$1,00 a year in advance ; $1.50 to United States. BOWMAN VILLE, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1914 Vol. LX. No. 37. M. A. JAMES & SON, Proprietors > v Couch Johnston & Cryderman Have had a very successful Summer Sale and are now very busy opening out Fall and Winter Goods They are already showing a superb stock of Ladies' and Children's Coats made up in the very latest styles New Dress and Silks all bought before the advance these goods caused by the declaration of war. 111 New Linoleums in two, three and four yards at old prices.. Couch, Johnston & Cryderman BOW MAN VILLE PHONE 104 WHAT NEXT, KAISER ? A Brief Analysis of War. the European OBITUARY Real Estate is Best Investment. In time of war or peace Real Estate has always been considered considered the one best and safest investment; investment; Just now is your opportunity to buy real estate as I have some snaps in choice properties for sale or to lease. Ask for particulars. INSURANCE If you require Fire, Life or Liability Insurance I can insure to best advantage. Rates you and particulars gladly furnished. sn Harry Cann Guessing Contest! The Insurance and Real Estate Man Phone 50, Bowmanville The clock wound Saturday, Sept. 5th, at twelve o'clock noon is still running, so you still have a chance to win the prize. Register your guess to-day, to-morrow may be too late. Any five dollar article in our store will be given free to the winner. Read particulars in our window. C- H. HADDY, Jeweller The House for High-Grade Watches Bowmanville BANK OF MONTREAL AUCTION SALES. -ESTABLISHED 1817 ■ Incorporated by cAct of 'Parliament Capital -- $16,000,000 Rest _ -- $16,000,000 Undiv. Profits 1,046,217.80 Department Head Office, Montreal# J, A. McClellan, Manager, Bowmanville Branch. DAY AT THE FAIR. Thursday, Sept, 17--Mrs. Amassa Fuller, Fuller, lot 5, con. 3, Darlington, will sell all of her farm stock, implements, dairy cattle, etc. Sale at I o'clock. See bills. L. A. W. Tole, auctioneer. - FRIDAY, Sept. 18,-The Estate of W. Isaac Clarke will offer for sale by public auction on Friday, September l8, 1914, at one o'clock, at the homestead on the north part of lot 18, con.,5, Darlington, all the real estate consisting of about 120 acres, parts of lots VJ, 18 and 19» con. 5, and io acres of lot 18, con. 6, Darlington. Also all the farm stock and implements, 5 horses, 12 cattle, o hogs, a quantity of hay in barn, and buckwheat growing in field. L. A. W. TOLE, auctioneer. Saturday, Sept. 26--The executors of the estate of late Elizabeth Foster, will offer for sale at her late residence, Kingston Road, 1% miles east of Bow manville, the valuable real estate, furm- ture and implements. Sale at I o clock. See bills. L. A. W. Tole, auctioneer Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR I A The Best Holiday of the Year. The fact that so many old friends attend Bowmanville Fair every year from outside outside the county makes it a day of great pleasure and many meetings of acquain- tances. Indeed, this is one of the chief enjoyments of "going to the Fair." Every member of the household should attend and expect a happy day. A great many less than usual have attended attended the Canadian National Exhibition iving to the general desire to cut down expenses this"war year," but a visit to Bowmanville Fair need not be yery expensive, expensive, so decide to see this fair in any case and you have the satisfaction that you see one of the best county exhibitions. The chief day is Wednesday, Sept. 23. West Durham Fair has proven one of the surprises in recent years for exhibits of all classes of live stock, for which liberal prizes are given. Brilliant Vaudeville Performance in front of the Grand Stand.. Speeding of farmers' horses in the nng. Concert in Opera House at night. You can have a fine time at this Fair. With so many railroads-there should be a larger crowd than usual. Be sure you date with your best girl and with the crowd. By Chas. M. Bice, Denver, Colo, At present the results seem to favor Germany, but the future prospects art; not so brilliant for the Kaiser. The real puzzle is to find the. advantage he may reasonably expect from the war when it filially ends. Suppose he realizes his present present hopes and repulses the Russians and captures Paris, his task would only have Degun. He surely cannot hope for conquest conquest beyond, for he would have Great Britain and Russia,' and doubtless Italy and other nations to reckon with. If France should be brought to terms by the capture of the seat of government, this wou.d in no way affect British or Russian interests. England did not enter the war out of friendship for the French, but to preserve the neutrality of Belgium which the nations nations theretofore had solemnly entered a pact to preserve. Great Britain, commercially commercially speaking, is in a position to really profit by seeing the two great powers powers of Western Europe staggering with weakness from the conflict, while she herself herself would be left to dictate the terms of peace. Undoubtedly, France so far has made many . military blunders. She is only now awakening to the necessity of calling out her reserve forces which should have been mobilized at the outset. This move may be too late to