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The Clinton New Era, 1915-04-08, Page 3et: esStrrt ^evvwtw ; 'leer el iy ,April nth; 1915. ils .ter f rom Battle front in France. letter from ' get a man. We lost one standing at We clip.the following W he Lucknow Sentinel, which was sentr about 5.45 in the morulas -'the written by Major Mackenzie, to his flust'caeuaiityexcept one wounded by Mackenzie ex- a ricochet two' days ago,' and there is M. M. Mr. Peter H, also about one a dayin the 'English regi•,. MMP Mid who is an ex -stud• was hent. One man w e struck by a bullet while sleeping to a barna Clue dropping shell came through the roof of a dugout and buried in a coke pile. It seems a kiiad of stale mate here. No advance is tried and any aid' vanee would be very hard as the trenches are strong, and there is a mass ot wire entanglement.` 1 h lenglieh seem to have the best of the artillery fire now, and if a Gern'An battery opens fire they soon find,' him,< Of more real interest than anything, that has appeared in the newspapers for a month, is an account of actual' experiences in the military camps and the trenches from someone whom we all know, and in whose personal wel- fare we are interested. A personal letter, has a ring of truth, and fre- quently givee those details of actual conditions for which we look in vain in the press reports of the war corres- pondent. We are this week able to publish a letter from Mayr Mackenzie, eon of Mr, Peter H. Mackenzie, of ,Kinloss, •which gives very interesting details. Aeroplanes are•fiying around scouting Until the outbreak of war lelajor Mae- during the day, and the Germans' fire kenzie was practicing medicine in shrapnel at them, but we have seen This morning they were sending. shells, over near the corner of the town, and we could hear theta sing along through the air and 'burst, but they were falling some distance from as. Toronto. He had been a member of the 48th. Highlanders, Toronto, since the regiment was first organized and and when the call for volunteers came, he felt it his duty to go to the front with his regiment, though doing so involvedthe giving up of a lucrative practise, with all the comforts of civil- ization in the city. Dr. Mackenzie had been sergeant in the regiment at Toronto, but while in England he goal ifled as major and is now a sergeant major. His letter written to his father on Feb, 20th, follows— "Since I wrote you last we have moved up to the front for a real taste of real things as it is carried on now on this N. W. frontier. We are iu France but only a very short distance from Belgium. We are quartered in a large town but the population now is only a fraction of what it was, and industry of all kinds with the excels tion of brewing, has stopped. The town has been shellen a good deal and was occupied by the Germans at first, Here and there one sees buildings shattered, glass broken and sombtimes clean mit holes through the trick walls. The trench line is Inst outside the town, aud the distance between the trenches is from 50 to 500 yards. I went up -the other night with the , Medical Officer of the Sherwood Rang- ers, who are holding the line. We went to their headquarters which is m a ruined chateau, and at dusk made our way across about 500 yards which is exposed to rifle fire and soon, to the trenches. They are abaut 4 feet deep with a parapet of about a foot more strengthened with hags of sand. The bottom has a walk of bricks or lumber to keep one out of the mud. Every fe•v yards there are lookouts for sen- tries with loopholes protected by iron plates,- The sentries are changed every two hours and stand hare watch ing the opposing line. There are shelves to stand on when firing. They have dugouts for the men made under the forward side, shored up with wood and strewn with straw, and in here the men sleep. The have coke tires to keep warm and cook, and they sleep in there when they are not on sentry at night. The officers have similar places or sleep in the barns or houses which are along the line. The provisions and ammunition are brought up at night and distributed, and the wounded and dead are taken out. The men have plenty to eat, read papers, write letters, eta. If anything happens they stand too and perhaps start firing. There are machine guns at intervals in protected places, with openings, and men in special lookouts to observe fire. A desultry fire is kept up all night, occasionally it wakes up, and is a steady rattle at other times it quites down till no sound is heard, than the sharp rattle of a machine gun. If the English fire there is usually a response from the Germane, and they have fine sharpshooters with. telescope sights, and can make the bullets ring around the loopholes. They have