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"McLaughlin" Garage Farmers and Auntemobile Own« I We hii © best grades ubricating olls "Veedol" and "Polarine," also Model T Ford oll. All kinds of - k. ving wd ar jn ock. Repa promptly ate tended to. Storage by the day, week or month. Robt. J. Fursey, rop. Phones No. 1600-931. 85-37 Montreal St, near Princess For information that will lead to the discovery or whereabouts of the person or persons sufiering from Nervous Debilicy, Diseases of the Mouth and Throat, Blood Poison, Skin Diseases, Bladder Troubles; Special Ailments, and Chronic or Complicated Complzints who can- not be cured at The Ontario Medi- cal Institute, 263-265 Yonge St., Toronto. Correspondence invited ' Give it Fair Play Why not decide NOW to give ZUTOO Tablets, the remedy so aed for headache, a fair square If there ™ Any doubt in your mind t 8s to the worth of. tabicts or of their ' harmiessness, try them and KNOW the Don't sacrifice your comfort on ac count of prejudice or skepticism. Try the tablets and know. 25¢ at dealers or by . Robinson & Co Ree Eto. Guebee Er ee Oh ! Come on over to Cooke's and have a Good Photo taken. His studio is 159 alngton street, near Brock, right next to Carnovsky's Fruit y the man of much learning cannot fail to feel his listleness when he first meets the lawyer just admit- ted to practiew: ly PY nn gn IN. | Aug. 8.--Revs, F. W, White and W. J, Parsons have arranged to ex change pulpits during their respec- tive holidays. Next Sunday morn- ing Mr. White will conduct a umion service in the Presbyterian Church during Mr. Parson's absence. L. H. Perry, who has been very ill the last two weeks, Is recovering slowly. Miss Anple Baker, Harrowsmith, is spend- ing a few days at her uncle's William Forsyth's, Leeman Jordan. and son, Campbellford, are visiting friends in Wilton, Mrs. Elgin Par- rott, Fellows, spent a couple of days last week with Mrs. L, Storms. "A successful social was given on the Presbyterian Church lawn last Ffi- day evening, about 450 people pass- ing through the gate, The receipts amounting to nearly $135, The evening was made very pleasant with the assistance of the Odessa band, the Wilton Glee Club, the singing of S. Storms and Miss Margorie, and limelight views of the war, etc., giv en by Rev. W. J. Parsons, DENBIGH. Ayg. 7.--Ptes. Albert John Lorne Ready, Victor Wienecke and Anson Cringle, members of the 228th Bat- talion, who enjoyed a month's visit- ing --at their hemes here; left last week again for Borden's Camp. Two other former Denbigh' boys, E. Wilde and H. Dool, of Borden Camp, who have also enlisted, are now spending part of the furlough granted them visiting relatives and friends in our village. Messrs. George Sall- ans, Watertown, N.Y., and John Douglas, Plevna, were for a few days welcome guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. Sallans. Miss Hulda Marquardt, Hardwood Lake, also spent a couple of days with friends and relatives here. Miss Mary Dool, who has at- tended college in Belleville, has ar- DATES OF FALL FAIRS. Dates of fall fairs in Eastern On- tario as announced by the, Agricul- tural societies branch of tifé Ontario Department of Agriculture. Toron- to, are as follows: Sept. 12 and 13 Sept. 19 and 21 Oct. 3 Arnprior ..... Bancroft . Belleville .... . Sept, 14{ and 15 Bowmanvil Sept. 19 and 20 Brockville"... Sept. 4 and 6 Centreville | moment Cobden ....... . Fi » ! Cobourg ........ ..... Aug. 23-24} Colborne ..... ....... . Cornwall - 7-9 Delta ...... Sept. 18-20 Demorestville Oct, 14] Frankford . . 21-22 Frankville Sept. 28-29 Inverary Sept. 13 Kemptville ..» Sept. 23-24] Kingston . Sept. 26-28 Lanark Sept. 7-8 Sept. 21-22] Sept. 9 Sept. 26-27 Sept. 25-26 | . Sept, 21 Sept. 29 | Sept, 14-15 «+. Aug. 1-3 Sept, 12-13 »aaves Oct 81 . Sept. 11-13] .- Sept. 8-16 ..- Sept. 19-20] ept. 4-2 and 4 | cee. Sept. 14-15 Sept, 19-21] Oct. 10-11 +... Sopt. 5-6 | Sept. 20-22 Oct. 6-7 . Sept, 16 Sept. 26, «++. Sept. 28-29 . Sept. 14 26-Sept. 11 | Tweed ..... .. Oct, *-5 Wolfe Istand : Sept. 195-20 Some dates such as that of the Harrowsmith, Tsyndhurst and other fairs have not yet been set. These will be added as soon as announced. | Maroora 'ey Maynocth ., >... McDonald's Co Merrickville Morrisburg .. Napanee .... Peterboro .... Picton Port Hope. .. Prescott Renfrew Roblins Mills .. Shonnonville Stella Stirling ... Tamworth Toront. a Aug. | Plays and Players | Mrs Patrick Campbey is playing her former role of Mrs. Chepstow in | Bella Donna, which has just been re-! ceived by Sir George Alexander, at | the St. James's theatre, London, Mrs. Campbell expects to return to the! United_States in the fall. i --- i A Pais will begin a tour of the principal cities next season in Erst-| while Susan, opening in Boston in! September. » Her New York engage- | ment at the Gaiety theatre was | brought to a close recently. i The Barber of Mariposa