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-V Couch, Johnston Cryderman Have laid out Twenty-five Ladies' Coats to be sold at Half Price and all other Coats in stock to be sôld at rëduced prices and A substantial reduction will be made in the price of all kinds of Furs Couch, Johnston & Cryderman ALL SMILES' Buyers, of milk in this municipality will approve of the action of the town council in passing a by-law regulating the disposal and quality of milk offered offered for sale. Not that there has been any one charged and convicted for dispensing impure or watered milk, but as a safe-guard and effective guarantee guarantee that the lacteal fluid sold has not been tampered with, or in case it has and the person so offending is found guilty of a violation of the bylaw, bylaw, the penalty is fixed. The by-law is published in this issue and should be read by all citizens. A strong feeling prevails in this town that the Board of Health should enact and enforce to the letter a more, rigid law against the disposal by public sale otherwise of household furniture or Are Your Cure a Cold Hands Rough In One Day. Cream of Violets will "Our Break up a Cold" quickly sooth, soften and Tablets will break up cure rough face or hands y° ur cold 9 mokly lf taken in time T arcrp hnttlPS 2>5n Tf You should always keep a box in the house ready for the first symptoms symptoms of a cold. 25c. is not sticky, quickly. Jury & Lovell, Jury & Lovell Druggists and Opticians. Druggists & Opticians. No Guess Work in Our Optical Room. A Complete Library. 10 large Volumes. Chamber's Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia. 2nd hand, but in good condition. A Bargain at $10.00. See it at Jury <fc Lovell's. and effects from houses where persons have been for a shorter or longer time ill and die of infestions diseases such as consumption, small pox, typhcid, scarlet fever and other communicable diseases. . It is, or should be an offence against the criminal code to dispose of the contents of any house where it is known that such diseases have been in existence. A terrible wail of indignation indignation was raised recéntly when a press despatch appeared to the effect that Germans were inoculating prisoners prisoners with tubercular germs. How much worse is that than selling the contents of a home by public auction to all and sundry who ignorantly buy germ-infected germ-infected bedding,--quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows, mattresses, carpets, upholstered upholstered and other furniture? In our opinion it is a serious crime and should not be permitted in any case. C alves wanted.--This is a big demand. demand. Rush them along by using using our Calf Meal. It is cheaper cheaper and better than milk. $1.25 for a bag of 25 pounds at Jurp^dz; Lovell's. Every customer receives a "careful, scientific examination such as an Oculist in any city charges from $4.00 to $5.00 for. Some of the instruments we use are truly marvelous marvelous inventions and all chance of error is avoided ' by their use. Over 25 years experience enables us to say J j fchout fear of contradiction T When We Test Eyes It Is Done Properly. Jury & Lovell When we Test Eyes it is Done Properly* E ggs are 50c a dozen. Why not start your hens working for you? We return your money if our Poultry Food does not bring satisfactory satisfactory results. 85c and 85c at Jury & Lovell's. T hermometers--We are giving 25 per cent reductions in Thermometers Thermometers this week. Prices 20c up at Jury <fc Lovell's. 19c Some nice Boxes of Stationery. Stationery. Regular 25c. This week 19 c. A 50c line for 37c. Lead pencils 3 for 5c at Jury <fc Lovell's. R EWARD--Any person who has used a Rexall Remedy of any • kind can have the full price returned returned quickly, pleasantly and gladly by bringing back the empty bottle. Catarrh Cure, Rheumatism Cure, Cold Cure, Eczema Cure, Dyspepsia Cure, Kidney Cure, Pills, Liniments, Ointments, Ointments, etc. 300 Remedies, all sold on the same terms. Others imitiate but none equal Rexall Remedies. Jury & Lovell. Doctors Fail "Terrible case of Eczema--contracted when a mère boy--fought disease for ten years, with half dozen specialists. Both legs in terrible cond tiom Almost a nervous nervous wreck. It took just 8 bottles to clear up this disease." This is the late testimony of a prominent newspaper man. His name and his remarkable remarkable story in full on request. We have seen so many other cures with this marvellous liquid wash that we freelv offer you a bottle on our personal guarantee. Try it to-day. Jury & Lovell, Druggists, Bowmanville, Ontario. D. D. D. for Skin Disease Those who have enjoyed the letters