save Paris. She committed another blunder in attacking the Germans at Alsace and Lorraine, and failing to concentrate her forces in Belgium Belgium to resist the main body of the German German army on its avowed mission to capture capture Paris. Those Belgium forts of Liege and Namur should have been defended and held at all hazards, instead of being left to the weak strength {numerically) of the small Belgian forces. Then if the German forces had broken through the defense of the allies at .one point they would not have risked further advance by leaving a strongly fortified position behind behind them. Great Britain in turn made the mistake of sending only about 100,000 of her army to fight a German force estimated estimated at over two millions. Of course Great Britain expected France to call out all her forces which would not. have been much inferior to the German army, but this has not been done, and the British forces, though overwhelmingly out-num bered, have shown incomparable bravery and upheld the glory of Britain's arms of which we all feel justly proud, in stemming stemming the onward march of the Kaiser's legions. Had the British forces been e v en ^he-half of those of Germany in numbers and shown their' usual bravery, they 1 would have cut to pieces Obe Kaiser's so- called "invincibles" and sent them reeling back to their Fatherland. . When the Germans captured Paris in 71, the downfall of that city brought the \war to an end. \There is no reason to expect a similar result should Paris now be taken. Of the three- allies in the triple entente France is the Wallest and weakest. Hence from a strategical point of view the fall of Paris would constitute no overwhelming reason why the other powers should cease their operations. Their resources are so enormous enormous that they can continue the conflict indefinitely, and from the speeches of Lord Kitchener and Premier Asquith and the Czar's proclamations, there is no doubt that the fight will be continued until Germany Germany is laid low, and her boasted military military strength forgotten. Should the Kaiser's forces take Paris their stay there must be brief, with the Russians threatening threatening Berlin, and the necessity of maintaining maintaining an enormous army in the field to protect protect their line of communication with the fatherland. There surely would be no time for those merry roystermgs that marked the stay of the German staff at Versailles 43 years ago. The French and British may be defeated but they will not be annihilated, and their attacks will be incessant. These considerations show the utter wickedness, if not insanity, of the Kaiser in his reckless bent on capturing Paris. If Berlin should fall, the result would be equally inconclusive, and so it seems not unlikely that in a few weeks or months more reasonable views will prevail. The offer of the United States to mediate between between the belligerents will then be regarded regarded with more favor than it has so tar received. War is inhuman, and its methods are cruel and merciless. The beast in man refuses to be civilized. But a crisis laden with triumph and tragedy is undoubtedly approaching in this great European struggle, and I am proud that my adopted country is in a position and has evinced a desire to serve the world by peaceful intervention to bring this wanton misery and slaughter to a close. Germany, Great Britain, France end Russia must each be able to look to us with confidence when the mad ire of war has fumed itself out, and reason is again invited to the council of nations. If this war means a recasting of institutions institutions when the strife ceases, may we hope that the exhausted people may find m America a model of self-controlled dem- ocracy inspired by a nign worthy in every way of Denver, Sept. 1,1914 John Clarke, Oakville Mr. John Clarke, brother-in-law of Mr. Wm. Werry, Solina, passed away Monday Monday Aug. 24th in a private hospital in Toronto, aged 88 years. Mr. Clarke was one of Toronto's pioneers, a native of Victoria County, having served in Mariposa Mariposa township council and as Justice of the Peace. He was predeceased by his wife a year ago and is survived by a family family of four sons and two daughters, one of the former being Mr. Ai H. Clarke, ex- M.P. for South Essex, now of Calgary. For some time Mr. Clarke : lived at Oakville Oakville with his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Gundy, where the funeral took place Tuesday. CAMP VALCARTIER. IN THE EDITOR'S MAIL. Mrs. John Jones, Bowmanville. Friends of Mr. John J ones and family sympathize with him in the death of his wife, Mary E. McDonald who passed away in Toronto Thursday night after an illness of several months with diabetes. The remains were brought home Friday evening, the funeral taking place from the family residence, Ontario-st Sunday afternoon. afternoon. Rev. J. E. Griffith conducted the service. The pall-bearers were : Messrs Wm. Trewin, A. Mitchell, W. B. Tapson, Major King, John Hellyar and F. J. Horne. Besides her sorrowing husband, she leaves two sons, Messrs Reginald and Roy Jones at home and one daughter, Mrs. A. E. Williamson, Toronto, an aged mother, Mrs. John Riggs, besides four sisters and four brothers. John