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We are all getting along fine. and will be glad, though, when we get back again to Canada. Every- thing is progressing very favor- ably along our front and at pres- ent things are pretty quiet. Just a line to thank you for the cigarettes you were so kind to send me through The Daily News. I enjoyed them very much. Thanking you again for your cigarettes, I remain, .. Yours gratefully, GU\ NER CHAS. KERN 11th Battery, 3rd Brigade, C. F. A. . Reg. No. «12341. ’2. t n O 1. n ha Bar 11, a 0' 1,. F‘ Mr. -‘icholas Pagan of this place is in receipt of a letter from “someuhere in France," from one of the soldiers in the trenches. acknowledging the 1eceipt of cigarettes recei\ ed through the \‘eus Tobacco Fund. VS hile the letter is of no immediate import- ance or interest to our readers. so far as knowledge of the Writer is concerned. it will he of interest in that it shows that the Tobacco Fund money has been properlv handled and that the “smokes haxe been delh er ed to the boxs .at the front. The followng is the letter: CANADIAN SOLDIERS PLEASED WITH GIFTS 0F CIGARETTES Ans â€"There is no reason \vhv you should not use your horse and buggy, or other conveyance to carry people from one place to another. and charge them what- ever fee they are \xilling to pay for the services rendered There may be some municipal by-law requiring that persons who use buggies. cabs, or other vehicles, to transport people from one place to another for hire, shall take out a license and pay a license fee in The town by-law only affects those who employ cabs, motors or convevances within the limits of the toun. Municipal bx-laWs only have operation \sithin the limits of the municipal corporation The following appeared in the legal column of a recent issue of The Toronto Mail and Empire. and is timely, in View of the agitation to place a license on liveries: J 8., Seaforth.â€"Qu.â€"(1‘u Can I use my horse and buggy or mv automobile to drive one or more people from one place to another and charge them for my serV‘ices? :2» If I drive people 5 or 10 miles out of‘the town... and make a charge for it, can the town com- pel me to take out a license? The Conservative electors of 'Manitoba turned out the Conser- vative Manitoba government a few days ago just as the Liberal electors of Ontario turned out the Ross government ten years ago. Vervfew honest electors then either Liberal or Conservative. found fault with the Ontario de- cision. and if the Liberal govern- ment of Manitoba does as well for Manitoba as the Conservative government did for Ontario. it will be a long time before a reversal of the political situation in the prairie province. It was ag Taolitical landslide. but it wasn‘t: ,mexrected. - “7e are not prepared to admit that .the Roblin Government was guilty of all wrong-doings laid against it by its political oppon- ents. That they were guilty of wrong, and deserve to be pun- ished, can scarcely be denied by any person of any political party. If they were guilty of half, or even of a Quarter of the evil charged against them, .the' electors did the right thing to turn them out, and the same independent electors will not be slow to :again‘ exercise the same independent power in turning out the govern- ment elect when a wrong is de- tected. A government as well as an individual should be punished for a wrong, and under the cir- cumstances, we see very little cause to mourn over the action of the Manitoba electors. I You can count now on the fing- ers of one hand the Conservative members in the new Manitoba Le- zislature.‘It is a pity that it should be so, but it is a greater pity that any party should so demean itself that puolic confi- confidence should be almost whol- lv ' obliterated. IHE DURHAM CHRONICLE -A POLITICAL AVALANCHE DURHAM, AUGUST 12, 1915. W IRWIN, Editor and Proprietor LIVERY LICENSES ranco. July 23, 1915 Miss Donagh of Hanover spent Sunday with Mrs. W. A. Glass. and left Monday morning to visit Mt. Forest friends. Q; ,1 H ’1 U r H ”u '1? (DUI I139 t D .J. ":‘1\Irs. G D. DaVidson and er of St. Thomas, visited ax vidsona parents, Mr. and Levine Mr. and Mrs. Adam Robertson left last week to visit members of the family at Burlington and Ham-- iI‘ton. Mr. 3113 Mrs. Harold H. \Vass of Toronto are holidaying with Mrs. John Crutchley and Mrs. George Moore. Mr. Fre: Smith returned to La- combe..