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SI j PEARS are Economical i i A Ill J v Everybody likes because they retain so much of the refreshing quality of the raw fruit Owing to the absence of sharp acid they can be preserved in light syrup with excellent results Pears are good and may be abundant this year and the ten- sack of Sugar will preserve a line supply USE Preserving Get the benefit of its purity FINE granula tion and high sweetening power I I I and 5pound 10 and Have you seen tho Library Three new Cook on Candies and Sent for a Ball Trademark cut from sack or from top of a carton it today ATLANTIC sugar refineries and Power Building Montreal GOVERNMENT TAKES CHARGE THE ELEVATORS I i in pot The Canadian will lako over tem porarily grain in William and Arthur an order in Council just paBSOfl appointing Mr Chairman of Grain Commis sion Director of Grain ftlovator Operations This slop has been taken because of the failure to reach a settlement strike elevator employees at those two points which lias been in progress for several days past I sumption and and such shall not affect any liability of ho actual owners Under law He tony also with the approval of the Governor in Council appoint officers and to assist him determin ing the salaries and remunera tion which they shall receive He is granted power to make all ne cessary Investigations and in quiries with respect to wages holidays hours of labor and conditions and all mat ters necessary to the operation of the and tho continuance of and shows no signs of adjust- I work during the present war and The order confers wide for Ihrco months after Us powers on the Director By its provisions he may with the ap proval of the Governor in Coun cil take possession of all the ele vators in Fort William and FOR FLETCHERS A I tills is to moist v lives us a wholesome anti septic refreshing confection to take the place of the cave mans pebble We help teeth breath appetite digestion and deliriously soothe mouth and throat with this wel come sweetmeat A Si I The session ends In a of- diHappointinontti for tho Borden Government All their schemes ha gone awry Tim rank and file of the parly complain that they are headed by bunglers and It was thought at start lliat lho Old Flag proporly vaved would carry every arbitrary piece of legislation through with a hurrah Including the Disfran chise Act and deal but this turned out to ho wrong people- gelling soro at this abuse of the old fluff now that they lighting and dying for it In Besides the Old in the Borden Gov ernments hands has been flown at masthead of as rollicking a band of cold storage pirates as ever hied Canada to last drop Moreover women dont care for which la bors under the housewifes curse for the high cost of Jiving a soldiers wife or widow or sister or daughter goes to market she remembers thai the Borden Government had made her mans dollar earned as it was with blood and tears worth only cents Ho does every oilier poor mans wife and with it so she remembers to curse the profiteers who make her life one long struggle against starvation And every woman pretty well knows or she ought know by this lime thai Hie Borden Gov ernment is ha chief refills and shelter of the profiteers This brings the Borden Gov ernment to its second disappoint ment the War Time Act heller known as the Disfran chise Act This ingenious piece of legislation enfranchises some Ave hundred thousand women and leaves about one million live hundred thousand good Canadian women out Without going into details about Ihc influence of a million and a half women scorn ed on the votes of their male re lations it will be sufficient It point out that the voles of the live hundred thousand favored are by no means a certainly for the Borden Government The longsuffering women of Canada know what it is to pay two prices for everything Ihoy put in to their childrens mouths The Borden Government cannot cajole hem with votes intended to put Borden Government back again so its friends can squeeze the cost of living a little harder Another weak spot in the War Time Elections Act is the clause which disfranchises some fifty thousand aliens including many British subjects of teen years sending simply because they are of foreignenemy This al so causes great disappointment When Borden Government on sober second thought reviews the fact that the thousand disfranchised aliens are only a fraction of a multitude of Gor- whom the act Tom on side with his chum Tho following loiter was re ceived last week by Mrs Watson of Newmarket The writer- Tour was a Sutton hoy but lie butchered for Mr Osborne of previ ous lo enlisting in Ihc Ball He went overseas two years ago last August Mr Sept and Mrs Watson Dear your overwelcome letter of July and was cer tainly glad lo receive same Yes I would sure like lo be there to give Perm a helping hand hut no such luck as thai Just ima gine have been hack in Blighty just about a year It will be one year thy of this month since I was wounded and am still unfit for service in franco so it looks like spending he winter here al though I guess I should he thank ful lhal am alive Has con scription any one in Newmarket yet Bad