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l 6 esd Tulorg‘ Ee e M Wmomowooooowmmmowoom»momo»g 0@000900000000868° OOMWQWOOOMO“WNz 9 g Noteâ€"â€"Pressing, Cleaning and Dyeing Done ; * € WWWMOMW@WOMW Mining Machinery â€" _ PREâ€"WAR PRICES ONEâ€"Five Stamp Mill weight of stamps 1050 Ibs each, arâ€" ranged for inside amaigamation, complete in every detail ONEâ€"4‘‘ x 6‘‘ Dodge Crusher. ONEâ€"F C Sample Grinder. Miscellaneous other ma.chinery./ All in Storage at Wabi Iron Works, New Liskeard Fraser Chalmers of Canada 59 Beaver Hall Hill, :: MONTREAL, P.Q. i b000009$0000000000090000000008000000000000600000000066 Before Buying your Spring Outfit â€" 15‘" x 9‘‘ Blake Crusher, manganese fitted NEXT DOOR TO CANADIAN CLUB CAFE TATILOR GUARL AGAIMG] mt There is an Organjzed Enemy Force *‘ at Work in Ontario. A readdr of The Advance writes this psper asking:â€"‘‘What is the Hidden Hand referred to in the letâ€" ter written by Col. Denison,. of Torâ€" onto, and published in a recent issue of The Advance?". The ‘Hidden Hand,"* of course, is| a secret German influence. It is in higch places and in lowly walks of life. It jnstigates all forms of treachery and aids all sorts of foolâ€" Re] ishness that work to the national inâ€" jury. As Col. Denison pointed out, German banks were allowed to tinue in England, the German metal | mo trust was allowed all sorts of favors,| Pa thousands of alien enemies were perâ€" mitted freedom in the British lsles| 19 and elsewhere,â€"all traceable to _ a powerful influence in high places.| Ba People in the Old Land are convinceed | M that many of the military failures |Te and most of the difficulties that seemâ€" | p ed to be the outecome of utter idiocy |9 on the part of men of talent were|p, nothing of the kind. _ They would have proved the great successes they had been planned, had it not been for | the inowledge that went to CGermany, |\â€"sent by that * Hidden Hand,""‘â€" Uthat influence in high places. Toâ€"day {England is awake to the danger, and : beinge awake the danger is less. | _ As Col. Denison suggested, Canaâ€" ) | da could not éxpect to escape the atâ€" : tempted infuence! of this **Hidden ) | Hand.** The influence that took the o |trouble and dad the power to seeure g the hustlinge out #8f England of Premâ€" P D D P1 P ier Hughes of Australia, simply beâ€" eause he was ‘‘on the track*"" of the evil influence and might make paraâ€" lizing exvosures,â€"such an influence ® L would notâ€" mnssleet â€" Canada. _ That Hand"" has done mueh work in Canada. If it eould be traced i would be found to be at the root of every internal division and â€" every quarrel that dhas Canada in the war.~ It is all very well to ‘‘poohâ€" D | : § pooh*" such a statement, but it must $ P be remembered that the same ‘‘poohâ€" poohing*‘* was done in England, Ireâ€" land, _ France, _ Russia, Italy," the United States, and other lands. And every ‘‘poohâ€"pooh""‘ eost many lives lto bewasted. â€" Since the United \States has taken such a strong stand .‘1' x hba : dt] on weeding out the traitors and the 2 hidden influences that work for the @|enemy even a wayfaring man can sce the number of plots that are being exposed. â€" Before, it was the mysterâ€" fous loss of life and loss of property g that were the only exposures. Sumâ€" i 4 h € @ 4 ) » a« ce mss on w oo n e o en mm mm en n ; c 1 k 2019 We um old F23 ming it up in a word:â€"every . man who by word and action does not prove himself wholeheartedly on the side of Canada, the Empire and Huâ€" manity should be "suspect,"‘ and closely â€" watched. _ To those good people who discountenance suspicion as unworthy, and stern msasures as narrow, it should be necessary be |to refer to the fate of Roumania g ard of Serbia, both betrayed, as the | @|o{lticial _ evidence _ now practically‘ > 4 proves, by the hidden influence that § was tolerated to work its evil deâ€" ®|signs. There is no occaston, and no z useful purpose, in panie or in indisâ€" g criminate suspicion, but there is need g for watchfulness and â€" the sternest measures in dealing with those who would in any way betray the counâ€" try or the brave men battling for its safety overseas. Touching on this