'FALLIS FOOTE CO. ee ee I Have just received a consignment] of ABY SLEIGHS, BOYS' and GIRLS' COASTERS Everything in Hardware : 3 5, B. BLACK, Manager +5 ho is the Prettiest Girl in Dryden? : and I have had our first argument. oi "certain young lady was looking at the display in the Shop's window, Charlie remarked that she was "the pret- n Dryden." I differed with him right there, and that sure omething! To settle the matter fairly, we.are putting the 'to you folks. = ; going to present on Christmas Eve a CANADIAN GRILL (value $11.00) to the Young Lady whom you s Dryden's Canadian Beauty. She must be over 15 years of there will be no discrimination as to race, color or creed. vote will be taken in this manner: With every purchase payment turned in up to.'Xmas Eve in our Shop, we will ticket, on which you will write the name of your choice, and "in our ballot box. Each ticket will show the number of arries. We will give ten votes for every 25¢ of your pur- . payment. If the amount is 75c, your ticket will be read and or thirty votes; if for $5.00, your ticket will read and count o hundred votes, etc. ' : tes will be counted and announced frequently, so you ma to keep track of your candidate's standing, ; ou perhaps may be surprized at the amount and variety of we now, have in our little shop. Let us enumerate a few, and ieve you will readily find some to interest you, either for your oma. or for the home of others at 'Xmas: BRUNSWICK and 1 a hs, 8') rah Tzcords (nate especially TER Cchinets, Hrghes and a Shad a, 1 2 - prot Ame ca eT LNT AF FR a] IY : at ad = 5 Lg CE he 0 E: 3 A, > , LR ; & )RIEFLY, it brings two great exclusive features. First, the Ultona, a new con- ception for playing all records at theirbest. Justaturn of the hand means the correct position on the record, the proper diaphragm and needle for every male. Secend, the All-Woed Tone Amplifier built-up on the violin principle. i Lo Tones hitherto lost are brought out in rich clarity by these exclu~ sive Brunswick features. Hear The Brunswick before you buy or even make a tentative d=vision. Doing so will not place guunderthe slightest obligation. 1G C4 | THE TINIEST STEAM ENGINE It Would Take 1,920 Like It to Weigh a Pound. "Give me one pound'of your small= est size in steam engines, please." The storekeeper takes an engine and places it carefully on his counter. He takes another, and another, and another. Assuming that it requires ten seconds to place each engine in front of the customer, at the end of five hours and twenty minutes there will be a display of 1,920 en- gines on the counter and the order: tor 'one pound} will be filled. No such order has ever been given, but its possibility is suggested by the sight .of 'Tiny Tim," the small- est steam engine in the world. On a continent where the 'biggest ever" is a frequent sight, to possess the smallest specimen in existence of anything is unique. i Toronto has many engineering plants capable of turning out gar- gantuan steam engines that register horsepower by the thousands, but to build an engine so minute that a- microscope is necessary to examine it is an accomplishment altogether beyond the united capacities of these great engineering shops. > Such a feat has been achieved, however, by T. H. Robinson, a To- ronto watchmaker, who has made a steam engine so small that it takes 1,920 to weigh one pound, or 3,840,- 000 to weigh one ton. It can be slipped easily into the shell of a twenty short cartridge and when plac- ed alongside a house fly the latter appears like a prehistoric monster by comparison. > Mr. Robinson began his carcer as an engine builder with a model which, although measuring only one inch in height, assumes almost gi- gantic proportions when seen beside' its much smaller successor. It is of the vertical type, with oscillating cylinder, and a five-cent piece pro- vides it with ample standicg room. Comparing this first model with ordinary watch work, Mr. Robinson decided it was too easy and he re- solved to make an engine that should have the proud distinction of being the smallest in the world. The result was 'Tiny Tim," a per- S fect-working model steam engine built up of seventeen picces. : | fotiny Th bed and ctand aro fd rdcied ed orks and meas- as 1-498000 of {atistically ai- out in terms is not used im. ig microscopic engine, but is' fed through the rae, ny f#rst engine," 1. 1 thought If uzh. but before § ge thing hape to grow until scemed about expected it would appear o = Wal on i be. ; '2d to make a smaller one, 2 worthy of a watch- CPiny Tim' wad. the vey consider 'Tiny Tim' the fmt in small son was asked. ] must he som working size of an engine;'" was the wey be that limit has od in 'Tiny Tim'. [de nat show it as {he smallest I can make. I have tried this iliing only twiee, 1 you will notice a big drop in the sizes of the two engines. § 1 con make a smaller one, ® y from Canteens, 11 henefit by a subsiaie nr the proceeds of the force canteens. These teens: with which the ang -other organizations British troops im 12 supplies, various other 1 surplus : turne at fund of Lh Gen. Julian Byng is director which will be used for ex-service of the Imperial army, and its to over $30,000,000. An al- ATLL, is to be made to Ane a ond nen however, 15, accordinzeto proportional This money will be paid wn military authorities, y amount te between and a half million been made in reply to the sh branch of the, istance . from the THE DRYDEN OBSERVER 'had held for the last two ycars. i with sj engines? limit to the proceeds of the various overseas. CAVALRY MAX WINS V.C. Wa Lieut. Harvey Was Fist Canadian To Do So. For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty: During an attach by his regiment on a village a party of the enemy ran forward to a wired trench just in front of the village, and opened rapid rifle and machine gun fire, first at. a very close range, causing heavy casualties in the lead- ing troop. "At the critical moment when the enemy showed no intention whatever of retiring, and