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ATE" Y INE CAN do
something for his
country
Some can bear arms
Some can produce food
Some can snake munitions
Some can give money
It is the privilege of all to help.
OBJ CAN SERVE by
Fighting—Working—
Saving—Giving
i htin—Workin —Saving --Giving
This is NATIONAL SERVICE
Are YOU doing your part ?
I.I. EYES turn now to
the Canadian Farmer,
for he can render the
Empire SPECIAL SERVICE
in this sternest year of the
war. ---
But—our farms are badly under-
manned -25,000 men are needed on
the land.
With insufficient help, the Man on
the Land fights an uphill fight to
meet the pressing need for Food.
ITY and TOWN
can help.
Municipal Councils, Churches and
Schools, and other organizations,
both of men and women, can render
National Service by directing all
available labour to the Land.
Farmers themselves can exchange
labour. School boys. can assist.
Were you raised on a farm? Can you
drive a team? Can you handle fork
or hoe? If you can't fight, you can
produce. Spend the Slimmer work-
ing on the Farnl.
Let every pian, woman and child in
the Dominion who has access to
Land, no matter how small the plot,
make it produce Food in 1917.
For information on any subject relating to
the Farm and Garden write: --
INFORMATION BUREAU
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OTTAWA
DOMINION
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OTTAWA, CANADA.
HON. MARTIN BURRELL, MINISTER.
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OHO On News -1%260H
March 29th, 1917
inh nClinton
an .Fair bity, Thursday, April shit,
Take Time to Select Wall Paper
for that root" in your house
that needs it so badly '
You'll find our Stock Complete
ALL PAPER TRi'1INI D FREE,
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Special Values on Small Lots and ends,
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CLINTONC
THIS WORLb CROWDED?
Why, Lake Champlain, Frozen, Would
Easily Hold All Its People.
There are on this globe about 1,500;
000,000 inhabitants, Most of es, whc
lack the sense of proportion, -at the
mention of this big number are apt to
speak of the "overpopulation" of the
world. Yet fE we spare a few moments'
thought we shall better know what
this represents. There is in my study
room a geographic globe about fifteen
inches in diameter. On that sphere
there is marked a little spot about the
size of the point of a pencil—at any
rate, so'small as to make it impossible
to write the initials of its name—Lake
Champlain—upon it.
Tet - whenever Lake Champlain
freezes over tbere to good standing -
room for every ono of ail the inhabi•
tants of the earth, and then this lake
would be considerably less crowded '
than some of the busy streets of New
i•Xork. Indeed, strange as it may sound.
every ono, young and old, would find
about one square yard to stand upon.
Nay, more, if the very young and the
very old would please to stand aside on
the shores of the lake the remainder of
the total inhabitants of the world
could arrange a skating party where
there 'would be less crowding than is
seen on a busy winter day on that skat•
ing pond in New Portes Central park.
Sketching the picture is like visualiz-
ing the great tragedy of the human
race—the few people of this earth do
leekglomi q r li?g.their inlpJ,eyse are
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Thanks for Ontarra.
of splendid
The a rociatiort the s
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response by the people of Ontario to
the appeal for funds to assist the
British Red Cross is shown in a let-
ter received by iron. T. W. McGarry,
Provincial Treasurer, who acted as
treasurer of the Central Ontario
Provincial Committee, from ' Lord
Lansdowne as presideut of the Joint
War Committee of the 'British Red
Cress Society and the Order of St.
John of Jerusalem through Sir Joltu
Hendrie, Lieutenant -Governor. The
letter accompanies the official ac-
knowledgment of £250,000 signed
by Robert A. Hudson, chairman of
the Joint Finance Committee, and is
as follows:
Dear Sir John Hendri.e,--
I cannot allow the enclosed
formal receipt to be despatched to
you without asking you to receive
the meet grateful thanks of the
Joint Societies for the munificent
support which the Province of Ou-
tario gives us in our work.