has been | selected as the title for the new com- edy by Michael Morton and Stephen! Leacock with Cyril Maude will pre-| sent in New York hext season. The! central character in this play is a| French-Canadian barber. | A week or two ago Great Britain | Shakespeare's ory. Now there is the record that ancther of the Scan- dinavian countries has held a cele- bration of its own. The Danish Authors' club arranged a perform- ance of Hamlet, at which the king and queen of Denm and the scene was approximately | one of the bastions of the Kronborg castle at Elsimore. For onde the fa- miliar stage direction "a platform before the castle," can have given no matter for ment between the Te rate Noo oF "Weenie artists. ¢ the ++.. Oct. 3-4 {he book, with music | in the business. THE COUNTRYSIDE rived again at her Mrs. William Chan and children, Renflew, former residents of our village, who were for a week or so welcome guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Chatson, have left for Raglan to pay a visit to the foriner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Brown, before re- turning to town. Adolph Warlide, e's, E-Sallone. Red Cross, Sask., is a welcome visitor at Mr. and Mrs. C. Stein's of the Den- bigh House, but intends to return to his homestead in the far west in about a week or ten days. Quite a number of our young people, also a few older ones, attended and enjoy- ed the picnic held at Matawatchan on Friday last. Most of our farmers have now 'finished their haying and a few have begun harvesting their grain. Owing to the excessive heat and the want of rain, our grain crops, potatoes, roots and other vegetables have lately suffered severely and will not yield nearly the bountyful re- turns which were expected. .a month or so ago. Mrs. J. Brierly and Mrs. F. Jacobs and Migs, Bronson, Oswego, K.Y., who enjoyed about one month's country life here with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William John, left last week again for their present home in the United States. / mn ( ~ "Mr..and Mrs. E, J. Mc- Farlane spent last week in Mont- real, Mr..MecFarlane has been under- going a treatment for throat trouble. Clarence Beaper, of Montreal, is spending a few weeks with friends here. Mrs. Peter Lee and family, of Tofield, Alta., left here the end of last week to spend a few days with frighds in Perth, Anthur ' Jacobs, C.K.R. operator at Roblin, is home for )a couple of days, Mrs. R. J. Wilson, Lachute, Que., is spending a short time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Lee. Ar A AAA AA when Shakespeare, during a visit to Elsinore conceived the idea of writing Hamlet." That may be poetic license, but it has as much probability as many other popular traditions, Jacinto Benevente, one of the most popular ang important of Spanish playwrighty, will spon be introduced to Amer n Scriber's Sons. readers: by Charles They 'will bring out a volume containing four of his plays--The Husband of His Widow, which is called a brilliant comedy of manners; La Malquerida (The 111 Starred Love), a pleasant tragedy; The Evil Doers of Good, a palire upon social hypocrisy, and' The Bonds of Interest, a Molierelike com- edy. The translation is being pre- pared 'by John Garrett Underhill, American representative of Spanish Authors. Cosmo Hamilton, the author of "The Blindness of Virtue," will have a hand in two widely different emter- tainments to be produced before the end 4f the year. One of them is a serious drama entitled "The Mother Woman," in which Christine Norman has been engaged to play the leading role. The other is a musical comedy for which Mr. Hamilton has written ! vy Leslie Stew- art, composer of '"Floradora." Mme.Bernhardt is again proposing a tour of the United tates in which for a few months s§8 would appear in three or four plays, each in single act, as she has been doing of late in England. Most of these pieces are high hed episodes of the war Even she" agrees that. she can never act again in a long play or, in more than fragments or her former parts. Charles Dillingham makes the in- teresting announcement that he has arranged with Marguerite Qlarke, the motion pléture star, to.feature her in a production that he will make in the fall. It is understood that Miss Clarke will not desert her picture work entirely. She is reputed to be third to the highest paid picture star Those getting more movie cash are Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford. "The Old Homestead," after thirty { Years of use by Denman Thompson | and his successors, has at last gone into the stock theatres. The length of time it keeps out of the stock com- panies is unusually the test of a play's value in these days! Such a j record proves how papular this old rural play was in ON with, let us say, "The Eternal Magdalene," which almost made a rgeord "of the other kind. : The famous Abbey Theatre in Dub-] Un has