The Stanstead journal, 13 janvier 1916, jeudi 13 janvier 1916

[" The Stanstead Journal.VOL.LXXI\u2014No.2.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY.13, 1916.WHOLE No.3648.MAPLE SUGAR has been selling at 124c.a pound, yet there are thousands of good maples standing idle in the towns of Derby and Holland.We are contracting for next season\u2019s crop at 10c.a pound and there are a lot of men using old, leaky buckets that waste half the sap and prevent the making of a first- class article.Fancy cake sugar is selling in Newport today 25¢.a pound, yet many a man with a splendid sugar place is still using some old rig that prevents him from making a pound of fancy sugar.We are doing all we can to help put the sugar maker in the way of making more money out of his sugar place.The men who are using MONARCH Sugar Tools can tell you how they have succeeded; ask them or come and see us.TRUE & BLANCHARD CO.or MONARCH EVAPORATOR CO., NEWPORT, VT.TOWN TOPICS.Mr.Roy M.Hastings of Fairfax, Vt., was a guest of relatives in this vicinity from January 5th to 11th.Mr.A.J.Bissonnet left Monday night for Quebec to be present at the opening of the Legislature on Tuesday.Mr.and Mre.Sidney Stevens are in Waterloo, being called there by the death of Mr.Stevens\u2019 brother, Mr.Gardner Stevens.Miss Grace Peebles of Beebe has bought from Edward and Charles Audinwood a half interest in the R.& G.Manofacturing Co., Rock Island, the owner of the other balf interest being Mr.Henry Gauthier.Miss Peebles will be represented by Mr.H.G.Duncaife, formerly with the J.B.Goodhue Co., who will have charge of the mapufacturing department of the new concern.ter of the late E.C.Peebles who lived at Fitch Bay before coming to Beebe.At the Derby Line Hotel, on the evening of December 30th, a complimentary banquet was tendered to Mr.William F.Pike by his friends.A report of this event, prepared for the last issue, seems to have been spirited out of the composing room and, with much pressure of work, was not missed until after the paper had been printed.Even so late as this it may not be out of place to say that the event was one of the most pleasing social gatherings of.the season.The usual toast list was replaced by a program given between courses and in which Henry 8mith, soloist; W.H.Hovey, violinist; E.H.Cosby, comedian, and D.W.Davis, reader, took part.The one toast to \u2018Our Guest\u201d was eloquently proposed by A.N.Thompson, and called forth fitting response from the guest of honor.T.Frank O'Rourke was the efficient chairman.The menu was highly creditable to the Mesers.Cullins.Mr.H.8.B.Wheeler of Saskatoon, Bask., who made a brief visit to this place January 5th, is now traveling salesman for the Cockshutt Plow Co.being attached to the Saskatoon branch of this concern, which has its headquarters at Brantford, Ont., and sells farm implements of all kinda in the West.Speaking of the remarkable advance of temperance sentiment in the West, Mr.Wheeler ven- tored the prediction that the three Provinces east of the Rockies would all be dry by popular vote within a very short time Alberta han already voted dry, the Government has ahol- fahed bara from Saskatchewan and the \u201cwet! areara are being reclaimed in Manitoba.Mr.Wheeler sava.the order of Uefted Commercial Travelers, while taking no official action, is solid for prohibition, almost to a man, and working earnestly toward the desired vonl.Fotel men in Alberta and Sas- kntchewan hold the travelers primarily responaible for the destruction of the lignor bvsiness.Mr.Wheeler farther stated that wholesalers now refuse to not a drinking man on the road.their contention being that a drinking man at heat je only half efficient.and thev have decided that it is poor bvaîness to pay the salary and expenses of men who are thus handicapped.The West ia certainly showing the anirit of progressiveness.In the Esat commercial men appear to he divided, rome still holding the old view that thev can get a litle better men) at the \u2018licenne\u2019 hotels; others dispute thin claim and acount the idea that the nnfortunata drink victim is helping to pay their bille.MACHINISTS Lathe men, planer men, fitters and tool makers wanted.Apply Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Company, Limited, Sherbrooke, Que.Miss Peebles is a daugh- | TOWN TOPICS.Wrapping and Tissue Paper at the JOURNAL office.Mr.Donald Tilton has enlisted in the local contingent of the 117th.Mr.and Mrs.A.E.Bishop and son Kendall have moved to Newport, Mre.Ralph Hathersall, who bas been ill for several days, is very much better, Miss Grace Rouse of St.Johnsbury was in town Friday, to attend Gen.Rutterfleld\u2019s funeral.Mrs.Joseph Domina has so far recovered as to be able to do a large part of the work of her home.Mr.8.Duval is getting the west store in hie block about ready for the fruit dealer who bas rented it.Get your sleighs varnished and painted at Allard\u2019s Paint shop, P.J.Gagnon, General Painter, Rock Is- and.43t1 Caswell & O\u2019Rourke are asking tenders for finishing the top story of the post office block into four apartments eimilar to the second floor.The annual meeting of the Congregational Church, which was called for Thureday, January 6th, was withdrawn on account of the death of General Butterfield.The two recent snow falls totalled 37 inches\u201414!; inches Saturday and Sunday, December 25th and 26th, and 2214 inches Saturday and Sunday, January 1st and 2nd.A few Canadian correspondents continue to affix two-cent stamps to unsealed contributions.A one-cent stamp is all that is required on printer\u2019s manuecript if within the usual weight limit and sent unsealed.46-2 Mr.and Mrs.A.W.Lampher returned to their home at North Hyde Park, Vt., Tuerday, after ependirg the bolidays with Mrs.Lampher\u2019s parents, Mr.and Mrs.Thos.Brennan.Mrs.Brennan is very ill.1916 Dominion Office and Pocket Diaries at the JOURNAL Office.If we have not what you want we can supply any kind or make of Diary by special order within three dave.Make your selection in season for the New Year.! Farmers take notice\u2014Clogsing out sale of feed.One car each of bran, shorts and middlings at unheard of prices, for cash only.Thesé must and will be sold at once as I am making important changes In my business.PA.Gobeille.There are doubtless many who would like to assist the work of the Men\u2019s Association in some small way.There ir need of bath and hand towels, wash cloths snd toilet soap for lavatory and bathroom.Anybody wiah- ing to give any of there items in the next*few days can leave them at the office of Charles E.Bennett at Derby Line.The annoal meeting of the stockholders of the National Rank of Derhv Line was held on Toeaday, January 11th, B.F.Butterfield was elected a director, succeeding his father, the late Gen.F.G.Botterfield.At à aub- sequent meeting of the directors the following officers were reëlected: D.W.Davis.president: John G.Foster, vice-president; A.C.Cowlen, eanbier.The veval remi-annuval dividend of four per cent wan voted.Livelv Stone Chapter No.18, Roval Arch Masona, have elected the following officers for 1916: Ex, Comn.E.O.Trvine.Z; L.P.Honer.H; E H.Cosby.J; Dr.O.T.Moulton, Serihe E; A.C.MoPhee, Seribe N; J.A.Tilton, Treas.: O.E.Audinwood.Prin.Roj.; J.Leslie, Ren.80j.; W.F.Pike, Jon.Soj.; A.N.Thompron, D of C: J.D.MoFadyen, M.1st Veil; R.E.Nurse, M.2nd Veil; C.O.Bunt, M.Third Veil; 0.R.Jenkine, M.4th Veil; H.A.Cullioe, orgenist; J.L.Heath, Janitor.TOWN TOPICS.1916 Calendar Pads on sale at the JOURNAL office.Mr.Mclntire\u2019s sermon topic next Sunday at the Universalist Church will be \u201cFour Cardinal Sins.\u201d A card mailed by Col.C.E.Nelson at Honolulu, Hawaii, states that he is leaving the evening of December 24th for Yokohama.Mre.F.G.Butterfield, Miss! Esther Butterffeld, Mr.and Mrs.B F.Butter- field and Mises Rouse returned from Saxton\u2019s River Monday evening.Maurice, Albert and Raymond Fre- geau, returned Friday to St.Charles Seminary Sherbrooke, after epending a two-weeks\u2019 holiday at their home.Mrs.E.E.Marggraf, whose husband was at one time pastor of the Univer- salist Church at Derby Line, has given a beautiful, large art equare for use in the new vestry that is in the process of building.The committee for the community Christmas tree wish to thank all those who helped to make the event a success.929 95 has been deposited in the bank towards a Christmas tree next season.The ladies of the W.OC.T.U.are invited to meet with Mrs.L.F.Tice- hurat, Drew\u2019s block, Wednesday, Jan.i9th, at 3p.m.It is requested that the ladies bring their Red Cross work.Tea will he served and a collection taken.Everyhody welcome.Mr.John Rizk of Magng, a Syrian fruit dealer, has rented the west store in tha new Duval block.It war said the first of the week that the place was wanted by local parties for a clothing store and that the lessee had been asked to name a price at which he would be willing to cancel the lease.Our villages should be represented at the conference of the Civic 1m- provement League of Canada to be held in Ottawa, Jan.20th.At this meeting municipal affairs will be dealt with under three main heads, namely: Municipal Government and Finance; Immigration, Unemployment and Publie Health; Housing, Town Planning and local Improvements.All municipalities are invited to rend del- gates.When the subject of town planning and civic improvement was mentioned at the Rock Island meeting #atordev night one wag raid \u2018It\u2019s too Inte, everything has been spoiled al- readv.\u201d Thera mav be \u201cmore truth than paetrv\u201d in this statemeut; still thay pay \u201cIt ia never too late to mend.\u201d ; Fridav evening, January 21st, the Woman\u2019s Reading Club will give a musical entertainment in Pierce Hall to which all are cordially invited.The program will offer: \u201cThe Lady of 8ha- lott.\u201d for women's voices, with Mrs, Irvine sa soloist and Mra.Wright Hovey as accompanist.Mr.Wright Hovey will play; the College orchestra will give two numbers; Mies Hatha- wav and Miss Leslie will each give of their talent.Thin was planned asa purely social evening with no thought of making gain in money.but, the Clnb funds are inadequate to meet the nromise made of assistance in furnishings for the Men\u2019a Olub rooms and it jn now decided that a silver collection will he taken at this entertainment.Make a print of attending this pleasant affair, whether your silver is nlentv or not; the Olub wishes to ment ta frierde there and a collection js not an admission fee.Snme peonle who read an article in a recent number of thin paper.without vnderatanding, seem to think THE JOURNAL accused the municipal coun- oll of extravaganea and incompetency.The article dors not war rant such assumption, It was written in connection with the call for a nnhlic meeting and almplv made reference ta aome of the talk of the atreet.Withont discussing the grounds tor criticiam, we will aay We do not consider that a man who has not anangh intereat in municipal affaira to attend a citizens\u2019 meeting once n year har any right to kick ahout axtrava- ganca.Aaa role municipal councils would not onlv welcome but appreci- ata reanonable suggestions from re- ananaîhle citizens, Councilors are not paid for their work, but having sc- eented office, they are under serious ohlipation to the rata-pavers; nome one has ta do the work.Bot the man who is not willing to devote one evening a vear to clvic affairs shows bad taste when he complaina because the man who ia putting in an average of twenty evenings and considerable day-work does mot \u2018blow\u2019 bia own busines and give all his time to public affairs.Op the other hand who will attempt to deny the statement that the license question haa kept inefficient men in the council in years TOWN TOPICS.Skates sharpened, general machine work.G.L.Paulette, Rock Island.Mr.O.E.Lee went to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montrea), Monday to consult a epecialist.Mr.G.L.Paulette has rucceeded the late Mr.Jobn Batchelder as engineer at the Lay Whip Company\u2019s factory.AYER'S CLIFF.At the annual business meeting of St.George\u2019s Guild held at the home of Mre.T.O.Thornton last Thursday, the officers elected for the coming year were elected as follows: Mrs, E.H.Chadsey, president; Mrs.E.E.Bangs, vice-president; Mrs.G.G.Fish, secretary; and Mrs.8.8.Wor- then, treasurer.*Their next meeting will be held with Mrs.Wm.Noirie on Thursday, Jan.20th, The Congregational Ladies Aid was entertained at the parsonage on Tuesday when Mrs.H.G.Buck was unan- imorely elected president for this year; Mrs, C.H.Libby 1st vice-pres- ident; Mrs.W.Chamberlain, 2nd vice- president; Mrs.H.Hale, secretary; and Miss Rowell, treasurer.A well-attended and interesting meeting of the W.C.T.U.was held at the home of Mrs.George Woodard on Thursday of this week.A nice tea was served by the hostess.A parlor social was arranged to be held at the home of Mr.A.A.Drew on Wednesday evening, Jan.19th, to which all are cordially invited.Word has been received by Mr.Wm.Chamberlain of the death of his mother, aged 96 years, at her home in Massachusetts, on Saturday, Jan.8tb.The late Mrs.Chamberlain was well known and much respected in this locality, baving until very recent years, epent considerable time with her son and family here.Mr.Wilbut Dustin, Tyler St., has been seriously ill for the past week and is not much better at present writing.Arrivals and departures include Mr.and Mra.R.Bradley of Sherbrooke, at Mr.8.E.Hille\u2019; Mr.Asa Hastings and Mies Flossie Hastings of Alberta, visiting relatives and old friends; Mrs.F.Brown and little daughter returned to Ottawa; Mrs.H.G.Ayer returned from visiting friends at Compton; little Miss Alice Wyman, spending a few days here with her grandparents.Mrs.L.L.Clough has been having a serious time with a sore on her hand Blood poision set in and a slight oper- atiod was performed.She is improving now.Next Sunday afternoon at 230 in the Union Church, Bible Lecture will be given by Rev.F.W.8.Walden of Magog, entitled \u2018Does God\u2019s Hand Shape the Destiny of Nations?\u201d All are welcome.EAST STANSTEAD.Mr.Roy Hastings of Fairfax, Vt., has been spending a few days in the place, the guest of friends and relatives.Mr.and Mrs.George Perkins of Tice, Vermont, were guests at Mr.F.J.Libby\u2019s one day last week.Mr.and Mrs.Hazen Pomeroy and son Howard of Beebe spent Sunday at Mr.O.À.Kezar\u2019s.Mr.George Bullis, caretaker of the East Stanstead Fur Farm, is having a vacation.During his absence Mr.C.A.Jenkins is taking his place.Miss Carrie Aldrich is a guest of her sister, Mre.M.Martin, of Baldwin\u2019s Mille.Mrs.R.D.Byers and daughter Eleanor of North Stanstead spent a day here recently, guests of Mrs.Kenneth Cooper.Miss E.Keeler has returned home after spending two weeks in East Charleston where she was a guest of her sister, Mrs.H.W.Kezar.Miss Bertha Torner opened her school here on Monday, after the holidays.WAY'S MILLS.Mrs.Bailey Porter and child have gone to Lower Ireland to visit her husband\u2019s parents.Miss Olara Bradshaw, formerly of this place, has passed her probation course and been accepted as nurse-in- training in the Jeffry Hale Hospital, Quebec City.Mr.Archie Bean and Mies Blanche Bean of Heathton were at F.Gilbert's Sunday.Mrs.W.N.Horn and Miss Rose Horn were in Coaticook Saturday.Mrs.Dustin and grandcbildren of Ayer\u2019s Cliff were recent guests at Geo.Dustin's.Mrs.Little is spending the winter with Mrs.Rudd.Remember the \u2018\u2018clab\u2019\u201d meets each week Wednesday, at some house in the village, where all can bave the privilege of using needle and thimble for the benefit of our boys at the front.gona by?it's a poison.murderer.inclination for swallowing it.A NOVELIST'S TEMPERANCE SERMON Robert W.Chambers, without doubt one of the most popular of fiction writers now living, makes a physician in one of his recent stories say to a young man for whom he had been called on to prescribe and who had been ruined by drink: \u201cThis prescription is not going to cure you.can give you is going to perform such a miracle unless you help yourself, You ask for plain words.is poison, and it has not\u2014and never had\u2014in any guise whatever, the slightest compensating value for internal use.It isn't a beneficial stimulant; it's a poison.an aid to digestion; it's a poison.taker.It's a parasite, forger, thief, panderer, liar, brutalizer, There isn\u2019t, and there never has been, one word to say for it, or any excuse except morbid predisposition or self-inculeated You can take your choice.\u201d Nothing that I I will tell you this: Alcohol It isn't a food; It isn\u2019t It isn't a life-saver; it's a life MAGOG.The Woman\u2019s Missivnary Society will hold ite second anniversary in bhe Sunday school room vf the Methodiet Church on Wednesday evening, at 7.30.Tnere will be a program and refreshments will be served.Mr.and Mrs.Ray Styan, from Winnipeg, were recent guests of his brothers, Hurace and Reuben Styan.Mrs.Proctor returned to the home of her brother, Mr.Bachelder, after several mouths with relatives in Farwn- ham.Mrs.J.Broadbent had the misfortune to fall from the piazza recently and fracture her wrist.The Magog High School opened on Monday after the holiday vacation.Miss Nettie Manning from Knowl- ton\u2019s Landing visited her aunt, Mrs.Manning, last Friday.Miss Suedric, who has been employed in the Enterprise office for several years, has gone to Stanstead College to take a commercial course.Miss Jennie Colbarn, who has been at home for the holidays, returned to Montreal this week.Mrs.Henry and Mrs.E.H.Chamberlain were at Knowlton last week.Miss J.E.Kimpton from Apple Grove is visiting her aunt, Mrs.Manning, and other relatives.Mrs.J.O.Donigan and son spent the New Year holidays in Montreal.Miss À.Deragon ban gone to Montreal for tho winter.GRIFFIN.Mr.and M-s.M.W.Bullis spent New Year\u2019s day with Mr.and Mrs.Jobn A.Elliott, South Durham, leuv- ing Friday, Dec.3let, and returning Monday, Jan.3rd, one day of the holiday being epent with friends in Lennoxville.Mrs.Samuel Dunn and daughter Madeline spent a day recently with her sister, Mrs.V.O.Brown.Mrs.James Howard of Apple Grove spent a few days at the home of Mr.Willard Miller, the past week; and was also a guest at Mr.8.G.Drew's Wednesday.Mrs.C.P.Davis of Stanstead, Mrs.F.Stelle and daughter Helen of Sherbrooke, were recent guests at Mr.8.Q.Drew\u2019s.Messrs.Carroll Harris and Oloft Cass of Oliver, spent Sunday at Mr.A.P.Davis\u2019.Miss King reopened her school here Monday, Jan.3rd, with an addition of some new pupils.We are glad to report a large and prosperous school.On Tuesday, Jan.18th, a lecture on the subject of \u2018Some of the Outstanding Personalities in the Great War\u201d will be given by Mr.F.J.Malzard in the Congregational Church, Fitch Bay.A very small entrance fee will be charged; the proceeds to be divided between the local Missionary Society and the Canadian Red Cross work.BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.On Saturday the JOURNAL received trom the Secretary of the Barnston Patriotic Society the very generous contribution ot $256.00; also $1.00 from Mr.G.A.Hadlock of Barnston.Friday a well-known resident of the Judd\u2019s Mills neighborhood handed in $5.00 expressing the conviction that it was every man\u2019s duty to do his part to support these brave people.This morning's mail brought 81.00 trom A Friend in Hatley; $10.00 from Mrs.O.C.Colby and 810.00, Miss J.M.Colby.We have received from asubscriber, too late for publication, six noble stanzas on Belgium by F.W.bourdil- lon from his volume, \u2018Christmas Roses for 1014,\u201d These will appear in our next issue.One dollar comes from Mrs.E.G.Wilcox, Smith\u2019s Mills, just as we go to press.i here, ANOTHER VICTORY.The temperance forces of Rock Island secured another triumph Monday, when the last remaining license supporter in the municipal council was replaced by one of the most active temperance campaigners in the place.A meeting of the electors was called for Saturday evening to discuss municipal matters aud consider the choice of candidates.Although the call indicated that the license question was stilla vital issue, the no-license forces did not take the statement seriously, remaining at home through indifference or a false sense of eecurity.On the other hand the license party rallied their forces and packed the meeting, so that when an expression was called for they had an actual ma jority.It was then apparent that a fight was on.