The Stanstead journal, 30 mars 1916, jeudi 30 mars 1916

[" ee \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 nm NE The Stanstead Journal.\u2014 VOL.LXXI\u2014No.13.4-11, Newport.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1916.UGAR MAKERS, you have probably forgotten something in your preparations for sugaring.Call us up If you haven't tapped, get a Caldwell Tapping Bit, 45¢c., or 50c.post paid; cuts just twice as fast; selling fast.Syrup Cans, Sugar Cans, Cakers, Sugar Boxes, Hose, Tubing, Sap Catchers, and a fairly good supply of the big things, Boiling Rigs, Hauling and Storage Tanks, Sugar- ing-Off Rigs, Settlers, etc.$1.50.Thermometers $1.00 for a good one.Felt Strainers $1.00, $1.25, Remember we are here to fill orders promptly.TRUE & BLANCHARD CO., NEWPORT, VT.E have in stock for quick delivery, plenty of dry Hemlock boards, all kinds of Jet Stock, & a complete line of outside and inside Moulding, B.©.Fir, Aeb, and Best Sheathing, Shingle, Clapboarde, Lath, House Finish, Dimension Timber, etc.Here are a fow prices to go by: .Shingles from 81.75 per M up.Outside doors from 83.50 up, including glase; Inside doors from 82.00 up.Olapboards from 60 cents per bunch up to 81.00.Come in and get prices; if you don\u2019t want to buy the goode yourself, you can tell your neighbors where they can get what they want at the right prices.Three Villages Building Association, Ltd.P.S.We have a car of B.C.Kiln- dried Flooring due to arrive the 15th of April, that we are going to sell at prices that will make it go quick.BOY WANTED Wanted\u2014Bright boy, 150r 16, to learn printing.Good opportunity to acquire thorough knowledge of the business.Should be a good speller.Apply in own handwriting.STANSTEAD JOURNAL, Rock Island, Que.TOWN TOPICS.Mr.Wells A.Hadley of Stanstead reports a catch of 15 foxes and 20 mink this season.Messrs.C.Marois & Son are opening their market in their new building at Derby Line this week.In the absence of the pastor next Sunday at the Universalist Church, the Rev.C.F.McIntire of Woods- ville, N.H., will preach.His sermon subject will be \u201cBuilding a Life,\u201d of interest to the young people, as well as to the older ones.Mr.Solon Gray of Morgan has purchased the Dr.Cowles farm.The purchase price is reported to be 87,500.Mr.Gray will build a house on the farm before moving his family, as the small tenement house is not sufficient or convenient to the barn.Mrs.Gray is a sister of Fred and Eugene Moul- ton.Services at the Congregational Church Sunday.Sermon by the pastor, Rev.H.F.Hallett, both morning and evening.Sabbath School at noon.Charles N.Hill, superintendent.Soloist, Mra.Charles W.Wells.Church night, Wednesday evening; thie is the cburch\u2019s social evening of the week.Plans are in formation for the opening of the Universalist vestry April 11th, when the Ladies Aid and Jolly Juniors will have a supper and sale for the public.There will be the usual fancy, useful and candy booths, an opportunity to get your friend an Easter gift and yourself a good supper, and it is not too early, either, to be looking for gifts for Christmas, if you believe in ¢ Preparedness.\u201d Through the beneficence of Mrs.W.P.Mack, in the offer of 82000, a parsonage for the Univerealist church is assured in the near future, if certain conditions are fulfilled, one of which being that a suitable lot of land be given by some interested party.Mrs.Mack has done much in the past in the interest of Universalism, and this, ber latest manifestation of love for her church, should be a mighty encouragement to all.There surely must be others interested in having a better equipped church in Derby Line and thus be better able to serve the community, who will come forward with the necessary land and little added money, that Mrs.Mack\u2019s generous offer may come to fruition.MACHINISTS Lathe men, planer men, fitters and tool makers wanted.Apply Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Company, Limited, Sherbrooke, Que.54w8 TOWN TOPICS.Several kinds of the early spring birds bave arrived.\u2018 Mr.W.R.Lawrence of Boston was in fown Saturday.Mr.R.W.Cheney of Springfield was in town Saturday.Mr.H.E.Durgin of Attleboro, Mass., was in town Friday.The need of an attractive tea room ir this neighborhood having been felt for some time by visitors and residents, the Red Cross workers decided at their meeting, last Monday to accept Miss Butters\u2019 offer of her garage for the purpose and open a tea room early this summer.The profits to be for the Red Cross and for comforts for ren in the trenches.Mr.Charles Kpapp, from Hatley Center, has lcased Mr.H.H.Smith's! farm, known as the Maneur place, and will take possession this week.This is one of the best farm properties in the Townehip of Stanstead.The Smith family will occupy the R.D.Byers house, North Stanstead, for the immediate future, but Mr.8mith contemplates building a house at his farm during the year, the same to be located on the east side of the road.The Woman\u2019s Christian Temperance Union bas much pleasure in announe- ing an address by Rev.T.A.Halpenny at Pierce Hall on Weenesday, April 5, at4 p.m.Subject: Patriotism and Temperante.This addrees is given at the urgent request of ladies and gentlemen outside the Methodist congregation and a large attendance is anticipated.A collection will be taken.Members of the Union will meet at 3 p.m.to transact the business of the regular monthly meeting.Business at 3 o\u2019clock, addressat 4.Walter Smith, son of H.H.Smith, Dufferin Avenue, is in hospital at San Fernando, California, suffering from typhoid fever.For several vears he bas been in the employ of the Lous Angeles Olive Growers\u2019 Association and the first intimation of his illness was wired by Col.F.D.Butter- field Saturday night, but not delivered until Monday.A later message, received yesterday, described the disease as mild typhoid.Walter Smith was employed at the National Bank of Derby Line for eome time prior to his departure for Califorsia; he has many friends here who will hope for bis speedy recovery.The funeral of Curtis P.Bean, who died March 21st at the home of his daughter, Mrs.Louisa Mead, was held at the home on Thursday at eleven o\u2019clock, the Rev.T.A.Halpenny officiating.Mr.Bean was born in Glover, Vt., and was 91 years and 11 months of age.He was a Civil War veteran, having enlisted in Co.B, 3rd Vermont, for three years, and immediately at the expiration of his term reénlisted and served until the end of the war.He became a Christian at the age of 12 and continued in the faith until his death, showing great interest in the Christian work until the end.For the past nine years he hae been confined to his bed and was cared for by his granddaughter, Mrs.Hattie LeBaron, whose untiring efforts in bis behalf were the means of hie attaining his ripe age.Mr.Bean leaves a daughter, Mrs.Louisa Mead, of Stanstead, and a son, Mr.Wells Bean of Orford, Que., besides other relatives among whom are ten grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.Those relatives who were present at the funeral were: Mrs.Chas.King, Mrs.8afronia King, Miss Ruth Bean, Mre.Julia Magoon, all of Glover, Vt., Mrs.Mary Davio, of Stanstead; Mr.and Mrs.Chalon Mead of Groveton, N.H.; Mrs.Winnie Beals and son of Walnut Hill, Maine; Mr, and Mrs.Robert H.Clement of Newport, Vt., and Irving Slack of Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Que.The interment was at North Hatley, Que., where the funeral party was met by Mr.and Mrs.Wells Bean of Orford, Que.; Mr.Tatham and Aimer Bean of Suffield, Que.; and Mr.and Mrs.Reed and Mr.and Mrs.Howard Slack of North Hatley, Que.TOWN TOPICS.Millinery Opening, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4th and 5th, at Mise A.M.Malouin\u2019s, Derby Line, Vt.Miss Grace Rouse of 8t.Johnsbury was a guest of Mrs.F.G.and Miss Estber Butterfield from Saturday Lo Monday.Get your sleighs and wagons varnished apd painted at Allard\u2019s Paint shop, P.J.Gagnon, General Painter, Rock Island.43cf The Newest Millinery awaits inspection.You are invited to call and see it.Miss A, M.Malouin, Derby Line, Vt.Lost\u2014Between Beebe and Stan- stead, March 25th, a Lady\u2019s solid gold watch, initialed A.B.V.Reward given.Return JOURNAL Office.Mr.Thomas Wells, youngest son of Mr.and Mrs.O.©.Wells, bas enlisted in the local signal corps of the 117th.He is attending McGill College.Mrs.Hollis Clark, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia at the home of her son, Mr.C.W.Ham, Lowell, Mass., is slowly recovering.The Caswell & O'Rourke Store Co.are loading a car of potatoes for market this week.The potato market has beeu very favorable for the farmers all the year.Mr.W.Clark Hopkins left Tuesday | for Boston for the purpose of attend- jing the meeting of the Retail Coal | Dealers Association which is being i beld there this week.Mr.Alfred Belanger, employed at | the Butterfleld works, got his right |arm caught in the machine he was operating, on Monday.The arm was badly mangied, but no bones were broken.{The Fur Farm received 15,000 small square-tailed trout Wednesday.They were taken to the hatchery at Bald- | win\u2019s Mills to be grown; next fall they will be deposited in the waters at the | farm.My blacksmith shop is now open.Will be glad to see all my old customers, and to make the acquaiz- \u2018tance of any new ones.Horseshoeing land general job work undertaken.Get your wagons and buggies repaired.E.Chartier, Rock Island, Que.Mesars.J.Z.Hudon aud Paul Emile | Paradis have entered into partoership and purchased the meat business formerly owned by Joseph St.Marie, who has gone into the meat and provision business at North Troy.The new firm is erecting a small market building on land leased from Mr.St.Marie.Mr.E.H.Hills, wife and child were in town Friday en route to their home in Brooklyn, N.Y., after epending some time in Compton and Boynton.; They were called to the county by the {illness of Mr.Hills\u2019 mother, Mre.A.R.i Hills of Boynton, who has been suffering from pneumonia but is now recovering.Charles Marois & Son wili open their new meat market at tbe old Pike storehouse stand, which they have recently thoroughly remodeled, Saturday morning.They will carry a full !line of both native and western beef and other meats.They have groceries and a complete line of green vegetables.Mr.George T.Ames has let the contract for the erection of the foundation, walls and floor of his new building to Mr.Wm.W.Gallagher of West Burke, Vt.The material is to be concrete and steel.Mr.Gallagher built the Goes garage at St.Johnsbury, and has done work at Speedwell Farm and for the Darlings.The local corps of signal men are rapidly mastering the sending and receiving of messages by the Moree code.The whole scheme of signal corps work rerves to make the unit very quick of perception, and efficient.The physical training makes the men fit for great endurange.Lieut.Irvine is a stickler for thorough work, in every branch of the training.Mrs.Sarah L.Page, wife of Dr.F.H.Page, of North Troy, died March 17th.The funeral took place the following Sunday, Rev.P.S.Dobson, M.A.officiating.Mrs.Page was the mother of Mrs.Dobeon, whose father, Dr.Page.fa now in shattered health.On this account Mra.Dobson plans to leave thin week for her former home, her departure from Stanstead having been delayed somewhat by the iliness of the children, who are now improving.It is announced that Mr.Dobson has handed in hia resignation from the staff of Stanstead College, the same to take effect at the close of the present school year.Other retiring teachers announced are: Mr.Thomas C.Ole- land, Mise Luna A.Marsh, Miss Ida- belle Hathawsy and Miss Bernice I.Mallory.TOWN TOPICS.Robine arrived Tuesday morning.Col.H.8.Haskell is feeling better and is able to be out.Mr, William W.Gallagher of West Burke was in town Tuesday.Mr.George E.Waldron is able to be oul riding after his late lllness.Mr.Bernard Repihan hns rented a tenement from Mr.Elric Cordeau.Sugar moulds at R.J.Hunt\u2019s.good variely of shapes and patterns.Mr.A.E.Bishop of Newport was up to band rehearsal Friday evening.Tenement to let on Railroad Street, near Main Street.Apply to J.A.Roy.Mr.Roy Cosby from Groton Academy is home for the Easter vacation.Mrs.A.E, Bishop and son Kendall of Newport are viajting relatives in town.Unless all signs fail, there will be a large amount of sugar made this season.Messrs.0.Wentworth and J.8.Wylie of New York City were in town Monday.Pte.Roy I.Telford trom St.Johns spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday in town.Rev.and Mrs.B.F.McIntire are visiting Mr.Mclntire\u2019s parents in Woudsville, N.H.Young girl would like position to do light housework in amall family.Apply JOURNAL Office.For sale\u2014300 bushels Banner Seed Oats.Field Farm, Stanstead, James Timmons, proprietor.56*4 Mr.John Walch moved to his new home at the south end of Main Street, Derby Line, Monday.Young & Carbee have purchased a lot opposite S.B.Bates\u2019, Derby, and aud will erect a garage.A .Miss Maria Garceau has been con- floed to ber home the last few days with the prevailing epidemic.Mr.Porter F.Hunt of the State University, of Burlington, Vt., is at home for the Ester vacation.Mr.Frank W.D.Melloon has rented the Armour house on Caswell Avenu», aad took possession this week.Town clerk, George O.Burton, of Derby was in town Monday issuing fishing, hunting and dog licenses.We have a limited quantity ofa No.1 building stone still unsold.If interested apply early.G.& G.Limited.The farmers report quite a flow of sap Tuesday and Wednesday in eugar orchards sloping to the east and south.Misses Dupuis, Parson\u2019s building, will hold their millinery opening, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4th and 5th.Mr.8.P.Farrar, who has been spending the winter with his daughter, Mrs.B.F.McIntire, at Derby Line, bas returned to his home in Guilford, Maine.The Derby Line school is closed for a three weeks\u2019 vacation.Miss Far- map has joined a ten-day excursion to Washington, and will spend the balance of the time at her home in Middlesex, Vt.The International Cornet Band is having regular practice every Tuesday evening, and the attendance and interest are good.Mr.Hovey expects to have a better organizatio than ever before.: A \u201c\u2018Picnic Guild\u2019 will be held in the parish room on Tuesday, April 4th, at 280 p.m.At four o\u2019clock there will be an important business meeting.All members are asked to make a special effort to be present, The Eastern Townships College of Music announces a pianoforte recital by Mise Christina McIntosh, assisted by Miss Idabelle Hathaway, soprano, Friday evening, March 3lat, at 8 o'clock.The public are invited to attend.We have several thousand feet of basswood sheathing that we are selling at 828 per thoveand ss we require both the room and the money in our business.This is nice, dry sheathing and a good trade.The Three Village Building Association.Oentenary Methodist Church.Rev.Dr.E.I.Hart, B.A, will preach missionary anniversary sermons next Sunday at the veual hours of service, 1030 a.m.and 7 p.m.Dr.Hart has had a good deal of experience in mission work and is a splendid speaker.The public are earnestly invited to attend both the above services.Sunday school ses- von at the close of the morning serv- ce.Saco, Me., has just opened its first theatre, although the city was settled in 1698, incorporated in 1718, and obtained its city charter in 1867.BUILDING AT STANSTEAD.Indications point to considerable building activity at Stanstead during the spring and summer.Louis Four- pier, formerly of Sherbrooke, is building & house on land purchased from Mrs.N.Vizina, the same being located on Ceutre street, iu rear of the Paradis store.Fred Belanger has built a barn and will begin the erection of a house shortly.George Brock is preparing to build a house on the George Rogers lot, and it is understood J.A.Sisco will rebuild if he can secure a small additional piece of land to enlarge his lot.Mrs.L.A.Hastings contemplates rebuilding on the Herbert lots, lumber for one building being on the spo: already.Samuel Murdock has put up a small model hlacksmith shop at the rear of his lot and will build a house iu the near future.Fred Mc- Gaffoy has also erected a small workshop and will rebuild his residence.Henry B.McGaffey will rebuild; his lomber is now being sawed to order at the Brock mill.Robert!W.Saunders contemplates rebuilding on Macdonald street soon, and Fred Young will erect a dwelling on the Macdonald lot, which hs acquired after the fire.A.N.Thompson will erect a double tenement house on the Pom- eroy lot, recently acquired from the H.A.Channell estate, the lumber being already on the spot.The Rown- an Catholic Church will be rebuilt on the old lot.A number of buildings are already complete or nearing completion.At the north end J.G.Dewey has erected a comfortable house on the George Gallagher lot, which he owned before the fire; this will be occupied by his aunt, Mrs.O.B.Jenkins.A.M.and J.M, Williamson have erected a commodious and attractive home on the site formerly owned by their father, the late J.H.Williamson.George WW.Hall has rebuilt the house on tae H.8S.Hunter lot, which he acquired only a few months before the fire.J.B.Paradis & Fils have rebuilt on the site of the old Daly store; the new building will be brick- cased when completed.Good progress is being made on the new county building which will contain the registry office, court house and town hall.This building will be the same size as the old one, but its appearance will he improved by granite facings and entrance porch.Mrs.N.Vizina has rebuilt on her lot directly north of the hotel site, and E.E.Charland has rebuilt on his lot directly south of the hotel lot, his new building being a considerable \u2018improvement over the old one.J.A.Lengevin has rebuilt bis barn at the south end, near the place where the fire started.Besides Liv properties above mentioned a number of vacant lots are left, among them being the Lafrance lot, located at the north end aud owned by Joseph Turcotte; the L.T.Merriman lot; the T.Lee Terrill lot, owned by B.W.Hay; the M.F.Hack- ett lot; the J.L.Heath lot, adjoining the Hackett property at the south; the Geo.A.Flint lot, which will likely be built upon soobp; the E.C.Hall lot; the E.W.Channell lot; the Channell store lot; the H.A, Chan- nell residence lot; the C.8, Channell lot; the T.Houlaban lot, owned by Alphonse Couture; the James Daly lot; the hotel lot; the George H.Bailey residence lot; the H.B.Gates lot aud others.C.H.Thayer, whose bnildings on Macdonald street were burned, bas since erected buildings on his farm land on the Smith\u2019e Mills road.MAGOON\u2019S POINT.Messrs.Walter aud Herbert Hand attended the funeral of their sister-in- law, Mrs.Clayton Hand, of George- ville, which was beld in Magog on Monday.Mra.W.M.Leney, Mr, Chas.Leney and Master Lyall Hand pre on the sick list.Mr.and Mre.Frank Brown of Gran- iteville were guests of Mr.and Mrs.W.M.Leney on Tuesday.Miss Lillie Eryou was at Beebe on Wednesday.Master Oris Blake of Meredith, N.H., is staying with his grandparents, Mr.and Mrs.Charles Eryou.Mrs.John Blake of Meredith, N.H., was a recent guest of her parents, Mr.and Mrs.Charles Eryou.Mrs.Charler Eryou is friends in Graniteville.Mr.Harry Wells of the 117th E.T.Battalion, Sherbrooke, is spending a time with his sister and brother-in- law, Mr.and Mrs.W.J.Shea, on account of illness.Mr.Robert Weston was at Beebe on Friday.Dr.R.A.Gatchell ot Beebe, Vt., was in the place on Sunday.Mrs.Alexander McEwan is very ill; she is attended by Dr.Gatchell.Mr.Edward Eryou and Mr.Robert Weston spent Tuesday at Rock Island.visiting WHOLE No.3659.JOSEPH BELOUIN KILLED.Struck by Train While Walking on Track to Rock Island.Joseph Belouin, an old and well- known resident of this section, met death in a tragic manner at about nine o'clock a, m.yesterday.During the past eix years he had been living with bis son-in-law, Joseph F.Daigueault, a short distance below the bridge and across the track from the main road to Beebe.He enjoyed good '.~alth and occasionally walked tothe village, usually coming on the track.At 8659 yesterday morning as the outward bound passenger train rounded the curve a quarter of a mile below the Rock Island passenger station, fireman W.C.Colby saw a man on the track about two hundred feet ahead and shouted to engineer William Berwick, who immediately applied the air brake.At the point in question there 18 a heavy grade, down which the train was moving at the usual speed, and it could not be stopped in time to avoid a tragedy.The locomotive was backing, and the victim was struck by the tender and run over.When the train was brought to a standstill the body was lying between the rails about 150 feet in the rear.The head was smashed in and there were a number uf cuts, bruises and broken bones.The remains were removed firet to the passenger station thence to Audinwood\u2019s undertaking rooms where an inquest wus held last night, Coroner Bachand having been summoned from Sherbrooke.The jury was composed of John C.Holland (foreman) P.Henry Reni- han, Désiré Neveu, J.A.Begin, A.C.McPhee and-J.A.Surprenant.The wetnesses examined were Dr.11.P.Stockwell, who made an examination of the body, Mr, Berwick the gngi- neer, Mr.Colby the fireman, and Mr.Daigueault, with whom the victim | lived.Mr.Berwick related the facts \u2018so far as known to Lim.He was keeping watch ou the outside of the curve and did not see the victim, but applied the \u2018\u2018air\u201d when he heard the fireman\u2019s alarm; be did not have time to blow the whistle, but the bell was ringing at the time of the accident; it was customary to run the engine backwards when going down the line because there was no turn-table at the Junction; it was necessary to \u2018\u2018back\u2019 one way and it would be difficult to \u201cback\u201d up the grades.There was considerable walking on the track at this point which he understood to ; be against the rules of the Company.i Mr.Colby, who was keeping watch on the \u2018inside\u2019 of the curve, testified to having seen the victim about 200 feet ahead; he appeared te be walking slowly, with head down, and did not see the approaching danger.Mr, Daigneault\u2019s testimony was to the effect that the victim was enjoying good health and had started to walk to the village at about twenty minutes to nine; he was somewhat deaf and it was neceesary to speak quite loudly to make him understand.At the point where the accident occurred there is a cut which shuts off the view around the curve, and the uifortunate man was probably looking downward to watch the ties while the infirmity above mentioned kept him from hearing the train.The verdict was one of accidental death, with no blame attached.Mr.Berwick has been an engineer for 45 years and this ie the first death caused by a locomotive in bis charge.Natuaally he 1s seriously disturbed by it.The train consisted of a locomotive and one combination passenger and baggage car.It is scheduled as No.A 84, Besides the two witnesses examined the crew consisted of Conductor John McNulty, brakemen M.F.Reed and P.8.Rublee.At the inquest the Railroad Company was represented by J.P.Wells, advocate, Sherbrooke, and Geo.W.Cree, assistant superintendent, Lyndonville.Joseph Belouin was born in Nicolet, August 8th, 1829, gud was therefore in his eighty-seventh year.He came to thie place sixty-five years ago, and was for a long time employed at shoe- making during the balmy daye of that industry.He was an honest, quiet, industrious man, and will be much missed.He is survived by one son, Henry Belouin, living in the United States; and four daughters, Rosa (Mrs.Israel Belisle), Mary (Mrs.Charles Beaupre), Ellen (Mrs.Alphonse Christian), and Leafie (Mrs.Charles Viteau).