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Linoleums and Floor Oilcloths House Furnishings The Highest Prices for Produce Boots and Shoes Wall Paper Rugs Ladies’ dongola. blucher. very dressv Men’s Box Kip Blucher ! Chas. Picot, a Collingwood lbutcher, assigned with liabilities amounting to $2,700 and assets of !$350. . Short Bits of Live News Bolton BOv Scout Association has disbanded for the .want of a competent instructor. W. J. Moodie of Buskview has resigned the position of tax col- lector for Mulmur township. Miss Ruby Featherstone of Creemore, fell and fractured her right arm above the wrist. Midland tax rate has been fixed at 30 mills. While Mr. and Mrs. A. Matchett of Creemore, were out driving he was stricken with paralysis and is in a precarious condition. Jennie, 8-year-old daughter of Reuben Batho of Kenilworth, fell from a hammock and sustained a fracture of her collar bone. The Prince Edward Island Gov- ernment was re-elected . Thursday by a majority of four. Floyd Montgomery, five-year- old son of Alex. Scott of Aurora, was drowned at Sutton. Northern Ontario’s grain crap shows an increase of 40 per cent. over last year. Rome rep0rts that German troops have reinforced the Austri- ans and a general offensive a- gainst the Italians is expected. Mrs. Jos. Hanna, aged 4-3. a res- ident of Kinloss township, was killed in a runaway accident on the Durham road. It is reported from nonstantiunq ple that the "Turks have transfer- red the State archives to. Angora. in the heart of Asiatic Turkey. When the sun went down on an incomplete job of threshing on the Geo. W'. Soure farm, east of Hunt- ington, Oliver Kline, one of Hunt- ington county’s farmers, wheeled his automobile into range of the threshing outfit and turned on the headlights. Threshing was com- pleted with the artificial light. Principal Gordon received nom- inations for the position of Chan- cellor of Queen’s University. King- ston, made vacant by the death of Sir Sanford Fleming. Dr. James DouglaS, a Canadian resident in New York, was the only nominee. and designs *W .7" ,, “#33 m DURHAM CHRONICLE 2.25 2.10 ABAPTIfliIS BRING He Dailies With Some Noted Verse Makers and Kicks. TOO MUCH POETIC LICENSE. The Big Guns of Literature, In His 095050". Take. Liberties the Little Ones Would Not Dare. Take and Cites Examples to Prove His Case. “I’ve been dipping into poetry,” re- marked the casual caller. “not as a writer, you understand, but as a read- er. At that I think 1 could do as well as some of them if I could also write my own license. “The mere versifler must stick to all the rules of the game or be treated as a joke, but the fellow who can get across with the idea that he’s a real lng her off in the actâ€"unless he mount- ed backward? And who but a poet himself would license a poet to make his hero do such a fool thing as that? Those Netherby people would have died laughing at the spectacle. And that’s only the start, for we also have: “And save his good broadsword he weap- (ms had none; He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. “Silly, isn’t it, to crack a man up as riding unarmed when he carried a broadsword that ranked with the weapons of those days about where a machine gun does now? We wouldn‘t boast of the nerve of a man these days who went to call on his ladylove with a gatling, would we? “These poetry heroes do such very foolish things! There’s also ‘Horatius.’ you know: “So he spake, and. speaking. sheathed His good sword by his side. And, with his harness on his back. Plunged headlongin the tide. “Can you imagine it? A man with a couple of tons of iron attached to his person and very likely a spiked helmet diving head first into a river! Why, he’d have spiked himself to the bottom so hard that he’d be there yet. It’s supremely ridiculous, and no one but a major poet would have dared even hint at such a thing. What Horatius really did, if he had the sense of a brass pup, was to jump in feet first so that he could begin churning himself to the surface the minute he struck the water. “But it’s when he monkeys with ships and railroad trains that the poet becomes most absurd: “ ‘We are lost!’ the captain shouted As he staggered down the stairs. “Remember that old favorite, illus- trating the power of faith? Read it to a seafaring man some day and hear him snort. Why. a captain who‘d leave his post in a storm and go skipping down to the cabin to throw a scare into his passengers couldn’t hold a job as a mule driver for a canal boat Think of it! A great storm when he‘s needed to handle the ship. and the poet sends him bellowing into the cab. in to start a panicâ€"with no reason for it either, for we learn later that they ‘anchored safe in harbor when the sun was shining clearl‘ It’s on a par with the engineer’s sstory: “The train was heavily laden. so I let my 6uTak‘ it it isn’t.” Well, 1 have, and I am sorry now that I listened to the casual caller. I can no longer read poetry with my for- mer careless appreciation of it; I pave become too, critioaLâ€"Emott Flower in Chicasefisfiléz- ' ' ‘ ".-"--._â€" “m Ina three-minute session on Thursday the Russian Duma was prorogued until November. Radi- cal and .Laborit-e members voiced obfzxactions. Blowing out of fuses in the batteries caused the loss of the U. S. submarine F-8. With the entire crew, in Honolulu harbOr some months ago. Importance is attached to the decision of Russia to call to the colors the reserves of the Terri- torial army. Should the age limit be fixed at 35 years it would mean-the possible addition of eight million men to the Russian armies. ' Mrs. Elizabeth Oliver, an aged woman and a former resident of Preston, living at Hamilton. was found dead on tne floor of her bedroom. ' ' The new plant of the Canadian Pulp and Lumber Co., which was built on the site of the one des- troyed by fire several months ago. was started on Saturday and will run night and day. Sir Sam Hughes visited Peter- boro fair Saturday and was ten- dered a luncheon at the Empress Hotel, after which aldresses were made to the Minister by the Con- servative Association, the W0- men’s Council, the Board of Trade and the Speakers’ Patriotic League. The Italian and Russian freight handlers of the Northern Naviga- tion sheds returned to work after having been on strike for four days. From now on 300 men will be employed in the sheds. door neighbors. 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