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The Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser
BC Historical Newspapers
The Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser was published in Hedley, in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia, and ran from January 1905 to August 1917. The Gazette was published by the Hedley Gazette Printing and Publishing Company, and its longest-serving editor was Ainsley Megraw (1905-1914). The Gazette served the communities of Keremos, Olalla, and Hedley. In 1916, the paper was purchased by James W. Grier, who shortened the title to the Hedley Gazette.
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1 ib] HI y L-'ff Assembly <<"k Volumw XIII- Number 10. HEDTJEY, B.C./ THURSDAY, MAUUli iii). 1017. $2.00, In Advance W^/**,\/^,#\^ In JflS.GLftRKE .B.C. ? ��������� UUatchtnakei HEDLEY, B Clocks and Watches for Sale pVayd.by'Auto... Call up Phone-No. 12 . I'A ko'ocI stock of Horses and Rigs on if- Hand. II Orders for, Teaming ^promptly attended to/ WOOD POR'SALE! , . Pf\Lfl6& . blvenii feed" fr-Sale Stables HEDLEY B.C. ��������� . D. J. JNNIS 'hone 12."J p'lopriotb'* .-TiiOMrs n rnoNn.SF.vMoui; .���������nil y ' MGrAvESI-KKN CANADA _ ' - ICammell Laird 8c Co. Ltd. ,' Steel Manufacturers ��������� SHeffield, Eng. | -Offices iuid Warehouse, 817-M Bcatty Street, Vancouver, B. C. R. ;F*. BROW-IN " British Columbia Land Surveyor' TbL-No.27- ' P. O. Dkawkk 1(50. PENTICTON, - "���������; - B- c" P. W. GREGORY CIVIL ENGINEER and BRITISH COLUMBIA LAND SURVEYOR Star Building Princeton WALTER CLAYTON C. E. IIASKINR CLAYTON & MSKINS t BarrislersrSolicilbrsj-Etc. -'^���������'' . MONEY TO LOAN , PENTICTON, -' B. C. - DR. J. L. MASTERS DENTIST. OFFICE IN COVERT BLOCK. Oroville, Wash, ^���������*l������fcfcTOfcfcW������^**fc'*������*^*rt������!*'a* MP ' 3������ S ������ Grand Union Hotel HEDLEY, British Columbia Rates���������$1.50 a Day and Up First-Class Accommodation. Bar Stocked with Best Brands of Liquor and Cigars A. WINKLER, Proprietor, X X X X X X X X X X X X *���������! X X X X X X X ���������% X X X X % X X X \ \VR All kinds.'of! fresh and on rod meats always on - hand. Fresh Fish on sale eyory Thursday. XtsggSSESSBSSSBi R. J. EDMOND, Prop. GREAT NORTHEKN HOTEL HEDLEY B.C. Bar and Table the Best. Rates Moderate :'-'.".' First Class Accommodation JOHN JACKSON, Proprietor. TOWN AND DISTRICT | Found���������A gold ring. CJ-ri 11 a t tho postofficc,.. pay 50c. lor Uns notice find take ring away. Born���������In Hedley, Tuesday, 27th March, JU17. to Mr. and Mrs. Goo/TC: French, a daughrer. H. P."Brown. V. 1^. S-; rcntic- wns in town Monday evening on a trip through the the district. - ' - -, , R. IT. Carniichael, O. II.Carlo, D. J. Innis and Arthur Mattice were Keremeos visitors in town Friday last. - . After this wools* all. subscriptions one or more years in arrears will be struck off thejist. No cxceptioneC -J. R. Brown, government agent at-Fairview, was in Hedley Taesdav and went through to Princeton. Ho is on a road inspection trip. A nice little snowstorm this morning. 'Just- enough to give a dewy'kiss to the buttercups, irrigate the.. Jim Hill.mustard, and hearten up the wood and 'coal mau.' Sunday evening, after service in" the English church, C. P. Dalton was presented with a purse. Arthur' Clare,-in making the presentation on bebalf of tho congregation, expressed their apprepiation of his work iir the church and regret at his carlv" departure_from Hedley. Mr. Dalton made a suitable reply- No free advertising in future. Notices of entertainments for which an admission charge will be paid or a collection taken up, church, temperance, whiskey, -political, theatrical, lost found,, birth, "marriage , and- death no- tices must be paid "for. The parson, the accoucheur, the undertaker, is" paid' for his ser vices: why not the publisher? Friday night the rooming house and ������storc belonging to Billin "Waugh was burned. The Tho alarm was given shortly after 9 oclock and in a few minutes the hose was connected and the water turned on. Although the fire had too much headway to save the building- it was kept from spreading to the adjoining houses and the business portion of the town. The building, furniture and stock were insured for $1000, and valued at about $2500. Nat Darling and AI. Campbell arrived in town yesterday, several weeks behind schedule, due to storms, snow-slides and easy collections. They were so pleased to got to Hedley again that they tried lo hug the.bus- driver a'nd thankedthe, locomotive engineer for getting through without a snowslide. Nat says the roadbed between Orovilie and Hedley is the least addicted to slides and large boulders of any part of Hie country he Has beeji in this trip. They are so far behind time that "they haven't even got in touch with a, measles epidemic. They went to Keremeos yesterday afternoon. - Captain G. C./Roso of the internment police was in town. Thursday- last recruiting for the Forestry service. About nineteen years ago Captain Rose was a resident of the Boundary district, and received a job in the customs froth Bos- tock. He resigned that position and purchased the Kelowna Courier. When the war started - lie obtained ,*v -commission and has since served his country with distinction in Revelsteck, Vernon and intermediate points, receiving steady and well-merited promotion. He hopes to go home to tho Old Country in charge of a Forestry draft. His many well wishers hope he will get to the firing line, but if not, he will return to us with the rank of at least an honorary lieutenant colonel.! - ) ..>i&*'*2L3ffia&-^;Ss^^ ���������cal something for his Some can bear arms Some can produce food Some can rnake munitions Some can give money It is the privilege of all to help. CAN SERVE by W orking������������������ This is NATIONAL SERVICE Are YOU doing your part? 5. EYES-torn-now-to the Canadian Farmer, for -ihe can render the Empire Special Service in this sternest year of the war.- But���������our farms are badly under- manned���������25,000 men are needed on the land. With insufficient help, the Man on the Land fights an uphill fight to meet the pressing need for Food. Municipal Councils, Churches and Schools, and ether organizations, both of men and women, can render National Service by directing all available labour to the Land. Farmers themselves can exchange labour. School boys can assist. Were you raised on a farm ? Can you drive a team ? Can you handle fork or hoe? If you can't fight, you can produce. Spend the Summer working on the Farm. Let every ma a, woman and child in the Dominion who" has���������access to Land, no matter how small the plot, make it produce Food in 1917. For information on any subject relating, to the Farm and Garden write:��������� INFORMATION BUREAU DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OTTAWA ���������DOMINION DEPARTMENT OF-AGWCULTURI OTTAWA, CANADA. HON. MARTIN BURRELL, MINISTER j������������E?**T3S3������ES^^ P. A. on Fatal Accident. 1 Sunday evening about 7.30 an accident occurred ��������� in the G00- level of the Nickel Plate mine, resulting in the death of Lemuel Fife and Daniel Rankin, two machine men. They drilled into what is known as a "bootleg." Death was instantaneous. 'Tuesday afternoon Dr. Mc- CalTery of Princeton, coroner, held an inquest, with the following as jurors: Geo. A. Riddle (foreman), C. P. Dalton. E. D. Boeing, T. -J., Griffin, Murray, and Walter Snyder. Pour witnesses were called : Springhetti, who was first the scene after the accident; L. S. Morrison, shiftboss; O. Lind- ' gren, who loaded the holes on the- previous shift, and J. R. Brown. Mine InspectorStrachan of Merritt was present and examined the witnesses. Nothing that would indicate ��������� _ carelessness or neglect was brought out in the evidence. THE VERDICT. ������������������ Wo are unanimously of'the opinion that Dan Rankin and. ���������- L. Fife" met their deathriri-th'e N. P. mine while drilling. Wo believe they struck powder in a nearby bootleg,- which . they v knew was adjacent but which they had examined and were satisfied was safe ^aud free from powder, and that they came by their deaths by acci- -' dent. ' Geo. A, Riddle, Foreman. Fife .was a native of Colchester, Cape Breton. His wife and family reside" there. Rankin was from Inverness, Cape Breton. His wife and five small children live at the mine. The funeral will be held this afternoon, the Miners' Union having charge of arrangements. News' and Advertiseirventsr The following resolution was passed at the meeting of the B. C. Press association, held in Victoria on the 12th and 13th inst.: "That in view of the difficulty encountered in discrimi--- nating between what may bo considered 'news' and what may be classed ns 'advertising/ the association tako-5 the position^ that items announcing association, club, meetings, concerts, wnd events to come, where an admission fee is charged or a collection taken���������political, patriotic or otherwise���������are advertising, and that 'news' consists of leports of events which have taken place; that a general .statu! be taken towards eliminating as far as possible the abuse of the news columns, and that frequent items be inserted! in newspapers _ pointing put these distinctions with a view lo educating the public in this. respect. Also I hat formal notices of births, marriages, deaths,, cards of thanks, and events to. conic,, such - as club meetings��������� political and otherwise���������-afternoon teas, concerts, socials, etc.,. Lbo charged for at specified i rates" . ! It is perhaps needless to state- that the foregoing resolution i'will, pr shouJd be, observed by jail the newspapers of the prov- _ ince. It is a business proposi- ~ tion that the newspaper should bo paid for space, a commodity;. just as meat, prunes, beans, shoes, meal's, clothing, labor, etc., are commodities and paid for at current market values. On Friday evening, April 13, a lecture will be given in the Keremeos church by Dr. Wra, Thomson on '���������India���������Its gov-, .eminent; its school system; the manners and - customs of the Hindo people." For some years Dr. Thomson lived in' India audu his observations should be of: the greatest interest to. every; British subject. A collection will bo taken up for the benofit of the Women's Missionary society. . ��������� - - - Mine Inspector Strachau of Men-it was in. town Tuesday in connection with, the accident at the Nickel Plate mine,. ~\_ -,v*T -f' r ^^^^^^l - v-'-7 ^"'^f^fp^^^i^^^ ' .---7' '4- *������������������ ,.,��������� - ������.. , '^ '%,r." ;r-7%s 7 ?-^'/v'-:.r'v-; VA-**/^*. -V','' ffHE GAZETTE. MEDLEY. B. C. ALUM G t^ARja PLAINLY ^ PRINTED ON 1 MEj MADE IN CANADA Clean Seed I. Many Farmers do Not Pay Sufficient Attention to Cleaning Seed Very few farmers put their seed through the fanning mill three 'imes, but quite a number clean it o cc .r twice. A great many do not clean ihcir seed at all. It is not at .ill ncc- ccssary to buy new seed; in fact, it is wore advisable for a; fanner to use ine sepd produced on his own farm and properly clean the weed seeds out. In New Brunswick, I was once walking along the road close to a field whcVe a man was sowing. I dipped my hand first into a stream close by: and then into the bag* of c-ecd. VVlicn I took my liand out it was covered with weed seeds, showing that the man had not cleaned his seed at all. One of the best means _. for preventing the spread of. weeds is to clean the seed thoroughly.���������F.C. Nun- nick, at Seventh Annual-Meeting' of Comniission of Conservation.' G er many - or Russia .?���������; It is perfectly clear that .'this- war will close with'either Russia or Germany paramount ai Constantinople. If the Germans are permitted to keep their "corridor" to the East���������an unthinkable and suicidal concession on our side���������they will probably 7leave the Turks in nominal possession of Constantinople and the Straits; but everyone will know that it is Hie Teuton twin empires, in Central Europe which really guide���������the-: foreign policy of 'Stamboul and sit on the Gallipoli heights which command the Dardanelles. The only force powei- ful enough., to'dislodge;...this malig-i outside control is that.of Russia;'ind the only way in which .Russia.can now get this control is by physical occupation.-���������Montreal Star. CUR STOMACH TROUBLE A Pleasant Purgative.���������Parmelee s Vegetable Pills arc so compounded as to operate on both the stomach and the bowels, so that they act along the whole alimentary and excrctoi y passage. They are not drastic in their work, but mildly purgative, and the pleasure of taking them is only equalled..by the gratifying effect they produce. Compounded only of vegetable substances, the curative qualities of which were fully tested, they afford relief without chance of injury. Mr. Goodlcigh���������"Her age really surprised mc; she doesn't look twenty-eight does she?" Miss.Snappc-���������"Not now, but I supposed she did once." Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. Women to Wear Overalls Overalls-for women! Overalls of silk, overalls of satin, overalls ot cotton, overalls in dots and stripes and checks _ are being manufactured by one of "the largest manufacturers of the bifurcated garment, hitherto sacked only to man. The women are going to wear them, too. It's all due to the war, they claim. The overalls already have been adopted in one New York factory for "women employees, and many women are wearing them to do household *wor(k. Large' overall .orders have been placed by department stores in anticipation of the new mode. "The guv'nor wa'nls enough peas to sow two rows." ", "But how long are the rows?" "Bit longer 'an passou's garden." ."But I don't know how long the parson's garden is." "VVhoi, it be a bit shorter 'an ourn." saw* tan anap r Fingers The Common Cause is Lack of Blood���������Therefore You Must Build Up ihe Blood 2~ There is the most intimate relatioi. between the condition of the blood and- the activity of the stomach. The blood depend- up'-n he stomach for a large part of its nourishment; while every act of digestion, from i> c-limu the food enters the stomach and is as- siiriijgtcd by the blood needs plenty or pure well-oxidized blood. The muscles, glands and nerves of the stomach work only according to the qual'ly of the blood. The most common cause of indigestion is lack of rich, red blood. Not only docs impure blood weaken the muscles of the stomach but it lessens the product of the glands of the intestines and'stomach, which furnish the digestive fluids. Nothing will more promptly cure indigestion than plenty of pure blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills arc the safest and most certain blood-builder. A thorough trial of these pills gives a hearty appetite, perfect digestion, strength and health. Here is proof of the value of thcse'pills in cascs.of indigestion. Mr. Daniel Dexter, Liverpool, N. S., says: ���������"For several years I was a great sufferer from indigestion. I was greatly troubled with gas on the stomach which caused disagreeable sensations. I was also frequently 'roubled with nausea and vohiiting, which were very distressing. As a result of ray trouble my appetite almost completely failed, and what I ..did eat caused me constant pain. I was continually doctoring but did not get any benefit, and had about made up my mind that I would suffer for life. One day a friend asked mc whv'I did not, try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and while I had not much hope of a cure I decided to do so. .1 had only taken a few boxes, however, when I found they were helping me. Very gladly then I continued the use.of the pills, and in less than three months I was as w.ell as ever I had been, able 10 cat a hearty meal, and to feel that life was again worth living. I had also been troubled from time, to time With "attacks of rheumatism, and the use oi the pills cured this as well as the-indigestion It is now over a year since I took the pills, and in that time I have had no return of the trouble." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills arc sold by all. dealers in medicine or may be had by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Heaven Second Choice The late Bishop oi London . was once ordered by his physician to spend -the winter in Algiers. The Bishop said it was impossible, he had so" many engagements. "Well, ^ir.y Lord Bishop," said the specialist,*" "it cither means Algicrs"~or heaven." "In that case," said' the Bishop, "I'll go to Algiers."