| j IN CALIFORNIA, Writing from San Deigo, Cal, Mr.W.8.Robbins, formerly of Derby says: \u201cEnclosed is check, 81.50, in renewal of my subscription to 1911.We are enjoyingsunny Oalifornia and the new big Exppeltion, for a time, but will soon go further along the coast, when we will give you new address.\u201d SEE \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_] NORTH STANSTEAD.Mr.and Mrs.B.Little visited relatives in North Hatley a few days last week.Mr.0.W.Schoolcraft of Lebanon, N.H., Mrs.R.Harris and Mrs.H.H.Farman of Beebe were guests at G.W.Schoolcraft\u2019s last Thursday.Mr.and Mrs.W.Thompson of Oass- ville were recent guests at the home of H.G.Curtis.Mr.and Mrs.E.Ball of East Bolton were at the home of A.E.Curtis one day last week.Mr.and Mrs.Geo.Curtis of Holland, Vt., were in the place last Saturday.Mrs.Caldwell of Dufferin Avenue was at the home of Mrs.E, Curtis one day last week.Mr.and Mre.G.W.Schooloraft visited his brother, H.W.Bohooleraft, in Derby last Saturday.Two billions of lead pensile are made each year.VERMONT ITEMS.Ex-Gov.G.H.Prouty and Henry C.Ide are included among the signers to the call for national assemblage of the League to Enforce Peace at Washington, D.C., May 26 and 27.Ex-President Taft, the president of the league, will preside.Mrs.Dorcas Willey, the oldest inhabitant of Orleans, who died recently was 92 years old and most of her life Was passed in Orleans and Irasburg.She Is survived by two daughters, Mrs.O.G.Page of Orleans, and Mrs, E.E.Nutting ot Lowell, Mass.VERMONY ITEMS.O.W.Farr, who recently complated his work In the scale factory at St.Johnsbury to take up his new duties as overseer of the poor, was presented a rol} top desk and chair by 125 of his factory associates.William Pgrker, aged 72 years, a farmer of Albany, was instantly killed Tuesday by the accidental discharge of a gun.He was shooting rats in bis barn and in some way the weapon was accidentally diecharged.A pagent is to be presented in Brat- tieboro May 22 in the form of a a Robin Hood sketch, for the purpose of obtaining funds for the employment of a paid supervisor for the play ground establishment in that village.The state armory board will meet at the state house, Montpelier, Tuesday afternoon, April 4, to consider the location of the next armory.Northfield, Springfield, Brattleboro, Newport, and 8t.Johnsbury all want it.Monday, March 13, was the 145th anniversary of the old Westminster Court House massacre, which occurred March 13, 1775.In the death of William French, Westminster claims the first bloodshed of the Revolution.Daniel Holton was also seriously wounded and died within a few days.At the time of the massacer, Westminster was a shire town and the court house stood at the top of court bouse hill; a few rods east of the old cemetery in which a monument with an appropriate inscription has been erected.= 0000.E.A.YOUNG J.A.CARBEE DERBY GARAGE We are again open for business at the OLD STAND, and any overhauling, repairing or painting you may want, we shall be pleased to do for you.tween the sleigh and automobile, therefore please have the kindness to be prompt in getting your work to us.Our stock of supplies is complete and we are READY FOR BUSINESS.: i : : The time is short be- THE DERBY GARAGE YOUNG & CARBEE, Proprietors, DERBY, - - - VERMONT 0000 00000000800000000000000000000009000000000 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.The Quebec Bank Established 1818-\u201497th Year in Business Authorized Capital, 85,000,000 Paid-up Capital and Reserve 84,043,275 BANKING BY MAIL Business of all kinds can be transacted in this manner, and will receive prompt attention.SAVINGS DEPARTMENT AT EVERY BRANCH Joint Accounts may be opened in the name of two persons; in case of death balance payable to survivor.Agencygat Fitch Bay, Quebec.Open Thursday of each week.ROCK ISLAND BRANCH A.C.McPHEE, Manager CARTER\u2019S Inks, Paste, Mucilage, Typewriter Ribbons Try Pencraft, the new double purpose ink for office and fountain pen use Sold by The Journal Printing Co.VERMONT ITEMS.May 15 is the date set for the industrial exposition: to be beld at the New Avenue hotel, St.Johnsbary.At a session of naturalisation court beld at Newport 18 men were admitted to citizenship.Norman W.French, 89 years old, the oldest man in Woodstock, ie dead.He was a Civil War veteran.The Rev.Paul Weller, of Orange, Mass, has begun his pastorate with the Universalst church at Newbury.Dr.R.O.Flagg has been appointed health officer for the town of West- field.Mrs.Honora B.Carrigan, aged 93 years, died at St.Johnsbury, March 18.) B.T.Page, of Bradford, shot in hie barn a bobcat which weighed 14 pounds and measured four feet in length, Mr.Page will have it mounted.At the recent town meeting in Kirby P.H.Graves resigned his position of town clerk after holding that office 48 years.Mr.Graves resigned on account of poor health.The feasibility of having Old Home day or week observed thie year is under discussion in Putney.This is the 150th anniversary of the granting of the town charter by New York state.The firet maple sugar of this season was taken into Burlington Friday by a well known sugar maker of West Bolton, who predicts a good crop this year because of the unusually heavy amount of snow on the ground this winter, Members of the four Montpelier associations of the Camp Fire Girls have shown their interest in the war by making up five baby kits which were shipped to five mothers in France.Each kit contains clothing and toys.It is not improbable that before long Wolcott will have a free library, as a meeting of those interested has been called to see what can be done.Seventy books belonging to the town and kept at the parsonage have had a circulation of over 500 in the past year.The selectmen of St.Johnsbury have sold the town farm herd of 24 cows for $1,320 and will hereafter keep only enough cows to provide milk and butter for the inmates.By a change in policy, the horses for the road department will be kept at the town farm.The will of Mrs.Mary Morse, of Bellows Falls, filed in probate court, leaves her estate, valued at $6,000, to be divided equally between the First Congregational cburch of Westminster and the first Congregational church of Bellows Falls.Only the income is to be used by the ohurches.Tbe latest college eong, written by W.F.Gallagher of the senior class of the University of Vermont, Burlington, bas just been placed on sale in that city.It is the Vermont fight song which wae written by Mr.Gallagher to be used at the Middlebury football game last fall.The public service commission held a hearing at St.Johnsbury on the petition of the Essex Storage Electric Oo.which plans the development of a big plant on the Moose river.The company contemplates a capitalization of $200,000.The dam would be 60 feet high and would cost about $100,000, aside from the land damages.The body of Mrs.Laura C.Patterson, of Barre, aged 86 years, wife of the late John Patterson, was taken to Craftsbury for burial.Mrs.Patter- eon, the last of a generation of people who settled in Oraftebury, is survived by two grandchildren, Miss Hazel Guyer, of Boston, and E.B.Guyer.A note from Stowe says that large numbers of snow buntings and prairie horned larks are seen in the outside roade.The larks are to be seen in the main streets of the village.Chickadees, nuthatches, and downy woodpeckers have visited the stores of food provided for them regularly during the winter.The Lake Wapanacki Trout Club, Inc., of Hardwick has filed articles of association with the secretary of state at Montpelier, having capital stock of $5,000 divided into 150 shares.It is the purpose of the club to maintain a flash and game preserve in the towns of Wolcott and Hardwick and to erect a club house for members.The largest military company in the state which thus far bas undergone federal and state inspection during the present inspection tour of Lieut.John O.Waterman, U.8.A., Adjt.- Gen.Leg 8.Tillotson, and Col.Ira L.Reeves, is company D.1et Inf., V.N.G, at St Jobusbury.Sixty-five members and three officers were present.There are 73 names on the list.This is the largest company ever in- epected in 8t.Johnsbury.A flock of 14 evening grosbeaks has been noted by bird lovers in Benning- ton this week.The bird, which is said rarely to come into New England, has been seen at several Vermont points, including 8t.Albans, this winter.The birds are natives of Montana and western Canada and their visits here occur only in winter.They are a brilliant yellow, the size of bluebirds, and feed on seeds almost entirely.! VERMONT ITEMS.Ann Story Obapter, D.A.R., of Rut- land, will work for the next month on sargioal dressings to be sent to Eog- land for use by the armies of the allies, ; At the annual town meeting in Barton the matter of a fireproof eub-eta- tion brought out very little discuseion and it was voted to buy a site, and the trustees were instructed to build a suitable station.At the recent town meeting at Greensboro it was voted to offer a reward of $100 for the apprehension and conviction of tbe person or persons who have broken into several of the cottages around the lake.An expected battle over the adoption of a curfew ordinance at the annual village meeting in Bennington did not develop and the curfew ordi- pance went through by a majority of more than two to one.A.W.Braisted was elec.ed president of the village.The sum of $500 was voted for the recreation work in the village.The members of the parish of St.Charles Roman Catholic Church, Bellows Falls, observed St.Patrick\u2019s day by presenting \u201cAn Irish Historical Pagent\u2019\u2019 in the opera house that evening.More than 250 persons took part in the presentation, making the largest cast ever seen in an entertainment in the opera house.John.W.Bennet, late lieutenant- colonel of the First Vermont cavalry, has just sent an oil painting of himself as a gift to the state, to Adjt.-Gen.Lee S.Tillotson, and it has been hung in the latter\u2019s office iu the state house at Montpelier.Colonel Bennet had command of Vermont\u2019s cavairy regiment when it made its great record at Cedar Creek.Miss Helen M.Winslow of Shirley, Mass, has again shown her fondness for her native town of Westfield by presenting the town library 16 new volumes of fiction.She gives books every year, one year giving over 200.During the past year there were over 1,100 books taken out.Mrs.E.H.Hitchcock has been reëlected librarian for the eighth time.The Greater Vermont Association has fathered the happy scheme of Old Home year, thie 1916, fora home-com- ing for Vermonters everywhere, the native-born, the children, and the grandchildren.And it is a pretty good year for such a gathering of absent ones, as it happens to be an an- nivereary year, the 126th of Vermont joining the Union of states.So come back to the green hills aud see the folke\u2014who are left.The fact that sleeve buttons and shirt studs worn by Sergt.Silas Hodges in the Revolutionary war were shown in the loan exhibition at the Rutland centennial in 1870 has led Clarence W.Bowman, president of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, to find proof of the statement that Hodges wae on the staff of George Washington, as claimed in the Hodges gouealogy.Dr.Silas Hodges was born in Woodstock, Conn., and died in Vermont.Five 8t.Johnsbury men have just taken what ie probably the record eki trip for that section.Starting from the Knob they went into Lyndon and Wheelock, covering a distance of 16 miles in a straight line and at least 25 miles up hill and down dale.At Wheelock a fire was built, steak broiled, and a substantial and much needed dinner was enjoyed.The men who took the trip were Oscar E.Beck, C.L.Harpman, H.W.Witters, Bernhardt Taylor and F.B.Townsend.About 150 employees of the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.and affiliated companies in the state ot Vermont, with eeveral companies outside the state, met in Burlington Thureday to attend a joint meeting consisting of morning and afternoon sessions for the different departments and the meeting of the Vermont Chapter of the Telephone & Telegraph So- clety of New England in the evening, A pleasant feature of the day was the dinner served at the Hotel Vermont at six o'clock in the evening, for whioh 75 covers were laid.Wilmer A.Leland, aged 70 years, who died Thursday at his home in Montpelier, after an illness of several years of arteriosclerosis, represented the town of Berlin in the Vermont legislature before that part of the town was annexed to Montpelier, and afterward was a lister in Montpelier.Mr.Leland was a cousin by marriage of Mrs.O.M.Carpenter, and uncle of Chas.E.Bennett.He lived many years at West Oharleston on the farm known as the Nelson farm.Mrs, Leland is the daughter of the late Judge Loren Clark of West Charleston, The Holstein-Friesian Association of America has accepted tbe offer of A.B.Olapp of Brattleboro, to build a modern fireproof building to cost no more than 855,000 and lease it to the association at 10 per cent of the cost.The property on which the building is to be erected this year Mr.Clapp recently bought of E.B, Stewart of Leyden, Mass.It is at the corner of Main and South Main Sts., in Brattle- boro.Mr.Olapp wishes to buy the lot on which a hose house stands on South Main 8t., next in the rear of bis new property and a special privilege has been called for April 1.Maple Sugar Poesibilitios.Some idea of the extent of the maple sugar industry in Vermont is glv- en by the report of the commissioner of agriculture, which shows that in the year 1915 there were 5,204,038 sugar maples tapped and 7,510,334 pounds of sugar and 605,393 gallons of syrup produced in Vermont.The St.Johnsbury Osledonian in figuring the value of this product, sets its price at 10 cents a pound for sugar and 81 a gallon for syrup and finds a gross output of over $1,356,000.Added to the startling figures is an untapped forest area of 4,421,737 trees, which would practically double the state\u2019s output of this delicious product making a possible revenue of close on $3,000,000.The commissioner is doing the state a distinct and valuable service by collecting such figures, and the educational work of the State Maple Sugar- makers\u2019 Association should resuit in an increase of efficiency in production which would easily increase the very considerable margin of profit.The figures of the various counties become doubly interesting in the light of such possibilities: \u201cThe statistics show three counties with a production of over 1,000,000 pounds of sugar each.They are Franklin county with 1,087,535 pounds of sugar and 127,751 gallons of syrup.\"| Oaledonia with 1,024,435 pounds of sugar and Orleans with 1996,083 pounds'of sugar and 8,087 gallons of syrup.These three counties make considerably over half of all the sugar and about a quarter of all the syrup made io the state.The income per tree\u201d in Franklin county is approximately 35 cents, in Caledonia 21, and in Orleans 20.\u201d Although Rutland county does not appear as a leader, its possibilities are very suggestive, with 263,160 available maple trees and 257,114 really tapped and producing.The gross output of maple sugar was 118,380 pounds (1914 figures) and 71,494 pounds of syrup, amounting each year toa very considerable sum.Windsor county is an important factor in the situation, with 290,801 trees tapped and 427,416 available, its output of sugar being 312,641 pounds and of syrup 63,697 pounds.The same thing applies to Addison county, with 204,643 trees tapped and 144,502 available, except that the sugarmakers of that county seem to bave more fully utilized their resources, as the output of 280,626 pounds of sugar and 281,543 pounds of syrup shows.It is very evident that the leadership of Franklin, Caledonia, and Orleans counties might very speedily be contested by the counties adjacent to Rutland, were the facilities of the district thoroughly utilized, and the collection of such importantdata should go far toward encouraging a further development.Stone-Hillegas.The appointment of Milo B.Hillegas of Columbia University as commision- er of education for Vermont, brings to an end the administration of Mason 8.Stone, certainly one of the most diligent and efficient officers the state has ever had at the head of its school system.A native of Waterbury, educated in Vermont schools and the University of Vermont, he was appointed state superintendent of education in 1905 and was generally credited with being in closer touch with real Vermont conditions than any other man in public or private lite.- Much of the recent progress in the state educational system is due to bis initiative, and probably a majority of Vermonters will regret the circam- stances which now make it necessary for a successor to be appointed in bis place.Professor Hillegas is well known in the state, the results of his researches in connection with the Carnegie survey being embodied in the report for the foundation and also in the report of Governor Fletcher's commission.Thies work was done in behalf of the elementary schools, and constitutes one of the most valuable contributions to educational literature.The striking thing about bis appointment is that no serious effort in behalf of Vermont education was ever more misrepresented than the Oar- negie survey and no feature thereof was more bitterly assailed than the views of Protessor Hillegas on consolidation of schools, now an accepted state policy.Hie appointment is a very decided vindication of the wie- dom of his recommendations, The Herald bespeaks for the new commissioner and the state board the most hearty coôperation by educators and taxpayers throughout the state.Few Evidences of Browntail Moth.Harold L.Bailey of Bradford, assistant to the state commissioner of agriculture, in charge of insect suppree- eion in Vermont, and Homer N.Min- ard of Bradford, have finished a two- weeks\u2019 trip of inspection in Brattle- boro, Guilford and Vernon in search of brownteil moth nests.No nests were found at Guilford and only a few in Brattleboro and Vernon.Mr.Bailey says he found fewer evidences of browntails on this trip than on any previous visit.: He will visit that section again soon in search of San Jose scale.Regards in Vermont-Made Kansas.The Lawrence, Kaness, World-Jours nul, in reprinting an editorial from The Rutland News of March 18, \u201cWhere Vermont \u2018Moss-Back Smugness\u2019 Comes In,\u201d graciously says: \u201cKansas and Vermont, and partion- larly Lawrence and Vermont have been rather closely affiliated.Many Vermonters have left their impress on this part of the state, and after so many years of co-operation this is not time for them to have a falling out.\u201d It seems that the slighting re- marke concerning the \u2018\u2018moss-back smugness of Vermont\u201d was made by Fred C.Trigg of The Kansas City Star in a recent address given in the Kansas university city.The World-Journal concludes: \u2018It Vermont is lacking in the \u2018political and social freaks\u2019 which add spice and piquancy to life in Kansas, it can pevertheless muster a fair showing of other desirable assets, and also the ability to see some good points even in Kansas, Perhaps that is the best evidence that there is a New Vermont\u2019 Whether or not Mr.Trigg\u2019s remarks about Vermont were just, there is no doubt that the Vermonters who came to Kansas have been an important factor in building the state, of which they with native Kansans feel proud.\u201d : Assuring the Sunflower State contemporary of our most distinguished consideration and regard, let it be said in a spirit of benevolent neutrality that there is nothing the matter with Kansas, for the reason, among other things, that so many Vermonters, with the Vermont spirit, have gone to make the state the magnificent commonwealth that it ie.\u2014Rutland News.The Primary.Now that the emoke has cleared away a cool, dispassionate analysis of the results in Vermont can be had.Vermont bas decided to try the direct primary system of making nominations, despite the utmost efforts of politicians of all parties to defeat it.Do pot expect too much from the new system.Remember it was forced through a legislature controlled by politicians, who did not want it.It stands to reason that they worked into the new law just as many technical, irritating \u201cjokers\u2019 as they possibly could.They passed the Act, with the referendum attached, because they did not dare to do anything else.It is not as simple as it should be.These defects can be remedied.Remember this when the law is first tried out.Remember that the same objections, by the same class of politicans, were urged against the Australian ballot.That was perfected and has made good.We believe the primary, when eim- plified and made as inexpensive as possible, will also prove good.\u2014Mor- risville Messenger.Albert Allen Silver.Albert Allen Silver, who died recently at his nome in Derby, was born in Bloomfleld October 1, 1834, of Revolutionary stock.He was a son of Arad and Sophia (Nichols) Silver, and was the ninth in a family of 10 children.He was educated in the public schools and at Derby Academy.In bis young manhood he taught school, and during his entire life he retained an active interest in educational matters, \u2019 At the time of his death he had completed a continuous service of 35 years as member and secretary of the board of trustees of Derby Academy.September 22, 1857, he married Sarah denne, of Derby, who died August 1, 1911.Of the eix children born to them only two survive, Elmer E.Silver, of Boston, and Alber: A.Silver, Jr., of Derby.Another son, Edgar O.Silver, president of Silver, Burdett & Oo, publishers, died November 18, 1909, and & daughter, the wife of Dr.Walter H.Parker, of Boston, died May 25, 1915.Big Deal Consummated.The big business deal that has been in progress for several weeks past has been successfully consummated, by which Fairbanks, Morse & Co., have decided to purchase by exchange all the stock of the E, & T.Fairbanks & Uo., 8t Johnsbury, deposited under the terme of the offer recently made.The exchange will be made April 1, and those stockholders of E.