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THURSDAV, 1/El'. 12, 1918
THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE.
is the best flavored and the most economical
It is a pleasure to observe from time to
time the distinct improvement of Canada's
pioneer monthly. The Canadian Maga.
zine. Fut years it seemed doubtful i( it
could survive its anaemic youth. but it
has now grown to an interesting, and we
trust robust. maturity and looks as if it
were good for long and useful years.
We have before us the December num•
ber. which is replete with g od reading,
and. as is proper at this holiday season.
not too much of it of the solid and heavy
kind. There are at least halta-dozen
short stories and there is the beginning
of a serial detective story by Isabel Eccle-
stone Mackay. all very readable. There
are several articles of distinctively Cana-
dian interest such as -A Famous Frontier
Judge''—a sketch of the late Sir !Matthew
Baillie Begbie. of British Columbia. by
R. G. MacBeth: Our Subversive Laws."
a plea for legislative reform by L. A. M.
Lovekin, and Sir John Willison'. -Rem-
iniscences Political and Personal.- There
are some interesting verse and several
pages of book reviews. What above all.
however. distinguishes the Canadian from
other magazines is the quality and the
number of its full-page engravings. This
has been a noted feature of The Canad.an
Magazine for some years. lifting it above
and beyond the common run of monthly
periodicals on the continent. In the
number before us are tive full page en-
gravings. four of them being reproduc-
tions of paintings by Canadian artists.
The editor and the publishers Tne On-
tario Publishing Company. Limited, Tor-
onto i are to be congratulated upon the
high merits of this particular number and
upon the splendid standard at a hich they
are keeping The Canadian Magazine from
month to month.
MAKE THE HEN DO IT.
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Howdy, Old Sugar Bowl 1
Chicago lici rid and Ear miner
Armistice headlines and the succession
of proofs the uncorked told us that the
war was over. but the re4. close-up. di-
rect personal smash that convinced us
was the reappearance on the restau-
rant table of the unguarded sugar
I bowl. Cessation of hostilities had
seemed far away. academic and indefinite
until the waitress slid the lid off and said
' indulgent' • :
•Go as far as you like
Gangway for reconstruction !
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Must tosist f Genuine Mr
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on:Saturday. erhaps with the afore- SHOULD
mention.' Coale ative exarnals the wish u"
is father to the tholght.
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1 know some day
That he'll be here just as
1 know that he'll be still as
And kind to me—
Oh, so I say
Most every day.
But in the night-time. sick a ith iea
Waddled beneath the sheet. '
1 hear
A blind man's stick come tapping
the street.
— By Beatrice Redpath. in The Cana-
dian Magazine.
used to be. •
Sons.
As soon as he could hold a toy
He had a bugle and a gun
And leaden soldiers; as a boy
1 taught him that my son
Must learn to fight his battles out.
Not hide—nor run.
And I would telt him tales about
Battles and stern-faced warriors.
And speak of brave things men had done.
Yet ac.rnen wonder why do men make
wars.
—By Beatrice Rcdpath. in The Cana-
dian Magazine.
Fred C. Elford has a scheme for pay
ing off the national debt with positr
and eggs. Fred got into the poultry bun-
ness at Holmes.ville some fifteen years
ago and has been in it ever since. He is
now superintendent of 1:1.2 poultry divi-
sion of the Dominion Experimental Farm
at Ottawa, and perhaps it is no wonder
that he thinks in terms of pullets and
eggs. rather than in d. Ilars and cents.
