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N = i @ on " " ya a --_---- ~~ BACK TO THE LAND. What the Government Does for the "® Soldier Settler. $ Some idea as.to the extent of heln the Government is offering returned soldiers settling on the land is given in a recent statement by the Soldiers' Settlement Board, Ottawa. The Gov- ernment supervises every dollar spent of the loan made to the men. Certain rules are followed regard- Ing purchases that meoy he made. For instance, the Soldiers' Settlement "Board has determined that a man shall not be permitted to purchase a tractor, as that phase of farming is based upon a skill of operations that is beyond the capacity of a nan starting as a pioneer. That is some- thing which he could reach later on. If he were permitted any infraction of that rule the Government would be :. engaged upon payment and launching men upon work that per- haps they could not cope with. Limits are also placed upon the price that may be paid for horses. The board has succeeded in effecting arrangements with the producers of all the goods that the soldier .will require and would pay for out of his own money, whicls is a great advan- tage to soldier settlers. : rk In the first place arrangements have been effected with all 'the prin- cipal manufacturers of aglicultural implements, whereby the manufac- turers use their organization for the wa | E T lea alaleoirel Ceo uv eben, oo + A COSTLY IDEA, ol ages & C OPE 45 "Teme 3 : || pre : i ap urro 420 TT uns & Carbone Acid Qos Would Put Out & , ' AS ] Forest Wires. % Cr 7 ; 2 i Gres ARB 5 ) 45 Singie-F fanded @ % If the sucoestion of a settler in : 3 Ontario as to the best method of pultintg out forest fires HE Canadian troops, fresh had teen acted upon by the Depart- from their victory at ment - of Lands. Aorests and Mines, oe *" the Provincial Treasurer would have Amiens, were assembled the paq to impose a tax on the use of last week insAugust, 1918, ] i behind the Arras front. They hud penditure of the current year. e been brought there from the scene of bi receipt of a letter rom a settler suggesting that the theirr ecent triumph, by motor 10r- pect method of putting out the fires ries reaching the scene of their new would be to drop bombs of carbonic drive a few days before the_ attack. acid gas on the burning areas. It Ls, As in the Amiens offensive, they were En a ay oo a to be used as shock troops, a role puish fires by this method and, with suited to. the Dominion men. several thousand acres of forest in- 'Midnight, August 25-26, it started yolved, it would have cost the pro- to rain. Zero was at 3 o'clock in the Vince niillions of dollars. s . a Still another letter ' from. an morning of August 26. It was pitch ,pei0,4 mother, whose son was with dark when the men began to move a surveying party in the fire-swept into the assembly trenches. The of- ares, pleaded with the Department ficers, waiting for the moment of ad- to rescue him. A vance, had to strike matches to ses. During the recent furest fires, the their watches. The rain eased-up be- Department has taken every precau- fore the attack was made, but the tion and every step to stamp them clouds were still low. out as soon as possible. The system ' Monchy-le-Preux, the objective of adopted is, with 'the possible excep- the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, tion of Franee, the best in the world. had been a target for the British It was recognized as being far ahead guns for many. months Situated on of the system in use in the United a hill some hundreds of yards north States. Hundreds of men were sworn of the Arras-Cambrai road, it had in by the Department to help fight the . 0s . ; y Northern DORI RIE EI RCA 00 M0 RC RCE NE 5 3? tooth picks to mset the financial ex- 'of implements as' the sol- command of the country for miles flames. In the Cochrane district rp x neil re he get them around, and although not so exten--alone one hundred men were engag- to the soldier at the wholesale fac- Sive as Vimy Ridge was fortified in ed, and at Porquois Junction there tory price. In addition to that the Much-the same way as that point were fifty additional mien. There manufacturers pay the cost of dis- had been before its capture in the have been cases whers settlers actu- tribution, paying their agents a spe--SPring of 1917. ¢ Nothing remained ali cial commission for handling the implements. The soldier pays noth- It Was a military fortification only. tried. ing except tha ordinary bulk freight rate. & of the peace- time Monchy-le-Preux. Old houses were rebuilt into strong gun emplacements. No soul walked y. refused to help the fire rangers. These settlers have been arrested and Under the statutes the Depart- ment is given full authority to swear in extra men in case of such an emer- Regarding harness, a still better its streets except the German officers gency, and they have done so to arrangement Las been made. general saving which makes on harness amounts to 30 per cent. of the retail price.' It is even less than the wholesale price. Pay- ment is made through the board. Owing to the fact that there were considerable stocks of harness on hand an 'especialy advantageous arrangement was made. § The wholesale price is sequred for the soldicr for his hardware. He can get it where he likes, paying the wholesale cash price. The settler pays the wholesale cash price also for his lumber. They