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tirt<01,1tingt 31trbante English Mothers Doing
John JoyNT, Proprietor
A. G. SMITH. Manager important War Serv';ce
Rearing Their Children
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THURSDAY, JAN. III 9
'UNION'S RIG PROGRAM. OT many weeks ago, writes
Basil Clarke, in The Lon-
don Daily News, I stood In
the grim valley of the
The darstic temperance legislation Ancre watching our men's war
announced by the Union Government work there. Yesterday I sat in a
is pleasing evidence of the strong London, park watching our women's
hand the Administration, backed over war work there. Tho two
whelmningly by public sentiment, pro places provided scenes in fitting con
poses to play. It is interesting to re- tt'ast for the head and tail, the front
call the salient points of the Govern- and reverses of war's shield.
wont's program.
A vigorous war policy in every pos- You remember how sunny and
Bible way. fresh it was. The trees, which only
The enforcement of Military Ser- a day or two earlier had seemed but
vice Act and maintenance of the Can- thinly powdered with green, were
thick emerald clusters against the
adlan army to the end. blue of the sky above. The hand -
Abolition of patronage . rail of the park seat was warm. I
Civil service reform. could feel the glow of it on my palm,
Extension of the franchise to wo- and the pleasing tingle of bot sun-
shine upon the back of my hand,
men. Spring, rebirth, growth were in the
The heaviest taxatino of war pro-
fits of any nature.
Strong and progressive policy of im
migration and conolizatiou.
Effective arrangements for demobIl
ization, for the care and vocational
training of returned soldiers, assist-
ance inenabling them to settle upon
land, for adequate pensions to those
who have been disabld and to the
dependents of those who have fallen.
Reduction of pubilc expenditure.
Elimination of waste and encou-
ragement of thrift.
Measures to prevent excessive pro-
fits.
Consideration of the needs of the
industrial population and another la-
bor minister.
A war council. established for the
effective prosecution of the war .
This is a very comprehensive pro-
gram, and can only he carried out by
a strong Government sustained by a
combination of the best elements of
the two great political parties In the
country. Such 'a Government Pre -
tater Borden now has at his back, and
it will be made stronger in the near
future by being placed on a fifty-fifty
basis and by concession of more ade-
quate representation of Labor.
There has already been a partial
fulfilment of some of the above
pledges, such as the concession of the
franchise to the kith and kin women
the appointment of a War Council of
the Cabinet; the abolition of the pat-
ronage system and the reduction of
war profits. The Union Government
has been given an unusual expression
of public confidence, and will conse-
quently be hedl to an unusual mea-
sure of accountability.,
touch of the air.
As I sat there with hat on the seat
beside me, and faee to the breeze
and sun, something small and light
touched my foot. I looked down. It
was a little rubber ball. A tiny fel-
low of three or four in a sailor suit
stood a few yards away, looking at
it ruefully, not daring to come near-
er. I beckoned him to come and get
it. No, he would not. His body
swayed restlessly from bis hips and
his chubby fingers sought bis
mouth. He looked at me from uuder
his eyes, but would not come. I
picked up the ball, and threw it to-
ward him. He captured it and made
off. A moment later the ball was
again at my feet, and again I threw
it back, This time he chuckled.
Soon it came again, and then I made
the discovery that the little fellow
was rolling it there on purpose; he
liked me throwing the ball back to
him; he "wanted to play."
So we played for quite a time till
his mother came. She shepherded
him to the shade of a chestnut tree,
where were gathered little folk of
her family. There was the baby in
a "pram," my sailor -suit friend of
the ball game, and another very like
him; also a fellow of six, and a little
girl of seven or .eight. From inner-
most recesses of baby's "pram"
were produced jam, sandwiches, seed
cake, and a then inns flask of hot
milk; and they took. tea under the
trees,
. The beauty of the children, and
the patient, gentle watchfulness of
the mother set me thinking. The
park was full of children, beautiful
children, especially babies. I don't
know how the Birth Registrar's fig-
ures bear me out, but it seemed to -
me that I had never seen so many
Children in the park in other years.