& T.Fairbanks & Co., who have deposited their stock will receive about April 1 dividends at the rate of six per cent from April 1, 1916.The stockholders very generally have availed themselves of the rights under the terms of the offer.Sent Shamrock to Bellows Falls, Patrick H.Fleming of Bellows Fall, secretary of the United Irish League, received a box of shamrock a few days ago from Johu E.Redmond, the Irish leader ot Dublin, Ireland.The sprigs were in good condition when they ars rived and Mr.Fleming distributed them among bis friends.Mr.Redmond also remembered the Irishmen fighting in the trenches and sent thousands of boxes of shamrock to the fighting men. Che Beauty of Barmony Few women seem to realize the advantage, assistance and general help that are obtalned from having the tone or note, as it were, that of harmony through and part of the various phases of life.Even educated women and women of more or less nice instincts seem to fail to realize how much can be done by the individual to make a certain amount of harmony in life.If a woman is in the least high strung, temperamental or nervous, it is advisable, if not necessary, that her surroundings should be as much as pos- gible harmonious and in good taste.Unfortunately to carry out the idea satisfactorily more or less money is necessary.But a woman who can plan well and also has good taste can choose her pictures, wall paper, rugs and furniture to look well In a conservative way both singly and as a whole.No matter how few her possessions may be, a woman can bave around her a something that suggests calm and peace wherever the eye rests.Every one is better mentally, physically and temperamentally if the home |.life is free from disputes, bad temper or irritation from any member of the family.Harmony counts for more in home life than anywhere, and there it is most important aud farreachifg in its beneficial results, The one and only way to obtain harmony in home life is to have each and every member in the home circle considerate of the others in every way\u2014in other words, self control, which so many do not think worth while just in the family.circle, Observing a certain amount of care in selecting the colors for one\u2019s garments is not only more satisfactory in the long run to the wearer, but has a pleasing and more or less soothing effect upon others.Few women seem to realize bow necessary it is to dress in colors that harmonize with the complexion and eyes.Another important point is that as women grow older it is wise to change the style of clothing as well as the color, so as to as much as possible still have that harmonious general effect, Many of the unpleasant and even dangerous occurrences in life would be done away with if people were more careful in conversation to observe a rule to have every topic one that is conducive to a feeling of general harmony for all, A certain amount of harmony can be expressed by the attitude of the body, which with some peopl&is merely the outward expression of the working of a soul and mind in harmony and accord with all their fellow beldgs.Harmony in the speaking voice is a desirable quality.Even, well regulated tones are rare.That so few people have harmony in the speaking tones is because almost anything tbat is not in normal condition shows in the voice, especially a disordered state of the nerves.Few women realize how much it helps to be self controlled to keep the voice free from unevenness and a quaver or a sobbing voice, which so many women have.À controlled, well modulated voice is among the assets in life.Wise women select their friends, If possible, only from those who are in mental harmony, those people whose tastes and points of view are agreeable to them.So called friendship not founded on that harmony does only harm.Some few women are fortunate enough to have perfect harmony between mind'nd body.Most women are obliged to be content with keeping the two In harmony as much as they can.ATTRACTIVE NOVELTIES.Two Gifts For Her Who Goes on a Journey.One of these articles is a Chinese workbasket of wicker, with a smart handle of straw and kid strappings or- FOR TRAVELERS.namented with jade drops.Two beautiful silk tassels of oriental colors finish the lid.The basket is lined with satin and fitted with sewing utensils.fhe leather case contains a cut glass toothbrush holder and two bottles for Vowder and a mouth wash.RAISING CAPITAL.Young 8am Clemens anc His Chums In a Coonskin Deal.\u2018The adventures of Sam Clemens and his comrades would fill several books of the size of \u201cTom Bawyer.\u201d Many of them are, of course, forgotten now, but those still remembered show that Mark Twain bad plenty of real mate rial.It was not easy to get money in those days, and the boys were often without it Once Huck Blankenship bad the skin of a coon be had captured and offered to sell it to gaise capital.At Selms\u2019 store on Wildcat corner the coonskin would bring 10 cents.But this was not enough.The boys thought of a plan to make it vring more, Selms\u2019 back window was open, and the place where he kept his pelts was pretty bandy.Huck went around to the front door and sold the skin for 10 cents to Selms, who tossed it back on the pile.Then Huck came back and after waiting a reasonable time crawled in the open window, got the coonskin and sold it to Selms again.The boys did this several times that after noon, and the capital of the bund grew.But at last John Pierce, Selms\u2019 clerk, said: \u201cLook here, Mr.Selma; there's something wrong about this, That boy hag been selling us coonskins all the afternoon.\u201d Selms went back to his pile of pelts, There were several sheepskins, but only one coonslän, the one be had that moment bought, Selms himself in after years used to tell this story as a great joke.\u2014Albert Bigelow Paine in St.Nicholas, HUMOR AS A WORLD FORCE.Contrasting the Men Who Create With the Men Who Destroy.Sir Herbert Tree in a lecture at the Birmingham and Midland institute said: \u201cHumor may be a help or a clog in life.Many great men have been with out it.1 think it may be broadly stated that men of action, the great destroyers, the men who take, are as a rule devoid of humor, while.men of Imagination and contemplation, those who create, who give, have the gift of humor.Among those pre-eminently gifted with humor were Abraham Lincoln, Disraeli, Goethe and Heine, the late Lord Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Dickens, Thackeray, Fielding, Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, Henry VIIL, Charles II, Dr.Johnson, Charles Lamb, Emerson and Byron.\u201cI could enlarge upon this theme until your eyelids would no longer wag.But I will content myself with contrasting as typical examples of the yea and nay of humor two of the world\u2019s greatest men\u2014Shakespeare and Napoleon, the arch creator and the arch destroyer.\u201cShakespeare gave an abiding joy, one that will contribute to the happt- ness, the education and the ennobling of mankind throughout the ages, \u2018in states unborn and accents yet unknown.\u2019 Napoleon, on the other band, took from mankind millions of lives and set bumanity wailing.\u201d\u2014 London Telegraph.A Queer Diagnosis.A celebrated Dublin physician was sir Dominic Corrigan, who was as much famed for his brusqueness toward patients as for his skill.In the course of some reminiscences William Charles Scully told a story of the doc tor which is quite well worth quoting, \u201cI was taken to see him,\u201d says the writer, \u201cseveral tines, but be always treated me with the utmost kindness.However, a highly respectable maiden aunt of mine had a different experience.She went to consult him, After sounding her\u2014none too gently\u2014and asking a few questions be gave a grunt and relapsed into silence.Then after a short pause of meditation he said, \u201cWell.ma\u2019am, it's one of two things\u2014 either you drink or else you sit with your back to the fire.\u2019 \u201d More Lovable.Two peevish old dames were sent over to inspect a Red Cross hospital in France.They came back and reported that a black cat was kept as a pet in the institute.The%ead of the hospital was written to about it and replied: \u201cThe black cat is tbe Tommies\u2019 mascot, and they're fond of ber\u2014a lot fonder than they were of the two old cata you sent out here to inspect us.\u201d Newly Discovered Talents.\u201cOf course 1 shrieked when I thought chere was a burglar in the house,\u201d said young Mrs.Torkins.\u201cWhat did your husband do?\u201d \u201cCharley looked at me with deep reproach and asked why I couldn't bole Jer that way once in awhile when the home team needed a boost.\u201d The Best Chance.Grubbs\u2014 Why did you indorse so cor dially Litebrane\u2019s application for ap- pouintment to a place in the consular service?Stubbs\u2014 Because I could not think of anything else that was likely to carry him farther away from home.\u201d He Went.She\u2014 Wnaut are you thinking of, Me.Borley?He\u2014I was thinking it was time to go home.She\u2014Now, here is the difference between men and wo men\u20141 arrived at that conclusion long ago, and you have only just worked it out There are no chagrins so venomouw re the chagrin of #0 sickening as the are.~Ruakin, PLEASANT HEIGHTS.Mrs.O.Laraway visited friends at Fitch Bay on Wednesday.Mr.R.Tatreaux and family are moving into Mr.H.Oass\u2019s tenement house.Mrs.J.Wells, Mrs.Percy Taylor of Oliver and Miss Pear! Bissell were guests at Mr.Wm.Bachelder\u2019s, Friday.: On Saturday Mre.J.Wells met with quite a serious accident.When crossing the big bridge at Magog, a run-away team ran into her team throwing her out.Dr.Gilfillan of Beebe who was summoned, found no bones broken, but Mre.Wells was hurt quite badly about the head and spine.Miss.Bertha Alger who has been confined to her bed for a few days, is some better at this writing.The friends here of Mrs.Wm.Minor, Orystal Lake, are sorry to hear of ber serious illness, with pneumonia.Mrs.R.Allen is with her sister, Mra.J.Wella, for a few days.Beautiful weather at this writing.Some are thinking of going into their sugar bush to commence sugaring.A number from this way attended the funeral of Mr.Naurice Heath at Fitch Bay yesterday.Mre.À.P.Davis of Griffin is visiting her sister, Mrs.M.Harris, and father, Mr.O.L.Cass, at this writing.Mr.W.Golden of Eastman visited {riends in this vicinity last week.Mre.Martha Bissell was a guest of her sister, Mrs.Wm.Patterson at, East Bolton recently.APPLE GROVE.Mr.Jerome Ball and grandeon Gordon of East Bolton were guests of Mr.and Mrs.A.À.Bryant recently.Mr.Joseph Welch is confined to the bo use through illness.Mr.and Mrs.J.M.Bryant and children of East Bolton were guests of Mr.A.À.Bryant and family and Mr.and Mrs.A.Gothorp one day last week.Mr.Vern Smith bad the luck to catch a live mink, with his hands, and sold it to the fur farm at Stanstead for a good price.Miss E.A.Bryant returned home on Saturday after spending a week visiting cousins in Bolton.About 100 gathered at the home of Mr.Sherwood Kimpton on Friday last to enjoy the evening dancing.Mr.and Mrs, James Brock of Mill- ington were guests of Mr.and Mrs.A.A.Bryant last Thursday.Mr.Arthur Gothorp is confined to the house with German measles.Mrs.George Bowker and daughter Pear] of East Bolton were guests of Mr.and Mrs.A.A.Bryant on Saturday.The snow-plow did good work on the roads last Saturday.WAY'S MILLS.The baked bean dinner will be held in the hall on April 5th.Every one come and sew for the soldiers.Mr.Eugene Olifford of Newport and Mr.Arthur Lyford of Cassville visited Mr.N.F.Clifford Sunday.Mrs.Hattie Brown of Janesville is with her mother, Mrs.Rudd.Mrs.Rudd has sold her farm and will accompany her daughter, Mre.Brown, to her home in Janesville.Mr.Geo.Hirst spent a few days in Sherbrooke this week.Miss Florence Sargeant has been very ill with bronchitis.Mr.and Mrs.George Andrews of OCoaticook are staying at F.B.Smith's.Miss Emma Dyson has returned from North Hatley where she has been nureing.Mr.N.F.Clifford who has been ill several weeks, does not seem to improve any.- Mr.Douglas passed away Tueeday morning.Interment will be in Boston.FITCH BAY.Received too late for last issue.Mr.Morris Heath is very ill with pneumonia.Dr.Ross of Stanstead is in attendance.The two children of Mr.and Mrs.J.J.Farrell, Ruth and Ricbard, who have been very ill with the grip, are recovering.Mrs.D.J.Carr and Mrs.O.P.Rider have returned from Richford, Vt., where they have been spending a few days.Mrs.W.K.Foss was in town last week, a guest of friends.On every Friday evening during lent there will be services in St.Matthias Church at 7 80, where short addresses will be given by the rector, Rev.H.W.Sykes.HEATHTON.Received too late for last week.Some from here attended the party given to Ptes.Ralph and Stanley Cooper of the 117th E.T.Battlion, at the home of Mr.and Mrs.B.F.Kezar.The Military Olub will meet with Mrs.Walter Corliss on Tuesday afternoon, March 28.Come prepared to knit socks as it is expected there will be a supply of yarn, Miss Mildred Wallace went to Derby Line last week.We very much regret to publish the death of Mra.F.O.Brown which occurred last Saturday.The funeral was held at her home.Much sympathy is felt for the family, in their great loss.SEEBE.The Ladies Aid are to meet Friday afternoon with Mrs.H, Bigelow abd Mrs.G.McShane.The meeting of the Book and Thimble Olub for this week was postponed on account of the death of Mrs.Turner\u2019s father.The Club were to have met with Mrs.Turner.Mr.George Twombly is sick with bronchitis, but is a Httle better at this writing.Mr.J.Tarner who has been sick a few weeks, is a little better.J.Turner attended the funeral of his wife's father, Mr.Reid, at North Hat- ley last Sunday.Mrs.Turner was unable to go.All members of the Choral Union are requested to be present at the rehearsal Friday evening of this week at 7.15 sharp as this may be the last one before the concert which is to be held next week.The organ and plano will both be used at this rehearsal.The Book and Thimble Club will be entertained by Mrs.Frank Wilkineon who will be assisted by Mrs.W.H.Daniels Tuesday afternoon, April 4th, at the home of Mrs.Henry Tompkine.Mrs.George Feltus had the misfortune to break her arm and dislocate her shoulder Monday, March 20th.She wore creepers, and when coming away from Mrs.Trepania\u2019s where she was calling, one of the creepers caught between the boards of the piazza floor, causing Mrs.Feitus to fall.A Obhildren\u2019s Patriotic Society has been organized here.They meet Saturday afternoons.George Twombly of Newport Ceu- tre called on his parents and other relatives here Sunday.The union meeting will be held at the Advent Church next Sanday evening.EAST BOLTON.Miss E.A.Bryaut has returned to her home in Apple Grove after visiting relatives here.Mr.and Mrs.J.T.Brock and Mr.and Mrs.E.Ball recently spent a few days with relatives and friends at Stanstead.Mrs.Martha Bachelder of Oliver is visiting her sister, Mrs.W.H.Patterson.Mr.W.H.Patterson went to Knowl- ton on Saturday.Several of Mr.Darcy Patterson\u2019s friends gathered at his home last Friday evening to remind him of the fact that he was 21 that day.A very enjoyable time was spent, and an excellent supper was served.Mr.Harold Channell on behalf of those present, presented Darcy with a purse of money and all joined in wishing bim many more happy and prosperous birthdays.The party dispersed at an early hour of morning.Mr, Harold Channell entertained a number of friends to a snowshoe tramp on Tuesday evening.A most enjoyable time wae spent by everyone present.Mr.and Mrs.Channell and Harold surely proved that they are ideal hosts and hostess.Mrs.Geo.Bowker and Miss P.Bow- ker spent the week-end with relatives at Stanstead.GEORGEVILLE.The sudden change in the weather is making sugar makers get busy fast.Among those who are ill at present with grip, ete., are Mrs.F.Rexford, Miss Vera Rexford, Rev.Maitland, Mies Annie McGowan, Miss Vera Davidson and Mrs.King.Mr.W.P.Adams of the 117th Battalion, is home for a week, recruiting for the regiment.Messrs.Jobn Vaughan and Goff Probyn have joined the 117th, and we hear tbat several others are going to join.Miss Annie Davideon is entertaining her college mate, Miss T.M.Douglas, of South Londonderry.Vt.Those who were at their respective bomes here for the week-end were Mise Rexford ot Magog and Mr.J.A.Davidson of Sherbrooke.Mr.F.J.McGowan visited hisneph- ew, Mr.G.0.McGowan, at the home of his sister, Mrs.C.Copp, Derby Line, on Sunday.Mr.and Mrs.J.E.Davidson visited friends in Farnham Center a few days last week.EAST STANSTEAD.Received too late for last edition.Mr.and Mrs.B.F.Kezar gave a very pleasant party at their home Friday evening, March 17th, in honor of the Messrs.R.and 8.Cooper of the 117th E.T.Battalion.The evening was spent in games, music, etc.A very dainty luncheon was served at midnight, after which the crowd dispersed having wished the boys, good luck, and a safe return.Mr.and Mrs.M.Tilton and Mrs.N Huse of Beebe were guests of Mrs.F.J.Libby on Sunday.Mrs.Hines from Smith's Mills Ia visiting her granddaughter, Mrs.8 J.Montle.Mr.Ed.Libby of Roxbury, Mass, was a guest of Mr.F.J.Libby recently.Mr.and Mrs.J.Charlevoix and little daugbter spent Bunday in Beebe.Mies B.E.Turner spent the weekend in Libbytown, a guest of Miss G.N.Libby, Mr.B.Searies is on the sick list.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.Rock Island, Quebec YOUR CASH ON REQUEST YES, you 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 OR EANS TRUST COMPANY.OC RALPH J.HUNT HARDWARE MERCHANT =} = =] CI 1G = 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, J 1 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.1] C EC | ASK FOR YOUR PATRONAGE IN MY LINE.Nn RALPH J.HUNT, DERBY LINE, VT., and ROCK ISLAND, QUE.1E01( [a] ICE jo] | ° 1 3 Mc Jal | 1[ OC LET US REBUILD YOUR HOME DON\u2019T BE SATISFIED WITH POOR WORK - GET THE BEST! WITH OUR ORGANIZATION AND EQUIP- [ MENT WE CAN GIVE IT TO YOU.LOOMIS-DAKIN, LIMITED SHERBROOKE, QUE.GENERAL CONTRACTORS BUTTERFIELD CO.\u2019S NEW BUILDINGS, ROCK ISLAND.\u2014 = \u2014le Es = as ole\u2014\u2014=]c=\u2014 =a em 1 £1 cxm\u2014}§§ cx |} §§ evan |} um esas §} §) cums § § mms 1} §] em 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.Simm J The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED MVERY TEURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rook Island, Que.Une year (advance payment) $1.00 L£ paid in vix months, 1.36 AS the end of the year, 1.50 When sent by mail tu uubscribers in the Uuitod Status the price will be $1.50 a year in advance Entered as second-class matter at the Post- Qffios at Derby Line under the act of March, 8 8.ADVERTISING RATES.Transient advertising 10 cents & line for tue first insertion and 8 cents line for cach subsequent insertion.12 linestotheinch.Nosd- vertiement received for less than 50cents.Correspondents 1 sending as much of thelr copy who can do so would matorial- y assist us by a8 possilbe by Monday evening's post, tuports of luter vvente may then be sunt in by mail as lato us Wednes day evening, or by \u2019phon.: on Thursday fore DOOD When Heeessuary, It is frequently difficult for us to find work for our cumpusitors Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday und Thursday they are always submerged with copy.THE PUBLISHER.THE SHELL COMMITTEE.Opposition members in the Canadian Parliament are persistently demanding an investigation into the affuirs of the disorganized \u201cShell Committee\u201d which had to do with the placing of war contracts in this country last year.To many the most disquieting feature of this case is the prominence given to the name of J.Wesley Allison who is mentioned as epecial agent of the Militia Department.It is alleged that Allison bad taken very large contracts to the United States, placing the sume with two mushroom companies, not then organized, at fabulous prices, and that out of the proceeds Allison and his \u201cpartners,\u201d Eugene Lignanti and B.F.Yoakum, secured a million dollars in profits.Allison, unless we are very much mistaken, wns the principal promoter of the Canada Tin Plate and Sheet Company, one of the commercial scandals of this country, into which many Canadians put their hard-earned mouey, and out ut which they got nothing.In this connection this particular community was relieved of several thousand dollars, although the number of investors was small, Prior to the Tin Plate and Sheet Steel farce, Allison had been operating in the United States, although he was a native of Eastern Ontario.The Canadian Government is opposing an investigation on the ground that the contracts were for the Imperial authorities and the Minister of Militia seems to have gone 80 far as to eulogize Allison.As to the desirability or practicability of a public investigation at this time, we bave nothing to say.Upon this point people\u2019s minds will likely vary aec- cording to their politics.By the prohibitory act introduced by the Ontario Government all bars in the Province wili be closed on or before Sept.15th.No licenses will be issued after May 1st, but an extension of time may be allowed to dispose of stocks on hand.The new act permits the sale of alcohol, under restriction, for medicinal, manufacturing and scientific purposes, upon affidavit or physician\u2019s prescription, druggists being entrusted with the sale.Quantities are limited and only one lot can be obtained ou a single affidavit or prescription.The law is intended to be liberal; it is to be hoped that no loopholes will be found to bring itiuto PROHIBITION IN ONTARIO.No Licenses to be Issued After May First.Ali bars in Ontario will be abolished Sept.15th, if not earlier.There will be no referendum, at least nct until after the close of the war.The \u2018\u2018Ontario Temperance Act,\u201d introduced by the Government of the province, becomes effective by vote of the Legislature.No license will be issued after May 1st, but dealers may be allowed until September 16th to dispose of their stocks.After that date every hotel bar, liquor ehop and club in the province will cease the sale of intoxicating liquor.The Act does not prohibit the importation of liquor for private use.Cooperation of druggists in dispensing liquor for medicinal, mechanical and scientiffic purposes is sought by the Act.PROVISIONS OF THE BILL, The act is to be under a license board, and druggists, wholesale and retail, used to be the only medium of sale.