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CANADIAN BANK A OF COMMERCE . T . sm nnmmn wALx1m.'c.v.o.,r .1..n.,`n.c.L., Auuxannnn Llunn. Generaxmanageg . Joan C-.n`eral_MInns_t Interes" at the current rate is -allowed on "all deposits of $1 and upwards. ` Careful attention is given to every account. S_maI1 accounts are welcomed. Accounts may be opened and operated by mail. ' Accbutits maybe qpnd in` th games of two.or more ipersos, with- drawals to be made by any one of them or by the survivorx _ V 821 `Av :11. Au: I Fighting in the openV bountry is` GAPITAL $15,000,000 RESERVE rum). $13'.5ou.tmn` CHAPTER II;-(Contined) SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNTS Unde1f the Tide `4`Di_sarrn this 'N'ovel won for its author the Nobl Peace Prize. 1 A Famous Story` BARR`! E B_RAN'CH _- A-.-;: At last a" comfortable night` in . ` bed! A poor little town! Provis- ions? Yes, taken from the inhabi- tants on requisition. All they had for the coming month. A. Requisii-' tion! It is a good thing `to have a pretty` name for an ugly act.` But ' a night s sleep and `a meal mean a ] `great deal to. me. just now. When - `I was about to tumble into bed, an . orderly came in and brought _me ` something for which -I pressed his 3 .hands,_ rewarded him handsomely, i , and promised to do.something,fo1j 3 his _ family. What the --fine `fellow ` `brought. me-=.,gave fme y_'_the -kehenest ' :p1easure,l: sang re iane srronran = V IUUICTU F. _CROS'S.. Manager. JIIID vv All Y! UV ) LVI. J. DIAL: ' ! What goes there`! .A spy? One`! |No, seventeen. There they, came in four rows,` four in a row, marching with bowed heads`, surrounded by a square of soldiers. Behind in a wagon lies a corpse, and bound ' to it a twe1ve-year-old- boy-i-=the dead man s ' son--all condemned to die. I withdraw, but hear the ring and the smoke, and I shudder_. "The boy `is dead too. ` . ' 'n'.-- axnvuzsxsux LAU_vvJ., uuu AALKAOII IJLCDD U11 and desert the poor beast, who may not die for twenty-four, no, even`, forty-eight, hours. AMaster,` mas- ter, he seemed` to cry, don t for- sake poor Puxl-,' and is little heart is breaking. . . . _hat torments one most is to think that the dying faithful creature misjudged me; It cannot know that when a regiment is yingfto attack, leaving behind so many comrades, one cannot com- mand Halt!- for a little dog-.. . and he must have thought me mer- ciless. `Many would _ say,` shrugging their should?r,_ how can one mind such tries amidst. such great events and such gigantic] misfor- tunes? But not `you, my Martha- ` you will weep for Puxl. TXT`I..`..L .......... n..._.-a A -___-_n I\ an U Againon the march, With a few lsk1rm1`shes._ Another great sorrow. It ought not` to haunt `me so when iso many are in despair.` I should 'have left poor Puxl at home with =his {little master, for, as -he ran af-' ter me, the splinter of at` shell tore [off his front legs. I heard. the -mournful howl, but must press on 'fi Ananu` -I-Inn 1f\l\l\`a LA.\nJ- -.1... ....--- To-'tlay -we had a little cavalry (sldrmish in the open` eld. "VA Prus- lsian dragoon regiment came up, [dropped _into line, and, with their Ibridles drawn and sabres_ over their ;heads, they galloped down on us.` 'VVe sprang totmeet the attack. No `bullets were exchanged. A few paces apart both reginients broke _into a thundering l1urrah (like `intoxicated Indians or .barbaric Zulus); and so we fell upon each" lother, horse to horse, knee to -knee, lsabres swinging and crashingv down `upon -tl1e men from both sides. VVe {were soon_ in such. a `muddle that {we could notuse our Weapons. 