À partial canvass Sunday evening revealed the strength of the no-license party.The fighting spirit was fanned into flame; committees met for organization and preparation, this work lasting until past midnight.Monday morning found them prepared and anxious to again measure strength with their opponents.Both parties rallied their forces at the municipal building shortly after ten o'clock, The law allows one hour between ten and eleven during which nominations may be filed.Each party seemed to be waiting for the other to act.Finally the no-license party handed in three separate nomination papers, supporting Mayor James A.Gilmore, Councilor E.P.Ball and Mr.Joseph Lowell, all of whom were pledged to oppose licenses.Shortly afterwards most of the license supporters withdrew to the outer room for consultation; and as the final hour drew near voices grew louder.Finally the clock struck eleven; then the returning officer\u2019s clerk and legal adviser, Mr.John M.Montle rose to an- pounce that the \u2018\u201c\u2018people\u2019s ticket\u2019 had been elected; the license party had fled.The returning officer was Councilor George Clark.Latterly license supporters had been trying to boister up their, causg with claime that a revulsion of opinion had taken place Events of the past few days show that temperance sentiment is stronger than ever; the people are looking not only to continuation of no-license but to vigorous enforcement of the law by a solid no-license council.The conviction that whiskey has no place in modern business is growing.On the affirmative side of this question all the respectable citizenship is lining up.The most encouraging feature of the case is the fact that many men who, only a few years ago, honestly believed license to be the better means of \u2018\u2018controlling\u201d the liquor traflic now frankly admit their mistake and come out squarely for no-license.There are a few people in the world who seem to think it dishonorable to change their views, or at least to admit that they have done so, but happily the Rock Island council is not made up of that sort.Few members of the board have always stood for no-license, but being thinking men they bave progressed with the world\u2019s progress.Men who are incapable of progress are to be pitied.Miss Fanny P.Kerr, daughter of F J.Kerr, Westmount, and a teacher in th e public echcol at Longueuil, wa knocked down, run over and fatally injured by a runaway horse in West mount Friday evening.She was on her way to choir practice at the time and died in the Western Hospital, Saturday morning, her skull having been fractured.So prosperous is New Zealand that a war-tax may not be necessary next year. ENGLAND AND THE WAR Mrs.(Col.) B.B.Morrill Writes of Camps and Training in the Old Land.LETTER TO READING CLUB.Reference has already been made to a letter written by Mrs.(Col.) B.B.Morrill to the Woman's Reading Club.This week the JOURNAL ls pleased to present the same to its readers: 1567 Seabrook Rd., Hythe, Kent, England.Dear Members of the Clab: .Knowing that the hearts, and thoughts, of the members of our Club are now turned to thie part of the world-it may be of interest to them to have a word, from an absent member, who has at closer range, an opportunity to see at least the preparations for aud tbe after effects of the war.Those of you who have been on pleasure trips abroad, may have vie- ited the large eeaside resort of Folkestone, on the English Channel, connected by bus with Dover, Sand- gate, Seabrook and Hythe, so they are like one large town, while back of them, at the foot of the downs, or hills, are Cheriton and Shorncliffe.The view from the downs is fine, over a large part of Kent, one of the most historical countries of England, over the many camps in groups like white mushrooms, the row of towns, and the sea beyond with often, airships and aeroplanes circling back and forth, searching for danger in mines, and submarines.It is not the time to speak of the beauty of ivy-clad England, its holly covered hedges and the beautiful flowers growing in the gardens of all, even the humblest homes, or the wonderful old castles, churches, and historical poiuta, which cannot fail to interest the stranger even in war times.You would like better to have me tell of existing conditions, Shorncliffe is the general name for the camps in this part of England, and is always a military camp in times of peace, but each particular camp hae a name of its own.The C.M.R.\u2019s spent the last three weeks of their stay at Caesar\u2019s Camp, where it is said Julius Caesar encamped at the time of the conquest of England.Earthworks may be seen in the hills back of (he camp site which they claim were made by his army.These camps and towns, like almost all England, are now fairly swarming with soldiers.The streets are full, omnibuses packed.Just now as it la getting cold for tents, they are being put in huts of wood and of metal, and many billeted in homes.An officer and a policeman go to every house to find how many each can accommodate, II there is any unoccupied space at all in a house, they decide how many will be sent and they have to take them; whether they will or no.In some places they are even asked to clear their living rooms for the beds of the soldiers.Other boarders often bave to give up their places, but, being soldiers\u2019 wives, we are allowed to stay.They mark in chaik on the outside how many are billeted in each house.It ie very unusual here to see an able-bodied man who is not in khaki.Those who are not are looked upon with much disfavor, and no respect is felt for them here.Quite too early in the morning under my window, comes the command of the sergeant in charge, \u2018Fall In,\u201d as he collects his raen, and they march away to their day\u2019s training.No one car navy respect and admiration enough for these men who, with their future so dark and uncertain, patiently and uncomplainingly march past, morning after morning, to musketry practise, learning to dig and blow up trenches, build bridges, or some other branch of warfare.They are generally accompanied by their bands; if not, they cheer their homesick hearts by the straine of their own vocal bands as they march.When the weather was warmer it was nice to see them, headed by their bands, march down to their morning bath in the sea.Even though there soem to be so many soldiers about, regiments are alwaye leaving for the theatre of war and reinforcements for those already at the front.On the night of Sept.16th, we watched 4000 men with all they possessed in packs march past our house to the whart where they embarked for France.In a few days many were back in the hospitals.Col.Morrill left Caesar's Camp during the night of Oct.22ud and, in command of all the transports, sailed from Southampton to Le Havre, a twelve- hours\u2019 journey, while the remainder ot the brigade marched next day to Folkestone pler where a eail of lews than two hours brought them to France.The 65th CO.M.R.\u2019s sometimes in France, sometimes in Belgium, are having their turn in the trenches with some casualities.- Col.Morrill writes: \u2018\u2018Never any more practising, always the real thing now.\u201d Oo clear days the coast of France with its chalk cliffs, shows up plainly, and we sometimes hear the heavy firing.The eea between always aflords questionable entertainment.It may only be the changeful motion and coloring of the water, or the mine sweepers, searching tor German mines On Oct.28th a tremendous storm made the waves look like bills, and the salt spray blew over us when we ventured out to see a wreck that had blown in near shore where the boat was rolling and dipping and the waves beating against ber.She was a Dutch ship, the \u2018\u201cZeemeeuw,\u2019\u201d supposed to have been laying German mines when overtaken by the storm.She carried a fake cargo.Her crew were brought ashere and interned.She is lying out there now, the waves at high tide covering all but her mast.Beveral vessels have met with disaster ont in front of us.One day the booming of a ship\u2019s siren was heard and through glasses a vessel could be seen that bad been torpedoed about a mile away.Other boats came to her assistance and surrounded her with lighters to keep her afloat, but so surrounded her that we were unable to tell whether she sank or was towed ashore.The cable-laying ship, \u2018\u2018Monarch,\u2019\u2019 struck a mine and sunk, twenty minutes out from Dover.The largest oil boat struck a mine, and the beaches are covered for many miles with the oil that has washed ashore.The day the King came back from France alter his accident, we counted 68 ships in the Channell.One of them was the hospital sbip \u2018\u201c\u201cAnglia,\u2019\u201d\u2019 which as you know was eunk hy a nine and carried those brave, helpless soldiers to their death.Hospital ships are all painted white with a big red cross, and the flag staff of the \u2018\u2018Anglia,\u201d with its red cross flag atill flying, is visible above the waves.A most interesting sight the ses gave us off Dover, was the starting off of asea-plane.It was drawn from its shed to the water on wheels, the whir of the engine creating such a wind that it took off people\u2019s hats and blew dust all over them till they were glad to run back.The wheels were taken out, the aviator tied his cap under his chip, apd the plane started off across the water.Finally after getting up enough steam, it gradually and gracefully rose up from the water and flew away high in the air.There are a great many airshipe and aeroplanes abgut here at almost all times, and they are kept in aerodromes painted in patches of brown, green and landscape colors, to deceive hostile aircraft who might think them good marks for bombs.When Dover was last visited by hostile craft it was plainly seen from the camps in the strong rays of the search lights that play over Dover every night.We saw the havoc made by the zeppelins in London.Children in that district cry to be allowed to sleep on the floor rather than to be thrown out of their beds.Streets, busses and houses are kept quite dark, curb stones painted white, that the streets may be better seen.If your curtains are not tightly drawn, a policeman calls and asks you to draw them closer.The bombs that the Germans dropped on Otterpool Camp came very near home to us here.People rap out to see what the explosions were and those who were out saw the long, dark object in the sky that did such deadly work by killing every man in the guard tent, and wounding several others.Two of the men were brothers while a third brother who was with them, escaped.We bave two of the victims in our hospital, while sixteen were buried in S8horncliffe Cemetery where English ladies completely covered their graves with flowers.The towns are full ot hospitals and convalescent bomes.Many private homes are turned over to their use, but will tell you more of the one where Mrs.Fish (Ayer\u2019s Cliff) and I are working every day.There are many sad cases.Many have lost an arm or a leg; one, otherwise a strong and healthy man, is totally blind from a bullet through his bead; another, almost a boy, had been six months in a German prison with a bayonet wound in his side.He was Luaily exchanged and brought here.It seemed at firat that he could not recover, but he is up and out and doing finely.One soldier remarked to a questioner, \u2018Yes, I did my bit and lost my bit,\u201d indicating bis empty sleeve.When able to be up and around, their uniform is either a bright blue or a light grey and all wear a bright red tie.They seem cheerful, and appreciate the many diversions planned for their comfort by the societies and ladies of the towns who take them for drives, teas and concerts.\u2018Ralph Connor is a regular visitor; he is Chaplain at Sandling Camp.Twice a week a band concert is given them at the hospital, and often other concerts, so that those not able to drive out may still be entertained.If the Club members, or the village Red Cross, wished to send preserves, jam, or other comforts to this particular hospital, the matron assures me, they would be most acceptakle.Good- keeping apples would be very wel- comely received.They could be addressed to me, Central Military Hos- ital, 8horncliffe, if any were sent.The matron spoke of the wonderful organization of Canadian Red Cross.Col.Morrill and I felt great distress at the destruction that has come to our dear home town, and proud and grateful at the way those not afflicted had come forward to the relief of the sufferers.I do not know what the year\u2019s programme for the Olub may be, but am perfectly certain, it will be a most successful year in the handg of the new president.YI am sending my very best wishes to every one of you, with the season\u2019s greetings, and shall be very glad and thankful if I can ever be among you again.\u2014 Yours most sincerely, JESSIE F.MORRILL.Nov.29, 1915.BARNSTON.The lecture in the Methodist Church Sunday evening by Dr.Whitefleld Ray was un unusually splendid treat for all who were fortunate enough to be present and Rev.D.G.Ridout is to be thanked and congratulated on having secared Dr.Ray\u2019s services.We really never realized how little we knew about that wonderful continent, South America, until we listened to Dr.Ray\u2019s instructive address.Miss Florence Martin returned to Macdonald Coliege Saturday, where she is taking the model school course.Much sympathy is felt for Mr.and Mrs.Aimé Carbonneau in the loss of their dear litlle danghter Mildred, who passed away at her grandfather's home at Cassville, Jun, 4th, and was interred at Barnston, Jan.7th.The funeral service was conducted by Rev.H.Campbell Plant at the Baptist Church, Wednesday afternoon.With a shock the community heard Sunday of the death of Mrs.M.J.Fleming, as only Wednesday Mrs.Fleming had entertained the North Uoaticook Guild and was presumably in her usual state of health, until stricken down never to rise, Friday afternoon.By the passing away of Mrs.Fieming, the world loses a useful member of the community, a good church woman, a devoted wife and an affectionate mother.Mrs.Robert Markwell recently entertained Christ Oburch Guild at her home at Baldwin\u2019s Mills for dinner, when good weather, an Al dinner and an inspiring religious and business meeting made the occasion a pleasant one.On Friday evening, Jan.21st, a benefit for the Patriotic Society will be given in the form of a play, \u201cDown East,\u201d by the Amateur Dramatic Society of Way\u2019s Mills.Admission 25 cents, reserved seate 35 cents.Tur- cott\u2019s orchestra will be in attendance and will farnish music both between the acts of the play and for the dance afterwards.Admission to dance 50 cents.Meedames Eugene Bryant, Wright Parsons, H, O.Plant and Chas.Thornton form the committee to entertain the Way\u2019s Mills people at supper both before and after the play.taken Sunday morning by Mr.B.Meade of Coaticook.Mrs.Meade and ber little son accompanied Mr.Meade, Next Sunday the service will be in the afternoon at 2.30.Sunday School at 2 o'clock.Rev.D.G.Ridout spent most of last week in Montreal, returning to Barnston Friday evening.The following are on the sick list: Mesdames B.E.Converse, Cleland, Frank Wright, Mr.J.L Thornton, the Misses Frances Buckland and Mildred Fox.Dr.McCurdy is attending them ali.The Miesion Circle meets this week for dinner with Mra.Hollis Morrison.Miss Clemmer Converse expects to resume her duties at school in a short time.In the meantime Mrs.J.N.Jenks fd substituting for Miss Converse.Mr.and Mrs.H.Corey are visiting Mre.Corey\u2019s father, Mr.Charles Humphrey, Sunday.The school opened Monday with a small attendance owing to the storm.During the winter the Patriotic Society will meet for work at the homes io the village.The next meeting will be held Jan.20th at the home of Mrs.CO.H.Remick.A large attendance is desired.Every woman in Barnston, who cares for the well-being and comfort of our brave soldiers at the front, whether she be Protestant or Roman Catholic, French or English, should be there.From another correspondent.The various members and friends of the Barnston Canadian Patriotic Society were invited to the home of the president, Mre.J.N.Jenks, on Jan.4th, 19186.Alter a sumptuous dinner and a social hour, the annual business meeting was held.Mrs.Jenks was tendered a vote of thanks for her arduous work for the cause of the Society.Madame President thanked the officers, members and friends for their good work and attention to duties, especially Mrs.0.H.Remick, to whom she presented a true-blue pendant cross as a mark of appreciation ot her efforts for the Society.Next, the officers for the ensuing year were elected.Mrs.Jenks was unanimously re-elected, with Mee- dames Corey and MoCoy as vice-prea- idents; Mrs.O.H.Remick was re- elected convener of work; committee The service at Christ Church was |.supported by Mesdames Converse, W.M.Hadlock, Corey, McCoy, Morrison, O.Rose, Chas.Rose, Smith, GQ.A.Hadlook, and J.L.Thornton; Mrs.Bryant was chosen convener of social comment, supported by Mesdames Jenks, Hall, Plant, Ridout, Parsons, Thornton, and the Missee Remick, F.Buckland and E.Dresser.Three new members were added to the list, and also one honorary member.The Way's Mills Society will give their play, \u201cDown East,\u201d in the Barneton town ball on Friday, Jan.21st, 1916.Half of proceeds, to go to the Patriotic Soclety.The meeting was adjourned to meébt again Thursday, Jan.6th, 1916.Report of the Barnston Canadian Patriotic Society for the Year 1015.The above Society was organized Jan, 12th, 1915, with fourteen charter members, six other ladies joining later in the year, although many as- eisted with work, who were not members.The Society has held eighteen meetings and collected 821 50 in membership fees and dues, The late Mrs.Cushing 8 500 Way\u2019s Mille play 7 10 55 Sale of candy 8 70 Waterville A.P.M.32 20 Sale of candy 5 35 Hatley play 18 56 Sale of candy 9 00 lance 27 20 Social 17 26 8129 80 EXPENSES\u2014 Paid out for yarn 8 2100 «ss sewing material, candy, social events, etc.113 89 Mrs.Bishop and Miss F.Buckland collected $16.00 as well as some fruits, jellies, etc., for Christmas boxes sent to our local boys at the front.Later, an additional few dollars were handed in for the same purpose.To purchase ice cream for Ayer\u2019s Clift fair, 88.00 was subscribed besides great quantities of food, eggs, chick- eps, etc.Previous to the formation of the B.C.P.8.Miss F.Remick collected $15.00 for the -Ambulance Fund, and Red Oross Fund.The following articles have been made and sent to the Canadian Red Cross Society in Montaeal: 1 doz.hospital shirts, 43 pre.socks, 5 prs.knee-caps, 8 comforters, 10 flannel shirts, 1 doz.pillow slips, and also 25 prs.socks which were knitted and sent to Montreal through the Coaticook Patriotic Society.Cash on band ia treasury, 836.31, 825.00 of which was voted to be sent to the Belgian Relief Fund through the Stanstead JOURNAL.(MRs.) O.8.THORNTON, Sec\u2019y- Treas., B.C.P.8.NORTH HATLEY.Mr, and Mrs.Oliver Raymond and family were guests of his brother at Edge Lake Farm on Thursday.The annual meeting of the Baptist Mission Circle was held at the Baptist Oburch, Friday evening.Reports of all departments of the church showed a prosperous year\u2019s work.A special feature of the week for the coming winter will be papers by Miss F.A.Bryant, B.A., on the subject of India\u2019s Awakening.\u201d The circle will meet the first Tuesday in each month.Everybody welcome.Mre.Duncan and son of Minnesota are spending the winter at the home of her father, Mr, O.O.LeBaron.Mr.Dana Hunting and bride who were visiting relatives and friends here a few days last week, have returned to their home at Three Rivers.Misa Pauline LeBaron has returned to her teaching in Montreal, after spending the holidays at her home here.The W.C.T.U.met Jan.3rd with Mrs.Wm.Raymond who served a most excellent chicken pie dinner to 14 members and several visitors.A resume of the past year\u2019s work showed that we had not been idle.Among other business 85.00 was voted to help the fight for a dry Stanstead Oounty, and 85.00 for the Dominion Allance tond.While we planned for the work of the new year, fingers were busy knitting for our soldier boys over the seas, Ten new members reported since county convention, Municipal elections in the township of Hatley, Monday, resuited in the reéiection of Uouncilors H.L.Johnson (Minton) and Alex Kezar (Massawip- pi.) In North Hatley Councilor J.J.McCrae was reélected and John Mo- Nerney was elected in place of Albert Dick, whose term of office had expired.At a meeting of the Board of Trade, Friday evening, much dissatisfaction was expressed regarding the rise in the telephone rates; it was said that other boards of trade are taking the matter in hand, and if, as has been suggested, a new company were formed with more reasonable rates, it would have the support and patronage of the Associated Boards of Trade, Massawippi Lake froze over on Friday night for the firet time this season.The United States owes foreign investors $15,000,000,000 for securities held by them.8100.00 was sent to Stanstead for the THE REPAIR SEASON AUTOMOBILES Now is the time to have your machine overhauled and painted.The time is short to good running weather and roads.I am better equipped than ever to do your work.I have a large amount of work to do, therefore don\u2019t be late, THE AMES GARAGES, GEORGE T.AMES, PROPRIETOR, DERBY LINE, VT., - .- ROCK ISLAND, QUE.[10 MEN OF MILITARY AGE (18 TO 45.) 