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The Big Haraware Store -. .14a Seatorth Innunsimm misme, r SEAFORTH, F.i IP ", OCTOBER 25, 1918 SURRENDER -NOT PROMISED BUT ACTUAL On the western front the news has been glorious and inspiriting. The armies of liberty ate prong strong- er than the armies of tyranny and plunkler.ti Those who once doubted whether a victory at arms was poss- ible doubt no longer. Victory, though it may not be near, is in sight. Nevertheless the cause of the Allies during all the four years of war has never faced a graver peril thanthat which.is 'confronting it in. these nervy days of victory. Other perils" have been averted, and this peril can be, It it not a peril to fess but to withstand. It it one -that has been foreseen. it is occasioned not by force, but by sub- tlety. It comes not from Germany's military strength, but from her weak-. ness. It is directed not against the bodies of the soldiers of the Allied nations, but against the souls of their peoples. It is the peril of the German peace offensive. Germany has proposed in brief, not to accept President Wilson's suggest- ed terms of peace, but to .enter into a discussion on the basis of those terms. She has even indicated some so called concession's which she says she is will- ing to make. She talks as if she really wanted to stop the fighting and enter into negotiations. We do not believe that Germany expected her proposals to be entertained. They certainly will not be. As with one voice, the news- papers and public men of America, as well as of France and England, have expressed their scorn of any dis- cussion of terms with Germany. - Ev- erywhere there is the demand for but one ruing -"unconditional surrender." Nobody of any influence, so farms we have heard, has intimated that we are ready to negotiate with the Hun. So far all seems safe. In all this there is no sign of peril. It is beneath all this that the peril lurks. . ,- Suppose, in answer to the Allies' scornful rejection of the German pro- posal for a discussion of peace terms, Germany should say, "Well, since you will not discuss it, and since I want the slaughter to cease, I promise to -surrender." Suppose Germany should send delegates, consisting of so-called German liberals, to some point where they could- meet representatives of the Allied Governments, and.should bid these delegates to say, "We throw up our hand -s. We will demobolize oiir army. We submit to your; terms. What is your. answer?" If that should happen,' then the real peril would appear. It is _notimposeible that -un r such ci de rcumsta cc. there s would'be many thousands in the Allied gauntries, who -would sety,, "We have, won •our.'victory. 'Let us mak a peace." What Germans_night do, Bulgaria has done; and there are newspapers that are saying that we wa ret from Germany a Bulgarian capitulation. Though, to our discredit, we did not make war upon the nation in the Bal- kans that has gloried in imitating the Prussian, our people have hailed the surrender of Bulgaria as if she had been our enemy. It has even been said that by remaining on friendly terms with those who have raped and outraged and looted and devastated Serbia we have brought about the vic- tory over. Bulgaria, as if the llrave - men, the unconquerable Serbians, the French, the British, and those Greeks who kept their faith, had, by split- ting the Bulgarian army in two, done nothing. We have no reason for tak= ing credit for this victory; but we`9 have very good reason for rejoicing in it. We have still more reason for be- ing on our guard against countipg it as a precedent. Bulgaria has riot yet surrendered. She has promised to surrender and she is in progress of surrendering. Hersurrender will be complete and satisfactory only when her armies are demobilized and dis- armed,- the. Austrians and - Germans and Turks that are in her territory are out of it, and the Allies are incon- trol of her Government. Even then 'her surrender may be incomplete, for there are pro -German Bulgarians who must be rendered powerless. It may have been wise for the military au- thorities of the Allies in the Balkans to accept Bulgaria's promise; for they may have known that they had power to enforce it. But to take the Bul- garian promise of surrender as a mod- el of what we want from Germany is to incur the gravest of perils. Caiad's FIa a This emblem is presented by His Excellency the Governor General, to every City, Town