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What might have reaulted in a iatal accident hap ned to Mr. Wesle Tainan, G. .R. sectionman. on 1 morning last. He was on his way north, along the track with the intention of clearing the snow from the crossings and when about two miles distant lrom town he was struck by the snowplow toing north. It had approached so solid.” that he was unable to get clear and was struck by one o! the flanges o! the plow, which broke his right leg below the knee. The train crew apparvntlv did not see him and alter lying in the snow lor some time he man- aged to crawl to the fence and from there he signalled to Mr. C. Bambridge whose larm is near the tracks. and he and Mr. Robert Nesbitt conveyed the injured man to the latter’s home, when medical aid was secured, the injuries dres- sed and later Mr. Tainan was brought to his home here, where he is im roving as well as can be expecte .â€"Blyth Standard, Mm". Prank Wise and John Bartman nold a borne each in Durham on lair day receiving Rood prices. It is said by some that they have noticed robin: but what we law were a lot of snow birds. The weather has been very cold and blmtcry (or this time of the The People’s Mills OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOO‘OQOO 996QOQO§§§O§O§§§§OO§§.§§OO STRUCK BY SNOWPLOW POSITIVELY THE lARGESI' SAlE IN CANADA The Above are All Made Iron Sound and Whole Grains Speci :1 Reduction on Flour and Feed in Quantities “.510“. ALLAN PARK. on hand. Farmers and Stuck Owners should lay in a quan- tity (if this vael‘wnt (‘aimiitinHer fur Spring rnd Summer Feeding. anhinqull.‘3~ it fur Ynng Piste. (‘nlvem EM. Makes Mileh (‘nws Milk :md puts Hurses in prime conditinn fur seeding: in fact it make-e everything go that it’s fed to; :ilsn (’rilil\\'t-ll's (‘elehreited Calf Meal. Everything in our line at lnwest prices fnr (flash. All kinds of Gram lmugih and sold. JOHN McGOWAN TELEPHONE No. 8 (Night or Day) \. Pastry Flour Low Grade Flour Rolled Oats Breakfast Cereal \Ve have a quantity of the celebrated Molassine Meal F. m- Katie Brigha- in going to Loni-o thlo week to help her brother Mr. G. H. Brigham. who in in the mercantile buineu. ‘She will be much mined among the young peOple around here but we will) her good luck. Mr. H. G. Brigham took a our land of attic to Toronto lut I L I J l I I ) week. year but there in a warmer time You’ll know its qual- ity some day. Why not next Monday? heath vidted our part on San- day and defined for it; victim Mrs. J amen Hopking. Her death did not a kind a ‘obllging neighbor and will be much mused. She leaves to mourn her departure in eon-owing husband and two little children who will feel the want of a lov- ing mother. We extend our sincere sympathy to the nor-rowing family in their bereavement. The Walkerton Tunes and Her- ald saye;-All sorts of battahons and regiments are being organ- ized-students, clerks, civil aer- vants, etc. Now, from what class of men could a finer body of men be recruited than the Implement Agent genociqtion?‘ They are al- most all of splendid stature, can talk any language, are of high in- telligence, and for any Hun thev could not kill in fair combat, thev would simply capture him and l llk him to death. Bran, Shorts Middlings. Corn Chop Cracked Chicken Corn Crimped Oats for Horses Barley and Wheat Chop Mixed Chop What of Verdlv= What 0! Val-Mn? A few weeks ago the “Tribune, under the cap- tion of “Germany In Beaten ” pub- lished a remarkable e "tbrlal' which the present drive on Ver- dun, with its appalling loss of life, amply justifies. What of Verdun? is the question which today dis- turbs somewhat the ifriende of France. One need not (be a strategist nor a retired army officer to realize that the present German onslaught is not necessitated bv eventual strategic movements, but is merely e homeless attempt oh is merely a nopelesa attempt on the part of fly: _Ka-i.