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ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT-
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COMPANIES.
DIVISION COURT OFFICE,.
CLINTON.
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Fertilizer
We carrya Complete Stock of
-Stone's "Natural Fertilizer,' No
better on the market.
Nay
We pay at, all seasons the highest
market prices for Hay for baling.'
Seeds
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Commissioner, Etc.
REAL ESTATE: and INSURANCE
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io the' -past six
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Bookkeeper at ,$1000 and Com-
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How is Yo r
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Supply ?
You know that Jewelry Store
Cutlery is out of the com-
mon class. At least, OURS
is.
It carries a, distinctiveness -
an air of.superiority, that
comes from being made with
the greateit care and ut-
most skill • from the highest -
priced materials.
1f you can use some of this
Cutlery in your home, you
will be prqud of it every
time you see it on the table.
Carvers, cased, $3.00 up.
Knives, Forks and Spoons,
$1.00 doz. up.
Knives and'Forks, steel, white
handles, $3.00 doz. up.
Let us show you our Cutlery
line. Let us tell you more
about why it is the most
desirable that you can put
your money into,
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Hays, Seaforblf 'Sec: Treas,
Directors. D. P. McGregor. Seatorth; J.
0. Grieve, Winthrop; m. Rina, Sea,.
forth; John Benneweis, Dublin; J Evane,
Beechwood; A. McEwen, Brucefleld; J. B.
McLean, - Souforth; J. Connolly, Goderiah;
Robert Ferris,. Harlock.
Agents; Ek:. Hinchley, Soafortli; W.
Chesney. Egmondvllle; J. W. Yeo, Holmes.
ville; Alex .,Leitch, Clinton; R. S. Jar.
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Parties desirous to effect Insurance or
transact other buaineee will be promptly
attended :'to:• on application to any of the
above officers addressed to their respect.
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life of woollen and flan-
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LUX -pure essence of soap
in flakes -is the favourite
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homes of refinement. ,
9 Sold at
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Limited,
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THE GREAT WAR'S
NEW WEAPONS
MACHINE GUNS, FI1tE-BO1IIBS,
• HAND -GRENADES, GAS.
iurpnient a That ;':Makes Sluughter
bimpte: Inside of Two ,Hundred, `.
Y arils.
When the great .•war ^baolces out
there was much learned comparison
of the armament of - thy r;opposing
,forces that were hastening to make'a
slaughter -pit of Europe. The small
arms, in.•particular,.receiyed,profoundi
attention, and much' forecasting of re
sults, was based on the relative merits'
of the French, -British and tGerninra
rifles.
That was about the, last, we have
heard' of the rifles and the forecasts.
Probably not five hundredpeople in,
civil life could tell you, offhand, the
names of the various small arms used
on the European battle -fields, to say
nothing of their salient points. s
This war has been remarkably 're-
dundantin upsets of expert predic-
tions; but none ,has been more pro-
nounced and `complete than the over-
turn of
ver-turn;of those predicated on the super-
iority of this or that rifle. We were
told that the day of cavalry charges
was about a -half -century in the past
-and within a month , there were
scores of them. Modern fortresses
acting as supports for a field army
made a frontier practically impregna-
ble, the experts declared -and the
German artillery smashed such forts
almost as readily and rapidly as you
could crack peanuts.
Above all, it was pointed out that
the deadly fire of the latest, rifles,
which kill at any'distance up to two
miles, would make it impossible for
hostile armies to get fairly in sight
f h *other: Germany was held to
He Opened It.
A little girl stood one day before a
closed gate. A man passed, and the
little girl said to him -"Will you
please open this gate for me?" The
man did so. Then he said, kindly -
"Why, my child, couldn't you open
the gate for yourself?" "Because,"
said the little girl, "the paint's not
dry yet."
There is a
Cold Day Coming
-TIME TABLE.
depart
will arrive ht and
Trains rp
from Clinton Station as follows:
BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV.'
Going East, depart 7,33 a.m,
" 3.03 pan.
Gging West, ar. 11.00, dp. 11.07 a.m.
" " depart 1.85 p.m.
" ar 6.32, dp. 6.46 p.m,
1 departs -11.18 p.rn.
LONDON, HURON & BRUCE • DIV.
Going South, ar. 7.33, dp. 8.05 p.m.
" " departs 4.15 p.m.
