" "PAGE SIX T so YHE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1915. "|News From Brisk Eastern Ontario Points " THE DISTRICT NEWS ULIFPED FRUM 1HE WH.us MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES. In Brief Form the "Events In the Country About Kingston Are Told ~--Full of Interest.to Many. The tax rate in Almonte has been struck at 32.5 mills, an advance of one and a half mills over 1914, The Caldwells of Lanark imported a carload of New Zealand wool last week. -the-lat- - George E. Bothwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bothwell, Perth, has been promoted lieutenant in the Hist Battalion. ol EIT On Saturday the death took place of Robert Coleman Finkle of Sidney. He had been ill with typhoid for six weeks. On Saturday Henry Humphries ond Mrs. Deborah Howard, two resi-! dents of Lansdowne, were united in marriage. . Jane Amanda Davis, wife of Geo. Bowyer, Belleville, passed away Sat- urday. The late Mrs. Bowyer was born in Elizabethtown sixty-seven Years ago. i John F. Cahill, who far a number of years managed the King Edward Hotel at Arnprior, has purchased the | grocery business of Lamourie Bros. | there. County Crown Attorney P. J. M.' Anderson, Belleville, was the victim] of a serious paralytic stroke on Sun- day, and little hopes are entertain | ed of his recovery. -------------- "THE LITTLE ALLIRS" Girls, Under Ten Years Make Com- forts For Soldiers. Lyndhurst, Oct. 5.--That patrio- | tism is an innate characteristic and not a something to be acquired in years of maturity has been demon- strated in an unmistakable manner to the good people of Lyndhurst within the past week. Last June six little girls, all under ten years of age, desirous of doing their "bit" for King and country, formed themselves into a society un. der the name of The Little Allies. They have met every two weeks since organization, have adopted a regu- lar business routine and have been industriously working, knitting wash cloths, making tumbler covers, tow- els, handkerchiefs, etc. Being a us to do something worth while, many 'and mysterious were the consultations held regard- ing ways and means thereto, and | blind indeed must that citizen have as their plans gradaally took shape, | until Friday evening when they be- | came the hostess of a social in St. | Luke's Hall, and which may well be | termed a success in every way. Clif- ford Johnson, B. A., ably presided at this meeting when the following ex- There are sixty-one bales in | - -- i j cellent programme was presented: | Chorus, "Bdys in Khaki, Boys Blue," The Lithie Allies. Address, R. Harvey, reeve. Solo, "The Veteran's Story," k W. H. Smith. Trio, "Kit¢hener's Question," Beryl Bresee; Helen and Berntre Roddivk. Solo, "The Village Maid," B. Rod- dick. . Address, Rev. W. H. Smith. Tableaux, The Red Cross and the Allies, Miss Helena Singleton and , The Little Allies. in x ev Chorus, "The Song of the Allies," ! The Little Allies in costame, Every item on the Programme was { of really excellent worth and well merited the hearty applause Eiven dy the audience, Following the programme gaily decorated boxes of "goodies" were sold when the sum of $37.75 was realized in aid of the Red Cross. To the children much credit is due and in the years to come they will be able to look back with pleasaré fo the days when they did something in the great struggle of the nations. The names of these little workers are as follows: Edith Price, presi- dent; Beryl Bresee, secretary; Helen Roddick, treasurer; Bernice Roddick, Marion Smith, Lenna Earl and Lil- lian Muriel Sheffield. They also have an honorary president, Miss] Frankie Bresee; and an honorary treasurer, Miss Alma Graham. -------------- Pte. Knight Welcomed. Renfrew, Oct. 5.--The first Ren- frew soldier to return from the war Is Pte. Archie Knight, who was in< valided home on account of wounas sustained at St.Julien, through which he has been rendered permanently lame. He was tendered a public re- ' ception on the Market Square after his arrival on Saturday, about 2,000 citizens being present. J. K. Ro- chester, chairman of the Town Coun- | cil's reception committee, presided, and addresses were delivered by lead- ing citizens, clerical and lay. Coun- citlor Machohald read an address to the young soldier, and placed in his hands a purse. Pte. Knight has brought home with him a terrier dog which had been taken across the At- lantic as a mascot by the 2nd Battal- | ion, and which shared all the for- tunes of war. Charged With Stealing Silver. Madoe, Oct.5.