.\u201d \u201cH'm!\u201d said the manager as he toyed with his gold chain.\u201cI have had your case investigated prior to your visit here, and, young man, I have every reason to believe that it was no accident.You knew the young lady's father was at home all the time.\u201d : ' Value of Trees.\u2018The soil is a resource of priceless value.Its formation on rocks is exceedingly slow.According to Prof, J.Bowman, many glacial scratches that were made on rock during the last glacial period, between 60,000 and 70,- 000 years ago, are still as fresh as if they had been made only yesterday.Yet since the glaciers thus recorded themselves man has come up from the cave and the stone hammer.Seventy thousand years is a very short time for the development of a soil cover; for man it means a period eo great that the mind can hardly grasp it.The cutting off of the trees exposes the soil so that the rain beats upon it, and since it has lost the protection that the roots and the litter on the ground afforded the soil is soon washed away.In fifty years a single lumber merchant can deprive the race of soil that required 10,000 years to form\u2014 Youth\u2019s Companion.All Practical Men.\u201cYou must have a remarkably efficient board of health in this town,\u201d remarked the visitor.\u201cRight you are,\u201d replied the shrewd pative.\u201cComposed of scientists, 1 pre sume?\u201d \u201cNo, sir.retical.\u201d \u201cPhysicians, perhaps?\u201d \u201cNot much.We don't allow doc tors on our board of health\u2014no, sir \u2014nor undertakers, either.\u201d \u201cHum! What sort of men have you chosen?\u201d \u201cLife insurance agents.\u201d Scientists are too theo- Stage Novelty, \u201cWant time in vaudeville, eh?\u201d Are you a baseball player?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d \u201cShoot somebody?\u201d \u201cNever.\u201d \u201cWhat are you, then?\u201d \u201cMerely an actgr.\u201d \u201cAn actor, eh?Well, I don't know.Actors are unusual in vaudeville, but the very novelty of the thing might make it a go.\u201d MORE MONEY IN EGGS Improper Handling Causes Loss of Millions of Dollars Goed Home-Made Candler Can Bs Made From Box That le Large Enough to Cover Lamp\u2014Ex- cellent Results Secured.The Improper handling of eggs throughout the country causes an enormous loss, the amount extending into many millions of dollars annually.It 18 an established fact that strictly fresh eggs command a higher price than those commonly designated as store eggs, and if the farmer, who le the largest producer of this well known perishable commodity, would take mare care in selecting, grading and marketing this product he would receive a price higher than the aver age market one for his eggs.On many farms throughout the country the money derived from the sale of poultry and eggs buys the groceries and clothing for the entire family.The money from this source may be Testing Eggs.substantially increased by establishing a private trade in eggs of good quality with hotels, restaurants, etc., in towns and cities.: A good home-made egg tester or candler can be made from a large shoe box, or any box that is large enough to go over a lamp, by removing an end and cutting a hole a little larger than the size of a quarter in the side of the box, so that when it is set over a common kerosene lamp the hole will be opposite the blaze.A hole the size of a silver dollar should be cut in the top of the box to allow the heat to escape.A fresh egg held at the hole opposite the blaze of the lamp will show perfectly clear through the shell.A stale or bad egg will show dark spots.This egg tester may be used with excellent results in determining whether eggs are fertile or infertile.Many eggs that are laid in late winter and early spring are infertile.For this reason it is advisable, when set ting time comes, to set several hens at the same time.After the eggs have been under the hen for seven days they should be tested to see whether they are fertile or infertile.Infertile eggs should be removed and used at home in cooking, for they are just as good as others, and the fertile eggs Home-Made Egg Tester.should be put back under the hen.In this way it is often possible to put all of the fertile eggs under fewer hens and reset the hens from which the eggs have been taken.In testing these eggs, an infertile egg, when held before the small hole of the egg testing box, with the light ed lamp inside, will took perfectly clear, the same as a fresh one, while a fertile egg will show a small, dark spot known as the embryg, with a mass of little blood veins extending in all directions if the embryo is live ing.If dead, if the egg has been incubated for at least 36 hours, the blood settles away from the embryo toward the edge of the yolk, forming what is known as a blood ring.The testing should be done in a dark room.FEW PRACTICAL DUCK NOTES Avold Danger of Fowis Becoming