Pull of Interest to Many, An attempt is being made at Carle- ton Place to have a curling rink built for next winter. The Carleton Place Patriotic Fund 'been increased by a check from W. Sumner, D. D. S,, Tangier v for $100. _ On . Wednesday evening Mabel, ter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman munds, and J. C. Foss, both of Bith's Falls, were married. On Sunday, in St. Peter's Sunday hool, Brockville, . J. Payson, re- ng superintendent, leaving for lin, Ont., was presented with a sil- Vér tray. _ James Greene, a former resident of fockville, but later of Toronto, pass- away on Monday last. Deceased Was sixty-seven years of age and was unmarried. The Smith's Falls Methodist Church has extended a call to. Rev. G. W, McCall, Montreal, to take the pastorate in June next, Rev. Mr, McCall will accept, Born, March 13th, to Rootstown, Ohio, to Rev. Norris Lineweaver and Mrs. Lineweaver, a son. The young mother was formerly Miss Emma Bottomley, of Athens. A surprise indeed was the news received at Carleton Place of the death at Paris, Ont., 'of William F. Latimer, eldest son of the late Rob- ert Latimer of Carleton Place. On March 31st, at Badaxe, Mich., the death occurred of Alexander Mc- Gillivray, from pneumonia, after a short illness. The deceased lived in Smith's Falls for a number of years. : There passed away Wednesday morning, an old resident of Brock- ville in the person of Charles Sauve. Deceased was born at Coteau, but the greater part of his life was spent in Brockville. The Smith's Falls Board of Edu- cation asks council for $19,000 for the erection of a new school in Elgin ward. It has $19,000 on hand from insurances, thus providing $38,000 for the erection. Miss Hattle Shire has left Delta, where she has resided for about two years, and has gone to her home in Philipsville to spend a short tine be- fore leaving for Saskatchewan, where she intends making her home. The strength of "CC" Co. 130th Battalion, Carleton Place, is now to eighty-three, with a nuniber signed up yet to report. Forty-two more mew are wanted to complete the Some time during Tuesday night the residence of Arthur Vermilyea, 4th, concession of Thurlow township, was burglarized and valuables taken. Mr. and Mrs. Vermilyea are at. pros. ent in the west. maiden name was Fidelia L. Demo- rest, was the daughter of John and Hannah Demorest, and was born at Fozhoro sixty-four years ago. he death took place at the Smith's Falls Hospital on Friday of Elizabeth Susan Allan, aged fifty-two years, wife of W. Allan. The deceased had been ill for the past three months with cancer, The remains were taken to Franktown for burial. ~The death occurred very suddenly last Tuesday at Highland Creek, Renfrew County, of Patrick Lynch, Renfrew, He was employed at the Jamieson molybdenite mine and fell dead while on his way to work. Mr. Lynch was bora at Mount St. Pat- rick. He was fifty-eight years of age. WEATHER IS FINE, So a Soldier At Folkestone, Eng., Writes To Friends, Westport, April 3.--Mr. and Mrs. Walter Whitmarsh, Kelleker, Sask., are the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Whitmarsh, Dr. Knight, Titsburg, spent a few. days in town the guest of W, C, Fredenburg. Mr. and Mrs. York, Brockville, are moving to Westport for the summer. Mrs. W. H. Thake, Ottawa, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Wing. Messrs. Lillie and Steel are busy putting ex- tensive repairs on their garage. J. S. Stoness and sons are rebuilding their mill which was destroyed by fire last winter, In a letter received from E. G. Adams, Jr., of Folkestone, England, in the early part of March, says the weather there is as warm and pleas- ant as in May, in Canada. 8S. T. Me- Cann will open one of his cheese fac- tories next week. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Arnold are spending the week with friends in Toronto. Rev. A. E. Hager, chaplain for the 156th called on Westport friends on Wednesday. Theador Charbonneau of Hamilton, spent Sunday in town. ------ten Late Ira Bevens, Long Point. The death occurred on March 31st of Ira Bevens, at his home, at Long Point, aged eighty-four years. De- ceased had been an itvalid for the past two years. His wife prede- ceased him four years ago. He was one of the oldest residents of the neighborhood, and was highly re- spected by all. In religion he was a Methodist. During the long per- iod of suffering he recelved constant care and attention by his son Joseph, with whom he lived, and during the Jast two weeks his two daughters, Mrs, Andrews and Mrs. Burns re- mained with him. He is survived by three sons and four daughters: Mrs. Lester Weeks of the North West; Mrs. Sampson Andress of New Ontario; Mrs, Richard Andress of Marble Rock; Mrs. Sarah Burns and Messrs, Harry and Joseph at Long Point, and Timothy Bevans of Chau- on Sunday, April 2nd, to Olivet mont, N. Y. "funeral took place Church, Ellisville, thence to the cemetery at Ellisville, Rey. J. A. On Friday last teachers and pupils + of the Athens high school presented Miss Ney, one of the staff, with an | appropriate address and a silver | purse, as she was severing her con. | nection with the school. Pte. Edward Coderre, Almonte, who enlisted with the 130th Battal ion was presented with a signet ring, with 130 engraved on it, by his fel- low-workers of the finishing depart- ment of the Almonte Knitting Co. Mrs. John A. Holgate passed away on Wednesday at Bowmanville after a prolonged illness. Deceased, whose AP A ii GRAFTING IN CANADA, What Js To Be Galned?