a letter from Near and both of T It sta tion still going strong and well At present Near is In Hospital with some sickness but nothing very serious Well must close for now With best regards to all Sincerely Dill LIKE CATTLE Story of Inhuman Do- portntlono Void by an IVltnoca More than an a Belgian Commission work er whose activities were ham pered by the German deportation John A one of Hoovers picked men tells in the October Hearsts Magazine the story of the deportation of Be says Of all the outrages committed in Belgium none can compare In illegality and criminal cruelly with the deportations arc as numerous today as they were last fall and this spring sale of the fast household articles But might as well hove prayed to images orstonb In the marketplace of the Seventh guarded the pens newly erected the human cat in Hood tin German civil military au thorities swearing and cursing betimes when were alow to comprehend which way thoy were to be driven what undying hatred was kindled that day I To the right I rang out the commondsto the left the and every man strong of limb broad of chest and clear eye was hustled off lo trains standing ready with their steam up A hasty embrace and a father was torn from arms of bin son or brother from brother A last appeal for mercy woula only result In kick and a curso What cared for a wife and five children who would starve lo death when the wageearner was taken from hem and sent into What were the shouts in the distance thai seemed amuse these lords in and gold braid Merely the curses and imprecations of frantic women claiming their man tiger was coming lo Ihe surface 0200 men hao marched down from the flower of them almost seven hundred started packed and in open ears in an icy wind on the long slow road toward German workshops and fields Each one was to release a German and seno another soldier to the from That night there was not one sired in of he old duchy which did not ring with the wails of women and children From city village and village hamlet sentence was car ried out until a hundred thousand of he strongest and men had been taken I investigated what became of A portion of those from hi mv own prov ince were sent south of Valen ciennes dig in the trenches When refused a dozen were selected and with heir hands red behind them to posts were informed hat thus they would stand there without food until willing sign be voluntary contracts And there Ihev wore standing or rather hanging un conscious thirty hours later when my Informant one of he citizens of Valenciennes brought the news Time Panic Corporation Debentures do not fluctuate- In value Neither time panic Stocks Some disappear altogether Cut ell excitement strife of war Standard Debentures have stood test of princi pal and permanency of Interest A It a GIGO Inter la en day It Is at year I eel bank Corporation Debentures In of and rcpayablo at a to cult your Thousand la ten o Inverted today for our booklet PROFITS PROM J V Ban Branch CIIATHAU a END LOTS OF FEED BRAN AND SHORTS ROYAL HOUSEHOLD FLOUR FAMOUS ALSO CREAM OF THE WEST In tho Bread Making Contest at School for Campbell Hilling Co May Got of Weal A HOWARD LI 2i3n of Of in Moot Hospital PAINT Q Phono does no I reach and that the influ ence and sympathy of that mul titude will go with their insulted compatriots is inclined lo desolated morally and ma- out and kick round Ihe I Jjlaliy family on which for having made such ft decree has fallen mess of It The fault lies with of Arthur Meighon hey it him lo draft the bill and thought he would moderate enough knows Arthur is about as wide as a straight line which as you know is Length Without breadth and his colleagues that he would broaden freedom down from precedent lo precedent until it was his size Arthur did his best but he couldnt make It although at one time he bad it in mind to have all the Liberals in Canada taken out and shot at sunrise only consolation in all the sportsmanlike to disable the other fellow is the Military Voters Act The Borden Gov- eminent is perfectly satisfied with this It looks a straight steal on a wholesale scale will do counting ami dis tribute the voles as needed There arc some fifteen thousand soldiers who have no definite con stituency lo vote in These fif teen thousand votes Judiciously applied to weak spots all over Canada are calculated to wipe out many close Liberal majorities There are Iwo hundred and forty constituencies in Parliament Divide into fifteen thousand voles and the result is sixtytwo votes to spare In each constitu ency Of course they wont be needed where the Conservative wins and that loaves that many for other emergencies IN VOW FIGHT MX It but fllv a lot of and not only a a i bid Whoever has looked inside an elephants mouth has seen a very strange sight Elephants have no front teeth and they never eat flesh or any food that requires tearing apart Eight teeth are all have two above and two be low on each side huge yellow mo lars as wide as a mans hand Over these hay and fodder aro shifted by the queerest ugliest tongue In the whole animal king dom a tongue that is literally hung at both ends having no power of movement except in the middle where it