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The Courtenay Review and Comox Valley Advocate
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(fi **************************************** ***���*< YOUR PRINTING Can ttO_ bfl dono any iftt_r, ami not unite so well anywhere else hereabouts. Our type ami inaeliin- ery is complete uml The Heview prices .we right THE REVIEW: j Classified Ads. X Muke your littl. Wants known J through a Clwatfied Adv___ment I in The Review - - - Phone 59 VOL. 3 COURTENAY. B. C. THURSDAY MAY 6. 1915 NO. 23 Agricultural Grounds Saturday, May 8, at 2 O'clock Household Furniture and Effects; Several Head of Dairy Cattle Particulars on posters <��r tr nu HARDY & BISCOE Real 1'. tale A.m'iili nud Auctioneers Phone 10 Courtenay LOGGIE BROS. Telephone 34 Next Royal Bank SHEPHERD & HORNBY Where everybody goes for choice Candies, Cigars, Tobaco, Fruit, Vegetables, Groceries, 'Etc. ONLY BEST QUALITY _001>_ HANDLED Phone 40 Courtenay Fresh Arravals A Fresh Shipment of the famous "Fleet Foot" Tennis and Running Shoes have arrived We keep them in Men's, Boy's and Ladie's Sizes See Our Show Windows Local Lines Mr. Bigelow was seriously injur- 1 wlii'e blasting on liis ranch one day last week. He was taken to the Coinox Hospital. Mr. Ridley Thompson rejoined his regiment, the 4tli Hussars, as soon as he reached Kngland, not the Worcestershire Yeomanry as previously reported in these col- , nuins. The Bible Classof the Presbyter- iati church intend holding a pic nie 'on Thursday afternoon, May i,., ( Ascension dav.) The pic nie will he held across the bridge from the Condensory. Friends ol lhe class are also invited to attend Those who were present at the ] entertainment given by the "1915 Follies" at the Opera House on Thursday evening were exceedingly pleased with the programme 1 presented. The singing was very I good and the character work was decidedly entertaining, Bn Mooring and John Day have dissolved partnership in the general I blaeksmi thing business. Mr. Mooring will continue in the business at the old stand. He has jus'. installed a complete new outfit of j machinery and tools, also a good stock of wood work, etc.. and wi be prepared to do work on the shortest notice. The Girl. Guild lea last Friday was a very su:: ssfttl affair, Mr. J. Gatlincole, of Royston, has gone to the front. He will assist in building shelters for the allies iu France. Hardy & Biscoe have been instructed to sell his household effects by auction at the Agricultural grounds ou Saturday May S. The Kckhart family of Swiss bell ring*rs will give at) exhibition of bell ringing in the Opera House on Monday evening next, May to, This ii the 15th consecutive season Ihey have been on the road. Everyone who hears them are always well plea ed with them. Keep tbe date in mind Monday, next. May 10. The prices are Adults 5o cents. Children 25. Since assuming charge of the business of McPhee & Morrison, Wallace McPhee has made a number of changes in the store, and all for the better. The grocery aud hardware departments have been reversed. \ handsome plate glass window has been let into tlie east corner, and a sidewalk lias been built along the east side of the store. No one coining across ihe bridge can fail to notice tlie improved appearance of the store, aud ][ when the window gets properly dressed will greatly improve the appearance of the front. Tbe names of those who donated Ito tbe linen collection for tlie soldiers will be printed next week. EJlmer I.oggie and Oscar Davis came into port this morning with about 1.5 live salmon which they caught oil Hornby Island. ( A bee is being held at the ] Athletic Park this afternoon to put the football grounds iu shape. It 'is now up to the footballers to get busy and practice. No one who is' j not a member of the Associatiou j will be allowed to play on tlie grounds at any time. I A service was held last Sunday 'evening in St. John's church in | memory of the Canadian soldiers who feil m the recent fighting, and especially of the late Private Chas. I Grundy, of the Princess Patricia's, 1 who was a member of the Church of England. At the conclusion of ! the service Mendel* ihon's Funeral ! March was played while the con- I jregation stood. A memorial tab- fet will be placed in the church by 'a few of Mr. Grundv's personal friends. Comox Creamery Butter 40c per lb. this week COMOX LUMP COAL $6.00 Per Ton Delivered in Courtenay All Orders Will Recieve Prompt Attention D. KILPATRICK Phone 43 Courtenay A very enjoyable basket social was held at Happy Valley on Tuesday evening. The proceeds were given towards providing blinds for the school. The young ladies are to be congratulated iu the manner in which tbe baskets were decorated and also the contents. The Courtenay boys are looking forward to the next social, which they hope will be held shortly. The renif.ius of the late D, Nel- list, who lost his life in the South Wellington disaster some time ago, were recovered and were brought to Courteuay on Tuesday afternoon and interred at tbe Sandwick cemetery. The funeral was under the auspices of Beuovelent Lodge, K, of P., Cumberland, of which lie was a longtime member. The members of the Courtenay lodge, K, of P., also met the remains at the statiou and marched to the g'ravesid:. j Presbyterian Church .St. Andrews' Sandwick Service 2 p.m. Sunday School and Bible Class 3p.m. Courtenav Sunday School aud Bible Class 10:30 a, 111. Service 11:30. Evening service 7:30 p. m- All welcome 15th Season JHE MUSICAL __^__!___1 rs nn ���______���_������_���_������_���_���__��� _���___ i___H�� <7E_ Swiss Hand-Sell Rmgers Musical Experts and Entertainers will be at the Courtenay Opera House on Monday, May 10, '15 Adults 50c. Children 25c. The Sto ve With Electricity you can now Roast, Bake, Boil, Broil, Fry, Toast, Make Jellies, everything the Coal or Gas Range can do, and more. This stove also perfectly incorporates the tireless cooker idea Hughes Electric Ranges Clean, cool, odorless. Saves hours of the woman's time. Not high priced. Homes of moderate income uses the Hughes. Spend a most interesting quarter-hour examining this wonder stove at our store Courtenay Electric Light, Heat & Power Co., Ltd. Phones: Office 35, Res. 65 Office: Mill Street 2 THE REVIEW, COURTNEY, B. C. Tiring, Ceaseless Back-Ache Can Be Rubbed Away To-Night Italy Contracted for Wheat! Relief is Almost Unfailing from Even the First Application RUB ON NERVILINE Cold has a vicious way of finding om ui iiini. musclea or weak joints. How often pain settles In llie Unit. causing Inflammation and excruciating soreness, stiffness ami aching all over follows. An application ot Nervilin. at the Atari glvi s Immediate relief and prevents worse trouble. When the pain is very acute, _hi._ JI ne ims n chance to show Its wonderful penetrating and pain-subduing power. K strikes in deeply, ami Its ftrike-ln-deop quality quickly proves ta supertorltj to foebler remedies then tiiis goodness is magnified by Us strength, easily five times greator than most liniments, Surely so powerful mid curative a | liniment ns Nerviline offers perfect seem Ity against pain. Nerviline i.s the only guranteed pain remedy sold in Canada. Forty years of | success in many countries warrants ils manufacturers saying. If ii does not relieve, get your money back. .\'o curable pnln, not even neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, or rlietimatism can resist ilu magic power of Nervillnu. Try it today, liuli il ou your lireil back, lei ii i use your sore muscles, lei ii lake tlie swelling nnd Btlitness oul of your joints, li's a inaj'voi���thousands say so that use Nerviline. Thn large rule fnmlly sizo bottle of Nerviline is more economical than the 26c trial si/.e. Buy tlie largei sizo to- duy. Sold by dealers everywhere or the Catarrhozone Co., Kingston, Cuu- ' ada. j Amount is Ample to Last Until After the Next Harvest Provision!) made by the gov- -nment to supply Italy with wheat, pending tho next uarvest, were defended by Mho minister of agriculture, Signor j Calvasola, In a Bpeecb before the chamber of deputies. He declared I special missions representing the mil- it:.ry commissariat had made enormous purchares in the United States and Argentine, although the largest I quantities hail been bought in New Vork and ( hlcago. Thi total amount contracted for abroad, Signor Cava- sola said, was 40,500.0J0 bushels, which will be divan il between si .oral of the largest cities as distributing I stations, .'bout one-third of the \ uniouiil contracted for has arrived in Italy. The mini; ter declared that, in ��� vico of tho precautions luk.'ii by thc government, a wheat famine would be I impossible, because tne supply pro- I vlded for would bo ample to lust uu- II 1 after the Italian harvest. WATCH YOUR COLTS For Coughs, folds and Distemper, and! at the first symptoms of any such ailment, give small doses of that wonderful remedy, now the most used in existence. SPOHN'S DISTEMPER COMPOUND Ot any druggist or turf goods house. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Chemists and Bacteriologists, Goshen, Ind., U.S.A. Good Roads All-Important Factor in Enabling! Farmers to Reach Markets The campaign for good roads being! carried on throughout Canada is only part of the general awakening of the j people, to the causes which have led to the enormous increase in the prices of the necessaries of life. Thut the j transportation problem is all-important for the farmer-producer is without j question. That he may at all seasons j reach his markets at a minimum of titiii' and expense is a necessary factor in the making of reasonable prices! for his products. For the consumer, good roads have an advantage in the fact that by enabling the farmers to roach the markets in greater numbers,' the supplies of produce will ho larger, I and competition will be keener. A further consequence of this larger attendance (vill be that more attention will be paid to tlie condition of tiie produce offered by those displaying it. l'or sale. lu the present campaign for increased production, good roads Will play an important part. Motor transportation is being rapidly developed. and utilized by lhe farmers. By this means greater distances eaa be covered nnd fanners at a considerable distance from i_fu__ts, with the ad-1 venl of better roads, will he able to- bring their produce to the consumer i in larger quantities and at less ex-' peuse.���Conservation. Skin Trouble ' on the Scalp Skin Dried and Cracked ar.d Hair Fell Out���Cured by Dr. Chase's Ointment Eczoma is annoying and distressing at any time, but doubly so when it gets into the eealp and causes the hair ip fall out. Here is a grateful [ loiter from a lady who was cured by using Ur. Chase's Ointment. .Mrs. Hector Currie, Tobermory, Out., writes: "1 wns cured pf a disagreeable shin disiasc of the scalp! by using Dr. Chase's Ointment. The trouble started with itching and pain lu Uio scalp, the skin would get dry j and crack, and i' limes would bleed, and lhe hair would fall out. 1 tried j tlirefl doctors without benefit, and suffered for thn. years. Reading In the' almanac about Dr. Chase's ointment,! I began Its use, and am now com-! plelely cured. Thc hair has grown | again, and I am as well us I over was. j You are at liberty to uso this letter, for 1 am glad to recommend su excellent a treatment." Dr, Chase's Ointment hns no rival' as a cure for Itching skin disease, One of the Slighte,' Accidents There is a good story In the London! Nation aboul one of tho slighter accidents of the ilcci'i. The other day the commander of a destroyer, rolling heavily In a gale, and With her engiiu s disabled, tried to lesson the strain by ladling out oil. The seaman engaged in ibis work wns washed overboard.! nml washed hack again iy returning ivave. lie picked himself up. saluted his officer, nnd mid; "Very sorry, sir; lost tlie liuel.nl !" The Mai With Asthma alinosl longs for ih alh io em his Biiffci in ��� ll ��� sees ahead only years of endless torment wiiii Intervals of rest which arc tlicm-j solves fraught with iver censing feer of renewed attack; i.oi hlni turn to Ur. ,1. n K Hogg's; Asthma Remedy J and kno�� ��ha! complete relloi ii enn give. I.cl llllll bul use it fiiitht'ull,- and lie will Iimi nis asthma a thing of lhe past. Bright -An nppU a day will keep the doctor away, snys tills article. Simple Olio Ves, llllll an onion a d.iy will keep everybody nway Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia. In in< ' nf war prepare I ir poae_��_j This is Canada's duty at tho present , time. LOSSES SURELY PREVENTED io cuiiir'i sii_ii. run. _m- Jirl._. frejh, relUM.: yrcf-r. . ',/ Woatam ltocl__ it*"I'll* tha, nee m __| /��, tfet whera aider vaonlnnt tan, 0 L ��� Wrim fnr booklet _.| tMUtnotiltU, 1 fi ��� 111- dou tkge. Blackl _ Klin $1,110 ____-*'S* 90-doto fk|l. Blaofclrj PIIK 4.00 Uh ��!it I ni__r, but Cuttoi. hart. _������ ntjisrloritr or ouitar pradiicti i. duo f'�� net is f���n of _ t._ , _ 11 _ I...- In vaeeinat ond Itru _ only, lailit an cuttar'a. V im >i.',.i[i_!.. new tltract THE CUTTER LAUOflATOHY. B.rkatey. Callftrah. A Period of Rest Pointers For Dairymen in Keepin; Record of Average Milk Yield In the fall of 1H14 many dairy cows dried off somewhat earlier 'ban usual on account of scarcity of feed. However long the period of rest may havo been, six weeks i,r four months, cows will soon he ready for business as usual during 1015. Now lho point arises, can the period of work be extended'.' That meai'o careful preparation in a variety uf ways, One item may well lie noted by the dairyman who hns not yet endeavored lo shorten that rest period. It dors not follow Hint a cow riving 1,20O pounds of milk or so during her llrst month will give as much during the whole' season us the cow that gives only SOO pounds tlie llrst month. The first one may he dry in a little j over seven months and then settle i down lo extended repose, while the second cow will bo producing for ten , months, enabling her owner to take j advantage of good prices in full and I winter, Obviously, therefore, correct judgment as to a cow's production Is J to bo based on a knowledge of the i total weight for tho season, not for the best, month or two only, for that period of rest is a very variable factor. I Keeping track cf the weight given by each cow is simplified by using! tlie forms supplied free by lhe gov-1 eminent Write to th Dairy Commissioner, Ottawa, for samples of the record forms of tbrfie days per mouth, and those for dairy weights. II. will be still better to take samples as well so as lo [i am by iho tesl how much fai each cow gjves. A Venerable Horse The oldest horse in tile world is,' probably. Captain, who belongs to a livery stable owner iu Oconto, Wis. The little horso has given him service for more than twenty yours, and lie himself knows ii lo j,o several nioiilhs past :;s. The average l_ ef a horsu . is aboul H yours. Captain, littlw sorrel Indian pony, is taking life easy now. Ile s comfortably stabled, carefully lot. coddled and petted. In the spring h" will he Liven free run of a largo pasture, where ho can disport himself almost us freely as did liis wild forebeais, "I've sold him three I time!', and given him awuy onee," said tho owner, "hut i body can buy hini now, Ho bus been in more than 100 runaways, ��� nd I believe he'd run away right now if lie was ; iveil a chance. Ho is perhaps liio oldest horso in tho world, and I'll keep him as long as he lives." BABY'S OWN TABLETS I A GREAT BLESSING Mrs Jas. 10. Mailman, Gegoggln, j N.S . writes; "I gavi Baby's Own Tab- I lots lo my bnby hoy for constipation and teething trouble and havo found j liioiu a gi.al blessing. 