--Sir Sam's Mistake. M. P., in Poronto News. But who still thinks there is any- thing to be gained by grafting on war coptracts? Who thinks that he can secure protection from any party 'in Canada if it is proven he made money illicitly on war '1 tracts? Parliament is a fair reflec tion of a public opinion which would crucily anyone who extracted gold from blkeod. The party that is most severe on such a man is the party to which that man belongs. For very good redsons the Liberals are more kind to a Conservative who is 50 charged than are the Conserva- tives. The outburst against Gener- al Hughes arcse out of the fact that he allied Wmself with Allison who was not regarded as honest after the General had been warmed against Gim. It was fearéd by those who knew Allisod that he would do what he is now charged with doing. General niet this by being more ext ant than ever in his praise of Allison whom he spoke of as his guldg and adviser, and the very soul of homor. The General's task when he comes home will not be to defend the contract with the American Ammunition Company which was not made by him, but by fhe British Government, lit = will mst be to defend the advance pay- ment because that advance payment was guaranteed by the Trust Indem- ie Kt will not be to de- high price of the fuses be- d not make thém. His He 1a procuring a divorce m a men whom he crested an notary Colodel, whom he employ- in a fiduciary capacity entailing rep 4s. patriot dol the Empire's one for love of ong he MOW'S THIS? We offer One Hupdred Dollars Re- ward for any case of Catarrh that ean- be cu by Hall's Catarrh Cure. . Tarts Catailh Cure has bash Wien ig rrh erers or e pas A years, and has Become known as the most reliable remedy for Catarrh, _ Hall's Catarrh Cure ac surf N the Bl i rtions. all's Catarrh con- J¥ Waddell, Seceley's Bay, officiated. The pallbearers were James Kelsey, Thomas Tye, John Moorehead, Charles O'Connor, George Bracken, William: Warren and David Town- send. Among the relatives present from a distance were James E. Bev- ans, sr, James E. Bevans, jr., Claude Bevans, Horace Young, and Mrs. Sheets, Gananoque; Mrs. D. £8, Lansdowne; Mr. and Mrs. A. @nd- résg and Messrs, Henry and Christo- pher, Marble Rock; Mr. and Mrs, T. Bevens and Mr. and Mrs, William Burns, Elgin. and~who now is charged with traf- ficking in contracts made through and with himself. There is no question that the Min- ister of Militia has suffered in pres- tige with Conservative members whose whole desire is that every Min- ister shall keep us out of trouble. We desire a peacefgl life here, that we may pursue war elsewhere. No one minimizes the Minister's ample ser- vice to his country during the past vear and a half. He was a marvel of physical energy. He was the human dynamo that set all the mili- tary machine amoving, It is not unfair to say that no one else in Can- ada could have done 86 much. It is safe to say that he rallied men to the colors as no other man could. But the complaint against him was that he gathered round him and placed in responsible positions men who never saw military service and never will. He placed them in semi- military, semi-civilian places where ihe opportunities to graft were many. They were not men whom others would trust in such positions. In- deed, it may be said that of all who knew them the General was the only man in Canada who would trust them in such positions. Allison is only one of them. Others of them did as Allison did--pretended to be eager only to serve the Empire without money and without price. The General appeared to be taken in by their professions. He trusted them and praised them. He made them honorary colonels or majors or captains, so that they would:be amen- able to military discipline, yet when Allison was wanted by the Public Accounts Committee he failed to ap- pear. Will he come now? He must. The General will see to that. His failure to appear would pro- mise the General more than his ap- pearance would; but, of course, while his appearance might help the Gen- eral, it would not advantage the Hon- | grim orary Colonel. Y a "Build your system in the spring." Buy a Spring Tonic at Gibson's. elix Diaz is In Mexico and the head of a considerable the south of Mexico and has maderial aid through Guatemala "Moth Camphor Balls," at Gibson's, At Long Branch, N. J., the /sum- mer home of Daniel Guggenheim 'was destroyed by fire; loss $100,000. The was unoccupied. | Count ues De Lesseps was in charge of the anti-aircraft gui which fecently hrought down a Zeppelin in nee. at in ved "Lavander Camphor," at Gibson's. MADE A FORTUNE. James Kincaid Left $208,273 To His Family. Brockville, April 6.