PAGE FOURTEEN re ------ ---- JURORS RECEIVE MORE PAY THEY NOW GET FOUR DOLLARS A DAY The County Court Opened ou Tues- | day Afternoon--There Are Three Criminal Cases On the Docket, The jurors doing duty at the sitt- ing of the Courity Court before Judge Madden at the court ho ise which 2 3 ernoon, i De e ened Tuesday aft STEFF some time past there has been a great deal of agitation over the small al- lowance made jurymen The matter was considered by the Ontario Legis- lature at the last shing and a bi sed which authorized the allow- Jas to be increased to $4 a day. The * local court officials received notifi- cation. of the increase on Tuesday Ine aia the allowance has been $2.50 a day. Many citizens remember when the allowance was nly $1 a day. The amount paid for mileage thirteen cents a mile, is still the same. Now that the government has seen fit to increase the allowance for Jurors there are many who think that an increase is coming to those who are summoned as vitnesses. Three criminal ca vill require the attention of the as well as a number of other «¢ The crimi- nal cases are: Arthur oyron charged with indecent assault-on an eleven- "year-old girl; the Johnston horse case, and James Hogan charged with the theft of some cigarettes from a freight car on the Grand Trunk Rail- way. PIN IN CHILD'S THROAT. 'Northbrook Doctor Had Difficulty in Removing It. Northbrook, June 7 8 greatly advanced in the last week and frequent showers are continu- ing. Mrs. Frank Hillier of Hunts- ville, is visiting at C. C, Thompson s. Rev. Mr. Gunter is here again. 8S Fletcher and family are moving to Michigan. Mrs. James Parks and daughters motored for the week-end to Mountain Grove to be with her sister, Mrs. W. Bell. who is very ill. The daily stage has again changed hands, and is now under the man- agement of Ernest Resenplot. a Many mining enthusiasts visited the Cobalt Frontenac and Ore Crim- ney mines this week, returning to tell their friends of the great vein being opened. up, Ernie Shier cele- brated the 3rd in Belleville. Mrs. Capt. Keenan, of Hamilton, is now at the Ore Crimney Mines with her husband, for the summer. J, L. Lloyd purchased a Ford this week and now has two for use. All are anxiously awaiting the fixing of the bad road two miles north of here, and the putting in order of the Kal- adar Northern Telephone line before Bon Echo opens for the summer. Mrs. Cassada, of Spokane, Wash. is renewing acquaintances here, after many absent years. Miss Mary Wa- ger, of Flinton, is assisting at C. C. Thompson's. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bosley spent the week-end with Stoco friends. The infant daughter of Mrs. | J. L. Lloyd got a pin in her throat | last week, She was rushed to Dr. Tindle and with great difficulty the | pin was removed. Mr. and Mrs. Ash- | ton, of Tweed, were recent visitors | at Well. Cassada's. Crops have INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. | | Local Notes and Items of General In. | terest. | The steamer Kingston begins her | trips from Toronto to Kingston and | Prescott on the 15th. W. T. Campbell, of Appleton, who | has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Drysdale, 186 Union street, returned home Tuesday. : Gasoline has taken another jump Jn price, and now sells at 45 cents a gallon. It is stated that before the summer is over the price will be 50 cents a gallon. Members of the Brockville-Morris- town Transportation Co., have gone to Detroit to purchase a new steamer to replace the H. P. Bigelow, destroy- ed by fire on Saturday. Dorothy Evelyn Cox, aged six 'weeks, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Cox, 178 University avenue, died Monday night after a short illness. The funeral takes place Wednesday afternoon. Capt. E. A Booth commands the steamer Toronto this season and Capt. Stinson will command the steamer Kingston. The former has commanded each boat ten years and | now returns to the Toronto. The R.C.H.A. band left for Petaw- awa Camp on Tuesday. Capt. Light was In charge, On account of numer- ous engagements, the band was un- able to go with the unit last month. The men expect to Be back by July 10th. ' Sergt.-Major Lorne 'W. Sanders who for several years has been on military duty at No. 3 military dis- trict headquarters, Kingston, has se- cured his discharge from the army. He has located in Whitby having been appointed manager of John- | ston's clothing store. Berrigan-Sheridan Wedding. At St. Francls Xavier church, Brockville, June 1st, at six o'clock, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Murray united in mar- riage Miss Anna Sheridan, daughter of the late Harry Sheridan, Brock- ville, to "Ted" Berrigan, son of the late Timothy Berrigan, Kingston. 