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SRS The Milverton Sun 'FIELD-MARSHAL and Monkton Times ane pomiseHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING shone The Sun Printing Office Main Street MILVERTON, ONT, Subscription rates:—One_year. $1.50; monthe. 75¢, in adva shbgeubere ee liable to pay $2.00 per yeas ertising rates on application. \ dyertisements without epecific directions | mit ce pee yntil forbid and charged acs | e caice for copicact saivertisementa must be in the office by moon Monda. MALCOLM Mac ESSithee and Propristor. | ‘EVERY INCH A MILITARY MAN { Commander-in-Chief of British Forces (Hai ig at General Headquarters is giv- y Isa “SIR DOUGLAS HAIG OF DISTINCTION. in France Has Striking » Personality. A graphic sketch of Sir Douglas F. Marcosson in Pearson’s ie ai ne. ‘ound myself in a presence that, Busi nessCards ,,;,' without the slightest clue to his profession, would have soe a ee Bele as mia. Dignit Dr. M. C. Tindale, L.D.S. ais eae oars Honor graduate Toronto University. ee an a owas oe: have rarely | CROWN and BRIDGE WORK a Seagal “seen a masculine face so \dsome | Phohe No. 88. and yet so sironts His hair us | Office: Over Bank of Nova Scotia. | 2 | Medical. 1 Or-Pouke Tye | Office: Punic Drve STORE, MILVERTON | Hours: Sr erarey 2to+p.m, | nd 7 to 8 p. Lega! UB H. B. Morphy, K.C. Solicitor for Bank of Hamilton. LISTOWEL. MILVERTON, ATWOOD, Offices: Listowel, Milverton. ey to Loan, ‘Harding, Owens & Goodwin Barristers, Solicitors, &c, Gordon Block, - STRATFORD, ONT. Money to Loan. 8. T HARDING Ww. 0, OWHNS W.m. avoDwmy itera are fair, and his cae almost | steely blue eyes search you, but not background o' The Commander-in-Chief’s coats training fice eaves Lin in the Jong, shapely lines of his | 2S Gee eee [te et plies boots, with thels Jingle] ds easily ai nl} lly, and walks with that rangy, | tride wi eraduate days pete pees Mis ally gallop. im the motor msiness vehicle, never eee Soe sp rate or pleasure, Although inartealste about him- seit Hal s favored # frankest publicity "about, his army |and the The x and never, | Ei { Veterinary. a | J..W Barr, V.S. | Graduate of whee peices College, ‘reais all discases of domesticated aatmale | All calls promptly attended to, Societies. Milverton Lodge No. 478 AR. & AM. 6.R.C. Mects every Moi full mm day e oa every: month ia ‘thelr ait Weir's bloc! vidladpriecn eases ecb W. &, Zoen Geo. J. Coxo: Sea, Silver Star Lodge No. 202 1.0.0 Meets every Friday night at 7.30 in their hall over Bank of Hamilton, Ww. K. Loth, Se A. Barth, Fin.. Secy. rages Notary Public. W. D. Weir, - Notary pane Auctioneer for the Counties of Pert Conveyancer, deste 8. wi ils, mort ages draw: nd cic oh mader eI Vill Ome; Weir block, over Bank of Nova cotta] A. Chalmers, - Conveyancer, Issuer of Notary Public riage Licenses é J.P. for the saa of Perth. Real estate bought and sold. A few choice farms tor immediate sale. MONKTON, ONTARIO Auctioneer on and Perth Counties, Nelson Merrick, - for Waterloo, Wellingt Sas Bae on aks of farms ocks. Office, next to Bank of Nova Scotia, Linwood, Hotels The Queens Hotel Eest accommodation for eommercial tra ellers and others. Two large Sample Rooms, @BO. F, PAULI, Prop, ~ Are You Insured MOF THE SEA. ten Itself To a “thé sea, and > beautiful t ought to ie Sake . aria But the so- “le vai the | Sganiire aa poetical a moftane properly known as the Mediter It wns Ss ate so beautiful that in an bre was reserved ex- Seslbenr ee the weaving of royal gaf- ning on or before” | Milverton, Ontty | graph and anon enables him to be when ‘janimated than This silk is spun by the mollusk to | pis i en. brief and business-like reports of operations that emanate each from his hdaetauartars (they are most epigrammatic) are seinen! characteristic of (ila igsehoaecaite they bea ‘The Haig Personality: jut underneath all this poverty o expression lies a mine of unexplored | Sir Douglas Haig. ee Ae ae is the real personality of the man him: Most people know that Haig ix Fifer, but what most p know is the very laminates lack that from his boyhood he aspired to be a} soldier. This ambition took definite | form at Oxford, where a wae, | lent at Brasenose College, He never the “hail-tellow-well-met” = Reserve wae is a | alway: and he spent all loaaee, time in fox hu galloped through the ‘ore ross the love- ly countryside that lies adjacent he was often Eis aoe His colleagues would say— e goes Sy une Haig. He’s Mas to hes a soldie then, is the type of man who sits ae the flat-topped desk at General | Headquarters with his finger on that | battle Biles, Temeneive to its utmost quiver. vel of motor, tele- resiliency of all Europe, hi of A 0 en account can conve adequ: impression of the huge tibet Kee the widespread scope of op- the immense problems. of nd perpetuate a kin, + And this moving picture, more ea Us Beas ec “artic A 2 Saale of this cnteral to- aS ‘ont When It R Tt Raine Ov Over T There. in France, and "the trenches looked like somo river | not on the map, ly in the communfeation trenche; oe ie not in form for being eel his surroundings. “Chuck it! 1’ “ily smoke!” ho replied, svn 3 bloomin’ thie tnaster!” ¢ goes for a man, of tended its dread domain beyond the i Se aS the Atlantic to the shores ie riploved tor usese wold populate dom, Cai n{the E Incident in the Halifax Tragedy. Two sailors digging for bodies, the one onthe left looking for the remains of his wife and two children which a 2 he finally foun The —— Day. a Into every detail of daily Ii |General Headquarters a natuees | shal’s character is impressed. After, lunch, for example, he spends an hour’ the alone, and in this period of meilitation| oy ce Ue ne A en the whole fateful = ot the war | asses before him. When it is “over the wires splutter and the Bere light | ¢ of the coming night—t to sleep—is ordaii This finished, the brief period of re-| spite beg ain or shine, his favor- | | ite horse is brought to the door an nl he ride, usually accompanied fe one or two young Staff officers. ve seen Sir Douglas Haig galloping felons these smooth French road: lhead up, eyes _ ahe ad—a memorable| grace and motion. P| © e pe uy $ ete of his tn Mae arn That modest establishment is ae its leaves with great ne but ed, but more thi uest at lits new foliage comes out with General Headquarters on the way +0! snced in a few days. The pink, aa is chamber has passed the office of ously formed flowers, their the Commander-in-Chief, and seen’ strong, Be SG perfu re very Him Bet ening: lonely fig- abundant, and “daring ‘hee bloom Sei e the tree a junta 1 si ae ae nightly -gredilamvith the great ee he ps however, is the ‘he ew problem that, reaching out from the friendly house amid the trees, affects the destiny and safety of the whole world. HOLY CITY SACKED BY TURKS : Famous Treasure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Stolen. an ee atch from Washington, D.C., BHtish ‘brutally mistreated Christian | priests, carried off the famous eee ure of the Church of the Holy Sepul: ie valued at millions of dollars, and | ent to Berlin the aes ch’s celebrat | Cae of brilliai Monsignor Cathnasel Te Patriarch| | from the effects of Turkish brutaliti The Church of the Holy sence had- remained unmolested heretofore | during all the centuries of Moslem | occupation of Jerusalem. ‘The same despatch told of indigna| '¢ Mussulm: Mine Gree Be seein oF S Geran general in establishing staff —head- quarters in the great mosque of the City of Aleppo, near the Syrian border. ae ees ALLIES TO TAKE SURPLUS CANADIAN FLOUR AND MEAL. A despatch from om Calgary says: It at the purchasing repre- ay and oatmeal manufactured earnes Canada, and age already every mill i ing to eee tod Sil oontinne ae 50 until the war is over The Cal ‘are grinding the purch: ——— = razilian Goyernment Has decided t