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t£ : - %r\ I | I yi ' ' K : k: m Couch, Johnston & Cryderman Have received further shipments of Ladies Spring Suits and Coats made of the newest materials and in very latest styles Next Saturday If you have not been getting your Saturday candies from us you have been losing money. We sell the regular 60c quality quality on Saturdays for 37c We also have a choice selection selection of thé finest chocolates made anywhere in neat handsome handsome boxes at 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50 and up. Horehound twist 19c. After Dinner Mints 19c. Jury & Lovell. We have a big stock of three of the best kinds of corn grown: Burpee's Golden Bantam County Gentleman Packages 5c and 10c or in bulk. Also all the finest quality A very complete assortmënt of choice Garden and Flower Seeds in bulk and in packages •Jury & Lovell Agents for Burpees Seeds. - __ : The Soldiers will Be Going to Camp Soon. Present your friend with a Safety Money Pouch. Money cannot be-lost or stolen if placed in one of fchese. They fasten around the arm above" the elbow and you cannot give anything at the price (75c) that is nicer or more serviceable. 3 Jury & Lovell. Ladies- Old Hats Look Like New. A bottle of our Hat Dye will do the trick. Easy to apply. 2 sizes, 25c, 15c. Jury & Lovell Hat Bleach Get your last summer hat out and use 10c worth of our Hat Bleach on it--it will look like new. Jury & Lovell. His Mother's Presence Helping Him To Enjoy His Enforced Confinement "I was very sorry to hear that Dan D., had been wounded and had to leave his comrades in Flanders. He has certainly been an interesting letter- writer, always seeing the humorous side of life under all physical and even serious conditions" writes a western lady. Surely Dan would see a joke at an execution. The letter that follows is furthur evidence of his fun-loving nature. His thousands of admirers, all over the universe will sincerely join in his wish that he may soon be up and out around to enjoy the sights and scenery of beautiful Aberdeèn --Editor Ward I, 1st Scottish Oldmill Hospital Aberdeen, Scotland. Dear Mr. James,--May 4, 1916., I'm still here, you see, but "gettin better'n better every day", The small timber- yard around my leg has been removed and replaced by sand bags (small hospital hospital size) and their embrace is as soft and binding as that which most young men have experienced--so I've read. I'm hoping to be up very soon, and I'm getting every encouragement to get well. Mother is here, came last Sunday Sunday and is staying the week, so you can guess I'm enjoying life. I've already told you that.the spirits never "flag" here, for when Fritz knocks a British soldier down, it generally generally makes him corné back all the harder. So it is here, the harder they have been hit, it seems that the better and keener the spirits are. _ These incidents incidents will give you some idea of the amusements we interject into our hospital hospital life here: The nurse this morning morning was struggling to pull a bed containing containing on of the boys with a foot seriously seriously out of action, She wanted to get behind it, to sweep out, and I watched watched her trying hard, Now, the floor is polished here, so that the beds generally generally slide about like a pebble on ice, so I wondered fora time then I noticed --same time as the nurse, why it didn't go. That poor, helpless(?) soldier, who was fast asleep(?) at the time, had one arm around the back of the bed (out of sight) grasping with his hand a pipe connected with the radiator! The night nurse came into the ward the other night to find the electric lights (which are shaded at night) snugly perched against the ceiling perfectly out of all possible reach--and all the patients fast asleep(?) Aha! Such things are so geneml^that they air; taken as a matter of cph/ae'*by the staff here. This ward is one mass of flowers, as I write, for the visitors to this hospital all seem to think of us in this way and the flowers are cheering to ns, I can assure you. I have a vase myself which is kept constantly filled. ' The pranks the patients pipy on one another--the ones who are up and about--are one continuous laugh. There was a special concert company coming the other evening and all were desirous to go, so after tea there was ageneral rush to get cleaned. Itmeant that some had to wait and I noticed one very busy on some clothes on a bed close to mine. Then I saw a cap being hung very carefully on a hook about six inches from thé ceiling. At the appointed time a move was made for the hall, then I saw the result of those attentions. Both sleeves of his sweater were sewn up at the elbow and a pleat of about six inches had been taken in at the.shoulders. That boy's struggles to get into his sweater were a comedy, and he was being told to "hurry up, as they couldn't wait all night"! He managed to straighten out his sweater, and then noticed his cap about twelve feet aboyé him. Then his face was a comedy to watch, and he turned to me saying "what'll a' dae, noo"? in such despair that my smile HAD to "bust". He had to borrow my cap in the end, as anything he could reach his with was hidden away. Next day the Irish Sergeant who had done the trick the night before was taking a nap in the afternoon and when he awoke and got out of bed--he had been lying on the top with his boots on--found both boots tied together together by the laces in as many knots as could be made with the ends. Thus the "hospital warfare" goes on day after day and one's almost glad he was lucky enough to get hit, so good is "the fun. The weather here is glorious and I long for the day when I can go out and enjoy outside air. Hope everybody everybody is enjoying life--and wishing the war over. If enough wish it hard enough enough it - can't last long. As usual, Dan D. THE EDITOR TALKS. Further extracts from Pte. R. Dickinson's Letters about Belgium Conditions. $| Victoria Day being a holiday we go to press a day earlier this week which explains why some articles and news items da not appear. Changes for advertisements advertisements MUST be in by Monday evening to insure insertion. War and sickness are reducing our office help. rfEvery good thing is likely to be imitated. imitated. The best oats in the world-- the O. A. C., No 72 Oats--are being advertised by U. S. seed firms as "Imperial "Imperial Oats" and being sold at $3.18 and" upwards per bushel. The results of experiments, in Ontario farms are being being used. It sèems that 600 bushels were bought from an Ontario farmer at $1.40 by a number of U. S. firms and aro now being sold at the higher price to Ontario farmers when they can buy the O. A. C. No. 72 in abundance abundance at $1 per bushel. Beware of the agents who want to sell you your own oats at three prices or more. Big Orange sale on Friday and Saturday at Rd. Snowden's. Regùlar 50c oranges for 39; regular 30c for 21c. Sunday, April 30, 1916. Rabston and I have been out for a walk, but its too hot to walk far. It is very warm and the country is beginning beginning to look very much better. The season opened up so much earlier than at home, yet most things are not very far advanced. Trees are only nicely beginning to leaf out There are some flowers, but not nearly as nice ones as are found in Canada. Nature is doing her best to cover up the scars of war but as we came across the country to-day we were constantly coming to old trenches zigzagging in every direction. Impenetrable snarls of stakes and barbed wire ran across the country as far as we could see. In many places these had been made thru the grain fields and last year's straw still stands woven among tangled wire. Here and there were rows of narrow holes -- ten-minute trenches that men have dug out with their entrenching entrenching tools. In every direction are groups of huts, many roughly made of lumber and tar paper. Rude structures of any material at hand, corrugated iron, empty tins, old canvass canvass or anything of the sort are pressed pressed into use as a shelter for the transport transport horses. The thrifty Belgians were in the habit of growing trees, mostly a sort of elm, around their hedge rows and along the roads. These are kept carefully carefully trimmed and are tall and straight. These trees line almost every road of importance, and not only have a very pleasing effect on the landscape but also furnish much valuable timber. But here again the ravages of war are much in evidence. The trees mark out the roads and, as a result, are guages for the artillery. 1. have seen trees nearly two feet in diameter cut completely off by a single shell, Even a more destructive effect has been produced produced by tying horses along the tree rows. Thousands upon thousands of trees are girdled from the ground up as high as a horse can reach. Last night there was some scrap oh with the Hnns and there's another tonight tonight ttio its mostly artillery work so far as I know. Gas calls are sounding and we will have our helmets handy, though I don't think they can get much.over here as the wind is wrong. I have just been outside and it certainly certainly is a sight at times, the shells and Fritzy's flares together make great fireworks. The boys have just been talking about being awakened last night. The guns wakened me and then I v heard the order given to sound the gas alarm. I called the fellows and for a few minutes minutes there were high old times. We stumbled around over benches, chairs, tables, etc., until I managed to get some matches and a candle. After we got our helmets handy we started to clean our rifles and get our equipment. We didn't expect to defend the building building or anything of the kind, but we were beginning to think we might get a chance of being sent down the line, but it all ended by our going back to bed and sleeping peacefully until quite late this morning. - We have had a lot of laughs over it to-day just the same. THE IRISH UPRISING By Chas. M. Bice, Denver, Colo, It is unfortunate that the discontented discontented Irish party should foment.rebellion foment.rebellion at this critical moment in the Empire's career, but it has been successfully successfully put down with some loss of life and property. The British secret service has evidently evidently kept close watch on Sir Roger Casement's moves in Germany. This arch-traitor evidently knew of the many coves and desèrtfed stretches of coast around Ireland suitable for gun- running, and thot he would catch the ever-alert British patrol napping. But his scheme was nipped in the bud at his first attempt to secure a landing. Whatever the Kaiser planned for Ireland, it has taken a long time to bring about anything like an uprising; and with the sinking of the German auxiliary and the capture of Casement it may be said to have gone off at half cock. No doubt Germany reckoned on a civil war in Ireland when she declared declared war and swept into Belgium in August 1914. We know that German -rifles had been supplied to the Ulster army under under Sir Edward Carson; but she soon found out when war came that the Ulstermen, ever loyal, swung into line and were even more enthusiastic than any other of the forces in the British Empire. But the sordid Machiavelian policy of Germany in Ireland, and so conspicuous conspicuous throughout India, Egypt and other British possessions, was to work for civil war, and in the case of Ireland she sought to inflame rebellion thru the Ulsterites and the Sinn Feiners, thus working both sides in the game. Deprived of all hope of - help from Ulster, Ulster, after sending Mauser guns and ammunition, she concentrated on the maniac, Sir Roger Casement, as a forlorn forlorn hope. ____ They have been rewarded by a riot in Dublin, it is true, but no worse than the food riots reported from time to time as occurring in German cities. All this demonstrates the dire necessities necessities to which the Huns are driven, and the unscrupulous and barbaric methods they are ever ready to adopt. Honor and fair dealing with an enemy are words not to be foùnd in the German German repertoire. They are to Germany an undeciphered, unheard of language. Another Bowman ville Boy in England England Getting Fit to Meet HunS •This brief letter is welcome news to friends of Pte. Ernest A. Meader, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meader, King- st,, East, who enlisted with a Toronto Battalion and is now receiving furthur training at Bramshot Camp before going going to the Front. We are very glad to hear from him and hope he will write us about his experiences in the Old Land--Editor, Dear Mr. James--Just a few lines to say our Battalion arrived in England April 9, coming over from Halifax on S. S. Empress of Britain; were 7-days in crossing and had a calm voyage. We landed in Liverpool escorted bv 2 Cruisers, and 5 torpedo boatdestroyers. In the Convoy were the S. S. Baltic, Adriatic, Empress of Britain and Olympia, Olympia, We disembarked two hours after landing and entrained for here arriving at 5 a.m. Monday morning. Most troops travel by night here. We had very wet weather for two weeks but now it is nice summer weather. The surrounding country about hereis very beautiful. We are now hard at work, training for our little trip to Flanders to do our little bit for the Empire. I am enjoying the best of health and am gaining weight regardless of our hard work and let me say that we have to work here almost day and night as our training consists of a lot of night manoeuvring. manoeuvring. I am getting my 6 days' furlough, which all troops get on landing landing here and I am going to travel over the British Isles as far as I can in the time. Convey my best regards to all in Bowman ville with best regards to ( the Statesman staff, Yours truly, Ernest. A. Meader No. 139,647, "C" Company 75th Batt. Bramshot Camp, Liphook. Hants, England. A SOLDIER AT THE FRONT SOLDIERS WORKING HARD LETTERS EROM THE FRONT Fighting 16 Days on two Biscuits Daily - Mr. Frank Mounsdon, (cousin of the Editor), Liverpool, England, under date of April 19 writes in partuas