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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-12-20, Page 24 THEII:PO ExPos roR DECEMBER 20, 1918 A GAIN we are faced with the importance of coaning our Christmas giving to gifts that are EA practical. Again we must exhibit true economy in our choice of presents for father, mother, sister and brother. You should realize that the place to obtain this kind of gift is in a hardware store --for in our busiess nothing is 4aced in stock that is not a truly needed article. In this Hardware Shop you wilt' find tiverything necessary from Which to make your wise selection for the entire family. • To Make Sotne Woman Happy Preserving Kettles . ..25c to $2:011 Snow Shoes' $4.25 Note these Hripful Suggestions: Silver Knives & Forks 6.50 to,S1.1 35c to $1:35 Scissors one to three of a total aggregates .•-tt s, ror ctee en;,: ' r<,.IL il-.'.1,. . - isumcieht water being added to the mixture f roin t, tP.nit car ',al•i',4 mixture t make a• gutty consistency. through a hose attached to a eel ft v - When ,1:;;' - When 1 th tile are completed they ing. outfit. it is poe il,ie to pate should; be placed in kilns where they it two hundred feet. When the lob may be s earn cured and left there is done the Morey sltolniti be (evened for a • pe iod of not ' less than 48 out by having f e�ait water i�uniee4 hours. t rongh it. The ktl shouldndofa be width aboutsuscieig nt PeettoPii *V,r (11.0.in hffitimer the problems of comfort t sir The gasoline engi-"1 Vol allow' the required number of trucks the tot e, safety in the ,hibe q. and - a great deal of drudgery generalle.— P of, John Evens, U. A. Cogegcy,. Guelph. eg manufactured Light Fall 'Pruning l; Sate. 48hours during. the.Dight runl'reg in fall is perr2liss process. Atter it has been is dangerous night be removed from the • ibte, but heavy prunlztg piled .Vin, the yard, `anal and Ii sly to result in ser3OUz clam- ve at least two weeks hard- age from, winter killing, especially'it ore being again disturbed. the suecee iing winter- is severe. 'the- e product of any tile plant for sale sample$ should lie fniury is catused by drying out of the• her at.�the Plant or sent io ' cut tires and may be prevented It r nage Department at the covering all wounds of any size with Guelph, to be tested to see a good covering oft paint made fror, , the proper strength.- pure lead and oil. Dot not use pre - ,A., p, A. College Guelph. pared paints as these contain injure.; ions benzine or turpentine dryers. 5tr �r les ---its Cause and Cure. o make an e wood. Coal tar makes an excellent erruitiv especiall there fo steaming cured it kiln an should h • ening be is 06re tested el the Dee if it is of Scott, B. on which. the tile have been Places to rest ciuring the curing process. The tile should tte placed in the kiln. hot more than lei hours a,fter it hae b en ffective covering 1 it will be necessary to give not less than, I Strati ler, !'i niin illy called *'Colt two coats,- because one' coat will not jf Distemper," is an infectious, febrile, prevent chec}�ing and drying of green _ horses, disea'se peculiar to oolts or quite young horses, ut those of all ages are li- wound covering and IS easily apphea, This matter of coyering wounds made in fall or early winter is fre- able to suffer, One attack does not queenly slighted by orchard men, but the writer has seen such serious dam- n animal immune ro age re ult from neglect of this pre- ut there are few cases in caution that he feels juztified in animal suffers the second. warnintfruit growers with regard to. render ! second, I tithe. The di (b) Irre contagio is cause ie content healthy nimal on the hands or _clothes of the attendant, on Valls, forks. ha .ness, clothing, etc., and it is possible it may be carried consider- mental to the parts above and eertain able distances in the air Halters of eftra good leather wtl-1 be pleasing gifts bqween, neigh - 81.25 to 1$1.90 Back Bells—$3.50 to $4 HORSE CLIPPERS 25c to $3.00 FoodChappers An every day nec,essity. $2.50 to 83.50 • Special set of Irons 1.50 Roasting Pans 65c to Bread Boards 35c CatvingSetslrealEnglish make RAZORS Auto and Gilletee $5. Razor Straps 50c up. DECEMBER 20, Canadian ( the pra 'tee. le experimental trials in the college apple orch.ard, vane - ease appears in two forms, ties so hardy as Duchess of Olden - s (a) Regular Strangles, burg, Wolf River, Snow and, Scott:s War Strangles, often called Winter have suffered very serious in,- Strandes.