Going North, ar. 10.30, dp. 11.00 a.m.
,a_ " -.departs -'6,40 p.m.
Why not prepare for it by
ordering your winter supply
of Lehigh Valley Coal. None,
better' in the world.
House I'hone'12.
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Loud.
Mrs. Flatbush-Isn'i your husband
rather loud in his tastes?
Mrs. Bensonhurst - Gee, yes; you
ought to hear him drink soup!
If you intend to do a mean thing,
wait till to -morrow. If you are to do
a noble thing, do it now.
A 1
ally faded out in' the eighteenth cell- wooden towers' and wooden supports
tury. When Napoleon swept Europe, in their siege operations.
nothing much :remained but the name. "Fire -balls," toot are a revival ra-
A regiment might have a,"grenadier ther than a new device. Of course,
company," but the men who formed modern science has improved them,
it were not equipped with bombs, The but in purpose and character they are
term merely meant that they. were the essentially unaltered. The `scientific
tallest members of the regiment, :8 e- flares aro lineal descendants of the
lected to forad a show company. •- rockets whose"red glare gave proof
Hand -grenades were 'generally, re- through the night that our flag ;was
garded as being in a class with" the Still there," ,
rapier, and.the crusader's mace When ,Thefe expedients for lighting up
Geiieial, Baden:Powell ^ interested the enemy"s lines at night are mere
readerelef the daily newaphper"s'-a %d• 'dependable• shah search -lights, be '
annoyed the besieging" Boers -ley -us cause a search -light used at a given
ing them at the defence of Mafeking. point for any length of time is doom -
Then the Japanese at Port Arthur ed to be reached by artillery;: Fur
demonstrated that the grenade might thermore, when "opposed' lines of
still have an important role to play trenches are within short rushing dis-
in'siegewarfare. tance, the attackers are Iikely'to be
So itwas that military men tyere silhouetted by their ownsearch-lights,
not' greatly : surprised when there which make them fair targets for
came ..an insistent .demand for gre-
nades from the •trenches in ' France
and''Flanders. '
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DAILIES.
These Modern Band -grenades,
are. nearly as.much, of. an improve-
ment over. the ancient bombs as the
siege -howitzer over the.culverin,
Some of them are not properly hand -
grenades, for they are fitted up with
a slender rod that can be inserted in
a rifle -barrel and driven by a charge
of powder into the enemy's trenches
five or six hundred yards away. Or
they can be thrown from a sort of
sling' to a distance of perhaps fifty
yards.
'marksmen outside the zone of light.
The present'.confliet as near y a
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1
,year old when the poison vapor, the
first child of advanced science in the
business of butchery, made its ap-
pearance. Will this prove to be the
limit of modern war's development in
deadliness and horror, or shall we
hear shortly that means have .been
discovered -and utilized -for project-
ing the germs of some hideous epi-
demic into the ranks of the enemy ?-
Howard C. Felton in Munsey's Maga-
zine.
'
..'In.shape and size they are like a„
rough -iron bottle that would hold
about a pint. Their capacity is prob-
ably soritewhat smaller- than that of
their forebears,.. but their exploding
force is immeasurably greater. They
are used in both attack and defense,
and their mechanism is such that they
are certain to explode on -contact,
eliminating the greatest danger. that
beset the old-time -grenadier.
There are more than a score of
types of machine guns one the firing -
lines of Europe, but the most novel
o' each o per. and interesting are the famous "one -
be at a serious disadvantage because man" guns, which are being substi-
the trajectory of • the German bullet tuted for the rifle just as rapidly as
they can be produced. Two of the
leading makes of this small but dead-
ly implement are the Lewis and the
Hotchkiss. Essentially there is little
difference in the mechanism of these
two guns. Both are air-cooled, and
both have attained a fire of more than
four hundred rounds to the minute.
The larger and older types of machine
gun are water-cooled.
You understand, of course, that the
heat generated by an almost continu-
ous explosion of smokeless powder is
terrific, and unless these guns are
artificially cooled, like a gasoline en-
gine, they bulge, or "jam,' in a few
seconds. The mechanism is astonish-
ingly simple. It consists broadly in
utilizing the force of one discharge to
turned out to fight over a wide coun- bring on the second, with the result
tryside, they will eventually come to that the bullets tumble out of the bar -
hand -grips, in spite of all the scien- eels in an unbroken stream..
tilts and strategists and text-books}in
the world.