and Village in Canada that reaches its quota in the Vic- tory Loan Campaign, which commences on Monday, and is expected to be ,flown within these communities. • � u Terms of Victory Loan f918 Through the prosptus of the fifth Canadian War Loan -the Victory Loan of,1918-the Domi'iuon of Canada will ask for a minimum amount of $300,000,000, with the =tight to accept all or any part • of subscriptions in , excess of that sum to be used for war purposes only, and to be spent wholly in Canada. The rate of interest will be 5% per cent. per annum, payable May 1 and 'November 1, and the denominations $50;' $1100, $500 and $1000. The loan will be offered in 2 maturities=five year bonds, due November 1, 1923, and 15 -year bonds, due'J'ovember 1,;1933. The issue price wil'l..be 100 and accrued interest for both maturities, making the income relsti4rn 5i/z per cent. per annum. Provision is made for payment in five instalments as follows:. 10 per cent. on appleatiou; 20 per cent. December 6, 1918, 20 per cent. January 6, 1919;; 20 pert' cent, Febru- ary 6, 1919; 31.16 per cent. March 6, 1919. The last pay'lent of 31,16 per cent. covers 30 per cent, balance of principle and 1,16 pend cent, repre- senting accrued interest at 5% per cent. from 'November 1 ;oto ;due dates of the respective ; instalments, As a full half year's interest', off` on May 1, 1919, the cost of the bonds will be100 and interest. Payanent may bes made in full. at the time of application' at 100 without interest or on any in- stalment due date thereafter with interest accrued at 54 p cent. per t time the e of a an- iane a an- num. Bearer bonds will be -available for deliveryppheat to subscribers desirous of making payment in full. Boiyids regi 'tend as to principal pnly,. or as to both principal and interest in authorize denomina- tions, will -'be delivered to• subscribersdnaking payment lin full as' soon es the required registration can be _matte.{ Bonds of this issue will be free from taxation cluding any income tax -imposed ed in purseance of legislation enacted by the, Parliament of Canada, and will cant the =privilege of conversion inth any future domestic issues of like maturity or longer, issued - by the Goirernment, during the remaining period of t� war. . Subseripti6n lists `will be open on October 28th before- November, l 4118: • 191:8, and close on or be made to do it. Then, whether Ger- many voluntarily surrenders or not, the `peace conference will be one at- tended only by representatives of the Allies, and the terms it will reach will will be those it dictatees. EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA The following remarks on influenza are abstracted from the current issue of The Journal of the American Medi- cal Association for the benefit of the medical profession of Ontario,�and sent out by the Provincial Board of Health. • - Under various names, epidemics corresponding to epidemic influenza have occurred at irregular intervals since accurate descriptions have been made of disease. It' is likely that at still earlier times this disease was combined and confused with other epi- demic disorders, and so did not stand • out as an entity until a relatively mod- ern period. In early English• litera- ture this disease is spoken of _under a variety of terms Creightonh t on recog- nizes eco-nizes ,it under the name ague," used by the British seventeenth century authors. , In 1658, Cromell died from this disease, when Morton says the country was "one vast hospital." The Italian term "influenza" first came to England in association with the epi- demic of 1743, and it has been employ- ed in connection with the great epi- demics of 1863, 1847, and 1889-1890. About 1'712 the French aterm "la grippe" came into use and had been periodically revived ever since. The great pandemics usually originated in the Far East, and gradually extended westward. The rate of human travel and the degree of intercourse between various parts of the world determined the rapidity of the extension. Besides the great pandemics, scarcely a year has passed without local outbreaks which have been classed under , the term. "influenza." Whether there are identical with the more widespread epidemics it is impossible to say. The severity of the disease : has varied greatly; some epidemics are very mild and others have been severe. We do not want words from. Ger- many -not even- words of surrender. We have had enough of Germany's words; When