--On April 26th, 1865, fifty-one years ago, a pefi- niless country boy from Caintown, Ont., stepped off a New York Central train in Syracuse. He was tired and hungry and not one of the great crowd gathered at the station to viéw the passing of the funeral train oF Abraham Lincoln noticed the deter- mination which fired the eyes of tlie young man. It was James F. Kin- caid, 3 This week the appraisal of his es- tate filed with Surrogate John W. Sadler showed a fortune of $208,- 273.37, | including realty holdings which made him one of the largest property 'owners in that city, His widow and two sons divide the es- tate. Celebrated Their Golden Wedding. Brockville, April 6.--Surrounded by the members of their family and| about thirty guests, Mr. and Mrs. ! Richard Eyre celebrated the fiftieth | anniversary, of their wedding on} Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Eyre were married in Ogdensburg on April} 5th, 1866. Mrs. Eyre's maiden name was Elizabeth Umphrey. She! was born in 'Yonge Mills September! 10th, 1846, her parents being Sam-| uel Umphrey and Mary Clow, both Canadians. Mr. Eyre was born in Brockville on October 23rd, 1842. His parents were William Eyre, Wex- ford, Ireland, and Jane Baker, York- shire, Eng. Five children were at this happy! reunion. They were: Gordon, Rich- ard, Mrs. Eck Kilborn, and Roderick, of Brockville, and Robert, of Can-| Joharie, N.Y. Among the out-of] town guests were Henry and Albert] Umphrey, of Elgin, brothers of Mrs. | Eyre, and Robert Eyre and wife, of| Yonge Mills, brother of Mr. Eyre. | Procured Liquor for Soldier. Belleville, April 6.--Before Police | Magistrate Masson Stephen Lynch! was charged with selling liquor without a license to a soldier. When asked if he was guilty of the offence, the accused ad-| mitted that he had procured a flask of liquor for a soldier, but said he did not get any reward nor was pro-| mised anything. He was convicted and fined $300 and costs. ! | John R. Gavin Passes Away. Carleton Place, April 6.--Another of the well-known faces has passed | from our view in the person of John| R. Galvin, who departed this life last Friday morning. The deceased was born in Carleton Place in September, 1849, and so wae in his sixty seventh | year. He was a son of the late Pat-| rick Galvin, and lived his entire life here. As a young man he entered the employ of Boyd, Caldwell & Son. A Youthful Cornet Player. Ensign Smith, officer in charge of the local Salvation corps, has a new recruit for 'his fadies' brass band in| the person of his thirteen-year-old daughter. He expects that in time she will develop to be a good cornet player. Ensign Smith has organiz- ed this band to take the place of the male band, which has practically all gone overseas. There is likely to be a number of new houses built in Carleton Place! | this season, besides a new business | block. BONDING IN WATERTOWN. Seventy-five to One Hundred Homes To be Erected. Watertown, N.Y., April 6.---The biggest building proposition that Wa- tertown has seen for many years is now being completed by the Ontario System Company, which owns 200 acres of building lots near the East plant of the New York Air Brake Company in upper Pearl street, and within a short time, the actual con- struction of from seventy-five to one hundred houses will be started on this addition. Thé project involves between $250,000 and $300,000, the value of the real estate after the houses have been completed. The houses will be of the most modern construction, and will be of the prevailing popular types. While the houses will be mainly of timber construction, there will he much concrete used, particularly in the foundation. It is planned to have the dwellings average about six rooms, and the selling price will! range from $3,000 to $3.500. 28c¢ Baby Cough Syrup 15e¢, Gib- son's. © The Massey Harris Company, of! Canada, 1s establishing and maintain- ing a convalescent home for Canadi- | an soldiers, in a beautiful old man- sion at Dulwich, Eng., near the Crys- tal Palace, in an estate of thirty! acres. "Do you need a spring tonic." to Gibsons. After several years absence, Mil-! waukee has returned to the Socialist! ranks, Daniel A. Hoan, Socialist, be-| ing elected Mayor. Hoan is a law- yer, but he onee was a hotel chef. Go | silent. {and rifles, and the Shaitan and | hefore the navy. | received orders to pursue the flying | | in his cure led him { she | dine: us that wax, river, attempted single handed to cut a steel cable which the Turks had streiched across the river as an ob- struction is vividly told by a letter which one of the crew wrote to. his Dathat, and hich was recently pub- n ne , While trying to cut the cable tho Bal. lant commander was shot seven times and died soon after reaching the deck of his vessel again. For