question a resent issue of The Brockville Times says: ‘‘Evidence accumulates confirmatâ€" ory of the existence in Ontario of an organized secret ecnemy organization, the object of which is to hamper Canâ€" adian activities contributory to supâ€" port of the Allied cause in the Great War by destruction of the machinery of business. The burning of the Parâ€" liament Buildings at Ottawa was a first example; that that fire was acâ€" cidental in origin has been disproven by the evidence that the ‘*Providence Journal‘‘ has secured and which is substantially conclusive. Then came the â€" conspiracy _ disclosed . by the ‘Uaited States secret service having f % $ : n ; % for its object the stoppage of the Sault Ste. Marie canal and the cutâ€" ting of water shipments of grain desâ€" tined for the Motherland. Still more recent are the attempts to wreck the Canadian â€" Northern Express near telleville, and to blow up the Canaâ€" dian Pacific bridge near Peterboro. If but anâ€"isolated case of this character had occurted, the suggestion of enâ€" 8 B NR b â€" t ts 4 c it o i9 emy activity might have been dismisâ€" sed. But the examples multiply. And ‘n such cases as the placing of dyâ€" namite under a railway bridge one looks for actuating motives. ° In this case there would seem to be only one possible. As yet no suggestion of enâ€" emy plotting for mischief has been reported from within Quebee provâ€" ince. It is exceedingly difficult, of course, to grasp the assassin â€" hand which strikes in the dark. But preâ€" caution is nfinitely better than punâ€" *t.. ‘ @ s | isament. ~Happily as yet the atâ€" tempts of thé.enemy at serious misâ€" chie?f in Ontartio have been futile, iargely through,good luck. They may not always be, hf\\'e\'er. And it is the special and paramount duty of the authorities â€" military, provincial, municipal, police and secret serviceâ€" to be constantly on the alert. _ And every good citizen noting suspicious happenings should lose no time in communicating with the nearest auâ€" thority.‘‘ GOUTH PORGUPINE PATRIOTIG SOGIF TY Report of Treasurer for Month, and Work Done in June. The following is the report for the month of June for South Poreupine Patriotiec Society.: Treasurer‘s report ending June 1917. RECEIPTS : Balanee in Bank .....} Membership Fees ... \ Tea held at Mrs. Woods.. Poreupine Con§. Pat. Club. 2 Quilts sold Price returned 1 pr. socks destroyed .. ... Price returned 1 sheet stroyed |.s.l..>.s. Postage deducted ..90 Postage Chas. Carr . Sky Bros. es Miller Bros. Laundry H. N. Joy .......... W. D. Pearcee ...... Postage Pi aid by msll Balancee in Bank .... O OO _\ on n ce t Work done during the monia 6. Jung: Mirs. H. Rowe, 1 pr. socks; Mrs. 8. T. Smith, 1 pr. socks; Mrs. Kaeding, 2 suits pyjamas; Miss Skinner, 2 pr. socks, 4 sponges, 6 towels, 30 fomen.| wringers; Mrs. Crouk, 4 prs. socks; Mrs. Twigger, 12 towels; Mrs. Rapâ€" sey, 8 pr. socks; Mis. Warren, 60 foâ€" men. wringers; Mrs. Adams, 2 prs. socks; Mrs. Gibbons, 2 suits pyjamas, lpr. socks; Miss Margaret Adams, 48 towels; Mrs. G. Brown, Sysuits ppyjaâ€" mas: Mrs. Bowen, 17 teowels; â€" Mrs. Brice, 12 towels; Mrs. Cosser, 1 pr. socks; Mrs. 1 mod, 17 towels; Mrs.: Frishy, 48 fomen. wringers; Mrs.: Frame, 18 towels; Miss L. 12 towels; Miss Gowan, 18 (gt)\»'els; Mrs. Grandby, 2 suits pyjamas, Mrs. Heath, 18 towels, 3 sponges; Mrs. Sabonrin, 12 pillow slips, 6 shects; Mrs. Masson, 2 suits pyjJamas; (‘lub, 2 pr. socks, 4 sponges, Ladies of the Red Cross at Mrs. lm}'wse.\"s home, 4 suits pyjamas, 48 fomen. wringers, 6 sheets; Mrs. Thereau, 30 fomen. wringers; Mrs. MeLeod, 1 pr. socks; Mrs. MeC aflnrv 1 suit pyjaâ€" wl e e e e e en m ns m mm n * mas; Miss F. Ingram, 1 pr. soecks; Nitrs. O‘Rorke, 36 towels; Mrs. F. Risch, 12 towels; Mrs. W. Rowe, 32 Fomen.. wringers, 234 towels; Mrs. Starr, 37 sheets, 21 pillow slips; Hazâ€" el Starr, 39 fomen. wringers; â€" Mris. Sinecleton, 2 prs. socks; Mrs. Stevens, 4 suits‘pyjamas; Miss N. Stevons, 1 pr. socks; Mrs. Sullivan, 1 suit pyjaâ€" mas; T.S.H. Club, 13 sponges; Mrs. Twiesger, 12 towels, 1 pr. socks; Mrs. Thompson,. 