His slogan is. "One hundred hens to every
farm, ten hens Co every urban lot." 1 hat
is an average. of course; some people in a
town couldn't be bribed to keep hens.
v.hi!e others are not satisfied unless they
have a big flock: and some farmers go in
for poultry more than others. But take
nit the average as above Fred figures
that Canada!would produce 1.14) (i0() 000
dozen eggs a year. (That's right—right
ciphers.) Allowing for home consump-
tion fifty dozen eggs per head of the
whole Canadian population—that is, two
eggs nearly every day for every man,
worr an and child—and making a liberal
deduction of eggs for incubation, we
should then have left for export700,000,-
030 dozen eggs. which at forty cents a
dozen would bring into the country
$280,000.(Xg). From eggs alone! And
this in less than six years—so Fred figures
out,- and ove guess he is right—would
pay off Canaada's war expenditure and
the national debt. He puts in a saving
clause:
"I do not say that Canada will do this.
But I say that Canada might well aim to
do it. for it is within the p ossibili-
ties of what can be done withoin undue
strain upon our present labor capacity."
56 there you are. Go to it!
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Christmas this year will be more like
Christmas than it has been for severa
years. The boom of the cannon did not
harmonize nob the Christma: bells.
There are about "as many ideas for a
Soldiers' Memorial as there are people to
express them. The first need. however,
is a good large fund; later it can be de-
cided how the money is to be spent.
Britain's bill against Germany for war
damages is forty billions of dollars. The
French claim. it is said. will be infinitely
larger. and then there are Belgium and
other nations to be settled with. The
German taxpay er will have to carry a
tremendous load.
Evidently a considerable number of
women voted in the North Huron bye -
election. There were altogether about
9,300 names on the list (probably one-
half of these being names of women) and
6.338 ballots were cast. In, the election
of 1914 4,076 votes were polled.
Some ill informed Conservative journals
are saying that Sir Wilfrid Laurier has
lost his old popularity among the Liberals.
We do not know where they get this
notion. There is probably not a Liberal
riding asencistion in Ontario that would
not carry enthusiastically a resolution of
teinfidence in the old chief. The latest
instance is that of the North Oxford Lib-
eral Aserxiation, which met at Woodstock
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The fire committee reported that the
rinsing of the tire -bell for other purposes
than that of fire had become a very
dangerous practice and recommended =
that the chief be instructed to prosecute
anyone misusing the alarm. Adopted. =-=_
fhe public works committee recom- =
mended that Adam God be paid $11.3:-, =
for making sewer connection, and that 27_
Alex. Clark. who was injure) while work-
ing at the construction of sewers, be paid =
two weeks' pay, amounting to. 824.53, in sass
the meantime. The sanitary condition
01 the ‘pwti stables, which was the cause E
of a recent complaint. had been im• =
proved by being cleaned and a v.entila =
tor installed. 1 he repairs to the cement =
sidewalk on Wellesley street were being
left over until spring. "The construct son
of local improvement sewers was complete
and awaiting the engineer. The repor t
was adopted.
Councillors Wallis and Davis m wed
that the council ask the water and light =
commis ion for a rebate for the time the a
street lighting was cut off as a result of =
the accident during the erection of the ag
boiler shop at the National Shipbuilding =
Co.'s plant. Carried. •=1••
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AREBATE? sociation wrote asking the council to „ols.M
• have rigid inspection of the hydrants, =
owing Ito the danger of their freezing -E-
during cold weather and thus being
rendered unfit for use during a tire.
Referred to the fire committee.
A communication was read from Mr. Mc-
Carthy,
of Stratford, asking for prices of =
certain machinery and belting at the =
Wheel Rigs plant, with a view to pur- =
chase. Referred to the public works gi
committee with power to act.
Mr. John Young drove Intthe exca-
vation on Victoria street while the sewer
o -2*
was being constructed. He wrote the
council asking that it pay the damage of
a broken shaft and whip, amounting to 'ffi
*3.75. Referred to the public works com- ft
mittee.
Messrs. Robertson & Mair applied for ,
a rebate of three months' business tax on
account of the closing of their former 111=1••
stand on Kingston street. Referred to a
finance committee.
Thr Jackson Mfg. Co. asked for a ten- =
_year extension,of iti pent arrangement
with the town. Referred to special
committee to have a bylaw prepared.
