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Altogether, the Government will be able to give to Parliament a good account of its stewardship, one of which Parliament and the Dominion should be and will be proud. lunch-mt Official ta‘r‘rlz‘s show :1 shrinkage of tl'.izty-vig'zt millions in the revenue. witii su‘stmziil increases in the public (it-ht. It is reasonably certain that Parliament Will be asked to make up the lost revenue either by tariff or some other expedient. The Government is borrowing from the Bank of England for War purposes. but the public debt is bound to be in- creased outside oi the obligations created directly by the war. Par- liament will find that the financial situation has been handled with care and foresight, that through the action of the administration. ‘Canada has passed over the worst of-the financial crisis, readjusting her system to the new conditions, and that the financial position of Canada is sound. uresence of a strong Government :1: Ottawa. ' Parliament will be given a full and complete statemnnt 0f ali that is not necessarily secret and con- fidential in the war moasuws so far taken. It will be given also a statement of the finances of the Domixiion as affected by the war. Recent official tables Show a shrinkage of thirty-eight millions The following acknowledgement of a remittance from the Red Cross branch at Durham needs no comment. It is only another of a series of relief contributions: Hon. D. Jamieson, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. My dear Doctor: I beg to acknowledge re- ceipt of your favor of the 13th inst. enclosing cheque for $100. being a contribution from the Red Cross branch in Durham. I enclose an official receipt and shall be glad it you will say to Mrs. Jamieson that we appre- ciate very much the contribution. Yours very truly, NOEL MARSHALL, Chairman Executive Com. Toronto, January 13, 1915. caned for tions, and allies. Provisio: for a Canadiu: than one hunt and for the ra additional fore vide a constm forcements so lasts. Premier \Vinnipeg a £0 Canadas ured on] conserving for the us CONT! \V tr am sanctio leader “'21 The Government will meet the House with a statement of meas- ures ta‘n en. of preparations and cessfully will be the c C of Parliament, ada, so far as any regular sesâ€" sion of Parliament is concerned. The Dominion of Canada is at war. Canadians are at War with. all the enemies of the Empire. and t‘..e business 0f mak inf: \\ ar suc- The Opening of Parliament has been fixed for the fourth of Feb- ruary. The House will mint node? conditions unpreceo ext-ed in Can- 343E DURHéi It see DURHAM JANUARY 23. 1915. 1921 3m AN A CKN C WLEDGEM EN T THE COMING SESSION OF PARLIAMENT N. from :ti'm with 1 eat Britain . IRWIA‘ E :to: and Proprietor. )bable t 3i?) *0 of t'm‘ 1 chuzc ‘5 Government 1 m- S- - were lt‘ \frfi gi'.'en a full 5‘ng nt of ali that Gram Pet and con- "5‘1"“ moq'iuw‘; s') ba‘an , “ nearl; :lven also a ha ml ances of thelfor t} kw flan u'nl- : 1111' con business [11’ )Sl [It (41111111 I: 11(101'105' 111111 were 13111111 1'1::11111‘:;1zjing \Vays (11111111011111 awn-1 10115? d to fall in line \xith 1111 101' c 11126-11111 in missionarx em :- hinutions. Knoss s‘1are 11111;: 912-3. The amount raised this your 1111- $127, so that there will have 1 1 be a considerable nipping m1 :1‘.’ alono t‘1e line. Mr. Wm.(}1:111t 11:15 re-elected treasurer. and Mr. John Leith elected manager. At the close of the meeting, refreshâ€" ments Were served. "Miss Devena Warmington has returned from Guelph. Mr. Ed Jacob was in Orange- \'ille this week on business. Mrs. J F. Irwin is spending a. few days in Toronto. Mr. Hugh Rose is visiting in town. Messrs. D C. Town and C. Mc- Lachlan were in Orillia last week. visiting _the jormer’s relatives. V The choir of the Methodist church had an enjoyable ex ening Thursday at the home of MI and Mrs. J Latimer. ,‘ WE; CODâ€"1T)â€" Piekerin g _ efitertain ed a number of young people at her home 09 Tuesday evenipg, Mrs. Inspector Campbell enter- tained a large number of her ladv friends for an afternoon last week. Miss Cassie Russell, accompanied by her father. left Friday morning for Madoc. where she has , been engaged as teacher in that dist- rict. ' Rev. J A. Robinson, rector of the Anglican church, Thornbury, was .in town yesterday, the guest of Rev. Mr Morris. We were pleased to have him call on us for a few minutes. Mr. R J. Johnston and little daughter. Winnifred, of Parkland, Alberta, .‘3pent over Sunday with friends in town. He will be bet- ter known here when we intro- duce him as the husband of the late Susie Culbertson, so well and favorably known in this commun- ity. which he cautioned the farmezs present against the clap-trap advice to sow more wheat. With a very large acreage.