fire was still intense, Lieut. Harvey, who was in command of the leading troop, ran forward well ahead of his men, and dashed at the trench, still fully manned, jumped the wire, shot the machine gunner, and captured his gun. His_most courageous act undoubt- edly had a decisive effect on the suc- cess of the operation. -- Official Record. el In the general retreat of the Ger- mans in the spring of 1917 the Cana- dian cavalry brigade was used to harass them in their departure from the Somme area. The Germans were fighting a rear defence action. The now famous Hindenburg line was their objective and in order to give themselves time to gain this position and consolidate themselves therein ' they maintained a strong outpost ac- tion in the rear. Villages were forti- fied and many of the best troops wore left for their defence. The en- emy seemed sometimes to lose his usual strategical balance and to ehange his mind peevishly. Several times after abandoning positions he would re-attack, the fortunes of war going usually to the British who were following on the heels of (he un- welcome visitor who was making haste to leave the territory which he In March the brigade was ordere near Peronne, north of the Somme river. So rapid was the retreat that the infantry were put to it to keep up with the Germans as they left their trenches and strong points, de- stroying everything as they went. Peronne was laid waste. Civilians were turned out of their homes in villages and the houses blown up. And yet the retreat continued. Only the cavalry could overta he cnemy od enough to h the Ro 50 aid gpiendid hen the ivalry had out of a position it fo the in v. ] 3 chase over hills through 5, where frequently strong ma- pursuit of the ehe art of the day several vill f fied woods were recial the Hun and a countev-at rack off. Then a snowstorm stopped pro- ceedings for several hours. Lf was 5.15 e'clock in the afternoon before the air was clear encugh for the horsemen to start out again. The daylight was failing when the Lord Strathcona Horse reached the top of the hill overlooking Gluyen- i hey found themselves faced gly held machine gun posts, and wheeling they galloped arcuntd to the norihwest corner of the town. aa 2a The Picture yov've been looking for APRS AS SAS GNIS Lieut. nand of < the leading troop Riding ahead of his men he 4 first to reach the Leys town and found again tha! the Germans had en-: trenchied a machine gun lin front of! protected fi with wire; 'Springing from his saddle, he ran at the post, firing his | revolver" same time. Ha leapt ove re, shot the gunner and ju on the gun. When bh men cam? up he was in possession | of the post. The troop entered the town. For clearing the way fer his men the troop Jeader was awarded is 3 tary Cross oad J Guerre. The Fr oration vs conferred cn ; jrst to enter the vi 2 in, March 28, 1818, where d a eonnection with the French Liye : tLe French, ig men for the pleas 5, ao bod 2 BuUCceeded days Into) the Canadian cavalry i ) ivance of (he Germans on Amiens. ; was farming. and x Macleod, Alta, when gut. In the spring of 1915 the 13th Canadian Mount- 3 as. a private, receiving his ion belo ZONE. Overseas. q-his unit at the time of ice and just before Dany with the army ion went to Eugland one fag ia an airplane {fo got tor his re; : which to march into itn %. 0 /izid Ke ranck vom YoY éderde Mut Watson Har : 8 born in Cows ty. Meath, Irelant zeneral ateens fund for a elub- "75 To : = or Ean Trej md, s house for demobilized Canadfan sol & woond omg hn the glorious Sh dlers in Britain. Gen. Byng, who was © oon: a ; former commander df the Canadians, np Ea or : Se explained the arrangements and Helps Sunday Schools ~ 2 1» : bri wished the war veterans' scheme The-siiperinténdent of the Sunday Lr gon ik every success, = school 'at Plainville, (Kan. took: 000 fof Ea A Brave Ran to Be Honored. : Tho Minister of the Interior of Belgium declared in the Chamber of Deputies recently that with the Brit Leen judged desirable to keep the . Gloth Market, Cathedral, and adig- cent houses at ¥pres in (heir presemg The Government had agreed "© toi the reguest of Canada that the 5 Ub Iercer fell FRU it would be with a view to the erection of a museum en the spot. The ground would be riendly ar state. emplacement where Gen. 'should be allotted. iat t et, failing a th in concert. ish authorities, it had '™ 13 ed it to health, says the New York World. H: bus tamed it and trained it 'to do: tricks and-it follows him Variety of Flax. bout 12 per IMEni sronic bare @ A. hen a jarva | removed cetive tube, Lire in (ful A cent. Sar industry county ar stiff- igned" to ol re. new d support 2.1 around hig hour ea dog. The last it hag ail = district of bottom feeding. -- ted : J. CRUSEE ; DINNER TO Mr PACE | Mr W. Pace, organizer in this the Victory loan, was Ie given by the canvassers in the grill room of the Tourrist Hotel, nora, last Thursday. There rc about fiftcen present, Dr nne, district chairman, presid- >. Short addresses were given v a number of those present, re- iowing the work of the cani- i . . 'paign and the splendid rest which hadbeen acl ved thro 'out the district. © "Mr Pace w complimented upon his orgariz ion and the manner in which he assisted the canvassers. In reply Mr Pace referred to the pleasant lations which had existed thro' CATVASSCITS and stall. On ming here hewa do 1- 5 er ne as < at nirst-doubt Lut as the aT 3 iy cling lighted a Sais de Lass the magnificent h in advance of ~revious year. He had re- ed ral messages from tory Loan headquarters with . praise for the record made r the people of this district. Personally he had a pleasant time vero, and one which he would ook back upon with pleasure. Kevora Miner. peal : SCE h £1 3 al M ercha ni, % OF TRIFT, Ont. (iene : We Buy as low as we can, That's Business. Sense Ria Sell as low as we can That's Progressive Sense. "ou Buy as low as You can That's Good Sense! een vou and Overalls dollars and cen buy - Peabody's i Dec. 8th and 9th No sed away, and he