att die'ulx beet unite’ of the Branilian Navy to European waters lay rmy does | fee yon al- | not begin to fight until ee poe go; greatest, profusion | tour es heights between sixty and ninety fect, at lon long liana-like stems that THE “BASEBALL TREE.” whit | Curious ‘Tree of Ti ‘Tropical America | hey make a drink o is ec ouae Whose Fruit Resembles a Cannon-Ball ical America—even so far curious tree correctl; penner eat tres ell tree” ae na, oe The t soil near rivers. The me ‘pa in Port of Spain, ‘Trinidad, the botanical zation in ssegeieeit es ish Guiana, contain excellent specimens that never “tail to ae the attention of the observant The cannon-ball quickly and tree springs up the forest attains but in the open its crown sp more and does each such a height. no} reh the cannon-ball tree the cannon-ball ¢: lar pod fr one ai Sinn me saga and anches. neo nor cist in othe Bo a tangled mass fox m. the. base 6 lax color, and mueh of the non Balls ene Hocoree so ma: Be ut the rast: TThe Pats uienaianie hie imagina- m to be ee tie! shape cake the Peni ane ae iy cal (oe ae tee “8 Se) itself 1 from the fruit, nicknamed the tree the “base- ball tree.” The South Americans ae the shell |% jo that of the fruit as they of the calebanioy Biientrostae the zipe pulp _|Now you can of its multitude of “seeds, each. o! ich is somewhat larger than ime, to fever patients, gulp hat a peculiarly. dadgeeestls odor. — To Youth After Pain. What if this year has given Grief that some year must bring, What if it hurt your joyous 3 yeah Crippled your Jaughte You always ives toniiaes Coming to all, ae you, They always said there was suffer- RETURNING HOME. * a The Joy of the French Who Return After German Retirement. e grea att satisfaction that can Ally 0} onlooker, says a r’s Mi and shops that they never expected to see again. On the road leading: from Villers- ep; Valoi d fled befor ¢ fir: st Gi I aske who h the id so we are Going pee still have a hom mma,” aid res at it be eet roi Srepy and mov- ed slowly on towal “There!” exalt fe Fabihes sud- nly. “Is |der (pepianeit is not s¢ bad with horses, fo: sity was seaiuny the hearts of women. into street and Hehe) thy partly ruined | church. “Turn here!” they al efied, as we camie to a narrow, windng side street, ‘The houses were all intact. The women leaned out in an effort jo see round a turn in the road “Nero! Nero!” shouted Yvette from her mek seat beside the driver. Now it is borne, come through, Even if ae have ‘plundered, Even if Still is hee the ae Se a, wall of Haat e and pai he sol ve Gone sain Wrapping your heart again. own Only, your heart ca: Now where it ae saad passed: One with them all at Ins e back your Goes a Wall fe vebie con ae Only, the world ia your Brother 0 4 ry, your soui-is stror csiveremvaddenee ctw babel: The production of potash in the United States is rapidly Increasing; according to figures given out by the United States Geological Saver The _ Hold Them fare Jadelphia Public Ledger. bend comfort ane, @ A little brown dog) ‘aexoss the street; we pissed the lin the road and, ‘while the little He barked and tried to Jump into the} coach, Yyette and her mother and her jue all laughed with tars in their i “Stop here!” ie saidto the dear | \“This is our house ed gave the horses whip and we moved off thihe Tee ee eS $50,000, FOR HALIFAX | SENT BY HING KONG. ther evidences of practict sympath: with the Halifax sufferers |re to han The Governor-General hagreceived “a eablegram from Walter tary for the Colonies, sating Hong Kong had given ta thousand. pounds “with expressions ff deep sym- pathy of the colony in theberrble dis- aster which has: befallen 7 ES z 2 2 5 Ey oa! Bs Eas @ 3 8. g. 5 court there has voted dollars in aid of the eablegram adds: “The ee of Brit- ish Guiana have heard wit oo concern of disaster sha fallen Baltes and desire) ee their sympat A despatch from Kingetol Jamaica, lan d a e ‘ax