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In the case of old and dilapi- dated houses the shabbiness is in- creased by the artistic paste brush of the advance agents. who care not a fig for the looks of the nlace af;er they draw a crowd and get away with the booty. If hotel men and other private own- ers wish to allow their blank walls as advertising sign Dosts, we are not aware of any person hav- ing a right to interfere so long as the literature contains nothing obscene or objectionable. but even in these instances it would be better not to allow a general effacement. is on town property, and should be regulated by the town and wholly disallowed. In other places mav be noticed the shabby and unsightly remains of circus bills. political bills, political cartoons. patent medicine advertisements, and a lot of other matters of a shabbv nature that oan makes for the disfigurement of the town. Pastehas been liberally used and the crude adorn-meats wear the smile that won’t wash off. To obviate the difficultv, we think it might be well for the town to put up _a few bill-boards and to authorize the town con- stable to attend to all the work of posting at fair remuneration. In some places there is a fixed bill- poster’s tariff, and the work of posting is all done by him and paid for direct by the advertising company. However the matter is handled there should be some- thing done to prevent the indis- criminate plastering of vacant walls and fences with all kinds of advertising. Our present con- stable is trying to improve the general appearance of the streets and town prOperty and it's every- body‘s business to assrst him in doing so. About one o’clock the Battalion moved off and were soon in ac- tion. They' had to advance over an open space and the lst and 4th Battalions got it the heaviest ‘and they lost a lot of men before they could take cover of any kind. We took a walk up town a few days ago, and as we neared the fire-hall on the hillside, our attention was arrested by a big bill plastered on the large door opening to where the weigh scale used to be. It was one of the Pastor Russell bills, and has likely ”been disfiguring the place since their moving picture show here some time last year. Now, it isn‘t because it was a PastOr Russell bill we object, but be- cause it was pasted there, and has a ragged and slovenly appear- ance that will gradually get worse till time or some other in- fluence removes it entirely. This This is a sign to be seen in all well regulated towns, not only bv telephone companies, electric light companies, but bv town councils who do not like to see town property defaced b'y' all sorts of literature. I felt sorry for them. Some were too feeble to walk or crawl, still they struggled along. One poor old man came pudging along with his poor old wife on his back, too far gone to crgvg'l any further. Belgium, Mav 2 1915.} T1ansports lst Batt, lst Bgde { ; 181’. Canadian Contingenc British Expeditionary Force \ Dear Father, and Folks at Home; Here I am again. I suppose the stirring times we're having around here will be making you all anxious about me, but I am fine and dandy yet. Nelson Camp- bell and all the other boys of the corps are fine and hearty. with the exception of a few casualties and wounds. But believe me, we’ve been go- ing some the last couple of weeks, and, 1m afraid, lost a lot of men. I think the greater part of our casualties are slight wounds and that a lot of the men will soon be able to rejoin their regimen-ts again. You bet I was glad we did so well against the rascals. The day-before the big battle there was nothing unusual going on We were having a regular sports day when, about six or so in‘ the evening, the artillery started. and you bet they made some noise. Then a couple of German aeroplanes came over us and kept letting out signals. In a few minutes soldiers who chanced to .be in the next village, came running out, telling us that the French had been compelled to give .vay and had let the enemy through their lines. The Germans had used their poisonous shells and gases and had scared the liv- er out of the Frenchmen. They beat it anywhere at all to get out of the way of the Allemans and their gas and poison. The road soon became full of refugees run- ning for their_live_s. A THE DURHAM CHRONICLE FROM THE FIGHTING LINE FOUR. ' 1 I W. IRWIN, Editor and Proprietor DURHADI, JUNE" .., 19 5. POST N0 BILLS ’1'1rl’r'13 M- Of course, we transports were not looking on or sitting still, bv any means. By this time we lost a couple of horses, a mule or two, and had five wounded men; one of our ammunition limbers was struck by a shell and knocked to pieces. The team hooked onto it were not injured, but the driver was thrown from his horse into the air and got hurt in the spine. Another driver got wounded in the leg; another, named Smith, was badly wounded. The Atkinson boys would know him, as he at one time worked in the livery sta- ble at Holstein. Another 30th man from