§e_r §o_ rggilfi the very much tarnuhed Teutonic wescutcneon , So since then German strategy 'and so-called German efficiency :nave resulted only in sacrificing thousands and thousands of pre- lcious lives to gain a few miles of :trenches situated at the outposts of French defensive positions. The French front is not brokenâ€"it is not even bent. Conservatively speaking, the German losses since the battle of Verdun began have exceeded 100,000 men to gain a few miles of territory. At that rateâ€"and figures don’t lieâ€"assum- ing a continuous German success, how many men will there be ne- cessary to reach the outposts of Paris? At least 2,000,000! Where will the Kaiser find them? His trusted Allies, Austria and Turkey. cannot spare one so‘ldier. Salonica is taking care of that. Therefore the shortage of men, as shown by the present attacks against Ver- dun, one time on the east bank, another time on the west bank of the Meuse, is more than evident. The pride of the Hohenzollern more than the prestige of German arms has been somewhat humbled by the bull-dog-like resistance of tne French nation, wnicu at the beginning .01 the war the German press sneeringly called “those degenerate Frenchmen, whom ab- sinthe, cigarettes and women have rendered powerless to resist the vigorous German armies!” That the Kaiser ehole have chosen this time of year, When mud, rain and snow are supreme, when heavy artillery can naruiy be moved, to force the French lines, ‘can only be explained by the desperate plight in wmcn tue Kaiser finds himself and by the econumic conditions now Obtaining in the empire. .Wilhelm 11. com- mences to hear in the nu distance the cries of the mob yelling for food. He can reel an undertow of discontent among his civilian pop. ulation. History teacnes us that when women are clamoring for food in a pOpular uprising re- pressive measures do lot always repress. The German people had a bean- tiful dream in August, 1914, when their Kaiser hypnotizes tnem in the belief that he could celebrate in Paris the anniversary of the battle of Sedan, on the znd of 38p- tember, 1914. It was but a dream, dispelled at the battle ol the Marne. Let us even assume that Verdun is captured. What then? Outside of a possible demoralizing influ- ence there will be very little harm done. Behind the fortress there are hundreds of miles of trenches, supported and protected by fortified positions, which must be taken before Paris is reached. If we now anleze the events of 1870 in and around Paris we find that there is no cause of discour- agement with the fall of Verdun, which event is not probablq. In 1870 Paris was invested about the 15th of September, barely six weeks after the first battle of that war. The investing armies, under comlnand of the Royal Prince of Saxony, and the CrOWn Prince of Prussia, the late Emperor and father of the present Kaiser, com- prised a total of 180,000 men, with 690 cannon, occupying an area of about 100 kilometres, and protect- ed by trenches, barricades, block- louses, barb wire and defensively fortified villages. To oppose the invading army Paris had altogether 60,000 regular troops. I use advisedly the words “regular troops,” as there were also at that time in Paris m DUKE.“ CHRONICLE over 100,000 Irregmars, caucu u“: Garde Nationale, but whose equip. ment and military training were more than deficient. Theae men, some 01 whom did their duty_ some 01 whom did their duty bravely, were undisciplined and more resembled an armed mob than a military body organized! for defensive purposes. They were ' netty politicians. As a matter of fact, they constituted later what was known as the Commune, and contributed one of the saddest pages to French history by par- ticipating in that dreadful civil war, while the victorious 'Prussians ' at the very Adogrs‘ot Paris, look (1 , on and rejoiced at the killing of Frenchmen by Frenchmen. There- fore, properly speaking, there were not over 75,000 men to defend Parisâ€"men with military training. be it understood. Part of these were the remnants of General Vinoy’s army, who escaped the German clutchea at Sedan and who took refuge in Paris. Now, please consider that those men, demoralized by successive deâ€" feats, withstood for four long months the combined attacks of 180.000 German soldiers. weil equipped, well fed and intoxicated by repeated victories, and only surrendered when starvation and famine gripped Paris. You may draw your own conclusions ard ask yourself if, under the present circumstances, there is any cause for discouragement. It may incie dentally be added that thousands of babies died in Paris for lack of milk which the invaders preâ€" vented from reaching the capital. motwidhstanding the efforts a of the French government, who hum- bled themselves repeatedly by petitioning German headquarters, but without success. Those Ger- manâ€"Americans who complain to- day about England‘s refusal to allow provisions to reach Ger- many will please remember the plight of the Parisian (ivil I‘ONl‘l‘lâ€" fion in 1870. instead of confininrr their anger in 'a “Gott strafe England!” which, to .sav the least. hixdev7 50f the above. sounds idiotic. Bear in mind also that to-day’s war is on the part of France a war for right, for justice, and not, as in 1870, (‘li war f.