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12 [Ang parte 7 | $8.40 MUNICIPALITY OF BARNSTON TOWNSHIP.Mitchel Salois.24 0.8 85% | 87.00 MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH HATLEY VILLAGE.Page Printing and Binding , ae Company.Part 624 8 965.61 MUNICIPALITY OF STE.CATHERINE DE HATLEY.Pierre Raymond.Lots 1338, 1403 and 10 156 866.82 Mrs.H.O.Walthour, [Parts Lote 856,857) 5 8% 88.85 Mederic Lambert and Napol- .eon Viens, Lot 948.8 63 58.85 Stanstead Plain, Que., 8th January, 1916.A.N.THOMPSON, Secretary-Treasurer of the County of Stanstead: CARTER\u2019S Inks, Paste, Mucilage, Typewriter Ribbons Try Pencraft, the new double purpose ink for office and fountain pen use Sold by The Journal Printing Co.GEORGEVILLE.The lake froze over here on the pight of the 6th and they have it bushed now.It has been good skating for the last two days.Mr.Melville Kearns has enlisted in the Signaling Corps of the 117th Regiment under Lieut.E.O.Irvine.Mr.Kearns will still keep up his services here on Sundays.The fuoperal of Mr.H.J.Bullock took place in Beebe, Tuesday, and the remains brought here for interment beside hie parents.Mr.Bullock lived here for many years and was well known and very highly respected by all.Messrs.John Vaughan, Roy Sheldon and Wray Adams have enlisted in the 117th E.T.Regiment.Mr.Wm.Huckina is visiting his sister, Mrs.Wm.Pessley.The dance given on Thursday night by the young ladies in aid of the Belgian Relief was a great auccess in spite of bad roade and various other things.Mr.J.Arlington Davideon is in Sherbrooke where he has employment in the Ingersoll Rand shops.Mr.and Mrs.Jas.Allen are giving a social for the Girl's Patriotic Club on Tuesday night, Jan.18th.Every one welcome; a good time is expected.Received too late for last issue.Mr.Editor\u2014 Will you kindly allow a letter apace in your good paper for a feeble report of the very aplendid ovater supper and entertainment given here last week by the ladies of Georgeville, and those out of George- ville\u2014and by the way a good share should go to the latter as the severe storm made it bard for them to get through to the Georgeville Methodist Church, the use of which was so kindly given for the ocrasion.The entertainment was gotten up hv the Red Cross workers of the village for the purpose of aiding that most worthv institution.Owing to the fact that our village is small we amounting to nearly forty dollars, gives the ladies much credit.In the space of two months the ladies have raleed nearly seventy dollars, and ahont one-half of it has been made up and sent to the Society at Montreal.The supper which was served by the ladies, dressed in the uniforms of Red Cross nurses, was sumptuous, almost beyond description, and the entertainment which waa of the first order, was simply grand.The Patriotic Songs, as well as the addresses given hy the chairman, Rev.Melville Kearns, and Rev.Mr.Svkes were very instrumental in bringing up recruits, as six have just gone to Sherbrooke to offer their services to their King and coun- trv.It ie really surprising how many Red Crosa workera we have in and about eur little village.This work Penny through the summer months, but handed over to the ladies here for the winter, and they are going ahead with a vim that does our place proud.Miss Emery, an English lady who has lately taken up her abode with us, gave the children of the English Church a Chrietmas tree at her home.that were not youngsters, were present and a general good time wae the result.Mies Emery is one of the best Red Cross workers and is a great addition to the village.Thanking you, Mr.Editor, for the space so kindly given\u2014please join us in saying God Save the King and the workers of the Red Cross.GEORGEVILLEITE.NEWPORT.The Memphremagog Driving Club of Newport held its first matinee races Saturday afternoon.A large crowd wae in attendance for the afternoon\u2019s sport.With good weather, and the track in the best of conditions, the races were run off in a manner eatis- factory to all.Six class races were on the card, with fourteen starters.The Club will hold ite next meeting Satar- day, Jan.15th, and each week thereafter during the winter.The Club extends a cordial invitation to all who wish to attend.Following ie a list of the winners: : Class A.Kid Halton, E.Pickle, +.- 3 Black Fox, H.B.Stewart, .1 Lucky Strike, R.Hanley, .2 Time .34, .3414, 343.Olass B.Contractor, N.Eastman, .11 Lady B., Chae, Berry, +.-.- .22 Lucky Jim, Fred Harvey, .83 Time 3614, .3634.Olacs O.Octroon Prince, E.Reece, .2 Sou.Cells, W.Barnard, «-*- 1 Time .38, .85, .38.Class D.Lauretta B., O.Kelley, -.-.- Dolley Grey, H.L.Flynn, -.Time .34:g, 86.| Class E.A.Duchess, W.Utton, -.11 Boden, 8.Willlame, .c.32 Time .88%, 36%.Class F.Dreamwold, A.Greer, .211 Midnight, D.K.Eastman, .122 Time .43%, .48, 434.Gold discoveries are reported north of Nipigon, Thunder bay district, Ontario.think the proceeds of the evening, has been carried on by Mrs.E.Goff About forty youngsters, and some HATLEY.The Guild of the St.James Church was held at the home of Mrs.Gerald Mousley on Wednesday afternoon, Jan.5th, the hostesses being Mrs.Mousley and Mrs.Gerald Mousley.A pleasant afternoon and evening were spent.On Saturday afternoon, Jan.8th, eighteen young ladies met at the home of Mise M.Gage, for the purpose of organizing a Junior Red Cross Society.The following officers were elected: President, Miss A.Dresser; 1st vice-president, Mrs.Glidden; 2nd i vice-president, Miss M.McCleay; 3rd vice-president, Miss H.Emery; secretary, Miss K.Woodman; treasurer, Miss F.Glidden; work committee, Mesers.M.Gage, O.Hodges, D.Sohool- craft, J.Davidson, V.Kendrew and I Hodges.The meetings will be held every two weeks.The society will be glad to welcome any young lady who may wish to join its circle, and do her bit in the great Empire Struggle.The apnual W.C.T.U.social will be held at the home of Mra.Orrin Glidden on Friday evening, Jan.21st.The proceeds will be divided with the Junior Red Cross Society.An interesting program is being arranged.It is hoped that there will be a good attendance, both to aid the temperance canse and to encourage the young ladies, who have recently organized themselves for systematic Red Oross work, and are depending on the proceeds of this social to purchase ma- \u201cterial to begin their work.| Report of the election of the Hatley ; Village Council, which took place on Jan.10th and 11th: Councilor Geo, | Poole re-elected without opposition.| Mr.F.Malonay elected hv a majority of ten aver Mr, J.F.Wondman, to take the place of Mr.Edwin Howe, i who is retiring.| HATLEY CENTER.| The auditors of the Municipality of | the Townahip af Hatlev, Messrs.M.W.:LeBaron and Joseph Voisard, were at ithe office of the Secretary-Treaanrer last Thursday.The audit was carried out with exactitude resulting in a \u2018larger expenditure and correspond- | ingly larger receipts.Receipta from all sources for the Year 1916 ware $7826 07 with expenditure of $6612 39 leaving a balance of 81213 68 to the good.The North Hatley Egg Circle met at the Abbott schoolhouse on Tuesday evening to elect new officers for the coming season.Mr.Marcellus, manager of the egg department of the Department of Agriculture for the Province of Quebec, was present and gave a short address.The following officers were elected: Messrs, Bond Little, president; Ed.Maxfield, J.W.McKay, E.J.Oliver, E.H.Clark, E.E.Fox and M.B.Roublee.Miss Bertha Abbott has returned home slightly improved in health.Miss Bonnie Oliver was in Sher- ; brooka on Satorday.Mr.E.J.Oliver was in Coaticook on Saturday.Mr.and Mre C.W.Sampson are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby girl { at their home.Mr.and Mre.H.P.Abbott visited Mrs.Peck at Massawippi on Saturday.Mrs.Young visited her son, Mr.C.P.Young, on Friday, bringing Master Galer home with her to spend a few days.VERMONT ITEMS.The sixth annual conference of the Older Boys of the Green Mountain State will be held at Rutland January 14, 15, and 16, the general theme being, \u201cThe Christian Boy and His Ideals.\u201d Rutland\u2019s new night school for people of foreign birth was attended at its first session by 20 pupils.These were all men.Ten volunteer teachers reported for service, and others stand\u2019 ready to assist.The friends and members of Bethany church and congregation at Randolph presented the Rev.Fraser Metzer a puree of $672.75 Christmas day, for the purchase of an automobile for his use.Mr.Metzer\u2019s little son, Albert, was summoned by Mr.and Mrs.V.A.Grant to do some errands for them and the one errand proved to take the purse of money to his father at the parsonage.Vermont receives about 860,000 a year in license fees from the fourteen \u2018\u201c\u2018wet\u201d\u201d towns by means of the present high-license local-option law.The records reveal the fact that 92 per cent of the inmates of the State's prison, House of Oorrection, Insane Aeylume, Reform School and Institution for feeble minded children are traceable to the liquor habit.The cost to the state for the maintenance of there refuges is between two and three bundred thousand dollars.How ie this for a cold business proposition, saying nothing of the moral side of the question?Every manand woman in the state Is a partner in this deal.It cannot be confined to the towns and cities that vote in the saloon.The by-products of this damnable traffic, even in the fourteen centers, will eventually rein the whole if allowed to continue, Next March the voters should kill the traffic four to one.Canada\u2019s woodlands and forests cover 865,000,000 acres.VERMONT ITEMS.The Press Association.[Brattleboro Reformer.) Banging the Vermont Press Association is a popular pastime among certain newspaper publishers who never do a thing to help the organization.The press association ie a codperative affair.1f you want it to be a useful and helpful body attend its meetings and try to put it on the right track.Slamming it without doing a bit of work yourself will never help it to make progrees.Teachers to Meet in Burlington.The executive committee of the Vermont State Teachers\u2019 Association, Supt.E.F.Greene of the Richford school union, Prin.A.8.Harriman of the Middlebury high school, and E.L.Ingalls, of Burlington, the president of the association, met at the Hotel Vermont recently and decided to hold the next annual meeting of the association in Burlington, October 12, 13, 14, 1916, it was stated at the meeting that the attendance at the Rutland convention where 1,625 teachers reg- ietered, was the largest ever recorded at an association meeting.Celebrate Golden Wedding.The golden wedding of Dr.and Mrs.Ferrin of Essex Junction was celebrated at the home of their daughter, Mrs.E.D.Williams, in Stamford, Conn., January 2.Dr.Chester M.Ferrin and Marion E.Benedict were married at Hinesburg January 2, 1868, by Rev.0.E.Ferrin, brother of the groom, and went immediately to St.Johnsbury, where the doctor had been in practice for a few months and where they resided until June, 1872, when they moved to Essex Junction.Dr.Ferrin is an uncle of Judge E.A.Ferrin of Holland.{ The Industrial Accident Board.[Brattleboro Reformer) ! Vermont\u2019s new industrial accident board, which hae in charge the administration of a law designed to prevent expensive litigation, and to place the burden of industrial accidents upon industry rather than upon the employer or employee, is a busy body which is doing an important work.In the six months that it has been at work it has already disposed of 1,327 out of 2,816 cases brought before it, and has practically closed 264 out of the remaining 489 cases.Governor Gates selected good men for this board in Messrs.Simonds, Daniels and Pease.Changing Holidays.[Brattleboro Reformer.) This year with Christmas and New Year\u2019s falling on Saturdays, people are finding it so restful and enjoyable to have a double holiday with Sunday that a plea is on foot to have the President of tbe United States proclaim that Memorial day and Thanksgiving day come on Saturday, too.The Providence Bulletin takes up this thought and adds: \u201cThe ar;uments for utilizing our | holidays so ' hat they will immediately , follow or precede Sunday are familiar aud not without force.The advocates of this change believe as strongly in the advantage that would accrue if all our general play days were likewise on Saturday.They consider that Decoration day and Thanksgiving are more easily made fixed days because they are neither historical dates nor suoject to the old established church calendar.Yet Thanksgiving by almost long usage is eentimentally associated with Thursday.As for Me- moria) day the desire of many members of the Grand Army of the Republic bas been expressed that it be made permanently a Sunday observance in order to escape the inappropriate features that have fastened on the date of May 30th.The S8unday observance as a part or whole of the program would be facilitated by the adoption of Saturday as the legal holiday.\u201d \u201cThere can be a good deal said for these changes, but it would take not a little agitation to make staunch New Englanders wish to change Thanksgiving to any other day than it now is\u2014the last Thureday in November.With Memorial day there is far more reason for making it on Sunday.\u201d For some time we have grown so accustomed to adopting customs established by the United States that it fe refreshing to note a case where Canada has really lead in a good movement.A few years ago Canadian Thanksgiving was changed from Thursday to Monday for the very reasons that are now being advanced by the advocates of a change in the United States.The change in Canada bas not been a disappointment.Monday as a holiday Is proving much more satisfactory than any other day ever has.Employers find that it does not \u2018\u2018break up\u2019 the week's work as did Thoreday.Working men find two days comiug in succession a real respite; Lwo successive days, give them an opportunity to visit friends much farther away than was possible when Sunday wae divided from the holiday.We bope our friends in the United Btates will succeed in securing the desired change and that it may prove as satisfactory in that country as it bas in this.© 2 BAAAAAALAANAALDNADIAALLLHE Hugo Muensterberg Trying to S ow What Hun Means by Kultur ROF.HUGO MUENSTERBERG is still trying to explain that \u2018Kultur\u2019 business.Prof.Hugo, who is professor of psychology at Harvard, is not so readily listened to, now that the \u201cKultur\u201d sheep dog has proven a wolf in the fold, but he is still intensely active in the United States, writing and speaking, and, above all, explaining, This is what he has to say regarding \u201cKultur\u201d: \u201cKultur is certainly not culture.To translate kultur as culture is entirely misleading.Culture is a quality that results from a man\u2019s educa- \u2018tion so far as it does not relate to the technical performances of life.The word kultur has a large number of meanings.\u201cThere is first that interpretation of kultur which we find in the word kulturgeschichte, the history of all that mankind has produced, whether it be the agriculture of a nation or its art.The opposite of kultur, in this sense, 1s nature and all that develops through the mechanical powers of nature.\u2018Another conception of kultur is as a title of honor for those functions of life which have a mental character as against a material existence.\u201cIn Germany kultur and civilization are contrasted.There is a certain familiar way of saying that certain nations have splendid civilization \u2014 that is, splendid electric lights, splendid economics and other technical features, but no kultur, because their art, religion, and education are only an imitation of the other nations.\u201cThey have yet no art and science, they have not yet developed what the Germans call kultur, as against civile ization.\u201d French Women Not Mourning, \u201cEighteen months ago France wanted peace.To-day she wants war most energetically, and to that end will use all her resources,\u201d said Gen, Gallieni, the Minister of War, in asking the Senate to approve the action of the Chamber of Deputies In giving him the 1917 class of recruits for January 5.General Gallieni\u2019s remarks were greeted with prolonged applause.\u201cWhoever says a word of peace in the streets Is considered a bad citizen,\u201d continued the Minister of War, \u2018\u2018Mothers are not mourning for lost pons; they want them to be avenged.The 1917 class will leave with the assent of the nation.It demands that those charged with the duty receive and instruct these young men and prepare them for the great contest, which will not end before France, in accord with her allies, says: \u2018I stop! I have obtained what I wanted; I resume my work of peace.\u2019 \u201d Redoubled applause, interspersed with shouts of \u201cExcellent!\u201d came from the entire Senate, which arose as a mark of honor.Returning to the Ministerial seat, Gen.Gallien! received the congratulations of his colleagues.Prisoners Splendidly Treated.The Spanish Ambassador, after having visited the prisoner camps in different parts of the country, has issued a statement in which he says: \u201cThe treatment of Austrian prisoners in Italy is a noble example of humanity and civilization.Italy is acting towards the prisoners with chivalry, almost with affection, even imparting lessons to the illiterates.\u201d\u201d The Austrian prisoners in Italy are under the direct protection of the Spanish Eme bassy.Cricketers Making Munitions.Among the munition workers at the Huddersfield National Shell Fae- tory are George Herbert Hirst, Wil fred Rhodes, and Schofield Haigh, the well-known Huddersfield trio of Yorkshire County cricketers. mme The Stanstead Journal.PURBLIARED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rook Island, Que.Une year (advance payment) £1.00 if paid in six months, 1.26 At the end of the year, 1.50 When sent by mail to subscribers in the United States the price will be $1.00 a year in advance\u2019 Entered as second-class matter at the Post: en at Derby Line under the act of Murch, 8 ADVERTISING RATES.Transient advertising 10 cents a line for tae b insertiou and 8 cents a line tor each subsequent insertion.12 lines to theinch.Noad- ver:imncnt rectivod for less than SUcents.Correspondents \u201cre san do so ly assist us by sending as much of thelr copy as possilbe by Monday evening's post.Reports of later events may then be sent in by mail as late as W +8 day evening, or by \u2018phone on Thursday fore noon when necessard, It is frequently difficult for us to find work OF our compositors Monday and Tuesday.esday snd Thursday they are always submerged with copy.who can do so THE PUBLISBRKR.THE SITUATION IN COATICCOK.Temperance eentiment is steadily growing in Coaticook.Before the no- .license campaign was brought on in Btanstead county some two years ago, Coaticook wae regarded as an impregnable liquor stronghold.When the vote was taken August 6th, 1914, four polls gave an aggregate \u201cwet\u201d majority of 176, but two polls gave small \u201cdry\u201d majorities, that of Lovell\u2019s office 12 and the town hall 3, leaving the actual \u2018\u2018wet\u2019\u2019 majority at 161, a much smaller figure than was counted on by the liquor interests.Since then the saloons of Coaticook have done nothing to warrant public confidence.The license question was a live issue in the municipal election of 1915.Mr.H.8.Nourse was put into the fleid as a straight no-license candidate; Mr.C, A.Fox, one of that rapidly decreasing group of \u2018\u2018temperance\u201d men who believe in license as a means of \u2018\u2018con- forward in opposition to Mr.Nourse.Mr.Fox is a trader, exceptionally well known, and a strong candidate.Before the campaign wus far advanced auch pressure had been brought to bear upon him that he promised not to vote for license, although he would not vote against the applications.Mr.Fox, popular as he was, got in by the \u2018skin of his teeth,\u201d his majority over Mr.Nourse being only fifteen.With Mr.Fox neutral the council was \u201ctied,\u201d and the licenses were secured only by the casting vote of the mayor, F.E.Lovell, who is said to have had mortgages on some of the hotels and was therefore an interested party.February 3rd, 1916, Coaticook will vote on the license question independent of the municipal election and the people will bave an opportunity of judging the bars purely on their merits.Coati- cook\u2019s redemption from the saloon curse is approaching; when it comes, the people of that progressive town will wonder why on earth they eo long submitted to saloon domination.QUEBEC MOST BACKWARD.While urging workmen to educate themselves in economics, and particularly to make themselves familiar with the arguments for the great ideals of organized labor which they have espoused, Professor Laski, of McGill University, devoted a few sentences Monday night, at the labor meeting in Montreal, to the conditions of education in the Province of Quebec.\u201cProfessor Dale is my authority for the statement that in no province of the Dominion is education so backward as in Quebec,\u201d said the speaker.\u201cThere is vo glory to Quebec in this state of affairs.Education is not even compulsory here.How can you send any child into the industrial world, to 80 no further, and expect it to cope adequately with conditions such as those under which we live if they are not trained to understand the elementary facts of life?How can they expect to earn a proper livelihood when the majority of their parents show so little foresight ae to send them to blind alley occupations which lead nowhere?