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"Mail rnd Empire. _ comunity where the recruiting of erry Women's ped to the 426 pairs ting comforts for the A dethonstrating most em- "tht their. bearts are in piace. AND SWEETEST Goop ror Tre OpfErver]|. le young-lady members of the ee Shicley Women's Institute at a late; meetiig gave a Demouastration in in, Candy. Making, and if they did not convilic 'themselves of. their effici- ency at fine art, they will have Peity1the. Satisfaction of knowing that non-members of the Institute who An opportunity. 'of sampl- i & OVS any other 'make in Christendoim. Mrs; Allen Meore, the President of Ashe; Tostitute will kindly accept thanks for the generous specimen torwarded to this office. Mrs. Wm. Medd and son Clare ence, Sonya, have just returned from Sundridge; where they were in 3 Bris. * attendance at the funeral of the late Women will be given the suffrage | lamented Mrs. Hugh Christie, de- by the Ontarig Legislature this ses- | ceased being aunt of Mrs. Medd. sion. That the Government had "its mind pretty well made up was indi- cated in she Houre by Sir William Hearst jn the opening round of the debate" off the address: from the Throne, and what doubts remained were dissipated by the caucus of the Conservative 'members yesterday. Auction SALE CANCELLED :-- The Government laid before the| The Great Auction Sale of Reg- : 'members their-decision to give wo-|istered Clydésdale Horses, Short. men the vote, and while there Was |horn Cattle, the property of W. D. . gousiderable discussion. of details| Munro, Manchester, announced to thére was little active opposition. |take place tomorrow (Friday) Feb. The action of the Government in |23, has been €ancelled owing to the objecting to Mr. Rowdll's woman |fact that he has purchased the ad- franchjse amendment and having it joining farm, 'belonging to the removed from the order paper clear-| estate of the late John Munro. ed the way for Government action. The extension of the legislative and municipal franchise to women will be taken up by the House in the consideration of the two bills intro- duced by J. W. Johnson, Couserva- 26. The young man is a graduate tive member for West Hastings.| «po plo Hioh School and i : y High School and in The point has not been settled, but] i . iy a NEN coming forward to defend biscoun- * itis understood that the legislation | . ' . try, adds another name to the long 10 be finally passed will be a Gov-| jy yap ray sty: distinguished that y | seat of leiinning for-it loyelty ONTARIO WOM TO GET THE * FrancHise ExtensioN "WiLL Pros- aBLY Come 1¥ GOVERNMENT Corp. W. C. Jackson is no long- er an officer of the 182nd Battalion but is now attached to the Overseas Training Company of Toronto University as a Cadet Officer in the Flying Corps, - Mr. Leonard J. Henry, Bowman- ville, (formerly of Post Perry,) who has enlisted in the Canadian over- seas division of the Royal Navy, leaves for overseas on Monday Feb. { ow ring the lists, and that legisla this session will be too late to pat women on the lists in time for the' pext general election. The] semedy under consideration is an' extension of the time for completing "the lhsts to probably June 1st.-- 17TH OF MARCH The ladies'of St. John's Presby- terian Church, Port Perry purpose putting forth every effort to make the Irish'Soeial and Concert on the Evening of | March 17th a grand success. RATE alll stern EVERY ONE AT IT : . AvcTioft ; Sarg. -- Mr.' Wilbert At a meeting held recently in a Marshall, of Prince Albert, is giving N up ep leaving for the city, - men was being discussed, the diffi- i has instraéted Mr. Jackson to sell, _ enity of getting the work done On| without the "slightest resesve, on + the farm was raised. A woman in go premises, on Tuesday, March 6, .. the audience who had already seen') hig far stock, implements, to- "that her son had enlisted, arose to gether. with a quantiy of household express ber views of the situation |effects. - Fhe principal feature of and to tell what she was ready to]this sale'will be offering of a splen- do". After speaking of the serious-|did herd of Dairy Cows--17 in mess of the present situation, #nd|number--that have made a wonder- 'pointing out what would happen * if | ful record as milk producers; they re at this juncture were to|are a ¢hoic 8 Jot and have proved a suffer defeat, she declared that she | splendid "investment, and under po ready fo see that -all the' plow-| other circumstances would Mr. was done on the farms of any|Marshall part wiih them than the ) bas uo' farther use for and implements | which is certain to break, the pub The late Miss Otr left a legacy of $1,000 to the Village of Bobcaygeon. The French Government is put- ting a thousand motor ploughs on French {arms this Spring. Oshawa set out to raise $5,000 for Y,M.C:A: work overseas, and clos- ed its campaign with $6,750. like a girl. Tt is wonderful what a' little fixing up will do for her- The "sweet young things" of Port Hope have a "Busy Bee Club," working indastriously for the Red Cross: "And they are showing re-: sults. 