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propaganda for the Opticians.â€" Brockville Recorder: was with a peace ship having failed, D. W. Griffith announces that he will spend twenty million dollars in pro- ducing a film to demonstrate the' foolishness of war. If the film does not stOp war, it may pay dividends. 'â€"Orillia Packet. The slogan seems to have changed from votes for women to smokes for womenâ€"Syracuse Herald. «warm ___ â€"â€"-VV 1’ â€"New York Morning Telegraph The proposal to weave the n' of wearers on stockings is prob prOpaganda for the Brockville Recorder. â€"N ew The Republican Kimy in Ireland is O O a :0 enthusxastlc for freedom that it Machinutu, Etc. _ DURHAM, ‘ - ONTARIO Haning purchased the Innis Machine Plant, we are open to receive orders for repair work of all kinds», Satisfaction guaranteed. Â¥ Patronage solicited. European merchants can Russia‘s Orders if Russia Wil their orders at Genoaâ€"New. Enterprise Associatio'n. ' Germany and Bus: treaties but thev can ev from each other and Leather Reporter, The Princeton professor who has flitlllltl :1 new source of light without heat. should send some to Genoa at «mce_>.â€"-â€"D€'tl'0i t. Free PI'CSS. Ask your grocer to adopt Russia’s proposed economic system. Tell him to cancel what you owe him and. then loan you money with which to} buy more goods. The proposition‘ will tickle him. Tell him by tele- phoneâ€"Toledo Blade. ' anowu MOON sets f? ther t0 \\ oxk beating ()mea Journal. Who has the moving picture rights anyway on this" great. Chinese War ahrmt to be pulied pff?â€"48t. Cathar- ines Standard. It. is to be hoped that the attitude of Hon. MP. Raney is not going to be "Love me love my sg‘n.>tters."â€"Ham- iitnn Herald. 5 A wise son will never ask father; for money on the dav that. mnfhnv; . Radio shows that it. is not believer in hiding its light under a bushel, by - proclaiming itsmf from the hO!lSéthpS.â€"â€"Bl'l"ck\'i”9 Recorder. Once there was a man Whgi ran the whole world. That was before. wo- man came. His name was Adamâ€"â€" Tfj‘ii‘MIiO Telegram. If this coal strike “j thev wouldnt Worrv thev haw money to hampton Sun. One of th easons why some peo- ple have no 0. wrecked railroads is because they never handled any.â€" Buil'alo Cnmmm-cial. Many a clerk who puts in the day billing Spend the evening c00ing.â€" Peoria Transcript. insane.” It. sounds (Ia alumâ€"Hartford Times. Isnt April sueet. no“ DOL to say here and ther Blade. According to Doyle, heaven is an apartment house where children are .barretl.â€"â€"q‘oronto Telegram. Lloyd George's favorite pastime, next to that of settling great. crises, is a game of golf.â€"Brantford Ex- positor. 'vv-----‘\r‘ V‘u‘O Many men would rather work someone than wark fur someonpâ€" Oshawa Reformer. 4 Hair the pooulation objects to al cobolic beverages going down am the other} half objects to their going up.â€"â€"Cle‘veland Commercial. “.e immers movement that brings results is the kind that be- gins at da3break.~she\iile Times. All the necessar3 proof that the wax ended too soon is furnished by nnnu- ,, ce to civiliza- tion appeai‘s to be the civilized na- tions.~Sharon Herald. The farmers’ movempm ”v.4. "Mun CRISP COHEN! With the Toronto Telegram, every daV is a Ranev dav .â€"-Orillia Packet. Education is the basis of sanita- tion. Teach the houseflies that life The trucks are taking the “good” out of the roads system.â€"-Orillia Packet. t] ___ "J .‘Aun' .. but they can’t borrow mon‘ with eleven wives may other.â€"â€"Bost0n Shoe 1 eleven wives may he sounds darned resason- if Russia will take Genpa.