4 ITISH WHIG THE DAILY BR tied by the church but by parlia- |e Shake Your Winter Cold -- AH Yield to Dr. Hickey's Treatment The Speedy Relief For All Coughs The chem, rub for all heavy chest colds and congestion. THE SPEEDY COLD - "CAPSULES for head colds and all forms of Grippe. Bach 25c, or 75c. for full treatment. Made by: L. T. Best Druggist Phone 59. FOR SALE Bateman's Real Estate $1,600--Frame,' 6 rooms, electric light, B. & T. rame, 4 rooms, electric light, B. & T. . $3,000---Frame, 6 rooms, Iim- provemnts. -3 to choose from. : $3,500--Frame, 7 rooms, im- provements. Choice of 3. $4,000 Each--Double brick, 3-pleoe bath, electric light. $6,000--Brick, all -Improve- ments, University avenue. $6,500--8tucco, 7 rooms, all Improvements. $7,000--Brick, 10 rooms, all mod- ern. Houses to rent, $20 and $25, Im- provements. Money to loan. 136 Wellington Street, 1lver orks at HALF PRICE We are offering about 10 dozen Forks and a few dozen other pieces, such as Spoons, Butter | 'Spreaders, etc., at | this attractive discount. This Flatware is in one of the Best Standard Makes of 'Silver Plate, the range of which has | become broken. Each piece is fully gnaranteed. This is a real opportun. ity for any, one needing | such articles, particularly hotels or boarding houses. Now Is The Time For Heaters Electric Heaters with Cord to fit any socket--$5.00, $6.50, and $10.00. . Gas Heaters and $25.00. ~ $3.00, $8.50, $10 Special Morning Star, $3.00. Coal Oil Hea 20% sale on month. ters, $8.00. Enamelware this ) McKelvey & Birch, Limited Contractors, Heating Specialists, Steam Fitters and Plumbers, Jobbers of Plumbers' and Gas-Fitters' and House Furaishing Hardware, Tools, Supplies, Steves, Shelf, Heavy Otis, Be:t Supplies, Sheet Metal Special sad Tia Wark; Electric work; Painting and Paper Hanging. work eof all kinds yadertaken. How Hawks Fought with Herons. Hawks or "falcons" had to . be trained before they could be used for bunting. That was not an easy matter, You can be sure the young hawk wanted to est what it caught all by itself, without giving any part to the master. While being trained, the hawk often had a string tied to its leg. Before it could fly away with its prey, the master would pull it back. Thus it got in the habit of coming back, and would do #0 even after it was freed of the string. Sometimes the young hawk was set to chase a pair of wings. The wings looked like a bird. 5 * In at least one case, a hawk own- er got in trouble with a hunter. He was whirling a palr of wings in the ~ alr. The hunter thought he saw a bird and began to chase it. When the found he had been fooled, he grew 'angry and came near to striking the hawk owner with a hunting horn.. Hawks were often s# to chase herons. The heron is a Dire with loog oo Woodseck, Tar dua. 38--wil , aged 76 years, dropped only in his home, 635 street, at noon y., ! Was the cause of his a . Cooper was out shovel- 8 ling snow, and after fifteen minutes al the 'task 'gave it up and went in- 'doors. He had just laid down his Shovel when he dropped dead ou the ec Ray legs ana « very sharp beak. It likes to wade in water, but when it gets to flying it can go mighty high. Hawks were sent up to. cateh herons flying far above the eartn. The heron knew its-enemy and did its best to get away. If it saw the hawk above, it would get ready for a fight. One old picture shows au heron flying underneath two hawks. The heron has its sharp beak up- raised, is ready to strike the first chance it gets, Fights between hawks and herons were watched with great in . Often 'there was a throng of people from a castle, shouting and cheering as they gazed up. When the hawk swooped down to tackle the heron, there was a blare of trumpets and a beating of drums. - Some times the fighting birds would fall to earth, both wounded but fastened tight to each other. Then the master of the hawk would strike the heron with a stick, It was a custom to give the haw part of its game as a reward. : on which ticket be was elected. -------- Wolves have killed all the deer fn LETTERS To The Editor Kingston, Jan. 28.--(To the Edi- tor): In a statement issued by the Moderator of the General Assembly in answer to an open letter addressed to him by the Rev. Dr. R. W. Dickie, Dr. Gandier says in hig defence of the Bill:--*It gives congregations who make this choice" (that is, of refusing to enter the United Church) "their own place of worship and pro- perty." Moreover, these non-concur- ring congregations are free to or- ganize and form a Presbyterian church of their own, and the Bill guarantees them their equitable share of all the parent church has with which to start their housekeep- ing." ov The difference between Principal Fraser and Principal Gandier on this initial question, is that the former contends "that the non-concurring congregations are to "continue the" (present) "Presbyterian Church in some form or other," while Dr. Gan- dier admits that these congregations may "organize and form a Presbyte- rian Church of their own." At the time of the union of The '| Presbyterian Churches in 1875 there was a section of the Presbyterian Church In connection with the Church of Scotland (commonly cal- led "the Kirk') that refused to enter the union and