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into HAVE 70 TFLL From Villages: and Farms the Adjoining Coun. ents of the people. Inverary Happenings. nverary, Dec. 26.--Mrs, Fobisher improved in-health to sit up. A. 3 ited it-to. his nephes. Her- for Christmas, Mr. EE r. a A and family and . Coch- 1 F. 8S. Ferguson is preparing to build a mammoth barn Bext summer. Charles Barr has par a new aiuto, fuverary dents are _ maintaining their high standing in the various schools. Maggio Bell, Arthur, obtained first place with honors in her {orm in Athens high school, Wallace Duff yanked highest in bis form in Sy. danham Tigh school, The. many r. and Mrs. Jeonand ievad aver the son, "Jackie," oceurred at Battersea on' Sunday last, At Wagshibura's Corners. rn's © Corners, Dee. 25. iolosed . 'on the 2nd. Din- tions were given by and a speech by the teach: 0 , on the European whith he presentad each of entrance Pupils with a beautiful pn the mhols school was very feos ly to eandy. anc fies. All wished Mr. Booth «a Christmas and s happy Now al an, is visit friends and in this on Wallace left this week D.8., Toronto, are W. Kilburn, Mack- Mrs. F. Barrington, lana, are the guests of Mr, id Mrs. T. G. Stevens, Athens. #8. D. Judge has returned to her no Br ig, Crh after vis- A in Athens and Broek- Kathleen Watson, who been visiting friends in Athena, been a ted intendent of ¢ tal, Ba student at the Great Westérn age, Ch has returned for the halidays. The en- oy : HERE ee y ev "was large- ly. attended. hel Budget From Keelerville. ry + Dec, :26.~Mr, and Mrs. ; family were at R. J. Ch i Mr. and Mrs. CA t or Christ- i s Mr. and Mrs. and at Thomas Clark's for ht -d Mrs. William Dixon, son, , were at William Round Lake, for Christmas , and Mrs. George Richards, at Alexander Jackson's; leat] he' "| tangle red og oh Seéhool, holidays. © The Sutiday #rhool tree was a great ms 'eds, did their parts yell, any from here atfemded the Christ. E | tree at Dattersea. Miss Mildred Tat gv a few days with Ww Jack: his wood-¢utting con. Douglass Anglin. T) he many Willie Dixon, Sr., are glad t has recgverad Bon illness. Quits a wumber REA Baally Pr pared -- Conte Very Little} buf is Prompt; Sure ounces it into with 1 di. { rfectly and! DAILY BRITISH WHIG, . Santa Claus joined forces with the allies and made a cavalry charge, a, from here attended the: turkey fairs at Lyndhurst, Elgin and Seeley's Bay, and 'secured good prices for] their fowl, Sydney Caird, who had the misfortune to 168e his barn and contents by fire « short time ago, has the new barn oonipleted. 'Leonard Patterson, of Mil haven is atr David Sleeth's. Isaac and Frank Mecllray) are home from the west. Everybody is patiently waiting for the rural mail delivery. The cheese factory has closed down, after a sue- cessful season. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Clark are at Charles Clark's, from the west, near Saskatoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Holder, off Brewer's Mills, are at Will Dixon's, Sr. Carl Tee pel], sdént Christmas at Lyndhurst. © BARBED WIRE PLAYS LARGE PART IN WAR nd en High Entanglements Stop Bayonet Charges, Low Ones Hinder Cawalry. With the aeroplane and tradtion, barbed (wire is among the latest innovations of modern war- fare, and in order wo appreciate the difficulties which our soldiers have to face in atia¢king a German posi- tion it is necessary tc know exactly whitt these wire ohstructions are, and, the conditions under which they are used. There are two classes of wire en- ents, namely, kigh and low, and' bath possess that essential of all temporary field fortifications-- sim- plicity and edsa of coastruction High entanglements are most com- monly to protect- trenches against bamyanet charges. For this purpose stoat stakes some five feet long -arve used. They are planted in the ground about s'x feet apart in rows .in front of the trenches, which it is degired; to shield from 'assault, If time /and jaterial permit at least six fo are driven in, and some times feo stakes ure made more se¢ éure by being fastened by lengths of wire (ob holdfasts