The Stanstead journal, 3 février 1916, jeudi 3 février 1916

[" \u2018The Stanstead Journal.VOL.LXXI\u2014No.5.WANTED More good, honest, truthful, square, hustling men to sell MONARCH Sugar Rigs.Splendid opportunity to do something worth whileon the side, and at the same time be doing a real service for every man who will buy this line of goods.There are no other goods the equal of Monarch Sugar Tools and besides giving every purchaser the most real value for his money we are creating a market for Monarch product that makes it a decided advantage to the user of these goods.Everything indicates a bumper orop and the price, well, we are still contracting at 10c., and that is better than was ever known before to our knowledge.Will pay 12c.for a little more good, hard sugar in good, clean, wooden pails.MONARCH EVAPORATOR CO.True & Blanchard Co., Managers,.- Newport, Vt.TOWN TOPICS.Mr.Edward Audinwood was in Sherbrooke Monday.Social dance at Wheeler\u2019s ball, Holland, Friday, Feb.4th.Music by ABOUT YOUR HORSE.Hardly a day goes by that some one does not say: Lm not going to trade with So- and-So any longer.He keeps poor horses, and his drivers are pai Batchelder\u2019s orchestra.For those who use horses there is| Mr.Victor E.Cordeau has accepted no better advertising than a good @ position in the accounting depart horse well cared for; and there is no ment of Butterfield & Co.worse advertising than a horse unfit! Mr.Joseph A.Many was called to for his work, or abused by a careless bis home near St.Jobns, Wednesday, or brutal driver._, by the death of his mother.Which kind of advertising do you! Mrs.William Flint Pike will be at prefer?home Wednesday afternoon, February Think it over.ninth, from four until six o\u2019clock.The new basement of the Universal- ist Church is nearing completion and will provide a good suite of social rooms.TOWN TOPICS.1916 Calendar Pads on sale at the JOURNAL office.Mr.Obarles H.Taylor of Montreal > Fred Young, who bought the Mac- was in Stanstead over the week-end.|donald place at Stanstead after the Mr.D.W.Davis went to Coaticook fire, is having a well drilled there by Wednesday on account of the iliness Hibbard & Perkins.of his father, Mr.Dudley Davis.Mr.and Mrs.John F.McMullen of Good Sleigh for sale at a bargain, or Medford, Mass., have been visiting will exchange for wood or lumber.J.relatives here during the past week A.Tilton, Stanstead.or two, both recuperating from la Mr.L.H.Huckins is the builder in grippe.charge of remodeling the Pike store- A meeting will be held at the Col- house.The work is progressing ege Saturday evening for the purpose favorably.of organizing a patriotic society.All Mr.Joseph Marois has purchased interested will please keep the date from Mrs.H.A.Nelson the small, in mind and be present.white building and lot opposite the| Mr.Roland Brooks has been dis- Haskell Free Library.charged from the Grenadier Guards at The usual services at Derby Line St.Johns and is now at home.It is next Sunday.Mr.McIntire\u2019s sermon understood that he did not come quite topic will be \u201cDoing Better than Our UP to the physical standard required.Best\u201d from II Cor.8:3.Preparatory work for the new reg- The heavy thaw of last week prac- istry office and court house at Stan- tically stopped all lumbering opera- |êtead was begun Friday and a gang of tions.No lumber could be hauled men are being kept busy by the con- from Baldwin's Mills by either sled or tractors, Loomis- Dakin, Limited.wagon.: Gordon McIntosh and Howard Til- Mr.Edgar Clement has rented the ton are now in France, each driving a store formerly occupied by Clement five-ton motor truck attached to the & Co.and will carry an up-to-date army ambulance corps.They enlisted stock of dry goods and ladies\u2019 furnish- last September and for some time ings in the future.were in training at Niagara-on-the- During the recent thaw the ice went Lake.out of the rapide of the Tomifobia A regular meeting of Christ Church river, but held at the dams.A few Guild will be held at the home of Mrs.logs from the up-river jams made their Horace Cordeau on Wednesday, Feb.way down stream over the ice.The oth, at 2.30 p.m.A change is made corporation of Rock Island has served |in the day to enable those who wish, legal notice on H.W.Merrill that be to attend the special W.C.T.U.will be held responsible for any dam- meeting on Tuesday, Feb.8th.age that may be caused by logs in the| The formal opening of the rooms of future.Mr.Merrill denies responsi- the Men\u2019s Association took place bility, bis contention being that Do Tuesday evening.The president, Mr.damage could be done without artific- T.J.Norris, occupied the chair, and - ial choking of a natural, fioatable short speeches were made by Rev.G.waterway, by the construction of |Ellery Read of Sherbrooke, Principal dams, bridge abutmente, etc.Mr.Trueman, Rev.J.H.Hepburn, Rev.Merrill states that where dams are |H., F.Hallett, Rev.T.A.Halpenny, bullt on floatable streams, the law re- |and Rev.B.F.McIntire.There was quires that they be provided with |a large attendance of members and sluices and aprons for running logs; visitors who showed much interest in that although frequent requests have the new venture.The chhirman been made by himself and bis business struck a responsive chord when he associates, one of the power own- said it was expected that all would be ers have complied with this provision gentlemen gnd all were gentlemen.It of the law.His contention is that if all hold to that ideal there will be no there is responsibility anywhere it question about the success and future rests upon those who have obstructed usefulness of the Association.Every- the stream.The theory that streams one present entered into the spirit of were used before dams and bridges is the gathering with whole-hearted en- advanced in support of Mr.Merrill's thusiasm and the freedom of the position.various rooms gave much pleasure throughout the evening.The rooms VOTING IN COATICOOK will be open daily ontil 11 p.m.The membersoip fee has been fixed at $2.00 coon totey the of the pols tn Coati- a year, this price having been made possible by the generous contributions For Prohibition 346 of friends here and elsewhere.Mon- Against Prohibition 74 day afternoon and evening the rooms Majority for 272 were in charge of the ladies of the Red Cross who served refreshments and in Voting will be continued tomor- |,\" .ner obtained 851 for this row, but there would seem to be worthy cause.Some three hundred small chance for the success of the people attended during the afternoon liquor party.On the contrary Coati- (and evening.The Association rooms cook bids fair to even outstrip Rock are the visible expression of the growing community spirit wbich has been Island in the growth of temperance |, esting itself in the villages dur- sentiment.ing the past two years.TOWN TOPICS.Mrs.Ted Dennison reports seeing a flock of wild geese fiying northerly, Wednesday morning, January 26th.This is an unusual occurrence at this season of the year.The Audinwood addition on Elm St., consisting of 12 lots, located between the residences of Mr.J.F.Telford and of Col.O.E Nelson, is open for sale.The finest residential sections in the villages.51w1 19016 Dominion Office and Pocket Diaries at the JOURNAL Office.If we have not what you want we can supply apy kind or make of Diary by special order within thrge days.Make your selection in season for the New Year.Caswell & O'Rourke will soon have four more modern apartments in the post office block.The villages still need more rents; at this time there are more than 20 families waiting for desirable tenements.How will it be next summer ?Deputy Sheriff Edward Audinwood attended the annual meeting of the Sheriff's Association of Vermont, beld at Burlington, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan.26th and 27th.Sheriff Everett Hill of Newport is the President of the organization.Horace Stewart Haskell, Jr., was baptised at the residence of his grand- father, Col.H.8.Haskell, by Rev.G.Ellery Read of Sherbrooke, February | 1st.The lustre ware service used on : this Occasion was the one used at the | first communion in the town of Derby, something over a hundred years ago.| The fourth attraction of the People\u2019s Entertainment Course, Friday, Feb, 4th, will be ¢The Virginians,\u201d a colored quartet of singers, instrumental soloists and impersonators.It is sure to be a most enjoyable evening for lovers of popular music, plantation songe, etc.Tickets on sale at Parker\u2019s.Saturday, Jan.29th, John Chesley drove a motor car from Coaticook to Rock Island.This is a very unusual occurrence for midwinter, and nobody would have been rash enough to prophesy such an event two weeks earlier when there was more than the average amount of snow, badly drifted in places.But the greater part of it had disappeared in the \u2018January thaw,\u201d or rather the series of thaws, and a temporary freeze-up made the motoring teat possible.Mrs.A.J.Bissonnet, Mrs.H.P.Stockwell, Mra.J.M.O\u2019Halloran and Miss Hackett were hostesses Wednesday afternoon at a patriotic bridge party given at the home of Mrs.Bis- sonnet.Invitations were issued for 18 tables.The rooms were suitably decorated for the occasion with British and Canadian flags.The prizes were won by Miss Caswell, Miss Ter- rill, Mrs.E.P.Ball and Miss Lois Hovey.Delicious refreshments were served, and the sum of 860.00 was realized for this worthy cause.On Monday Dr.Ross amputated the second finger of the right hand of a patient named Wilfrid Beauchesne, living at the end of Maple Avenue, Rock Island.A bruise, unnoticed at the time,was the probable cause.It wae some time after the affected member became painful before a physician was called.Although blood poisoning had already developed, Dr.Ross did his best to save the finger by lancing and other treatment.* At the end of a week the finger was amputated to end the patient\u2019s suffering and avoid greater danger.Ray E.Ames died at the home of his father, Elder M.L.Ames, in Holland, Tuesday evening, Feb.3rd, aged 32 years and 4 days.His illness dates back to 1908, when pneumonia left his lunge slightly affected.In December, 1912, measles added to the havoc wrought by pneumonia.Mr.Ames spent the winter of 1912-13 in Florida, where he was employed as a motor driver for the Ridgewood Inn, of which Charles Woodbury of Burlington was manager.The winter of 1914 Mr.Ames passed at Saranac Lake, N.Y., that of 1915 at Southern Pines, N.C., and he afterwards put up a brave fight for life amid the scenes of his boyhood, but the inevitable has happened.Mr.Ames was well known here, having been a frequent visitor from boyhood.He was also employed as chauffeur for Col.Nelson for some time.He was a conscientious young and was held in high esteem by all who knew him.He is survived by his wife (Almena Osgood) and one son (Fritz) aged 11 years, two brothers (Charles L and George T.) and ome sister (Mrs.Eva Jacobs).The funeral will take place at the A.O.Church, Holland, at 11 a.m.tomorrow, the 0dd Fellows having charge.Deceased was a Forester as well as an Odd Fel- low.- TOWN TOPICS.Get your sleighs and wagons varnished and painted at Allard\u2019s Paint shop, P.J.Gagnon, General Painter, Rock Island.43tf Mr.Bernard E.Renihan and Miss Carrie Drew, daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Alfred H.Drew, were married at the presbytère, Wednesday afternoon, Rev.Fr.Oruveiller officiating.Mr.and Mrs.Rebihan left last evening for Toronto.Capt.R.Bartholmew, paymaster of the 117th E.T.Battalion, Sherbrooke, was in town today.Mr.Bartholmew was formerly editor and proprietor of the Compton County Chronicle.Since enlisting he bas organized a stock company to take over his printing and publishing business.Mr.T.J.Norris has kindly assured us that there will be steam pressure sufficient to sound the fire alarm at the Lay Whip Co.'s plant on Sundays and holidays from now on, without expense to the villages.This will be deeply appreciated by all, whether property holders or not.Supper in the social rooms of the Congregational Church, Tuesday, Feb.8th, at 8 o\u2019clock: Scalloped potatoes, ham, cake, pies, ete., served for 25 cents.Sale table of home-made candy.Proceeds for our new and popu- Jar Men°s Association.Come and enjoy & good supper and virit, and help | the ladies to raise a generous sum for this good object.Tuesday, Feb.8th, in the social rooms of the Congregational Church, the W.C.T.U.will have the honor of entertaining the beloved and distin- guiehed Vermont State President, Mre.Minnie L.Pearson, of Orleans.An informal reception at 3 p.m.will be followed by an address from Mrs.Pearson.At 6 o\u2019clock a substantial supper will be served for 25 cents.Proceeds of supper and candy to be given to the Men's Association.Through the courtesy of the committee the Association rooms will be open on this afternoon for a visit from the ladies.BARNSTON.Mr.Tabor Buckland has sufficiently recovered from his recent severe attack of pneumonia, to be brought home from Coaticook, by auto.Miss Frances Buckland is allowed to sit up each day for a short time, after a severe attack of bronchial pneumonia.Mrs.Stollworthy returned to the Methodist parsonage Saturday from Ontario, ar intends to take up residence in Barnston village during her hushand\u2019s sojourn at the front.Miss Clemmer Converse returned to her school two days sooner than she anticipated as Donald Jenks was taken ill and Mrs.Jenks had \u2018to remain at home.Remember the evening with \u2018\u2018Livingston in Africa,\u201d next Sunday in the Methodist Church.Rev.D.G.Ridout has organized a Sunday School which will meet weekly, Sunday morning at ten o\u2019clock before the regular service.The Women\u2019s Patriotic Society meets for work on Thursday afternoon at Mrs.G.B.Hall's.Mies Elsie Corey-is confined to her bed with la grippe at time of writing.NORTH STANSTEAD.Mr.and Mrs.A.E.Curtie were in Newport last week.Mr.and Mre.Higginson were in South Barnston visiting relatives recently.Mr.A.Little of Boynton has rented and moved onto John Gallagher\u2019s farm.Mr.and Mrs.K.Cooper of Heathton were week-end guests at G.W.Schoolcraft\u2019s.Mrs.E.Cartis is on the sick list.Geo.Curtis of Holland spent one day last week at his mother\u2019s, Mrs.E.Curtis\u2019.Mr.W.Farnham of Sherbrooke was in the place one day last week in the interest of the Dominion Fertilizer Co.The patriotic party at R.D, Byers\u2019 Friday night was well attended all report a fine time.We were shocked to hear of the death of Miss Mary Lincoln of Boyn- ton.The family have the sympathy of all.School has been closed the past week on account of sickness, The teacher, Miss Davis, has been quite n.BOYNTON.A recruiting meeting will be held in Boynton on Wednesday, Feb.8th, at 7.30.Ool, A, O.Hanson, C.E.F,, Mr, Btate of the Recruiting Association, and others will speak.Moving ple- tares.Everybody welcome.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1916.WOMAN'S READING CLUB.Tuesday afternoon, February let, the Oollege parlors were well-filied with Olub members, and several items of business were discussed as well as a fine program enjoyed.It wae voted that a eufficient sum be added to the proceeds of the concert: \u201cThe Lady of Shalott,\u201d which netted 825, to pay the cost of one dozen oak mission chairs to be given the \u2018Association Rooms.\u201d It was voted that all members of the Club, interested in Relief Work, asseas themselves twenty-five cents apiece to raise a fund to be forwarded Mrs.Benjamin Morrill for the purchase of jam for use in the Central Military Hospital at Shorncliffe, England.This in token of love and esteem for Col.and Mrs.Morrill as well as showing our desire to cheer the brave conva- lercents.A pleasant letter from Mrs.T.A.Lang, our absent president, expressed regret for inability to fulfill the duties devolving upon her in the Club this winter and suggested the election of à new president.After discussion, a third vice-president was chosen, Miss Robinson, to act as chairman in tbe absence of the first, and second.Miss MclIntosh\u2019s Current Events were well chosen and pertinent.Mrs, Trueman gave a very spirited selection from a French piano composition, which seemed appropriate to the theme of the afternoon: \u2018Th- Modern Drama.\u201d This was handled exhaustively, iu a paper of great merit, by Mre.J.C.Colby.Maurice Maeterlinck\u2019s \u2018Bluebird\u2019 was chosen as an example of a modern play adapted to please and to teach both children and old people, in popularity rivalling \u201cPeter Pan.\u201d Mrs.Trueman helped to make the plan of this play, and its charm, clear to those who had not seen it.We all at once understood the cause of \u201c\u2018Bluebird\u2019\u2019 popdlarity as an embruidery motif this year.Miss Leslie gave readings from: \u201cThe Servant in the House\u2019 and from: \u201cPeg O\u2019 My Heart,\u201d these were very enjoyable both as readings and as showing Miss Leslie\u2019s good will to the Club.The beautiful roses that adorned the table were a gift to Mrs.Trueman from Mrs.Charles Colby.MAIL ORDER COMPETITION.The parcel post has resulted, as was generally expected, in a large increase of the mail order business.Some merchants bewail this condition and never cease to complain about the unfairness of the system that provides such easy facilities for this form of trade.Other merchants, instead of com- plainiog, imitate the mail order methods with great success.They start a campaign for educating the people along the country roads about the advantage they get by buying in near-by centers, They show them how the near-bome store simply bas to keep only substantial and reliable goods, or it could never hold its trade.Also they often get their goods the day they order them and if the stuff does not prove as represented, satisfaction is guaranteed.They do not have to go through with the vexatious process of trying to get satisfaction out of some vast impersonal machine of a great mail order house.The bulk of the trade that goes to mail order houses would go to stores near home, if people knew what the home store has to sell.The local newspaper is both catalog and solicitor for the home merchants and the one means by which he can beat the big mail order concern.\u2014The Landmark, White River Junction, Vt.OPPOSITION TO COMPENSATION Judge Lafontaine, president of the Anti-Alcoholic League, will head a deputation to the Quebec Legislature to protest against the attempt of Three Rivers and other corporations to get power to pay compensation to those people who lose their licenses as the result of a vote in favor of prohibition.This information is contained in a letter written by the Judge to tbe Committee at Ottawa working for Federal Prohibition.The letter reads in part as follows: \u201cI am,\u201d he writes, \u2018organizing a strong delegation to the Legislature to prevent the granting of an amendment to the charter of some towns asking through, their municipal councils the right to sell spirituous liquors, to operate hotels or places for the sale of strong drinks and to pay an indemnity to, the old licenses whose business bas come to an end and bay their business, eto.\u201d Judge Lafontaine adds: \u201cI have never seen such audacity and it successful, it would mean the complete destruction of our work.\u2019 WHOLE No.3651.RED CROSS REPORT.Balance on hand Jan.1et, 1916, 8443 93 Received monthly eub- scriptions 133 13 Donations for Jan.Mrs.Will Curtie 5 00 J.J.Parker 5 00 Mrs.Timmons 25 Mrs.Henry Smith 125 Stanstead Coliege Y.W.C.A.50 00 Mrs.J.C.Colby (for wool) 10 00 Miss Jessie Carter (for wool) 10 00 Ladies of Fitch Bay 10 00 Butterfield & Co.for December 25 00 6 6 \u201c January 19 00 Misses Blanchard and Sweeny 6 00 Rock Island Red Cross Box 10 4718 66 Expense .Paid for cotton material $120 45 4 wool 66 123 22 Express and cutting 7 60 Heating work room 317 8255 02 Balance on hand Feb.let, 8463 64 MABEL M.STOCKWELL, Treasurer.Red Cross Work for December and January.During the mouths of December and January the Red Cross workers of Stanstead, Rock Island and vicinity shipped to the Provincial headquarters in Montreal, the following: 6000 sponges, 365 bed pada, 410 slinge, 36 comfort bags, filled, 41 small pillows, 2000 bandages, 40 ehirtr, 40 pillow cases, 100 hospital bandkerchiefe, 96 wash cloths, 50 towelr, 35 sets of pyjamas, 20 day shirts, 20 bed jackets, 18 scarfs, 22 pairs wristlets, 4 dressing gowns, 6 knitted caps, 50 pairs socks.To Sherbrooke: 30 pairs socks, 4 scarfs, 6 pairs wristlets.For our local men: 22 pairs socks, § scarfs, 3 day shirts.Mr.Gibson and Mr.W.Daly have kindly carried our parcels to and from the station free of charge.The merchants of the villages have furnished the packing cases and the work has been accomplished by the interested women.Now let all readers pause and think if they are doing all they can for this worthy cause or are they even doing some little bit or are they doing nothing at all?If so, when this great war is over will they feel that they were truly interested, patriotic citizens, or will they feel ashamed that they did not engage in some activity to make them worthy of being called true Capadians?OLD GEORGEVILLE BOY GONE.Charles S.Tuck, who died on Jau- vary 23rd, 1916, aged seventy-four years, at his residence at Norfolk Downs, near Boston, was a native of Georgeville.1n hie younger days he went to Boston and became connected with railroad interests.From Boston he went to New York where he was employed with the Gould system.Returning to Boston he was with the Old Colony Railroad many years, and was night superintendent until this line was absorbed by the N.Y., N.H.& Hartford Ry.Co.Recently he has been agent of the Savin Hill and Dorchester Stations.Be was efficient and popular in all his positions of trust, and his host of friends will miss bis genial presence.He was deservedly esteemed for his many good qualities.He leaves a widow and grandson.WEST HOLLAND.Miss Dorothy Todd entertained her schoolmates and friends at her home on Tuesday evening in honor of her birthday.Mrs.Elias Moulton received the sad news of the death cf hereister-in-law, Mrs.Silas Hatch, in Aroostook County, > Maine, on Saturday.Mrs.G.G.Bartlett and little son of Newport Center have been spending a week at the home of her parents, Mr.and Mrs.Fred Goodall.Mrs.Lester Holmes\u2019 two children are ill, having severe colds.Centenary Methodist Church.Services 10.30 a.m.and 7 p.m.Rev.W.C.Graham, M.A., Registrar of the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, will preach at both @æsrvices next Sunday.Morning subjeot, \u2018The Universal Task,\u2019 an educational anniversary sermon; evening, \u201cThe Clash of Oivilizations.