do not general- 'ly buy in less than carloads, in which case they get the mill price. The same (trench. The heavy clouds hanging arrangements have heen effected as over the field of battle were lurid 4 to the other commodities. The total With the bursting shells. Through ¢ he saves as a result is a most sub- stantial sum. fray % . Saving the Elk. © A recent act of the Saskatchewan Legislature has established an inde- finite close season for the elk or wapili. This animal is now perman- ently protected throughcut its entire range in Canada. This result bas been achieved by the continued ac- tivities of .an ever increasing circle of persons who take a keen'interecst in the conservation of our wild life. Various conferences of (hose inter- -ested have been held from'iime to time and their recommendations have been gradually adopted by the var- lous - provincial legislatures, More- over, these conferences have done patrols were to be sent, and the posi- much to arouse and increase publig interest. £ The elk or wapiti, one of the iarg- est of North American fauma, once ranged nearly the entire continent in incredibly large numbers, but has now become so greatly reduced that to-day a the Rockies between Cotorado and the Brazeau river and some 'isolated herds in the forests of northern Manitoba apd Saskatchewan com- prise the entire wild elk- left in North America. ea - Althouth now almost exclusively found in' forests, the wapiti," which was originally an animal of the open plains 'and park-like regions, is unable to subsist on b and is dependent, therefore, upon The Who had converted its simple dwell- the fullest extent e settler ings into shelters for death-dealing during recent fires. instruments. The British trench in front of Ar= ras cut the Arras-Cambrai road about three miles from the town. Between it and « Monchy-le-Preux were four heavily fortified German trenches, and over them pointed the guns on the top of the hill itself, The British laid down a heavy bar= rage early on the morning of August 26. The whistles blew at three o'clcek, the heroes of Amiens rose from their tranches and followed the fringe of the fire screen over No Man's Land into the first German the alternate darkness and blaze of the night, over uneven ground made slippery by the rain, the men went forward. They encountered some stiff fightt - ing in the trenches. The enemy from his hidden gun emplacements took heavy toll of the passing troops. The two companies of the 5th C.M.R.'s which went over first lost most of "their officers. C company lost its cape tain, was in command or the ninth pla- toon, developed the command of the company. He brought forward his men to the fourth trench just as dawn was breaking. The order of the day was that when the fourth and last trench be fore the town had been reached two tion consolidated. a company held the trench to the right of C coms- pany, between 'Cambrai road. The two companies arrived at the objective at about the same time. Lieut. Rutherford dis- posed of his men on the left of the few scattered bands along town frontage and went down the trench to confer with the officer of A company about the next move. "In his absence the British put a bars and on Lieut. Rutherford, who it and the Arras- of the capacity Good-bye to Mary Pickford. After nine miore pictures Mary Pickford, thé Canadian moving pie- ture actress, says she is going to take her sunshine and curls into retire- ment. If the report of her newest price per picture---$240.000--may be assumed to be authentic, Miss Pick- ford, or "Little Mary," as she is known by millions, will take $2,250,- 000 into more or less retirement with her, not counting those dollars which already have been salted. Yet the Pickfordian Sunshine and e Pickfordian curls have contri- uted'so much to contemporary life hat Canadians in general and young Canada in particular would gladly be- queath to "Little Mary' all the dnl- lars in the land, something that un- der present conditions would take her still several mors years to get. The latest move of Miss Pickford is .a pictorial amalgamation with Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith. This "Big Four" is to produce and distribute under their own auspices, having become tired of splitting their profits with erstwhile glove salesmen and corset makers. xX Speaking * of the plans of her ughter the other day, Mrs. Char- | da : lotte Pickford said: "It will tale months to complete the pictures contracted for on the part of Mary, and then she is going to settle down to enjoy life, as I 'have entreateé her for a long time to do." a Jail. Once upon a time there was an- other lady who said she was going to retire. Her name was Mme. Patti. A Former Canadian 'Speaks. . A striking speech showing the ris~ Ing temper of those opposed to the 3 attitude of the triple alliance eof rage down in front of the town. ¢ Labor, was made by Lord Lee, of company men retired to the left and Fareham, at a recent dinner, the took refuge in some shell holes dnd x1 : When Rutherford 'ret L€e, formerly of the Royal Military ld not see his men any- College, shrubbery. turned he cou where. Assuming towards the town of Monchy. He 5 ~% that they had gene into x rowse alone the town he proceeded up the slope Would be able to pérsuadethe labor Labor Minister being present. lord Kingston, Ont., submitting the toast to "Trade and Commeres,"' said: he