or pegs. Kach stake /is thén conunected to every motor other stake around 1t with numerous | lengt}iz of barbed wire arranged hoy izont/ ly and diagonally. Af line of trenches so defended ls, wit] reason, regarded as EE abld against a frontal attack unfess its ' defenders have been completely desnoralized by well-directed = artil- liyy Hire, Entanglements of wire can k demolished in a very fe'w itinutes by' men equipped with pliers. But in the free of a rapid fire from magazine rifles at practi. cally point-blank range those few moments would suffices for the an- nihiliation" of 'whole ragiments. The low wire entanglements are Iry obstacles. Pegs htéen inches r two feet long, are drivén into the ground in rows a Tew feet apart, and the barbed wire Te fixed between them so as to form a sort of net- work: In its simplest form the low wire obstacles consists merely of a trip wire. 4 In either shape it is Huqhently fix- ed along long grass so as to con- cealed. y low entanglement is calculated t6 bring down horse and rider, biit from & humanitarian point of view it is & considerable improve- bn oo almost exclusively as cav- | ment on the cruel obstacles formerly used against cavalry. 5 'What He Was. Enthusiastic professor of physics tzgerald upos the "'Christ- THE ENEMY. nmin mm nn. BRITISH EXCEL IN SIGNALLING The Germans Depend Altogether on Telegraph and Telephone. Much of the hardest and most dan- gerous work of the British army is done by the flag signallers of the Army- Signal Service. They have often to stand in the fighting line, wageing their flags or working their flafh mirrors,. while. the German riflemen mass their fire against the men who are' directing the _move- ments of guns, infantry, and horse- men. 0 The Germaui army does not use our method »! signalling. The Cer- mans rely on field telephones and wireless apparatus, kept mainly be- hind the battlefront. The British troops are just .as good as the Ger- mans in this kind of safe signalling, but they find that one flag-wagger in the, firing-line is often worth a dozen telegraph and telephone clerks a safe distance away. A good deal of the remarkable success of the British in France und Flanders is due to the splendid work of their unmatchable signallers.. RBven if half a company becomes detached from the army im the course of an action, it is usually able to "talk' to the math body over a distance of two or three miles. A sqtradron of scoiing cavalry of half a battalion of advancing infan- fry cannot, in the; rugh and heat of a critical action, take a mile of wire and an electrical apparatus with them: But even in a cLArge, oné man can run a flag, and if the charge Is brought up suddenly by an entrench- ed host of the enemy, the flag-man can at once signal for help. If he hasn't brought flags with him, he can tie a handkerchief on his rifle. He can ask the pupners to rake the trench with shrapnel, and give them the range and tell thém if they hit or miss; or he €an ask for supports to be hurried up to stréngthen the charging column, The work of the flag signaller is A Sel it a A At i - AAA A ANN MNS SAN | very simple, He takes a flag in each | hand and strikes verinus attitudes-- right flag held high up; left flag held straight dewn; right fiag held side- ways, left flag struck up, and so on Each movement stands for a letter of the alphabet, This is known as the semaphore system. Put a message can be sent almost as quickly with one flag. This is waved in two ways --one a long waggle, the 'other a short, sharp flutter. The long wag- gle represents the dash in the Morse vode; the Short flutter stands for tha dot A few weeks ago, o¢ the battle of Ypres, some of the Rritish guns gov in a .ery hot corner. The lieutenant wai: another hattery a mile away, to shrapnel a German regiment that had got too close and was shooting his' gunners down. 