'l.l.e. lhorses reared .and Dranced, clanging -their` hoofs. _Once I fell and saw ;above me `these friglitful crashing [feet Within an inch of my head--it 'was not a pleasant thine`. ' I a _r or 7 terrible enough, but ghting i11 the midst of homes and human haunts` is ten times more; cruel. Crashing .timbers, burned buildings, smother- ing smoke and fumes, maddened animals, ever Wbuilding a. fortress or barricade, and every Window a 3 gun-`hole! There Was` a breastwork lheaped up with corpses, the defend- Iers having` used the slain as `a ram- part to shoot behind._ One man lpenned in among the rest was still Ialive, for I sawhim move. l Livingstill! that is the most hor- rible condition for the u_ncared-for wounded. If only some angel, either of compassion or `death, might touch these poor Wretches with a tender hand! ' e JJJJJJ \JI.1JI\J\J\J \I.L IIOILLLULLKSO u The 'v11l:ag'e IS ours--no, the| 7 enemy has it-it is once more ours! -nally_ it is the enemy s (but no long;cr can it be called. a village,I nothing` but a heap of smoking ruins. The inhabitants (Was the, villag'e not theirs?) had abandoned` it ea1'ly--happy for them--for the} shot and shell hit all alike, old and! young.r:, women - and children. One` faniily had remained behind in this, place which yesterday We took, 10st,? retook, and lost` again--an oldi couple with a married daughter in! 'Cl1ll(ll)Gll. The husband chanced to" be one of my regiment. ``For` 'God s sake, Colonel, he said, as, We approached the village, send me over there to the house With the red roof for there lives ; my .wife with her crippled old parents.| - child killed by an exploding shell, They could not get away. Poor devil, he arrived to see his Wife and` and the old people buried beneath the `debris. _ __ . y. _ . 1 By the V - BARONESS VON SU'I`.TNER_ ' By Spatial Arrangement WA R ' From the heights we..saW again a spectac e. A bridge fell with a train 0 wagonsc'i"5ssing it. Were they. lled with wounded`? I could only "see that horses, Wagons, " and humans sank `forever into the rapid water, It was counted lucky, ' for . it was the enemy"s loss; our men had sawed -the timbers as a success- :ful strategy. Another picture `from I this height disclosed our own. .Kheve'nhuller s reg"~imen_t\ `inveigled _into..,.a swamp from which it. _,could not extricate _itse'lf. "While sinking` into the morass, the enemy s shell killed themall, But `thev could not mutter a sound with .the_i1_"` , noses, eyes a_n'(_1- mouths lled With mire. *jTliis,- we weie -5tQld',_ was f"a_ tact mistake; `_An'y - What 'd9ie ft earn .with the plaster dust. Fightingl [Yet two terrible pictures remain in Another street ght. The crash-l ing. timbers and falling _walls_ were the more horrible for the battle- cries, shots, and explosions of shell; From a Wrecked `house there ew overmy head a_ `window-frame,l and the chimney fell to dust, sti-[ ing the air and stinging our eyesi along the -narrow lanes and streets,l we nally came upon the -open mar-l ket-place. In the middle, on a high! pillar, stood a statue of the Virgin Mother, with the Child in one arm, stretching the` other in blessing.l Here the struggle became one of l demons-hand to hand; They were[ hacking: at me and_ I was laying `about me with terric force. What I hit I do -not know, for in such moments one loses the memory. my mind: `A Prussian dragoon, strong as Goliath, tore one of our oicers out ofhis saddle, and split his skull at the feet of the Madon- na. The gentle, saint` lookedon un-1 moved. Another Goliath of the enemy s - dragoons -snatched. my" neighbor, bent him backwards-, so that I heard his spine crack, and- threw him lifeless, under the same blessed lady s `outstretched, 'hand. __,_,__ 1. --_ ..-.....,-...-.--.~uv x.-vnnnnuu -ua. uvuu -t,hese `same men who go .with! pI'easure to. meet their foes. The men are supposede to. know why they go, but the `poor beast knows" no reason why he is hewn into help- less agony. `What anguish they en-H dure-and terror so great that sweatdrenches their bodies! And then _the fever of the Wounds, the; these miserable, abused one hundred terrible thirst, which is suifered by i thousand horses! This was my, `dream, and I, awake in Q, fever reaching for my Water-bottle . I I . An artillery section stands Witlli its Wheels` sunk, deep in the mire ofl .Wate1'-cove1'ed road. Dripping With; sweat and blood from crucl',blows,! the horses drag at the sinking guns. One has dropped, but .the lash keeps, falling on the poor beast, who can-; not move. 1Does not- the man `tee! this? .Yes, but he is` responsible for his guns and must full. his. duty. The tormented, willing, faith-l ful creature does not understand it,. and has made his most `desperate! efforts. What must it . think`.?