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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-01-11, Page 2tat. D. dieTAtlG,l'R'f IS. D. $cTAGEAR' M Bros. -- iSAIYT(IIRS - A GI NEItAI. BANKING IMO NESS TRANSACTED. NOTEa DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED INTEREST ALLOWED ON DYI POSITS GALE NOTES rult• CHASED. II, T. RA N CE -- NOTARY PUBLIC.- CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FiRE iNRIIR• ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT- ING 14 FIRE INSURANCE • COMPANIES DIVISION COURT CFPICE, C)f.INTOP, W E RYDOl4E, BARRISTER. t50LIO1TOn. ' NOTARY PUBLIC, ETO. Uhler- Sloan Block -CLINTON 111, •G. CAMERON H.O. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. CONVEYANCER. ETC Office Oil Albert Street oecuped by M r. 111 wiper. In Clinton uo every Thursday, end on any day for which ap-• pointments are made. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 0 p.m. A good vault in connection witb the office Office open every Creek -day. Mr. Hooper will make any appointments kr Mr. Cameron. CHARLES R. HALIf, Conveyancer, Notary Public. Oommisatoner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANC$ Issuer of Marriage Licenses HURON STREET, - CLINTON ORS. GUNN & DANDIER Dr. W. Gunn, L.R.C.P., L,A O.S., Edio.' Dr. J. O. dandier, B.A., M.13. Office --Ontario St., Clinton. Night sills at residence, Rattenbury St., er at Respite( OR. O. 19. TII031PSON PiisY1U!AN, SURGEON. ETC Special attention peen to dis- eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Eyes. carefully examined and imit- able glasses prescribed Office and residence. A doors west of the Commercial Hotel. Huron at, GEORGE ELLiOTT Licensed Auctioneer for tb• Comity et Huron. Correspondence promptly answered, Immediate arrangements can be etude for Bah . Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or be stilling Phone 13 oa lar Charges moderate and satiefactioe guaranteed There is a Cod Clay Coming Why not prepare for It by ordering your winter supply of Lehigh Valley oat, None beter in the world. House Phone 12. Office Phone 3. A. J. HOLLOWAY The McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Uompally Heard office, Seaforth, Ont. DIRECTORY President, James Connolly, Godeiich ; Vice, James Elvans, Beechwood ; Sec. -Treasurer, Thos. E. Hays, Sea, forth. Directors: George McCartney, Sea. forth ; D. F. McGregor, Seaforth ; J. O. Grieve, Winthrop ; Wm, &inn, Seaforth ; A. McEwen, Bruceaeld ; Robert Ferris, Harlock. Agents : Alex. Leitch, Clinton ; 1. W Leo, Goderich ; Ed. Rinchley, Sea - forth ; W, Chesney, Egmoudville ; l3. 8, Jarmuth, Brodhagen. Any money to be paid in mas be paid to Moorish Clothing Co., Clinton, or at_dutt's Grocery, Godorloh. Parties desiring to effect insnronce or transact other business will be promptly attended to on application to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post officer. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. GRAS Tfl[]I�jj RA LW -TIME 'TABLE. -- Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV. Going East, depart 7.31 a.m. 11 44 (( 2,58 p.m. (1 to Stratford 5,15 p.m. Going West, ar. 11,00, dp. 11,07 a.M. " " depart • 1,85 P.m. " " ar. 6.32, dp, 0.45 pan, " departs 11.03 p.m. LONDON, IITJRON & BRUCE DTV. Going South, ar. 7.83, dp, 8.05 p.m, " deports 4, 15 p.m. Going Myth, ar. 10,30, dp. 11,00 mitt, ,, " departs 6,40 p.in. -if you feel bilious, ''headsehy" and irritable•-.= fox that's a sign your liver Is .out of order, Your food is not dtge tbit -it etava in the stomach a'sour, tormented mites, poisoning -the system. Just take a dose of hamberlain's Stomach and Livor Teblete- they make the liver do its work --they cleanse and Mitt.we.ton t).Itoms5h nail tone the whose di,Ys tivp py,tom, You'il fu the morning, At all dru¢¢Ipt,,, 26n„ or by mats frgnj, Chamberlain ?ltledioine Cdnipany, Toronto 14 fertilizer We carry a Compete Stock of Stone's Natural Fertilizer, No better on the market, Hay We pay at all seasons the highest market prices for Hay for baling, Seeds American Feed. Corn, ,Red Olo- res, Alsike, Timothy and Alfalfa. FORD a McLEOD CLINTON. How 'lis Your tkkry Supply ? Ton 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 greatest care and ut- most skill from the highest - priced materials 11 you can use some of this Cutlery in your home, yon. will be proud of it every time you see it an 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 as show you our Cutlery line. Let us tell you more about why it is the most desirable that you cao put your money iota, W. R. COUNTER �k.NF;LER and ISSUER of MARRIAGE LICENSES. New Clubbing Rates For 1917 WEEELIES. News -Record and Plainly Iieraldand Weekly Star 1.86 News -Record and Canadian Countryman 1.60 Naive -Record and Weekly Sun , 1.86 News -Record and Farmer's Advocate 2.60 News -Record and Farm & Dairy1,86 News -Record and Canadian Perm 1.86 News-Rrcord and Weekly Witness 2,36 News Record and Northern Messenger 1.60 News -Record and Saturday Night8.60 News -Record and Youth's Com- panion 3.26 nIONiRZTES. 