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J you ¥ ll be lors of 'whee - i e est. s spices and ¢ | now be helped, but we can keep | re-construction. = Prohibition of the : should be néither bullied nor babied: tion. Prices should be charged that {do not render it necessary for the The Gentle Art of Pulling Feathers 1t is easier to start a row than to stop it, and the eagle is no more pleased to lose bits" of its plumage | than the lion is to have its tail} Among some people it is a sort of, [chronic pastime to say unpleasant things about the people of the United | States. They have their faults, and] 150 have we; but there will never come a time when their friendship will 'not be more valuable than their enmity. "The day is coming when the need ' for Anglo-Saxon unity may become much' 1 more apparent than it is at present | | Every effort should be made to pros mote friendliness ¢ among Anglo-Saxon | | people. The mistakes that caused the division of this great race 'cannot smile for our brothers rather than the | sharp speech which has become 100: {common. + ' : ._Withits foreign population, Mexico; the i Negro question, and the labor m to solve; the United States will have ample national education, and those of her citizens who are fond of bragging, will likely have enough to occupy their attention and teach them something of quiet dignity. | We can afford to be sympathetic and neighborly, as we ate not entirely 'without troubles of our own. Standard Hotels' | The hotel business i is in process of sale of liquor 1s within sight, and new standards and prices will have to be put into effect. * First of all, hotel Keeping should be treated as "any other business--it The transaction by which the hotel keeper provides 'accommodation for silty should be as straightfor- ward as any 'other business transac- hotel keeper ta seceive special privi- | to be: comparatively easy to a town where Local Option a force and go to a town where there was license. But that is a an end now, and hundreds of men 'w ho have been in the hotel business * all their lives will have to adapt them- selves to new conditions. Incidentally it might be remarked hal turning out the Conservative Government will not. do much toward | stopping prohibition. Dear Paper Everywhere comes word that paper 'paper stock are growing scarce and expensive. City papers are rs pit in os Dea SAVINGS BANK at all Branches. "hGRr PERRY BRANCH General News E, A. Edwards, of Manilla, who had been in failing: health for some | time took his life by shooting himself, on August 3rd, : 000 Toronto packers paid $12.50 for. hogs, fed and watered last week; and 1812.00 was paid on the Usbridge' -market. coo » Prospects for a heavy crop of both alsikc and. red clover seed are good. 000. There have been outbreaks of hog cholera in Elgin County, and pre- cautions are being taken to prevent | the spread of the disease. 000 One hundred and eighty thousand pounds of wool, which the Saskat- chewan Department of Agriculture "Bas been holding for sale under its Letters from the Front The Canadian Bank of Commerce have been issuing a booklet giving news of the doings of members of their sta®at the Front. The July number of this booklet prints a hst of over 1000 names of members of the staff who have taken up military duty. The letters are full of interest- ling information and are evidently' edited by a capable man, Lieut Forster from Calgary writes:- Somewhere in France, March 2, '16 *You ask what "coal boxes" are: well they are a Howitzer Shell, 5.9, which explodes with a nose like thunder and throws up large volumes of thick black smoke. You can hear them coming quite plainly, and when they are just overhead the noise re- sembled an express train travelling at the rate of 65 to 70 miles an heur. "Wooley Bears" are, huge explosive ducing i in size, and' country weeklies' Co-operaiive wool marketing scheme, shrapnel shells which explode in the are increasing theif subscription rates. | has been sold to Swift and Company air throwing great »elouds of dense Charging $1. 