\u2019 The opening sections of the bill, provide that licenses sball be issued for wholesale and retail druggists, and shall be absolutely within the discretion of the Liceuse Board, the Board being given power to cancel licenses for any cause c.nsidered sufficient.Provision is made for refusing licenses on specifled grounds.Provision is made whereby any ten or more electors of a polling sub-di- vision may object by petition to the granting of any licenses within the sub-division on technical grounds or on the grouud that the applicant is of bad character or drunken habits, or has within three years previous forfeited a license issued under this or any other law now or heretofore existing regarding the sale of liquor.The board shall hold sessions for hearing applications, and such sessions | shall be open to the public.No sales shall be made except upon the production of an uflidavit by the applicant setting forth that the alcohol is required for mechanical or scientfic purposes alone and not to be used as a beverage, and is for the applicant\u2019s own use.No more than one sale and one delivery shall be made on one affidavit.The license shall keep any such affidavits on file and open to public inspection.Every wholesale license must keep a record of each sale.No sale shall take place from any licensed prem- {ses holding a wholesale license, after 7 o'clock Saturday night until 7 o\u2019clock Monday morning, or from 8 o\u2019clock at night till 7 o\u2019clock in the morning on apy other night in the week.Dealing with retail licenses the act declares that no sale shall be made except for medicinal puposes and then only upon a .medical prescription, upon which only one sale may be made.Dentists and veterinaries may also secure limited quantities for professional use, the former not more than a pint at a time, and the veterinary not more than two gallons at any one time.Every such sale mnst be recorded.The sale of wine for sacramental purposes is also permitted.Every prescription must be retained by the druggist for a period of at least disrepute, as the old Vermont prohibitory law was by the \u201ctown agency.\u201d The Ontario law does not say how often a man may be served by the use of different prescriptions or affl.lavits, and experience has shown that not every man with M.D.affixed to his name, is honest.We have heard ot physicians who would sign & whole book of prescriptions for a dollar, leaving names and dates to be supplied by the druggist.But the Ontario Temperance Act will doubtless be of much benefit; it will abolish the bar, and with the bar the treating system.A resolution moved by H.H.Stevens of Vancouver, calling for Domin- ion-wide prohibition as a war measure, was defeated in the House of Com- one year.Every druggist must keep a record of sales and to whom liquor is sold.Affidavits alfowing these sales must bo sent to the inspector on the firet of September and the first of March each year.No liquor may be consumed on the John sences, fluld extracts, perfumes, eto , may be sold.Brewers, distillers, eto., are permitted to sell their products in other provinces or other countries.Warehouses shall be so constructed as to permit easy enforcement of the act.The consumption of liquor sold illicitly is forbidden.Record bf eales in Ontarlo must be kept by brewers, distillers or liguor exporters, for the purpose of evidence.Sales of liquor for the purpose of re-sale may not be made to persons not entitled to liquor.The consumption of liquor on licensed premises is forbidden, excepting as provided in the case of drug stores.Physicians may give printed or written orders for liquor, where such is needed by their patients or may administer it themselves.But no physician may have more than two quarts of liquor in hie possession at any time.No prescription shall authorize the sale or delivery to any person by a druggist licensee of more than six ounces of liquor.Penalties of from 810 to 840 are provided for physiciane offending.WOMAN'S READING CLUB.Tuesday afternoon at the Collage Parlors the programme planned for the day was successfully carried out, At the business meeting it was voted, although the \u2018\u2018Jam Fund\u2019\u2019 subscription is not fully paid, seven dollars and fifty cents only having been received, to make the amount ten dollars from Club funds and forward the sum to Mrs.Morrill at once.A good many members have shown lack of interest in Club matters this winter aud have forgotten Club dues.There are more calls for time and money thanin former yeara and allowance must be made for this in Club, as in any other matters.\u201cCurrent Events\u201d were full of pithy matter briefly told, prepared by Miss Susan Rouse, read by Mrs.Stockwell, +The Goblins,\u201d a piano solo by Miss Edna Caswell, delighted everyone and she kindly played as encore, \u2018The Birds.\u201d Both selections were beau tifully executed and harmonized magically with the topic, \u2018John Muir,\u201d the Scotch-American naturalist, true nature lover in the broadest sense of that term.He wae also practical enough to make valuable coast surveys for the United States government in Alaska.After him was named the great Muir glacier and bis extensive scientific observation of the work of the great ice rivers caused a revolution in popular conception of the manner in which their work of erosion is done.Nowhere in the world can such wonderful and rapid change of coastal formation be ob- gerved as in Alaska.\u201cThe glorious Yosemite,\u201d the Sierras and many other parts of the American Continent, North and South, were visited by the tireless enthusiast.Indeed, the globe, wherever men are wont to turn for beauty or hardship, was to him familiar ground.He was a friend of Burroughs, the greatest of American naturalists, but cannot John Muir be counted greatest of American explorers?He died near Los Angeles, Cal., in December, 1915.We have told something about him in this little review; find out a great deal about him from material found in the Haskell Library.Perhaps you read of the Alaskan trips in the Outlook for 1915.Miss Robinson sketched an outline for the Club from these mag- premises excepting in case of accident or other emergency.No internal communication may exist between the premises of distillers, brewers, druggists, or other licensees, and any other premises except by telephone or telegraph.No person shall express or keep for sale any liquor without first having obtained a license under this act.Liquor is not to be kept in any unlicensed premises other than private dwelling houses.mons, March 27th, by a vote of 67 to 46.Only approximately oue-haif the members were present.The Govern- meut had already introduced a bill muking it an offerce for any person to bring liquor into a province in contra- vontion of provincial law.It is understood that Dominion constitutional limitations prevent any provinces from coacting a law prohibiting importation from other provinces, and some people tind it difficult to understand the real purpose of the new Dominion | bill, which does not seem to have been fully explained.The English language has only 88 sounds, despite ite millions of words.RHEUMATISM ARRESTED Many people suffer the tortures of lame muscles and stiffened joints because of iri.purities in the blood, and each succeed g stack seems more acute until rheumatism has invaded the whole system, To arrcst rheumatism it is quite as ime.portant to improve your general health 18 urify your blood, aud the cod liv.r ell in Scott's Emulsion is nature's gre it blood-maker, while its medicinal nouris 1 ment strengthens the organs to expel the fmpuritics and upbuild vour strength.Scott's Emulsion is helping thousands every day who could not find other relief.Refuse the alcoholic substitutes.The law will not prevent persons | engaged in mechanical, businees or | scientific pursuits from having aleohol in theie possession for these purposes lin a quantity not exceeding ten gal- \u201clong, nor any priesta or ministers from havin \u2018sacramental purposes.| But no such priests, ministers, scientists or others shall he allowed ito consume as a beverage any of the liquor so kept.\u2019 | Private or public hospitals or sanitariums for consumptives may keep liquor for the use of patients only on \u2018the prescriptions of physicians.Sheriffs\u2019 sales of liquor stocks are permitted, and the transportation of those atocks to lawful places, provided that the stocks are not broken.Manufacturers of native wines from grapes grown and produced in Ontario may sell the same in Ontario in wholesale qantities, subject to future regulations or restrictions.Druggiste aro permitted to sell patent or proprietary medicines, provided that these medicines contain sufficient medication to prevent them being used as a beverage.They must, however, be sold in the unbroken, original package.g in their possession wines for: azine articles and from study of his autobiography of early life.Mrs.Ernest Greene read very tellingly the story of \u2018\u2018Stickeen,\u2019\u201d John Muir\u2019s literary masterpiece, called the \u201cEpic\u201d of dog stories.Another altogether pleasing number on the day\u2019s programme was \u2018\u2018An Evening Breeze,\u201d played by the college orcestra of thirteen pieces lead by Miss Smith.This was a generous addition to the programme, and Mies Smith has the hearty appreciation of the Club for this and for other favors grauted them this winter.April 11th Belgium is the topie, and such a thrilling one that much will be told to interest and inform.Mise Colby will conduct the discussion and Mr.Martin is scheduled to play.Will this not be a call for a good attendance?ABOUT ENLISTING.An Ayer\u2019s Cliff correspondent submits the following questions: What is the matter with Ayer\u2019s Cliff, why are uot more of the young men wearing khaki?Only two or three have gone, while there are twenty-five who could go.Beebeand vicinity have ecnt eeventy-five of their best young men.Are the Cliff nge ?À Georgeville corespondent writes: \u201cWe notice this little burgh has furnished twenty-six of her hest young men to help swell the ranks at the front.These young fellows have the right sort of rand, you bet.Fitch Bay, oh, Fitch Boy, only three.\u201d China is building ships for European owners and may possibly build some Standard alcoholic tinctures, es- for America.dwellers lacking in patriotiem or cour- MAPLE VALLEY.These days look like sugaring.Miss Elsie Bisher of Smith's Mills spent Sunday at her home bere.Mre.Bert Young is confined to her room by illnees.Mre.Major Merrill is able to sit up à few minutes each day.Mr.O.E.Waid\u2019s cbildren are all sick at this writing.BEEBE.The Patriotic Girle of Beebe will give a dance jo the town Hall Friday evening, March 31st.Music by Tur- cott\u2019s orchestra.Admission $1.00 per couple, 50 cents extra lady.The city of Copenhagen is daily consuming about 256,000 pounds of American salt pork.Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIQNS, as they cannot reach the seut of the difcase.Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional conditions and in order to cure it you must take an internal remedy.Halls Catarrb Cure is taken internally and acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system.Hall's Cararrh Cure was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years Lt is composed of sume of the best tonics Known combined with some of the best blood puri- flers.The prfect combiuativn of the ingredients in Hall\u2019s Catarrh Cure is what produces such wonderful results in catarrhai condi tivus.Seud for testimonials, free, F.J.CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.All Druggists, 75c.Hall's Fumily Pills for constipation, WANTED.We have à few more openings for experi enced operators on sewing machines Apply Julius Kayser & Co., Litd., Frontena Streat, Sherbrooke, Que.EGGS FOR HATCHING single Comb R.1.Reds and White Orping- tons.Prize birds, vigorous, great laying strains; hard to beat in any way.12 eggs $1.00, postpaid.Baby chicks 10c.each.RS.ARTHUR GOTHORP, R.M.D.No.1.Beebe, Que.CASH REGISTERS FOR SALE We havu three Cash Registers for sale, and one McUnskey 300 niume Account Register.They are all in good condition and will be sold right.Cau be scen at our store.CLEMENT BROTHERS, 5w2 Rock lsland, Que.AME KOSE ANNA GIROUX, duly anthor ized to ester en justice, of the \u2018Township of Barnston in tho District of St.Francis, wife cominun as to property of Calixte J.Tanguay of the same place, tarmer, has taken, this day, an action for se, aration as to property against her said husband, being No.81 of the records of the Superior Court for the District of St, krancis.Sherbrooke, 28 March, 1914.HECI1UOR VERRET Attorney for Plaintiff.PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice ia hereby given, that at a Spec- inl Session of the School Buard of the munici pality of the Township of Stanstead in the Province of Quebec, held at Smith's Mills, the place where their sittings are usually heid, on the 22nd day of the month of March, 1916, a resolution was passed by the said School Board to unite, the tullowing named school districts, for the purpose of establishing a Consoiidated Model sSchoul in the Village of Fitch Bay, according to article No.26810, of the school Laws of the Province of Quebec, namely: Districts Nos.3, 4, 5.6, 7, 17 and 30, in the Township of Stanstead, to form one Dis: trict, to be hereafter known us Cudsolidated District, No_b.bite B h Ba sow4 HWS .DOLLUFF, Chairman, L.E.CARPENTER, Sec'y-Treas.WANTED\u2014Girls to stitch overalls and coats on power machines.Steady work and good pay.Inquire Journal Office, bsw4 ANTKD\u2014Position on farm, ried wan, or would rent peau is good milker.ck Island.by young mar- arm for one Apply Journal Office, 4 PASTURE WANTED.Would lease larga, well watered, fenced pasture with feed for 40 head cattle.No barb wire.Apply E.P.Ba'l, Rock Island, Que.58w2 FOR SALE.Dry Block Wood and Cord Wood.Prices right.Phone 183-14.W.A.Hadley, ~tanstead Que.Saté FOR SALE.Green and Dry Blork Wood, delivered anywhere in the Three Villages.C.W.Stevens, Rock Island.+143 NOTICE.Having sold my rtore business at Smith's Mills, all accounts owing me must be paid within 80 days from date of this notice.Those pot paid within 30 days will be collected other wise.C.L.JENKINS, Smith's Mills, Que , Feb.29, 1916.FARM FOR SALE The farm known as the Jocob Worth situated on House Hill, about one mile North of the village of Beebe.Will be sold in part o the whole to «uit purchaser.CHARLES KE.RASELTON.nf Beebe, Que.ace SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS, TOWNSHIP OF STANSTEAD.A special m eting of the Board of School Commissioners witl b+ held at P.R.O'Lenry\u2019s Hall, 8mith\u2019s Milix, Que., Wednesday, April 5, 1616, at ten o'clock iu the forenoon.All Jumma bavinig chaims against the School Buard aro requested to preent the same for payment ou or before this date, E.BE.TuMPLE Chairman L.E.CARPENTER, Sec\u2019) -Trens.Bww2 INSURANCE.If you want Fire, Life, Accident, Health, Automobile aor Kiapioy: rx\u2019 Liability Insurance, nsk tor rates in the SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO.of CANADA, 1e LÉADING Cauadiau Life Insuranez Cu.TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO.Hartford Conn., alvading Americ n Life Company, and the larges ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO.1n the world.ROYAL INSURANCE CO, of England.S.STEVENS, Bank of Commerce Building, STANSTEAD, QUEBEC A.H.DREW BUILDER Plans and Specifications furnished for any style of construction in WOOD, STEEL, CEMENT AND BRICK.Prompt attention Kiven to General Job Work, Rock Island, Quebec Building Lots For Sale FOR SALE Convenient to the Butterfleld shops.John Green Block Wood, $8.00 r ord.M Montle, Rock Island Que.syt£ HOLMES & HOLMES, PUT ON CARRIAGE RUB: FOR SALE.BER TIRES.Just send us the wheels, we do the rest.180 ACRE FARM, with frontage on the most beautiful section of Lake Mem- nremagog.On main road, three miles from 1) nl f ds f h da th ve ee ou Bang, sy iy ols ren le atisfaction guaranteed.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.1176.FARMS FOR SALE No.371\u2014Nice Oanadian farm of 200 acres near American line, 1 mile to R.R.town and school, main road, near neighbors, good well water, small truit orchard, 65 acres tillage, rich loam soil, land level, free from stone, all machine mowing.Good House with 8 rooms, good cellar and furnace heat.2 Barns, tie up 33 head stock, mid drive.Buildings in first-class shape.Sagar Place of 300 trees, all rigged.Personal Property: 8 cows, 1 horse, horserake, harrow, cream separator.Extremely productive tarm at a reasonable price.Price 84,500.telephone us about it.A.C.Fair- brother & Son, Newport, Vt.SEND FOR CATALOGUE OF OTHER FARM TRADES.P.C.BLANCHARD & CO.Real Estate and Business Opportunities of all kinds.NEWPORT, VERMONT THE AMES GARAGES GEO.T.AMES, PROPRIETOR I have my stock of General Automobile Supplies in, and users of machines will find every item that is requisite in my salesroom.Demountable Wheels and Rims for Fords.The Gillis Ford Transmission.A large stock of Tires of every desirable make, and I own them at the old \u201cbefore the war\u201d price.I shall give my customers the benefit of the old price until June 1st.About June Ist I shall add a floor 58 by 103 feet in the rear of my present building, by the erection of a cement, fire-proof structure.GEORGE T.AMES GARAGES AT DERBY LINE, VT., ROCK ISLAND, QUE.SALE STILL ON Some have the impression that my CLEARANCE SALE is concluded.That is an error.I have just shipped in a large amount of goods from my Lennoxville Store and the Sale must continue.I have too many goods and I am going to put the knife to my Shoe Stock, Children\u2019s Clothing, and Overcoats.If you don't need a new one until next fall you had better buy it now for they must go.DON'T THINK THIS SALE IS CONFINED TOA FEW UNSEASONABLE GOODS, IT HITS AND HITS HARD ALL MY STOCK.GROCERIES AT COST; MUST MEAN MUCH TO THE FAMILY, SMALL OR LARGE.With the two stocks combined it means big things, it is your opportunity.This isn\u2019t talk, | mean Business.C.C.RAND SMITH\u2019S MILLS, QUEBEC CHAS.E.AUDINWOOD & CO.REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Some of our Companies FIRE INSURANCE FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE PROVIDENCE WASHINGTON INS.CO.PAWTUCKET MUTUAL FIRE INS.CO.LOWELL MUTUAL: FIRE INS.CO.AUTOMOBILE FIRE INSURBNCE NORWICH UNION FIRE INS.LIABILITY INSURANCE TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO.LIFE INSURANCE NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.POST OFFICE BLOCK DERBY LINE, VT.CANADIAN ADDRESS ROCK ISLAND, QUE.ss + \u2014 Business and Professional Cards.J.C.COLBY, B.A., M.D.Office as Carrollicroft, Stanstead.Gonsuitations 9 $0 10a.m., 7 to 8 p.m., and by appointment.oth \u2018Phones.DR.H.P.STOCKWELL, Stanstead Plain, Que.Office and residence opposite 8.W.College.Bell and People's Telephones.WILBUR A.REYNOLDS, D.D.S., 236 Newbury st, Boston, Masa.DR.C.L.BROWN, B.A., Physician and Surgeon, ayers Cliff, Que.People's Phone.C.