follows: follows: Dear Cousin--The war drags on but 1 cannot help thinking we are approaching a climax. Iam looking for some biggish move on the part of the Allies next month when the waters assuage assuage but of course I am not in the secrets secrets of the war office. Percy Poole, (my sister Jessy's son) had a warm time in the Serbian mountains for 8 or 9 weeks. He was in the retreat from Nish and for 16 days and nights without without a break, his corps, 10th Irish, was fighting a rearguard action on £ rations --2 biscuits a day-- no shelter, sleeping where they could for an hour at a time on the snow or mud, then hook to the guns and off again. Hundreds of them were in hospitals from frost-bite afterwards, afterwards, but he didn't even get a cold, and was never better in his life. They were very much praised for their gal- antry by the French commander there. On Dec. 4 they never expected to get away, the enemy were 20 to 1 and looked looked like cutting them off. They let the enemy come to within 400 yards and then let fly at them. In 20 minutes they killed 1800 men and that kept the enemy back. He is now on the mountains outside Saloniki. A few weeks ago an aeroplane bomb dropped within 2 yards of him, but it did not explode. TO HELP THE WORKERS AVe hope every worker who lives by his or her own efforts read the address delivered on Friday in Toronto--an important and significant speech fore- castingradical policies of so:dal reform affecting both the country and the cities, cities, by Mr. N. \V. Rowell, K.C., M.P.P., at the Annual Meeting of the Provincial Provincial Liberal Women's Association. "The abolition of the bar" declared Mr. Rowell,."has removed one of the great obstacles to genuine social reform. reform. AA r e have been but clearing the deck, so to speak, for a great forward movement in this province No-one will claim that under our existing social social conditions, there is a fair and equitable equitable distribution of wealth. AVe must grapple with the situation and endeavour endeavour to see that men who labor with their hands, the workers of the nation, should receive full justice, Not charity, charity, but justice". Mr. Rowell declared that among the necessary reforms were (1) our educational educational system should be revised and recast recast to meet the new conditions of life; (2) that agriculture, the oldest and most honorable of all occupations, should be placed in the commanding position which it should hold in the life of the nation; (3) that every child should receive a fair chance to make the best of life's opportunities; (4) that the Industrious workingman, who by sickness or misfortune is thrown out of employment, through no fault of his own, should be protected from want during the period of sickness or unem- plopment and (5) that a life of } toil, honorably spent, should not end in an old age of penury and want. Encouragement Encouragement here for the working classes, surely. To secure the necessary revenue for such plans of social reform, there would not only have to be a serious and determined determined effort to practise economy and thrift, but Mr. Rowell also asked in this connection the following pointed questions; questions; (1) "Should a portion of the increased increased land values in our urban centres, centres, created by the growth of the community, community, be taken, to help to finance these services which are for the benefit of the community? (2) Should the more wealthy , and more favored, whose wealth has been made possible by the exploitation of our natural resources or the toil of their fellow citizens, be asked to make substantial contribution to the public welfare"? These questions indicate the trend of Mr. Rowell's -thoughts about the future action of "the Ontario Govern- ment. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Fine Description of a Gentleman's Belgian Home In this part of the country you would notice some difference from Canada Just here it is a rolling country, country, the land itself not wholly unlike Ontario around Toronto. It is in the inhabitants you would note greatest difference, There is no middle class. I think you would be strongly reminded reminded of the old feudal System in England. Small, unassuming cottages built of brick with slate and thatched roofs, tile floors, very picturesque and very clean, while here and there, set back in beautiful grounds will be found magni- ficentchateaux owned by very wealthy people, It is one of these that I am going to try to describe. AA 7 e pass it sometimes on foot. It is impossible to ride for many reasons. The path we take runs through some broken down houses and comes out into a beautiful little garden about fifty