-| think, as animals think, not articu-5 lately, but insensately; not in! words but in feelings, which are all the more acute because they can nd no expression. And with its `only expression, a shriek of pain, the poor thing `sank; and that` shriek rings in my ears yet, it even haunted in next night s dream.` Tosense t1e pain of one artillery, horse and then multiply it by one} .hundred thou_sand4-for that is the usual number'slaug'htered iua long. |campaign-g:ives one some idea of the mass of` agony men heap upon J.`|__,._,, . '11 these poor unfortunate dumb brutesl` To-day. two pictures impressed themselves upon me. Rocky Heights with jagers climbing, up them like cats.` They were ordered to take the- height. The enemy was -ring down. As the bullets _from above struck them, they threw out their arms, dropped their ries, and roll-I .ed crashing to the bottom, and over the `rocky projections they were smashed to pieces. The other "scene; A rider, a little way from me, was struck by a shell, which ripped the; lower part of his bodyoff, disem-` bowelling him. The horse. swerved,- 'and carried _this mangled,.- bleedingl n1ass, which at -a short distance fell to the ground and was dragged over the stones by the galloping animal. f i ~ T l `we slet; tatrtxd `inf the moring when We Woke he` licked my hand again and again, stretched out his small body, breathed deep-A-'and was` no; more. Poor Puxl, it -is better so. ' ` -I 1 Tdesecrating agony! How can some, ul"Another._ day and its _horrors.l With;`_myf eyes shut it comes tome i_n "frightful pictures. Nothing but `with such delight? Do they lie and I ra-ra, Hurrah! men give their War ' reminiscences` paint the scenes in story-book fash- ion for the sake of" heroics"! `The, more horrible? things are, the more gloriously do they describe them; the more `shocking the scenes, the more indifferent and easy they make it appear. Writers seldom speak of } these horrors with disapprobation, indignation, or rebellion. Some! may, perhaps, heave `a few. senti-` mental sighs of sympathy, but they are ever ready to sing the glories of War-Lift your heart to Godl and your hand against the, enemy, v I'I'I - . - n n 4 Because your case is a difficult one, and doctors having done you no good, do not continue, to suffer without giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 3 trial. It surely" has remedied many cases of female ills, such as inamma- . tion. ulceration, displacements, tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, and it may be exactly what you need. i TI-iE NORTHERN ADVANCE I have settled it: This will be , my last campaign. When I come- L. back I quit the service. VVhen a , man has learned to look upon war with the horror that it produces in me, it would be a lie and a crime to stay in its` service. As you know, I have always gone into bat- tle with repugnance, but-t is detes- p tation is so increased, _this condem- nation and `decision has become so. strong, that `all the reasons `with which I had heldmy `judgment -have ceased to argue in me. Our mutual study of the question has proved to ; -me that the greatest souls in the world share this conception of war `with me. pWh'atever comes, I am Adeteriiiined that at the `end of this campaign shall forever eclose,` my military '_life_, I cannot serve` the V god of war i any lo'ngor., I have ' come "to :_-this _ `_c'onvi`cti'onj as. some L people` change their old .ideasjJ of re- v 'lig'io'ii` ~ . j`1;vhic'_11`.1 `_ they; 5 gradually nd ' )3 ed:I_on folly. `and supersti; f ' so" .I cauio-,1'1b`nger*` keep` 3 1`e 1 r lnight upon another one of our regi- ments till daylight disclosed the error, and sad also that another troop was led into a pond through a conict in orders, but little things like that will happen to the "best `players of the -`gauge of war. ~ In The government boat Naaid iunder Captain Corson, paid. Brad- ;f01'd an ofcial visit on -May 7th. Capt. Corson dragged the entire length of the river for gill nets, but only secured one. It being found south of the Bradford bridge. I Thomas Hand, a pioneer of the Township of Mulmur, and a formerl tax collector of Tossorontio, died at Alliston on May 8th, aged 85 years. lEleven sons, six daughters, fty- [five grandchildren and twenty-three `lgreat -grandchildren who survive I should prevent the name dyiiig out. n I`.