â€"Newspaper Russia may make tges going down and Objects to their going day that mother was in Germany ry. Over there to bum.â€"â€"Binu- the rugs. take Street I Many nlwerwx's belicve also that in {some parts. of the cuunlry we have carried the. «:lrainuge of the soil to excess, and that in the effort to re- claim low-lying lands we have de- ‘pleted the reservoirs of soil water that nature provided and have. hur- ried water Out. to sea that. would be. much more usefully employed in preserving the water level in thei ground. ‘ i'i'esliets. The cutting of the forest: was inevitable, but careful reforest- ation in regions that are. not well suited for profitable farming would help to I‘estr.’sz’e the water table to its Oiti levei. 5 l the country east of the Mississippi ; has had its effect, for [here is noth- l ing like a forest to hold water in the isoil. The run-oll' after a rainfall on ilhe bare slepes of hills and the com- ‘ paratiwly hard surface of cultivated fields is trememleus. Millions of tons of waterdhat was former 3' held in the soft, porous earth of the forests escapes each year in floods and. re Now the water table in this coun- ry is steadilv falling. It is said that e, taking the whole countrv into ac- .3 count, it has dropped on the a1 erage :- nine teet in the last fifty years, and that in some states as Iowa, for ex- 3. ample, it has fallen more than t“ elxe 10 feet. It needs no argument to show e1that that is a bad thing for the for- tilitv of the soil. 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Th (3 Water can rise by capillary at- traction from two to four feet aboxe the “ater table. Though in ordin- ary soils it cannot in that way reach the surface, it often does rise far enough to reach the roots of certain grmxi g crops, and so keeps them alixe exen in the most severe dI'OUgh t. THE FALLING-WATER LEVEL (Youth’s Companion.) In every region that is not abso- ' lutely arid there is a point at a cer- tain distance below the surface where the ground is saturated with WE the water that has percolated through the topsoil or through fis- . - , . H1 sures in the rock. The level that the He 1 subsoil water maintains is called the P( )water table. Naturally the-level H1 c ‘Varies in difi'erent places. In low- (i5 lying lands. which tend to become ‘ - .' . , , . And ysxmmp}. it is near the surface. in Of ‘drier, gravclly soils or in rocky ‘ . . . . He ti places it Is much lower. The difl’cr- It“ ence appears clearly in the differ- Putt: once in the depth of wells. For a )\\1 well is merely a hole dug or bored down through the overlying earth to H the water table '0 H matter is still open to tic-bate, and your family toenjay the days , and Weeks of the beauti- : ful spring. We expec to hear from you. "Insinn Romp conluri ms 21:10 ”hanscnipt. Take Notice I have secured the agen- cy for Wodehouse Ani- mal Invigorator, Baby Chick Food, Poultry Food, Lice Killer, etc. We also sell Zenoleum, the best disinfectant. “Pvaco (Junchulmi in IP(_-.Iaml.” f m1 rvmomhvr right. it. camn to a con- {He’s always first to grab it, ‘ And he reads it plumb, clean th Ho (loosn’t miss an item Or a want. actâ€"this is two. Ho says they don‘t know what want. , The durn nowsimpor' guys; I'm going to (31:0 :1 day sometime An" go and put'lhom wise. Sometimes it seems as though th ' must, Bo blind and (loaf and dumbâ€"- But. you ought to hear him iioiior \Wmn tho paper doesn‘t come. He reads about the weddins \nd he snorts like all got 12,111t Ho reads the social doin s “7 ith a most. derisixe hnut,S He savs thev make the pup. . 