~\1ta.. on Tuesday, after spending a few Weeks with his parents and friends here. )Ir. \l’m. Laidlaw, Jr., of St. Marys. is spending a few Weeks with his parents, While recovering from his recent illness. Principal Allan returned a few days ago from Toronto, Where he spent a month in a special course in physical culture. Mrs. Howard McDonald and baby, and sisters, Misses Martha and Lavina Diegel, are visiting friends at Paisley. Mr. L. H. Dinlgman of St. Thom- as was in town Tuesday on busi- ness. IML C. wasin Tuesday. C 4 town Mrs. E. “C Limin left vesterdax morning to \isit friends at \‘orth Bay. Miss Nellie Hepburn is holiday- inO' with Hamilton and Dundas fxiends. Miss Margaret Hunter spent a few days in Toronto the fore part of the week. Mr. W. H. .Bean and daughter. Elizabeth are spending a week with Fordwich friends. Mrs. John Fallaise and daughter Mrs. Pink are \isiting friends in Toronto. Mrs. Schooley and grandson, Master Joe Whitchurch. are visit- ing friends in Toronto. Miss Allie Blackburn of Mimico is spending a few Weeks in town with her mother and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Chas .Urquhart of Port Credit are guests of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. T.R. \K’helan, Mr. Bert Thompson, of Ault Wiborg Co.. Toronto, was in town Tuesday. Miss Eva Burnett returned yes- terday from visiting her sister at Paisley. Mi 5 Maud Caldwell of Buffalo is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. A.. Brown. Miss Jean Brown. Toronto, is holidaying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Brown. Dr. Hutton was in Berlin last week. Constable Arrowsmith was in Harriston Monday. Miss Reddy of St. Marys is vis iting in town. Mr. and Mrs. J.. F. Irwin spent a day in Toronto last week. Miss K. A. Firth is visiting with friends in Orangeville. Miss Inno Davidson is visiting friends in town. The Wolf: “"' onfound the Canadian Government, for that ‘lncreased Production and Mrs. W .D. Davis and .James of Priceville n a few hours on PERSONAL BETWEEN THE WOLF AND THE DOOR Mr. and Mrs. “'11) Black. Mr. and Mrs. T. Grasby and Mr and Mrs. Gordon, all of St. Marys, and Mr. and Mrs. Glenholm 01 Toronto. were in attendance at the funeral of the late Arthur Black. Dr. Hutton. Barrister Telford, Mr. and Mrs. Alex. ‘ Messrs. E. W. Limin, J. H John Robertson, W. Calder, John Towner, S. F. Molrlock J. G. Wil- son, R. Burnett, S. P. Saunders, E. Kress, W. J. Firth, and Derby, Wesenburg and Weber, went to Berlin yesterday to at- tend the. funeral of the late Mrs. nah-n . Mrs. Bruce Turner and children, Bernicia and Law of Detroit, are spending a weeks With her parents, Mr. Mrs. Chris. Firth. children, and Mr. Bunt. all of iting in town a. .wn'. bunt. all of Toronto, are Vis- iting in town and Vicinity at Fergus a couple of Weeks ago. has so far improved that she will be able to come home shortly; ed man was very old. a bachelor, and his household afi'airs were administer- ed by a Mrs. Ferguson. a widow. who, the evidenCe seemed to indicate. was endeavoring to induce him to make a will in her favor. The state attor- ney. by patching together bits of evi- dence, made a very good case. show- ing that the nephew. in whose favor a will had already been made. fearing that the woman would succeed in se- curing one giving her the property. had murdered his uncle to prevent his doing so. ' Mrs. Ferguson swore Thornton was with his night of the murder. the gether in the uncle’: In M claimed to have heard hi man. in Buffalo. The case was oneof those mysterious happenings that at- tract widespread attention. A nephew accused of murdering his uncle in or- der to secure his estate. The murder- Not long after this the hewspapers were filled with accounts of the mur- der of Richard Thornton, a wealthy The young man. surprised that the train would go no farther. made in- quiries and discovered that he must stop overnight in Cleveland. He at once began to examine the contents of his pocketbook and found that he had barely enough to pay his bill at a hotel. I asked him to permit me to lend him some funds but he refused. saying that he had just sufficient to get through. I insisted on his taking more and he said if I had any loose change in my pocket he would accept it as a loan. The only coin I had was my One day while traveling I fell in with a young man. with whom I chatted. On entering the station at Cleveland the car door was thrown open and a trainman called: “Cleveland! All out!" ing date of 1863. Since it marked the date of my fathel 8 death in battle ] prized it. and. instead of parting with it, I cut on it my father’s initials. My father was killed fighting on the northern side in the battle of Gettys- burg. on the 2d of July. I was old enough to remember the news of his death and the military funeral that was given him when his body was