Toon toil Has Nut let Derided the
Slat tee —Art ion will lie Taken
for Organization of a Toon Band
— Councillor Davis Wants a Fair
Frier Commissioner for the 'roan
— The S ight atehman's Duties.
The regular semi-monthly meeting of
the town council was held on Friday
evening last. All members were in atten-
dance with the exception of Councillors
e and Robertson.
report of the tax collector showed
$5.3.50 in taxes had been paid since!
ing. Of this poo was. 1916
.050 for 1917 'and *3.000 for
o date there had been collected
This was $9,415 more than had
been paid fl during the year 1917.
The finance committee reported that
the 1917 county rate and the 1918 county
war tax had ben paid, alsia the Mtitity
good roads levy kir 1918, amounting to
'My friends, have you ever heard of
the town of No -Good, on the banks of
the River Slow, where the Some -Time or
Other scents the air and the soft Go-
Easies grow? It lies in the valley of
Khat's-the-Lse. in the Province of Let -
Her -Slide: it's the home of the reckless I -
D on't -Care. where the Giveelt-Ups abide.
The town is as old as the human race and
grows with the flight of y -ears: it is wrap-
ped in the log of the idlers' dreams: its
streets are paved with discarded schemes
ani are sprinkled auth-
81.422M. The following recommenda-
tions were made: That the tax collector
be instructed to insist on the immediate
payment of all outstanding taxes: that
no action be taken on the application of
W. E. Kelly for a rebate of water rates
for the office occupied by the former
police magistrate; that the request of
Craigie Bros. and F. H. Wooer- for a re-
bate on their poolroom liceneer.- for the
period of closing dying the influenza epi-
demic. be reused: that W. 1'. Moore,
late s recant of police. be grant
honorarium of one month's salary,
For efficient services. The question o
grant to the National Sanitarium Associ-
ation was laid over.
The motion for the adoption of the
finance committee's report brought a
protest from Councillor Davis with re-
gard i o the refusal of a rebate to Messrs.
Craigie and Wood. Ile suggested that
as the interested gentlemen were present
they. should be heard. The Mayor re-
fused to interfere with the order of buei-
news. The discussion was rather warm
for a few minutes and an amendment
and an amendment to the amendment
;ere submitted, but both were with -
rawn in favor of
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The Deputy Reeve reported that Mr.
J. A. Fowler, who was preparing
honor roll for the town, had left Gude
rich and had left the work unfinished.
Dr: Clark thought that the council should a
pay him a certain amount and have the
roll completed elsewhere. On motion aL;
Mr. Fowler was allowed the sum of $
to be applied on his- taxes.
Councillor Story wanted to know who ' =
wrote the National Shipbuilding Co. de- E
mending rent for the Wheel Rigs build-
ing which the former company lead used = =
for a short time for preparing timber.
This concern was a great benefit to the ."—=
town and he thought t hat it should re- E,
've privileges such as this without Er:
e. Chairman Wallis of the public
a motiony the eeve and Councillor Wallis to take up the re-
! port clause by clause.
Councillor Davis thought that as these
B adges for Food Production Service.
The Organization of Resources Com-
mittee, representing the Ontario Govern•
ment and Legislature in their plans for
encouraging the Pr [odd as a
war time service, h is had prepared a food
production seevice badge for awarling to
children and others no have done good
work during the past season. It offers
the hadge to war production clubs. Ag-
ricultural and Horticultural Societies, Re-
sources Committee branFhes, school
boards, teachers. W men s Institutes.
Sunday school clubs. or any other group
of responsible persons, at a fraction of its
cost for distnbution locally at public
meetings. In the distribution of these
badges the purposes are: To commemor-
ate the splendid response made throughout
Ontario to the Empire's call for increased
production in the season of 1918; to stim-
ulate community interest in local achieve.
ments: to recognize deserving effort in
national service, and to encourage a con-
tinuance tof 'the work next year and as
long as the world's reed of food is urgent.