\u2019\u2019, He thought that one labor member in the Dominion House for 136,000 trades usioniste in Canada was a poor showing, and he said that they should see to it that that one man should be the very best they had.SMITH'S MILLS.The Homemakers Olub will give a five- hundred party in Fairview Hotel, Friday evening, Jan.21st.Refreshments will be served.Tickets 20 cents.The Smith\u2019s Mille Guild will et with Mrs.G.E.Langeway, January 19th.It is hoped all the members will be present.OLDER BUT STRONGER To be healthy at seventy, prepare at forty, is sound advice, because in the strength of middle life we too often forget that neglected colds, or careless treatment of slight aches and pains, simply undermine strength and being chronic weakness for later years.To be stronger when older, kee nur Wood pure and rich and active Rh the strength - building and blood «nourishing properties of Scott's Emulsion which is a ,& tonic and a medicine to keep your Mood rich, alleviate rheumatism and ovoid sickness.At any drug store, Scott & Bowne, Toronto, Ont, A.J.Bissonnet, M.L.A., Replies to Speech from Throne.The Quebec Legislature opened Taeeday afternoon.Io the speech from the throne reference ise made to the war and the loyalty of this province.Reference is also made to the efforts of the government to encourage the formation of coôperative associations for the production, preparation and marketing of maple sugar and syrup, poultry, smoked meats, butter, cheese and fruit; to the construction for equalizing the flow of streams; to the increase in the salaries of teachers; to the establishment of a normal school at Sherbrooke; to the completion of the Sherbrooke- Derby Line highway, and work on the Montreal- Quebec and Lewis-Jackman roads, which it is predicted will be finished early next summer.In the \u201cspeech\u201d reference is also made to the government\u2019s efforts at colonization, which were especially successful in the Metapedia Valley and Abitabbi.* MR.BISSONNET'S SPEECH.The following speech was delivered Tuesday afternoon by Mr.A.J.Bis- sonnet, M.L.A.for Stanstead, seconding the motion in reply to the Speech from the Throne.Mr.Speaker: \u2014 After the very able address that has been made by the Honorable Member for Bouaventure, who has covered the whole fleld of provincial politics, my duty as seconder is a very easy task.In the Speech from the Throne, mention bas been made of the fact that the Proviuce of Quebec has done its duty in the present great World\u2019s crisis, the like of which there is no record in past history, and I think that the whole of Canada bas done ite duty nobly in this war, but I am especially pleased that my native Province has 1 ,come forward and shown itself second trolling\u2019 the liquor traffic, was brought | to none by its contributions in money and in men, both English and French, ' who are preparing to go, or are actually in the trenches aud io the firing line.The Government of the Province of Quebec has given the following sums of money: Donation to the Imperial Government Ralief of Belgiam Sufferers L\u2019Hopital des Paroisses Canadiennes de Ja 8623,897.56 25,6 00.00 Province de Québec.5,000.00 Comité de Secours National de France.c.cou.39,096.46 and in the official report, as made by the Canadian Patriotic Fund Committee, it is shown that the people of the Province of Quebec per capita are second, the people of Manitoba coming first in the Dominion, in the contribu- tione made for the support and maintenance and help of the tamilies of the men, who have gone to fight for their country, .FINANCIAL SITUATION.The Province, notwithstanding these large donations, and notwithstanding that all the provinces, the whole Dominion, indeed the whole World are going through very strenuous times, came through the first year of the crisis with an extremely satisfactory financial statement, because after all donations were paid the Province had a surplus of $194,416.01, I congratulate the Government upon this showing, and upon their wise and prudent administration of the public affairs of the Province during such a crisis, but I want to particularly congratulate the people of my Province, because it is largely due to the thrift, their energy, and their economical babits, that the Province is able to go through such a crisis as the present one in such an admirable manner, AGRICULTURE.Notwithstanding the critical times through which we are passing, the Government is to be congratulated on the continuing of its policy of increased grants to Agricultare and to Education.It you will look at the Public Accounts you will find that last year the Government grants to Agriculture totaled the sum of $649,- 551.88, whereas during the last year of the Conservative administration they amounted to $230,795.75.The result of increased grants to Agriculture bas been increased production throughout the whole of the Province, and if you will look at the statistics you will find that the average value of farm produce has increased per occupant to a very considerable amount, whereas in the year 1901 the total production per occupant was 8573.00, in the year 1911 it amounted to $967.00, and during the same period the value of lands, buildings, agrioul- tural implements, and live stock has increased from the sum of 82,594 00 to the sum of $4,976.00.In ten years the average production and the average value per occupant has almost doubled.EDUCATION, The total grants to Education during the last year of the Conservative administration amounted to $405,404 256 and last year, under the present administration they totaled the sum of $1,452,772 90.These graute have been distributed as equitably as possible both to Su- | perior and Elementary Education, as THE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE.| tbe grants to the University of Laval, Quebec, University of Laval, Montreal, and tbe University of MoGili, which now amount to the eum of 635,000.00 each per annum, and to Bishop's College, Lennoxville, 82.500 00, to the Technical School, Quebec, 830,000.00, to the Technical School, Montreal, 840,000.00, School for Higher Studies, 850,000.00, and.to nine new Normal Schools the sum of 802,000.00, these schools being situated at Rimouski, Chicoutimi, Nicolet, Three Rivers, Valleyfield, Hull, St.Hyacinthe, Joliette and St.Pascal, and I see by the Speech from tbe Throne that a new one is to be established in the City of Sherbrooke, in the center of the Eastern Townspipe.Academies have been subsidized to the extent of $60,000 00, Public Schools $425,000.00 and many other grants have been made to different educational institutions such as Night Schools, Deserving Manicipalities, Schools for Domestic Science and besides increasing the grauts very materially for the pensions of school teachers and inspection of schools, and I want to congratulate the Government on the increase in salaries to school teachers, as in 1906 there were 766 teachers receiving less than $100 00, in 1911 there were 93, and in 1914 theae were only ten, eight of whom were assistant teachers under the direction of others with diplomas.To-day the average salary of lay school teachers holding diplomas is $169.00.In 1893-84 the average salary of lay school teachers was $109.00; in1894-95, 8105 00; in 1895-96, $105.00; in 1896-97, $101 00; in 1897-98, $103 00; in 1912-13, 8169.00.Protestant school teachers; 1892-94 the average salary of school teachers was $204 00; in 1913 8469.90.GOOD ROADS.But, Sir, not only is the Government to be congratulated on its grants to Agriculture and to Education, but it is owing to the prosperous condition of the province, and owing to the prudent administration of the affairs of the province, that it has been enabled during the last year to carry out its undertakings and obligations to the municipalities in the construction of roads throughout the province, and has, in addition, been able to continue with its contracts on the different Government highways throughout the province.Not only has the King Edward highway and the Levis- Jackman road been completed, but the Mont- real-Quebec road is now completed with the exception of some eight miles, and the Government early last fall completed the Sherbrooke-Derby Line road in the heart of the Eastern Townships.This has been the cause of congratulations to the Government by all the people of that district, as was amply shown at the official opening of the road.No work that the Government can do helps the farmer so much as the Good Roads Policy, and I believe that the farms along the Sherbrooke-Derby Line road have been increased in value from 20 per cent.to 30 per cent.by the opening of such a magnificent highway.I sincerely hope that economio conditions will permit the Goverument to continue ite Good Roads Policy, because it is one of the most progressive works that bas been undertaken by the present administration.PUBLIC WORKS.Not only bas the Government been able to spend large sums of money on Agriculture, Education and Good Roads, but also on Pablic Buildings, in the acquiring of bridges and in the opening up of turnpike roads, and during the last five years very considerable sums have been expended for this purpose.GOOD ADMINISTRATION, The foregoing will show that the Liberal Administration, under the wise and able guidance of 8ir Lomer Gouin is doing great things for the progress, not only for the farmers of this province by encouraging them to increase production, and by giving them good roads, but by allowing them and the people of the large centres to educate their children in the way they should be educated.CHANGES IN FANCY WORK LIST.Ayer's Cliff Fair, 1016.The following additions to the Prize List have been suggested and will likely appear in the new liet: Fancy or embroidered sheet and pillow slips; embroidered kimona and boudoir cap;\u2019 fancy work bag; table cloth and six napkins initialled, pair fancy towels, any kind of work; luncheon set, one large and six small pieces; pair tray clothe, embroidered on linen; table runner embroidered in colors; modern cross stitch, any aru- cle; fancy nightgown, fancy corset cover; filet crochet.The tatting exhibit will call for only two pieces, instead of six.Olass 21, section 21 will be corrected to read \u2018woven portieres.\u201d\u2019 The following items wlll probably be omitted from the new list: Point lace, mount mellick work, oravat case; pillow shame; battenberg lace work; honiton lace; duchess lace; wallachian embroidery; crooheted golf sweater; all wool flannel collection of fancy tweeds; homespun oloth, | Rock POURED WHISKEY INTO SEWERS Twenty-five thousand pints of whiskey, brandy and rom confiscated by the etate prohibition department, were emptied in a sewer at Charleston, W.Va, December 30th.The process required three hours\u2019 work on the part of the four men who worked in relays in order to prevent being overcome by the fumes.BORN.CORLISS\u2014At Stanstead.Que , Jan.8, 1916, a caughter to Mr.and Mrs.Albert Corliss.HUNTER\u2014At West Derby, Vt.Jan.11, 1916, & son to Mr.and Mrs.Will Hunter.DIED.BALL\u2014At 16 Woodbine Street, Roxboury, Mass., Jan.7, 1918, Mra.Rose McGaffey Ball, daughter of John and Laura N.McGa oy, MARRIED.At Coaticook on New Year's Day, at the home of the bride, by the Rev.Arthur Wilkinson, astor of the Methodist Church, Ruby Eve n, eldest daughter of Mr.C.A.Kenndy, to Hr.Rufus King of Richmond Hii}, N.Y.Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by loca! applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear.There is only one way to cure catarrhal deafness, and that is by a constitutional remedy.Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube, When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound r imperfect hearing, and when it is en tirely losed, Deafness is the result.Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will destroyed forever.Many cases of deafness arecaused by catarrb.which is an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.Hall's Catarrh Cure acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the sy~tem.We wil! give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Catarrhal Deafuess that cannot be cured by Hali\u2019s C«tarrh Cure.® Circulars free.All Druggists, 75¢.F.J.CHENEY & CO., Tcledo, O.WANTED\u2014Good mau to work on farm must be gond milk r and be able to du all kinds of general farm work.House can be furnished after first of May good wages to the right party, by the year.Byron Kezar, Stanstead, Que P.8 \u2014One Bell t)rgan six octave, piano case, in good cundition, for sale cheap.ANNUAL MEETING.The Anuual Mecting of the Shareholders of the Stanstead Granite Quarries Company, Limited, wlil be held at the offices of the W.R.Breck Co , Ltd, No.41 Wellington Street West, Toronto, Ont., on the l?th January, 1916, ât 11 o'clocka.m, F.W.HEARLE, Secretary-Treasurer.AUCTION SALE.Ishall sell for the Three Viliages Buildin As-ociation, Limited.at their office Roc Island.Qu~., on Muesday January 18th, 1916, at 2 o'clock p.m., the unsold portion of Cadastral Let No.4, village of Rock Island, together with the buildings and improvements thercon erected aud made.Tl'erms\u2014Cash or its equivalent, EDWIN HOWE, Auctioneer.STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE ORLEANS TRUST CO.NEWPORT, VERMONT ASSETS Real Est.Mortgages.-.$976,631.47 Loans and Discounts.303,123.05 Stocks and Bonds.47,000.00 Cash.47,481,64 $1,374,136 16 LIABILITIES Capital.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.8 50,000.00 Surplue .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.50,000.00 Undivided Profit.19,021.08 Deposits.\u2026.1,251,665.28 Treas.Cks.Outstanding.949.82 Dividend .2,500.00 81,374,136.16 Carriage and Sleigh Painting and Varnishing Promptly and thoroughly done.Get your sleigh in early to agoid ppvintment when you want to use it.J.A.ROY, Allard Building, Rock Islaud.FARM FOR SALE The farm known as the Jocob Worth situated on House Hill, about one mile Nortt of the village of Beebe.Will be sold in part or the whole to suit purchaser.CHARLES E.BASELTON, ont Beebe, 1ace Que.PUBLIC NOTICE 1 have sold my entire interest in the firm of Merrill & Raymond, Smith's Miils, to my late partner, Mr.H.W.\u2018Merrill, who has all assets, will cullect all accounts and Pag oll habilities.M.YMOND, Stanstead, Jan.5,1916.CHOICE MEATS 1 have eatablished a butchering business at East Stanstead and my cart will be on the road Tuesdays and Fridays, visiting the vil- lagee and surrounding country.My aim wii be to supply the best meats to be at reasonable prices.Give me a trial and I will do my best to please you.C.PF.THOMAS, 474 Building Lots For Sale Convenient to the Butterfield shops having access tuStans ead Plain over proposed new highway.For particulars apply to John M Muntle, Rock Island or Stunstead, Que.FOR SALE.Green and Dry Block Wood, delivered anywhere in the Three Viliages.C.W.stevens, Island.tres TENDERS WANTED.Sealed Tenders for the construction of a Granite and Brick Butiding for s Registry Office, Court House aud Municipal Hall, at Stanstead Plain.will be received by the un dersigned up to the 15th day of January Next, at 12 v'clock noon.The lywest or any tender not neoes-arily received.Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Registry Office, Stanstead Plain, stansiead Pisin, December 90th, 1015.A.N.THUMPSON, Secretary Treasurer.Countyof Stanstead.47w3.FOR SALE M Rose Comb R.I.Red Cockerels, from extra laying strain, §1.50 each, H.D.Turcott, North Hatley, Que.ws Water Works, Water Power, Patent Solicitor, Surveying, Bell phone 849, People\u2019s phone.AFTER STOCK-TAKING SALE Having assumed the business formerly owned by Akin & House, | have decided to reduce the stock and give the public the benefit of a CUT-PRICE CASH SALE, Commencing Monday, Jan.17th Read carefully the following list.Men\u2019s Overcoats, 88.00, 810.00 and 812.00 quality, 83.75 to 88.00.\u201c \u201c Russian Buffalo, 818.50, now $13.90.\u201c 18.00, \u201c 13.00.Black Kersey, fur collar, 818.00 and 820.00, now 816.00 and 817.00.Men's Suits 810.50, now 87.75, another line 810.50, now 87.90.Men's All-Wool Pants, worth 83.00, now 82.25.Men's Lined Leather Mitts, worth 50e, now 28c.Men's Leather Gloves, worth 50c., now 3be.Men's lot of Odd Vests 55¢.Men's Capa for winter and spring, prices cut one-half.Men\u2019s Shoes, made for quarry work, 82.75, now.$2.15.Men's and Boy's Sweaters at bargain prices.Ladies\u2019 Coats, new goods, latest styles, satine-lined and quilted, warm as a fur coat, 816.50, now 813.75.Dress Goods that are worth today 50c.to 65c., 39c.a yard.Ladies\u2019 Underwear, 35c.to 50c., 28c.A lot of Muslin Waists, 90c.to 8125 values, 47c.and 57e.A lot of Ladies\u2019 Rubber Boots 95c.1, only, Lady's Astrachan Fur Coat, worth 835.00, 818.75.Neck Furs and Muffs at less than it would cost to skin the animals.Crash, although 2c.to 3c.a yard market advance, we offer 10 % discount .Best Cotton 8140.à yard.1200 doz.Ladies\u2019 Handkerchiefs, 25c.a dozen, worth 50c.a dozen._ In spite of the sharp advances in Crockery, we offer greatly reduced prices.À lot of Wool and Union Carpets 207 discount.Rugs are 20% higher, we offer 10% discount.Window Shades, 40c.quality 19c.; 60c.quality 37c.A good Bed, Springs and Mattress 89.65.Agate Ware, 15¢.and 25¢.quality 8c.aad 15¢.50 one-quart cans Paint 29¢.a can.Lanterns, while they last, 29c.Lot of Nails 2¢.a pound.Coarse Salt, 140 1b.bags, 85c.Clover Seed will be high next spring; buy now, 14e¢., 18¢c., 22¢.1b.Good Green Tea 27c.Good Black Tea, Tamilkanda, 33c., worth 40c.1200 Matches for 4c.Big reduction on high-grade canned goods and extracts.Flour and Feed at lowest possible prices.W.H.AKIN, SUCCESSOR TO AKIN & HOUSE, BEEBE QUEBEC FARMS FOR SALE No.1200\u2014Farm of 248 acres, with first-class pasture which accommodates 40 head, watered by spring and brook.Well situated, 1!{ miles to nearest village and 8 miles to bustling R.R.towa, 3; mile to school.Near neighbors and telephone.Spring water at house and barn.Fruit for home use.Tillage is heavy soil, level, little rolling and some stone.Practically ali machine work.Will winter 20 head.About 2000,000 or 300,000 ft.soft wood timber, and about 60 acres of birch and maple.House 34x28, with ell.Granite foundation.6 rooms, pantry and frout hall on first floor, finished in natural wood; 3 rooms, closets and large hall ou second floor.Stock barn 80x32, silo, basement for stock and manure.Fair repair.Borse barn connected to honse, needs some repairs; 4 stalls, basement and carriage room.Fair repair.Hen house.3,000 sugar trees.Price $3,500.C.J.Oben & Co., Exchange Block, Newport, Vermont.Send for Free Farm Catalogue No.8.THE DAYLIGHT STORE Here are a few items selected from the Many Bargains offered during our Fifth Annual January Clearance Sale Ladies\u2019 Suits at $5.00, the materials alone worth more than the price asked.Some good Black Suits in the lot.Ladies\u2019 Coats at $3.75, 85.75 and $7.75; all new garments, not many of a kind, but enough to give you a Genuine Bargain.Children\u2019s Coats at $1.50 to $3.75; suitable for school wear, good sizes.The best values in the county.\u201c - Tel.186-2, In Preparation A King Cotton Sale of Housekeeping Linens, Cottons, etc.Starts promptly February Ist, with the best values, markets considered, we have ever offered.We have been getting ready for this sale since last August.Caswell & O'Rourke Store Co. Business and Professional Cards.J.C.COLBY, B.A., M.D, Office as Carrolicroft, Stanstead.Consuitations 9 to 108.m., 7 to 8 p.m,, and by appointment.Hoth 'Phones.DR.H.P.STOCKWELL, Stanstead Plain, Que, Office and residence opposite B.W.College.Bell and People's Telephones.WILBUR A.REYNOLDS, D.D.S., 206 Newbury st, Boston, DR.C.L.BROWN, B.A, Physician and Surgeon, Ayer's Cliff, Que.People\u2019s Phone.C.|.MOULTON, L.D.S., Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.\u2018Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College.Office at Lee Farm, Rock Island, Que.U.8.P.O.Address: Derby Line, Vermont.SYDNEY A.MEADE, Provincial Land Surveyor, Coaticook, Que.H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.4 U.8.P.O.Address: Derby Line, Vt.JOHN M, MONTLE Advocate Rock Island, Quebec M.A.CASS, Undertaker Plates Engraved when wanted.Fitch Bay, Que.J.J.UNDERWOOD, Mason and Plasterer, General Contractor.Stanstead, Que.EDWARD AUDINWOOD, Undertaker & Embalmer, Derby Line, Vt., sud Rock Island, P.Q.CHARLES E.BENNETT, Designer of Buildings, Machinery, Furniture, Landscape Gardening.Derby Line, Vt.Consultation and Superintendence.DR.E.A.TAYLOR, Office Hours: Until 9a.m.,7to 8p.m.Valentine Ave., Derby Line, Vt.New England Telephone.R.O.ROSS, B.A, M.D., CG, M., Office Hours: 8to 9 A.M.,1to8 and 7to8 PM.E.T.Telephone.SIDNEY STEVENS, Fire, Life, Accident and Health Insurance Best Companies represented Agent Empire Typewriter Stanstead, Que.PREPAREDNESS Individuals, like Nations, must be repared for the uncertainties of the ature.Recent reports, showing large additions to the number of Savings Accounts throughout the United States indicate that Americans are recognizing the necessity for individual preparedness.A Savings Account, in this Bank, systematically added to, is your guarantee of a peaceful future.Start it today.The Federal Government maintains 8 deposit of 820,000 in this official United States Depositary.The National Bank of Newport Newport, Vt.REPORT TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY (Condensed) OF THE CONDITION OF The National Bank of Newport Newport, Vt.At the Close of Business, Nov.10, 1915 RESOURCES LoOane.