���������The Argonaut. What They Did '. For One Family ' DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS CURED WHERE DOCTORS FAILED Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer, Afted Years of Suffering, Found the Remedy They Sought in Dodd's Kidney Pills. _ Capreol, Ont. (Special).���������Firm believers in Dodd's Kidney Pills are Mr. and Mrs. Adolphe Sawyer, of this place. They have their-reasons and- arc quite willing to make tliem public. "I was a complete wreck when I started to take Dodd's Kidney Pills," Mr. Sawyer says. 'I had suffered for' ten years. I tried five doctors altogether. Some said it was rheumatism. Others called it lumbago, but none could give any permanent relief. Dodds Kidne- Pills made a new man of me. "My wife got the same good results from them. She also had been to several doctors. A specialist from Sault Ste. Marie advised "her to stay in bed for a month. But she tried Dodd's Kidney Pills 'instead With splendid results. "Do you wonder that we both praise Dodd's .Kidney Bjlls? No one can speak too highly of them, Dodd's Kidney Pills are purely and simply a kidney remedy. If the disease is of the. kidney's or from the kidneys thev- will cure-it. * at the ill effects of caffeijie when you change from tea and coffee to "There's a Reason" What Belgium Wants At a meeting held at Paris on January last to protest against enemy deportation of Belgian workmen M. Vandervclde. of the Belgian Cabinet, himself a Socialist, read from a manifesto issued 'by hiscountrymen, the victims of GerniatiHHavery, a3 follows: "Whatever be our tortures we want peace only with the independence of our country and the triumph of justice." It is as natural for normal individuals to applaud this heroic stand as it is to condemn, even impatiently, the agitators for peace who afford the secret agent? of dastardly enemy intrigues ;i golden opportunity for service., ���������Ottawa Journal. Quiet Enjoyment "Didn't you tell ine that Dubwaite was an entertaining conversational-, ist?" "I did." *���������'-''���������:.. "Yet he never talks jabout anything but himself." ���������-"'"' "Exactly. And there is nothing I enjoy more than Jaughing in "my sleeve."���������Birmingham Age-Herald. Bewildering Crawford: Your \yife seems to be all tangled up in'her housekeeping. Crabs haw: You see, - she tries to follow all the so-called useful hints in the women's magazines.-���������Life. Crisp Sores Flee Before It.���������There ate many who have been afflicted with sores and have driven, them away with Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil, which acts like magic. All f.imilarly troubled should lose no time' in applying this splendid remedy, as there is nothing like it to be had. It is cheap, hut its power is in i-o way expressed by its low price. A Form of Preparedness "I'm afraid I'm going to lose my temper when I'make this speech," said Senator Sorghum. "Deliberately?" "Yes. Some of the remarks I want to make wilt never be excused unless it can be claimed they were said in the heat of debate."���������Washington Star. W. N. -IL 1144 Country Magistrate���������'Ten and costs for reckless driving." Young Motorist���������"Listen, Judge! We were on our way to your office to have you marry us." Magistrate���������"Twenty and costs, then. You're a darned sight more reckless than f thought you were." ancS Flaky as the minute they left the oven ���������that's the way you always get Union Bask Assets Increase Twenty Per Cent, in 1916 Growth in One Year Exceeds Eighteen Million Dollars���������Bank As- . sists Financing of Imperial N ' Munition Business The fifty-second annual statement of the Union Bank of Canada, covering the year ending November 30, 1916, shows a remarkable growth and strengthening of the Bank's position, and at the same time indicates large cash resources both in private and business accounts throughout-the Dominion. The Union Bank, with headquarters in Winnipeg and 200 Branches in the West, as well as a splendid old- established system of Branches in the East, is in close touch with .every part of Canada, and its surprising growth for the year, reflects the financial recovery of both East and West, and the increasing savings of the people.* Interest-bearing deposits amount now to $60,1-14,940 against $30,685,30-1 .a year ago, while deposits not bearing interest have reached $29,122,S4S compared with $21,999,832 shown in the previous year's statement, The assets, which a year ago were $90,��������� 663,003, showed an increase of eighteen and a half millions, bringing them up Jo $109,040-228. This 20 per cent advance is the .more remarkable as it follows an increase of over nine, millions, or 11 per cent in 1915, making an, increase for the two years'of $27,500,000 or, 33 per cent. ' From these figures; it is clear -that Canadians are saving as well as making money and that the Union Bank of Canada enjoys'a large measure of their confidence. -: ; _ Similar strengthening of the .financial position of businesses generally,^ through the liquidation of bank .indebtedness from cash profits has prevented much expansion of current loans-and discounts in Canada, which stand practically tlve same as in the previous year The new funds at the disposal of the Bank are invested chiefly in liquid assets and cash, of which the Bank holds $56,587,852, compared with $39,138,385 at the end of 1915.' This_ increase of seventeen and a half millions follows an in^ crcasc of nearly thirteen million dollars during the previous year, and constitutes an extremely strong reserve,, readily convertible into casii. It is interesting to note that of thi-5 reserve $16,"546,248 is invested in Dominion and Provincial Government Securities, Canadian Municipal Securities and British, Foreign and Colonial Public Securities other than Canadian, whereas-a year ago the amount similarly invested was but" little over one-million dollars. By far the greater proportion of this "sixteen Ths Qrrat English. Hemrdf, Tono-a and in-rigoritcii tho whora j Borvou* system, makes sow Blood in old Veins, Oures j\'ervovt Debility, Mental and Brain Worry. Uefpon' -lency, I.nss ofEne?(ni, J'alpilntion o/_tkt Ifcart, JFtiilinp Memory. Price $1 per boi, ata for $5. Ose trill plenss, six trill euro. Bold by all drugciiit.s or mailed in p'.-iin pkg. on receipt of Krico. h'rwprimphlrlfnailed free. THE WOOD 3EOICSME COo TOeOUTO, CST. (Fas-Hi; WaimJ t Ams rice's Pioneer Dog Remedies! BOOK OX DOG DISEASES And How to Feed Mailed free to any address by tlie Author | H. CLAY GLOVER CO., Inc. 118 West 31st Street, New York Rural Progress "Didn't you feel resentful when that man beat you in a horse trade?" "No," replied Farmer Cornlassei. "Hosscs ain't Thy specialty .no more. I'll bet you he couldn't of got the best o' me in a motor car Lrade."-��������� Washington Star. in the triple-sealed Cartons. Plain or Salted. ���������In Packages only. For a change to something equally fresh and delicious, try our GRAHAM WAFERS million.item consists of securities ol the Imperial Government issued for Hie financing of munition business in Canada ��������� ' '. The note issue-of the Bank has increased over a million dollars, to $S,S15,117, with ,1 corresponding increase in the War Tax on'TBnnk Note circulation to $50,000. Profits for the year were about the same as last year, amounting to $651,- 1S3. After deducting the War Tax, $150,000 transferred to Contingent Account, $10,000 appropriated for the Pension Fund, $5,000 donated to the British Sailors' Relief Fund, and $450- 000 for the usual 8 per cent dividend and 1 per cent bonus, tlie sum of $93- 160 was carried forward to the credit of Profit and Loss Account. It is worthy of note that the Bank has maintained its dividend and bonus and met all charges for depreciation and contingencies throughout the war oiit of its annual profits and has now a larger profit balance than at the end <t iV13. The immense increase in the scope of its business during these years, and the great strengthening of its position, holds out the prospect of greatly increased earnings upon the return ot normal conditions. Catarrhal Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as tliey can.iot leacli the diseased portion o: tlie car. There is only one way to cure catarrhal deafness, and that is by 'a. constitutional remedy. Caiarrlial Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining: of the Kti.-,tachinn Tube. When this tube is inflamed yon have a rumbling sound or imperfect hc-irinfr, and ivhen it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this, tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. .Many cases of deafness are' caused by catarrh, which is an inflamed condition of Ihe mucous surfaces. Hall's "Catarrh Cure ants throi:'*'!* the blood on the mucoU3 surfaces ol the system. We -Will give One Hundred Doll.irs for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circular* free. All Druggists, 75c. * F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Banks: Is young Fcathcrly a responsible sort of person? ��������� Brokes: Yes, he's responsible for most of the mistakes in our department. The publisher of the best Farmer's paper in the Marijimc Provinces'-in writing to us states: "I would say that I do not ��������� know of a medicine thai has stood the test of.,time like MINARD'S LINIMENT.- It has been an unfailing remedy in our household ever since I can remember, and has outlived dozens of would-be compet-itovs and imitators." Minard's Liniment Cures Garget Cows. m A frugal Scot, wishing to iighl up,, asked u number of fellow-passengers for a match. None of them having _ one, Sandy said resignedly: "Awccl, I'll have to use yin o' ma ain," The case with which corns and warts can be removed by Holloway's Corn Cure is its strongest recommendation. It seldom fails. North-West Biscuit Co., Limited EDMONTON - ALTA. ! Our Need What wc-chiefly need is lo sli^w the poor farm err and the man who has the poor laiid, how he can best treat that land to make it more productive and advance "his own interests. If something could be clone in the case of the poorer land, I am sure it would accomplish much to see something in the line of experimental stations, applied to the poor land, to sec what the. result would be.���������Hon. A. E. Arsenault; at Seventh Annual Meeting of Commission of Conservation. He was about to propose, but before doing so he wished to make sure she was a competent girl. So he asked her: "Can you wash dishej?" ''Yes, she said-.sweetly, wipe them?" He didn't propose. "Can v'oti Granulated Eyeiias, Eyes inflamed J>y exposure to Sao, Dos J and f������ln4 T* *______% quicjcijr relieved by Marina Jf C759& Ey������Be������������dy. No Smarting', V -lU������t Eve Comfort At quickly relieved by Harlot EyaB-ea-sdj-.NoSma; ^ -jl������t Eye Comfort. Al Vour Drug-gUt's 50c per Bottle. Marine Eye BahrainTubei35c. ForBeokoltlKEyeFrec'ufc pniggwu ������ HvtasRr* Seaway ���������������,, C&feeg* j J THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. Not. Nt>2. HA fTeat succejs, cukes chronic wrakness. lost vrcto-tf* ft VIM XIDS2Y BLADDER. DISEASES. BLOOD POISON, riLKS EITHER NO DRUGGISTS or MAIL gl POST ������ CTS fo-jgeraco 80 beekman st mbw vorkor lyman 8rod toronto write for free book to dr (.e ci.su Med Co HaverstockRd. Hampstkad London Eho, tryn&wdragbkitastelesslformor easy to tais 1 S*l Em B"���������*-\ir I %-&V& LASTING CORK, ���������BE THAT TRADE MARKED WORD 'THKRAPION IS OS <��������� ���������BIT. GOVT 3TAUC AFFIXED TO ALL GBNUlHB PACUSTfc l'| -j - ��������� --===-' Mi UETERINAEY COURSE AT HOME [] Taught In simplest English during spare time. Diploma pram ed* Cost vrlthln resch oF all. Satisfae* tion Guaranteed. Have been teach* Ing by correspondence twenty years. Graduates assisted In many ways. Every person interested la stock should take It. Write for catalogue *nd lull BT E? BT EST particulars - - _ T sT* & Ki Londo aVat .Corr������ Npe r4s>i������������9 School - Otpt. 59 London. Oatan^ Cto������ THE QSZETTE. HEDLEY, B, 0* />r*���������iw n uiwtfo rANCE 0 URAL COMMUNITY WORK LINK-BETWEEN THE COUNTRY TOWN AND FARM The Size of Each Country Town Is Not Determined By Its Corporate Limits, But The Extent Of Its Influence On The Farming Population of the Surrounding Country Among the many social and economic 'movements of the day there is no one so -fraught with promise as rural community work, for it seeks to solve the problem of life on the farm and to justify the existence of the country town. Jt is threshing old straw "to tell of the various _ plans which, under the guise of eliminating the middleman, seek to make the small town an unnecessary economic unit. The country storekeeper soon found that the .answer was not the often futile attempt to merely meet the prices of the mail-order house. He was.quite right in his contention that the farmer needed the small town as, much as the small .town needed the farmer, but he was entirely forgetful that the trouble lay primarily in the failure of the small town to see its duty and to do it, al! due "to the misconception that -Mic farmer was mostly a customer, rather than also a friend and neighbor. The answer was found in that statement which afterward came to be known as the "Trenton Idea," that the size of eack town was not its corporate limits, but the extent of its influence in the surrounding country. Likewise, thai the problem was a social rather than an economic one, and its motto was summed up in the phrase "Learn to know your neighbor, lest you like him':" Also that if the town follows that motto, the gates of Hcil shall not prevail against it. It all comes back to the real, self- evident economic "-fact, not to be found in' text books, that you" are apt to do business with those you know and like. Immediately the circle widens, for if Trenton, Miss., enlarges its -business and social bounds to lake in many more miles of contiguous territory, then it immediately becomes interested in the development of that contiguous territory. So, too, does that great city in Missouri with which Trenton trades. Now, ju'st as soon as Trenton got that "idea into its head about the contiguous territory it immediately got out of its head that other idea, only this time a mistaken one of most small towns, about getting factories to enliven the ^ place and give it prosperity. For 'Trenton then "perceived that it was surrounded by a number of factories, in the shape . of farms, which produced the most essential things in the world���������food and raiment���������and which; under proper care, would go on producing them forever and a day. Likewise, that the ��������� , ol ihe Trenton commer cial world was to foregather with these farmers, so that by mutual help and co-operation the product of these same farms might be increased and multiplied, s'o that the farmers themselves and Trenton, with which the farmer traded, might all be greatly benefited. It soon developed that ��������� -way to do these very practical business things, and that'was to first unite the town and the countryside in social bonds. The town must be made, the life ' and inspiration of the surrounding, country" It rfiust furnish,, amusement and education to the country folks round about it,'must, have an: "opera house" and "movies", a public library or reading room, attractive "stores and restaurants or hotels, churches .and good schools, and the farmers must be made a part of this social life, With good roads and automobiles, communication and sociability between" town and country become easy and constant, and after that the matter of trading together follows as night follows day The real difficulty, and the real solution of the difficulty, is to arouse the local pride of the town and the rest is easy. There arc a thousand ways of giving expression to this local pride, and the more direct and -elemental they arc the more effective the results. One plan is for the bankers of the town to ��������� organize a boys' pig club among the farmer boys of the surrounding country The banker lends each boys enough money to buy a pig, and takes the hoy's note for it The Agricultural College of the State University sends the boy instructiofis in feeding and caring for the pig. At county fairs and the State fairs prizes arc given for the best results. One boy that. I know of bought a pig for $4. It cost him $8.24 to raise that pig He won $33 in prizes on the pig, and then sold the pig for $30. Meantime the boy was learning how to raise pigs properly, was getting a business education in responsibility, and, like every other rhember of the club, met his note promptly when dug. Also, this plan * is increasing bo ill the number and the quality of hogs in the country, arid hogs are like gold dollars to the farmers. Anotirtr plan is to provide the farmers with blooded cattle for dairy purposes Bankers, railroads, business men, all take a hand in this. There are various methods, but one* of the best is to buy the live stock W. N. If. 1144 and sell it to the farmers, taking their notes for the animals. Now, a dairy cow is u gilt-edged bond, a revenue- producing machine, as well as a giver of milk, and several other things besides. She anually gives her own weight in milk, from two to ten times according to th'e.naturc and quality of her breed, 'and is apt to pay for herself the first year. "When the local pridc of tlie small town gets aroused it takes all sorts of unexpected developments. One of the little.cities in northeast> Missouri raised money among its citizens and started a small flouring mill of 25 bbl capacity per day, where farmers could bring their wheat to be ground and could get rough feed stuff, which heretofore they had been" buying in car lots from "far-away Kansas. They had. thus an immediate market for their grain, and had" their feed stuff from their own products at much less than they hitherto paid. So there are more farmers coming to this little town���������Edina���������than ever before. Not content with this, the county���������Knox ���������in which this little town is situated put on a campaign for silos and alfalfa throughout the country. 