"Prams" with sleeping babies shel-
tered under every tree. Children not
much older were sprawling on the
grass, or feeding the ducks, or skip-
ping and jumping; and it seemed to
me that I had never seen them play-
ing more happily or looking so well.
In watching the children I made
The number of
h discovery. T
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r is
another Y
mothers In the park was greater
than usual; the number of nurses
less. One missed the uniforms and
"streamers," the methodical walk
and the calm detachment of the
nurses; on,e heard more shouts of
"Mother" and "Mammy." Is it that
in war time more mothers are see-
ing to the welfare of their own little
folk?- It seemed so.
Many mothers I noticed with only
one child, and that a baby. They
pushed their perambulators with
wistful, far-off eyes, And some of
these mothers, though little more
than girls, were in, black - widows
already, with but one baby to solace
them for their loss.
It was this sadder side of the
Dark's ever work that took my mind
back to our men's war work on the
western front. I saw again the
barren slopes of the Somme and
the Ancre. They were muddy and
shell -pocked. The trees were now
powdered green with spring. They
were maimed and._poliarded by shell
fire; trees with ugly shortened
branches, trees like deformed hands.
Beneath them lay not sprawling
Youngsters with pink, chubby legs,
but top -coated bundles, a motionless
motley of gray -blue and khaki, the
dead of two armies in their great
coats, all huddled, all colo, all gone
-leaving' it to those mothers and
those slowly walking widows and
those wide-eyed babies of the parks
to carry on their life and its tradi-
tion.
A great war work these mothers
in the parks are doing. To turn a
shell or fill a fuse, to tend the
wounded or to type the letters of a
chief of staff --tall those aro valu-
able war work, too, and they may
seam to some women to have about
them more of the romanoe and ad-
venture of war. But to shape a
human body and mind, a new little
human, body and mind, for good, in
place perhaps of one that has gon_ ---
there can be ho greater war work
than that.
Tri ' Wl NGRAM ADVANCE
ASTOUNDING REPORT 1 i'Iow that neither of the local newspap•
ers are represented at the Council Hoard,
FOR W.IN&ULM: they will have a better opportunity to
more accurately report the Council meet-
ings.
I1WONSDIE
1 na a..aad, V .i.l1 N. ndl...l1 1 J . „ I.
The wife of a merchant had stomach
trouble so bad she could eat nothing but
toast, fruit and hot water Everything
else wonld sour an
SPOONFUL buckthorn bark, glycerine,
etc., as mixed in Adler -i -lea benefited her
INSTANTLY. Because Adler-i-ka flush-
es the ENTIRE alimentary' tract it re-
lieves ANY CASE constipation, sour
stomach or gas and prevents appendicitis
It has QUICKEST action of anything we
ever sold. J. W. McKibbon, Druggist.
d ferment ONE
EL.1.IOTT
Yonge and Charles Sts., Toronto. All grad-
uates and scores of our undergraduates of the
past year have secured good business posi-
tions and still the demand is far beyond our
supp'y. Write for our Catalogue. Enter at
any time.
SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTH-
WEST LAND REGULATIONS
The sole head of a family, or any male over
18 years old who was at the commencement of
the present war, and has since continued to be.
. British subjeotore snbjeotofan allied or nen-
6ral country, may homestead a quarter sectio,
of available Dominion land in Manitoba. Seek-
atohewan or Alberta. Applicant must appeal
Sperson at the Dominion Lands Agency or
ub-Agenov for the District. Entry bs prox3
may be made on certain conditions.
Do -rias -Pix month4 residence upon and
cultivation of the land in each of three years.
In certain districts a homesteader may se-
tion.aPriiceoi3.00g qp artacre DUTIES Reed
Six months in each of three years after earn-
ing homestead patent and cultivate 60 acres
extra. May obtain pre-emption patent as soon
Its homestead patent on certain conditions.
