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“I did that,” he said calmly. Then, in answer to a questioning look, he went on: “You tidied up my desk so beautifully the other day that I thought it only fair to Y.‘tul'n the compliment. So Itidied up your sewing room.”-Chicago JournaL / If a boy is real naughty his mother apologizes by Saying: “He’s just like his father.”â€"Judge. To many a wife the chief end of man is stipend. “Why, they’ve made a mess of my sewing room,” explained his wife. “Needles, reels of cotton, scissorsâ€"everything has been hid- den away in the most unexpected places. It is really exasperatino.” Her husband laid down his pap- er and smiled benignly. “What have the little beggars been up to now?” asked father, looking up from his newspaper. “I really shall have to punish these children,” she began. A. busy housewife came into the sitting room with a determined look in her eyes. 9. Don’t‘ worry, keep your tem- per, and keep busy. 10. Sing. sing. sing! 8. Go to dances and enjoy your- self. But try, on most nights to he in bed by twelve. 6. Eat plenty of plain fooi. Take a light breakfast, a substantial dinner, and a cold supper, with plenty of vegetables. 7. Avoid candy, alcoholic drinks and “New York hours.” '2. Use plenty of soap an-dwater. Fancy soap and expensive toilet preparations are unnecessary. 3. Take a bath every day. 4. Take plenty of outdoor exer- cise, with all the sunshine and fresh air you can. 5. Help with the houseWOrk, and sing While you work. Beauty rules of Miss Gertruie, M. Fisher of Philadelphia, pro- nounced the most beautiful girl in all America by the National Photo- graphers’ Association; Ebenezer church purpOse hOl’Jin}! a social on Friday evening, Decem- ber the 17th. A good program is being prepared. Refreshments wiil be served, only 15 cents. Every? body welcome. We extend our congratulations to Mr. W. Wells and Miss Carrie Johnston who were married on W‘ednesday, November 24th. at; Dromore. ' Mr. Robert Aljoe sr., Miss Annie Aljoe, Mrs. M. C. Scott, Mr. Samuel fond Harrison. iMr. Harrison brought them out and back in his car. Mr. John Andrews has moved on to the farm be rented from Mrs. Pollock, Holstein.» We Wish them success in their new home. The heaviest snow fall of the season fell yesterday, about a foot of snow on the level. Miss Sarah Jack, of Toronto, was the guest of Mrs. C. .Ritchie a cou- ple of days the beginning of the week. Sorry to hear of the illness of Mr Andrew Scott, but hOpe he mav soon be around again in his usual health. . ‘ Mrs. C. Ritchie and daughter vi- sited last week in Hanover. ‘PRETTIEST GIRL’S’ 10 RULES OF BEAUTY Rev. Mr. Meyer visited Thursday in the burg and held prayer meet- ing at Will Andrew’s. Mr. John McGirr is having the telephone installed which is a great convenience to eVery farmer. Mr. Murray Ritchie purchasei a new circular saw. Mr. Will Jacque’s new clover Hulling machine did 300d work and the clover seed turned out well. 5 ' ’ . i Sleep eight hours every night Privates A. M. Bell and Lance McGirr visited their respective Da- r'ents. ’ Mr. Angus McArthur of the Glen: : mas through the burg recently anij bought up some pigs rea 1y for shipping. 3 HOW HE GOT EVEN. December 2, 191 D DARKIES CORN ER’S McW’ILLIAMS 400 men to .be drawn from the 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles and the Fort Garry Horse, who are now in Eng- land. This new brigade will Salmon as _the Canadian Mounted 0 Br! Six Canadian cavalry regiments. now included in the Corps Troop 8 now in France under Major-General Mer- cier, will be reorganized into an in- tantry brigade, with the addition of -nuuc. “AU 5“ DUMB“; .-_ -_- _-----.. , New Greek Note Sent {over 104,000 Canadian forces overseas Last week it was believed that all without the loss of a single man. and difficulties between Greece and the Practically without 8 8111816 hitch in allies had been surmounted, but it was regard to commissariat arrangements found necessary to send another note for tI‘OOPS en route. to Greece, the reply to which 13 prom.l ised immediately. The allies now de-l Frost Start: In Serbia mand not only assurance of the safety ; Winter a ears virtually t h‘" of their troops, but adequate railway an end to pguy important £0333: facilities for their tranSportation. the in Serbia, although the Austrians are withdrawal of Greek troops from the . proceeding to deal with the Montene- vicinity of Salonica and the policing grins, whose frontier they have cross- of Greek waters against German sub- ; ed. With continuous snow terms marmeS. l reaching the proportions of 8 him, , , fthese operations must be , ‘7 es- New Canad'an Reglment Ipecially ‘as the Serbians and on ene. Six Canadian cavalry _regiments. .331.