'Alfalfa is a word to conjure with everywhere in the West and South, for though hard to start it, is almost in-' destructible when oncc"it takes root. The silo is the dependence of^_ tlie farmer in times pf^ drouth, for ~* the preserving through uie winter of that green food for stock which otherwise would have been lost by the drouth. What it is is told in the story of fhe little girl who got her catechism mixed, and said that a lie "was an ever- present help in time of trouble."' Another city in northeast Missouri had been greatly content with itself for many years, and consequently was fast asleep and weary. One day there carne a live wire to that town, and it suddenly woke and got going, and has been going ever since at'a pace which makes Ruth Law look as if she were tied to a post It has a live commercial club which knows all the farmers in the country, attends all their social functions, brings them in to town to all the various entertainments, and is taxing itself to build better roads all -over the county Another Rip Van Winkle of a Mis- so'uri" town' was awakened from its long slumber"by this same live wire, and the rejuvenated commercial club formed an offensive and defensive alliance with all the fanners within ten miles. One of its stunts is a series of baseball matches with the farmers in the neighboring townships. Most rcmarkSble of all is the story of an abandoned parish in the county district of northwest Missouri. Not long ago it was taken hold of by a quiet, unassuming clergyman. Today it is the centre of life and inspiration to all the surrounding "country. . It has football, baseball, tennis and basketball teams. It has reading clubs, literary and dramatic clubs, -good roads associations, and farmers' clubs. It is an example of modern, scientific agriculture, and of sanitary, wholesome living on the farm. Business has followed sociability and hurrian contact and friendliness in' every, one of these endeavors. So'likewise there have come,better ways of agriculture and more productiveness. Also there have been other things than mere material gain Everywhere throughout the rural West the cry. is for more and better schools, and for. all those opportunities', of enlightenment and knowledge that have been so long denied the dwellers in the countryside. Such is this great movement, the stirring of local pride and ambition, which is slowly but surely changing the face of all economic and social life throughout the West and South. ���������Archer Wall Douglas in Hardware Age. Maple Syrup Imitations Cane Sugar Mixture Sold for the Genuine Article The report of the chief analyst of the Inland Revenue Department upon samples of maple syrup purchased during the year in various centres throughout Canada has been issued, and shows that out of 209 -rumples purchased as maple syrup by department inspectors in the open market, 162 were found lo be genuine in the sense of meeting standard' requirements for maple syrup as defined in the act; six samples met the requirements within such narrow limits as to engender suspicion, but were passed; thus giving 168 samples as probably genuine, 80 per cent of the total collection. Forty-one samples were found to be a-dultcrated, being* mixtures :>f cane sugar syrup with maple syrup. .Government inspectors visited five retail stores in Toronto, and, without disclosing their identity, purchased goods labelled "maple syrup" Of the five lots of "maple syrup" purchased in various sections of Toronto analysis -showed, that only two contained genuine maple "syrup. Germany's New Undercraft Terror Submarines With Sharp Pointed Bows That Can Cut Through Steel AH Germany now appears in have come to the conclusion that the submarine is the weapon of the future for the German nation, and that complete victory for Germany, which means utter annihilation for her enemies can and will thereby be attained. "X .Day aud night the shipyards are* never resting. Already submarines in large numbers arc in commission Indeed, apparently, the only limit- '-)6 the number in commission is the great difficulty of securing crews adequately trained; _so that new submarines should noT prove a greater danger to the crews than to unarmed enemy ships. One of the chief training centres for the new crews of"new submarines is. Kiel Harbor. There any day may be seen about thirty of the newest and largest submarines being used .solely for the purpose of training crews; but this is by no means the only centre. The outline of the bows is described as being like the blade of a scythe, pointing upwards out of the water. By some process, said to be newly invented, this blade is extremely hard and_ extremely sharp, so that when the -submarine, ' travelling at a moderate speed, strikes a wire hawser an inch and a halt.-thick, it cuts it through as if mere hempen rope. ��������� .This work of construction and training is not carried out without dangers, difficulties, and accidents At the recent launching of a submarine at the famous Gcrmania Wharf a disaster occurred. TI12 submarine was' released, and glided down the slips with increasing speed. - When it was quite,, impossible to check it the spectators saw lying right across the slips cither a crowbar or other iron implement. They could only watch and wait for the impact. The vessel struck the obstacle, bounded up, and then fell upside down in the water. Twelve men were drowned. ON WESTERN FRON MARVELLOUS OUTPUT OF THE MUNITION PLANTS More Heavy Gun Ammunition Turned Out Every Forty-Eight Hours Than Was Manufactured During the Entire First Year Of the War, and Production Still Increasing English munitions factories are now turning out every, forty-eight hours more heavy gun ammunition than they manufactured in the entire first year of the war, and the production is still increasing week by week In preparatio'n for the great offensive on the western front which British^mih- tary critics believe will come this spring. Although figures of the actual production of guns and munitions are jealously guarded, and there is no avowal on the part of thc_ Ministry of Munitions of any intention to dis-- continue the importations from America, there is an evident feeling' of optimism among the officials in the big 'munitions headquarters just off Whitehall as well as a willingness to give out "comparative figures" lo justify that optimism. "The improvement in our position may be illustrated in this "Nvay," * remarked an official of the Ministry*. ' "We arc now manufacturing every week three times as many 155-millimetre shells, five limes as many 200- lnillimetrc shells, and three times as marly 230-millimetre shells as we manufactured during the whole first year of the war. "Of smaller shells, we are turning nil in about a week jjic same quantity as was produced during the first year. Finally, the number of shells of all kinds completed; during the past week exceeded by about thirty per cent, the entire stock of muni- 140,000 Women on the Land British Government's New Badge of -; Noble Service "Every woman who helps in agriculture during 'the war is as truly serving her country as tin- man who- is fighting in the trenches or on the tea." Certificates bearing these words and emblazoned with the royal arms have been issued by the British Board of Agriculture lo women working on the land, nearly 140,000 of whom arc signed by the President of the Board of Agriculture and the Board of Trade. After completing thirty dav's service on the laud, registered -.vomen arc entitled to wear a Government armlet of green baize with the royal Crown in scarlet. Over 7������,0ij0 certificates and 62,000 armlets have been issued. Experience gained during the war goes to prove that some women can do anything and everything on the land, and do it well. ,. ' A Giant Oyen \ Railway Puts into Operation Quick Method for Drying Paint Baking raihvay cars is not a process recognized and described in household cookbooks, yet the process is in practical operations in the car shops of the Philadelphia Railroad. One problem that had engaged the attention of the railway _ officials was .that of reducing the time _ required for drying a car after painting. Their experience with quick-drying paints caused them to construct a mammoth baking oven at Altoona. it is big" enough to accommodate cars of almost any length. With the car well inside, the doors arc closed and the temperature raised above boiling point of water. The paint is completely dry and hard and ready for service in about three hours. The saving of time by this process is very marked. It has reduced by ninety-five per cent the lime required' for drying cars by ihe old method, and has cut in half the time a car is out of service during repainting.��������� Popular Science Monthly. Two Unbalanced Accounts A well known business man if Lawrence, Mass, once had a customer who contracted a debt that rait along unpaid for a year or more, and even several letters failed to bring about a settlement One day while _ glancing over the religious notices in a local _ paper, the business man saw something that gave him a new idea He went to his desk and wrote the following note to the debtor:��������� "My dear sir���������I sec irT the local press that you arc to deliver an adr dress on Friday evening before the Y. M. C. A. on "The sinner's unbalanced account. I enclose yours, as yet unbalanced, and trust that I may have the pleasure of attending your lecture."���������Youth's Companion. Mrs. Smith���������You say you never gossip. Mrs. Smart���������Never. When I feel disposed to hear my neighbors discussed I merely mention a name'and then listens lions held in reserve at the outbreak of' hostilities." Dealing with guns in the same way, it is found that, representing the number of guns manufactured during the first year of the war by 100 the number for the second year would be 841, and for the third ycar.it will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,350. The manufacture of lighter pieces has had to be slackened recently, owing to the fact thai ,the equipment of the British army in light field pieces is approximately complete, and it is only necessary, to provide for replacements and renewals. The improvement in the manufacture of machine guns, rifles, grenades and explosives has been equally satisfactory. Representing the total number of machine guns delivered to the army during the first year as 100, the total for the second year was 1,250 and for the third year will exceed 6,000. The production' of trench motar ammunition and grenades has been so J much developed that any further increase scarcely seems necessary. The increase in the manufacture of explosives has been tremendous. For every ton of explosive employed in September, 1914, 250 tons were employed in July, 1915, and 12,000 tons in July, lgl6. Tlie Russian government controls the prices charged for medical prescriptions. EI sips the System to Cure Itself. You cannot cure constipation by violent methods. Violence is never effect!*?* against nature. That is why the uae of morning salts and purgative pills so easily become a habit. These things do not euro lh<9 trouble; they only force matters, and in bo doing weaken the bowels till natural action becomes impossible, and you have to go on taking your pills or ealts indefinitely. Compare Dr. Csssell'3 Instant Relief. This great tonic laxative helps nature by strengthening tho bowels, natural action is restored and a, cure affected which ie real and lasting. Dr. CHAS. F. FOP.SMAW, D-Sc. F.R.M.3., a well-known British Scientist, writes:���������" Neyer taite Salines or Purgatives for constipation��������� to force Bowel action is to aggravate the trouble end create tfe* Constipation h9i.it. I recommend as a superior and convenient troatmaiit Or. Cassjll's Instant Relist." Take Dr. Cattail's Instant Belief for eotieUpatio*. hilieuinc$s. torpid liver, nick headache, dizsiness, apeci$ before the eyes, flatulence and windy spasms, acidity, heartburn, impure blood, and that dull,. heavy feeling which its a *ru������ indication of liver trouble*. Pries SO Cents {fans all Druggists and Storekeepers. ���������'at. direct' from the sole &genl������ fop Obnada. Harold V. Eitchlo Mid Co., Ltd., 10, KcCaul Street, Toronto. War Tax, S eeuta extra. Dr. Caosell's instant Relief U the eornpanion to Dr. Cassell's Tablets. Sole Proprietor.: Vr. CatseSl't Co., LtiL, Manchester, SnoUMd. 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I ������������������-;���������' /,v ' '-'"'���������*,".->-5-'i-.".'���������������;"',---���������-��������� "' 7";' ' 'V,-**" ." v *,.,';i't'-rl;v< '���������"'-" f- "���������.-'^r.-''-"'* THE GAZETTE, HEDLEY, B. C. Review of C.P.R. Work for 1916 , i -��������� i ���������3 1 Important Undertakings Marked thr Activities of the Company During the Year The year 1916 has heen an interesting one in I he history of the Canadian i'acific Railway. It has been a jcar-of progress even though the Dominion is struggling in a great war. As compared with the previous year, there has been a tremendous revival of trade. Several important works for which appropriations were made before the war have been completed, the most important being the completion of the Connaught Tunnel through Mount MacDonald, in the Selkirk Mountains. The accomplishment of this task is a triumph of engineering and labor seldom equalled in tlie world's history. The lunnel is the longest double-tracked tunnel in the western hemisphere. The length is about five miles. The time in which the work was performed, in two and a half years, constitutes a world s record. The number of men employed was about* 600. The tunnel will mean the elimination of several miles of snow-sheds, will considerably reduce" the distance connecting railway points, and effect a big grade ii-duction. "The cost of the tunnel was $6,500,000. The amount of material taken from the bore is approximately 750,000 cubic yards, and weighs considerably over 1,500,000 tons. Much of the centre portion of ihe bore was through solid rock. Tlie \<,ork has been carried out under the supervision of Air. J. G. .Sullivan, chief engineer of the -western lines of ihe C.P.R, work of Mrs. Adelaide Langford, an artist with a wide reputation. An umbrella roof had been erected on Winnipeg and Toronto stations recently under the supervision of the Department of Bridge Construction. The Canadian Pacific Ocean Services had a busy and most successful year. The following story will give an illustration of the despatch which has been the rule of the C.P.R. shipping circles this summer: At 9.30 on Friday morning she was unloaded, took on board a full cargo and 1,200 tons of coal, and did the work that a steamer is called on to do. She sailed on the following Sunday at 11 a.m. In all there were 30 hours of work with her at the port. This is a feat that has never been accomplished anywhere. On the Pacific the Empress of Russia and the Empress of"Asia, two of the biggest of the C.P. vessels, which were released by the Admiral search Bureau in Montreal a great deal has been done at the technical school attached to the C.P.R. shops at Trail, .B.C., where a large chemical and metallurgical laboratory and hydro-electric equipment, equal to any on the continent, has for a considerable time been established. The C.P.R. has given more men to the army since the beginning of the war than any other concern in Canada, and large numbers of employees continue to join. The total number of the C.P.R. men enlisted is something like 7,000, and the number of killed who have appeared on the honor roll is 170, the number of wounded 403. Early in the year Colonel K. S. Mcighen, a director of the. C.P.R., was made a Brigadier-General, and lie is "now doing invaluable work overseas. Many officials.occupy important commands at the front. At the beginning of April, 1916, the President of the company was be- ... icaved by the death of his son, Capt Previous to this, the longest railway tunnel on the American continent was the Hoosac tunnel, 4 .1-4 miles long,* on the New York Central lailway line. The work of the Connaught tunnel began in January, 191-!, - and has progressed steadily since that time. The contractors who had the work in hand applied an cntitcly new . method in tunnel piercing, known 3s the "Pioneer Bore." It consists of an entirely separate tunnel driven in a line fifty feet parallel with tlie course of the main passage through the'mountain. The idea is to permit drillers to concentrate their activities at a dozen different points at once instead of having to confine their efforts to one place, as with 'he usual method. "Drifts arc projected from the preliminary shaft* in the direction of the main tunnel. On July 17th, 1916, His Royal Highness" the Duke of Connaught paid a visit to the tunnel and complimented the Canadian Pacific on the progress that the company v, as making. Then he baptized the -icw work "The Selkirk Tunnel." Some weeks later at the request of Lord Shaugh- nessy, His Royal Highness consented to have the tunnel called after himself. Henceforth it is to be called the "Connaught Tunnel.". Improvements have been made to several stations along the Canadian Pacific, but the two-notable are the new stations erected at Quebec and North Toronto. The latter -In .