\u201d Mr.Graham will appasr in uniform, having been recently appointed cbaplain with the 148th Battalion.Tbe evening service will be of a patriotic nature.Reception service and Sacrament of the Lord\u2019s Supper will follow at the close of the morning service.Strangers welcome.According to a report from the state agent, & boys\u2019 corn club in Minnesota last year eold betweon 200 and 300 bushels of seed corn at &4 a bushel. _ rem BIGLER'S POULTRY COMPOUND Is the greatest egg producer on earth.lin not a food, but is comprised of properties that ure esevntini to the heath of fowls.Coats only 25e.p-r package und can be had atthe Gilmore Harness Shop.Rock Island Que.SAFETY FIRST E.H.MARTEL, PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER Old Furniture made GOOD as NEW Satisfaction guaranteed.Moderate prices.Holmes Block.- Rock Island Que.STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE ORLEANS TRUST ¢\u20ac0.NEWPORT, VERMONT ASSETS Real Eet.Mortgages.8976,681.47 Loans and Discounts.308,123.05 Stocks and Bonds.47,000.00 Cash .Cerra .47,481.64 81,874,186 16 LIABILITIRS Capital .\u2026- vs.50,000.00 Surplas .coven.60,000.00 Undivided Profit.19,021.08 Deposita.\u2026.1,251,665.28 Treas.COks.Ontetanding.- 949.82 Dividend .2,500.00 81,374,136.16 LUMBER We are prepared to quote lowest prices on Dimension, Rough and Finished Lumber, either hard or soft wood, in any quantity.Write Mansonville Lumber Co., MANSONVILLE, QUE.ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS prepared for residences and business buildings.Estimates and work superintended.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.CARTER\u2019S Inks, Paste, 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WITH OUR ORGANIZATION AND EQUIPMENT WE CAN GIVE IT TO YOU.LOOMIS-DAKIN, LIMITED SHERBROOKE, QUE.GENERAL CONTRACTORS BUTTERFIELD CO.\u2019S NEW BUILDINGS, ROCK ISLAND.(\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014|\u2014\u2014=]o] HOME ol\u2014\u2014]\u2014\u2014\u2014|c\u2014\u2014|c\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014]|c\u2014\u2014]0] EEE 110 = FOUNTAIN PENS WE HAVE THE Waterman Ideal, Moore\u2019s Non-Leakable, and several other well-known makes.Consult us before buying.The Journal Printing Co., ROCK ISLAND, QUE.mm 54 mtn 5363 mn 581} emma) even) evens mmm MASSAWIPPI.The condition of the roads is extremely bad.Snow is much needed.Walking is dangerous, but thus far those who bave fallen were up ina trice and no bones broken.The family of Mr.G.Duff are nure- ing the imumpe.Mrs.L.Colt has been confined to her room the pass week, but is slowly recovering.Mise Maud Peck is about the same.Miss C.Rowell, a cousin, of Ayer's Olift,has recently stayed a few days with ber.Mrs.Orcutt of Kingscroft lately spent a few days at Mrs.Pock\u2019s and with other friends here.Mr.E.A.St.Dizier has spent several days in Montreal of late on business, and attended the automobile show.He also .visited his several relatives who reside iu that city.The lake is one sheet of ice, and skating is good.Our young people are taking advantage of it from time to time.The water was up a foot over the road, turning to Kiugscroft from the village, during the rain of this week.Teams are busy drawing sawdust and slabs from the mill.Farmers have now stored their summer supply of good ice.Mrs.Celia Cox and Mr.Allie Cox returned lately from Rockland, Maine, after a several-weeke\u2019 visit to her sister.Miss Dean of Boston has arrived at Mr.Dwight Paul's, to remain some time as their guest.Miss Annie Edson has been a great sufferer with a felon of late, but is now quite recovered, since having it lanced.Sad news has come to \u201cus of the village\u201d this week.First, the sudden death of Mrs.James Stone at Florence, Mass., a sister-in-law of Mrs.B.Kent, who spent a few weeks here this summer and made wany acquaintances; second, the death of Mr, Frank Eaton, husband of our towns- ; woman, Nellie Chilson, at his home in .8t.Johnsbury, after an acute attack lot indigestion lasting two hours.These sudden deaths came as great lshocks to all, and cause more, perhaps, than the usual sympathy as one can not be as well prepared to say \u201c80 let it be,\u201d after long suffering.i AYER'S CLIFF.The regular meeting of the W, C.T.ju will be held with Mrs.McClatchie \u2018on Wednceday, Feb.9th.welcome.The Ladies Guild meet with Mrs.E.H.Chadsey on Thursday of this week.The Ladies Aid will meet on Tuesday, Feb.8th, with Mrs.W.Cass.A welcome to all.: Mr.and Mrs.Warren Morse have both been victime of a severe case of grip.Their niece, Miss Hortense Bowen of Hatley, is staying with them for a while.Mr.and Mrs.H.N.Wheeler spent Sunday at Way\u2019s Mills with their son, O.L.Wheeler, who has been very ill, but is reported somewbat better.Mrs.H.G.Buck is epending this week with her daughter, Mrs.Heath, at Coaticook.Mr.R.H.McClatchie is employed for tbe present at the Rand Drill Co., Sherbrooke.The firm of Hale & Rawlings, plamb- ers, have dissolved partenership, Mr.Rawlings buying out the business, and Mr.Hale accepting a position with the Rand Drill Co., Sherbrooke.Mrs.L.L.Clough who has euffered from blood- poisoning in her hand, has not recovered yet, having had the hand opened again last Saturday.1t is hoped this may be the last operation necessary.Under the auspices of the W.U.T.U.an entertainment will be given at Odd Fellows Hall on Friday evening, Feb.11th, A debate will be given on the merits of a 85000 farm versus a University education, .aving three speakers on aside, led by Mr.A.E.Fish of Ayer\u2019s Cliff and Rev.F.Wil- Hams of East Hatley.There will be several musical numbers by Mr.and Mre.F.A.Johnston assisted by out- of-town singers.Program will begin at 7.45, at the close of which refresh- meats will be served by the ladies.Mr.and Mrs.Bodwell spent Sunday at Mr.T.O.Norton\u2019s, All ladies MAGOON'S POINT.Weare glad to say Mise Florence Willey is on the gain.Mies Jeanie Johnston has gone to visit friends in Aberdeen, Scotland.Mrs.Edmond Woodard of Fitch Bay was in the place one day last week.Miss Lillie Eryou was at Beebe last Tuesday.Mr.D.J.Oarr of Fitch Bay spent Tuesday at \u2018\u2018Belmere.\u201d Mr.R.O.Flanders of Maple Valley was calling on friends here one day last week.Mr.Chester Young of North Derby was a guest of Mr.O.Mishia on Sunday.Mr.Chas Leney ie in very poor health, CARD OF THANKS.We desire to express our sincere and heartfelt thanks to ali who so kindly assisted us, especially the singers at the faneral of our beloved sister and aunt.Mr.and Mre.T.A.Davis and Family.GRIFFIN.Mr.and Mrs.B.G.Drew received word two weeks ago that their son-in- law, Mr.Charles E.Severance, of Bt.Johnsbury, Vi., was very ill, suffering from Ja grippe and bronchitis.At present we are glad to report bim convalescing.Mr.A.H.Layfield bas returned after a four-weeks\u2019 visit and business trip ae far as Lake Megantio, to his moth- er-inslaw\u2019s, Mrs.Kelley\u2019s.He made stops at different places, visiting old friends at Compton, Cookshire, Bury, Gould, Gilson, Stornoway, his old home, and Spring Hill.He made tbe trip by team.Messrs.Frank Joss and Herbert Plunkette of Beebe, Mr.and Mrs.Carl Lane and daughter of Smith\u2019s Mills were guests at Mr, C, A.Putney\u2019s on Sunday.Mr.and Mre.A.H.Layfield were guests of Mr.and Mra.Carpenter, and Mr.ana Mrs.J.Lunderville, Mack\u2019s Mills, Sunday.Mr.James Davis of Liitleton, N.H., was a week-end guest at Mr.A.C.Putney.The many friends of Mr.À.P.Davis are pleased to know he is fast improving in health since his return from the Sherbrooke Hospital.Mr.and Mrs.E.R.Embary are rejoicing over the birtb ot a ten-pound boy.CASSVILLE.Miss Pearl Davidson of Upper Melbourne is spending a few weeks at the home of her sister, Mrs.Wm.Heath.On Wednesday afternoon of last week thirty ladies met with Mrs.Alexander Thompson and daughters to sew and knit for the Red Cross.Quite a lot vf work was taken home by the ladies, to be completed.Rev.and Mrs.Wililams of Hatley atiended the Aid.Mrs.Joba Gilbert and Mrs.Cyrus Finders of Tubor, Alberta, davghters of Mr.and Mrs.Alexander Thompson, were also present.A nice lunch was given by the hostess before the ladies left for their respective homes.24 40 were the receipts of the afternoon.Mr.Gordon Thompson carried a quantity of wheat to Huntingville recently and brought back eighteen sacks of flour which only ueed half the wheat which was raised at the Thompson homestead this year.Next Sunday will be communion Sunday.A recruiting meeting will be held in Boynton on Wednesday, Feb.9th, at 7.30.Col.A.C.Hanson, C.E.F., Mr.State of the Recruiting Association, and others will speak.Moving pictures.Everybody welcome.GEORGEVI LLE.Messrs.Wray P.Adams, A.Taylor apd Arthur Sylvestre of the 117th E.T.Regiment, were home over Sunday.Quite a number from around here are suffering with la grippe.The recent thaw has made the ice around the shores here very bad about getting on.Sergt.John Cochran of the 35th Battery was home with his family over Sunday.À letter received today from Mr.Chas.Wilcox who is now in a hospital in England recovering from wounds received at the front, states that Mr.Wilcox will probably out of the hospital in a couple of weeks, and that he expects to go back to France again.Mr.and Mrs.W A.Marry and son are back home after spending a month in Montreal and Boston.Mr.Pepin of Magog has a large gang of men boarding at B.Woodard\u2019s and lumbering in Mr.Clayton Doll- off\u2019s woods.PLEASANT HEIGHTS.j A number in this vicinity are confined to the house with la grippe; some are quite seriously ill.Mre.M.Cass and Mrs.H.Cass were at Mr.E.D.Whitney\u2019s on Saturday.Mr.and Mrs.R.Allen, Mrs.W.Minor and daughter Ethel were at Mr.H.Minor\u2019s on Sanday.Miss Pearl Bissell was a recent guest at the home of Mr.A.Harris.Mr.J.Wells and family \u2018were at Pleasant Heights on Sunday.The friends in this vicinity of Mr.A.P.Davis, Griffin, are pleased to know that he underwent a successfal operation in the Sherbrooke Hospital and has so far recovered as to be able to return home.News has been received of the birth of a little son at Mr.E.Embury\u2019s.Congratulations.People here wili soon be ranning wagons if snow does not put in an sppearance soon.News has again been received from S.G.Bachelder, dated Jan.9th, stating that Le is well and in good spirits, MAPLE VALLEY.Roads are not very good for men lumbering.Mr.Elias Mosher of Ayer\u2019s Cliff spent Sunday at Mr.Bert Young's.Mr.and Mrs.Park Wilson and son Lyle spent Sunday with her parents, Mr.and Mrs.O.B.Flanders, Mr.Walter Mosher spent the weekend with his parents, Mr.and Mrs.Bert Young, leaving Monday to join his regiment at Sherbrooke, the 117th E.T.Batt.Mr.Glen Flanders and Walter Mosher cailed on Mr.Geo.Alger, Sunday.VERMONT REAL HORSE RACING.Newport, Vermont.The Memphremsgog Driving Club held its fourth meeting of the season Saturday, January 29th.A most beautiful day, a good track and a large crowd in attendauce.The Club ran off eight classes with twenty starters; each class was well raced.In class À.when the three crackerjacks came together, Little Smoke proved a winner, with O.K., H.L.Flino\u2019s horse forcing him to the wire in 30} seconds.The Club seems to be making a success of these weekly races, and the people of Newport and vicinity seem to appreciate what it is doing for the town on Saturday.The next meeting will be held on Saturday, February 5:b, when à large fleld will be on hand for the afternoon\u2019s sport.An invitation is extended to all who wish to witness some real Vermont borse racing.Several! donations are being made to be awarded winners at the end of the season, from lovers of the light harness horse, outside of the state.À fine Australian wool blanket to be awarded the winner of the most races this season by the Tuttle & Clark Co.of Detroit, Mich., has been received by the secretary.Following is a list of the events: Class A, Pace, Little Smoke, W.Utton.0.K., H.Flinn.Kid Haltoon, E.Pickle.Time .31Y4, .3034.Class B, Pace.Boden, 8.Willlams, Jenny Lind, H.L.Qall.Octroon Prince, Jr., E.H.Reece.Time .303{, 313, .323;.Ciass O, Pace.Alexander Isle, J.H.Turner.Contractor, N.Eistman.Time 34, .34.Class D, Pace.Don Cella, W.Barnard.Lady Teel, E.F.Before.Time .3313, .33.Class E, Pace.Lacky Jim, F.E, Harvey.Lady B., C.A.Berry.Time .35, .35.Class F, Pace.Fanny P., W.Barnard.Lady Bingen, A.Hill.Dicky, F.Pickle.sean anau es Time .3714, .37}4, .37.Class G, Pace.Contractor, M.Eastman.11 Lady Walnut Hall, J.H.Haines.2 1 Time .34,.34}4.A Duchess, W.Dutton.Cherian Lou Axworthy, F.Pickle.29 Dreamwoold, A.Geer.33 Time .34, .36%.Races next Saturday, Feb.5, 1916.VERMONT ITEMS.Thirty-two Vermont libraries limit a borrower to two books.Ninety-five do not limit the number of books to a borrower.Albert Johonnott, a native of Barre, observed the 80th anniversary of his birth January 20.He received many cards and many friends called upon him.Four nationalities, French, Swedish, Scotch, and American, are served by libraries borrowed from the state commission by a district school in Beebe Plain.The Oastieton library supplies seven schools and two villages.A circulation of almost four books per capita among a population of 1,835 is reported.In 1803 the Arlington Library Society wae formed and existed 57 years.One hundred thirty-nine volumes with the original record book are now in the Arlington circulating library.James S.Milne of Barre, a second- year student at Boston University, died Tuesday night of injuries received in a basket ball game last Saturday, He collided with an opposing player.So much interest has been created in the smallest schools in Wheelock by the teacher reading a short time each day to the children that several who bad not taken out & book now walk two miles to the library to get one.The forty-first annual convention of the Vermont Bee Keepers\u2019 Association will be held at the Addison house, Middlebury, Thursday, February 17.The meeting will be called to order at 10 o'clock by the president, G.O.Spencer, of Vergennes.A bronze statue called \u201cGreen Mountain Boy,\u201d which seems to breathe the air of freedom, will be dedicated at Rutland August 16.The statue is eight feet high, and looks like the heroic figure of Etan Allen.The work is by Ramond Averill Porter.It ie said that this ie the first monument of its kind to commemorate the Revolutionary heroes of Vermont.A net profit of 95,000 in a year from a dairy of 55 grade Holeteines is the enviable record made by \u201cTed\u201d Norton, of Bristol.The gross average revenue to a cow was 8105 and the net $87.06.Mr.Norton owns his farm of 270 acres, but rents it to a capable man, at the same time keeping a sharp lookout of the business himself.His net profit from the place was $2,600 and his tenant got tbe same.Mr.Norton is a young man of progressive ideas wbo is making good on a Vermont farm.Ten years ago this same farm would barely support 12 cows.VERMONT ITEMS.© After a robin bas been reported seen in Stowe, word comes from Enosburg Palls that ©.Faller Rawson has picked a good-sized pansy blossom in bis garden, and later word is received from Middlebory that Mr.and Mrs.Warden Wells drove out to their farm and in looking over their flower garden found that their bed of pansies was in full bloom.Thirty students, including two wo- wen, are taking the winter short course in dairying and general agriculture at the University of Vermont which opened January 24 at Morrill ball.Additional students are expected.This course will run five weeks.The month's course in creamery management which ended Saturday, January 22nd, was the most successful ever held by the University.Germany as Super-Babies.\u2018There is no more pitiful cry than that of a baby asking for food,\u201d says the \u2018eminent\u2019 Doctor Von Mach.If they are sent to the bottom of the ocean in batches, victims of a eub- marine, they do not utter any cries which might offend the delicate ears of the Germans.\u2014 Montpelier Argus.A Splendid Philanthropy, Morrisville has a bit of good fortune in the philanthropic proposition of Mr.and Mrs.Chauncey F.Smith to present the town their large house as a hospital.There are scattered here and there throughout Vermont numerous other extensive residential properties which are practically of no use to their owners, being closed most of the time, and the example of the Morrisville people may be infectious.These large properties could be utilized by the communities in which they are located to splendid advantage.\u2014 Rutland News.New Form of Bocza Distribution.The Brattleboro authorities have ron across a new form of booze distribution and as a result Emido Pelli- grino is held until Meuday pending a report from the state laboratory as to the component parts of a variety of preparations he was offuring for sale.Sheriff B.E.Mann seized about 40 two-ounce vials containing five varieties of contents.Pelligrino in offering them for sale said that a few drops in water would make whiskey.The label on one vial marked \u201cwhiskey\u201d reads \u2018\u2018dissolve this flavor in one-half quart of alcohol, one-half quart of water, one teaspoonful sugar.\u201d The label is marked \u2018\u2018imitation flavor, artificially colored.\u201d All the extracts require some portion of alcohol to be added.Bird and Botanical Club Officers.The annual meeting of the Vermont Botanical and Bird Club, which began in Rutland Friday, closed Saturday at noon with the election of the following officers: President, Dr.Esra Brainerd, of Middlebury; vice-presi- dent, Prof.Harry F.Perkins, of Burlington; secretary, Prof.George P.Burns, of Burlington; treasurer, Mra.Nellie F.Flynn, of Burlington; librarian, Miss Phoebe Towle, of Burlington; bulletin editors, George L.Kirk, of Rutland, and Prot.A.E.Lambert, of Middlebury.It was voted to hold the next summer meeting at Wallingford and Dana 8, Carpenter, ot Middietown Springs, and Elroy C.Kent, of East Walling- ford, were chosen committee on arrangements.The meeting will come in July, In an illastrated lecture on horticulture before the club, Professor Burns urged Vermonters to make greater use of native trees and shrubs in landecape gardening.Many oity florists dig shrubs from the Vermonter\u2019s back yard, grow them for « year in a garden and then sell them back to the Green Mountain state as rare ex- otlcs.Willed Friendships.\u201cMy friendships, many and pre- cloys, I leave to my family, in the hope that they will be cherished and continued.I know of no enemies, but it such hereafter unhappily arise, let them be forgotten.\u201d These words are a part of the last will and testament of the late Justice Lamar, of the Supreme Court, which has been filled at Washington.A lawyer's will\u2014and bequests which lawyers usually prepare for other people to sign.It should be the privilege of great jurists to make great testamente, and this bequest bas the attributes of great nees.What richer thank can a man bequeath to his family than an estate of love?Nurtured by a son's or a danghter\u2019s devotion, a father\u2019s friend ships are a most valuable possession.Wealth may take wings; these when guarded and fostered by worth, never can, They are a permanent posses sion, Justice Lamar did not care for wealth.It is evident that he sought to lay the foundations of a nobler ee- tate, which no defaulter couid scale down, nor even the engines of war destroy.His \u2018fine bequest will be remembered longer, perhaps, than his judicial decisions, though these were wise and well-considered.The thought of his friendships, made thus memorable, will consecrate other friendships, and in countless hearts will put honest sentiment above dole lars and oente.\u2014 Brattleboro Reformer. PU Health for Jick Women For Forty Years Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s Vegetable Compound Has Been Woman\u2019s Most Reliable Medicine \u2014Here is More Proof.To women who are suffering from some form of woman's special ills, and have a constant fear of breaking down, the three following letters ought to bring hope: \u2014 North Crandon, Wis.\u2014 \u201c When I was 16 years old I got married and at 18 years I gave birth to twins and it leff me with very poor health.I could not walk across the floor without having to sit down to rest and it was hard for me to keep about and do my work.I went to a doctor and he told me I had a displacement and ulcers, and would have to have an operation.This frightened me so much that I did not know what to do.Havin, heard of Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s Vegetable Compoun would give it a trial and it made me as Me.ar well as ever.I cannot say enough in favor of the Pinkham remedies.\u201d\u2014Mrs.MAoYME AsBAcH, North Crandon, Wis, Testimony from Oklahoma, Lawton, Okla.\u2014¢ When I began to take Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s table Compound I seemed to be good for nothing.I tired easily had headaches much of the time and was irregular.I took it again before my little child was born and it did me a wonderful amount of d at that time.I never fail to recommend Lydia E.Pinkbam\u2019s egetable Compound to ailing women because it has done so much for me.\u201d\u2014Mrs.À.L.McCasLAND, 509 Have St., Lawton, Oxla.From a Grateful Massachusetts Woman.Roxbury, Mass.\u2014\u201cI was suffering from inflammation and was examined by a physician who found that my trouble was caused by a displacement.My symptoms were bearing down pains, backache, and sluggish liver.I tried several kinds of medicine; then I was asked to try Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s Vegetable Compound.It has cured me and I am Ve pleased to be in my usual health by using it Jes and highly recommend it.\u201d \u2014 Mrs.B.Osaoon, 1 Haynes Park, Roxbury, Mass.y If you want special advice write to Lydia lé B.Pinkham Medicine Co.(confidential) Lynn, Mass.Ve an Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence.0000000000000 009000 AUTOMOBILE OWNERS ATTENTION right price, call at the Derby Garage.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Automobile Accessories of all kinds at reasonable prices.THE DERBY GARAGE, YOUNG & CARBEE, Proprietors, DERBY, .