|.MOULTON, L.D.8S, Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.uraduate of Montreal Veterinary College.Office at Lee Farm, Rock Island, Que.U.8.P.O.Address: Derby Line, Vermont.SYDNEY A.MEADE, Provincial Land Surveyor, Coaticook, Que.H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.U.8.P.0.Address: Derby Line, Vt.M.A.CASS, Undertaker Plates Engraved when wanted.Fitch Bay, Que.EDWARD AUDINWOOD, Undertaker & Embalmer, Derby Line, Vt., and Rock (sland, PQ.DR.E.A.TAYLOR, Office Hours: Until 9 a.m., 7 to 8 \u201cValentine Ave., Derby New England Telephone.Pine, v.R.O.ROSS, B.A, M.D, C.M., Office Hours: 8t0 9 A.M., 1to3and 7 to8 P.ME.T.Telephone.SIDNEY STEVENS, Fire, Life, Accident and Health Insurance Best Companies represented Agent Empire Typewriter Stanstead, Que.J.J.UNDERWOOD, Mason and Plasterer, General Contractor.Stanstead, Que.CHARLES E.BENNETT, Designer of Buildings, Machinery, Furniture, Landscape Gardent g Derby Line, Vt.Consultation and Superintendeace.CATE, WELLS, WHITE & MONTLE Advocate ©.W.Cate, K C., J.P.Wells, K.C, u.D.White, K.C., J.M.Montle.Offices: Duval Block Rock Island, Quebce FITCH BAY.Mr.D.J.Carr will entertain the Ladies Guild room on Wednesday afternoon, April 5th.Supper will be \u2018served at six o'clock, to which the entlemen and visitors are cordially invited.Supper, 15c.Mr.Morris Heath died at his home on Thursday bight after a week\u2019s illness of pneumonia.The funeral was held at the Advent Church on Sunday morning at 10.30, Rev.Robt.Vaughan officiating, and was largely attended by the many friends and relatives of the deceased.The I.O.F.of which Mr.Heath was a member, attended in a body.Messrs.W.Partington, W.Achilles, W.Rediker and Mr.Robinson, members of the above order, were the bearer.The late Mr.Heath was 69 years of age, has been for many years a bighly respected resident of this vicinity and his death came as a great shock to his many friends.The deceased leaves to mourn his death his widow, two daughters, Mrs.Arthur Raymond of Cassville and Mrs.Wm.Curtis of Crystal Lake; one son, Walter, of this place; three brothers, Loren, John and Anson of Waterville; and one eister, Mrs.Jane Ross, of East Haverhill, Vt.The interment took place in Brookside cemetery, Among those from out of town to attend the funeral of the late Morris Heath on Sunday were Mr.and Mrs.John Gar- dyne, Mrs.Blanche Glover of, Rock Island, Mr.and Mrs.Ray Rush of Newport, Vt, Mr.and Mrs.Albee of Ayer\u2019s Cliff, Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Raymond, Mr.Harold Yertaw and Miss Lizzie Yertaw of Oassville.HATLEY.The Rev.Foster Bowen, who has for some months been in charge of the Methodist Church on Meadow Street, has moved, with his family, to a email farm near Sherbrooke.During their short residence here, Mr.and Mra.Bowen have made many friends whose good wishes go with them to their new borne.Another Hatley boy, Mr.Carroll Hodges, has heard the call of duty and joined the 117th Regiment.He left Tuesday for Coaticook where he will train whilk the regiment isin the Eastern Townships.It is also reported that Mr.Ashley LeBaron, son of Mr.and Mrs.M.W.LeBaron, expects to join the Army Service Corps at Ottawa.Hatley should be proud that in this great world strugule for honor, justice and liberty, ehe will be represented by at least a few of the best of her native sons.The Junior Red Cross will meet with Miss Gage on Saturday afternoon.Mrs.Florence Haines, who has been {ll for some days, ls now able to be about again.Mrs.Wm.Fowler, who has been in Ooaticook for some weeks careing for her ancle and aunt, the late Mr.and Mrs, Bettes, returned home on Monday, accompanied by her cousin, Mies Bettes.AYER'S CLIFF.Rev.Mr.Kerr who has been ill at his home in East Hatley is, we are glad to be able to report, much improved in health, and was able to take charge of the services here on Sunday morning.The Sunday evening song service at the Congregational Ohuroh, which included a biographical sketch of the life and work of Dr.Grenfell of Labrador, was much enjoyed by all present.The vestry fand is growing rapidly, nearly $700 being subscribed in money, material and work which ensures the carrying out of plans in the early summer.Clough & Worthen shipped ten or twelve carlaude of bark to Massachusetts, this week.; St.George\u2019s Guild is being entertained by Mrs.G.B.Colby today, Thursday.The sugar social and programme given by the Patriotic Society at the hall last Friday night, was certainly a pleasant and interesting affair for those who attended.The sugar was good, the music and singing were good, and those who failed to hear Dr.Edgar\u2019s address missed a great treat.His quiet and modest telling of eight months\u2019 experience in active servicein the thick of the war, was very thrilling, and those who heard him would gladly have listened much longer.It seems strange that this good program should not have called out a larger audience, for Ayer\u2019s Cliff should not be behind other towns in interest for Patriotic and Red Cross work, Proceeds, $17.35.On Tuesday, April 4th, the Ladies Aid will give a baked bean supper at the hall to which all friends, including gentlemen, are cordially invited.Mrs.C.H.Libby has been quite ill this week.She is attended by Dr.Brown.The local Board of Trade entertained at an oyster supper in the ball on Monday evening of this week.Over 100 gentlemen and ladies enjoyed their hospitality.Oysters were plentiful aad good.A good program was given, including addresses by Mr.Mc- Fadden of Lennoxville, Rev.C.Moore, A.G.Clough, A.E.Fish, E.E.Temple and F.A.Johnston, musical selections by the orchestra, and singing by a quartette composed of Mr.and Mrs.F.A.Johnston, Mrs.Lyon and Mr.McFadden of Lennoxville.Mr.Me- Fadden also sang a solo, \u201cThe Perfect Day,\u201d which was much enjoyed.Nearly forty new members were added to the Board whose newly appointed officers are Mr.A.G.Clough, president; E.E.Temple, vice-president; and J.N.Hibbard, secretary-treas- urer.Mrs.Roy Temple and little daughter of Newport, Vt., recently spent a few days at the home of D.B.Keet.Mrs.Albert Temple and son of Concord, N.H., were recent visitors at E.E.Temple\u2019s.Mrs.Lydia A.Paul and Miss Mildred Paul spent Tuesday in Newport.Mr, and Mrs.T.W.Keet of Crystal Lake spent Saturday at D.B.Keet\u2019s.Mr.R.Temple was in town for the week-end.Miss Butler and her daughter of Lawrence, Mass., are epending a few days with her aunt, Mrs.C.W.Vaughan.Mr.Grovenor Libby of Sherbrooke spent the week-end with his parents.Mr.C.Hand and children of George- ville recently spent a few days with his parents, Mr.and Mrs.M.Hand.Mr.A.E, Hand went to Sherbrooke Tuesday.Messrs.A.G.Clongh and 8.8.Worthen have returned home from Lovering Pond where they have been lumbering through the winter.CASSVILLE.Mr.and Mrs.A.E.Curtis of North Stanstead were guests at the home of Mr.and Mrs.J.F.McVeay on Saturday.Mr.H.Sweatland is iil with pleurisy, but is gaining slowly.Miss Bessie Rudd of Way\u2019s Mills ie careing for her aunt, Mrs.Elizabeth McElroy, who remains about the same.Mrs.Tellis Roy was ill with la grippe last week.- Mr.Wm.Heath went to Sherbrook on Monday to visit his mother, Mrs.J.L.Heath, who is ill at the Sherbrooke Protestant Hospital.Mrs.C.J.Thompson went to Sherbrooke to have an ear treated by Dr.Farewell, specialist, Monday.Mr.La Marche and family, and sons with their families are moving to the Henry Rudd farm near Way's Mills, which they recently purchased for £1100 with stock, tools, etc.Mr.G.8.Rudd, Mr.David Watson and Miss Bessie Watson were weekend guests at the home of Mrs.Henry Rudd at Way\u2019s Mille.Fourteen ladies met at the home of Mre.Wm.Thompson on Friday afternoon to sew for the Red Cross.Quite a quantity of sewing was done on pillow cases, night shirte, etc.The proceeds of the afternoon were 83.58.A very pleasant afternoon was spent by all and a nice tea was furnished by the hostess.Mr.George Greaves, a former Cass- ville boy, who has enlisted and is training at Cookshire for service over- seas, attended chorch here Sunday.MASSAWIPPI.On March 11th at 9 20 a.m., at ber home on Pine Street, Nevada City, Cal, there passed away at the ripe age of 85 yesrs and 7 months, Malissa Hitchoock Marr.Mrs.Marr was born in this place and was a daughter of the Jate Edward Hitchcock and Ma- hitable Kezar who lived on Glenn St.in the residence now owned by Mr.W.Stevenson.Mrs.Marr was the eldest of four daughters, and was thé granddaughter of two pioneers of Hatley towunship, the late Paul Hitchcock, Sr, and Amos Kezar, Sr.In the-year 1865, her father having previously moved to California, ehe went to Nevada to live, going by the long route, via Cape Horn.Having an excellent education, Mrs.Marr taught school for a number of years at Virginia City, Foster Bay and Selby Flat.December 18, 1874, she was married to Mr.Lipton Marr who died many years ago.She is survived by her three sisters, one of whom, Mrs.Wright (Lols) Hovey, is a resident of this place; the other two reside at the home in California, and bave cared for Mrs.Marr since her health failed.The following, in part, is taken from a Nevada paper: \u2018Mrs.Marr has been in tailing health for a long time, due to the infirmities of old age and also to a couple of falls which she has sustained in the past two years.About two years ago she fell at her home and fractured her hip, and had hardly recovered from the aceci- dent when she fell and broke the other hip.The double shock wus too much for her weakened system, and she gradually declined ubiil death came as a release.In the death of Mrs.Marr, another old and bighly respected citizen has gone to her reward.She was a woman possessed of a sweet, loving disposition, and made friends with all who came in contact with her.The funeral took place \u2018March 13th at 2 o\u2019cloc® from her late home.Interment in the Pine Grove cemetery, Nevada City.The W.C.T.U.March meeting was held at \u2018The Willows,\u201d the home of Mrs.Nelson Whitcomb, last Wednesday, and was well attended.Several members were unable to attend on account of illness and absence, but their places were filled by \u2018\u2018temperance friends,\u201d three of whom became new members, and were made very welcome, as all would have been.The new members were Mrs.B.Kent, Mrs.A.Knight and Mre.W.Whitcomb of Hatley who formerly was a Massawip- pi girl.A pleasing report was that the Rev.Williams of Hatley had attended the Dominion Alliance Convention at Montreal as a delegate for the combined four local Unions of Hatley Township, and that later he would give his report which all can be assured will be an interesting one.It was deemed advisable to send a qualified delegate as many important things are pending concerning legislation, enforcement laws, etc., etc.The Rev.Mr.Williams, as secretary of Stanstead County No License League, has done valiant work, and the appreciation of the W.C.T.U.is evident.Mr.and Mrs.G.À.Smith were at Richmond, Que., over Sunday at the home of their son.Mr.and Mre.T.N.St.Dizier were at Stanstead Saturday.Mrs.Dubois of North Hatley recently spent a few days with her son and his wife at \u201cGreenbank.\u201d Mr.and Mrs.Clifton Sloggett of Newport, Vt., were week-end guests of his father, Mr.C.Sloggett.Mr.and Mrs.J.Colt visited his nephew and wife, Mr.and Mrs.W, Raymond, at \u201cEdgelake\u2019 on Sunday.Mrs.Wm.Munroe of Newbury, Vt., spent a few days at \u201cTwin Elms\u201d recently with her parents, Mr.and Mrs, Al Oox.Mr.W.W.St.Dizler spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Holland.Miss Ruth Brown of Fitch Bay was a guest of Mrs.Luke Oolt for a week or eq recently.Mr.F.H.Ball of Knowltou Landing has lately purchased a fine driving horse of T.N.St.Dizier.On Monday Mr.E.Greer of Abbott's Corner purchased a matched pair of young Clyde horses of T.N.St.Dizier.Mrs.Chas.Edson received a telegram on Tuesday morning, conveying the sad intelligence of the death of her dear sister, Mra.W.8.Gordon, Kingston, Ont.She was a much devoted wife and mother, and in her removal by death, a bright and cheerful life has closed.She leaves to mouru ber Joss, her husband, one daughter, Jessie E, and four sons, Wm.8.Gordon, merchant, Sydenham, Ont, Dr.G.8.Gordon, Bishop's Mills, Ont., and Dre.F.W.and J.B.Gordon, both of Toronto.She also leaves four sisters, the Misses Woods and Mrs.W.Bre- voort, Kingston, and Mrs.Chas.Ed- son, Massawippi, Que.She wns the beloved wife of W.8.Gordon, nssess- ment commissioner, Kingston, and fourth daughter of the late Luke Woode, and his wife, Mary Farrell, daughter of the late Wm.Farrell, of Noyan, Que.Tbe father of the deceased was Fort Adjutant of the Royal Canadian Rifles.In addition to his military service in Canada, he also served in Great Britain and the West Indies, coming to Kingston in 1861.NORTH HATLEY.first of the week at her new home, Mrs.John McNerney, Mrs.on Monday.Mr.Henry Merrill and Mr.Knapp were in Stanstead on Mohday.Mr.Knapp ls moving to Stanstead.Mr.Edwin Howe of Hatley was in town on Monday to attend the sale of the P.O'Connell estate.Mr.Robt.Bennett is moving to Huntingville to make his home with his son, Ray Bennett.The W.C.T.U.will meet with Mrs.Jas.Robinson on Wedneaday, April 5th,at 2.p.m.Everybody welcome.Mr.and Mrs.P.Lesperence of Compton were guests of Mr.and Mrs.Leo Bresett the firet of the week.Mr.and Mrs.Bond Little visited friends in Martinville a few days last week, Sugar makers are busy now preparing for the fast coming sugar season.Mr.and Mrs.Geo.Sherman of Hat- ley were guests of Mr.and Mre.H.| Merrill the first of the week.Mr.Moodie Merrill and sister, Miss Laurel, attended the matinee, *\u2018The Birth of a Nation,\u201d at Sherbrooke.GRIFFIN.Monday Mr.A, C.Putney began operations for the building of a fine up- to-date residence for Mr.Woodward of Derby Line, Vt.Mr.Robert Trepania with bis gasoline sawing rig and the assistance of his father, in less than five hours sawed 15 cords of cord wood, making 2 and 3 cuts, for Mr.M.W.Bullis.Great credit is due Robert for his tine work.Mrs.A.P.Davis and daughter Dorothy spent the week-end with her brother Melvin, Fitch Bay.Mayme Putney and niece, Geraldine Davis, «peut Saturday at Mr.Carl Lane\u2019s, Smith\u2019s Mills.Mr.Edward Johnson of Rock Island spent the week-end at Mr.A, C, Put- ney\u2019s.Victims of la grippe: Mr.V.O.Brown and family, and Mrs.Brown, who has tonsilitis.We are glad to report Geraldine, little daughter of Mr.and Mra.James Davie, Littleton, N.H., as gaining in health and strength.She is most tenderly cared for by her aunt, Miss Mayme Putney, and grandmother.BARNSTON.On Sunday evening next, April 2nd, in the Barnston Methodist Church, a special military service in honor of the boys from our township who have enlisted, will be held.The service will commence at 7.30 o\u2019clock and it is hoped that all who possibly can will be present so that our soldier lade may have a further evidence of the interest of their friends in the noble patriotism they have shown.The order of service is as follows: Organ prelude; opening sentence, Psalm 149; Doxology; O Canada; invocation; hymn, \u201cOnward Christian Soldiers;\u2019\u201d prayer, Rev.H.Campbell Plant; chant, \u201cThe Lords Prayer; quartette, members of the Eastern Townships Battalion; responsive reading, Psalm 91, Rev.H.Campbell Plant; solo: choir, Recessional; address, Rev.Capt.Moorhead, chaplain of the 117th E.T.Battalion; oftering, choir, O God the Strength of Those Who War; quartette, members of the E.T.Battalion; brief addresses, Rev.H.C.Plant and Rev.D.G.Ridout; hymn, O God Our Help in Ages Past; benediction; God Save the King.A very cordial welcome is extended to all.BALDWIN'S MILLS.The Red Oross Willing Workers will meet with Mrs.Lemuel Markwell Wednesday afternoon, April 5th.On account of bad roads the young people\u2019s meetings have been cancelled for a few weeks.Messrs.Robinson and W.Allen of Coaticook were at John Way\u2019s one day recently.Mises Carter is enjoying a few weeks\u2019 vacation in Montreal.: Mra.Lemuel Markwell and daughter Delia spent a few days last week in Newport, Vt.The Misses C.Aldrich and R, Little- john of Way\u2019s Mills called on friende here last week.Mr.W.George of Sherbrooke.recently visited his sister, Mrs.John Drew.Mr.and Mra.Frank Bliss visited his parents at South Baruston on Sunday, Mr.M.H.Martin spent the weekend visiting relatives and friends in Eastman.MCCONNELL.Farmers are busily engaged in prop- arations for sugaring, now that the weather seems favorable.Harry, the little son of Mr.and Mrs.A.8, Bacon, is very ill with rbeuma- tism and pneumonia.Dr.Brown is in attendance.Master Herman Anderson is convalescent.Mr.and Mrs.Alvin Mitson and son Alton, and Mr.and Mrs.J.8.Ham- phrey and son Ralph of Magog wore recent guests at the Parnell home.Mr.and Mrs.Edwig Maxfleld visited their daughter, Mrs.E.Greer, the M.D.McNerney and Mrs.Robt.Smith were guests at the McConnell homestead FRANK D.FLINT NEWPORT, VERMONT THE STORE THAT SELLS WOOLTEX Women who have seen our Wooltex Garments know that the styles are both refined and dependable.Wooltex Suits $25.00, $30.00 and up.Wooltex Coats $12.50 to $35.00.For the customers who do not want to pay as much, we have pretty Suits made of all-wool materials and extremely well tailored at $12.50, $15.00, $17.50.Coats with the styles up to the very minute, which have plenty of shap and will wear to look well much longer than any customer will want them to, at $3.95, $5.95, $7.95, $10.00.Stylish Stout Suits, Coats / and Dresses Vu for the woman who has always been obliged to have garments made to order\u2014 Better Style Models, Better Tailoring, at Less Cost, Buy early and have the long wear while your suit, coat or dress is in style, and you will probably save money.No manufacturer will promise duplicates at prices we are paying now.Prices must advance before the end of this season.Damask and Napkins.If you don\u2019t want to use mercerized cotton at $1.00 and $1.25 a yard, buy while you can get damasks at the present prices.We hope we have enough bought to hold our prices down for the balance of this year; in fact have more than we usually sell in two years, but we are selling much more than double the usual quantity because our customers know that it must be very much higher.Buy while you ean buy Linen, Cotton will cost as much later.Dress Goods.Another question of importance to the well-dressed woman, is the selection of materials for summer gowns, Cotton dress materials are particularly pretty this season.Buy while you can get the best selection as they will be scarce later in the season.Just a few of the materials are Warp Print Taffeta looks like silk but is all cotton, 33 inches wide, 25¢ a yard.Bellerose Organdie, comes in pretty colorings and good patterns, 29 inches wide, 124¢c a yard.Voile Sanchez, exquisite effects in moderate- priced goods ave brought out in this line, very sheer and dainty for summer dresses, 26 inches wide, 25¢ a yard.Organdie Hermosa, good floral patterns on a very fine material are shown in this line, 40 inches wide, 25¢ a yard.Woven Tissue, just what the name suggests, comes in dainty stripes, 26 inches wide, 15c a yard.Empress Plisse, stripes and small floral designs, 32 inches wide, 15c a yard.Madras, for shirts and waists, 15c and 25c a yard.White Cotton Faille, for suits, coats and children\u2019s coats, 36 inches wide, 50c a yard.White Gabardine, 36 inches wide, 25c a yard.The range of white materials for summer gowns is very wide, and it would not be possible to mention half of the kinds in our stock, but we surely have something very desirable in either sheer or heavy fabrics, and at any price you wish to pay.Our Mail Order Department will supply Samples of Dress Goods or Damasks, and orders will be promptly filled, giving customers who cannot visit the store the benefit of the extra large stock of these goods this year when they will not only be much more expensive but will be in many cases extremely hard to find at any price.Don't wait but buy while you can get the goods at the old prices, as we must increase prices as we are obliged to fill in the stock with new goods.While this is not a year that it will be easy to find bargains for After Supper Sales so many of our customers have asked if we were not going to give them some more of the \u2018\u2018After Supper Sale Bargains,\u201d we have decided to try and find bargains again for a few weeks, but we shall hold the sales only as long as we can find genuine bargains to offer.2,000 yards 36 inch Percales at 8c.a yard.Flowers, usually sold from 50c.to $1.00 at 25¢.cach.\u201c \u201c 25e.to .50 at 10c.White Curtaing, pretty edge, good values at 50e.a pair at 33c.a pair.Extension Rods, 10c.to 25c.values at 7c.each.100 pairs Girls\u2019 Gloves, Cashmere and Fleece-lined, made in Germany, did not arrive last fall and unless the war ends there will not be any this fall at any price.Usually sold at 15c.a pair at 5c.a pair.\u2018 Hemstitched Linen Squares, 30x50, at the present price of Linen would be cheap at 75c., at 33c.each.When you consider these prices don\u2019t forget that goods cost from 25/7 to 50°; more than they did a year ago and will go much higher.FRANK D.FLINT, - NEWPORT, VT.aan sé $3 8 0 0 oo 2 02 08 EEE IEEE EE Careful Packing and High Quality Necessary for Good Returns.Proper packing for parcel post marketing is of primary importance and needs to be emphasized so that both the contents and the container may carry properly, arrive in good condition an.present a satisfactory appearance.The pack should be regular, of as ncarly uniform produce as possible aad of full measure according to the quantity ordered.A little practice will enable almost anyone to pack a basket or container of any kind in a satisfactory manner, One important requirement for parcel post shipping and marketing {8 a proper and satisfactory container, Sometimes the consumer can secure containers more readily and economically than (he producer.Those with hannles arc much less likely to be damaged in transit iu the mails than those which are not thus supplied and which are likely to be tossed or thrown or handled by the string or twine used in tying them.A bamboo basket serves the purpose very well, and may be used a long time.: Ordinary splint baskets made of strips of veneer may also be used, and if they can be secured at a price PARCEL POST MARKET BASKET OF AS BORTED VEGETABLES, UNCOVERED ANL COVERED.sufficiently cheap a new one for each shipment is more economical than having them returned, unless they are sent back in lots of ten or more under one cover.This of course necessitates using them without a wooden handle, in which case a heavy twine should be used for a handle, This twine can be untied and the baskets nested or placed in one another for return shipment, If a basket with a wooden handle is used care should be taken to see that it 1s securely nailed, not only at the rim of the basket, but farther down toward the bottom, so as to prevent undue leverage which may \"reak loose the nailing.Corrugated pasteboard cartons frequently may be found useful and desirable for this service.They are made In a great variety of sizes, dimensions, and patterns, and when empty are shipped \u201cknocked down\u201d flat.It is probable that the point which will make the strongest appeal to the average consumer is that he can secure by parcel post a fresher, brighter, more attractive, and thus possibly a better product than he can obtain otherwise.Producers should remember always that the appearance of fruit and produce is one of the strongest factors in making a sale.It will not pay to market anything but standard and fancy produce by parcel post, and the surest way to establish a dependable, continuing and Increasing business Is to forward nothing but strictly reliable and sat- {sfactory produce.The average producer, as a rule, does not realize the importance of appearance as a factor in selling goods, and frequently is careless and indifferent in preparing produce for market.The consumer, on the other hand, relies very largely upon appearance in selecting food supplies and unattractive articles are passed by promptly.Produce should be of high quality, clean and attractive, carefully and neatly prepared and packed, of one variety, and, as far as practicable, uniform in size, shape, color, and quality, and last, but not least, carefully packed to insure its arrival in a satisfactory condition.Sowing Spinach Seed in Winter.Few people realize that spinach seed can be planted during the last of February or first part of March, The ground should be prepared the fall before by plowing and harrowing.At the time mentioned the spinach seed is broad-casted over the ground, using about twenty pounds of the thick leaf variety to the acre.If the soil happens to be workable at that time it may be lightly harrowed.In any event a light, even coating of rotted stable manure should bo spread over the ground to cover the seed.Planted in this manner the seeds Will germinate and grow a little every sunny day, and by the usual time for planting the spring spinach these plants will be well started.The crop will be ready for cutting a week or ten days earlier than it would be otherwise, Whitewash the hen houses ana stables before the spring rush begins.SIZES OF SARDINES.The Big Fellows Are Eight and Evens Ten Inches Long.Sardines are found chiefly in the At lantie ocean, forming great schools or banks extending from the coast of Ireland to the Canary islands.They are also found in cousiderable quantities In the Mediterranean, probably coming from the Atlantic, attracted by the higher temperature of the water, However, sardine fishing is of less importance on the Mediterranean shores of Spain than on the bay of Biscay and the guif of Cadiz, where the principal factories for canning sardines are located.The supposed difference between sardines found in various parts of the world has been much disputed, but repeated investigation has demonstrated that no generic difference exists, as the sardine is not a sedentary fish and inhabits the ocean at large, migrating from coast to coast in search of food and mild waters.This explains its appearance and disappearance, both de- pewdent ypon the movement of warm currents, and its particular abundance on the coast of Galicia.Near Finis- terre, in close proximity to the gulf stream, the sardine is usually first seen, The length of the sardine varies from four ang three-quarters to eight inches and the weight from 0.84648 to 2.39836 ounces.Sometimes a few are found measuring as much as eight and three- quarters inches long, but this is extremely rare, and none exceed ten inches.The sardine is known by many names, according to locality and development.In Galicia those of nine centimeters (3.54 inches) in length, weighing less than 26.4555 pounds a thousand, are called \u201cparrocha\u201d and when six or six and one-quarter inches long \u201cmediano\u201d or *\u201cmedianillo.