that claimed to con- tinue the existence of that church. No objection was made to their con- tinued possession of that name. They cherished all that was implied for them in the words, "in connection with the Church of Scotland," and no one disputed their retention of the title. Slowly but gradually those '"'non-concurring' congregations weakened in their resistance to the union movement, until there remain- ed not a single congregation outside of the happily united Presbytérian Church. Certainly the congregations that decline to enter the larger union now -in prospect must enjoy the freedom, to which Dr. Gandier draws attention, of organizing and forming a Presbyterian Church of their own. Not even parliament could restrict this freedom. But is there sufficient ground, even in view of all the de- bate and contention that has been of that may be urged upon this point, to refuse to the opponents of union the name of "The Presbyterian Church in Canada?" It may be dis- tinctly secured that the possession | of that name would not carry with | it any exclusive right to the property at present possessed by the church. There need be no possibility of the i recurrence of such a case as that of the "Wee Frees" where the retention | of the name of "The Free Church of Scotland" carried with it the legal | right to the vast estate of that | church. Such a result could be pre- vented by mutual agreement of the division of the property on an equit- able basis, and it may be assumed that such an arrangement would be acceptable to the non-concurring con- | gregations. Those congregations that enter in- to the United Church may claim that they represent the Presbyterian { church. Those that decline to enter | it may make a similar claim. Let it. be so; and without further con- tention over what seems to have been the stumbling-block in the con- i ference of the attorneys, let there i be a conference of those who may ! be more fam'liar with the mind and | spirit of the two parties into which the church is now divided. At present there is the definite | prospect of a division of the Pres- byterian Church, one section enter- | ing the United Church. the other de- ! termined to continue the existence of the Presbyterian Church. "in some form or other." Whether it be as [ "A Presbyterian Church of their own," as Dr. Gandier suggests, or as "The Presbyterian Church," as Dr | Fraser contends, the result would be | practically the same, for it would | have its equitable share of the pro- perty, both congregational and gen- eral, and it would inevitably come to be 'generally known as "The Presby- terian Church." The contemplated division of the church is to many of us, who favor the principle of Union but who feel that the church was bound to con- summate union only with the prac- tically unanimous consent of its members, a most painful disappoint- ment. Let us, however, face the facts and deal with the present conditions. It will be necessary, if the division of the property, even on the terms of the propos: ill, is to be carried out, that a vote of the congregations (implying a vote of its members), be taken as to their choice of union or non-union. Why should not this vote be taken before any act of Par- lament dealing with the property is passed? It has been contended that the question of union has already. been settled .by the church. In rea- lity, however, while the church has dlready a to the printiple of union and assembly has approv- ed of the proposed bill, the definite and final settlement of union bas been made to depend on the Act of Parllament. The negotiafing church: es are betrothed, but their marriage depends upon the action of the state, In Clause 3 of the proposed act, the members of the negotiating churches "are hereby const'tuted a body cor- porate and pol'tic under the name of the United Church of Canada, and | the negotiating churches are hereby united and merged in the United Church." Further, in Clause 26, "This act shall come fnto force on the day upon which it receives the royal assont." The consummation of un- lon, therefore, is made to depend up- n Parliament, and not until the bill receives the royal assent ix the union ment. / Moreover, it is misleading to say that all that. the proposed legisla- tion does is "to secure to the church the right to her own property in the new and larger sphere of service up- on which she enters." Not only does the proposed bill "ratify and con- firm" the basis of union, but, especi- ally in the new clauses lately intro- { duced into it (see the Presbyterian Witness, Dec. 20th). it guarantees to the United Church its 'independent and exclusive right and power to leg- islate in all matters concerning its doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, including therein the right and power from time to time to frame, adopt, alter, change, add to or modify its laws, subordinate standards and formulas," ete. This goes far béyond merely se- curing to the church the right to her own property and deals also with her spiritual independence. It was far otherwise in the legis- lation secured in connectian with the union of the Presbyterian Churches in 1876. The Presbyterians of that day did not desire that their church