-pper Yonge street, was formally opened on June 14th, when-.Mayor .���������Church started the first train running between the new terminal and Montreal, and declared the station to be opened for traffic. Mayor Church congratulated the Canadian Pacific-on its foresight and enterprise, dealt with the good relations that existed between Toronto and the company, and referred to the offer of the old station to the city to be used as a- market place. Amongst the speakers was Sir James Carroll, New Zealand, who, in expressing his felicitations, described the C.P.R. as a powerful factor in the Empire. The new station at Quebec was opened on August 10th and is a triumph of modern railway station construction. The building has a central block and two wings, is akin to old French chateau style of architecture, and is admirably- adapted to the ���������' quaintness of the -old French-Canadian city. On the outside of Ihe station building there is a pretty ground, which in'the summer time, when ���������:.-* shrubs and flowers are abloom, will be a beautiful set-off to the stately edifice. On the occasion of the formal opening, the Mayor of Quebec referred to the advancement of the city in glowing terms, and a tribute was paid to the interest which the C.P.R. look ��������� iu the welfare of the country. At the banquet that was held on the occasion of the opening, Mr. A. D. Mac- Tier, general manager of the eastern lines, presented a silver key bearing the coat of arms of the city of Quebec to Mayor Lavigueur. While~dc- voting itself mainly to business, thr. C.P.R. does not forget the .listoncal side of the Dominion. It is interesting to note that the large window over the main entrance which helps to light the ticket lobby contains the arms of the seven great men of Canadian history, viz.: Montmagny, the first Governor of Canada, 1636-1647; De Tracy, Viceroy of Canada, 1665; Bcauharnlis, Governor of Canada, 1726-1747; Montcalm and Woffe, the famous French and English generals, whose names arc familiar to all; Frontenac, Governor of Canada, 1672; and Talon, the first intendant of New France, 1665-1672. The walls of the spacious waiting hall of the new Canadian Pacific Railway Station at Vancouver1 have i -.en recently beautified by a series of ru ral decorations representing the_ principal���������mountains from Calgar.y... to Vancouver. The decorations are the between Vancouver and Hong Kong. On Saturday, August 26tl^ last, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Asia docked at Vancouver, after one of her voyages from the Orient, c.ir- lying 468 passengers, a heavy consignment of mails, and 5,400 tons of freight, which included 5,005 bales "of raw silk valued at $4,000,000. This silk was conveyed by special trnin lo New York. In addition to Av!u*.t has already been mentioned, the-Empress- of Asia carried a large quantity of waste silk, 3,100 cases of. rubber and a big quantity of tea. 'Iht cargo, which is stated to have been the richest that ever crossed the Pacific will give some idea of the importance of -Canadian Pacific shipping at Vancouver. The Canadian Pacific is spending $1,500,000 on the development of the port of Vancouver. This expenditure will much facilitate the movement and unloading and loading of the Heel of vessels calling there. During the year powerful derricks had been installed on the wharves for ihe purpose of expediting the business which has grown enormously of late. Never a year passes Avithout some alterations being made to the various hotels constituting the long chain AA'hich stretches from coaet lo coast OAvned and operated by the Canadian Pacific. The comfort and convenience of its patrons are ever in the minds -of the management, and it is these factors which dominate all improvements. At the Lake Louise a new kitchen has been completed which is bnc of the finest on the continent. Il is something like thirty years since the Canadian Pacific Raihvay built its first hotel in Vancouver. Since that time A*arious extensions and alterations ha\'e been made costing tremendous sums of money, and now the Hotel Vancouver stands one of the most magnificent hotels on the American continent. During 1916 Avork in the progress of the completion of the building Avas continued, and is complete Avith the exception of- the new dining room which construction has to be postponed for the present. . . One of the most famous hotels in the world is the Banff Hotel, with its most picturesque surroundings in the heart of the --Canadian Pacific Rocky Mountains, the delight of the tourist. Here the C.P.R. has built a neAV boiler house, and a "Helps Dormitory." This Avas quite a large work and a valuable acquisition to the stately hostelry. The decision of Lord Shaughnessy to provide, through the Department of Natural Resources of the C.P.R., farm homes for many of the returned soldiers, is a further "proof of his desire that those who take part in the war will have recognition of their services.. This subject received much attention during the ��������� year. The extent and.'magnitude of the', work" of preparing 1,000 farms will be realized when; it is noted that it involves: Building 1,000 houses, building 1,000 barns, constructing 1,300 miles of fence, digging 1,000 wells, breaking and cultivating 50,000 acres, and the buildings Avill require about 20,000,000 feet of lumber to erect. The prepura- tion of the farms will entail an expenditure of about $3,500,000. One thousand farms will, of course, provide for an extremely small proportion of returned soldiers avIio will Avant tp obtain farm homes, and the Dominion Government must adopt some general policy of providing these homes. 8 Early in the year Lord Shaughnessy _ decided that Domiuion-Avide organization should be formed for scientific research in connection with Canada's vast metal, hydro-electric and chemical resources, Avhich Avould ultimately result in the practical application to industry of many minerals heretofore neglected ox._exportcd to other countries. It was also the intention to utilize by-products in existing industries and natural resou.- ccs insufficiently exploited. The waste of straw in wheat fields, Avaste of ax fibres, Avaste in the forest and at the mill Avere to be reduced, and the loss converted into sain. During the year the C.P.R. proceeded to mobilize the best brains in the country, and to utilize them in the manner Avhich the President, and indeed the country at large, deems desirable. Arthur D, Little, Ltd., the Canadian branch of the we.ll-known Boston organization of analytical chemists, have ��������� been commissioned to put the idea into practical effect. A Dominion Charter " was obtained and operations began in May. Since then research has made rapid progress, and Mr. Little and his staff the Honorable Alfred Thomas Shaughnessy, Avho Avas hit by shrapnel while in the trenches in France. The only remaining son of ihe President, Capt. the Hon. AV. J. Shaughnessy, Avent overseas Avith ihe Irish Canadian Rangers to take the place of his fallen brother a fcAV AYeeks ago. Lord Shaughnessy himself took his scat in the House of Lords for the first time at the close of the year. Mr. David/McNicolI, formerly first vice-president of the^C.P.R.. passed away at Guclph, Ontario, on Sunday, November 26th. He Avasone of those tireless Scots who have helped to make Canada great. His life talc is the story of a man Avho Avon a, high place by perseverance. Mr. Robert Kerr, formerly passenger traffic manager of the company, was another of the prominent officials who passed a\A'ay during the close of the year under review. A Mighty Comet Coining "Comet B," 1916, Is a Visitor Soon Due to Pass Near the Sun Opening New Northland C.N.R. Developing Large Area of Country Lying North* of Lake Superior A delusion Avhich has been cultivated assiduously since the days of Canadian Confederation, is being challenged today by Canadian' Northern Railway officials charged Ayilh the development of the areas traversed by Hi line of that company between Sudbury and Port Arthur. "~ It is expected that the operation iioav under way on behalf of ihe C.N.R. will result in the production of a substantial local tonnage through that stretch of Canada. Active work has been under Avay since last July ahd, although settlement must, of necessity, be sIoav- "er than on the plains lo the Avest of Winnipeg, the prospect for the building' up of tOAvns and traffic in what AA-as untamed Avildcrness _ five years ago, is considered promising. Mr. D. B. Hanna, third vice-president of the road, in discussing lids neAV move, pointed out' that three years ago���������to be exact, New Year's Day, 1914���������Sir William Mackenzie drove the last-spike on the Sudbury- Port Arthur line. As the AA'ork of construction had been commenced in the late autumn of 1911, little more than Iavo years had been required to span the 543 miles of hinterland lying back of the great inland sea by a ucav highway for commerce. Since then the problems aud opportunities of that portion of the new north have been under consideration. The war, having caused the present decidedly keen demand for paper, has furnished a partial solution. In the country through Avhich the new line runs there is sufficient of the raw material to satisfy even the hungry press of a metropolitan paper for more than tAvo hundred years. As the land is cleared of the forests of spruce, and other timber, the expectation is that incoming settlers will find more to | few years the families of settlers may reside in the town and enjoy community interest, and the children receive a good education at the town school. "The Canadian Northern," concluded Mr. Hanna, "will move mills from the west to Jbe installed at oth<-r points, the policy being to create a produce and labor market for settlers each 20 miles throughout the clay belt. "This plan will undoubtedly make possible a more rapid development of the country, and ought to be in harmony Avith the settlement Avork of tins province in the future." Britain Builds Wonderful Bird New Airplane Can Travel 128 Miles Per Hour Details of the ' latest aerial developments and the work of the Royal Flying Corps along the battlefront iii France " Avere given yesterday by Flight-Lieut. Lloyd Faulkner, Royal Flying Corps, Avho was recently invalided aftcV being shot "down near Abcle, in the Yprcs salient. "The machines used on the battle- front arc much in advance of any used over here," he said. "A neAV machine, Avhose name may not be mentioned, makes 138 miles an hour. This is-'thc great surprise. It is only arrh*- ing at the front iioav. It can as'ccnd straight up without banking and has ' reached 15,000 feet in seven and a half minutes. This makes it the ideal machine for Zeppelin Avork, ns it-can get height quickly enough ^o catch the dirigibles. This unnamed mach- - ine is the greatest fighting machine in the world,-and will guarantee that we maintain the supremacy of the air, 'so necessary in this war.'' Lieut. Faulkner's Home is in Toronto,, Canada, where he enlisted nearly Iavo years ago. After recc'iv- Thc Avorld will soon Avitncss a great heaA-cnly phenomenon���������a mighty comet blazing forth night after night a\ itli its tail SAveeping an immense arc through the heavens, a source of terror to the superstitious and of intense interest to all. Wc-may see again, as Ave did when TTalley's comet returned in 1910, Chinese mobs trying to frighten aAvay the uncanny A'isitor with flaming torches and savage races falling on their knees in gibbering prayer to the supposed deity. YVc may even have absurd scares among usually well balanced people, who believe the tail of the comet will sweep the surface of "our Mother Earth with devastating effect. , Tlie tenuous nature of all comets renders them a source of minor danger, as astronomers agree, and Ave haA'e little to fear from the vast mass of nebulous material, even though enveloped in it. "Comet B 1916" is the name of the stranger. It is so "called because it was the second comet discovered this year.. Professor Wolf, of Koenigs- tuhl, detected the' "rushing body's faint picture on the photographic plate last April and proceeded to telegraph the neAvs -to observatories all over-the world Avith great joy, The statement,that the new comet will be a monster rests principally on the fact that it Avas discovered when fully 400,000,000 miles from the earth, just Avithin the orbit of the great planet Jupiter. All comets increase greatly in apparent size and brilliancy as they approach the sun. If such proves to be the case'this-.time,. "Comet B 1916" should make a great impression. It is useless to go out and look for the comet tonight, as it is now on the other side of the sun, whose greater luminance conceals it. Earth, sun and comet have just passed conjunction, as the state is called when the three bodies are in line. From noAV on until May, however, conditions Avill become increasingly favorable for observation. In a few months the comet should be visible to the naked eye in certain parts of the earth. - At present the comet is approaching the earth at a rate of more than 1,000,000 miles a day���������but not in a direct line. - , . , . r -kt ��������� lnS n's preliminary training at the -Please; them_in these^sections ofNew ��������� bright Aviation School in Daytou; Ohio, Lieut. Faulkner . was sent lo A Big Crop 53 Acres in Wheat More Than Pays for Quarter Section Does farming pay in Western Canada? Here is a man avIio says il does and furnishes _ unassailable proof. John Larcome in the fall nf 1914 bought a quartet section "of land near Holden, Alberta, on the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific and last spring broke and seeded 53 acres His crop turned out well and he sold the greater part of it for $2,970. JLHs land cost him $16.50 an acre, or $2,640, so that the 53 acre crop paid for the land and left a balance of $300, which would largely cover the cost of opci- ations. This is_ not an unusual case, similar ones being frequently reported to the raihvay companies. Got the Wrong Person In no other household except that of a doctor could this mistake oo plausibly have occurred. "Get my bag for me at once I" boomed the doctor. "Some fellow says in a dying voice that he cau't live without me." Just a moment!" interposed his had the co-operation of science pro-j wife, "I think that call is for laugh- fessors and others in the Dominion. I ter, dear."