written by Mrs. M. Parent from Florida Florida will be interested in this information information contained in a private letter to the -editor received Saturday. Mrs. Parent writes: When I was writing some things about our trip I had in mind Mrs. Haworth, Mrs. Cheery, Mrs. W. Cryderman and Miss Mary and some relatives and others in and near Bowmanville You speak of a "cold dip" in Ontario. I assure you it was felt down here in Florida with far more serious results than in Canada for Jack Frost snapped off millions of dollars' worth of fruit--the orange, lemon, grapefruit, etc. Crops are a complete loss as far south as Miami. Temperature has dropped to 17° above zero here--Daytonia Beach, Fla.,--and to 28° above at Miami. In addition to the damage to fruit, millicns of dollars too, have been lost in tomatoes, celery, peppers, raddish, lettuce, beets, strawberries, strawberries, etc. Peach trees were just in blossom, too. This trade to the winter market of New York and other northern northern cities is Florida's greatest financial revenue, so you will understand the immense loss it means to the fruit aud vegetable growers of the South.... Florida didn't impress me favorably at first but I am growing to be very fond of it^as I get to know it better. We expect to leave Daytonia Beach for Tampa and St. Petersburg shortly. The Federal and Provincial Parliaments Parliaments have been charged with assisting assisting a species of gambling, for quite suddenly race track gambling has sprung into prominence as a topic of public interest owing to the attacks upon it made by Mr. W. E. Raney, K C., a prominent Toronto lawyer, at the recent session of the Social Service Congress. Mr. Raney's attack is not so much against those who gamble, although he disapproves of the pactice, but principally against well-known business and public men who, be claims, make extraordinary profits out of this gambling allowed by an exception exception Jx> the Criminal Code of Canada. In 1910, for example, Mr. Raney says that the enquiry at Ottawa showed that the Hamilton Jockey Club was earning about 170% on the actual investment investment and the Ontario Jockey Club about 70%, that these earnings are altogether altogether owing to the business of race track gambling and that it was well- known public men to whom the privilege privilege is allowed. Mr. Raney claims that Members of Parliament and of the Ontario Ontario Legislature have spent many thousands of dollars in "lobbying" to secure favorable legislation and he says, "I charge that a corrupt traffic has arisen among Members of Parliament Parliament and of the Ontario Legislature in race track charters similar to lhe traffic in liquor licenses which char : acterized the later years of the liquor business in this province. This is a. serious charge, surely. Other Talks on 2nd Page. Continued from last week. Leaving Key West on the P. and O. steamer Miami we reached Havana about nine hours later and realized what it was to arrive, a stranger in a strange land and among a people who spoke a foreign language. The harbor is magnificent and Mom Castle at its entrance is a very picturesque structure structure in a very picturesque location. It is even more Beautiful by day than by night. When the "Miami" docked a Cuban doctor (I nearly said Spanish, forgetting for the instant that the U.- S. has given Cuba a republican form of Government)' came on board and we were all sent to the dining room where he felt pulses, etc ,to see if we all looked looked healthy enough to land. Then we went ashore and waited our turn while a Cuban Customs' officer searched our baggage. Here the Interpreters from the various hotels were seeking patrons. patrons. The Plaza Sevilla and Ingleter- ra are the best hostelries. On arriving at the hotel we were surprised to find the charges as moderate as they were, after hearing so much about the extreme extreme prices charged. We purposely chose a Spanish hotel and were much interested in the peculiar construction: construction: the centre being a large hollow space and there being two rows of rooms, t hose facing onto the court and those facing the outside of the hotel. We had an outside room with the door opening onto a balcony--I should have said French window, not door. One peculiar thing about Havana was that every door and window is open all day --restaurants, homes, hotels and stores --and yet we didn't see any flies. No place is screened. Also, like all the southern cities, the whole si ore front is open aud at night instead of locking the door they drop a huge iron door the size of the store front. All the streets, save two or three, of which the Prado their chief