Frightened and Smothering Each Other\u2014Keep Food Clean.Shavings make the best beds for ducks.Let the ducks make their own nests in the shavings.Unless a lantern or some other light is kept burning at night in sheds where large numbers of ducks are confined, they are apt to become frightened and huddle together and smother each other.It doesn\u2019t pay to feed a duck after it is ten weeks old.Ducks will eat anything that is set before them, but their food should always be clean.If it is sour or contains tainted meat, it will cause death.If much green food is fed ducks before marketing, it will produce yellow flesh.Some poultry dealers like this color and athass As wnat, and there you are.How soon will your roads, that now take the heart and soul out of every man and horse that uses them, be made into a continuous stretch of road that you and everyone in your county will be proud of ?.How soon will you stop filling the ruts and mud holes with your road taxes, and build roads that will permit you to put your road taxes into more good roads ?Concrete Roads cost no more to build than any other good road, and their upkeep expense is practically nothing, which makes them the cheapest kind of good roads.Concrete roads benefit the farmer, consumer, merchant, newspaper, board of trade and railroad.They make for greater prosperity generally, by increasing land values and production; bringing more trade; more industries; more employment; greater traffic.They decrease the cost of marketing.All of these factors combine to decrease the cost of living.Every citizen owes it to himself to investigate the advantages of.concrete roads and learn how they wlll directly benefit oh him.This information is free for the asking.Write for it 2 to-day to A Concrete Roads Department Es Canada Cement Company Limited È 801 Herald Building, Montreal A ; RALPH J.HUNT THE EXCLUSIVE HARDWARE STORE OF THE THREE VILLAGES Cooking Ranges for Coal or Wood HOT WATER HEATING PLANTS HOT AIR FURNACES STEAM HEATING PERFECTION OIL HEATERS I am gradually adding a line of Carpenter's Tools in the better makes, and I have the tools for the other mechanical trades.A new and complete line of Nickel Plated Copper Ware: Trays, Tea Pots, Coffee Pots, Tea Kettles, etc.These are beautiful goods and should interest the Christmas Buyer.A full line of Pocket and Table Cutlery.RALPH J.HUNT DERBY LINE, VERMONT, and ROCK ISLAND, QUEBEC ONOEGUONONONOROECRONONONONONCNONONORORORORORONONONS The Quebec Bank Established (818\u201495th Year in Business Authorized Capital, $5,000,000 Paid-up Capital $3,000,00 BANKING BY MAIL Business of all kinds can be transacted in this manner, and will receive prompt attention.SAVINGS DEPARTMENT AT EVERY BRANCH Joint \u2018Accounts may be opened in the name of two persons; in case of death balance payable to survivor.Agency at Fitch Bay, Quebec.Open Thursday of each week.: ROCK ISLAND BRANCH A.C.McPHEE, Accountant J.M.PHELAN, Manager THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE with which is united the EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.O,, LL.D, D.C.L., President ALRSANDEE LA rer ORLA tte CAPITAL, $15,000,000 REST, $13,500,000 TRAVELLERS\u2019 CHEQUES > Issued by The Canadian Bank of Commerce enable the traveller to provide himself with funds without delay at each point of his journey n a convenient yet inexpensive manner, They are issued payable in every country in the world in denominations of $10, $20, $50, $100, $200 with the exact \u2018equivalent in the moneys of the principal countries stated on the face of each cheque, They are economical, absolutely safe, self-identifying and easily negotiated.E23 Rock®lsland Branch, - Sidney Stevens, Manager Blank Books at ths Journal Office. Bast Beiton, Bressette Corner, Cassville, Way\u2019s Millis, Ayer's Cliff, Demick\u2019s Mills, Beebe Griffin, Smith\u2019s Milis, McConnell, Hatley Center, Pleasant Helghts Items on second and third pages.MEETING AT AYER'S CLIFF.Grand Organiser of Royal Templars Gave Strong Address.A temperance meeting was held in the Union Church, Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Friday evening.Mr.Manchlan of Montreal, grand organizer of thé Royal Templars, gave a strong address, dealing with the aims and accomplishments of that order, as well as with the general subject of temperance.Mr.J.O.Holland of Rock Island spoke principally on the economic side of the drink traffic, and the saloon\u2019s interference with municipal and political affairs.Speaking of the enormous waste for drink in Stan- stead county, he said that no one thought that any law could wholly prevent men from drinking, but law could close the cpen bars and remove a vicious temptation.It would put the trafic in the criminal category where it belonged.He believed almost any one of the open bars in Stanstead County to-day was selling more booze than could possibly be sold by