���������Louisville CoUrier-Jour- Bcsidcs the work done at the Re-'nail Ontario than has been the case up to the present time. It is apparently the first great step which has been taken lo make the neAV line self-supporting from local traffic, quite_ apart from its revenue value as a carrier for through business betAveen the East and the West. "The Canadian Northern," said Mr. Hanna, "have arrived at theconcl'i- sion that the preliminary Avork must be confined largely to the working up of the.natural riches in the mineral and timber-bearing lands, and in conjunction with, the provincial government to locate homes for settlers iu .the fertile agricultural lands> especially near the neAV. divisional points. Maps have been prepared, giving all the information that is available, for the guidance of prospectors, as a preliminary to the larger, and, of course, more exhaustive geological maps .iioav being prepared. A careful inventory of the timber on each side of the railway has been completed. The land Avhich may be classified as now open for farming, particularly in proximi'-y to the tOAvns in the making, is being surveyed; mining.'men are working over the mineral-bearing lands, and. men are in lumber-camps in the valleys of the rivers'.which.Avill float the pulp wood to the mills at the strategic points. ���������'������������������-. '."'."���������._.; .77- "We plan to purchase each year ali of the railway ties'the settlers can produce along the Sudbury-Port Arthur line, continued Mr. Hanna. In addition, there is this new* call for 1,000 miles of raihvay to be constructed back of the fighting front in France and Flanders. That Would involve the .cutting of some 3,000,000 ties and a large portion could be supplied from the territory served by the Canadian Northern 'Raihvay north of Lake Superior. Tins Avould probably mean a-total of ~several hundred thousand dollars expended by. the company directly. In itself that comprises a fairly large opportunity, iinr- in addition Ave calculate that some 60.- 000 cords of pulpAVood -will be cut each year along the line. Add to this the returns upon sawn lumber in connection with the logs out of Avhich the ties are cut, and it Avill be seen that the cash distributed to the homemak- ers along the line each year, as a direct result of Canadian Northern artivities should approach a very substantial total. "During the past four months a considerable plant has been developed at Folcyet, the first divisional pouit on the C.N.R. Avest of Sudbury. There the company have erected a tie sav/- mill and a pulpAvood barking plant. The machinery and equipment a.-.e housed by two mill buildings each 30x 120 feet, and two stories in height. BetAveen these a structure 30x160 ft. contains an engine of 400 hoise-pow- cr. The pulp barking plant lias a ten- hour capacity of 150 cords and a carload of settler's.Avood can be custom- barked, entirely Avithout hand labor, and conveyed into open rack cars for shipment Avithin an hour. The slasher-saw equipment Avhich consists of nine saAVS, reduces into two-foot lengths the pulpAvood from two rivers above, and the plant has been located just below the junction of the streams. ��������� " ' "Garden farms of a few. acres each are being laid out adjacent to the townsite and the divisional point yards. There are two purposes in vieAV. One is, that small contractors and jobbers taking out lumber in the neighborhood will have sufficient land, on which to groAV the. farm produce required for their camps in the. district; the second is, to provide for homes for the settlers adjacent to the large cleared fire area of the iownsiie and mill, site, so that during the next England about a year and a half ago. "There I was sent to the Central Flying School at Uphaven, on Salisbury Plain," he said, "and 'after' ih'e ��������� months'-hard Avork, flying every day, no, matter Avhat the Aveather," 1 "received my expert, military pilot's certificate and Avas sent to France. There I Avas sent to Abele, Avhere the first, second and third Canadian divisions were entrenched. ��������� "Once on the front I found that our Avork Avas divided into four classes. The first is the reconnaissance, during Avhich Ave sometimes fleAv from 100 to 150 miles back of the German trenches. "The second important' use .for airplanes is artillery observation Avork. First Lieut. Vernon Castle was doing this when I last, saw him in the fall, and had been mentioned in dispatches for his excellent work. Before going, the pilot -arranges, his signals Avith his battery, -he lets" his gunners know Avhere to fire. Iii connection Avith this, I. learned .that,vit- takes a 15-inch hoAyitzcr shell.weigh- ing about a ton, forty-five seconds to travel 22,000 yards. I'd give the directions and. signal, and forty-five seconds later the shell would land. > "A third use; to Avhich Ave put :our machines, is night flying, which, is ��������� mostly bomb work. The Germans, for some: reason or other; do not fly at night. Our bombers travel in squadrons of 50 to 100. They start . out in the dead of night, and fly Very low,-not more than 300 feet up. It is practically impossible to. hit fhem,7 and there are feAver casualties' mong our men. This night bombing ;. Avas- forced on us*;by. the fact that the Germans move their troops and stores at night. We usually tried to destroy some raihvay junction or sta- . tion, or a depot; Avhere ammunition Avas stored. Zeppelin sheds Avere also sought after. The Royal Flying Corps has done very efficient Avork in these night raids; engines have been bloAvn offjhe tracks,- trains Wrecked and much" other devastation . accomplished." The Honey Crop The abundant yield of last season has set a number of people figuring on the actual amount of honey produced in Ontario and Quebec. One optimistic calculator takes it for granted that there are 10,000 beekeepers in Ontario keeping an average of 300,00p colonies. With this year's estimated average of S9.6 pounds- per colony, that Avould mean 25,880,000 pounds of honejr. He goes on to say that it Avould take between eight and nine trains of 50 or 60 cars each to carry the crop if all were marketed. After making allowance for a great falling-off in the estimate, the fact is apparent that there wa:> "some honey" produced in Ontario��������� no mistake about that. The maritime provinces produce quite a lot of honey, and Quebec still more. The avcs- tern provinces also produce quite a quantity���������this year the crop was good in parts of British Columbia and other Avestcrn provinces as well. The British Air Service No one. can assert that the admin������ istration of the British air service has not justified itself in tliis war. _In���������thc intrepidity and skill of our young airmail.-��������� this is.pre-eminently a young man's service���������we have an incomparable asset. For their hazardous Avork they arc carefully trained, and are equipped/ as they ought to be, ivi.th the best machines that human ingenuity ' can devise. ��������� London Chronicle. r- ,!^y?%^^ --./'tt .y'^^i'yry;--^/^^^^}-; ^ . ^>7v;^-7"'^ ft ���������'"''���������' "fcK';V.>*Vr*-.' .'v"'- ?-"'"'" T<\ -'" - ��������� ���������; ,'-'s;'-. I"'",-.-''-fV'v ' '/ f* -'. ^.;';':'.' ',i-^l\v'-,>,iJ>^ TTTT? HA7PTTT? -PTT7.nT.RV P ��������� H ' " 4 THE GAZETTE, HEDLEY, B. C Trench Humor Tommies Have a Lurid Perception of the Humorous' ' The trouble with the- humor of the trenches on the British front in France is that most of it you couldn't very well print in a family newspaper. In discussing the subject, this Avas not exactly tlie way in which Tan Hay, author of "The, First - Hundred Thousand"���������otherwise Captain Ian Hay Beith,'Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, at present specially detailed to the Foreign Office���������put it Bui it-was the general impression you gathered from his carefully guarded .remark's. . Humor in the trenches, as ���������Captain Beith remarked, is distinguished primarily by a certain crude neatness. It is wholly lacking in ..subtlety, and'it is brutally direct It .1 caches the highest development in the hands of the Cockney Tommies, "who have a distinctly lurid perception of the humorous. The Scots are far ��������� more ponderous in their quips, and -the Germans���������Avell, the best illustration Captain Hay could.give of the German idea Avas the poster set up by some of them in a trench opposite the line held by the 16th Irish Division during the outbreak, in Dublin last Easter week. ' "The poster read: . - -. ��������� " - IRISCHMANS THE-ENGLISCHMANB ARE ' - .SHOOTING YOUR WIFES AND CHILDREN ' - IN ' ' THE STREETS .The Irish cogitated over this poster -throughout the day, and finally elected to make no ivritten response. But .after nightfall a parly 'went over," cleaned out the opposite trench, and brought back the poster along AYith .a feAv German prisoners. Captain Beith considers that a first-rate demonstration of German and Irish hu- more in the trenches. "The favorite diversion of the Tommies, whenever the trenches^ are -���������-close together," Captain Beith continued, "is to call 'Waiter!' loudly .and many limes over. The Tommies -believe, you know,' that all Germans '.are waiters in time of peace Yes, -it" makes the Germans angry, but they don't seem--, "to be able to* come back strong. All they answer is 'Tommie!' to an 'English battalion, or 'Jock!' to a Scotch battalion. The Germans don't go in much for humor , Neither do the Scotch." The subject of trench newspapers -came up. "Yes, there have been a feAV," Captain Beith agreed, "but they are not as frequent as you might - suppose. The principal difficulty is the scarcity of paper Then, too; ass soon as you get a paper started and have a good editor .to manage it he gets 'done in' or transferred to another "front, and you have to begin all over .again. An editor doesn't last long at the front In a feAV months, "if an officer hasn't been killed, wounded or * captured, he has been transferred -elsewhere, as I have said. There was the case, I remember, of one of the oltler divisions, which help Yprcs ��������� the Tommies call it 'Wipers,' you knoAV, and noAV' everybody, high or low, does the same���������early in the war, and established a rattling good paper ihey called the Wipers Times. But after a time they Avere transferred to LNeuve Eglise, and - they changed the :iiame to the New Church Times. Last I heard of them they Avere on the Sbmme, and the paper had ; become ���������the Somrhe Times. I shouldn't care ; lb ^speculate on how often the edi- ���������torial staff .had;-been" renewed.''' "���������".. "A paper the Tommies are very fond of is one called .Blighty, which is published in London specially fcr them. It consists of authorized excerpts from current humorous publications, and it is : circulated at all regimental headquarters. The Canadians have a good sheet. I have seen several copies, and now and then a short-lived paper springs up cjse- Avhcre. But trench papers are'much more numerous among the. French than Avith' us. The French have so much better facilities for 'getting them printed." "That Avord 'Blighty' you have, just .used is one of the favorite phrases in "ihe new soldier- argot, isn't it?" Avas suggested. "Yes, but I should hardly say it originated m France," replied Captain Beith." They say it comes from a Hindustani word, 'bhilati,' which means England, and Avhich our troops picked up in - India and brought to France Avith them. You know the slang of the Old Army consisted mostly of Avorcls and phrases gathered in India, Avhere about half ihe troops Avere stationed all ihe time". But there is no doubt that 'blighty_' has come to have a wide circulation, much larger with civilians back home than at the iron1-, even. It stands for any number of things For ' instance, a 'blighty wound,' now, is a severe Avound <hut involves being sent home to recover. And in_ the same AA'ay, ��������� a 'couchy Avound'. is a comfortable wound, one that means a short lay-off in hospi, 4al, with good living and no Avork and no inconvenience to speak of. Couchy is one of the Avords the Tommies have coined in France. The only derivation of it that I can imagine is from the French Avoid 'couchcr.' New Premier of Britain Always" Had Ambition to Get Where He Is, and Managed it By " Hard Work Lloyd George, Great Britain's new Welsh Prime Minister, is no accident! He ."arrived" not by chance, but because he set his courage and kept going! There's an inkling of his purpose in the folloAving significant passage from Lloyd .George's -dairy, written on the occasion of his first visit to London in 1881, when he Avas 17:^ "Went, to Houses of Parliament; very much disappointed Avith them. Grand buildings, outside,' but inside they ..are crabbed, small and suffocating, especially the House of Commons. . I'shall, not say but that I vidved the assembly ina spirit similar to that in Avhich William. the Conqueror eyed England .on his visit to Edward the Confessor,'as the region of his future domain. Oh, Vanity!" , < In 1886, at the age of 22, George Avas making political speeches so noticeable that he attracted a following which sent him to Parliament two years later. He had been the "boy alderman" of Carnarvon; he became the "boy M.P." He entered the House April 17. 1890, and received an enthusiastic reception. In a letter recording his first division, he Avrote, "My first di- visioif'last night. I -voted against bimetallism, but I couldn't tell you why." A Aveek after his-entrance to the House he-Avas asking his first "question." His "maiden speech," so a member who* sat beside Gladstone said, delighted "the old man exceedingly." It Avas. against an alteration-in the .license laAVS. This "maiden speech" Avas memorable for a simile in which George likened Chamberlain and Winston Churchill lo "political contortionists who can perform the great trick of planting their feet in one direction and setting their face_s in another." Percy S. Bullen, iioav NeAV York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph; says: "Perhaps the greatest tribute that could be paid to Lloyd George was paid Avithin six months of his - first appearance in the House of Commons, when he Avas dubbed by the members of the press gallery, 'the Welsh Yankee.*" "The 'Welsh Yankee' nickname," Bullen explained, "was given largely on account of his breezily informal methods and his businesslike application to Avork. . "His delightfully free and easy manner Avith men and the fact that he seldom ivore the. conventional frock coat, and never a silk hat, also made . him appear, rightly or Avrongly, very American in the eyes of the neAVSpapcr men." Mrs. Lloyd George, by the way, is just as democratic as her husband. Lloyd George lives in the plainest possible manner in the official residence, .No. "11 Downing street. He has neither butler nor valet, and when you call at his dingy old brick house the door is opened for you by a Avhite-aproned maid, While he is easy of access to anybody having legitimate business, Lloyd George -has a reputation for not keeping appointments. Like Pitt (to whom he has been compared) Lloyd George seldom speaks from notes. With an amazing gift for mastering details, he has far more eloquence; like most Welshmen, than the average English-speaker. . Lloyd George is usually described as a small man physically. *' As :a matter of fact, he is above;',the average height. He looks rather diminutive in stature, because he has a large head set upon a frame rather small in proportion. However, he inherits a . Avonderful constitution. Landlady: You say the chicken soup isn't good? Why, I told the cook Iioav to make it. Perhaps she didn't catch the idea. *' Boarder: No; I think it \vas the chicken she didn't catch. Value of Irrigation Lands Once Refused as Dry Now. Producing Big Crops Under Irrigation "That land in the Coaldale (Alberta) irrigation district yielded returns in, Avheat amounting to from 26 to 51 bushels per acre in 1915, is shown in the annual^ report just "published by The Dominion Irrigation Department'. Equal moisture from irrigation and from rains Avere received by the fields, but the value of the artificial Avatering Avas very apparent. The extension of irrigation in Alberta is going on continually, and the valuable land that Avould otherwise be useless is being brought into production by artificial precipitation. The review contained in the report refers to the time when the C.P.R. first refused all lands betAveen^ Moose JaAV and the Rocky Mountains because they, were considered too dry. Finally, the company agreed to accept the block of land which it now holds as an irrigation district, with the intent to flood the fields _ by the artificial systems noAV established. Water is taken for this tract from the Boav river Avithin Calgary limits, and carried to land of which 223,000 acres are irrigable. To J. S. Dennis, of Calgary, is attributed the construction of the first irrigation system in Alberta, Avhen, as commissioner for irrigation, h.e carried out the laAV passed in 1894. In the Lethbridge section work was begun in 1897 by the Alberta Irrigation Company, Avhich is noAV controlled by the C.P.R. There are approximately 130,000 acres" of land irrigable from this system, and some 75,00.0 acres have actually been irrigated.