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very I Have not any llm GoUfarsiln tlilrlyUirce yearn about la I storied golden I a station In a town for train to pUI out Atap on window I up and saw rushed In or ho and never Where I woman A Ofe mm I retired id heart fei and fix but I got no benefit a Dr rtm dies through who been to your Hotel for pn proved end ft got Favorite felt LETTER fiOLUIKlt Mr and Mrs a lew lines to ay am still in yood iioilth and having an exciting time Wo- see the airplanes above us every day and the going continually Homo noise loo I We are having very cold weather Just now is frozen hard We had lots of mud and rain when we hero Wo hod cold trip to front No heat in the train at nil coldest trip I had wo pretty com for table just now I cant toll you where we are is in host of health And spirits I guess wont he to see him for a day or so now till we got together again I guess ho will write you from ho is How is Esther got- gelling along with her music les sons I hope she is slaying with it Well tell Herb if he wants lo see some excitement ho ought lo see the airplanes flying around hero and lighting When one of the German planes come our planes go after it a nest of hornets after you have disturbed A quid wedding whs at the home of Mrs lift ibvefiltiV ilaugllter Dean was united In on vVednowtftV The was by the In the presence of a few the bride played llic wedding The bride who was una tended wore pink with veil and carried roses The happy couple left Newmarket on the seven oclock train for it trip north the bride going away hi navy tailored bull with small ribbon liar Keswick Hoy IK wiisjn Co last week except Tuesday when ho crossed over lo Buffalo to hear Sunday He did not til afternoon He in I not In Toronto this week Council A of I- home III Friday attending end will Hon end at the end of tftr ana Juivo been well without a bad cpetl stopped taking It ago and nm glad to tell any one how your me- Joim Catharines Opt mighty power of Or Prescription pll womanly troubles to and back and to nervous and women It la a wonderful prepared only natures and with no wcohol to falcly stimulate and no to wreck the It pain headache eplrite hot flaMica worry ami through pa end without of time I attention to Get it All A livery Woman Should Over a million copies of the The Common Adviser are in the A thn people It Is A book tliat and read of accident or fifty cents or stamps lo Dr Pierce Invalids Hotel Buffalo and this notice and you will by return mail all charges customs duty valuablo book HOPE roads ore In a deplorable thai every day much Well cant tell what is going on How aio all the Mt A folks Remember me to them- I sup pose you are having of cold weather over there just now I suppose you have got all your venison eaten up by this lime Musi close now Hoping these few lines And you all well Love to all I remain your friend Sapper France Tan boys to suffer They for i A Lots of snow these days and abundance of cold weather along with Mr lackering of load ed a car of turnips hep- for the this week Caldwell a trip to To ronto last week Mr It A sale on Friday last was well attended The rami atojsk etc sold well People Mound lids burg are busy eulUng wood and also packing lee Mr Baltimore and Hose of Toronto have been spending a few days Willi In Town I M Crydlrnian and of Toronto spent over Sunday with relatives Merrill Thompson of Orilllu look Hying trip Hi rough town this week Mr Herb and Pearl of Toronto spent a couple of days this week in town paying friends a vhll Again Mr Geo loaded car of wood here on Tuestlay for Toronto I cooe Ve oftn do more good by than by our titer WOOD ItOT About hi acres part hot con East mile to Albert Station About acres heavily wood ed Spruce and DAVIDSON Mount Albert The arc all gelling belter The Ladies Aid at Mrs was well attended considering the amount of sickness In neighbor hood Proceeds The ladies are buying lbs of yarn dont Intend our want of socks Miss Lottie was called to Toronto on account of Illness of her sister Mrs Stevens Mr Wilfrid and Mr Arthur Kdwarda have taken a life Keeps the ladb busy hunt ing their horse fiddles COW bells etc time William Mrs Irwin of was visiting a few dayd at her old home week JOS has about llertram Owens mighty cold extra warm he got there verandah It was a but by dint of wearing gloves I think hed rather stay in his nest and suck like old and now I sposc will take In a partner- sweet love but oh how bitter To love a girl and then not get her What hear Some of our progres sive fanners are longing for seed- lime to come Holler get your wood buzzed up first They remind me of one of past lfril most active and farmers years ago Hed finish up work put his Im plements In shed and sigh There thank goodness can have rest now He would visit and drive about and make himself contentedly until along about IJio latter days of February then hed yawn perhaps and long for