--Last week William | Reynolds, employed at Deloro, was arrested on a charge of stealing sil- ver from the Deloro Mining and Re- duction Company. A short time ago a Bulgarian was arrested 'at | Frankford on a charge of passing | counterfeit coins. He was formerly employed at Deloro, and it ig, alleg- ed that he stole a aualtity of refined silver which was used in the manu-. facture of the coins. It is also al- leged that when the silver takén by | the Bulgarian was used he approach- | ed Reynolds and induced him to fur- | nish silver from time to time. stated that at his trial the Bulga pleaded guilty and also told a which implicated others. rests may follow. Reynolds was taken t to await trial. 1 It is | rian | story | Other ar- { o Belleville | | THE VALUE OF 1 Refore thé daily section of ile Can adian Press: Association convention, Joseph T. Clark of the Toronto Star, Star, spoke on "The Value of the Edi- torial Page" as follows: : . In speaking on "The Value of an Editorial Page" one who writes edi- torials is bound to feel that he is pn the defensive. He is sure to feel that he is called upon to justify his 'existence, The fact that I am attempting to prove this thing, shows that there must be some doubt about it. Among news men in the offices of daily papers there is, of course, a scarcely veiled contempt for the. edi- torial page and those ancient mari- fiérs who hold forth in that part of thé paper, The reporters see no reasoh why their own interesting copy should be cut down by the city editor, while an editorial, a foot and a half long, ap- Pears in the same issué about '"The John Sandfield Macdonald Surplus" "or "The Situation in the Balkans." The telegraph editor sees those editorials, too and growls over them a8 he tears ap the proof of an excel- lent murder story from the Southern States. On the news end of the paper everybody begrudges the editor the space occupied by nice leading edi- torials. What the men on the adyertising end of the business would do to the editorial page, if they had their way, nobody knows. UU Someting é¢ it is said that nobody| left. 'reads editorials, except the<,proof reader,and he gets paid for doing it It may be so in some cases, but these who write editorials have discovered that if they say anything in an ar- ticle that should not have been said, they hear about it quickly enough, from ten directions at once. : This leads one to believe that there are people who read editorials or look them over, anyway. There is one class of readers, how- ever, who seem to devour editerixfs, and turn to them in preference to ng else. ' I refer to those who are. ; A man writes a political article in - Halifax: somebody takes it up in St. ' John: Montrea) takes a whack at it; THE EDITORIAL PAGE; ADDRESS BY 1. T. CLARK, TORONTO ums' must have their value. However, it is often said that peo- ple do not read editorials, and while editors know better, at times they do not feel any too sure about it. A man writes a flaming article, Sees it go to press, sees thousands or fens of thousands of copies of it printed and sent forth into the world, and he sits back and waits; then he sits further back and waits some more, but nothing at all happens as far as he ean learn. The stream of life. flows on. A colleague of mine says he has long looked for the day when on a street car he should see a man actually reading one of his editorials. He tells me he has always been disap- pointed. . Always he sees men reading some- thing else. An intelligent looking man will enter a street car and pull out a copy of the paper -- how intel- ligent they look, these people who read our paper -- and my colleague tells me he watches the man, patur- ally expecting that he will at once turn to the editorials and enjoy him- self, But, no; he glances over the big headings on the front page, picks his way along page by page, scarcely pausing anywhere and settles down solidly on the sporting page. When the editor looks to see him reading an article in which he has struck a blow for 'thé right, he sees the man instead reading how Jack Johnson has struck a. blow with his paper, but 1 will say this; that you generally find that the best news: paper is the ome with the best edi- toriais. 'Whether the editorials ake paper what it is, or Whethef th it tolpfford Cess of a paper enables the editorials, may open the way for & dispute. PF have always been a great reader of the provincial of Ontario. Like most editors, to go thro a pile of exchanges, and skim along seeing what kind work editors or two, has a high value to a news| Gananoque Oct. 5.