fh PAGE TWELVE 7 7 (1) Near Williamstown. (2) Old Fort near St. Lawrence Park. 3) A Cow alL, the terminus of the new Glengarry Loyalism who came up to Canada bouring settlers. So strong were Played his gdberents to the poll, Cornwall was also the he from the United States. 'It has a romantic the Scottish clans in this quaint old town owl adquarters of the officials 5, 1915, who distributed rations and other old blockhouse which originally was a windmill érected to that in 1834, when Cornwall sent its owl 'me mber. tothe assembly, quiet fishing brook near Williamstown. (4) The canal and quay at Cornwall. and Stormont branch of the C. P. R., plays an important part in the Scottish settlement of Canada, for it was to this point that the Highland families from the Mohawk Valley came after the war of 1812 to be allotted lands by the Government agent, who let them draw from numbered slips of paper drawn from a hat. supplies to the United Empire grind- the meal for the neigh- each candidate's piper Wl BRIDE'S GLOVES $100 A PAIR. W-- Are White Glace Kid, 42- Button Length apd Embroidered In \ Colors By Hand. | What might be termed the last word in glove fashions has been spok- en by one of the most fashionable shops which offers gloves at $100 a pair. These gloves are of white ty CHAFES IN CAPTIVITY. | ELECTRIC LIGHTED MINES, t ussels Burgomaster's Life Describ- Loe = Br eli 8 oo | Modern Methods Have Driven Out oh Ger aR ' ! the Safety Lamp. New York Sun. } The Vlaamsche Stem (Flemish | the miner's lamp of | has become a thing of the past. In | its stead the dark passages and work { chambers are illuminated by: elec- | tricity. The mineg are wired and Baron Gregory, the commander the Silesian fortess of Glatz, to one of his friends. In the letter he tells the following interesting faets « In some of the more progressive | |- Voice) publishes part of a letter of | #nd larger mines, | telephone system and instruments | for the detection of gas danger, the up-to-date mine is decidedly a more | pleasurable place to work in than of | old. In order to make the light- ing more thorough the walls of the permanent passages, of the offices, of the entries, and, where mules are used, of the mule stables, are fre- quently whitewashed. { ten filament lamps are used. Wea- Only timgs- a a dust, smoke and dampness. -- Chi. cago News, House Moving By Water. An unusual piece of house-moving Was recently accomplished at Cleve- | O., when a three and a half | | story building, occupied by a yacht | Jand, | club, was blocked up 'on barges and 5 about M. Max, the former burgo- fh longest. om rotord. sad "foen, | Master of Brussels, whe js Interaed shoulder to wrist one pair is embroi | ere: dered by hand in natural colored pea- | The many German officers who cock's feathers with the stems run- | Ar Punished for one thing or anoth- ning upward toward the shoulder, | °F Dave only one room, but I was 'Another pair is embroidered with | Orderd to give M. Max two rooms chrysanthemums in yellow, white, old | ®® Suite. He has permission to rose blossoms and bronze green subscribe to The Journal de Geneve leaves. Any desired design, says|@nd some 'Belgian papers and for the Knickerbocker Press, may be his person he has the services of an done, though it takes some time to| Orderly. He may take walkg in the do the embroidery. | small yard of the fortress between What bride would not be pleased | ©18ht and five, and he might even to receive such a pair for her trous-| Mave made excursions in the neigh- seau. Even the bride with the per- borhood under guard of .an officer fectly modelled arms, need feel no| but for his refusing this offer on the sorrow at conceiling their beauty un-| 8round that he considered it to be der such a costly covering. The | beneath his dignity to walk about gloves 'button with pearl buttons at | under surveillance. His health is the wrist and wrinkle very softly all | very good. the way to the shoulder. - | a Belgian friend I found thig pasage: i ---------- { 'Every day I insist upon being ex- . y amined; every day I urge the com- Weeds in Vacant Lots, smandant to tell me why I am con- What undoubtedly constituteg a | fined to this solitary spot, but it bas menace to those farmers who are | all been to no purpose so far," making an honest effort to keep their | farms clean is the crop of weeds | found growing on vacant lots and 1, roadsides in and around our towns | a contemporary suggesting that the and cities. Thse vacant lots are of. | British War Office authorities should ten nothing more nor less than nur- | insist on soldiers being clean-shaven series and - breeding places for all | instead of ordering them to wear kinds of weeds, This is especially | moustaches might have alleged Teu- true of towns where large areas ad-| tonic influence in the adoption of joluing have been subject to wildcat | the moustachic of