'The bride, who, was given away by her brother-in-law, P. Nolan, Philips- ville, was attired in a travelling suit of navy blue with hat to match. She Was atttended by her sister, Miss Mary Sheridan, similarly attired while Joseph St. Louis acted . as groomsman. Following the celebration of tuptial mass the bridal couple left to spend their honeymoon at Ottawa and other points. On their return they will reside in Kingston. ---------------------------- Statement Not Official. The statement made in the Whig ast night, in reference to the in- crease granted employees of the Lo- ~motive Company is declared by those in authority to be incorrect and unofficial. The company has an- nounced a ten per cent. increase ef- fectiva on June 15th. Bowling Games. The first games in the schedule of the Queen's Bowling Club were play- ed Monday night. The team winners were Skip Graham by. default; Skip dy default; Skip Sparks, score : Skip Elliott, score 13-12. | working-class | rents. | | | The City Government, too, is social- | | ments where the household is small. | | flicting undue inconvenience on the THE D VIENNA NEEDS HOMES. | GERMAN PRE-WAR DEBTS. Another Problem Faces That Suffer. New Office Will Handle Sum of ing City. $10,000,000. Lack of housing accommodation is An Order-in-Council just issued at causing as much suffering in Vienna Ottawa constitutes Canada's clearing to-day as shortage of coal and dear house, by means of which, in con- food. It is nant to impossible to find | junction with a central clearing house | an empty flat in the city or suburbe. at London, England, and another at } In peace times out of the total num- Berlin, all pre-war debts between ber of apartments, there was an aver- Canada and Germany will be. settled. ! age of nearly 5 per cent. vacant. Now One of the outstanding featyres of there is not one-tenth of 1 per cent. the Order-in-Council is the rate at | During the war buil ceased entirely in Vi . There was no really urgent reason for this. Labor could be had in sufficient num- bers, and bricks and timber and other necessary materials at fairly reason- able prices. The stoppage of building was rather due to the greed of pri- vate capitalists, who, calculating up- mans will be paid. The set rate is 49.01 marks to $1, which places the value of the mark at little more than two cents. Of course, a Canadian im- | porter who owed his German cred- itors $1,000 at midmight on August 4, 1914, will only Mave to pay them | $100 with interest at Swe per ceat. | on a victorious end of the war, imag- ' from that date. On the other hand, ined they could make much greater ' the German importer who owed his | profits later. All these hopes proved Canadian creditors 1,000 marks when vain, and now the Viennese are suf- the war began will have to pay them fering from the cupidity and short- 10,000 marks. sightedness of these would-be Pro- During the fiscal year ending | i { March 31, 1914, Canadian imports from Germany were $14,000,000 and Canadian exports to Germany were ' $4,044,019. Assuming that both countries were equally prompt in 'bankrupt, and the City Council finds it well-nigh impossible to undertake ( the building of houses for thousands of home-seekers, living at present in payment, Canadian pre-war debts to miserably overcrowded quarters. For Germany would be three times as it is difficult to obtain labor, and great as German pre-war debts to wages are fantastically high. Mater- Canada. The rate of exchange will, ials just now are scarcer than labor of course, offset that. and equally costly. Cement is cope What debts Canadians must colleet cially hard to get, as its production from Germany may be indicated by involves a large consumption of coal, the fact that during the year ending an article just now peculiarly searce March 31, 1914, Canada exported to in this part of Europe. Germany $281,414 in raw furs, $1,- At the present time the city has 242,011 in agricultural implements, oaly three large buildings in course mostly reaping machines, and $320,- of erection. One of these will contain 000 worth of flax seed. 140 apartments. The original cost Concerning the Canadian Clearing was estimated at 14,600,000 crowns, House, one authority says: "It is ex- but it will certainly double this sum. pected that some $10,000,000 in As the rents will necessarily be very claims will be handled through the lew, the city will lose very heavily Canadian clearing office, Cash assets by the operation. and trade debts and balances owing ere is a considerable number of by Canadians to German nationals buildings, begun before the war and will reach about $1,700,000, accord- left in an unfinished condition, It ing to figures at present avallable, might be supposed that these could = while Germany owes to Canadians easily be completed at a moderate some = $775,000, excluding three outlay. But this is by no means the items, one of which it is said may case. Bxposed {0 summer heat and prove fictitious, and another which winter cold, to wind and rain, and | is owned by a subsidiary company snow and frost, the structurés have and may not be included among the suffered a good deal of damage which debts owed by Germans. With divi- must be made good. One building dens on stocks, etc., it is expected for instance, left three-quarters fin- that the total sum will reach $10,- ished, had cost 600,000 crowns. A 000,000." = further 150,000 crowns would in Another authority places the debts peace time have sufficed to Pay for its | owed by Canadians to Germans at completion. Now the work would $1,660,000, but says that take into cast 2,000,000 crowns. It is not sur- | comsideration German property in the prising, therefore, that all these un- Dominion, Canadian claims are se- finished buildings are left in their | cured to the extent of 125 per cent. present state, and indeed it is highly Among the larger German holdings Probable that many of them will | ip Canada are 140,000 shares of Can- never be completed. adian- Pacific Railway stock valued Unable to build new houses or com- at $22,500,000, and Canadian North- plete the unfinished buildings, the arn Railway debentures of a par city authorities have been trying to | value of $200,000 held by German find other means of providing homes | ang Austrian citizens. Another mat- for the overerowded. population. A | ter which may come. under con- number of Swedish frame houses | sideration Is the timber and mineral have been erected at Kagram, & 8U- | holdings in Alberta and British Co- burb of Vienna, for th i lumbia said to have been acquired tramway employes. The city has also | by von Alvensieben on behalf of the taken over ome of the archducal pal- | ex-emperor and valued at $9,000,000. aces, an imposing building on the | ---- Park Ring, until lately occupied by | Archduke Eugene. The headquarters of the new American Food Relief | Commission are now in this palace, It contains a large number of rooms, | formerly ocoupied by the archduke's household officers and Servants, and | attractive hobbies. The pleasure that these rooms are now being turned in- | birds furmish in this way makes their which will be let to | mathetic value quite as important as tenants at very low | their economic value. Bird activities | pass through so many changes in the How to Know Birds. The only way really to know the birds is to study them in the field in their natural environment, Bird- study furnishes one of the most | | to small flats course of a year 'that there is no op- | portunity for bird-study to become monotonous. Then, too, bird-study takes one out into the fields, in the This is being carried out in a very | open, 80 that the setting in which reasonable manner and without in- | bird-study is carried on is in itself | attractive, Families having only | While special trips to the woods one or two spare rooms have not been | and water to look for birds offer : interfered with, the socializing com- | many pleasant hours, yet, perhaps, mission only requisitioning Quarters | the greatest pleasure from bird- where there are surplus rooms suffi- | study comes through the observation cient for a small family, and which | of the birds found around one's can be entered without disturbing | home, as one sits on the porch and the privacy of the principal occupier. | watches the wrens and' bluebirds rear In peace times one could see "Zu | their young in the houses provided Vermieten' cards hanging on the out- | for them or/sees the robins and flick- | side house-doors in nearly every | ers that dot the lawn; or hears the street of Vienna. Now one could not | bird chorus that swells through the find a single one of these carda in | Open window as one awakens in the a whole day's walk. People wanting early spring morn. The pleasure thus a flat are not uncommonly asked to | derived is the lasting, uncomscious buy the furmiture at an exorbitant | enjoyment that becomes an intimate price, as a condition ef getting the | part of one's life. yi apartment, and as a rule the out- | There are all stages of attainment going tenant has no difficulty in find- | possible te suit every coadition, frem ILg somebody to agree to these | the identifying of a few bifds in the terms. : | field up to the most careful study of | It is frequently asserted that | bird habits, which may occupy one's | Vienna's population will soon de- | entire time. One of the mest satis- orease, and the city become a kind of | factory methods of studying bird life | Munich or Dresden. But, judging | is to observe close at hand in one's { froat the difficulty experienced in | yard the birds that may be attracted [finding homes, there ig little sign of | there by nesting-houses, fountains, {this at presemt.