We are under a great debt of
obligation to you, and to all wbo are
associated with .you in the task. of
so organizing our appeal that it
comes to the knowledge of everyone
within your Province. Tho thor-
oughness of your organization,
coupled with the patriotism and
generous sympathy of your people,
can alone account
for the splendid
results which you achieve.
I am, dear Sir John Iiendrie,
Yours faithfully,
(Sgd.) LANSDOWNE.
An additional £50,000 was cabled
after the-"rrceipt o, this letter, •
Dvy Goods
and
House '
I Furnishing
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With Easter just a few
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There are'featuras about aur
Spring Suits that will appeal
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Each a correct and distinctive
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Choose Your Easter Suit
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Approved models, splen-
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Over one hundred coats
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Order Your Easter Hat Early.
Never before have we been so busy in this depart-
ment, Never before have we had such a grand dis-
play. Our hats are smartly trimmed with Bows, Ro-
settes, Japanese Ornaments and English Berries,
Fruits and Flowers.
Special for Horse Show -Day:
Five dozen Ladies' Wash Silk Waists, good qual-
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FAME "IN A FEW -WORD'S,
Authors Who Are Now Known Only
by a 13ingleAWork or Passage,
Fltllip ,Tames Halley %trete 'Teethe"
When. 14 tstaett3-tireo and,
tired
i
to be eigety.six without lidding oppre-
dlably to his early laurels. Ills `U es--
tus" was compared by eethusittstic ad..
inh.'ere to the works 00 Sllalcospeare
anti Goethe." No ono reads "Festns"
now, but its memory survives in ono
familiar quotation, a olio time favorite
for use In autograph albums:
Wo live In deeds, not years: to thoughts,
not bregthst
In feelings, not 10 aguros on a dial, -
Wo should count time 1»' heart Mmes.
IJo most lives
Who thinks mesa, feels the noblest, aces
the best,
Bailey ie very far, Prow being tbo
only author' to live in teen's Minds by
virtue 00 a single line, stellula or pas-
sage. It is a narrow merge" 1?y tthieb
to escape oblivion, but it serves. True,
It Is not the writer himself that is vo•
'membered, but as hong as some spark
from hie brain still glimmers ho is not
totally. dead, It may bo a Hue from a
song, "Ikea me by wooulight alone"
.and "Don't you remember sweet Alice,
Bou Bolt?" aro repeated as catcliworfha
by thousands who never heard of J.
Augustus Wade or Thomas Dunn'Eng
Ilsh. Very often, however, the liueb
that survive are of high literary value.
Theodore O'Hara, soldier of fOrtuue,
wrote:
On fame's eternal camping greund
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
Tho bivouac of the dead. •
By these four lhles he won for hila.
self admission to the eternal camping
ground of poetry,
William Knox, a Scotch versifier
(1780-1823), owes his fragmentary sur-
vival not so much to any great poetic
merit in his mortuary couplets as to
the indorsement of Abraham Lincoln,
who loved to repeat:
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be
proud?
Litre a fast flitting meteor, a fast flying
cloud,
A flashof tate lightning, a break of the
wave, •
Be passes front life to rest In the grave,
—Philadelphia Ledger.
SAVAGE DISCIPLINE.
The Way Unruly Indian Boys Were
Punished In Former Days.
My grandmother had twelve chit-
dren, and one uucle undertook to teach
me the art of .worship, He usedto
lead me to the sandbanks of the Mis-
souri river, where he would set fire
to a pile of driftwood, and then, tak-
ing me by the hand, sing sagged songs
to the are and river. In the mean-
time he threw into them offerings of
tobacco, red feathers, and sometimes
oak twigs. I never knew the meaning
of these offerings, but I always felt
that some living thing actuated both
the fire and the river.
Anotheruncle came to visit us
peri-
odically,
and every time he come my
brother or I suffered at his hands.
Sometimes he would rush to the
spring, carrying me horizontally under
his arm and would plunge my head
into the water until I almost surfo.