50 per year. it is. possible to put out The Star 22.3 cents per pound. Eighty-five | Many country weeklies are , now Chicago, the highest tender, who put' white and yellow smoke; when the So Tong as in a bid which averaged (or all grades shrapnel comes over «you the noise is teriffic, and that is the time we hug. a without increasing the subscription per cent of. the wool went into the the parapet pretty closely, "Trench price, it will be dome, as the dollar straight grades at an average price of feet" resembles frost bite more than price iss ithe ore XE believe fair to all, parties. mtirudt;o Radial 'Railways We don't seem to be getting along very fast in the matter of Radial Rail- ways, and the promoters of the project are beginning to become restless, and through = their "spokesmen, "Mayor "Church and Mr. J. W. Lyon, are be- ginning to express dissatisfaction with the Goverpment in most emphatic terms. It is bard for those not conversant 'with all the facts to pass judgment upon the action of the Government in these matters. No one can deny that the work of 'construction at the pres- ent time would be very. difficult, be- cause materials and labor are both scarce and high in price. When tbe war is over it will be likely that normal prices will rule agaiu. This much is readily conceded But what is not readily conceded is the necessity for a do-nothing policy, ailowing for no progress in the matter of surveys; plans, purchase of right of way, getting options, etc. . It will be too bad if time has to be wasted after the war to get preliminary work done, that could be just as well done now. As we understand the radial railway a of a has its 01 difficulties; for It project, it is entirely a muncipal affair that requires little more from the Provincial Parliament than the safe- , guarding of the interests of the people ta: launch a, has proved localities, they! courtesy and Monday. At North Bay he met some ! Cutting is general. 384 cents a pound. This is by far' the best sale yet affected under. the provincial Governments co-operation marketing plan. Lemons have advanced consider- ably in price and the 'prospects are that they will soon be five cents apiece 000 ; The Trades and Labor Council ag Kingston will run a co-operative bak- ery and threaten to open a co-operat- ive coal: yard if prices continue to, advance. Heroine of the Northern Fire' WHITBY GAZETTE Among the many acts of bravery performed in the recent fires in North- ern Ontario, was that of a former Whitby girl, Miss Edythe Jamieson, daughter of former Chief Constable J. D. R. Jamieson. The family' will be remembered by all who were resi: dents of Whitby during Mr Jamieson's tenure of office. The story as told by a correspondent from the north is in- tensely interesting. Miss Edythe Jamieson, 20 years old, 4 telephone operator, daughter of Lieut J. D. R. Jamieson, of the 176th Bn., who live at Cochrane, is the heroine of that town. At Kelso, little Iris 'Reid, now in Toronto, was hero- ine. Dr, Mohoney, Miss Scott and the engine crew ot Iroquois Falls were the heroes there, and in Cochrane Miss Jamieson stuck at her desk at the telephone exchange ans refused to leave, although the building 'was on fire. She was handling the connect. ions as coolly' as on an ordinary day. Lieut. Jamieson left Camp Borden on Saturday, and got to Cochrane on i ; damaged by June floods. , anything else I can think of, men get Ie gthem through long standing in mud and water, the circulation leaves the soles of the feet so in time they be- come quite dead. However there is yery little of that around now. Crop Report Maritime Provinces. All jtrops have made good growth, excep where Hal much above the average. Grain indicates an average crop. Potatoes and roots promise well. Quebec. All reports agree that the hay crop is very abundant and of good quality. Grain crops have suffered considerably from drought during the month, and. apparently the harvest will be earlier than usual, Patatoes are reported as good, except in one or two localities. Corn is reported as doing well, Ontario. In the peninsula (Essex County) a large crop of hay bas been has been harvested in splendid shape. Wheat and barley are harvested, bug are not quite a standard yield. Oats will be below the average. Corn and hoed crops are fair, though later than usual, In Eastern Ontario, crops are suffering from lack of moisture, Wheat is little grown, its condition is fair, and it is beginning to ripen. * Barley is poor, rather late, and very uneven. Owing to the dry weather, the straw will be short. Roots have started well. © Corn is poor. Potatoes are healthy, but are not setting well on account of the drought. The crop is likely to be light. - Mamtoba, Telegrams from Bran- don and Morden report that wheat prospects have deteriorated during the last few days by an attack of mst. Oats and barley. from tk Soverunent friends ho told him his family was are a heavy crop and uninjured. A be!sifé wt ordin-! A rt heavy crop of Say was harvested. Corn is. doy heAR :