-Jl-Inn-..-u3| T3--~~J "` 1"` " ' louuulu prevent me name ay1n`g- out.| I Collingwood Board of Education has passed` a resolution- that no in-t creases in salaries will be given, and `asking the teachers for `a "writ.- !ten statement that they will re-en- -gage at present salaries. There is {also 9. proposal - to ' dispense with I singing instructor and `school nurse. mkn I-\:ruu..n-. .. 1._____ ,. , II I . It A District Representative of thei `Ontario "Department" of .Agrieu1ture' lhas been appointed for the districts: [of Muskoka and Parry Sound. The oice at Huntsville is at the service of the farmers `of the dis-, 1 tricts. ` l ...v4. wt \.AA\J\A. \l-I-u IJ\lL\JI.ILAIIA 5. . The town `of Owen Sound has bought from a broker $13,498 Worth iof its own debentures,` and .will [make $500 before they mature. The [money was furnished from the! toWn s sinking fund. _ D,.,._:..._I,1 1)--/.._'.-_--~ - _--__-,,_ In Iv \IJ. IL v UV l1ll\.I J`Allo As a result of Paris green being `left in the barn and chopped up with roots, several cows belonging to Lawrence Gibbons, near Gil-. ford, died of poisoning; - rm... ;........ :...L- n...-..._ cI__--_J 1---. uv -- un Iu ma:-Alnnblla IJ-l.ILL\AI Regmald Burrows, a young farm- er, Who l1ved alone near Meaford, '.Was;k11led by'the accidental dis- .charge of h1s_r1e as he crawled Ithrough a fence. He `Was engaged |to be marrled this summer.` A ,1 ' I 1' V `l`\' 1`: 1 n . 1 - The Pinkhun record is a proud and peerless one. It is ,',, ` {record of constant 4 victory ove:;.the ob- otiiaateillaof women, V`.-.-`,-ills that deal out ; .......J... ... V . l The supply steamer Neminko,I owned by W. Hanna & Co., of Port` `Carling, was discovered" on ' re [Thursday night at` her dock and was iburnt to the lull. A .. A _.__,__`L , `I ' v v u4a\.n- E J. P. Wilcox, 8th line, `Tecum- iseth, had, two horses killed by llightnin"g. His son Who was plough- ing with the team at the time Was uninjured. rnl..- ....._....1;. .A..._-.___. \T_.,,3-_1,_ | -AVA.b\JllIAt\/L >4 .n.a.\.n..vl1;I.-own, .n.u;.vAAuuo ! Prospects around ' Beeton are lbright for a good fruit crop, but it- {is Well not to bank too much on it ! so. early in the season,cautio11s The VVorlq; TITO` r\.1 so run [THE WEEK IN REVIEW! `New Notes of Interest. For ! > Busy` Reader; g4..\/-4 v.-. away -4 ;. nan- v .--.;nAuuu I ' Miss M. VVa1sh`, of NeWton`Robin- son, and Miss B. Gibbon of Gilford, have received their diplomas -at St. Michael s Hospital, Toronto. T) nnnn AAA... ......---`.J . 'l)....L..... ...... l I.II\J " (JILL JLIIIQ IllllIl\JlL _ Illl\J l\llaIIK}\.lD I D * Mrs. A. Keeley, a former resident of Collingwood, was one of the vic- 'tims of the Lusitania tragedy. l ' Mrs. Fred Archer of Gilford, who 'has been in Barrie Hospital for isome time, . is expecting to return `home shortly. ' m---....:.-- 4:-.- .... ..;. - .'.,... .... 1ur..-.,i Lubuauxus G IJUVV 111116" u.|.5uun ; Coll.ingwood s tax D rate will. be 35 mills; it being necessary to raise $113,155. - ` `I)....L.... .w:'I'I `I...-J.-`I -:4-nv nnnno` J.J.u .Luu. _ 7 Beeton will hold it's Lannuall King. s Birthday celebration .on June 3rd. _ _ " -r1-`.1 I111 ,,,_,J ' `4IIl\J `I-I. Llp\1\& Phil. McI`;e;c.>d has .given up tl1c Daly House, Orillfa, ' and A. R. |Regan has taken the lease. 1\,r.... A 17....1...- .. '.......,..... ...m:.:I.\4-I Now I am healthy, happy and" hearty, and owe it all to Lydia E. Piukhsm"a remedies. You may publish letter if you like. I think if more. women` used your remedies they would have better henlth.-Mrs. J. T. 0001:, Lot: No. 7, Cape Wolfe, P. E. 1., Canada. ` ..... W, u...,-.-_,. , ` , Twenty-ve years ago _ on May! }8th, Alliston reeswept, and jmany people- were left `Without lhomgs or assets of any .kind. U 11- 11v I n `-1- ; I To.-day is __ Bradford Horse Show. % Alliston is planning for a July 11st` celebrajzion; ' -unn nA 13..L :. LA:v\riIl `L51: Ucu:u1`a.uuu. V _ _ A new rink, 180x84 feet, 1s bemg [built in A1li.ston. 1,- _ --..--- ..'l.\.. Uuu._|.a 111 .Q1ll.