Grant accepted and re- turned Lee's sword, he was- dealing with an honorable man. We must not lose sight of the fact that our le is. not a Lee, but is; the Hun. We Want no proposal from Germany, no state- ment of terms, no promise of any kind .whets ever. Germany is most dangerous hen she cries, "Kamerad!" She has to ght her soldiers to raise their hands in surrender and then when our fire is withheld to, shoot - from pistols hidden in the palms of their hands. What she has taught her soldiers to do she is ready to de herself. We want no cry of surrender; we want action. We want her armies withdrawn from occupied France, from Alsace and Lorraine,from Bel- gium and Luxemburg, from Poland, • the Ukraif.e, Rumania, and wherever else they have gone in search of con- quest. We want her_ to put- her- arms and her munitions into the possession of the Allies. We want her to open the door to Berlin. - We 'want her: not to say that she will -do these things, but we want her to do them. The world/ will not be "safe for democracy" until Germany is put under -a guardian, The victory will not be won until the lands she has occupied are evacuated, her military forces and instruments are in possession of the feee peoples -of the world, her leaders are. in the custody of those they have tried to subjugate, and her whole land is Plac- ed sunder a receivership. It win be �,s her if she >socc.c c to see for �s better e1 that these things are done voluntarily, for there is no other way by which :she can obtain mercy. If site does not do itis of her owe aeessati,. site rieret- The history of epidemics of influ- enza does not differ so much from that of other diseases spread by human in- tercourse that are usually called con- tagious. A widespread epidemic fol- lows the introduction of a specially virulent virus, and there follows a general immunity among those of the population who have been infected. As the epidemic dies out, the. infeetio* decreases in virulence and only spor- adic cages occur. From such roses and probably chronic. carriers, Tocal outbreaks occur; but the general im- munity prevents any general epidemic. After a period of years a new sus- ceptible population has replaced the -immune one, and with the introduc- tion of a fresh virulent virus a general epidemic is again brought about. This would account for the great suscepti- bility of young persons, and as it is twenty-eight years since the last great epidemic, we should not expect many individuals above 30 years of age to be now affected. The measures to be taken to pre- vent tl"ie spread of the disease comprise all those which interfere with the transfer ' u mat erials ' . of` the infeetios from the sick to the uninfected. . This iaicludee isolation of the patenit, and,. She -intelli Pent use of proper ?gauze nye by ,e atteimdant. It is consid- ered an insult 'to have; any one spit in one's face -how .much{ worse it is to have anyone • cough. in lone's face may be easily understood when you know that in the :latter case +myriads, of fine mucous particles containing millions of the infectious germs are driven into the air ready fox inhalation and perhaps to cause death. Now it can be readily seen how necessary it is to cover the ineuth'with a piece of gauze or cotton cloth at every - cough , ar sneeze. in ; the time of an epidemic, prompt and efficient isolation of the first cases din a community could- ' bas ac- complishmuch. If this b een ne- glected and the infection spread a- mong the Population, measures which otogether then. of num- bers the min • prevent h mo g g bers df persons in close quarters are to be employed. The desirability of dosing schools in a large city iii the presence of an epidemic is a measure of doubtful - value, ; In smaller places this is.m.ore reasonable, and the dan- ger of infection when children are out- doors sheuld be less than when they are brought together in a schoolroom. a id for daughters sunmive, ►eorge and, Samuel, of Vancouver, Mrs. Geo. Cole, of. Stratford; Mrs. Jordan, -..of Belgrave; Mrs. D.. Spice of Mother- well; and Mrs. Jetties Sidwell, of Ful- lerton. Mr, William Davidson, Colin-- ty Clerk of Stratford; Mr George Dav- idsun. of Mitchell, and Mr. Alexander Davidson, of: Seaforth, are brothers. HE SLEEPS IN FLANDERS He sleeps in Flanders, well he sleeps, For Flanders sleeps is 'deep indeed; About his bed the trench rat creeps; In some far home a woman weeps; And the low moon its vigil keeps; Above his sleep in Flanders. No note shall break the sfient sleep That found him when his day was done No note is blown so loud and deep That it can pierce the gates of sleep, The earthen gates full damp and deep. That guard his sleep in Flanders. He saw not where his path would lead Nor sought a path to suit his will; He saw a nation in her need; He heard the cause of honor plead; He heard the call, he gave it heed, And now he sleeps in Flanders. 