Spring He was everlasting tired of resting I expect to put some of our model farmers through the mill In some of breeisy budgets I think not a few of them to remodel their Ideas somewhat Youll find out J Kester Is a pretty gab by chap these days I dont know if his silvery tongue will stand the rack et or not Hilly is a jolly Jade Jovial disposition is the life of a parly of sporty As a crack shot he has no reason to fear a foe At lime if he could sing one of pur amorous young swains might sing The lied Cross Society shipped to the In Toronto on Wed nesday a box of Supplies consisting of pairs socks Surgical Shirts Pillow Cases small Pillow Cas es suits Pyjamas House wives body Hinders 11 Pergonal Properly Comfort Bags of for bandages and beauti ful Autograph Quilt donated by the Obis Patriotic League Mrs and little Mis of arc visiting their aunt Mrs- John Miss the guest of Miss Isabel Pugsley at present Miss Maud was home over the weekend Miss Maggie Is vihltlng friends in Town Leonard spent weekend with his parents Air Harness Maker has opened up business in the store lately by Mr Walter and will be glad to receive orders for all kinds of work In his line Mrs and children on Tuesday for their home In the West after spending two monflis with her parents Mr and Mrs It Mr A J Taylor of Winnipeg spent the weekend with J of West Miss who went overseas in the early part of the war as Nursing Sister returned home on Friday last Miss was Prance months first No Canadian Hospital ami months at No I Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in Belgium and was one of three nurses who returned on the Mlssauabie on Feb llth 130 officers noncommissioned of ficers arid men of the Canadian forces Most of the soldiers were and wounded men The Terror by Sea our labors Web Married on Saturday Feb 1017 hi St- Anglican Church by the Hon and Rev Lindsay retiring head of nidi- way Mission of assisted by Rev Guy Poole Viola May Brooks youngest daughter of the late WlllWin Tyrrell Brooks of Sutton and Mrs Brooks to Clyde Howard second son of of fros i0 NO I February for liiaOn Will I Union at or pm Wdfeda iiidtiy if it danvsnicnt M to ft ftart ti We used to meet each evening And whisper- words so sweet Into the it was so nice and neat To hear two beat Over the telephone Hut she has a father who Treated me sore 1 vow I ill never go back there any more Such youth and candy counter Is a successful venture never goes on candy The refreshments are Cocoa Colo Solids and cookies made by the great Mr Cook himself Our boys are erdfpUlons and the girts too eh At shoot here once J won three geese In a enormously close Out of the great gener ous nature of his he gave one to a poor unfortunate cuss who wasnt In winning form gave him to carry home for the wife When the famous James Bay was jiiit agoing it Wis known as the Jlmniie Bay roadf litoe sports w J and a scheme to take a trip about villi Jlmiiiie Bay Theyve taking their outing yet 1 found out Bay was an old Eskimo I reckon could on w up north He the ter lhn us and rio doubt liiUfc of aequ I A tribute the navy was paid by Sir Edward Carson who slated that eight million men and Dine million tones of explosives In addition to pet- rot and other supplies had been con voyed between England and the var ious theatres of war Aurora Feb George aged ityseven a wellknown farmer of Whitchurch township was sen tenced this afternoon by County Maglx Irate to six months Imprison ment on a serious charge preferred him by his adopted daughter When the hospital for the insane at Gobourg was turned for lirne being into a hospital for soldiers suffering from shell shock or otherwise nervously broken down the inmates there were moved to Whitby Now the Whitby institution has been handed over lo Iho military authorities for- a hospital for in valided soldiers lliese female pa tients to Iho number have been sent lo find accommodation for the time in the new col at On Ilia institution now cornpleled They were ten nurses who remain assist the work by caring for them The pa- Is now and be total population lia Packet By Evelyn Orchard John sauntering up Fifth Avenue in Ihe hoi glare of a Junoafternoon suddenly made up his mind to go home He had been out of just three years and had never full homesickness so acute so over whelming so unbearable as now He was one- of those persons whom he novelists love to de scribe as a strong man and his looks did not the part He was not very young though ho bad taken some pains lo the youth which accomplishes ho much in the world with so little apparent effort His actual age was thirtynine and he had looks of a kind well- knit figure of which catch ing flight in Ihelong mirror of his hotel Wardrobe that morning he had suddenly pictured in uniform with an odd thrill his heart He was not a soldier nor had any of his family ever done anything in the soldiering line But now they were all at it Even his old who hud