- - - - - VERMONT 00000090 00000000 3 If you are looking for first-class work at the 3 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 work to do, therefore don\u2019t be late.have a large amount o THE AMES GARAGES, GEORGE T.AMES, PROPRIETOR, DERBY LINE, VT., - .TO MEN OF MILITARY AGE (18 TO 48.) Minimum Meight, 5 feet 8 inches.Minimum Chest Measure, 88 inches, Cut Out This Form, Fill It In, And Mail To CITIZENS\u2019 RECRUITING ASSOCIATION ONTREAL.FORM I desire information regarding terms of enlistment for Overseas Service with the.Battalion.Name.oooeiveenneenesccnone Address.a aa .0.\" ROCK ISLAND, QUE.STRENUGUS PASTIME.The Whip Game as Played by Natives of British Guiana.Of all the games it Las been my lot to Witnesa the most strenuous was the whip game I saw iu British Quiana.Before the game the women handeo \u2018 around bowls of the native drink, *\u2018pal- warie.\u201d Then the players, men and boys, lined up in two rows facing each other.Each carried a whip ornamented with fiber tassels, those of the two end players : having whistles attached.A gentle stamping began, which gradually grew louder till the earth seemed to throb.Shouts of \u201cYau au!\u201d rang along the line, and the players waved their whips and swayed gently backward and forward as they stamped.Presently the two end men passed down Letween the rows, while those lined up moved slowly in the opposite direction.In rotation the other pairs of men did ltkewise, and then the whistle men ran swiftly to their original places, The stamping increased in fury, and the whistlers whistled at each other in wild excitement.They raised their whips and feigned to lash out at each other without much hurt.The women ran up and down the rows offering their calabashes of \u201cpai- warie,\u201d and then the real whipping began, - Two men challenged each other to a contest, and the rows retired, still stamping.The whippers, splendidly built fellows, stripped save for loin cloths, were a thrilling sight as they cautiously judged thelr distances, letting their whips just touch each other's legs.Then one of them stood firmly and half turned away from the other.Immediately his whip sang through the air and came down ou lis opponent's calf with a crack.The victim did not flinch, but joined his whipper in a wild sort of dance, Again and again he submitted to the lash, and then it was the other's turn.I cannot say who won\u2014both were stoics of tremendous endurance.TI would have called the bout a draw, Then the two whippers retired to an adjoining hut, where they indulged freely in \u2018\u2018paiwarie.*\u2019 and others of the challenging rows took their places in the game, which lasted until the rows were exbausted.\u2014Temple Manning, in Cleveland Plain Dealer.ROUGH MUSIC.An Evildoer's Medicine, One Doss of Which Is Usuaily Enough.There are more ways than ome to punish evildvers.Did you ever bear of chastising u wife beater by means of \u201crough music?\u201d No, this is not a reference to the phonograph record which the children bave played with It is even worse.It has been In use in the southern counties of Eugland for Gt least four centuries, and It is so effective that it is likely to persist for several centuries to come.The one disadvantage of this metbod of punishment is that it punishes the vietim quite as much as it does the gulity party.It is inflicted on men and women alike, but it is most merciless when it Is directed against the henpecked busband.When it is the consensus of opinion in the village that a man or woman Las been guilty of conduct unbecoming a decent, self respecting burgher the neighbors assemble at the home of oue of them, equipped with tin pans, fire shovels, pokers, kettles, pairs of fron potlids, cow horns and anything else that will make a hideous noise, and march in sllence to tle house of the offender.Suddenly they break forth with a raucous, deafening din.When the rest of the village has been aroused and there is a sufliciently large audience the wit of the \u201crough music band\u201d lays the charge against the offender in verses that are not usually distinguished for refinement and consideration.After this Las been done the band marches to every tavern in town, where the charges are repeated.One such punishment, as a rule, is suf ficient.: RAIN FROM A CLEAR SKY.An Alleged Phenomenon Linked With the Falling of Dew.In Euglish dictionaries we find the word sereiu defined as a fine rain which sometimes falls from a clear sky shortly after sunset.The word is French, but has become the juterna- tional designation in unieteorological works for this alleged phenomenon, which is always described as quite rare.Has the phenomenon a real exist ence?The fact that a stereotyped descrip: tion of it Las been passed on from one .meteorological writer to another since \u201cthe latter part ef the eighteenth cen- Antiquity or tne Urgan.The organ is the most wmaguificent and comprehensive vf all musical instruments.While the pipes of Pan, aside from that mythical personage.indicate a very ancient use of pipes as a means of producing musical sounds, the \u201cwater organ of the ancients\u201d furnishes to the student of organ history the first tangible clew regarding the remote evolution of the instrument.In the second century the magripha, : an organ of ten pipes with a crude keyboard, is said to have existed, but ' accounts of this instrument are involved in much obscurity.It is averred that an organ, the gift of Constantine, was in the possession of King Pepin of France in 757, but Aldbelm, a monk, makes mention of an organ with \u201cgilt pipes\u201d as far back as the year 700.Bulls In Parliament, Lord Londonderry once threw the house of lords into roars of laughter during the debate on the second reading of the Irish land bill by gravely declaring that \u201cthis is the reason why you have failed to settle the Irish land question in the future as you have done in the past.\u201d In the course of the same speech he | concluded a period with: \u201cThis is the keystone of the bill.Are you going to | Kill it?\u201d | Better still was a sentence which be uttered in 1897 when speaking once | more on the Irish land question\u2014 \u201cThat, your lordship will see,\u201d referring to a quotation he had just made, \u201cindorses up to the hilt what I bave said.\u201d\u2014London Tatler.Burns as a Tax Collector.In the olden days candles were taxed articles, and it was the duty of Robert Burns as an excise officer to see that the tax was not evaded.He generally looked the other way, however, as when passing through the kitchen one night at William Lovimer's of Kenni- shall, where the gudewife was busy making candles, he merely remarked, \u201cFaith, madam, yere thrang the nicht,\u201d and passed into the parior.No Cause For Him to Complain.\u201cSee here!\u201d remarked the guest to the new waiter.\u2018There doesn't seem to be any soup on this menu card.\u201d \u201cOh, no, sir!\u201d replied the waiter nervously.\u201cI didn\u2019t spill it at this table.It was the one on the other side of the room.\u201d Of Good Repute., \u201cBut what is his reputation?That is the principal thing.\u201d \u201cWell, papa, he is reputed to spend fifty thousand a year.That's good enough for me.\u201d Sometimes.\u201cMy face is my fortune.\u201d \u201cYes, but an investment of that kind sometimes bas very bad features about it\u201d Never educate a chlid to be a gentle man or a lady alone, but to be a man, 1 WOIAD.YOURSELF.No one but yourself can make your life beautiful; no one can be pure, honorable and loving for you.lo .ury is by no means couclusive evidence on this point, for science has perpetuated many myths by the process ot reiteration, Professor Gustav Hellmann, in a re ceut publication of the Russian Meteorological institute, sees in the conception of the serein merely the survival of the old fashioned belief that evening dew falls from the (clear) sky, and he finds that the serein of early French writers was identical with that \u201ceven- .Ing dampness\u201d which was supposed to be injurious to human health, It still remains possible that rain may sometimes fall from a clear sky, though this is not likely to be a phenomenon peculiar to the early evening.Some cases can be explained as due to the oblique falling of raindrops, carried horizontally by the wind, when the clouds from which they cume bave , vassed away.: Masterlinck on Medicine.M, Macterlinek might almost be described as a poet in spite of himself.Had the desire of his heart been attained, be would bave been a doctor.Some years ago he confessed to his ! early ambitions in a letter addressed to a French medical journal.\u201cI never commenced the study of medicine,\u201d he wrote.\u201cI did my duty in conforming with the family tradition which or dains that the eldest son shail be an avocat.I shall regret to my last day that I obeyed those traditions and consecrated my most precious years to the vajnest of sciences.All my instincts, all my inclinations, attached me to the study of medicine, which 1 am more than ever convinced is the most beautiful key which gives access to the great realities of life.\u201d\u2014London Spectator.Youthful Genius.Pascal wrote treatises on acoustics at twelve, at which age he was busily occupied in constructing elaborate circulating machines, and at sixteen he published bis treatise on \u2018Conic Sections,\u201d which Descartes refused to be- lleve was not the work of a great master.John Stuart Mill was studying Greek at three, had practically mastered the language at seven and a year later was acting as schoolmaster to his younger brothers and sisters.John Ruskin actually produced a manuscript work in three volumes ®®ore Le reached bis seventh birthday.Goldfish, .It may not be generally known that there 18 cruelty in the keeping of goldfish.Half of such captives dle from sheer want of rest.As fish have eyes so formed that they cannot endure the light, in a glass vessel they are in an entirely wrong place, as is evident from the way in which they dash about and go around and around until fairly worn out.Worse Yet.\u201cWhy is Ît nobody likes Tom?\u201cOh, he's one of these 'l told you so* fellows.\u201d \u201cHow about Bill?\u201cHe's worse yet.He's one of the 9 could have told you If I'd wanted to\u2019 variety.\u2019\u2014Exchange, Club Prognostications.\u201c1 think it will rain before 1 get home.\u201d \u201cI know fit will storm when 1 get there.\u201d\u2014 Baltimore American./ | ROMANCE OF THE TRENCHES.Youth Who Lost His Memory is Restored to Parents, One of the strangest romances of the great war has just come to light in Leeds, Ten years ago a Leeds youth, George Ernest Oldroyd, disappeared from his home, and when his parents next had news of him he was acting as a cook to a party of Canadian rallway engineers on the prairies of Canada.After a month or two his parents ceased to have letters from him, and after the lapse of several years, and despite many vain endeavors to trace him, they reluctantly came to the conclusion that he was dead, and have mourned him as such for at least seven years.Now as the result of a chance meeting in the trenches in France it seems likely that Mr.and Mrs.Old- royd are to have their son restored to them, front recently met there a member of the Canadian contingent, whom he instantly recognized as George Old- royd, of Leeds, and hailed him as an old friend.The Canadian replied that be was making a mistake as his name was Thorpe, and he had never to his knowledge been to Leeds.Conversation between the two elic- fted the story from *\u2018Thorpe.\u201d Nine years ago he had been in a big train smash in Canada, from which be had emerged with his memory so completely gone that he could remember nothing of his previous life, not even his name.He told the Leeds comrade that following the accident a letter bearing the name of Thorpe was found in his possession, and he i had been known by that name ever .since, The Leeds man assured him that he had not the slightest doubt as to his identity, as he hcd known the whole Oldroyd family, he gave \u201cThorpe\u201d their address and advised him to write, Mr, and Mrs, Oldroyd, who still live in Leeds, have now received the following pathetic letter: Dear Mrs.Oldroyd,\u2014I take the lib- \u2018erty of writing these few lines.At the same time [ beg of you to excuse me if you find that I have made a mistake.I am at the front with the Canadian Contingent, and I Joined in Vancouver nine months ago, and it is only yesterday that I met a man from Roundhay-road, Leeds, and he spoke to me by the name of \u201cGeorge,\u201d and he said he knew me very weil when I was in England.1 told him he had made a mistake.You see I was in Toronto nine years ago, and was in a train wreck, where I received .concussion of the brain.I was taken to hospital in Winnipeg, and when I came out I had lost my memory of all that had taken place before my accident.I have trie to locate my parents geores of times since then, but without any success.I suppose that this letter will be destined to meet the same fate as my other inquiries; but I am writing because this young man he says he has been to my house, He says my home is Rose Cottage, Stratford street, Dewsbury road, Leeds.and write to you, hoping to find my people but, dear lady, if I am wrong please forgive me, and remember that I was only trying to find my mother and father.I will send you a photograph of myself if you had a sah who went to Canada.1 am in charge of the officers\u2019 kitch- ;en at the front.| This youvg man bas only just ; come from Leeds a few weeks ago.I think I must close now, as I don\u2019t | want to take up too much of your time.If 1 have made a mistake\u2014 | but I hope 1 have not\u2014I beg to remain yours very truly, TROOPER J.THORPE.Mr.and Mrs.Oldroyd are quite convinced that \u201cThorpe\u201d is none other than their long lost son.The handwriting of the above letter 18 identical with that of their son George's last letter home, and an additional proof is that when he emigrated to Canada he went accompanied by a friend named Thorpe.Less Liquor Used Now.For the first time in its history, the big distillery of Hiram Walker & Sons, Ltd., Walkerville, is closed for a longer period than is customary, and will not resume operations until next October at the earlicst, according to the announcement made a few days ago by Franklin H.Walker, President of the company.\u201cWe have always closed down from July to October,\u201d said Mr.Walker, \u201cbut this year we did not reopen in October as usual.We have a big surplus supply of liquor on hand, about 7,000,000 gallons, and there is not as much demand as formerly for the product, because of the war and other reasons.In view of this, our distillery will remain closed until next October at least.But we are taking care of our old employees, having provided other work for them,\u201d The annual report of the Dominion Inland Revenue Department, just issued, bears out Mr.Walker's explanation that there is not now the demand of former years for liquor.The report shows per capita consumption of spirits in Canada has fallen to a lower level than in any period during the past five years.It indicates that Canadians per head consumed .872 gallons in 1915, as compared with 1,061 the previous year, Of beer the consumption was 6,071 gallons per capita, as compared with 7.2 gallons in 1914; of wines, .095, against .124 in 1914.Cobalt Oxide Output.In 1915 there were produced in the silver refineries of Ontario 913,778 pounds of cobalt oxide.A bounty of six cents per pound of metallic cobalt is paid on cobalt oxide produced in the province.Last year the total metallic coatents of oxide produced and shipped amounted to 445,746 pounds.Tie total shipments of cobalt oxide amounted to 643,891 pounds, with a valuation of $618,- A Yeeds soldier at the.seems so confident he knows me, as Well, I am going to take a chance, 1 am a cook by trade, and DRAKE AS À KING Sir Francis Thought He Was the Monarch of California.CROWNED BY THE INDIANS.The Redskins Had Decorated Him With a War Bonnet of Feathers, but He Took It For the Real Thing In Crowns and Accepted the Title.Hidden in the diary of Francis Fletcher, a sailor parson who acted as chaplain for the freebooters of Str Francis Drake, is the story of the first i hoax ever engineered by Californians, The joke was on Sir Francis.Until his last day he believed thie Indiang of Califoruia had crowned him their king-\u2014\u2014king of California.As a matter of fact, all they did was to give him a feather war bounet and perform some native rites Lefore him, hoping thereby to get their hands in bis gift box again.It happened In June, 1559.Drake was looking for the wythicu! north- | west passage afigr a successful year | looting aud plundering In the Spanish i colonies.His ship, the Golden Hind, sprang a leak, and Drake put into a little bay, just north of the present San Francisco, for repairs.An Indian paddled out to the ship in , a canoe.He scattered feathers on the .water and went through a lot of pantomime, Drake feared to land until he found out the intent of the natives.The onc Indian went back to shore.Then, to quote frow Chaplain Fletcher; \u201cHe shortly cane aguiue the second \u2018time in like wanner und so the third time, when he brought with blm, as a present from the rest, a bunch of fenth- ers, much like the feathers of a blacke crowe, very neatly and artificially gathered upon a strug and drawne together in a round bundle, being verie cleane and finely cut.With this also he brouglt a little basket made of rushes and filled with an herbe which they called tobah, both being tyde to a short rodde he caste into our boate.\u201d Drake tried to give preseuts in return, but the Indian paddied away quickly.He took only un old cocked hat which some sailor had thrown overboard.The hat made quite an impression on the tribe apparently, for they all gathered around the possessor on the beach.In three days\u2019 time Drake concluded the Indians were friendly.so landed his men and began to unload the ship.A fort was constructed ns a matter of precaution.While the crew prepared the Golden Hind for sea Drake visited with the Indians.A tale, apocryphal perhaps, says he took an Indian chieftain's daughter to wife.At any rate, he got on famously with the savages, aided, \"no doubt, by generous gifts.As the time neared for Lis departure \"and gifts grew fewer, the Indians ap- nounced that they intended to give a festival for Drake and his party.\u2018 Drake came in full armor, and the 1n- , dians danced and played games for his benefit, At the close of the ceremonles the Indians signaled that Drake was to be honored in some way.l'irst an In- dinn approached bearing what Fletcher calls \u201ca scepter.\u201d Drake accepted this kingly accouterment.\u2018\u201cl'hen a chain wus placed around Lis neck, and amid great shouting a \u201ccrown of feathers\" was placed on his head.Drake saw no other meaving of the , ceremony than that be had been chosen king.What they really did was give \u201chim a pipe, a belt of wampum and à war bonnet.Drake drew bis men up in line and, with a great fourish of | trumpets and drums, accepted the king- (ship of California.As a postscript be added that he inade no claims to being an independent monarch.LIe was still a vassal of Queen Elizabeth.He set up à monument to that cffect: \u201cOur general caused to be set up a monument of our being there, as also jof ber majersties and successors right and title to that kiugdom-\u2014namely, a plate of brasse.fast nailed to a greato And firme poste; whereon is engraven her grace's name, the day and year ot our arrival there, and of the free giving up of the province and kingdom, both by the king and people, unto het majesties\u2019 hands; together with ber highness picture and arms, in a piece i of sixpence current English monlie, ; shewing itselfe by a hole made of pur pose through the plate; underncath | was likewise engraven the name of our general.\u201d | The hoax was successful.After accepting the kingship Drake sent for a large assortment of gifts for bis sub- Jects.\u2014 Kansas City Times.President\u2019s Pardoning Power.The president of the United States has power to pardon only those persons convicted in the federal courts of tbe United States.This pardoning power extends to convictions for offenses committed on the high seas and to convictions in consular courts having ; extra territorial jurisdiction In foreign countries.The pardoning power of the president of the United States does vot extend to convictions In state courts.Answering the Full Description.Why do you consider thls necktie my wife bougbt me & joke?It doesn't mike Die Inugh.\u201d \u201cI'iat fact makes it all the more & joke.Whether or not you laugh de | ends entirely on who it's on.\u201d \u2014 Wash.sneton Star lower in a fretful thing and bath nc wings niways sproad for tigut.\u2014 Walave. , too much to hope that St.Hyacinthe ue The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rock Island, Que.One year (advance payment) $1.00 L2 paid tn six months, 1.25 âs the end of the year, 1.60 When sent by mail to subscribers in the Ouitod Staton the price will be $1.50 à year in alvence Entered as wocond-clans matter at the Post Qc st Derby Line under the act of March, 8 ADVERTISING RATES.Transient advertising 10 cents a line for tae first insertion and 8 cents a line for each sub- soyuent Insertion.12 lined to theinch.Nond- vertisment recaived for less than SUcents.Correspondents io mir ly assist us by sending as much of their copy as possilbe by Monday evening's post.Reportxof later events may then be sent in by mail as late as Wednes day evening, or by \u2018phono on Thursday fore noon when necessary.It is frequently difficult for us to find work for our cumpositors Monday and Tuesday.Muluesdar snd Thursday they are always subinerged with copy.THk PUBLISHER.MUST BE SOME LOSSES.It would be strange if the no-license forces won in every contest.There must be some losses, and St.Hyacinthe is oue of these.After allit was could be immediately ewung to the dry columu.It ie doubtfui if the liquor traffic is more strongly entreuched in apy town in Canada.The \u2018\u2018drys\u201d there showed the valiant spirit in giving battle under such odds.The prohibitionists were helped by such distinguished men as Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, president of the supreme court of Canada; Sir Fra.Xavier Le- mieux, president of the superior court; Judge E.Lafoutaine, Dr.J.Gavreau, R.P.Cote, Abbe Desrosiers, Mgr.Guertin, R.P.Hamel, Abbe H.Morin, Dr.Lapierre, L.Augustin and B.Lalime.That the liquor party is still considered strong in St.Hyacinthe politics was shown by the fact that the federal member, L.J.Gauthier, K.C., aud the local member T.D.Bouchard, supported the \u2018\u2018wets,\u201d\u201d who had further support from Ald.V.E.Fontaine, K.C., J.O.Beauregard, K.C., Armand Boisseau, N.P., and others.The vote wus 610 for and 922 against prohibition.The effort of the campaign has not been lost; it has doubtless set St.Hyacinthe to thinking, and it is always bad for the liquor traffic when people get to thinking.