'et let this ray of light therein, Tho' darkness cat him from our view; We know the sacrifice, the pain -- We cannot feel our faith is vain - We know theloss, butsnot the gain Of those who sleep in Flanders. CANADA -Roy Havens, son of Charles Hav- ens, of Simcoe, had his arm broken and his forearm badly lacerated thro' getting caught in the threshing outfit operating on the farm of Samuel Law, east of Port Dover. • -Gloom was east over the town the other morning at the news of the death of Winnifred Ireland of Harris - ton. For the past five years She had been on the public school teaching staff in T ronto. A week ago she contract- ed Pneumonia. Her Parents are Dr. and iMrs. Ireland. I --While getting ready to go for a I visit at his home near Charing Cross, irk Harwich township, Robert O. Drury a' well known farmer, was stricken with heart failure anddied in a few h minutes, before a physician arrived. Mr. Drury • was a bachelor and had reached his 77tli,'year. He took hn important part in .chopping off several hundred acres of land in Harwich. -The onion growers of the marsh' lands near Blenheim are having they best of luck' 'One grower has sold- nineteen carloads, and is now shipping them direct from the field'after top- ping them. The weather has been so favorable that itwas not necessary t ;dry the inside. They are turnin out from 300 to 594 -bags ' per acre, and the price is said to be from, $1.55` up per bag. SPECIAL PESB1TERY MEETING. A spedil meeting - of the Prebytery df Huron in cooperation with the Com- mitte on the Forv!rard Movement was held in Minton , on Wednesday of last week, in Willis church: • Representa- tives frdni a great -many of the con- gations of Presbytery were', present' as well as ministers and elders, who are members of the Presbytery. There were present from the - Committee on the Fordward .Movement, Drs. R. P. McKay, Kilpatrick and Johh Neil, all of Toronto At the morning session Dr. Neil .gave .an inspiring picture of the situation in Canada facing the the church, calling for the deepest! consecr tion and most earnest service., He spe lially mentioned the burdens suggested by the -great foreign ele- ment and the situation in Quebec and the vast advantage that had been1 gained by an adequate opportunity given to the classes mentioned by the services shedding the light. Dr. Mc- Kay spoke of the Foreign Mission situation in the various fields - and of the needs of these fields for the next five years. At the afternoon session Dr. Kilyatrick set before the assembly the need of the church for men for the ministry. The church has been ex- tendirig her borders but the number of men entering the - ministry has been decreasing and in the next year while only are needed, 25 graduates on y will issue from the colleges. Dr. McKay ina most sympathetic speech showed what hed been done for the Aged Ministers and Ministers' Widows, and what the Church expected to do. The Presbytery pledged co-operation and a committee - will be chosen to pre- pare for the carrying out of the pro- gramme proposed.; A public meeting was held in the evening when stirring addresses were delivered by Dr. Mc- Kay, Kilpatrick and Neil, on the work of the Irorward Movement. -William Jamey Sheppard aged 3 rn` in the d years, the other moal Hosital at Sarnia, from lock jaw, Several `days ago, while work .ing on his farm on the fourth line Sarnia ;Township, his left hand iva caught in the cutting box; manglin four fingers. Dr. F. B. Wilkinson wa immediately called and did everythi poasible, but lockjaw set in, _resultin fatally. -Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watt, o Brantford, celebrated their ' golden wedding on October 20th. Mr. Watt was the oldest- son - of the late George. Watt, who was reeve of the Council when- Brantford was only a town and later mayor for 2 years, 1893-94,whei it was a city, While. . Mrs. Watt wa the twin daughter of the late Josepl Gould, of Uxbridge, who was membe of Parliament for North Ontario fo 23 