Bated.
His common form of discipline was
to let me bang by my hands on the
cross poles of the wigwam until my
arms ached. My body writhed before
I dropped. This uncle seemed to like
best to command my older brother to
tie my hands and feet with a rope.
Then he would order me to resist—
an ordeal that would make us both
cry. In the winter he would also
sometimes toll us in snow naked.
The punishment Of Indian children
is usually in the hands of some uncle
rather- than the parents. Our punish•
meats were inflicted generally because
we bad disobeyed grandmother by
failing to get wood at evening, had
resisted fasting. bad"fought some In.
dian boys or had cried without suf-
ficient cause.—Soutbern Workmen.
Quinine Not a Preventive.
Dr. E, Halford Ross in a letter to the
London Lancet ridicules the attempt to
prevent malaria by administering qui-
nine. This cures malaria, but does not
prevent it, just as diphtheria is cured
with antitoxin, but not prevented. He
cites the utter failure of fire years of
quinine administration to prevent ma-
laria iu Egypt and of Um marked re-
duction in the disease that immediately
followed the enforcement of anti -mos-
quito measures.
Public- Streets.
Under the .Roman -Dutch 'civil law
the title to a public street was in the
sovereign, and this rule obtained in
New Netherlands until the country
now comprising , Now York city was
taken over by the English In 1664.
The English common law, on the
other hand, left the title to a public
street in the owner of the adjacent
land, with only "tile right Of passage
for the king and Itis people."
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On the Fly.
"So you want to know where flies
come from, Tommy? Well, the cyclone
makes the housefly, the blacksmith
makes the firefly, the carpenter makes
the sawfly, the driver makes the horse.
fly, the grocer makes the sandfly, and
the boarder makes the butterfly.
For Greasy Woodwork.
Paint or woodwork that has become
greasy should be cleaned with a cloth
dipped in turpentine. 'Then wipe 'with
a cloth dipped in water to which a lit.
ale kerosene has been added,—New
York American.
A man does not represent a fraction,
but a whole number; he is complete in
It imsel t.—Sehopenha ner.
Like Father, Like Soh,
"Willie, do you like your teacher?"
"Naw! She's an old crab."
"Willie, how dare you speak about
your teacher that way? Don't you
know that lir disrespectful?"
"What's wrong with. 1t? Isn't that
what you tell ma your boss Is?" -De.
trait Free Press.
Fame.
1151no is easily acgaired, All yotl
have to de Is to bo le the right place
at the right time and do the right thing
in the right way laid then advoi tlijt I
HE KEIT THE TOOL
And, Prized It elopause 1t Had Never.
atone Dirty Werk,
"I wile throwing up dirt trona nit' On
eavation in the pavement one days"
said an old laborer, "when a little old
chap with white halt' stopped to 'look
On, I wrls es big as tweet Wee After
a rnlnute or two 1 rested on my shovel
and looked -up at him.' Said 1:
you had to do work with 4
Shovel for your living you'd stem to
death before you could make a trench.
deep enough to bury you In,'
"I thought that was a smart thing to
Say, and I laughed, Then be answered
me,
He 'was a slow speaking roan with
a sort or drawl.
"'I.naigbt--starve—as—you-say," he
said, 'told yet I-bravo-a—trade—In
wbleh I use—n—foal very much—like—
yours. In fact --teeny people—who—
work at my trade—use--4:1m—tool—to---
shovel
rade—use=tile—tool—to-shovel dirt and Hiatt—with—as—you—
do—with—yours. This—is—the-0001.'
"100 handed mo a steel pen.
"'Is it a joke? I asked,
"'It--is—a--tool—to—make — them—
with,' he uodded..'That—is-part—ot
–nly–trade., hey nnmo — is — Twain-.
llOark Twain.'
"I have the pen yet," concluded the
laborer, "and no dirt was ever slime
sled'with it."