12 towels; Mrs. Thomas, 24 towels; Mrs. Varette, 12 sheets, 12 pillow slips, 12 fomen. wringors; Mrs. Trethewey, 2 prs. socks; Mrs. W. H. Wilson, 48 fomen. wringers, 2 shirts; Mrs. 8. Crawford, 4 sponges. ' Myrtle Stevenson, Supply Secretary. LIEUT. KEAKS WINS MANY ATHLETIC PRIZES Lieut. F. Vernon Heakes, of the| 198th Battalion, now in training in England, and shortly to leave for France, has won in recent ev ents, the allâ€"round championship of the Canaâ€" dian Training School at Bexhillâ€"on Sea. He won the hurdle race, the running high ]ump and the 220 yards dash ; was aeeond in the running broad jump, third in the 100 yards dash, making in all 14 points. His team won the relay. Kerr, the Canadian allâ€"round champion, was a comrade| in ‘ this last â€" event. Lieutenant | Heakes‘ prizes are two beautiful sil-‘ ~\'er cups, a pair of field glasses, a trench coat and a wrist watch. l Recently the colors of the first deâ€" tachment ‘of the*Petrograd Women‘s Regiment were blessed in the square of St. Isaac‘s Cathedral at Petrograd.‘ More than 200 women, with hair close cropped, and in full uniform, were presented with rifles, while Cosâ€" sacks and sailors formed a guard of honor. Subsequently, the women parâ€" '}:uded the streets with banners carâ€" rying inscriptions, such as :â€"‘*Death is better than shame,‘‘ and * Women, do not give your hands to traitors.‘‘ Laura E. Rapsey, Treas. Petronclia B. Srmith, Be m 10 .90 409.47 .“‘) 10') 20 $64:3.90 7.00 400.00 5.00 £643.90 141.70 1,00 30 â€" Official French estimates place the total number of Germans killed from the beginning of the war to March of this year at not less than a milâ€" lion and a halt. A Port Hope correspondent writes a Toronto newspaper that fifty years ago the town, with a population of 5,000, had five distilleries and eight breweries. A Toronto magistrate recently reâ€" fused to accept the plea of guilty made by a soldier to a charge of vaâ€" eraney. *‘ soldier can not be a vaâ€" vrant,"‘ said the Magistrate, as he dismissed the case. The London Chronicle says that the Sinn Feiners are receiving big sums of money from the United States for their work and that most of _ this money comes from German sources. For stating in his paper, ‘**Die Zukunift,"* (The Future,) that Gerâ€" many e@nnot erush her foes, M aximâ€" ilian Harden has been refused perâ€" mission to publish his newspaper in Germany as long as the war continues. Donald MceLeod, a wellâ€"known minâ€" ing man, was killed recently in the Great Northern Railway â€" yards _ at Vanceouver, B.C. His mother, aged 85 vears, lives at Peace River, A]- berta. Paul Caron, a wellâ€"known Frenchâ€" Canadian journalist of the staff of Le Devoir, â€" Bourassa‘s â€" paper, has been killed in action. He enlusted at the outbreak of the war in +the Tamous Forcign Legion in the French % sityâ€"soven ships, representing an aggregate measureme 1t of $90,000 tons and being German vessels ueld in U. 8. ports before the latter ration enâ€" tered tlie war, have been taken over by the U.S. Government for _ comâ€" nerceâ€"carrying purposes during the war. Speakers in the Reichstag last week sharply eriticized the German ecrop reports which they claimed were misleading and untrme. Hunger and fear of continued hunger may wake tre German people to a political reâ€" alization of where the lies of their leaders aro foreinzg them. Fire destroyed one building and many valuable instruments at Petaâ€" wawa Camp. ‘The men responded so woll to the alarno given that the fire was soon under eontrol, without anyâ€" one being m)mvfl The eause of the Well, ask the * Hidden Hand." Dr. J. 0. Orr, for many years geonâ€" eral managor of the Canadian Natâ€" Exhibition at Toronto, has reâ€" signed that position owing _ to illâ€" health, and Mr. John G. Kent, who has been on the Exhibition _ Board zince 1905, has been appointeéd to Dr Orr‘s place. The TU.S. authorities who arrested Graber, i organizer of the International Workers of the World, at Scranton, Penn., say _ that they have conelusive evidence to prove not only that Graber is an agont in the pay of Germany, but also that Gerâ€" man money has been poured into the district to foment strikes and thus lessen production. ton for $4 less, or #8.00 per ton. Good evening, (daylight