the British army. subdivisoning and have had road- | The idea was first borrowed from a ways ploughed, forming lodging | batch of Austrian officers quartered places for weeds, which are allowed | with some of our troops on the South to grow unmolested. These pro- | Coast during the Waterloo cam- duce countless numbers of seeds, to | paign. It was taken up hy the be blown and scattered 'by the | Guards, who very much resented Winds over the farms. "So far, bul. any attempt on the part of mere line leting, articles and advice pertaining > y to weed control have been directed at the far: A glance at the con. ditions fouoM*in most of our citiés and towns will prove convincing that the farmer is not entirely to blame in the matter of weed seed produc- tion and distribution. Moustaches in War. The correspondent who writes to | fon, The winter campaign in the | Crimea led our men to grow full | beards for warmth, and these, modi- fied into flowing whiskers (""Picca- dilly weepers," as they came to be called) on their return to London, were' long regarded as the mark In one of his letters to | | regiments to follow the new fash. | | lighted with all the luxurious effec- | | tiveness of the modern home, sides making their Be- underground miners, the illuminated mine offers considerable advantage in the way of better work and less exposure to danger. With motor operated coal cars, a ther-proof enameled reflectors are | (0Wed eight miles over Lake Ere to employed for the distribution of light. . employment less oppressive to the | The problem of lighting the mines, however, is difficult, presenting all the conditions which the illuminat. ing engineer looks upon with disfa- vor--Ilow black ceilings, black walls, me. Lerrons Gary 0 A by Pictorial Review Prepared Especially For This Newspaper dn the West the 'weed inspectors are being trained and instructed along lines that will egable them to assist the farmerg in weed control, while at the same time provision by law is made to prevent any farmer from allowing tis farm to become a breeding place for weeds and a menace to his neighbors. In most towns there are by-laws covering the weed problem, but too often they are not enforced. Those. liv. ing in towng and cities should co. operate and do their bit in the war against weeds. 'Ms is an impor- tant matter,and shouid receive strict altention by every council, Ac. tion ld be taken at once and not deferred until the weeds ripen ot the man of fashjon. -- London Chronicle, ! No musician is more devoted ito his instrument on which he plays than the Highland per. A touch. ing story of a piper's last moments on- the battlefield is to! Pte. L. L. Spalding, of the Rifles (the "Little e of the {a diers passed at A in the firing Mne & ) Highlanders (Can , mortally ywounded & Practical Dress Makin } 7] NEW LONG WAISTED COMBINATION. needlewomen. Less expensive, how ever, are batiste, linem, muslin; seer Sucker and éotton crepe. Silk crepe de Chine and china silk are employed in the development of very finé combina- tions, . In making, first close the under-arm and shoulder seams. If the front clos- Ing is used turn under the hem and add buttons and buttonholes. Adjust shoul- der strap to position, bringing small and large "0" perforations to corre- sponding = perforations in front and back. The same directions bold for the ing pa u and scatter their seeds --F. C. N. wo : i S-------- -- During the Pp : will frankly rns M8 that the Han in the case is her superior, but fter marriage she admits she was |& new site on an island in Rocky | River. The structure is 52 by 78 | feet in size, and placed-an aggregate | weight on the three scows which | were employed of approximately 310 | tons, The largest of the barges, | 40 feet wide and 120 feet in length, | wag lashed in the middle and sup- | ported 80 per cent. of the load.-- | Popular Mechanics. | Alive With Fish. The attention of people along the Holywood shore was recently attract. ed by a great commotion in the calm water of Belfast Lough, caused by enormous quantities of fish. On closer observation it was seen that the Lough, even to the very water's | edge, was alive with mackere] and | | herring fry, and thousands of large | fish were following in their wake. The fish were so numerous that peo- i ple were able to catch dozens of | them by the simple process of lifting | them out of the wate. The fish | caught were for the most part dog- | fish, from ten to twelve inches in | length. | Fishermen of the neighborhood state that the occurrence is unpre- | cedented in their time, the mackerel and herring fry never com in than the mouth of the Lough about Craigavad and Helen's Bay. World's Biggest The most powerful armor-clad | ¥aranip in the world is now being | built at the new Armstrong yard at | Walker-on-Tyne for "a foreign navy." This vessel, which will great- ly 'exceed in offensive