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The Family Menagerie The stranger sat down 'by the side of the road'to rest when a lad from a nearby farmhouse walked up and'started to tell about his pets. “Well,” said the stranger. “so you have a whole yard full of pets. have- n‘t you?” ”Yep, an' a house full, too,” was the prompt reply. “Mother is a deer. Baby Mary is a little lamb, I’m the kid and N’s the “Li” That day I pulled the stakes to my traps and took them home and threw them into the scrap-heap. vowing that my trapping days were overâ€" Christmas money or no Christmas money. The springs of the trap had cut deep into the animal‘s leg. the skin was torn and the tlesh lacerated to the bone. The hairs ot‘ the nose were stifl and frosted from its frozen breath. The earth torn about indi- cated that the torture had been go- ing on for hours. The anguish of this poor creature lett imprinted on' my mind a picture not easily for- gotten. I soon put it out ’of misery, wondering that I had not opened my eyes to the cruelty and torture of trapping long before. One winter morning I set out across the hills to my traps. A light flurry of snow had fallen the night hefure. and the morning air was crisp. rold and penetrating. I found the llrst traps undisturbed, so I eagerly rompeil on to my last trap with expectancy. Sure enough, I look at the poor creature destroyed all the joy of my anticipation. me as vividly as if it happened yesâ€" terday. l was a boy in my teens, living with my parents on a farm in the mark Hills. There were twelve of us children in the family. Most of father‘s earnings went for neces.. saries of life leaving but little for luxuries, even at Christmas time; so I had fallen bark on fur-bearing ani- mals to supply me with money for such occasions. ' THE DAY I QUIT TRAPPHIG (J. Faulkner in Our Dumb Animals.) l wo-ll eromber the day. It was years ago. but it all cumbs back to Mrs. Archip McDougall is visiting friends in Durham this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. are at present visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Lunnvy and family. Mrs. McDonald. Sr., is ill at present. We hope she will soon be in her usual health. Miss I". McDonald, Hamilton, and Mrs. James Sumpton 0! Port Elgin attended the funeral Friday of their little nephew, Leslie McDonald, and remained the \xeek-end, visiting their sister, Mrs. A. Hastie and other friends here. Little Leslie was their darling, ~ Pride of all their hearts at home, But an angel came and whispered, “Leslie, darling, dear, come home." Colds and la grippe are all the lashien these days. Sorry to say We extend heartfelt sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Alex. J. McDonald and daughter Myrtle in the sad loss of their little son and brother, who died February 7, aged 10 months. Interment took place on Wednes- day, February 7, (0 Latona cemetery, Rev. Mr. Sillars, her pastor, conduct- ing the services. assisted by Rev. Mr. Aird. friends. Th0 deceased, whose maiden 1.1m» was Ann Morrison" was born in Ross Mull. Argyllshire, Scotland in 129. A well known and respected citi- zen, and who was one of the oldest pioneers of Bentinck Township. passed away very peacefully Mon- day morning, February 5, in the person of Mrs. John McCallum. aged 94 years. She had always‘been a healthy and strong woman until a few months ago her health failed noticeably. hunky. him-nary a, m. forgotten by her many you are. It may be near when it seems afar; So stick to the fight \\ hen V‘Ou re hardest. hitâ€" Its when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit. Success is failure turned inside out, The\silve1 tint of {he clouds of doubt And you never can tell how close ‘â€"‘ ‘- v‘fctor’s'cup. - ' And he learned too late, when the night slipped down. How Close he was to the golden crown. ’ Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a faint and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the slowâ€"â€" You may succeed with another blow â€"v stuck it out: Don’t give up, thongh the pace seems Life is queer with its twists and turns. As ev ery one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about When he-m‘ight have won, had he When the road you‘re irudging seems all up hill. When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is prnssing you down a bit. Rest if you mustâ€"~but don’t von nnit’ Mrs. Thomas Fleming, 3rd Concession of Bentinck, when a large number of friends and neighbors gathered to spend a social evening with them be- fore their departure for Toronto in the near future. The evening was pleasantly spent in games, dancing and music. In the course of the ev- ening an address was read and each one, including the children, was presented with a nice gift. Though very much taken by surprise, Mr. and Mrs. Fleming gave a few words of thanks and expressed regret at leaving the neighborhood, but for the sake of their family they were leaving to live in Toronto where they could receive an education. The son even though miles divided them. They would be back to visit them as often as possible. The Fleming farm has been pur- chased by the Clerk of Bentinck, Mr. Herb. Chittick, who, with his family will take possession in a short time. DON’T QUIT \Vlwn things go wrong as they some- times will, Bantinck Family Honored. Last. Friday was the occasion of a happy_event at the home of Mr. and Get him to give you a Spinal An- alysis and ascertain just what. con- dition your spine) is in. It will pay you. Consultation free. Call and see us. Dre. c. G. and Bessie Iachivray Chimprsctic Specialists Iiddaugh louse, Durham. Chronic, Nervous and Spinal Diseas- es 3 Specialty. See your Chimpractor, ask for more information regarding his won- derful Science. 