all the \u2018blind pigs\u201d that could get their noses into the county.He thought a large proportion of the money which is now being wasted for \u201cbooze\u201d could be divertetl to legitimate channels of commerce.Most of this money came from the class of people Who could least afford to spare it.Any measure which would effectually check this waste would mean much to business men as well as to low wage earners and those dependent upon them for support.License advocates were trying to make people believe that no-license means more drunkenness, but that was an outrageous absurdity.All available statistics showed substantial reductions of both drunkenness and crime under Do-license.Kansas had been under prohibition thirty-two years and had the largest per capita wealth of any state in the Union.Reference was also made to the dishonesty and sel- fishnees of saloon keepers.SOLDIERS CLOSE SALOONS.Martial Law by Order of Woman\u20140Oity Officers Arrested.COPPERFIELD, Oregon\u2014Martial law was declared here January 2nd by Col.N.K.Lawton, superintendent of the state Penitentiary.Five members of the Coast Artillery backed up the proclamation.This action followed a demand made by Miss Fern Hobbs, private secretary to Gov.West, for the resignations of members of the City Council and other city officials, who are accused of violating an ordiance regulating saloons.When her demand was refused the Governor's representative ordered Col.Lawton to place the town under martial law.Then she boarded a train to return to the State capital at Salem.Col.Lawton\u2019s small force began operations by raiding the saloons, of which they took charge.The proprietors were given until 4 o\u2019clock the following afternoon to ship their bar fixtures and liquors out of the county on penalty of confiscation.All of the city officiale were placed under arrest and were not permitted to communicate with attorneys.Gov.West two weeks ago received a protest signed by more than half the residents of Copperfield against alleged law violations by saloons here, one of which was.owned by the Mayor and another by a Councilman.It was charged that liquor was being sold to minors and that closing hours were not observed.The Governor called on Mayor Stewart to close the saloons and he refused.When Sheriff Rand also refused to act Gov.West sent Miss Hobbs to take charge of the situation.DISMISSED FOR DRINKING.Pittsburg, Pa.\u2014One hundred and twenty-six men employed on the Pittsburg & Brownsville division of the Pittaburg & Lake Erie road, bave been dismissed summarily for drink- ne.It is declared that about 500 more employés are to go for the same rea: son.Detectives have been watching the suspected employés.CARD OF THANKS.We wish to thank all the kind friends and neighbors who in any way assisted us during our recent time of sorrow, and for the beautiful flowers.= Mrs.MARY HADLEY.MR.AND MRs.H.A, WORTH.GOD GIVE US MEN.\u201cGod give us men! A time like this demanda Btrong, mindy, great hearts, true faith, and v ; y handa.Men whom the luata of office do not kill ; Men whom the apolls of office cannot buy ; Men who possess opinions and & will: Men who have honor\u2014men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking: Tall men, sun-orowned, who live above the fog, In public duty, and in private thinking; For while the rabble, with their thumb worn © , : Their large profession and their little leeds, Mingle in selfish, strife, lo! Goodness weeds, viland, PRAY FOR EDITORS.The following article was sent in for publication by a reader of THE JOURNAL.Prayer Is one of the mightiest forces placed in the Obristian\u2019s band.In prayer we connect beavenly powers with earthly things.Just as, near New York, after long months of dril- Ing, preparing, tbe touch of a child\u2019s finger connected the wires and released the electric current which, igniting the explosives, heaved whole acres of rock from their firm-set bases, so by the power of prayer, the feeble hand of the trusting believer may make connection with divine forces, and do a work which no human arm or power can accomplish.Thus, by prayer, we may reach the distant, we may help the distressed, and as we by a mirror can reflect light to distant places, so we may cast a beam of radiance on shadowed paths and, illumine scenes of darkness and desolation by celestial beams.Only God can tell what works are wrought by prayer, or what blessings come to men in answer to the anppli- cations of praylng saints.Hence Ohristians pray; and though they do not always know how to pray as they ought, yet from time to time there comes from their hearts an inner cry which goes up before the throne, and calls down upon themselves and those far off, the loved, the cherished and longed for, and those whom, it may be, they bave never seen; blessings which descend lke dew upon the graes.Hence we are bidden to offer prayers and supplications and intercessions with thanksgivings, for all men.For kings and all that are in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty.We ,are to pray for one another.We are to pray for those that despitefully use us and persecute us; and the apostle eays, \u201cBrethren pray for us, tbat the Word of God may bave free course and be giori- fled.