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The Huron Expositor, 1935-02-08, Page 7,d ::14 )". '141 � . I ,.-; . I f . � I .1 I I , I . , , J � , k , t I , I f , a I I" . I , I f. .1, . i . . � . � - . I . I � . . , I I . I . I ., . . . . � . , I 1. I I . . . I I . I I . . I . . . . . .. I I . . .. I I � � I , � , I I . 7 . . I I 7 , . I I I I I ) I , I . I �, i�'�\ , 1� � , , - , , , - , , - " , - , - , , '. , , '. , - * , "�",*,t,�- ,',,� - ". , - e��,�`,0.. LA41WIA1190 11 , t . 4 �,�.`,!,. , - , 1" ., I , � I " * I . 1". I �­Fq - ' . PMP : 11 .11, "r : ' � ,. ' I 4. � . I ... 1. I none *-' 01.. , , , .. I . . . . ;QR,N 1�, , IWGGARD . . . lviot*ff., lspite%or, .1 ,. ." Notary - .'Pliblaw, BtQ.: �-.­ -, , Beattie 1BI.ock , - ,, , -� �Mf �Hh, bul, . I . - . , . HAYS & "IR . ilucceeding R. S. Rays' I - Barristers, iSolicitors, Convoyancer and Notarios ft-blic. 18olicitors, go . *be_ Dominioii - Bank. Office in rear o the Dominion, Bank, Sea,dortW Uoine, . I . to "U. , . I ' JOHN H. BEST I . . I . -Barrister, Solicitor, Ltd. Se�forth - I , Oniari` . . . . VETERINARY #I . — . .. JOHN GRIEVF4 V.S. Uonorr graduate of -Ontario Vebetin- ary 0DI-lege. All diseastes of domesti< animals weated. Calls pro,m1pbli at, tended to and, charges moderute. Vet. erinary Dentistry a specialty. OffleA and residence on GodeTich'Street, ont door east of Dr. Jarrott'� office, Sea. forith. , I 0 I . A.'R. CAMPBELL, V.S. ' Graduate of, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All disease of domestic animals treated by the 'nvost modern principles, Charges reasonablia.' Day or night calls promptly attended to. Office on 3fd1n, Weet Herisall' oitiposiite Town K `V �ree&,r 6f Scot- Ra�- -9� ;i; 116. tish Terrier% Inverness Kennels, Hemall. � . I MEDICAL . ' . / DR. D. E. STURG . IS , Graduat - I .e of the 'Faculty of Modi- cipe, University of Western Ontario, and f>i. Joseph's Hospital, 'Lond,on. 3fember of College of Physicians and $urgeonsi.cif Ontario. Phone 67. Of - Ace at Dublin, Ont. , , 3498 . . ' DR. GILBERT C. JARRUIT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, UniveriAty of W6stem Ontario. Mem- ber of College of Physicians ind Surgeons of Ontario. t ... Orfice, 43- God- lerich l8treet, West. Pbone 37. (Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay. , — . ­ , I ' , I DR. F. J. R. FORSTER ' Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. . Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moore * field's Eye and ,Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals� Lon&n, E -mg. At Corrimlercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in t each month, from 1.30 p.m, to 5'p.m. 68 Waterloo,\Street, South, Stratford. - . DR. W. . C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Wesitern Ontario,'Lon- dA%6 , Member of C611ege of Physit- iaus, and 6urgeons of Ontario. Office in Alberhart's Drug Store, Main St., k9eaforth. Phone 9D. I . - DR. F. J. BURROWS . Office and residence Goderieb Street, east of the United Church, Sea - forth, Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Haran, . ------ — DR. HUGH H. ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of 061 - logo of Physicians and Surgeons, ?f Ontario; pass graduate course ih Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; Royal Opith&1nilie HospitaL London', England; University 'Hospital, Lon- don� England. Office -Back of Do - min -ion Bank, Seaforth. )?hoil,e No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. � I DR. I. A. McMASTER- . Graddate of the University of To- ronto, Faculty of Medicine Member of College of, Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario,- graduate of 0 New York PosrC Graduate School and Lying-in Hospital, New York. Of- fice on High Street, Seaforth. Pho.ne 27. DR.G.R.COLLYER . Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Und- versity of Western Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post graduate work at' New York City Hoslpital and Viogtoria Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall, 66. Officb: Xing Street, Hensall._ . DENTAL I ----- - . DR. 36-A. MUNN Graduate of N,crrthw ' estern Unik-lers- ility, Ohicago, 111. Licentiate Royal College of Dental ,Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., I Seaforth. Ph -one 161. DR. F. J. BECURLY Graduate Royal College of ,Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, 'Main ,Street, Sea - forth. Phone: Office, 185; residence, M. . - , . . DPL J. A. MeTAGGAR . T Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgetons., Toronto. Of5ce at"Hen- sall; Ontario. Phone 106, 1 AUCTIO14tERS ', I . HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer iSpecialist i,n farm and household sales. Prices vea,sonable� For dates mid information, .vq-ke or phone Aar - old Dale, phone 149, Senforth, or ap- ply at The Expositor Office. . - I ' - � ART�Ulft VirED'EU ' ' ' I . AuetioneerIg Licerige i - Sixteen Vftrsl experienee. Satisfaetloft, guaranteed. .Te)ephohle.