\u201cDRY\u201d DAY FOR THE ' WETS.\" The prohibition vote in Newfoundland, England\u2019s oldest American coto- ny, was one of the most decisive victories yet achieved for no-license anywhere.The act under which the vote was taken provided that not only must there be a majority of the votes cast in favor of prohibition but that the total vote polled should equal at least 40 per cent of the names on the voters\u2019 liste in order to secure probi- bition.As a matter of fact the vote polled by the temperance party was more than 50 per cent of the whole number of votes cast in the last general election.The ballot for prohibition was 24,965, against 5,348, majority for 19,617.The \u2018\u2018drys\u201d outnumbered the \u201cwets\u201d by nearly five to one.CHANGING SENTIMENT.Ontario is being flooded with a lot of fake statistics concerning the alleged failure of prohibition in the States where the saloon has been outlawed.There was a time when many intelligent men believed in license as a means of controlling the liquor traffic.Today about the only ones who hoid to this view are the paid liars ot the Liquor Dealers\u2019 Association, and the number of men who are willing to support a dirty cause, even on a remunerative monetary basis, is con- constantly diminishing.President Wilson, in his recent speeches, contemplates some conditions which are worse than war.He has said that while the American people \u201cwill at no time seek a contest, they will at no time cravenly avoid it.\u201d He says also that the United States now stands ae it has always stood, for the integrity and independence of the weaker nations.That is as we had always understood it.And there are splendid opportunities just now for the big nations who would protect the little ones.BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.Friday morning\u2019s mail brought a contribution of 85.00 from a Stanstead \u201cSubscriber\u201d whose identy is unknown to us.February 1st an unknown \u2018Lady Friend\" called at the JOURNAL office leaving 81 00 for this worthy cause.Just as we are about to go to press we are in receipt of a check for 60.00 from Mrs.HI.P.Stockwell, the proceeds of a bridge party Wednesday afternoon.\u2019 RHEUMATISM ARRESTED Many people suffer the tortures of lame muscles and stiffened joints because of im- parities in the blood, and each succeeding attack seems more acute until rheumatism bas iuvaded the whole system.To arrest rheumatism it is quite as ine portant to improve your general health as to purify your blood, and the cod liver oil in Scott's Emulsion is nature's great blood-maker, while its medicinal nourishe ment streugthens the orgaus to expel the impurities and upbuild your strength.Scott's Emulsion is helping thousamdis every day who could not find other relict, LETTER FROM THE TRENCHES.Bandman Thomas PF.McBryde writes Interestingly from Franoe.The following war story is taken from a letter written by Thomas P.MoBryde, a former olerk in O.H.Norton\u2019s store, St.Albans, Vt., to Mies Jennie E.Osborn of that place.Soon after the outbreak of the war Mr.MoBryde joined a band in one of the Canadian regiments which is now fighting in France.Some of the details of musicians\u2019 work at the hospitals, the Y.M.0.A, etc, are omitted, otherwise the letter is as follows: We are having very bad weather, plenty of rain, which of course makes plenty of mud, people over here say they never had so much rain before, so it is put down to the heavy firing.In peace time this country must sure be fine, the roads are good and are lined on each eide with tall trees which are as straight as a pole; the flelds are green all the year round, all but no man\u2019s land which is all trenches, etc.Our first trip to the trenches was about October 1.We left camp at about 5 p.m.and marched about two miles and then had a rest and waited for the blackness of night to cover us.As it grew dark we started on our way again, each man carrying a pack of about 80 pounds and rifle.The order as we drew near to the trenches was, no smoking or talking.At last we left the road and took to the flelds, my first experience was to see a star shell which is thrown up into the air and lights the sky up.They use these stars so they can see if any working party is at work in between the trenches, if so then they open fire.My next experience was to hear a few stray bullets singing over head.At last we got to our headquarters which was an old farm house just bebind the trenches, the rest of the battalion went on up juto the treuches, as the band is on headquarters staff we stayed at the farm.We slept in the barn, made our beds out of straw, next morning after breakfast some of us were told off as messengers, etc., and some on outpost duty, and some on fatigue parties.I did notsleep much fora few nights as the bullets would strike the barn roof, but believe me I soon got over that, been ready to lay down in the road and mud to sleep.I had not been up into the trenches and been at headquarters two days, but one night the order came for a party to carry lumber and sand bags to fix the trenches as the Germans had blown some of our front away, about twenty of us went up each had something to carry.We crossed a field and then got into the trench which leads up to the front line of trenches, it was pitch dark and we went in single file up the trench, then up went a star shell and we ducked our heads below the trench then the rifles began to snap and the bullets to sing over the trench, at last we got up front and left the sand bags, etc., and started across the open fleld.Up went another star and then the Germans got a line on us, down we went into the grass and laid flat as the bullets sang around, after awhile up again and make a dash, then down again as soon as the next star went up.Believe me I was glad when we arrived back to the barn.Another time they shelled our quarters, sent over 88 large shells but did no damage, we sat in the barn and listened to them scream over head.We have six days at the trenches and six days out at the rest camp.One night while coming from the trenches and passing through a small village the Germans shelled us, we had got about half a mile out of the village, marching along easy and smoking, when the order to duck rang out.I went flat in the road and covered my head with arms, a scream and loud explosion, a German coal box, these shells when they explode make a hole from 15 to 20 feet wide and 10 to 15 feet deep, and scream through the air like an express train.They kept shelling us and we had to get under cover each time until we got out of range in the rest camp.The bandsmen have been taken away from the trenches we have not been near since November 25, but if a big blow js struck we will be in it.They have built us a large hut in a village behind the firing, we have good places to sleep, plenty of blankets, tables to eat and write on.To see the good spirit the men are in when in camp you would not think a war was on, when they leave for the trenches they are always of good cheer and yet they different hospitals.A week last Sat- Refuse the alcoliolic substitutes.\u2014\u2014\u2014t\u2014 PN sleep for good.know it might be the last trip, the back bone in our army is the spirit of the men.The band Is dway at one of the hospitals this afternoon, but I bave a very bad cold eo did not go.Every day this week is taken up for us at urday the big guns opened up fire and it up until Monday, the roar was awful and the earth shook.Saturday night the Germans used gas against our men, but the wind\u2019 changed and blew it back on them.Then our gunners gave them H\u2014, that ja the only word.Sanday morning we could smell the gas.We sleep very well in our hut, never bother about the shells, but it the Germans dropped a few shells into this village some night we might ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.A.P.Farwell of Compton died Wednesday at the age of 78 years.In the District Magietrate\u2019s Court at Bherbrooke Frank Petit was recently fined $15 for brutally illtreating his horse.The following Red Cross work was forwarded by the Beebe and Granite- ville Patriotic Olub on Jan.20th: 122 rolled bandages, 115 5-in.dressings, 15 10x12 dressings, 36 slings, 260 handkerchiefs, 800 sponges, 10 towels, 9 flannel shirts.At Sweetsburg, Jan.17th, W.H.Dubreuil of Farnham was sentenced to three months\u2019 imprisonment for forging a check for $46.81, It was a first offense and restitution bad been made so far as obtaining the money was concerned.John Mitchell died at Waterloo, Jan.25th, at the advanced age of 90 years.Many years ago he wus employed by the late Hon.A.B.Foster, the railway promoter; atterwards he went with the Central Vermont, remaining in the rail shops until they were closed.The tuneral of the late E, Bellam of Moe's River took place at Compton, Tuesday.Deceased had been spending some time with his son, U.F.Bel- lam, at Beebe.About ten days ago he went to Boston to visit a relative and there contracted pneumonia which proved fatal.B.C.Howard of Sherbrooke has erected a large sawmill at English Lake, which is reached by the recently constructed Chaudiere branch of the Quebec Railway.Since this extension was built considerable quantities of pulpwood and jumber have been shifted out of the district.Henry Brown, prominent in the Quebec marble industry, died at South Stukely, Saturday.When =a young man he eutered the lumber business and later on took up marine diving, inspecting steamers in Montreal hbar- bor for some years.Later on he opened up the marble quarries at Philipsburg and South Stukely.William Lavigne and Clophas Val- lieres, two soldiers belonging to the 117th Battalion, have been committed for trial on a charge of having stolen 875 worth of jewelry from the store of Hector Guertin, King street, Sherbrooke, on the night of January 24-25.The goods were obtained by emashing a corner out of a show window.The municipal elections in Magog Tuesday resulted in the reélection of Mayor L.Archeveque by a majority of 67 over former councilor J.L.Tetrault.In wards 1 and 2 the latter had majorities, but these were overbalanced by the former\u2019s majorities in wards 3,4,6and 6.In ward 4C.A.Auger was elected councilor by a majority of 23 over his opponent, A.B.Biron.In ward 5 Mr.L\u2019Abbe was returned by a majority of 18 over T.Roy.Municipal elections in Coaticook Tuesday resulted in the return of C.E.Scott in the center ward, his ma- back, we left the trench and cut |jority over J.B.Tibbetts being 13.In the north ward Thomas Martin was elected over A.8t.Cyr by three votes.All other eléctions were by acclamation, A direct vote on the license question is being recorded today by open ballott.At noon 150 votes had been polled for probibition, 18 against.Polling will likely be continued tomorrow.A debate which promises to be of more than usual interest will take place at Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Friday evening, Feb.11th.\u2018Resolved that a 85,000 farm is of greater value to a young man than a university education,\u2019 is the subject which will be grappled by Rev.F.Williams .of Hatley and A.E, Fish, a well-known Ayer\u2019s Cliff business man, as leaders of the opposing debaters.Musical features will add to the evening's entertainment which will begin in Odd, Fellows Hall at 7.45.Refreshments served at close of program, all for 25 cents.Proceeds for the county no-license fund.George Ratenreed, the German laborer who murdered the twelve-year- old daughter of his housekeeper, Mra.Pellison, tried to kill the latter, and then cut his own throat, died in the Sherbrooke Hospital January 27th.It is perhaps well that be is out of the world.The tragedy is horrible enough as it ie; it would bave been even worse if the murderer had been nursed back to life only to be hanged afterwards.The fact is whiskey was the real murderer.\u2018I remember nothing of the tragedy,\u2019 said poor Ratenreed, after he came to his senses.The tragedy referred to occurred in Bolton, Sunday, Jan.16th.* Saturday, the 15th, Ratenreed went to Eastman for supplies and there got the booze which incited him to the crime.Eastman is still a \u2018license\u2019 village and gave a license majority in the Brome county campaign, September 16th, After May 1st, 1916, there will be no more license in Eastman, but the change did not come soon enougb to save a stain which cannot now be removed.The blot is on Eastman rather than on Bolton.Prise for the Best Old Horse.Owners of horses should not forget the prize offered by a former resident of Stanstead, for the oldest horse in the best condition to be exhibited at the Ayer\u2019s Cliff Fair next S8eptember.A blind horse is not disqualified.OBITUARY.There occurred, quite suddenly, the death of Miss Mury Jane Lincoln, of pneumonia, at the bome of ber sjster, Mrs.Titus A.Davis, Boynton, Que., on Jan.24th, 19186, Deceased was the oldest daughter of the late William and Sylvia Lincoln, pioneer eettlers of the township of Stanstead, who lived on their farm, now owned by Mr.Eugene Lincoln, in Fairfax, Que., and was born over 71 Years ago.For the last 38 years of her lite Miss Lincoln has lived with her sister, Mrs.T.A.Davis, of Boynton.Although never à strong person, yet she could assiet in the duties of the home and besides that she was able to carry on quite anexteusive flower garden.She was a lover of flowers, and it was her delight togrow flowers of many varieties and to work among them.It was indeed a branch of work in which she excelled, for the flowers svemed to flourish under her skilfuil bands.Many of her plants and flowers were put, every year, on exhibition at the county fair, Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Que., and at the Eastern Towaships Exhibition, Sherbrooke, from which institutions she carried off a good share of the prizes awarded for that line of exhibits.Ag the pastor, Mr.Moore, remarked at her personal service, that a person may grow flowers to the Glory of God, for through their beauty and sweet perfume he may speak and cheer the human heart and turn the heart to Himselt.\u201d During many months of the year the pulpit and the table before the pulpit of the church at Boynton, were supplied with flowers by the band of Miss Lincoln.The sick roomsin the homes around far and near, and in the hospital at Sherbrooke, were brightened and perfumed, and the sick ones were cheered and helped by the flowers from the garden of Mary Lincoln.Her quiet, consistent Christian life in the family and community was a good deal like the flowers that grew in her garden\u2014quiet, beautitu!, ever shedding around ber a Christian influence.Of her, as of Mary of Bethany, who annointed the Lord with the precious ointment, the odor of which filled the house, the master might say, as be said then, \u2018She hath wrought a good work\u201d\u2019\u2014\u201cShe hath done what she could.\u201d Mark 14:86, 8.THE JOURNAL'S FRIENDS, Mr.Geo.8.Carpenter, Portland, Oregon, writes: \u2018\u2018Epclosed please find P.O.money order $3.00 for which extend subscriptions to your valued paper for one year as follows: S.M.Davis, 667 Halsey St., Geo.J.Carpenter, 621 Broadway.Cannot well dispense with weekly visite of STAN- STEAD JOURNAL after all these years.We are experiencing somewhat of the \u2018rigors of winter\u2019 during this month; 24 inches of snowfall eince New Year began.Mercury as low as 170 above zero oN, one occasion.Notbing to equal thls in the past 25 years,but it will soon be over and spring will be here.Rev.W.A.Gustin, Berwyn, Ill, writes: \u2018\u2018Pardon my procrastinstion in \u2018paying up\u2019 for my subscription to the JOURNAL.My memory is what I forget with and it bas worked admirably to that end, wben I have been at either post-office or bank.Anyhow, nowp lease find P.O.Order for year\u2019s subscription.The JOURNAL is my ever welcome table companion for my Saturday evening dinner and then goes out to find other equally warm receptions from other Stanstead County-ites living in this suburb or in the city (Chicago).\u201d E.W.8mith, Dedham, Mass., writes: \u201cTam sorry to inform you that Mrs.Philander W.Smith, one of your old subscribers and daughter of one of Stanstead\u2019s earliest pioneers, Sher- burn Brown of Brown's Hill, has been gathered to those who have gone beyond.But the news from the old home place is still looked forward to, by her children, so I enclose my check for 81.50 for the coming year.\u201d Mrs.L.N.Benway, Salem, Mass, writes: \u2018\u2018Please find enclosed one dollar and fifty cents, so that the dear old JOURNAL may continue on its weekly visit to our home; if it did not come I am sure we would miss it very, very much.Mrs.G.M.Obild, Coaticook, writes: \u2018Please find enclosed one dollar for the STANSTBAD JOURNAL for 1916.I look for it as I would for an old friend.\u201d IN MEMORIAM, In loving memory of my husband, John H.Batchelder, who departed this life Jan.2, 1916.A sweeter, sadder thing My life for having known you, * Forever with my sacred kin, My soul's soul, I must own you; Forever mine, my husband, From June 'till'life\u2019s December ; Not mine to have and hold, Mine to pray for and 1emember.Your loving wife, HATTIE.The annual meeting of tbe Stanstead County Horticuitural Society will be held in the county building, Ayer\u2019s Clift, Saturday afternoon, Feb.5th.The substantial manner in which the United Btates is benefitting commer- clally from the war is shown in her exports.The total for December was $359,301,000, which was in excess of imports by $187,459,000, and an in- orease over December 1914 ,exports of $113,669,000.Thereby gold is flowing into the United States in large amounts.The total for December was $45,412,000 against $11,889,000 during the corresponding period in 1914.The increase in December 1914 was less than $4,000,000.Increased imports indicate the prosperous condition of that country, the total in December being $171,841,000 an increase of 857,185,000 over December 1914.À petition, said to contain 1,000,000 signatures, seeking an embargo on mubitions from the United States, was presented to the U.S.senate last Thursday.A superficial examination showed that groups of names were in the same handwriting and that there was a large preponderance of German names.It is not expeoted that the petition will receive more than \u2018passing\u2019 consideration.US.industries are making buge sums of money out of the war at a time when ordinary business is more than dull, The embargo would work to the disadvantage of both capital and labor.In loving memory of my mother, Nancy J.Batchelder, who departed this lite Feb.6th, 1882.I sit and think when the sunset 's gold Of the running river and hill and shore, 1 shall one day stand by the water cold And list for the sound of the buatman\u2019s var, I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail, I shall hear the buat as it gains tho strand, I shail pass frem sight with the boatman puly To the better shore of the spirit land, I shall know you, dear mother, as in days of yore, Apu joyfully sweet will the meeting be When over the river, the peaceful river, The angel of death shall carry me.Loving:y your daugh ter, MARY À.NICKERSON.Somervilie, Mass.How dear to our hearts is the steady subscriber Who pays iu advauce at the birth of each year, Who lays down the money and does it quite gladly, And casts round the office a halo of cheer.He never says, \u2018\u201c\u2018Stop it; I cannot afford it; I\u2019m getting more papers now than I can read.\u201d But always says, \u2018\u2018Send it; our people all like it\u2014 In fact, we all think ita help and a need.\u201d How welcome this check when it reaches our sanctum, How it makes our pulse throb, how it wakes our heart dance! We outwardly tbank him, we inwardly bless him\u2014 The steady subscriber who pays in advance.- Montreal\u2019s whirlwind campaign to raise $1,500,000 for the Patriotic Fund closed Friday night with subscriptions amounting to $2,379,864.A similar campaign in Toronto brought eub- scriptions aggregating $2,302,000.The champion potato-club boy of Montana is reported to have produced 65 bushels of potatoes on bis one- tenth-acre plot, at a cost of 815.63.His net profit was 847.27.In Russia, owing to scarcity of men in the profeesions, women are now permitted to enter certain universities.The Song of the Sock.Oh socks! that my fingers are torming, uf Yarn that is woolly and grey, * I'm wondering, ah yes! [| am wondering \u2018What things you'll'be seeing some day.1f, on the feet of some hero, .You'll march on to victory grand, Or walk through the trenches of Belgium, Or tramp over hot desert sand.If you were a magic stocking ike the giants of old used to wear, You'd carry my soldier to Berlin And make him a conqueror there.Now, on the heel I am knittin As backwards and forward go, I'm praying the laddie who wears it May never turn heel to the foe.Will the life blood of some gallant soldier Ever its soft greyness stain, Or after some terribie battle, Be buried on one of the slain?No, no! for the man who shall wear this I'm sure will have God's special care; For all intermixed with the stitches, 1've woven in many a prayer.M AX.MBURY\u2014At Grifin, Que., Friday, Jan.28, EN sou to Mr.and Mrs R.Embury.DOUGALL\u2014At Stanstead, Jan.28, 1916, a HD er to Mr, and Mrs.K.J.MoDougall.There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it wassuppo to be incurable.Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable.Catarrh is à local disease, grestiy influenced by constitutional conditions and therefore requires constitu ional treatment.Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.J.Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the Blood un the Mucous Surfaces of the System.One Huddred Del- lars reward is offered for any case that Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure, Send for circulars and testimonials.¥.J.CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio, Sold by dragglste.75c.Hall's family Pills for constipation.FOR SALE.One kitchen range with hot water attach ment: ; also one Quebec Heater.Batchelder at Parsons\u2019 store.TO LET.One tenement on Highland Avenue, Derby Line, and one tenement in the Dewey Block, top of Plain Hill, Apply to Holmes & Holmes, Rock Island.bit Wanted Immediately.Two or three girls to work on shirts.Peer.1e-6 Overall Uo., Rock Island.Bist .* School Commissioners A Special Meeting of the School Boa the Towsshi of Stanstead will be on of Fairview Hall.Bmith's Mille, Que., ou Satur day, February 12th, at 10 o'clock a.m.L.E.CARPENTER, Treas.Smith's Mills, Feb.2, 1916.TR BREAD AND FLOUR Are necessities of life.In order to be able to supply them we must have money.There are many sm -1l accounts dae us on the books of P.A.Gobeille; these must be paid at once, Any remaining unpaid on March lat will be handed in for collection without further wo- tice.\u2018Lhisie final, G.& G.Limited, sJwsz LOST.A Scotch Terrier dog, yellow leather collar, with name of owner on it.Reward if returned to Miss Butters, Stanstead.If you have Eye Troubles Headaches, Hlurred Vision, or any Difficulty of that nature.do not delay until the disorder becomes chronic, consult Dr.A.W.DuBois AT THE DERBY LINE HOTEL February 8, 9, 10 and 11 Consultation and advice free; eyes proper] ed at moderate charges.perly OLYMPIC SKATING RINK SKATING CARNIVAL Friday, Feb.26th FARM FOR SALE The farm known as the Jocob Worth place situated on House Hill, about one mile North of the village of Beebe, Will be sold in part or the whole to suit purchaser.CHARLES E.BASELTON, anti Beebe, Que.ROCK ISLAND BAKERY All persond indebted to the above will greatly oblige me by paying at r nce, as I am making important changes in my business.50w2 P.A.GOBEILLE.ANTED\u2014(ood man to work on farm must be good milker and be able to do all kinds of general farm work.House can be furnished after first of May.Good wages to the right rty, by the year.Byron Kezar, Stanstead, ue.P.8.\u2014One Bell Organ, six octave, piano case, in good condition, for sale cheap.NOTICE This is to give notice that I have arran with Campbell & Bellam to look after the collection of overdue accounts, and those who are interested will kindly take notice and arrange for settlement.J.C.GILFILLAN, M.D.Beebe Plain, Que., Nov.29, 1915.éétz - FOR SALE.Green and Dry Block Wood, delivered anywhere in the Three Villages.C.W.Stevens, Rock Island.t148 Building Lots For Sale Convenient to the Butterfield shops having access toStans ead Plain over proposed new highway.For particulars apply to John M.Montle, Ro:k Island or Stanstead, Que.FOR SALE.180 ACRE FARM, with frontage \u201con the.most beautiful section of Lake Mem- phrema og.On main road, three miles from eorgeville only a few \u2018rods from school, farm buil ngs, summer cottage on lake.gravel beach and varied shore.Two sugar places, with modern equipment for 800 trees.(Good land, free from stone, all machine work.For particulars apply to G.A.Boynton, R.M.D.1, Georgeville, Que.£75.QTITCHERS WANTED\u2014.B.Goodhue Co.Limited, Rock Island.asd Organized 1876 The National Bank NEWPORT, VT.Uspital, - - - $100,000 00 Surplus and Profit, - 53,178.00 Deposits, - - - 678,108 29 U.8.Depository.E.LANE, President, J.E.MCCARTEN, Cashier, EARL L.BROWN, Asset.Oashier PER CENT PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent $3.00, $6.00, $10.00 per year We cordially invite new business connections, 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 telang, IH : Quebec Business and Professional Cards, J.C.COLBY, B.A, M.D.Office as Oarrollcroft, Stanstead.Consultations 9 to 10 à.m., 7 to 8 p.m., and by appointment.Both \u2018Phones.DR.H.P.STOCKWELL, Stanstead Plain, Que.Office and residence opposite 8.W.College.Bell and People\u2019s Telephones.WILBUR A.REYNOLDS, D.D.S., 288 Newbury st., Boston, Mass.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.Graduate of Montreal petorinary College.Qmiçe at Lee Farm, Rock Island U.8.P.O.Address: Derby Line, Vermont.SYDNEY A.MEADE, Provincial Land Surveyor, Coaticook, Que.H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.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., and Rock Island, P.Q.CHARLES E.BENNETT, ~ Designer of Batldin 8, Machinery, Furniture, Landscape ening.Derby Line, Vt Consultation and Sup adorée DR.E.A.TAYLOR, Office Hours: Until 9 à.m., 7 tu 8 p.m.Valentine Ave, Derby Line, Vt.New England Telephone.R.O.ROSS, B.À.M.D., C.M, \u2018Office Hours: 8 to 9 A.M.,1 to3 and7to8 Pt.E.T.Telephone.SIDNEY STEVENS, Fire, Life, Accident and Health Insurance Best Companies represented Agent Empire Typewriter Stanstead, Que.2 GRANITEVILLE.The many friends of Mr.P.N.Salls are glad that he is improving rapidly and expects to return from the R.V.Hospital in a few days.Messrs.J.Smith, J.Alken, D.Roberts and A.Bott attended the races in Newport last Saturday.Mr.Smith bas a very promising young horse which he intends to put on the track soon.Mesers.W.©.Duncan, J.Vowell, O.Wright and J.Jeffries bave enlisted in the 117th, Mre.W.C.Duncan and family bave given up their house in Graniteville and are occupying part of Mr.J.Vow- ell\u2019s house in Marlington.Mre.S.Sloan is in Vinlehaven, Me., visiting ber son, Mr.Parker- Sloan, and other relatives.Mr.and Mre.F.Rollins and daughter Gwendoline were at Newport one day last week.Mr.and Mrs.À, Hamilton have returned to their home in Marlington after epending a few days visiting friends in Bolton Centre.Mr.W.Keniston has gone to Green- fleld, Mass., where he is a guest of his son, Mr.C.Keniston.Mr.and Mra, J.O.O'Leary and son Frederick, and Mise H.Grabam were guests of Mr.and Mrs.Frank Hasel- ton, Beebe, last Sunday.Messrs.Bert and James McIntosh and Rafus Blair skated to Newport Saturday, from Lake Park.HATLEY.The Ladies Aid met on Jan.26th at the vestry for dinner, the hostesses on this occasion being Mre.Russell Bowen and Mies Nellie Emery.A good number of ladies and gentlemen were present to enjoy the excellent baked bean dinner.The next Aid will be entertained at the home of Mra.Herbert Webster on Feb.9th for dinner.The patriotic meeting was held in the vestry on Wednesday afternoon, Jan.26.A good number of industrious ladies were present.A box con- talning the following articles, was packed and sent to the Red Cross So- olety: 37 pairs socks, 12 bed pads, 10 mufflers, 11 pairs wristlets, and a quantity of old linen.The Society has been invited by Mrs.Herbert Webster to meet at her house on Wednesday afternoon, Feb.8th, following the Aid.Mrs.Sherman ie critically ill with pneumonia, at her home near tbe \u2018old ohurch,\u201d Hatley.Her epeedy recov- ory is hoped for by all members of the community.Mr.Ed.Pellerin has established a record, for this place at least, by tapping some twenty maple trees and making some excellent syrup in Jan- nary.The Junior Red Cross will meet with Miss Kathleen Woodman on Saturday afternoon, Feb.5.It is hoped that every young lady in the community will make a special effort to be present.FITCH BAY.Mr.Harry Gregory of Richmond, Que., spent the week-end in town.Mr.and Mrs.Geo.Gregory have been ill the past week with the grip.Dr.Ross and Nurse Pangborne of Stanstead are attenedng them.Services will be held in 8t.Matthias Church on Sunday at 7.30 p.m.Mr.and Mrs.Jus.Waite spent Sunday at Orystal Heights at the home of Mr.Henry Lewis who has recently had a paralytic stroke.Among those ill with the grip the past week are Mr.and Mrs.I.C.Waite, Mrs.F.H.Rider, Miss Madelyn Rider, Mrs.A.W.Sorenson and two children, and M.O.Gardine.A recruiting meeting will be held in Boynton on Wednesday, Feb.9th, at 7.30.Col.A.CO.Hanson, 0.E.F,, Mr.State of the Recruiting Association, and others will speak.Moving pictures.Everybody welcome.On Taesday evening, Feb, 15th, a lecture will be given under the auspices of the W.O.T.U.of this place, in the Congregational Church, by Mrs.G.G.McCurdy of Lennovville, county president of Sherbrooke.There will be no admission fee, but a silver collection will be taken during the evening.Music will be given during the evening by the choir.Mrs.Mc- Curdy is a gifted speaker, and all who can should take advantage of this lecture which will commence at 845 sharp.Everyone is cordially invited.The home of Mr.and Mrs.E.Stick- ney was the scene of a happy gathering on Tuesday evening when the friends of their daughter, Mise Olive, met to assist her in celebrating her 17th birthday.A jolly evening wae spent and refreshments were served, after which the guest of honor was presented with a purse of money with the best wishes of those present.Mr.O.P.Rider is confined to the house with the grip.SMITH'S MILLS.Mrs.Fred Bigelow is at home from Boston, Mass.where she has been visiting friends for the past month.Miss Hattie Merrill of Boynton is visiting Mrs.Linda Yetter.Mr.Charles Peasley of Stanstead spent Sunday at Fair View Hotel.Mr.George Seymour of Fitch Bay is stopping at the same place.Mies Harriet Reed is home from West Derby for a few days before leaving for Montreal to visit her sister, Mrs.Gale Billings.Mrs.Albert Baldwin has gone to Sherbrooke to visit her daughter, Mrs.Thomas Molyneux, Mr.and Mrs.Peter O\u2019Leary were at Georgeville on Sunday, guests of her father, Mr.Erastus Packard.Mr.Charles A.Brown of Greenfleld, Mass., visited his sister, Mrs.C.R.Ruiter, the past week.A banquet was held at the home of Mr.Frank Brown on Friday evening, Jan, 28th, in honor of the young men who have enlisted in the 117th Battalion.Those having enlisted are Messrs.George, Edward and Sam Au- lis, William and John Wheeler, Harry Hurlburt, T.Bronson, Charles Smith and Selby.Mrs.Linda Yetter and son left on Thursday for Boston, BARNSTON.On Sunday evening, February 6th, at 7.30 in the Barnston Methodist Church, the life story ot David Livingstone, the intrepid explorer of Africa, will be told by the Rev.Denzil G.Ridout.The service will be a musical one and an excellent programme of music will be rendered by the choir.All members of the community are cordially invited to enjoy this evening.The following are the chief items of the service: Congregation, \u2018\u2018Come Ye that Love The Lord; prayer, Rev.H.Campbell Plant; choir, \u2018Out in the Darknees;\u201d solo and chorus, \u201cThe Glory of the King,\u201d Mies Doris Morgan and choir; duet and chorus, Miss Converse, Mrs.Stallwortby and choir; solo and chorus, \u201cBe True,\u201d Rev.H.Campbell Plant and choir; announcements and offering; congregation, \u201cTo the Work;\u201d duet, \u201cInasmuch,\u201d Mrs.Wallace and Miss Morgan; quartette, \u201cA Song of Home,\u201d Miss Converse, Mrs.Stall- worthy, Rev.Plant and Mr.B.Converse; solo, \u2018Miss Lou Bettger of New Hamburg; solo, \u201cBeyond the Gates of Paradise,\u201d Mr.B.Converse; quartette, \u201cGod Will Take Care of Me,\u201d Mies Converse, Mrs, Stallworthy, Rev.Plant and Mr.B.Converse; anthem, \u201cBe Thou Faithful,\u201d choir; congregation, \u201cA Call For Reapers;\u2019 benediction and vesper.MCCONNELL.Mr.Harold Hibbard of the 35th Battery came home last week to see bis parents before leaving Sherbrooke.Ferdie Gauthier is home from Sherbrooke for a few days.Rev.and Mre.Chapman attended the funeral of Mrs.Kent at Hatley last week, and also the A, O.District meeting at Fitch Bay, Bunday.Mr.J.Atkinson is slowly improving after a severe attack of la grippe, and is able to sit up a short time.Mr.Atkinson too ie gaining.Mr.Fred Gauthier\u2019s family are all recovering from the grip.Mr.and Mrs.J.8.Humphrey and Master Ralph of Magog were recent guests at Glen Brook Farm.BEEBE.Elder and Mrs.J.E.Lary spent the first of last week at St.Johnsbury, going from there Friday to Fitch Bay to attend a general conference, and returning home late Saturday night to attend to his service Sunday.Homer Brainard was home from Boston for the week-end.Mr.and Mrs.J.Turner are in Ottawa attending the races.Mrs.8.B.Norton is bome from Montreal after spending a week there with friends.Again our community was saddened when the news came of the death of Edward Bellam, father of Fred Bellam, who had made his home with his son since the death of his wife.Mr.Bel- lam has been quite poorly this winter, having heart trouble, but for the past few weeks was a little better, and so left on Monday of last week for a visit with friends at Norwich.He left Norwich Wednesday to visit friends in Reading, Mass., at which place he was taken sick.A message came to his son Fred Friday evening, telling of the condition of his father.He left on the late train that evening, arriving there Saturday morning to find his father very low with pneumonia.He spoke only a few words and at seven that evening passed away.The remains were brought here on the Monday morning train and were taken to the home of Mr.and Mre.Fred Bellam.At three o\u2019clock in the afternoon a brief service was held, Rev.C.P.England of Derby, pastor of the Baptist Church of this place, read a hymn and the scripture, made some very fitting remarks and offered prayer.Tuesday morning Mr.and Mrs.Fred Bellam accompanied tbe remains which were taken by train, to Compton where the funeral service was held.Interment in Compton cemetery in the family lot beside his wife and daughter, Mr.Bellam had made several acquaintances here wha, with the son and wife will miss him, for he was of a social nature and would bring cheer into one\u2019s home with bis frequent calls.Some day we'll understand why our friends are taken, some 80 suddeuly.The 25th anniversary ot the Methodist Church will be observed on Sunday, Feb 13th, 1918, with special services.The preacher in the morning will be Rev.T.À.Haipenny, and in the evening, Rev.Taylor.Special music will be rendered at both service.Every one is asked to join in these special services.On Monday, the 14th, the men of the church and congregation are to serve an oyster supper in the dining-room of the church after the which there will be a program consisting.of speeches from out of town ministers, and choruses from the choir.A charge of fifty cents will be made for the supper, the proceeds of which will go for the general expenses of the church.Will you kindly turn out on these two days so that we can make this 25th Anniversary a success.The Choral Union is being well attended, and new members are coming in at each rehearsal.The istruct- or, Mrs.Welle, is doing good work with the class of beginners, as also with the chorus.Rehearsal Friday evening at 7.15, the firat hour being devoted to teaching the rudiments of music.We would be glad of a larger chorus.Mr.8.B.Norton ie in Toronto.The Book and Thimble Club were very pleasantly entertained by Mrs.George House and Mrs J.M.Grow at the home of the former last Tuesday.They are to meet Feb.156th with Mrs.Lyman House who will be assisted by Mra.Clarence Haselton.Mrs.Tom Camp of Newport spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs.Chas.Hildreth, and sister, Mrs.Clarence Haselton.Mr, Bangs of Ayer\u2019s Cliff was in the place on Wednesday.Red Cross Work at Beebe.The Red Cross Girls of Beebe, who organized their Society September 29th, 1915, have also been doing their share towards the different needs caused by the war.They have raised money as follows: Cash from Camp Fire Girle 8105 « « Play 93 69 Systematic Giving 8 96 « «\u201c Sale and Dance 99 45 Interest on money deposited 20 8201 34 Cash paid Orchestra on two occasions and small incidentals 8 16 70 Draft sent for cot in Duchess of Connaught Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Cliveden, England Obeque paid Belgian Fund Cheque paid Candle Fund Dratt sent to Duchess of Con- naught Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Cliveden, Eng.50 00 20 00 5 00 100 00 $191 70 Oash on hand $201.34.Respectfully submitted, MARY JEANE ELDER, Treasurer.The Germans complain that the | Russians are not conducting the war like civilized men.Recalling Belgium, the Lusitania, and the rest, it wouid seem that the Russians, if the German charges are true, are paying to Kultur the highest possible compliment: that of imitation.white, and biue.SMITHS MILLS.Mr.and Mrs.O.A.Baldwin have returned home from Sherbrooke.Mrs.F.H.Bigelow is at home after spending the past month in Boston, Mass., visiting relatives and friends.Mr.C.Day was at his home over Sunday.Service next Sunday morning at 10.30 a.m, On Friday evening, Jan.38th, about one hundred friends and neighbors assembled to the home of Mr.and Mrs.Frank Brown to hold a farewell reception in honor of our boys who have enlisted in the 117th E.T.Batt.at Sher- LADIES\u2019 SEWING Mss MATHILDA BOISVERT, who has had six years\u2019 ex orienc with N.T.Dussa alt, Sherbrooke: al § tailor, is prepared to do sewing on tia armeuts of all kinde at the home of her brother, Mr.Georg» Boisvert, near Rock Island passeuger station, Satis faction guaranteed ; churgus moderate.sitf WANTED\u2014Married n man for general farm work and teaming ; wife to work lo employer\u2019s homes.Fred oung, Stanstead.60% FOR SALE 2 Rose Comb R.I.Red Cockerels, from extra laying strain, $1.50 each.H.D.Tarcott North Hatley, Que.diwi | THE DAYLIGHT STORE brooke.The evening was spent in plaving 500 and dancing, music being furnished by Messrs.Frank Brown aud Arthur Soutiere.A very nice supper was served by the ladies, the dhing- room being tastefully decorated in red, A very pleasant evening was enjoyed by all present.Those who have joined the colors are Messrs.Homer Hgrlburt, Ohas.Smith, John and Wm.Wheeler, T.Bronson, George Edward and Sam Aulis, (brothers).The young men wish to take this opportunity to thank their friends for giving them such a send-off, and their kindness will be a bright spot to look back to, and will long be remembered.They all left for Sherbrooke on Monday.The next meeting of the Homemakers\u2019 Club will be held at the home of Mrs.Bert Miller, Feb.10th, at 230 p.m, EAST BOLTON.Mis.A.F.Channell was called to Magog Thursday to care for her daughter, Miss Edna, who is attending school there and who was taken with German measles recently.In nearly every house some member or members of the family are suffering with la grippe.Mr.J.F.Bryant was in Sherbrooke Saturday, being called there to attend the inquest of Geo.Ratenreed.There will be a patriotic social at Mr.E.Ball\u2019s on Friday evening, Feb.18th.Lun\u2019t forget the date and place; everybody welcome.Miss Edith Bryant was unable to attend her school last week owing to illness.Miss Emma Bryant returned home from Sherbrooke on Saturday.We are glad to report Miss Bryant improving as fast as can be expected.Eight million barrels of apples are in cold storage in the United States at the present time.This is 1,000,000 barrels more than were held at the same time last year.OUR DTH ANNUAL KING COTTON SALE Starts Monday, Jan.3Ist We are holding this Sale this year for this reason.It has become a fixed habit with us to put on this Sale this time each year, and the trade look forward to it.It gives our customers an opportunity to renew their Housekeeping Cottons, Linens, etc., at bargain prices.Notwithstanding the high price of goods we are able to offer you some splendid trades in Cottons, all widths, Table Linens, Crashes, Bed Spreads, Percales, Ginghams, Prints and New Wash Goods.A few items mentioned: 40 inch Lockwood Brown Cotton at Tic.yd.36 inch Derby Cotton at 5}e.yd.Pillow Tubing at 10c.yd.; Sheets at 38c.and 59c.each.New Percales, not remnants, at 9¢.yd.Apron Check Gingham 5c.yd.10 yds.Long Cloth at T5c.pce.Lot House Dresses, some Gingham, 50c.each.25 yds.Crash for 98¢.Dress Gingham, new,r egular 124c.goods, 9c.yd.Curtain Draperies at 6c., Tic., 10c., 124c.yd.A few more Ladies\u2019 Dark Spring Suits at $5.00.A counter of $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 Shoes, all in at $1.98.Everything in Cottons will be higher and we advise you to come in early.SALES CLOSE FEBRUARY 15TH Caswell & 0\u2019 Rourke Store Co.OUR BIG LINE not \u201cTalking Through and prices.| = =n 0 0 === \u2014\u2014=10l sl .STOCK TAKING CLOSING OUT MEN, BOYS AND CHILDREN 10 TO 25 PER CENT.DISCOUNT and more on some items.we say this is a Clearance Sale to make room for SPRING GOODS we are It is YOUR GOOD LUCK.WE ARE AND OF OVERCOATS AND SUITS FOR ena When Our Hat,\u201d we back up the statement with the goods I= I= bers, Overshoes for Men, We have a new stock of Lumbermen\u2019s Rub- younger members of the family.KAUFMAN\u2019S \u201cLIFEBUOY\u201d Fresh Stock of Art Squares, Rugs, Linol- eums, Oil Cloth and Mattings.Women and the 8,000 ROLLS going to sell.They are going at $12.50.two of them, come early.and 815.00 coats at $6.50.We have a few Ladies\u2019 Coats that we are NOW LISTENI Shell with Fur Collar, selling price 820.00.+ Again we bid for your interest by offering $8.00 and 812.00 coats at $5.New Patterns in Wall Paper and we are closing out our old stock at HALF PRICE and the patterns are good.A Beaver We have a new line of Ladies\u2019 Shoes the KINGSBURY in Patent, Vici and Velour at $2.75.It isa good one.Well made of A 1 stock and Handsome.We have only 50 and $12.00 They are worth new line of IRON BEDS.this to wear the balance of the season.They We always carry a full assortment of are of the 1915 vintage, not 1812.Janada's Best, The INVICTUS for Men and A full line of Beddings.All-Wool Blankets, Flannelette Blankets, Comforters, 4) For te BOYS 4 6 LRLS we ave is Sheets and Cases.Mattresses and Pillows.A sturdy and a splendid looker, and they will wear to your heart's content.They are right.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014|\u2014\u2014\u2014|c\u2014 Eds SE THE STORE THAT SELLS DEPENDABLE GOODS IN A DEPENDABLE WAY WILLIAM M.PIKE & SON ROCK ISLAND, QUEBEC BEES EE ESE I == =a = r) Roi pr This Book helped me improve my Farm.It is the most valuable book I own and it cost me nothing.It has saved me time, labor and money and I've got better looking, more durable and more serviceable buildings than I ever had before.The first cost of 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in this manner, and will receive prompt attention.SAVINGS DEPARTMENT AT EVERY BRANCH Joint Accounts may be opened in the name of two persons; in case of death balance payable to survivor.Agency \u2019at Fitch Bay, Quebec.Open Thursday of each week.ROCK ISLAND BRANCH A.C.McPHEE, Manager =} [- \u2014|i 1G EE © =leol =1CI( RALPH J.HUNT HARDWARE MERCHANT I have fitted my salesroom for a General Stock 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, ALUMNIUMand 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.