years, just before confederation. -Joseph Smith, residing on th London Road, just east of Sarnia while picking apples on Friday'after noon, cell about fifteen feet, breakin was i He his shoulder and several ribs. injured internally near the heart. His right hip and leg were also badly in- jured. Dr. J.. G. Morrison was callecll. His injuries at first were thought tp be fatal, but now he is resting considw- -Ex-Reeve and Mrs. Samuel Haw thorne, of Greenock Township, ,eelei brated the 50th anniversary of their wedding . on Tuesday, October 15th; The aged groom was married to Miss Margaret Giffin, in Erin, Ontario, fifty years, ago, and came to Greenock imr mediately after, where they have res sided ever since. Mr. Hawthorne wee_ a member of the Greenock Council for 17 . years, six of which , he served a deputy reeve and one as reeve. Th aged couple were the recipients of' well filled purse, contributed by them . family of ten Children, three of whoxi were - present at the event. -Thelma . Weaver, aged 8 months. was burned to death,and Lily Weaver, aged two years, was severely borne , as the result of a fire which destroye the home of Charles Weaver, in Pet erborp last week. Mrs. Weaver wa. absent froi i the house when the fire broke out. A passer-by heard the screams ofi the children, •and forcing J an entrance, rescued Lily Weaver, who was terribly burned about - the face and arms. The charred trunk of the infant was found some: time later. Thje . An house was completely y overheated stove is believed to ' have been the cause. ' -Dr. A. S Lovett, of Paris, sue-, cumbed to Spanish influenza, after are illness of eleven days. He was borp at Ayr, Ontario, 45 years ago, and was a son of Dr. William Lovett, of Ayr. He was educated. in Ayr and Galt, - and was a graduate of Toronto Medical School. He commenced practice i Ayr, but went to Paris in .1904. H glad worked lip a very large actide \. -On :Sunday, October 13, another of the pioneers of` Fullerton township was called away, in the person of Mr. James Davidson. Mr. Davidson had `snot been in !l:- beet of health fer some titre, but his d nath,•.vas-u: expm ted lie was berh :1 the Co un yos Monaghan, ono gha 1 P, r ti.c f • earl_ 1 ''41 an Y ' Ireland, m �o - to i'annd!t. in 1844. His wife died sumo eigt beta years ago 1 •; o suns tertj ned fOr his recovery. I icLEAN BROS., Publishers $1.50 a Year in Advance 'ilttended to fifty calls without stopping to take any nourishment A day or so later he contracted the disease him- self. Mrs. Lovett and three children are all' down with influenza and :pneu- monia themselves. Two brothers of the late Dr. Lovett are overseas, Sergt. Major James Lovett, one of the town's best known hockey players and Corp. Morden Lovett. Both are in Frame. -Frank Colley of the North Syd- ney Bottling Works, North Sydney, N. S., commenced the manufacture of soft drinks on June 1st, 1918, contrary to the Food Board order No, 54, section 4 which states that no sugar shall be allotted to the manufacture of any kind of soft drinks who had not com- menced manufacture before May lst, 1918 He has been ordered not to use any sugar and to return such sugar as he is holding for this purpose to the persons from whom he purchased it, -Mr. Alexander Smith, of ,Dar- lington township's prominent farmers, passed away on Saturday morning in his 61st year. His residence on ' ;gpruceho' lin Farm," is possibly the finest and most modern farmhouse in West Durham. Of late years, since establishing four of his five sons, on farms of their own,, Mr. Smith de- voted great attention to beekeeping and had a large apiary. He was a lifelong Liberal, a Presbyterian, and, a strong edvocate of church union, -A. preventitive vaccine for in- fluenza has been discovered - in Toron- to, and alydy its distribution to On- tario hospitals has commenced. An- nouncement to this effect was made on Sunday aught by the Connaught Lab- oratories at the University of Toronto. The vaccine consists of dead germs of influenza and eighteen strainsof these germs are used in its preparation. The preparation of the vaccine in ' large quantities is difficult,. but 7,000 doses already have been sent'out. Dr. R I3. Defries, acting director of the Cen- naught Laboratories, is in charge of the work. - Conductor Hodson was seriously injured and four other men were hurt when the northbound London & Port Stanley electric radial, .which left St. Thomas at 1.30 pan., collided with a