- 10-57, Hlftsall. I 1. 'Witie ARTHVE - - 1, , I I it. it. . 1, Dashw* I , . , I . I I . I . , . . - � , ,�;�� ',� , 1, -,�,�­ � �. , 1. ::: , 1� 11 , � , 111. �,, " , I , - -11, -A I 'a"Aid"111 �. I , "I" � .. - � . . ... �; �': 1; . . . .. .- I : (.1 . I . N` , � -1 . .,:: A :- . '. . 101%.,� . � lkol, , . . . , ­.. , I "' - '' " 4.t, By Gilbort Frankau" ., . I � I . I . I . � . . - (Conduned froin last week) § 4 . And, to the Gdwhue they meat: set, ting out at ani,dnigilA for Bailleul- four guns, eight wagons and, a w1a. ter. cart,'que hundred- and tyyent"vi . horses, on. hundred and thirty-eig,114 �elmated men;,'heavy -transport bring. !rg up the rear. n-ey entrained ait dawn, loaffing and lashing ivehicles, coaxing hoirse,� into tru,eks, --heplieroldnig men, super. visili)g �4ullpment; slid off to the I si6uth ' - travelled endlessly thro.ugli endless fields, past -end-less villages; till at last, dark -green from, the car. riage windows, Peter saw the tree� tops of the'-somme. It was late in. the afteimi>on ere the last G.8.'waigon canie grcaning � to 'ground, the last tea,m backed into the swinglieltrees, at AnAens Junictdon, "Nb,w we shan't be long," said Gunner mu,*s,weat, `�Dinna ,believe it, Muckie, we'll no go into action Yet," warned, his 'Nutm- ,her Two.' I . 'And ,Mu(cks*eat`s, 'Number Two,, ,the canny Macnab, proved, righ,C, Back they marched and ,back; through the broad tree-girlt avenues of Amiens, where French munitionebUs whirling hornow,ards, on riewy mtottxir forries kissed girieeltings; over -a vast canal below "wfiose embankment silent . poilus,'bliie�clbsked .and -blue helmet, ed, sat glued, to, enormous fishing- rods;back, along thie,white .4nd dusty road, making their tea by the ribad- side in a village (nameless to Gun - per Murks-weat, brut Direuil-les-Amiens to his officers), that. proffered cig- 4rettes and cafe-cognsac and new - baked 'rolls of goldefi-crusted bread; . I pressing on again, weary in, the twi- nd icquilgny and Crouy; back, always back, to Hange-sit . . . . ,"Told you wed put You through it P. J.," chaffed Pettigrew late ih�i n-ight as, iwagons.unli(mlbered, horses tethered, mien bivouacked at last, they'flung themselves to -bed in the lalth-and-plaster -room of a ini-olden. courted farm. I � . "Dunno what's the matter with m,%" groused -'Peter. "Little Willie isn't, used, bo'.being anywhere excot , . at the head of the column. He s been pulling irrV arms out all this eve-niing., Given me a stitch or some ' thing;" - lie coughed, acridly in ,the ,darkness. "Won -der �hiow long we shall stop here?" ' I . "Oh" about alweek, I ex1pect, . . . G,o,Vd niikbt," snored his companion. 4. § 5 It tioci-k three days to concentrate the four 'brigades of Soutbolown ar, tillery at Hangest. 09neentration. concluded, there fol- lowed a pertiod of desulltory 'training' -taken with immense and -harassing seidousnem by Revelsv,�orth; slightly less seriously by his subordinates. I Florthniiftely,, Mhe� Alnglo-'Saxon is -not imaginative. Neither officers nor men of 'Beer' Battery bothered., as they went abouttheir lawful (or un- lawful) business, to consider the near future. To he out of action, arway frofmi the sound of guns, suffi-ced bhem, Thus they waite"ve ,days-Elix days -4a week and a week -end; till there came, one warm sumlneVs ev- ' ening while they sat at poker, a very affaire Purves, ,second star newly on his sleeve, with orders that "The Colonel would lik,i� to see all' avail- able offkers at headquarters immedi- ately." "Cbrifound it," mid I,odden. "I'1ve never been in such amazing luck." "Ner%�er b -ring imessages like that Yourself," whispered Peter to Purves as they strolled. across the cobbled courtyard. "What's it all about?" "Only a pi -jaw. We're ,going into action to-niorrow.11 And,& 'pi-javr' as Purves irreverent- ly desbribed it, they got. Listening Ito it, Peter began to tbin-k of the Bri-grade, in its Brighton days, of all thiel men who [had come and gone since the WeasePs dinner at the Xeitroipble­�O'Grady, aniped on the St. Eloi Spoilbank just after Loos -Torrington, Percy Rorke, wounded in Ithe Salient- Halliday, their first casualty; Red, killed -by a chance shell at Neuve Eglise; 'hoTT§y" Hut- chinson, transferred, with Bromiley; Billy Williams and Murphy, merged in the D.A.C.; a dozen transient sub- aliterns killed, wounded or gone home sick, nalmes almost forgotten, Yet the trigade, the Fourth South- down Brigrade R.F.A.-the 'virgin bosom' Brigade as Stark used to call ��it every time biiis- meticulous re0om- endatiorsr for horours were struck cut by the bernedalled Staff - still lived. The thing he, Peter, bad help- ed to miake, went ,on . . . we,nt Dn, and would go on, right to the fin- ish . . - 'A lung wai ter get te,r Berlinl' He seemed to hear has Cock- neys again� singing. '�Sa you see, when we begin miciv- inig u1p into action to-Taorrow," in- terru)pted Revelswoith's voice . . . Peter 1poked round- him, at the m te expressionless faces above the khr. w1laurs. There were a few of the ' %6ld ggne MU. Loddet, Conway, Purves, Pettigrew -and Straker, 'Brat' Ambdale (acitibig Orderly officer, grown from, blushing boy to bollow- .