“ are still offering stubborn re- -Am :“A‘QCAAJ :- LL- h____, Victor Carlstrom, the Swedish aviator, set this year’s record for cross-country flying when he com- pleted a flight of 600 miles, from Tor- onto to New York, in 6 hours and 40 minutes of actual flying time. This means that he flew 600 miles at the average rate of a mile and 'a half a minute. which is one of the fastest distance flights on record. Leaving Toronto at 9.48 a.m. on Wednesday, he landed at Binghamton, N.Y., at 1.81 p.m. Starting Friday from Bingham- ton at 2.10 p.m., he flew over New York city and landed on the Palisades near Fort Lee, N.J., at 5.07 p.m. His landing was perhaps the most re- markable part of the flight, as he was in darkness and was forced to pick out the indistinct outline of a field, where the machine came down at the rate of 40 miles an hour, without in- jury or jar to the aviator. The field was pretty muddy and the machine will have to be dug out. Government Commandeer Wheat to Assist in Feeding Allies On the receipt of a large order for Canadian wheat from the British Gov- ernment suddenly took action to com~ mandeer all the wheat of grades .‘Nos. 1. 2 and 3 Northern, at present in store :n the elevators at the head of the lakes and eastward. The total amount thus commandeered is esti- mated at from tn elve to fifteen million i-ushels. In other wc rds, the Govern- ment has decided to expropriate at fair market prices, to be fixed later this quantity of whe. in order to fil' the Pritish Government’s order. Tht whea thus commandeered does not include 'grain in western elevators or in the farmers' hands «r grain in tran- sit at the time the order was passed, and the usual grain business, as it amt-ts selling, will int he interfered with. except in so far as the wheat now in the eastern terminals is af- fected. The ordy' issued at Fort Wil- liam in consequence created great consternation ,at Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto and ot'ier points, and the wires all day were kept busy with in-1 quiries as to why. it meant and what its effect would be on wheat prices. Carlstrom Flies at Rate of Mile'and a Half a Minute ‘1 hes been 'no ‘ material a: nitration along the ‘ n, The weather has bee a ‘ times very foggy. Lit I len. Our working pa: '. ntlnuouoaly employe Y1 ' tion of our trenches ,-' 01'3ny improved. on of tosky days to reconnaissances w German lines. The enemy’s retalia- tion was very weak and ineffectual. Brig-Gen. Garnet Hughes has assum- ed command of our First Infantry Brigade and Brig-Gen. Rennie of our Fourth Infantry Brigade. The health of our troops remains good." flying corps co-operated with our artil- lery, directing the fire of our heavy guns and“ dropping bombs over the ' ‘ uuuuvuvol’ employed, and the con. ! tion of our trenches has - been con- . erably improved. Advantage was on of may days to carry out care- reconnaissances within our lines or ground normally exposed to 'the gemy’s view. Additional routes to e front trenches were laid out. Enemy Trenches Bad “(:3th sections of the enemy'i trenches .and communicating trenches still appear to be in poor condition gain causing - him a lot of trouble. . ping and baling is being con- tinualiy carried on. Enemy attacks on a small scale have not been un- a common. Fog interfered with obser- vations, but on several occasions they were interrupted or dispersed by the fire of our artillery and machine guns. In the early morning of Nov. 20 a . German who was throwing bombs into fiour trenches from an old mine crater between the lines was shot bye one of our sentries. After daylight it was seen that this man had crawled from the crater to within 25 yards of the enemy's parapet. Ptes. J. J. Milne and A. Bonner of the 27th City of Winnipeg Battalion volunteered to in- vestigate, and later in the day, al- though under heavy fire. succeeded in reaching the body. Various articles of value for identification purposes were secured and brought in. Germans Fired on Own Men One remarkable fact is that in one place, apparently under the belief that an assault had taken place. the Ger~ man artillery opened fire on their own front line trench and practically de- stroyed one of their own strong posi- tions. A considerable portion of the enemy front line was evacuated dur- . ing the bombardment and only re- occupied after dusk with great we , 1 caution. During this bombardment the . “Certain sections 1 finches and communic still app‘ear to be in an causing him a 1 pin: and balms finally carried on. I on a small scale have The Weekly Record of the Canadiahe Well up to Standardâ€"Chilling: is Marked by Outstanding Events ‘ Major-General Sir Sam Hughes. ! flinister of Militia has received the In. Our working parties have been .‘gontlnuguoaly 9mD19yed. and the con-' ' A‘-_ Canadian Wheat Seized Great Flight Henry Ford, automobile proposing a peace scheme. Five thousand miners in the Rhond- da Valley, Wales, have gone on strike because of the employment of non- unionists. Eistance. The Canadian Army Transport Ser- vice, under the direction of 001. J. Lyons Biggar and Lieut.