sent home. Thirty years after his death I was paid a silver dollar bear- ret A Valued Pocket Piece By JOHN Y. rguson swore that Edgar nus with his uncle on the e murder. the two being to- the uncle’: bedroom. She ve heard high words he; Edgar had left the house his brother-imam did not see Rich- and LaWrence. two We will give One Hundred D01- lars for any case of Deafness caus- ed by Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrn Cure. Send for circulars, free. F.J. CHENEY 8: C0.. Toledo, 0- Scld by druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for con- stipation. . by local applications, as they can- not reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by con- stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. \Vhen this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or im- perfect hearing, and when it ‘is entirely closed. Deafness is the re- sult, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube res- tored to its normal condition, hear- ing will be destroyed forever: nine cases out of ten are caused by Ca- tarrh, which is nothing but an in- flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED I have the pocket piece, more valued than ever. When Edgar Thornton went to his home on his release he faund it filled with flowers from sympathetic friends. There was a sensation in the court- room. A man who was about to be convicted of murder was acquitted and was heir to a fortune. When I asked how he happened to have been on a train instead of in a hotel in Butfalo he said he had found passage on a combination milk and passenger train. Mrs. Ferguson had perjured herself to be revenged on the man to whom she had lost her fortune. A human life might depend on my action. I took a train for Buffalo and when I arrived went to the courtroom where the trial was being held. In the prisoner I recognized my fellow trav- eler. I called for his attorney. told my story and was put on the stand. I testified that on a certain dateâ€"the evening of the murderâ€"I had entered Cleveland with the accused and had loaned him a silver dollar. which I described. The prisoner produced the identical dollar I had given him with the initials and date I had scratched on it. My meeting with the man to whom I had loaned a silver dollar flashed upon me. Could this Edgar Thornton be the person I had met? That per- son was to remain over in Cleveland at a hotel. The accused claimed to have been on a train. The prisoner has claimed that on the night the murder was committed he was traveling on a train between Cleveland and Buffalo. Mrs. Ferguson had perjured herselfâ€"in testifying that he was with his uncle. and the only person with him. on the night of the murder. I read the’ summing up of the case by the prosecutor. and my attention was attracted to these words: It did not take me long to make up my mind that the accused was guilty. He could not hm e been innocent unless The servants in the house were all against Mrs. Ferguson. testifying that she kept Mr. Thornton in a sort of im- prisonment, but they were persons of no education, and their evidence was easily pulled to pieces by the prosecu- tor. Indeed. Mrs. Ferguson proved that they had been liberally tipped by Ed- gar Thornton Whenever he had called on his uncle. I read the newspaper reports of the trial, missing only one day’s report. The next issue of the paper mentiOned that the accused had endeavored to prove an alibi. a'rd' Thornton till the next mOrning. when she found him dead. with a pil- low pulled over his face. A weak point in the prosecution was that some $200 that the deceased had on hand in a desk was missing. The state attorney declared that the ac- cused had taken the money in order to make it appear that the murder had been committed for the purpose of rob- bery. ' 99’ §§+§§§+§§§§§§§§§§§§#009040 §+§§§+§§§§ §§§++§§+§§§§§§§§fi w.q. REID, President Prizes increased this year by $3,000.00. Excellent Program ofAttrac- tions Twice Daily. 5Fall \Vheat ......... ...SI 10 to $1 {Spring \Vheat .......... 1 10 to 1 Milling Oats ............ 55 to Feed Oats ............... 55 to Peas .................... l 50 Lo 1 Barley ..... . ............ 6:3 to [Hay ..................... l3 ()0 to 15 Butter.................. 21m Eggs .................... 19 Lo Potatoes, per bag ....... 45 to Dried Apples ........... 3 to Flour, percwt .......... 3 50 to 4 Oatmeal, per sack ...... 3 50 to 4 Chop. per cwt .......... 1 50 to 1 Live Hogs. per cwt.... 8 50 to 8 Hides, per lb ............ 13 to Sheepskins .............. 35 to Wool........... .. Tallow .................. 