been retired for six odd years in Ihe Sussex manor house had pot clothes approved of for the Volunteers and was doing Sunday marches of fifteen miles a day His brothers Already one had helped to dye red Dardanelles sand with his blood and was because of the call had come lo John a call so loud and insistent as lo bo almost startling Hitherto he had heard only dimly and in secret places chiefly because he believed that he was doing his duly where he was and indirectly helping the cause of the Allies by means of Ihe great commercial machines of which he was already one of the honored heads The deciding factor though perhaps ho would not have admitted it was a few lines in- a womans letter he had received from England thai very- day He took it out presently when lie stepped into Sherrys for the cup of lea which his English habit made his inner man call for a given hour each after- You ask what f am doing I wonder whether you will laugh when I tell you I have no gift for nursingbesides I couldnt be equipped in time to be of any use and you know thai whatever I try lo do must be Hophole as Hilly says By the by the latest about Billy is that he went lo- a recruiting office miles from Heath and lied about his age They him however and he has been reject again Mother lives in daily dread lest he repeats the experi ment and comes back a soldier am writing this from so perhaps you can guess I am mak ing shells Yes honestly and very good shells loo I know that am of use If I didnt was any good nothing would keep mo hero There arc some whom it is merely a now sensation and v ho won 1 on but lo me is Work Godgiven work which is going lo help the sum which we are fomg lo reckon up soon Soon I Oh John if It could he soon We are so of and so many are going day going for good I mean west as hey say in fighting liim When told was going to ben threeyears war none of us realized just what that would mean dont believe that we shall be able to stand for more than half that Yok Im shells end the work Interesting my hands ate ruined- all the lime I keep thinking what an half enough Oh only I left Off abruptly and to write on another quite irrelevant Ihenie i A John Renfrews face for was the only who interested him Iho one he thought he might one day everything got sUaighlened out and the way was perfectly clear If there is in the world which proves a mans first youth is past it is ho he- gins to reckon lo clear does this thing or that lhank has naught lo such reckoning or cuIaUpn in the office and of love therefore there is still some remnant of the happiness of Heaven upon a dreary lie had loft England without saying the word to Grace and bad kept writ ing dilatory letters to her right through paying just sufficient keep her heart stir red and her mind diverted from others in a word ho had stolen and kept her youth without giv ing her anything in exchange Some poignant nolo other than that struck by the poignancy of the fateful hour which had struck in Britains destiny went lo he mans heart at Ihe moment and he saw himself hu only dimly as lie was selfish lo the core ft was not a revela tion the truth has no time for embroidery when it really comes slay the unworthy and false brown resolute face paled a and bis eyes became troubled The call had come He knew that ho ought lo at home that there was work for him to do there grimmer work than manipulating great army contracts which wore putting money in his purse There were others to slop in thai breach He had a fighting arm which he had been taught lo and big place was in the tranches To the trenches then ho would go The rest of the day was spent In calls at steamship and other connected with his journey There was a boat going out next but he could not be ready and must wait until the following Wednesday Late that night in his luxurious bedroom on the Slh floorof the Astoria he wrote a letter lo Grace Sixty hours- after you gel my dear you may look to see me face lo face I will come straight to because nobody except you will know J am in England Do you understand what thai means Grace It means that I want you Heavens how des perately I want you I I cant set it down in words But before I dare ask you for the word that will heaven for me a very troubled and up lo now yn- earth I shall have lo be al your feel I have been wrong my dear wrong all the way through What I ought to I have done was lo beg you to come here with to help build the new life which is as dost and ash es in my mouth at this moment I know now that it has been dust and ashes all through Ive missed best God send it may not bo too late lo come with il yet Couldnt you have done something to show me the appal ling magnitude of my folly and selfishness is greater be cause I have all along and only waited the convenient season What happened to the man in hie Bible who kept on waiting the convenient season I to remember something about him but you who read so constantly