Fergus was killed. So you see the transports had their share of casualties. I’m lucky, though. that the snells are scared 01 me. Capt. Campbell is 'in fine trim. He’s just in his glory in the war game. Well, I must stop this or I’m afraid it will not get past the censor. I hope sister Florence is well again and that you are all well at home. Don’t forget to write me lots. I haven’t had a letter now for two weeks, and sometimes it is impossible for us to write here. Something is wrong with our mail service, so my ,let- ters are held up somewhere, no doubt Well, I started this epistle in Belgium, but failed to get it away. Now we’re back in France recuperating and being reinforced for the next splash. _ Just as I was finishing this let- ter we got orders for the first line of trans-ports to go up ,with am- munition. The Battalion had gone up as reseere, so we had to “stand to” behind them all night: a peach of a job, one of the sol- d-iers’ delights. The next night we moved here. We left camp about 9.30, landing here about dawn. It was a light drizzly .rain all the way, so we were all soaked through. and all tired out. I could scarce keep up in the saddle and had about sixteen sleeps along the road, waking up every time the horse gave a wig mm on a bad piece of road. We are in a fine large town now and we’re enjoying ourselves again fine. For the last couple of weeks something went bum in the mail, but it’s all right again. Last night I got three letters all- at once from you. one dated April 8, an- other April 12 and another April 19: also got one from Bertha say- ing they are wonderingf how I [am getting along. The 29th annual meeting of the Woman‘s Auxiliary to the Mis- sionary Society of the Church of England. was held last week' at. Belleville. with a large attend- ance of delegates- Well. this is a very fair sample of a newspaper this time. Ihope old man censor lets it go past. Tell my old friends around Dur- ham to write me and to out in all kinds of fun and to not expect me to write. as we are only allow- ed to write one letter per week, and often don’t get time to write one. We are often three or four days without our shoes off and are often in the saddle 14 to 16 hours out of the 24. \V’ell, I guess I’ll make an- other start to finish my letter. I suppose I‘ll get it away by Christmas if I keep at it. I’ve inst been out with rations for the companies and we are all kept very busy, even when we are sup- posei to be resting. o. =: W'ell. 1. must close new, hoping Vou are all in the bestof health. Be sure to remember me to all old friends. Tell them I’m all right yet: have had a few scratches, but have been able to keep out of the doctor‘s hands and he doesn t know me yet. Au Revior for this time, Yours as ever. â€"Wm. R. Falkingham. I can imagine you all at work on the farm. picking stones, etc. Am afraid I’m spoiled for -farm work. for we’re all as lazy here as yell-ow dogs. \Ve are having fine weather here now. The trees are all in leaf and this is a fine country around here. If you send parcels. wrap them up very strong. or they will not reach us. Also put lots of gum in them. Water is scarce. and gum goes good to thirsty guys like It? Laurier: “Those Borden people must be house=cleaningi BACK TO THE OWNER One afternoon in April while on a visit to Washington 1 was sitting on a bench in one of the parks. The leaves were half blown. and among them birds were twittering. One little song- ster in a tree above my head was now and again giving two melodious notes. the first higher than the second. Then suddenly just behind me these notes were repeated by a human voice. fol- lowed by a girl‘s laugh. i cannot say which was the more musical. the imi tation of the bird’s piping or the laugh. I turned and‘saw three girls. all with their backs toward me. moving away. the Cupid has many arrows in his quiver, but there is one, called fancy, that he uses more than all the others. At any rate he had let drive at me with such an arrow and pierced my heart. 1 had been caught by the trifling incident that I have mentioned and was en- amored of the girl who had mocked a bird and laughed. I fancied her the embodiment of feminine mischief; her smile between dimples was doubtless expressive of that melodious laugh. and her eyes laughed as well as her lips and her voice. Rev. B. M'. Smith‘s sermon‘ on Sunday was decidedly interesting and inspiring to the large con- gregation present. Text, I Kings 1.3;26. “It is the map. of God ‘who Was_disgbedien.t to the word of Had I been a trifle less fanciful and more practicaii would have arisen and hurried after the girls to get a view of the one who had bewitched me. But by the time I became aroused to the situation it was too late. 1 went after them. but the park was full of people, and they were lost in the crowd. The Grangers in Varney intend ! holding their annual picnic in Wm. Carson’s bush on June 18. A ! live committee have in hand full 3 preparations for a rollicking time i Admission free. Please biing ea?