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Gillette Auto Strop and Evert Ready Safety Razors and Shav- ing Srushes, Kodak and Albums, Pack- age Perfumes in a variety of pleasant odors. Beautiful news goods at the Rexal15 tor..e e S S . R. Holmes Bs ILA, RUMANIA CAPTURED BY HUNS Virtually all. the River Danub in Possession of the Invaders, e A despatch from London. SOS ;- The Rumanian province of the Dob rudja is now in the hands of the Cen trail Powers, whose armies continue t advance tlu'ough Great Wallachia int Moldavia. Braila, an important commercia city in Great Wallachia, and on th west batik of the Danube below Galati, has been captured by Ger man and Bulgarian troops, Severe '7illages on the outskirts of Brail also have been occupied, and Field Marshal von Mackensen's troops have taken 1,400 prisoners in their lates success, Virtually all of the River: Danube ;from its source to its mouth, is now i. the hands of the Teuton forces, who control all of the eastern bank and all but a few miles of the western bank. Galati, 12 miles north of Braila, is the only important Rumanian town on the Danube yet in Rumanian hands. The clearing of the Dobrcdjei by the com- bined Bulgarian, Turkish and German forces, it is reported semi -officially from Berlin, leaves a larger part of these forces ready for other employ- ment, and closes the Dobrudja path- way to Constantinople to Russia. . 0 0 1 e a t n FRENCH COMMANDER SURE OF VICTORY Gen. Nivell's General Order to the Troops at the. Front. • • A despatch from Limoges, France, says: La France Militaire on Friday publishes the following general order to the troops, issued by General Nivelle: "At a time when another year of the war is ending you can be proud' of the work accomplished. At Verdun you broke the most powerful blow Germany ever struck against any of her adversaries. On the Somme, emu- lating the courage of our British al- lies, during a long series of attacks, you have given proof of a tactical su- periority which will continue to im- prove, Never has our army been bet- ter trained or more brave or possess- ed of more powerful meats. "It is under these brilliant auspices that the work of 1917 begins. You will make it a year of victory. In this absolute confidence I send you all, of- ficers and soldiers, my meat affection- ate wishes for the new year.' U-BOAT SENDING OUT S.O.S. WIRELESS SIGNALS. A despatch front London says: An Amsterdam special to the Times says: German submarines are now even sending out S.O.S. wireless sig- nals to lure British vessels to destruc- tion. The Telegraef learns from an officer of a large steamer of an im- portant Dutch line that on his journey from the Dutch East Btdies he receiv- ed'while in the Bay of Biscay a S.O.S. message. He immediately rushed to the place indicated and found a Ger- man submarine which was not in dis- tress. The captain of the submarine expressed regret that it was Dutch and not a British vessel, and said, "we dont want you to save our souls, we want British to save our souls." s. GERMANY'S SECOND NOTE TO STATE PRECISE TERMS A despatclt4rom Paris says :-The Central Powers are reporter] by the Lausanne Gazette to be preparing a second note to the Entente enumerat- ing the precise conditions of peace, says a Geneva despatch to the Temps: The peace terms of, the Teutonic allies which Count Julius Andrassy, former Hungarian Premier, 10 reported to have said the Entente could learn from President Wilson, are believed in diplomatic quarter's to consist of gen- eralizatioiis which Germany and Aus- tria-Hungary communicated to the Pope and presumably to the American authorities Vinton News- Record CLINTON, ONTARIO. 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The first the ten Buddhist "precepts of aversion" is EXPERIMENTS '1'O 111SGULATE that of the Christian ' commandment -"Thou shalt not kill:" Therefore the money goes to the relief of the wound- ed or to some other' purpose not.,di- redly militant. To such an extont is the precept against the taking of life carried that the Buddhist monk will not destroy an insect, and in the sect of the Jains the religious orders carry the doctrine still further. They must not even leave a liquid uncover, ed for fear some insect might be drowned in it. They must wear a veil over their mouths to guard against swallowing any £lying crea.' taro; they must carry a brush where- with to sweep the place where they intend to sit, lest life be crushed. The gift of a net, large sum of money to the war treasury, as the first installment ]n a aeries, has there- fore a significance beyond that of a subscription from sources uninfluenc- ed by a rigorous ethical code. As in the magnificent