1 think the | Tablets should be in ivjry home] where there nre young children-" Tho Tablets ar; un absolutely safe remedy [ for Ilttlo ones, bsli.g bucked by t lib j guarantee of u government analyst to bo fn c from upiatos and narcotics, They are sold |,y medh ine dealers or hy mail ui 25 cfikUjii I ox from The Ur. Williams' Me(llcl__l.'o., Hrockville, ; Ont. The Duke's .loke ' The popul'iril.v ol ihe Duke of Con- nuughl iu Cumuli! ni the pres.in tlmo Is unbounded, ami li is greatly due to the est lem in which he is held that re- (.rutting has been so brisk among Canadians. The unite dearly loves a joke, and ho is very smart al re- partoe, Sonn years ago he visited Ireland, and u gentlem tamed llonu nalsted on being Introduced to him, ( because, he said, hi. Bon ha I sut next' in Ih" Duke when they wore up fori their exam -ia ions (or the army. With-1 out a moment's hes!ta..on the Duke re-1 plied: "1 was, then, between two birds, | for mi my other side was n Mr. Pea-1 cool;, and'," ho added, with a twinkle ' In his eye. "not oi.i of us wus pluck-! ed." -Pearson's Magazine. Corns cripple lhe teel uud make! walking a torture, yet si ro relief iu ! tho shape of FTellowny's Corn Cure Is within reach of all. iiiPiiiiNG because the entire system becomes permeated with injurious acids. To relieve rheumatism Scott's Emulsion is a double help; it is rich in blood-food; it imparts strength to tho fun lions and supplies thc very oil-food that rheumatic conditions always need. Scott's Emulsion has helped countless thousands when other remedies tailed. Reluee Inferior Substitutes. ii__; __��_. Maternal Inconsistency Robbie i from tho depths of a bod- time cudtlie)���Mjtlu r, you 'member you told me today that no ono could possibly leve dirty, noisy little hoys? Mother���Yos, dour What about it? Robbie--Then what for uro you hug- gin' 111_ so tight';' Spare the children trim suffering! from worms by using Miller's Worm; Powders, the most -ffective vermifuge thai cun he got with which lo combat those Insidious loos of tho'young and helpless. Th ire is nothing that excels this preparation as a wont) destroyer and whon ils qualities become known! iu a household no other will be used, i The medicine acts by itself, requiring no purgative to assist it, and so thoroughly that nothing more is desired. "I hoar thai your daughter's -lurried a struggling young mau." I "Well, yes. he did struggle, lut 'twas nn use; he couldn't get away."! Corn Growing (.'(miosis Speakers at Farm Crops Show Urge Farmers to Form Social Clubs Making practical the industrial subjects taught in the schools in .\linne- sotil is the object of the hoys and girls clubs being organized under the direction of the extension division of the University, said Mrs. Margaret linker al a meeting of tho C. .'in Crops show in Crookston. Through "these iiuhs thoy are interesting the young people of iho rural communities in the farm, the garden and the kitchen. .Mrs, Baker suid that 3,100 club boys had entered com growing contests und lhat tho value in Iho state from llieir efforts was estimated ut u million dollars. Mrs. W, N, Powell or Warren urged town and country people to got together in social intercourse Ihrough the organization of clubs "There is no class of people more Independent than the farmers of today," she. said, "and consequently there is no longer any reason for depriving Ihe country woman of socint advantages," R 13. Ilalmer of the University of Minnesota laid down lhe principles of alfalfa growing to lho runners of lho Ited Hiver Vnlle-. ile lold them uut lo wait until hot weather for the Unit planting, but lo sow from the llrst to lhe fifteenth of .May. The Kurm crops show reached its climax with capacity crowds attending every meeting ami hundreds wore turned nwny from the meeting when Governor Hammond gavo an address appealing lo the people of the Northwest to bo true to American ideals. Special trains brought Calegatlons from Towns all Ihrough tho Ited Itiver Valley, taxing the city to the utmost. We have been using MINARD'S LINIMENT iu our home for a number of years and use no other Liniment but MINARD'S, und we can recommend it highly for sprains, bruises, pains or lightness for sprains, chest, soreness of the throat, headache or anything of that sort. We will not be without it one single duy, for we get (. new lottle before tho oilier is all used. 1 can recommend it highly to anyone. ,101 IN WAKKI'IKI.D. f.alfiivo Islands, Lunenburg Co., N.S, MICA AXLE GREASE Has been your horse's \ best friend for years. It makes pulling easy; The mica does it. Dealers Evervwhert The IMPERIAL OIL COMPANY Limited Made in Corns Cured Quick Applied in 5 Seconds Sore, blistering- feet from corn ��� pinched toes can he cured by Putnam's Extractor iu L'l hours. "Putnam's" soothes away that drawing pain, eases instantly, makes the feet feel good at ouce. Get a "5c boitle of "Putnam's today. Resources of Alberta President II. M. Tory, of the Unl- , versity of Alberta, ie authority for tlie statement that Alberta, if properly cultivated, could feed fifty million people. In the course of aii address Dr. , Tory claimed that Alberta was potentially richer than the German empire, lie appealed for moro home- makers ar.d the most advanced scientific fanning In order that this great potential wealth may be realized. "Of course I want my daughter to have some kind of artistic education. 1 think I'll lot her study sin.ing." "Why not ..rt or literature?" "Art. spoils canvas, and literature wastes reams of paper. Singing merely produces a temporary dis- turbar.ee cf the atmosphere." "I wonder how Mrs. Inkleight got lier start as a writer of fiction." "Composing references for her discharged help, I understi nd." "At last I am at the end of my troubles." exclaimed the Optimist. "Which end?" asked lhe Pessimist, gloomily, \ 1___J__ ___ ���% ���@FfflJM If ���**^ \%JZ HEAD OFFICETmoNTREAL 1915 rl Ti" wm i___ _ ��� ill dlli r li.. STRONGER THAN EVER In spile of continued financial disturbance, trie year Nineteen Fourteen was a period of uninterrupted progress and prosperity for the Sun Life of Canada. At the present moment the Company occupies an even stronger position than at any lime in its forty-four years' history, as is clearly shown by the substantial and highly satisfactory increases registered during the past year. _wc_nsntDce.8lst a a I'usli 1 ni'oino . . . . Surplus KiiriHKl, _i_ln_li .rlbuleil ie Poll iyli Added 111'ndlitrlliiitcd Sural Nat tturplusnl Doc.'Hit . Total I'uymoiu. to I _ fcylioltli a...;u\uh'.'< luuetl mil I'liiil [0 In i'iiii uJa . . , , AhUiivuntiCH in Fo_o . . 191 . S 64,187.658 15,052.273 1,870,298 861,763 777,035 6.503.794 6,161,207 15.988.480 ��13,288.8.10 1913 S ���'.���'. 7 _,3t; 13.880,401 i.iss :i_ 7 00,484 <_._< 5,768,988 4,US'_,.-.t,_l l-.Wil.7U4 2U'.',8I18,088 inchease $ 8,461.389 (16.2VI 1,085,874 17.65.1 S47.S78 (48.Hi.) 165.339 IM'O 355,131 (84.2 _l 760.808 113.',) 1,178.734 I2J.6'.I W. N. U. 1)46 "In what meter shall I w,.ite this I light verse, my dear?" "How would gas i.eici' do?" _ 1 ��� , " I Principles ore inllnll.ly greater' man dollars unU will ;.. While the world ltvu. I __} iimni. ifi Policyholders I'imflMils In I'lilleylioldois bie.ee nl'��.ilii..:iti��Hl _n_nic,ili_iitloii iind .wcols nun in-:,! for tlieir beuellt $45,516,575 $100,731,231 383.. 0 16,035,833 <t.*X, 17.!��>; 1 Pi'oniluiui received ilnce ovs*. ulzaiwm (105,431,877 Assurances issued Rod paid for in conh during 1914 totalled $32,167,339���the largest amount issued by any Canadian Life Company, ln this respect as well as io amount of Assets, Assurances in Force.lncome, and Surplus the Company again established its posilion as CANADA'S LEADING LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY The Company's Growth 1 1872 1..H4 IIill�� 11184 1814 IN_M! $ 48,810.03 27 8,878,85 1,878,606.80 4,681,1136.19 15,052.275.24 $ 86,461.05 8._.6_,81 4,016.418.611 17,881,760,98 (14,187,658.38 LIFE A_ll _.'.. 8 in 1 once I 1,064,360.00 6,844,404.61 81,588,669,74 86,327,662.8,1 218,289,836.00 Policies in the Sun Life of Canada are safe and Profitable Policies to Buy. ROBERTSON MACAULAY, P_II_.IT, T. B. MACAULAY, UAM.-lli. DIHICTOa AhO ItCMTAlr. f~ ���_) \( THE REVIEW. COURTNEY, B. C. 6/ VALUES OF FARM LANDS AND LIVE STOCK THROUGHOUT CANADA LIVE STOCK VALUES ARE BEING WELL MAINTAINED Census and Statistics Uflice at Ottawa (fives some Detailed Infor niation Regarding Agricultural Conditions, Cleaned from Correspondents all over the Dominion A bulletin recently issued hy the i census and stati_tlcs office siinitnar- j izes the results of inquiries mado by crop reporting oorrespondennta as to j (1) the values of farm laud, t_l the values of farm help, and Ci) the values rt' farm livestock in 11)14. The average value of farm land in Canada held for agricultural i:urposes, whether improved or nnlinproveil, antl including the ' value of dwelling farm hiiildings, is returned iis $38.41 per ncrc, which is '.iliniit equal to that of the lust similar Inquiry in 1910, when the value was given us $38.46 per acre ln 1911 I! 0 average was returned by the census as $30.41, but I this value was based upon returns from all occupiers, Including farms only I'econtly settlbd, and therefore ot less value By provinces the avorage values of 1. 1 _ range from $21 per acre iu Alberta to $150 per acre in Itritisli Columbia, In this province, however, Uie high value is duo to orcharding, ordinary agriculture b ling Subsidiary to fruit culture. In recent years the wages of farm help have increased considerably, anil Ihey reached their highest point during the bumper harvest of 1913. Rut In 1!)14 the pendulum swayed haclt, loss labor being rcquirod ou farms owing to lighter crop:;. Since August the war has had for one of its effects an increase in the supply of farm labor, and consequently .. full in the wages. The demand for labor this winter has also decreased 'leeauso of the increased cost of board'. For the Dominion the average wages per month during the summer, including hoard, were $35.55 for male and $18.81 for female help. For the year, including board, the average wages were $323.30 for males and $180 35 for fe- 1010. Average wages per month in loll were lowest in Prince Edward Island, viz., $21.71 for mules and $14.48 for females. In the western provinces they were: For males, $30.13 in Manitoba: $40.51 in Saskatchewan, and $���10.28 in Alberta, females receiving $22.35 ill Manitoba, $22.95 in Saskatchewan, and $28.63 111 Aiherta. The highest wages were paid in British Columbia, viz., $47.85 for males and $31.18 for females, these averages be- Ing substantially less than in 1010, v/nen mules received $57.40 nnd females $38. Vaiue.-i for livestock are well maintained, so fiir as comparison with Hie throe years ended 1910 is concerned; but during L914 there has been a sub- sianlial r.C luclion in the value both of W"'Tfke Every EMPIRE'S NEED AND OPPORTUNITY Shell Ihey Make ^ ^ ^^ p^p^jQfj Canadian Manufacturers Praised For Adapting Themselves fo New Conditions The arrangements brought abou: by the meetiug of the finance ministi rs of Franco, Russia and this country have special interest tor Canada, says a despatch from London. The decision to proceed Jointly with their purchases means that the Dominion will si cure an even larger share of tht war contracts of France und Russia than she has in lho past. Kac'u"\vcck Hint ihe war lasts emphasises that the capacity ot the motherland to maintain the production of,the Immense I supplies required for the Britisli army alone is Beverely taxed. Added to this, great pressure .s the task of repleu-j I. .ling lhe supplies of the vast armies of France and Russia, which has been' attacked most loyally, and oven at the . i ost of delaying orders for lhe iiritisii I forces, llul even tho old country. SOME TACTS. KOMI UK AGRICULTURAL WAR HOOK A Most Valuable Work Published by the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa, Deals with Many Live Topics which will be of Great Interest to Canadians from East to West lt is doubtful if a mure intrinsically 1 valuable work was ever published in ��� Canada than tlie Agricultural War 1 Hook, for which the honorable, the .Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa, is . sponsor. On every oiie of its hundred I and fifty pages there is something lo I be learned. It is circuliucii at the I mere cost of asking l'or it, and thus : should be rend, marked and inwardly digested liy not only every farmer but also by every lover of his country, l'or not only cun the husbandman which bus surprised everyone bv her, ��� ,, remarkable vitality, has lier limits. S'^m gold, irom us contents, but thc ami one reads the signs in a hundred ordinary cltiaeu can wny;-,. Production will be acoelerat- ��! knowledge about oil still more, but outside assistii'ci: Uiul not know before. must bo secured. I ihe early pages are Canadian manufacturers have'scor-' hriet essays principally on agriculture ed distinctively by the way they have ;,���������,, .,���,, ,i ...On- li i.. i ,.,ikh ni' i adapted thorns, lives lo new conditions.! ��� - . , , , , . '"IS,S '' ' snlne' " ls '' ''���"" '" I heard from a well-informed source, a"',8 minister of the country, by uthoritles here had contract- various ministers and commissioncis ed lo take away every shell thai a well-known Toronto lirm could turn out until tin.' end of August, a lirm, by the remotest connection with tlie production of war material until within the last few :nont'.s. This is not only interesting as an Indication of what is expected In regard to the duration of the war by the authorities here, but goes to show that on Canadian manu-. - , . , , . ��� ��� ,. torturers, in Increasing measure, will Belgium was not only the most bio- depend the production of supplies 1 }_. P��.��ulat��lL__ _.!' _'._!!' ._?_._a__.