rifles fixed and trained on the risky places, and fire them at night without any aiming and occasionally a aerie hit. It is a strange g feeling * b to he living comfortably and sleeping in warm beds•while the rattle of rifles and the boom of guns never stop and the little graveyards with their forest of crosses, keep filling up day by day. What we will do when we leave here in a few days I don't know. We have learned a great deal here and I think the men are quite ready for their wcrk, but we are moving somewhere in,a couple of days; aud I will , write again, and give you any news we can. I spend most of my time stamping the censor's letters. The officers read them and sign them and pass them on to me. Then the care of the sanita- tion of the billets is in my hands, so :I' am pretty wee occupied. With love to all at home, Alex. J: Mackenzie' CLU1IiI\'t,r RATES Neer Era and Daily Globe...... $.1.50 New Era and Daily Mall and Empire 4.50 NeW'Era and Weekly Mail and Empire New Era and Daily World New Era and Daily News... - New Era and Daily Star...... iv eW Era and Fam.Iy Herald and Weekly Star -..-. 1.85 New Era and Weekly Witness 1,85 New Era and Northern Mes- senger New Era and Canadian Farm New Era and Farmer's Sun... New Era and !Daily Free Press, morning 3.35 New Era and Daily Free, Press, evening . - . -.- 2.85 New Era and Weekly Free Press New Era and Morning Lon- don Advertiser 3.65 New lora and Daily Advertiser 2.85 lew Era and Weekly Adver- tiser 1.60 lew Era and Fai m and Dairy 1,85 flew Era and Farmer's Advo- cate 2.36 1.65 3.35 2.85 2.85 1.60 1.85 1.85 GERMAN MEASLES A certain cure for the German meas les—Mix some Woolwich Powder with Tinct of Iron or Essence of Lead and administer in pills or shells Have ready a little British Array [a little goes a long way] some Brussel's Sprout and French mustard. Add a little Canadian cheese and Australian lamb and sexton with the best Indian Army Set it on a Kitchner and keep stirring until quite hot If this does not make the patient perspire freely rub the best Russian Bear's grease on his chest and wrap in Berlin Wool -Dr. Cannons. P. S.—The patient must on no ac count have any PEACE SOUP until the swelling in the head has quite disap peered Don't Wait For Business- Work For It! Working, not waiting, will make your business prosper. It is often a long, weary road to busi- ness success, and the goal is .seldom reached by waiting for opportunity to come to you! Perhaps you have a plan in mind for promoting business. Why not turn to your Long Distance Telephone and test out the possibilities of your plan? Your -personal appeal will go far towards snaking it a success. Put the power of your personality into your efforts! It costs little to find out by Long Distance Telephone how you can get more business—the telephone may give you just the help you need to pull prosperity your way! •'Every Rell'7'cteprrone is Long Distance Station." The '•'ell Telephone Co. of Canada. ,1, Thursday, "March 78tH, 1915, ricultura anquet a Success the Relief of the Bel' fans I ah sure should;bb the same when the farmer they would not resent the Immesh but brings in butter, or -eggs, or plums or wquld give according to their means apples. The Spring Show and the They will be asked to pay war taxes Fall Pair are agencies along this line to the Dominion and Provincial Gov- but the 'business men should go eminent and I ant quite certain they farther. They should be interested will nob Object to contributing their tin market conditions every day in the object share of the cost of the war. Even year, limy should know whether the v when they are asked to contribute man who buys the grain 15 paying a their sons to the service of King and, fair price, and whether the people Country, I am sure they will not ob- ject. Many a fanner has sent hie soli to the front with a hetuty "God Bless yon, My Ltd." "If all this is true, and I believe it is true,why should any reasonable farm er object to being asked, tIVEM urged, to increase his production of -wheat oats, beaus aud egge,it the metholities believe that in the production is•a necessary pail of the Empires's de- fence? Such an appeal thews to be, reasonable if the farmer 0.anincrease . belongs to his race,and that what God his output without any cost to''himself gives him he gives fee mankind." And surely the increased crop will That is a noble sentiment but it does pay for Use'''. If a carmen cannot not apply onlyto the soldier who send his son to fight. why ehou,d he serves'ie the trnches or to the states not send a few extra bushels of grain can who administers the affairs of a especially if he gets a fair price ter itt' nation. It contains a lesson for each Surely a man must bea man: individual of us whether farmer