'flie Chimpractor is a spine spe- cialist, a human machinist who has been trainnd Ln annw the spine thor- oughly. Mechanical defects cannot be cor- rected by‘the employment of drugs. The Chiropractor relieves this pinching by Chiropractic Spinal Ad- justments with his bare hands only. The diaplaced bones are put back into their normal position, the pinching is relieved, the life force flows uninterruptedly and Health is the result. Ninety-five per cent. of so-called Disease is caused by a subluxation (displacement) of one or more ver- tehrae of the spine, which causes an Do you know that it. has been proven beyond a reasonabie doubt that as a prophylactic method, Chi- ropractic stands head and shoulders above any other? Doyou know that in the recent "flu" epidemic Chiropiactors only lost one case out of 886, or one-ninth of one per cent? Do you know that there are ten thousand ChimpraCtors who are mavtising their profession in the country at the present time, and that still the supply is not equal to the demand"? Do you know that Chiropractic is entirely (litferent to any other form of Drugless Science and that it has nothing in common with Osteopathy? ABOUT CHIROPRACTIC Do you bellow that it is a Health ‘ience which is daily relieving the ufl‘ering of thousands and saving ousands from a promaturv grave? Is your bPlief based upon actual oxpc-rienm- nr simply upon hearsay. 01' is it a mattm‘ of fact that you have giwn the subject little serious thnught‘.’ - "A knu- no YOU now ,-â€"-but don’t you quit! It is said on good authority that the-gwlogists have found among the Tushar Mountains in Utah a Lu‘ge deposit, of alunite, a rare mineral that is exceedingly valuable because it contains aluminum, potash and SUIDhuric acid, all in easily reduc- ible form. Commercially it is an in- viting substance, for it is said that any one of its three constituents will pay for the work of extracting all three, so that the other We are alli profit. Aluminum is a light and dur- able metal suitable for ahu’ndred uses and the commercial supply: has never been equal to "the demand. ,Botb potash and sulphuric acid are we in this country can easily ima- gine, but how immeasurably the hope of a tolerable future for the EurOpean millions would he imprnv- ed if France and Germany could agree to bury the ambitions and the hatreds both of the past and of the present! How difficult it is to get two na- tions that are looking at an .inter- national situation from entirely dif- ferent angles to see things in the same way! United States Secretary Hughes urges France to consent to a reduction of the German debt and t0 \‘lt‘W the reparation problem as a purely economic ail‘air, without any political bias. So far we have not heard of any Frenchman of import- anee who is in the least impressed with the appeal. The reason is plain.| .The reparation problem is for the l'nited States nothing in the world but a.problem in economics. The same is true in large measure 01‘ Great Britain. But for France it is both economic and political. Until France and Germany forget the cen- turies of national rivalry and the re- peated attempts at conquest first by one nation, then by the other, every issue between them will be compli- cated by political feeling of the most rancorous kind. There is unfortun- ately no prospect that the moment of mutual forgiveness is at hand. France has more to fear from an economically strong Germany than on the roof of the city hall. After the Chicago tire Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom Brown’s School Days, assuming that the city library had been destroyed, collected ten thou- sand five hundred volumes in Eng- land and on the continent of Europe !88_ a present to the city. The English 1 people' did not know that Chicago had never had a library. When the books arrived the mayor had them put into the disused water tank, where the library flourished for sev- eral years. The present library, which contains about a million vol- umes, is one of the finest in the world. The Chicago Public Library in celebrating its fiftieth anniversary calls to mind the fact that it began life in an abandoned iron water tank lie-en among the most healthful months and the great flood of sick- ness has come in midwinter. A great Neal of it begins with a “common cold," which most persons regard too lightly: they do not realize the danger to themselves or the likeliâ€" hood of their passing the infection on to others. bow-n Summer was once the season of sickness, in comparison with which winter was healthful; but of late )vars June, July and August have l The building industry in the U. S. after the busiest year in its history, seems assured of another year of the same sort. Much more building is expected in 1923 than was done in 1922, but the increase will be largely in buildings of an industrial, com- mercial or institutional nature rath- er than in dwelling houses, which formed the greater part of the busi- ness of 1922. At some places in the Sierra Neva- da and the Cascade Mountains from thirty to forty feet of snow falls dur- ing the winter months. At Summit, California. which has an elevation of about seven thousand feet, there has been recorded sixty feet of snow in a single season and about twenty- five feet in a single month. Sending a letter by radio from Am- ica to any point in throne is not un- like sending a night letter by tele- graph in this country. Letters tiled in New York on Saturday are deliv- ered in Eur0pe the following Mon- day. The charge is six cents a word (me of the great new locomotives Of an Eastern railway is said to in- corporate every valuable device that the makers could put into it. It has hauled at rain more than a mile long, containing 147 cars, which. when loaded, weighed 10,039 tons. In parts of South America the peo- ple hold a civil engineer in such great esteem that when they call a man a doctor without any qualifica- tion they mean that he is a doctor. not of medicine, but‘of engineering. FACT AND COMMENT THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Those who stay near the bgttom of the ladder haven't far to fan. When time hangs heavy on you: hands, pawn your watch. 