__' also learn that the Russia government general complaint thai the demand for horses other than for military P111'-1 J., ' JJ." poses luis fallen off and thai prices are less by from 25 to -10 or 50 per cent, than 'hey yere in 11113. Owing to tho high price of grain, thn keeping of swine In the west is suid to be no longer a paying proposition, lings have been sold f r what thoy will fi ich- frequently for i; little as 3'i eent:i per pound -and many bave been marketed in an unfinished condition. On the other hand, the p_ees of . it tlo have been well maintained, and the average values for j have placed an order for shells with dairy cows and for other horned catlb. \ another Toronto Arm whose represent are considerably above those of 1910. | attve has just returned from Petro lay up a slock tilings that he devoted to al matters, but also on the duty of us j all, by the prime minister, by the I'm- of agriculture of the Dominion and the provinces, and by tho learned proles sors of agricultural colleges and directors of experimental farms. Following are given industrial and agricultural details in brief of each European country engaged in the war or affected by the war, and of the British possessions. From this ii is learned that prior to the outbreak of hostilities, males, whilst the average cost of board per month works out to $14.27 $14,551,000; and swine, $42,418,000 for males and $11.20 for females, as ; an aggregate of $725,530,000 for compared with $12.49 and $0.53 in | descriptions War Creates New | Destroy Zeppelins Trade for Canada Maxims Material Used in High Explosive Can be Easily Undertaken by Steel Companies Undoubtedly ono of the most important new" industries which has been established in the Dominion since the war commenced is lhe manufacture of shrapnel shells, whicli are now being turned out in but also about the most industrious. In the lirst 82 days of the war, damage to the extent of $1,059,836,000 had been done, out of whicli $283,014,000 The averages per head fo:- Canada i grad, and doubtless the same eondi-1 . attributed to agricultural injury. come to $127 for horses, $57 for milch ! tion applies to firms In other parts of Northern France has suflcred piopo - Canada' | ttonately to an einial extent, itussia, What has impressed the authorities, here most of all is the remarkable facility with whicli Canadian flrmB havo converted their plant for the purpose of making war munitions. It has been warmly appreciated on all sides, and, in the view of my informant, a rapid and extensive increase in the number of wur orders placed In the Dominion will be seen. It is interesting to note that neither the government of France nor of | Russia liad any conception ot what Incendiary Rifle to Fight the manufacturer.', of Canada c.uld d remit u0 '" ,ll's *'*'"��� ,u"' what the.y have _ircraii (lone jn t|le last tf,w raoul|ls llas sur-1 A projectile to destroy Zeppelins prised even the home government,1 '''"' '"' ' ' '"" who now appreciate how splendidly j they have cope 1 with new conditions. cows, $12 for other cattle, $7 for sheep, and $12 for swine. The following is believed to be a rough approximation of the total value of Canadian farm livestock in 1914: Horses, $371,- ���130,000; cattle, $297,131,000; sheep, or ill and otber aircraft is the latest In. ventton of Sir Hiram Maxim, of maxim gun fame. Sir Hiram claims that the new pro- ' jeetile tired either from a rifle or a | small Held cannon, would make a, sucessful _eppslin raid an impossi- j billty, Sir Hiram's idea is to obtain while pre-eminently an agricultural country, producing nearly one-fourth of the world'n wheat, fully a fourth of its oats, a third of its barley and a half of ils rye. still possesses immense manufactiirii.g industries, it also abounds in minerals, and its forests, of which thev��� are 900- million acres, are the finest the earth knows. Canada's interest lies In particular with the export trade of Germany, much of which this coin.try l.as tbe I right and expectation to secure. In 1913, we learn from the War Dook, Germany imported nearly one-eighth I of all the world had to sell, and exported more tnan One-ninth of all the world wanted to buy. Her yearly out. put of manufactured goods ran up to I Hanson; between twelve and iif teen billion '' '" '" dollars, of which one-sixth at. least found its way to foreign markets that are now closed to her and in many cases will never be renewed. "Made in Germai.y," and ".Made in Austria," . '.iUge I from the government a large number iliiniitities by a large number ot tlrtns o�� ol(1 gel.vlce Martini-Henri rifles of in all parts of the "Dominion. Ilie es-1 45 bore iim] to n.,ke a projectile to fit whicii would travel like a rocket tabllshment of Ihe new industry not only enables many Canadian firms to keep their factories running, and to retain their employees at good wages, but is, in addition, an important factor in providing munitions of war for the arduous fight still ahead of the allied armies. It is announced that still another industry has been created from war conditions. Thin is the manufacture of tuol-abase, a material used in high explosives, which is in much demand in Great Britain and the other warring countries. Thl;, is a by-product of the coke ovens, which will also produce benzol, a gas engine fuel of high power. These products can be Button Saved Canadian Officer of Princess Pats Had Narrow Escape When He Stepped to Save Subaltern I familiar, will, it is to be hoped, be An officer of the Princess ..Pats, largely replaced by "Made in Canada." writing from tiie front, says: ""Wie Vhat is ol special interest is the fact last time we came cut ot tho trendies i thai Germr.ny in .1913 produced 2,720,- my subaltern was hit just below Cie 000 tons of refined sugar from beets, knee, and as we were tjh�� him up i mined 200,000,000 tons of coal and the surplus of the latter now iu stock is being used for flour. Germany b mght between seven and eight million geese from Itussia annually, and sold Croat Britain between eleven and twelve million bushels of oats. She also in 1913 imported 160,000 tons- mark it, tons���of eggs. These statements will sufficiently show the vast disturbances that has taken place in Herman productive trade. Austria-Hungary exported in bulk as many men and horses as it did of material, from 150,0ni) to 2bO,'JOO immigrants crossing the seas every year. But the dual empire is exceedingly rich in minerals and Hungary is one of the principal grain growing regions of Europe, tlie average produce being 145,000,000 bushels of wheat, 4��,5no,000 bushelr. of rye, 53,- 500,000 bushels of barley, tj5,uu0,000 bushels of oats and 118,000,1100 bushels ot corn. Hunga.y, too, is rich iu live stock, having in 1014, 21,309.000 horses, 7,300,000 cattle, 8,600,OOOi sheep and 7,500,000 swine. Frcni these figures it would seem that it wil! be a tougher job to starve ait Germany than reports would make it appear. Statistics are al o given in the Agricultural War Book of the produce and trade of Great Britain, France, Italy, Servia, Denmark. Norway, Sweden, Houmania and other countries, but the foregoing facts are sufficient >to show tbo educational value end what may be called the international scope of the work. Pnrt IV. consists of articles with exact details of the live stock situation, by H. S. Arkell, assistant live slock commissioner at Ottawa; by C. M. MacRae, abo of Ottawa, on horses; on the meat supply, by the health of animals branch, Ottawa; on the dairying industry by J. A. Hud- dick, Dominion dairy commissioner; ou seed, by Geo. H. Clark, the seed department, Ottawa; on growing potatoes, by W. T. Jlacoun. Dominion horticulturist, and on .he world's grain situation, by T. K. Doherty. commie- Blotter Imperial Agricultural institute. Part V. deals with farm '.abor " llax fibre���the empire's need and our , opportunity, by A. 1 McCredie; with ! tbe sugar beet Industr/, by C. H. Too Much Wheat:'' by Dr. C. C. James, commissioner ot agriculture, Ottawa; "Britain's Breed P_o6- lem," by Kdward Brown, and a variety of other matter, including in particular, fertilizers. Prof. C. A. Z_v_._; contributes a notable article on Can- and give off a sen. of bright sparks during the whole length of its flight. se{\,y_roge^rr,i,sIli____?r__^ ' ��- �����'��� ��� �� '- ��'"".'�� ��-��'���-*>�� '- "f ""�� <"'" but the right kind of spark will do it. These rifles should be put in the hands of a great number of people��� men and boys who know how to use :: gun, and there are plenty ot such in Britain. "A storm of incendiary bullets directed at a hostile airship would soon havo the desired effect; for it would only require one little spark to bring the Zeppelin to destruction. The bullet in falling back might break slate roofs, but the falling with which we had most of us become , adian root ,seeds. " Part VI. is entitled "Feeding the Fighters" and gives statistics of exports, imports and produce of the the most enlightening character, the whole con.tituting a hand book of invaluable worth. r\ In addition to the War Book, the Dominion departme.il of agriculture ia Issuing a large number cf bulletins. ments latter 1 begi.n to feel all right and that while using in that year of and got up and we took the subaltern peace 225,800 tons of copper, she to the drersing station, I afterwards could only unearth 23,000 tons of her each dealing with special subjects, examined my knit and found the bill-' own accord. Germany normally iih. and all of which can be had without let had gone through my rucksack j ported one-sixth of tlie cereals she . expense by applicaiion to the publiea- and stopped at the brass buckle of I consumes, but exports enormous | tions branch, department of agrfctii- manufactured by tlie steel companies I velocity would not be very great. ot the Dominion, with a slight extension of their present plants and without any interference with their regular products. it is stated that the Dominion Steel corporation bas alread - received satisfactory contracts from the' government for tuol-abase, and when the 'I should also recommend a light gun whicli two men could carry about on their shoulders, with a very simple mounting to rest on the ground. This gun would have a bore of 1 _ inches, and would be . rovided with a projectile that could , no harm in falling, This projectile can be made manufacture of the product has i but 1 can say no more about it until reached a satisfactory basis further 1 get permission to do so. heavy orders are oxpected from tlie j "if that permission comes we shall Ilritish government. Tlie extent of: soon have something that makes us the orders has not been made public, i feel safer than we do at the present but it is stated that tbey are highly satisfactory, Benzol, the o' er by-product of tlie coke ovens, can be used as a substitute for petrol, or gasoline, lt is more powerful than gasoline, but requires some 20 per cent, more air, and only requires a slight ii���justnient in the carburetors to be used In curs and motor boats. time. Hut at the moment the idea is to havo something simple and cheap, than can be pul in the hands of n great number of people, and that Is why 1 recommend the Incendiary I rifle." my equipment, lt knocked the wind otit of me, but did no further damage, "lt is astonishing how little news wa hear, but tlie naval victory in the North sea was much appreciate,:. We were in the trenches at tbe time. The men all cheered antl wanted to charge, but we kept them quiet." "In what meter shall I write this light verse, my dear?" "How would gas r.eter do?" J. J. Hill Starts Campaign University Professors to Tour Northwest and Address Farmers Under His Direction University professors under the direction of .lames .1. Hill will conduct a live stock campaign throughout the northwest. They will tour the northwest and address farmers. Prof. Howard K. Smith of the University of Minnesota has resigned his chair to direct tlie work for Mr. Hill. Prof. Smith will begin his work goon. lir. Hill's campaign will last a year. The campaign is a part of the work Mr. Hill had in mind when he associ- ut himself with Louis P. Swift in the Stock Yards National Bank of South St. Paul. Mr. Green- Now I'm going to tell vou something, Ethel. Do you know that last night, at your party, your 1 area, perhaps 500,000 acres Highbrow Quest (on perch of South- em hotel In evening -Yonder is Saturn. Lowbrow C.uci.t���Point It out tome. Not that. I care a- rap, only jus; so I can tell the fellows luck north that 1 saw _. MORE THAN USUAL The call is tut more food. . . ��� What wo want to understand is that it is millions of bushels, not millions of acres, that are called for; moro milk and butler and cheese, rather than more cows. It is n day when the economized use of labor will tell. . . . Let us re- meiniier that it is more bushels per acre, more pounds of milk per cow, more pounds of meat pe.' animal that will count, and that will mean more fcod per farm. Let us in 1915 make good on the farmer's fighting Una with "MORE THAN USUAL."- -C, C. .lames, at the 11115 annual meeting o" the commh.sion of conservation, quantities of potatoes. Without doubt ] tine, Ottawa. Undersized Bismarcks Kitchener's Strategy* German Diplomacy Has Undergone a Originated Myth About '.he Russians Change Since Bismarck's Landing in Scotland Dismissal *\ The famous hoax jf the lirst weeks The trouble with German diplomacy of war, wben a body of Russian sold- it that for many years back It has iers, said to numuer from 100,000 to been neither intelligent nor cautious. 200,000 men. were reported to hava After Bismarck's dismissal it gradual- circled around from Archangel, land- lv lost that foresight and breadth of ed iu Scottish ports and then shipped view which mado the great Chancel- through, at night to reinforce the lor's successor possible. Bismarck British forces in Franc., originated THE NATION'S SUPPLY OF WHEAT j framed his policiies witli foreign opinion and llie obvious interests of other I nations in plain view, ile did not worry about the effect of his diplomacy on German sentiment so long as he was sure of its effect In the world outside. lie felt his way carefully and played one outside interest against another before he struck, iu that way he Isolated Austria-Hungary in lSGti and France in 187U-7L ills successors l.ave followed another course, Tbey have given far less study to conditions and lhe drift of sentiment outside Germany nnd shaped their diplomacy so as to make ;t appeal Instead to Gorman pride and consciousness of power. In that way ihey have helped to unify Germany. But nt the same time they have unified foreign opposition and driven powers like Great Britain, France and Itussia to ignore former diversities of interest protection and to unite (or purpos on.���New York Tribune. The Wheat Are* in Great Britain Not Materially Increased Lord Milner's idea tbat the British wheat area can be trebled we believe will not bear examination. Any in risk of our losing and there is any ..��.. u. uu; _��_..B , ���, ,.(... ...,��� ,.elll<.,11,,0,.- Caesar," even temporarily thc command of the salfl thc jU(,ge (0 h)s nmlli ..tllilt y01ir sea, the policy of the government should be to aid our farmers to hold i and to encourage farmers in Canada, .rense would best the expense of one India, and later on in Australia, to of the other crops, and these require , grow as big a crop as possible, at the increasing not decreasing in the com-; same time leaving the Importing mer- ing season. It is not likely that valu- chant and miller of the United Mug-, aide permanent glass land will be dom every latitude quietly to accumu- broken up in any large quantity for' late an extra reserve of five or six tho sake of raising high priced wheat' million quarters. Tins, of course, they vote is about your dearest possession." "Yassuli," sah'. Caosnr. "Al. m kjep- ln' dut in mind. Jedge; but. at desame time, suli, we get tub boab in mind de fact ilat it '.on't pay tn muke it so dear nobody kin ..fford to buy it, sub." with Lord Kit liencr himself, according to a statement made by a British officer to a correspondent of the Daily Dispatch, lt is a noteworthy fact that, although the myth spread like wild tire through the Uui ed Kingdom witn any number of witn.sses to swear Ihey hud seen and talked to the Russians in their native language, the preBS bureau .lid not issue an official contradiction fur a long period. The RuiBian tory, says ths Britisli officer, '.'.as designed to impress the Cirman commanders in Belgium and Northern France and keep them in fear of a urpris , either in tbe rear or on the western flank It accom- pUshcd its purpose, for this lread was real among the German staff, and ac- rouutfl to some extent for the retreat Tom Paris of Gen. Von Kluck. To give color to the report Lord Kitchener is said to havj caused a s'es of hundred transports laden with sundry goods to be sent from Scottish ports to Archangel after insuring tiiem in Holland. And when the British troops were moved from various points in Scotland and the north of England to the c'.'.annel ports, he ordered the blinds of the train to be lowered so as to arouse popular curiosity and speculation. . retty thin, sir. Been ', tl sister promised to marry me! I hope you'll forgive me for taking her away. Little Ethel���Forgive you, Mr. Green? Of course, I will. Why that's What the party was for. for a single season, ln our own conn try we fear it is hopeless to iook for any very great increase in thc wheat or per- chance 1,000,000 acres might be added to the 2,000,000 acres normally under the premier cereal, but even that ls a good deal to expect. If the war Is going to be a long one, will not do if tl elr enterprise, is checked by hints in the _ tvts or from I Mr. Cltyhred���Do yon milk?'.' Mr. Tailgrass Net nothing, it. Barber���Hair at way long? ? Man in i'i. ir���Long? I was born I thut way. It Is true that 8Ubsequontly one ever gives 1 enjoyed a period of liitsute efflores- your cows give elsewhere that it .