or business man who will resent that appeal. The farmer who does not feel that he But this appeal has a broader ap• 1 ie helping to increase the supply of. food in his own countryand who takes 'no pride in the agricultural progress of his district, bis county and his country is sueely missing something. The business man, the school teacher, the preacher or the newspaper man who fails to feel that he is playing a part in the building up of his town and and his country is existing rather than living, - Men are not moles work ing out their little lives in dark. dull holes, but the greatest of God'e creatures, living links in the chain of iiragressive humanity. And do we who export fruit and butter and eggs are the right .people and are pay ing the right prihe. Thehe town Board of Trade should consider all these matters and make surethat their town market gives the highest possible re turns, In' that way ' they 'tvill build up their town and build up the district around it. "Phillips Brooks once said "No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in 'tome degree that his life plication. It implies that every bus an iness mpatriotically help the favm Mg community to produce more and to do profitably. T'he minister of agriculture suggests that their should be an employment bureau in each town or village. managed by the business men of the place, with the object of securing help for the farm ere who need it. That suggestibn appeals to me, I believe that every business man in a town or village should he interested in the success of the farmers who are the backbone of his district. 'There should be a spirit of co operation between town and country which will be profitable to both. An employment bureau is one of the first steps la that direction. 'Another duty lies upon the bush ess men—aud that the farmers have every facility tor marketing their products I were members of the 48th Highlanders and getting rhe nest possible price for I of Toronto and went over with Clanthem. Even if the business men were ' ale's First Contingent A shot comes to take the purely selfish view of it, I the father falls and the son goes on their duty in this respect should be fighting. Leery little while we read clear. When 'i, farmer brings in a or a family that has given two three load of pork or load of wheat, ;t is in or four sons to King and Empire. the interest of every businessman that Then compare these instances with the farmer get the highest possible , those of men who have sold faulty return for what he has to sell. It boots to the Government for the use not find usually that the man wbo is doing the hest for himself, and the best for his family, is also doing the most for his country and humanity? "The otter day,a man from Toronto stood in tbe trenches with his son and the two fought side by side. They MENU. - They eat, they drink, and in common Quaff immortality and joy. eat, Queen Olives Florida Celery Scalloped Oysters, Dire wa's the clangof plates, of knife and fork, That mere'Icss fell like tomahawks to work,—Dr. Wolcott, Turkey with Cranberry Jelly jellied Tongue Boston Baked Beans Hot Scalloped Potatoes Pickles Lettuce and Pea Salad Raisin Pie Strawberry Jelly "Aye mann, its a talon , just keep on makin."—Burns. Ice Cream Assorted Cakes Coffee. H. BARTLIFF, CATERER. TOASTS: Dr, J, W, SHAW, •• Toastmaster. "No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, As' then don't say nothin' that you ono be held tu."—Towser THE KING National Anthem There's Monarch none in any land Compares with our good King His country always hand in hand Will keep his memory green."—Selected, HURON COUNTY SPRING FAIR. Solid men of Huron, make no long orations, Solid men of Huron. drink no doep,potations, Proposed' by Mr. D. A. Forrester. Responded to by representatives of four Townships, • Hallett Reeve,Fingland Gederich Reeve Lobb Tuckersmitl ' ..... ,............ Reeve Crich Stanley." Reeve McKinley ONTARIO AGRICULTURE. Canon balls may aid the truth But wheat's a weapon stronger, 'Twill win our battles by its aid; Wait a little longer. Proposed by Mr, J. Ransfot•d, Responded to by Mr, T. McMillan and Mr, E. W. Platt, Toronto. Selection' by the Orchestra. DOMINION; AGRICULTURE. Proposed by Mr, James Snell, Responded to 1,y Mr. J. J. Mentor, M.P., and Mr. John A. Cooper, Toronto. Song by Mr. W. Harland. THE LEGISLATURE. To all our statesmen, so they be true leaders of the land's desire.