`" As with all jury folleiwing November preming s or infectious diseases it with the cuts left unprotected.' The by a specific virus which wounds dry opt around the edges and nicable from animal to eni- ntatt or surroundings, may larged, frequently extending down the trunk or branch. ior a foot in - more. The dead bark conies away - later, leaving a large dead area, deni- seymptoms When the afikeesses crow, form in the space between the arins of the toWer jaw (called the Maxil- lary spa") the general health is often so ittle affected that nothing wrong is suspected ureil the abscespes in most cases there if a 4%re or less loss of appe- ase of temperature,. nasal dischargee at krst watery, but soon becomingdpueuient; cough, often dif- 'swallowing. A tumor or n be felt, and generally neighborhood of the head, the space already referred throat or higher up, just o the 'lower jaw. In severe patient becomes unable to the cough becomes 'very d breathing metre or less d difficult; and he usually h his nose Protruded, fae- ly of fresh air if at liberty. nt.—In mild cases good omfortable quarters are all ecled, other than flushing Wes of the abscesses three break, bu tithe iner acuity In tumors e seen In th ueually In to in the posterior cases the labored a Treatm eitre and that le n out the ea times daily with a five per cent. sofa - of the.coal tar antisceprics aced. In more acute cases n to the above it is good holding the patientit*head • seeping from a pot _of boil - NICKLED. TEA KETTLES George -Hardware.--. .14.rchant,. S.caforth • ass „n dries, which serve the purposes of t arm ituzguitti.01.. war, mills -and factories,. combine to SEAFORTH, Friday Der- 20th, 1918. make them prosperous Their crafts- ized long ago; are in a considerable For example, Senator sible for the sympathy shown the Al - Ebert has them well in hand, or• it portance. might be safer to say, had them well Hitchcoek. chairman of the e Senate lied dense by the leading newspapers in hand, for with Germany seething Committee, on Foreign relations,_ is: of the United States. . EBERT, GERMANY'S NEW CHANCELLOR and extreme radicalidm with its implicated. At least. he inaccused of A good deal of Genii= Money was Who is Friedrich Ebert, ! German thek off, an hour may change the havieg been en adviser of the German frittered away in stibsidizing inueh- Chancellor, and what is he like? To tense. t t ht He favored the eaddence being given o the Unite bound to come o g . IStates Senateedwiteinsatters are orniti• ' the more German method of bribing foe example, will not tell hew it got method, whatever it was, seemed to be ted. The Sectet Sereice department, writers, and suggested that the British its miorrna.tion, but it does not hest- more .successful. He evidently be - men ancl u-nskilled workers, organ - majority and largely Socialists. tate to name persons of the -first im- lieved that British gold was respon- ageets, suggesting how they should go - room periodical& like- O'Leary's Bull, .speak of 'him aii a former iharness- 'Ebert's is the type of German face- If he wo th Work in order to win public confid- and other weeklies that cattle into enaker doez not do him justice: The that always wears a scowl—a face meet. . • ' • ' - existence for purely war • purposes. by givin new milk and raw eggs genesis of a man does not determine with two perpendicular lines above There is something rather humor- One of. Bernstorff's advisers, Dr.Halee with an z. of sweet spirits of nitre ous iin this role for Senator Hitch- said,that he favored buying a nionthly _several lines daily. Do not attenipt cock, who has lost public confidence maga.zine rather than a weekly. Like to drenc him, Give the powders out ' in an amazing degree since he first any other man with a lot of rnoney to ' of a sp ol, placing them well liaek showed his proeGerman tencleneieei spend, Berpstorff was offered dozens on the t ngue. Give the -liquids with I.Vhen he was• made chairman of the of schemes a day- one was that the ;kept of both milk a,nd feed, arid testis , a e -oz, yringe. If .there be danger Senate Committee ahere was .a, loud Wright patents Should be bought, and ['made occasionally to ascertain if 'it -of suffo ation, and. thesamateur ean- protest b.ican some of the most int- it waeipromised that if Germany con- I would pay to increase or decrease the net reli ve it, a veterinarian should • • d 't. ' of air- 1 'rain * , ' be sent or promptly. In. 