5 to §§§§§§§¢§+§§§§§§§§+§§§§§+§Q’Q §§§§§§§§§§§+§§§§§§O§§§§ Mr. T. Young, and Misses Ethel and Hazel, visited with Mildmay friends recently. Messrs. George and Arthur Smith, W'illiam and John Derby, and Misses Jennie and Maggie Derby, motored to Owen Sound on Saturday and spent a most enjoyable time visiting friends. week in Cookstown friend, Miss Pollock. Miss Halpenny, a former teach- er here, also. her sister and brother visited with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. David Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Alex Grierson vis- ited with Mr. and Mrs. Byers re- cently. Miss Maggie Gilmour of Chesley is visiting at the old home. ‘Mrs. Tuller of Torontto, also her .sister, Miss Rachael Ford, spent some time with friends here. w are present to welcome him. Miss D. Carruthers o'-f Welland is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Hugh Fulton. Rev. A .L B’udzge of Creemore. formerly of Hampden, occupied the pulpit here for the last two Sundays. His many warm friends were present to welcome. him. of weeks with friends here Miss Rebecca Park of Cin is visiting three Weeks at t} ental home. Misses Barbara of Boston are 51 of weeks with h The garden party will be held on August 20. Further announce- ment next Week. Mr. John Henry and Miss Sarah Fulton spent Sunday with Proton friends. Mr. and Mrs. Hastings and Miss Jennie Lendrum of Toronto spent their vacation with the Sharp family." . ' Toronto, and Fare and One-‘ HAM-PDEN. We are‘ glad to report that Mr. Bert Marshall is imprm ing nicelx. Miss Mavis Cooper of Shelburne is visiting with her grandmother,- mr..- h- Mr. Andrew Derby has placed MARKET REPORT Warning Your Eyes 'rs. Cooper. The gardpl DURHAM, AUGUST 12. 1915 Music by the Best Available Bands Have You Clear Vision for Reading and Distance ? f; Are You Troubled with Headaches or Eye Strain ? If so you should consult a good optician, as headaches in the majority of cases come from the eyes and by having Glasses Properly Fit- ted will cure it. We use the most modern Test known “co-day namer “The Shadow Test” and guarantee sat-- isfact-ion. ‘ no GLASSES PRESCRIBED UNLESS NEEDED ‘ $30,000.00 in Prizes Prize Lists, 5 ’heat .......... 1 ats ............ .............................. 1 be; 52.1131'533553 ples ........... - cwt .......... 3 per sac ' ...... 3 cwt .......... 1 matchmaker, jeweler and Optician spending a cofiple and Attractions and Bella Byers Wart Duncan 6. town Entry Forms and from the Secret ary all Informat IO" of Cincinnati ,5 at the par- 15 00 :21 I!) l4 '4 z) 50 14 10 10 'Thll‘d from outs ode ponnts 7U Two Speed Events Daily. Fireworks Ever-y Night. New Steel Grandstand. Midway Better- Than Ever. Miss Lawrence of Durham, turned home after spending vacation among friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Noble spent Sunday with his brother. Joe. Miss Maggie McLean spent an afternoon with Mrs. Lamb. Mr. Thos. Reay lost a horse, which got hurt and died of blood- poisoning. The Misses Mvers and Hillgart- ner of Allan Pazk spent a day u 1th Mrs. John Ly 1m. A few of the folks from this burg took in the patriotic garden party, held at Mr. G. S. Hopkins’ Bentinck, and report a good time. Miss Maggie McLean of Toronto is spending the summer with her brother. Miss Ruby Knisley of Durham is spending her holidays with Mrs. John Clark. ABERDEEN. Miss Katie McAuliffe of Dur- ham has returned home. after spending a month with her aunt. Mrs. Jéhn Burns. Miss Maggie Derby and her cousin, Miss Margaret Kerr of Varney, are spending two weeks with friends at Sarnia. The eastern part of the south line Bentinck, is to be congratu- lated for the good work thev have begun for the Red Cross. It is a most uorthv cause to give a helping hand for the urgent needs of our country's noble. wounded and dying soldiers. new phone on the farm at Hamp- den. The truth of this statement has been proved in thousands of cases of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Constipation, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Skin Diseases, Rheumatism, Neuralgia and Chronic Headaches. - ___ -_-v AAWW‘J“C°O The enormous sales of ‘Fruit-a-tiwes,’ are the best proofs of the value q!" tbisfmit medicine. ' 00c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c ’ At dealers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. Healing Powers of Fruit Proved by “Fruit-aâ€"tives” The simple juices of apples, oranges, figs and prunes, when transformed into ‘Fruit-a-tives’ will relieve diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Kidney: and Skin. PRU”, THE GREAT PHYSICIAN September mm = l8th 1915 .HUNT, re- her