-rices are raised the , '}"'��� authorities may step in and li.v an .ael lm official price. If merchants are to be expected to sliouldcr the task of as-' Cll>mon suring the nation's food supply, their j you keep? enterprise mus*. not be discouraged, i Subtirbanit -Corn Trade News. ] twelve I ave to swap 'em fod- ence, but it did not ndure. How many serv: its -About one out 1 What kind of �� reputation has d0 Jones got? So good that he can wear cun but- 0( ' tons with other people's initials ��nd get away with it. THE COURTENAY REVIEW The Courtenay Review And Comox Valley Advocate A Week} Newspaper, Pubished at Courtenav, I!. C. N. It. Bodbn, Mditor ainl Proprietor Subscription (LEO per Year in Advance Telephone .SO THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1915 COMOX Mr. Joint llntn ��� uml, the Posl Office contractor, .'sited Coinox on Wednesday morning. Mr. I Ini mis, Asst. I', 0. Inspector, paid n visit tu all the post offices iu tlm district last week, Mr. and Mrs. H. \V Walsh left Comox by this morning's boat for Toronto, where they will make their home' in future. Jerry Kentttra was about town jesterday, lie is taking a few days lest, preparatory to going ranching on a large scale. Mrs. and Miss Spencer, of Cornwall street, Vancouver, have been the gnosis of Mrs. C. C, Piercy for the past week. They are delighted with the splendid scenery and cannot say too much for the invigorating sea breezes. On Tuesday they paid a visit to the boom camp where they were entertained by the manager, Mr. Peter Donnelly. Mrs, Horace .Smith, of Quathiski Cove, is a guest at Ur. Beadnell's. Her son is reported wounded at the front. Prayers were offered at St. Peter's church on Sunday for his recovery and safe return. J. Cecil Smith has rented his place to Conductor Fletcher, and has removed to Quathiski Gove for the summer Mr. Eustice .Smith has also gone north for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. (Capt.) Tom Cliffe of Vancouver are visiting With Mrs. Cliffe. J. E, Stillwell, chief firewarden for this disttict, was here last week. Mrs. Tyson, who has been visiting with her brother, Rev. Franklin Watson for some time, left for Vancouver on Monday's train. Miss Meadows, of Deiunau Island is lhe guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. Frauklin-Watson, at the vicarage. Anglican church services will be held til Lazo ou Sunday at 11 a, in, and at St. Peter's, Coinox, at 7:30 p. in. Mr, and Mrs. Hoiles have gone lo Howen Island, where he has secured a position. Dr, Morrison D. I��� S,, of Courteuay, was a visitor in town on Wednesday. The soldiers from the Wireless station passed through towu on Tuesday morning on a "hike." Mr. and Mrs. McRae, Miss Brown and Mr. Jack Quenell, of Nanaimo spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Barlow, at the Lome Hotel. The members of St, Peter's Guild at Gomox have decided to hold a Social Afternoon in the vicarage grounds, Comox, weather perm it- ting, on Tlitiisdnv, Mny 20th, commercing at 3 o'clock. The program will consist of. Baby Show, first, second prize for babies tinder 6 months, and under 12 months. A nuifical entertainment during which tea will be provided, 1. m'el prize, laii'.'le game. A sale of work flower roots for budding out, etc Proceeds towards Vicarage fund. I'Mitur Courtenay Dear Mr. Bdlti Review r.- A lew ol the citi zens assembled by the P. (1, on Monday morning to witness the hoisting of the Union jnck for the lirst time outside tlie building, It gave otic great pleasure to do this, as I have always taken a greal interest in Comox 1'. (I., uiul worked heart uml soul for it iu its infancy. It is now three years since II. Clements M. P. was approached mi granting us a 1'. 0. here, anil for a time tilings looked very uiicrtiiin. However, we eventually gained our point. For those who nre not thoroughly conservaut with the facts I would like to say that at one time Comox hail a so-called P. (). iu a local store. The building was ver) congested evilly ventilated, und more than inconvenient both (or the customers inn! the unfortunate P. M. I ofteu think it was the sii^nt of the wretched place that decided Mr. Clements mi doing something fur us. I talked tu Mr. Clements for hours, some people lure sny days ami weeks, I.vcutuuUv be decided thai if wc could give n clear title Iii a suitable building site mir chances would be good tor a post office, V. R, Robb was approached, lie came to the front like a mull, ami his price was such that the citizens (poor as they were) found the money nt once, and money was even refused us we bud all we wanted to make the price for the lot. Mr, Manson M. P, P., must not be omitted from the lisi of workers on our behalf. His influence was .strongly exerted ou getting us a P. o. here. Wc have now n building that is 11 credit to Comox, anil the latest additions viz, beautiful interior fixtures, cement sidewalks, anil last but not least, the flag pole with the Union Jack proudly flying aloft, give the: whole place a city appearance, Comox has made a g I start, the place may be smalt lull I hope lhat .Mr. Clements ami Mr, Manson know und realize that we appreciate tlieir elTorts in giving such an up-to-date building to this place. May thev live Ions uiul die happy ! , Thanking you Ior your valuable space. Yours truly liisepb II. Grieve, Comox I��. 0., Box 1, May -I, 1915, Locusts in Eastern Canada Fen* people who have not experienced a plague ct le.cttsts can appreciate how terribly destructive the pest can be. In Circular No. 5, of the Entomological Branch of the Federal Department of Agriculture. Mr, Arthur Gibson, Chief Assistant Entomologist, tells something about locusts or "grasshoppers" that everv tiller of the soil should know. He states that for the last three years the pest has been extremely destructive in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. In one distiict of Lanark County alone, an estimated loss of $6,000 was caused, representing 75 per cent of lhe crops. In a number of instances fields of barley and oats were cut green to save for feed, while iu other cases in the province of Quebec farms have been abandoned owing to the prevalence of locusts. The insects are most impartial in their attention, attacking all kinds of grain and vegetables, After describing the different species which are liable to infest any part of Canada, Mr. Gibson suggests as an efficacious poison, a bran mash that has beeu well tried, consisting of Bran 20 pounds Paris green of white arsuic... 1 pound Molasses 2 quarts Oranges anil lemons 3 fruits Water 3 1-2 gallons It is said that the oranges ami lemons make the bait more attractive nnd hence lend to the undoing of tlie locust. . gx- periments mude witli this mixture, whicli can be concocted at small cost, have proved most successful, in one case no fewer than from 900 to I, _00 dead locusts lieing counted to the square yard. Besides illustrating Uie efficiency of the poison this statement also proves the alarming ami overwhelming nature of the creatures, As every farmer should lie prepared to protect liis crops against CUMBERLAND LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S WEAR Cotum Crepe, Yoi'es, Zephyr Gingham, Ducks, Piques, Galateas, Prints Ladies' House Dresses from JS1.50 in 82.50 in sizes ,?4 to 51 Children's Play Suits, Rompers, Blouses aud Busier Suits iu Duck, Holland and Galatea in Ladies' Misses and Middy Blouses Children's White. Self Colored and Striped Wash Huts Ladies', M tsses ami Children i Ready-To Wear Hats Ladies', Misses, Youths and Child's Tennis Shoes in while, brown aud navy New Models in C-C Corsets from 75c to $5.00 Gents' Furnishings Made-To-Mea_ure Clothing. There isn't the least doubt in the world that you will be absolutely satisfied with anv suit vou buy f:on CAMI'BHU/S CI/OTHING. Otber well dressed men are buying it regularly each time tin v need new clothes. If you have , ot yet found the make that satisfies you why not try Campbell's Clothing next time The Newest Styles High Crown Men's Soft Felt Hats Telescopes in tlie Leading Shades Hard Hats in all the Latest Shapes Straw Hats in tlie popular Boater Shnpe with high crown, $1,50 to $5 Have W. G. McKEAN General Merchant You Tried Our "Own" Special Blend Tea? We have a new shipment of Tea in stock direct from Japan We guarantee this to be the best Tea sold at 50 cents per pound in this town or district. Let us prove this to you by selling you a trial pound the pest, he should see to it that as soon as possible he becomes possessed of this invaluable circular, and thit he can do by applying to tile Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture. Ottawa. English Church Notes W rk has been commenced on the new Anglican Mission Church at Grantham. This will take the form of a memorial church, and is the gift of au old country rector who has announced his intention of leaving certain small bequests to it in his will. The church will be dedicated to S Mnry, the Virgin. On 1'iiilav last the parochial branch of the Woman's Auxiliary of the church in Canada held its | annual business meeting in the Sunday School rooms in Courtenay. Reports of the year's work wuri: presented and passed, ami delegates were chosen lo attend the annual meetings of the Diocesan branch at Victoria ou May IS and 19. It was decided to hold a garden fete in the Vicarage grounds early in July, The Financial statements presented shewed that the work is inking steady pi ogress, and the GARDENING Now is the time to procure your seeds for early planting We carry a full stock of First Class Seeds and Implements THE CORNER STORE Telephone 4 SANDWICK C. P. DUNDAS Barrister aud Solicitor, 1'. I). Bo Notary !09 Publl. Phone 24 Courtenay F- P I Iv I Plastering Contractor The Dyke COUR.T_._AY '.sthniitcs Furnished Work Guaranteed PERCY WINCH "GRAND DUKE CIGARS" SIDNEY, B. C. When In Doubt Play Trumps Have Goard Tune Your Piano Factory Experience Recommends from Leading Musicians from tlie Atlantic to the Pacific. Copies of same furnished ou request W. J. Goard will ne iu this city about August 1. Leave orders at this Office, or write direct to 845, 8th Ave., W. - Vancouver Cumberland Hotel Gooil Accomodation Cusine Excellen Wm. Merryfield Proprietor CAMERAS and all KODAK SUPPLIES The members of Hiram Lodge, No. 14, A. F. & A. M., will meet at the Masonic Hall on Sunday, May 9, at 7 p. in,, for the purpose of attending Divine Service ill the Presbyterian Church, Courtenav. All visiting bi_th.rn are cordially invited to be present. J. W. McKUNZlE, Sr., W- M. suits for the baseball team, A gasoline pump has been secured to keep down the dust when our stars make a home run. So, as French remarked, "ve aie highly satisfied with lhe on'look." Provision- is being made for both football and laciosse teams to play also. A large number of Ty Cobbs were out last practise sbowing plenty good material" Next (censored) afternoon the Bevan team are ex ROBERTSON'S DRUG STORE Palace Livery &FeedSta_k Herses and Buggies for Terms cash. Hire We also attend to wood hauling: SON JAS. CAIRNS & Proprietors Courtenav Phone 25 First-Class Plumbing Hot Water and Steamlitting. Jackson & Whittle Phone a Courtenaj* BENJ. MOORING General Blacksmith ollclt Your Patroftnge, Cnroful .Uluntloii Given to Horses Knot Mil.I. STREET COURT I. NAY PORT AUGUSTA HOTEL Comox, B. C. First-class Accommodation. Best secretary was able to announce pected down for the first match of l Q��ality Wines Liquors and Cigara several new members. It was de cided to have a Corporate Communion service iu the near future. W. G. McKEAN General Merchant Diamond Dust The Courtenay Athletic Association is making good. Foractivity and getting there they have the "Allewauds" beat ten Kilometers. The executive has made every effort to make the coming season's sport a big success. The baseball diamond will be cindered, elavbanked and rolled. The outer field gone oyer and leveled. Our Mayor has most liberally donated the lumber for a grand stand, winch will be erected back of the home plate. Mr. Mayitnrd of the Silver Spring Co. most generously promised new the season. The next game will be with Cumberland City team. The team committee lias drawn up a team to play next game, to try out players in certain positions. All Club members wishing to play will be given a try-out, no favoritism will be shown in this respect, as we are out to win that cup. and no doubt all members are sports enough to see the very pick of the club do bal tie. Provisional Team P, Robinson. C. Downey. 1 B Henry. 2 B. Dixon (Captain.) 3 B. J. Donelly. ���3. S. J. Anderton, R. F, H. Grieve, M. Downey. C. F. Glazbrook, McHelvie. L,. F, R. Harding, H. Mitchell. R. McCuish, Prop. To Bake or Not to Bake? The former is really unnecessary when Bread from the. Courtenay Bakery is available andby reason ofquality has so many votaries. Get the A B habit and satisfaction W. Aitken - rop. Opposite new Preslj teriau Chunk Q THE COURTENAY REVIEW THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.O., L _. D.. D.CX., President ALEXANDER LAIRD. General Manager JOHN A1KD. Ass't General Manager CAPITAL, $15,000,000 RESERVE FUND, $13,500,000 SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNTS Interest at tho current rate is allowed on all deposits of $1 and upwards. Careful attention is given to every account. Small accounts ���re welcomed. Accounts may be opened and operated by mail. Accounts may be opened in the names of two or more persons, withdrawals to be mnde by any one of them or by tho survivor. 821 F. C. BROCK, Manager, Courlcnay'Branch Mr. J. Wihnsht rst, who has been road superintendent here for the past four years has been trans ferred to llie mainland, with head quarters at Powell River. Strath- cona park hns also beeu added to his district, lt must be highly satisfactory to Mr. Wilmshurst lo leave tin.' roads in mi good shape, considering Unit when be came here llieir were only two or three cars in the district und it was an almost impossible feat *to drive n car to Catnpell River, now there is Hot to be loiuul anywhere in the province a better piece of road than between Courtenay and Oyster River. When he enr e here he revolutionized the aysii r> in vogue, and has standardized and widened all the roads in the district. Mr. Wilmshurst is recognized by the Department to be oue of the best road supervisors in the province, aud this is evidenced by his being appointed to look after Strathcona Park. He was in charge of the roads for many years at Greenwood B. C, and was taken from there to Victoria, where he acted as travelling inspector for a time before coming to Comox. Dining his residence here Mr. Wilmshurst kept the business of making roads out of pololics, which did not ph'ase some extremists. Mr. Wilmshurst s bluff, hearty ma'uier has won him many friends in the Valley, who* while regretting his dearture wish both him and bis family the best of luck in his new Sphere of activities. Mr. Wilmshurst enters upon his new duties this week. The family will not move to Powell River until midsummer. Mr. J. McLeod, of Cumberland, his succcssrr here, com inenced l.is duties on May ist. Kerosene will restore soiled playing cards to their original fresh ness. exbess oil being removed by coiling them with talcum povvchr until dry. The Bugle Bast (o C.na_a Readers of lhe newspapers and followers of lhe war musi long ago have lu come convinced that t he situation grows in,no and more in- lense nml critical day by day. (ileal Biiliuin is fii-ed not alone bv outside enemies, but by labor troubles and by lack of those immense internal resources in tbe matter of food production that Germany and Austria-Hungary possess. She cannot feed herself, aud is compelled to rely largely on oilier countries for a supply of the necessaries of life. In such ei.se the duty of her children Is distinctly plain. It is noteworthy of her enemies that Ihey are not only thoroughly united, but that they nie enduring with what fortitude they possess the rigid military enforcements that are placed upon them for the conservation bnt': of food and material. Every man, woman, and child, from the Kaiser down, have been put on rations. The idea is three-fold, to guard against auy possible emergencies, to mislead the foe into over-confidence and by thoroughness to bring such pressure to bear as will hasten the final decision. Britiain is pursuing thc same course. She has not yet found il necessary to place her population individually on short rations, but she has found it desirable to take over nunitiou factories in order to ensure supplies that mean either life or death to the nation. Meantime, Germany by cowardly sub.uarlne assassination is endeavoring to starve her people and cripple her resources. With such a state of affairs existent it i.s hardly ncteasary to explain to stay-at-home Canadians how best they can fulfil their manifest duty and s! ow the burden bearers how completely they possess their sympathy. But the bugle blast bas its rallving nower in peace as in war. To all the people, and to urn farmers, breeders uud settlers in particu'ar, the Patriotism and Production movement that was in pro gress is blowing ils bugle, or in other Words, carrying its message Its object is to arouse all and sundry to the part thev are culled on to play. That part 'Iocs nol of necessity mean harder work or loci eased acreage; but it does imply the exercise of every faculty Inattention and vigilance. It does imply iu ordtr to secure increased and improved production, bv which alcne cultivators of the soil enn contribute toward-, ih ��� eiedit of tbe country and empire, the greatest care in the selection of setd, in the breeding of live stock and iu economy of the land, J. LAFOREST General Bl.. COMOX Telephone M smith B. C, Cm lim r Irli ''it- Morse I a ; Pumping (mtlits ii ��� .' ,,, i 11; nnd Roat Irons a : ; cialty I] I l\ ,,'. '.'