2 a The World says Cobourg's pop= ulation "has a reputation for long livers" 1s that what gives so many of the pcople down there a biliohs look? ' Packets Of a young fellow who is contin~ and Bl inst. present had the 0 comes they | his accept: Currie took hi will commen charge at: being the ually complaining that he can't find | an opening, the Baltimore American says "that is the reason why he is always in the hole." From White Rock, British Cal- umbia, a hamlet of possibly 400 inhabitants, upwards of 50 men have gone to fight the battles of the Em~ pire. No eligibles are left. In the same proportion Orillia should have recruited an even thousand.--Oril- lia Packet. If Our Dumb Animals will kindly excuse us, we shall not put in prac- tice until after the warits well- meant advice to "let the dog chew your slippers." At the present price of leather, it might be cheaper to "let your dog chew" sirloin beef steak. To a friend here a soldier over. seas writes: "All is grist that comes to our mill here. But at any time it should be a question, for in- stance, between fruitcake and socks, by all means send socks. Socks, socks, and more socks. No danger of gur getting too many." Here is the latest war joke in London vaudeville: A comedian comes on the stage bearing a type- writer under his arm. "What's that you're carrying?" he is asked. "be careful," is the reply, '*this is one of President Wilson's machine guns." Then the house roars. Lin ¥ A nt Pp that a libel is anyth printed or written, which reflects on the e¢har- acter of another, published without lawful justification or excuse, and which produces- ina given case appreciable injury to am individual's reputation. , : ' pointed intrim , moderat the: vacancy: : |Next Sab expected that 2 representative the Dominion Alliance w the services, atd the pulpil declared vacant. --p------ Reckon up if you can the money per head spent on generation--iglividually - lectively--in . the -hotnes, churches and Sunday schog Public and Higt schools, institutes, colleges and wu --gympasiums, and the 1,0 buildings and associations and equipped in the count lages, towns and cities and great resorts--all for child young folk of al ages. the amount in the agg simply . astounding. Yet, &% the other day along came Ki Hamiltan, the dramitist, soldier and exponent of ness, who said: "The WW child is thie most neglected of beings. He has the best most comfortable home, g of playthings, everythin money can give, 1 hasn't the pers tatit ques ons ts too busy m mother so busy spel home life is no longe! Yet the first step: in paredness is to'pre virile generaticn to fd 137 fForonto Star : --Ruthlessnege or "frightfullcess" has been a policy openly advocated by German mil- tary writers. The weakness of it is that it frightens nobody. It might have been expected to succeed with the weak, but we all know how it animated little Belgium with the courage of dispait. It made a new Ffance. It made a nw France. It helped to fill the British army with recruits in the days of voluntary service. - It is the chief cause of the speeding up of the American naval programnie, and. the agitation for a large army. Ina sense, Germany has, alarmed the world but the alarm is 'of the kind that induces, bot surrender, but resistance: Atkins Ready for Big Lodd London, Feb. 19.--During the Washington, Feb. 8 legation ir a state to-day says fawmisie follows = "The Greek leg ed information *Ten'de been reporte proverbial calm before the storm, 4 . | disease cannot exist. * the door is shut against good health é | form or another. Y| Ever since' von Bernst {created misunderstandings, and had always been lacking in taet, especi- ally? handling "the hypocritical English pastor at Washington," meading President Wilson, ¢ Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl< weg finally managed to appease the Kaiser, "taking up von Bernsorft's defence. The Emperor ordered the Chan- celior to do all that was possible to avoid making matters worse. This would explain the memorandum, transmitted by the Swiss Minister, 4s being prompted by vou Berns- troff, following a message from-the Thandellor. "THR DOGR TO HEALTH Is Through the Rich, Red Blood Dr. Williams' Pik Pills Actually Make. The blood is responsible for the health of the body. If it is good, Ifit is bad, dicease is bound to appear in one Qne person may: be seized with rheumatism or' scia- tica, another with anaemia, 'indig- | estion; Leart palpitation, headaches or backaclies, unstrung nerves; or any oi