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.$564,462.48 BONÉS.u2000000 000002000000 171,500.Federal Reserve Stock.3,760.00 Five Per Oent Fund.4,600.00 Furniture and Fixtures.8,500.00 Cash and Due from Banks.70,468.81 $818,281.29 LIABILITIES Capital.$100,000.00 Sarplus and Profite.53,178.00 Oiroulation.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.92,000.00 Deposits .\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.573,108.29 $818,281.29 FOUR PER OENT PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS ITC HERS WANTED\u2014J.B.Goodhue Co.Limi ted, Rock Island.at WANTED\u2014A woman to assist in the cooking and work of the kitchen.Good wages paid, Geo.J.Trueman, Stansieäd College.LADIES\u2019 SEWING 183 MATHILDA BOISVERT, who has had six years\u2019 experienc with N.T.Dussaait, Bherbrooke\u2019s leading tailor, is prepared to do sewing on ies\u2019 Garments of all kinds at She home of her brother, Mr.George Botsvert near Rock Island passenger station, Hatis® faction guaranteed ; charges moderate.tl STANSTEAD COUNTY AGMICULTURAL SOCIETY.The annual meeting wiil be held at Ayer's Cliff on Wednesday, January 10¢h, 1916, at 1 p.m., to receive the annual report and to elect the Board of Directors for the coming year.HoMER G.CURTIS, MASSAWIPPI.The rise in telephone rates causes much dissatisfaction as, with the limited territory existing, $15 per year seemed high.Quite a nomber of phones are being discontinued on this line, as contracts cease.Every phone that le discontinued lessens the convenience of the remaining subscribers, especially on one's own line.However, some say that they will not \u2018\u2018cut off their nose to spite their face,\u201d and to be without the blessing of a phone for the sake of less than a cent a day more, seems absurd.We hope then that either the company will reconsider the matter and keep to the old rates, or that subscribers will feel the necessity of keeping their phones at the slight rise in price.Mr.Fred Wilcox of Westfleld, Vt., spent the New Year holidays at Wood- vine Cottage, the home of his uncle, Mr.Obas.Edson.Mr.and Mra.Hoal of Hatley were guests of Mr.and Mrs.A.Knight Sunday.\u2019 Mr.C.Jones returned from Cow- apsville Monday night, to resume bis work at the factory of Messrs.Hunting & Co.Master Lawrence Ayer of Brown\u2019e Hill visited his young friend, son of W.Jones, Saturday aud epent Sunday at \u2018\u2018Greenbank\u2019 with bis cousine, Clare and Alton St.Dizier.Mr.Harry Ayer was at his sister\u2019s, Mrs.T.St.Dizier\u2019s, on Sunday.Two young men, Mr.Foster Smith, son of Mr.and Mrs.George Allie Smith, of \u2018\u2018Maplewood,\u201d and Mr.Henry Hunter, an Euglishman, who has been in this country about 12 years, have enlisted from nere lately.Mr, Hunter lived at \u2018\u2018Maplewood\u201d several years but for the past three years he has been at \u2018Broadview?\u2019 in the employ of Mr.Colt.Both young men joined the 117th regiment in training at Sherbrooke, leaving here Jan.3rd.Mr.and Mrs.G.A.Smith have beeu visiting relatives at Richmond, Que., from Friday until Monday.Mr.aud Mrs.W.Jones spent a few days at Compton with relatives recently.Mrs.E.8t.Dizier is gaining very slowly trom an attack ot bronchitis.She sits up a portion of the day.Miss Fanme Cox entertained several young people of ber neighborhood last Wednesday evening, Jan.5tn.All enjoyed the games, reireebments, ele., ete, \u2018The Patriotic Entertaiuers\u2019\u201d will give a dramatic performance at Uot- tage Hall on Tnureday evening, Jan.20th.The comedy, \u2018\u2018Mrs.Smith or the Wife and the Widow,\u201d wiil be presented, and a farce, \u2018\u2018Poppleton\u2019s Predicament,\u2019\u2019 will follow.Music by Victrola will enliven the time.Some time bas been spent in preparing for this entertainment, and those taking part hope to please all who will attend and by their presence encourage them im their endeavors to raise money for the Patriotic Fund, this winter as they did last, the need being just as great now as then.Mre.O.Brown of West Obarleston, Vt., is spending some time at the home of her mother, Mrs.C.' Peck, and assisting in the care of her sister, Maud, who is ill.GRANITEVILLE.Mr.N.N.Salls received word last week of the death of his sister Edith, Mrs.Mandego, of Lexington, Mass.Mrs.Henry is spending the winter with ber mother, Mrs.R.A.Rediker.Mr.N.N.Salla left on Friday for the R.V.Hospital, Montreal.He was accompanied by Mr.J.Probert.Mre.D.McFarlane and daughter, Mre.Williams, spent Saturday in Newport.Mesers.8.McAllister and J.Akin were at Rock Island Tuesday.Messrs.Bob MacDonald and Will Duncan left on Monday to join the 117th C.M.Regiment at Sherbrooke.EAST BOLTON.Received too late for last week.Mr.CO.W.Bryant, Westfield, Vt., and Alvin Bryant of Warden, Que., are visiting relatives in town.Mre.Nelson Loriger and baby Dor- ie, and Mr.Leonard Wing left on Wednesday for Haverhill, Mass.Miss Lera Channell has returned to West Derby.Mrs.Wm.Patterson is visiting her brothers in Manchester, N.H., and Somerville, Mase.Mr.Donald Patterson returned Fo Ottawa on Monday after the vacation at his home here.Miss Edith M.Duggine of Montreal was à guest of Mr.and Mrs.Bowker over New Year\u2019s, Among those who entertained on New Year's day were: Mr.and Mrs.W.E Juby, Mr.and Mrs.E.Ball, Mr.and Mrs.A.L.Bryant and Mrs.Bowker.Mr, E.Beltington of Ryegate, Vt., formerly of Bolton, has enlisted in the 148th Btl., and will train in Montreal; he is the second son from this family to leave for the defense of King, and country, King Randall, the younger brother, being with the 5th C.M.R.somewhere in France.Mr.Wm.Juby is among those on the sick list.Mrs.W.R.Ball and son of Stan.stead were guests of Mr.and Mre.E.Secretary-Treasurer.A.Ball.BEEBE.An oyster supper will be given Friday night at tbe home of Mr.Fred Cass, by the Mission Socisty of the Advent Charch.Pastor Lary will preach at the Advent Church next Sunday morning; Subject, \u2018\u2018Christ\u2019s Answer to the Thiet on the Oroes.\u201d Mrs.Walter Akin entertained the Baptist Mission Circle Tuesday afternoon.A pleasant time was spent and quite a little business was transacted.The Guild are to meet with Mrs.W.H.Daniels Friday afternoon, Jan.14th, at 2 30.It is with sadness that we mention the passing away of Hazen Bullock whose death ocourred at 12.30 a.m.Sunday.Mr.Bullock had been sick for some time and it had been feared for a number of weeks that he might not recover.All had been done that could be.The funeral was beld at the home Tuesday at 9 a.m.and the remains were taken to Georgeville for burial.The Rev.Mr.Hepburn of the Episcopal parish of Stanstead officiated.The Ohristmas cantata given at the Methodist Church last Sunday evening, was well apoken of, and a large audience was in attendance.The parts taken by different individuals, as well as the chorus singing and the work of the organist, were worthy of much praise.At the business meeting held last Tuesday evening there was a good deal of interest manifested in regard to organizing a singing class or Choral Uuion.Some 26 names were given for membership, and we hear of a good many more who will become members later.So everything bids tair for a large chorus which is the first thing to be thought of.It was decided to hold the rehearsals in the academy hall, the first one on Friday evening, Jan.21st.The first hour of the evening, 7.15 to 8.15, will be devoted to the beginners\u2019 class, after which the unfinished business will be attended to, the remaining time to be devoted to the adult chorus.It is desired that all interested in this movement will be present at the next meeting.Lost\u2014A black fur robe on Main St.U.O.Marois, Beebe, Que.tt FITCH BAYA \u201cSunshine Bag\u2019 was presented to Miss Lena Gustin, Jun.7c¢u, by her friends in Fitch Bay and vicinivy, Miss Gustin who is confined to her bomw by iil health, is greatly enjoying the bag, and wishes to extend her most sincere and grateful thanks to all who contributed to it, as it is indeed rightly named.The monthly meeting of the.W.C.T.U.was held at the home of Mrs, Jas.Waite ou Thursday afternoon, and was most interesting and very well attended, sixteen members and two visitors being present with ope new member.The meeting was devoted to Evangelistic Temperance, Mrs, F, J.Malzard giving a most interesting paper on the subject.At the close of the meeting delicious refreshments were served by the hostess.The next meeting will be Feb, 4th, when the Unions will meet with Mrs, J.J.Farrall.Oa Tuesday, January 18th, a lecture on the subject of \u201cSome of the Outstanding Personalities in the Great War\u201d will be given by Mr.F.J.Mal- zard in the Congregational Ohurch, Fitch Bay.A very small entrance fee will be charged; the proceeds to be divided between the local Missionary Society and the Canadian Red Cross work.The Ladies Guild will meet in the Guild room on Wednesday afternoon, Jan, 19th, to sew for the annual sale.Tea will be served at the usual hour, to which gentlemen are invited, The Fitch Bay boys who enlisted in the 117th Regiment at Sherbrooke last week, were Messrs, W.P.Adams, H.W.Wells and Roy Sheldon.Mr.F.O.Rand of Montreal is visiting at the home of G.A.Rediker.No service was held in St.Matthias Church on Sanday evening, owing to the illness of the rector, Rev.H.W.Bykes.Mr.Norris Heath has opened up a grocery store in the etore recently owned and operated by D.F.Moran- ville.PLEASANT HEIGHTS.Mr.R.Taylor of Knowlton and Murry Wells of Oliver were visitors at Mr.Wm.Bachelder\u2019s Sunday.Mr.O.Harris was at Griffin over Sunday.Miss Olive Laraway was a recent guest of Miss Pearl Bissell.Mrs.Andrew Harris was at Mr.R, Merrill\u2019 Sunday.: Mr.Roy West is able to be about again after having an attack of la grippe.Mr.R.Ives ot Georgeville was in the place on Tuesday.On Tuesday, Jan.18th, a lecture on the subject of \u2018\u2018SorBe of the Outstanding Personalities in the Great War\u201d will be given by Mr.F.J.Malzard in the Congregational Church, Fitch Bay.A very small entrance fee will be charged; the proceeds to be divided between the local ionary Society and the Canadian Red Cross work.Britain before the war contained 1,207,601 more females than males.8IGLER'S POULTRY.COMPOUND Is the greatest egg producer on esrth.It is not a food, but is comprised of properties that are essential to the heaish of fowls.Costs only 250.per package and can be had atthe Gil° more Harness Bhop, Rock Island.Que.WARNING.All persons are bureby warned inst tree passing on Cada-tral Lot No.Township of Stanstead, known as the Blackadder pro perty, and now owned by Henry Munderiob, under penalty of prosecution to the limit of the law.A L.Se MONROE, or the Owner.Berbe, Que., Jan.¢, we wd NOTICE This is to five notice thag I have arranged with Campbell & Bellam to look after the collection of overdue accounts, and those who are interested will kindly take notice and arrange for wettiement, C.GILFILLAN, M.D AN, M.D.Beebe Plain, Que., Nov.20, 1015, satf 1916 Dominion Office and Pocket DIARIES Also 1916 Calendar Pads At the : JOURNAL OFFICE CHURCH STREET Rock Island, - Quebec \"A.H.DREW BUILDER Plans and Specifications furnished for any style of construction in WOOD, STEEL, CEMENT AND BRICK.Prompt attention given to General Job Work, Rock Island, Quebec A.H.CUMMINGS & SOK LIMITED Manufacturers of Lumber, Shingles Clapboards, Superior House Finish.FLOORING A SPECIALTY.Orders left with 8.E.Abbott, Agt., Stanstesd will receive prompt attention.SAFETY FIRST E.H.MARTEL, PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER Old Furniture made GOOD as NEW Satisfaction guaranteed.Moderate prices.\u2014 Holmes Block, - Rock Island Que.FIFTY WEEKS Of Systematic Savings in the Holiday Saving Club will make your future secure.A few cents or dollar deposited each week in this way will not be greatly missed, and may mean your starting a successful future.Our books will be kept open until Jan.25th for those who wish to join, but do not be an eleventh hour depositor.OPEN AN ACCOUNT NOW Four per cent guaranteed on all savings deposits including Coupon Books and Holiday Fund.Open every Monday night throughout the the year, from seven to eight o\u2019clock.Ed ORLEANS TRUST COMPANY NEWPORT, VERMONT (7 = | I= E = Q THE SLACK SEASON | ll For the next two months will be your time to Î obtain an Overcoat or Suit at the season\u2019s prices.I wish to clear my winter weight of Cloths, as my spring goods will be arriving the | om last of January and I desire to keep my force F busy.Come in and see what I have to offer.Ti = J.A.BEGIN, MERCHANT TAILOR, = NEW STORE, DUVAL BLOCK, = ROCK ISLAND, - - - - .QUEBEC C= == Blank Books at the Journal Office.Es SE OUR BIG LINE and prices.= = eh 1 I == 00 === STOCK TAKING IL WE ARE I=L CLOSING OUT MEN, BOYS AND CHILDREN 10 TO 25 PER CENT.DISCOUNT and more on some items.When we say this is a Clearance Sale to make room for SPRING GOODS we are not \u201cTalking Through Our Hat,\u201d we back up the statement with the goods It is YOUR GOOD LUCK.AND \u2019 OF OVERCOATS AND SUITS FOR bers.We have a new stock of Lumbermen's Rub- Overshoes for Men, Women and the younger members of the family.KAUFMAN'\u2019S \u201cLIFEBUOY\"\u201d Fresh Stock of Art Squares, Rugs, Linol- eums, Oil Cloth and Mattings.8,000 ROLLS They are going at $12.50.two of them, come early.We have a few Ladies\u2019 Coats that we are going to sell NOW LISTENI Shell with Fur Collar, selling price 820.00.Again we bid for your interest by offering 88.00 and $12.00 coats at $5.50 and 812.00 and $16.00 coats at $6.50.They are worth this to wear the balance of the season.are of the 1916 vintage, not 1812, New Patterns in Wall Paper and we are olosing out our old stock at HALF PRICE A Beaver and the patterns are good.We have a new line of Ladies\u2019 Shoes the KINGSBURY in Patent, Viel and Velour at $2.75.It isa good one.Well made of A 1 stock and Handsome, We have only We always carry a full assortment of Qanada's Best, The INVICTUS for Men and omen.They A full Sheets and Cases.line of Beddings.All-Wool Blankets, Flannelette Blankets, Comforters, Mattresses and Pillows.new line of IRON BEDS.For the BOYS and GIRL.S we have a full line of the CROSBY School Shoe.It is sturdy and a splendid looker, and they will wear to your heart's content.They are right.A Eee ese EEE ee el ee THE STORE THAT SELLS DEPENDABLE GOODS IN A DEPENDABLE WAY WILLIAM M.PIKE & SON ROCK ISLAND, === [|= \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014] QUEBEC === El eS = 0 ==) CAI LO WITH 160 pages of valuable building information\u201452 useful plans\u2014complete details on how to make improvements on the farm that are fire-proof, weather-proof, time-proof and economical \u2014 besides scores of other interesting facts.It's the standard authority on farm building construction, It has saved thousands of dollars for more than 75,000 Canadian farmers and will save money for you.If you haven't a copy, send in the coupon NOW.The book is free.Canada Cement Company Limited, MONTREAL.TA ox ia CANADA CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED, Herald BailZiog, MONYESAL.G men \" 697 ae Tin Feo Con oa a cou of 1 Name.Street and No.Cit vic ad FILL IN COUPON ANBRIAILTE EAVES AGE vor no 3 The Quebec Bank Authorized Capital, 85,000,000 Established 1818\u201497th Year in Business BANKING BY MAIL Paid-up Capital and Reserve 84,043,275 Business of all kinds can be transacted in this manner, and will receive prompt attention.SAVINGS DEPARTMENT AT EVERY -BRANCH Joint Accounts may be opened in the name Agencygat Fitch Bay, Quebec.E.G.BETHEL, Accountant of two persons; in case of death balance payable to survivor.ROCK ISLAND BRANCH Open Thursday of each week.A.C.McPHEE, Manager =a =a RALPH J.HUNT HARDWARE MERCHANT I have fitted my salesroom for a General Stoek of Shelf Hardware.The many items used by the HOMEBUILDER and the HOME FURNISHER I can now supply from my enlarged stock.KITCHEN, PANTRY and TABLE GRANITE IRON, NICKEL, ALUMNIUM and COPPER WARE in full assortment.A Splendid line of Standard Makes of COOKING RANGES AND HEATERS FURNACES, HOT WATER AND STEAM HEATING PLANTS.SHOP WORK, PLUMBING and SHEATING I am able to give prompt and expert attention.No job is too small or too large.| ASK FOR YOUR PATRONAGE IN MY LINE.RALPH J.HUNT, DERBY LINE, VT., and ROCK ISLAND, QUE.| | | | 15) [ \u2014 He\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014]c\u2014=]a] === YOUR CASH ON REQUEST YES, you can get your money on demand If deposited with us; no depositor ever waited a minute for he cash on his deposit.ALL CHECKS still taken at par regardiess of the high rate of exchange.FOUR PER CENT for your money compounded twice each year.account.One dollar starts an Yours to use ORLEANS TRUST COMPANY.Blank Books at the Journal Office.Why Italy {DoesNotFight Germany PANGS.0,10 50 9 0, 0 0,000 7 0 040 m8 UPTURE of diplomatic relations does not necessarily mean war, in the opinion of \u2018\u201c\u2018Ex-Attache,\u201d who writes in the Pittsburg Dispatch.It Is necessary to emphasize this: point, in view of the misapprehension | which appears to exist as to the pre- : cise meaning and consequences of the | adoption of any such course as this | by the United States with regard to Austria-Hungary.The latter abandoned all diplomatic and Consular intercourse with Mexico, following the execution of Maximillan\u2014an Austrian Archduke\u2014at Queretaro, in 186%, and did not resume it until more than 30 years afterwards.But that did not prevent subjects of the Dual Empire from pursuing their vocations in Mexico, where their interests were cared for by the representatives of other European nations, while in the same way Mexicans suffered no inconvenience while sojourning temporarily or residing permanently in the dominions of Francis Joseph, save that they were barred from court entertainments, and more or less boycotted by the Great World at Vienna and at Budapest.If the Austrian monarch broke off diplomatic and Consular intercourse with Mexico, it was in token of his grief and indignation at the fate meted out to his brother, Maximilian.If the United States inaugurates a rupture of diplomatic and Consular relations with Austria-Hungary, it will be as a manifestation of her anger at the refusal of the Viennese Government to accord any redress or satisfaction for the American lives lost through the sinking of the Ital- fan steamship Ancona by an Austrian submarine.Just at the present moment we have an extraordinary illus-! tration of a case of interruption of, diplomatic and Consular relations, without war.All diplomatic inter- | course between Germany and Italy: has been sundered since the day when ' the Government of Victor Emmanuel decided to throw in its lot with the Allies, and embark upon war against\u2019 Austria.No state of war yet exists between Germany and Italy.This, too, despite that Italy has pledged | herself by treaty not to consent to, peace, save in conjunction with France, Great Britain, Russia, and | Japan, thus arraying the nation\u2019 definitely on the side of the Entente \u2018 Powers.How careful the Kaiser is to avoid anything that can be con-| strued as actual warfare on his part against Italy is demonstrated by his | refusal to despatch German troops to.assist the Austrians in defending Go- rizia, the Carso plateau, and the wholé Isonzo line against the onslaughts of the Italians.He is compelling the officers of his army who volunteer for service under the Austrian flag against Italy to resign, at any rate temporarily, the commissions which they hold for him, Any Germans in arms against Italy are fighting, not under the: German, but under the Austrian flag, hot in German, but in Austrian uniforms, and as subjects of Emperor Francis Joseph instead of as lieges of Kaiser Wilhelm.Reports differ as to the number of Germans thus enrolled in the ranks of the Austrian troops.But it is believed that there are relatively few, and this impression | seems to be borne out by the bitier- ness displayed both at Vienna and at Budapest against Berlin for refusing to lend assistance.It is said that one of the reasons which is causing Emperor Willlam to adopt this attitude towards Italy is that Germany still has vast commercial and industrial interests in Italy, and capital invested in all sorts of enterprises in the peinnsula.Every Italian port is crowded with German shipping, no less than 70 large liners belonging to the Hamburg and Bremen companies having lain at Genoa since the beginning of the war, when they sought refuge there from English and French cruisers.All this shipping, which has so ; enormously increased in value by reason of the war, would be at once seized by the Italian Government.On the inauguration of actual war with Germany the Italian authorities would likewise at once proceed to sequester all German capital and German property.Moreover, Ital- fans would be relieved of their financial obligations to Germans, and the | material loss to the German people would be immense.The Kaiser's attitude is the source of no little resentment at Vienna, and at Budapest, especially, the policy of contracting a separate peace without regard to Germany Is being openly discussed in the newspapers on the ground that Germany has refused to make Austria\u2019s quarrel with Italy hers, If Italy has thus far refrained it is because there is no point where the frontiers of the two countries touch, and it is felt at Rome the longer the conflict with the Teuton Empire is averted the easier it will be for General Cadorna to carry to success his campaign against the Austrians.If Emperor William were to despatch several German army corps to assist the Austrians the operations of Ca- dorna would prove much more costly.This, however, is not generally understood by the public in Italy, where much popular pressure is being brought to \u2018\u2018clarify the situation\u201d with regard to Germany.Loans to Our Allies, As evidence of the great part which is being played by Great Britain in the financing of the war, it may be stated that before the present financial year expires (March 31st, 1916), our advances to our Allies and Dominions will probably exceed £500,620,000.DID THE EARTH SPLIT.Savage-Landor Declares It Did, Like a Baked Apple.Deeply interesting is the theory advanced by that intrepid explorer, A, Henry Savage-Landor, who be- ljeves that our system of detached vast continental areas was originally formed by the crust of the earth splitting from pole to pole, for all the world like the skin of an over heated baked apple.May be this-is true.Way back in the prehistoric ages, when there existed animals of strange forms and really as large as the present circus side-show barkers: would have us believe they have inj dinky tents to be awe-strickenly viewed for the small sum of a dime, the earth may have split open like a pea pod and mixed things up generally.It is just possible the rush of ocean to fill the gaps would have caused no more disturbance of the earths\u2019 regular orbital movements than the explosion of gas which sends the griddles of a cook stove through the roof and leaves the legs intact on the kitchen floor may be said to disturb the stove.Quite likely, however, such a cataclysma] event In tbe musty past would at least have caused the dinosauria to stretch their bloomin\u2019 necks in a vain search for the back lot when they awakened and started out for their morning meal.' But this is Savage-Landor\u2019s little joke.He started the argument, so let him have his say.That sets his wind at rest on the subject, and you can believe it or go fishing, just as you like.To support his theory, the explorer cites likeness of feature, language, habit, and state of development between South American tribes and those of the lands over the seas.Some day he hopes to go further into this matter.