--The funeral of the late Modes Herse, who passed away. at Howe Island on Saturday last, was held from the home of his son-in- law, Henry Cook, near Big Bay, yes- terday afternoon to the burying ground at Grindstone Island, N.Y. Miss Josephine Root held a pre- nuptial reception for her many young friends at the home of her parents. Mr. d Mrs. Gilbert D. Root, last evening. The members of the Wi- non4" Mission Circle of Grace Church attended the reception in a body. The schooner Horace Taber arriv- ed in port yesterday. with another cargo of coal for the Taylor Coal Company. Miss = Gertrude Adams, Church street, is spending some time with friends in Montreal. E. H. Hurd, Brock street, spending the past few days at his home, returned to Kings ton yesterday afternoon. Mrs. W. J. Bulloch, Glenholme' Farm, is spending a couple of weeks in To- ronto with friends. Miss Turcott, Bostic Island, has gone to Ottawa to attend the Ottawa Ladies' College. | Mrs. Charles A. Watt "cfarles | street, has gone to Petrolea for a visit with her sister, Mrs. George | Hay. Miss Lottie Laughton and | brother, Frederick J. Laughton, | Stone street, are spending a few weeks with friends in Brooklyn, N.Y. WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT prap.| Late Mrs. Woods Made Prophy Former Ontario Premier Cornwall, Ont, Oct. 5. --Mrs. Wood, relict of the late William Dix. on Wood, and one of the oldest resi- | dents of this district, is dead at her| home on the West Front soad at the| age of 92. When the late Sir James! Whitney was a law student in Corn- wall Mrs. 'Wood one day told him) he would be Premier of Ontario. Young Whitney jocularly remarked that when he became, premier he) would send Mrs. Wood a silk dress. | Mrs. Wood's prophecy came true and Sir James kept his word. Mrs. Wood survived by two daughters and three sons, Mrs. Cameron of Lan: caster, Miss Emma Wood, G. H: Wood, Moulinette; Walter Wood and William J. Wood, Cornwall. S-------- 'Ambulance From Teachers Picton, Ont., Oct. 5.--At the an- mua' convention of the Prince Ed- ward County Teachers' Institute plans were made for the purchase ot a8 Red Cross motor ambulance by! the teachers of the county. lecy of is | i i | member On Saturday afterncon, Rev. S. S.| Burns united in marriage Private James Gilchrist Forrester, of the 8th Canadian Monuted Rifles, Bar- riefield, and Miss Annie Mars Henry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Henry, Brockville. > dition" to the local news, have edi toflal work in them that makes them readable anywher® = These papers have personality. They give you the impression that there would "be somebody at home if you called there, somebody with character and ideas, and not merely a printing plant filled with whatever news dis- trict correspondeénts sent in. A good paper is one that gives the news ahd then shows editorially that it knows what it all means and has 'some idea as to whether we are drift- Ing, and the courage to Advise that we either backwater or pull ahead with confidence. Perhaps the editorial page wold have more value if the editorials were more valuable. It is the tradi- tion in editorial writing that poli- tics are to be discussed. And it 1 done endl \ Editors discuss politics when no- body else in the city or country is bothering about such matters.' : I do it sometimes when I should not, and I don't know why. I know better, vet I fall into it or am provoked into it by some particularly one-sided ar- ticle in a contemporary. < It is a ¥ice that I suppose many editors struggle against. Two men live ih Toron i FEE if i gi it aSeen | mother. 1» THE VILLAGE OF WHLLINGTON A Patriotic Meeting Was Held There 4 Last Week. Wellington, Oct. 4.--The patriotie | meeting held in .the Music Hall on "Monday wight of 1550 Week WAS Jarge- ily attended and Lieut.-Col. Penton and Capt. Ponton, Belleville, were in attendance and Capt. Ponton, who was through the beginning of the war, gave an intersting description of what he saw and passed throgs. while away and up to the time that he became disabled and was obliged | to. come home. | H. H, Horsey spoke well and with | éncouragement to the boys to take | part in the great struggle that lies | before the nations of the world: Mr. Parliament also spoke. Ool. Ponton also gave a fine talk. His daughters sang a couple of patriotic songs. Rev, Mr. Archer, Méthodist minister, also song, while Mr. Adam did excellent service at the piano. Two opera classics wer rendered by some of the ladies of the village. Altogether an excallnt programme. was rendered. There has bépn