\u201d The apostle\u2019s heart also went out tor his distant brethren, making mention of them in his prayers, and he frequently besought their intercession in return.Devout Christians are accustomed to pray for many objects and many clasees of persons, but there is a strange neglect in one important particular.How rarely do persons pray for editors and those who conduct the public press which is to-day, perhaps, the most influential agency in existence for the diffusion of intormation, and the moulding of public opinion.The power of an individual for good or for evil is mutiplied by the press ten thousand fold, There are publications sent forth which roll a tide of sin and sorrow through the land; there are others which flow like crystal streams of refreshment, to gladden all around.We pray for missionaries: but the printed page which contains the message of God\u2019s love, goes as a missionary where no other missionary has gone.It enters all lands, and quietly and unperceived it bears the message of salvation to lonely huts and quiet cottages, and far off frontier cabins, to prisoners in their celle, to the sick and helpless, to the sailors on the deep, and the dwellers on far-off shores.How much prayer should go up, that the meesage, prepared for such multitudes, should be full of the fatness and richness of the gospel of Christ.~ We pray for teichers, who gather a score, & hundred, or, in rare cases, a thousand around them; but do we not forget to pray for those teachers whose worde ga forth to hundreds of thousands of homes, and reach mighty multitudes, compared with which the largest schoolis but a little flock?We pray for preachers, for men who stand up and read a message of important trutb, or who, with burning words, pour out the gospel of Christ into the ears of a congregation of fifty or five hundred, or flve thousand; but do we think of those who through the priuted page speak to a thousand such congregations, who reach the sick upon their beds, the aged sitting by the fire side, the lame, the helpless, the poor, the mother watching by her little ones, and those confined at home by the burdens of do- mestio lite?Do we think of the importance of the position of the man who stands on the central eminence occupied by the press, and who scatters worde of lite and light and blessing to earth's remotest bounds?Surely if any man needs wisdom, and grace, and sympathy, and help, it is the man upon whom such a burden and responsibility is laid.He speaks to a congregation which he cannot see; thousands and thousands in far off homes, in quiet hamlets and on distant shores, are waiting and watching to catch his words.And they do not pass idly by, they are not forgotten; Satan cannot catch the seed away as he often does when people listen to the spoken words of the living preacher, for they are upon the printed page, and are read and re-read, and conned and remembered, and work their way into the very fiber of human lives, fashioning the heart, and molding the char- aoter for bigh and holy purposes.Ww rules the land, and waiting JUusTiCR Fa Le Hh Who is sufficlent for these things?Who sonmprehends the vast repponsi- bility of such a position?Who prays that God may inepire with wisdom and endure with grace those who wield the pen and who thus teach the people the words of everlasting life.\u2018Brethren, pray for us, that the Word of God may have free cousre and be glorified .and that we may be delivered from usreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.\u201d H.L.H,, in The Christian, Boston, Mass.ITEMS OF INTEREST.Andrew Carnegie has reduced his personal fortune by $10,000,000 in making a gift of that amount to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust in Dunfermline, the town in Scotland where was born.Sir Sanford Fleming, the eminent oivil engineer, scientist, Chancellor of Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, and one of Oanada\u2019s grand old men, celebrated his 88th birthday on Jap.7th, in good health and fall mental vigor.Mr.Joseph Chamberlain bas announced to his conetituents in Bir- mingbam that he will not be a candidate at the next general election.The press, irrespective of party, pay many tributes to the eminent statesman and regret that his poor bealth has compelled him to take this step.Lord Strathcona, Canadian High Commissioner to England died early yesterday morning.He passed his 93rd birthday August 6, 1913.His wife died in November, and he had been ailing since.Lord Strathcona was recognized as one of the greatest