-hooked Young man)'. Merriless, so]- I �mn as an owl, unaRered . . . Eight: incIuding himself, nine. Nine Dut of twen—lbysixl Haw manry ,of those, nine would be left after this new show? Eight at Most; one of itheim was done for al- ready- cobldn't hope ,to last mote than � month, And. that one of thein Was MmIselfl. . . . ftill nobody need kno1w about that. till -he came out ofaction. , . . . If -he came out Df 416�. . . . . . 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"i .'� I mx� ,VA#e9 .1 ,, .�.,��,: l� � ij.�' u y ­ ,,� to la�*. !"Ahif it's, 'Your turn to- - � I$ (T � ­� e`tO , h ­44up', "qft1p, V'02`4 .',� - 211�1*� I �. , ", .9 " jwl�ulj , � ­Mv ( 0 REP � , 'ei N F � '#OF "I'll le M It e. morrow, P. J. . . . Your turn I I A , 1.1T I I IT � .A Ro' ance of Married L-!-' - hea.10 . � I I I I , I R I , , I . . � . iffloodY funny if I killed our U6 tregtj#,D4�6�� A(* "N- ''" ' " ­"­ N " I . ,0, 4 lvi��R`�R,R I � . .. 0 - idj�taut, too . . .' God, I , - Al I 011,11 N, - 11. . . X lid t49 r401' 0M.. i§,%.V.#, .,. ',em I . 00',- - I .. . . - 1� . 11, . I .- . TesUft Of. Over Smoking . . . Rolle- 1pared to. rthis holocaust., Looa was s1bon, the litindly diffident Igengral okir4nieh. . ,practilsoner' who doctored Colonal Day after dAy, night after nigi BawenoWs brigade, .had told Peter week after week, men flung thm that much; told it him- unconscious-' selves upqp- the'I st; drove ,, . �qa ly. . . . ' wave by wave - across the barri They had melt quite by accident, swells o , f Ticardly: till at last, ib4 ,tbat very afternoon; gone to Riolle- ing and'ravaging, defiling the ver. ston's 'surgery., ,Peter accelyting,. a beds in which h , e had slept, wreaki ,drink, chobed over" it- put his h,and- vengeance ,on. ltlh� Very #ees who kbrehiet to'his Tnput& ' fruit he had -eaten, the Beast wi "None oif my basiness, of. course," drew for a while - withdrew, a the doctor had ventured, 1%ut if I came on again, and was overt1hrow were you, I'd, consult LauTillard a- The 'Somime offensiveil! WIliat r bout that wheeze of yKyurs. Never mains of it to -&y? Only.memorie been gassed, have you? Slightly, I bitter memories that waken men hreull'.11 I Dights: .90 ihat they see once ni Peter kept snence. the golden Virgin of A1bert, pois "'Fliwiny stuff, gas," went on the -miraculously on her red. and rive dovtor� "I had a ease of it before'l tawer; Carnoy -shattered in its. ho 'came out,- while ,I was still in civilian low, a giant baby's toy-Allage, dro practice. A young ,Canadian carps to ped from careless hand and smasbe kh a frightful cough - rather in the falling; the ruins that we me wi like tW cough of yours, by the way. Mametz and the ruins that, were Co I tested t1or chlorine, of course. Not talruaison and the ,ruins that we, a trace. Then he lbegan talicipig a- Fricourt and the ruins that w r bout the first -gas-attack- said' bed Pozieres; see once more th,e ero e been in it That put ;�e on, it h e horse -lines blackening Happy wide . Valle track.". , . the balloons strung like sausages -­'iftt surely, " interrupted Peter," cross the sky, the thouiand 'plan after all that tillie . . ." I circling like hawks above thesin: s ",Oh ' ,he w�Teit gassed, in the that they hear once More the sta Army sense of 'the word,; but ther&,s cato of machine,gun fire high in ai no dbubt in miy mind, that a tiny the dull thamp of the huge and hi nilodecule of chlorhile.-musit, -have lodj-' den naval guns.at Etinehem, the roa ed in his left lung, and started the of squat nine-point-t.wols on thei irritation," 1 ' . . . I wheell-ess mountings, the roar of th '�Did-ybu cure luIn?", railway gun at !Becord-el, 'the thund,( 010h, yes: But it took rather a long pf eigbt-inch and six-inch howitzer time. ' Fresh air and no' exercise. in Caterpri'llar Valley the ear-spli Lucky be came to me When he did. ting crash of six-inch Mark Vlj,l fro Lungs are ticklish -organsf. if �ou ' the road ,by the -Craters, the manifol Dnee start 'em downhill, they -take a cIamiouT of the Archies at Montau lot of ,pulling back. , Beqsjoles,' you ban, the. constant, bark of the field riever know when that sort of'thing guns beyond: so that they walk one K,on't turn to consumption; the tub- 11110re, naked and alone, among th arcle baefflus doesrn'i take -long to careless. ghosts of men they knev ind a -vi----- spot. . �1. . Still,,i,f through that hotror which was Trene you've never actually been in the Wood. . . . . � " � § 2 e . . "No, Pve� never been actually in "God, P. J., this is too damned aw ;he ga,%-cIoud."" Peter had lied me- ful." � ,.hanically. His was not the breed , Sandiland stretched grimed finger ,vhich 'goes *sick' on -the eve, of',au across the bacon box which S -We " Ictioli. . . . I for