response of Iridian princes to the call for soldiers bar- riers of caste were broken down for- ever, $o in the response to the appeal for relief funds ancient prejudices have lost much of their force even when they have not been discarded. The generous action of the folk of Burma, many of whom are poor to a degree unimaginable among us, in as a light that shines "amid the encircl- ing gloom". of the war. • An aviator who in a fall of 800 feet broke both knees, both' thumbs, his nose and one hip, while his associate recievod mortal injuries, expresses only an eagerness to get back to the the people. That was the Puritanic air again and continue the study of idea, the applies] science of aviation. "Any Those laws were called "sumptu- one who has flown once always wants ary." They aimed at various specific to fly again," he says. His instruct- things, all of which, however, were of or devised a theory to prevent the re- currence of such a mishap, promptly reproduced the conditions of the accid- ent, and from a greater height per- mitted the machine to fall with him. The theory worked and he regained control of the machine a few hundred feet from the ground. The sons of Martha indeed have PERSONAL QUTLAY. ,Spending More Than You Cap Afford on Wheettis Not Necessary is Extravagance. Extravagance is dlte.ef the words that remain loyal to their derivation. It means wandering beyond bounds, and is most often used with reference to the e)cpeediture of phoney. What are tine boundt, and who sets them, within which individual citizens may spend money? In reference to that question it is interesting to no- tice that in many countries the ex- periment has been tried of regulating and limiting by law the objects and amounte of personal outlay. The mo- tives were sometimes military; the rulers' believed that overindulgence in luxuries weakened the bodily strength And sapped the courage of the people. That was the case with the Greeks, especially the Lacedsemonians, and also at different times with the Ro- mans, the English and the French. Sumptuary Laws. It was the opinion that citizens would be less able to respond to the demands of the state for revenue if they were allowed to waste their sub- stance in gratifying artificial desires. Sometimes again the motives were moral. Indulgence in excesses was thought not only to be a vice itself but to lead to other vices; and there- fore . the government was empowered to regulate and control the habits of the same general lend. They covered excessive expenditures for buildings, for funeral solemnities and for sepul- chral monuments; they limited the number of guests at banquets and marriage feasts, and also the charac- ter and extent of the courses to be served; and they forbade the use of gold dishes at private entertainments. The sumptuary laws also applied to spilled their blood that future genera- the apparel and adormnent of women; tions may read, as in clear print, the they regulated the use of gold and sil- ver embroidery, jewelry, dresses of more than a single color, silks and fine linens, and even costly hairpins and children's dolls. Sometimes they forbade "fantastic and deforming fashions," such as the wearing of long, pointed shoes. Brides were not permitted to have excessive dowries. Unpleasant, But Necessary. The men have not always escaped, Some of the laws above mentioned ap- plied to them, although, as we read in Livy, it was the women only who broke into revolt on account of such restrictions. Laws of that kind have now been generally abandoned, partly because the idea of individual liberty has Officersbroadened, partly because a sounder Quarters in Dugout Contain Mirrors, Easy Chairs and Pictures, The German front in the West, the London Times tells us, is like a huge cryptogram of the air -trail. Out of war's horror will come the more flex- ible and familiar employmefit of the aeroplane for commerce and inter- course. The wings *hose shadow is now the shadow of death will' give themselves again to a mission of the angels, and be commanded by the usages of peace. For be who has known the ethereal exhilaration can say: ' "I alone have seen the earth, Age-old fetters swept aside." and he will not be content outside of his dominion, GERMAN TRENCH HOUSES. view of the proper functions of gov- ernment has become prevalent. Yet', under the stress caused by the great war now raging, some countries have TiJE LATEST IIA i`CII 0I' V,C,'s Heroes Wboap Brave Deeds Mance ','heir Cotnttry Proud, The latest batch of. Victoria Cresees RHEUMATISM GOES IF HOOD'S IS USED have been„awarded to "three o{licettsThe i;eneine old reliable Iie Saraaeoodperailn corrects the avid candle And two lirivates' fn English regi- lion of the blond and builds up the meats and a sergeant of en Irish regi, wbolo system. It drives ont rhizome,- meat. All distinguished themselves tram because it