Rulers of England. -
The first to rule over all England, was
Egbert, king of Wessex, who united all
the various petty kingdoms and became
king of England to 827, 'Fite greater
kingdom was tiisrupteti, from 878 to
058, when the Danes faded north et the
Thames, in the latter •ear Ting Ed,
J .
gar reunited the-lcingdom, and since
that time it hes never been partitioned.
Between Edmund Ironside (10101 and
Edward the Confessor (10-12) three
Danish kings ruled all England—Ca-
nute, Harold I. and Efardicanute. The
first king of Great Britain was James
I. (1608). The first king of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Was George III. From the conquest of
Ireland in 1172 by Henry II. the kings
of England were styled lord of Ireland
Until the assumption of the title king
of Ireland by Henry VIII., and there-
after this title was used until the act
of union in 1801. The imperial sever•
eignty of India was assumed by Queen
Victoria;
Patrolling Eight Miles of Fence.
To prevent wolves, coyotes and oth'
Su wild animals from entering a pas -
tore where experiments in sheep raid.
init were being conducted hunters em•
plog'ed by the forest service were re.
Retired to patrol eigbt miles of fence
twice a day in the Wallowa National
forest, in Oregon.
Two thousand five hundred and six-
ty acres of choice land were Enclosed
US conduct experiments with a view
f'e ascertaining whether it was mord
,advantageous to care for sheep in pas-
tures than to herd them on the open
range. A coyote proof fence eight
miles in length inclosed tbe pasture.
It was made of woven wire about four
feet high, with two strands of barbed
wire across the top.—Popular Science.
Monthly.
True Joy of Fishing.
To go a fishing is not of necessity to
catch fish, nor is the catching of deb
the only pleasure in fishing, else would
the toilers and fishing fleets exist in a
very paradise piscatorial. No; the true'
joy of fishing consists, as does all otll+'
er true joy, in anticipation. The string.'
gee of the finny victim over and the!
prey landed, a kind of sorrow pervades
the gentle angler.—E. H. Sothern'd1
"Tho Melancholy Tale of 'Me."' .
Crude.
"That young man is out to mike Yl
name for himself."
"What's the matter? Ain't he esti*:
fled with the one his father RIO
him?' --Detroit Free Press.
History Made While We Wait.
"a.re you a student of history?
"I surely am. I'm reading the walk'
gaper taithfally .every day." -WA ice'
hfgton Star,.,
Prayer antes us halfway to God,'
fasting brings •ns to the door of her
place,, and aimsgivhig procaine us ad'
Mtissbon,•-Keratin.
RIPENED A WEL+EIK EARLIER.
Geo, W. Neely, Dorchester Sta.., On-
tario, says :
"I fertilized with I•Ion:esteed Done
Black Fertiliser .purchased from Mr.
red IIowe, Dorchester Sta., Ont.,
seven acres oats this Spring. At in-
tervals in the field I omitted the fer-
tilizer a drill width. Tho oats where
the fertilizer was sown, after the
first fee" days' growth showed in a
market degree a more vigorous
growth and, maintained this advaa-
tago over the unfortili:ed portions
throughout the season, rij:euing a
week sooner and with fuller heads of
MM."
Write Michigan Carbon Works, Do-
tt"iot, for free book and particulars
about their Homestead Bone Blaolr
Fertilizer.
WINTER
1OURS
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Special Fares now In effect t0 re-
sorts in Florida, Georgia, North and
South Carolina, Louisiana and oth-
er Southern States, and to Ber-
muda attd the 'Wort ladles.
RETURN 1IMI'f MAY Slst,. 1017
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Got full information write to
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Union Statiofi,
Toronto, (int,
J. RANSIr"oRD ,tir. SON,
Uptown Agents, Gunton,
Phone '67,
FIRST GRAND OPERA
PeIls D
ofa
Markedthe
Start
of a New Era In Music.