'There was no field telephone 'hand;. and 'before anyone could run or ride with a mes- sage the Germans would have cap- tured the guns, But ih aCeofdance with the ~plen- did system of training for all acei- dents which is the great distinction of our army, one of the gunpers knew all about flag-siznalling. He took i handkerchier and, amid a nail of German bul'ets, flagged oul a message for help. The distant Brit- ish battery observed the signalling, trained its gun. on the enemy, and saved the situation. Germans in-such a case as this would have been help- ess Oliver K. Traser, one of Eastern Ontario's leading lawyers, and regis- trar of the superior and surrogate courts and clerk of the county coust for Leeds and Grenville, died, Sunday afternoon, at his residence in Brock. ville, after a lingering illness, having been confined to bed since May. He was filty-six years of age. Dr..T. W. Simpson, Napanee, re- ceived word last week that his son, Ligut: Beverley Shupson, had been wopnded iu the leg by a German rifle bullet while in France 4 legntion TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1014 SEARCHING 'FOR COMTRSSE Tieyan Trying 10 locate Ex-Belgian . Minister's Wife. . + Washington, Dec. 19.--Secretary Bryan is endeavoring through the German government to lgeate Come 1asee de Duisseret, formerly Miss Chroline Storey, of this city. last. heard from she was in Rrue- BEE The Germans=in control af that el wold not permit her, it is said, either to join her husband whe is-Hel®lan minister at Petro- erad, or to comminicate with her mother in this city. Mee Storey recendily received danghier > was Drusacis, femtion 1 « dangerously 8 the! result of nee - that time r from her The count de Brilsseret was one time Delgish minister to this coun Try ond of the time of his marriage was an sitnehe Here of the Belgian® ill in an ob nothing TINNED RANMRIT FOR NAVY Those Aboard Canadian Ships Like Luseealinn Dish, Ottanva, Dec, 29 A new dish has heen added to the menu of the Canadian navy from Aus- tralia, made some proeress in naval matters, The Aus- tralian navy, which has done such goed wark in thie war, is British- built and manned," hut the Australi rabhif is o navve product. Af eng caught, skinned, boned and cooked, it is pat up in tins, and the Navol- Service Department Bas purchased a large consigament of tins for consumption on the Niobe, the Rainbow' and the two subaarines Fresh meat he- ing seared th \ seas © and there holng a monotony in canned heal, tars of the navv haye taken enthusiasm to the Antipndal Mey are asking for mote IH comes where they have these on certail the with rabhit corn GERMAN SPOKE ARABIC, Tried 10 Fater Gibealiar Disguiced As Moor. I 20. Reports daring at- frerman to enter Gibraltar disguised as a Moor. He arrived at Algeciras in a train from Madrid on Wednesday night, wearing European dress. The suspicion of the | Spanish authorities was aroused hy his appearance on Thursday morning in Moorish costume and speaking Ar- abie. He was arrested, and; on examination proved t8 be the bhear- er of compromising documents in German. Seville," appear m tempt made hy a Spain, } he press of a What Germans Are Saying. A Swiss lady married to an Alsa- tian' had the opportunity of going to see her husband last week in Ger- many, and sent the following im- pression her husband and the people generally have in Germany to-day about the war Tie husband is serving in the "Landsturm" (terri- torial reserve). "The Germans will certainly enter Paris, Warsaw, and London. All the felegrams of thd Havas Agency are, false. The Germans laugh at the idea of their being starved intod surrender. There are still eight" million men to send to the front. The retreat on the Marne was the fault of the Austrians, who are bad gol- diers. The retreat in Poland is not a deféat; it was necessary to give the Austrians breathing space. France is nearly finished in men and money. Germany is about to hold a knife at her throat, and will force her to ac- cept any conditions without reference to her allies, nor of the agreement | between them that war shall not be stopped 'vithout mutual decision. The English will, of course, betray the French. The Engiish troops are worth nothing, and the English have taken good care to seud as few men as possible/to the heip of the French The King of the