The Turco is just an ignorant black-
faced African who would not recog-
nize an "enveloping: movement" if he
found one in his blankets; but the en-
tire output of the Krupp works and
the German General Staff could not
prevent what -had been declared im-
possible -a wounded Turco picked up
with, his hands so firmly locked in a
dead Prussian's hair that they had to
be pried open. He had killed the Ger-
man with his ten fingers.
In consideration of this aggressive
Turco, and of a few millions of other
men possessed with the same deter-
mination to kill, it swiftly became ap-
parent that a rifle which executes at
would perhaps be wise to postpone
two miles, while undoubtedly a'mar-
discussion of the subject until the
vel of science, did not meet the full facts are more fully known and the
needs of the situation, There arose a heat of controversy subsides. It may
demand for equipment that would
be stated, however, that the fumes or
make slaughter simple and prolific vapor which' the Germans have used
inside of two hundred yards; and both to paid their attacks on the lines of
sides were quick to see and supply the Allies cannot be properly describ-
I
the need. ed as "asphyxiating gas," though that
mmediate}y_thein term is in common use. "Asphyxia -
great numbers thee came forward new and terrible tion" means choking' to death, and it
"one-man" machine guns; quantities would be practically impossible to
of hand -grenades of all sorts and succeed in that amiable enterprise in
sizes; fire-bombs, and then liquid fire, the open air.
and, at last, poison gas. The next To penovmower a line' of soldiers in
ld' 111 t face
is somewhere higher than the flight of
the French or English, so that her
rifle sweeps its field of lire less com-
pletely.
Men Conte to hared -Grips.
But the armies played it rather low
on the war colleges. They got so
close together in.a few weeks that
long-range rifles, as such, ,were al-
most useless, and no one. remembered
anything about trajectories. They
were thinking of bayonet and butt, of
ancient hand -grenades and "fire-
balls," and good, old-fashioned stones
of a neat and throwable size. Thus
they proved•once'tnore what has been
history for five thousand years -that
when two armies of brave men are
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Germans Use Liquid Fire.
One of the first German contribu-
tions' to trench -warfare- was "liquid
fire." Just what this substance is
does not clearly appear from the avail-
able reports of it. It has been used
successfully only in the Argonne For-
est, where the trenches are at some
points almost within bayonet reach of
each other. Apparently the burning
chemical is'projected from a small
tank, the whole apparatus resembling
the chemical fire -extinguishers in the
halls of hotels and office -buildings. A
soldier can carry the tank on his back
and Play a stream of fire through a
hose.
As to the so-called "poison gas," it
GERMAN EFFORTS
COME TO NOUGHT
RUSSIAN SHIPS
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Try With All Their Might and Main
to Regain the Ground They
Lost. -a
A despatch from -Paris says: The
Germans are continuing to try with
all their might and means to regain
the ground they lost to the. French in
the recent allied offensive. So far
their efforts have been entirely un-
successful, the French War Office
asserts in an official communique,
adding that the Teutons suffered
heavy losses in the failure of their
counter-attacks.
Four successive counter-attacks
near Souchez were completely repuls-
ed, the War Office declares, while in
the Champagne, too, "stubborn coun-
ter-attacks" against the positions lost
by the Germans recently failed.
Equally as futile was an attempt on
the Lorraine front, where the French
allowed the Germans to advance to
their wire entanglements and then
showered a rain of shells upon them.
The 'communique tells of the destruc-
tion of a German captive balloon by
shrapnel fire from` a mitrailleuse in e
F'reneh aeroplane. •
The Germans admit that the French
have made slight progress, but on the
whole, claim to have repulsed the al-
lied general.offensive.
The towns mentioned in the two of-
ficial communications show that the
French have approached very close to
the Challerapge-Bazancourt railway,
which is theirs objective. St. Marie,
weapon that . soleis will have e the open there is need of something
may be some cpntri� f fn
disease -germs. Even. now It is offt-
•
Cruisers Are Pouring Shells Into the
Bulgarian Port and Causing
Much Damage. -
A despatch from London says: The •
Cologne Gazette reports two Russian
cruisers actively bombarding the Bul-.
gariaii•port'' of Varna. '
The Bulgarians are said to be fe-
verishly fortifying the port of Dedea-
ghatch. All buildings on the coast
have been evacuated and long-range .
guns are being placed in the forts,
while the port is being heavily mined.