- ables. Everybody heartily wel- come. We undertook this year to plant our corn: thought the idea of. planting 3% feet \apart a waste, of ground, but before we got through came to the conclusion that it should be anywhere from' 10_to. 25_feet apart. I would have given all I possessed if I could have left my companion and hurried around what screened the girl I longed to see. But no. Convention- ality held me. To leave a woman standing alone at a function would be unpardonahle. And what excuse could l make for such an act? Could I say: “Madame, pardon me. There is a mocking bird girl behind those palms with whom I am enthralled. I must leave you to go to her?" Such a course would be to commit social suicide. for I have observed that or all the women in society the most sensitive to the at- tention shown them are those who have husbands. I remained at my A few evenings later I was attending a reception at the White House. I was standing near the opening to the conservatory with a married lady to whom I was indebted for invitations. Suddenly from within the conservatory I heard the musical laugh that had charmed me. But unfortunately high growing plants were between me and the person who laughed. and I could not see her. Rain and heat are badly needed. and while we are usually opposed to taking a pessimistic View of anything, really, the crop pros- pects, with the exception of fall .wheat, are decidedly discouraging at present. ' Mrs. John Marshall was unable to take her accustomed place in the Sunday school at Knox on Sunday, owing to a severe attack of sciatica. Friday evening, June 4. will be The Mocking Bird Girl BLYTH’S CORNERS. By F. A; MITCHEL Montreal Italians paraded ° ,000 I strong last Thursday night, 1nI celebration of Italy’ 5 union \‘k 1th I the allies. They smashed the office Windows of Henri Bourassas pa- per, which ,has spoken slightingly of Italy’s motive {or entering the reooooooojooq post? ’but “Heaven Knows want It cost me to do 30. Later I would have tried to find her. but how could I do so nev- er having seen her face? The next time I heard my mocking bird laugh I was at the capitol. up in :1 gallery under the dome. Directly be- low we walked a man. a woman and a girl. I could see the tops of their heads and shoulders. but nothing more. Then up came the laugh. It was the same I had heard twice before. I would know it among a thousand. I was tempted to jump down fifty or a hundred feet and land before my charmer. Instead. I turned and ran down the stairs so fast that I fell and when I tried to rise found it impossi- ble to do so. I had broken my leg. I cursed my fate for many reasons. but the principal one was that I must give up hope of ever finding my charm- erâ€"that is. if she was a stranger in Washington. If not. I would remain there as long as I lived in order to find her. Just after 75 cats and dogs were dumpedinto the executing tank of the New York Society for the Prevention‘cf Cruelty to Animals, the tank exploded and it literally rained cats and dqgs. I did not get the'use of my leg again till July. and then it was too hot to re- main in one of the hottest cities in America. _I would have done so, but I didn’t believe the girl I was looking for would be there. With a heavy heart I went northward. in October I returned to prosecute my search. I acCepted all the invita- tions 1 received. hoping to meet my mocking bird girL I was doomed to disappointment. Everywhere I went i listened and never heard a girl laugh that I did not feel a pang because it was not the one I longed to hear. I was introduced to many girls. but none of them could fill the gap in my heart. One evening I was assigned to take a certain young lady out to.dinner. She was very pretty. Her eye was liquid. her smile flanked by dimples. I passed a delightful period chatting with her. for there was between us that wireless something which tells two persons that they like each other. I parted with her under the impression that she might make me for, et my laugh girl. In a spectacular attempt to at- tract attention to “war stocks' again, which declined recently, broker: on the New York Stock Exchange carried gia‘nt shrapnel shells on the exchange floor. I met this young lady again and ask- ed permission to call. It was granted. and during the first evening I spent at her home I made a discovery. She began to play the piano. and this set a canary bird in another room to singing. “I once heard a girl.” I remarked. “imitate a bird to perfection." “I can do that." she said and straight- wny reproduced some of the canary’s notes. Whether it was the expression on my face or what it was I know not. but she laughed. / I spmng toward her and took both her hands in mine. “I‘ve been hunting you since last April!" I exclaimed. “I heard you imi- tate a bird in the park and lung That laugh made me your slave for- ever." ~- And I spoke the realistic truth. We have been married ten years. and I have never yet had my way in a single instance. the regular meeting of Varney Grange, so take a tumble. dear brother. J.