--Christian Science | and food. Moniter. i | The first step in bird-study is the | identification of birds, Learning a | bird's name is much like an intro- duction to a person: it is a means by which a new friendship may be form- ed. But there is a great degl of pleasure in merely learhing to name this oll that, in his last will be called | N® birds. Many people will never i | beyond this point in bird- | the special attention of his trustees | "°F lo go nam to the matter. Right there, it might study. The ability to e the birds be said, was the first awakening of ' from year be year as hey return in | interest in petroleum production in | © SPTInE is one of the chief pleas- |the United Stat n industry the Ures in bird-study, and gives a sort | development of which gave an | of feeling of friendship for the birds. {output of 356,000,000 barrels in the | But in the 'process of learning the ! names of birds, one of necessity ast Te | learns many interes * .g things about | | them. There is a sort o fascination | Efficiency In Japan. { to see if one can learn 10 name all | | That within five or SIX years the | the birds of a locality. It serves as Japanese factory efficiency and skill | an incentive from year to year, as | in machine tools plants will be de- | {veloped to a point where products | | will measure up to any turned out | | by American manufacturers, was the | {view 'expressed to U. S. Commercial Attache James F. Abbott at Tokio | recently by an American iron and steelmaker of prominence. ' TTT Women In Temple Inn. Of the five women who were per- mitted to dine at a recent quet at the Inner Temple and Middle Tact ple of the ancient Inns of Court and Chancery, in London, England, thus breaking a custom of several hun- dred years, one of the women, Miss Helen Normanton, was the first wo- man to enter her name as a studeat at the Middle Temple. izing flats in a moderate way, by re- quisitioning rooms in large apart- | original temant. La fad ------ Canny Washington. | Oma trip through western Virginia, George Washington came upon what | | he called an "oil spring." He was so struck with the pessible usefulness of get better acquainted | with the old.--Gilbert Trafton in | "Bird Friends." t---------------- Yukon Asks Bounty on Gold. The Yukon Development League has petitioned the Legislature to me- morialise the Federal Government for a bounty of $10 an ounce for all gold produced. It is claimed that the gold mining industry is gravely menaced by high cost reducing the urchasing power of gold. S------------ | | | | Pp The largest sturgeons inhabit the rivers flowing into 'the Caspian and Black seas and sometimes weigh nearly 3,000 pounds. -------- June 2nd, at Brockville, a quiet event took pface when the Rev. John Scanlon united in marriage Miss Lizzie McNish, only daughter of Mr. sand Mrs. L. McNish, Algonquin, to ley Carpenter, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Read Carpenter, Fair- field. To-morrow suit the day. Mrs. E. P. Wilbur, one of the best known and most beloved members of the Thousand Island summer col- ony, passed away at her home in Bethlehem, Pa., on May 21st, in the eighty-first year of her age. Miss Rita Malloch, Arnprior, is NOW a trained nurse, having recently finished a course in the Presbyterian hospital, New York. Is far enough away to man who will not do it to- = ' , | & shrill voice piped out: "Bulrushes, | you been doing? | to settle up. A HIGH COST OF PEACE. British Delegates Criticised For the | Expenditures. With a bill for £503,388 for ex- , penses for the British Peace Mission in Paris already before the British House of Commons and other ex- penses to be listed, a cry of 'gross extravagance' has been raised against the delegation. Members of the E.operations. which Canadian-debts-owing-te- Ger House, and. eéspecially--.ColJ. -G- Wedgwood, Labor member from Newcastle-under-Lyme, declared that the bill when it is all in may reach the £2,000,000 mark. Charges of lavish expenditures for "the clothes of the typists, dances, bands and champagne" have been made. Sir Alfred Mond, Commissioner of Works, has presented his bill, which totals £218,151, as follows: Rent in Paris £133,000; mainten- ance £12,000; reinstatement, £48,- 