considerable x- citement cwing 0 the fast of sone suspicious characters who had. been about Wellington acting strangely, and was supposed to be a woman; but latest report says that the party was arrested somewhere | down east and proved to be a man. Miss Clara Powers spent a week at her sister's, Mrs. H. D. Cleminson's; Miss Mary Bryce spent Sunday with his parents at Wellington. Miss Em- ily Mandeville spent Sunday with her Mr. and Mrs. Peter Burr, Bloomfield, returned last week from an extended trip west and to the San Francisco Exposition. Miss Dor- othy PoWers is spending a few days | with his sister, Mrs. H. D. Cleminson. Mrs. Edward Robline motored from Toronto last week, accompan- fed by Mrs. Bramish and Mrs, Kent, and were the guests of Mrs. Doveror, 1illier. D. Burlingam was fortunate in ta- king 1st prize on his Clydsdale stock of Picton. : The funeral of Stanléy Thomas, Gileod, was held from his late resi- dence on Monday, the 4th inst. Rev. Mr. Archer conducted the service. Interment 'took place at Greenwood, Picton. The funeral of the late John Wess- les was held from his daughter's, Mrs. A. A. Carey's, Melville. Intern- ment fook place at Greenwood cemet. ery, Picton. The deceased was a of the AM. E. Church for forty-five years and a consistent and good living man. He was an Or- angeman for forty.years and during that time missed only two Orange walks. He was a man who was always doing sGmebody good. W. R. Hills 18 shipping quantities | of celery, oniofis, etc., raised on his farm. On Mond Montreal, Wallace Lorne Bain, ger of the East- ern - Hospital, Brockville, was unit- ed in marrage: to Miss Margaret Carrell, a fornfer member of the | Eastern Hospital staff, ? STOMACH OF A CAMEL. ---- Contains Four "Compartments, Each Lined With Large Cells. The Présbyterian. The stomach of a camel is divided into. four compartments, and the walls of these are lined with large cells, every one of which can be opened and closed at will by the means of powerful muscles. When a camel drinks, it drinks for such a long time you really think it never meant to leave off. The fact is that it is not satisfying its thirst, but Is filling up its cistern as well. One after another the cells of its stomach are filled with water, and as S00n as each is quite full it is tightly closed. Then, when a few hours later the animal becomes thirsty, all it has to do i¥ to open one of the cells and allow the water to flow out. Next day it opens one or two more cells, and so it goes one' day after day until the whole supply is ex. haosted. In this curious way a camel can live five of even six days without drinking at all, and so is able to travel quite easily through the desert, where the wells are often hundreds of miles apart. Identified. : A party of New Yorkers recently came back from a fishing trip in the Province of Quebec, where they had 4 Frénch-Canadian guide. 'On the first night out," said one of the party, 'our guide said to us: *.'You come from New York, hey?' Rives 5 You know Adelphe Desjardins?' No. ; 4 " " 'You not know Adolphe Desjar- dine?' . "No. : "The guide seemed mystified, but questioned no further. It should be remembered that in French-Canadian villages there is one hotel, and that it is the. headquarters of the com- munity Hfe. On the last night of the trip the guide came to us after supper. * ou come from New York, hey?' over : ~ ha know Adolphe Desjardins?' " 'You not know. Adolphe Desjar- dins?* : t "No. : : 'Mon Dieu, you must know him! He is the cook in the hotel." " . News For Hitwrians.. inspector wis ' examining a school and. alt the class, the inspector, "was ® mother of the great Scottish hero Robert Bruce?" 7 GRORGE HAM'S BIRTHDAY, queted at Montreal. The sixty-afth birthday of George . Ham, of the ©. P. R., wag cele- | brated at the Place Viger Hotel, Montreal, on August 24th, with a P complimentary banquet af which many promivent railroad men and Bewspaper men from Montreal and elsewhere were present. Mr. Ham incidentally told the guests that ex- | actly-owe-hial of His Ife had "Béen |, spent in the -ervice of the C. P. R. He remembered bow, when he took Service with the company, his salary was $75 per month--and an.