-Col. Emmett Clarke, has made a notable record in connection with the transport work of the British Admiralty in sending over 104,000 Canadian forces overseas without the loss of a single man. and practically without a single bitch in regard to commissariat arrangements for troops en route. The bill providing for the calling to the colors of the young conscripts of 1917, a measure recently sanctioned by the army committee of the Cham- ber of Deputies, provoked a stormy debate in the chamber in Paris, Pre- mier Briand participating in the dis- cussion. The bill provides for bring- ing into the service approximately 400,000 young men who in times of peace would begin military service in 1917, its members being 18 and 19 years of age. On urging its adoption, Gen. Gallieni, War, Minister, said he insisted that the class be put at his disposal at the earliest possible mom- ment in order that it may be ready in the spring of 1916, the time when, said he, “in concert with our allies, our reinforcements and our arma- ments will permit us to make the de- cisive effort.” hand combats women were seen thrusting their knives into the throats 0t Turks. When every warrior had fallen. several of the younger women who were in danger of falling into the hands of the Turks threw them- selves trom the rocks, some of them with infants in their arms." French War Minister Says Allies’ Decisive Effort Next Spring air for many days. Then followed one of those heroic struggles for life which have always been the pride of the mountaineers. Men, women and children fought with knives, scythes and stones. ‘ In the frightful hand-to- “Turkish prisoners, .who witnessed these scenes, were maddened at re- membering the sight. The odor of burning flesh,__they say. permeated the Fire was set to sheds and these help- less women and children were roast- ed to death. Many women went mad and threw away their children. Some women knelt down and prayed amid the flames which were burning their bodies. Others shrieked for help, and the executioners grasped infants by one leg and hurled them into the the Armenians entrenched themselves in churches and stone-built houses and fought for four days in self- defence, but Turkish artillery, man- ned by German officers, made short work of all the Arm inian positions, and every one of the Armenian lead- ers as well as their men were killed in the fighting. The scenes which followed are repulsive. The shortest means employed for disposing of the women and children was bu burning. Wholesale Violation “The female relatives of victims who came to the rescue were assault- ed in public before the ‘very eyes of their mutilated men. The shrieks and death cries of the victims filled the air, yet they did not move the Turkish beast. In the town of Mush itself ’unhappy refugees when it is known Lwhat they have suffered. The suf- . terings of the peasants and the moun- taineers in the regions of Van, Mush and Sanun," Viscount Bryce says, “seem to have been even more ter- rible than were those of the peaceful 8,000 soldiers, whom he called “but- cher battalions.’ He massacred most of the Christians at Sairt, and order- ed his soldiers to burn in the public squares the Armenian Bishop, E81186 Vartayed, and the Chaldean BishOp, Addai‘ Sher. On June 25 the Turks surrounded the town of Bitlis and cut its communications with neigh- boring Armenian villages. All the men were shot outside the town and buried in deep trenches dug by the victims themselves. The young wo- men and children were distributed among the rabble. The remainder, the ‘useless lot,’ were driven to the south, and drowned in the Tigris. The head men of the villages were subjected to revolting tortures. Their fingernails and then their toenails were forcibly extracted, teeth were knocked out, and in some cases noses were whittled down, the victims thus being done to death under shocking agony. details of further Armenian massacreé which, he 8838, “surpass in horror what has been published already.” “I feel,” he says, “that such crimes ought to be' exposed to the utmost, and that the charity of other nations .__‘“ _-_- A‘ Great Transport Record The End Draws Near Miners Out Again Scenes of Terror It”: IN'HRA-fi “HKH’N‘z Egm . mmmammnmmewea * -_'M -â€"â€"â€" *â€" â€"v-“w-“ “Why?” “This morning I killed Por- thosâ€"poor Porthos! Oh, what trouble I have had to make up my mind to do it! But there must be an end to all things. Yet when 1 saw him sink be- neath the ruins,- crying, ‘It is too heavy, too heavy for me!’ I swear to you that I cried!” And be wiped away-a tear with the sleeve of his dressing gown. Dumas and His Porthos. Dumas, like Balzac, was fond of his own creations. Among, them all he loved Porthos best. The great, strong. vain hero was a child after his own heart. One afternoon, it is related. his son found Dumas careworn, wretched, overwhelmed," “What has happened to you? Are you ill?” asked Dumas fils. “No,” replied Dumas pere. “Well, what is it then?” “I" am miserable.” “mi... 9” “n“. ,o a l act. The nations of the {vest have 'noi adopted this ancient custom as a form or salutation, but have reserved it for the more tender relationships of life.