table; jerked a Goldflake fro in it . -ftlevelsworth's moicei interrupted tin; 'fit, it shakily at the gutterin ruting. "Th�ank you, gentlemen," he candle- ,� � vas saying, "I don't think there's "Pretty bad'," admitted Peter- bu knything else -except that r shou,j his hunil too, shook as he tilt4ol th like, ofters to wear full equipment whisky bottle into his tin m-tig. "Bet ur to -morrow's march." - ter have some of this." I § 6 . A shell whistled. over I the drippin At ten O'clock of.a. gorgeous late- corrugated iron above ther uinn;er morning the Fourth Brigade burst hollowly &�n t,he twisted zail narched out from Hangest; all tbe Way -behind. �ay back along the river 'bank, Imst "Blast that gun," said Sandiland. ' 'They had been in action for eigh ,rovy and Picquigny and, Ailly; halt - nig for hurried. ,rneal a.t Dreuil-les- teen days; and not once during -tha I kmiena; on again over the canal, (,.,r- time had 'B' Battery's guns bee v the river, up through car.1-1-n-g wholly silent. Of the men who ba itreiets, up past the round fortress ol served those' guns so blithely unde ,be Citadel, till they made the first the trees of Neuve Eglise, barely one vave of that Mstoric ground Nvl;ieh third remained. Gergeaut Ack-roy ,olls hike a frozen ocean, across pic- was dead, breast riven by direct hi Lrdy. . of a gas -shell; Sergeant Duncan wa Now, looking 'black, they could see dead, blown to (bits as, he ran fo �mieris. It lay b-elow them in 'the shelter; Corporal Haviland's body la ,reen valley: a,gmy brown , ,city, drilled with machine gun bullets ir waceful astrdde its river -banks, twin the No -Man's -Land beyond Arrow qu.are spires of -its cathedral bulk- head -Copse; seven signallers wer ng high above smoke -plumed roofs. dead, five they had watched. hobble )ut theFou-fith Brigade did not tarry one by one, up the sodden path to or slight of Amiens. the dressing station in Montauban On they marched, up a long white Now this ultimate horror had scream oad; hot wind in their faces, bitter ,EO down upon thern out of the night ,ust of the naked chalk parching tearing the last veils �between tl�en heir throalts and whitening their and hell. . . . 9.shes; on, over the swell of the first They had labored three hours to mve oT that frozen ocean; till they icic�aise ,%at hell,. TaiYoured cal-mily Popped again into the valley, saw and cheerfully among their men he first red houses, the green fields snatching 'only this brief res;pite fo nd the greener tree -tops of I)a,ou,-A food and drink. But the -h-ell they n -d VacquermiGA. had cleansed from the ground stil There, in the great woods which remained, desperately and �damrbablp ringe the river banks --woods whose clear, in their bilaims, , ' ree-trunks have -been gnawed smo.c* ,For the moinnent the- reticences- y a tbo�sand, tethered lhorses�--tlhey civilized life were in abeyance. Each ested them two, niigbrts; and theme, of these two knew iks he'c�ouched ov- t midnight, they clim'bed, the secon,l oir the, bacon. box in the sodden, brok- Ivell of the plain, made the heights en chalk -trench, that he was hanging cyond -Corbie ere the river misL van- on by the eye-teeth to his last roini- ;hell from the sleeping valleys; till nant of sanity, I . t Each still saw the same bestial , high no,oning of. a sun-scor,:hed ay they dropped down into the Bois vision: smashed pit, half bu�ied gun e Taille&-that straggling cleft of elithering sOil, mangled men writh- and and trees '. which strides thO ir,,g and groaning, *angled men lying :ray-Corlbie -Road. Here again ---of- deadly still, 'Charlie Straker's face ceirs an4.. InIen bivouacked ,under white and drawn in the ,light of the round-sheerts arnohg uncleanly bush- hurricane lamip-and the Head that % on the slopes-ho'rses tethered be- watched him, the Ifead that s t i I I vveen limbers onf the red -sand floor grinned under its ,,hrapnel belmet, f the valley ,below - they waited, the Head whic1h had been Pettigrew. raited endlessly . . . . . - "That leaves only you and Me, P. For in the vast crucible, of fire J." Sandid Iand's, finger plucked at ' -hich bulged nort!kwards astride the one of the rents in h4; tunic sleeve. irver from French Dompierre to Eng- "Only you and me." His voice quav- sh Ovilliers, in(fantry ,divisions of ered uip into his ,head, and he began welve thousand mien shrivelled as singing. . . aper shrivels " flame; brigades "You and me together, lorvie! never refted to battali,6lis, battalions to mind the weather, love." Ympanti-es; ,between',a rmloonrise and "Shut up, you Moody fool!" Peter's sun -setting, they were and they haggard eyes stared across the can - ,ere not. But always as infantry di- dle flame. "Shut up, I tell you. Why isions shrivelled, fresffi infantry di- the hell don't you drink that whis- isvions, flung 'themselves into the ky?" ruelble: and always, beibind the "Sorry, P. J." Sandiland crammed irivelling, melting infantry stayed the mru,g against his teeth, sucked ie gurs-stayed MI hvma� sinews db-wn the raw spirit. "By God, that's )uld serve ,them no longer. . . . good. Pour me out aqpth,er, there's Vague echoes o� those guns, hints a good chalp." He drank again. "I F their flashes, were born� ol ,nights suppose we ought to telephone H.Q." 1'. ,, _pIes, ) Relber Jackson. as, he lay s , I dia thit"while you were getting mong sleeping mten; as -he twisted them, away." ver and over between the raggled "Thank.q, dear boy. Purves say lailikets -on his creaking ca" -bed; alfty0ing?" ; he gweatiid away the i1arkness, and . I'll spoke to the Colonel" - PeteT I-iffered through the dawn -chill. ito started to cough�-�'and be said - eter with the spittinig cough &'Iing damn this cough of mine!