.cl Hoof Ointment A Work *'" tranteed Seattle, ���Not situ-, thegrenl rturopenn conflict started has tint. been such a strong beliel on this side an ul thu pre- M'i'1 rvMs thut tin.' etui i~ iipproneliing uml Uml when it arrives the Allies will be si tiny ou top with lu- flag nt victory floating overhead, Business i u this Bide is quite ou the mend uml students nl conditions say tin- promised revival is due i" tlu- fact Hun mi ilu- jntlgmi nt ol fur seeing people llu war has not much longer to go. kitchei er with his cnor nuns new army is tu w about ready n strike what is believed will prove the decisive blow of llu- war. Aside from tlie great joy which news lor a victory lor tin- Allies would briug to tlie people of Camilla there is a commercial aspect to the thing which would be welcome to the farmers of Canada, lt relates to the hog and cuttle market. For some lime, it is undoubtedly true, Hint lhe h'og market lias not been in a very satisfactory condition, and the price of hogs bus been quite low, considering tlie price ef grain, hut now. idler mouths of low prices, a change bus come and it is for the better. Hogs ure going up iu price; they ure already higher in tlie Pugei Sound country than thay were a month ago und in 60 to 90 days from now they should be from n cent and a half to two cents high r. Th. meat paekers ou this side admit that it is only n question of n short time until they will be compelled in pay the ririce demanded by bog raisers, It is an absolute certainty they sny that there is going to lie il great scarcity of hogs. Grain has been so high thai farmers rather than feed it to their hogs have held on to il and got rid of their stock. A shortage in hogs is the result. There bus been a pretty general clean-up of tlie surplus pork brought aboat by the action of the farmers in selling tlieir stock, nnd now the price of pork is getting buck to normal nud the market is very much on the rise. The Canadian fanner who keeps his stock nud increases his hog supply is going to make a lot of money this summer and next fall. "MADE IN CANADA" Ford Touring Car Price $590 Your neighbor drives a Ford���why don't you? We are selling more Fords in Canada this year than ever before��� becarse Canadians demand the best in motor car set vice at the lowest pwsible cost. The "Made in Canada'' Ford it a necessity���not a luxury Buyers of Fonl cars will share in our prollts if we .ell 30,000 oarsbetweon August 1, 1011, uiul August 1, ims Runabout $M0; Tom n .Car $810; _. O. li. Ford On. tarlo, equ'pniont, Incluillug electric headlights, Cars on display antl sale at FORD GARAGE, COURTENAY THE ,_NIV_RSAL C *. H The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued an appeal which has also beeu signed by Cardinal Bourne, representing the Roman Catholics; and the President of the Free Church Council, representing English Nonconformists, itrping upon all the duty of bearing a voluntary part in tbe nation's self-discipline and self-sacrifice by abstaining from the use of alcohlic drink as a beverage during the continuance of the war. The House of Bishops in Cauada have also issued a similar appeal to every churchman in the Dominion, and specially asking them to refrain" from treating others. A nominating convention will be held in Courtenay on Tuesday next At present there does not seem to be any opposition to H. S. Clements the sitting member, ELK HOTEL Comox, B. C. Best Meals North of Naniamo Choicest Liquors and Cigars C. A. Martin, Prop. The Comox Barber Shop Oldest Shop in Courtenay Nothing But First Class Work Guaranteed. Baths in connection C. E. DA.RYMPLE, Prop. APPLY TO RICHARD CREECH FOR Sand and Gravel Rates Reasonable Cobblestone and Septic Tank Work All Work Guaranteed A. Beveridge, Courtenay Hotel Comox Cr -Operative Society Ltd. yy ^'MiA \-y l:'!-^'0Wm I-CSt. ! lealers in ���'ll kinds i.i' Meats, iViiiter, Eggs and Farmer's ! ...ihu- , Co led Meats a il". We Mill only (lie Trices are nl ways ' iw and satisfactor}. We pay best prices for pre lue Phone No. 2 Courtenay HEADQUARTERS FOR Buggies anil Express Wagons AU Riga Guaranteed ami Sold at the Lowest P ...' GEORGE B. LEIGHTON Blacksmith ard'Carriage Builder , COURTENAY Corporation of the City of Courtenay NOTICK is hereby given that n Coiir*- of Revision fnr the purpose 0 hearing complaints against the assess ments ns made for the year 1915, will be held in the Council Chamber, Courteuay Ii. C, on Monday, June 7th, at 10:00 o'clock a. m. Any person desiring to make com- 1'laint against the said assessment must give notice in writing to tbe assessor, stating the ground of his complaint, at least ten days before the above mentioned date. W. A. W. HAMES, c. m, c. Dated at Courteuay, B.C., this 27th day of April, 1915. OLAFF HENNING Painter .nd Paperhanger First Class Carrli Work Guarnntood : n i., .- ������': CHARLES CHARLTON Dyeing, CI en. rung; and Pressing o Garments turned out H__tie<v Alterations and repairs of every description Old Bank Boil '.::���_ Phone 17 Ccurtenay Try an Ad. in The Review, THE TELEPHONE The Advance Agent of Comfort and Convenience For a limited time Business or Residence Telephones will be installed upon payment of $5 Rental in advance For Particulars Telephone W. D. Denholm, Mgr 50 B. C. Telephone Co., limited _BE REVIEW. COURTNEY, B. C. __ % The Mystery (if the Ravenspurs liy Fred M. White Ward, Lock _ Co, Limited ..London, Melbourne and Toronto 11 H iini'iim in icreniu broke trom T< iii;;- lle dancoil aboul lho niiiiiniiin. For the tlmo impossible for liio aston- w In- icil iril flier tell U|)OII llu tlllllg," 111 .thing an over- "I would vears dI On, Abell, 1'iispur [or A cry -a orsky's lipi room like ; being li wo lslieil secretary lu dctci'iniii thi* was joy ur anguish. "Yen nie upsei abolH sir," lie sniil. Tehigorsky recovered himself ny a violent effort thai lefi blm trembling like n reeii Bwepl in tiie wind, Ile gasped for bream. "li was the madness ol whelming Joy!" lie cried, cheerfully have given ten my life lur ibis iuformatl yoti will have to go to ttav nie today." Abell .said nothing, lie was used ti> ihese swift surprises. "Vou are to see i 11 Ralph Ravenspur, Abell," continued Tehigorsky, "Nun ure nol lo call at the castloi you are to liaug about till you gel a chance of delivering my message unseen. The mere fuel Unit Ralph Hnvenspur is blind w.ll suffice for a clue to bis Identity. Lock up Hie time table!" Abell did so. lie found a train lo land Iiini ul Biston Junction, some ten miles from his destination. Hull' an hour later lie was ready to siart. Prom an iron safe Tehigorsky took a small object and laid it in Abell's band. "Hive him lhat," he said. "Vou are simply to say: "Tehigorsky���Danger,' and eome nway, unless Ralph Ravenspur desires speech with you. Now, go. And as you value your life, do not lose that casket." It, was a small brass box no larger fumbled wilb liis hands l'or than a cigarette ease, rusty anil tarn-1 islied, and covered with si range char- aclers, evidently culled from some long-forgotten tongue. villi those long hands iiuil seemed to lie always feeling for Millet it::;; like the tentacles uf an octopus, "Come with me In your groildgftlth- er's room," be Bald. "1 want you to lend me your eyes for a time." Geoffrey followed willingly Hie bedroom was exactly he Ravenspur bad quitted it, tor as yet the house- maid bud nol be' n there, ".Now look round you carefully." salt! Ralph, "Look for something of tiie common, I' maj i e a plei e ul' rag. 11 BCI'ap nf pa' ���', a spot of grease, or a dub of .some foreign substance on tbe carpet, Is there n lire laid ber "\o." Geoffrey replied. "Tlm grate is a large open one I will see I enn Iimi." The young fellOW se; ly l'or some lime no i ills palna. Then bis eyi benrthstone. "I ean only s no lutl | said. "In :i business like this, there are , no BUcll niiillers nS link' lilllli. ." Ralph replied. "A clue thai might 1 stand on a pin's p int often leads lo I greal resulls. Tell me what it is thnl i attraets yonr attention." "A brown slain mi lhe hearthstone. i It is about Ihu size Of tl palm of one's baud, ll looks very like ii piece ol glue dabbed down i "Take a. knife and scrape il up." snid Ralph, Ile spoke slowly and evi I dently under excitement well repressed. "Wrap ii In vour handkerchief ! uud give it to me, Has the stuff any particular smell'!" "Yes," asid Geoffrey, ''It bas il sickly sweet odor. I am si,re that I never smelt anything like i' before." "Probably not. There, i bnvo no further need of your sen Ices, and I I know that Veiv. is waiting for yott, ���e not about luliid. letnln Rupert lief ire. Hero Ravenspur only u few hours was sum lo blood pulse men I Geoff lie away tingling i i leaping .nun ia ivy wniche sin, lhe : he saw ih" _Dlll'd and i iu a motal box i lelti d onl and obliterated. iifi.y nv.pl had llll' ei the ���:es uiul llle m.ul OXCltQ- lop of llie gorse ves. i llie ll mass taken irefully slowed i Then tin- lire ill traces of it thin i ui" .villi I r Hi I wiih all niiolte gradually . fron . II Wil 1 wns wen Geoffrey nr.pl buck again lo Vera, rtrembling from bend tn fool, lie had ; mude up his mind whul to do. He j would say nolhlng uf ihis at range dis- whaticovei_' io Vera; ho would keep il for j Ralph liaveiispiii's ears nioiie Ralph mile-Muni I ii iu foreign parts and might iled ! understand the enigma, Meanwhile It J gel out of lhe i not prudent for j Ravenspur was I inlo Geoffrey's i he.-llllle necessary lo .Millies' way. II was iliein to know thai a o close, Vera looked i ten, wondering, "llow pale you i re!' "And bow long you inn "Come ami l"i II, wai' ; I'll y I Slolle I I Wil. be snid been!" said Geo. ��� "I I twisted my ankle uu a aiiil II gave me ji Iwingo ur U's all rlglii now. Shall we sit if we can gel us far as Sprawl Point nud back before luncheon?" i Vera roso to ihe challenge, she ml her prided herself on her powers as a walker. The oxerctse caused her j lo glow und tingle, ami all lhe way ii never occurred to her how silent mid , abstracted Geoffrey had becomu. (To be Continue'.!) Delicious m with Blanc Mange _ "l.ll.V WIIITK" i�� a plllv v. hill' l'"in Syrup - iiieii dell. ciile in flavor than "CntenUeaml". Porliapi you would prefer IL Tlnw you never tried "(Yawn Brand with Blanc Mange and other Com Starch Puddings? They seem to blend perfectly���each improves the (ilber���together, Ihey make simple, inexpensive desserts, that everyone tays are "simply delicious". liDYVA RDSBURO 'CROWN BRAND" CORN SYRUP Ii ready to serve over all kinds ol 1 .ulilinjjs��� iniiki s a new nml attractive dish ol such un old favorite as Baked Apples���is lar cheaper than butter or preserves when spread on bread���and is best lor Cnudy-Uiakiug. ASK YOUR GROCER-IN .. 6. 10 IND 20 I*. TIN*. THF. CANADA STAI1CH CO.. LIMITED Head Ollice - Montreal 30 !_!!ilIl_lllEi��lillllll_l______ soe ml, to CHAPTER V. A Ray of Light of expectation, ai uneasy nionientoit. events about hung over A sense feeling of to happen Ravenspur pea red to feel the strain. Her was pale, and, though she strove lo regain the old gentle gaiety One word before you go lo say n single word tn Ihis mallei'; not a stngl And no. 1 do not prop you any longer." Geoffrey retired with a puzzle, air. When the echo of his footsteps hud died away, Ralph rose and crept oul upon Ihe leads. He was shivering with excitement; there was a look of .iager expectation, almost of triumph, on liis face. Ile fell, his way along Uie leads until be came to a group of chimneys, about the centre one uf which lie some time. Then lhe look of triumph nn his face grew more marked ami stronger. "Assurance doubly sure." be whispered. His voice croaked hoarsely j with excitement, "If 1 had only somebody here whom 1 could trust! If 1 told anybody here whom 1 suspected Potash in Agriculture Real Testimony On Alfalfa face hard , her] Hi" doomed I (1"'>' wouul l'lse lili(' 01"'' lR'rs0"' anu Fur <ne.' Marion an-. ulrl me into u'e moat Aml ���' ''"" '" ' ' |} | do no more than suspect. Patience, patience and yet patience." From the terrace came the sounds eyes were red am, :;.,l,'��� will, weep-1 ***> C'Sn^ttr^taW8." Ml through breakfast she watched! ���'"""��� ��B|!