‘ the 'mam-i tenance of the Napoleonic clique and imperial throne. Bear further in mind. please, that the France of to-day is one great united family, with an army well equipped with cannon and ammunition, galore, ready to sacrifice her last man to oppose the war of conquest waged bv the Mad Mullah. No one knows that better than the Kaiser and his General Staff, and no one is more convinced of the utter failure of his plans than he is. Hence his mad attemttts against Verdun to restore his prestige. Thousands and thousands more widows, thousands and thou- sands more orphans! The German .natib-n today is not so enthusi- astic and not so sure of success. Dr. Liebknecht, the Socialist load- er. in his speech the other day before the Die;, gave us to under- stand, notwithstanding the cen- sorship, that conditions in the empire are not what the Berlin news agencies report them to De. Private letters i-eeeived here a few days ago show between tha- lines that the beginning of the end is not very far off. Another indicat'on of the Kai- ser’s disappointment is the in- creased severity in the conquered hrovinces of Belgium and France. Even in Alsace a reign of terror "~yrsttxlirlrflfitants,Vvhose only crime is to have near relatives 'ighting on the French side, in constant fear of court martial and subsequent imprisonment, if not death. E-"u An Alsatian residing in Strassâ€" burg and now a refugee in Swit- zerland, writes to his brother, living in New York, that life in Alsace is almost unbearable. No one is allowed to speak one word of French. A reputable citizen, so writes this absolutely trustworthv correspondent. met a friend on the street and greeted him in French, saying “Bon jour!” A spy overheard him, had him arrested, and the man was sentenced to prison for one month. The iails are filled with reputable people whom any uniformed Scoundrel can accuse of imaginary crime. of treason or of lese majeste. 0- In Belgium, which is a vast mil- itary camp, von Bissingen reigns supreme, and in Northern France the military governors of Valen- ciennes, Lille and Cambrai spend their leisure hours by imposing heavy fines and imprisoning the mayors of the cities who refuse to levy extraordinary taxes on txeir constituents. Big pobters announce every day to the bereav- ed inhabi‘ants great German vie- ‘ories. real or imaginary. It is a lesson to these conquered people that the drive on Verdun is so magnified in the. reptilian press. ___ _ . n To resume and to answer the question which heads this artici“: What of Verdun ? It may be stat’d without fear of contradiction thit the drive on Verdun. whose cost ’.:'1 a"; lives cannot be estimat- ed. is necessitated by the increasâ€" ed dissatisfaction of the German neople. who refuse to be deceived any longer; by the correspolldi..: fear of the Kaiser, whose throm Is in the balance; by the hesitatla; attitude of some of the neutml powers, as, for instance. Rouman- ‘ v ‘. 1~~::. lnt rot least. by im- pressing the inhabitanta of the conquered territories of France and Belgium that they can EXpGCt no deliverance and that the).’ are. 'dllu “111 luau...“ v---“ V _ That is What the drive on Ver- dun means. The news agencies on the other side of the Rhine may tell us ev- y how the Berlin crowds shout “Hoch der Kaiser!” when they parade Unter den Linden. The same thing happened in ,._A A A‘ L-_:-‘-:h- A, Lney panauu v"--- The same thing happened in France in 1870 at the beginning of the war. lCrowda of Parisian: aa- sernbled in the Tapefies Gardens, .__.__ _ -_-.-_m -...I 3‘10 utin 8 w r 100,000 irregulars, called the de Nationale. but whose equip- yet a few weeks after that Nago- loon III., Eugenie and Loulou Were iguominiOley banished and hissed (wt of France. " V‘ a. 5“--‘-- ‘l‘iistory sométimcs repeats {tsvlfi â€"Jonass Lippmann in The Tnbune, New York. N. Fifi TRAVERSTON. II 'this March (Weather. and grippe germs continue as at pros- czzt, about two-thirds of our neighborhood will be in the mad- house or hospital. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Anderson and family leave this week for a farm eight miles from Toronto. On Mon- day evemng prior to their depart- ure, 3 big crowd of neighbors gathered at the old home and urn- sented them with a well-filled purse and an address. which Voic- ed the regret felt at their remov- al, but wishing them every I 1(;Ci as. in their new home. .' i‘eacher W. R. Wallace spent 1h: close of the week at the old home L : Normanby. Contractor H. Firth of Markdalc has rented -Mr. (Anderson‘s dam: and will return to the employment he served so well in his younger days. On Saturday evening a big crowd gathered at the home on Mrs. John McArthur on the 10th concession and after some social hours her son, Donald, who his lately enlisted. was called forward by Councillor J. Young, who acted as chairman, and was presented with a wrist watch from the township council, through Council- lor G. E. Peart. and with 3 Wellâ€" filled purse from the neighborâ€" hood. Donald made a maul): speech in reply and thanked all most heartily for their good wishes and generous gifts. W. Baker spent last week in l. d Grip caught him. C. McArthur and your scribe turned in on Thurs- day, but not to sleep. Oh, not To squirm and kick and twingeâ€"inc in the head, frost in the feet. and the spinal column sending alter- nate messages-to count the n - less hours chime onâ€"to see fan- tastic figures and spectre folk and then to come out of the mania with a taste and smell bordering on the unprintable. Don’t anybodv expect a civil word from us for a ‘1’.) )ti]. A huge success and heaps of fun describe the St. Patrick’s Shingle social at A. Ga Blair’s on \Fridav evening. The big home was Well filled. and everyone ‘in Irish huâ€" J _,I_,,_ “Bed. and everyone In 1‘15» nuâ€" mor. So they rollicked and played and laughed. Then Mr. J. MoNally was appointed chairman and a fine program rendered. Among the numbers was a presentation ad- dress to Pte. Harry Gray, accom- panied by gifts of a Gillette safety razor .a fountain pen and a snug sum of money. Councillor G. B. Part presented Ivan Ed- wards with a wrist watch in be- half of the council. After the pro- gram 6 dainty lunch wu nerved The inducements offered with common maps cannot make up for the purity of Smfiight Soap. It costs US more to 1.: he were soap; but it costs YOU loss to uee it, for Sunlight pays for itself in the clothes, as it does not wear and rub 211:2, fabrics like common soaps do. 5c. 31 bar at all Grocers. Sunlight Soap. } huâ€" flayed on green-mn'ered shingles bv maidens in nutty Irish costume. Much of the success of the even- ing Was due to the host and hostâ€" ess and the president of the lusti- tute, Mrs. W. J. Greenwood. The proceeds amounted to $15 and is to be used for local patriotic pur- We welcome to our community Mr. and Mn. Smith and famil). who have settled on the Nichol (arm, and hope they may enjm' many a year amongatuua. any... v _â€"__'_ Messrs. Bert Marshall and Jas. Park took in the grand prohibition parade in Toronto and witnessed the parade, which we believe had some very interesting scenes at intervals. Mr. John Cooper also at- {‘311ded. Mr. Fred Corbett. we understand has enlisted and given up his posi- tion in the bank. Fred looks fine in his uniform, and we hope he may. among many others. be spared to come back unhurt. and experience a great history. A very pretty wedding“ took mace at the home of Mrs. tthew L earns. when her daughter, Isa- bella, was united heart and hand with the man oi her choice, Mr. Cameron MacKenzie. She made a charming bride. attired in silk net over silk. Rev. Mr. McLean tied the nuptial knot, which was perâ€" formed with understanding solâ€" emnity by all. She was one of our Hampden girls and will be much missed in the church. and com- munity also, and particularly in the home circle. They left for their home at Leduc. Alta“ on March 14. Hampden community wishes them a 1002., .h_appy_ ans! progpemqs . “I enjoyed your lecture 3 much last night,” said 3 mar. wedded life, and a hope that in the near future they willjavor thv community with a visit home. We are glad to say that Mr. .133. Park. who has been under the d00- tor’S'care for the past five wet-ks. is improving nicely. We hope he will soon be able to out among us again. . Mr. John C00per and sister Miss Jennie, diam a flying visit to friend: in rristop and goryie. "'m;-:”;‘na Mri; Andrew Fulton visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sharpe last Sunday. I‘w‘ After a few months’ \isit with his mother and relatix 93, Mr. An- drew Henderson returned to his home in Sukatchewan. ICCIUWT. “I didn’t see you there." “Oh, I won’t there.” “Well, what do you mean bx telling me you enjoyed my lec- ture. and you were not present?” “Oh, I bought tickets {or m)’ girl’s (other and mother and they both went.”-Tit-Bitc. ' NE“’ LECTURE SCHEME HAMPDEN. Ming bp 80"- M. Takes Pace 0‘ N0 (.1. 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