'eases af irri- angles the same treatment, I ttehtion to the form - and cotton Seed. meal 1 parte Tine meal fed af the rate of 1 poutul per three and a half pounds of milk pro, No, 2.—Mixeclover hay 12 pouridse corn ensilege 30 pounds, meal -mix- ture composed of bran 5 parts, cotton seed 2 parts, oil cake 1 part, fed at the rate of 1 pound for every three 1 or three and a half pciands of mile 1 produced. 1 All cows are not of the same tertei perment On this account a- stud should be made of the requiremen s 'of the individual animal. In the best' bred, herds, cows vary in their 1proddetive ability, therefore te obtain 1 the greatest profit, records should be tion of op, or carboll in additi practide in steam a little ea bolic acid. Feed and water out -of a igh.manger, as he swaliows gre ter ease when head is ele- vated. ive the patient two to four dt.ams of hyposulphite of soda (ac- cording 'o size) three_ times, daily. Keep ho poultices to the throat, lance ab cesses as soon .as ready and -treat as bove. Feed on soft, easini swalloweki and easily digested food. t eat keep up his strength his ultimate place. Ebert was a har- - large he bulks in statecraft new not he estimated now. From the minority benches ono is not in a position to do more than urge a policy and, re- cord his negation te that which the larger vote makes operative and un- til now Ebert has always been of the minority. Ile has been ip public life for 18 years, writee Charles Welton in the New York World, but he had only local prominence until a con- stituency which gave its largest re- cognition to its union card and his facility with the awl and waxed end sent him to be is representative irl the Reichstag. There he made his way slowly, studigusly remaining much of the time in the back- -ground, content to sit at the feet of August Bebel, who it may be 're- marked, was. one of the two orig- inal Socialists who had sets in the Reinchstate as far hack as the days of the Franco-Prussian war. Bebe -I for a generation was about the sharpest thorn in the side of au- tocracy and perhaps the most vitri- olic exponent in written phrase and spoken word of the Socialistic doc- trine. Ebert, a student of Bebel, be- • came his successor when advancing .years bore the veteran leader down. He is now Vice -Chairman of the So- eial Democratic party and a cam- -mending -figure in the majority Scheidema.nn, chairman of the ma - group of so-called Socialistih Con- jority group of Sociali,ets in the servatives, to gis-e them a shadieg of Reichstag, in support of the war. distinction, who have drunk deep° of He with the others yielded to the both Marx and Rebel. Ebert grew appeal of the Kaiser not to permit up as a bov in Heildelberg. His the Government programme as it father, a tailor, sitting crose-legged related to, hostilities. In this he on his bench almost within the sha- took a stand against the Liebknecht dow of the university, fashioned faction, which refused to compro- garments for the undergraduatues. raise its position and stood out Material is not at hand to show that against the war. -Liebkneeht was the elder Ebert wee a Socialist, but thrown into jail .for standing for a he probably was. An atmosphere of principle. When by royal order he protest permeated young Ebert's was set at liberty, Ebert .was ameng home If the elder Ebert mumbled the 'first to welcome him after" the gutturals againet social conditions turnkey had thrown back the loek. as une may venture to say that he Radical Socialists have not hesitated did, the youth caught their mean- ing, Once oirt of his apprenticeship and in his early manhood, young Ebert went to live in Bremen, tak- ing his entail Socialistic library with him. He lost no time in identifying himself with the party group- at that seaport city, He wrote for his So- cialist paper. , He spoke on the corners and an from 'his nose to his cheek His cal party. He 'never could have been planes in the- United States would be Cows, in order to make a maximum. gulag st moustache, black like his eyebrows elected to his Present position • and in German hands. Another. gentleman production at a minimum cost, should. less_ the the' nose, pressed so deep by muscu- ler corrugations that the swarthy eyebrows are nearly' brought to- gether. The • same fixed muscular effort has contracted' the lids of his eyes until the _coal black pupils are only half exposed. Other lines— scowl lines like the rest --extend Portant newsPapers of- Ins OWII pohta- tro e es , g brities full •on his lip, and' a close_ (oily the rule of _seniority plaeea him meritiosiee as being a etrong pro -Ger- ! be 1-ioused under the most favorabie ing abse eses is all that an amateut, cropped goatee completes his beard where he ie Another prominent citi- man is Rev. Dr Aked, an Englishman conditions,'' that is, in regard to and], after all, that a veterinarian can- een 3nentioned is Samuel Untermeyer, 2 by. birth, and now of San Francisca. ' cleanliness, good ventilation, plenty Of dd. He ie short and stocky, a man ,ee • nhysleal stamina. . Be 'wears a one of the leading lawyers of New Roger Sullihan, Democratic boss elf i light, with necessary bedding andaoe•h * Alin broad brown hat pulled well dawn Yotk. Mr..Unterineyer is said to have Chicago, is also said to have prom- , casionalegroeming. - - 11,1Ru ou his forehead. Mr. Welton says beer an adviser of the Germans. He ised his hearty co-operaticaa in any i- A cow should haoe all the good that -he remembers the ebairman of emphatically, denies the charge,- and scheme to hurt Great Britain. Several 1 quality rmighages she warits,with 6, asserts that when German agents ap- probinent educationists are named fin 1 -well balaneed graM ration regulated ' brother. This tria.n would' have been enough like Ebert to be his " twin wh have been his intimate friends there is reason to believe that one of: ' . . RosV E Worikloi a Low German • festival committee proaehed him he refitsed to listen to this connection, but with some of I by her peoduction, also plenty of -freeh which gave a merry -making out at their schemes on the gn-ound of his them at least it is plain that "the Ger- 1 water and from one to three ounces a park in Ridgewood who i looked relationship with people in England man infc•rmation was at fault In fact, .1. of salt added tO her feed daily. fee_ an clients for many years. In rnak- the explanations of the utter collapse - - . his last choice as the head 0 fa • tival committee. in his denials Mr. Untermeyer is, of the pro -German propapganda in mla coNcRETE T Iv , in 1 respects but ond, like the rest of the fact that the German agents ', is, Min Ebert'seexact place in the Social- INES SAYE LABOR suspects. They are equally em- themselves evere swindlers, ie in offering. denials; he has ithe • antage that he may be believed. le Hearst' papers, of course, are di- 'WINTER istic world is hard to define has been called a catapaw. The fact ad ph that, he accepted ..the ChancellorShip at the hands of Prince Max, who . . FEEDING. OF DAIRY re tly implicated. Hearst's, favorite COWS in turn was called to power by the Eu °pearl correspondent, Dr. William Coivs are fed in the stable during i main Hohenzollern befoee he elect:- Ba ard Hale, formerly a clergyman, one half oil the year or more and I ed to become a plain Count, is- but was in receipt of $15,000 a year as feeding during this period may, thro establishing him as of that 'status. the United States. That the He,arst Durng the greater part tif. the last papers openly sided with Germany a- suitable. feeds, be 'made very exphn- ' four years, he was aligned with . • • sive. The prefits from the herd will, one fact which May be cited as orgenizer Of German propaganda in ignorance or on account of using un- gamst the Allies in the early days of of course, depend=to a large extent on th opinion of many people Hearst ;dlind the economy of the methods of winter feediug followed: th war is of course notorious! no cease to be pro -German when Ins Economical feeding does not mean 0 =make concrete tile sailer, eLelaabpo: as p n u , a ian agents very handsomely ac- kinds of feeds and feed combinations faetorily many things /inlet ly never before in the his - Will Cured and Properly Made Cement Tile Equal to.Clay. Stiangles. an infections' Disease et Colts May Be Controlled,— Elie CauSe, Symptoms and Treatment of ThiS Serious bisease. (Contributed by Ontario Department lit Agriculture, Toronto.) f Efficient Gas Engine in 'House zni Barn. rie Winter Prtining May Be Without Injury — Winter arb Delicious and May Be (Coeiribiated by Ontario Department Of tkgrieult,u re. Toronto.) 