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riving (lailv. nent here and the at the people ness. We’re losien )wing of for Your ping? 8y matter to it mater- rhat any pleasure »++++o++++++++++++ lartments are )m which it is ’T VALUE OCK C“ LOO PER YEAR f Cloth- uths individual M '+++++++++++++++t Our Dress and Boys 'VVVVWVVWWV. «m hand. Spring Feature, 1“ {UN VII“ most and FUN NOT ONE LEFTâ€"UNMARRIED She doesn’t hate the men, Miss Nan, But it she had her way There wouldn’t be a single man, In all the world to-day. vv v- -- M ‘ BORN .\HNETTâ€"In Glenelg, on January" 3'3. to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Arnett. \H‘flOLâ€"In Durham, on January :1. to Mr. and Mrs. George Nich- »l. 2| daughter. CATARRHAL DEAFNESS CAN- :.ot be cured by lecal applications. As they cannot reach the diseased mrtion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Hess and that is by a constitution- the mucous lining of the Eustach- an tube. When this. tube is in- {lam-ed you have a rumbling wound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the inflamma- Man can be reduced and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed for ever. Many cases of deafness are «unused by Catarrh, which is anin- flamed condition of the mucous mrfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure :u-ts through the blood on the mu-I mus surfaces ofAthe _s_ystem._ catarrhal deaf- L significance. .ll remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is; . used by an inflamed condition of Every one of these four men has risen by sheer ability and arobust personality to high position. Three of them, the Minister of Munitions. the Secretary for War, and the Chief of the General Staff, have never been noted for the graces of life and have made many enemies. The fourth, Sir Douglas Haig has enioyed a great (1031 Of popular- ity among his associates, but the fact that at the front he is nick- named Von Haig, ' These leaders may be called the Big Four. and possibly the most useful of them will turn out to be Sir William Robertson, pantry ooy, footman, common soldier, subs]- tern. intelligence officer and Lieutenant-General, of whom it is said; “He has apparently an iron constitution, and certainly a re- markably strong will. He has no nerves, and nothing disturbs him.” The aristocracy will expect no favors from this rugged dragoon. with guardroom manners. His rise We will give One Hundred Dol- lars for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be cured by 8311’: Catarrh Cure. Circulars free. All drug ate. 75c. F. J. CHBNE ('30., Toledo, 0. in the latter part of the eight- ovnth century, and this is the twentieth century. His poetry has lived (Or a hundred aDd fifty years, and Burns today is a ('herished personage in the hearts vi the people. 8 ARNETTâ€"In Glenelg, on January :32, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Arnett. .\‘I(‘HOL-â€"ln Durham, on January :1. to Mr. and Mrs. George Nich- ul, a daughter. This is Tuesday. the 25th of January. the 157th anniversary of the birthday of Robert Burns, the rutiunal poet of Scotland. He was .‘wrn near Ayr in 1759. His father \\ w a gardener. and afterwards a «mull farmer. Robert was in- arm-ted in English by a teacher ;v: the employment Of- his father. .1 : l afterwards secured a know- 1.. igu of French and mathematics. th of his education he procured {mm general reading and from 2"!lc‘l‘2ll and close observation of . ' \‘ature as he saw it around him. H» had a strong passion for : H‘if‘)’. and learned from their \~. wks nearly all all the best Eng- lé~h poets could teach him. He hm] poetic instincts of his own, ml cultivated them to such an t-x'tcnt as to leave a large poetic h-gncy to the Scottish people, and nut to the Scottish people alone. i-ut to the whole British speaking wnrld. The poetic productions of nu other one man have been so widely diffused. He died in 1796, at the early age of 37 years, but Rnrns still lives as the nat'onal l‘Ht‘t 0! Scotland. Abraham Fair ROBERT BURNS Square. These leaders may be called the Big Four. and possibly the most useful of them will turn out to be Sir William Robertson, pantry ooy, footrnan, common soldier, subs]â€" tern. intelligence officer and Lieutenant-General. of Whom it is said; “He has apparently an iron