��������� Calgary News-Tclegram. Britiah Prisoners In German Camp English Bishop Visits Ruhleben and ���������Gives His Impressions The first Englishman to visit, and return from an English prisoners' camp in Germany is Bishop Bury, who thus sums up his impressions: "This never-to-be-forgotten week among my countrymen has made mc more thanltful than'ever that I am an Englishman,.and if I am not very much mistaken my" imprisoned countrymen at Ruhleben have made the enemy respect us and our brave men at the front. During my stay at the camp (Ruhleben) I ivitnessed an exhibition football match, a play-at tlie theatre which has been constructed under the grand stand, attended special concerts that Avere arranged,- and, in fact, participated.in all phases of camp life. "In all my varied experience I have never seen a better organized bit of community life. The prisoners administer their OAvn affairs entirely, and the German guard and the official censor seems to be there just lo fulfil requirements. "Ruhleben is, of course, a racecourse several times larger than that at NoAvbury. The horse-boxes and lofts, with one or tAvo extra erections that have been made, are called barracks. Each has its English camp captain and vice-captain."- The Avhole arrangements of camp life arc entirely under military discipline. "This applies equally to games, shops, school���������which is like a small university ��������� kitchens, theatre, and arts and science classes. All are perfectly organized. No profits are made, and charges of all kinds only meet the cost of expenses. "There is a very effective body of English police, comprising some of the very best men "in the camp. "Among the 3,600 prisoners there is - no crime, and- the moral standard is much higher than is usual in a community of such dimensions. All kinds of civilizing, humanizing, and spiritual influences are at work. "As for food, the men practically live upon their parcels from home. Everything that'goes to the life of the camp-in the Avay of-materials, etc., has been sent out from this country or provided at the expense of the British Government. "I may add that all letters from tne men may be relied upon as accurate, as practically everyone 'Avith whom I came in contact said they found it so difficult to persuade relations at home that they AYere not keeping something back. "The camp censor, a German officer, is an" absolutely fair and" straight man, in full sympathy with the prisoners. "On the last night of my, slay I obtained permission for the prisoners to sing "God Save the King," and this Avas repeated Avhen I addressed the whole camp in the open air. I shall never forget the scene of indescribable enthusiasm." Wounded Canadians Are of Great Use Many Employed in the Central Registry at Brighton Many people think if a man has been injured in battle so that he can not return to the front his days of usefulness are over. This is not the case. ��������� On a recent A'isit to the command at Brighton, the; Canadian Associated Press Avas impressed with the splendid organization, and perfect system'..which is in operation in the Central Registry there. It was further impressed Avith the fact that all men employed Avere casualties. The Central Registry is the clearing house for all correspondence and documents. Every letter which enters Divisional Headquarters is received there. A synopsis is made of its contents and recorded-in what is known as a precis slip. This slip is filed away against the almost impossible contingency of an accident occurring to the Tetter. All important letters are also registered in a book. They arc then distributed to the branch concerned and appear on the desk of the officer in charge in the shortest possible time. When the officer has replied the letter and a copy of his reply are placed away on the file. This file is secret and it is an offence to mutilate or change it in any manner. If the point at issue is of such a nature as to require attention at a future date, this is indicated on the file and the letter will appear on the desk of the officer concerned on.the morning of that date. In the course of time a great many letters will be deposited on the same file, Avhich will consequently be required from time to time by various branches. The system is so perfect that no riiattcr how often the file may change hands the officer in charge cf the Central Registry can always place his finger on it at a moment's notice. Something like 700 to 1,000 communications arc received by the Central Registry in a day. Very little effort of the imagination is required to appreciate Avhat it means to open, take a precis, sort and deliver this mail. In addition all orders and communications to the various units and outside Avorld have to be attended to by the Central Registry. Working in the army is very different from working in civilian life. This branch gives" a tAventy-four hours' service. The same men would have been greatly upset had they been called upon to do the same Avork before they joined the army. The fact that they are Avorking for King atid country makes all the difference. To Bring Settlers to Alberta Hollanders Form Club to Attract Immigration' from Native Country' Believing that the national characteristics of their countrymen tend to improve any new lands to Avhich llicy emigrate, the Holland Club -"of Calgary has been instrumental in forming a union of the Hollanders of the proA'ince of Alberta. The prime purpose of this association will be to encourage the immigration ol" Hollanders into the province at the termination of the Avar, or before that time. The local club will pay particular attention lo artisans, while an .idvisory board is being formed of .farmers to look after-farmer immigrants. The first move in the new club will be to circularize the Holland farmers of Alberta as it is of the utmost importance to promote co-operation between the Hollanders in the cities and those in the country. It has also been decided to advertize in the country papers of Holland, as the new association is of the opinion that after the war they may ex pect considerable immigration from Holland and that now is the lime foi the Hollanders .of. Alberta to get closer together and obtain a fair share of this immigration for the province of Alberta. The hew club intends to try and secure as members, farmers and artisans in Holland, who ���������will be classed as absentee members and avIio Avill be charged an annual fee of- $1.00. In return for this fee the club Avill" coa'- cnant to supply the absentee members truthfully with all the information they may require -before they come to Canada. To Secure Data On Natural Resources C.P.R. Will Conduct" Important Survey to Co-ordinate With Work of Government An important survey of the natural resources of Canada is being undertaken in connection Avith* the Canadian Pacific- Raihvay, which has for its purpose the co-ordination of the work Avhich has been so well done by many government departments and Avith it other data AYhich the government has not collected, thereby making easily'accessible" to those qualified to utilize the information as much data as possible relative to the natural resources of Canada. Great care Avill be taken not to do-work that has already been Avell done, and the effort is one AYhich distinctly calls for co-operation. Arthur D. Little, Limited, the Canadian branch of a Boston organization of analytical chemists, are the directors of the work and will do their part of the work Avith the same altruistic spirit they hope to find among those who assist. The information iioav available is to be collected1 on standard forms, is to be transferred to cards in a manner to make it possible to quickly separate the cards according to required classification at the moment. Thus if one desires to know all the places in Canada Avhere deposits of iron are to be found in proximity Avich limestone, Avater poAver, or some other resource, the list of localities can be supplied very quickly. To accomplish this work, Avhich is in the interest of the whole Dominion, it will be necessary to have parr time assist-: ance from a great many people Who will.be Avilling to devote a very small fraction of their spare time to the Avork because of self interest, patriotism, local pride, and in some cases nominal remuneration. Those vo whom -the plan'has been explained have offered their co-operation, and have been, enthusiastic oyer the possibilities of the 'work and the advantage! to the country at large in having such information thus brought together and classified for the free use of those interested. A bulletin is iioav being compiled setting forth in greater detail the plan and purposes of the survey, and this will be sent out especially to those Avhose co-operation is desired. United States Trade The United Kingdom Is by Far the Best Customer Purchases of nearly two billion dollars made the United Kingdom by far the best customer of the United States in. 1916. An analysis published by the U.S. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce sIioavs that no other nation bought so much by half. France during the year more than doubled her purchases from the U.S., but still felt a bit short of the billion dollars. Canada Avas third, Avith six hundred millions. Besides the central powers, the three neutrals of Northern Europe alone of all the Avorld failed to receive more American goods than in 1915. American exports to Germany during the year were more than one million dollars. Austria-Hungary took less than one hundred thousand dollars. Japan in 1916 took ninety-four million dollars of American goodi*, against forty millions the year before; Cuba one hundred and forty- five millions against eighty-three millions; China : took twenty-nine millions against .nineteen .-nillions; Russia one hundred and forty-four millions against thirty-seven millions; South America one hundred and ninety-seven millions against one hundred and twenty-nine millions. Belgian Army is Guarded By Big Water Defences Behind Flood-Barriers, Fighting Forces Re-equipped for Coming Drive ' Henry Wood, the special correspondent of the United Press, with King Albert's army in Belgium, writes as follows: <**-,-/, Behind barriers of water that" are more impassable than the strongest, baibcd wire entanglement?, the Belgian army is holding its part of the western battle-front and training and waiting for the day .when more -of Belgium can be wrested from the enemy. The Belgian army, which holds' all of Belgium not in Germany's hands, is situated in perhaps a more unique fighting position than any of the belligerent forces. It is out of fighting touch with the enemy, except by artillery firing. For the most part* the Germans are a mile distant, and intervening, in place of no man's land, is no-man's water. The Belgian system of "inundating defences" through the River Yser, the Yscr canal ard various inundated districts, puts a unique barrier between the t\AO forces. _ Thanks in part to the Allies' help, and in part to Belgium's oay'ii indomitable spirit and the industry of her people, King Albert's army will not be obliged to suffer-.this winter the hardships and privations that fell to its lot during the first two Avinters of the war. The Belgian army has been completely rc-equippcd and o'ut- filtcd. In part the equipment has been furnished by the Allies, yet a goodly portion is due to the Belgians themselves, because they have established numerous factories, not only on the remnant of Belgian soil still left to them, but also in France. These factories not only supply the troops, but give employment to thousands of Belgian'refugees^ Thanks to the efficiency of their water barriers, the Belgians are not subject to German infantry attacks. They have to Avi'thstand only, artillery firing ��������� and they are hoav equipped to gh-e adequate ansAver'to'this sort of combat. They have constructed dugouts and other shelters, and wfth their neAV equipment the army ayIH be able to keep reasonably Avarm, dry and comfortable while manning the dykes along Avhich their first- line defences run. The Belgians are perfecting their army. The cavalry has been entirety remounted���������almost Avithout exception on Texas horses. That portion of Belgium Avhich remains in possession of the Belgian army doesn't offer satisfactory grounds for cavalry drill. Therefore the various Belgian cavalry divisions take.turns in drilling en French cavalry ground, keeping up to the highest standard of efficiency Avhile waiting for the time when they can participate in the redemption of Belgian soil. The artillery branch has likeAvise been_ developed to a point Avhere the Belgians can boast of perhaps a more formidable artillery strength than any army of its size in the world. The present AA'ar having demonstrated"the. supreme role which artillery plays, the Allies have seen to it that the Belgian army is equipped in the fullest possible manner. To their original field artillery, the Belgians themselves .were able to add a number-of batteries f-oia Portuguese factories, and France and England have added all their types of heavy-artillery. No small contribution Avas also made to the Belgian artillery by the Germans thctnseh'cs. When, as a'-last resource, in the fighting "of 1914, the .Belgiums opened the floodgates that inundated great portions of their soil, the Germans had to beat such"a hasty retreat that they abandoned heavy and light artillery. Since that time the perfection of the Belgian "inundation defences" has made it possible for the army to let off sufficient of the water to permit recovery of nearly all of this German artillery. It has been repaired, and a great deal of it is now effectively serving for the Belgians. If the Allies have been generous in helping Belgium, the Belgian army has been likeAvise as generous to its fighting comrades. Since the "water barriers" prevented _ close contact with the enemy, Belgium turned over to Russia the famous armored automobiles Avhich played such an important part for Belgium in the early days of its Avar. Germany's Fiery Professors The Noble Joy of the German Armed Forces Professor Baumgartcn, of Kiel University, a staunch protagonist of orthodoxy, justifies, even glorifies, the utmost extremes of barbarity in . the good cause. "In these days Avho- ever is not ready to greet v-ith it' e warmest approbation the torpedoing of the Lusitauia, although being -at ;. the same time sensible of the frightful cruelty towards those nuvnberle.es victims, who Avere truly innocent, and in spite of all tlie Christian sympathy for the loss of life. . . . Yes! whoever is not ready to overthrow these natural feelings of care, of pity, of sympathy, in order- to give themselves up lo the noble joy of the German armed force, that person, it must be well said, is no true German." It isv the members of the��������� churches, air most without exception, aa'Iio have supported militarism, ��������� carried' to the point of madness.���������Bcrncs TagAvacht, Swiiv ii^^l������*^^ ;,* ji(::^7i ;/,v ,'''";-''' -'7 : ,- 7' ��������� '-'S-W'V-'-���������^r'"^'^ THE GAZETTE. HEDLEY, B. Om ���������on 1 "7 A BRIGHT TOBACCO OF THE FINEST QUALITY 10 CENTS PER PLUG r Room Nineteen BY ^ FLORENCE WARDEN WARD. LOCK &CO.. LIMITED LaaStm. M������ltxv-F������a. wJ TtMots (Continued.) den sufficient Avreckage of the autumn fioAyers to look pretty. Mabin strolled on, past the hedges of clipped yciv and into the kitchen garden on the side of the hill. It had been levelled, and the old red Avails with the gnarled boughs of the fruit-trees on thern were attractive to iicr London eyes. But she had not gone far Avhen she heard footsteps behind her, turning Avith a frightened look, il Avas' almost with relief that she found it Avas not J oc Wright,-but _ Captain Dajmainc, who Avas sauntering down the palh toAvards her. He, probably, Avould be less inclined to take sides against her than the others. And so il proved. Dalmainc "was humble, apologetic, sympathetic, everything that Wright Avas not. Mabin Avas much more inclined lo But the liousckeepci was not going i0"FvT no'doubt^^id with dig- !