figures of his time.His generosity was unbounded; he gave largely to hospitals and charities.The 8ynod of the Protestant Church of the Cnton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, by & vote of 74 to 22, has decided to admit women to the faculty of theology.This means that in the future women who take the theological degree at a university will be entitled equally with men to become pastors in this canton.Two years ago the Synod of Grisons took the same step, and now has a woman pastor, the only one in Switzerland.John Weeks, aged 105 years and six ew, Frank A.Willis, in South Nor- walk, Conn., on Jan.5th.Mr.Weeks probably was the oldest man in Con- pecticut.He was born and lived for over a century in New York City.He was a policeman at the time of the civil war.He outlived all his ten children, ten brothers, and seven sisters.À sister, Mrs.Phoebe Willis, 95 years of age, lives in Wilton, Con n Longwood, tbe house occupied by Napoleon on tbe Island of St.Helena and in which he died, is in a state of ruin and the gardens are overgown with weeeds and brambles.The French Minister of Finance is shortly to propose a special grant of 84,000 to restore the historic spot.Up to the present the French budget has allowed 81,800 a year in keeping up Longwood, but as $1,200 goes to the salary of the curator and most of the remainder is swallowed up in other expenses it has been found impossible to pay either a gardener or a keeper.Longwood was bought fifty years ago by the French Government and consequently not even the descendants of Napoleon have the right or duty of keeping up the property, which devolves on the republic alone.PRESIDENT WILSON'S STORY.Here is a yarn the President is fond of spinning: \u201cA friend of mine was in Canada with a fishing party, and one member of the party was imprudent enough to sample some whiskey that was called \u2018Squirrel\u2019 whiskey, because it makes those who drink it inclined to climb a tree.This gentleman imbibed too much of this dangerous liquid, and the consequence was that when he went to the station with the rest of the company he took the train bound south in- stoad of a train bound north.Wishing to recover him, his companion telegraphed the conductor of the south-bound train.¢ \u2018Send short man, named Johnson, back for the north-bound train.He is intuxicated.\u2019 \u2018Presently they got a reply from the conductor: \u2018 st \u2018Further particulars needed.There are 13 men on the train who don\u2019t know either their name or tbeir destination.UNIVERSALIST NOTES.Olifford Lore Miller, pastor.Hour of service 10.45 a.m.Quartet Choir.Sunday School at noon, Sermon subject, Jan.25, \u201cChanged Lives.\u201d Text, St.John 8: 3.\u201cExcept a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\u201d The pastor will preach.The State Superintendent will soon give his entire time to state work.Parish meeting in the church at 7 p.m.Tuesday, Jan.27th.Correspondents i: aici ° ly assist us by sending as much of their copy as possilbe by Monday evening's post.Reportaof later events may then be sent in by mail ns late as Wednesday evening.or by \u2018phon.on Thursday fore nuon when neceasary, (ficult for us to find work It is frequent: for our composit ors Munday and Tuesday.they are always Wednesday and Thu submerged with copy.Tun PUSLISHER.months, died at the bome of his neph- \"MeDOWELL & WILLETT Suocoessors to MILTON HENRY PROPRIETORS STATION BUS Telephone Fred Willett at C.N.Hill's residence.REASONABLE GUARANTEED PRICES CHARLES E.HASELTON Manufacturer of and Dealer in all kindy of Granite and Marble Monuments and Head Stones Your Cemetery work such as Lettering and Resetting is Solicited Beebe Que.and Vt.HOTEL BEEBE BEEBE JUNOTION, QUE.This modernized hosteiry is now open for the reception of guests.Good livery in connection.The traveling public ie assured of first- class accommodation.PERKINS BROS, Proprietors NEW MILCH COWS WANTED AT LEE FARM ROCK ISLAND WILLIAM M.HASELTON Successor to Haselton Bros.Established 1896 Monuments, Headstones, Building Material, Marble and Granite.Wholesale and;Retall.Workmanship the best.Pricea reasonable.Beebe Junction, Que.Beebe Plain, Vt.U.8.Depository.Organized 1875 The National Bank NEWPORT, VT.Y Capital, - - - $100,000.Surplus and Profit, - 41,000, Deposits, - - - 345,000.E.LANE, President, J.E.MCCARTEN, Cashier, EARL L.BROWN, Asst.Oashier PER CENT PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent, $3.00, $5.00, $10.00 per year We cordially invite new business connections.1 greatly appreciated pressnt to every si or married woman, and many man, cause every user of it finds it superior to any other beater or mixer.wi parcel post to any address, and safe arriv solutely shtisfactory in every respect.friend would be delighted to have one women appreciate it.Lightning Mixers, as the; 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