\u201cOn that expedition through the wilds of central South America,\u201d says hot-foot Henry, \u2018I was able to collect further evidence that a theory I had long held as to the present shape of the earth was correct.I had never believed in the well known theory that a continent, now submerged, once existed between America, Europe and Africa\u2014in other words, where the Atlantic ocean is now.\u2018Here is what really happened.The earth at one period changed its shape-\u2014when, is merely guesswork and is of no consequence here\u2014and the crust of the earth\u2014mnot the core, mind you\u2014split into two great gaps from pole to pole, with a number of other minor fissures.In other words, the earth opened just like the skin of an overheated baked apple.The African and American continents, as well as Australasia, with New Guinea, the Celebes Islands, the Philippine Archipelago, and China, which before that event formed part of one immense continent, thus became divided, leaving North and South America isolated, between the Atlantic and the Pacific\u2014which were then, and only then, formed.\u201cIt is easy, by looking intelligently at a: map, to reconstruct the former shape of the world.You will notice that the most western portion of Africa fits exactly into the gap between North and South America, while the entire African coast between Dahomey and the Cape Colony fits perfectly, in all its indentations and projections, into the coast line of South America.\u2018\u201cThe shores of western Europe in those days were joined to North Am-! erica, and find to-day their almost parallel and well-fitting coast line on the east coast of the United States apd Canada.On the opposite side of the world, the western side of South America, the same conditions can be noticed, although the division of the two continents (America and Asia) is there much wider.Fragments were formed, leaving innumerable islands scattered in the Pacific ocean, half way between the actual continents of Asia, Australia, and America.\u201cA mere glance is sufficient to show how well Australia fits in along the Chilian and Peruvian coast, the great island of New Guinea along part of Peru and Ecuador, and the west coast of the Central American Isthmus.The Philippine Islands probably in those days lay alongside of Guatemala, while California bordered on Japan.\u201d Youthful Chancellors.No one would call Mr.McKenna even middle-aged as far as appearance (but for a certain baldness) or energy is concerned, but he ranks fairly high among the more recent Chancellors in this respect.Mr.Mc- Kenna is rather over fifty-two.Gladstone produced his 1853 Budget at the age of forty-three, Mr.Lloyd: George was forty-six, and Mr.Austen Chamberlain forty-one.Lord St.Aldwyn was under fifty when first appointed Chancellor, but his actual performance as a financier came ten years later, and at the time of the 1896 Budget he wes not far short of sixty.Disraeli was forty- eight when he produced his unlucky | | Budget in 1852, On the other hand, Sir William Harcourt, though Chancellor for a few months in 1896, brought in his first great Budget when nearly sixty-six, and Lowe was fifty-eight in 1869, Mr.Asquith Was fifty-four in 1906, and Mr.Goschen was fifty-six in 1887.Expert Goes West, William Southworth, of the\u2018Ontario Agricultural College, has been appointed as plant breeder and lecturer on forage crops at the Manitoba Agricultural College.Mr.South- worth is not a graduate of Guelph, but is the product of a Scottish college.He is recognized as a specialist in the science of plant breeding.His main object here wili be to develop a variety of corn for fodder, which can be sown late in May, after danger of frost has passed, and be ready for the silo in ample time in the fall.His work at the college will be largely in the laboratory and in the experimenta} plots.Dictograph for Airmen.A dictating phonograph bas been invented to enable a military aviator to record his observations and still have hii hands free.! charged.WINTER STORAGE OF CABBAGR.Important to Prevent Heating and Maintain an Even Temperature.In storing cabbage the heads are generally pulled up when light freezing begins along in November.Frequent freezing and thawing will not hurt the general appearance of cabbage before it 3 harvested.However, too much of it will impair the keeping qualities.In small quantities the supply may be stood on the bottom of a-cool cellar with the roots turned up.Cover the single | layer of cabbage with sand so as to : exclude air and keep in perfect condition.In large quantities cabbage is stored right in the field, provided the sofl is well drained.Market growers prefer to open up a furrow with a two- horse plow going down and back just once, leaving a space two or three inches wide between the furrow.This ridge is quickly leveled down or thrown out.The cabbage is laid in this one layer thick by turning the roots almost straight in the air.Gather the old leaves closely around each head and pack them in snugly.A few of the poor heads may be laid on top.hay, straw, or leaves; then throw a furrow from each side on this material.This will prevent the mater- fal from blowing away aud will leave a space possibly ten inches wide not covered with soil.tion will be provided until severe freezing weather, when more soil or covering material may be applied.The important consideration in the | storing of cabbage is to prevent heating and to maintain an even low temperature.Ten degrees below freezing does not hurt cabbage, provided it is thawed out gradually.USES OF MANURE SPREADER May, When Not in Service, Be Utils ized as a Wagon.Investigations show that depreciation for the manure spreader is approximately 11.6 per cent.annually.Owing to the fact that it is required to carry a byproduct which contains more or less moisture, a part of the depreciation is undoubtedly due to the decay of the wood in the framework.If this and similar machines could be utilized to a greater extent they should last almost as long, and in doing the additional work the yearly charge in connection with operation could be more completely met.Ordinarily the manure spreader is in use at seasons of the year when the field work is not demanding attention.While the harvest is in progress it is idle, hence available for other work.In districts where field roots, such as mangel wurzels, sugar beets, or turnips, are grown the manure spreader may serve as a wagon in transferring the crop from the field to the root cellar or pit.A simple adjustment will enable the farmer to save considerable time, as well as the task of unloading with the aid of a shovel.The cylinder or spreader is first removed from the end of the box and a suitable end board set in place, the latter being held by an iron bar or rod.When the load is taken to the cellar the end board can be lifted out readily, and the roots may be rolled into the trapdoor merely py putting on the crank which connects with the apron shaft and turning by hand until the entire lot has been dis- It requires only a few moments to deliver the load.To Empty a Barrel Gradually.The sketch shows a labor saving method of emptying a barrel of powdered or granular material where the emptying is to be done slowly.Instead of taking out the material by scoopfuls in order to fill it gradually into a machine hopper, for instance, the workman quickly upends the headless barrel and works it over toward the edge of the platform, and the material lows to the hopper.As the barrel settles down it must be rocked slightly so as to keep the material flowing.When empty there is a small amount on the platform to be scooped into the hopper.\u2014Popular Mechanics, Spraying for Reach Leaf Curl.Peach leaf curl can be controlled by fall spraying.The disease is well | known, and its method of control has been fully developed, so that the grower may be sure of results, Authorities state that a number of substances applied while the tree is dormant, or leafless, will give certain control, provided every bud on the tree is covered with the spray.A lime sulphur spray testing 32 degrees B.diluted to one part of the concentrate to eight parts of water is the one most commonly used, because it controls San Jose scale also.If the scale is not present a standard solution of lime sulphur diluted to one part of the concentrated solution in fifteen parts of water will give excellent results.Spraying may be done during the months of November and December more effectively than during the spring months because of more favorable weather conditions.Cold rains in the spring are likely to interfere with spraying at the proper time, and the leaf curl fungus is thus allowed to get a start.Managers Needed.Hired help 1s scarce\u2014but at that we are more in need of progressive farm managers.Provide plenty of dry earth and coal ashes where the hens may dust themselves, and there is little danger of body lice in a clean house.Over this sprinkle a little Thus air ventila- |- Scientific Farming BOME GROWN SEED CORN.Will Yield Better Than That From Some Distant Section.The selection of seed corn is one of the most important points that require attention at a particular time.Numerous investigations have shown that home grown seed corn will yield better than \u2018eed from some distant section of the.country even when the climatic conditions are not materially different.In Saskatchewan, for instance, where our climate differs from most of the other corn growing sections, it is especially important that attention be given to field selection of seed corn at the proper time, Mature corn has-a much higher feed- .ing value than immature corn, and the only way to grow mature corn is to select the seed from the home fields.When such seed is planted germination surer under adverse conditions and a better stand is secured.Inasmuch as it costs no more to prepare and cultivate the land for a DRYING SRED CORN.good stand than it does for a poor one, it is evident that the time spent _ in selecting and caring for seed corn .18 exceedingly profitable.In a year like this, when every : growing day is needed to mature a sufficient quantity of seed, pickings should be delayed until after the leaves have been killed by frost.A light frost will not injure the germ | materially, and the increase in the value of the seed due to its more ma- .ture condition will largely offset any decreases due to light frost.As soon as the leaves have been frosted so that growth is stopped the ears should be picked.Immature corn Ehould be hung up or placed in drying racks the day it is picked, and mature corn should not be left in piles more than a day or two and then only in small quantities.Seed corn picked in the dough stage will grow if properly cured, and enough seed should be saved for next year's planting as soon as the leaves have been killed by frost, even though it is in the soft dough stage.Mature corn, selected before killing frosts in an ordinary year, is the safest seed to plant.However, In a year when the frost free period is so short and the weather conditions so unfavorable that no mature ears are produced by a variety which ripens in an ordinary year seed should be saved even though it may be immature.By this means the strains which best adapted to the region can be perpetuated.Immature seed from these strains will prove more satisfactory thao mature seed shipped in from other provinces, where the growing season is longer than we ordinarily have in the Canadian prairie section, Inasmuch as the moisture content of immature corn is very high, it is especially important that it should be.given careful attention during the drying and storing period.After having placed the ears on a drying rack a free circulation of air should be provided by opening all doors and windows during tbe day and warm nights.While thorough ventilation ls desirable at all times, the room in which the corn 1s being dried should be kept above freesing temperature, .After the corn has been strung or placed in the drying racks it should be suspended or supported by some \u2018means so that it is beyond the reach of rats anc.mice in a well-aired room, The corn should be dry before freez- Ing weather, and every means should be provided for as rapid drying as possible.Windows and doors should be kept open during the day so that à current of air can pass freely through all parts of the room.Avoid Scrub Stock.Use careful judgment in selecting \u201cyour bull.There is too much scrub.stock in the Province now.The Young Bull.The young bull should be separated from the heifors by the time he is six months old. VASTE F.W.D.MELLOON, ROCK ISLAND, QUE.CHANNELL'S GARAGE Automobile and Bicycle repair work carefully and ekilifully done.Ford cars a specialty.Personal attention given to all orders.Automobile Accessories, Bicycle Repairs and Sundries.Dunlop Trac tion Tread TIRES, also Inner Tubes and Smooth TIRES.Agent for Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline Engines, Dynamos, Private Electric Lighting Plants, and Pumping Outfits.Fairbanks-Morse En- goes give greater satisfaction and less trouble an any others.The one h.p.Fairbanks Mqrse enginei1s the most satisfactory power known for cream separators.New price only $48.00; 2 h.p.3100, 5 h.p 8:50.Call or write for catalogue, prices and terms.Satisfaction guaranteed.E.W.CHANNELL, Btanstead.Que.U.8.Depository.Organized 1875 Ine National Bank NEWPORT, VT Capital, - - - $100,000 00 Surplus and Profit, - 53,178.00 573,103 29 Deposits, - - - E.LANE, President, J.E.McCARTEN, Cashier, EARL L.BROWN, Asst.Cashier 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.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.CHARLES E.HASELTON Manufacturer of and Dealer in all kinds of Granite and Marble Monuments and Head Stones Your Cemetery work such as Lettering and Resetting is Solicited Beebe Que.and Vt.FOR SALE.180 ACRE FARM, with frontage on the most beautiful section of Lake Mem hremagog.On main road, threes miles from eorgeville, only a few rods from school Good farm buil nga, summer cottage on lake @ravel bezch and varied shore.Two sugar places, with modern equipment for 800 trees.land, free from stone, all machine work.For particulars apply to G.A.Boynton.R.M.D.1, Georgevilie, Que.$275, WILLIAM M.HASELTON Successor to Haselton Bros.Established 1896 Monuments, Headstones, Building Material, Marble and Granite.Wholesale and Retail.\u2018Workmanship the best.Prices reasonable.Beebe Junction, Que.Beebe Plain, Vt.PIRST-CLASB WORK REASONABLY?GUARANTEED PRICES \u2014 ME) not give your M boy and girlan op Te to maketheir home study easy and effective?Give them the same chances to win promotion and success N Mac asthe lad having the AIN.pb advantage of BT RE amy WEBSTERS NEW INTERNATIONAL Dictionary in his home.This new creation answers with final authority all kinds of puzzling questions in history, geography, biography, spelling, pronunciation, sports, arts, and sciences.\u2019 480,000 Vocabulary Terms.3700 Pages.Over 6000 Illustrations.Colored Plates, The type matter is equivalent to that a O1 à 15-volume encyclopedia.More Scholarly, Accurate, Convenient, snd Authoritative than any other English Dictionary.\u2019 specimen pages, illustrations, etc.Jl SPRINGFIELD, MASS.HARLAN HRN FASHION'S VOICE.Bat britus are of various sixes, but they are increasing iu size.Finish the bottom of the full ; skirt with oue row of puting.Ï The lutest fiolero sleeve seems to lie cut in one with the bolero.\u2018 Parisienues are embroidering their buudkerchiefs whb soldiers.| | i White crochet ball fringe appears on both hats and summer gowns, Nothing has ever replaced the knitted golf coat for gulf players.Sashes with flower appligued ® ends are among the prettiest nov.| d eclties, .4| ! The Eton collar of sheer organdie is a feature of the new blouses.\u2019 - Multicolored picot edges to white ribbons are among the prettiest.POPLODPOPDOPLOOPD HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES.Aiso Every One Must Have Light; Know the Time.Two necessities of the household in some form or other are the lamp and the clock.Shown here is a bandsome dull brass kerosene lamp with a pretty LAMP AND CLOCK.rose colored giass shade finished with a fringe of glass beads.The little smug round clock is also of dull brass and sets sturdily upon a flat brass standard.Memories of Childhood.In the Woman's Home Companion & ' contributor writes an article on coun-' try life, entitled \u201cAlderbrook Farm\u201d, It is full of Interesting facts and practical suggestions.In the course of the article the author tells the following story and comments on ft: \u201cMy father on the old Ohlo farm used to have a fixed idea that we must always have green peas and new potatoes for dinner on the Fourth of July.He always worked toward that end and rarely missed it.1 can well remember, too, how good those small, tender, round potatoes used to taste all cooked together with the peas in an abundance of cream.\u201cIt is odd how much of the enjoyment of all such things comes from purely psychological associations\u2014from the memories of youth how much of It, In short, is pure imagination\u2014simple poetry.Many of the joys of country life are of this poetic, imaginative sort.Indeed, right here ltes the point of disagreement between those honest persons who think farm life all drudgery and those who think it all so glorious.The matter of fact man or woman finds everything hard enough, but the person of imagination.who can see the poetry of life in simple things, finds large rewards in country living.\u201d 39000040000 000000000000002 | $ NAVAJO PATTERNS IN 2 : CROCHET.: e 0000000000000000000000000 There are a roughness and mascnifn- ity about the Navajo blanket tbat sug.| gest hunting lodges and cabins tn\u2018 wetern wilds, and it must be the suggestive power of these blankets that makes them so popular with tbe masculine element of the household, for the Indian blanket surely finds no cor .responding note in the typical Ameri! tan home.For the man who wishes to surround himself with the barbaric de\u2019 signs and colorings of the Indian there Is a crocheted afghan that at a short distance might easily be mistaken for the | real Navajo blanket which it aims to : position to be, : about a mile from the Dutch bound- ; side Dutch territory.They had taken GOT OUT ZF GE°MANY NEWSPAFERMAN TELLS OF HIS KSCAPE FROM RUHLEBEN.Geoffrey Pyke, Who Was in Denmark at the Outbreak of the War Representing Renter's Agency Spent 10 Months in a Hayloft With 800 Other Prisoncrs\u2014Fine .ally Escaped Into Hollaud.4 FTER a weary tramp of two weeks [from Berlin,\u201d says Mr, Geoffroy Pyke, Reuter\u2019s special representative In Den-! mark at the time of the outbreak of , war, who was imprisoned in Ger-| many, \u201c1 rejoice to find myself at last in hospitable Holland.