\u2014 [ = Vl \u2014\u2014\u2014xm1 = eel TV YOUR CASH ON REQUEST YES, Jou can get your money on demand !f deposited with us; no depositor ever waited a minute for he cash on his deposit.ALL CHECKS still taken at par regardless of the high rate of exchange.FOUR PER CENT for your money compounded twice each year.One dollar starts an account.Yours to use ORLEANS TRUST COMPANY.Blank Bdoks at the Journal Office.For the Children Boys Who Took Part Ina College Commencement, ut Sons of Princeton graduates of the class of 1910 had a fine time at the recent commencement exercises of that university.Of course they are pretty small boys, but that did not detract from the enjoyment they had nor the pleasure they gave to the older folks.The little fellows were dressed in Turkish costumes and took part in the parade around the campus.They attracted a great deal of attention from the spectators and were generally acclaimed the best hit of the day.The photograph shows two of the little fellows, who are decorated with the figures \u201c1910,\u201d which denotes the year in which their fathers were graduated.Game of Initials.Provide a pack of cards upon which the letters of the alphabet have been conspicuously printed.There should be but one letter on each card and more than one alphabet will be needed.Four or five would not be too many, but Q, X and Z may be omitted.Choose a leader and have Lim sit where he can be plainly seen by all He must put the pack of cards face down on a table before him, or on a book on his lap.He then calls for the name of some general, novelist, country or city, or any object he pleases, beginning with the letter which he turns up from the pack and holds up for all to see, rending it distinctly as he does so.He must name the object required before turning up the card.Whoever in the company first names the object called for receives the card.When the cards have all been used the \u2018| person holding the most has won the game.For example, the lender says, \u201cName a state of the Union beginning with\u201d\u2014here he turns up a card\u2014*the letter \u2018D.\u2019 \u201d Some one cries \u201cDelaware\u201d and receives the card.\u201cName one of Scott's characters beginning with F.\u201d \u201cName one of Dickens\u2019 novels beginning with G.\u201d \u201cName a famous general beginning with G.\u201d And so on.In case no one can give an answer the card is returned to the bottom of the pack.Three Puzzle Birds.Each of the following stanzas is to be completed by adding at the end of the fourth line the name of the bird deseribed in the preceding three lines.The stars show the number of letters in the name which must rime with the second line: What bird is fabled to bring pleasant weather, And every sailor boy is his well wisher?His coat is gay with many a bright hued feather, This bird is called ¢sssssrsse, What bird is ever prophesying rain, Though oft his prognostica fail?\u201cMore wet!\u201d he cries; \u201cMore wet, More wet!\u201d again, Do you know the sess?What bird Is he Whose humming charms the ear, And yet whose voice perhaps is seldom heard?His plumage gleams like gems with brilliants clear, This is the *sesess sess, .Answers.\u2014 Kingfisher, quail, hom- ming bird.Some Facts About Birds.Birds are covered with feathers ve- cause they need a covering that, while it will keep them warm, will also be light, so that it will not prevent them from flying.Ostriches have small wings because their legs are long, and the wings are not needed for running.They are only used to steady the body while running.Birds have sharp beaks because they have no teeth, and the beak seizes, holds and divides their food., Birds that swim under water have web feet because the spreading out of the toes of the bird brings the thin membrane between the toes into the shape of a fin, and by striking this fin against the water the bird moves ît- self along.Cleaning Day.My goodness! What a dirty placet There\u2019s doll clothes everywhere.No wonder that I'm in disgrace\u2014 You bad things, though, don't care I'll put you on this chair to stay While I go get a broom; Then you'll be safely out the way THI I clean up this room.1 wouldn't b'lieve two bables could Get their home so sad a sight; If I was jus\u2019 to whip you good \u2018Twould only serve you right Well, if here isn\u2019t that Nellie\u2019s dress I looked all over fort Here underneath this awful mess, And with the front all tore! And there's that nice new rubber ball I missed the other day.Won't it be grand if 1 find all The things we've lost in playt REAL ACTORS ON THE STAGE.How They Would Seem Now if Movies Had Coma First, We can well imagine that a generation brought up exclusively on moving pictures would bail the sudden introduction of the actual perforwers us a great invention.So simple and logical & step would seem to them truly war velous.At first tbe bodily presence of the actor might seem to thew almost too oppressive, as we now feel it to be when we sit close up ou a Shake- spegrean platform stage, but they would soon wonder why they had been so long couteut to blink at animated photographs, The effect upon the actor would be most salutory.He would soon tind that be was making bimself lnughably obvious.The astonishing calisthenics with which he bas been accustomed to wring our withers would no longer serve his purpose.He would have to abandon the \u201cirascible\u201d look, the \u201crevenge is sweet\u201d look, the **jealousy\u201d look, the \u201clovey dovey\u201d look and all the other looks with which he now so impudently holds the camera in urder to convey to us that he is feeling something, ah, so profoundly.He would have to uniearn all his looking glass grimaces and try to regain the natural mobility of buman expression.The historian of the drama would also give us a most instructive chapter on the emergence of the actor from the machine.He would hail it as a revolutionary step in the development of the drama, without which, in his opinion, the Hamlet that be worships would never have been possible.Knowing nothing of our pre-machine drama, he would not be tempted to draw the conclusion that with (Le rise and decay of moving pictures the drama has gone backward in order to go forwardagain.\u2014 Rather Hard on Father.Among the Walwali tribe of the Amazon basin, as among several others, the curious custom of the couvade pre- vails\u2014that is, wben a child is born the father takes to his bammock and remains there for a month.During this time be refrains from all strong food, and the women wait upon him as an invalid.Meantime the mother of the child goes about her work.\u2014 \u201cNative Life In the Amazon Wilder ness\u201d in Travel.The Same Thoughts.Algy Staylate \u2014 1 sometimes wish, don\u2019t ye know, that I had been born a rajah, don\u2019t ye know, over in india, don\u2019t ye know.Bell Britely (wearily) Why, Mr.Staylate, how strange! I was just wishing that very same thing myself.The Hospitable Board.\u201cYour wife's dinner parties are always beauftful affairs.\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d replied Mr.Cumrox.\u201cAt first people didn\u2019t seem to want to come to \u2018em.| guess mebbe the high cost of Uving is making a difference.\u201d A Difference.\u201cYou told me Jones had become an actor.\u201d \u201c1 didn\u2019t say anything of the kind I told you be had gone on the stage.\u201d 4 She Knew Better.Ostensible Haad of the Family\u2014Ma ria, there was a canvasser at the office today whe wanted to sell me a work on etiquette and good behavior.weaches it in six lessons.1 told him TK ask you if you thought we want ed ir.Reai Head\u2014It's all humbug, John.It cœn\u2019t be taugbt In six lessons.[I've been trying to teach it to you for sixteen years and haven't succeeded yet.\u2014Exchange.Photography.Photography was discovered in tbig way: Daguerre was lying on a couch ig his attic abode and saw a sunbean fall upon a spot in the darkened room, He was startled to see the objects on the street vividly portrayed in all their colors\u2014in fact, a panorama of the incidents outside.He studied the suis Ject, and his search in the mystwy wag the beginning of all that is bea.- tiful in photography today.A Hint.\u201cIs that an eight day clock?\u201d sal4 the young man as the timepiece struck the midnight hour.\u201cWall,\u201d replied the sweet young thing with an unconcealed yawn, \u201cwhy don\u2019t you stay a little longer and find out?\u2019 Very Serious.She\u2014Are your intentions toward the widow really serious?He\u2014They are I intend, if possible, to get out of hef clutches.- Defined.Precocious Child\u2014Papa, tell me what is humbug?Parent (with a deep drawn sigh)\u2014It 43, my dear, when your mamma pre tends to be very fond of me and puts no buttons on my shirt.WHY WE WORK.Young friends, in whatever pursuit you may engage you must not forget that the lawful object of human efforts is but means to higher results and nobler ends Start not forward in life with the idea of becoming mere seekers of pleasure\u2014sportive butterflies searching for gaudy flowers.Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence.\u2014E.H.Chapin.\u2014\u2014\u2014 SOLDIERS AND CANES.English Military Men Must Not Go Out Walking Empty Handed.It is vue of the regulations of the British army that every suldier when walking out must carry in his hand a stick in order to preserve a soldierly appearance aud prevent anything like slouching ju his gait.This rule applies to all ranks, and should any one seek to evade it be would find his progress barred by the sentry at the barrack gate or entrance to camp.Privates generally carry light canes or \u201cswagger sticks,\u201d noncommissioned officers fairly stout sticks, and officers invariably go in for the more expensive kind.It is a question that has often been asked, Who frst suggested the idea?But nobody seems to know.From the earliest times drill sergeants and drum majors have carried sticks, and the faghion may have come from that fact.Soldiers as a rule buy their own sticks, but in one or two regiments a recruit is presented with one when he gets his uniform, If this gets lost, however, he has to buy the next and subsequent ones.There is a story told of a soldier one day who couldn't find his cane and, knowing he would be challenged if he didn't have something in his hand, quietly picked up a poker and passed through the gate ali right with it in his fist.\u2014Dundee Advertiser.Made the Enemy Furnish Bullets.When the British were endeavoring to subdue the Maoris they were long the victims of a ruse that enabled the natives to replenish their stock of bullets at the expense of their enemies.Th Maoris would build a dummy and expose it from behind a tree near the British lines.Immediately the British would blaze away at it.Behind the dummy the Maoris would have constructed an earth bank and from this they would Inter dig their supply of bullets to send back to the British, A Beaver's Toilet.It was an Interesting sight to watch a beaver at his evening toilet.To be- | gin with, instead of sitting up with bis large, flat ribbed tail protruding : bebind him, he tucked it forward be- | tween his bind legs and sat upon it Then with bis band he carefully comb- ! ed bis long bair, using both bands at ! the same time There were many | places, however, that could not be reached in this way, for bis arms are\u2019 very short and bis body very large, so he combed these otherwise inaccessible places with his hind feet, using first one and then the other.The entire operation was performed with the utmost deliberation and care and occu- vied more than a quarter of an hour.The Appian Way.The famous Appian way was constructed by digging two parallel trenches, three feet in depth, at the bottom of which were placed two layers of flat stones in mortar, upon which a layer of cobblestones was pluced, also laid in mortar.Then came a course of pebbles in concrete, over which were placed large, flat blocks of stnooth lava well joined together, forming an even, uniform surface.It was primarily a military road and extended from Rome to Brundusium, a distance of 350 miles, So perfect was the construction of this : celebrated road that it still exists in places as good as ever, notwithstanding it was made more than twenty centuries ago.Beethoven's Last Days.Beethoven bad troubles besides the scourge of deafness.Throughout his.life the conduct of his brothers irked and grieved him, and when on the: death of one of them he adopted his orphaned son that nephew's outrageous conduct broke his heart.Then he felt the sting of poverty.Dying, he would have lacked the very necessaries of a waning life had it not been for the Philharmonic Society of England.The : society bag never boasted of the fact, but a fact it is that a douceur of £100 sent by it to Beethoven at bis last gasp made death less a martyrdom to the famous wusician than ft otherwise would have been.\u2014 London Graphic, Wooed With Musio.Among the Yao Midos, one of the many Burmese-Tartar people, the young men woo their wives absolutely without words, but to the sound of music.On the first day of winter they have a great feast, mt which all the marriageable girls gather and listen to the music made by the bachelors, who sit under the \u201cdesire tree,\u201d each playing bis favorite instrument.As the maiden he loves puisses him the youth plays louder and more feelingly.If the girl ignores him and passes on he knows that she will have none of him.1f she steps up to him and lays a flower upon the instrument he jumps up, grasps her by the hand and they go away together, Male Fashions In 1850, Male fashions of 1850 had other discomforts besides long hair.Trousers were tight and buttoned under the foot with broad straps.Every man who aspired to be well dressed wore his cont so high in .the collar that the back of the hat rested on it.This fashion was s0 prevalent that, according to Sir Algernon West, \u201cevery hat had a crescent of cloth on the back of the brim to prevent the rubbing of the beaver or imitation beaver of which the hat was made, for silk hats were oot then invented.\u201d And from the same authority we learn that \u201copera hats were unknown, and in the even.Ing folding, chapeau bras was carried under the arm.\"\u2014~London Mall i les.QUEER AFFINITIES.Love Plays Some Curious Pranks With Human Hearts.ROUSSEAU AND HIS THERESA Story of a Genius Who Wedded an lg- norant Kitohen Maid and Never Regretted It\u2014Bulwer Lytton's Tragia Union\u2014Tschaikowsky and Fate.Some affinities really defy explanation.Take Rousseau as an instance A distinguished writer has said: \u201cIn the whole story of the human race I question if there is anything so wonderful as the prolonged affection of Rousseau for Theresa.\u201d Here was oné of the outstanding lit~ erary geniuses of his time, a man who could talk on equal terms at least with the most brilliant women of his day, marrying a kitchen maid, who never could be taught to read with ease, who could not follow the order of the twelve months of the year or count a sum of money or reckon the price of a thing.Even a month's instruction left her still unable to réad the hours on the clock face.Theresa le Vasseur could never have given Rousseau one hour of true come panionship.She could neither have read his books nor have understood him when he explained them.She was.even without beauty and grace.Yet this mighty spirit chose her, loved her and went on loving her.The alliance lasted happily, for by some mysterious.spell she held him, and after twenty- five years Rousseau could write to her: \u201cI never had, my dearest, other than one single solace, but that the sweetest.It was to pour out all my heart in yours.My every resource, my whole confidence is in you, and in you only.\u201d Here was a mystery indeed.Bulwer Lytton, the novelist, provided another of the matrimonial myste- Lytton was one of the sanest men in ordinary matters, but he was foolish enough to marry a vulgar girl, Rosina Wheeler, who proved \"te be wasteful, improvident and a wretched housekeeper.The marriage ended miserably, and all through her life Lady Lytton pursued her husband with the fiercest rancor, She published book after book 1n which she held bim up as a monster and did everything in her power to render his life unhappy.She made herself the \u201cheroine\u201d of a | most extraordinary episode on the day, when Lytton, then colonial secretary, was re-elected by his Hertfordshire.constituents.He was in the middle of bis address when there advanced a female with rouged face and dyed hair, brandishing a yellow umbrella.Mounting the hustings, Lady Lytton\u2014 for it was she\u2014saluted the newly made minister with: \u201cFiend, villain, monster, cowardly wretch, outcast! I am told you have been sent to the colonies.If they knew as much about you as I do they, would have sent you there long ago!\u201d For once Lytton\u2019s presence of mind.failed him, or, rather, he fainted, and.: knew no more till be found himself back at Knebworth in bed.Husband and wife had not seen each other for twenty-two years before this, and they never met again.Probably the most mysterious of ald marriages was that of Tschaikovsky, the great Russian composer, whose \u201cPathetic\u201d symphony is such a favorite in the concert room today.Tschal- kovsky was a moody, pessimistic, shy, reserved man.As be said himself, he bad lived for thirty-seven years \u201cin antipathy to marriage\u201d and then was \u201cmade a bridegroom by sheer force of circumstances without being in the least charmed by the bride.\u201d It is one of the queerest stories imaginable, as told by Tschaikovsky himself.He says that one day Le received a letter from a poor girl whom he bad known for some time.She declared her love for him in the most passionate terms.He went the next evening to see her and told her that he could give her nothing but sympathy and gratitude.Later when he had thought it over he feared that Antonina might make way with herself, so be went to see her agaln, pleaded his irritability,~his uncertain finances, his antipathy to matrimony, and then asked her ; if, after all this, she still wished to be bis wife.Her answer was \u201cYes.\u201d Tschalkov- sky bowed before the inevitable, as he regarded it.\u201cMy conscience îs clear,\u201d he wrote.\u201cIf 1 marry without loving it is because circumstances have forced this upon me.I console myself with the - thought that no one can éscape his fate, and my meeting with that girl was fatality.\u201d The marriage took place in 1877, and the pair lived together barely three weeks.Tschalkovsky got into a state of nervous collapse, and bis mind was more or less unbiuged.TLe doctors declared that a complete change was his only chance, and the poor wife never saw him or heard his voice ngain after he said hoarsely to her at the railway station: \u201cNow go! God be with youf* Need we wonder that the \u2018\u201cPatbhetic™ symphony is so pathetic?\u2014J).Cuthbert Hadden in London Family Herald.Down From Confucius.The seventy-fiftb lineal descendant of Confucius is living in tbe Chinese town fn which the founder of the Chinese religion was born and where he was buried twenty-five centuries ago.Bleep.riches and herith are only trac Iy enjoyed after they bave been inter rupted.\u2014Richter, F.W.D.MELLOON, ROCK ISLAND, QUE.CHANNELL'S GARAGE Automobile and Bicycle repair work carefully and skillfally done.Ford care a apecialty.\u201c 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, Dynamus, Private Electric Lighting Plants, and Pumping Outfits.Fairbapnke-Morse En gines give greater satisfâction and less trouble han any others.The one h.p.Fairbanks Morse engines the most satisfactory power now» for cream separstors.New price only $48.00; 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At the JOURNAL OFFICE lATS CHURCHISTREET Rock Island, Quebec not give your boy and girl an opportunity to mais etheir me study easy an effective?Give them the same chances to win promotion and success asthe lad having the advantage of > WEBSTER'S À 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, B and sciences.B 409,000 Vocabulary Terms.2700 Pages.F Over 60001llustrations.Colored Plates.The cnly dictionary with the Divided Page.} Tre type, matter is equivalent to that 8 of a 15-volume encyclope More Scholarly, Accurate, Convenient, and Authoritative than any other Eng.g - lish Dictionary.i specimen pages, 4\" illustrations, ete.t3V FREE, a set of Pocket ÿ Maps if you name paper.G.& C.MERRIAM COd SPRINGFIELD, MASS.Emmanasugunnnnuennnmenmnenens SE { PAPER ÿ EDITIONS.WRITE for Scientific Farming tee ® D>PP® DYNAMITING STUMPS.DDD The Successful Experience of a Farmer.On my farm 1 blew out an oak stump fourteen ipches in diameter with big roots extending about three feet into the ground, writes a contributor to an agricultural paper.With one pound of dynamite the force of the explosion lifted the stump bodily and turned it over, leaving the roots not more than a foot from the original position, My next experience was with a green wild cherry log thirty inches in diameter and ten feet long with several bard knots in it.into pieces easily handled with two pounds of dynamite by the mud caps | | ping process, as follows: 1 removed a quarter pound of dynamite from the GETTING READY TO BLOW UP A BTUMP.paper, placed the loose dynamite on a flat part of the log just where I should strike with an ax were I going to split it in that way.placed the blasting cap, with fuse attached, into the loose dynamite, covered the whole with about eight inches of sand and over this placed a cherry log about twelve diameter and two feet long.I lighted the fuse and continued in this way till the log was all split up.The log square on the end and rested firmly on top of the sand.At no time did the weight go over eight feet in the air or two feet away from the log.I used two pounds of dynamite, twelve feet of fuse, and eight caps at a cost of 45 cents for material and about one hour's time.I am baving good success blasting out pear tree stumps fifteen inches or more in diameter, tough and bard, with big rocts deep in the ground.Some of the stumps were within 30 feet of a building, but no damage was done.Powder for farm use is about 256 per cent., the higher percentage throwing the stumps too far and being more dangerous to handle.Working alone I am doing as much in a day as four men could do grubbing, and in addition I am subsoiling the land.SOM HQ A small amount of linseed meal added to the horse ration is invaluable.Train the colt before he is six months old and you can control his disposition wben he is older.li weakens the horses to keep them shut up in a close stable during the hot nights, Turn them out.Horses that are clipped dry off fast at night, which is to be preferred to standing in a keavy wet coat of hair, It is not the quantity of food taken into the stomach, but the amount absorbed in it, which benefits the system.Raise the type of colt that sells best in your community.Select the sire and dam that will bring this type of colt.