|IUl.l.- A Penetanguishene has a new elec- tmc re Talar1i1'system.T ' ` "ITL -.-.-..._ TJ'...~.-.....A` A-0 D.nn`-nn 110$ tric `alar1i1'system.e 1 . = Thomas Hammel of Beeton has been appointed a Notary Public. ) Bradford Presbyterian Church is luv u. ypuxuucu a anus.-u.:J .:. u.u..v. f j? `l:3ra`&' ord [installing a new pipe. organ. n-n:._........-.:|7,. ;..-. ....L.. ml kn U l.4I..|.l.U 9.11. \Lo , The~Domin'ion Hotel, Collingwood, Iv-`as, ned $300 and costs for illegal Isale of liquor. _ V | nL:1 11.7 ..,..a L... ....'...w. 111`\ Mm L1151115 u1a'bl.'uULUf 8.110. SCUOOI The bxgger a town grows, the bet- ' . . _ ! _ter` market 1t 1s, and the `more, valuable do_ the] farms for many; miles around become. Farmers-it `is to your own interest to patronize? your home town and thus incrc-axe` `the consumingv population and on-_ `sure a `better market for your ownli products.' `M2. n1.-- 11.1, `I An n` [ `J uvuu 1 ` D111'i11.~' last Thursday 11i2'ht'.s' storm wh1ch passed over town about .How aesthetically our battleelds` are painted! Upon a hill-top, stands` a group A of generals; the eld mar- shal with the-glass to his eyes, is dictating to his -staff as he sits proudly on a white - charger. One; hand `is stretched idramatically to-| ward the smoke-covered` plain. Or! he is waving his sword and looking backwards, as if saying to tho_se| behind, ... Follow me, my children!! Pictures give the magnicent and; _scenic eects of War Without the` horrors. They give the superb de-I tail of line and the elevations and' landscape, not. the owing blood, the - mangled forms, _and scenes of . disgust. To see only the glitter of arms, the clouds of smoke, the prancing horses, the oating ban- ners, the Whirl of action, might in-x spirea battle-song.or an epic, or a! masterpiece of painting. ' I FF]... -.:11.-..... -.. -----.. ..- LL-| `r1 \f1?.Vv6i1as. Beck, aged 80 years, of! ithe Beck `Mfg. Co.;Penetanguishene, Twas drowned in tlxoibay thorcon %Tuesday afternoon of last week, hvlxcn his horse went in- too far to get a drink. He was one of the iwealthiest men in that part, his| 1'at.inj.',' being" said to be over four: millions. Ho \\'as partially pa1'a-! lyzed. ` L I T\-_--I-.. . I a nu 1 The Bell Telephone C%o,e` *1 \ -fof Canada; "leery Dell Telephone in a Long Dtuence Station." Why not adopt this principle in your _% business? `Telephone rst! Try :6 gure out ;where the Long Distance Telephone C3 " `-v ` ' ` ` o 0 can -save you precxous t1me! Why Not Telephone? . Many progressive business houses have found that by a systematic and persistent "use of the Long Distance Telephone travell- ig expense` be reduced anywhere from 20 to` 80 per cent. M your staff many tiresome trips, unnecessary disappointments and much expense. If rou `tlephone him first you may not have to go at an! Cape Wolfe, Canada.- Last MarchI_ was a complete wreck. I had given up all hope of getting better or living any- length of time, as I was such a sufferer from female troubles. But I took Lydia E. _Pinkham s Vegetable Compound, and [ today I am "in good health and have a `pair of twin. boys two months old and growing nely. I surprised doctors and neighbors for they all know what a wreck I was. | Telefahonc; you would save yourself and If you would just remember to observe rule of rst using the -Long Distance '10 `o clock, Mr. B. B. Col1in:'s barn {on the east side of the 1-in-r. about :3 miles north of Brad1'm- was istrilck by lightning:: and 1(-.~'t1'0_\"(]. `Mr. Collings lost about 31m tons of Vbaled hay and all his i111]n1vn1('I1tS. iThe loss is estimated at about ;$4,'5o0, which is partially (-on-1'(-:1 by- ] insurance.-VVitness. ' 'I"` l\ I ` ' 'r\ 1 IN: The Ontario Red Cross .\`noiMy is niakiiig an appeal to the .-vhnol children of the province to pill the money. usually frittered a\\'a_\' on re crackers into wool for knitting Soldiers socks. The `Sm-iet_\' offers `to have the socks knitted -ii" the wool is furnished speedily _i-iiniirii, and to send them to the mMii~`1'< as An Empire Day ` g'ief't 1'1-mzi the bqys and _J,'il.'1S of (`a1121d:1." THURS`DAY, MAY 20ml Find: Help in Lydia E. Pink- - hem : Vegetable ' Compound. 3 womm m I TERRIBLESTATEI