1 01‘ the. women folk 3.5 0110. H1? ll 111 {11:1 about the 1131?; ie< .1111] he H inme and irut and gl‘o Ho savs 31‘ information . It 1100311" 1 ham :1 (numb -- .It’s strictly on the buronâ€"a But you ought, to hear him holler When the paper doesn’t come. WHEN THE PAPER DOESN'T COME My father says the paper , He reads ain’t put up right, He finds a lot. of fault, he does, Perusin’ it all night. He says there ain’t a single thing In it worth while to read, And that it doesn’t print the kind Of stuff that. people-need. He tosses it aside and says for the Department of Agriculture to undertake?‘ It would firobably considerably increase our under- standing of the problem and our knowledge of the way to meet it. as though they' =, clean thru and groa n \th (. we ALL ELECTRIC LIGHTED Join the merry, laughing throng in an eYening of refined, popular amusement on the Mldway TRIP TO MARS, the clevereet and "most _ . ever seen With a Car; and many! other Marvellous Midway m.“ wu us w,"_.'1u 1111111911 111 everv direction in the Vicinity OI Ihe car “hich \\ as itself nearly liIted Off the ground. 'I‘Im 211111111 Is I11;11I a nar- 111m 11511111111. II111, IuII I111c11 I1SI111I 11111;: 11 min11t11 111' L\'\'O,I)11I \1I1: I1 iI lastml [11111I11L ”HI (011~'1I11_11IJI1_1 1.1.1:- (,21‘1'111111'1111f11111i (1111»1‘1 1'1; :{1(I. FROM MOTORIST’S CAR E. B. Caldwell, a member of' the Public Schol Board in Chesley, while motoring from Owen Sound last week, ran into a miniature cyclone. which ripped the top off his car and sent it streaming skywards. Parcels which he had in the car were lifted twenty feet in the air. Fence rails and boards were hurled in every direction in the vicinity of the car, which was itself nearly lifted off the f‘ t . 1 ground. the oecimants had a narâ€"l PL'P‘Y Discrlf-‘N‘. 1‘11“ {11” ,z‘ll'onn 7mm! A Y I Penny Arcade CYCLONE STRIPS TOP ' "'V bwl-cuco Mr. John McN “The History of B1 Norman Robertson County, was ‘pub’lis will prove of inter VISIT PALMER’S FAIRW Monster following uugma} owner of the Hepworth stands be- {iam Plews, who pro- ng sketch taken from of B1 uce County,” by one of the best collections of N at- ural, Scientific and' Literary curios- ities and objects of interest in existence. ’ A. Chuncey thkiit; A train. a crossingâ€"â€" He didn‘t. make it. W...“ WON’T REQUIRE LIGHTS The members of the Legislature administnmd defeat to the bill imm- duccd by Charles Swayze of Niagara Falls to cumpcl ali '\'('F’li(?](‘S on the public I'xigl'1\\'ays to Carry from, and rear lights, wi‘wn Hm mwasm-n (mnwn Good Mfisic NO CHARGE TO. GROUNDS Ashes to ashes And dust to dust; Bill was shoving 30001 \\ hen a tire ‘bust. ’ In m em 0. 1' y of Is William Jo ley; His engine stalled In from. of a trolley HE‘I'O. sh: Beneath this sad Lies \\ illiam \Vhizzen; He didn’t. StO! At ninety miles Drove Edward Shawn; At fiftv miles Drm e Ollie Pidd; He thought. he \\ ouldnt Skid but did. Lies mumbm 1n" here One William Lake; He heard the bell But had no bmke. he motor'stopped, But EcL kept on. . Swayze of Niagara all vehicles on the to Carry front, and , Hm m¢_-asure came >st exciting illusion armval Company, g Crying Need. Arcadia Journal.) ~ What {his country wants i: volver that will count. ten h4 ShOuiS. up for second reading. '3. M. \Veb- ster of West Lambton thought‘the move too drastic, commenting that. if the movement was kept up, before long pedestrians would have to carry lights. Improved Rifle Academy Priceville Fox Co., Write for further particulars to A limited number of shares for sale in PRICEVILLE, ohm ltry \\ ants is a re- count ien before it PAGE ' FIVE '- 9Limited Limited W . $19 £45131: Emu