A. settler after obtaining homestead patent.
ilf.be cannot seoure apre-emption, may take a
Ppurchased homestead in certain districts.
rice $3.00 per sore. Mush reside six months
in each of three years. cultivate 50 aores and
*root a house worth 8300.00
Holders of entries may count time of employ-
(went
mploy(went as farm laborers in Canada during 1917,
as residence duties under certain conditions.
When Dominion Lands are advertised or
posted for entry, returned soldiers who have
served overseas and have been honorably dis-
charged, reootve one day priority in applying
for entry at local Agent's Office but not Sub
Agenoy.) Discharge papers must be presented
to Agent. W. W. CORY
uty of the Minister of the Interior.
la. B. -- 'Unauthorized pnblioatians of this
£dverttaetnent will not be paid for -1141.
CREAM
WANTED
Our service is prompt and remittance
sure.
Our prices are the highest on the
market consistent with honest testing
Ship your cream "direct" to us and
save an agent's commission. The
commission comes out of the producer.
The more it cost to get the cream to
its destination the less the producer is
sure to get.
We supply cans. pay all express
chargee and remit twice a month.
'Write for prices and cans.
--The-
Seaforth Creamery Co.
Seaforth, Ont.
We wish all our Custom-
ers A Happy and a Pros-
perous New Years
Ritchie& Cosens
W, J, Elliott Principal.
Every year from Consumption,
.Millions could have been saved if
only common sense prevention had
been used in the first stage. If YOU
ARE a Sufferer from Asthma, Bron-
chitis, Catarrh, Pleurisy, Weak
Lungs, Cough and Colds -all Dire
eases leading up to Consumption-
Tuberculosis, YOU ARE interested
in Dr, Strandgard's T. B. Medicine.
Write for Testimonials and Booklet.
DIE. STRANDGAIID'S MBDICINF 00.,
203.206 Yonge Street, Toronto.
CLEAN SWEEP SALE
OF EVERYTHING
I am selling off all my stock at and below cost.
Now is the time to buy anything you want in the
following lines: -
Gents' Watches, Clocks, Rings, Silverware, Neck-
lets, Cutlery, Bracelet Watches, Cut Glass, Gents'
Chains, Ivory and Ebony Goods of all kinds, Tie
Rei v p 1 - oRkz:;:Ni 1:11?4-4
Camels Have Been Used
By the British Forces
Iu Campaign Nei* Suey
ALONG the banks of the Suez
Canal and thence along the
old coast road to the oast
you will find to -day, be.
tween the endless • dries of British
encampments, caravans of cameln
passing to and fro with their bur-
dens or lying patiently at their man-
gers and chewing the cud with that
tranquil expression of the beast
which no stress of war can disturb.
There aro more camels gathered
here than ever were assembled in
the bazaars of Cairo or Damascus.
• Though the defence of Egypt has
been carried forward from the canal
itself to the hills and dunes of the
' Sinai desert and to the land of pro-
. mise beyond, the canal es still an in-
- tegral part of the defensive scheme.
Roads and railways, it is true, run
- out here and there eastward from the
_ bank, but there remains a vast hin-
terland unreciaimed from the desert
_ waste in which our troops continual-
ly move. The riparian sands, if one
may so call them, and the little Lan••
cashires-in-the-desert which the lov-
- _ ing sentiment of the north country
Territorials has imagined, have bo -
come a network of roads and lines;
and a motor -lorry will rattle you
from Bailel to (out away in
the desert) as fast as a jaunting car
on the roads of Connemara.
But ere long you will come to a
region which car or locomotive has
not yet defiled, and here the camel
reigns supreme. Daily he carries the
food and water for the men in the
extreme line of trenches and at the
outposts beyond, and on his back are
loaded the poets and wires which
daily extend "civilization."