-he'said, is mouth and the pinpifick pain stab- 'should he come up himself?" I told ing bellow ,his beart-to peter Jack- bitnt the gun, would be in action again )n, ,one tiny glorious fool among -by mid1night, and we could carry on i -e million -9 whiose folly saved our all right if he'd get us- alftother sub- lorld. '' -- , altern. He's sendink one up at once . -4PeteT'S VOiC4D too, quavered up into PART XXVIII ,his ,heud.; "Po,(yr old Lindsay. Do IN THE NIGHT you remember ? " I I . l Once again sanity trembled in, the The 'Somme offensive, in lo16 is balance. Their haggard eyes met ' . . ncient history now: a thing of staff acrosg'the candle flame, and from APs and war diaries, 0-f-barrell, pa- behind those eyes nakie(f soul looked er and profitless axgumo-nts, flat as at naked soul. re faked film of it ilven, once sold for "God 1'�­Sandilarid's voice was law rofit in the market tplace, but tense as a scream ....... God,, I never Yet the 'Somme offensive,� blood,- -knew I was a .coward . . . I'm 'st 'rin1lil-ilt, Over und4litaiken in inot a c ard .- - - QXPL ow It's sending ie laboratory a war, marked ' the the'otbera into it I cae, t stick ., - - Dglillning Of the endillg-of lWav's I'd igo rayself . . . You know � I'd adillir. as tdfties dTeani, to -day. Comi. go "ll"elt, P. J. .'. . . But I fty; � . . I I . � . . I . . .. . 11. I . ... I I �, �,:� � � ,,, , . . ;' �. I � , - '.. � r, k . X wish I could go instead of you . . . . "a', 00, felp 4mot J.094M, Xa�%F. �MQ I . � � , . 'rs �RARA,fpt - , "'T" " 0;.- ".."7 �tm% Five got -to be -here, P. J," Do you W-907 1:40se 'W900 .,� r - , ,,� �R' a This famous 04 gemiedy foot% , , ,3 ... IT understand 'that? . - , ,Here-- . Ri ?� ,"�i " way. We know that th ,bl " - 0 waiting by theso'blasted cannons for ' 0 M"" LAI', , 4� �- -- e '041' �P 0112" 1" �ow � 'u'y�ipart 01-1 t, some poor devill to come crawling I 4 0 Iles ' gg,�; O' red c t �nsc an �e - it . " r y 0 Its vi�tal work , 'i back and tell -me you've beien kill- It �im c r 0 _ 4 . pro , , .liatruiet.ve , In ed. . . .,, . . P. , 4 du is c 'of, !;111 -, . . ot t , r 4 0,7usc�r, ,,, i . I case , h b - , 4 P� _ _ lBut Peter, listening speechless, felt , . it 1 _ , � f "I I i n- . ., .. 'e I'll, . . . . . . , .�� 1. " 40.4 '. !,.A� . him -self thet greatei ,coward of the health 4 .,'�. "i G �;A,3.,:� ,; I I ___ . , , oks d .. ­ . . . �;'�­3, � i ." � Y two: for he would have given ang- ­ . ur ee Ings. 11 10� . Your,mirror tewyou. t4 .,y,o,g -.i, - - �7,,t'�.. "d "Y' .. . At , �T, . W�TXW 7�,I', I - WWR ��* `9 thing he pc,ssessed­-ver�lng ex- under -weight,, nervous, sanow, easn,y tired, out -take.. tlkjs..��" gq,:!.�,, "X111.1 - se J , ',, =T'..`.�,,. 44!o�, 1 " � �, � � - . I , , rr,mlisur � I cept that last scrap of gold -which is I reinedy, Dr. WUHams'. Pink FMs, for 30 days,. agthe ZI " t 11 h- a man's eelf-respect--not to go down I above did. TheiLcheek up on. beauty a4,i jile.1til, yon 4 ,`Fp I .1 ­'­� ll . I , I 1-1. - ­. id Full iize box is priced 50c. ,4v .rIt", ;;; . , e tEII 011 � r . " - w on- the morrow to,those very trench- 84G ,4"w 1 ­i,� I ". " -�; , I , .. * ,: 1'.A 11 , t ''. 1-A � n. 9 . I . ­ I ,b � �.:�I. 1� , , -, . 1, " I e- es whence he had brought back Lind- ---�.­-­­.----­­-. ,.. , " 11 . say's body, tlirqugli those very woods . . I ­ , .v, i�rw-vj , .. "'. , . i 05 .. I . . .., ­­ �., , . 0, I ­. ,�-� �'.-:,!�Ii�.?­� S, - -- . � . �11; , ��.-�� - . I I . ­ "�,:,;, - " , , - - - 1§ - , where Bromley had died . . . . . ­,­'­­ 1.12)" ,. , ... .�, �,, 0 . , . � I'll, - . L . ., , ", .1 A �., . . , , � . "W", " There caimle- the serabble of feet - two weelo. . ",0%, � ­,;­ e- , ,;.- . ,e re I I Awk all loose lor slaek. purts.: YM �,�',,',-",,� , above their heads,-, someone called Give the goolings a good , I 'xt .1111. w jw�,,.,,, 7 ed start, and power fift bbaw1h,gs, ,ft.k, ' - li`1,� ., '. ­� � . - �. P . I : ,� . , - ::: dioi�A out of the da�kness: then tam them out on good pasibume and. all moving parbo. shio4ld"U'.."A'X�;�; ", 1,11.1s . I � � �.. Y" , .4 "Say, is this Beer ,Battery, Fourth and discontinue, the feeding of nlash. jusbed for wear. Clean '41 �`�" . ll ;,w,olrim '�g -, - I'll - I q , " "7 �§Guflldovni Brigade? Is, this Cap- They solibuld be protected from cold parts of old , ' ote'e"l, �' " , - P . grease, oil 4irs, ar, d, -1 - "' � �� tain ,Sandiland's battery?' railne, confined at night until the partides with &e;6We an-&,,�emplaoie,','. , -,,%'�). d - -It is."