bis gallan- try he received the Victoria cross. In his letter the seaman explains that the Turks were heavily . en- trenched not far from Ali Gharbi. "During the time that we were bom- garding them," he writes, 'some of our troops and cavalry went inland to try to surround them. They nearly succeeded, but found the enemy a little too strong, though they captured 1,600 prisoners and about twenty guns. Just as it was getting dark our seaplane dropped on to the water alongside us and told Lieutenant Commander Cookson that the Turks were on the run. "A little farther up the river they had placed obstructions so that we could not pass without clearing them away, giving them time to get away. This turned out to be the liveliest time I have had since the fighting | started. Commander Cookson decid- ed to go up and clear this obstruction and then give chase to the Turks. It was very dark whes we started off, With the Shattan and Sumana follow- ng. "When we got around the head of land the Turks opened fire with rifles, but we steamed right up to the obstruction. The Turks were then close enough to throw hand bombs, but luckily none of them reached the deck of the ship. turned out to be a big cable stretched across the river with dhows made fast to it. An attempt was made to sink the centre dhow with gunfire, but when this failed the commander ordered that we steam alongside of it "Commander Cookson, when he saw that the boat could not be sunk by firing, took an ax and leaped over the bows of the Comet on to the dhow, He chopped at the cable until he had to turn back, he was so badly wounded. He was shot In seven places, and when we dragged him back aboard his last words were: 'I am done. It is a failure. Return | at full speed." He never spoke after- ward. We had six wounded, but none seriously. "During that time we had not been We fired at them with guns or The obstruction | , the Sumana were also blazing away. Our | troops ashore said it was a lovely | sight to see the vessels with all their | guns working. We must have fright- ened the Turks, because on going up again at daybreak after burying our officer we found that they had clear- ed out ahd retired farther up the river. We steamed after them, and when we reached Kut-el-Amara we | found the cavalry there. This is the | first place to which the army has got | Subsequently we | Turks, and we forced the enemy to leave several dhows laden with | stores, provigions, and ammunition." | Cure 'or Snake Bite. The efficacy of plantain juice as an antidote to snake bite, was de- monstrated in Colombo, recently, in | presence of a large gathering, in-| cluding doctors, by Mr. Obeysekere, says The Times of Ceylon. He liber- ated a cobra from a gunny bag face to face with a valuable bull-terrier, which the demonstrator's confidence | to experiment upon. The dog, however, broke the cobra's back after a ten minutes' | fight, during which he had succeeded | in evading its fangs. The bull-terrier | was then held off, and a village dog was brought in, and was severely bit- | ten by the snake. It howled with pain, and collapsed in a few minutes. The dog was then given some plan- tain juice freshly expressed from some young trees of no particular va- riety, and wilien about a breakfast cup had been administered, the dog began to revive. Within half an hour it was on its feet, and the doc- tors present were satisfied that it had got over the effects of the poison. How the Gargle Was Taken. The Rev. J. A. Sharrock, in "South | Indian Missions," relates the follow- ing incident illustrating the diffcul ties of medical missionaries: An old woman came wth a relaxed throat to | Mrs. Caldwell (wife of Bishop Cald- well), who gave her a gargle bottle and told her to go home, throw ber head well back, put it in her mouth and keep it there-as long as | possible. | After a day op two the old woman | returned, complaining that she was no better and that her neck ached terribly. When asked if she had strictly carried out the instructions, d, "Yes; I threw my head well back and put the . bottle into my mouth and held it there till my neck was almost ready to break!" No Fare in W. Captain Neil Lueas said At a recent rs "The newspaper par tell there is no wax in 'sealing- cat in catgut, and no rice in' Captain Lucas i . ans, th aks to our food blockade," he added, "now percefys that, by the same token, there is fare in warfare." Postwomien and Their Pay. 4 Neatly 2,000 temporary postwo- men have been employed since the war Began. This is in addition to over 1,000 part-time postwomen ema ployed ore the war in outl rural districts. Postwomen in Lon- don receive starting pay of $5.50 a week for a fajl forty-eight-hour week, rising to $6. Ottawa is ¢rying out for an im- proved garbage collection system. The Capital has a cartage company. in a| You can save money on Drug Store wants at Gibson's, - plan Disttict Which Was Swap in Those Days is Now Meadow Land. In Beatrice Adelaide Lees' book "Alfred Great--The