power and de- fensive qualities ay. Battleship at 20 feet long, nt afloat, will be 94 feet wide, and will have a ton- nage of 30,500. She will carry eight 5in. gums, fourteen 6in., ten 4in., and two torpedo tubes. Her tion will include 13 the main belt, Loudairs Appropriate. Here is the Bishop "of ola parishioner was latest story. An ing farther - SLEEP AND POETRY. A Novel Or a Newspaper Are Not I Soothing. | An exchange recomments tue reso ing of a fine, soul felt poem before re- tiring for the night's rest. It tends to compose the soul and put it in har- mony with the truth and goodoess of things. A novel will not do that, nor & newspaper, nor anything that sets the mind in a flutter. Reading a poem | --one of the good old kind that gets into the heart and bas a nice time there--is like floating down a quiet stream, past the fragrance of flowers and the songs of the birds. Never had that experience, eh? How very shift. | less, indeed. Did you ever try reading "Snow: | bound" on an evening when the snow was piling up the "silence deep and white? "Well, try it. Whittier will give one something for any evening. | Tennyson's "Idyls" are a little /more | urgent, but they are as tranquilizing | a8 a gentle arm around you. Words worth is great, but takes too much | thought; Browning, too, and Lowell, | but Longfellow not so much. But as | easy as smiling is the humorous kind, | ike Riley. But there are hundreds of | poems floating about as sweet as a | bush of roses. Take them in and read | them before going to bed. A good one will last a week. Like a song. they improve'with age.--Columbus Journal Just Pleasantness. Perhaps just pleasantness has not a very heroic sound, but the human | 'heart that, knowing its own bitterness, | can yet carry itself cheerfully is not | without heroism. Indeed, If that hu- | man heart does no more than hold | its tongue about {ts own aches and | pains it has a certain moral value that | the world cannot afford to lose. "Pleas- { antness" does not sound as well as | self sacrifice or wisdom or spiritual | ity, but it may include all these great | words. And certainly just to start | one's husband out to his work cheer | ily, to make the hobbledehoy of a son | feel a gentler and sweeter sentiment | toward women because of his own | mother's sound, sweet giyety and | strength, to help one's servants' to put | goed humor and friendliness into their | services--these things make for right- | eousness in the world.--Margaret 'De- | sand. The Panama canal was suggested for the isthmus of Panama as early {as 1520 by Angel Saavedra, but for | a long time all such suggestions met with determined opposition from | Spain, which made it a capital offense | to seek or make known any improve- | ment.on the existing route from Porto | Bello to Panama. More recently | Louis Napoleon, when a prisoner at x spent much time considering { The Panama Canal. | the practicability of such a scheme. It was not, however, until the Call fornia gold rush of 1840 that any ac curate knowledge of the topographical | | conditions was obtained, and even then | thirty more years elapsed before the | actual site was chosen by an inter | national body and the work begun. Origin of the Organ. The date of the invention of the or | gan is unknown. It is said to have | been during the third century previous | to the Christian era, and from that | period to A. D. 670 the invention has | been ascribed to various parties. At | the latter date organs were sald to | have been introduced into some of the | churches of western Europe. This | statement, however, is not considered | trustworthy, and it is not certain they | were used In church service until 755, | when one was sent as a present by | Copronymus, the Greek emperor, to | King Pepin of France, who placed it in the Church of St. Corneille at Com- plegne. Keys were invented about the close of the eleventh century and pedals in the fourteenth, a ---- An Apt Student. A young woman who went to Colum bia to take her degree of doctor of phi losophy married her professor in the middie of her second year. When she announced her engagement one of her friends said: "But, Edith, I thought you came up here to get your Ph. D." "So 1 did," replied Edith, "but I had no idea I would get him so soon." New York Post So He Could. A physician says freedom from worry is essential In the treatment of locomo- tor ataxia. But a man who could keep free from worry with locomotor ataxia | codld recover from an amputated head | without treatment.--Louisville Courier "They are tio darker than the aver age." "Yes, but we want to do light house keeping."--Exchange, ---- Determined Curiosity, "There's no use of investigating that official. He hasn't done anything" "Let's investigate him and ascertain As near perfection as you can get in this world. 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