'NG labor In stable and me, by the use of macbinery. one of • the great economic armers to -day. Through the achinery they can produce e, at less cost, than in years A even mo past, w tolperarobbla torY of many fa a single now bee line en employe feed for in the s may be fanning with whi How Winter Rhubarb Is Produeed, The production of rhubarb in win-• ter has liecome of considerable value among gardeners. It is- easy to do ' ' certain methode are followed. if of _rhubarb forcing, it is necessery, each year to eet out a new bed, as plants once. forced are of no furtber value. In the spring large roots . should be dug, split in one btut see - tions 'and replaced in rich moist ground. During the growing season they are kept cultivated and five from weeds. In the fail they are coye ered with enanure, Next spring .a se- cend bed is planted is before. That fall a laige part of the first bed is taken up, leaving sufficient to replant, another .hed the next spring. The roots are taken up the last thing in the fall before the hard freezing wea- . ther conies and are pladed in piles in a shed where they can easily be got m during the winter 13"ut will remain frozen, Early in December take in a sufficient = number of roots, - place. these bud side up an the flow. of- a warm cellar—about 68 degrees or,70 'degrees- — and cover with an incb of send, Be sure to ,fill in aii inter- snace. 'teen thie seed moist, About a Week later the buds will begieentoe swell and ill from four to six weeks, depending upon the heat. of the room ---Lthe cooler and slower growth starve ---4you should have rhubarb ie. .dy. After taese roots are exhausted throed constant ply is required made a new bed _ ery two or- three. weeits during tinrevinter, Be sure to keel, - ail the front diMened, Put borlaeS of brown paper over the windowe to, give the bright pink icoler _so ninth. BIT OF RUN KULTUR„ • ov eouritry entered the war. The scant supplies. but the using, of the the farming world have so Ge and his papers had rendered the Path- ,that will be likely to produce the best results at the lowest cost. knowledged the service that Hearst &land, but there is no evidenee that As the milk produced -depends upon he directly received any money for his the quantity and quality of the feed' of hate against Great Britain. But consumed, everineffort should be made to supply. the cow with all she hdell woelt. It appears te have been a labor writer for many ,years, seems to beim eat of a ration combining palatability, easy digestibility, variety and nutri- Arthur Brisbane, hie chief editorial been a beneficiary. He was advanced tion, • a iarge sum of money by a group of The most economical ration 'must German' brewers with which he bought have as a basis, cheap, but .rich, nu - The German propagandiets set great tricuous, farm -grown roughages sue as clover hay, ensilage and roots. .The a Pro -German Washington newspaper. to call Ebert a renegade from the in- ‘ tense Socialist principles, and haven store on support in newspapers and as a willing but not a very keen mstru- gone so far as eto characterize him . maw gazines, and frankly realized that liberal feeding of meals ie advisable to balance the 'roughage ration and ne spa.pers of a little more respecta- to provide the heavy milking cow with ment in the hand of the German auto- bility than those of Mr. Hearst were cracy. ne'ceseary if they were to get in touch an extra supply of nutrients in a less with the most important class of Am-• A pound ,of grain when the cow is SECRET SERVICE They bought the New York Mail, the docks where his audineees were Some of the most interesting read- as ha& been known for a long time,. -mostly of longshoremen and sailors ing that is daily spread befora the They are said to have offered several .who, periodically stepped ashore in American people these days concerns millions for the Washington Post, or Hoboken from once familiar liners. the efforts of German agents to ere- Tether to have considered a peoposi- In 1900 he was chosen, a member of the City Council. It was twelve years Inter that he was elected to the Reidhstag, He represents the Eber- feld-Barmen constituency. These . cities, lying a few miles' trolley run apart and having a friendly munici- pal rivalry like Minneapolis and St. Paul, are perhaps the busiest maim - Breweries of amazing output, foun- be taken into consideration. 