\"Newly broken colts should not be i worked too bard.They are apt to ' overstrain themselves and be injured ; for life.| Do Lot let the little colt follow the dam while she is at work.If tne dam becomes heated the milk is in- ; jurious to the colt.! A balky horse is made so by a | eranky or cruel driver and can rare- \"ly be cured.So be very careful in breaking the colts.| M the skin of the horse is kept \u2018clean he will sweat more freely, which is necessary to keep him in good condition, Cooked Alfaifa.! Experimen:s in cooking alfalfa hay for hogs indicate that the feeding value of the alfalfa may have been increased slightly by the cooking, but not sufficiently to offset the extra cost, Use Asbestos Screens.i Berlin firemen use asbestos screens .to protect them from the heat when fighting fires at close range.Keeping and Sharing.Everyone wants to keep his joys to \u201chimself and share his sorrows with other people.inches in: used for a weight was sawed off: This 1 split I then HUMORS OF CASTE.How Rules Governing Travel, Study and Dining Are Broken, Though going to foreign countries by crossing the ocean is to break one\u2019s caste, hundreds of young Indians are now visiting Europe and America in pursuit of modern scientific and industrial education.Indeed.so numerous are the familles affected that pyblic opinion has compelled the Brahmans to ordain that no loss of caste shall result from going abroad for education.It is not so much the going abroad that is objected to as the eating of forbidden food.as beef, pork and chicken or any food cooked by foreigners.To obviate partly this difficulty the Hindus organized a steamship line, the Indian Peninsula company, between Bombay and London, On board the ships of this line Hindu caste rules are studiously observed.This company intends to open a hotel in London for the caste people of India.so that Hindu students, merchants and travelers may go to London, reside for any length of time and still return home without breaking their caste.Caste rules prohibit people of different castes dining together.These rules, however, are broken by the rising generation in schools and colleges.The students, defying the cold and calculating conservatives, use the school and \u2018college building for dinner parties, where Hindus and Mohammedans, \u2018Christians and Jains, Buddhists and atheists, break bread together.In Be- | nares, the stronghold of Brahmanical ; orthodoxy, intercaste dinners are of common occurrence, The Indian leaders in reform have gone a step further.On a public occasion they dined pub- i llely with Europeans in the town hall of Calcutta.These dinners are helping break down obnoxious rules and thus are establishing dinner table democ- | racy.NOT THE WIGS FAULT.The Baring of a Bald Fact That Had Been Long Hidden, One of the best known wigmakers | of the city declared recently that he , had won a wager with his barber by wearing a wig to the tonsor\u2019s shop and having it well trimmed before the man with the shears discovered his mistake.Whether this is an exaggeration or not the hair furnisher has a long list of additional stories to back up his claim that wigs can be made so natural that it is all but impossible to detect them as artificial head covering.\u201cWhy,\u201d said the wig man as he pointed to a case in his Sixth avenue establishment, \u201cthere are wigs in there made of human hair that I would defy the closest scrutiny to detect as \u2018fakes.\u2019 Would you believe it, one of my customers, a well known man in this section of the city, wore one of these wigs from the night he was married for ten long years, and his wife never knew that he was bald?It isa fact, sir, a positive fact.\u201cIn year and out for the entire ten he was so careful that his spouse never had the slightest suspicion.The way the discovery came about was\u2014 well, while it was painful to him it nevertbeless bad a gleam of humor in it.He bought a new wig, and I sent him the bill to his business address.He carried the bill home inadvertently, changed his suit, and his wife found the little telltale paper in his pocket.And he would not have been discovered then only his wife, sad to say, beliqved that he was paying for the wig of some lady, and there was a stormy time.He was forced to reveal bimself as bald.But you will readily see it was not the fault of my workmanship.I wear one myself.Could you tell?Nobody could.\u201d Sun.Almost Made a Word.Has bad handwriting ever managea to add a new word to the language?There have certainly been some narrow escapes.A correspondent sent to Sir James Murray for the New Oxford Dictionary the mysterious word \u201cbrean,\u201d which he found in a story by R.L.Stevenson.It was presumed to be an obscure Scottish term, and the presumption lasted till Stevenson wrote back that the word he had written was \u201cocean.\u201d Had the author been dead \u201cbrean\u2019\u201d would no doubt have figured in the dictionary as sanctioned by \u201cR.L.8.\u201d\u2014London Observer.Central Asia.The people living in the cotton belt of central Asia represent a conglomerate of all the races and nations that in ages past hive inhabited these re- glons, from pure Aryans to full fledged Mongols.They all adhere to the Mo bammedan faith and speak various dialects of the Tartar-Sart-Bokhara language except in the southwestern part, where the Influence of the Per: sian language fis felt.Serfdom.Serfdom was abolished in Russia in 1861, in England in 1600, in France not wholly until the French revolution, in Prussia in 1702, in the rest of Germany 1781, ip Denmark 1766 and in Brazil 1867-88.There is now practically no legalized serfdom anywhere on earth.An Exception.\u201cNo man would approve of the re call as applied to himself.\u201d \u201cOb, yes;- an acter would!\" es Portable Hostelry.\u201cWhen I landed 1 took the car for a hotel.\u201d \u201cWhat a singular mistake.\u201d Thought and action are inseparable As is the thought, so is the life.THE YOLK OF AN EGG.At ls Good Predigested F >od, While the White Is Not.It has long been kuown that many persons cannot eat even perfectly fresh eggs without suffering all the symp toms of violent poisoning.The egg has two purts\u2014the yolk inside and the white outside.The white is the part of the egg that the chicken ts made of\u2014thie part that makes .be bones, the feathers and the flesh.The yolk, however, is what the chicken lives on.It is a diuuer basket placed there by nature for the infant chicken.It is a little lunch put up for the young life within the egg to support it until it gets out of the shell, for the chicken must eat inside tbe sbell as well as outside, aud the yolk is a little bundie of predigested food that nature has prepared for the chicken to eat before it emerges into the world.Thus we see that the yolk is food, whereas the white of the egg never was intended to be eaten.Really it is not fit to be eaten.It has some food value, it is true.It can be utilized under some circumstances, but it is not good food.The yolk is the only part of the egg that really is wholesome food.It is digested very quickly, too, recent investigations showing that the yolk is digested entirely in the stomach.There is some fat in the yolk, there is some protein in the yolk and some carbohydrate in the yolk, and all are digested in the stomach.The fat of the yolk is of a pecullar kind.It is more readily digested in the stomach than any other fat, al though other emulsified futs are also to some degree digested in the stom- | ach First Talking Machine.The recording of vibrations of a membrane was first accomplished by Leon Scott in 1857, Ly the invention of what he called a \u201cphonautograph.\u201d This is regarded as the precursor of the modern phouograph.The actual reproduction of sound was first achieved by Thowas Alva Edison in 1876 and first patented by him in 1877, the patent being dated in January of that year.There had been, of course, several experiments and improvements between.\"I'he first method of recording vibrations of a tuning fork on the surface of a drum was discovered by Thomas Young in 1807.Alexander Graham Bell and S.Tainter patented the graphoplione in 1885.Emile Berliner patented the gramophone in 1887.Of Minor Importance.\u201cOur little Jane is becoming a more serious problem every day.I've had to get three new school dresses for her and lengthen out two gkirts and buy a new school hat and school shoes and no end of other things.She keeps me busy most of the time.\u201d \u201cAnd how 1s she coming on in her studies?\u201d \u201cStudies! Mercy, I've had no time to ask her!\u201d- 3 Presence of Mind.Watching her house burn down, the woman suddenly bethought her that she had written out a check and left it lying on her desk.Fortunately she tould remembqr the number of it\u2014281.With rare presence of wind she at once called up the bank, \u201cPlease stop payment on check numbered 281!\u201d she flirected, with the crisp brevity characteristic of those balanced souls who know exactly what they want.Locked Up.\u201cEver been locked up?\u2019 demanded the counsel for the defendant.\u201cI have been,\u201d admitted the witness.\u201cAba! And what had you been doing to get yourself locked up?\u201d \u201cI had been doing jury duty.\u201d\u2014Lon- fon Telegraph.A Curious Lake.Selawlk is a curious lake near the seacoast of Alaska.Tides rise and fall in the lake by reason of nn underground connection with the sea.At the bottom the water is quite salt, but at the top there is a layer of perfectly tresh water.\u2014_\u2014 Not the Same Man.\u201cSee bere, aren't you tbe same man [ gave some biscuits to last week?\u201d \u201cNo, lady.De doctor says I'll never be de same man!\u201d\u2014Browning's Mag- 1zine.No Accomplishment.Knicker\u2014College teaches a boy how \u20180 yell and kick.Bocker\u2014A mule can lo that and still have two legs left ver.Weighty Transaction.A politiclan does not simply order a sam sandwich; he \u201cconfers\u201d with the walter about it The Connection, Hyker\u2014Why did you give up smoking?Pyker\u2014In order to marry a rich widow.Hyker\u2014~I fail to see the connection.Pyker\u2014Bhe refused to give up her weeds unless I would give up mine.It is simple enough\u2014London Tele graph.Genius Recognized.\u201cIt's a pity that Shakespeare i» dead,\u201d remarked the old playgoer.\u201cYes,\u201d replied the modern manager.\u201cWhat a moving picture scenario he could have written!\u201d .Joined Right Off.Lady (Interviewing girl)-I may tell you that we are vegetarians.Girl (anx- lous to be hired)\u2014That's my church, too, mun It you are dig leagne material the scouts are pretty apt to hear abont you.DEAN SWIFT AND HIS CHOIR.Bingers, Like Posts, Must Be Very Geod, Hs Wrote.A characteristic letter written by Dean Swift in reference to an application by a Mr.Lovelace for a vacant place in the choir of 8t.Patrick's cathe dral, Dublin, appears in the appendix to the thirteenth report of the histor ical MSS.commission.Musical News gives an extract: \u201c] desire you will ask my Lord Oxford whether hig brother Natbantel understands musick; if be dues and rec ommends Mr, Lovelace particularly from his own knowledge.something may be suid.I have the honour to be captain of a band of nineteen musi- clans (including boys); but my quire is 80 degenerated under the reigns of former Deans of famoug memory that the ; race of people called Gentlemen Lovers of Musick tell me that I must be very careful in supplying two vacancyes, which I have been two years endeavoring to do so.\u201cFor you are to understand that in disposing the musical employments I i determine to act directly contrary to Ministers of State by giving them to those who best deserve.If you had | recommended a person to me for a Church-living in my gift ! would be | less curious; because an indifferent parson may do well enough, if be be hon- ; est; but Singers, like their brothers the Poets, must be very good, or they are ' good for nothing.\u201d | SONG OF THE CARROT, | Tribute to a Modest Vegetable the Poets Have Neglected.Why does no poet arise to sing the song of the carrot, the hardest worked vegetable in the kingdom?Much is said in favor of the plethoric pumpkin, the gathering of corn is & commonplace theme, but the poor carrot has been neglected\u2014yes, even scorned.For diversity of use the carrot has pumpkin and corn backed over the garden wall.Men feed carrots to cattle, increasing the dairy output.They feed them to otber stock sometimes, tmproving its temper.A carrot artl- ficially hollowed with a knife makes an elegant Japanese vase.Sufficiently hardened by barsh contact with the world, a carrot may be used for a weapon, either operated like a mallet with a handle or hurled like a Russian bomb.Carrots are sometimes even used for food by human beings.They are a chief ingredient in vegetable soup.Mixed with butter they improve its color.They make better pumpkin ple than pumpkins themselves.Served as Hubbard squash they make one wonder why squashes were invented.The answer to the high cost of Hving cry Is carrots.Johnson had his Boswell.Whom will the carrot have¥ The Black Maria.The repulsive looking, heuarselike van \u2018 used for the conveyauce of prisoners is universally known as the \u201cblack Maria.\u201d The term originated in Amer- fea.When that country was filling with {immigrants from England a negress named Maria Lee kept a sallors\u2019 boarding house in Boston She was a woman of amazonlan strength and, according to the author of \u201cMore Anecdotes of Bench and Bar,\u201d belped the authorities to keep the peace.Frequently the constables invoked her aid, and the saying, \u201cSend for black Maria,\u201d came to mean \u201cTake bim to prison.\u201d The sailors returning to England frequently used the phrase, and so In the course of time the name of | black Marla Lee, shortened and altered | to black Marla, became tbe name of the prison van and remains so to this day.\u2014London Globe, A Little Too Much.One evening a little boy entered a grocery store and handed the clerk a! note which read: \u201c1 am a poor woman and have no money.My children and 1 are starving.Won't you give us something to eat?\u201d The kind hearted clerk filled a large | basket with food and gave it to the boy, who quickly departed.In a few minutes be again entered the store.\u201cWhat's the trouble now?\u201d said the clerk.\u201cMa sent me back to get the trading stamps,\u201d the lad replied.Your Position at Work.In what sort of a position Is your body when you work?Do you know that working bent over causes the body to adjust itself\u2014bones, muscles and joints\u2014to the unnatural position?Try to see that you have exercise in recren- tion hours which will offset the bent over tendency.What 1t Left.\u201cAn' how did the storm trate ye, O'Hooligan?\u201d a northwest coast farm er asked a neighbor one day.\u201cDid ut blow much away?\u201d \u201cBedad, Muldoon,\u201d O\u2019Hooligan re plied, \u201cut blew ivery mortal thing off me place, barrin' the mortgage!\u201d\u2014Lon- don Tit-Bits.A Novelty, Mamma\u2014How shall T have the baby's picture taken?Papa\u2014l wonder ff you could bave it taken while he's asleep.I'd like to seq how it looks that way, - \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Literary Note.Madge \u2014 My favorite authors are Browning and Henry James.[ read them over and over again, Marjorie\u2014 You have to.Go to your bosom, knock there and ask your heart what it doth know.Measure For Measure, .; ens that is free from vermin.Making the Little Farm Pay By C.C.BOWSFIELD One of the oldest of subjects, but one that must be considered by successful poultry raisers, is the care of chickens.Without thoroughness in this there will be nothing but disappointment and failure.Notwithstanding all the writi and talking, it is a rare thing to fin a poultry house or a flock of chicke This fact explains most of the failures in poultry management.Taken in connection with filthy and drafty houses and the liberty given to fowls to run about in wet weather, the whole business becomes one of wasted effort.There are just enough well managed and profitable poultry plants to prove that the industry is à good one when it receives proper ate tention, There are a great many different kinds of lice that attack the fowls, but we can consider them all under + THE CARE OF CHICKENS.\u201cthree classes, as they attack in the three different ways.These three classes are body lice, head lice, and mites.The body lice are on all parts of the fowls\u2019 bodies, but more especially in the soft, fluffy feathers, They usually remain on the fowl, and they increase very rapidly.It has been estimated that within eight weeks one of the lice will have 125,000 descendants.You will see from this how much easier it is for one to destroy these pests before they get well started in the spring.Body lice are not bloodsuckers, but live on the roots of the feathers and scales of the skin, causing irritation.In getting rid of them nothing equals a good insect powder.Hold the fowl by the legs, head down, and dust the powder into the feathers near the roots, rubbing it well into the feathers and skin with the hand.In all seasons give chickens a chance to dust themselves.This will aid in destroying lice.Head lice are true bloodsuckers, With their long bills they puncture the skin and the blood vessels underneath.They are a constant drain on the health and strength of the adult fowls, fastening themselves on their heads and sucking the blood from & position over the brain.As the chicks are hatched these lice leave the old hen and fasten on the chicks.If you pick up a droopy chick and examine its head you are almost sure to find these lice fast by their bills, busily sucking the blood.To destroy these rub some sweet oil or lard well into the feathers and skin on the heads of the chicks and of the older fowls also.Mites are even worse than these others.They hide during the day in the cracks and crevices of the hen- houses, especially about the roosts, and attack the fowls at night after they have gone to roost.To destroy them a liquid is much better than a powder.Paint the roosts and spray the dropping boards and walls with a preparation of crude carbolic acid and kerosene mixed, half and half.There is another parasite belonging to this family, called the deplum- ing mite.It usually appears in the spring and symmer and attacks the roots of the feathers, causing them to break off afd leave a bare spot.The mite is quickly passed fowl to fowl and soon spreads through the entire flock.You will not see anything suspicious on the bare spots, but if you will pull out some of the feathers and examine from the roots you will see these mites.They have the appearance of fine dust.Spray the houses as for the other mites and rub carborated vaseline into the roots of the feathers.It is ! also a good treatment to dip the fowls in a tea made from tobacco leaves.There is another parasite that causes the disease called scaly leg by boring under the skin of the feet and legs of the fowls.They cause a powdery secretion, which enlarges the feet and legs of the fowl giving them a rough, ugly appearance.Dip the feet and legs in kerosene, rube- bing with the hand and allowing it to soak well in.Protect Your Trecs.Protect your apple trees from mice and rabbits by wrapping the trunks with building paper up to a foot above the ground.The Pure Bred Sire.If you haven\u2019t a pure-bred sire yet, organize yourself into a commission to discover if you can afford to farm without one, TRL. A IT WAS VERY CURIOUS.When the Whistle Test Failed All the Surgeons Were Puzzled.A Parisian journal tells a little story of a young l\u2019arisian who lu civil life bad long woru a imunucle in his left eye and had coutinued tbe habit as an officer.He had been wounded, was cured and asked tv be returned to the front.He was to be examined and concealed the munocle, thinking he might be charged with myopia ln one eye.When the chief rurgevn examined him, after looking well over hls face, he said sharply, *\\Whistle!\u201d The soldier whistled like a blackbird.\u201cThis is curious,\u201d said the surgeon, and, calling a young assistant, he said again to the soldier, \u201cWhistle!\u201d He whistled again.\u201cThat is curious,\u201d said the young assistant.Another surgeon entered.and the patient was called upon for the third time to whistle.\u201cAh,\u201d said the surgeon, \u201cthis is curious!\u201d \u201cBut,\u201d expostulated the soldier, \u201cI don't see why there is so much of this.I'm not to serve as a locomotive,\u201d \u201cIt is all right.\u201d suid the chief sur geon, \u201cYou may return to the front.\u201d When the soldier arrived at hls regiment he gave to the regimentai surgeon the note that had been given bim by tbe examiner.This surgeon said in bis turn, \u201cWill you please whistle?\u201d He whistled \u201cThis Is curious,\u201d said the surgeon.It seems that when a man wears a monocle It gives to the face the appear ance of facial paralysis.The opera: tion of whistling Is a test.The facial paralytic caunot whistle TRAINING THE FLEA.How the Tiny Insect Is Weaned From His Jumping Habit.\u201cThe teuchiug of the flea to do any sort of trick is, of course, a tedious, difficult watte®\u201d said a flea trainer.\u201cThe first thing to do is lv break it of its natural habit of jumping.