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FTor Rates apply to the Publishers 'l. l. :\ cond hand Mining Machinery in firstâ€"cl BDoilers, Hoists, Pumps, Drills, etc. Phone 95 B Try Our Special Salads AXND LUNXCHEONS A SPECIALT\ Place for lancheon, andffor after the The best of everything, with the best of sQrvVIce SCHUMACHER YÂ¥ ard and W arehouse condition. President Wilson has been given power . to arm UM. slnps as protection against submarines, (m]\ thirteen in Congzress voting against the measure. In Toronto the veterans of this war have formed an association to assist recruiting and their published appeals are having a noteworthy effect. The Newâ€" Brunswick Government was defeated last week in a general Provincial election, the Liberals beâ€" ing returned to power with a maâ€" jority of ‘6 to B. Potatoes have been selling in OUnâ€" tario for $4.50 to $5.50 a bag recentâ€" Iy, while «earloads have been. going out United States anad Cuba and other foreign places. Germany recently tried to induce Japan and Mexico to attack the Unitâ€" ed States, Japan secretly to be inâ€" demnified by securing possession of Mexico under Germany‘s approvalâ€"â€" a truly Hunnish piece of treachery. The Oriental nation, however, was too konorable to entertain the proposition. The British Army estimates issued last week provide for an army of 5,000;000 men, exelusive of India. The total personnel of the Navy wull be 450,;000. A Over 150 Serbians were recently executed by the Austrians for ‘‘politiâ€" cal erimes.‘‘ Among ‘the men so murdered were seven professors, sixâ€" teen teachers, twentyâ€"one priests, two doctors and twentyâ€"five traders. Former U. 8. President Taft at a banquet given by the Maryland branch of the League to ‘Enforee Peace deâ€" clared that he had nothing but disgust for the ‘‘peaceâ€"atâ€"anyâ€"price"‘ (paciâ€" fists, and wifh the type which he deâ€" seribed as the sort which must be ‘*"Kkiclked into war.‘‘ The Cunard liner, Lacoma, was torpedoed last. week off the Imish coast and over thirty lives were logt. Passengers amdl crew took to the boats, and there was rmmuch hardship and suffering, some® of the survivors telling horrible stories of the agonies endured through this Hun atrocity. A number of the American citizens were among those lost. The Royal Agriculgural Society will distribute £500 {$2,500) in prizes in the form of War Loan stock to enâ€" courage food production in Lancaâ€" shire, England. There may be a double hint in this item for Canadian Acrieultural Societiesâ€"the one hint being to encourage food production, Through â€" theâ€" inexperience ~of | A young lady clerk the Bank of Ottawa at Toronto last week lost $2,000, likely beyond hope of recovery. _A wellâ€"dressed man asked for change for four large hills and the young lady who was taking the place of an enlisted man gave the change and acâ€" ceptéd four big bills in return, these latter bills later proving to he couynâ€" terfeits. t â€" ‘Toronto: last® week likely beyond hope of t wellâ€"dressed man asked for four large hills and and the other to pay prizes in Loan shares. In replying to the suggestion that the United States should vote on the question of war or no war with Gerâ€" many, Vietor Schultz, of Milwaukee, says that the U.S. should stand for her rights. **I resent the treasonable attempt to stampede Congress in the interest of a foreign power,‘‘ he says. "I detest, loathe, and despise all oily, slimy, snaky. Benedict Arnolds, Judas Iscariots, Natanic traitor the United States. 1 Prussia, but my father native land to eseape tarismâ€"toâ€"day the horr of eivilization."" i1 has been given ships as protection tanic traitors to| I was born in | her fled from his pe Prussian nuliâ€" rorror and menacd| THE PORCUPINE ADVANC To ameliorate the seareity of farm help in the Province this suramer, the Ontario Government is taking active steps to link the (Government employâ€" ment bureaux with the branch offices of the Dept. of Agrieulture. Help will be secured by the offieces of the employment bureaux in this country and in the U.B., and farmers may get this help through the local office of the Dept. of Agriculture. The political union of the British West Indies and Canada is being urged again by the Caradian Wost Indian League, of swhich Mr. T. B. Macaulay, ;n'(»sid("nt of the Sun Lite Assurance, is a promiment member. Pour or five years ago The Reaftrew Journal advoeated this union, pointâ€" ing out some of the advantages of such a connection. The British West Indies import largely the very articles that Canada is producing, while Canâ€" ada needs the fruit and sugar proâ€" duects. of the Islands. ‘The union will also give Newfoundland an additional incentive to join the North American Confedcration of British possessions. Two â€" thousandAmerican â€" tractor plows for the use of a civilian army of nigcht