will he able to put mo right Side by side with this overwhelming desire to sec you to hear your voice lo beg a crumb from your rich store there is the other call Ive been a slacker dear woman though I have call ed myself by a higher sounding name And I know that you have thought so loo and it gives me courage to face you that before I Ill have fallen into line 1 wont write more because if I once let myself go there will bo no damming the flood Love you how I love you I If only I could see you this moment I should make you know and be- Hove it I sail on he Minotaur next Wednesday They are warn ing us on his side but there is no terror of the sea big or cruel enough lo keep mo from you Goodbye my love my dear I If it is any satisfaction for you to neap it on paper there never has been any other It is my wife I am writing to the wife God gave me though have been slow at to of the gift Goodbye goodbye it is a loathly word which ought to hi out of the book of remembrancer Your faithful John Renfrew The boat sailed duly at the sche duled hour after the had shorn lliemselyee of all spOiiibilU by issuing warning had an uneventful voyage the which for roue was kind and 1 Well a I mm I I f life Who I f A life Change of Life is a most critical period of a woman a existence and neglect of health at this time invites disease and pain Women everywhere should remember that there is no other remedy known to medicine that will so successfully cany women through this trying period as E Vegetable Compound made from nativeroots and herbs Read these letters Philadelphia started the Change of life five years ago I always had a headache and back ache with bearing down pains and I would have IT 1 am better health and no more troubled with the aches and pains I had before I took your won- remedy I recommend it to my friends for I cannot it enoughsMrs A1apoapkt Grass- man Ringgold St Pa tj Beverly Mass I took Vegetable Compound for nervousness and dyspepsia when I w going through the of Life I found Urn and I have always spoken of it to other women who suffer as I and have had hem it and they also received good resulte from it Mrs A St Beverly Mass was in poor health when Change of started with mo and I took Vegetable Compound or I think I flhould not got it easy I did Even now if I do not good I take the Compound and it restores me in a short time- I will praise your remedies to every woman for it may help has me Mrs East St Erie Pa No other has been successful In womans has Vegetable Compound Women may receive arid helpful by Co Lynn Mass Such lottora receive end answered by women In Vour I thin Electricity Every Farm Phone young CITY adds comfort and convenience to farm life Takes away much of drudgery and helps to keep thi folks home furnishes electricity for both light and power The gas engine and dynamo for generating current are in one compact unit that starts on the touching of button and slops automatically when the batteries are fully charged Nothing lo get out of order or go wrong so simple that a child can understand it and operate it Furnishes to lights for house ami barn and provides for churn cream separator pump washing machine Lights the average home toe cents a day with iddy to Lay Albert verge of extravagance It was when the low green shores of Ireland hove in sight that the terror came It was In the full light of a glorious after noon when suddenly a few hun dred yards away up popped Iho wicked little periscope of the sub marine Iho deadly torpedo was launched It was all over in ten minutes and as John Renfrew struggled in the water a shot from the sub marine destroyed his last chance Of life II was all over then ho thought us he sank into the great nothingness but thank Grace knew He had partly redeemed self given his life such poor as it was Perhaps who knows all of human would be pity ing and kind He fane like on itureoto shout- upon Mm down is fths ainl if wl hey change it Is only stieu it as makes her more and more a miracle of sweetness and indom itable industry and high resolve do not know thai inside Iho bodice of her gown there a talisman letter John wrote in the silent night watches in the Hotel Astoria at New York lovers letters the lover who is nearer lo her now than in all years id known him the lover whom she will meet again where all these terrors and alarms will he forgot ten on the other side Your l makes you today and tomorrow render you king or your envir onment Determination Is in vincible while it remains iUelf one is beaten till his I will las it and becomes doubt ful and One can never buy a loy of popularity linnet in are flonlitliii and are future un til pic to hind ones learned roogtiae rae uu thing Willi all aid I be in Ju Angabi on will quick rebelUon Kill in I when tie or eleeU la ttonu si a her ways wa oil who way v trouble Over in your the Mas yourself roc ant i ly The t it not to A I f thi T ARCHIVES 1 WIWIH I iJfCaSSirf