>-������;" fc site had beei^eforc.that mty. "that the lady Mr. L-iprian mar terrible intervicAV Avith Lady Moor hamplon and her brother, when she had spoken her mind to them Avith such unbecoming freedom. She was feeling the universal need of some friendly face, so that e\ en that of Captain Dalmainc, dissipated- looking, full of the lines and furrows of self-indulgent maturity, avos avcI- in the adjoining day nnr- come because it was kindly. So it was Avith a smile, and Avithouc licr usual air of stiff reserve, that Alabin replied to his "Good morning, ricd was Avhat they look for in a lady In those parts���������a princess, most likely." Mabin could have laughed at the combination of simplicity and loyalty in this speech, but she took good care 'not to do so. In the meantime they had left the boy's little bed, and were convcrsin scry. Mabin now glanced back at the open door between the two rooms. "Why are you here, Airs. LoAvndcs, if you're not afraid of anything?" asked she suddenh*. "I sent the nurse downstairs, and told her I'd take her place for "a little while. I suppose you don't suspect me of evil intentions. Miss Wrest?" "Hardly," said "Mabin, laughing. "Only I do think, if you have no suspicions of anybody, that it's odd to find you here. HoAvever, now I .know the child is safe-, I shall go to my own room and read." And with a mischievous little smile she ran aAvay.,' She kncAY very avcII that the housekeeper thought the situation a serious one, or she would .-not- have been in the night nursery at that hour. She 'wished' Mrs. LoAvndcs AA-ere not so secretive. If only Mabin could .get at the secrets ..locked in that discreet bosom, she felt that she Avould be in a better position for judging the situation. In the meantime she had certain suspicions, but they seemed to herself so daring that she did not encourage them, having besides, quite enough to think about in considering her own position in the household, iioav that she had, as it were, declared Avar against Joe Wright, and, incidentally, against the mistress of the house as well." She felt that something would happen; that she would not be allowed to forget her misdeeds, and she dreaded lest Lady Moorhampton should Avork upon her husband in order to separate poor Julius from his governess. On the following morning she was early in the nursery, where she found Julius still rather pale, but otherwise quite himself again. They did a morning's Avork in the schoolroom, which'was1 on the first floor, next to the nurseries, and then, Avhen Mabin had put him into his little bod for a nap, she Avent doAvnstairs, by devious ways, in order that she might not meet anybody, and stole into the garden for a breath of fresh air. Although November was come, -and the winds had nearly stripped the trees, there still remained in the gar- Miss Wrest, you're ivell. you." , 1 need not ask you if Your looks speak for , CHAPTER XVJ. "1 t's delightful���������iioav," replied he, with significance. "Before I met you 1 confess I thought it was-������rathcr cold." "Oh, well, the summer is over, isn't it?" "Yes, of course." -lie came a ntcp nearer. "Do you know I've been most awfully anxious to sec von, just to say Iioav sorry I am I made such a mess of it yesterday���������you know��������� in the corridor. I'm afraid I let you in for a bad quarter, of an hour, didn't I?" '���������-' '������������������'":���������':���������.'���������' "Oh, that's of no consequence." "I'm aAvfully sorry, though. Tt'; makes me feci horribly guilty. I was taken by surprise, don't you kr.OAv jally, avIiv, ivhy, he's helpless, done for. It Avail Is an earthquake���������or���������or a marriage���������" 'at that ivord he stopped and looked hard at her���������-"or���������or something like that, to gel him free." "I should take one or other of lliose desperate measures, if f felt like thai," said Mabin, smiling. "What? Take an earthquake? How's it to be done?" Both of them Avere laughing, but there was something of genuine feeling, in the A'oicc of the man. Not a particularly reputable or admirable' person, Captain Dalmainc was ' good naturcd, and in his admiration for this pretty, bright girl he was at least sincere. Already he had been asking himself that morning if it Avould not be "a confoundedly good Ihiug" it- he could tear himself away from his bondage at Heath Hill,caud marry a nice little girl and be happy with her. Of his OAvn qualifications for'happy marriage he had, of course, no more doubts than any other member of his sex. (/ Mabin, however, had ::o such thought in her mind. She ivould hai'e disliked Captain Dalmainc, with his bold eyes and his absurd submi-jfion to Lady Moorhampton's whims, if she had not been so desperately lonely in the household that even -,uch a make-shift ally Avas better than none. As for the other alternative he had suggested, she certainly never supposed that Captain.Dalmainc had any thought of marrying her. But even as he asked this question, and as they both laifghcd at it, she saw in his eyes a look Avlrich suggested reflection, and she was Araguely prepared for his next AA'ords. (To Be Continued.) German Led French in Doctor���������You cough this morning. Patient���������1 ought to. nearly all night. more easily I practiced "Death or Glory" Mission Ended All Being Killed,. The Ncav York Tribune has^a story dated from Paris saying: Heinrich Alullcr Avas born a Prussian and achiei'ed his military education in the German army as a^conscript but fifteen years ago when his service in the \ German army ended, Jic went to Afri-, ca and enlisted in the French h'oieignj Legion. He .was naturalized as a I Frenchman and became an ofricer oil Chasseurs Alpins. Three ivecks 'ago | his brigade was on the Son.me. Mill- , ler's- colonel sent for him ������nd 'told him he had a hard job for him. his best soldier, which ivould��������� probably cost hiui his life, to put out of action a group of German mitrailleuses in a sunken road, Avhich for four days had held up French progress. At the appointed time, a I 4 a.m., Muller led his men on Avith the shout of "For France! Forward!" -Fh-c minutes after they had performed their" task, and the brigade fo.'loivr-i! and occupied the lines, but Mulle.- and his men Avere found dead, the of-������ ficcr with his throat and AA'risls cut. A German prisoner said that Muller had been seized. He had shouted in German, and told his birthplace. A German officer struck Muller with his pistol butt. Muller shouted, "Vive la France!" 'They cut.the arteries in his Avrists and cut his throat. ���������\ r~ Out of Date ^- "I had a chance lo buy a secondhand car cheap today. It Avar, a 1913 model and hadn t been u*icd - more li an six months" ' Why didn't you buy ir"**" "I Avas afraid my Avifc Avc-uld think il Avas too old fashioned." ... . . .- . "Blessed are the meek," quoted the deacon, in reproving the backslider, "for they shall inherit the earth." , ��������� "They shall inherit all right, deacon," said the irreverent one, "but someliOAv or other they never seem to gel possession." When baying yoar Pianc Insist on having an Otto Higei Piano Action A woman.has to suffer so much it is strange that a few .men forget to be decent to their mothers. Economy and dd/s Matches Buying the cheapest article is, often the poorest economy. We do not claim to sell the cheapest matches,' but we do claim to sell * ��������� "~\ The Most of the Best For the Least Money N" Therefore, always, everywhere, buy EDDY'S MATCHES. MHimmiimiifiHmHmummniHHHmiiiniHmmuniHwifiumiiiM^ Don't Rub It On Bruises or Sore Muscles [loan's Liniment quickly penetrates and soothes 'without rubbing. Cleaner than mussy plasters or ointments, does not stain the skin. Have a bottle handy for emergency, irneumctic achet andpain9, neuralgia, lum������ foago, gout, strains, oprains and lame back, yield to Sloan's Lingnent. At all druggists, 25c. 50c. and $1.00. liliiilll W. N. U. 1144 "Yes, I know," cut in Mabin rather drily. "But I ;didn't .want to expose you to the,.shrill'blasts-of Lady Moorhampton's ill-temper." Mabin shot at him a glance, half shy, half mischievous, which made him laugh. "Oh, Ave're very good friends, Lady M. and I, and I ought not to be saying nasty things behind her back. But really, you know, sometimes I want to kick Avhen I see Iioav she treats���������-you, for instance. Of. course pretty girls must expect not. to be well liked by ladies who are 'tin pen sur le retour,' but it does make one wild to see���������:���������=" "There's no need to be Avild on my account, Captain Dalmainc. I'd rather be frankly snubbed by Ladv Moorhampton, as I-am, than have to be at her beck and call all day. long because she Avas supposed to be fond of mc." Dalmainc looked-at her inquisitively. It looked���������really it did, as if this little girl AA'as "getting at" him. "I-wonder how you would treat a ���������a person .Avho let himself get A'ery fond of you!" said he thoughtfully, after a pause. He spoke. Avith so much significance that the color rushed into Mabin's cheeks. She laughed. "Oh, badly, I suppose," she said brightly. "Just like every other avo- i man." He Avas interested. "Do j'ou mean that no ivomart can resist the temptation to treat badly the fclloAV avIio's such an ass as to get fond of her?" Mabin's eyes were dancing. She felt almost sorry for this man, avIio Avas amiable, at least, if he was not ctherAV'isc attractive, tied to the apron-string of a woman avIio, avIic- thcr she had ever been fond of him or not, certainly led him an uncomfortable sort oi life iioav. "I shouldn't like to go so far as that," she said demurely, "still I think if I ivere a man and if I Avere fond of a woman, I wouldn't let her walk upon me." "By jove!" cried he Avith sudden earnestness, "I shouldn't so much mind tha't. But it's the very devil to be .walked upon by a woman avIio doesn't care a hang about you." "If I'd got to that stage," retorted Mabin, "I think I should snap my fingers, and let her "see I didn't care a hang about her." He looked at her Avith admiration. ��������� "Yes, you AA'ould," he said. "But a man hasn't got so much strength of mind." "He's supposed to have more than a Avoman," said Mabin. "Well, you kn-->AV jolly well, Miss Wrest, what .rot .that is. A woman can break a chain���������a sentimental one, Avhen she pleases", or rather when it suits her book. A man���������well, he can't. When once he's got into the habit of making .himself useful, of allowing himself to be trotted about, and trodden upon, and bossed gener- Of Every Description arid for every line, of business. Our books are the Standard of Quality and used from Coast to Coast. ~" We Specialize on CARBON COATED _or BLACK BACK BOOKS, and" what we make are the best to be had in Canada. 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It is 'a curious fact, always brought out for instance by the poly glot versions of the resolutions of international societies .that Fnglisli.is (the tersest language in Europe. The English version on such octfasionsi is ahyays much shorter than the French or Italian. At tlie bcgmnwig of the war, when all cables had to be in English or French, .the Italian and Russian correspondents in T oi.don <rhosc English, and'found their cabling'expenses much reduced.���������Manchester Guardian. DANGER SIGNALS. No engineer would be mad enough to tun by the' flag - which - signaled danger. What tho'danger was he might not understand, but ho ivould take-no chances. It is different with the average man or ���������woman. They attempt constantly ���������Jo run by the dan-. jger signals of mature and that attempt costs -t-housands of-lives ������very yc&r. 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If the/matter Avere taken up in the proper way Newfoundland Avould be able to start a new .industry of the greatest value and supply all the potash she required, and more besides. For years Mother Graves'* Worm Exterminator has ranked as the^ most effective preparation _ manufactured, and it ahvays maintains its reputation. When Germany Fails The French" government reports that during, the year 1916 no less than 900 enemy airplanes have been _ shot doAvn or otherwise destroyed, in addition ."to eighty-one capivc balloons. Nothing more clearly shows the' allies' definite mastery of all the forms of Avarfarc iioav being practiced. The result is not unexpected, because aerial fighting is first, last and all the time a question of personal and individual initiative. In that quality the Germans arc notoriously deficient.��������� MontrcalTNews. - Minard.'s Liniment Cures Distemper. ��������� Elderly "Sister���������So, Mr. Goodcatch said I had teeth like pearls. And what did you say? Kid Brother���������Oh, nolhin, cept that you Avere gradually getting used to 'cm. The Avorras that infest children from their birth are of tAvo kinds, .those that find lodgement in the stomach and those that are round in thr intestines. The latter are the most destructiA'C, as they cling to the Avails of the intestines, and if not i-nerfcred with Avork havoc there. Miller's Worm PoAvders dislodge both k'nds, and while expelling them *rom fhe system serve, to repair the damage they have caused. Willie: I guess my dad must have been a pretty bad boy. Tommic; What makes you Ihink that?"- Willie: Because he knows exactly Avhat questions to ask mc when he Avants .to know what I have been doing, -v GUARD THE BABY AGAINST COLDS To guard the baby against colds nothing can equal Baby's Own Tab- W. Hopkins, gcncralsales and-adver- that will keep the little one's stomach and bowels working regularly. It is a recognized fact that Avhere the stomach and bowels arc in'good order that colds Avill not exist; that , the health of the little one will be good and that he will thrive and.be happy and good-natured. The Tabids are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockvillc. Ont. A Brisk Trade A shy young man had been calling for months on the sweetest girl in the world, but, being bashful, # his suit languished. Finally she decided it Avas up to her to start something, so the next time he called she pointed to the carnation in his buttonhole and said: . "I'll give you a kiss for that carnation." The young man's color.outdid the carnation in" brilliancy, but the exchange was made. Then he grabbed his hat and started to leave the room. "Why, Avhere are you going?" she asked in������ surprise. "To the flortist's for more carnations," he called from the front door. ���������New York Times. An intoxicated man staggering along the street grasped the arm of a passer-by to steady himself. "Well what do you want?" asked the sober one brusquely. "Nuzzin! Nuzzin T 'tall," was the rc- ��������� ply. "Got all I c'n carry now." Wonderful Revival Of Canadian Business Business Much Greater During Per-., iod of Stress Than Before the War ��������� Like the great nations of Enron.- which arc deep in the Avar, Canada excites wonder by tlie volume ol busi- i ncss being done and the extent and i expansion of commerce which ii carried on without the help of more than 200,000 Canadian soldiers in service in France and on other battle fronts, and notAvithstanding the losses sustained in the tremendous struggle to Avhich the Dominion has given 400,- 000 of its citizens. With fewer men to do the work more traffic is carried on than in time of peace. Noav the foreign commerce of Canada is going on at a rate equal to about tAvo and one-half times that of the United States in proportion to the population, although the foreign trade of this country has become the marvel cf "the Avorld. Canada's exports and imports, month' by month, are nearly fifty per cent, as large as the figures Avhich Avere considered normal in the United States a year^beforc >the Avar began in Europe. It is a demonstration of Canadian possibilities Avorlhy of careful consideration as evidence of the value of Canadian trade to this country after the great conflict puds. ���������-'Cleveland Leader. INSURANCE COMPANY Is Issuing a Ncav Policy Contract v^/ith Up- to-date Privileges If you arc having Insurance, see our Volicv Hist HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO 5#>������*-������3>'^-"S;-i Easily nml Uuwikly Cured will EGYPTIAN LINIMENT Foi'Snle by All Dealers Douglas & Co.. Prop'ra. Nup*ucc. Oo*. Matchless London We arc not at all surprised to read that a great match making urm has been circularizing its shareholders to the effect" that^thc home *i\-i'e sales of matches have fallen off more than 50 per cent. We should not have been astonished if the disproportion had been greater Evrybody Avho^uscs matches has only too good reason to knoAV how precious this useful and bright liltle friend has become No longer can you a'sk the casual sfarg- cr in train or lube for-a match You might as avcII request him to give you his gold Avatcli.