hoped the Labor Minister oft the country that the extremists grass and weed range for its food advanced to a strongly fortified gun had misread the lessons of the war. supply. * This peculiarity introduces post. He saw a lot of Germans The lesson, he said, was not to be - an important element into the prob- standing around, but he still thought threatening the community and em- lem of its conservation, as the ani- this his men had captured the place Ployers, but to recognize. that unless fy ) part of a single mal is obliged to expose itself more 'and that these were prisoners. He Labor | joined hands and made a to the hunter than those species advanced fearlessly, his revolver in URDionized effort towards increased which never come out into the open. his hand. Then he noticed that the 2UtBUt, it wouldn't be Consequently, only very drastic Germans still held their arms. He the capitalists who 'would suffer most. Britain's aly measures taken at once will save Iotioned for them to come down te lies and enemiés would go ahead and the wapiti from extinction. Bolts From the Blue. Meteorites of indicated great age are conspicuous by' their absence from museum collections, and it is suggested that such specimens may disintegrate and disappear from 'the rocks within a relatively short time after falling. : .. .The British Museum, however, has lately acquired a slice of somewhat less than a pound from a meteoric iron that is believed to represent an ancient fall. The slice is from one of two similar masses that were found in January, 1905, within a few miles of Dawson, Klondike, and that, -from their position deep in the oldest gravels of the district, are thought to have rested there since the Pliocene age or before, = From his study of the original specimens in the Museum of the Geological Survey at Ottawa, R. A. A. Johnson has cong¢luded that they are meteroic shower of Le Tertiary. time. % € Ontario's Record. The war expenditures of the On- tario Government for five years are interesting. When everything is in- cluded, from the establishment and maintenance of the-Ontario Military Hospital at Orpington to the grant for the home gardens movement, the total reaches the handsome figure of $8,459,692. To the Patriotic Fund the people of Ontario gave $21,079,- 899, one-half of the contribution of all Canada; to the British Red Cross, In money and matavials, over $5, 000,000; to the Y.M.C.A., $931,000; u lr him. They in turn beckoned for him to come to them. This he unfalter- ingly did. : 'You are my prisoners," he said, "We? No, you are our prisoner," said one of the Germans in broken English. : "You are mistaken," answered the Canadian officer. "My men have surrounded the hill. The town is mine." The German officer invited Ruther= ford to enter the '"'pill-box." "No. I'm all right here," replied the Canadian- coolly, at the same time revolving plans in his head to get his men up the hill. He did not lose his presence of mind for one moment, and the Ger- man will 'soon began to weaken before that of the Canadian officer, Incredible as it may seem the whole garrison, consisting of 45 men, two of whom were officers, laid downm their weapons before the Canadian. Three machine-guns were included in the surrender. Lieut. Rutherford was awarded the Victoria Cross. @ Charles Smith Rutherford was born near Colborne, Ont, in 1892. He is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. John Rutherford. He attended the district school near Colborne, and be- fore going overseas was engaged in farming. He enlisted March 2, 1916, in the 83rd Torcnto battalion, and went overseas as a private. In Eng~ land he was transferred to the 5th C.M.R.'s, and want with that unit in 'June, 1916, to France, his first en- gagement being the attack on Mount Sarrel. He was wounded in the attack on the Regina trench, and a second time during the battle at Avioh. He took part in the storming of Pass- 'chendaele Ridge and in, this engage- : dal. After capture the trade of the world upon whieh the very existence of the work- classes depends. He proceeded: "But if we have to have this thipg out before we can settle conditions of trade, then let us have it fought out a8 soon as possible. It is far better that we should face it. If Labor is determined to have a fight in the game spirit of 'German militarism of five years ago, let us have it now. I believe the community is strong enough to organize itself and deal with the peril. Anyhow, it is ne good feeding the tigers with buns * The Youngest Major. | Major W. M. Nickle, aide-de-camp to Gen. Sir Richard Turner, who re- .cently returned to Canada, has the distinction of being probably the youngest major in the Canadian Corps, for he is just 22. He iz a son of the member of Parliament for Kington, and enlisted in March, 1916, a8 a private in the P.P.C.L.I. He was given his commission on the field, and the following year he was wounded at St. Eloi, and won the Military. Cross at Vimy Ridge. He recevered from his wounds in Can- ada, and rejoined the 21st Battalion in 1917, and was promoted to cap~ tain. In the following year he was made aide-de-camp. at Argyll House, and given his majority. He now re- turns to Canada to study law. ® Thought It an Imitation, : "A little Hebrew from the Toronte Ward was listening with open mouth to a Scottishman from Glasgow, whe was livening things up a bit in the Salvation Army hut just back