651; fuel, £9,000; staff, £5,550, and miscellaneous, £10,000. The 'staff' {tem refers to workers in the office of the Commissioner of Works, upon whom devolved the care and the management of the buildings occupied by the mission in Paris. There were 524 members of the Brit- ish delegation. The item for "mis- cellaneous" expenses has not been de- scribed. * The British delegation had five hotels in. Parls--=2the Majestic, staff headquarters; the Astoria, D'Albe, Baltimore and La Perouse. In ad- dition to these it used the Villa Majestic, where high officials of the Cabinet, army, navy were lodged; No 23 Rue Nitot, where Premier Lloyd George and Arthur J. Balfour, For- eign Minister, lived, and a temporary building at the race course at An- teuil, where the printing was done. Also a flat was retained for the use of the First Lord of the Admiralty, but Col. Wedgwood declared that that official "only visited it once or twice." "Sir Alfred Mond admitted before the House that the American peace delegation had only one hotel in Paris, but he added that the British "did the thing very well," where- upon the House cheered ironically, and 'one membér asserted that in- stead of wining, dining and dancing in Paris, members of the British delegation should have gone to bed each night and thought over the work of the conference instead of indulging in such relaxation. It was emphasized during the de- bate that a large sum of money was spent in Paris for food for the staff and a host of officials who were con- stantly "running over there to give a hand in the making of peace." Thess expenditures will come under the head of traveling oxpenses, subsidies, allowances, etc. In addition there will be expenses for printing, telephoning, telegraphing, secret service, police and many other things, not the least of which will be that of special enter- tainment of British and foreign dele- gates, NC m-- Literary Ireland. For true obliviousness there is | nothing like the mind of the United States in regard to Canada cays the New Republic. It is, as a continental act, unique. The citizen of the Unit- | ed States appropriates to himself the whole name of American, and no American of literary activity ever writes or thinks of writing his Cana- dian impressions. The American has nothing against Canada, nothing whatever. But Canada to him is a sort of .backdrop to the American scene, or a lunge into the empty air, American ignorance of Canada is as simple and inclusive as a yawn. On this account, surely, we ought to be preparéd for the reminder that Vic- torian England was hardly more aware of Ireland. This Victorian ex- ample in respect to Ireland held its own until Bernard Shaw and George Moore, and Oscar Wilde and Yeats, and Synge and George Russell invad. ed the consciousness--and the com- | placency--of literary England, and compelled literary England to ask, Where on earth did these fellows come from? --_---- British Nickel Now. The question of introducing nickel | coinage in Great Britain has been | under consideration far some time, | but no actual decision has been ar- rived at. The present excessively | high price of silver, which involves | a loss on the mining of silver coins, has brought the natier prominently | to the front. ere is considerable opinion in favor of nickel currency. | Great Britain is one of the few countries of the world that have not | adopted the grey metal in this use, Says an exchange. The best nickel | coin made before the war was that | of Austria, which was pure nickel, and not copper alloy, as are most. Germany also has a large nickel coin- | age circulation for sums under the | mark, the 10,pfenning and 20-pfen- | ning pieces being those most widely | employed in both countries. However, the war claimed the metal for mili- | tary use, and few coins are now | found. : ---- Spain's National Flower. "And now, children," asked the teacher, "can you tell me the national | flower of England?" | "The rose!" came chorus. "And of France?" "Lilies," (after some hesitation), "And Spain?" . Dead silence. *The pupils looked | blankly at each other. Then a hand Was waved frantically in the air and the ®ager | Miss!" ------------ What He Swept. Master--Haven't You swept the shop out yet, John? y--No, sir. Master--Then what on earth have Boy--Sweeping the dust out, sir! ---------------- ° Reasons for Matrimony. Some fellows marry poor girls to seattle down. Others marry rich girls ------------ The rhea, or South American os trich, has three toes instead of two, aa'is the case with the true ostrich. John Tait, formerly of Deseronto, | ©Ont., died Friday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Lynn W. Curtis, | Watertown, N.Y. following a year's illness, aged sixty-two years. Pembroke has decided to engage J. Halpenny as bandmaster at a salary of $1,800 a year. - i M H. Comstock has given ILY BRITISH WHIG rs. W. $100 to aid in the erection of a' bavilion at Brockville, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1920, DRINKS FOR SUMMER Guaranteed to equal any Drinks Made in Canada. ORANGE CRUSH .