cleanses the blood. not only for indifference to danger, Il; has been successfully wised for but for quick thinking, In every ease forty years in many tbousan& or the winner had rallied end led troops ogees the world over. under fire, had atietehed victory from 'There is no better remedy for shin defeat, For instance, Private Robert and blood diseases, for loos of appe- Rider, of the Middlesex, assumed com- Lite, rheumatism, stornarh and hid - mend of his regiment when all the ney troubles, general debility and all officers had been killed or wounded, ills arising from impure, 101901er- led a remnant of men forward, and • ished, devitalised blood. with the aid of a Lewis gun clewed It ]a 000000ssaly to 811f101'. Start trench fri front of him and car)iod treatment at once, Got a bottle of the enemy's position, Inand eotnenting ; hood's Sarsaparilla from .your near - upon the latest awards renlviewing est druggist,„.., You rill rip pleased some earlier ones, the New York Sun;; with the results, observes that among the winners was ------r- an elderly man who left a wife and SCOT nine children at home in order toFROM OLDSCO. LAND serve his country, and "that glorious boy," John Travers Cornwall, who, mortally wounded, remained at his post in the Jutland battle because, as he explained shortly before he died, "he thought he might be needed." We may be surd that when the roll of heroism for the war is completed no name will shine more radiantly than that of this lad. Nor shall the first to win the cross in this war ever bo forgotten, This was the famous Captain Francis 0. The price of the 4 lb. loaf in Crieff Grenfell, who was wounded in both has been raised from 20 cents to legs and a hand at Andregnies, Belt gium, on August 24th, 1914, while saving the guns of the 119th Battery. 1;Ie was invalided'home, but returned to the front and was ]tilled in action. In his will Captain Grenfell left his decorations 'to the Ninth Lancers, "to whom," he wrote, "the honor of my NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER HANKS AND BRAES. What Is Going On in the Highlands , and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. twenty-one cents. The military authorities are hoping to obtain from 250 to 300 farm ser- vants in Berwickshire. Col. C. W. Scott, of Dumfries, has assumed the post of Assistant Direc- tor of Artillery in France. Rothesay streets have become so gaining the V.C. was entirely due, dangerous owing to the darkness that thanks to the splendid disciplineand many accidents have occurred. traditions which exist in this magni- In two years the valuation of the ficent regiment. This was one of the Duke of Atholl's property in the Iligh- "First Hundred Thousand," "the Old land district has fallen $19,075. Contemptibles," as they are proud to An outbreak of anthrax is reported be called. Some of the regiments that from West Lothian, and a large num- formedthis first immortal expedition- ber of bullocks have had to be ere- ary force to France, the Coldstream mated. Guards, for instance, lost almost The Edinburgh Chamber of Com - every officer.. This force had been coerce urges the necessity on the trained to fight to the last ounce University of establishing a degree in of human endurance, and there was little of it left when the Battle of the Marne was decided. THE BRAVEST DEED. Acts of Valor Which Cannot Be Sur- passed. The New York Sun thinks that the question as to the bravest decd that won the Victoria Cross will never be decided. There are a hundred deeds which no human devotion or courage or sacrifice could ever surpass. For valor; in attacking a foe Michael O'Leary stands out with L: Corpl. Al- bert Jacka, of the Australians, as un- surpassable in all military history. At Courtney's Post on the Gallipoli, Jaeke, single-handed, shot or fbayon- eted seven Turks who tried to rush the trench he was defending, and he was the only man left alive or un- wounded in it. Yet his bravery can- not rank above that of Private Potts, of the Berkshire Infantry, at Suvia Bay. Shot in the left thigh, he drag- ged a worse wounded comrade for three nights on an entrenching shovel village that is strung out along a already resorted to them again, and moving only a fete feet with every road three hundred miles long. Of others are beginning to advocate effort, until he reached a British out - course the houses are all underground. them. post. Lieut. A. V. Smith, of an East Still they are houses of one or two But although in Dur times, under Lancashire Regiment, threw- himself floors, built according to certain of- normal conditions, the bounds beyond ficial designs, The main entrance which expenditure becomes extrava- from the trench level is through a gent are no longer fixed by law, it steel door, of a pattern apparently does not follow that there are none. standardized, so that hundreds come They are now