—Tennyson Proposed by Mayor Jackson, Responded to by W. Proudfoot, M.P.P. Selection byt e Orchestra. ARMY AND. NAVY. One tt id Briton heart and souk. One Life, One Flag, One Flcet,One Throne, Britons hold your own, Tennyson, Responded' to by Major McTaggart, and Major Rance. GOD SAVE THE KING. The Piano usedon this occasion was kindly loaned by ')oberiv Piano Company, PAGE 711P1fP atsnrnnernerronressarnississussacIns,44 bans of our brave soldier boys or who have or as Mr. Bennett 'harshly suggest sold high priced goods to the nation at a ten per cent coremiseiou and which is the better record? Which is it better to live a mere money mak, ing life, void of all attempts to do something to help one's town or one's country, or to live such it life that as it comes to an end that men shall say "He was a good citizen"? We cannot all he heroes and wear the Victoria Cross, but wti can at least be boy scouts and do some unselfish deed each day aswe go about our daily tasks, so that our souls and our minds shell develop as well as our bank accounts Huronis one of the "The County of best counties in Canada. But rich as maybe its soil, balmy as may be its spring, summer and autumn, Huron' County can be no greater than the sum total of the neighbourliness and. the efficiency of its citizens. As it is with Huron County so it is with' Canada. Wonderful lis may be its re sourced, boundless as may be its possibilities, Canada's greatpeseis but. the sum total of the breadth of view the sympathy, the piety, the aggressiveness, the ability and the honour of its seven million citizens. Climate and soil, lake and river, mountain and plain do not make a country great—only itscitizens can do that. , In this time of storm and stress, the call of the Empire comes to us all I don't know that this has been better expressed that in some verses written by one of our own poets, William Wilfred Campbell, in honour of the men who went to South Africa and which are even more appealing at the present time. He called his poets "Our Bit of The Thin Red Line" and part of it runs thus:— They have gone with a people's hopes and prayers; Out over the eastern brine, To strike for the might of Britain's right This bitof "the thin red line." And stand or fall, though we go to the wall, Canadian hearts are true, Not only to stand for out own birth land, But to die for the'Empire too. Yea, we send them forth. from our •'True North," Sons of the Empir'e's might; And alien the heart that will not pray For our soldier boys to night. Yea, traitor the heart that takes our bread And drinks our fair sunshine, That will not throb when the battle joins For our bit of "the thin red line. Mr. C. D. Bouck responded to the toast of the Army and Navy intro duced by Major Shaw and the meet ing closed with the National anthem. During the evening Mr. A. Cantelon sang two Patriotic selections of his own composing, both of which were heartily applauded. Blaming the Banks !(Weekly Sun( •Mr. a� 0 c R 1 i �t c n not e 't } la �t v 8 e '-1 as It would be strange if the pub- lic generally held, the view, often espressed'that the banks, shou d. at this time should recklessly ex tend ercd.t. Whatever their faults the banks are the custodians 01 Public savings which i't would be culaniltoes to endanger in any enterprise no matter what its uublie importances. It would be better a hundred timesthat .Mac- kenzie and dlann stolid go down '1" s:rnin of an approaching election develops in Ir. White the weakness of oOmneon mortals with e loins in placing his sins on tee backs of the anks. H ensev..l in vain, he Sat„s to the 'ranks to come to therelief of ltiac leenzie and Mann al d 't.he G. T. P. R. He was, therefore. obliged 10 discount his own paper 'or inwo-d3 :o issue sixteen millions of Domin ion notes on the security of his unsold bor.d3 in their hands He knows nn d tout, th, t the banks had 110 obligation to provid; the re'i_f d mended, or 'n a lime of danger and liquidlat on to ex - ..'ti gA, liquid assets foe unsale- able securities, Thesenotes going to the relief of Ma ken ,ie & Mara were paid in accord Ince with the cleerl of 'trust executed inpursuance of the C. N. R., relief act of last ses- sion rrd et is reasonably to be in- ferie d. though it is n t stated that they went to Mackenzie end 1Iann's bankers in reduction of the bank indeble d less of twenty -ore millions, much deba cd last year To whomsoever they may have gone Inc the first place, they quick i}' found their way with the rest of 'the whole forty-one million issue, Unbacked by gold to all the bar•.ks causing bat a little anxiety among careful bankers. The ef- fect: was to oblige • le banks in lttcgu measure to make the ed - vat nos which they had earlier just ly dew:lined to make. M, P„ Lord Willoughby de Brolce, cal the other 'dty t 1iam ut. well known in Canadian military oireles and a number of others. weret0fthewast be of Never] did a magazine have ,:sc. many British Columbia that is in. the Pa- contributors, from men who loom seem ocean. large on the literary sky line, The illustrations are by the best