+.| Made from pure Fruit LEMON CRUSH : . Made from pure Fruit ( Direct California) . There is nothing added to the Fruit Juices but ated Water. Belfast Ginger Ale, Dry, Ginger Ale, English Ginger Beer, metiphon Sodd 0 Phone 304 for a case. Thompson Bottling Works OFFICE: 204 PR INCESS STREET. m Carbon- STANDING UP FOR HIS OWN Farmer: Say! The water's too deep here. You can't cross in that car. Go down stream about a hal? mile and youll find a ford you can use." Tourist: Where d' you get that Ford stuff? I'm tellin' you thig lit. tle old car of mine can outswim any flivver Henry ever built, _~---- en 1 BATHING CAPS of the warm weather you will be looking r summer sport Drop in and look over Caps The wide diversity of styles makes meet every demand. No matter what Dame 4s correct, or even exclusive, it wiil be rep- lines we handle. The colors and designs Please every taste and are Within the range THAT'S 80 She: Will you love me the same 'when I'm old and gray? He: Youn never be gray, darling, with me #1 In the drug bus). | With the arrival forward the poy { 3 our lines of Bath ng it possible for o Fashion may decree resented in the varic r d enough to to ¥ purse. SARGENT'S DRUG STORE SY---SERVICE. ts. QUALITY--COURTE Corner Pricess and Montreal St ree Telephone 'aL THE BIG BLUFF } She: | didn't know that Bill Blad- | der ate In this big hotel. He: He dent. He eats in one of them one-arm lunch rooms and comea around hers to pick his teeth, | FREQUENTLY HAPPENS "By the way, Jim, how did you come out in that mining deal." "Minas." SURE THING 1st Bug: Why do you think there are bugs inl it? 2nd Bug: "Cause | ¢an hear the ticks, i MAKING HAY IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES. picture shows the pasture land and hay field which: he University of Toronto in the early days. foreground with the scythe is George Hare, and who has completed his fifty- fifth year of continuous service there. The picture is really one of the first attempts in Canada at what may be called modern photography. It was taken by Dr. W. H. Ellis, until lately dean of Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, who, though but a student in the eighties had taken a deep interest in the possibilities of the photographic science. Above is a picture of Hart House. the most recent addition to the University Buildings, which occupies the formér pasture land. The was situated at t The man in the who js still an employee, NOT BRAGGING AT ALL "1 never hear you telling any of the bright things your children say." "No. Our children say so many bright things and so rapidly that |} find it difficult to remember them." ~-- The home of Mr and Mrs. William Fair, Rockport, was the scene of a pretty wedding on June '2nd, when their youngest daughter, Hester Gladys was united in marriage tc Merrick: McKay, Mooretown. t gi Happiness Insurance For The June Bride When the young June Bride returns from the h oneymoon and enters her: new home for the first time, will there be a beautiful Piano or Phonograph in the cosy corner of the living room ? There is nothing she will cherish as much as a musical instrument, --as it will insure her continuous happiness. If she is a good pianist, a Baby Grand is the thirdg. But even though she is unable to play, a good Player-Piano or Phonograph will be highly appreciated. Notwithstanding tha many difficulties of procuring stock from the factories, the stock now displayed on our ware- room floors, is a very fine one and includes Heintzman & Co., Brambach Grands, Heintzman & Co., Weber and Lindsay Player-Pianos and Uprights; Sonoras and Co- lumbia Grafonolas. 3d i ; special invitation is extended to those who a A gift for re bride. : LINDSAY'S SERVICE As in the past, Lindsay's are giving special attention to orders for Piano and Phonograph as wedding gifts. Special care is taken in having the instrument selected, delivered at just the right time, plac- ed exactly where it should be so that it harmonizes with the furnish- ings of the new home. i ; At Arnprior a quiet wedding was solemnized when Miss Elizabeth Ger- aldine Colton, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Colton, Braeside, was united 'in marriage to James Larkins. ey A. \ re looking for the "If Lindsay's Sell It-- It's All Right." TITTY