He bears, too, the material with sA
which the line of defence is being /`.`
pushed forward; he is harnessed to X
guns in places where motors are baf-
fled, and he carries the ambulance of ► 1
the desert, in which two men are
balanced on either side of his bump.
The Camel Transport Corps, al-
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though not exactly a fighting force,
has been in action and received its
baptism of fire, No shell or bullet
can excite the stolid, contemplative
animal; but it might have been ex-
pected that the camel drivers, fella- I
been enrollee in the Egyptian vil-
lages, unarmed and untrained for
war, would have run for it at the
first sign of attack.
Yet, in, feet, most of them respond-
ed admirably to the call of their
British officers and stuck to their i
animals while bullets whizzed
around. With characteristic sim-
plicity, or it may be obstinacy, when
told to bring in their camels to 11>
shelter they insisted on taking with
them the blankets which are issued
to every man, lest they should be a
stolen in their absence.
- Pins, Brooches, Pennants, Earrings, Post Cards..
Everything must be sold regardless of cost.
A. M. KNOX
- _ Jeweller and Optician
ASir?...., r^.,,t-st,
An English woman 11, bo recently
died left £300 each to her coachman
and his wife, and the former was
also left her horses, dogs, parrots,
and other animals, together with £5
a week as long as any of the animals
may bo living, and he shall humanely
feed, maintain, and care for them.
Australian Snakes.
Australia is supplied with 100
species of ensiles, three -fourth of
them venomous, The big pythons
and rockeinakes of Australia are
harmless.
Weight of a Penny.
The legal weight of a penny is
one-third, of the halfpenny one-fifth,
and of the farthing one-tenth of an
ounce avoirdupois.
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disease, allowing nature to restore health.
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From Jan. 11th to Jan. 19th
Strictly Cash Sale
Strictly Cash Clearance Sale 10%, 15% and 20%
STOVES AND RANGES -
Orthello Range, 6 hole ext with warming closet $85.00 $ 78,00
Happy Thought Range 6 hole reg $50 ... 45.00
Britannia with warming closet, reg 850 for 45.00
Selkirk range with warming closet, reg 855, for 50.00
Golden Globe Base Burner without oven es`- es
Jewel base burner with oven, reg 850 for 45.00
3 only Empire Treasure base burner with oven,second hand $25 for 20.00
1 second hand coal and wood, with closet 18.00
1 second hand coal and wood range with high shelf 15,00
1 second hand -coal and wood range 15 00
1 new wood cook stove, reg. $35 for 30.00
1 second hand wood cook stove 15.00]
1 second hand wood cook stove 12.00
1 second hand wood cook stove 6 00
2 coal or wood heaters, reg 823 for 18.00
1 coal or wood heater. reg $19 for 16.00
1 coal or wood heater, reg 818 for 15 00
1 coal and wood heater, reg 817 for 15 00
1 coal and wood heater, reg $12 for , 9 00
CONGOLEUM RUGS
. 9 feet by 12 feet, regular $12 for fe 9.50
6 feet by 9 feet, regular $5 for 4.00
HORSE BLANKETS
Reg $2 25 for 2 10; $2.55 for 2.05; $2 50 for 2.00; $2.35 for 1.90; $2.00 for
1.60
HAND SLEIGHS
Reg $4 Bobbs for $3; 82 25 and 1.95 for 150; 80c for 60c; 60c for 40c; 550
for 35c; 50c for 30c.
AUTOMOBILE SKATES
Grade A $3 for 2.40; B 84 for 3.20; C $5 for $4.
A. J. ROSS
Clo~atoteteel aairM~w ,..a4rwb
1llursday Jan. 10th lq
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1 Farmers! Attention 1
We have opened up a Cash Produce Mark-
et hi
A. H. Wilford's Old Stand
where we will pay you the
highest cash prices for
CREAM, POULTRY, BUTTER
c
and EGGS
Gunn'? Shur Crop Fertilizer always in Stock.