The badge may be awarded for other ser-
vices besides gardening. Boys or girls
who have helped materially in farm work
i during their holidays: those who have
worked with their parents in a worth-
while home garden scheme, or those who
have raised poultry or produced pork
will also be entitled to the badge. The
badge. a sample of which may be seen at
this office. will be cherished in after years
as a very interesting war -time souvenir.
LANTERN SLIDES FREE.
Illustrating the Wounded Soldiers' Re-
turn to Independent Life.
Sets of lantern slides, illustrating the
various steps in the invalided soldier's
climb back from "down and out" to "up
land in again," proved very popular last
winter all over Canada, as well as on
shipboard among the returning soldiers
themselves.
11'e are informed by the editorial
branch of the Department of Soldiers'
Civil Re -Establishment that the slides
have been thoroughly overhauled and
! many new pictures have been added.
j while new and up-to-date lecture materi.
al has been written.
The new sets are now being sent out.
free of charge. on loan to ministers and
other responsible speakers who realize
the vital need of lipreading nformat nn on
this great national enterprise among all
classes of the people.
Posters to announce the lecture are
supplied in advance.
Application should be made as early as
possible to the ((glowing addrrae, Assis-
tant Director, (Smart rnent of Soldiers' 0-
vil Re -Establishment, PM Spading ave.,
Toenn(o.
Every applicant should state (1) his
own position. (2) the nature of the occa-
sion on which Wieder) see to br shown,
(3) the date. or, better still, alternative
date*. and (4) the mute by which the
slides are to be sent.
men had paid their licenees for twelve
months business- and were closed by
order of the health officer the council was
in duty bound to make the rebate. They
had paid for something they di 1 not re-
ceive and the coon it had received money
for services it did not render. He was
strongly in Cayce of a refund being made.
,vIr. J. W. Craigie and Mr. F. H.
Wood addressed the council on the mat-
ter. A rebate had been made in other
places..they said. and as a strict business
propmtion the s ,me should apply in
I Godench.
The Reeve thought that the epidemic
was an act of Providence and he could
! not see why the town should be the
loser.
Councillors Davis and Wilson moved
that the month's rebate be allowed, but
1 an amendment by the Deputy Reeve and
CouncilkRS(Ory that thee ause be referred
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beck to the committee was carried on
division. The rest of the report was
adopted.
The special committee reported that it
had received two applications for the
position of nightwatchman. It had been
Women's Seal Plush Coats
Beautiful garments ai prices which will appeal to you. They are
splendidly tailor-made, well lined and of best make of plushes. Different
styles to choose from. Sizes 38 to 44.
At each $30, $35 and $40.
Kid Gloves cw,11,1414.,Ar:77
Perrin's famous Kid Gloves, blacks,
tans and white, with two fancy dome
fasteners. Special per pair.... $2.00
Black Suede Kid Gloves $2.25
Women's lined Kid Gloves, in tans,
two dome fasteners, At per pair . $2.50
Men's heavy cape Kid Gloves, two
heavy dome fastners, fine wool -lined.
Tans, greys. At per pair $250
Silk Waists
. Many styles in this week, in Crepe.
Georgette, Wash Silks and Voiles.
Dainty and exquisitely made. Blacks,
colors and white. Sizes 34 to 44.
Each V. KO
Furs
Never before such a pleasing choice.
Fox. Lynx, Wolf, Sable, Coon and
Mink. Stole or scarf and muff. At
per set $15, $22, $30, $40, $50, $75,
$80 and up.
Silk Stockings
Sizes 81/; to 10, black, grey, tan or
white heavy Silk Hose, 3 -ply heels
and toes, garter top of deep lisle.
At per pair $1.50
Handkerchiefs
Hundreds of dozens
Linen Handkerchiefs
Men's pure linen hemstitched Hand-
kerchiefs. with initials hand -em-
broidered very daintily in corner,
all initials. Each 40c and 50c
Ladies' fancy pure linen Handker-
chiefs, an almost bewildering choice.