>; m thejr tarnjji Uelr bten Ravenspur in -f��>-- .fJ^yta^Uon^H* | SS^'of'IS.K'S^ ����____. ___ tne. throw off the strain easily. seemed to have obtained snme kind of hold over her. Yet. untiling.could be more patient, dull, and stolid than the way In which he proceeded with the meal, lie appeared lo dwell in an unseen world of bis own; the stirring events of the previous night nad left uo Impression on him whatever. For lhe most part, Ihey were a sad and igliont party. I'lie terror that walked by night and day was stealing closer to them; it was coining in u new and still more dreadful form. Accident or the Intervention of Provi. denco bad averted a dire tragedy; but it would come again. Ravenspur made liglil of the matter. He spoke of the danger as something past. Yet it was impossible j ��� wholly to conceal the agitation that lillcd him. Ile saw Marlon's pale, sympathetic face; be .saw t'hi3 heavy tetus in .era's eyes, and a dreadful sense of liis absolute mil otsnee came to bim. "Let us forget it," he said almost cheerfully. "Let. us think- no more of the mailer. No doubt, science can explain this new mystery." "Never," Ralph said in a thrilling whisper. "Science is powerless here." The speaker's sightless eyes were turned upwards; he seemed to be thinking aloud rather tbnn addressing tbe company generally. Marion turned as If something had slung her. "Uncle Ralph knows something that be conceals from us," she cried. Ralph smiled. Yet be bad the air of one who is displeased with hini- _ If. "I know many things that are mercifully concealed from pure natures like Mini's," he said. "But as to what happened lust night I am as much in the dark as any of you, All, if 1 wore nol. blind!" A strained silence followed. (Ine by one the company ruse until tha room was deserted, save for ilulpii Ravenspur and his nephew Geoffrey, The handsome lad's Pace was pile, his lips quivered. "I am dreadfully disappointed, uncle," lie observed. "Meaning from your tone that you are disappointed with ine, Geoff. Why?" "Because you spoke at lirst as if you understood things. And then you professed lo be as ignorant as ibe rest of us. Oli, it is ..wl'ul! I���I would not enre so much if 1 were less fond of Vera than 1 am. I love her; 1 love ber with my whole heart and soul. If you could only see the beauty of her face you would understand. "And yet when she kisses me good night I am never sure that it is not for the last time. - feel that I must wake up presently to llnd that all is ah evil dream- Ani we can do nothing, nothing, nntliing but wait and tremble and���die." Ralph made n. reply: indeed there was no reply to this passionate outburst. The blind man rose from the table and groped his way to the door They walked along side by side until they came to the cliffs. Here the rugged ramparts rose high with jagged indentations and rough hollows, There were deep cups mid Assures in Hie rocks where a regiment of soldiers might lie securely bidden, For miles tlie gorse was (lushed with its golden glory. "Let us sit. down and forget our troubles,'1 r.ald Geoffrey. "How restful the time if we could sail away in a ship, Vera, away to the ends of the earth, where we could hide ourselves from ibis cruel vendetta and be at pence. What use is the Kavenspur property to us whe . we are doomed to die'.'" Vera shuddered slightly and tho exquisite face grew pale. "They might spare us," she said plaintively. "We are young and we have done no harm to anybody. And Several Canadian Sources of Potash Are Available to the Farmer For many years the SlasBfurl mines I In Germany have been practically tho sole source ol' tl.e potash compounds I used for fertilising purposes on this continent. Anion,", the evil effects reuniting from the present war, there- ' fore, may be counted the cutting off I from the markets of the world the supply of this material. Dr. Shuti, : Dominion chemist, regards this cir- ! cumstance as not so serious as some I may consider. In order to place bis | views before the farmers of Camilla i Dr. Shult has issued Circular No, 7 of I the Experimental Farms, "Potash In Agriculture." It lakes up the subject | under several heads and reaches the 1 following conclusions: "it is only our light, sandy and I gravelly soils that are markedly deficient in potash and this element is only I specially called for by clover, pota- toes, roots and leafy crops generally.! There is yet some potash in ilie mar-1 I ket though it will probably have to1 i be purchased in tlie form of a com-1 ! plete fertilizer. We have several Can- j adian sources of potash available to' | tbe farmer���notably liquid manure, wood ashes und sea weed���materials rich in this useful constituent and, j which are more or less rapidly obtain- i able, in many parts of the Dominion. ; And lastly there are the indirect j j potassic fertilizers, which though not i j adding to the sum total of the soil's j potash yet may serve a useful purpose by liberating it 111 available forms \ No More Profitable Crop Than Alfalfa is Opinion of This Farmer The Northwestern State Bank of Orange City, lu., believes in alfalfa��� ��� It is conducting an alfalfa growing contest and offering JlfiO in prizes. In its announcement, the bank snys; "Sioux county is worth from two or three times ns much today as il was i ten years ago, but wo are still raising about the same number of bushels of i corn, oals and wheal to the acre. Every farmer will soon be asking him- | self these questions: How can 1 Increase the yield of the crops which I 'now raise'.' And what new crop can 11 raise whicli will give nie larger re- : turns I'rom my land? The answer is found in one Word���ALFALFA.' "Heretofore our farmers have paid very little attention to alfalfa and it is practically a new crop here," writes (lerritt J, Slob, casiiier. "Three of our farmers who have put in alfalfa have had remarkable success. Kudosed find statement :,igued by one of our progressive young farmers, showing his experience with alfalfa. Your July number was a good one to circulate among our farmers." Here is the statement Mr. Slob enclosed: Orange City, la., June 15, i914. This is to certify that in the fall of 1911, on my farm on 3 mile west of Orange City, I seeded 4'^. acres to alfalfa. During the summer of 1013 1 received 14 tons from the lirst cutting, nine tons Irom the second cutting.' and I would have received partment of Agriculture at Ottawa. ! Produce Cheap Pork and thus in times such as the present seven tons from the third ctittin may help to tide us over until potasti \ bllt i was away trom ilome, and lho al- compounds are once more upon the faifa was not'cut. The lirst two cut- market." tings amounted to '22 tons, whicli at This circular is available free at ju per ton amounted to $253. Hr.d the Publications Branch of the De-1 j cut jt three times, 1 would have ;realized over $:;:10 from the 4V_ acres, which is over $711 per acre. This season 1 expect, to cut more tons of hay from the field tban I did last year. I am thoroughly convinced that Ihere is not a more profitable crop than alfalfa. (Signed) It. ... BRINKS. This is the kind of story we like to print���Hint we want more of���the real thing���no ti eoiy���a story of agricultural experience secured by ths from one of his farmer ens- It bears out our slogan- farm."���The Bank- Hog Raising Contest in North Dakota Shows Big Profit in Pork Production The contest among the boys and girls in hog raising ln North Dakota was interest ing to the observer us well as the boys. In tlie tlrst plac : it showed that cheap pork can be produced i banker on the farm unde.' present conditions.; timers yet I have not lost all faith. 1 feel hn the second place that liogMtfford an "Alfalfa on every certain that Heaven above us will not | economical means of marketin;; farm er.]rarmer. permit this hideous slaughter to eon-j products. Aud what is still more im-1 ' _ .��� tiaue." portant it shows that there is protlt i . .y.. She laid her trembling fingers in i in pork production under conditions I '.'"". . _,������-,,_, Geoffrey's band, and lie drew hsr that now prevail. I When the It uss.a is in 1,01 miircled close to Jiini and kissed her. -v of the 24 boys and girls that won Into Cracow, the desire o the K ng "It seems bard to look into you. pr!ge8 the average weight of Vie pigs oPrussia toibe crowned as the King face and doubt it, dearest," he said, latter seven months' feeding was _I0 i of Poland could not be f lfllled be- "Bven the nend who pursues us would I pounds. These gains were made by I cause the royal ciown l m..ip- hesitale, to destroy you. But 1 dare | feeding the ordinary feeds raised on|Pe_re(l To Boom the Flax Industry Practical Method Wanted of Dealing With Tonnage cf Straw Waited In West During lho sen.: mi of 1913-lfi Hot VV. T. While, minister Of finance, an iioiinecd in bis budget lhat au investi giilioti would be !) stltutod into the Uav Industry of the Dominion Witt u view to ascertaining the advisabiliti of granting a bonus upon the manu facture of llax fibre. At tho tim�� Ir was contended that with a substantia bonus flas libre for the manufacture of binder (wine, rope, etc., could be made a paying industry in tho Uoniiii ion in a few years, "anil tbat muck waste material could thus be turn_ lo profitable use. The investigation. it is understood, has been going on or .some time, but it is stated thai since the war commenced a new phase of the situation has been pre seated to the attention of the govern ment. As a t insequenee of the war there lias been tome apprehension express ed jjs to lhe safety of tbe Irish am! Scotch linen industi/ which in former years drew a large part of its raw material from Belgium, France anc Hussia, and whose supply from these countries has been practically cut oft It is stated that there have recentlj been in Ibis coinur. several representatives of large nrilish mills i:i an endeavor to cnilst the co-operation of farmers In the larger production of llax. Although there lias never been ; linen industry in Canada, flax has been grown in small quantities in On tario and Quebec for the uso of resi dents in the home manufacture of linen cloth. It is recorded, however, that in only a few sections of Western Ontario in 1904, 700 tons of itbre wore produced which brought it price ol $201 per ton. The avera.. price fo: Irish flax libre during th? past five yours has been $325 per ton, while tht Belgian flax fibre averaged $405. In Western Canada It is estimated that one million tons of flax straw art burned every year, and that if a prac tical method were found for producing fibre a splendid opportunity would be presented for taking advantage ol the Britisli requirements and the Eur opean scarcity. It is understood that the govern ment has under consideration some proposal for the encouragement ol this industry in the Dominion. must not think of lhai. If ��� taken awuy I do not want to .'. Oh. iny feelin the farm, After deducting the cost of ibe home-grown feeds at markit prices it was fotllli". thut lhe average cost of producing a pound of pork was 2% cents. The bogs were sold at twice and in some instances nearly sea 12V4 times that price per pound, conso- 'led ' quantly the profit was satisfactory. ind for over a century could not be found. Over 100 years after I the fall of Cracow a terrific thunder- ! storm burst upon the city, and an I ancient elm, standing in a held jm.t I outside the walls, was rent asunder, 1 and in Us hollow trunk was found i hidden the famous crown of Poland's ancient kings. When it was removed i some of lhe precious stones whicli had been loosened In the process of I time dropped out, and it is asserted ! that this wu3 the llrst omen ot the j great war now raging. Horses That Know Some of the artillery horses with ! the British army in France have , served for mui.y years, and these old ! l.orses are available as experienced soldiers. They have nothing lo learn about war, and ca . teach any new driver a good deal. For* example, many oC these animals know wilb mathematical exact- not. I you ar live." "Nor I either, Ge are similar to yours:" The dark violet eyes filled with tears, the fresh breeze from the ruffled Vera's fair hair and car her tailor hut awuy up Ihe cliff, lt| ' The'principal feeds used In the con rested, perched upon a gorse bush test nnd the in lees charged were as overhanging one of the ravines or [follows: Corn, 50 cents ver bushel; cups iii the rock. As Geoffrey ran to , barley, 45 cents; rye, 00 cents; bran fetch the lial he looked over. 'and shorts. $10 per ton; screenings, A strange sight met his astonished j $10; skim milk, 25 cents per 100 gaze. The hollow might have been pounds; pasture, one-third cent per lined with grass and moss, and In the I jay und corn hogged off, V3 per acr . centre of lhe cup, whicli had no lis-1 in summarizing the resin... n_ these sure or passage of any kind, two men , pig clubs the .North Dakota station were seated bending down over a I says; small shell or gourd placed on a lire : ''The boys and girls nave In Ihis of sticks. I contest demonstrated the possibilities In ordinary circumstances lliere of pork production in North Dakota. would have been nothing strange In They have demonstrated that the iio_ this, for the sight of peripatetic hawk- furnishes the best material for the ��� crs and tinkers along the cliffs was produce raised on the farm. They havo ness the porper interval of one gun \ awaits us fur our misdeeds. But fo not unusual. j also demonstrated that the capital in- from another. To swing the gun rou.:d j all that���" But these men di_ not belong to | vested in pork production brings a | at the due distance is now ingrained! "And here John Wesley hit tli Home Test For Dirt In Milk The following is a simple hometesi for dirty milk which it might be well for the housewives of Canada to ap ' ply. A . .rfectlj clean funnel is usee with a small piece of clean wire net ting fitted In ihe neck opening and : thin layer of clean cotton batting oi the wire netting. The funnel is stooi in a lane jar an.l quart or more o' the milk filtered through the cotton The cottoi. is then removed and placer on clean white earn lo dry. If then is evidence of dirt upon it. ;he atten tion of the milkman may be caller to this direct evidence of carcles' handling and if rouble persists tin local healfh a thorltioa may well bi notified, Real Patriotism Colouel Roosevelt, congratulated a n luncheon on his war articles, iol. an interesting story about patriotisn "Old John Wesley," he said, "gav. in the pulpit once the hest exampl. of patriotism in the world. "'We English aro great sinners old John Wesley said. 'Wc are miser able worms. We havo abused all on blessings, and a dreadful punishmen that class. They were tall and spare; \ higher return than that invested In -, as an instinct and performed with the reading desk a tliuiiipin they were clad in dingy robes; on j land that is used itt grain farming, j regularly of a ploughing horse when ! his fist tlieir head ...,...-.. ... ��� sad color. W. N. U. 1045 were turbans of the same They were dark of feature, with thin faces and ragged beards. In appearance they were sin- gularly alike; indeed, they might have been twin brothers some time past the prime of life. Prom the shell on the ground a thick vapor was rising. The smell of it floated on the air to Geoffrey's nostrils. He reeled back almo_ sick and faint with the perfume and the discovery _ie hail made. For that Infernal stuff had exactly the same smell as the pungent drug whicli had lt would be hard to get acres devoted Ibe turns at the headland of lhe field, to grain to return an average of $7S.10 If the driver, less skilful or wise in after paying for everything except the the art, attempts to bring one gun too labor, yet a sow and an acre of land near its neigh ior, the horse tf.kes the cost about the same in North Dakota, matter into his own hai.ds with an It will take many acres in grain farm- Olympian disregard of bit or whip, ing to equal the litter of pigs in I lie will not disobey the regulation for bringing returns."���Farm and Ranch, any one.���London Daily Mall. blow wil But wc are the best people ln tb. world for all that!' be Shou.ed." Dallas, Tex. "If you want to make that song successful you must sing louder." "I'm singing as loud as I can. What more can I do?" "Be moro enthusiastic. Open your | "Yes'ml" replied come so near to destroying the life of mouth and throw yourself into it!" | "he was a poet." A teacher had told a class of juvenile pupils that; Milton, the poet, was blind. The next day she asked "What's the matter with your wife She seems all broken up lately." "Yes, she had a terrible shock. Sh was assisting at a rummage sale; sin took off her new hat and laid it (low a moment���and ;.omebody sold it fi ��� thirty-five cents." th "Do you know anything about if anv of them could remember what language of flowers?" Milton's great affliction was." "Only this much. A flTe dollar be one little fellow; ' of roses talks a heap loiide.- to a gi; than a fifty cent bunch of carnations [THE REVIEW, COURTNEY, B. C. & AMAMMjAA_Mi_M_U_MAMAft Constipation Vanishes Forever Prompt Itetief--'Permanent Cun CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS never (ail. Purrly \ ible���act* but gently tli. liver. Slop at11 dinner ditfiras- cuieindi tealion ��� improve tin' complexion���brighten iccy<__ Small Pill, Small Dose, Small ftfefc Ccnume _u:-,t___r Signature Beef on the Farm (J row More Alfalfa ~^>C 3_3C____N Vie _W_fW_y_.il !_���!