GUNNS LIMITED
E. IL Harrison, Branch Manager
Our place of business will not be open after 6 o'clock on Saturday even.
Ings.
Some wanted to mount a hill under Of
fire to get their money from therr-
tents. The contempt which a Sudan-
ese stalwart feels for ' the modern xxxXxialisiglrihslril b 02a`41lvasvat itrix.xx ax
long-range fighting was expressed by
the more warlike .
one
headman - e
oa
Sudanese regularly act as headmen _ - ,
over the Egyptian fellaheen-who :It .I .►e.-,. !r.Fl.I.r'f., .1/4.,y ►.fr kYfr ,efr i<►hri,4.74 4T I.0 41e Tfr eleese iV►/"..St►iyb,A,`Ii►• ►' ►N► e..:{. o `t
remarked, as the shells burst, that in li q' VI* ." 1-'41` II 41 r* A* 4,1 o►'s o IA 441%* 7Am 14*.(,* 4►e (IC T' le 4►0 4'' "1""' 4►'' l4' "i rD 111' 1ti 'ii I1' q 11
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KING SALE
Our January Stock Taking :gale will be Bigger and Better than ever. We
have all urltivually ku',;e Jock. on hand, and we must sell all our Winter Goods
and have marled than at Klee which must appeal to your sense of econ-
only.
Save a (plat ter d Nivel le a half, by buying no w.
1
$500() cy'6rtll of Ili;;ll Grade furs and Ready -to- v►
Wear Garments for Women, Misses and Children on '/
sale at price the low -est quoted for goods of this qualr
ity.
COME EARLY FOR WEST CHOICE
PLUSH COA 2".S 10 Women's Plush Coats to be sold regardless of
costs, every coat made of good quality plush and the very latest style.
Reduced for ''quick ceiling; as follows;
Lot 1. --Plush & oat rPg, value 810.00, sale price 812.75
Lot 2 -Plush Coat:,, reg value 823, sale price 819.00
Lot 3--Plu:;lt Coats, ret; value $30, sale price 822.50
Lot 4 --Plush Cuats, reg. value $.10, sale price ' $30,00
Women':- blade Zelsiline Coat:,, reduced as follows:
$15 coats sale price.. . 10.50
818 coats sale price 12.75
820 coats, sale price 14.75
Women's Stylish Coats made of good'quality Whitney Cloth
813 coats, sale price 10.75
$18 coats, sale price 13.00
820 coats, sale price 14.90
825 coats, sale price 19.09
Women's Fancy 'Tweed Coats must he sold at a big loss to us and a big
gain to the buyer. See them.
8 coats, your pick for $2.00 6 coats, your pick for..... ....83 00
10 coats, your pick -1 75 •
12 coats, your pick for 5.95
0 cosh-•, your pick for , •. $7.50
Children's Coat s to clear for ages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and
10 years.
Lot 1-4 coats, sale prices 5205
Lot II 7 coats, sale price 84.0(1
Lot III -10 coats sale price 54.13
Lot IV -9 coats, sale price .... ........ .. 85.93
FURS, FURS
10 neck pieces, stoles, sale price ^1 05
7 neck pieces, stoles, sale price - S2.73
6 neck pieces, stoles, sale price e 1.50
0 neck pieces, stoles, sale price e6•95
5 Marmot Muff, sale price 8l 73
8 Marmot Muffs, sale price 85.93
6 Marmot Muffs, sale price ..... . , '*7.00
5 Persian Lamb Muffs, sale price '12.73
3 Sable Muffs, sale price 811.05
Big cut in prices of sets of furs, comprising Persian
Lamb, Lynx, Natural Gray Wolfe, Golden Fox, Gray
Fox, Gray Opposum, Amber Opposum and Black
'Wolf.