At each 20c, 25c, 35c, 50c
Men's Fur Coats
Black Dog, Sitka Beaver or Alaska
Beaver Coats for men. The skins
are selected sand we can buy none
better. of heavy kirraw:i0
satin. Cuffs in, sleeves, shields, etc.
Dozens to select from. All sizes
42 to 50. Price, special ..... . . .$35
Men's No. 1 Muskrat -lined Coats,
Otter collar, shell of No. I English
Beaver cloth. Each \ $150.04
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willing to pay a reasonable rent he did
not see why the matter should not be dadt
with as in private business.
Deputy Reeve Clark suggested that
the town take some action towards the
formation of a hand for the purpose of
supplying music at the receptions to re-
turned soldiers If the town had to make
a financial outlay he thought it Would be
money well spent.. The other members
of the council heartily concurred and the
matter was left with the special commit-
tee.
Councillor Davis thought that the
council should look into the matter of
i appointing a fair price comniissioner as
I suggested by . the Government. Other
Places of like size were doing it' nd the
matter was one of great unpor nce at
the present time. and such action ould
have a tendency to keep down the igh
cost of living. The special commit
will get all data in this, co ,nection
report at the next regular meeting.
The Deputy Reeve reported that he,
with his colleague the Reeve, had laic-
ceedea at the county council irsgetting a
rebate of ninety per cent. of the county
levy on the town under the good roads
echeme.
The Mayor wanted to know when the
council could expect a report from the
special committee in connection with the
proposed increase of rates of the Bell
Telephone Co. The Deputy Reeve
promised to see that it was prepared with
out delay.
time boxes placed at the posto1ce.1
Councillor Davis reported that he had
personally gone over the ground and
suggested that boxes be placed on the
lour corners of the Square and that the
nightwatchman should try both front
and back doors of business places between
10 and 12 o'clock, and that he should be on
duty on the streets and not in the office.
A system of red lights operated from the
The question of the nightwatchman's
duties was discusssed at some length
The Mayor said that application had
been made to have one of the policeman's
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CANADA
WAR -SAVINGS STAMPS
The Canadian Government offers interest-bearing
%%sr -Sayings Stamps
Issue of 1919- -Payable Jan. 1, 1924
ORDER -IN -COUNCIL P.C. No. 2462 authorizes
the issue of War -Savings Stamps for the pur-
pose of assisting in the financing of Government
expenditures.
As Sir Thomas White, Minister of Finance, points out, W. -S. B.
will provide "an excellent investment for small savings; and a
strong incentive to every day economy"
$5.00 for $4.00
Until January 31st, 1919, War Savings Stamps will be sold by
all Money -Order Post Offices, Banks, and other authorized
Agencies, for *4.00 each, and on January lat. 1924, Canada will
pay 0.00 each for them.
Registration Against 1,41)88
A Certificate is provided for the purchaser of • W.S. & On
the certificate are spaces to which 10 W.-8. S. may be *filled.
A certificate bearing one or more W. -B. S. may be negistered at
any Money -Order Poet Office, fully protecting the owner against
lose by fire, burglary or other cause.
The Certificate also shows the Cash Surrender Value of W.S.5.
at various dates before maturity.
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telephone office would eliminate the
necessity for him to be in the office to
answer the phonecalls. The matter was
left in the hands of the fire committee.
Bylaw No 21. with regard to the in-
vesting of manic -mai money in ViCtoey
bonds. was read a tirst. second and.third
time and finally passed.
Bylaw No. 22. authorizing the ex-
ecution of a deed of kit 19, R. S. which
oaf deeded to the town 90111`. Yee!" ago
as security. was pamed.
The council adjourned to meet on
Tuesday of this week.
Hurry It es the Market.
Wharm become of the Tank,— Inver -
don which conveyed the would of motor -
big directly Into the car of tfic ',sorer
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