WAS. SUNG ONLY IN PRIVATE,
Ita Performanoos Were Confined to the
Palace oeCorsi, and the Score le Lost
• to the World—.The First opera' Civet)
In Puhlio Was "Eurydice."
There is no form or music so goner -
.ally popular with all classes today as
Opera—the combination of action and
muelc; Opera has .made extensive
strides during the last couture, al-
though its origin is very remote. It
carne through 11 gradual course of de-
velopment from almost 1110 begiuuiug
of the Christian' era. Earliest Moth
tilts were such eminent men • as
Aeschylus and Sophocles, who accom-
panied their spoken drama with a baud
of Tyres and flutes,
But grand opera as we nnclerstned it
totluy originated about the end of the
sixteenth century, w.heu Jacupo Vona
opera "Dafno"'was lirst.presented.• It
originated through the gathering of a
small party of music lovers at the
home of a Gloreutiue nobleman. These
patrons of art set themselves in the
spirit of the renaissance to rediscover
the music or the Greek drama,
Theories grew into actualities wbon
a perforivance of "Define" was cele-
brated in the palace of Corsi in 1505.
This opera was successfully performed
several tames, but always in private,
and now the score is not discoverable.
The public had the privilege of hear-
ing opera five years later, when two
settings of "Eurydice". were made, one
by Peri and the other by Caceini.
Both the operas were produced in part
during. the marriage celebration .'of
Henry IV. and Marie de Medici at the
Petit palace on Oct. 0,.1600.
Measuring the accomplishments of
these entbusinsts with the opera of
not mauy years later, the former must
appear ridiculous and very wide of the
Mark. But here at least was a step
in an uutrodden path. Opera was now
ou a basis which admitted of develop-
ment. Its career had begun.
"Eurydice" was the first Italian op-
era ever performed in public, and the
work excited an extraordinary amount
of attention. The score was first pub-
lished in Florence in 1600 and was
dedicated to Marie de Medici, anal it
was printed in 1608 in Venice, a copy
of the latter being well preserved in
the library of the British museum.
For fifty years "Eurydice" remained
the luxury of nobles, being performed
only before courts during special fee.
times. Monteverde added the over-
ture to the Peri opera.
The next important operatic work to
be produced was that of Monteverde,
entitled "Orfeo," which was present
ed. itt 1607, and a year later "Arianna."
These two operas left Peri and his
comrades far in Oho rear. Work along
this lino developed slowly until 1637,
when the Teatro di San Cassiano was
opened at Venice, which was the first
public opera house. Now that the
masses had a voice in the matter, it
soon became evident that the. people
must be pleased and the Florentine
ideals forgotten.
Later hi the 00'11017 the melody of
the aria was enriched by two compos-
ers -named Cavalli and Cesti. The op-
era, by stimulating solo singing and
by reviving a taste for the beauties of
popular melody, stipplfes the necessary
incentive for the elaborating of sweet
sounding and Ilnlshed melodic themes.
Cavern was a tireless worker, and he
produced close to forty different op-
eras, none of which has survived.
Scarlattt, who followed, was auotber
tireless worker, his first epera having
been produced in Rome in 1670, after
which he brought out more than sixty
'others. From that period to the pres.
ent day the Italian composer has held
Itis place with the greatest of any
countries and has produced more op-
eras than all the other countries com-
bined.
The earliest operas in France were
composed by Lulll at tbe end of the
seventeenth century and Ranleau at
the beginning of the eighteenth cen-
tury, but they were little more than
imitations of the Italian style. The
basis of the French opera was laid by
Gluck in the latter half of the eight-
eenth century, Meyerbeer, Rossini,
Ginned and Thomas. represented Oho
mos0 popular of the successors of
Gluck, with the more modern Massenet
and Ottarpentier.
In Germany until the rise of Wagner
the opera was marked by little na-
tional originality. Mozart was the first
opera writer among the German com-
posers. To Weber especially will re•
main the glory of having first founded
e distinct German operatic style,
Ono View of Golf.