�­Sandiland's voice had lost weather gets vvara4 and always have with Plenty of friesb lubriegaft. , .. 7. � I � ,�!!. re all trace of hysteria.. "Who are plenty -of shade and fresh -water. Plough shares, cultivator shovels, . � ".1"... n- you ? 11 ' i i � , ­,-�. e disk blades and all catting ,edge , ,.,,,-. �.,,, . . l. I "MY name's Henry. Colonel Rev'- Fattening Poultry should -be sharpened well m advance ,­,,, I '. e elsworth told me to report, to you for In crate-,feedrmg poultmy ,particular 6f spring.. Haw all, spare sets . . 11, d �duty." . , Sharp ­�", . I . . i ;�.. . care .should be taken to feed a ration ened as 'welt, Chec� the � ay' "Statit felloiv. Come ,down if you allignment L:" I �1` " - which will prodkwe the white tat And- of brace arms, hemm, hitchesi lan&. '. ;V 11 �con find youli way. Have . �s torch " you got *a the milk -fed, quaRty. The followilig slides * and mouldhoards; , Harrovi, '.1 -... ,�, 0 ' ration has been tested and, found suit- teeth and cultivator shanks generid-,­­ , I ", "Yes. Is it safe to use it?" , .1 ... 1�1 , .. .. C. able for crate feeding: Equal parts ly need -straightening - -at-ter every ,:. 4, .11,, 'I , 11 , ", w, "Quite. Mind the wire." ;of nildollings, ground oats, and barley; sleas , ". 111 I ' r, Followed the sound of falling earth . on�s ran. .�. � 11� ,�,, - ididlings, ground oats ..:. , , I - equal parts of nu M.,Wke a 11.0t of all now parts need- . LT ­. I and a huge 'man, long gloves and re- .. . . . . - r volver at belt, long torch in . And ground new pikatoes; equal parts ed, secure these during ihe winter ' - . . I ! � � .1 T brown 'of naidollings, ground oats and magh- and replace the old parts , befiotia 1 ";,441. . , , e, hand. - The newcomer flicked out his ed po,�4toes; .equal ptartsof.,mid,41ings,, SpTix�g work starts. . �. '�� torch; saluted with a curious court- . � ,. . �; il eotisbe'rid of his head; ttocidblinking ground cets, and cornmeal; equal I . 1, , i I , s parts of shorts, ground, oats, and , The Hay Market . �.., ��,-,� I �� . ­­ . � - � .. �� .... I;. � at the light of the candle. Hie was ground barley- equal parts 6f low In Ehgtel�n 'Ontario the mairkert -for �;�,� t- well over sIx foot, blue-eyed and broad de flour,'gro� . "', � gra undbarley and ground, bay was slow during December. Deal- I .!: n shouldered, firm of chin and elean- oats- equal'paAs of ground *11101e'ers seem�ed to .be waill stocked as- they * �,�!", 1. d shaiven. He'wore the usual Cap, C017 - , .1 .� , - lar, belt and tunic of a Britisli second wheat,'ground whole oats and ground 'had. ffiOught ,earlier in, the. season in .1 ..'',": "i . �,!,� ,,, , - I wholie -barley, ground, buckwheat and anticipation of a s, ge hi d "�,�: ieutienant; but his breeiches balged . � horba. w ch dii 4, - . I .1 . e curiously at the knee,. had the ap- I 14 not mat6rialize. -Su-pipleincentary.feed, I 111�'Az ... e Short Courses Well Attended good pasturaige late in the season ., .�.­ ..... . �, . pearance. of 'being tucked loosely into �.� �tll � , his soft field boots, at heels of which In nearly every county and district and a mild ,December materially .... , " 1��. , �,Po.,:" s showed a pair of swan-neck spurs of the P'novince at the present"time, -changed the hay situatdon in thisi I . . �:!:, " loosely strapped and formidable oi short orourse,s in agriculture and holme part ,of the provdilce, There is still a )! " , . I 'i .. rowel. Boots and spur, we,, both economics are being conducted under faiT-supply, of timothy and timorthy- - !91' I 1. � caked with white chalk. He carried thie direc4ion ,of the local Agricultur- clover mdxedl in the Ottawa Valley ., �:.. . � , no cane. &I Representative. and the St. Lawrence Counties. Our- . 1. 0 N 6 "Sit down, wont' you?" said San- At the agricultuml classqs the Iv-t.p'nices beirtig"' paid, to growers' "I " " I d diland. "There's a ibox kicking about Young. men I get instruction' in' respect range fronl'$12-per ton. . � - ; i . I .- s somewhere. - This is Jackson." to the cam and management of live �Priiceis in Northern Omitaurrio range .." - I I . : '�,' 9 4��Qlad to Know you." "Henry. made stock; the ,balancing of'rations, soil from $11 to $14 per-lbom In South- .�:7, management, crops and cultural meth- western Ontario, owing t I I �,.,, , � " . a moven,.Vnt as if to shake hands; 0 the ong, , 4� %.11 -- t tholught better of it; found the box od's ,essential to economical, produc- open fulD And, a go-qd supply ­of sup'- 7 . . ' Sandiland' -had 4ndicated; and sat ticin; . -1ark,ting, insect and disease plernientatly fe-ed, the demand for hay . . . . . . "I. - rr � . . w, i - down ,wit,h that pe,culiar s traddle. control, stock and, see.d judging, ro.