shoyld be a "creature of statute," or thit they should depend on, the con sent of the state for any recognition or guarantee of their freedom to unite their forces in the spiritual ac- tivities to which they were called and consecrated. They had worthier ideas of the spiritual independence of the church. They did, indeed, acknowledge the authority of parliament and the civil courts in matters of property and they recognized that for the adminis- tration of their property the assent of the legislatures would be required, but that in the acts of the several provincial legislatures passed on their behalf it was specified that "as soon as the union takes place" the provision of the acts (each of which concerned only the property) should come into effect, and "the union of the said four churches shall be held to take place as soon as the articles of the said union shall have been s'gned by the moderators of the said respective churches." The proposed bill, as it now stands, with the additions and changes pub- lished in: the Presbyterian Witnes of the 20th December, will be mitted to parliament for approval. It will be strenuously opposed. Might it not be possible, even yet, for re- presentatives of the two sections into which the Presbyterian church is unhappily divided to agree on the terms of a bill which might be pas- sed witliout contention? The Church Union Committee may say that they are bound to proceed at once, and yet the final resolution of the as- sembly leaves them free In regard to pom a 4 time for conference with the mino- rity. The fact that the conference | of the attorneys failed need not pre- | vent another effart, which might be | made by other representatives of the two sections. It is not yet too late to hope that, even at the cost of a year's delay, such an amended bill might be draft- ed as would be agreeable to both parties, and that might be presented to parliament and the provincial leg- islatures without risk of opposition or rejection because expressing the wishes not of a mere majority of the Presbyterian Church but of that church as a whole. (signed)--Daniel M. Gordon. {Res D. M. Gordon, D.D., LL.D., C.M.C., ex-principal Queen's Univer- sity). -------- HAD A SUCCESSFUL YEAR. The Junetown Cheese Factory Had a Season. Junetown. Jan. 26 --Major A. W. Gray, M.P.P. addressed a large meeting at our school house last eve- ning. Among the subjects of dis- cussion' were hunting, fich'ng and cheese grading laws. While here he was entertained at W. H. Franklin's. Cecil Averv. Mallorvtown, spent the week-end with his grandparents here. Mrs. 'Arthur Hudson and children, Lyn, have returned home after spend- ing a week at Eli Tennant's. Mrs. Oscar Webster, - Addison, spent a week with her uncle, Abel Cughan. Robert Cughan is staving a few weeks with his eousin." Garfield Cughan. Brockville. 'Mr: and Mrs. Oscar For- rester, + Mallorvtown, were recent guests at Walter Purvis'. Mrs. Clarence Chant and daughter, Swift Current. were visiting her brother. J. ©. Turner, for a few days. Miss Orma Fortune was visit- ing Miss Jennie Bradley. Lansdowne, for a weelr recently. Mrs. W. B. Lanigan spent last week with her sister, Mrs. Darling, Lansdowne, and also a few days with Miss Huldah Mallory, Mallorvtown., . Miss Ger- trude Scott is home from her school at Lansdowne, the school is beng closed on account of scarlet fever. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Avery have returned home after a month's vis! with relatives in Syracuse, N.Y. Mrs. S. Ferguson and son are spending this week at Ell Tennant's. Our of our butter plant during the past year. . 'The president, J. C. Purvis, Ernest Blancher replaces B. J. Fer- guson as director. W. H. Franklin hag been secretary-treasurer for the your. : - Mr. and Mrs. J. McAvoy, Mallory. ph at the guest of Mrs. J. W. Gilroy, - "Hnally settled," and thug mot set-|1 PROBS :--Tuesday, southwest winds, fair and . comparatively mild. yo ¥ Our business year ends on Thursday, January the 31st. And in an endeavor to crowd a week's business in three days we are going to offer super-bargain attractions. This great Three Day Sale event should prove a fitting climax to the greatest bargain month in our history. FOR TUESDAY TREBLE DISCOUNT STAMPS Here is a real opportunity for thrifty, bargain-wise shop- pers. - 85c. has the purchasing power of $1.00 on all regular cash purchases. . Stop and consider what this means in purchasing your household and personal requirements ! Start to-morrow, the first day of our greatest year-end sale and save money while you spend it! ; Shop at Steacy's Tuesday AND SAVE 15% on all regular cash purchases a F re os Less 25% Our entire stock of Rugs, Mats, Stair Carpet, Net, Lace and Scrim Curtains, Curtain- ings, Velours, Repps, Chintz, -| Sateen, Cretonne, Tapestries, Window Shades, Comfort- ers and Wool Blankets. Marked in plain figures. A wonderful opportunity for thrifty house-keepers. An- ticipate your Spring require- ments NOW. Evening ||: Dresses $15.95 Attractive new styled Even- ing Dresses, well made and beautifully trimmed--at less than manufacturer's cost | Developed in Silk: Georgette Crepe, French Ninon and Morie. All the high shades; in sizes 16 to 40. Priced up to $35.00.