\u201cOne can see how necessary this ls when one considers the fea is less than one-eighth of an inch in length and has a jump of three feet.300 times its own feugth.If a six foot man had the game leaping power he could make leaps of 1,800 fest, so that when a flea has the advantage of one leap Le is good as gone forever.My apparatus for jump breaking is a round glass ball.1 confine bim in this for three weeks.1 look through this ball, touch it, flash lights Into it, talk, do everything to let the tien accustom himself to my presence.At first he will jump and jump.He strikes against the curved walls and gets bruised.After a time.and ! find three weeks to be ample, the flea gets to know me, and he also gets to know that it is less painfui to crawl than to jump «nd get bruised.\u201cThe flea cannot differentiate between transparent glass and no glass, so that when I take Lim from the ball be still strikes this peculinr obstrue- tion and so he don't jump.So, you see, a flea must have some reasoning power somewhere, but 1 am in no position to say where it Is located.That is why I have to pick flens up with tweezers and put them on my arm when I want to feed them.They don't dare to jump on me.\u201d How He Got Along.An attorney living on the north side was arrested a few weeks ago charged with violating the motor speed law.When his case was called in city court tho next day he asked that It be continued for a week.The arrest caused his wife considerable embarrassment, and she spent most of her morning conversations with the neighbors during the next few days in explaining just how it happened.On the day of the trial one of the neighbors was sitting on the porch as the attorney returned home.\u201cIIello, Jack,\u201d sald the nelghbor.\u201cHow did you get along in the police court?\u201d \u201cFine!\u201d yelled the attorney; then he whispered, \u201cTwenty-five and costs.\u201d Hashish.There was a terrible secret soclety in the east which was organized for wholesale and systematic murder.Its members called themselves \u201cHnshba- sin*\u2014-whbence, by the way, came out word \u2018assussin\u201d\u2019\u2014and used to get up courage for thelr deeds &® atrocity by doses of the drug called hashish.This is obtained from Indinn hemp, and # is from the seed vessels that the sub stance 1s taken which yields the poison 80 famed in history and romance.It is a vivid green and when taken pro duces the most extraordinary visions and hallucinations, Yes, It Could Be Done.Pat Whelan, the new lodger, was en gaged lacing his boots in the kitchen His landlady, standing near, remarked \u201cPat, would you llke an egg for break fast?\u201d \u201cFaith, ma'am,\u201d replled Pat grimly.\u201c1 heard of a man who ate two and he Is alive yet.\u201d The Pinnacle of Sacrifice.*1 love you suv much, my darling\u201d cooed the clinging young thing, \u201cthat for your sake | would even forego 8 church wedding and consent to be married by a justice of the peacel\u201d And greater love than this bath no woman.Not in His 8.\u201cNo military surgeon would ever have made such a muddle of Lieutenant Smith's hospital case.\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d \u201cWhy, the report says he underwent & major operation.\u201d INCENDIARY BOMBS.Terrific Heat of Thermite, the Stuff With Which They Are Filled.Incendiary bombs are one of the most fearful engines of moderns warfare.The reason they throw out such a terrific beat is because they are filled with thermite.Tuermite is so hot when It is fired that It will melt iron and steel with the greatest ease and even burn its way through granite.This marvelous substance was discovered in 1902.It i8 really a mixture of coarsely powdered aluminum and oxide of iron.It can\u2019t be fired by itself, but has to be started by another mixture consisting of finely powdered aluminum and barium peroxide.The wonderful beating power of this terrible substance has been made use of all over the world in iron and steel welding.Steel joints are welded solidly together in a few moments by placing a little thermite round tbe joint and firing it.The thermite mixture is as safe to handle or store as sawdust\u2014safer, in fact.Only the special mixture or a very high temperature indeed will set it on fire.If necessary the two substances from which thermite is made can be taken separately and mixed when required, and there is no danger whatever in aluminum powder or oxide of iron, which is, practically speaking, fron rust, yet the mixture makes up one of the hottest substances known.\u2014Pearson\u2019's Weekly.ORKNEY ISLANDERS.Proud of Their Norse Descent and Prefer Scenery to Trees.Miss Ellinor Root, who has been visiting in the little known Orkney islands, tells us that the natives are very proud of thelr Norse origin, indignantly repudiating the idea that thelr forbears were Scottish, \u201cPeople do not speak here with nearly so broad an accent as the people in Scotland,\u201d Miss Root remarked to her hostess, \u201cand I notice the names do not sound Scotch\u2014Cutt, Twatt, Flett, Cur- sitor, and so on.Ilow is that?\u201d My hostess stiffened visibly.\u201cThey are not Scotch.We are not Scotch.We did not come from Scotland.Have ye never heard of the Norsemen from beyond the seas?We are the descendants of them.We are not of Scotch blood.Ye do not call the Irish English; ye're vot to call us Scotch!\u201d \u201cI beg your pardon.\u201d I returned humbly, and to change the subject plunged into the theme of afforestation.The venture was an unfortunate one, as trees refuse to grow in the islands, \u201cTrees spoil the scenery,\u201d declared my hostess.\u201cWe would not have them if we could.If ye go to the southland ye cannot sce anything of the scenery for the trees.We like to sce scenery.\u201d \u2014Lippincott's Magazine.Dr.Yates\u2019 Trousers.St.Catharine's was the first Cambridge college to produce a don who dared to stagger humanity by wearing trousers.He wus Dr.Lowther Yates, \u201ca large, square man from Cumberland,\u201d suspected of radical opiniohs, who was master of \u201cCat's\u201d during the closing years of the eighteenth century.As Yates, when vice chancellor, walked In procession to the university church, wearing trousers instead of the orthodox knee breeches, somebody shouted from a window: Gadzoons, gadzoons, Lowther Yates in Pantaloons! The profane impromptu poet was captured and proved to be Yates\u2019 own nephew.*\u201cGadzoons\u201d was a Cumbrian expletive with which Yates was wont to express Intense astonlshment.\u2014 Westminster Gazette.Luck.Luck is the main difference between faflure and success.[t rises like some mysterious fairy from the chaos of events and crowns its victors with an apparently hopeless ignorance of justice.Luck must be a woman; no man could be so fickle, so fantastic in a choice of favorites.Luck, however, has one great virtue.Although she will desert the gambler as suddenly as she came to him, she is likely to be faithful to those of her proteges who are the steadiest workers.She appears to be on the side of the biggest battalions A Disturbing Sound.\u201cThere is no excuse for a man being run down by a motorcar.All he has to do is to keep his wits about him.\u201d \u201cOf coûrse,\u201d replied the recent victim, in sarcastic tones.\u2018\u2018There is nothing more couducive to rational thinking than a loud \u2018honk\u2019 heard unexpectedly in one's rear.\u201d { Opened Her Eyes.Clara\u2014Can it be, Dolly, that you are to marry Mr.Smith after saying to me repeatedly that you could not endure him?Dolly\u2014The truth is, Clara, dear, that until 1 heard that his aunt had died.leaving him a fortune, 1 was deceived in my own feelings toward bim.=London Telegraph, The Orang Outang.To protect itself from the rain the orang outang crooks its arms over its head.The hair on the orang's upper arm points downward, while on the lower arm it points upward, the apparent purpose being to shed the rain like a thatch.Sounded Like a Knock.Mrs.Bacon-How many biscuits would it take to make ten pounds, John?Mr.Racon\u2014Well, it all depends 0% Wbrse biscuits they.were, dear.THE SQUEEZE PLAY.Its Success Hangs on the Batter Hitting the Ball to the Ground.\u2018The squeeze play is one of the prettiest in baseball when successful.When it fails no play makes a ball team look wore foolish.The play is best worked with one out, a runner on third and a run needed to elther tle or win the paume.Many of the best base runners when about to make the play create the impression that there is no intention of pulling it by taking only a falr iend off the base and standing still The very moment the pitcher starts Lis movement the man on third tears for the plate.If in any way the intention to use the play is tipped off or foreseen it is au easy matter for the catcher to break it up Ly calling for a waste ball that is so wide of the plate that it is impossible for the batter to bunt it.It is an casy matter to touch the base runner out and make the team trying the squeeze appear ridiculous.But a successful completion of the play usually puts the teamn fn the field in the air aud makes them look equally fool- Ish, The squeeze play does not call for a bard hitter or a good bitter, but it does call for u man with a good eye, a fellow who luvariably bits the ball, even though it may not go safe.If the batsman bunts the ball in the air un easy double play is usually the re- suit.If Le is able to keep the bail on fair ground there is seldom a chance to stop the run at the plate.It is not necessary to have a fast man on third to make this play, for most of the play depends on tbe ability of the batsman to keep the ball on the ground.- Life of a Turkish Woman.The Turkish women are to be counted among the most industrious women of the earth.They certainly do a vast rmount of work.They make carpets, screens for doors, workbags, horse clothing and blankets.A Turkish girl makes all the kibitka, or tent domestic carpets, and other houschold requisites Lefore she is married.If she gets married without completing this tusk it ls expected that she will by ber own labor refund the money which ber parents have given as ber dowry.This dowry usually consists of 100 sheep aud a certain amount of money, which a bridegroom either pays down in a lump sum to the parents of the bride to collect hig friends for a succession of horse races and other sports.An important part is to decorate a camel with the handsomest trappings, which are sent to the bride\u2019s tent.On this she goes forth to receive congratulations of her relatives and friends.It Is on this she is carried away by the female relatives of the bridegroom.She and her attendants feign to resist the act by throwing raw oats at the other women.Jonathan Wild.Nothing in the way of thleving is likely to disturb the record of Jonathan Wild, thief taker and receiver of stolen goods, who did such a flourishing business with his lost property office in the Old Bailey two centuries ago.He organized his thieves into pangs, allotting them to the different main roads to London, to churches, theaters and public functions, while n special brigade was trained for domestic service, Wild's practice when receiving stolen goods was, if possible, to inform the person who had been robbed that they had Leen detalued by 8 dealer and would be restored on payment of commission.Other stolen property was warchoused, and a staff of mechanics was kept for altering watchea and jewelry.which were conveyed to the continent by his own vessel.A trifling matter of the restoration of some stolen lace proved his downfall, and he was hanged at Ty- burn on May 24, 1725.\u2014London Tatler.Lazy Tropical Laborers.The most considerate employers of tropical labor agree with the most Inconsiderate in saying that in general it is useless to attempt to spur the natives by any motive beyond the actual demands of food and shelter.Kindness and consideration on the part of the employer undoubtedly promote faithfulness, but they seein rarely to arouse ambition or energy.It is literally true in Guatemala, for Instance, that the more a native is paid the less be will work, If one day\u2019s pay will buy two days\u2019 food he will work half the time; if the pay 1s Increased so that one day's pay will buy food for three days le will work one-third of the time.The experiment has been tried again and again, and there is practically Universal agreement as to its result.\u2014 Professor Ells.worth Huntington iu Journal of Race Development.Evidently Some Misfake.Some time ago a party named Brown had a dream, and the thing so impressed him that be gave a detailed account of it to several of his friends.\u201cBy the way, Jim,\u201d he remarked to an acqualntauce one afternoon, \u201cdid I tell you about the dream 1 Lad the other night?\u201d \u201cNo, | don't think you did,\u201d responded the other.\u201cWhat was it about?\u201d \u201c1 dreamed that 1 was in heaven,\u201d answered Brown, with a reflective expression.\u201cOn oue side there was a piano playing.On the other there was a cornet, Not far away there was a phonograph, while just beyond against thery was n vio\u201d= \u201cYou must have been mistaken, old oan,\u201d impressively broke in the other.\u201cThat wasn't heaven.\u201d He who does not stretch himself ace eordiog to the coveriet finds his feet uncovered.\u2014 Goethe au ER LEGION OF HONOR.\u2014 The French Order, its Ranks and Its Limits of \u2018Membership.The Legion of Honor 18 a French or der for the recognition of military and civil merit, instituted by Napoleon while consul May 19, 1802, and inaugurated July 14, 1804.The decoration originally consisted of a star containing the portrait of Napoleon surrounded by a wreath of oak and laurel, with the legend, \u201cNapoleon Empereur des Francais;\u201d on the reverse was the French eagle with a thunderbolt in his talons and the legend.\u201cHonneur et Patrie.\u201d The order has been remodeled several times, the last occasion being subsequent to the downfall of the second empire.There are now five ranks or classes\u2014ordinary chevaliers or knights, officers, commanders, grand officers, grand crosses.The profuse granting of the decoration of the order latterly brought the institution into discredit, and the number of chevallers is now restricted to 25,000, the officers to 4,000, the commanders to 1,000, the grand officers to 200 and the grand crosses to seventy.The star now bears a figure emblematic of the republic, with the inserip- tion, \u201cRepublique Francaise, 1870;\" on the reverse two flags, with the inscription, \u201cHonneur et Patrie.\u201d- USE OF OLIVE OIL.Reasons Why It Should Have More Prominence In Cooking.Americans are not, generally speaking, liberal enough in the use of olive oil.It should occupy a more prominent place in cooking.Any olive oil left in the pan after frying can be filtered through cheesecloth and kept in a cool place for future use.Olive oil can be used repeatedly.It should be hot before the article to be fried is placed in the pan.Olive oil is capable of having the temperature raised to over 600 degrees before it burns.Butter burns at a little over 200, suet at about 300 and lard at 235.It will be seen that butter is a poor frying medium, as food must be kept at\u2019 too low a temperature er it scorches, while with oll the high degree quickly coats the outside of the article with a crust that prevents the oil from penetrating.Rub the preserving kettle with olive oil to prevent fruit from burning.Use olive oil in recipes when possible where butter is called for.It is especially delicious in soft gingerbread, salad dressing and baked beans.Feet of a Cat, There is nothing especially striking about the feet of a cat except its ability always to land on them.Hold a young cat by its feet a short distance from the ground for a few seconds and then let go.The cat's back, being heavier than its feet, should strike the ground first.But it doesn\u2019t.Just as the cat is being let go it gives a quick upward thrust with its chest, and as the feet are freed they swing under it so it lands on them.In the case of the young cat that has never experienced this before it doesn\u2019t know that it is going to be dropped.If it were a long drop there would be time to think.but in the short drop the cat must act, and act immediately.In fact, it is really forehanded.The natural coa- clusion, then, 1s that this faculty in the ent is located in its feet.It is inherent in them.Sharks\u2019 Eggs.The eggs of fishes are usually sma, soft and inconspicuous.The most remarkable point about them is the extraordinary number laid by the individual.A single cod lays as many ns 9,000,000 eggs.Sharks lay eggs which are large in size, few as to numbers and are deposited singly instead of in masses.These eggs consist of a dark colored leathery envelope and are usually adorned with frills, horns or long twisted tendrils.These appendages serve the purpose of keeping the egg case supported among the branches of seaweeds, thus preserving the embryo from the damage it would sustain were the egg carried hither and thither by the waves.Precept and Example.\u201cColonel, that was an admirable speech you made at the club the other evening on the obligations of citizenship.[I\u2019ve been intending to tell you so ever since I heard it.We need more of that kind of talk nowadays.But what are you looking so gloomy about this morning, colonel?No bad news, 1 hope.\u201d \u201cDash it all, yes! I've been drawn on a jury!\u201d Mount Etna.Etna, the \u201cburning mountain,\u201d is the mightiest volcano in Europe.It Is 10, 800 feet high.If you wished to walk round its base you would have to walk ninety miles.It slopes steadily on all sides up to the highest crater, which is nearly a mile broad.\u2014_\u2014 Current Bushes.In Porto Rico, where the air is moist and balmy, air plants grow on the telephone and telegraph wires.The Insulation rots in places, =ad there the plants take root and thrive.These plants are called \u201ccurrent bushes\u201d or \u201celectric light plants.\u201d Same Voice.*Before 1 married my wife 1 could listen to her voice for hours und hours.\u201d \u201cAnd now?\u2019 \u201cNow I have to,\u201d Houor is not won until some honor ble deed be done \u2014Mariowe FARMS FOR SALE No.1227\u2014A 200-acre fagh, bordering river, with two sets of buildings in good repair, 38 head ofs ock, besides horses and farming tools.Is well located, just a short distance to railroad station, 6 miles to Granby, Que., a large railroad village and 4!¢ miles to another up-to-date village.Land is level and free from stone, Will winter 33 to 35 head and pasture 30 bead.House No.1 contains 5 rooms, good cellar, pump in house, good repair.House No.2 has & roome downstairs and is not finished upstaire.2 barns, 30x40 and 30x40, pump water in both barns.Buildings are all in good condition.There are 24 cows, 8 head young stock, 1 bull, 3 horses, 9 pigs and a few hens; all bay and fodder; farming and dairy tools; plenty wood for farm use.Price $8,000.C.J.Oben & Co., - Tel.166-2, Exchange Block, Newport, Vermont.Send for Free Farm Catalogue No.8.FOR SALE FINE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Brick Dwelling House with metal roof, owned by Mrs.St.Pierre, now of Sherbrooke, has been placed with me for sale.Location is central, near Stanstead College, and within easy reach of Rock Island.Residence is new within a few years, well constructed, warm, substantial, and contains al} modern conveniences.The location and surroundings of this substantial residence are exceptionally good, and the price is reasondble.APPLY TO E.W.HAY, - STANSTEAD FRANK D.FLINT NEWPORT, VERMONT The Store That Sells Wooltex Garments ~ AN INVENTORY SALE ALL SHORT LENGTHS AND ODD LOTS OF GOODS FOUND DURING OUR INVOICE WILL BE PUT OUT AT PRICES THAT WILL CLOSE THEM OUT INSTEAD OF INVOICING THEM.GARMENT DEPARTMENT Some extraordinary values will be found in this Department as we do not wish to invoice any more stock than we can possibly help and will make some very tempting prices on Coats, Suits, Dresses, Skirts, Waists and Furs to close them out before invoicing them.Short Lengths Damask Left from the Sale 1} yards Damask that sells for 8le.at 60c.; 13 yard lengths, several of these lengths, worth up to $2.82 for $2.00; 14 yard lengths $3.00 for $2.00; 2} yards $3.82 for $2.75; 3% yards $4.52 for $3.00.These are only a few of the short lengths that will be offered at prices that will close them out.Special prices will be given on Napkins to match any of the short length Damasks.CRASH The pieces that have been cut up for the Sale will be closed out at the sale prices.DON'T FAIL TO SEE WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER IN BARGAINS THAT WE DO NOT WANT TO INVOICE AS THE PRICES WILL BE SO LOW THAT THE GOODS ARE BOUND TO GO.FRANK D.FLINT, - NEWPORT, VT.WELL DRILLING We have two machines for DRILLING WELLS for WATER, and we solicit your business.This is the ideal scheme for a WATER SUPPLY.We DRILL and CASE with STEEL PIPE, 6 inches in diameter at $2.50 per foot.We have drilled several wells in this section, to which we refer those interested.HIBBARD & PERKINS Rock Island, ¥1RST-CLASS WORK REASONABI PF OUARANTEED PRICES CHARLES E.HASELTON Manufacturer of and Dealer in all kinds 0 Granite and Marble Monuments and Head Stones Your Cemetery work such as Lettering anc Resetting is Nolicited Beebe Que.and Vt.E.W.HAY REAL ESTATE & FIRE INSURANCE Large list of FARMS in Stan- stead County.Residences Building Lots, Real Estate o every description.FIRE INSURANCE placed in the leading companies atlowest rates.Your Insurance business solicited.STANSTEAD, QUEBEC.- Quebec FARM FOR SALE Contains about 180 acres, will keep 25 cows and team, cuts 50 tons hay, level fields, free from stone.8000 sugar trees, well equipped, tin and galvanized buckets with covers, new sugar rig.nice sugar house, also out building for storage tank holding 800 pails sap; 10 cords dry wood in sugar house, Jarge shed.The buildings are nearly new; Barn, 48x72, built Iast year, clapboarded and painted red, white trimmings, tieups for 24, 4 stalls, two box stalls, water in front of cattle, 45tons hay and 6 tona of straw in barn, For further particulars address A.C.ALLARD 4044 Sheffield, Vt.LOUIS HUCKINS CONTRACTOR and BUILDER Drawings and Specifications of any style or kind of a bullding in any kind of material, Wood, Brick, Cement or Steel.Rook Island, - Derby Line.If you want a Lake Cottage, Residence, Business or Public Building, see me."]