Lot No I - 3 sets to clear at 88.7
No. II 5 sets, sale price $11.9
No. III. 4 sets, sale price- 814.7
No. IV --3 sets, sale price $18.95,r
No. V 2 sets, sale price $23.75
Ladies' Rat Coats at reduced prices. See them at
535,00, 850,00 and 875.
Fur Lined and Fur Collared Coats at $18.75, 823,
;30 and $38.75.
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COME EARLY? FOR 23EST CHOICE
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PRODUCE WANTED
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his country they "fought it out with ge
knives." js
But another, who possessed the 4)„
little knowledge of danger which is e
often so dangerous, when told to t
leave cover and fetch his camels, de- gere.
clined: "Me stoppa one Darden- :h
elles; me no steppe. two."
The camel drivers themselves have
placed a stigma on tbose who ran err
away, classing them as "Diets' g .
(girls) who are not tit for the society AI:
of "Rigala" (men). And in some Vel
companies to -day the lines are }t
divided between those who stayed eve
and those who fled; and it is reward r
or punishment to be moved from the }y
one to the other.
What makes life possible for the .3G
troops moving through the soft sand ee
in the summer heat is that the sea .Ie,,
is near and the bathing is splendid- eSe
like the bathing at Ostend in the 43.4
days before the war. A broad and .Ise
level beach ,vhich would make the ler
fortune of any resort at home '
stretches eastward from Port Said 7e
mile on mile. .
However still the day, the waves iaC
break in a continuous roll, and when itkae
the wind blows from the north the ere.
air is as fresh as on the Kent coast; V
nor is there wanting, as on that
coast, "a certain liveliness" from oc- .`re
casional bombs. gee
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Her Little Prayer.
A little girl of a big enstern city was
visiting her grandmother on Thanks-
giving day. Already the child had be- 4-4,S1
giving
gun to speculateson what Santa Claus olAe.
was to bring her at Christmas time, AI.
and, as Children -especially girls -will
do when they are at the home of an in- ','
dulgent friend, she began to rummage fr
through closets and drawers. 44a
In the course of her investigation she eke
came upon a brand new white muff. ;{
It was the very thing she had wanted,
ale
and she knew that Santa Claus' chief P.
purchnsing agent -grandma --had ob-
es
tained it for her. /AV
Taxed with it, grandma admitted the
truth. :'.
"But," she saki, "you must forget all see
about it until Christmas day."
That night as she was being put to
bed the child astonished her mother by
adding this to her evening prayer:
"Please, God, make me forget all
about the little white muff Santa Claus
is to bring."
Clear Spruce for Airplanes.
The recent demand for clear
spruce for the construction, of air-
planes and the sharp advance from
$50 to $90 per thousand feet of this
lumber have created great activity in
the timber districts of Northern
British Columbia, and especially on
the Queen Charlotte Islands, where
spruce is found in, large quantities.
A new sawmill is being erected by
the Emerson interests at Prince Ru-
pert, 13, C., the intention being to
supply it With logs rafted across Ho -
Cate Strait. The old sawmill plant
at the mouth of the leh•eyex River
has been acquired by Vancouver cap-
italists, and its eapaeity will be in-
creased to 76,000 feet per day. 1ln
erovements are being made at other
sawmill properties that have either
been idle or working on half time,
and overt effort is being made to
IIu& produetion is l
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poi;
etble. The new mill at Print's Itu
port and the one at Kheyex Deese an
egted to *m;aay' about 100 mer)
By Public Dernand
Opera House, Wingham, on
WEDNESDAY EVE JANUARY 16th
Direct from Massey Hall, Toronto
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If you have not seen
the Birth of a Nation the
most won derful produc-
tion ever -put 011 the
screen. Don't fail to go.
This will be your
last chance
ONE NI
This tune they are
bringing a
12 piece Orches.
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Many people go the se-
cond and third time to
heat' it.
Seats on sale Saturday
at McKibbon's Drug
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Many were turned aI1.1`ay ti"col en agcniet'Itc,"• liol'e.
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