���������London Globe. Which is your choice? Dreary. unproductive stump lands, the taxes on which eat into ycur profits? Or rich, cultivated fields that yield bountiful crops, and pur monev Into th= hanlc for you? You car. transform your barren stump lands into profitable cultivated acids wiUi a Tba Kisitu. Method clears Ian j ret-Ir f->r IH plow i09E> to 50% cheaper than M17 ether Gxie SSaza' ���������. Horse Po^ea* Mmuj Back Bom 15 Vcar Guarccteo 10 Day Try-cat Send for Free Boole. Gold inYour Stump Land." It proves a Kinitin often payn fur Itself in a i-inglo day; .that it provides Us lfiOT qnjclcest. cheapest anil brat way to clear land*. It conteinu photographs of otump3 which tho Kiratin has pulled, and letters from men who pulled them. Hijr money to early purchaser* in each locality through onr ProSt Shsriss Piatt. Writs cow���������doo't wait. A. J. Kirstin Canadian Co., 9126 Dennis St., Sault St. Marie, Ont. <Z* Taken Down a Peg Miss-Beauty' Chorus (returning to her native village and anxious to impress her fiance)���������1 say/'ponah, isn't il possible lo gel a taxi or something for all our.luggage in this onc-cyed old place? Porter���������Ye'll no need one, Maggie. Yer father's just comin' down the street wi'-his whcelbarroAV. Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, Etc. No Man Either No woman ever reaches her high efficiency until she loves her. work more than her pay envelope. / "I can't abide to sec a man tliroAV away his tools thc.jmmule the clock begins to strike, as if he ook no pleasure in his Avork or- avp.s afraid of doing a stroke loo much. The very grindstone 'ull go on doin' a bit after vou loose it."���������Adam Bedc. Jealous - First Girl: Mr., Dauber said my face was classic. What is classic? Second Girl: Oh, most anything old. ��������� - - Makes Breathing Easy.���������The constriction of the air passages and the struggle for breath, too familiar evidence of asthmatic trouble, cannot daunt Dr. J, D. Kcllogg's Asthma Remedy. This is the famous remedy Avhich is known far and wide for its complete effectiveness even under very severe conditions. It is nc untried, experimental preparation, but one -with many -years of strong service behind it. Buy it from your nearest dealer. Hostess: Doesn't it seem a shame, Mr. Jones, that this poor little lamb should have to die for us? Mr. Jones: Ah, yes, indeed! It is rather tough. J0 Do not ba talked into accepting a substitute. Imitations disappoint. Pain is ���������& blessing in disguise. It is Nature's danger signal to warn, you that there is something >rrong m the system. "While headache may result from a variety of causes, it most frequently denotes a starved condition of the nerves. The brain is -the headquarters or ucentral" of the nervous system. Here nerve foree is consumed at an enormous rate. If there is any lack of richt red blood from which to form*new nervous energy the brain is first lo feel it and the head aches. Headaches Biay be stopped by powerful drugs, but that is like breaking the semaphore which ���������wants the engineer of danger. The only 'wise way is to increase the amount of rich, red blood in the human body by vising Dr. Chaso's Nerve Food, and thereby feed the starved nerves back to health and vigor. Not only will the headaches disappear, but you will sleep well, feel well and gradually regain strength and confidence. The Nerve Food will sharpen the appetite, improve digestion and build up the whole system. In this way the headache will prove a blessing. It has warned you of approaching nervous collapse while yet there is a foundation on which to build good health. Dr. Chaae'a Nerre Pood, 50 cent* a box, 6 for $2.50, all deHiers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited. Toronto. 529 -- " *7'- --.���������'-*,'������- ' ���������'\ ;.777* v-*,',,;: ���������::_3---\j'r','j'^*.^ THE GAZETTE, HEDLEY, B. C. Goieman&Go. ^) ���������> C "The Big Store" General Merchants average American voter���������electing KEREMEOS, B. C. or Canadian windmills, adventurers, loafers and crooks. Tn the meantime Russia will bo governed by successive autocracies, and more often niis- goverued. France had, after the revolution, Xapoleon I, Louis XVIII and Napoleon 111, at intervals- in its evolution. Russia is likely to have czars and revolutions and dictators for a hundred years to come, and possibly before thai time tlie country will bo split up into a dozen different nations.. Be Nickel Hate Barber_Slioi) SATISFACTORY, SANITARY T0NS0R1AL SERVICE Thjs shop il equipped with Baths and all the latest Electrical Appliances. W.T.BUTLER, - Prop. &be 1bedte$ ������>mtk Subscriptions in Advance Per Year. $2.00 " (United States) 2.50 Advertising Rates Mca.-siimiiciit. 11 lines to the inch. , Translent~Advertisements���������not exceeding one inch, $1.25 for one insertion, 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. 0-Arer one inch, 12 cents per lino for. first insertion and 8 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Transients payable in advance. Contract Advertisements���������One inch per month 81.25; over 1 inch and up to 4 inches, 31.00 per inch per month. To constant advertisers taking larger space than four inches, on application, rates Avill be gh-on of reduced charges, based on size of space and length of time. Certificate of Improvements. .������10.00 (Where more than one claim appears in notice, ������2.50 for each additional claim.) Jas. W. Grieb, Publisher, iredlfv. IJ. C. March.20, 1017. "He who does me once, shame on him; He who does me twice, shame on me." Just a word or two "iri"reference to the inquest held here Tuesday afternoon. No one has a right in cross-examination to . to contradict "a'.".witness while giving evidence. .This applies to the mine inspector as well as others present at the inquest. If it was thought that a witness had made a mistake, the proper course for the person thinking so would be to take the stand and under oath offer rebuttal evidence. Then, the coroner could, quite easily in Tuesday's investigation, take the jury to the place where the accident occurred and settle the point in dispute. The unbusinesslike announcement that tho Pacific Sj'ndicatc, Ltd.. has bonded the Voigt properties in the Similkameen for $3,000..000, if correct, suggests the desirability of an in- vestigation by tho department of mines before it is allowed to acquire title from the crown to mineral claims, water powers, and lands for which it has made application. This company has already been the subject of one of the worst wildcat promotions organized in the States in connection with mining in British Columbia and it is not in the interest of the mineral industry here that a similar promotion should be .repented.���������Mining and Engineering Pccord. Why throw cold water on tlie old game of bonding and rebonding until the owner has about as much interest in tho property as a jack rabbit. Every time the property is bonded the owner is put to considerable expense, and unless Mr. Voigt is a very astute person there will come a time- when he will be compelled to sell on the capitalist's terms in order to save something out of the wreck. This bonding and throw- np and rebonding again been done hundreds of KEREMEOS ITEMS. has Lord Shaugnetsy" wants the people of Canada to make greater efforts and greater sacrifices during the war. While the people of Canada fully appreciate his efforts, they would tuke his advice in a more kindly spirit were the C. P. R. to give better train service, niore equitable freight rates, and decent meals at reasonable prices -on dining cars. And, by the way. thero is a little niattcr of $00 transportation owed us for advertising in the Slocan Record, contracted by an understrapper in Nelson and which |he refused to make good on the ground that the paper had ceased publication, although the advertising space had been used. Tlie Russian revolution, although it may be considered a start along the lines of progress and responsible govern-, menfc, a marked advancement may not bo expected for fifty or soventy-fivo years. Russia-has a vast illiterate population, who ���������inusfc be educated before -thoy are in disposition to think clearly and govern themselves intelligently. Two and possibly three or four generations will be required before thoy reach the stage of intelligence of the I times with the same results. To swing; a three million ��������� dollar property it will require at least ten millions in capital for development and reduction works, and sufficient ore for an annual output of at least" two and a half million dollars -worth of ore, with reasonable mining and treatment charges, before a dividend is in the list of possibilities. There appears to be ore in ���������sufficient quantity on Copper mountain, and the metallurgical difficultieVrhaye probably been overcome by the B. C. Copper Co. The Parliamentary Commission that has fixed the blame on Kitchener for the failure of the Dardanelles, expedition will" not add greatly to its popularity by the report of its findings. It Avill occur to many that the commission waited long enough to feel assured 'that' Kitchener was really dead before it attempted to filch from him his good name. The name of the man''who did niore than any other to lay the sure foundation for British victory will be honored just as long1 as the British Empire lasts.���������Lady- smith Chronicle. We are glad to report Mr. Percy Quant doing nicely at the Oroville hospital. - Mr. Carle motored to Princeton on Tuesday with Mr. Innis. Mr. Carlo motored to Hedley on Thursday with Dr. Elliot on business: Judge and Mrs. Gibson visited Oroville Monday and Tuesday, returning Wednesday. Mr. Coleman is moving fbis week into Mr. Friths house, which will be much more pleasant for him. Keremeos is much in need of a butcher shop, as most all the Keremcositcs have to send to Hedley for their moat. We are glad to see Mrs. Hardy able to be out again. She is not altogether bettor, but is improving nicely. " Mr. Norcross, superintendent of the B. C. Copper at Copper mountain, left on Friday's train for a trip to Now York. On April 1st, Palm Sunday, Rev. Frank Stanton will conduct morning service at Keremeos, and evening service in Hedley. 'Mr. D. J. Innis made a flying trip to Hedley on Saturday, accompanied by Arthur, Mattice, who went to be examined for the Forestry battalion. Mr. James Riordah came down from Princeton on Friday's train and will leave shortly for his claim on Riordan mountain, where he will spend the summer. i6di6i) Trading -Go;. Ltd ipring O CEDAR MOPS 75c, $i.oo, $1.25, $i-5o. O CEDAR POLISH-LIQUID VENEER 25c. and 50c. Bottle.. Old English Floorwax, $1.00 Bannister Brushes, 6oc. and 75c. Feather Dusters, 35C.-60C. Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushhs CURTAIN STRETCHERS, $3.75. The action of the czar in handing OArer the imperial office to his younger brother is a crushing blow to the hopes of Nicholas TI (bat ho. would be succeeded by his own son. . ft will bo recalled that as one daughter followed another, the -czar and tho czarina were gravely disappointed. All kinds of experts and alleged experts and alleged experts were called upon to advise,, as to what might be done to .secure an heir, and when the little czarevitch was horn there avito many people who refused to believe that he. Was a royal child* claiming that he had been substituted for a daughter. The little fellow's life was precarious in his infancy, and he was the . victim of an assault, the nature oi' which has never been made known, and which seemed likely to prove fatal. Months of anxiety followed before the .little fellow \vas pronounced strong again, and from that time onward nothing that skill and parental love could devise to intikp. him fit for the duties ho. was one day to discharge -was left undone.*. And now the crown will pass to another, that is if it is allowed to pass to anyone.���������Colonist. A bridal party passed through town on Thursday from Prince ton on their way,to Penticton. The happy couples were' Mr. and Mrs. McPhersou and Mr. and Mrs. McDonald. The dance held in the town hall Friday night was not very AArell attended on account of the very good woather, although those that were present report a very delightful time. Miss Ring of Crystal City, Manitoba, who,is visiting with her sisters, Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Newton of.Cawston. spent the week end ' with tho Misses Gibson, Riverside L6*dge. No word has yet been received from Pte. \V. Christie as to how badly he had been wounded. His many friends await anxiously, hoping to hear that he is not seriously injured. Mr. Conditt of the Horn Silver mine, Similkameen, was in town Monday." They are having very bad luck trying to get their car loaded as the roads are almost impassable for an auto truck. Dr. Elliot of Hedley was called down again on* Sunday to examine more recruits for the Forestry battalion. He was accompanied by his wife and family and one of the teachers of the Hedley school. Owing to the weather there was a very small attendance at the Literary society on Monday night. . Next Monday night \yiil be the last meeting of the society for the season. A good programme will be given and at the close refreshments will be served. - Mr. and Mrs. Carle entertained at dinner Friday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Stanton and Mr, Kerr,.who Avill be leaving shortly, Mr. Stanton and Mr. Kerr going overseas and Mrs. Stanton is planning on going to her old home in Montreal. Covers Avere laid for Mr. and Mrs. Stanton, Misses Eva and Kay Gibson, Messrs. Kerr, Colman and Clifton.' "There will be a dance at Keremeos Center in tho Richter hall on Easter Monday for tho Belgian relief fund. A good time is "being looked forward to. Good music and a good supper is promised. ��������� The patronesses for the evening will be Mes- dames Tweddle, Bovven, and Loudon. Tickets will be $1.00 and extra ladies 50c. Come one come all to the Richter hall and have a good lime. flefltey Tra The latest recruits for the Forestry bh t < a 1 i e u a re' .��������� 1 s fo 1 - lows: Messrs. I?. C. Clarke, R. II. Carmichael, Arthur Mattice, L. Iluchings, F. B. Gibson, C. Cotterall, T. Prescott. .J. Barbour, John Pearson J. Brewer. Oie Nystrum, and Lee Hampie. There m-ust surely be younger men .to enlist and larger places for the recruiting" officers to visit without- coming to such small places and draining it of all the men that are left to tijl the soil and produce more foodstuffs, which is being advocated so much in all the papers. Keremeos, a small place, has an honor roll ot forty-five men who have enlisted from this little district. It is strange that if some of these young-looking recruiting officers wish'to serve their country as much as the}- say they do, they would do.the recruiting in larger places. The writer is as patriotic as anyone can bo, but thinks that if all these men are needed why not visit- the pool room? of some of the larger places and secure the men who have no ties and nothing to do. We hear thero are four more men ready to join on' Thursday. They are Messrs. Young, Bowen and tho Gillander brothers, PAINTING PAPER-HANGING KflLSOMINING TERMS MODERATE DALY AVE. - - nEDLEY.B.C. BiM BUILDING MATERIAL FOR SALE I-have a new stock of Com n't. Finish, Siding, Flooring, Latli, Shingles, Doors and W'in- 1m 1 L dows. F. M. Prices reasonable. I-- CAWSTON; it A. F. & A. M. ������ UEGULAtl iiiontlily iii(.(.t,iiriff* uf '.' Hcdloy Loclffo No.,.18, A. b\ & A.M.,;-% lira, hold .on tho second Friday in'���������' ������������������������������������rli month hi Fraternity hull, Hcdloy. Vu-ftJng "fuhi-en are cordinlly invited to attend. G. H.SPROULE, W. M . s. e. HAMILTON Secretary CAN YQF"PACE RASTER with tin* knowledge that however perfect your itppcamn'ci! in other respects,' the clfcct is marred by 'DEFECTS IN YOUR TEETH ? Why not' let"us attend to them at once? Thu longer you'put* if off the worse, they will look. We 'can remedy any delVet quickly nnd painlessly.' It' .the"i!xponso;Lro'iibhjs you, our- nioder- iiU* charges will relieve you of that anxiety. DR, T. F. ROBINSON Dentist. Office with Dr. Lewis, Oroville, Wash. L. O..L. ';���������'��������� Tho Koirnlai' meetings of Hod ley Lodge 17II are ncld on the 'iirst; and third Monday in every inoiith in,the Oi-iing-o Ilrvll ^S^5������������P .Ladies meet. 2nd and ���������I.Tmirdn.VH VisitinK.hi'fttlioiii are'(.'oi-(lialiy Ihvitril '���������.' 7 \V". "LONSDALE. W.* M. '7 " "it. I*. JONES. See't. -���������'������������������" Nickel Plate Camp No. 15663 Modern Woodmen __ of America J Meets in Fraternity'Hull the Third Thursday in each month at S p. in. A. Claiii;, V. (J. .1. Smith, Clerk.
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