\u201d Mr.Pyke was imprisoned for ten months at Ruhleben in an attic bay- | loft with 300 others, The shape of the hayloft was such that most of its , occupants were unable to maintain an upright position, and bad to crouch ob the floor continually.\u2018\u201c\u201cHere 1 contracted pneumonia, and nearly died, continues Mr.Pyke.\u201cI received no medical attention, and from February till June I suffered | from repeated illness, and when con- i valescent made the acquaintance of ! Edward Falk, the district officer of Nigeria.He had been arrested just before the war's outbreak while holi- day-making.So arbitrary an act was | entirely unjustified by the rules of international law.We became | friends, and one evening he tentatively suggested the idea of escape.We | spent three months perfecting our, plans, which out of regard for the camp commandant\u2019s feelings I do\u2018 not intend to reveal, We escaped in | broad daylight in the afternoon of | July 9, passing through a cordon of ; armed sentries and four barbed wire fences.\u201d The two Britishers spent the night in an adjoining sandpit, and next morning entered Berlin, where they | enjoyed the first good meal they | had had for months.\u201cOn one occasion,\u201d proceeds Mr.Pyke, \u201cwe accidentally walked | through a powder factory which lay on our path, unchallenged by the sleepy Landstrum men.As we ap-; proached to within fifty miles of the Dutch frontier we found it necessary to exercise greater and greater | caution.Once during the day, while hiding in a copse, we found our-| selves in the centre of a cavalry man- | oeuvre ground, a squadron approach-: ing within twenty yards.This alarm over, we resumed our journey with provisions almost exhausted.On the night of the 22nd we almost lost ourselves in a peat fog upon a desolate ' moor, darkness adding to our perils from peat holes.\u201cOn the 23rd July we took our by dead reckoning, ary.We were just prepared for a last forward dash through the German sentry lines when suddenly we found ourselves surprised in our hiding-place by an armed guard.All seemed lost, We saw before us another prolonged period of terrible solitary confinement, when to our joy and amazement Dutch soldiers disclosed themselves.We hardly could believe our good fortune when they told us that we were fifty yards in- We had thus passed the German double sentry line without seeing a single man.Being near a village we were treated with the greatest kindness by the officers on the Dutch border guard.After a delicious night (for the first time in nearly a year) in bed, we left for Amsterdam, where the British Consul readily gave us all the assistance needed.us for smugglers.Patti and Her Partners.The novel manner in which the famous prima donna on one occasion chose her partners at a dance is related by Mr.Leslie Ward, \u201cSpy,\u201d in his Reminiscences.Mr.Ward went to a certain dance at Lancaster Gate.\u201cPatti,\u201d he says, \u201cwas sitting in the middle of the room looking angelic, and surrounded by a host of admiring men.We were each given a miniature bugle.Pattie had one also, on which she sounded a note, and whoever repeated it exactly was to gain her as a partner in the dance.The men advanced in turn, some blew too high, and others too low, until one and all gave up in disgust.At last my turn came; I was trembling with eagerness and excitement, and, determined to dance with Patti or die.I hit the note! .and gained my waltz!\u2014and the applause was great as I carried off my prize,\u201d Challenge to the Kaiser.Lord Northbourne, wbo is in his seventieth year, has challenged the German Emperor to mortal combat.Speaking at the prize proceedings at Dover College, he said: \u201cIt would give me great pleasure to meet the Kaiser in single combat.\u2018Pistols for two, and coffee for one, is 1 believe, { the formula\u2014and I do not doubt that I should have the coffee.\u201d Lord Northbourne is still a \u2018full private\u201d in the Kent Volunteer Fencibles.He achieved some notoriety in 1913 by announcing that be would celebrate the day that Mr.Lloyd George quitted the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer by roasting an ox whole at his home, Betteshanger, near Dover, amid a public manifestation of Joy.He is now said to have abandoned the intention.Warned by Birds.In the lonely districts of East Anglia the approach of Zeppelins is her- imitate.These slumber robes can be alded by means of the wild commo- worked in red and white, or if nimble tion among the birds, which are sen- fingers are more than usually patient sitive to the vibration long before the patterns may be crocheted in a the airship engines can be beard by variety of crude colors that, garish ag \"\"Man scouts.they may appear to feminine eyes, are | a source of delight to the color loving ' Bravo, Melba! : male.Go to the Navajo blanket for Over $150,000 has been added tu ; your designs when you are planning a che Australian war funds by Mme.| Row afghan or pillow for the \u201cden.\u201d | Meiba's concerts, 185,000 UNDER ARMS.Pifty Thousand Canadians Enlisted Within Last Three Months.Recruiting figures up to December 16 show that Canada has now called to the colors more than 200,000 men.During the past three months about fitty thousand men have enlisted, and at the present time recruiting is reported to be brisker than it has been for months past, especially in the rural districts.During the first fifteen days of December about 12,500 recruits were obtained, or at the rate of nearly 1,000 per day.Of this total Ontario contributed nearly 6,000, Quebec furyished about 1,000 recruits, the Maritime Provinces about 1,200, Manitoba and Saskatchewan about 2,200, Alberta 2,200, and British Columbia and the Yukon 1,150.Returns from the several military districts in Canada show that up to December 15 the number of recruits enlisted for all purposes since the outbreak of the war totalled about 198,000 men and 7,000 officers.This makes a grand total of 205,000 off- cers and men, including about 12,- | 000 men employed on home guard duty, etc., and eight or nine thousand who have been permanently put out of commission by death, wounds or illness at the front.Canada's present fighting army now on active service is, therefore, about 185,000, all of which has been raised and equipped in a little more than sixteen months.Exclusive of officers, which would add about four per cent.to the total, Ontario has raised about 77,000 men, Quebec approximately 24,000, the Maritime Provinces 90,000, Manitoba and Saskatchewan 37,600, Alberta -21,200, and British Columbia and the Yukon 19,700, Out of the total of 77,000 men raised in Ontario, the 1st Military District (headquarters at London) has raised approximately 15,000; the 2nd District (Toronto), 42,000, and the 3rd District (Kingston), 20,000, It may be noted that one-fifth of the men raised by the whole Dominion, and almost as many as the Maritime Provinces and Quebec together, or more than Alberta and British Columbia combined.It may be furlher noted that in the figures given for Manitoba and Sat- katchewan are included the recruits for the Thunder Bay and Rainy River districts in Ontario.TWO STAND OUT.Chinese Provinces Have Declared for Secession, and Will Fight.The Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Pekin telegraphs: Official telegrams from the south-west of China state that the Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces have declared for secession, and are now mustering troops, Their leader is Gen.Tasi- To.who led a revolution in 1911, He has attempted to found a separate dynasty in Yunnan.The plot is far-reaching, and has been prepared for a long time.It is probable that for this reason the momarchy movement was rushed despite foreign advices, A desperate effort is being made to legitimatize the new dynasty and to smash rival attempts.The steamer laden with munitions which a French destroyer seized off Annam last month, and which was believed to be destined for Indian sedition mongers, was bound for the Kwangsi coast, and formed an important element in the separatist movement, which is the reply of the United Republican party to Yuan Shi Kai's attempt to restore absolutism.In Singapore and the South Seas Chinese commercial communities are subscribing to the revolt.The Central Government is acting energetically.Two missions well supplied with money are reported to be proceeding to Yunnan and Kwang- si to buy up the soldiers, while Gen.Tsao Kun, commanding the famous third division, which sacked Pekin in 1812, is advancing by forced marches to the Kneichow border to seize strategic positions and cut off Yunnan, Loss to Laundrymen, Fifteen million dollars worth less collars and shirts have been washed in the British Empire during the last year, as compared with normal times; not because the British wear the same collars and shirts longer than in times of peace, but because the khaki has replaced those things with thousands of men who enlisted.This decrease of £3,000,000 in the laundry bill is only one {illustration of how hard the war has hit the laundryman.His working expenses have gone up and recruiting and munitions work have depleted his general staff, As a consequence the launderers have felt themselves justified in adding another 10 per cent.to the total of the weekly bill.The authority who gave the above estimate said the weekly average bill for laundry throughout Britain is about two shillings and that the advance made by the launderers covers in no way the .extra cost caused them by the war.Berlin Christmas Quiet.The Rotterdam correspondent of The Daily Mail says: \u201c\u2018Obeying the wishes and following the example of the Kaiser at court, the residents of Berlin spent the quietest and most economical Christmas in generations.Only national hymns were permitted in the cafes.Christmas trees were as numerous as ever, but the people were confined to celebrations in the homes.Thanks to the recent regulations providing that quantities of butter, margarines, and fats be sent from the provincial cities to the capital, Berlin was able to have something like a seasonable fcast.The most popular Christmas dinner was roast pork, The German papers invited their readers to send their impressions of the war, The replies were not so jubilant as those of last year, but were confident of victory.the Toronto ! District alone has supplied more than ; ESCAPED +ROM GERMANY, Canadian Officer Traveled All Through Enemy's Territory.Escaped from a German prison camp after being captureC at Ypres, and after wandering all through Germany disguised as a German, Major P.Anderson, of Edmonton, who was attached to the 3rd Battal- fon, has returned to London with a thrilling story of adventure and an interesting account of German conditions, Word of Major Anderson's escape and report to the War Office was received by the Minister of Militia in a letter from Major-General Carson.General Carson reports that he has now arrived in London and has spent two days with officials of the War Office, giving them a full account of the conditions which he found in Germany.In his message to the Minister of Militia, General Carson says that Major Anderson has had a marvelous experience, and has shown a wonderful courage, a wonderful fund of assurance and common sense, combined with a marvelous amount of good luck.The letter sates that Major Anderson reports that the German press is absolutely muzzled, and that nothing is allowed to reach the people either directly or indirectly but a never-ceasing record of wictories, with absolutely nothing of any setbacks.In consequence, says Major Anderson, the German people are still full of optimism, but are growing very reckless and all are \u2018\u2018heartily sick of the war.\u201d After being captured with some of his men of the 3rd Battalion at Ypres Major Anderson was interned at Glessen, Saxony.He had a fair knowledge of the German tongue, having been born in Sweden, and determined to escape if possible.He spent some months preparing for this move, which had to be begun at night in full view of the strongest camp lights.However, he got away safely.For tha first five days he walked all night and slept in concealment all day.He worked his way gradually south, using a small hand compass.After the first five days, when he thought the coast was clear and pursuit evaded, he walked boldly into small villages and slept at the village inns.He paid his way out of 250 marks which he had saved before leaving the camp.Some of the time he rode on Government trains and had long and interesting discussions with German officers and men.After working his way to the extreme south of Germany he turned and worked back again to the extreme north, where he managed to cross the boundary into Denmark.At Copenhagen he reported to the British Ambassador, and arrangements were then made to send him back to England via Sweden and Norway.CARTER GAVE HIS LIFE.Celebrated Athlete Was One of the Victims of Meningitis at Salisbury It was only to be expected that some of the most widely known Canadians to die at the front would be athletics.The steadily growing list indicates that they have not shirked.One of the first to lay down his life for the Empire was \u2018'Nick\u2019 Carter, a lacrosse player, whose name was known from coast to coast.He fell a victim to spinal meningitis which he contracted in the notorious camp on Salisbury Plain, Bert Carter, as he was known to the friends of his school-days, came from Elora, On- tarfo, and he learned to play lacrosse with the local team which called itself \u201cThe Rocks.\u201d He was big and rugged in his build and thoroughly fearless.If a winning team had the temerity to put up a hard fight and to threaten the supremacy of \u201cThe Rocks\u201d on their own stamping ground, it was to Carter that the fair Amazons on the side-lines shouted encouragement.\u201cGo in on the nets, Bert.\u201d \u2018Walk over him, Carter.\u201d They wanted victory, and to him they looked to supply it.As a matter of fact, he seldom disappointed them, and so the sleuths from the big teams began to notice him.At last Carter made up his mind to throw in bis lot with the Toronto professional lacrosse team.Between the time when he left Elora and the commencement of his professional career, he received the nickname that stuck to him to the end.It shows, however, that he was popular with the young lacrosse fans who were willing to name him after their favorite hero in contemporary fiction.For nearly a decade, Nick Carter was a figure in professional lacrosse, He figured in many of the greatest contests played during those years, first as a member of the Torontos and later with Con Jones\u2019 Vancouvers.Strength, determination, and pluck were his great assets on the field.He was as big as the ordinary defence man, and when he made up his mind to bore in for a shot, \u2018t took a strong man to stop him.He was easy going and good-natured off the field, but once in uniform he was ready to fight to the last ditch, Through All Engagements.Lance Corporal L.Hardbord, of Montreal, who was wounded recently, has been in all the engagements with the Canadians since the first contingent reached the firing line and this is the first time he has been wounded.When England called for men when the war broke out Lance Corporal Harbord and his father, Corp.J.E.Harbord both enlisted, took their training together and fought side by side through the great battle of Langemark, in which Corp.Har- bord was wounded twice.The Harbord family came to Canada from Ipswich, Eng., eight years ago and lived some time in Montreal.While in that city Corp.Har- bard, the father, won the championship of Quebec Province for checker playing.Later the family moved to Toronto, where they were living when the war broke out.Both father and son enlisted as privates, as neither had seen service before, and both won their stripes after the engagement at Ypres, Lance Corporal Harvard is only 19 years old and is a bomb thrower, > Care of the Baby In Summer Baby's Worries.{Prepared by the children's bureau, United States department of labor.) People are often exasperated at the fretfulness of some baby, and even mothers Icse patience when a baby persistently worries, forgetting that it is only in this way that the baby can express Lis discomfort.Babies do not \"ery without cause, and when a baby cries a great deal it is u pretty good | sign that sometbing is the matter.The cause of the crying may be a very slight one In itself.A baby compelled {to wear knitted woel bootees ou à bot day may be utteriy miserable, and another may be tormented beyond endurance by a woolen shirt or starched \u2018cap strings.Very thin, lightwelght | cotton garments and the fewest possible number are all the baby needs on hot days.Other sources of worry are: Prickly Heat.\u2014This appears as a fine red rash usually ou the neck and shoulders and gradually spreads to the head, | face and arms.It is caused by over.| beating, due either to the hot weather or to the fact that the baby is too warmly dressed.The rash comes and | goes with the heat nnd causes intense \u201citching.The remedy for it is to take \"off all the clothing and give the baby a | sponge bath in tepid water in which | common baking soda has been dis., solved.Use a tablespoonful of soda to ; two quarts of water.Use no sonp and | do not rub the skin, but pat it dry with \u201ca soft towel.After the skin is thor- \"oughly dry dust the intlamed surfaces with a plain talcuin powder.This ailment, like nll others, 13 more readily prevented than cured.Frequent cool baths, very little clothing, simple food and living in cool rooms or in the open air will probably save the summer baby from uch of the annoyance of prickly heat and other more serious 1lls.Chafing.\u2014Fat bables are very apt to suffer from chafing, especially in hot se ee THIS BABY I8 COOL.weather.It appears as a redness of the skin in the buttocks or in the armpits or wherever two skin surfaces per sistently rub together.Much the same treatment Is required as in prickly heat.Never use soap on an inflamed skin.Instead use a soda, bran or starch bath, as advised in a former article.Directions for these baths are given in a publication called Infant Cure, which may be bad free of charge by addressing a request to the chief of the children's bureau.United States department of labor, Washing ton.Great care should be taken not to let the baby scratch the skin when it 1a irritated.Sift together two parts powdered cornstarch and one part borle acid and use ft freely on the chafed places, Remove wet or solled diapers at once.Wash and dry the flesh thoroughly, then dust and powder freely betweon the legs.Milk Crust.\u2014This is a skin disease affecting the scalp.In which yellowish scaly patches appear on the baby\u2019s head.Tlese patches should be softened by anointing them with olive oil or vaseline at night and the head washed with warm water and castlle soap in the morning.If the crust does not readily come away repeat the process until the scalp ts clean.Never use à fine comb or the finger nails to remove the crusts, as the slightest irritation of the skin\u2019 will cause the disease to spread further, The scales will usually disappear after a few days\u2019 careful treatment.Constipation.\u2014If the baby does not have at least one full bowel movement fn twenty-four hours or iu thirty-six at the outside be lu In need of such care as will bring about this result.Breast fed babies often respond tn an Increased supply of laxative food in the mother's diet.If this Is not sufficient a six-months-old baby toay bate a tablespoonful of strained orange Juice bee tween two of his morning feedings.Perhaps the best preventive of cone stipation is to tench the baby to move the bowels at the same hour every day, This training should be begun when the baby ls three months old and should be faithfully continued until the habit is firmly established.Directions for carrying out this training are given in the pamphlet on ine fant care, already mentioned.Do not use enemas for tho rellef of constipe- tion save in emergencies and do not resort to purgative medicines except with the doctor's advice, .a a \u201cARE WE DOWNHEARTED ?NO!\" In a recent issue of the JOURNAL there appeared \"an article signed \u201cOne Who Loves Peace,\u201d describing conditions in bis community, and how these conditions were working against the best interests of the Red Oroes Soclety.It certainly is unfortunate that such conditions exist, but they are not limited to one community as investigation has shown.