shifts hack and forth from the side arching up against the roof of the big mouth like a wrinkled pink serpent Ele phants like human beings have two sols of teeth milk teetli smaller than the permanent molars and fall out when the an imals about fourteen year old These baby teeth which are occasionally picket up by circus the fodder and the homes of rich anl poor alike Throughout the winter of was kept rushing back and forth lo whatever place in my province a deportation was lo take place in order to protect and intercede as far as possible for my own men namely the Belgian employees and officeforce of tho Commission It struck home when the turn finally came lo Mons the capital of the province where I lived and had my office A week previ ous lo the fateful day placards had been posted in the squares and principle places of the city and everswelling anxious groups were sullenly reading the order for all men of the city between the ages of and excepting priests doctors and magistrates to present themselves upon tho of November in the Grande Palace of the Faubourg of This being without the city pro per mob could easily be kept away and there would ho no dan ger of a riot Men read the French and Herman versions on the huge placards as if they were reading their own deathwarrant They matched the Jab in lists on the walls of in the Reign of Terror Then city waited in dull lethargic suspense It was longest- week it had ever through Even the Children of Israel led into Babylonian captiv ity were allowed to lake with them their wives and cattle In the gray dawn of morn ing the men marched out They came from hovel and workshop and mansion They were as like before the Von Quasi as they will bo on the Day of Judgment before Almighty God Strong and weak hardest workers of the province as well as the idle prince and pauper this was the day of reckoning for having picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Prussian auto cracy Down the many cobbled lanes Of the city built upon hill flowed endless arteries of men REWARD readers of this paper will he pleased to that there Is least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all Ms stages and that Is catarrh Catarrh being greatly Influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and ads thru the blood on the Mucous Surfaces the System thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease giving the patient strength by building up the and assisting nature in doing Its work The proprietors have so much faith in the powers of Halls Catarrh Cure that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any that It fails cue Send for list of Address J I Toledo Ohio Prompt Delivery Phono CO CO by all druggists Over prisoners were taken by the British in a drive north of on an front last week The British cruiser Drake has been torpedoed by a German submarine but was able to make I an Irish port where it sank in I shallow water The explosion killed one officer and men Goes to Press Please report changes required to our Local Office The Bell Telephone Co of Canada sit Agent Mar At the lPa sic yr vwvww Call CUT Kept In QB w latest All K Call Ail kind Without altering the world champion motor the perfected clutch and transmission or the mighty axles the Maxwell builders have produced a new wonder car far superior in construction and in appear ance to anything yet turned out by the Maxwell factorieswe have this new and beautiful car come and see it i St the students under their profes sors clerks behind their chiefs and workmen behind their super intendents rows of gray with glis tening bayonets lined the roads and barred all approaches Here and there a mitrailleuse had been yet up Distracted desperate women followed by howling children ran up and down the fields pleading aye praying on their permitted to pive their men the bundles of just purchased by the The car is and roomier for one thing the Vfheelbase has been Increased six Inches It Is also a stronger and more machine for the road The frame Is now six Inches instead of three inches deep And the body rests directly on this powerful frame Instead of on brackets extending from the sides as In the past Do you know what that means It means this The firmness with which the wheels firlp road and the steadiness of the car at high speed give you a sense of security such as you have been able to enjoy before only in cars shackled with a battery of shock ah And die Maxwell before was the most iolcU car In Compensating rear spring word In spring Jonmark this ful Maxwell of ft They mean greater comfort greater economy lessening wear and tear on the car Maxwell Nov Has the Style of the Costliest Cars New Cur is HO Lighter Pounds Hi engineering for you friends I car Is made and stronger actually lighter iuiib ftrtattf and comfort on the road Hot than that It meant greater economy The new Maxwell Is a car of great beau It has eloped windshield and rakish before produced In car coating its Its good looks now equal Its proved mechanic The new Is richer and the new Maxwell is cur Were proud to ttll It Youll be proud to own one Your thin Iff Ho no Cur Coupe Berlins Sedan SlStO All prices A Windsor WD the TORONTO