Belgians has already written to the kaiser offering to make peace, The Russians are only so mueh food for cannon Their gen 1erals are always quarreling." | When § through friends information that her} Te GUARD AGAINST aLum | IN BAKING POWDER SEE THAT ALL.INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL AND THAT ALUM OR SULPHATE OF ALUMINA OR .SODIC ALUMINIC SUL. ATE LS NOT ORE OF THEM. THE WORDS "NO ALUM" WITHOUT THE IN- CREDIENTS (8 NOT SUFFI- CIENT. MAGIC BAKING . POWDER COSTS NO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY KINGS. FOR ECONOMY, BUY 'THE ONE POUND TINS. E. W. GiLLetr Company LiMiTED WINNIPEG TORONTO. ONT. MONTREAL PSTETERR RO RERY I EIA R CRE NI EER) AN ERRRRERRTRLNE FOR A An A A SR The Ideal 'Christmas Gift Allow us to siiggest ax a Cliristmas gift for your wire and fens ily a Policy of Dive meurance in thé Matas Life of Canada. It will be & living proof. to them that you think, not of to-day only, but of the many (morons that are 6 come. Hyon alvendy Hive a pols idy, sda to i TRI Is the readtiest Way iu which you can crests or Increase yonr eatats, Let aotaraish you with. Agures for 8 policy at ones {ic S. ROUGHTON, GENERAL AGENT. Gh Broek St, Kingston, Office Phoue, Gil Hen, GUL. Harey Sharpe, Special Ament. Onee inn while We have coniplaints aliout oug matches breaking in two. Thig Is no fault.of the mé&teh, ha BDDY'S MATCHES ara made fiom specially selected stralght-gralned wood only. Far the benefit, of those who are Bl in ignorance of the proper way to Rola & mateh (amd thers are many) we give the following rule- "The forefinger of the right hand should be placed" "over the tip of the match, and withdrawn quickly" "when thé flame comes. This prevents any undue' "leverage on the match, and instinct prevents one' "getting one's finger burned." THE E. B. EDDY COMPANY OF HULL, CANADA, rcs Late G. Butterill, Hinchinbrooke. George Butterill, of the township | of Hinchinhrooke, county of Fron- enac, died on December 22nd, at 5 ( pam, aged eighty-one years and eight months He is survived by | his widow and nine ehildren; Mrs. McKnight of Manitoba; 'James of Trenton; George of Fermoy; Jos eph of Glenvale; Mrs. John Man ders of Maberly; John of Manitoba; Thomas of Hunteville: Mrs. Harvey Austin, of Saskatchewan, and Rob- ert on the 'homestead. Deceased was one of the early settlers, was born in Yorkshire, England, and came 10 this country when. four teen years old. He was secretary of the school section in whieh he lived for fifty years. He was a Me thodist in religion and a liberal in politics Well Armed. "Is Micky In condjtion?"" asked Mrs. Flaher.y of her next-door neigh- bor, Mrs. Doolan. "He's as Iine as sile. Ah! Mickey's a great boy. He's got something up his sleeve that'll astonish all them other fighters." "What is it, Mrs. Doolan?" "Sure, it's his ar-r-m."---Philadel- phia Public Ledger. ------e Rev, Dr. J. L. Gordon, Winnipeg, will visit Napanes, on' or ahout Janu- ary 20th, and address the citizens on christian citizenship. : eh Poeetrgr; TR adit id The Kind You Have Always Bought; and which has been in use for over 30 yciis, has borne the signature of and has been made under -his pers sonal supervision since its infancy, % ALow no one to decsive you in this, All Counterfeits, Imitations ad "¢ Jr weas-good ** are but Experiments that trifle with and Le. nger the health of Infants and Children--Expericnce against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a horinlesa substitute for Castor Ol.' ares gorie, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Naveotis substance. Its age 1s its guarantee. It destroys 'Worms and allays Feverishness: lor more than ihirty yéars it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipm Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles gs Diarrhoea. It reghlates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep, The Children's Panacea--The Mother's yriend. cenumne CASTORIA ALWAYS j Bears the Signature: of * "3 TM in Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CERTAURCOMBAKY, NEW YORK SITY Indian Moccasins} ~~ All New Goods | ome