practicglly disbanded its com- Am aia YET NERVES 'was noticing the interest of Sweden | || in the jercentpnary celebration of |, e were present| ., hearse Aknow that pany. 0° My Heart" In Australia, Arthur Sinclair is playing an Irish sketch with other members of the y in the English music halls and Cath- lJeen Nesbit will remain in America. It is not probable that Lady Gregory will ever attempt to revive the in- stitution. - Harriet Mellon, the old-time Eng- lish actress, did not lack astuteness, even at seventeen. Her admirable answer to Sheridan when he asked her to read the part of Lydia Lan- guish in "The Rivals, with a view to proving her fitness for Drury Lane, «could not have been bettered by a ripe diplomat: "I dare not, sir, for my life. 1 would rather read it all to England. Suppose, sir, you did me the honor of reading it to me?" --- » Delightedly Sheridan acceded, and, after reading nearly the whole of the play, enrolled her in the Drury Lane company. POP AO BBB BAG Gee | ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN | Wheat binders in the Kansas fields are being operated by women. Miss Gloria Gould, the ten-year- old daughter of .George J. Gould, wrote, produced and played a lead- ing part in a play. The new Countess of Sandwich, formerly Miss Alberta Sturgis, the daughter Yof a Chicage banker, is scarcely known in her native coun- try. Queen Maud of Norway is an 'ex- pert milliner, and can trim hats in such a way that she could demand a good salary. She is also an expert bookbinder. ! Miss Daphine Bourke and . Miss Myrtle Farquharsan, members of London's exclusive society, are now aiding Queen Mary in the work of aiding the soldiers. ' % The Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel will hold a special con- vention next month to amend its constitution so as to permit women to be members. Mme. Curie travels about in a big motor car fitted with a.<€omplete X- ray" equipment. Recently she has heen going the rounds of the Frenck field hospitals. Miss Elizabeth Tucker, a Chero- kee princess from Oklahoma, was the only Indian woman who attended the Progressive convention at Chi- cago as a delegate. Mrs. George W, Vanderbilt his deeded 50,000 'acres of her Balti- more estate near Ashville, N. C., to the United States government for a national park reserve, Misses Elizabeth Marbury, Anna Morgan and Elsie DeWolfe are going to France for the summer to look after their hospital for copvalescent soldiers at Versailles. Mrs. George Randolph Chester, who helps her husband write his get- rich-quick stories, loves to play with her dolls, which she has carefully preserved since childhood. When the war is over in Europe the men of those countries at war will find close competition with the women for the jobs formerly held by them before the war broke out. Miss Maud Younger, a lahor agi- tator and uplift worker, has opened a schoel in Washington, D.C., where she will teach lobbying, organization methods and street speaking. It has been figured out that if only ten per cent. of the woman voters in the twelve suffrage states act toge- ther they can make every one of those states doubtful in the coming elec- tion. , A large munition plant in London has employed 20 women to police the factory as an experiment, Of after a trial they prove satisfactory several more will be put to work. While her two brothers are serv- ing with the troops on the Mexican border, sixteen-year-old Myra Shear- 'er, of Carlisle, Pa., is running the garage in that city owned by her bro- thers. In the absence of Governor Craig of North Carolina, who was isolated on an island due to the floods in the south, Miss May Jones, his private secretary, acted as chief executive of that state for two days, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, president of the Women's Homestead Association, Sara Allgood is acting "Peg declares that 75 per qent, of the mili- tiamen called to the Mexican border are married men, and\that the chief slackers are the bachelors, Mme. Christine Langenham, of; New York city, presented to Captain Paul Koenig, of the German subma- rine Deutschland, a loving cup in re- cognition of his remarkable feat of crossing the Atlantic ocean in safe- ty, . Organizations representing ° be- tween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 or- ganized women have obtained intro- duction into the house and senat at Washington of bills creating a ao- man's division of the United States department of labor. Miss Frances Kellor hag been elect- ed permanent chairman of the wo- men's national committee on the Hughes Alliance, the object of which is to work in the interest of Charles E. Hughes for President of the Unit- ed States. s Mrs, Josiah E. Cowles, the newly elected president §f the General Fed- eration of Women's club§, was born in Indianna, competed her edu- cation at Earlha college, took a business course and