�e was comparatively srmall d�mnig Die- ".. 11 �� which denotes a -horseman the world s-Plicing, -r- ',lie speaking and' many cember abd prices declined, accooffifig- � ­-% , - .1, r . larg- - : r �. , over. other subjE,-Li with wbich,­t'be sue- IY. Alfalfa hay seems to be in .N , (Continued next- week) cessfu4 farrr �r of 1935 must be fam- est s(apply, in this po�rt of the pro,.. , ' ,' j..... , I . �. . - Ilia7l. � vilice, but there is also a fair supply ,.. - I V., Ill The yourig ladies, on the otherr of biinothy-grass mixt.wes. The short-- ::: It "I ,.. FARM NOTES hand, Teceive instruction in such do- age of hay -in Laimbbo,q and other r, .,r � - mes�tic arts as cookery, laundering, corn counties is being offset largely � "'. I 11" t � Inoculate Alfalfa sewing, .hoffite nursing and. first aid by the good corn crop. Good alkaft. 11� , - n Inoculation of alfalfa has always ,rind the innumerable other subjects hiaY is in fair. demand for the me=-' ...1. . . d been regarded as an aid to a good which go towards the make-up of facture of allalfia se4i particularly . 1� r staruck But it is even mbTe than, the efficient rural home-!rraker. in Grey County. � �1:4 I . I- - that. Besides being indispensable for The movement of hay may ndt . . . . . . . ;,.. d inaximurn. yields inoculation also im- , Fish Meals and Live Stock - reach its ,peak in southwestern, On,- . . .. . . 11 .. 11 , t proves the quality. Hay from inocu- In the field*of live stock feeding, tario until February or the begini.Ang " , ..� . s iated plamts contains iirAo,re protein fish meal has proven a rich source of March, at wilidich time supplies of' ;;I - r per ton then that from plants not of nutrients. It is fed partieula�ly roulgil-age. and supplements may be . I -1 -.: 'A � inoculate& Inoculate alfalfa and use for its. protein and mineral content, depleted in those counties where '-j I � ,,l I lime" if the suil needs it., I and the pere'entaige cd these ingre-di- Ishbetagei eodst�. Plilbeesi being (paw . �i - . ents determines its value. There are growers are as follows, few freight � , , e Frozen Fruits Popular three factors'which have retarded the cha:rges to the tni�arkeit: Timothy No. .,11! : ? . , I Trial packs of frozen fruits and more widespread use ,of fish meal. 1, $16 Ito $18.60 per ton; No. 2, $14 ., vegetables have been received by First, there is its rather ,high price to $16; No. 3, $12 to $14; wheat .� . the public with increasing favour in comparison- -with the price of other straw, $7 to $8; oat straw, $5.50 to - and their mQvement is increasing. The feeds; second, the lack of ol,efinitie in- $7.50. 1 I t 1. 1 ", I frozen pack of strawberries and rasp, formation Tegarding its use; and[ . I !,� I berries amloumted to from 40,000 to third, a variability in the product.0 ,01, W,000 pounds in 1934 compared with Th,e feeding of fish ffneal has been AP ALIF A . i , 6,000 pounds in 1933. In 1935, the confined largely to swine, but it has BA L I FA I output is expected to exceed 100,000 also -been used successfully for dairy quickly disappean when the 'I " Kid - . p", I pounds. In addition to st,rall fruits, cattle, and in aii-mited way for other Liver .,d .,� neys * � �� r such vegetables as spinach, aspara- li,vie stock. Growing market animals are aroused by . J, gu-, and peas, have been successfuAY and milking cows seem best'adapted . It ently fish meal and I . - "i I treated. Thig process will extend to u ilize effici Dim(MASK'S - . �'111 the sp,pmn ci� Canadian fTuits and othi� . r high protein feeds I- LLIMUM .1 .� 1 "� A%egetables, and it is probable that with cw4bonaceouis grains. ..Fish meal � 11 , the frozen product may compete with i,k" relatively more valuable for rapid .,I I I and displace a part o,f the imports g,airr% and high prod'uction than for London and Wingham I I .,I, ! of fresh product.s. . There is an in- maintenance. ,Hnwever,. fish meal 11 creasing iAtetest being taken in froz- may be included to advantage in the South ,v en fruits by large institutions, such mainitellance' ration of breeding an- P.M. I �l ' A as hiaspitals which can freeze th,ei,r imals, 1but the percentage used shou Wi nigh am ................. 1 1.55 �� own supplies a,nd, hold them for use. Id Belgrave ................... I .�, . I ,be lower than tha ' t normally included Blyth ................ . 2.11 � 'ii� in the growing ration. .,.... 2.23 , "' Goose Raising . bmdes�boro . .. .1 1 2.30 -'.4 ting Breeders ....... * " * * : ... . , The raising of a flock of geese is Selecting had Ma Clinton ............... .... 3.08 1 11" very simple and* offers the farmer In the Poultry Floc Brucefield .................. 3.27 ..� " p k Kippen .................... 3.316 .,. an excellent o portunity for a pro6t- Too often in selelciting the stock for ", able side line. � - hireeding high egg records or some Hen,sall .................... 3.41 I . The e�,.wntials to success are, free outstandftg feature of the sire 9.ir Exeter .................... 