established by the from the factory on one order, and common judgment of mankind found - missing parts can be easily replaced. ed on long experience. They are not Tho heavily timbereddoorway is arbitrary like those prescribed by au - made to their measure. Inside, a thority, but vary from time to time flight of from twelve to thirty-six according to circumstances and gen- stairs leads down at an easy angle. eral conditions. And disregard of The treads of the stairs and the de- them, although not punished as apub- scending roof of the staircase lie offense, is followed by the more are formed of mining frames of stout certain penalties imposed by the na- timber', with double top sills; the walls turas low of cause and effect. sire of thick planks notched at the top The directions that extravagance and bottom to fit the frames, and . takes are still the same as those it strengthen with iron tie -rods that run lhes taken,' because, in its essentials from top to bottom of the stairs and L both of strength and weakness, hu - with thick wooden struts at right man nature does not change, The angles to the tie -rods. At,the foot of the stairs a, tunneled corridor rams, straight forward For perhaps fifty yards, and from it rooms is a very elastic terns. It is said that and minor passages open on either what were luxuries in one age of the side. In some of the dugouts a world becomes necessaries in another; second staircase leads to a lower but it is easy to deceive yourself on less Yates had a small chin, a keen, floor, which may be as much as thirty that subject. You slioald remember laughing eye, hair parted in the mid - or forty feet below the trench level. that you do not really need a thing dle, and might have been taken for a These staircases, passages and the lack of which causes you no worse frivolous society man. Potts has fiar- rooms are usually completely -lined suffering titan that of ungratified de- ing ears, a twisted mouth, a flippant cording to special rlespateh<:o from with planks. In one typical dugout sire 0r unsatisfied pride, --Youth's eye, and looks absolutely unheroic." Taiholni, the caprin.] of Formosa, It each section of a platooi hadits al- Compatriots. So we would have them painted, like is estimated that one thousand houses lotted place for messing and sleeping, Cromwell, "wart and all," for Gm have been destroyed. The city of its own place for parade in a pas- , grandchildren to look at and rever-Nante has been damaged extensively sage,caTHEd its own emergency exit to THE SUPREME HONOR. by fire. the troth In another, used as a Making Papor in Japan. dressing station, there were beds for commonest form of extravagance is spending more than you can afford for what are not really necessaries. That Commerce. Dr. A. R. Turnbull, formerly medi- cal superintendent of the Fife and Kinross Asylum, has just died in Edinburgh. Summons warnings on lampposts, etc., are being experimented with in Kincardineshire, and promise to be successful. A suggestion was made for utiliz- ing German prisoners on a mid -Scot- land ship canal at a meeting of the ,, Edinburgh Town Council. Criticism of War Office methods in calling up farm workers was made, at the annual meeting of the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture. David Lawson, stationmaster at Shettleston, has retired, after nearly 52 years' service with the North British Railway Company. At a meeting in Edinburgh attend- ed by Lord Rosebery a civil advisory committe was formed to deal with war allowance diflicultie's, The valuation of Perthshire during the past two years show a decrease of $88,596.40, chiefly due to the less- ened demand for the shootings. Second Lieut. John Steel Ralston, Cameronians, youngest son of Col, T. B. Ralston, Haxtoun, Bothwell, has been awarded the Military Cross. The death has occurred -at Burnt - upon a bomb_that had dropped out island of Mr. William C. Arnott, for - of his hand, and though he ryas blown merly district superintendent of the to pieces, he saved the lives of his North British Railway at Burntisland. comrades. Lord Salvesen protested at the an- nual meeting of the Association of Lowland Scots against the treatment of Lowland regiments by the War Office. Major Yates, of the Second York- shire Light Infantry, was mortally wounded and taken prisoner at Le Cateau, while leading nineteen survi- vors of his battalion of 220 men in a charge, and Major George Wheeler, of the Seventh Lancers, at Shaiba, Meso- potamia, a born leader of forlorn hopes, thus met his death: "He was seen far ahead of his men, riding single-handed, straight for the en- emy's standard." The writer in the Sun has been impressed by the photo- graphs of some of these V.C. men, many 80 kilograms of bacon shall be which have appeared in the London exported to England, while equal weekly papers. IIe says, "There is a quantities