entered. business life. § ¢ To meet the increasing demand for women to run automobiles, there have been opened in London several schools where the women are taught to run the machines and are also to be able to take the engine apart, if necessary. > Dropped Flowers on Hearse. At the funeral of an Italian avia- tor a few days ago four aeroplanes, which had been hovering over the streets, flew low and dropped large quantities of loose flowers on the and carriages, afterwaris rising one by one and' flying * in circles over the cémetery during the funéral ceremony. p" : When deady for self-denial tests we select very carefully those things to abstain from that we are not over fond of, < . It's a good deal to thé workman to yer Is satisfied that bis wages have been earned. - Kingston dogs will soon be as un- popular as the Huns, Greater privileges are given dogs in Kingston than are given the tax- payers the Lampman remarks, Is cock-fighting to be renewed in Kingston? Mayor Richardson has a scrappy rooster that is eligible. "Do Canadian girls use talcum?" an English soldier asks in a letter to a member of the Daughters of the Empire. Do they? Do they wear short skirts? . The General Hospital Governors have not yet found, among their number one who®can design a com- fortable summer collar for the nurses of that institution. Just imagine the authorities invit- ing that former Portsmouth convict Riley to return and finish his sen- tence since he was. liberated by mis- take. What good would the un- served portion of the sentence do the fellow? % Some fellow is going to break his neck in making an evening call at the General Hospital Nurses' Home if the management does not have the old boardwalk repaired. What are the 'visiting governors" for any- way? Why should the King journey to Canada to thank this country for its | assistance in the war? The Lamp- man was always of the opinion that?) in sending soldiers to Earope, | Canada was simply helping herself. N®thanks are needed from anyone. | Is there so little honor among | some members of the medical pro-| fession that they will pass men for] military service jin order to get the | half-dollar fee when they know they | are unfit? And what is the medical | body as a whole doing with these brethren? | { Were the Barriefield camp troops | delighted to be paraded to a King-| ston .church on that hot day a week | ago? Yes, they were as pleased as| the Germans are it getting licked by | the British. ' Gananoque young men who are interested in a semi-professional baseball club should turn their ener-| gies to clubbing Prussia. They would be better giving their money to the | Red Cross at least than in hiring, | "too proud to fight" Yankees to play ball for them on the diamond. | Prof. Jordan made a good point when he compared Germany, which suddenly got rich materially, with people who get rich likewise, Both become overbearing and want to lord it over their equals and even their 'superiors. The purse-proud we have with us always, just like! the poor. THE TOWN WATCHMAN You will find that you have a whole lot of rusty and worthless laurels if you rest on them 'too long. The man who avers that he never did a foolish thing needs no furthe: evidence to prove he .is a fool. \ Make the man thoroughly dedcribe his better way before you discard the one you have for his. What Is Uric Acid ? THE _CAUSE OF BACKACHE, RHEUMATISM, GRAVEL AND SUDDEN DEATH. Ever since the discovery of uric acid in the blood by Scheele, in 1775, and | the bad effect it had upon the body, i scientists and physicians have striven | to rid the tissues and the blood of | this ison. Because of its over- | abundance in the system it causes backache, pains here and there, rheu- matism, gout, gravel neuralgia and sciatica. It was Dr. Pierce who dis- covered a new agent, called * Anuric," | which will throw out and completely | eradicate this uric acid from the sys- | tem. "Anuric" has proved to be 37 | times more potent Fe lsithia, and Solsequently you need no longer fear muscular or articplar rheumatism or gout, or many other diseases which are ependent on.an accumulation of uric | acid within the body. Send to Dr. Pierce, of the Invalids' Hotel and Sar- gical Tustitate, Buffalo, N. Y., for a pamphlet on " Anuric," or send 10 cents or a trial package pf * Anuric Tablets." If you feel that tired, worn-ont feeling, backache, neuralgia, or if your sleep is disturbed by too frequent urination, go to r best dru and ask for Dr. Perce's Anuric Tablets, They are put up in 50-cent packages. Doctor Pierce's reputation is_hack of | this 'medicine and you know that his ° "Golden Medical Dey for the blood and his "Favorite Prescription" for the ills of women have had a splen- did reputation for the past fifty years. Doctor Pierce's Pellets are unequaled as a Liver Pill. One tiny coated Pellet a Dose. 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