constitution, and certainly a re- markably strong will. He has no nerves, and nothing disturbs him.” The aristocracy will expect no favors from this rugged dragoon, with guardroom manners. His rise in the army has been magical, and yet he is one of the most unroman- tic of persons. There has never been anything like it .in England-5 The Sun, New York. ‘ Doubtless all these four men on: whom the empire is now leaning have English, Irish. and Scotch; blood in them, and perhaps more; interesting than race or nativity, lag the fact that not one of them OWBSi his eminence to aristocratic con-‘ nections or to social influence. The, Minister is the son of a school- master; Lord Kitchener’s father was a regimental officer of limit-i ed means; Sir Douglas Haig is the. voungest son of John Haig. gentle- man and Justice of the Peace of Cameronbridge; and Sir William Robertson sprang from the “com- mon people”â€"none more obscure than he. Although the new Chief of Staff bears a Scotch name he was .JOI‘U in Lincolnshire, and he may there- fore be rated as an Englishman, iust as Lord Kitchener, a son of Colonel H. H. Kitchener of Leices- tershire, is called an Irishman be- cause he was born in County Kerry. Sir Douglas Haig is of Scotch blood and Scotch nativity. a son of Fife. The claim might be put in that the Right Hon. David L10yd George is an Englishman because he was born in Manchester; out it would not be allowed bv the Welsh who are as tenacious of blood ties as the Irish, perhaps more so. As Mr. Lloyd George was educated at Llanystymwy, and lives at Bryna- welon. Criccieth, Carnarvon, it might not be wise to press the point that he is an Englishman by birth. It 18 a striking coincidence that the success of British opera- tions in the field now depends upon the efficiency and staying power of an Englishman, Sir Rob- ert Robertson, who was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff on December 21:11 Scotsman, Sir Douglas Haig, who succeeded Sir John French in command of the army in France; an Irishman, Lord Kitchener, who is Secretary of State for War; and a Welshman, David Lloyd George. who is Minis- ter of Munitions. BRITAIN’S BIG FOUR W 0 have a new Middv ( lnth 137 inches wide. in!) II how] some of this. Extra. value IQC. AS the contest is nearing a close, not only the contestants, but their friends as well, are taking a keen interest in the finish. Each contestant has her little army .of friends who eagerly await the publication of the next standing, which will appear in next week's papers. Those who have worked hard have been repaid by seeing their names climb gradually nearer the top, while others who have not taken the same interest have fallen back. Any one of the first ten could easily win out. It is not yet too late, but friends of the contestants should remember that if they intend assisting anyone, the time to do It IS RIGHT NOW. I The contest has only a few weeks to run. [â€" Middy Cioth ELECTION OF OFFICERS Durham District Loyal Blue Lodge met on Tuesday, January 11 when the following officers were elected;â€" Thos. B. Tucker, 689, Dist. Master Joseph Brown. 1192, D. D. Master Jas. Lloyd, 632, Chaplain. Alex. Aljoe, 1192, Rec’g Secy. W. J. Ritchie, 632, Fin. Secy. Wm. Ritchie, 632. Treasurer., John McGirr, 1192, Lecturer. Geo. A. Noble, 632, D. o! C. Robt. McFadden, 1192, and P31- mer Patterson, 689, Tylers. “What did he say ?” “He denies it.” “What does he deny?" “Why, what I asked him, and he said it didn’t make any dMerence what; it was the immemorial custom of the war department to deny everything.”-â€"Ar- thnr W. Dunn’s “Gridiron Nightl." But he can’t find a spool of thread in his wife’s workbasket; he can’t db. cover her pocket in a dress hanging in the closet; he cannot hang out clothes and get them on the line the right end up. He cannot hold clothespegs in his month while he is doing it either. He cannot be polite to somebody he hates. In short, he cannot do a hundred things that'women do almost instinc- Man’s Limitations. Man has done wonders since he came before the public. He has navigated the ocean, he has penetrated the my:- teries of the starry heavens, he has harnessed the lightning and made it light the great cities of the world. dvely. "vâ€"v vv v-- “Did you interview the ”crew of war?" he was asked. Dumas, FithiFana