_�� . NEWLY "I find it so hard to Economise, Inn 1 must do so for a while." "Why not do your own washing? It isn't hard if an EDDY Washboard is part of your Equipment. I have a "Household Globe," it's a Wonder-Worker ������ Loosens thc Dirt so Easily���and 1 never Tear the Clothes." Totals Faultless nny other si lee's Vegetable FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS If you _���__'<_ , i of SOIt r_"RU_ DOWN' 'QOT thn BLUES' _UF_ _��� __���__ KID__Y, BLAOftl _, I:. _vorS DIS_A3__, 'CHRONIC W_*_____ ,{:!._ RIIS.SKIS KRl'P I IONS, PI I. US, writ* fur ___�����. CLOTH BOUND MEDICAL BOOR UN _____ _L__a��.t ami ...i. n_R_ i .. rtn__ effect, tl by THBNfWFRENCHREMEDY, _��1 Nn2_,3 "1 an __���___ .for ���jclfifiti. lbariBtaVfiirVuUROWNaLlmeRt, Absolutely FRCK No'follow up 'circulars. No obligations, n��.I._Ci.K.o U_I> C_l.rT_V_:_S_0< K. U.liAM.'. I BAD LONOOH.ttNO WE \.A_i V�� . ROVI THERAPION WILL CUt_ IO*. ��� rn ���_ nnr er ribnun _��� _������������ fcl* ��� ��� I THERAPION, CANCER Tumors, l.tt.iu _ciir__-wit_ti.it _nif_ or Children Teething . BABY IS VERY COMFORTAB1.K AND LAUGHS DURING THE TEETHING PERIOO. THANKS TO Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup PURELY VEGETABLE���NOV NARCOTIC MV"*. W��.Ui t* ftti** II*IT lntiiri.ee 1'_-. Ti>u i;_ iin>t. .Villi'*' lt_.nru_ C_. .,'.__....n <_���i,i..y -_r,_..������ [--������__I*-.! llt.i i tl. .iv. fit Wiiimn ._ in* w_rt. _'_ __*_j'. _*i..i A..iirk>��, A|i[ily Dunlin- i ��� . K . __i.r UmKc.l, li. fi 0.. HJira-iinn . ���"..._. h...i_ Jn��. Vet Mi.mtDt i_'a#eti . 8_4__��*KUr>' *"���*��� The Hudson's Bay Road Steel has been laid cr. 2115 miles of the main line ol tbe Hudson Bay Railway. The line will be completed In the auuunn oi: 1917 anil grain will be shipped from the terminals then. It will require two years more, hovv- sver, to complete tbe terminals. Tbe total cost, of tlie road to lhe end of January last baa been $D,7(I8,809. Mothers can easily know when their children are troubled with worms, and they lose no time In applying the best ot remedies���Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator. A Thrifty Scot McTavish and a blither Scot, McPherson, entered tbe tram, and tool; their seals near Uio door. Silting in tho corner wns n nice young llicbin lassie, and Me.avjsll was always nudging bis friend. "Hoots, mail," said McPherson. "I ken her fine" "IIoo arc yo no' garni np aside her, then?" ashed McTavish. "Och," said McPherson, "she linsiiu jeyed her fare yet." Money in Live Stock Will Pay Big Dividends to the Farmer "The time has conic," says .1. Ogdon Armour, "for all concerned the packer, the farmer, tbe dealer and the consumer���to give Used to the menace of the growing beef shortage In thin country, nnd to realize that this situation will become more acute instead of Improving in years to cnnic." Force is lent to bis warning by the statement that the cattle receipts at the six principal western markets arc now be smallest ill thirty years. I While the population bas Increased over 26 per cent, since 1900, beef cat- lie have decreased I'll per cent. Seven yearn ago there wire iu the country 51,000,000 bead of entile: new tlicre! are only 38,000,000, And yet prices ! hnve advanced sn thai those 88,000,000 i are worth (360,000,000 more t_an iho 51,000,000 wire worth in 1907, If I liis tendency goes nuicli fart her, It's evident thai tho nation must swing pretty far Inwards a vegetarian diet, IB we want the inent Hint wc ��r ''""'���'' bave been accustomed to, we have got . }' ;""' iii gel busy and adapt cattle raising lo ''',".'',''' ' changed condition*. As Mr, Armour A'181��� point* oul the range* have been S,lKnr bo broken up by tbe withdrawal of public lands for Irrigation project* and dry' farming, In the future, cattle raising inusl be less specialized. Herds musi lie smaller nnd more widely distributed. Hope of Increasing or even niniii- tnining the presenl por capita beef production seems in depend nu tbe farmers of all sections. "Tlio farmer inusl receive every practical encouragement to pui the beef cattle nil bis lands and In conduct liis business in such a way Hint the cattle ami agricultural branches will bo balanced," says Mr. Armour. Present beef prices ought to be, in themselves, a powerful encouragement for such "balanced farming."���Chronicle. Augusta, On. SICK HEADACHES PERMANENTLY CURED Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Correct the Cause of This Trouble There arc few ailments that cause more genuine misery in the lmiue than attacks whicli are generally termed sick headaches. Thc attacks arc often periodical and when the mother of a family is prostrated at intervals there is not onlv her own suffering to consider, but the discomfort caused lhe other members of the household. Sick headaches arise from a variety of causes, and most of tbem can be relieved or cured through the tonic treatment wllh Dr, Williams' Pink Pills. Mrs. Hugh Docherty, liocaville, Sask., says: "I suffered for years with what tlie doctors called nervous prostration ami sick headache. When these spells.ame on I could not work nor walk, and tbe pains in thc heart were almost unbearable. At times the pain in my head was so dreadful that I feared it would drive ine mad. 1 tried four different doctors at limes, and not only took bottles of medicine, but quarts of it, but to no avail. Then I quit taking medicine altogether and tried dieting, hut it made no difference, I was still nil agonizing sufferer. Finally my husband" urged me to trv Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and got m'e a supply. Afler taking lhe Pills for some weeks 1 felt a little better and I gladly continued their use. My nerves began to feel stronger, the terrible headr.ches came with less frequency, and after taking tbe Pills for some 'months disappeared altogether. Prom thai day tn ihls I have had no return of the' trouble, and all who knew of my illness regarded my cure as marvellous. I cannot say too much in praise of the Pills us they certainly saved me from a life of almost constant agony." It is by building up and enriching the blood and strengthening the nerves that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills work seemingly marvellous cures, und what they have done for others they will do for all ailing people if given a fair trial. If you do not Iind these Pills at yonr medicine dealers you cun got them by mail nt 50 cents a box or six boxes for $_.5ii from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brookvllle, Ont. Increase In Alfalfa Fodder Root Production oompiled from Corn and READ THE LABEL Donituion government c.isus return* show a pronounced tncrea_u in production of alfalfa, fodder corn, potatoes and root crop* in Man! oba, Saskatchewan and Alberta during 1914. The two onl - standing feature* of tho reporl on potato, root ami fodder crop* for inn, are the Increase In acreage of alfalfa ami the surprising acreage in fodder corn. In previous years t. o acreage in fodder corn bus been sn small that it has nol often even been noted In lho reports, In 19.11 tl e ncreago lu fodder corn was 16,700, and of this area 13,000 acres were :'n tho province or Maultobn. The average yield per acre was a little ever live ami tl half tens. Increase in alfalfa acreage for lhe three province, tor tho year is very nearly 5,000 i cros. nm. 1013, Potatoes 18.847,000 $5,268,000 Turnip* and nih- COR THE r GII M E _ Hag# BAKING- POWDER PROTECTION OF THE CON- THE INGREDIENTS ARE [PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. IT IS THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM- PRICED BAKING POWOER MADE IN CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON |THE LABEL. MAGIC BAKING CONTAINS NO POWDER ALUM ALUM IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SULPHATE OK ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIO SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT B ( MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. 5t__i____g_g. E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO. ONT. IMONTAEAl clover, 01 "11 .. 3,59(1, i 5,1911,990 577,000 559,000 1 12,000 9,249,000 4,093,000 Intensive Cultivation 331,000 i Its tlie $19,014,000 $13,511,000 nils Preparation.��� I acb regulator, ivrieo- Pills nre resuli nf long tidy of vegetable compounds calculated to stimulate the Btomachlc functions and maintain them at the normal condition, Years if use have proved their faultless character and .established their excellent r putntion. And this reputation Ibcy have maintained for years and will continue to maintain, for these pills must always stand at the head of the list of standard preparations. ciilty way of An Efficacious Remedy A t'liry is lold by President l'niu- care of as old pea.ant who was very superstitious, A neighbor said to him one day: "That potalo you gave me to carry in my pocket as a cure for rheumatism has bad a wonderful effect. I haven't bad a twinge since you gavo it to mc." "There 1" exclaimed the peasant, triumphantly, "1 told you a potato carried in life pockets wns a cure for rheumatism, and you wouldn't believe me." "Yes," the other admitted, "and the really strange thing is that it must have been exercising ils influence on me before you gave it mc, for 1 never had a twinge before I began carrying it." Minard's Etc. Liniment Cures Burns, Bullets Meet in Rifle Barrel A German soldier gives a remarkable account, of a peculiar shot: "From one of the trenches," he says. "I aimed at my adversary. At a distance of about seventy yards the outlines of a cap offered a remarkably good aim. "I pointed my rifle, anil was already sure of success. I was .iust THEN pulling the trigger. The. aim was clear; my bullet-could not fail. "Suddenly I staggered back, and when I recovered I found my rine damaged at. the lock and tbe chamber, I had a very ugly wound in the fore- bead. "I examined my rifle and found in the bu. rel a. French and a German bullet, both flattened. AVhat had happened was this: A French bullet bad entered my rifle at the muzzle, liad followed the course of the barrel, had Relation to the Farm and to Labor Question The development of a more intensive cultivation inusl curry with it a much more careful consideration of the labor problem. The difficulty of gelling nnd keeping labor on the farm is a commonplace' 1 think farmers have not faced tl"' fact that this dift'l- d.ue iu thc main tn their own doing llieir business. Competent men will not slay at farm labor unless il. offers them continuous employment as part of a well ordered business concern: ami this is not possible unless with a greatly Improved husbandry. Today agriculture has to compote in the laber market against other, and to many men more attractive, inilii ;- trios, and a marked elevation iu the whole standard of life In tlie rural world is the best insurance of a belter supply of good farm labor. Only an Intensive system of farming can afford any large amount of permanent employment, at decent wages to the rural laborer, and only a good supply of competent labor can render lnten-| sivc fanning on any large scale profitable. Hut lhe intensive system of! fanning not only gives regular em-1 ployinenl. and good wages: it also His Ibo laborer of today���in a country where a man can strike out for himself���to bo Ibe su__ssl'tll farmer of tomorrow. Nor. iu these days nf Impersonal industrial relations, should the fact be overlooked Unit under an intensive system of agriculture, wc Iind still preserved the kindly personal relation between employer and employed which contributes both to the pleasantness of life and to economic, progress nnd security.���Sir Horace Plunkett in the Rural Life Problem of the 1'nited Stales. War Horses Turned Green Effort to Change the Color of Whits Horses Had Unexpected Result lie was a sturdy littlo French gunner, and lev _d bis horses as an artilleryman should, hut ho was a little disgusted when he saw the animal turn green���"as creeii as au apple"��� as be said when ho told tho story. White horses are not allowed at the front, as they are too easily seen at a distance, and Ihis is a war in which invisibility is the great thing to achieve. Several attempts have been made since the beginning of hostilities to dye white horse* a serviceable simile of brown, but so far with little success. Heavy rain lias generally been the chief euen.y of such cxperi ments. Thc other day twenty-four horses of one battery were dyed with a new stain, and to lho delight, of officers and men the rain seemed to have no bad effect. But nuo night the horses bad a specially hard bit cf work to do. They sweated i nil lathered freely, and, to lhe horror of tne drivers, they wero a bright green when the morning light fell on them. Something in the stain���the proud Inventor ekeps its composition ue.'- ret���had cliunged its color when mixed wilb Ibo perspiration of tin hard worked horses'. A Remedy For Earache.���To ha v. Ibe earache is to endure torture. Tin" ear is a delicate organ and few care to deal with it. considering it. work fnr a doctor. Dr. Thomas' Eclectrlc Oil offers a simple remedy. .V tew drops upon a piece nf lint nr medicated eolton and placed in the car wil! work wonders in relii ving pain. He Could Not MakeJDne Step j J DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS CURED WALTER J. ROBERTS caused the explosion of my ridge and the butt of'my rifle, thus had wounded me." art- nnd Russia is twerty times .arger tban France and Germany put together (8,400,000 square miles), and her population is supposed to number ]Cii.- OOu.OOn, being 100,000,000 more than that of Germany, Canada's area ls 3,729,665 square miles. "What is the shortest word iu the English language?" "Broke." STRENGTH Without Ovcrloar,'!ng thc Stomach The business mnn, especially, needs food ill tbe morning Hint will nol. over- _ ��� l. _ f _ .,. \.i ,. i l(,1"l the stomach, but give mental Bright Future Fer the West j v|���.n,. ,.,���. ���,e ,,���,. I There is no doubt that the west; MUCh depends on the start u ninn will soon enter upon nn era of pros- ge(a oac], jnv as tn bow lie may cx- I purity again. Its natural resources are poC| [0 accomplish llie work nn band. enormous���in fact their development n,, can't j���, niert with a heavy, was only beginning in real earnest trled-ineat-and-potntne.i breakfast, re- ; when lhe boom hud readied ils Itolgllt quiring a lot of vital cnergv in digest- | in 1918, The present period of read- w jt, Mlnard's Liniment for sale everywhere. A servant in Sou'beast London was telling her mistres. the other day of the boasting indulged in by the servant next door nbout her young man In khaki. "I can't uuderstail.1 how he's got on so fast," she remarked. "He's jnly been in the ai.iiy a few months, yet she told me in November that iie wais a coi'porcl; last week she said he'd been made a sergeant, and now ihe sa.vs he's to bo cGuVt-martial"��� Pall Mall Gazette. ��____** a .ranula,efl Eyelids, t^9*jkT 'C. Eyes inflamed by expo- sure to Sun, Dusland _Io_ PjfA ���- quickly relieved by Murine L, \ 9$ 5_P E>e Remedy. No Smarting, ����� just Eye Comfort. At Your Druggist's 50c per Bottle. Murine Eyt ill _ in Tubes 2 5 c. I _ i BqoIi el i he Eye Free ;_k Druggists oi Marin Eye _c_edy Co., Chicago W. N. U. 1048 jttstment is paving the way for a re sumption of progress thai will be steady, natural and permanent. The sot-back that I'.ekiess, gtvsping speculation lias received is anything but a mist 'l'turie. The rich lands of Ibe west are intended for thc settler and producer, not for the enrichment of thc real estate gambler. "With the enlargement of the cultivating acreage now assured for tbe coming season, und the rising prices and increasing demand for foodstuffs, the prospect is that the western provinces will A Western business man found a food combination for producing cuer- j gy. lie writes: "For years 1 was unable to find a ' breakfast food that bad nutrition enough to sustain a business mail] without overloading his stomach, causing indigestion and kindred ail-] ments. ��� j "Being a very busy and also a very ; nervous man, 1 had about decided to, give up breakfast altogether. But luck- ��� ily I was induced lo try Grape-Nuts. \ "Since that morning I have been a Newfoundland Man Finds a Firm Cure After Suffering Ten Months of Torture.