Allin, Whitby The grim reaper has garnered another ripe sheaf from the human harvest field in Whitby. On Sunday, August 23, Mr. John Allin, of Centre-st. south, passed over to the majority in his 86th year. Mr. Allin had been a resident of Whitby for about eight years. For long years he farmed near VZhitby, really within the corporation, but close to the railway track near where the fatal railway accident occurred occurred last winter. He was a man of upright upright character and great industry, and the circle of his acquaintanceship was wide and sincere. He was a member of the Methodist Tabernacle. One son, Richard Allin, now resides on the home stead; another, Fred, is station agent at Newtonville; and John and William are residents of the United States. There are also four daughters, one of whom, Mrs. Hodge, was a resident of Whitby till two years ago. The funeral was held Wed- nesday afternoon to the Union cemetery. --Gazette. Deceased was a brother of Mr. Samuel Allin, "Allindale Farm", Lake Shore, Bowmanville. (From our own correspondent.) The men are certainly getting down to business. All have been medically inspected inspected and inoculated against typhoid for the second time, consequently many a sore arm. Most of the men have been issued with practically all their service clothing and shoes. Tell the ladies not to send the underwear as the men, have bought some in Quebec. Tell them that knitted toques of a brown color would be much appreciated by the men to be used as night caps. Work is going on all the time. Physical drill at 6 a. m., then breakfast, breakfast, morning parade at 8 o'clock and 'a great deal of rifle practise with the new Ross Rifle, a splendid rifle in every way and very effective. We are under strictly active service conditions and strict regulations regulations are observed as to discipline, no laxness being allowed. Bowmanville can be proud of the privates she sent with the 46th, and they have a good officer in Capt. Naismith from Janetville. Lieut. Elton Hughes is very proud of his Dragoons who have the honor to be attached to "A" Company of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Brigade. Any reports as to Roger Bird being injured are unfounded as Roger is the real type of soldier. Pte.' Martin has developed a tendency to sing, otherwise is doing well, and his hair is beginning to grow once more. Fred Spry enjoys the post cards his lady friends are sending and hopes more will be . sent. Ira Scott is gaining weight and always asks for, a second helping. Jack French has developed developed a baseball tendency, results so far two black eyes. In fact all our boys are enjoying enjoying this real soldiering. This is an immense camp with miles of tents laid out in perfect line, every unit being represented. The Army Service Corps are the wonder of everybody, get ting out in perfect order the rations for nearly 30,000 men and distributing same each day to the hundreds of different units. The camp ground is a beautifu one surrounded by mountains with the Jacques Cartier river running across one side. We swim there by regiments. The boys all send their best regards to all their friends and would appreciate hearing from them. Rev. T. A. Nind, Rector of St. John's church, writes: To The Editor--Dear Sir--I shall be much obliged if you will allow me to make known through your columns the request that the Chaplain General to the English forces has made through the public press to the people of the British Empire. I quote his own words: " May I ask all people when the lands of the clock point heavenward at noon to offer a prayer on behalf of our sailors and soldiers ? I feel sure the cnowledge that they are being remembered remembered throughout the JEmpire at one and the same time will be a great source of corner corner t, strength and help." He also appends a short prayer which has been printed on small card and given to each soldier. Almighty and most merciful Father, Forgive me my sins: Grant me Thy peace: Give me Thy power: Bless me in life and death for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. By changing the word fme' into 'them' it will orm a very suitable prayer for us to use. NEW ONTARIO ROADS. James Coates, Shirley. The late James Coates was born and lived all his life in Cartwright where his demise took place. He married early in life, Miss Charlotte Bray, daughter of the late John Bray, Enfield. He lived a most exemplary life, honorable and upright in all his dealings, a kind and devoted husband, husband, a loving and indulgent father, an estimable friend and valuable member of society, a worthy and consistent of the Methodist church, was highly esteemed by. all who knew him and was worthy of it. He was one of our true nobility, a son of toil, and to whom the country is so much indebted for all that makes her great and prosperous. He was public spirited, liberal liberal in the best sense of that term, a strong supporter of agricultural interests, being for many years a leading official of the Board of the Cartwright Agricultural Society and recognized as one of the best and most successful farmers Besides his Valcartier, Sept. 6th, 1914* This camp has just got through the grandest review ever held in Canada, over 30,000 men passing