This would indicate that the Bulgar-
ians anticipate what is considered
likely here, a naval bombardment of
Dedeaghdtch by French and British
fleets and a possible attempt to land
an expeditionary force.
The Anglo-French troops, which
were landed at Salonica with the ta-
cit consent of 'the,Greek Government,
are being hurried northward to assist ,
Serbia, and; if possible, keep the Bul-
garians from capturing the Salonica-
Nish railway, the only source by
which the Serbians can be fed with
munitions of war.
Public opinion in Bulgaria is not
entirely unanimous in support of
King Ferdinand, and reports indicatt
that the Bulgarian mobilization is not
being carried out without difficulty.
The King and Premier Radoslavoff,
however, have finally thrown in their
lot with Austria, Germany` and Tur-
key.,
Invasion of Serbia..
German and Austrian armies of
reportedly great strength have cross-
ed into Serbia at three widely diver-
gent points, and have firmly estab-
lished themselves. This news'is con-
tained in an official statement from
the German War Office, which says:
"German and Austro-Hungarian
troops crossed the Drina, the Sava
and the Danube at many places, and
obtained firm footing on the eastern
bank of the Drina and the southern
once or miec.l • stronger than merely an unbreathable'
gas; and this more deadly agency is
to be found in chlorin and the deadly
oxid family of vapors. These gases
do not asphyxiate -they kill like a
blow with -an ax, or 'Inflict deadly in
NevneRecord. and Toronto Star , 2.81 cfaily charged by General- Botha that
Newe•Reenrd and .Toronto race .. the Germans poisoned the wells in
South Africa in their retreat before
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play -they are constantly at
faring temptations for the
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'the British forces.
The Hand -grenade
is one of the oldest of the gunpowder
missiles. It was probably the first
exploding projectile of any kind. So
far as the writer can learn, there is
nq.. defini e • a pear-,
ance,,ba _ lb into
pretty genera' the middle
of the seevnteenth century."Grena-
diers" as a recognized; corps are men-
tioned by John. Evelyn in the sum-
mer" of' 1678. Evelyk'did not appar
ently esteem them hfghlys for he dis-
misses them thus briefly:
"Now were brought into service a
new hind of soldiers called ed g
renadi
ers
>
who were dexterous in the flinging of
hand -grenades. They had furred caps
with coped crowns, which made them
look very fierce."
Evidently Mr. Evelyn expected
ahont as good results from their looks
as from their weapons -that is to say,
juries upon the respiratory system.
An inhalation of chlorin, if not im-
mediately fatal, results in a burning
of the tissue of the lungs, with the
probable result of death after agoniz-
ing tortures,.
Carbon-monoxid gas is as deadly as,
prussic acid,: You do not choke -you
die as if shot through the brain. Even
a few whiffs of it mingled with clean
air,' will cause vertigo and fainting.
Many a woman who is troubled with
and fainting headache s
Pells when at
work in her kitchen has "back -lit" her
gas -stove, which isone of the hest
home ways ofgenerating aterg
this deadly
gas. -When one so, poisoned is found
soon enough after losing conscious-
ness, and the doctor's diagnosis is
correct, life is saved by drawing off
the poisoned blood and stimulating
the blood -centres with a salt solution.
Artificial respiration, the roniedy for
then grenades,, asphyxiation, is the least-impnrtant
These Were probably the most heav-
ily
eav, went Hart•.
ghee
to which the. Germans say the French banks of - the Save and the Danube.
penetrated; but were driven out by . News: from various sources plaza-,
immediate counter-attacks, is on that the strength Of `the' Teutonic armies
railway. invading Serbia at 400,000 men. The
The capture of the hamlet of Ta- troops which Bulgaria is able to
Imre and the hill immediately north throw against the southern borders of
called Butte of Tahure is a consider- Serbia are supposed to be of of about •
able mark of resumption of the equal number. While there it no '
French offensive in Champagne, and news yet at hand that the Bulgarian
has, besides, great significance with forces have moved to cross the fron-
regard to the position in the West. tier, it is generally supposed here
The capture of Tahure, the farthest that, the invasion has begun on the
northtward thrust .of the French. in
Champagne, threatens the Germans
on both sides.
d'-- -
Three Good Ones..