6.rst place it is very' necessary that the 'manufacturer liave experience in the making of concrete tile; besides, it is essential to bave 'good. strong machinery, a good coal-, ity of sand and gravel, or crushed rock, Iirst-class cement, material and . cement thoroughly mixed, and e where the tile may be steam cured. Only strong, lheavy and' durable ' machinery should be used. With respect to material a good. aggregate , would be one :part material, which would pass through. a tw'enty-mesh sieve, and two parts, which would ! range from the previous size men- tioned up to one-quarter inch stone. ate a sentiment hostile to the -allies tion to rent the paper for tbe sum- of in the early years of the war when $500,000 for the duration of the 'wan. the United States was still a neutral. This top, is now denied. In ()lie of Ills The information now made public has lettets, Count von. Bernstorff lamented been gathered by the United States the fact that it was almost impossible Secret Service. Of the ramifications toe buy an American newspaper be - of the pro -German plots one might cause the fact could not be kept secret, exclaim with the Queen of Sheba, "the He said that if the war had been half has never been told;" and the shorter the owned newspapers might probability is that the full story will have done their bit with more success. never become public. Even now in bat in the long run these matters were .1 of grain after the cow has decreased Only good sharp material should be materially in her milk . flow- Feed used — one in which there is cltay one pound of meal for every three should lie avoided. If this cannot be land a half pounds of milk produced; procured a. sand washing machine as her lactation period progresses, de- will have to be added to -the equip -- crease the meal gradually to one pound ro.ent frof the Went. for' every five pounds of milk pro- i Where a greae many tile manufac- duced. turers make a mistake in the making The following are two well balanc- of concrete tile is 'in the fact that ed daily rations far the 1,000 pound they use tido "lean" a mixture, that dairy cow 'suitable to the individual is not enough cement to the material. needs of farmers throughout the dis- The proper mixture for first-class trict: tile is one part cement to 2% parts Nd. 1.—Mixed• hay, 16' pounds; of crushed material, and in no case turnips or marigolds, 40 pounds; meal, should the mix be_ inore lean than mixture composed of bran 6 parts, • en problems heen solved bY piece of machinery as has accomplished by the gaso- ne. • In the stable it can be to advantage in grinding he stock. It can eta .feed and It can pump water for the nd stable whenever one a hydrant on the lawn, and ock yards to which a hose attached for washing the' rinkling the lawn, fiushipg stable and for other phi. - source of much satisfad- sure and- comfort. ans of a, line shaft a gas Cross In 'French Cemetery. \ f , From my dugout entrance I cam see two crosses—crosses that hal out.the promise of victory and pewee to the Allies and ihat furnish a COO. i crete example of German. infamy. One miss Stands beb.ind our front lines, many feet above the groimd, on what was once a tower of a mail - rive eathetiral. It is =touched by German 'fire, e Around it all le ralui The town Is desolate, the 'cathedral itself stands a maes of ruin. 'That part of the tower that hdids the eros aloft seems but a narrow•needle Jut, ting out of the horizon.f. Every dei the boche shells this tow*, and maltY missiles fall on the ruined Shell of - the cathedral. But the /dross stitt ' Unseen hands guides the II whistliair shells from ' this embleni-. of the Christ, the cross is protecta ' Every afternoon. as the sun slat down ill. the west this cross is silliest- ' etted against the evening sky, a pro - raise of victory and peace. The tide- -mph Of right over wrong, The other cross stands in No'lelandne Land. It is in the centre of a. smelt village ceinetery. , I is the largest cross in the chureby el, and sMnd out prominently amo the ma -1W headstones in thelcity f the dead, For several months we have- bet* Iosing men from Machine-gun fire in , this section. We have been unable td - locate the gun that was Vaybeg en went out in an effort to discoyer OW particular machine-gun envie-W. ment. Our best aviators circled; ip near the ground in. an effort to cote the gun that they were in ger of making. a sudden land'e No Man's Land. But still 41:44noe chine gun was undiscovered,. night its pat -pat -pat -pat -pat .w ring out, and often some one the price. It wee as _though some phant machiae gunner ems -operating phantom. gun. - Then came the order to advan Over the top we went, right o the German. lines. ,But still phantom machine gun Worked. ines*at he same time. It ill, cream separator, churn, As we pressed closer an c he grindstone, root pulper, to the boehe linee we cam,e Int b and the milking machine, cemetery. Then some one discov h it is possible to milk twe the secret of the phantom gum axerte horse