‘-v Robert and Blyth. sons of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. McIlvride. of Vic- toria. B.C., have enlisted in the third Canadian contingent and will go to the war. ‘9, M‘rs. Green, and daughter Dor- othy, left Tuesday for a trip to her yold home in the west. te}â€"â€"Mhrjo-rie, are _ if; ' Stxjatford H Miss Marshall, of the post/office staff; is spending a few days in Toronto. \ Rem-and 'Mrs. Wylie were in Mt. Forest yesterday attending ,a Ba-ptis; conference. " ' {Mr Rock, Baptist mi'nisstter fR€V21"er.ton, w as in town we 0 day. Mrs. Will Glass and little daugh- ter, Gertrude, are spending acou- ple of weeks in Georgetown. Mrs. J A. Glass returned Mon- day after visiting in town for'a week. . Messrs. Fitzgerald, Petch, 0;:- ram and Johnston, of Linwood, spent Slim-day‘wfith Mr. and Mrs. (W. R. C-ox here.. ' Masters Earl and 'Pierde Cox of Palmerston are spending a fee: days with their uncle, Mr. W. R. Mrs. A Beggs, Mr Guy Kearnpy and Miss Annie Kearney attended the funeral of the late Alex. Beggs, at Linwood, on Tuesday. Miss Marion Search is recover- ing from her illness with typhoid. fever, and Miss Gladys Search is also recovering from her opera- tion for appendicitis. Mr. Arthur Davis, who has been visiting here for the past few weeks, returned to Edmonton yes- terday. Mrs. DaVis and baby boy will remain here for a while longer. FOURTH LINF E, ARTEMESIA. Corn and potato planting is the falwmels occupation at mcscnt. Growth is good and the crop looks excellent. DURHAM J CNES. 1915 Fall Wheat ............ $1 30 to $1 30 Spring Wheat .......... 1 3) to 1 30 Milling Oats ............ 60 to 60 Feed Oats ............... 5.3 to . (30 Peas .................... ,1 50 to 1 65 Barley .................. 65 to 7 Hay ..................... 16 00 to 18 00 Butter.................. 22 to 22 Eggs .................... 18 to 18 Potatoes, per bag ....... 45 to 45 Dried Apples ........ 3 to 3 Flour, percwt .......... 3 50 to 4 5O Oatmeal, per sack ...... 3 50 to 4 00 Chop. per cwt .......... 1 40 to l 75 Live Hogs, per cwt.... 9 30 to 9 30 Hides, perlb.......... 11 to ‘12 Sheepskins .............. 60 to 90 Woo? ......... . . ....... .. 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Beautiful pieces of Silver from $1. upwards that w e can thoroughly recommend make Shingles and Firewood For Sale Now is the time to have this work done Estimates cheerfully furnisned on all kinds of Carpentering, Joining, Store Fitting, etc. End Matched Hard= wood Flooring RSONAL ‘ kering: and daug h‘ {ANY DYSPEP1|B are in Stratfo-rd-g matchmaker, jeweler and Optical: Mi Duncan (7,. Com 14 Cameron ill with sciatica D1 Lane is in attendance. Miss Ida Jones was the guest of Miss Sadie McKeo-wn at the Glen. a {few davs last week. A few from thié vicinity attend- ed the patriotic concert gjven bv Zion Women’s Institute in the township hall, Glenelg, last Fri- day evening. Mr. and Mrs “'m. Hi‘zl attended the funeral of the latter 5 stop- fathgl‘ at‘Berkeley on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Magee and babe, 01' Osprey, also Mind J. Gar- bett of Mono Road, were visitors at Mr. Jas Lyness’ the first of the week. ' Word has been received that our soldier boys, Messrs. Whittaker and Fletcher, have arrived safely in England and are enjoxmg the u onderful sights of the old land Miss Ruby Stone arrix ed home from the city last week and will remain. with her parents lor the summer By Taking “Fmfl-aâ€"fives” .. Says Bag)! Swan Mrs. Nattress and her son, of Bolton. were holiday visitors at R. Whittaker’s Mr. and Mrs J. Beat-on of Bun- essan, Visited with Mr. and Mrs. ‘Geo. Patterson on Thursday of. last week. ‘ Life is very miserable to those who suffer with Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach and Biliousness. This letter from Captain Swan (one of the best known skippers on the Great Lakes) tells how to get quick relief from Stomach Trouble. PORT BURWELL, 0x13, May 8th. 1913. ‘(A “-A“ 1--- _ 7 - vvâ€"V‘ uyoou “A man has a poor chance of living and enjoying life when he cannot eat. That was what was wrong with me. Loss of appetite and indigestion was brought on by Constipation. I have had trouble with these diseases for years. I lost a great deal of flesh and suffered constantly. For the last couple of years. I have taken “Fruit- a-tives” and have been so pleased with the results that I have recommended them on many occasions to friends and acquaintances. I am sure that “Fruit- a-tives” have helped me greatly. By following the diet rules and taking ‘ ‘ Fruit-a-tives’ ’ accordingto directions, any person with Dyspepsia will get benefit”. F 9“? av “Fruit-a-tives’ ’ are sold by all dealers at 50¢. a box 6 for $2.50, or trial size 25c. or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. a most acceptable wedding gift. We are also showing a large and varied stock of Cut Glass Jewelry and Clocks. (BAN GU WM ’\