boulevard is one, are extremely narrow. This is for two reasons: Havana originally was a walled walled city, having limestone walls of great thickness--remnants of which still remain--and to economize on the labor, etc., of circling the city with walls, the streets were made narrow; also, the sun is very, very hot and by having narrow streets the high buildings buildings shaded one side or another. Another Another peculiar thing about Havana is, no matter how hot the sun, go into the shade and you feel a cool breeze. We found from the interpreter at the hotel that regular sight-seeing motors made tours of the city every day and secured our seats for the same. Believe Believe me, this is the correct way to see Havana, for your interpreter explains everything in understandable English. We saw some of the principal churches and one the Merced (R. C.) church we entered to ^admire the wonderful mural mural decorations, said by experts to be the finest in the New World; and Columbus Columbus Cathedral where for a time the bones of Columbus, sent at his request to be buried in Cuba, rested, ere they were removed to Spain. We visited one of the large cigar factories and saw them at their work, also saw the readers stand, where, for an hour each day a reader entertains the workers with instructive reading selected with a view to a broader education. NEW GROCERY FIRM. The public will be interested in learning learning that Messrs. Cawker & Hooper have acquired the grocery and provision provision business heretofore carried on -by Messrs. F. A. Haddy & Son in the Victoria Buildings. They will address the public in a fuller announcement in next issue. BIRTHDAY PARTY A Birthday Party under the auspices of the Mission Circle of the Methodist church will be held on Tuesday evening, Feb 20, at 8 o'clock at Mrs. Tole's home, Church street. A good program will be rendered rendered after which refreshments will be served. Admission one cent for each year you are old, which you will please place in an envelope. envelope. T{ie public are cordially invited to attend. Picton Gazette says Capt E. H. McLean said at a recruiting meeting that the 235th Battalion nad not asked to be located in Belleville but had been sent there by the Militia Department. We also visited the President's Palace Palace and as he was receiving the day we entered, passed through the file of his Body Guard as we entered the gate. It is very beautiful and follows the general Spanish architecture having having an immense Patio or inner court which is planted out like a park. Here we saw a fish scale palm. The red room, the blue room, the chapel, only, are open to the public. We were amazed at the beautiful designs and lavish workmanship of the stone decorations decorations on most of the buildings in Havana; the spindles of all the balconies, balconies, etc., being of stone. But we find on enquiry that when the limestone limestone is quarried it is as plastic as putty and is then moulded and shaped and this hardens in the air. Also that it is adapted only to places where there is uever a frost. Lastly we visited visited the Colon cemetery and were shown the graves of their Cuban patriots, Generals Maximo, Gomez and Galix to Garsia. In Havana a human body must be Juried within 24 hours of its decease, an official must view every body before burial after its arrival at the cemetery. An ordinary ordinary family plot co-te $2,000, but graves are rented for $10 per annum, if the rent is forthcoming the body is undisturbed but if not it is exhumed «and thrown into the bone-house where lime is added to consume it Returning, Returning, we visited the residential section of the wealthy class, the section of the poor class and what misery. From all appearance the children might as well have been in the garden of Eden. One thing about hotel life in Havana is, one simply can't go their meals. We applied to our interpreter for a good place to get something eatable and he took us to a Chinese restaurant where he himself took meals, and here we were able to satisfy our appetites. Next day we visited the shops and rested for part of the afternoon. The following day we took a 40-mile trip out into rural Cuba, saw the tobac co growing, all covered in with mosquito netting to prevent insects from getting on it, saw the Havana Water Works from Vento springs 6 miles out into the country passed by tunnel under Almendares river, saw the sugar cane plantations, rural cigar factories, sugar mills, rural villages, visited the tropical garden which is beautiful and interesting enough to fill several pages. We were very interested during our stay but not one of us cared to prolong our trip, so