feet wide and about three hundred yards long. It is still possible to make out the flower beds with all sorts of nice flowers coming coming up. Wild flowers that were grown and cared for last year by a battalion of gardeners. Trees broken off half way up the trunk, some uprooted, some with branches broken and a few still standing, defying German war machinery. Anywhere in half a mile from this cliatteau I do not think it possible to find a spot where you can stand and say there isn't a shell hole within fifteen feet. The ground is just honeycombed with them. Some places it is impossible to find the original sur face. From this garden one gets his first glimpse of the chatteau on a little rise, standing out white against the trees, apparently undamaged, but on drawing nearer one sees that the whole back end is blown out while in the front are several gaping shell holes where German missiles have passed right through. But here we come to some water, a little river flowing around three sides of the chatteau and to cross this it is necessary to navigate across a tree trunk. On coming up the other side of the bank we find ourselves ourselves amongst the broken trees, debris and dugouts that cluster round the base of the chatteau. Our path very kindly leads us around the lee side of the building, winds in and out through the debris and dugouts, some blown in with sandbag a and contents strewn around, others still very solid looking and inviting. We are brought out on a bridge just where the river swells out into.a miniature lake. One of the white railings still stands and enough of the bridge remains to cross comfortably. comfortably. Pausing and leaning "over the rail a funny sight greets us. Very contented and still floating around catching fish is a beautiful white swan that has remained there untouched through almost a year's perpetual bombardment. bombardment. Our thoughts frame up the scène before the awful destruction began began but are abruptly interrupted by a sound high up and distant then a tearing, tearing, boring, shriek, crash. AVe crawl out of the ditch and move on as quickly quickly as possible through more devastation and ruin, still more and more dreadful. The dispatch delivered our faces are turned and quickly we get back. Gradually Gradually the marks of war diminish and we pull up at headquarters with a satisfied satisfied and happy feeling, put our machines machines under cover, deliver the receipt that shows our trip was successful and repair to the cook house. Oh ! you cook! Editor's Note--We are sorry the name of the writer of this sketch was not sent us. It is well wMtfcen and very interesting. McLaughlin Buggies at F. O. Mason's. Last chance of the season for Oranges --Friday and Saturday--at Snowden's Elite grocery, 50c per doz. for 39c; 30c per doz for 2ic. ? Couch, Johnston & Cryderman have received received further shipments of Ladies' Spring Suits and Coats, all made of the newest materials and latest stvles. Friday, May 12 the Assembly Hall was well filled by students and townspeople who came to hear the contest for the Tamblyn and Galbraith prizes in Oratory which proved to be à most brilliant affair. The judges for the occasion were Mr. D. B. Simpson, K.C., for many years a member of the Bowmanville High School Board; Mr. A. J. Armstrong, K.C., a member member of the Cobourg Collegiate Institute Board; and Mr. R. D. Davidson, Principal of the Bowmanville Public Schools. Principal Ross occupied the chair and the opening number was a piano duet by Miss Dorothy Johnston and Miss Marian Worden, which was greatly appreciated. Mr. Kenneth Cox opened the contest on "The British Navy". Miss Esther T. Stevens Stevens came next with "Why Canada is at War". A delightful vocal solo by Miss Florence L. Van Nest was given at this point. Mr. William Veale next entered the arena his subject being "Upon the Labrador". Miss Helen Johnston closed the contest giving a most graphic account of past and present conditions in Belgium, Whilst the judges were out Miss Jane Grigg favored the audience with a pretty piano solo and Mr. AA7. B. Couch, Chairman Chairman of the Board, made a short congratulatory congratulatory speech. Mr. Ross announced that the High School Board has undertaken to place a flag pole on the High School building building and that the students will buy the flag and that it is hoped to have it flying on ' the 24th of May. Mr. Simpson then spoke in most flattering terms of the superior order of speeches delivered by all four contestants and announced that the judges judges had awarded the Tamblyn Prize to Miss Stevens, the first of the Galbraith Prizes to Miss Johnston and the second of the Galbraith Prizes to Kenneth Cox.