130mg” mare Elan the average keeps the average up. ' usually late. What you do when you have noth- ing to do is what counts. At a well attended meeting of the teachers of Markdale and vicinity on Saturday it was resolved to form an organization to be known as the Markdale District Teachers Associa- tion, and the following officers were elected: Honorary President, Bob- ert Wright, Public School Inspector. South Grey; President, Wt J. Mes- senger; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Margaret Leslie; Miss McPherson and Miss Sergeant in charge of the Senior and Junior School Commit- tees, respectively. The object of the organization is that the teachers may gain inspiration and help through the discussion of methods of teach- ing. All teachers in Public of Sep- arate schools are eligible tor mem- bership. MARKDALB TEACHERS ORGANIZB They talk of us living, Wit-h circumspect walk, Our efforts are useless; For 1:00pm WILL talk. They talk of our past, They talk of our fears, They talk of our smiles, They talk of our tears. They talk if we’re single, They talk if we’re wed, And if we are happy They talk of us dea‘d. They talk of our joys, They talk of our woes, They talk of our loved ones: They talk of our foes. If we are rich They call us a thief, Scofl' at our sorrows, And laugh at our grief. If we are poor, They say we Shirkâ€"- If we go to the church And offer up prayers, They say We are hypocrites And putting on airs. If we go to the opera, Some one will say We should go to the church And learn how to pray. PEOPLE WILL TALK Yes, people will talk; The saying is true; They will talk about me, They will talk about you. age who earned during the'past 12 months $400.00, must also be entered and given the right to vote. This simply means that every married woman whose husband is a tenant or ovmer of land to the value of $100.00 in any township or village; $200.00 in a town of 3,000, and $300.00 in a town having a pOpulation of more than 3,000 must he. placed on the assessment roll and given the‘ right to vote at municipal elections; also any man or woman 21 years of 70 are always lazy And never would work. l The rating for land shall be in ros- pect of a freehold or leasehold. legal or equitable or partly or each to an amount not less than : . In villages and townships. $100.00. In towns having a population not exceeding 3,000, $200.00. In towns having a population ex- ceeding 3,000, $300.00. ' In cities, $400.00 Or having an income from am trade, office, calling or profession of not less than $400.00 “Of the full age of 21 years; Brit- ish subject by birth or naturalizaâ€" tion; rated or entitled to be rated on the last assessment roll of the local municipality for land held .in his or her own right as owner or tenant. or so rated or entitled to be so rated for income or who was entered or was entitled to be entered on such roll as a farmer’s son, or who is the wife or husband so ratedeor entitled to be rated for land as owner or tenant.” Assessors in the ditl‘erent munici- palities are now commencing their :work. The task this year is much greater than, heretofore, requires greater care. and if a complete list is to be provided must receive study and attention not necessary in for- mer years. I'nder an amendment to the Assessment Act, passed at the‘ last session of the Legislature \v 0- men are entitled to vote under the in constant use. The potash is of eg- pecial value in producing mineral fertiliznr. For years Germany has had alums! 'a monomly of cheaply pruduomi potash. - PERT PARAGRAPHS always in a hurry are EVERYBODY VOTES N OW Life is just a slow arid painful process of accumulating tax receipts. You never can tell abouâ€"tâ€" the styles but a few years from now the girls You can’t tell by the lacks of a woman’s fur coat how soon her hus- band will finish the instalments. 1! little Willie is baffled in his arithmetic, don’t worry. He may make a great, detective some day. In a hick town a promifient family is one that keeps a cow. Some peeplo think theyvz'u'e thrifty because they wish they hadn‘t spent so much last month. What we can’t figure out is how the stark always knows which fam- ily is behind with the rent and gro- cery bill. Another diflorence between death and taxes is that «loath doesn’t soak you harder when you work hard and prosper. Surrender-ins liberties in war timn is much like bobbing hair. The hard part is to get them back. ' «rm-root. this sentence: “She was HM and pour and ugly, and sewn nu-n arose and ofl‘ered their seats.” The average man thinks he has a spirit because he sympathizes with a criminal who did the other fellow wrung. You can’t tell by the size of a man’s salary how much his wil'o lets him spend. When a man is broken-hearted and wishes to do something desper- ate in these times, about all he can do is chew tobacco. One seed catalogue doesn’t make it spring. after she isn’t. A gentleman is a man who keeps on telling his wife she. is pretty lung (9hr guess is that Eve‘s'flrst words were: "Well, Ad, what shall I fix for dinner?” livery woman likes to think that her husband probably had a stormy and adventurous past. EVt’l‘y woman Clinton Town Hull Burned. 'l‘lu' Tuwn Hall at Mirna-«i. with n In“ nl' No wonder the Ph'i‘limiues derided Samson. He must haw rut. a funny may be buying {rocking N most homes Hm old guess- work bakingdayi are gone. never to return. Then it was a matter of anxious coul- jeetnre as to whether or not that batch of broad would rile properly. All of our baking in a scientific success. Our brad should be one of your sundu‘d family foods. l uwu Hall at «Hinton ‘. with a loss of $7.400. 9mm