of salted pork will be ex - quiet, steadfast look about most of ported to both countries. the faces; seldom, if ever, a pose of conscious gallantry. • The V.O. 300 PERSONS BILLED mar usually seems to be the soul of IN FORMOSA EARTHQUAKE good nature. The bulldog type is hard- ly present at 1111. The death- A despatch from Tokio says :- Three hundred persons have been kill- ed and many injured in a disastrous earthquake in Central Formosa, ac- DUTCII PORI( FOR BERLIN BACON FOR ENGLAND A despatch from Amsterdam says: -The Telegraaf announces that an agreement has been arrived at under which for every 100 kilograms of fresh pork Holland exports to Ger- Victoria Ciosses Dealt Out With Great Caution. Victoria Crosses are dealt out as grudgingly as though they were com- posed of radium, This is because the holier is the greatest that can be won by a British subject, and also because in the present war all provtolls stand- ards of gallantry have been surpass- ed, o1• rather what nae man did in the Crimea and three in South Africa, a hundred are doing 10 0110 present war.To give a V.C. t0 every heroic Midler11 the British army would be to snake the cross ae common00 corporals' tripes, So itis bestowed es 000010ns- ly as though the candidate fee it wereatpplyi ng for canonization. Not only must the deed that wins the cross be f exquislle heroism; it must be as My witnessed and attested as a sig - attire to a will, A veritable court of nquiry sits on each case, and tiniest t presents some features far out et rho ordinary ovenm aong herolc deeds, Clio supremo honor is withhold and a lilts*Cross or modal givens instead, hat is why only about 200 Victoria 1'00504 have been awarded in the Erltish array and navy since the be, timing of the war, And There 1•ie atone. "Bttiffetn poses 110.0 tweeter, doesn't"Well, yes; he's always energetic hi cachinga conclusion .that something ulit tobedue.l, 01100`. Predictions and Pacts. thirty-two patients and a fair-sized operating room. A third, near Mametz was s designed to house three hundred men, with tate needful kit- chens, provision and munition store- rooms, a well, a forge, an engine room and a motor room, Many of the cap- tured dugouts were thus lighted by e b 1 ]ectricity. In the officers' quartets there have een found full-length mirrors, com- C P c a t ly e ortablo bedsteads, cushioned elan - hairs and some pictures. One room s lined with glazed "sanitary" wall aper, and the present English oc upant is convinced by circumstantial tial that his precieeessor lived here with his wife and child. Overt there ivas no expectation of an 0 arly move, d Couldn't Fool Dinny. 0 Subscriptions had been asked to efray the expense of heating the urch, One of the , parishioners amed ilfuldoon, had failed to contri- 1te, The priest met this man and id to Mint Dent is• , . u whydidn't t • dnt l: t 1 "- ,you give sone sing towards the col bill 1" 1; Donnie gave his reverence a sly inlc as Ito replied: "Collo, come, fatliorl The ]clew of thrying to make us believe the .h ottey is wanted to bila coal for the Melly whin l as well as your river- n< ce icn0•ws'tllat it's heatedby steam." 0 d ch 0 b sa tl w yo m ch 011 g The British Empire, according to the German Minister of Finance, will o go down n lik e Belsltazzar's empire. Ire also said that food is cheaper in Ger- many than in England cr France. If his predictions are no more accurate than his statements of fact, British need not worry. -New Yoric Evening Post. Necessity is the mother of inven- tion; promotions is the step -father, Paper making was one of the earliest industries of Japan. When Europeans were writing on the skins of animals and leaves of plants an- cestors of modern Japanese were re- cording their thoughts on paper made from wood or vegetable fibre, Paper making in Japan was probably intro- duced from Korea about A.D. 610. It's easy for a woman to under stand why a mat can't understand her, ENEMY RAIDING PARTY ENTERS 9 BRITISH LINES SOUTH OF LOOS Was Speedily Driven Out, Leaving Numerous Dead in the British Trenches, A despatch from London says: The British ot33cle] communication issued Friday night says: "Early this morning a hostile raid- ing party etleoeeeied in entering our lines south of Loos. Heavy fighting ensued. The enemy was speedibV driven out, leaving tt number of dead; in our tenches, 801'110 of our n11011 are missing, "We saceessltilly exploded a mine early last night north et Ciivetichy.; The artillery activity has been con- siderable at it number of places along our front. Successful boirrliamdments of enemy trenches have been carried .cut by us opposite Iles Boards, t;uen- decourt, west of Gommecourt and in the neighborhood of Hill 60. "Thum was considerable nodal ac- tivity yerterdoy. Successful work was carried out by our aeroplanes in con- junction with our artillery, Two of our machines aro missing."