black and white artiste, It contains all 'Khaki' the feature that popularize other 3 P high class u 1'c ' b t tY '. Proves p a Ou9. Khaki gg "cabled cabled a vs supplement,” Kae n c a distinctive personality: it is filled with th e w 11 written, momentous and interesting news items fr+oni Egypt, from, India, from Africa -"a whole • page of'Canadian news- from every corner of Sent Free to Soldiersthe world here Issue,. isw the Union Jack flies• Service. Probed an Active Proceeds Without thout doubt a better or bigger 15 g€ for Charitycents' worth was never offered to the public. It is on sale at the' local news stands. The manager of any branch monthly magazine, comparing of the Royal Bank of Canada will re ceive subseriptions to this magazine which is worthy of the support of everybody.: The office of publication is in London, Jing. that they should ne d sppsed of fine Me g iz n ie g A m y g p g favorably in its appearance and con tents with the best. British and American publications with an eight. page newspaper supplement eon taining all the hest cable news from every corner of the world, having for its object the keeping of the overseas troops . at the front conversant with the most interesting items of newsfrom their countries, has 'literary just tirade its debut to the y world,' under the name of "Khaki. 11 is sent free to the troops, the profits. From the public sales being devoted-, to that end. If the first Dumber may be taken ascii augury of of future issues, the promoters of "Khaki!" may cease at once having any compunctions visit ings about its continued success. Never did a magazine snake its in Wee bow to the world with a more worthy motive. Mission of "Khaki." The following extracts from the publishers' definition of its scope and 'policy, should he read and made a note of, to paraphrase Capt. Cattle: "It is in no sense a commercial enterprise, but is the result of a purely patriotic effort. The "Khaki" magazine has been produced to pro vide the troops at the front from Canada.. Africa, Australia, New Zea 'and, India, and other parts 62 the British Empire throughout the world, with interesting and instruct ive literature, with a miniature news paper containing the latest cabled news from allparts of the Empire. The magazine with its news sheet will he sent free each month to otli cera and men of our oversea forces. In this way they will be able to follow the progress of the war in all its phases, and the news from tbeir homes and will make the dreadful strain of war far easier to bear." Profits for Charity This is not all. When the maga zine gets down to a smooth running and, profitable basis, as it undonlit edly will in a short time, the surplus profits will be paid to charitable institutions that may be decided upon by a selected body of re presentative people. But the out standing point that the rending and discriminate public should bear in mind that `Khaki' is no mediocre magazine, taking its first number as a criterion. Among the contributors are such world famous authors as Rudyard Kipling, Israel Z angwill, Victor Grayson, Jerome K. Jerome, Marie Coralli, Earl of Ronaldshay, Small Game Seasons Are Made .Uniform Shooting Will be Permitted Only From Oct. 15 To Nov, 15. The open season for all manner of small game with the exception of waterfowl will in the future be from October 15 to November. 15. This wad the decision of the Fish and Game Committee of the Legislature Wednes day, after lengthy consideration of proposals to wipeout, the various sea sons and make them uniform. 1t was pointed out that under the present sys tem it is practically impossible to en force the regulations, since the matt with the gun shoots everything, and the net result is a shooting season much longer than intended. Exception will. be made to the general regulation in the case of cot tontail rabbits, which may be shot f ,r three weeks at (3bristunas time -De cember 20 to January 20 A close season for quail was advo cated. but the committee thought it was going far enough for the time by limiting the season's bag to 21. or a limit of six a day. Trappers are to be required to have special licenses at a cost of 52, with the exception of f others aud their sons operating upon their own adjac ent land. A new zone line was adopted to run from Hamilton to Sarnia,dividing the province into north and south shooting districts. The committee also favorably con eidered a proposal to place some re striction upon foreigners who go out into the country shooting, destroying all kinds of useful birds. • We want a correspondent O • in this district and we would es • be pleased 'to communicate • • with anyone wishing to re- e • present their locality. 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