we took the P, &0 steamer steamer Mascot for Key West. After passing passing Moro Castle we found we were in for a very rough passage and all our party were seasick, save Mr. Parent Comedy Put on by Local Talent to Two Full Houses. Before giving a report of "Niobe, All Smiles", the farcical comedy in three acts written by the . brothers, Harry and Edward Edward Paulton and published by Samuel French, 30 W. 38th street, New York, from whom permission to produce must be obtained, we may explain that in Greek mythology Niobe was the daughter of Tantàlus and wife of Amphion, King of Thebes, to whom she bore six sons and six daughters According to the legend her children were all slain by Apollp and Artemis and she felt the grief so keenly that she was by the gods changed into stone. The play opens with the statue Niobe in a four-fold screen like a box case on end and brilliantly illumined which Mr. Tompkins, an Art enthusiast has purchased and brot to Dunn's home as a placé of safety. The first act is a scene in Dunn's home where Mrs. Dunn's two sisters and brothers brothers reside, the eldest sister's indomitable will ruling in everything, and the youngest youngest one oppositely mischievous. During the evening and while the ladies and some gentlemen friends are at a theatre party the statue Niobe suddenly comes to life, supposed to be produced by the power from the electric wires which were carelessly carelessly thrown around the feet of the statue. Mr. Dunn who is alone in the house is placed in a peculiar predicament as Niobe is a very attractive lady, homeless, homeless, without friends, in a strange land and only possessing the scantiest transparent clothing, The trunk of the newly engaged governess was opened by Dunn and her clothes appropriated by Niobe, Mr. Dunn finds himself in an awkward dilemma endeavoring to explain to the returning members of his household Niobe's presence who on his advice poses first as the new governess but before the ladies can be convinced of her identity, the real governess governess arrives and his troubles reach a crisis. Niobe refuses to give up the latter's clothes because she has none of her own. In the midst of Dunn's trying position to satisfy his wife's suspicions and his efforts to protect Niobe and procure procure for her some new apparel the whole household appear on the scene and full and satisfactory explanation is demanded. At this juncture. Tompkins the art enthusiast enthusiast who bought the statute arrives and finding it has come to life, thinks he no longer has an excuse for living single. Niobe in closing addresses the company as follows: I know you may expect me, from the- strain Of such like plays, to turn to stone again. But life is sweet, and faults if you'll forgive forgive Sans tears, all smiling Niobe will live. This brief outline will give our readers a pretty fair conception of the plot of the play which was presented on Thursday and Friday evenings to capacity houses in the Opera House under the direction of Mr. Montague J. Smith. The several characters were- wisely chosen, every one of them taking her and his respective parts splendidly--one might almost say like professionals. The leading leading character was Niobe, excellently taken by Miss Elsie M. Bragg who, whether as a statue or in the flesh, looked very charming charming and graceful, and took her part most creditably. A most exacting part was cleverly represented by Mr. Wm. Glan- field as Peter Amos Dunn, the master of the home in which the scene of the plot is unfolded. For real "antiqueness" of make-up and action Mr. W. W. Boddam took the palm as Hamilton Tompkins, the art enthusiast who was presented with a huge and beautiful (?) bouquet. Another difficult role was well carried out by Miss Flora Galbraith as Mrs. Dunn's eldest THE EDITOR TALKS As a winter pastime the evenings spent by a number of intelligent persons persons in practising for a public enter- tainrhent such as the comedy presented presented last week on two evenings is both pleasant and profitable. The associations associations of these congenial citizens during these practices will continue us-a sacred. sacred. memory for life and often will their minds revert to these meetings and the incidents that characterized them. We know no more interesting*, evening than one spent in witnessing a play well put on by one's own acquaintances and listening to the local jokes they get off on well-known citizens. We commend such undertakings undertakings to young people in every village, village, town, and rural community. • Port Hope young men are making a name for themselves, surely 1 A citizen who was in that town this week tells