the saluting point --cavalry first, artillery next, and then the masses of infantry, rank upon rank, in double companies, over 200 men in a company--the new English formation. The formation for marching past was column. It was a sight to thrill the hearts of any Canadian with an ounce of British blood in their bodies, and we as a country can be very proud of her sons. The review was carried out without a hitch in the pouring rain and over the rough ground, but not a murmur was heard from a man. The Duke of Connought: was delighted and amazed at the splendid wav the men are working out. The Bowmanville boys are delighted with the presents brought down by Major A. E. McLaughlin yesterday and the thoughtful ladies of Bowmanville would feel amply thanked and repaid if they could have seen the smiles of pleasure on the boys' faces when receiving them. Our town has certainly been good to her boys. You will be surprised to hear that all the 3rd Prince of Wales Dragoons from Bowmanville except Corporal Manship and Private Fred Spry have been attached to the Royal Canadian Regiment, and are Roadwork in Northern Ontario under the Northern Ontario development fund ias been stopped for the season and hundreds hundreds of men, many of thèm with one or more teams, have been thrown out of employment weeks sooner than they had expected. It is alleged that this year's appropriation has already been expended. As a matter of fact, however, this fund is under the control of the Cabinet--not the Legislature---and they had the power to spend within the limit of $5,000,000. Up to the present less than $2,500,000 has been spent of the $4,300,000 the amount secured by the Government to carry on the work. The trouble is that, as admitted in testimony testimony given before the Public Accounts Committee by the Deputy Assistant Provincial Provincial Treasurer this Spring, the rest of the money has been spent for other purposes purposes and is,'therefore, not on hand at this critical time. Otherwise the Government could have kept the men employed on the Northern roads until the very end of the season and thus haye saved them from considerable distress. : Unemployment is bad enough as it is, especially with the war and general financial financial stringency, and although the Government Government shows tardy signs of making an attempt attempt to deal with the problem in the Province as a whole, it is unfortunate that in Northern Ontario at any rate they have made things w r orse instead of better. PEOPLE READING LESS. widow he leaves one son and" four daugh : now on their way to Bermuda for garrison and ters to mourn the loss of a husband father so worthy of their love and esteem: Mr. Russell Coates at home; Mrs. James Strong, Purple Hill; Mrs. Sinclair Robert- Shirley; Mrs. John Stone, Toronto; John Brent, Raglan. The funeral took place Sunday to the Pine Grove Cemetery, Prince Albert, and was largely attended, Rev. J. W. Totten, officiating. son, Mrs. PICNIC AT HAMPTON Union Picnic of Epworth Leagues of Bowmanville District will be held at Hampton-on-the-Lake on Friday, Sept, nth to start at 23.0 p.m. Interesting afternoon of sports is arranged baseball match between Providence vs. Salem Leagues; tug-of-war be ween Leagues east and west of Gravel Road, and football football match will be played between these same Leagues at 5-30; basket ball and baseball ga.ues for ladies are planned. Tea served at 5 pun. At 7 P*m. a short program of music and addresses will be given in the church when Messrs. Denyes, Half yard and Jones, Missionary Cam- jaigners for the District, will take P^rt AU Leaguers, come to meet them. Collection Collection will be taken to cover expenses. See that your League is well represented. Bring your basket and xome early. Frances E. Conley, District President; Sara Moise, District Secretary. idealism, and their emulation. WAR COURAGE AT HOME. make a be on hand Many a man in Canada, is willing to go a-warring across the seas, unwilling to fight at home--against the shadowy foes of bad times or of business depression. This is a time when Canadian business men should fight-fight to capture new trade and to hold old trade. To stop one s advertising is to withdraw a powerful offensive offensive and defensive force, and to expose one's business without a guard. If t courage of manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers--the retailers--the generals and captains of trade and industry--fails, the courage of the nation will ebb. Keep up your cou.age business men and keep up your adve.t s- j ing, too. defense work. The men are all getting to De crack shots and the Germans will soon find this out when they get into action with them. The James Papers were much appreciated. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES School re-opened with an unusually large attendance, there being twenty more . 1 nor.c/4 iî»st year. At- ^ _ week of 1912 At tendance during opening week ot 1911 also 1912 was 63, last year 74 and this year 94. More seats have to be PAPER PRICES GOING UP. It is a well-known fact that few printers printers and. publishers have been making money for some years out of their newspapers newspapers because of the higher prices they have had to pay for nearly everything used in their offices. Overhead expenses have increased enormously of late years, too. Once more the wholesale paper dealers have withdrawn all former quotations. quotations. One old firm has notified their customers thusly : "We re g ret t ° ^ V1 ^ you that we cannot guarantee to fill future orders for papers at old prices. This leaves but one course open to publishers of country newspapers, that is, to increase increase subscription and advertising rates. Does it not seem strange that while every- thing the publisher has to pay more ~ and yet he has not .advanced prices ? But the time has must increase prices added to the first form room, and some students have vet to enter. Prize winners for the school year ending June 30th are: Dr. Hoskin prize, Miss Gladys Cousins; James Gilfillan prize, Alan Gale ; Fairbairn general proficiency prizes: Form II Miss Catherine Warnica, Form I Miss Marion Virtue and Robt Parker equal ; W- B. Couch writing prizes First, Miss Retà Cole, second, Miss Lola Souch ; Dr. Dandeno prize, Miss Louise Hardy ; W. W. Tamblyn prize, Milton Sanderson; D. G. M. Galbraith oratory prizes, Miss Florence L. VanNest, first and Miss Louise Hardy, second; Smith prizes for Art, Everett Hardy, first and Miss Louise Hardy, second. These prizes amount in money value to sixty dollars, which speaks well for the public spirit of the old friends of the school. The institution institution appreciates these evidences of interest and friendship. Arrangements are - being made for. military instruction in the organization of a cadet corps at the High School. Mr. W G Butson, the new mathematical master, holds a cadet instructor's certificate certificate and has had experience in handling a company. A portion of the accontre- ments-is to be furnished by the government. government. R. S. Lang and Allen Martin, two of our * High School graduates, Victoria University this term. Publishers of books tell us that there is an appreciable falling off in the sale to books. And this decline is noticeable not only in serious books, but even in ficiton. Fewer novels are read than formerly. In towns and cities children who used to frequent the public libraries are now at the moving picture shows. So tar as adults are concerned three factors have contributed to the decline of reading. Perhaps the most important of these has been the automobile. The thousands who are spending all their leisure time in automobiles automobiles are generally drawn from the class that buy books. When once the evenings were spent around the reading lamp, except on the stormiest nights and winter they are now spent flying through country lanes; This is good and they might be doing something worse, but nevertheless this time is taken from Shakespear and Dickens and the best modren books. In the great citits the growing habit of theatres, dinner partits and pleasure seeking in general has had its effect. The present dance craze has also obsessed great swarms of young people. people. People who dance all night are not apt to be reading books. The tendency to leave the city over Sunday for weekends weekends in the country has also made an inroad inroad in reading. The Sunday afternoon and evening used to be spent over books ; it is now spent in visiting or in trips through the country. There has been a remarkable growth of out door exercise of all sort. Thirty years ago only one man out of a thousand played golf or tennis. Now you will find links and courts crowded. crowded. On a Sunday in June during our last visit to New York we saw baseball, foot-, ball, tennis and golf games in progress in thè northern play grounds ot that ^cosmopolitan ^cosmopolitan city and thousands upon thousands thousands of spectators watching the players. Even the women have become athletic. A great part of our life is now spent out of doors. There is no doubt that the health of our body is increasing, but whether it is.being gained at the sacrifice of our brain is a question. RURAL SCHOOL FAIR for his own come when he or do business at a will enter loss- There are a hundred publishers m this country who would be far better off today wdrking as journeymen and thereby thereby escaping the worry that every newspaper office. surrounds A new Dominion two-dollar bill has been issued in commemoration of the stay of the Duke and Duchess of Lon naught in Canada. It bears their por traits on either corner with the figure two in the centre and the word two on either side of it. The bill is of a light olive green. This is the fourth issue of two dollar notes. The first bore the picture of Lord Dufferin, the second that of Lot d Lansdowne, and the third of King Ed ware when he was Prince of Wales. Cartwright at Blackstock Fair Grounds, Tuesday, Sept. 22. We hope everybody who can will attend Cartwright Rural School Fair at Black- stock on Sept. 22nd--first day of Bowman- Fair. No charge for admission, make the first school fair a All exhibits must be ville Help to splendid success. --- . , . placed by II a.m. and people are asked to take baskets and have a real picnic day with the school children. A good program of sports and contests have been arranged. It will be well worth a visit. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of =:>-■ i > < gg&sg