of the lines. One of the Tommies asked him the reason for the expression of awe on his countenance. "What's the mag er, Abey, didn't you get the Joke?" e was asked. "I don't'know; nottin'® it no joke," was the answer, "but that guy can, imitate; Harry : imitate: : Total number of people in To- familiar face. looked like the boy who lised to de- liver groe ro him MGRA DMOTHER" LUNDY DEAD. Buit! @ Four Hnndred Pairs of Socks During the War. Ms. Elizabeth: Sarah: Lundy, $nuc #n throughout the Bominion as $he grandmother of the Canadian &r11y because she knitted 400 pairs of socks for the Canadian Red Cross Quring the war, died on June 20 at #<r home in Lundy's Lane. She was 2 years old. She was in good health antil a few days azo, when she fell iL her home and died from the effects ot the fall. y Mrs. Lundy lived nearly all her | Me in Stamford township. Her mother's family, the Stedmans, set- tled near Niagara Falls, N.Y., before the Revolutionary War. Their flock of wild goats gave the name to Goat Island. In 1845 Mrs. Lundy, whose maiden name was Sparkman, mar- ried Lanty Lundy, grandson of Wil- liam laundy and great-grandson of Thomas Lundy, who fought with the Canadian militia in 1812 and 1814. 'fhe historic roadway, Lundy's Lane, was named for the family. Four generations' of Lundys have been born on it, and some of the _great-grandchildren of the original settler still live, there. The property, when an Indian forest trail, was giv- en to the Lundys over the great seal of King George III. ~The foundation of the house in which Mrs. Lundy died was laid more than one hundred years ago. The house iz close to the old Lundy heraestead, in which stands the grandfather's clock hrought to this country 140 years ago by William Lundy. The clock still runs. Mrs. Lundy's fame as a knitter was nation-wide. When Canada first en- tered the war she joined the little band of women who worked under the name of the Lundy Lane Willing Workers. Ona day the president of the workers brought Mrs. Lundy a supply of yarn and needles. She thought it would keep her busy for weeks; but.in a few days she re- ceived several pairs of socks and a request for more yarn. From that lime on Mrs. Lundy was kept sup- plied. with yarn, and in four years of the war she knitted one hundred Pairs of socks a year. - Men in training at Niagara Camp, learned of her dexterity as a knitter, and: many of them walked from the camp to her home to have her knit them socks. of appreciation from men overseas. Her hoast was that her socks were smoothly knit, with no dropped stitches and no lumps and knots on the inside to hurt the soldiers' feet. | She won many prizes for needlework at the Toronto Exposition. ® » Are Canadians Dishonest? Canadians have been greatly aston- ished by the very small number of citizens who' were honest enough to . make their income tax returns for the year 1917. ing tc compare the figures given out inthe House of Commons with those of the city of Toronto: -- ronto who paid income tax to city on 1917 assessment. Tetal number of people in Canada who paid tax to = Dominion on 1917 incomes 31,310 31,687 Municipal exemptions--$600 for single men, and $1,500! for married men, : ! : Dominion: exemptions (1917-18) $1,500 for single men, and $3,000 for inarried men. v The figures' given above show that more people in Toronto paid incomes taxes to the city than the number in the whole «of the Dom- injon who paid Federal income taxes. The comparison is all the more startling when it is remembered that thousands of people who have to pay to the Government are exempt from municipal 'taxation on their incomes,» For instance, rents from real' estate, profits from in- dustries ;and business places and dividends from shares are exempt from municipal taxes, but are taxe by the Government. : Toronto officials are of the opinion that if the city could levy taxes on the same incomes that the Govern- ment collects a. tax from, and to the extent of the same percentage, the total income tax paid to the city by recidents of Toronto would almost equal, if it did not equal, the total that was paid to the Dominion by individuals throughout the whole of Canada. 7 2 Canada's Financial Position. The last budget disclosed Canada's financial position to be: Pre-war national debt; $335,996,~ 850. © | ; Estimated debt after demobiliza- tion, $1,950,000,000. Present Dominion securities held in Great Britain, $362,700,000. Held in the United States, $150, 788,000. Held in Canada, $1,510,000,000. " Pre-war annual interest, $12,893,- 504. i 2 Present annual interest, $115,000,- 000." : She had many letters| It is almost astound-| Two teaspoonfuls and a cup of boiling water will make a delicious chocolate flavor drink. Use milk and sugar re- quired. . Try a quarter pound tin at our special price of ]5¢. : laa aaa aa ad ogre to VP VY VV VV VV VY » Creamettes Puffed Rice SPECIAL 'Large Cucumbers The 'Quality Grocers + DUNDEE & EVER -READY GOGOA 2 pkgs Ben rkg 20¢ 4 lbs 2c Pronger Bro wt S. Open Daily from 4 p.m. GF HH cosier Kitchen Cabinets. mL Also : +5 Caradian Beauty Irons, Grills and Te Morthern Electric Sewing Machines Iamilton-Beach Sew-E-Z Motors Benjamin Two-Way Plugs : . }raylo Flash-Lights =k Whiz Electric Fans C'omfort Chemical Closets Magazines irunswick Phonographs Okeh and Brunswick Records 0 THE SPEC Mrs L, A. BIGELOW, Prop. 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