\u201cOne Who Loves Peace\u201d has ascribed the cause in his town to local envies or jealousies, but this is not always the whole cause.There has been and is an influence\u2014a worldwide influence\u2014that has been used to bring about these dissentions.It has been a part of the elaborate plan of the Germans to have their agents everywhere\u2014gathering information of every kind for the use of their masters who aspire to rule the world.Their spy system has proved to be one of the marvels of the age\u2014 no spot or place too high or too sacred to be free of their infernal machinations and none too lowly to escape their espionage.Their spies have been discovered in such close touch with the rulers and leaders of the Allied Countries that a feeling of uncertainty has prevailed everywhere, and it is not surprising that Great Britain and her Allies are taking every precaution to overcome the undoubted advantage that the Germans had on account of their far- reaching spy machinery.Canada has been most thoroughly prospected by these German agents, for Canada is the grand prize that Germany has had in view, and Canada would be a part of the price that Great Britain would have to pay it Germany could win this struggle.Some people have argued that Qer- many could not have Canada anyway, because the United States would not permit it.This contention is not sound.Canada isa part of the British Empire and it the Allies are defeated and Canada is offered in a settlement, the United States could not logically oppose it, any more than she could successfully oppose a victorious Ger- \u2018many.To show how completely the spying has been done here in Canada I must tell you of one of the unsuspected methods used, and it ordinarily sounds like a \u2018fable.A young man claiming to be a scion of a prominent Scandinavian family arrived in this country about four years ago and finally located in one of our rural communities.He was a prepossessing young man and made friends readily.From the fact that he claimed to be of a good family, and had been sent to this country to learn our language and business ways, and because he received remittances regularly from his home, or what he claimed to be his home, he soon became popular.He did not seem disposed to stop long in any household, hut kept changing.Wages were not much of a consider- ation\u2014his board and a little for other necessaries wae all that he asked for, as he was learning, and of course when one is acquiring an education he is not expected to earn much.He had some peculiarities\u2014he did not want to work afternoons\u2014using that time and the evenings for social intercourse.He always wore gloves about his work.He claimed to have some nervous trouble, that, many nights, prevented bis sleeping and \u2018he would be absent from his home nearly all night.This was the stranger that came to our Canadian gates and we took him in, and what has been the result?We find that he made friends or dupes in unexpected places.One of these was a married woman who was old enough to have been wiser, but she came from one of our moderately respectable families and the glamour of royalty, or near royalty dazzled ber.There was nothing between these two that could be criticised, as he did not show any partiality, treating all women with respect, but where the conditions were favorable he would tell of the wonderful advantages that some of the Old World countries possessed, particularly Germany, and what a splendid thing it would be if all the world was under German rule.He painted in bright colors the future of those who helped to make Germany a world ruler.The woman in this case was not more than ordinarily intelligent, but she was inordinately am- bitlous.Her husband wae a hardworking man who bad made and saved a comfortable fortune for a country district, and he was highly esteemed in his community.This gave the woman an idea that she was of more importance than the facts warranted, and she thought that she deserved to have more influence.Our foreign gentleman found the ground ready for the seed, and he proposed that she become a secret agent of the German Spy Department.He told her that this great war was bound to come in a few years and that her real work would not begin until then.The work for ber to do was to cause discord in the patriotic clubs that would surely be organized in this country.She was to find fault with anything and everything that was done in the clubs that she could reach, and to epread reports of mismanage- ment\u2014in fact to do everything possible to weaken or destroy the work of the patriotic organizations in ber locality.This she has done as the investigation shows\u2014oriticising and accusing falsely those women who have been working so faithfully and loyally for the great cause.This is only one case, and if \u201cOne Who Loves Peace\u2019\u2019 has discouraging moments, let him look for the German spy in his camp and deal with bim or her as spies deserve to be dealt with, \u2018\u2018Are We Downhearted?No!\u201d ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.All who are interested in the formation of a Provincial Poultry Association are invited to attend the meeting to be held in Odell\u2019s block, Sherbrooke, Thursday, January 27th at 2 p.m.The Carr Rubber Company\u2019s factory will be moved from Tilbury, Ont., to Granby.The municipal council of Granby has agreed to exempt the company from taxation and to furnish free power, if arrangements can be made with the 8.E.C.R.for same at cost, plus \u2018\u2018overhead\u2019\u2019 charges.The cooking range in the kitchen of the Danville House, Danville, Que., blew up Sunday morning, fllling the room with flames, smoke and ashes.Help was soon at hand and the flames were extinguished.John MoManus was sitting near the stove when the explosion occurred and had a close call, New Year's shuffle of business seems to have taken place at Beebe.L.B.House has sold his interest in the firm of Akin & House to his late partner, W.H.Akin, and bought the B.B.Glove and Mitt factory from 8.B.Telford, who in turn has bought the Perfecto overall factory from bis father, Francis Pocock.To reduce stock Mr.Akin will begin a cut-price sale next Monday.Gardner Stevens, son of the late Senator G.G.Stevens of Waterloo, died at bis home in that place Monday morning.Mr.Stevens was born at Frost Village, April 19th, 1860.He was elected a director of the Eastern Townships Bank, June 1st, 1892, and succeeded the 8.H, C.Miner as vice- president upon the death of the latter in 1911.One of the original promoters of the Orford Mountain Railway, he became secretary-treasurer of that company, holding office until that line was merged in the C.P.R.Mr.Stevens was also a director of the Stanstead, Shefford & Ohambly Railway, was postmaster at Waterloo for over a quarter of a century and held other important offices.Socially he was a kindly, likable gentleman, and he will be much missed.June 3rd, 1886, he married Ellen Gertrude Foster, only daughter of the late Judge 8.W.Foster of Knowlton, by whom he is survived.He aleo leaves one son and two daughters.Deceased was a brother of Sidney Stevens of Stan- stead.CARD OF THANKS.We sincerely wish to thank all those who assisted in our present bereavement, and may God bless them.MRs.JoHN H.BATCHELDER, MR.EZRA BATCHELDER AND FAMILY LUMBER We are prepared to quote lowest prices on Dimension, Rough and Finished Lumber, either hard or soft wood, in any quantity.Mansonville Write Lumber Co., MANSONVILLE, QUE.GENERAL BUTTERFIELD.The tuneral of Gen.F.G.Batterfield was held at the home on South Main Street, Friday afternoon, Rev.H.F.Hallett, the Generals pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev.G.Ellery Read, of Plymouth Church, Sherbrooke, a former pastor.The service was simple and beautiful, partaking of the dignity and character of the man whom so many friends and neighbors had gathered to pay the last respect and honor.The casket was in the library where he had loved to spend his leisure hours.The flowers were many and very beautiful, and about the casket was draped the flag he so loved and honored.This flag was sent for the purpose by Recorder O.D.Williams of the Loyal Legion, and the Order was represented at the funeral by Ex-Gov.Josiah Grout of Derby, Captain Robert P.Porter and A.H.Grout of Newport.The selections read from ecripture by Mr.Hallett were followed by the reading by Mr.Read of a hymn, very much prized by the General, \u201cAbide With Me;\u201d Mr.Read also read John Oxenbam\u2019s poem, \u201cShadow,\u201d and Alfred Tennyson's \u201cCrossing the Bar.\u201d Of the local members of the G.À.R.three were present, Commander John Walsh, Albert Rumery and Frank Robbins, and they are all who remain.Among those present were several from Derby and Newport: L.P.Jenne and George O.Burton, Judge and Mrs.F.E.Alfred, Judge H.B.Cushman, F.D.Flint, Col.C.8.Emery, H.M.Louthood; A.G.Sprague, 8t.Johns- bury.Over a hundred employees of Butterfleld & Co.were present, an impressive tribute.D.W.Davis was in charge and the bearers were T.Frank O'Rourke, A.O.Cowles, O.O.Wells, A.J.Bissonnet, F.W.D.Mellon and C.R.Jenkins.The body was taken to Bellows Falls in a special car Saturday morning.The following accompanied the family: Miss Susan Rouse, T.Frank O\u2019Rourke, F.W.D.Melloon, O.M.Carpenter, H.B.Stewart, C.R.Jenkins.The funeral party was met by relatives and friends at Bellaws Falls; F.H.Babbitt, John Piddock, Eugene Leonard, George R.Wales, Mr.Williams and E.L.Walker were the bearers at the interment at Saxton River.Rev.George Chapin, a former pastor of General Butterfleld, sow past four score years, pronounced the rites at the grave.The General was born at Rockingham, Vermont, in 1842, and has been a resident of Derby Line for about twenty-five years.always been a leader of men, a pacemaker in enterprise, and best of all, his leadings were safe and sane.Paes through the villages today and ask apy you may chance to meet, who and what was this man whose name bas been on all lips the past week, and what a cloud of witnesses are met who stand for his bigness of heart and gentleness of spirit.He was success- tal in acquiring property, but its increase served to enlarge the man and he treated its possession as a stewardship.Having more he gave more.He was busy seeking opportunities to assist those less favored than himself.Very few men go over the great divide from any community with a better record and enjoying such real esteem from the average man.A man of beautiful family life, and his childlike faith in Christ was the secret of his success.His going is, to him, but the stepping into a larger and better life.As his body passed to the station for its last journey, on Saturday morning, 300 men, from all the walks of life in the community, made up the escort led by a Canadian bearing the Union Jack and a Vermonter with the stars and stripes.All business stopped, shades were drawn and heads were uncovered to do him honor.\u2018\u2018Let us strengthen the things that remain\u201d because of his example.MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.Compton Village\u2014L.Q.Bliss and E.Poulin reélected by acclamation.East Bolton\u2014J.P.Taylor reëlected and L.N.Cousens elected in place of T.Cousens, both by acclamation.Ayer's Olift\u2014John Hibbard and DL.Paul reélected without opposition.Barnston\u2014Ulderic Houle and Joseph Devost returned without opposition.Sawyerville\u2014E.A.Kingsley, Herbert Waldron and Joseph Riddell returned by acclamation.Stanstead Plain\u2014Sidney Stevens and Fred Young reëlected without opposition.Beebe Plain\u2014H.B.Stewart and B.B.Allbee reëlected by acclamation.Cookshire\u2014John Delisle reëlected ; Anson Hodge elected in place of James French, both by acclamation.- Stanstead Township\u2014Erwin À.Tice- hurst and Albert R.Embury reélected by acclamation.Gould\u2014J.McKay reëlected, Alex Morrison elected in place of K.Mo- \u2014_\u2014 Aulay.ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS prepared for residences and business buildings.Estimates and work su- Derantended.Sketch plans free to prospective builders, Actual cost of construction guaranteed within ten per cent of estimates, Begin right before erecting a building of any kind, MILTON S.HASELTON, - BEEBE, QUE.Scottatown\u2014J.A.Gifford and A.Boisvert reëlected, R.À.Scott elected in place of W.F.Bowman, who bad served many years and declined to act longer.Waterville\u2014F.A.Burton and Thomas Smith reélected by acclamation.Village of Hatley\u2014George Poole re- dlected without opposition, F.Maloney elected over J.F.Woodman by a majority of ten votes.Wees Bolton\u2014G.W.Stone returned by acclamation, A.T.Woodley and O.Wing elected in place of A.Knowlton and O.Thompson, retired.He has\\- THE ROVING CORRESPONDENT.As I have lately visited a few rural parts of this Province I have endeavored to profit by some of the things I have noticed among the farmers.Some farmers are fairly prosperous and seem to have plenty of money, even in this time of oppression by the war who cannot or do not read any of the advise given in the numerous agricultural papers from experimental stations.But although chance, or instinct, brings success, in some few cases, to men who do not receive or profit by the good advise given free, yet such men might be far more successful if they could but combine their own natural instincts with scientific advise which agricultural papers furnish.I noticed one man in my travels who was quite prosperous and had very good surroundings but there were certain wastes and \u2018\u2018leak-holes\u201d in bis management which would cause a loss of a considerable per cent of his profit.These expensive \u2018\u2018leak-holes\u201d are not confined to one man but are quite common among farmers; some might be mentioned as samples.Feeding stock in over-cold stables is very extravagant, the use of wood floors with holes to allow the liquids to run away, using straw for bedding before allowing stock to pick out the good food which average straw is sure to contain, feeding horses and cattle month after month which are out of condition, when a tonic, costing but a trifle, will cause them to gain much faster upon the same feed, letting farm implements stand out of doors, feeding pigs in a dark pen and not noticing that the trough is tipped so that the feed is wasted.I called upon one farmer who bought last summer two tons of sale fertilizer at 832 per ton when he had twenty- five loads of manure lying in his yard, which he did not use.In Compton county I spent a night with a young farmer whose surroundings were very interesting indeed.I was informed, not by him, for he said very little about his affairs, that ten years before he had graduated at a college and bad taken over his father\u2019s farm, much run down, and having a large debt.Today he has a new barn with all modern equipments, & large stock of grade and pure-bred Durham cattle and is free from debt.Isaw no \u2018\u2018leak- holes\u201d around him and I enjoyed my inspéction of his home.In the same vicinity I visited a very unassuming farmer who had two old barns well rigged with comfortable stables and who kept forty head of grade Durham cattle.There were ten cows and ten steers of three, two and one years.He informed me that the three year-olds were sold at 8100 each making 81000 for the ten, to be shipped in two weeks, and that every year he made a similar sale.After my various visits at the different places, I drew the conclusion that the chief reason in most cases for farmers\u2019 want of prosperity was bad management.The farmer of today can make his life and surroundings pleasant and his sons will not wish to leave bome for want of interest in the work, Washing In the Philippines Most of the laundry work of the Philippine Islands is done by hand.The washing is usually done by beating the clothes with paddles, with the open hands or by rolling the garment slightly and striking one end of ft upon a flat stone or other bard, smooth surface, handling it as a flail is swung over the shoulder.The usual method 1s to beat the clothes with paddles especially fashioned for the purpose.There is no such thing as boiling in the process of washing among the Filipinos.Much of the clothing worn in the country being white, & great deal of sun bleaching 18 done.\u201cMaru\u201d In Japan.Maru is the Japanese word for mother.All Japanese regard their country of Japan as their mother, and Instead of using the equivalent of the word fatherland they invariably say \u201cMaru\u201d (mother) when referring to the land of Japan.Their use of the word as part of the names of ships is to show their reverence for and to honor their mother, Japan, and at the same time to distinguish the ships as belonging to thelr motherland.Nothing Unusual.\u201cMy goodness!\u201d said Wiggles.\u201cRudyard Kipling\u2019s autograph brought $17.50 at auction the other day.\u201d \u201cThat's nothing,\u201d retorted Ralph Waldo Inkwell, author of \u201cSonnets to a Portugoose.\u201d \u201cMy autograph brought $87.25 last week.\u201d \u201cAuction sale?\u2019 queried Wiggles.\u201cNo,\u201d sald Inkwell.\u201cIt was signed to a check in payment of my tailors bill\u201d Harder 8till.\u201cWell, have you reached the point where you can assemble a motorcar?\u201d asked Mr, Chugson.\u201cNo, indeed,\u201d answered Mr, Johnson.\u201cIn fact, | haven't yet reached the point where I can assemble the price\u201d Very Simple.\u201cMy wife is going to that masquer ade ball as a simple fisher maiden.\u201d \u201cGoing to borrow a fisher's costume from some simple maiden?\u201d \u201cNot on your life.Going to have one especially constructed for $2,000, FRANK D:.FLINT NEWPORT, VERMONT THE STORE THAT SELLS WOOLTEX The January Clearance Sale is bringing better results than before and is very fast reducing the stock of Ready-to-Wear Garments, but our customers are having no trouble to find what they want and at less expense than they even anticipated.Don\u2019t wait too long if you want to get some of the best values.SUITS at $5.95, $7.95, $12.95, very few of them that are priced at half their original price.LADIES\u2019 COATS at $4.95, $5.95, $8.95, $10.95, $12.75.These coats will average just a little over half price.CHILDREN\u2019S COATS, $1.95, $2.95, $3.95, $4.95.Any child that needs a coat and can\u2019t have one at one of these prices we will help even more than we have alaeady offered.LADIES\u2019 DRESSES $2.95, $3.95, $4.95, and up to $15.75 for dresses that have been $5.95 to $30.These dresses are being taken very fast at the low prices.LADIES\u2019 NATURAL RACCOON COATS, 52 inches long, $59.00, $69.00, $79.00, $89.00.This will probably be the last chance you will ever have to buy a Raccoon Coat at one of these prices.FUR SETS at not half their actual values.DRESS GOODS and SILKS at January Prices are proving to be very interesting to our customers, remember all regular prices will be higher than before.36 inch PERCALES at 8c., instead of 124c.MUSLIN UNDERGARMENTS AT JANUARY SALE PRICES Gowns, Hamburg and Lace trimmed, 21e.each.; trimmed with wide Hamburg, 39¢.each., worth 69c.Skirts, 39¢.each; skirts, 79¢.each, worth $1.25, Corset Covers, 19e.each, worth 25c._ Lot Envelope Combinations, 63e.each, worth $1.25.There are better gowns, combinations, skirts, corset covers all at January Sale prices.BOOKS\u2014AII latest Re-Binds, usually sold at 50c., at Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Books, usually sold at 25c., at 19c.GOSSARD CORSETS at January Sale prices, 3 lines to close, $6.50 ones at $3.50; $5.00 ones at $2.95; $2.50 ones at $1.50.ODD CORSETS in other styles, $1.50 ones at 95c.; $1.00 ones at 69c.The Housekeeping Sale is well under way and the women who study the cost of living are buying their supplies of necessary goods for the coming year and some of them are buying linens for some years to come.100 pieces Damask priced from 25c.to $2.29.This is more than double the stock we would offer only for the fact that we know prices must go much higher and any we have left on hand will be the very best investment possible to make.There are Napkins to match all the Damasks.When we advise our customers to buy damask we only advise them to do what we have been doing for over a year and have found that it has been the thing to do.39c.If you want to use Linen Crash buy it this month, as cotton crash will be very much in vogue before very long.Many Linen Crashes at only a very slight advance because we have had a very large stock on hand for over a year.TOWELS Linen Towels cost more this year than the price in the January Sale a year ago, but the saving will be much greater if bought now then for any previous year.Turkish Towels 15x22 15¢.a pair; 22x44, 25c.a pair; 23x45, 40c.a pair, extra heavy.Cotton Huck Towels, 14x26, 12c.a pair; 19x36, 15c.a pair.Curtain Serim with colored border at 6ic.a yard, worth 124c.; at 10c.a yard, worth 19¢c.to 25c.ENGLISH LONG CLOTHS 10 yard piece, $ .79, worth $1.00.S 10 95, 1,25.12 \u201c 1.19, \u201c m150.12 \u201c 1.39, \u201c 1,7.- 12 \u201c 1.69, \u201c«\u201c 2.00.2,000 yards Hamburg, 14 to 74 inches wide, actual value 10c.to 15c., all at 5c.a yard.Wash Cloths 5c.a dozen.Don't fail to buy Housekeeping Goods this year and you will be more than glad you did so later.FRANK D.FLINT, - NEWPORT, VT."]