Many anecdotes aro told of some of
the curious ideas held about golf by
peopie to whom it was h new and
strange game 'before its modern pope•
rarity had set in. One woman who'had
evidently bad a near view of the game
said: "It is played by two men. Ono
is a gentleman and the other Is a com-
mon man, Tile common man sticks a
ban ou a lump of dirt, and the gentle.
man knocks it arc,"
Ono of the great lessons of this life
1s to learn not to do what one litres,
but to like what ono does •Iliiptt'
Buick, __
Stevenson to Henry James.
It takes a stylist to criticise a Stylist
and was the thing ever done mere
gracefully Ulan by Robert Louis Ste-
venson fat a letter to Henry James?
"May I beg you, the next time 'Roder•
ick llullson' is printed eff, to go over
the sheets of the last few chapters Mari
strike out 'immense' anti 'tremendotis?'
Yon !rave simply dropped them there
like your pocket handkerehlef. All you
have to 60 is to pith then up and
pouch them, athc't your room—whnt do
I say? -yotte cathedral!—watt be swept
and garnished. I dee, dear sur, your do.
lighted reader;, iii Tt''.,. , .-
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Calgary's Growth.
The first council meeting of the
town of Calgary was held thirty-two
years ago. The municipality which
has since become one of the wonder
cities of the Canadian West had then
just been incorporated as a town. It
had a population of less than half a
thousand, a fort of the North-West
Mounted Police, a Hudson's Bay
store, and a few other infant com-
mercial enterprises. The Indians
and half-breeds of that section were
then far from peaceful, and in 1885
Calgary was compelled to ask for
arms for the protection of the citi-
zens. In the first twenty years of its
municipal existence Calgary's growth
was slow, and in 1904 its population
was scarcely more than 10,000.
Since then it has forged ahead rapid-
ly, and now boasts of a population
approaching the 75,000 mark. In the
race for supremacy as the commercial
metropolis of the rich region of Al-
berta and Saskatchewan, Calgary has
close rivals, Calgary's site ie near
that of the old French fort of Le
Jonquiere, established in 1752. Fur
traders, buffalo hunters, missionar-
les, and mounted police comprised
the larger part of the town's popula-
tion of 500 when it began its muni-
cipal existence thirty-two years ago
Fourteen Senate Vacancies.
When the Senate vacancies, now
existing, aro filled, the Conservatives
will have a majority of three in the
Senate. The death of Semler ltobt,
Mackay, Liberal, of Montreal, makes
the fourteenth vaeauoy. The parties
now stand 42 Liberals and 01 Cone
Servatives, but with the vacant seats
filled there will be 45 Canemevativea.
The now Senator's will be apjxointed
'wheel the session opens,
WINTER TOURS IN FLORIDA,
LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ETC.
The Canadian Pacific Railway offers
Pram Camp Borden we went to
rest connection is made for Florida„
ria Cincinatti and Atlanta, Ga„
Jacksonville, Florida, is reached see-
ond morning after leaving Detroit.
Tho Canadian Pacific -Michigan Cen-
tral Route will bo founts the ideal
lino to Chicago, whore direct connec-
tion is made for the Southern
es. New Orleans is reached secon
morning after leaving Toronto. The
Dining, Parlor and Sleeping Car ser-
vice between Toronto, Detroit and
Chicago is tip -to -date in every par-
ticular. Connecting lines also oper-
ate through sleeping and dining ears.
Those contemplating a trip of any
nature will receive full information
from any Canadian Pacific Agent or
W. B. Howard, District Passenger
Agent, Toronto.
A New View.
"What a Mee, kind man Nero was!"
"What? Why, the wretch fiddled
While Rome bnrnedi"
"I know, He'd probably waited all
his life for a chance when he wouldn't
disturb any olio."
THE NERV$-Ill'.('OIZD L0',ADS FOR,
!rOWN, TOWNHIli P AND COUNTYI
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