saving time)‘! Aâ€"Danish inventor has discovered a method, it is announced, of making newsprint paper from seaweed. This paper, which is said to cost. about half the price of. ordinary news papâ€" er, should be especially appropriate for those newspapers that make a specialty of the *‘ kind of news stories. An arderâ€"inCouncil has been issued urging the calling of public meetings throughout Ontario on Saturday, Augâ€" ust 4th, ‘*for the purpose of stimuâ€" lating the devotion and patriotism of our pedple." Saturday, August 4th, 1s tho third annjversary of the openâ€" ing of the war, and as there are very few families in Ontario that have not {mw or more eclose relatives in the acâ€" tive part of the war, or lying bencath the sod overseas having given their lives to their ecountry, the interest in this observance of this anmversary should be deep, sincere and _ wideâ€" spread. ' The â€" Powassd says : MeQuoid, _ the strawberry grower in Himsworth, has 36,000 boxâ€" es and 1,500 crates ready to accommoâ€" date his erop this year. He is probâ€" ably the biggest grower in this line in the north country, and he will also be producing other small fruits in the not distant future. He has an orchâ€" ard of several hundred young cherry, plum and apple trees coming along nicely. As the pioneer fruit farmer in the district Mr. MeQuoid‘s enterâ€" prise deserves encouragement. His success as a berry grower is attractâ€" ine considerable attention. EIG GROWER STRAWBERRIES IN THE BIG NORTH LAND. BRNHSH COMTEO TB KV SRRIRY PlEXRT Big Nicksli Smelter to he Sreetsed Imâ€" mediately About 4%/4 Milss from Sudjury. The British America Nickel Comâ€" pany, capitalized at $20,0600,000, of which the British, Covernment ~conâ€" trols $14,000,000, will ereet in the vicinity of Sudbury an immense nicâ€" kel smelter and refining plants. This action has been taken by the Corporaâ€" tion following the purchase of the Booth properties and a number of other mines, and it is anticipated by the officers that within two years the new plant will be producing six thow sand tons of refined nickel annually. E. P. Mathewson, general manage? stated that construction has already begun. Plans were prepared for a sevenâ€"millionâ€"dollar plant, but, with the importaint discoveries in the main mine and the Murray, the plant will be considerably enlarged. It had been learned, tmlo\ving investigation, that the Murray mine contains 3,000,â€" 0060 tons of ore, and the other mines 5,000,000. _ Mr. Mathewson stated that the engineers, who had continâ€" ued their work with a diamond drill, now believe that they have discovâ€" ered 5,000,000 tons more at a 950â€" foot level. The new plant will be located four and a half miles northwest of Sudâ€" bury. Already two hundred men are at work; the preliminary organization has been completed, and it is expecâ€" ted that in a few days final decision as to the size of the mine will reached, when the work will be rushâ€" ed to completion. Mr. Mathewson stated that the British Governnient was interested in the work merely as a war measure. It would prevent nickel reaching Gerâ€" many, as all the output of this plant will go to the government. It is exâ€" pected that the International Nickel Co. will suffer, as it will lose the British Government‘s business. For refining purposes, the rights of the Hybineite process, hitherto used exclusively in Norway, have been purâ€" chased for Canada and the United States by the British America Corâ€" poration. Electric power, coke and a certain amount of small chemicals will be used. The holdings of the corporation are as follows: The Murâ€" ray mines, Elsie, Lady Violet, Gerâ€" trude, Whistle, Wildeat, Victor, Blue Lake and Falcons. % The officers, who include four Torâ€" onto men, are as follows: President, James H. Dunn, represâ€" entative of the British Government : viceâ€"presidents, J. Frate Taylor and W. A. Carlyle; â€" secretaryâ€"treasurer, W. H. Coade; general manager, E. P. Mathewson; directors, Allan Garrett and H. Malcolm Hubbard (London, Eng.), Admiral Borresen, Sam Eyde and V. N. Hybinette (Norway), E. R. Wood, J. 8. Lovell, Robert Gowans ard R. Home Smith (Toronto). san News last week