���Doctors and Other Medicines Failed to Help Him l.ewisport, Twillillgate District, Nltd.���(Special).���A thrilling story of a splendid cure bv Dodd's Kidney Bills is told by Waiter J. Roberts, a well known resident of Ibis place. "My trouble, starter, from a cold after measles," Mr, Roberts stales. "For nineteen months I was confined to the house, and for ten months I could not make one step. "I tried many doctors and medicines but got no' relief from them. Tbe trouble was in my feet, legs and arms and at times was almost unbearable. I could not feed myself for those ton months. "At last I tried Dodd's Kidney l'ills. taking twenty-eight boxes in all, und ant . lad to say the;- made a firm cure of tne." ! Air. Roberts' troubles were caused by diseased kidney*. That is why | Dodd's Kidney Pills cur d him. Dis- j eased Kidneys tall in llieir duly of] straining lho Impurities out of the j blond nnd the consequence is trouble nil over the body. Dodd's Kidney l'ills cure diseased Kidneys. Germany Wants Big Wheat Area 'J'be German government is con- i templlUtllg tha issuance of a decree reducing by one quarter tbe area pre- ; vlously employed for the raising of j sugar beets, ro as tc increase the pro- : duct ion of grain and vegetables. Sugar manufacturers are raising objections. They contend that sugar I is a nourishing foot, and that tlie by- ! products uie valuable for feeding cat- 1 tie. ^ Many children are so crammed with everything that they know nothing, in proof of this, road this specimen definition: "Anatomy is-the human body, which consists of three parts, the'bead, the ist, and the stumniiek. The head ontains the eyes and brains, if any: the chist contains the lungs and a piece of the liver. The stutumick is devoted lo the bowels, of which there nro five���a. c, i, o. u, and sometime? w and y." Minard's Liniment Cures Dandruff. While the Canadian contingent Is doing its part at the front and the Canadian business man is Join? his part at home, it remains for the Canadian citizen also to do his part. It is patriotic and i. is good business lo buy goods, first, that are made in our own town, second, in our own country, and third, in our own Brit- isli empire. ThoseRmries experience decidedly improved flnan- new man; can work' without tiring, I ial conditions before the end of the | present year.���Sydney Post. "Vou admit you are guilly, then," thundered tbe judge. "Ah do. judge. All's guilty. Ah stole detn pants. Bul, your I-Ionah, | business." my head is clear and my nerves strong and quiet. "I (ind that Grape-Nuts, with a little sugar and a small quantity of cold milk, makes a delicious morning meal, whicli invigorates me for the day's del . nlnt no sin when de motive am good. All stole dam pants to get baptised in."���Harper's Magazine. Tlie spreading of wood ashes upon land has beneficial effect upon tbe soil, the pntnsh content being an excellent fertilizer. Name given bv Canadian Postum Co.. Windsor. Out. Read, "The Itoad to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears frcm time to time. Tbey are genuine, true, and full of hur. an Interest. I Deafness Cannot Be Cured try locml t.p]il!.--.tl_i. ts they rtr.not r_eta t_ 0*. ' 0OS*l portl_ ol tni. _r. There _ only on. wiy ta i sort deitaMi. suit Out la by c<i_Ulul!on_,l rtrae<ll��_ DMfneu Is estlMd by sa Inflamed i-oii!l;tlo.i ot u* _Bu_ua llnibf ot the Eustachian Tube. When this tuba Is Inflemal you have s rumbling sound or lm* < perfect besrlnt, and when It Is entirely closed. Deaf- seas ls the result, nnd unless Uie Inflammation can bo taken out and this tube restored to Its _rmsl condition, hearing rill be destroyed forever; nine eases silt ol ten are caused by Csurrb. which Is nothing but an Inflate,, condition ot tho mucous eurfsces. Ws will ilve Ons Hundred llollsre tor any esse ot Deafness tcnt__ by catarrh! that cannot be can* . tt Hull Catsirh Cure. Send tor clrculare. tree. _. J. CH-_LV * CO., TO_*_ _ KM by nniaalsts. tie. tike Hili'e Family I'i_ lot __!!_.__ "E�� yo1 bad your choice, I.iza. which would yo' rather do���live or die au' gn io heaven?" "Ah'd rathor live." "Why, l.lza White, yo' Bcanlou* ihlle! Sunday sehi.ol haint dona yo' nn good 'tall!'' CuticuraSoaD and Ointment Will help you when all else fails. ��� Unsightly complexions are often a bar to social advancement and business success. Start life with I a clear skin and good hair. Samples Free by Mall \ Cullrur.. :ii_;�� .in _ Oint mc nt no1_t throng. OUt tli ��� | WOTld, I!lir;'iU_ mplr .r r_'h mall .tl fror, rtth a_-p. ; book. Ad _N��m"C_.1cu_i.." Dept. K, Ho stun. U___k. THE COURTENAY REVIEW I '11 Jwn.r w:_ ieliver the Title Deeds to $2^,500 worth of Inside "Courtenay City Property" matter was left in tlie hands of th ure wardens. Aid. Roberison remarked thai ��ome places in the oil Country! tire insurance companies furnishei fire brigades, and suggested that the clerk write lhe different com Local Lines pauie doiug business ror Only $8,000 Full particulars from D. FORDE & CO. COURTENAY oi I ' I G_ira_je and R *j 8* Ui W Wl w Wi Wi Wi ii - [ici ii ictl 'U- ilcrs in Conio ",1 parts .it factory pric bin ��� everything fnr the Portl _ in stock nomiiiion Plain __epj District for FORD CWiS imi Nobby Tread Tires tock Goo_.y__.r Plain ami All Weather Tires n _ I Hnilop Tires 1 tires at !;-.L price F. O. 11. Vancouver the above tires in alt si/._s i stock a fall line of auto accessories :.. nil for your particular motor _ ���. u in the business foi* a long time ! the iecon 1 car iu Comox distiieL ^ iM more than 50 per cent, of the (Mrs in this district soli 150 percent, of the stationery engines in this district p! ! several small electric lighting plants M dozens of acetylene aud gasolene plants 11 please out- customers Crescent and Victor Bicycles monthly payments ��� rent, of the bicycles in this district itcycle accessories otlu'l , aud 111 6o eve aii' clesoi ;.| 60 pel ml sell 1, C. _MDE Licensed Dealer Ci .y Council Have 1 ; isting Session Th.' Conn Id the the ..UL' I Hlni I n: , to buy bonds if sell, A letter from Bassam . itiinb Light i agreeuien . A commun tegular ' y eveniu.., nil re present. Oo, bond brokers, ' statem nl, and were in ilie market the citv had any to ��� .ni, lile to ] the city clerk of that owing to fi- ,-. tbeii ci _ was mrcbase the Electric and enclosed n copy of Inn.-.. ��� ���, ' niovui; UOl SO Air, catiou from Mr. ���nelosing a copy of corres- ' fwi ���". himself and Mr. In post office site, tnte i flutter of excitement' rlienshad staled lo Mr. I Hint ihe City Council ', tip lite matter and were; in the mailer, which was! Robertson City's name should not have been mentioned in the matter at all. He was in favor of getting a post ofiice built, but thought the city's name should not be used to further private ends. Aid. Kirkwood said that he was interested iu selling the land ou Union Stteet, aud had nothing further to say other than that he was not iu sympathy with the project. Aid Johnston and I,eighlon stated that Mr Idiens had spoken to ihem on the subject. The following accounts were referred to the finance committee. . il . Gazette, $5. P. I_ Audertcu, Assessor, $gt. J. Thompson, carpenter work $4S. Herald, $10 75. School account $354.36. Aid. Kirkwood reported that fire buckets could be purchased for rom J5.75 to $10 per dozen, aud .adders al 35 cents per foot. The ^^^ here to set how they feci about it, as thei were the most interested parties. The chairman of lhe Fire ward ens will grant petmits to bun slumps, rubbish, etc. The chairman of the Board 0 Works reported that a Pairbank scale would cost $135, and a Gtti tiey $132.50, and recommended that the latter be purchased. Thi will be done. Aid. McKenzie wanted the whole matter left over till next year. The Mayor said a scale was ,1 necessity and the city were bound to have them, and ruled his motion out nf order, The Con. .able reported thai tiler, were three tents on a .iiii Street which were a nuisance. Several piles of cans in places sho.dil lie retltovei several closets should be cleaned. The const ible wus empowered lo act. Aid. McKenzie again brought up his notiee of motion, bul the Mayor ruled it out of order. Aid. Johnston then brought, an amendment to clauses 6,5 am of the Health by-law, which he had had his eminent K. C. friend prepare, aud whicli gave a householder a chance to appeal from the decision of the analyist if he jvas not satisfied. This passed the council ou motion. He then brought in anothei clause, no Ho, whicli provides lhat no M. 11. O. who has an interest in a company supplying water to a city shall hold ofiice. This clause caused quite a discussion, but was fin illy carried. The mayor pointing out that Mr. Bodwell was not running this council, and that he would not sign the by-law. Mr. Johnston said that Mr. Bod - i n,-uc"e 'posv well was an eminent lawyer, aud Courtenav. knew more ebout law than either! he or the mayor, and that he would follow the mayor as far as he care 1 to go. Thc constable reported that there were a lot of pigs at the Co-Op slaughter house, What was he to do about it ? Nothing iu the by-law covers the case, and the by law is net passed yet. The by-law amending the license by-law received its third reading, providing for a bottle license at $125 for every six months The matter of borrowing ��i;,oo from the Government came up again. The Department wanted to know how aud when the money was to be repaid, The committee will endeavor te) borrow the amount repayable on Dec. 31st. Aid. Leighton drew the attention of Trustees Kirkwood aud McPhee to the way the time ol the children at the school was being used There was a lot of dissatisfaction, and a number of scholars had been withdrawn. Aid. Robertson said Tomato and Celery plants ale at R. Feirls' greenhouse, Wante I��� Good bulls, lit for kil- ing, Also fat cows aud calves, mv quantity, for cash. Apply for Review Office, l'or Side- 8 newly freshened milch cows, mostly Jersey's. Apply o A. McNeil, Crnigs Crossing, .anoose District. Wanted ���By young woman, vork by day or mouth, App'y Miss A Hunts, Courtenay 1'. <>,, or ihone M 87 Happy Valley. For Sale���Horse, harness, bttggy saddle aud bridle ��75, Apply W. !! Reckitt, Courtenay Oil Supply .'0 , Comox Road, Courtenay, Winning White Wyandottis, My pen of 6 birds that won the last contest averaged 221 eggs each iu 12 months, Eor Price list ol hatching eggs, etc. write H. 1). Read- Duncan. l'or Sale I lue d li, p. Kairkanks Morse I las .vugine, one .1 k. w. Dynamo switch hoard, etc, also ptltnp and betting, Capacity I..' gallons pel minute, Apply al Riverside hotel, For Sale Franklins passenger touring car, first class running mder. Owner leaving l'or l.nglauil Will pacriGei for $200 cash, balance on terms to suit purchaser, Apply Courtenay Oarage. r_,ost���On Faster Sunday, in St Peter's church, or between the I ciirttch and the wharf, a small meni- Lorial brooch with inscription at back, and date [804. Finder taking it lo Comox I'. O, Will get a ��� reward. I have again improved my Hock \ ot Rhode Island Reds by the iutro- , duclion of new bio id, Excellent 1 winter layers, well adapted t) this climate. Prije of eggs per s -tting reduced to $1. per setting of 13. I $6 -per 100. Cash with order. er, one mile south of P, O. Box, ROBERT GRIEVE Candies, Cigars, Pipes, Tobaccos _wan's Old Stand, Courtenay J. I_. logger's Shoe ASTON made to order. East in North and South, in and West, K .ton's Handmade Shoes will stan ! the Test. GRi 3s; Willard's Harness Emporium I'ine SllOW'i Rugs, Gliiv U.n nl lino ��� Ulaukets, Suit Cast's, Trunk v. Repaired Xintlj blip Ute. W. W. WILLARD Cumberland and Courlenay HARVEY CREECH begs tn; repurch' business Willi.,' ],1 old customers Next ta tha lounce thai lie hns I liis old barber from Mr. Smith nnd il in meet all his it the old >,!. mil Opera House Notice of Intention to Apply For Re_.il Liquor Licence TAKE NOTICE intends 11 apj License Conamissio as that ou tiie Continent the children _K.>_,-. ______��� ' , Checl ��� and ��� Books <_ 1"V I ��� 'f\ Leaf Billheads EASTERN PRICES We are now able to supply the needs of every merchant in the district with the above goods at exactly the same prices as quoted by eastern houses. Holders supplied free. Ring us up and we will call with samples, etc. The Review, Courtenay Telephone 59 Isabel Street were being taught out of doors much ns possible. Aid, Kirkwood e cplained that tlie teachers were not altogether iu iattlt. The garden work was taken up late, and all the lime possible had been devoted to it. He had taken the matter up with the teacher, and things would be right in future, Mr. W-. Hodgson than asked and received permission to address the council. He said that his children had been neglected as well as the others, and he had been compelled to remove them. He had never seen such idling, and made other charges of a serious nature, which will be investigated at once. H D. Forde said he had no fault to find. Aid. Robertson said it was unfortunate hat the matter had not been drawn to the trustees attention. Mr. > cPhec said "Make the charges in writing and they will be attended to without delay." This J was too serious a matter to dally wiih. The council and members of the Board of Trade were invited to attend the reception to Mr. Rushford at Cumberland, on his return from the Front, on Tuesday afternoon. tli.it the undersigned ipply to ihe Hoard of License Commissioners at their next regulsr sitting to be held on the second dliesday iu the mouth of June next, for a license to sell intoxicating liquor by retail under Subsection 3 of Section 291), of the ''Municipal Act" iu that certain store or shop situ tte on thegrouud lloor, corner, of those certain premises, situate on I.ot 2S in lllock , at the corner of Isabel and Union Streets, ill the City of Courtenav. J. W. COOK Applicant. Dated this 23rd day of March, A. IJ. 1915. In the Matte, of the ''Municipal Act," and In the Matter of the Application of Silvio Marocchi for a license to sell intoxicating liquors by retail under Subsctioti 3 of Section 290 of the " .Municipal Act " NOTICE OF APPLICATION TAKK NOTICE that the undersigned intends to apply to the Hoard of Licence Commissioners of the Citv of Courteuay to lie held on the Second Wednesday iu June 1915, for a licence to slill intoxicating liquors by retail under Subsection 3 of Section 290 of the above mentioned act ill those certain shop or store premises situate ill the " Maroeclll Building" situate oil I.ot 30, Map 311, Union Street, ill the City of Courteuay. SILVIO MAROCCHI, APPLICANT tiled the 24th day of March, A.l). 1915 NATURE DEMANDS A NEW GARB Fifty coke ovens are being prepared at Union Bay for service. OUR BICYCLES are: Kiinmer Arrow $35 Victor S35 Minstrel and Tourist $40 Singer, Humber, Enfield, Massey and Standard OUR MOTORCYCLES are: Indian, Henderson and Douglas OUR AUTOMOBILES are: Overland anil Russell Motor Car, Motorcycle aiid liicjcle Repairs and Supplies of Every Description WRITE POR CATALOGUE THOS. PLIMLEY 727-735 Johnson St., VICTORIA | each Spring. Human nature too must follow suit. Spring is the ONK season in which yotl cannot gel along with any make-shift kind of suit. And although I am quite busy (thank you) I can still attend to YOUR wants. English box cloth in stock for farmer's old country style gaiters. Try me for riding breeches'. WILL0UGHBY The Custom Tailor Sutton __ Kirkwood Undertakers and Embalmers Night or Day Calls ^Promptly Attended Phone 27 Courtenay
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