dis: x Excellencies the juke and DudHces of evosidhire Bayddeespm te special train for Halifax, were they will visit the hospitals and ke eve to help the sufferers in the fy of the great disaster. | ALASKA WRONGLY NMED? Corruption of Alayes! name dayeska, y the aborinal in. Aleutiantslands, lying to the westward. | ‘When the - Russians first me to! one of the Aleutian Islands thy were told that a vast eountty Iayiio th astward oe “The «Alt call their a pea pacing Getiend Wing ear Alayeksa. |B; slands | mutsi¢ feet of the scores of house of t folk! bag" the tower of the church. our te me Bh | bai if ‘Yvette’ s per stor! was on that | 0! A deena aed Ottawi says: aie yell mg, Secre- at $ fe ee General Be also re- | ceived a cablegr: of iti: Chigiae Caen Sek te is spain 2 h an pak 43 n- | ‘one thing in the world Br Toronto, Dec, 24-— Mantel ba ee No. 1 Northern, $2,234; 2, do., $2.21 $217k; No. # wheat. $2.1 in “store Fort eee including ot oats—No. outside. it New, No. 2 Winter, 3 basis, ee Montre ¢_frelents guiside. Rye No. 2, $1.78, according to fretghts Manitoba flour—Iirst patents, in jute $1,005 znd. do... $11 ng bake 70 bulk, seaboard, with eens he oes ae nunitieeea—Car lots, delivered Montreal are goin: to Senlis,” ex- fala ns Damen eae eee genes : pe 1% shorts, do. $40; middiings, do. plained the little giri’s mother. “The $45 to $48," “good feed flour, per’ bas, ans were Vi ‘lose when we Fane 8.25, BG “i lay—No. 1. new, per ton, $15. away, and some town was burn- | 316.80: nixed, don $13 to gis, track ing. For two weéks how we have been ; me gone from home, living like vaga- raw—Car lots, per ton, $9 to $9.50. Country Produce—Wholesale ouutter—Creamery, solide, “per Ib. 428 rei Prints, per tb. 48:to\ Ashes dairy, be ges—Fresh gathered cmgs, 48 to 60c, y—Turkeys, dressed, Ib. 28 to sal pri Nero bite a German Gueeeee NER jew, large, 23 Be 28$c; twins, “Tf the house is fa there, ae 4 238 to 28%¢; carly cheese, i to 260; find Nero,” the m answi LR Ta H Fresh dairy, choice, 40 to 410; the cand} re I he it will be! creamery prints, 45 to 46c; solids, 44 ‘open, you mi Sine oe: We ee —New fala a cartons, 60 to 650; No, 1 storage, 43 to 440; ‘select storage, 0 Hiry— Spring “chickens 31 ne does fowh Mion, sto §h a) 25 to 279 pou! ess . “ike -fed chickens 5 Live _poultrs—Tarkeys, 25c; Spring kent hens, 16 to 20c; 184 to 1c: 18 t GSunadian “hana plakens biahe ;_dmported! wands picked, $6.50 to Provisions—Wholesale amoved eet Ae ee ic; break! tg Re: 138 te ies backs biatn, 40 to. less. 43 to 4c. tate cone Siete ae ae clear bellies, 268 to 27e. ard—Pun bet to 28he,, a, terees, 248 to. i 2Bfe; balls, 25 ‘to 29 ‘2be} tubs, Montr Montreal, Markets ate Canadian Western, 4 shorts, $4 mouillie, $56 to. 2, n, cor lots, $15. so 1 Bui jae 41a Soc; selected, “abe; No. 1 stock, 41c; Ni 0. 87 to 88: Potatoes—Per bag, ¢ ts Witnipeg. Dee Cash quotations— ed, 704. a No. if . 2 OW, Roe eae eam ei te ek Ses Gabe: No 4 ew feca, NB Sptax 1. 2 CW, $3,063 ed States, see $1 65. Or ae vee } ats—No. bic. Blour unghanged. a ke 75; fee igi rs, 25 f and i Sadana $5.5 10 $5.50) er 300 to $140) good to ahalce mi, and met 5 ts $131 ight ewer, lambs, to’ cholee, $1 ay: 13. good hogs, ted and water off cars, $18 Serhan salves, = FOOD CRISS nN GREAT BRITAIN: Both Rich and Poor Obliged to Stand in Line For Necessities. A despatch from London says: The food question in Britain is rapidly ap- is. The fourth winte > out: to each "| the size at the family or aetual needs. This condition exists i1 nearly jevery large city of, the country and vse in mn, where Londo: lation pi are public opin« e | isen to such a pil a mpt official action to relieve the situatlon has been promised and will soon be forthcoming. ot men, yourself. aca THAT POLLY 1S RN SMART BiRD NouRE A FINE The Doings Sf the Gale You COST TWENTY. DoLLaRS, YoU BRAZILIAN SPARROW-' Pot zane eOss “THAT BACK SAY HELE, Take ma LEADING: MARKETS