\u201d\u201d They are really known us sardines only when they reach the size of from seven and one-quarter to seven and three-quar- ters inches in length, weighing from 132.2773 to 154.3230 pounds a thousand.There is also a cluss of small sardines found in Cantabrian as well as Gali- cian waters.called \u201canchoa.\u201d This variety does not exceed two and one- quarter to three inches and ordinarily welghs 0.17037 or 0.21164 ounce.GOLD ACTUALLY GROWS.In Certain Cases Nuggets Placed In Water Increase In Size.It has been found gold nuggets under favorable conditions actually increase in size.Gold is known to have grown on mine timbers which have long been {immersed in miue water.In the California state mining bureau museum there is a specimen of a piece of jointed cap and post token from the Comstock lode, where it had been under water for years.Gold bad formed in the joints and pores of the wood.Gold is constantly being formed in rocks and veins and placers.Just what it is that the baby gold formation feeds on is not known.If it were a new and wonderfully lucrative industry might be born, As in the case of the animal or vegetable, existing gold has existed in some other state before assuming its present form.Waters which seep the earth's crust are said to contain substance from which gold is formed.Like animals and plants, gold must have water in order to thrive.The gold in the water is deposited when it meets with the proper pre- cipitant\u2014an earth current of electricity, some vegetable growth or some chemical in the rocks.It has been claimed that the nuggets found in placers are formed from the waters that percolate through the gravels and not from decomposed quartz, as generally supposed.Those who so contend cite the fact that In the center of nuggets a small grain of iron sand can often be found.This was the nucleus around which the current of electricity created or deposited gold from the substance in the waters, Just as it is deposited in electro plating.\u2014Popular Science Monthly.And Suppose She Didn't.A certain college president wore side whiskers.Whenever he suggested removing them there was a division of opinion in the family.One morning he entered his wife's dressing room, razor in hand, with his right cheek shaved smooth, \u201cHow do you like it, my dear?\u2019 he asked.\u201cIf you think 1t looks well I will shave the other side too.\u201d Teeth as War Weapons.A New Zealand dentist has invented a set of teeth which can be used as a war weapon.\u201cIn a clinch with the enemy,\u201d he writes, \u201cthe soldier could slip these out of his mouth and gouge the neck of his opponent or slice off his ear or his nose.| have used them on a pinch to scrape out a rabbit hole and as a light screwdriver.\u201d Unusual Loquacity.\u201cHere this author begins his story, The wagon groaned as it crept up the hil\u2019 \u201d \u201cNow, that's strange.\u201d \u201cWhat's strange?\" \u201cAbout the wagon's protest.It has a tongue, but yet it was the wheel spoke.\u201d The Venus of Milo.It 1s said that the base of the Venus of Milo, with the name of the sculptor upon it, was destroyed for the purpose of decelving a king of France into the belief that it was more ancient than it really was, The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowfalL-\u2014Horace.WASHING THE EYES.Alse How to Shut Them to Keep Out Soapy Water.It is a commen thing to screw one\u2019s eyes up ac tightly as possible when washing, in order that the soap shall not get into one's eyes.Many of us remember, especially when children are concerned, how much a strong soap smarts when the suds steal under the eyelids, We should never get soap in our eyes if we closed them naturally, as in sleep.The eyelid is an absolute protection.Certainly no soapsuds can penetrate the membrane, and equally certainly the way in which the eyelashes cover the actual joint make it impervious.The eye, when closed in sleep, is light proof, a much greater test of being shut than the ability to shed soapy water.On the other band, when we screw up our eyes tightly, which is done by contracting the muscles of the eyebrow and the upper cheek, a number of creases are formed down which the soapsuds trickle, and the eye, which seems so tightly shut, ts really more open to annoyance.The more tightly the eye is held, however, the more does the lower lid force up the protecting-|- eyelashes of the upper lid and thus prevent the watershed that the naty- rally closed eye makes.In modern city life, where there is so much dust, the eye should be washed every day.The trick of opening one's eyes under water, which every good swimmer knows, can be easily done in an eyeglass, or, for that matter, in an ordinary basin.To put the face down in clear cold water and open and shut the eyes once or twice not only will give a feeling of freshness, but for those who use their eyes a great deal it will be found a great preventer of eye strain.In washing out the eye, however, it is necessary to be careful.Soapy -wa- ter should never be used, as in most soaps there are chemicals of a drying and alkaline character, which are ex- ressively injurious to the eye.JUDGING A PLAY.: Frohman Didn't Agree With Tree That Barrie Had Gone Mad.Frohman weighed a play by the idea in it, and he never produced a play, however arbitrary in story or charac.ters\u2014as, for example, \u201cPeter Pan\"\u2014 without being able to name specifically the elements of success he thought it possessed.\u201cBarrie has gone out of his mind, Frohman.I am sorry to say it, but you ought to know it, we are both so fond of him,\u201d said Sir Herbert Tree to Froh- man one night.\u201cHe's just read me a play.He is going to read it to you, so I am warning you.[ know I've not gone woozy in my mind, because I bave tested myself since hearing the play, but Barrie must be mad.He has written four acts all about fairies, children and Indians, running through the most incoherent story you ever listened to, and what do you suppose\u2014the last act is to be set on top of trees!\u201d But the following day Frohman heard \u2018Peter Pan\u201d and accepted it at once.Long afterward he gave these as his reasons: \u201cFirst, it was written by Barrie; next, it was unmistakably a fine novelty.The most emphatic play in any theatrical season, the one that is most likely to focus general public attention, is the most uovel.You can estimate its novelty by the amount of fineness a play contains, for the common in life, Ike the poor, is always with us and can never seem novel Only the fine registers with the emphasis of novelty.People go to the theater not to see life as it is, but as they wish it were.The theater\u2019s business is to present not life, but the illusion of life.Youth is the illusion of life, old age the delusion, and \u2018Peter Pan\u2019 is packed with youth; so I was for it.\"\u2014John D.Williams in Century.Home of the Chinchilla.The chinchilla, a little animal the size of a squirrel, is met with only in the Andes of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile and is never found under a height of 9,000 or 10,000 feet.The Indians are eager trappers and hunters of it for its fine fur.The skins ure well seasoned with salt and made up Into small packages for dispatch to the towns, wbence they are shipped abroad.No Pity There.Oudutiful boys may see themselves held up as before a mirror in the following anecdote: A young Irish girl in giving testimony in a court of justice, when asked some questions in reference to the prisoner, replied, \u201cAr- rah, sir, I'm sure he never made his mother smile.\u201d There is a biography of Unkindness in that simple sentence.Office and the Man.\u201cWhat do you think of this theory that the office should seek the man ?\u201d \u201cProperly applied it is all right.\u201d \u201cYes?\u201d \u201cBut it should not be made an excuse for sitting around waiting for a job to come to you.\u201d Playing Safe.\u201cIn years to come somebody undoubtedly will want to publish your life and letters.\u201d \u201cThey may go as far as they like with my life,\u201d said the eminent and astute politiclan, \u201cbut I shan't leave any letters.\u201d Few Have It to This Extent.\u201cPa, what is business tact?\u201cKnowing the cash customer just ne well as you know the one that runs up a bill every month\u201d \u2014 Detroit Free Press.OUR NAVEL ORANGES.We Got Them From Brazil, Where They Were First Cultivated.The nuvel orange first appeared at Bahia, Brazil, as a bud sport of the Portuguese variety of orange, Laranja selecta.and was first propagated by a Portuguese gardener at Bahia in 1822.These statemeuts and those that follow are made on the authority of A.D.Shamel, physiclogist of the United States department of agriculture, Riverside, Cal, who tells in the Journal of Heredity the results of an expedition to Brazil made by himself, P.H.Dorsett and Wilson Popenoe.There are about 50,000 trees growing -navel oranges at Bahia.The navel orange was introduced into the United States in 1873 by William Saunders, horticulturist and landscape gardener of the patent office.He got the American consul to send him some of the trees, which he budded on seedlings grown in the government greenhouses.He sent two to Mrs.L.C.Tibbetts of Riverside, Cal., und the others to Florida.The latter never amounted to much, but the former thrived and are still living and bearing fruit.Al the navel orange trees in California are their progeny.There are about 100,000 acres of this variety in that state, and about 10,000, 000 boxes are produced every year.The navel orange cannot be grown from seed, as it contains no seed.It is in California generally budded upon stocks from the Mission sweet seedling orange.THE SEVEN DAYS\u2019 KING.Short and Tumultuous Career of a Neapolitan Fisherman.In 10647, when the kingdom of Naples was under the grinding rule of Spain, a fisherman of Sorrento was stung to madness by the indignities offered his wife by Spanish officials because she had attempted to smuggle a few handfuls of flour.So furious was he that he tore down an edict that had just been posted by the authorities.The whole population, including women and children, rallied around him.Forty years of Spanish oppression had made them frantic.They terrified the viceroy, resisted the soldiers successfully and killed many of the Spanish residents.They secured a revocation of oppressive edicts, the abolishment of oppressive taxes and full pardon for ull who engaged in the insurrection, The fisherman, whose name was Masanielo, was the leader in all this and became the idol of the people.He ruled Naples for seven days, but his success seems to have turned his head.He became dictatorial and oppressive and was put to death by the populace.Hence he is called the \u201cseven days king.\u2019\u2014Argonaut.\u201cWe\u201d and \u201cThey.\u201d In the smaller towns and country districts people say \u201cwe\u201d when they speak of governmental activity.\u201cWe\u201d built the courthouse and got it done at low cost.\u201cWe\u201d organized the high school.\u201cWe\u201d pay the expenses of keeping prisoners in the Jail In the big cities people say \u201cthey.\u201d People wonder when the city government falls down.It isn't a personal matter with them.The government isn\u2019t their government.It belongs to somebody else.There is a world of difference in the two attitudes.When the people of the cities get to saying \u201cwe\u201d about their to clean house and take possession.What the Knife Said.\u201cSome folks want funny inscriptions engraved on their silver,\u201d said the jeweler.\u201cTake wedding knives.Many wedding cakes are such mountainous affairs that a special knife is required to cut them.One of last month's brides cut her cake with a knife that was a present from ber aunt.! guess not many of the guests got to read the loscription.If they bad they would be talking about it yet.These knives are supposed to be used for cutting the bride\u2019s cake and then laid on the shelf for the rest of the time, but the aunt couldn't distinguish, apparently?between wedding and birthday cakes, for she made us engrave on the knife, \u2018May I serve thee well and often.\u2019 \u201d Passing of the Whale.The whale is passing and rapidly.Modern means of destroying him have tively speaking, only a few remaln.Ten years ago the whalers operating from the various Newfoundland stations made an annual catch of 1,500.Today a catch of 200 in a year is con- siderad remarkable, The whale will soon be extinct at that rate Scientific Research.\u201cWell, what is the professor up to now?\u201d \u201cMore scientific research.He is conducting experiments to determine the exact velocity with which a man drops a hot potato.\u201d Just a Lapse.Hokus\u2014I actually caught Longbow telling the truth yesterday.Pokus\u2014 Wasn't he embarrassed?Hokus\u2014Only momentarily.He immediately tried to lle out of it.Repstition Desired.He\u2014Dearest, this kiss tells yoo ait 1 have to say.Have you understood me?She\u2014Oh, please say it again.A weman nowadays is only as old as \u201cer clothes.\u2014Mrs.John Lane \u201cWhy don\u2019t \u2018they\u2019 do thus and so?\u201d | reduced his numbers until, compara- ; At Gates of Trebizond LS prepa tete dede FSPATCHES say that the Turks are bastily evacuating Trebizond, thus indicating that the Russian army \u2018hat stormed Erzerum is witbin a \u2018short distance of that ancient and famous seaport.In view of the fact that the distance between the two cities is only 120 miles, and that the road between them is said to be the best in Asia Minor, the fall of Tre- bizond was assumed once the fall of Erzerum was announced.While the city on the Black Sea in ancient history was famous for both its harbor and its defences, these have decayed under Turkish neglect, and Trebi- .zond cannot offer a strong resistance \u2018against a victorious pursuing army \u2018on the one side and a Russian fleet jon the other.The capture of Trebi- {zond is no guch achievement as that of Erzerum, nor is its strategic position so important.Nevertheless, it \u201813 one of the oldest cities in the world, and in the hands of the Rus- | sians is likely to become another Sebastopol, and to revive the glories ,of its youth and hale middle age, when it was the gateway between Europe and the East.| So old, indeed, is Trebizond that (its origin is almost lost in the mists of history.It was a famous seaport in the days of the siege of Troy.It was the capital of Mithridates the Great\u2019s kingdom of Pontus, which was the last of the Hellenic states to defy the power of Rome.It was captured by Pompey, and Emperor Had- Tian was so delighted with Trebizond that he granted it many valuable prerogatives, including fortifications that were supposed to be impregn- \u2018able for many centuries.Hadrian also constructed for it a great harbor, | but, according to \u2018\u2018Ex-Attache,\u201d in the Pittsburg Dispatch, Turkish ne- .glect has permitted the harbor to be (choked by silt.Blessed with a wonderful climate and a magnificent situation, patron- | ized by an Emperor, and with mna- tural strategic advantages as a market that were almost unequalled, Trebizond became rich and famous, and on account of its strength a sanctuary for Asia Minor.But its fame and wealth were its undoing, \u2018for they attracted the hostile atten tion of the Goths in the middle of the third century, when by a surprise attack they captured Trebizond and carried away-amazing loot.However, the city recovered its prestige under \u2018the suzerainty of the Byzantium Empire, and had grown so wealthy and | strong and independent that early in the thirteenth century it was recog- | nized as the capital of an empire named after it.This was brought about by the capture of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade.The dynasty of Comnenus was overthrown at Constantinople, but Alex- ius Comnenus, a nephew of the last Emperor, went to Trebizond and was there permitted to found a dynasty -of his own.In course of time, with the assistance of a strong band of | Iberians, Comnenus made himself master of most of the southern and eastern portions of the coast of the Black Sea.| It was this Comnenus who had the beautiful daughters whose fame spread all the world, and it was through the marriages of these lovely girls that the Comnenus family was | able to maintain itself in spite of the Jealousy and covetousness of power- | ful neighbors, \u2018\u2018Ex-Attache\u2019\u201d says that there is to-day not a royal fame- of Serbia and Montenegro, that has not some blood of the beautiful princesses of Trebizond in its veins.The Comneni continued to reign as Emperors of Trebizond until the middle of the fifteenth century, when ! the last of the sovereigns, David, sur- \u2018rendered the city and all his dominions to the Sultan Mahomet II.with- | out a blow being struck, He was properly rewarded for his cowardice by the Turk, who executed bim with :six of his sons.One only escaped | and finally made his way to Corsica.It was a descendant of this refugee !who was married by Junot, Napoleon\u2019s general.| From 1462 until the present year Trebizond, known to the classics as i Trapesus, has been a Turkish Pasha- | lik.It is the centre of a narrow strip | of wonderfully fertile, but practically undeveloped territory, which is supposed to have great mineral wealth.On the land side Trebizondris protected by a series of mountains, with but one pass, through which runs the road from Erzerum.It must have been along this road that Xenophon and his Ten Thousand made thelr march to the sea.The mountain bar- !rler might have been utilized by the Turks and their German masters to make Trebizond relatively as strong as it was a couple of thousand years ; ago, but they appear to have thought that Erzerum was impregnable, and concentrated all their efforts there.The Russians, however, should be able to make the old town almost as strong as Gibraltar, A Drill Story.The latest army story\u2014not from the Front, but from Sandhurst: Overnight the cadets conspired.When next morning the sergeant gave the order \u2018\u2019Number off from the right!\u2019 the woices rang out, \u2018One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, knave, queen, king.\u201d Quick as lightning the sergeant continued with: \u201cAll court cards fall out and report to the major.\u201d An Irish Mohammedan.Few people are aware that Lora Headley, who has been making à strong attack on the weakness of the blockade, is a Mohammedan.Three years ago he surprised everyone by suddenly announcing his conversion to this faith.His Moslem name is \u2018rather alarming.It is Saifurrahman Shaikh Rahmahillah Farooq.Lord Headley is an Irish peer, the fifth\u2019 holder of the title and the owner of some 186.000 acres in County Kerry.cities and counties, then they are going \u2018 ily in Europe, except perhaps those .Ginpills How They Cure PuassisviLLE, QUE \u201cI suffered from Kidney Trouble for several years, and tried numerous remedies and doctors prescriptions without relief, my case being chronic.r seeing about Gin Pills, apd as it is a well known fact that Juniper, without alcohol, is excellent.for the Kidneys, I decided to Gin Pills.One single fi gave me t relief, I have now taken four boxes of Gin Pills and find myself completely cured.No more bad humor\u2014increase in weight\u2014clear eyes\u2014fresh color\u2014more strength and vigor.This is H.POWIS HERBERT.Your druggists sells Gin Pills soc.a box or six boxes $2.50.Write for free sample to National & Chemical Co.of Canada, Limited, Toronto.A.H.CUMMINGS & SON LIMITED Manufacturers of Lumber, Shingles, Ciapboards, Superior House Finish.FLOORING A SPECIALTY.Orders left with S.E, Abbott, agt,, Stanstead will receive prompt attention, _ what Gin Pills have done for me.\u201d A Norfoik Const Garden.Unique among English parishes is Wingland, on the Norfolk coast.Rich, with soil producmg almost unbellev- able amounts to the acre, it bas no school, postoffice, public house or tax collector.Wingland bas a churchyard, and in it lies one grave, that of a boy thrown up by the Wash.Along the north coast of the county, where the cliffs are chalk, sand.clay and loam, the incessant sea is making inroads.Once happy and fruitful villages now lie seven fathoms deep below the waters.The land is practically all reclaimed and is only a few feet above the sea, but is one great garden.An acre has produced more than $1,000 worth of flowers, fruit and vegetables in a year.Here bulbs of hyacinth and narcissus as good as if not better than those that come from Holland can be bought.Here they grow millions of flowers that grace the tables of Lancashire and Yorkshire, In a Queer Town.Margaret Illington was making a coast to coast tour as the star in a new play.She had reached the land of the one night stauds, and to break a long Jump she was to play in a new come munity that expects to have 50,000 inhabitants some day.As the actress, in the early morning, dismounted from the through train, with her maid and her manager and the supporting company, an aged dare ky laid hold of her hand baggage and led the way, bowing and scraping, to where the hotel bus waited.Follows ing him, Miss Illington emerged from the station shed on an expanse of one story stores flanking each side of a dusty road.\u201cUncle,\u201d she asked, \u201cis this the principal street?\u201d \u201cDis yere one?No\u2019m,\u201d he said.\u201cDis yere town ain\u2019t got no principal street.