of the unpatriotic way that our Sergt- Major Dan M. Douglass was treated by the pushers of a patriotic (?) dance in the pretty hillside town that had the privilege of despatching the boys from Bowmanville on the big adventure, by k and myself, though I felt once that I was a little squeamish. Only two women came down for dinner and about a dozen men. On the trip home we ran through a school of porpoise and saw them plainly, saw the flying fish, and Albatross, but best of all after a rough voyage saw land and got once more on terra firma. Wb had ample time to take our evening meal ere the train left for Homestead where we stopped at Hotel Evans , (Oannucks) until the next day. When I leaving at 8 a.m. the weather looked threatning so we made the return trip from Homestead to Daytonia--815 miles counting detours--in one day, thus establishing a record for time. Mbs. Minnie Haines Parent. refusing him the small right to speai as a recruiting officer at said assembly. Sergt-Major Douglass bought a ticket for the dance and thinking it would be a golden opportunity to talk to the young men still at home and the most likely ones to be fit if they could "dance all night and go home with the girls in the morning", he went with that special brand of.smile of his to request request just a few minutes to talk to the young gentlemen but was refused the right so to do by the director of ceremonies. ceremonies. ' What a shame I to treat a brave soldier who has been three times wounded fighting to defend the mothers and sisters from Prussian savagery, by refusing him the right to speak a few words of truth to men who are fit to have a night's good time but not to save their female friends from the indignities such as the Belgian Belgian and French women and girls suffered. suffered. We repeat: "Shame on you young men with cold feet--chicken hearted mortals!" "Breezy" Dan has discovered two kinds of patriotism in our sister town evidently. sister whose ideas of right and ruling were ever supreme. Miss Carrie Roenigk was the patient and indispensable Peter Dunn's wife--the lady whose trials seldom moved her to take any rash or severe actions. actions. Miss. Reta Roenigk, the saucy young sister--a very different character from the dignified Mrs. Dunn--was a genuine genuine mirth-provoker, her witty remarks about the doings of the other members causing roars of laughter. Miss Flora Ed- sall as Mary the Parlor Maid, seemed t# understand her duties perfectly as the wise servant who knew much but said little. Miss Elizabeth Painton, the new governess, Madeline Mifton, altho appearing appearing late on the scene, presented her plea fdr her personal rights in a determined but lady-like manner. Cornelius Griffin, Peter's wife's brother, and a very nervous individual, greatly in loye with himself and known as Corney, was admirably represented represented by Mr. T. A. Johnston. Philip Innings, Corney's friend, proved a skilful negotiator and was entrusted with some difficult tasks which he satisfactorily discharged. discharged. This role was taken by Mr. H. Hum by. Mr. H. M. Nanson represented^ Parker Sillocks, a retired merchant, Who appeared as a well groomed gentleman in a Prince Albert coat. He was supposed to have a fondness for widows. Miss Diana Fowler was Beatrice Sillocks im love with Corney. She is Parker's daughter--a daughter--a winsome maid gotten up like a fashion plate. Mrs. T. A. Johnson performed the duties of accompanist with general acceptance. Mr. Montague J. Smith had charge of the practice for this performance and deserves deserves much credit for the successful putting putting on of the play. Many would like to have the comedy repeated a second time but the intention, we learn, is to give it in Orono Friday, Feb. 23rd. Will Be Given Again Friday Night "Niobe, All Smiles", the popular comedy, comedy, will be repeated in Opera House, Bowmanville, on Friday evening this week, Feb. 16th, under auspices of the Woman's Hospital Auxiliary for the benefit benefit of the Hospital Fund. No seats reserved--tickets reserved--tickets only 25c to all parts of the House. Doors open at 7:30; concert at 8 o'clock. PHOTO DRAMA OF The Bible iti Moving Picture from Genesis to Revelation with Music and Lecture AT Royal Theatre, Bdwmanville ON Sunday, Feb. 18, 25, Mar. 4, 11, 18 AT 3 P.M. Ministers, Sunday School Officers, Scholar's and Christians Christians of all Denominations will be better prepared to face and answer the many perplexing questions of the present present after having seen and hearing this production. . All Are Welcome Absolutely Free 1 4 -4 ■1 4 > 4 * 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 - 1 4 4 i :vi B: