3 < Mr. and Mrs. Jas. r uate, Pater boro, expect 10 leave in a few days to spend a month at Hot Springs, Ark. #red Sprung, Picton, having gone 'to Trenton, David Sprong is running his bakery and grocery business bim- sel f. Aller the first of April the sub- scription price of the Athens Report- er will be Increased-tb $1.50 per an- num, i Mr, and Mrs, Wm, Kavapaugh, At- hens, announce the engagement of their daughter, Martha Edna, to Les- ter Dean Ladd, Mallorytown. An old snd highly respected redi- dent of Cornwall--Miss Charlotte Wade, was called to rest on Sunday, from dn attack of pneumonia. Her age was peveutydniee and she had lived in Cornwall all her life. Before leaving Cornwall to take a position in Toronto, Willie Arthurs was Dp! nted by the Sunday School of 8t. Andrew's Church, and other sympathetic friends, with a useful pleco of silver plate. Lieut, George Bowden, who went overseas with Canada's first contin. gent as a member of the SiftonsBal- tery, has arrived in Pembroke. Since last May he has been ill, and has now been placed on the retired list and permitted to return to Canada. Poultry Association, Pleton, Feb, 12.---The Prince Ed- ward Poultry Association elected these officers: ~ Honorary President--Dr. A. W. Heaslip. 3 ; President---Wm, Keogh. Vice-President Stewart York, Secretary-Treasurer-~H. DD. Leav- on, i Wilson, W. J. Carter, Joa Kearnéy, Robert Davi- son, ¥. W. ©. Kent, John Carter, C. L. MdPaul, Geo, Moore, Harry Grinimon, Marshall Palmer, Wm. Goodwin, Jos, Walmsley, ------------------ Fifty-nine Years Married. Napande, Feb, 12.--Mr. and Mrs. 1. B. Blanchard celebrated the fifty- ninth anniv of their wedding on February . A small family gathering assembled at their home. Letters of congpatulation were read from theiir; daughter, Mrs, G. W, Bishep, who, with her husband, are spending the winter in Florida. Also a letter from Mre. J. J. O'Connell, of New York, expressing regrets at not being present. NATIONAL SERVICE CARDS PRACTICAL Value of Man. Power Inven- tory Already Proven by Board. / Ottawa, Feb. 13.-The practical | Boa inventory Yalue > the rr he ory recently completed by the national Hie, hay ae, at . n- al service has made. A coal situation and other trans-|dho # have been traced portation difficulties largely to scarcity en- -- Subscribed Over $10 Per Capita to Patriotic Fund. Renfrew, Feb. 12.-<An enthusi- astic Patriotic Fund campaign, last. ing four days, was wound up with the result that Renfrew citizens have subscribed over ten dollars per head for every man, woman and child in the town, \ The total afmed-at, $50,000, had already been passed when .eams- paign closed Friday and subserip- tions were still coming in. The ex- BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1017. (From Our Own Correspondent) Rev. W. J, Smith, B.A, field secre- tary of tae Soclal Service and Evang- elism Department of the Méthodist Church, conducted the service in Grace church yesterday morning, and was greeted by a large congregation, At the evening service the pastor, Rev. W. B. Lennon, gave a very in- teresting lantern sermon, his topic wet total will not be known for days, but from 'the town of five thousand people, it fs certain that the per capita subscription has heen well over ten dollars. Last year the town raised $42,000, and the belief that the figure could be exceeded this year has been more than justified, $1,512 FOR FOUR HOSPITALS Proceeds of Summer Bazaar at Co bourg to Be Distributed. Cobourg, Feb, 12.-It bas been decided to divide $1,612.35, part of the proceeds of & bazaar gotten up by the ladies of Cobourg and tourist summer residents and held at Vie- toria 'Park here last August, between four military hospitals, The money Eas been passed over to the local chapter 'of the Daughters of the Empire, The hospitals decided upon are the Canadian Convalescent Hos- pital, The Hermitage, Hastings, Sus- sex, England; The Pinewood Sani: tarium, Hastings, Sussex, England; the Canadian War Hospital, The Beach, Walmer, Kent, England, and the Major C. Reason Military Hos- uital/ Shorncliffe, Kent, The Late Mrs, Elmer Clark. Picton, Feb. 12,--The sad news reached Picton on Monday of the death of Mrs. Elmer Clark and little daughter Marion, aged nine years, from the dread disease diptheria, at their home Jewelville, in Renfrew County, on January 31st, Elmer Clark, son of William Ira Clark, Pleton, is manager of a cor- undum mine at Jewelville, where he has resided for the last twelve years. Mrs. Clark's maiden name was Far- gey, her early home being in Has- tings County, Cobourg Short of Coal. Cobourg, Feb. 12.--Cobourg ig in the grip of a coal famine, Private residences, churches and public buildings, schools, ete... will suffer unless relief comes speedily. Al- ready there is a talk of union ser- vices, ag same of the churches have a very small supply of fuel. So far industries have not suffered to the extent of being obliged to close dpwn, although they are feeling the pinch. gineers, round house mechanics and otHer skilled labor. The names of many such men are available through the national service cards which they have fled out and Sir Henry Dray- ton, chairman of the Railway Com- mission, has now requisitioned sev- eral hundred men of these skilled Arades through the National Syryice A special -staff was immeidately put to work at the National Service statistical branch locating the men needed, from among those who are skilled in the trades required, and are now oécupled in other lines but have id a willingness to £0 back to their old occupations dur- i being "The Bound Christ." Iw Christ church last evening Rev. Walter Cox conducted memorial ser- vice for those who have made the supreme sacrifice. Arrangements have been made for holding a meeting at the armoury on. Thursday evening in the interests of "the Patriotic Fund. te. James Gray of the Bantam Regiment, Toronto; "who enlisted from here recently for overseas ser- vice, spent the week-end in town with friends, The annual meeting of the Public Library Board was held on Thursday evening, thése officers being elected: Chalrthan, R. G. Graham; secretary, Rew Walter Cox; ! treasurer, C. J. Wilgon; librarian Miss M. M. Carp- enter. At the inaugural meeting of the Board of Education during the past week, D. Waldron Bews was elected as chairman for the ensuing year. Rev. Walter Cox was re-elected for three years to represent the Board of Education on the Public Library Board. These standing committees were appointed: Bducation: J. A. Jackson, Dr. A. H. Mabee, Dr' E. L. Atkison and Br. J. P. Sinclair; fin- ance, B. P. Wright, W. FP. Latimer and Charles A. Watt; Property, Dr. C. H. Bird, T. D. @'Connor, Rew, C. E. Kidd and Freeman B. Cowan. At the session of the Town Council last week, Mayor O'Connor, Reeve 'W. J. Wilson and Deputy Reeve T. I Ellis were appointed fo represent Gananoque at the Good Road con- vention in Toronto on March 1st. William Pratt, tax collector, was se- curqd to collect the outstanding ar- rearage of taxes on commission. W. G. Johnston was appointed to repre- sent the Council at the Public Lib- rary Board in plate of Clifford Sine, who had to resign on account of he- ing elected to the Town Council hoard. MF. and Mrs. F. W. Bell and Mr. and Mrs. F. B,: Cowan spent a few week. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Henderson of Bow Island, Alta, spending the past week in town, guests of the former's brother, Rob- ert Henderson, Main street have left for home. Miss Dahl, of Buffalo, N. Y., spending the past month in town with friends, has left fog, home. ing the war, if needed in the service of the country. >A Within twenty-four houfs of the re- sult of the call the names of hun- dreds of men capable of solving the situation were in the hands of the Railway Commission. Tidings From All Over Told In ~~ a Pithy and Pointed Way. ition ; « A number of forestry battalions are to be raised throughout the Do- minton, being urgently called for by the War Office, William Lyon Mackenzie, for many years connected with railway con- struction in Canada, died at Winnl- peg, aged fifty-six. + G. L. Hughson, one of Sarnia's oldest residents, long connected "with a lumber firm there,.died af the age | of ninety-three. ; The St. Thomas Hydro-Eelectric Commission announces that during the year the surplus of earnings er exp was $13,458.38. The United feed , even if all of foodst should be cut off, De- partment of Agriculture announces. = Alfred Bloomfield, 138 William street, Toronto, is in hospital with a ractured skill, and John Poynton, a neighbor, is charged with causing the ed : pA Ta Was One of the Bravest of Canada's ¥ Pioneers. Father Lacombe, who died recent- ly at his home in Midnapere, Alla. was not given to tell overmuch of himself. He did not need to. What be did was known 'mot only to the people of his own faith, but was re- cognized and valued by everyone who read western history with fair- mindedness. For more than six years this man of the cloth worked in the West. He went from Quebec, @ young man, in the days when It took six months to travel from Fast- ern Canada to Edmonton. The route by/way of the Otfawa, t Lakes, or up the Mississippt-to St. Paul, thence by 0x cart to Fort Garry, and from there still & weary jaunt over the trail to Edmonton. In 1849 Edmonton was but 'a handful. - The Indians called it the Fort of the Beaver Hills; the French called it the Fort of the Plains; the English in a later day called it Fort Edmonton. Working from Ed@on- ton south and west and north Father Lacombe established missions among the Cree and Blackfoot In- dians, and won his way into the con- fidence of both. That In itself was a missionary triumph, for the two tribes were sworn enemies and fought many a desperate duel, stain- ing the plains with rivers of blood before they- killed themselves out. For years no king or prince was surer of respectful hearing and hon- est esteem . than was this ven- erable priest, in any part of the great West, Even in lis later years it was with somé hesitation that Father La- combe expressed himself in English. The accent of the old Quebée still lingered on his lips, and his words came slowly and with occasional ef- fort. It may have been for this rea- son that he was eloguent in ges- tupes, expressing by a shrug of thé shoulders, a wave of thé hand, or = quickening of the eye & thought which would sometimes take many words to express, and not half so well. For instance, in telling of one of the Indian massacres of many years ago it was not necessary for Father Lacombe to describe in many words the horrors of a scene, of whieh he himself hdd been a wit- ness, The stretching with Hands of an imaginary ropé, the bending of his head, and the quick stiffening of his body was enough---his hear- ers seemed to see the line of bodies banging in mid-air. Imagery, it may well be takdn for granted, was long anh art in whieh this veteran missionary was prac- tised; for in Interpreting the Bet- ter Things to the children of the ds, he, like every other preacher, found it necessary to paint pic- turés that could-be seen and under- days in Montreal during the past] Stood. There is much'in word-emphasis, too. Father Lacombe knew the West, knew the spirit of the West, knew what it was that sends men here and gave them hope. Tt takes pages and pages of text amd picture for the magazine writer of Joany tv 3 thér om ri Ap oa in his quiet, quaint, graphic' Way 181d stress upon one word, and made his hearers feel Just what it was that inspited all with' confidence in our West. The priest himself passed through many a fearful experience... when two Indian fdes fought in very devilishness of pavagery, he was within an ineh of his lite. Through "1 all the following stages of the in- dians' history, through war and peace, through scourges of smallpox and wilderness tragedy, Father La- cgmbe ministered, as féw men have ever ministered to the needs of the Red Men. To a very great extent they have, as a race, passed away, but the priest still' treasuring the memory of the past, where the Reds were a great and powerful people, proved himself their friend to the end. He regretted thie degéieration of the half-breed, but he pointed out, 'with hig' accustomed knack for summing things up, that the balf- breed has been the link between bar- barism-and civilisation. Wat Makes Men Gray. States is amply able (0 battle ance of ten years having been to their lite. A shorter period than this n suffices to turn iren-gray 'of a boy of twenty-five, his premature aging is peculiar to no nationality. It is" noticeable alike along the English and Preach lines