\u201d - DYESTUFFS ASSURED.Dominion is Granted Imperial Aid in Relieving Situation.According .0 à statement issued by the Customs Department, arrangements are under way by which Canadian manufacturers will be assured a supply of dyestuffs in future.Through the co-operation of the Ime perial authorities, which have exerted pressure on American manufacture ers of such dyestuffs, the Government has been able to relieve the serious situation which promised to develop here.It arose out of the refusal of American manufacturers to export the manufactured dyestuffs to Canada as usual.The scarcity of dyes in Great Britain has rendered export from that country to Canada almost impossible, and Canadian companies had been getting their supplies in the shape of logwood dyes from the United States.When, however, with a view to controlling the product so that the Empire\u2019s demand might be met, the British Government placed an embargo on the export of logwood from Jamaica and Honduras, the American companies canceled their contracts with the Canadian companies, and a famine in dyestuffs threatened.Negotiations were at once commenced by the Canadian authorities: looking toward relief.As a result arrangements have already been made to allow the export of 4,700 tons of logwood to the United States companies on condition that these firms shall continue to supply the reasonable demands of the Canadian mills, and further negotiations are under way, which, it is hoped, will result in a workable agreement by which a reasonable supply of goods from the countries named will be allowed to be exported to the United States dye manufacturing companies coupled with conditions which will ensure a supply of the same for Canadian manufacturing purposes.-_ Strathcona\u2019s Superstitions.Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona, was always, from his boyhood days, very susceptible to superstition, He.strongly believed in \u2018\u2018second sight,\u201d and his own experience furnished numeroGs instances of provision of events, In January, 1841, he dreame ed that he saw his elder and favorite sister, Margaret, lying stretched on her deathbed, her arms extended as It to take a final farewell of him, while her lips formed mutely a heart-rend- ing \u2018Donald, oh Donald!\u201d At (he time he bad no idea his sister was ill.Next morning, however, he said to his friend, James Anderson, \u201cMy sister Margaret is dead.\u201d Some months later, on the half-yearly mail, he received a letter from his mother.It told him that the sister had passe ed away on January 12th\u2014the very day, allowing for the difference in longitude, he had dreamed of her eath. HOW MRS, BEAN MET THE CRISIS Carried Safely Through Change of Life by Lydia E.Prnkham'e Vegetable Compound.Nashville, Tenn.\u2014*\u201cWhen I was going through the Change of Life I had a tumor as large as a child's head.The doctor said it was three years coming : and gave me medicine for it until I Was called away from the city for some time.Of course I could not go to him then, so : my sister-in-law told i ne that she thought Lydia E.Pinkham\u2019s Vegetable Compound would cure it.It helped both the Change of Life and the tumor and , when I got home I did not need the doctor.| I took the Pinkham remedies until the \u2018tumor was gone, the doctor said, and I bave not felt it since.I tell every one how I was cured.If this letter will help others you are welcome to use it.\u201d \u2014Mrs.E.H.BEAN, 525 Joseph Avenue, Nashville, Tenn.Lydia B.Pinkham\u2019s Vegetable Compound, a pure remedy containing the extractive properties of good old fash- ' ioned roots and herbs, meets the needs -of woman \u2019s system at this critical period.of her life.Try it If there isany symptom in your \u2018does not demand extreme earliness, | case which puzzles you, write to the Lydia E.Pinkham Medicine \u2018Co, Lynn, Mass.STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE ORLEANS TRUST CO.NEWPORT, VERMONT ASSETS Real Est.Mortgages Loans and Discounts 303,123.06 Stocks and Bonds.47,000 00 Cash .0.02 2000 se cc 00 0e 47,481 64 ; $1,374,136 16 LIABILITIES Capital.\u2026.\u2026.8 50,000 00 Surplus 0000000000.50,000.00 Yodivided Profit.19,021.06 Deposits .reine 1,251,665.28 Treas.Cks.Outstanding.949 82 Dividend .\u2026.2,500.00 81,374,136.16 LOUIS HUCKINS CONTRACTOR and BUILDER Drawings and Specifications ot any style or kind of a building in any kind of material, Wood, Brick, Cement or Steel.Rock Island, Derby Line.Xf you want a Lake Cottage, Residence, Business or Public Building, see me.WU.8.Depository.Organized 1875 The National Bank NEWPORT, VT.Capital, - - - $100,000 00 Surplus and Profit, - 53,178.00 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tunate, as there is likely to be a serious shortage of first class seed corn at planting time.Any amount of corn failed to mature and ripen properly last full.Where this was true it will be well to look around for seed corn from the 1914 crop.There is probably plenty of this if it can be located, but it should not be used untested.It is just possible that the man with a cribful of good old corn can make some money by selecting, testing and offering it on the seed corn market this spring.\u2014Farm Progress.0000000000000000000000000 090000000000 0000900 000000 000000000000 00000 EARLY CABBAGE VARIETIES Great Care Should Be Exercised iv the Purchase of Seeds.Jersey Wakefield has been the leader among early cabbages for more than fifty years, writes R.L.Watts in the Country Gentleman.All the early gardeners praised it, and most of our gardeners to-day claim it is superior to all other early varieties, It is very early, medium in size, pointed, and solid.The heads are valuable for salad purposes.Charleston Wakefield attains marketable size from a few days to a week later than Jersey Wakefield, It is larger in size and requires slightly \"THE BIBLE IN AFRICA.lt le Read There In 148 Languages and Dialects.On the continent of Africa alone the New Testament or parts of it bave been translated into 148 languages and dialects.The two latest additions are Dabida, a language of British East Africa, and Limba, the language of a tribe in the hinterland of Sierra Leone.Parts of the New Testament have actually been translated into pidgin English, that strange lingo, half baby talk and balf slang, which is the chief means of communication through all the east The difficulties presented in translating the New Testament into this barbarous hotch-potch must have been tremendous, but they have been sur mounted.Another language of the same sort is Chinook.This consists of about two-fifths Chinook, two-fifths red Indian tongues and the rest English and Canadian French.It is the tongue of barter on the Pacific coast of Alaska and the Dominion.At least 50,000 Indians speak it, and lately St.Jobn's gospel bas been issued in this jargon for their special benefit.There i8 also a version of the Scriptures translated into the primitive language of the head hunters of Borneo.It was made by German missiona- | ries, printed in South Africa, paid for ! with British money and circulated in Papua.\u2014Loudou Answers.Difference In Woods, Timber i8 classed as hard or soft, and the main point of difference be- : more space in the row.If the market the Charleston \u201cmore profitable type will be found than the Jersey tween the trees that produce these ciasses ls that the soft wooded tree has \u201cneedle leaves,\u201d slim, narrow and | | MAKING À RECORD Methods by Which a Phonograph Disk Is Produced.CATCHING THE SOUND WAVES.They Are First Imprisoned In Wax and Then Transferred to a Negative In Copper, and From This Master Mold the Records Are Obtained.The Edison phonograph, the grapho- phone type perfected by Bell aud Tain- ter and the gramophone type by Berliner are all based on substantially the same principle.Sound wuves set up in the air by any souud are allowed to strike a delicately held diaphragm, which vibrates under the fmpact of the sound waves.The vibrations are made to leave a record ou u suitable we: dium, and this sound record is used to perform the inverse operation when it is required tu reproduce recorded sounde\u2014tbut is, the record is made to vibrate a sensitive diaphrugm and set yp in the alr particular waves, which convey to the ear the impression of sound.To make a gramophone record a per son sings before the mouth of a Lorn, the object of which is to coucentrate the energy of the sound waves upon the recording diaphragm, At the narrow end of the horn are the recording sound box and the wachine with its attendant expert.There is a screen between singer and operator to guard the secrets of the sound box.Ou the farther side of the screen is a hovi zontal table carrying a wux tablet, Wakefield, especially if the crop is almost uniform in breadth.while the | pointed beneath the recording sound | sold by the crate or barrel.Copenhagen Market is a compara- \"tively new variety that is attracting i much attention among commercial growers, It comes a few days later than Jersey Wakefield, but it poss- { esses merits that, in the minds of \"some gardeners, more than overbalance this disadvantage.The heads average at least a third larger than Jersey Wakefield.The spread of the outside leaves is less, so that closer planting may be practiced.The heads are roundish instead of pointed, and they are very solid when They also carry than the ; properly matured.better in transportation Wakefield types.A strong point in favor of Copenhagen Market is its uniformity in time of heading, which permits the ground to be cleared of the cabbage early in the season and another crop started.A very successful trucker in western Pennsylvania, who grows about 20,000 early cabbages annually, now plants no other variety.Early Summer is a well known variety.It ripens with Charleston Wakefield or perhaps a few days later.The heads are flat and fairly solid.Succession, a midsummer variety, {8 regarded by many as the best bred cabbage in America.It usually runs remarkably uniform in type.The heads are large and solid at maturity.Seed sown the 1st of February should produce ripe cabbage in any part of the north before the 1st of August, Whatever the variety selected, the utmost care should be exercised in buying seed, for there is marked variation in the strains of different varieties.Root Storage Pit.Where there are no cellars or storage rooms available the old fashioned pit makes a good place in which kinds to store roots and some of vegetables for the winter, Put in a well drained place, dig a couple of trenches, crossing each other in the center of the pit, cover these with boards, leaving an open space in the centre.Put in a ventilator, cover the bottom of the pit with straw and pile up the vegetables.Then place the straw over the roots, then dirt, then more straw if in a cold region, more dirt, and your pit will keep the most severe weather from injuring the vegetables.POTASH IN PLANTS.Marsh grass, marsh sedge, seaweed and pine straw are among the materials in which potash in small agricultural quantities has been found.The chemist of the South Carolina experiment station reports after analyses of these plants: Four samples of marsh grass containing respectively 0.84 per cent.2.39 per cent.1.16 per cent., and 1.99 per cent.potash.A sample of dead marsh sedge contained 0.03 per cent.potash.Two samples of marsh sedge ashes contained respectively 0.18 per cent.ond 1.38 per cent.potash, A sample of seaweed contained 5.86 per cent.potash, A sample of long leaf pine straw contained 0.41 per cent.potash, Marsh grass also contains a considerable quantity of nitrogen and a small quantity of phosphorus.All such materials should be gathered green because the potash rapidly leaches out of tne dead material, This fact proves its value when applied to land, for it is water soluble potash.Buy Seeds Now, All classes of garden seed will be scarce and high in spring.Buy now.hard wood trees have broad leaves of various shapes.; wood trees carry cones, ! ing termed couifers.Resin, too, \"more characteristic of soft than of hard wood.To the class of soft woods ! belong the pines, spruces and firs, and \u2018the most common examples of these are yellow pine, white fir, pitch pine and spruce ur red fir.In the commoner hard woods are oak, Leech, mahog- i any, ash, waluut, plane, elm, birch and ebony.Winning a Reputation.An amusing story of how he won the title of being the champion cocoanut : shier among the clergy is told by the bishop of Chelmsford.He Informed a gathering of clergy- , men, says the London Globe, that when vicar of Bethnal Green he took a party of workingmen to Epping forest | and was there challenged to have a {shy at the cocoanuts.| He accepted and, paying his sixpence, i was given seven balls.Then something happened which would not hap- | pen again were he to live to be as old as Methuselah.With those seven balls he knocked off seven cocoanuts.He bas lived on the reputation of that feat | ever since, and when any one asked him to have a cocoanut shy he said, | \u201cYou go and knock seven off with seven balls and then I will speak to * you\u201d Pride of Ancestry.\u201cI've looked up your family tree,* sald the genealogist, \u201cbut I doubt if you will be pleased with it.Your great-great-grandfather was hanged for murder; your great-grandfather was imprisoned for robbery; your grandfather was tarred and feathered for beating his wife.That's not a very good record, is 1t?\u201d \u201cI should say it is,\u201d teplied the other empbhatically.\u201cIt shows the family is getting better with each generation.I'm an improvement on the entire bunch\u2014never been in jail yet.Let me have those records\u2014I'm proud of em.\u201d Course of the Moon.The moon is erratic in its motions.The cause of the failure of astronomers to make the moon amenable to their exact mathematics, based on the dynamical laws of gravitation, is bellev- ed to be some attractive force of which we are at present ignorant, though in all probability one factor is the true shape of the earth, which still awaits accurate determination, His Choice.\u201cScientists have determined that a brass band sends out sound waves which will extinguish fire.\u201d i \u201cDo you mean that I'll have to call out the village band rather than the fire department if my house ketches afire?\u201d \u201cIt may come to that.\u201d \u201cWell, It it does I think I'll jest let ber burn.\u201d The Pedestrian Servians.All Servian peasants are great walkers.A servant, given a short leave, will think nothing of footing it to bis home, five and twenty miles off, and walking back after a short day spent with his family.It is quite in the ordinary way of their business for both men and women to be two days on the road to market.\u2014London Chron- cle.On Three Counts.\u201cNo,\u201d said the editor, \u201cwe cannot use yous poem.\u201d \u201cWhy 7° asked tbe poet \u201cIs ît too long?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d hissed the editor.\u201cIt's too long and tov wide and too thick.\u201d Just a Hint.The Widower\u2014'Tis a bright little wan, that! The Widow\u2014\"Tis, indade! \u2018Tis only yisterday he was after askin\u2019 if be'd iver have a stepfather Again, some soft box at a uniform speed.usually about { seventy-six revolutions per minute.As such trees be | the table rotates it travels laterally at : a uniform speed, and the wax tablet is thus caused to travel slowly under \"the stationary recording box.\u2018The sapphire cutting point is lowered so as to enter the wax three and one-half to four one-thousandths of an inch, aud as the mchine runs it cuts a fine spiral groove, running from the edge to the center.The construction of the sound box is secret, as is the composition of the wax tablet.The next step in the process is the reproduction of the record as a nega tive in copper.The wax is dusted with graphite and worked into the grooves with a badger brush to make it elec- tro-couductivo; then it 1s lowered into an electrolytic bath of copper salt solution.The wax is kept in continuous motion in the bath until the copper shell Is nine-tenths of a millimeter in thickness.This negative is a master, and from this a few commercial samples can be pressed to test the quality of the record.Tbe manufacturers, however, wish to make thousands of copies without burting their master; therefore they make duplicates of their master by taking impressions in wax composition, from which working matrices are made.Then copper shells are obtained from these in the same way.The copper sbell is then backed by a brass plate one-half inch in thick ness by soldering under pressure.the recorded side in order to wear better and after polishing is ready for the pressing machine.The commercial record is pressed into some substance bard at normal temperature and plastic under heat and very bard and smooth.Various compounds are employed by different makers, but shellac is the principal ingredient.Shellac, wood charcoal, heavy spar and earthy coloring matter in certain proportions are used.This compound after careful mixing is rolled into thin sheets and divided into sections, one for each record.The section is then pressed by a hydraulic press.The matrix is heated and placed face up in a mold, the label is placed face down on the matrix, and on this is placed in a warm, plastic state enough material for one record.Both halves of the press are furnished with cooling plates, through which streams of water can be passed, and the surfaces are cooled quickly.The record is then removed, the edges trimmed with emery wheels, and it is then ready for sale.\u2014 New York Times, Choosing.A dozen pretty girls were cavorting about the stage at an amateur theatrical rehearsal when two young men took seats in the last row.\u201cSo your girls in this show, eh?\u2019 said one youth, \u201cYep,\u201d replied the other.the stage right now.\u201d \u201cWhich one is she?\" \u201cThe pretty one,\u201d came the reply in all seriousness.\u201cShe's on The Sewing Machine.Ellas Howe, whose sewing machine was the first to come into popular favor, was not, it seems, the originator of the idea, as an Englishman bad made drawings of such a machine in 1790, and another was in operation in Paris ns early as 1830.\u2014Argonaut The Story Needed Confirmation.\u201cGeorgie, did you know that I was going to marry your sister?\u201d \u201cWell.I heard her say so, hut she's sad that idea about so many other fellows that 1 didn't feel sure about it ti you told me.\"\u2014Exchange.Comparisons.Small Tommy\u2014My pa's awful smart.Little Elsle\u2014 What does he do?Tom- .my\u2014He's a mechanic and makes loco motives.Elsie\u2014That's nothing.My pa's a commuter and makes two trains svery day.\u2014Exchange Then the matrix is nickel plated on A BOY AND HIS FUTURE.The Serious Matter of the Selection of a Suitable Career.Given a basis of good character, good bealth and thoroughness, the choice of.life work is the next great influence upon a boy.Muny parents foredoom their son to failure by trying to force him to gratify their ambitious in a calling for which he has neither interest nor ability instead of helping him to develop his own individuality.The.false idea that there is social distinction in certain professions is the basis of many failures tliat might have been suceesses in other callings.Wherever we lovk we see failures, many of whom were men of undoubted ability, whose talents were misdirected.You whose sons have their future all before them can guard against shipwreck by studying thelr taste, directing their abilities and discussing with them the problem of thelr future.If you cannot afford to see them through a long term of training for some profession discuss the matter freely so that they will appreciate the necessity of turning their interest into other cLannels\u2014unicss they can work their way through their training without impairment of health.\u2014Isaac Ded- ham in Mother's Magazine.The Glare of Light.Persons who shrink from the glare of light, as distinguished from those who shrink from light itself, suffer from.what Dr.Erpest Clarke calls photoaugiophobia.It is due to defl- ciency in the pigment of the retina and is especially marked in albinos.Sir William Crookes invented a glass that cuts off the infra red as well as the ultra violet rays, which cause the trouble.The Medical Record says that any one with a tendency to shrink from the glare should Le careful to shade his eyes with a suitable cap, should work or rend with well shaded lights; his desk should never face a window, and his apartments should be decorated in cool neutral tints, dull sage green be ing the best.Fhe Zadruga of Servia.Those who know Servia well declare that the economic system known as the zadruga has saved the Serbs from the ills of poverty and all that flows from it.It is a glorified family.From one house others grow, as the family grows byt\u2018marrilage, until a little community is established on something like Socialistic principles.The stareshina (headman) and bis wife live in the biggest house and direct the industries of the satellite houses.Anxiety as to bread and butter being eliminated, the Servian has become one of the gayest of the races of mankind.\u2014London Graphic.When Cricket Was a Crime.Under a statute of Edward 1V, Eng- lahd\u2019's great national pastime, cricket, was declared a crime, owing to the game having become so popular that it interfered with archery, the then sport of kings.The law was rigorously enforced, and every person convicted of playing the game was fined £10 and sent to prison besides.It was not until the formation of the famous Hambledon Cricket club in 1749 that the statute was repealed.\u2014Dundee Advertiser.Runciman and Henley.It is related that shortly after Runci- man, the well known writer on seafarers and smugglers and poachers, bad bitterly fallen out with W.E.Henley he lay dying in London.To Henley in Edinburgh, lame and ill, came an indirect message that Runciman believed that if Henley would come and look on him Le would get well.It was a dying man's whimsy, but Henley took the train from Edinburgh and arrived in London to find his friend dead.Something Wrong.An Australian auctioneer who was reputed to bave more education than professional ability was endeavoring to sell some cattle to an audience of farm hands.\u201cGentlemen,\u201d be began, \u201cI bave a particularly nice lot of heifers and bullocks, and I may say that the heifers predominate.\u201d He was interrupted by a very agricultural voice from the crowd.*I thort there was something wrong with \u2018em,\u201d it said, \u201cor you wouldn't have to sell 'em.\u201d The Scotsman\u2019s English.A true specimen of the highland man\u2019s difficulties with the English language: Farmer (who had Instructed his Gaelic shepherd to look for a number of sheep that had wandered from the fold)\u2014 Well, Donald, have you found them?\u201cAye, mister.\u201d \u201cWhere did you get them?\u201d \u201cWell, got two by itself, one together and three among one of McPhear- son\u2019s.