â€" Christian Herald. Royal Kisses. The kings and high omcials of En- r0pe when they meet always embrage and kiss each other, no matter what their relations have been in the‘past or may be in the immediate future, This is a kiss of respect. It may be given on the lips, the cheeksthe brow or the beard and is nicely adjusted, ac- cording to the age and rank 0: the giver. From this close personal con- tact it passes through many forms- kissing the hand, parts of the cloth- ing and even the ground trodden upon, according to the idea of respect or fear inspiring the one who performs the fish nets. Every'ten years thereafter the bark is stripped, each year two feet higher up, until the tree is forty or fifty years old, when it is in its prime, ._3 _.â€"â€" When eight or ten years more have elapsed the outer bark has again grown, and then the tree is stripped four feet from the roots. This stripping is very coarse and is used to make floats for There are two barks. the outer or which is stripped for use. The cork is valuable according as it is soft and velvety. When the sapling has reach- ed the age of ten years it is stripped of its outer bark for two feet from the ground. The tree will then \be about , . five inches in diameter and about six meg to the met that “‘0 1190‘ feet up to the branches. This stripping trical wiremen have not been able ls worthless. The inner bark appears {,0 meet the demands 0f applica- blood red, and if it is split or injured “on? 39d 019:3? up the defects on the tree dies. the msrde Wiring of a great many When eight or ten vears more have houses, 1;? togder hals befen given ‘ . 0 cu 0 e supp v 0 current elapsed the outer bark has agam grown, . .~ . and then the tree is stripped four fnnf “at” a reasonable time has bun WIRING NOTICE f How They Are Stripped of Their Bark at Ten Year Intervals. An important industry in Spain is the cultivation of cork trees. This tree is an oak which grows best in the poor- 'est soil. It cannot endure frost and must have sea air and also some alti- tude. It is found all along the coast of Spain, the northern coast of Africa and the northern shores of the Mediterra- Week. ferred, under the mistaken impression that they would prove more eatable than other varieties. They proved to be detestable in all cases-Every Many experiments. most of them un- willing. were made .with the flesh of dogs during the Paris siege. New- foundlands and St. Bernard: were me Another peculiarity of this dog is its lack of the barking faculty. It is said- that the dog can bark, and on oco casions does so. but these occasions The dog is destined from the begin. ning for the table. Like the edible rat of the same country. it is red mainly upon vegetable food. which is often delicately prepared and specially de- vised, in order to give the dog’s flesh a peculiar flavor and aroma. The re- sult is something quite diflerent from the flesh of the ordinary dog of the western world. The genuine . Chinese edible dog is known by its bluish black tongue, which is a peculiar mark of its variety. In infancy and early youth the dog’s tongue is red, and upon reaching ma‘- turity and the edible age it suddenly becomes black. sometimes within two They Are Fed Mainly Upon Daintily Prepared Vegetable Food. English bon vivants have tested the merits of the Chinese edible dog. and t_he3_* pronounce it very good dog in- Calendars and Greeting Cards need to be mailed to dist- ant parts very early, es- pecialiy this year. -mâ€"nuâ€"m-( CHRISTMA S CARDS " )'-(ltâ€"ll nâ€"n )-( CORK TREES 0F SPAIN. Come and see me nice line we have â€"and so reasonable. CHINESE .EDIBLE morning I killed Por- Macfarlane’s Drug Store Age nt liness in manufacture; a purity. exalted l co-operanqn of -vork~ers rmzcd for the pu a purity demonstrated by. :32» “fill-(k? guar: which rests upon every L ' " " ‘ ‘QHT . :.‘.X' c! Quin... SPECIAL NOTICE One slightly used Piano at at Hug-min. High grade Pianos of several makes. Columbia Grafoiiolas and Records. Musical II‘lSDI‘UIlleIIDS and Supplies. Singer and White: Sewing: Machines A substitute for Sun/:glxt is no! can be. Insist upon :lae (mu . Snell amed bx absolute clean- I. puritx exa Red bv the 1 :1? ed {‘0' (In par pose: x ::--7} "3:".‘31.’ fuarun..:e " :‘J g... insbs (JET DUAP. not a: good and Isa-er gmuineâ€"Sum‘mm 5mm given to meet the situation. When the time arrives howew-r, that all can be served by the electricians, a time limit will we set. and all who have not complied with the regulations will be cut off W. H. Croydon, ' District Inspector, Jovember 10 1915 with it bears the Kcu, Durhm