Truth Teller ~--Maker of England 848-899," the author speaks of Alfred's 'Somerset 'moor fastnesses' " as follows: "Between the Quantocks and. {he Polden Hills stretches a wid: "tract of marshland, where wooded knolls of higher ground rise like islands from the watery plain. Straight rows of gray-greén willows now mark the course of the 'rhynes,' or dykes, an cattle on the reclaimed wa! meadows which in Alfred's dgy were all waste swamp and fen. Yot ft fi 8 wild country still, lonely and beau tiful, with th : level lines of its grassy flats, its shiding reaches of mere anc streailt, and its clear pale tiits of rush and sedge, withy bed and alder thicket. It is a historic country, too, rich in seventeenth century memo ries of Sedgemoor and 'King Mon mouth' looking northward to ward a land of old romance, Glaston. bury, and King Arthur's 'island val ley of Avillon' But it is King Al fred's name which is most clgsely as- sociated with this particulaf district, where he toiled and planed for his people until he returnéd to thom years after. "For about ten weeks," Miss Lees continues, "from the early January to the late March of 878, he (Alfred) sheltered In the fens, guarding the te inte Devonshire,' the Taunton P between the Quantocks and the ackdown Hills. It was no doubt, as Asser says, an unquiet life, full of privations and dangers, but Alfred was not in reality the forsaken out- cast of popular tradition. There | were royal estates at hand, such as| Lyng, Somerton, and Langport, ow- | ing dues to the King, and all loyal | Devon was behind him, « "Al fred, then, was neither solitary nor! destitute in his weeks of waiting, In happier days, writes William of Malmesbury, Alfred himself would relate his adventures, in merry mood, to his friends. Many of the legends of the great king, belong to this per- iod. They are.to be found in the lives of St. Neot, of St. Cuthbert, and in the pleasant discursive pages of William of Malmesbury--the fam- ous story of- Alfred's visit to the Danish camp in the disguise of a minstrel, some of them per- haps genuine local traditions, others floating folk-tales, others, again, the product of a pious fancy, but all of them showing the abiding human ia- terest of the Athelney episode." Critics and Warriors. i Lord Sydenham, whe having been a Sapper when he was in the service, is consequently one of the brains of the army department, has taken The Times to task for having suggested that Sir lan Hamilton should have gone ashore himself and corrected the inertia which prevailed in the divisions that did not make use of those "priceless hours of daylight" on August 9, by telling that journal that "visions of a Napoleon gallop- | ing about and by a few inspiring words galvanizing a host into activ- ity" do not materialize in modern warfare. Lord Sydenbam is . per-| fectly right, for nowadays warfare ig not so picturesque as it was in the days of "Brigadier Gerard" of Con-| flans. It is all done by telephone or | wireless, and the controlling genius | is never in the limelight until the | newspapers get hold of him. Then | he frequently gets more of it than he | either appreciates or deserves. | As Sir Ian Hamilton so ably ex-| plains, it was a case with some of the | troops upon whom he had to depend, | of straight from Shoreditch to Suvla | Bay--from the mimic warfare of| home training to one of the most san- guinary and serious operations of war known in history. What a ter- | rific toss-up -it all is, this great game | of Kriegspiel. | | A Youthful Revenge. | The newest of the new officers | strolled into the sergeants' mess to | have a ldok around, says The Tatler. He looked excéedingly young and | small, and had a complexion which a | society beauty might well have en- | vied. The middle-aged warriors were | not at all pleased at having to "kow- | tow" to this stripling, and one | gruff-voiced sergeant observed.aud- | ibly, "And a little child shall lead | us." The young officer did not ap- | pear to notice the remark, and left | the room. Some time later, when | the men had all settled down for the night playing cards, etc.. he again | entered, and addressing the sergeant said: "You will assemble the men | immediately for a twenty-mile route | march. And a little child shall lead | you--only he'll be on horseback and | you lazy sons of guns will walk." | Bight of the crew of the Spanish | steamer Vigo were lost because the | | German submarine commander refus- | éd to allow boats to be lowered. "Cedar Camphor," at Gibson's. continues to arrive from England. Has a new and delicious flavour, no sauce just like it, [Ro Ln) } a] Wouldn't it be worth your while to try a now? 3 "THOMAS COPLEY J Telephone 987. Drop"'a eard to 19 Pine street when wanting anything done in the carpen- tery line. Estimates given on all Kinds or repairs and new work; also hard. wood floors of all Kinds. All orders will receive prompt attention. Shop 40 Queen sireet. 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