- of wheat in"- ing sown in the west. coupled with the unlikelihood of the wheat crop diminishing? in either (,iunnany or Russia. the farm work in both countrim 'b~i.'2g' The patriotic entertainment in Varney Orange Hall on Friday evening was quite a success fin- ancially and entertainingly. Not- withstanding the somewhat bois- terous state of the Weather in the evening the hall was comfortably filled with as intelligent and or- derly an audience as could be found in the whole province. Mas- ter D. McIlvride acted as chair- man. and. after a few brief re- marks called on 311'. Jas. Watson who respond-ed with a good song. ably accompanied on the organ by Miss Janet Kerr, which E'u-oug'ht forth an encore. and was x-esmmded to. Mr. Thos. Binnie always willing and able to help, gzu‘: a very good aidt'ess, in )0K mm. on hand of $8".w}1ich is 111} foui‘ times the amount 011 111 in 191?. . and Speaks Volumes. ' the abil ty and popula: ity of V. B. M. Smith. The various “11171111 pX‘ BLYTH’S CORNERS ‘r-o . A fairly good n 059m. and a good “'33 t of CE} 111 pt nual PERSONAL on HO 0T “sent. mectin vanta as no [If in the unit. work. Mr. W tor mretinf: 15113 to show 3683. which 1 s'vowol‘l “'0 m‘ mmh my C tlme Flu OI Knux I) m1 W m ious W a A firm in Campbellford, Ont., which, as a result of the war, has 650 barrels of sauerkraut on their hands that it has been unable to dispose of, sought the assistance of the Depart- ment of Trade and Commerce. The Department sent notices to some of the trade agents abroad. The only re- ply yet to hand is from the agent at Bristol, who reports “no demand for sauerkraut in that district.” The Government is planning an ac- tive campaign to stimulate agricul- tural production of all kinds in 1915. Hon. Martin Burrell is arranging for a series of conferences throughout the Dominion in January and Feb- ruary, at which the farmers of the various districts will be called togeth- er and given full information as to conditions in Europe, and the great demand for food supplies by the allies while the war is on. The best means of meeting those demands will be ful- ly discussed by the farmers and those who address them. The Belcher Islands, a group some eighty miles off the southeast coast of Hudson Bay, 1011;; charted but lit- tle kno 111, were \ isi: ed in September last by an exploring party on the Newfoundland schooner I addie. Members of the party have just ar- rived home. Although the islands were sighted by Capt. Cook 150 years ago, and by other explorers since, it is declared that the members of the Laddie expedition were the first white men to land there.’ The is- lands, which lie in latitude 56 north, were found to be in a somewhat dif- ferent position and in greater num- bers than marked on the latest charts. In its fifteen days’ exploration of the group the party found it to be barren, but abound in wild life, including foxes, arctic hares and geese. The Ottawa Department of Agfl. culture has inaugurated a movement to increase the tobacco production of Canada. It is advertising the fact that a sample of choice seed, in quarter ounce packages, will be sent to any tobacco grower who applies for same to the tobacco division, De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa. This quantity of seed is sufficient to sow 150 square feet of seed bed, and to plant one acre. high in the air. A Steel pipe, from which is issuing a’ two-inch stream of’ water at high pressure, is forced down into the mud of the Bay bot- tom, blowing a hole as it goes. \Vhen the pipe is jerked up, the log: is drop- ped into the hole as far as it will go. Then, from the top of the tower there drOpS an eight-ton weight which hits the projecting end of the log a tre- mendous blow, drivingr it home. This is all done in a moment, with the ut- most regularity and precision. The minute that huge haunner falls, up swings a new log to be driven. The dredges that are cutting into the solid marsh move slowly but per- ceptibly, like giant snails. In the front of them are four-bladed knives that cut the marsh into ooze, and this ooze is instantly sucked into a long pipe and deposited into one of those walled-in areas of the Bay to settle and gradually become land. are like SCOWS with One of the 40-foot high in the air. A which is issuing a’ of‘ water at high p down into the mud tom, blowing a hole the pipe is jerked u; ped into the hole as Then, from the top 1 drons an eight-ton i the projecting end mendous blow, driv: is all done in a mom most regularity am minute that huge l swings a new 10;: to Activities of the improvers are to be seen all the Way from the Hun- ber to the Don. Vast engines of modern engineering are laboring in the Bay. Thousands of men are employed. For them, at least, the dream is grater-tug; rnnxrlnuzing. What this great labor plans to do is to creme, out of Toronto's natural and somewhat crudely-formed