freight electric car and engine coming from London, a few miles outside the city, about, two o'clock on Saturday afternoon last. The injured are, be- sides Conductor Hodson; J -MaeVicar - of London;. W. C. Oliver, St. Thomas; Sam' Crockett, of London, and Motor- rian Campbell of London, who jump- ed froiu the car before the collision oc curred.. The steel construction of the carjsse protectedurY the passengers from. us ,•n rro i -John Wilfrid Forrester, M.A., D. Paed, Iispeetor Public Schools, for Dundas died at his h ometin Winches- ter on Friday Last, from pnenni nisf following influenza, He was born in Westport, Ont, in 1878 the son, of'Mr. and Mrs. John Forrester. ' 1#e gradu- ated_ from QueensUniversity with - honors in science, Last spring he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Peda- gogy from the University of Toronto, and took.the summer course in agricul- ture at Guelph. He tysught public school at Balderson ad Cardinal; later he was on the staff of St. Marys and then Smith's Falls Collegiate Insti- tutes. In January, 1916, he beeaane Public school inspector -for the county of Dundas, He .was a man of genial manner, broad vision and thorough and capable in his work. He is sur- vived by his wife, who was Miss Rose Williams, daughter of Dr. Williams of -Cardinal; one daughter, aged seven; also his father and mother, three bro- thers and two sisters. He was a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church. -Seven children, six girls and one boy, the eldest- thirteen years of age, were brought to the Chidren s Shelter at Chatham the other day by County High Constable Petersfrom a place sin Emden township. The father is in the West, the mother hen i s roaming the county, and the elder brother is in jail, on a theft charge. The youngs- ters have been Teating pumpkins and squash, the house is devoid of furni- ture, and the youngsters did'not have _- a stitch of clothing on. - The floor of - the` shack was mostly clay and this was covered with filth. The eldest of the lot, a girl, hid under apart of what used to be a floor, when the au- thorities called, and it was necessary to pull her out by one of her feet. The case is reported by the authorities to be one of the most pitiful so far as children are concerned that they have had to witness for a long time. -Most prominent of these dying from Spanish influenza in Galt was Lieut, -Col. 3. D. Clarke, Q.C., of the 111th Battalion, and managing direc- tor of the Galt Reporter. He had been ill only a few days with pneumonia. He was in his 35th year, and was born in Elora, a son of the late Lieut, -Col, Charles Clarke, of the 30th Welling- tons, and a''former Speaker and clerk of the Ontario Legislature. He was educated in Elora, and for several years was employed by the Sovereign Bank. He had been identified with The Peterboro Examiner and The, De- troit News before assuming the man- agement of the Reporter in 1911, and he was well known throughout the province in newspaper circles. His mil- tary career commenced with the 30th Wellington Rifles, whidh he 'represent- ed on the bodybguard provided for the present King, then Duke of York, on his visit to Toronto a number of years ago. He became senior major of the 29th Regiment on its reorganization, and 0.C., when Lieut. -Col. A. 3, Oli- ver: took the 34th Battalion overseaa. He organized and accompanied over- seas the 111th South Waterloo Bat- talion, one of the finest units to leave Western O:zitario, and after a short time in France returned home. Be- sides his widow, who is also ill with tied in 1906 to Miss Florence, only influenza, and one son, he is survived daeghter of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Bingham, and a sister of Revds. H . I• , Bingham and A C. Bingham, of Lon- don. He was medical health officer and a member of the Board of Educa- tion, I.O.O.F. and Masonic Order.. Dr Lovett ad be en untiring�i n combating "flu" t in his l at Paris the epidemic ca- pacity az both medical practitioner and as health offle ', and on one day he e and was very popular. He w s maid - by his mother, one brother, Dr. :.'. K, Clarke, dean of the faculty of med- icine of Toronto University, and five sisters ,the youngest of whom, Miss Gerda, is with the United States Red Cross' overseas. A. brother, Richard H., -of Port Arthur, who went to France Black Devils ranee with the famous s Blac ' contingent, of Winnipeg, in the 'first was killed at Thiepval, i:.