\u201d\u2014 London News.Growing Bananas.Bananas are, a8 a rule, planted out dystematically in rows, the \u201csuckers\u201d being placed at an average of ten feet apart.The banana plant bears only one bunch at a time, but it is a quick grower, yielding its fruit in twelve to fourteen months, When the plant is about six months old & second \u201csucker\u201d or shoot is ailowed to spring from the root, a third after the ninth month, and wo on, so that after the first year there is a continuous crop being reaped.\u2014Lopdon Standard Canada Has Recru\u2018ted 263,114 Men Thus Far, Says Sir Sam t.ughes GG Eire are rire paire ACTS showing the magnitude of the operations of the Department of Militia and Defence simce the beginning of the war were given by Maj.- General Sir Sam Hughes a few days ago, when the House of Commons went into Committee of Supply upon his estimates for the coming year.The Department was called upon to provide for the recruiting, mobilization, equipment, and payment of a force for overseas service which on February 29 last had reached 263,- 114 men and 19,468 officers at home and abroad.To this force Ontario contribute 110,776 men, Quebec 28,138, the Maritime Provinces 24,198, and the four Western Provinces 100,002.Moreover, up to the time when the purchasing of supplies was placed under the charge of the War Pur- SIR SAM HUGHES.chasing Commission the Department awarded 15,000 contracts, involving an aggregate expenditude of $114,.000,000.The Minister of Militia declared that the Department had done all in its power to reduce waste and to keep down prices.It had made few mise takes, and when it discovered that exorbitant prices had been charged it had promptly demanded refunds.Sir Sam devoted considerable time to a discussion of the part Cole onel Wesley Allison had played in securing goods in the United States, at reasonable prices.That officer, he said, had received no commission on Government orders and had saved Canada and \"reat Britain no less a sum than $50,000,000 on purchases of explosives, ammunition, copper, brass, and zinc.He also declared that, through Colonel Allison Canada secured for $5,814,000 goods, which would otherwise have cost $7,428,- 620.The Minister submitted evidence to show that the country had bought revolvers, automatic pistols, machine guns, motor trucks at moderate prices.: He told the House that a system of promotions had been adopted whereby the interests of the soldiers at the front would be guarded and they would have no occasion to come plain that men, their juniors in the service, had been given higher rank than they.Sir Sam affirmed that since the beginning of the war there had been no patronage list in his department and that politica had played no part in the appointment of officers or the awarding of contracts.Sir Sam gave a detailed statement, showing the num%er of men enrolled in Canada or on service up to Feb, 29 last.It was as follows: : No.1 Division (London) .22,560 No.2 Division (Toronto).60,300 No.3 Division (Eastern On- tarfo) .27,8868 No.4 Division (Montreal).22,936 No.§ Division (Quebec C'y) 5,218 No.6 Division (Maritime Provinces) .24,198 No.10 Division (Manitoba Saskatchewan) .50,710 No.11 Division (British Columbia) .234,768 No.13 Division (Alberta) .24,434 There had been thus enrolled 263,- 114 men in ail, to which should be added 10,468 officers.Hydro Will Build Line, As a direct outcome of the opposi- don that is being made at Ottawa to the granting of an extension of the charter to the Mackensie & Mann interests to build an electric line from Niagara Falls to Toronto is the promotion of a Hydro-Electric-publicly.owned line.The announcement has been made from the offices of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission that plans have been completed for the line, and it is proposed to have the municipalities interested in the matter vote upon it within the next six weeks, The route of the Toronto to London line will be followed as fay as Port Credit, and then a separate line going through Oakville, Burling ton, and Hamilton will be taken.Iron Half-Farthings.Sixty million iron half-farthings are now being coined in Germany to replace copper coins, which are being withdrawn from circulation. EN Se a cmt ANIMAL SWIMMERS.The Best of All, Though Not the Swiftest, (s the Polar Bear.Nearly all aulmals ave Letter swimmers than wan und take to the water paturally, while lie hus to learn to propel Limself.The rhinoceros and hippopotamus ure wonderful swimmers and divers, while tbe Iudian elephant crosses great rivers with heavy loads.The elk and the reindeer are first class swimmers.The elk keeps his bead above water and crosses directly from bank to bank to avold turning.The reindeer, on the other hand, turns as often as he likes, keeping bis head only a little above tlie surface.But of all swimmers of all climes the best, though not the swiftest, is the polar bear, who passes half his time in the water swimming and diving.His swimming power is nothing short of miraculous if it be remembered that the water in the regions he frequents is invarinbly cold aud that cold is normally prohibitive to good swimming.There are bears that can swim from forty to fifty kilometers without great effort.One of the swiftest swimming anol, mals is the squirrel.A sportsman on one occasion, having at hand a squirrel born in captivity, which had never seen water, wanted to see if it could swim and took it with Lim in à rowboat to the center of a lake.The squirrel turned toward the bank, Lead and paws above the water, back and tail underneath it, and began to swim so rapldly that it was with the greatest difficulty that the man recovered it when it reached the shallow water near the land.It Is said that even many nonaquatic birds will swim like ducks if an attempt be made to drown them, ~Peurson\u2019s Weekly.Police All Ears.A British ambassador once had occasion to tell a grand vizier of Turkey thut he bad incontestable proof that there sat at the grand vizier's table every evenlug a man who reported all that passed to the ambassador of another power the uext morning.It is sald that the police of Paris and London vie with each other year after year in thelr claim that no important crime ever goes undiscovered.It wus once wittily said of the police of Beirut, under the old regime, that they surpassed those of London and Paris in the fact that they knew of every crime and robbery before it occurred.\u2014Christian [lernld.Spotted.\u201cConductor, put me off at Main and Fifth.\" \u201cSorry, sir, but we aren't allowed to put off anybody except for refusal to pay fare or disorderly conduct.When the car reaches your destination I'll give the motorman the bell and then I'll Indicate to you where you are to step off.\u201d \u201cYou used to Le on u Boston car, didn\u2019t you?\u201d \u201clI was employed in that capacity \u2018 fu that city for twelve consecutive months.Seventh! Step lively.\u201d \u201cAh, I see that you must have Lad a job in New York as well\u201d - \u2014 He Proved It.\u201cMy dear child,\u201d said the fond mother, \u201cit you marry Ileury, do you think he will have the force to lift himself above his fellow men to a level with you?\u201d \u201cWhy, of course 1 do, mamma.Don\u2019t you remember how he climbed the elght stories to our apartment the other ulght when the elevator was broken?Puzzled Him.Uncle Ben, a very careful old darky, : was a witness in a shooting case.\u201cWere the shots simultaneous, uncle?\u201d inquired the prosecuting attorney.\u201cWell, boss, you sce, hit wuz dis way,\u201d replied the witness, with great deliberation.\u201cDem shots come so close togedder dat I can't be sho\u2019 ef dey wus or not.\"- Court Order, \u201cMra, Golightly seems burdened with cares since she got her decree of divorce.\u201d \u201cYes; she has to see lier children twice n week now.\u201d A Telltale Touch.\u201cIs it true that sightless people can tell the color of things by touch?\u201d some one asked a blind man.\u201cQOcensionally, yes,\u201d came the answer, \u201cIf, for instance, 1 touched a redhot poker I could tell jt was red.\u201d The Human Mind.Slow In forming, swift in acting; slow lu the making, swift in the working; slow in the summit, swift down the other slope.It is the way of nature and the way of the human mind, \u2014Authony Hope.Fixed.Super \u2014 No, sir, the ghost hasn't walked for two weeks.Crittiok\u2014I saw the leading man with a wad today.He must have got his salary.Super\u2014OhL, yes; he's tue star.Crit.tick\u2014What you wight call a \u201cxed\u201d star, eu?Practical Way.Gladys\u20141 wonder which is the ea» gest way to acquire a fine sweeping gait?Mother\u2014Just go over there and take that broom The man who is fortunate enough to de able to give receives more than the poor taker, ad THE MAMERTINE PRISON.Where King Jugurtha and 8t.Paul Were Immured.The reputed place of St.Paul's long imprisonment, the Forum, is the center of tbe nolff®t ruin of Rome.Not far from the ceuter of the busy, noisy, modern city rise the scarred ruins of ber anclent glory.Here are the temple of Saturn, with its eight columns; the often copied three columns of the temple of Castor and Pollux, the arch of Septimius Severus, the temples of Vesta and Caesar and wany- other famous ruins, and beyond are the palaces of the Caesars.Not far away is the magnificent column of Trajan, 147 feet in height, around which run re- llefs of the emperor's wars, containing, it is said, over 2,500 sculptured human figures.Close to the entrance to the Forum, this most wonderful collection of the ruined monuments of ancient times, is a small church called the Church of St.Gluseppi del Falegnani, Under this church are two dungeons, an upper and a lower, called tbe Mamertine prison, and from a hole in the upper chamber prisoners were lowered into tbe noisome hole below, sometimes to perish miserably of starvation, as did Jugur.tha, king of Numidia, with whom schoolboys become so familiar in their first year of Latin, In this dungeon, uncounted thousands of Christians believe, 8t.Paul and St Peter were inmured, aud every year on the night of the 4th of July representatives of all the churches of tome assemble by torchlight and \u201cln sulemn silence kneel in front of the traditional plllar.\u201d\"\u2014Christlun Herald.! | ART WORK IN WOOD.1 : A Striking Cameo Effect and How It i Was Produced.\u201cl saw a new thing in the art line the other day which surprised me and, 1 way also say, pleased me,\u201d said an art resort dilettante in a group of kindred spirits.\u201cIt was what the ! artist called a wood cameo, and it was \u201csomething 1 bad never seen before, i \u201cThat it was wood did not appear as it bung on the wall, aud I asked him | for particulars.M was about a foot pe with an oval center, containing a bas-relief of a Greek goddess, The square was in ebony and mahogany and the head in white wood.| \u201cHe had secured his cameo effects ! by first bullding up bis square with i the three layers, glued and pressed so tightly that there were no marks of i cleavage, and bad cut through them \"exactly as cameo carvers cut through the usual shell camcos.The ebony | front was plain, but fively polished, and the entire cffect was excellent.| \u201cHe told me it was his first Fnistod | work, thougb he bad been pra ticing | for two years, aud, while he was not i entirely satisfied with it, there was considerable consolation to him in the \"fact that he bad an offer of $100 when- \u2018ever he wanted to dispose of it.\u201d i ! Famous Abductions.Marriage by abductlon was by no means uncommon in the early ages.| The daughter of the Ling of Argus \"was abducted by a Phoenician.The | Greeks carried off Europa from Tyre and Medea from Colchis.Next to the alduction of-the fair Helen, perhaps the most remarkable | in its political consequences was the king of Leinster's taking away of (Le \u201cwife of a neighboring petty sovereign, O'Rourke of, Breffni | The king of Connaught avenged the \"insult and drove from the throne his ! brother of Leinster, who appealed to Henry IL.of England fur aid to recov- {er his lost soverelguty.The Norman ; conquest of Ireland followed, with cen- ; turies of war and devastation.| Nelson Won the Elgin Marbles.| Lord Elgin, whose ame Las become | 80 inseparably associated with the fa- | mous sculptures, never saw theui in their original places in the l\u2019arthenon.\u2018Ye employed artists to muke Lim drawiugs of the sculptures, and it was they who urged him to have the won- | derful relics of ancient Greece removed to England to save them from destruction.Elgin repeatedly appealed to the porte for permission to remove them, but the request was refused until Trafalgar.As soon as he heard of Nelson's victory the sultan sald, \u201cYou may take them now as soon as you please.\u201d\u2014Londou Mirror.No Nervous Strain.Crawford\u2014The elephant sleeps only five hours out of every twenty-four.Crabshaw\u2014Very true, but just stop and consider that the elephant doesn't have to attend lectures or the opera, listen to sermons or war talk or lend an ear to some fellow\u2019s description of his newest baby or car, and you will realize that he has a pretty soft time of it, taken all in all No Hope.\u201cYour digestive system is all out ot order,\u201d said a doctor, after examining a patient.\u201cThe best advice I can give you is to discharge your cook and get a new one.\u201d \u201cIt can't be done, doctor,\u201d answered the patient sadly.\u201cI'm married to ber!\u201d Back Thrust.Ars, Puritan \u2014 My aucestors came over in the Mayflower, I'd have you know.Mrs.D'Accustic\u2014That may be, but they might not be allowed to land today.Why He Was Quiet.\u201cWhat did he have to say for him self?\u201cNothing.Lis wife Was with bim.\u201d.- ROAD MAKERS ENTERTAINED.Orleans County Interests Discussed at Newport Meeting, March 88rd.Newport business men were hosts to the good roads promoters and makers of Orleans County, Thureday, March 23.About 250 enjoyed the splendid dinner given by the enterprise of the village.Every town in the county was represented by selectment, road commissioners, farmere and business men.Mr.Oscar O.Miller of Newport acted as toastmaster at the banquet and very happily called out the speakers present: Chauncey Skinner, J.G.Turobull and Merrick Taplin of Orleans, Wallace Gilpin of Barton, A.H.Grout, J.W.Redmond, ©.8.Emery and others of Newport, F.T.Cas- well and T.Frank O'Rourke of Derby Line.The road meeting proper was in charge of state bighway commissioner S.B.Bates.Maintenance was the chief topic of the gathering, and road makers from all parts of the state participated in the discussion.Such meetings in each county of the state must awaken a deeper interest io the propaganda for beter roads.DERBY ACADEMY NOTES.The Derby streets are again ringing with the merry voices of the students.Effie Wheeler, 19, has returned to her studies after several weeks\u2019 absence.Percy Kelley, formerly a student of Derby Academy, but now of Montpelier Seminary, visited here last Friday.Elizabeth Reimann and Margaret Flood, 19, have left school to teach the spring term.Mr.A.A.Silver, Sr., secretary of the board of trustees of Derby Academy for the past thirty-five years, passed away March 19, 1916.Miss Griggs, the expression instructor, has commenced her work with promise of a large class.Lucian Whitehill, \u201916, who bas been entertaining German measles, is able to be with us again.A.S.P,\u201916,and M.L.G., \u201917, were unable to return to school the first of the week as they were ill with German measles.Is it possible that they parsed each other on returning from ing meetings?The honors of the class of '16 were posted on the bulletin board Friday noon by Principal I.A.Bowdoin.We extend congratulations to the following: Valedictory, Elsie Bartlett; Salutatory, Edith Cowles; Oration, Iris Gage; Class History, Percy Fellows; Presentation of Gifts, Mary Bennett; Clase Prophesy, Natalie Scott; Essay, Laura Burnham.Maria Pierce, \u201917, had three recipes in the Boston Post one day last week.Eva Day and Laura Burnham, \u201916, are enjoying a trip to Washington, D.A.E.G.,'19, seemed very interested in the class of French I, Monday morn; ing; perhaps she was thinking of the \u201cFrench Encyclopedia\u201d which she hapes to have next year, Mr.Bodoin has in his room a new Webster's International with history supplement.Elba Henry is working for a Palmer Method pin, but was unable to attend to his lesson last Thursday owing to the lameness of his right arm.Several of the students enjoyed a straw-ride to West Charleston last Wednesday evening and attended the C.E.Service in the Baptist Church.Misa Gertrude Litchfield, for four years instructor of elocution in Derby Academy, has accepted a position as head of the Expression Department in Lindenwood College, St.Charles, a suburb of 8t.Louis, Missouri.Itisa women\u2019s college called the \u2018\u201cWellesly of the West.\u201d Her work there is to begin next September.Dictionary CHINA TURNS REPUBLIC.À state department mandate just issued announces the abandonment of the monarchy and resumption of the republic.The mandate says the revolution shows that the demand for a monar- chial form of government is not vnan- imous and that therefore Yuan Shi Kai rejects the emperorship and resumes the presidency.The imperial documents, the mandate adds, will be returned by Yuan Shi Kai to the state council which will reconvene as the Senate, preparatory to the resumption of the republic.Heu Shih Chang, who left the cabinet because of the monarchical movement, signed the mandate as secretary of state, having reëntered the cabinet.CARD OF THANKS.We desire to express our sincere thanks to all the friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us in our time of affliction and need.MRs.L.B.MEAD AND FAMILY.Although the Russians are still 140 miles from Bagdad, while the British are within 105 miles, it looks as if the Russians would get there first.Sixty thousand tons of iron ore were obtained from the soil of Ireland last year.one of the preceding Thursday even- grotcnoncnoncachononcnent $10.00 REWARD = © $ Wil be paid to anyone $ who will tell me what has ® become of my Scotch Ter- un @ rier Dog, lost since Feb.B e 1st.He is small, rough- e haired, dark brindled, and ® has short legs and pointed © up-standing ears, He e wore a yellow leathercollar ® with name and address on e its MISS BUTTERS, e n © u Stanstead, Que.OFONONONONONONOROONOEOEO FARMS FOR SALE No.804\u2014Farm of 270 acres, 3 miles from village, good spring water at house and barp, large fruit orchard.Tillage comp: of a dark loam soil slightly rolling and contains some stone, nearly all machide mowing, will winter 20 cows and team.Pasture well fenced and watered, and will pasture 25 head stock.Good sugar place of 1200 trees, 840 rigged, with wooden and galvanized iron buckets, evaporator, good storage.It is estimated there is 100,000 ft.hard and soft wood lumber and 3 miles to mill.Dwelling House 134 story 23x80, with ell 16x20, 6 rooms on first floor, 3 sleeping rooms and hall on second floor.Barns 30x40, with lean 16x40, stable arranged for 18.head stock.Horse barn 18x40, arranged with 4 horse stalls and carriage room.Persona} Property: 12 cows, 2 calves, 15 hens, some bay, grain and crops; mowing machine, horserake, plow, spring-tooth harrow, cultivator, horse hoe, separator, Will sell the above farm together with all personal property for 83,500.SEND FOR OUR FARM CATALOGUE.- HOWE & STOWE, ROOT\u2019S BLOCK, NEWPORT, VT.\u2014 1 \u2014=II _\u2014{ GEE 1 ] 1er WILLIAM M.PIKE & SON | l= =} {=} | jc \u2014 | We have placed in stock the best make of House Paints made in England; the Brandram & Henderson product.is the best English Lead and Linseed Oil obtainable, and that means the best produced.They are honest goods and if you are to paint an old or new building don\u2019t fail to use these colors, of which we have a large assortment.We also carry B.& H.Inside Paints and they are in every way equal in excellence of quality to the line for outside work.USE THE \u201cANCHOR\u201d BRAND 0 The painting of a Floor or the Exposed Border, or finishing a hard wood Floor is one of the big finishing problems in Home Building.We carry Liquid Granite.will not spot it or cause it to change.FLOOR FINISH.This line of Finishes is the best produced.We carry Scarth\u2019s Shellacs and Varnishes.We have an Inside and Outside Varnish that possesses big value, and we guarantee for $2.50 per The base of these colors | Even hot water u Granitine at $3.00 and $4.00.SUN \u2014 Ld nl gallon.M WE HAVE OUR STOCK u There is a splendid range of papers from 10c.to $2.00 a roll.OF WALL PAPERS IN AND IT IS OUR BANNER STOCK.assortment of Oatmeals, Varnish Tiles for bath rooms, and a large =m | IE kind of a structure.goods.PROVE US.\u2014 | \u2014\u2014]! Great Big Stock of Building Supplies There is to be lots of building this season and we are anticipating it by our full stock of Nails, Paper, Glass, Hardware, and the three hundred and one items needed in completeing any We have them.During spring house cleaning you make changes, and if in need of Art Squares, Rugs, Carpets, Matting, Linoleum, Oil Cloth, Curtains, Draperies and Bedding, we have the goods.Squares from $5.00 to $30.00; Small Rugs from $1.00 to $4.00.a) mm | = In fact, we are headquarters on these Art IC A FULL LINE OF HEAVY, WORK SHOES AND RUBBERS IT WILL SOON RAIN.We have Rain Coats for Women from $5.00 to $11.00, for Men from $4.00 to $12.00.We buy Rain Coats in large quantities and can suit your taste and purse.= Now just stop and think for a minute if you are to buy a Suit this spring, you from $3.00 to 85.00.We have the best Suit in the Dominion for $15.00.We can save It is a 820.00 value, and when you see it you'll agree to our contention.It will surprise you in color, lines, = workmanship and value.= I WILLIAM M.PIKE & SON f Le =)[ =\u2014jofe\u2014 \u2014\u2014} [-] [== OE Cl 1 [= 1[E 2 a Ca I CASWELL & O'ROURKE STORE GO.| \"© Brand.will wear like iron.RUBBERS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY Rubbers have not advanced in prices as yet, Boots are as low as they ever were and the wearing quality is 100 per cent better.We have prepared for a record business with TWO OF THE BEST BRANDS OF RUBBERS IN THE UNITED STATES, The Mishawaka Ball Brand Rubbers and g The B.F.Goodrich Rubber Co.\u2019s \u201cHipress\u201d © We have white Boots, red Boots and black Boots in Gum, Snag Proof and the Vac Boots made like an auto tire and Rubber Boots for Men at $3.00 to $4.50 pr.Rubber Boots for Boys at $2.00 to $2.75.Rubber Boots for Youths at $1.50 to $2.00.styles at 59c.a pair.THE STORE THAT SELLS STRAIGHT LINE RUBBERS Rubber Men\u2019s Storm Rubbers fresh and good CASWELL & O'ROURKE STORE CO.Derby Line, Vt.8 po "]