clippers, rotary - had by a tity of the tomb. With all his ea Iegious cunning he had. Oa The boche had violated the s cows in bout six minues, including over a. c machin.e gun beneath the _eras. ei the time 'required for chasiging and, setting. ' necessity. i wh rhuNi Lei w1 °banes urther assistance may be death machine *was placed wit 1 eaching the power for re- very shadow of the Holy trode. and for eireula,ting ,milk - This is the story of the oling surfate—a practical crosses. One a silent sponsor 0,f Allied cause. The other a sildii and its application with a a buke to "Gennep. Kultur." er need the preparation of consigned tO warmer res, Q. Melton in Atlanta Constit Adequate facili enable us to mi. with promptness Let us handle interests will be SEAFORT !MOO DISTRICT MATTERS DUBLIN Presentation—On Tuesday ev Y.M. Club, assembled at the hc 3dr. and Mrs. Joseph Givlin behalf of the Club by Mr.- Leo 1 foRowed by an address, whici read by Mr, Bernard .Mulligan. address was as follows: To M and neighbors, here assembled, c our -fir.st opportunity to offer you wishes for a happy future. TA come fnto our midst, and on of the Club, of which Mr. Gil a worthy member, we beg of you cept this small token of the hie gard in which" you are held community, and at the seine timi • you a Jong and .happy weddec Signed on behalf of the Club. M Mrs. Givlin thanked the audietd their kindness after which lune. served, followed by cards, da music and singing, till the wee houre of the morning, when the § departed to their homes thexikin and Mrs. givlin for the pleasant WALTON Red Crosse—The fololwing tre.asureee and secretary's -repo the Walton Red ;Cross Uniontbegi June lst erid ending November 1918: Treasurer's Report-4as' Balance from May $132.02; riie- • $106 45; donations $43.25; gran Morris council 8.2'n; grant fra, Xillop Connell $225; Olive birthday party $6.25; quilt 2 Relief $18; Beligan Relief 3 dist ladies aid, $21.70; c n $1.75; paper $2.25e Christina s $44.40, Total receipts $878.3/ periditure—yarn $312.79; to $37.78; Retee and Runnel $ tape, needles, wick, ete., $12.8 tionery 81c; exPress, $2.61.-; aelief $20.10; Christmas bexes 4; total $790.64; balance Secretary% Report—The see report of work done by 'Mao Cross Union beginning June 1 ending November 30th is .as f Socks, given out to send to log 15 pairs; shirts, 4; sweaters 1; sent in -Xmas, boxes 25 pairs; e25; total number of shirts mad slumber of socks made 690 pairs els made 389; 'pyjama suits 184 for work as usual on Tuesday noon, December 17th. • Now th War is over the ladies have ded hold meetings once a er.onth. of each week, Lunch will be at these meetings, beginning t end Tuesday in the New Year. Roy Bennett, Secretary. BOW AMATEUR SLEUTHS ED IN THE WAR Trofession of spying is not If iearded. In fact, the business in some 'contempt. and so With would say—we make the deteet most popular of our heroes of Our Government does not Pay highly, and the result is that England and in the United the Government secret servi atives are few in comparison the forces . that serve Cent powers. How many spies and agents Germany had in en neutral countries there is .no of knowing- Some have es the number of several h "thousand, in which ease it mi argued that if the spies bad , soldiers instead the German would not have come so svatl rule these sines were not as paid as readers of the Teiriali E. Phillipis Oppenheim neigh love of the Fatherland. Proba average German spy earned than the average German wait In the United States, whe the beginning of the war, Germano agents have been m eneroue, there were two clas German spies, . There was t fessional band: men whose business was the gathering Illation valuable to Berlin 4b.ose other employment was nature of a blind, and a -far number eof impromptu spie who wanted nothing for the vices except, maybe. after t an iron eross or a. picture Kaiser. The members of t class were fairly well known Secret service before the States entered the war. T for the most partdi expose hancle while the Muted Sta neettral though for the Mo keeping within the law, war was elecia.red. it wan a enough *latter to round up the professional German spi send them to prison or int eaps. The real problem of ganizatione whose dated-- it pept-ect the United States the enemy within its gates agents, pro -Germans; •avho' strike a. secret blow for the land eut of motives of patri send en any valua.ble news quarters through e neutral - 33rrice Bilaske chief of eau of Investigation, who