the many other forms of ail- ; with Washington | | {alter the submarine note was ex- 'pected, but nothing as drastic as ¢ rupture, On the same 'morning | (Feb. 3) a cablegram from Count f annobnced that' ale he It 1s a Tumbledown Place in Mexice "and Is Called Namiquipa. Namiquips, in the state of Chfhua- hua, Mexico, bas the dfstinction of he- ing the largest city in the' world. Its site covers an area of 444 square files, or approximately 284,000 acres, its ex. act boundaries having been fixed song 800 years ago by a charter from the then king of Spaid, who gave the land to some colonists from Castile, J The greater part of the city site, how. ever, is unbuilt upon, and, as regards houses, originally constructed of sum dried brick, ane in ruins. - ort Next to Namiqulpa the biggest: city of either dn¢lent or inodérn times was undoubtedly Babylon, Recent exca- vations have uncovered the old walls, and they are found to have measured fifteen miles each way, inclosing' the city in the form of a perfect square. An easy arithmetical calculation shows us that the area of Rabylon inside the walls, therefore, was 225 squaré miles, or 144,000 acres. Conipared with such figures as these Birmingham with 8,420 acres, Norwich with 7,472 acres and Glasgow with 6,111 acres are almost in the nature of small villages. Yet these are the three i; biggest British cities--that is to say, they contain within their civic bounda- ries the biggest area of ground. RR The ¢ty of London proper containd no more than about 640.acres, approxi mately one square mile.--~London Tele. graph. } % The Druids. he drulds were evidently rengthens the: whole system ings good 'and "happitiess, | Thousands eir, present good "I health, some, life 1fself, to the pills. Mrs, Charles Goddard, Chatham, Oct., says :--*" Four years aga my nervous system. was so tun "dawn that life seemed nothing but a , bur- den, '1 doctored for two years with little or no benefit, I con!d neither work, eal or*sleep well. While in this condition 'a' friend advised kt fme to try Dr. Williafns' Pink Pills, Before doing so T thaugut I would consult my dottor and he told me he knew of ho better medicine for building up tlie nervous system. 1 started to take the pills and aftera short while found they were helping me. 1-took 'the . pill for neatly three mouths and am thankful to say that they completely cured me. 7 have ke a 'box'of the pills in"the hous mistletoe ticed_ their rites in dark groves. If n was © discovered growing upon an a priest_severed it with a knife, aud a festival was held under the tree at which two milk Wise low vegetable gold aud was accordingly looked pen as being a fit offering to the sun. ¢ £+ Birds of a Feather, x . Frederick Leveson-Gower in his rem 'iniscences relates that when he visited {Moscow in 1856 for the coromation of Alexander I1. "opposite our hotse' dur ing the procession was drawn up a reg-: iment 'called Pavlovski, formed by the 'Bmperor' Paul, all the men baving reseut- turned up hoses and 'therefore The : not established until after the close of the jotion. It was In 1791, at | Philadelphia, that carpet waking as an * | Industry Jota in the 1 ited 5 for which the Tand of the Rose is so justly celebrated. He came {0 Capada. while yet'a young man and {proved that he possessed all the fiecessdry "essentials to stceed in a ngw 'country... Being. a skilled mason he applied his bccupation with'a vith and determination that 'stiong he never in his younger days koew the meaning of the word "ted" but was constantly busy | early and late, 'lt is related of hii that he would" leave his residence just south of Prince Albert, at early heurs in the thorniig and reach the foot of Scugog Island; nine miles, where he was building foundations, and' tbat the ring of his trowel would awaken the drowsy den- pens: fron their slumbers. . His indusiyy was proverbial; while not penurious he had the happy faculty of tetdining from bis almofl super- himan efforts, sufficient in a short CATTLE Red Cow, new milch a Brindle Cow, due in April Holstein Cow, due in April i due in March F eit , due in March Red: Cow; due in_ April ; Red Cow, due in June Black Cow, due in Jube Red Cow, duein July ) «8 Holstein 'Cow, supposed to ba id " Cx xn . x Red Cow, stfiposed to be in calf Holstein Cow, milking ; The tows during 1916 produced 60,000 pounds of milk of good quality all of which was shipped to Toronto. . . SWINE eqing ; sapesn) Livi Sow Pig A Collie Dog : IMPLEMENTS, ETC Binder, gbod | Mower, nearly new 33 ; Seedet Horse Rake, nearly new Cultivator Set of Harrows Harrow Truck Plow and Whaels Scuffler Bain Wagon nearly pew Set Trucks ' Covered Buggy new Cutter ,. , Set Light Sleighs Light Wagon, good Light Rig Set Double Harness ; Set Single Hatniess ~ * 2 Grind-Stone 3 Sot Breechins. Sel