har- bor, a-l‘ully developed ‘harbor of even, economic formations, to till in and make solid land of those hays and marshes and inlets of it that have heretofore been useless and wasted space. in short. it is planned to make the most of the materials and advantages with which nature has blessed 'l'oronto. SllUL'zr lines will :28 blessed '1‘ preceded will be 11 and ware front cow built on shore,th< out to an form (10c when 1111: economic In a way. perform}: duty in 12 east end most. rem stance, in that is L: Iain plan.» the Bay, walled of! the Bay sort of V. loads of used. '11 work so Over 31‘,500,Q)i)0 Already Spent 01) Toronto’s Waterfront. When the harbor improvement scheme was first made public, and maps, charts, and graphic explana- tions of it were being shown at pub- lic meetings and at club luncheons, it was labeled and stowed most people’s minds, as being one of the family with tubes schemes, or the new Union Station; a dream, a fancy. Out of the lot, the harbor improvement is one of the dreams that come true. And to-day, after one year of planning work and one year of actual work. there is. on To- ronto’s waterfront from the Humber to the Don, one million and a half of dollars already; $0th in materializ- iug the foundations 01' the dream, and ot‘ the 1011-1} cost of nineteen mil- lion dollars, more are contracts al- ready iLl. {or Amen Liiiiiozt uouars’ worth 01' nor}; by the iiaroor Com- missioners and the Dommion Gov- ern 111931": Y, . The on First White Men on Islands. like To Help Tobacco Growers. To Stimulate Production. - “ o I L??? In R. M AKIXG A HARBOR. arehouses covered w out. tron Sauerkraut Unsalable. uau m the top eight-Lon cting end blow, drh fort bot 10 pile drive a'cdily, so COX $01 :ukwater. Marshes d land for factories instead of a water- ; nondescript docks a casual, uneven we a shore line filled at, from which uni- ;L-oject. The whole, ' LA: orderly and rs that do the miraculously, 1.0V~.'t'l‘ on Lhem. )33 is yanked THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. harbor. ill ma Dé 1011 I] be W FOP in- he mud O into 10 ll asted. L0 be :uoral J be this the be “So did i. madam. twenty years ago. and I do know something about it for myself. but for no one else. This young lady in writing her story wrote to me. but not to you. At another time she may write to you and not to me. I used to criticise books on what i luv- posed was their merit. in my old age I realize that a book is like a bell. There can be no sound on an uninhab- ited island. for there is no ear there to hear. So with a book. Each intellect receives it for itself and not another.” “Oh. Mr. Barrows! You to say that. who in your day was considered a prince among critics!" exclaimed Miss Hinokley. Miss Acton £ooked up at the old man like a child who had found a father. At the same moment an old gentle- man with fine white hair advanced to greet the young authoress. “Mr. Barrows,” said Miss Hinckiey. “a year ago i told this young lady that she was. too young to write a novel. She had already written one. i had criticised it unfavorably. i supposed i knew something about literary work.” “Great heavens!" exclaimed M188 Hinckley. Miss Hinckley was led to the very corner from which a year before little Miss Acton had been dragged to be in- troduced to her. and there sat Miss Acton between two large women, whom she was using for screen pur- poses. “Oh. we can’t do anything with her. It was intended that she should receive the guests with the reception commit- tee, but she‘s gone into obscurity. and we can’t get her out. 1 will be pleased to take you to her." When Miss I-lim-kley entered the club she saw a promiscuous gatherin" of men and women. She looked about for a group within which would be the lioness of the evening. Not seeing her. she applied to :1 member of the club to learn where she was. The woman‘s club of Medbury was divided into departments of art, sci- ences. music and other subjects. and for each dcparzmont a night was set apart. One evening when the depart- ment 0! literature [not Mr rlml un lit- erary subjects it was announced be; forehand that Miss Emma - Alden Hinckley. a celebrated litim'atenrAvould be present. Miss llinrkloy had not written \‘ery nnwh horsoif. but her opinion on hunks was looked upon as finaL When Miss Hinvhley received an in- vitution to he present to do honor to the new literary tight she threw the invitation into the wastehnsket. Then she fished it out and noted the date. She was curious to see the authoress who had fooled persons of good lit. erary taste with a worthless book. She would attend the rCt'eptiOU. During the evening, :1 girl of nine- teen, sittin: in n wrnvr where she would run nu risk nf twin: run down by the intellw-Hml':mtus that were flashing their lights hitIu-r :xml thither. seemed to take a jm-vuitu ph-usure in observing them. “Have you rend a novel recently published called 'Au Unfortunate. Blun- der?"’ A reception is in progress at the Women's club of Mmlbury. It ls giv- en for the authorvss of a novel which appeared :1 year ago and has slowly been making its way into public favor. It was published under :ll) assumed name. There were many faults in its construvtion. but there “'31s something in it that held the reuder's attention and produced a pwuliar effect. It was not written for :my particular class. Persons of acknmx'lmlgml literary taste approved and von‘lemned it. It was read by both the old and the youn". Those who liked it could not see why others did not like it. Those who con- demned it said that those who ap- proved it were de\'0id of literary taste. “Nellie." said a may. stvpping up to her. “what are you doin: in this cut- ner? You should he making [my whiie the sun shines. I know you are svribâ€" Ming. and there are pvrsnns hero who can give you points that will (imxbtless help you. Come; I wish to introduce you to Miss I’iinvkley." The girl looked as though she would rather miss the (umorfuuil‘v tlmn leave her corner. but was. nevertheless. drugged out o!’ it :unl mo<mxted to the llouvss ol' the oVouluL: “This is Miss Ellen .\(-lonf‘ mid the introduwr. "She is lu'zriuuiutr to svribâ€" blv u littla; HIM: l mu «gullv sure you can give no: :1 low mluuhlc points on how to provoml." Mix‘s Hinckley lonlwd :1 hit fright- ened. She (-ould lw \‘m'y'dovidod with young :mtlun's in her ollivo as editor in chief of the )luuuzlne. hut she didn’t like to turklo one of them in a Social way However, Rhe resigned herself f0 :1" ()l‘alI-ul. “I should llko to ask you on? or two quvstious. Miss llim-klvy.“ said Miss Avtou, “glfgm' whiz-h 1 will not trespass on your goml umm'o furthor, Do you think I‘m ohl enough to write a novel? I'm nim‘tvvn." “No. you are not. There has been but one successful novel ever written by a young/girl." Miss Acton slum; bark to her corner. giving place to several ladies who ado Vanced to do honor to the. literary light. “I have skimmwl it in order to make mention of it in :mr hook notices.” “What do you think of it?" “It is worthlvss." “Thank you, I'll not trouble you any further." A Nestor - Of Critici By LOUISE B. CUMMINGS Ian .\<-t'un." said the is lu-zrirminzr to scrib- i am quin- sure you w valuable points on .r1t1c15m I suppose, M'r. Editor, you will be thinking the Hampden scribe passed away like the old vear. but he is still enjoying the new year. Mr. David Robinson, after :1 few weeks of serious illness. is convalescing nicely, and we hope to see him around among the people Tagai'n before long. Mr. John Cooper has started a singing school in the basement of our church, every Friday night. and all are welcome to avail themselves of the great opportun- ity of learning to sing and read the notes. We can r "commend Mr. Cooper, who unlci‘stamis music thoroughly, and is giving a free chance to all whn :‘ccl Inc giwua. help singing by note is. Come mic -'-â€"~ u‘l\ and all; help 0 11 class 31011:. and learn a lesson you will neva u- gret. For the last two Sabbaths there was a vote for the two new eldâ€" ers. and Mr. David Gilmour is one of the chosen. Messrs. John Coop- er and John Whitol'oz-d came out equal, 50 they are. both (‘fhfiH-inn. We are sure thoy are three zl'wle' men, and hope they may sue thr-i ' way clear to tuko the grunt i'i‘h- pomsi’nility. We are 311w that hf: the help of God they will do 111.1? parts as host thov can. OOQO‘QOOOOOOOOOOQOOQ 999.0009699004090§§§§¢9600000900 Mrs \10:x'..-7~i~\w Hun \‘isE-g'u few days With her brother H HS mm. W Du v09066969.0660009096999969#900900#0 §§§9§§9§§§§§§§§§§ 6 §§§§§§§O§§O§¢¢¢¢¢v ARKE’E PHONE 58 HAMPDEN. Wishing; yuu 0m New Year. tmnvrs for W e 1; 't 7" I‘ lcmlm-s ml] and get one \(Hi i RED . WELSH I! O }. v (1ch not UH!" 1] IH any 1" lilwml 1d Entries close February 4 Dufferin Poultrv Shmx. C Ville, February 10 and 11. lists read3. H..A Domancc ening' Her skirt is Her waist PALMERSTON, ONL, JUNE 20th.'1913. “I really believe that I owe my life to “Fruit-a-tives”. Ever since child- hood, I have been under the care of physicians and have been paying doctor's bills. I was so sick and worn out that people on the street often asked me if I thought I could get along without help. The same old Stomach Trouble and distressing Headaches nearly drove me wild. Sometime ago. I got a box of “Fruit- a-‘Lives” and the first box did me gnod. My husband was delighted and advi- sed a continuation of their use. Today, I am feeliiw fine, and a \ phvmt‘tan meeting me on the sheet, :tct‘ccd my unmoved a;mear.:nce and Cured Both Stomach Trouble UWES HER [IE 10 “leJIT-A-IWES” m \‘H . snor “Alas! Al I} \V O I} 1w 10.1} DURHAM, ONT. and Headaches 1C A LASS 1( 1E1 l‘U l( 1‘“ .,6\‘ January 28, 1915. .‘I'UUS few 1'12 )rt; 3nd ()