"Give three reasons for saying the
earth is round," confronted Sandy
in an examination paper.
"My teacher says it's round, the
book says it round, and a man told
me it was round."
ilyarme. foot -soldiers cnat ever:hug New Methdd of -Slau 4
to battle They mustliavebeen'huge
Poor Chap.
Poor Binksl Ile has small luck, they
say.
His life is full of pain,
He saved up for a rainy day,
And then it didn't rain!
It's a short alley.that
barrel.
men to carry a supply of grenades, a It is interesting to recall the fact
sling for throwing them, a musket; a that the use of poisonous gases was.
:bayonet, a'sliort battle-ax, a sword, suggested to the British Government
and a dagger. Despite the fact that by Admiral Lord Dundonald in 1846,
they were 'animated -arsenals, it ds µ'hen.;there ;,was...expectaton.of .war.
likely that the moral' effect of their with France, but the proposal was
re-
attack was greater than the excel
tion,•. _
One of their weals points was the
fact that they sometimes broke up
their attack with their own artillery.
Their grenades were, powder -filled
balls, exploded by a fuse, which the
grenadier lighted before throwing,
just as a boy, lights a giant cracker.
Often the result was mach the same
as with the boy and the cracker. The
fuse would ,often burn slowly, and.
then, as the grenadiers charged im-
mediately' after , hurling the bombs,
they arrived, in the midst of the
enemy in time •to .get; the benefit of
their, own missiles. '•
Save for mention in sieges here and
there, grenadiers, seem to have gradu-
jetted on. the grouted that it 'would
not; accord'; with• the, feelings -and prin-
ciples are" It is the
civilized w
' e of f
et 1 s
P
one distinctly new method of slaugh-
ter which the present world -war has
produced. Even the "liquid -fire" of
the Germans in the Argonne, while
we do not know exactly what it is,
plainly 'traces its descent from the
"Greek fire" with which Archimedes
and his fellow townsmen seriously an-
noyed the Roman legionaries at the
siege of Syracuse. Greek fire was
not liquid, but, according'to tradition,
it was like the German substance in
that it burned until burned,'; out, and
there was no Way to quench it. It
must have been a formidable weapon',
against soldiers forced to depend on
las no ash
southern side of Serbia as well as on
the north, and that in all probability
these forces are supported by some -
250,000 Turks, who are not requited
at the Dardanelles.
i•
The Maid's Decision.
"We are to have a Jewish rabbi for
dinner to -day," said a lady to her
servant. For a moment the maid
surveyed her mistress in grim silence.
Then she spoke with decision. "All
I have to say is," she announced, "if
you have a Jewish rabbi for dinner
you'll cook it yourself!"
Birds have an extra eyelid, which
can be drawn over the eyeball to pro-
tect it from the strong sun, while the
proper eyelid remains open, enabling
them to see.
STEADILY DRIVEN BACKWARD
TURKS
Average Gain of 30o Yards Recorded as R -suit of
Bomb Attacks by British at Sulva
A despatch from London says: "During the past month the fight -
During the past month of fighting in ing' at Suvla Bay;; has not been.on a
the' British have gain -
scale rts,
s g 'al reports.
the Dardanelles scale calling for sped p
ed on an average something more
Every night there have been patrol
than 300 yards all '" along,' the centre
actions and bomb attacks, and we
ord-
ace
to
- Ile Suvlittle over 300
arm front, of .Rafeaverage oftan avei•a
wined g
g
ing to an official statement embodied
yards along the whole centre of the
four -mile Suvla front."
in a report from Gen. Sir Ian Hamil-
ton, as follows:
.ENCIRCLE
AI
ALL
OF POLAND
.
TRENCHES TO
Cermalis Wiil Force Every Male Inhabitant to
Combat Russian Attack
A despatch from London, says: In.
a despatch from Petrograd Reuter's
correspondent says:" Polish refugees.
arri'viii'g'liere. say that Geiinan offis.
cials declare that Poland will be sur-
rounded by a triple line of trenches
and barbed wire entanglementsand
that the Russians willbe quite un-
able to
nable:to dislodge them, for if thereis
a shortage of men they will arm the
'entire
masculine population
of Po-
land
and force them to fight the Rue
-
scans."
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