éxpense account. Siace those days the com- pany had grown to be what he com sidered the greatest --transportation company in the world. - The olden days were productive of big men, but he was happy to shy that the prese was produicin® men worthy their positions. only twenty-five years into the future, | "there is no man who dare imagine | i what the company may become.' speeches wer. short, and the banquet | m a formal function. The following verses, twelve years ago by Neil Munro, the British novelist and journalist, then on a visit to this country, were print- ed on the menu for the first time in Canada: How Laughter Came to Canada. The Lord, one day, in a happy mood | Made Canada---mount and plain and weod, | The sounding cataract add the lake! On whose blue horders the poplars shake, | "'Tis good," said the Lord and took His rest, | But soon in His wilderness felt op- prest. | p Blest He the wood, then, with bird and beast, With thunder of hooves he filled the west, | Set the Red Man forth on a generous trail, : { "Be glad" He commanded--without | avail, ! I | HOW GERMANS ARE Humorist , and Publicity 'Man Ban- | 4 Manufactu i'tieth Century, I overheard a conver- | sation between two i who are heavy shippers of ti the argument and said he saw no rea- | son why, but the German-American, i as he called himself, said, "No, you | Should ship not - at "matifacturer fie to fll mans Looking forward | shippi s different--that is fines--you * The | doing a good work'" rather a family birthday party than! you ship them?" written | the manufacturer. many." {my friend, 1 ship them to England and France, and they shoot them over | fo the Germans." } a eu ir FETTING THEIR SHELLS. rer's Reply to the Pro. test of a Hyphenated American. The New York Evening 7 ublishes the following le. | Coming to New York on the Twen- UILDERS !! Have You Tried | GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? . It Saves Time ~P. WALSH: - Barrack St. manufacturers | wands ons. ~The conversation did not appeal to German sitting opposite. AS a re sult the German said: "You gentle. men are Americans, and should be neutral---you should ship no tions to Eurape." muni- I 2 2 IE Te | JAY RY SNR KINGSTON, ONT, One of the manufacturers took up | whereupon. tdie.. "Well, the Ger- are getting all the shell I am ng." i . At this the German said, "Oh, that | are | After a mo- | "But how do | \ ent or two he said, "Oh, I get them there," replied | oS . i "But how? 1 thought all ship- 8 ing channels were closed to Ger- | 1 The manufacturer replied, "Well, Ans. | Bulk | Oysters Dominion Fish Co. PHONE 820. Coal The kind you ave looking for is the kind we sell. Scranton Coal Is good Coal and we gugrantee prompt delivery. BOOTH & CO, Foot of West St. For-the Indian sulked in a dread surmise, something was wanting in God's eyes., { | And At a breath the buffalo ceased to be, The fire died down in the 'brave's! tepee, | White men ploughed over the prairie | flowers, . Smiling not even in leisure hours, | For their minds were on foolish fu- | tilities set, | And God saw something was want- ing yet. { | Long thought the Lord, and one! bright day s He made Him a man of His spit and | clay, | And set him forth in the sun to dry | In a place where waters went rippling | Ye Said the Lord, "Be laughter wher | ever you are, ! - Stand forth, George Ham, of the| C. P.R" | So wherever the C.P.R. lines run, From Montreal to the setting sun, | If there be folk who are tired and sad | They will welcome George, the peren-| nial lad, | Georgius Rex -- true King oty Smiles, r Who carries laughter ten thousand | miles. . | Banking Growth. | A striking illustration of the finan- | cial progress throughout the two! older provinces of the Dominion dur- | ing recent years, with respect to banking facilities, is - graphically | shown in a new addition of a Bank | Map of Ontario and Quebec which has | recently been issued by the Depart-| ment of the Tuterior at Ottawa. Ac-| cording to th» information which has been incorporated in the publication, {the number of branches in operation | in 1901, the first year for which statistics of this nature are given, totalled approximately 500, in com- parison with 2,000 at the present time. This interesting compilation of | current banking information is valu-| able also as a Railway Map, showing as it does, the location on the various main and Lcanch lines, of all towns | and cities. This, together with other | general information, makes the pub- | lication very useful for reference pur- | posts. wai { A Canadian Soldier Poet: . || Patrick MacGill, poet and realistic | novelist, now fighting at the front, is |; believed to have a rival in a Cana-| dian soldier in the regular army, | named John T. Gurnett, quartermas- te! more than 25 years ago. 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Spurs, Leggings, Shirts, Caps, N.C.O. 'Badges & Lanyards--White and Khaki WE FEW ENE Ee Crawf