son. A story is told about the two Du- mases, father and son, which illuso trates the pleasant relations between the two. The son had written his first successful novel, and the father wrote him a letter of congratulation, which he began in the formal manner of “Dear Sir.” This letter throughout read as though addressed to a total stranger and merely thanked the au- thor tor the pleasure the book had given him. Dumas flls answered in this manner: Sir-I thank you most heartily for your kind letter. Praise from you is especially appreciated by me. as I have alwayl heard of you as the most enthusiastic ad- mirer of my father, who also makes Dome pretension of being a novelist. Trustful Humanity. Taken acutely ill in the midst of a long journey, we accept the ministra- tions of a fellow traveler whom we have never seen before, but who says that he is a physician. Even the pre- ' scription given us by our family ‘doc- tor is liable to be filled by an un- known compounding clerk, yet we . swallow unquestionably whatever he; hands us in bottle or box. We hall a passing cab to take us to our desti- nation in the middle of the night, feel- 3 ing no alarm lest the driver be in' league with a gang of footpads. We send our cash deposit to the bank by the hand of a messenger concerning. whose virtues we have no guaranty ‘ beyond the fact that thus far we have not found him light fingered. We add 5 our names to this and that petition on § the say so of some one who may or may not, for all we are aware, have an ulterior and illegitimate interest in swelling his list, and we sign letters and other documents which we have only hurriedly skimmed over in their 3 final draft and in which our tired; copyist may have embalmed an error fatal to our purpose-Atlantic. At O‘Yes." Anothor Denial. . 101‘ at the Gridiron club in as F. Logan of the Phil:- The J. D. Abraham C0. The Store That Sets The Pace Promoter, enthusiastically â€" There is no doubt that the scheme will pay. Catitibus Inventorâ€"Oh, none ‘whatever! But who will get the money? Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Fagan, and children have moved to Ham- ilton, where Mr. Pagan has se- secured a good position. Miss McPheeters and Miss Deâ€" vena Warmington returned from a two week’s visit to Chesley. Mrs. E. D. McClocklin of Toronto, is visiting her son, Mr. E. D. Mc- Clocklin and family here. Pte. Joe Warmington, of Strat- ford, spent the week end at his home here. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION PERSONAL At the poultry show on Thurs- day night last a very profitable address was delivered by Miss Yates, one of the lecturers in con- nection with the Department of Agriculture in Toronto. Her topic was “Eggs the Year Round.” Many good points were brought to the surface and no doubt her address will be productive of good results. To procure hens that would lay in spring and sum- mer was not so difficult. Hens were expected to lay in spring and those that didn’t were not worth keeping. In discussing essentials for the all-the-year-round strain of layers, we had to consider three points, viz; “the management, the surroundings. and the heredity. Each point was elaborated, at con- siderable length, and during the This is a new Crepe Cloth. One of the cor- rect; things furSpring. We have it. in pretty spot. effects Special price . . . l2;c. THE POULTRY SHOW Ostend Crepe Vo'tes. Coupon-Good for 20 Votes FREE Cut out +_ this Coupon and bring it to us not. later than [Satur- gay, Feb. 5, and receive 20 Get. a Standard Pattm-nmext time. The .Specialistâ€"No-menle ! If you survive the experiments I’m going to make on you you may live for months. â€"Judge. Patient mournfullyâ€"I’m afraid doctor from what you’ve said there is fiery little hope (9|: .0. address and at the close there were many questions asked of in- terest by fowl raisers. Miss Yates is rather an instructive and enter- taining speaker and is evidently well up in her subject. Her know- ledge is based on practice rather than theory, and what she met with in her own experience was the solid basis on which she founded her opinions. She was given a hearty vote of thanks at the close of the meeting, with the wish added that she would reappear soon. January '87. 1916. HIS CHANCES " 1'2 4'“ a. . fl“. 'C hronick