and among the prisoners from Ger- ustria, and Ri 'We at- of t nk 4 Yd . Happy Fighter Writes Home NE of the brightest and most readable of Canadian writs ers about the war is "The Happy Subaitern." The identity of this youmg lieutenant is not widely known for he does not pretend to be & Tterary 'man. When be went to the front he wrote letters home to his mother, as thousands of young Canadians 'in England, France, and Flanders were doing, and his mother found them so enter- taining that she read them to' gath- erings of friends. They advised pub Heation, and the book is mow on many a library shelf. All that it tells about the Happy Subaltern is that his name is Billy, and as Billy be has made friends. \ Perhaps the best way in which to give an idea of Billy's letters is to give two short extracts from them. One is a characteristically humorous account of an incident in an English barber shop. "I had rather a unique experience the other day which I want td tell you about. Everyone who has hailed from this insular kingdom was wont to complain in my ear in Canada of the slowness of the barbers oper there, and always related how much taster the tomsorial artists of Great Britain pushed in your whiskers. 1 have proved for myself the why and the wherefore of it. Having to go up to London ome day this week I slept in and missed my usual shave, 80 upon my arrival there proceeded to secure one. Seeing a sign 'Ladies and Gentlemen's Hair Dressing Sa- loon,' I proceéded therein, A bald- headed person of doubtful antece- dents, judging from his bhysiogao. my, motioned me into a chair. ot a white enamel becushioned one with a neck rest and numerous levers, but a plain red plush oné showing unmis- takably that other thousands had sat on the same seat. It was the same kind that any railroad in Canada issues to its hard worked station agents. I sat me down, not without some misgiving, and grasping 'me noble countenance' he tilted my head rearward until I felt as though I were one of the contortionist acts im a vaudeville show. He smeared my face with lather and proceeded to scrape the protruding hairs off. It was 4 process greatly resembling & man with a snow shovel removing the accumulation of last week's snow from the sidewalk. Every time he let go of my head I endeavored to raise it, but somehow he always beat me to it, and grabbed it again before 1 could sufeiently stretch the muscles to erase the erick in them. . Upon close examination that IT made after = a hurried exit I found tiny tufts of whiskers and decided that the reason why they "de it' quicker over here is first, because they don't 'do It. and second, if they took any longer they would permanently - dislocate their customers' necks." By way of contrast probably there is nothing better im Billy's letters to quote than his description of the death of McCarthy, the wag of the company, and once a camp cook. "It was a beautiful morning May. 'The grass was green and the Strail ehFied trees were trying to burst out into a few sparse leaves. A hawthorn: bush just to the rear of the trench was white with floom, as Maéterlinck says, 'Yielding up its soul in perfume,' distinctly notice- able even among the varied smells of the trench. Here and there a swal- low fitted Bi the first smile of OM Sol, and all was still, as still as the first hour of dawn on the Front can be--#sometimes. I came the bay water heating over a candle: fookéd up at the rum jar I arises and laughingly asked if he couldh't have his r&tion, Knowing full well that I knew he'd hag It: descended with the peculiar seribable whine of shrapnel. . . . But as they say, 'It dida't have my number on it." One of the freaks of shell fire, it left me and took Me- Carthy, "1 saw him slowly sink clutching bjs tunte. . . , [I cut off his tunic and his shirt, only to find his breast and shoulders peppered as a colan- |E= He was gone--I knew that-- ain of mor- der. but I forced a quarter phia between his lips. bearers came, but McCarthy needed po shell dressings. The ashy gray of "GOLDEN RULE SERVICE" RE "a = Boys' Suits, sizes 30 to 34. Sale price $2.95 Men's Freize Overcoats, sizes 36 to 44, Sale Price . . 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