3.55 .:" 11 range and an abund, North ;.i .pce of tender darn are allowed to influence th-e grasA or clover. The .geesle should judgmert, without ,due regard to Nit- A.M. I start to lay about the middle Otf �Iky ,, good brevoiling qualities that Exeter , ................... 10-4Z . � March and the eggs set as so,on as may or may not be presient. Remall .................... 10.55 �', possible. It is advisable to sprinkle t�,e selection for vigo Kippen .................... 11.01 ,� �; the eggs with luke warm water once t.'n,o,,e desirable qualidications that Brucefield .................. 11.09 � -1 . dally when set under the mother canfoirm -to the breed is comparative- Clinton .......... ) .......... 11.64 . � mostly th-e-,e are I goose or under hens, and twice daily ly siniflile, because Londeoboro ................ 12.10 11, when set in an. incubator. Gosfings vi,sifhle characteTs and, can he chosen Blyth ...................... 12.19 � ,� I require warmth after hatching and l,y co,,1par,i,*on. Delg;ave .................... 12.80 ­ Vigor'i evident by I , �� should he loft under the goos-e or on ody weight Winghaimi .................. U50 :1i the intubator fiyr about two days. for age, and breed,,health and blixim I ll�. -When the gosiings,aiv ready for of feather, and good bone formation, C.N.R. TIMC Table ­,;� I . I", feeding place a ,green sool near the Nvhjl,e the clean cut head with clear, I ,� I , brooder for thelm to pull the te"Id'e'r brigbit, and prciminiemrt eye is a cer- East : 11 11 � I - shoots. For the first few ,days they tain indlicatioin of -brain powerr and A.M. P,M. . " I " ohoulff be fed -bread, crumbs moisten- niervaus enleii-gy and the hall -mark of � . � Goderich ........... 6.45 2.30 ed with milk. When abou t a week high vitality and reproductive q . ,,tren Clinton ............. 7.08 3.00 - 3 old giv,6 them! a moist mash compos- h i g h v i t a I i t y and- reproductive SeRf Qrth ........... 7.22 � .-8.18 . ...., � ed of equal weights of cornmeal,, strength. -111 Dublin ............ 77.33 3.91 . . 11 'barley meal, bran and, shorts, feeding ' , .... . three or four times, a day for about Repairing Tillage Implements Mitchell ...... West 7.42 3.43 .'�,` .111, . � � . I 'Caresful repairing of tillage ma- Dublin . .............. 11.1Y 9.44 1, , , . , - .1 F-- � ". � ,t I - . I 7 �- chin,ery each winter or early sp,ring 'Sein,forth ........... 11.,U 9.57 :1, . f-N-rE.L . : -with replacement of doubtfull orn 'Clinton . - .......... 1,1:60 10.11 . .. il". �H %.W. I . i parts has been proveli in exp (7 w Goderich ........... 12.10 1W I ! � I eriments , 37 lq� on cost of operatifig farml maCi4n.,ry I ,. � � ". I WAVFH�LEY I ' �'.l . . , , to pay large ,dividends� by preventin-i C.P.R. Time Table I .11 L—-- - , - , I .... ..... - major costly repairs,. I .1 .1.111. Tillage iimplementi, generally re- ' Hast I . ." t�� M . . I COMFORTABLE . 'Q1 I . ceive,less care a.n.d mo,re hard knocks A.M. � 11, h, . , . I CONVENIENT than any other class of farm ma- Gdolerich ................ &. 5.60 A, - - ohintery. ' Menset .: .......... . 7'. MODERN . ........ 5.516 ,e"4 �"., I . The value of any implement can McG9w ....... I ............ 6.04 �;, . . .1� )� only be "measured by its usefulness Aftsburn .... , ............. I ... 6AI �) ,� I in acres ,covered, quality, of work done BIYtb ..................... 6.25 i �,..* andl freedom froinn, the.'neciessity of Walton ..................... 6.40� :' :!�,,­ , ­."l,"I costly repairs and dlelayL�ki. Dela, McNaught .................. 6.52- Zl'��`,! ,,,�� YS I 1), ,� due to breakdowns during the rush Toronto ................... 101.26 4", 111, I I ,�c ���l .1 I* 0 tillage season of spribig and sumTmr West ,� " ., I I . .,q are costly and, easily prevented if I I . , ... �l ill, I A.M. .; . . . . . . . the farmeQr, with a few tools and a Toronto ......... . � 1. -WRITE FOR FOLDER - - * ...... ' ... X,i, I Z ­,�, , 'J � .. 0 . 'I, ',. � , little titinle, wila.chleck over carefully McNaught ......... - . , �, I . 1, - A �",17 � , i nem�lrl every working or wearing part long Waltan ........... ­:::::"��*% ,41 - 1"'O 11 , . �,;,,,; .. I I ,,�., I before he is going to use tIT6 ma- Blybh ....... ;...,... .. o .... *'; .. ,,� �. I ,� : , q, � SPADINA AVE' '&COLLEGE ST. ch,ne. , Auburn ....-4 4'4'1w4-'....*,. .�. �',",-�Nj � , , I I 1. . Inieldic over 4�vfrri maclinoi owee. XbGaw ....-...'7-0 I I � .. "�, � ."i'171111% N M /-11% i . 64 *, i". 111�' .1 . TOT-Nk—INTO . !�X i� -1 i � , .. I hilaY ifor leose,,,Wom or istrippectA*11* AMO .......... i4ii*., ." i��,� " mip, I I ,Gbd4,41dhr , .1.11 -,­,�e I ,. ; I --&"�atdi� brokeft. spiring wwholea. . q... i... 0:*., i:A,- 4,4 11 I . . � . - I �, ; ,I, Cle. # I . I 1� I. '. . � I � I ,, �141:­ � 11 �1,1 I - I . , � � ,,,,,, r . I . . . I . I ;, l. �1 , ;;�� . ".I . 4'� �, ­ , ,� �'�. ,I, , - I 11 ? ,­­­q�� . - ,�'A , ... 11 : !, ,m&, I I I ­:��,.­ � 41; `f , . " lh.�,,!,', :, gi,�; �,-�:,�� I , �