plowers to be enlisted throughout the British dsles are to be imported to cultivate every availâ€" able bit of soil. according to Nir Arâ€" thur Lee, Directorâ€"General of Food Production. ‘*We hope to make the tractor plows fill the gaps caused by the labor shortage,"‘ says Sivr Arthur. "We are going to equip the plows with headliglts for night work. Laâ€" borers ean only work eigcht hours, il)ut tractors work twentyâ€"four. They will be driven hy taxiâ€"eab borers ean work eight hours, but tractors can work twentyâ€"four. Theyâ€" will be driven by taxiâ€"cab drivers and chauifeurs who will soon learn their‘ mechanism. â€" Behind every plow will be, an e\p('l'emml farmer, and assistance will be given by prisâ€" oners, conscientious objectors, memâ€" bers of the Home Defeneg forces, and women. (In this way we hope to be able to produce enough food to make us independent of outside help as long as the war lasts."" WDNEH MAY NEW VOTE 1N ONTRRIG Any Ladies Admitting They Are Over Twentyâ€"One Can Exercise Franchise. Tle kangaroo can leap with case a| distancee of sixty or seventy feet, hupi over a bhorse or take fencees twelve or fourteen feet in height. Trained athâ€" letes have cleared_ twentyâ€"four feet and a few inches in a running broad | jump contest, but human beings do| not rank well as jumpers. _ ° | The pineapple is a solidified blosâ€" som, say the hborticultural experts, and it is pineapple blossom time from June to QOctober in MHawaii. There 7,000 acres are given over to the ealtivation of this fruit. In 1914 Hawau exportâ€" ed 1 000,000 cases of canned pim’hpp!c and 100,000 eases of the juice. are 0bpe \\'hn On Wednesday evening last the perâ€" aanent fireâ€"fighting foree and the volunteer firemen at Cobalt gathered at their hall on Nilver street, Cobalt, to entertain their Chief, Mr. A. Borâ€" land, to a social evening, and to exâ€" press as best they might the sincere appreciation they felt of his services nd charaeter on this, the ove of his departure to take up new duties as Chief of the Timmins Fire Brigade. The event took the form of a euchre party and social evening and a very Dleasant time was spent by about twentyâ€"five. There were ten games of cards played, and the games were so close that there were ties for both first and second place. Among the prizes won were ealabash pipes seâ€" cured by Chief? Borland and Driver Stinson. lobalt Firemen Show Appreciation of Chief Who is Now Head of Timmins‘ Department. During the eéveningzg on hbehalf of the Cobalt Fire Department, Mr. D. MceEachren, after a few‘ neat introâ€" ductory words, read an address to the dopartinge Chief, and presentation was also made of a hbhandsome engraved zold watch. The Chief made apt and feeling reply. A pleasant suppor conâ€" cluded the evening‘s program. The address, which was signed by practically all the Bremen, was as folâ€" lows :â€"â€" Chiecf‘AX. Bovrland, Chief A. Bovland, Coubalt, Ontario : Dear Sir:â€"The members of the Coâ€" balt Volunteer Fire Department are gathered heére this evening for the purpose of spending a quiet hour or two with you, before you leave us for your new home and work, it being our desire that you should earry with vou the inost pleasant memories, not Uéll.\' of the members of this departâ€" inent, but also of ‘this best old town,‘ as Cobalt has so often besn termed. \'uur sojofirn in our fown during the past few years has made you many friends and you have demonâ€" strated ‘to all concerned xyour capaâ€" bilities as a fireâ€"figliter.. Under your able direction, the Volunteer l)opmt- ment has maintained an eflicieney that has been satisfyin« to the citizens of 664%0%86 lmd[fllfl"fl“ Tfl FIRE CHIEF BORLANE C4443 4 Fraser Chalmers of Canada LIMITED $§009800000000000000000000000000000000000000000060650006 o t o i e n U K k K h A /‘ h s k hk IA kh k AR OR I TL Ih A K K Is Tb TL I Jb I Tb In s J We have in our Montreal Wareâ€" house a battery of five stamps â€"«â€"weight 1,050 lbs each, arâ€" rangedforinsideamalgamation â€"â€"â€"can be purchased for less than cost. LIMITED 59 Beaver Hall Hill, THE COPPER CURB AND MINIXG C THE NEWS SERVICE IS FRESH, ABLY PREPARED AND COMPLETE. Copper Curb Mining Outlook 72 TRINITY PLACE | â€"> 0 : NEW YORK ‘ach number earries an | iining property under t! 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That you may have occasion to be reminded frequently of the friends you leave in Cobalt, we ask you to accept this token of our respect for you, and we take this opportunity of expressing the wish and hope that you and yours may continue to prosâ€" per in your new home. the, town, and the mombers of the Department have enjoyed your leadâ€" ership and instruction. il OI One Dollar Annually Look un notice in this issue Romances â€"of G ONTREAL, P.@. W. (4, NIXON, Dept. of Agrieulture, New Liskeard, Ont viWd _ :JRTH LARG irealt O somt Minc