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Peljruarv 28 191 B THE F L E S II E R r N A D V AN C E BUSINESSCARDS SOCIETIKS PRIMCB ^HTllUK I.ODHK. No. :i33,A.F.* AM,iD«*tiin the Uaaonlc ball. Arm tronRH WocK Klenhertoii, «Tery Friday on hetore the full moen. T. Ileuiy. II. W. HickllQK, SstreUry. W. M. <riOSEN KHIKSBK KletUfrton I'ouiica C l.oBfi) Kriruil»:;U Uiitin in Cltjtcu'ii Hao fret and tluirt Vnlmtila> i/' ••••li iiuiitli t' p.m. Tey ai'Miuuiit» tn Itiioiclir en kN;foro tlie tiittday tit (nch niontJi. fliif Councillor, \V. H. hutt; l(«-coiii»r. Mii. l-.A Fikber. JJENTISTRY Dr B C MURRAY U O. S., dental aargeoD b(O0i Rradiiate oJ Toioiuo Uuivoraity auJ hoyal (ollogB of Dental Siiri;ion»o( Ontario, Gaa adiuialniitared tor teeth extraction tact at realdonee, Toronto Street. Flesborton. Medical JP OTTEWELIj Veterinary SurReon Jradnate of Ontario Veterinary ColIeK* reMdeiioe â€" aecond door Hontb vestlOD h«ry street. Thia etreet runa outli IrosbyterlaD Cbnrob. WiJ "â-  "^ "^^ •^ "^ -^ -^ ^ •»• j^- -* • -»â-  -^ â- ^^ "Tfci^ "^ "^ -^. '^ -^ "^ "^^ -^ '^*; -^^ -^ .â- ^' '^" -"^.1 -^•ri..^y^. 1^ ?^i.JCr. =s â€" * u^ IN ALLJLINES GRAHAM~BROa; 10 Days' Cha». E McLean. M D. C M, Specialty â€" Knij^ery, Midwifery A: Womu-ii's Dineases ()Mlu.^^â€" Klcshert )U, h « llcmse. I'nc-cville-fon.rnerciaUl' '--l. ''-«'t'> 1 P'"- l)rtig i-tore in riinni-( ti"ii "I'li "tfiei-. Office Hours in Kleshrrton •â- \Ve.ln.'»da.v aiij Friday aftcrniKin -J to ."i I'.ni. I'Lone inc»»at,'(.b receive pr.>uH)t attention at iKXli oHiceH Hi.MaylR Legal I UCA8. KANKY & hKNUY-llarrlBten;. *-' riolicltorii.eic.â€" 1. H. Lucas, h. I . : W. I-., Kan^ K? C.-.W. U. Henry. H. A. OlBcea, Toronto, HOC-9 Traders Hank Hide., phono ti:aiD 1412; Markdalc Lucas Hlock. I'hone 3 A. Braucb otUce at Dundalk oi'«u every baturday. WRIGHT, TEl.lOKD & McDONALD itarrieter, Holicitora, 4c. Ofllcea. (Irey ft UruoB Hlock.Owon Bound. Stiiudard Hank Mock.FleBlierton.(Katurda\B). W. H. \V rislit, W. F. 'I'elJord Jf. J. C. McUoual 1. 1. It. Business Carus M CULLOUGH * YOUNO P Maukers Markdale jGeaeral banking UuBinoim . Mouey loaned ft reaaonable ratea Call on ua. Auctloncu lor tlic DMcFUAIL, Licensed • County ol . itatiaaoilon Rnaranteed. The arraneemcuts tiid dates of sales can be niaiieat TliB Advaucb office. Befidenccaud I'.o.. I evlou. TeleiOione connection. Ueg. 11, o; Eugenia Clearing Sale Commenciitg February 25, to March 7 FOR THE MEN a " AK AGILE AXIMAL, | The Rfliky MmintMlii (ioat at iUfft (jiiartorK. ""â-  i "We saw both our Urst KoktB and ! our first sheep at Iceberg I.iike. Thl- ; lake lies at the base ot a vu.si prr- \ ciplce which curls arouad the giecu I water and the glacier spilling into it j forming almost a spinl-cirole. It i.' I DIM! of the wildest and most iiiiprpv- I sive cliff walls in dlacier Park, esp.' I clally as its summit for several niiU's ' 1h broken into castles and battlo- | here in iSM that he luld out the first base- ments which cut superbly against thf : ball dlarnond. So reported thu special sky. This cliff has been climbed, i "ao'hall Commiseion In 1W7. and one ot the men who accorupllsh- ] The dcei.sion that Abner I)oul>te<lny Pd the feat was with our party. Un- j wa.s the father of bnsoliull anil that fortunately, we had Just then neither I Cooiierstown was Its blrthplato fol- the time nor the equipment to raakt , lowed a t borough iiivestlsatlou ot many the attempt again but he pointed , ,,^g The comral.«sion, which iimu- out to me, as nearly as he could re- , BIRTHPLACE OF BASEBALL And the Diamond »v First Laid Out by Abner Doubieday. Jt\ the jicw r'cl.iwaro and Hudsoik itat.'oii at C«o|>erstow», .V. Y., bungs an oU painting with un iiLscriptiou that riiitH thus: ^ UAJOn GEN, ABNER DOUBLEDAl : 1*19-1893 araduatcd from West Point, 1342; com- manded 7Gth N. J. Civil War Volunteers from Cooperstown. lie orlginatod our National Ualuo of liaseball, an>l it wa3 celling l(U' $l.')0 $1.4o Meif.s Sweater coutd $-* and $'3 now Men's heavy Gum rnbl)ers 1 Men's heavy Snag-proof nibbor.s $l.7o Fine Shirts Regular $1.2") jintl .$'..50 .selling at ftocts. Quilted lined fur collared coat.s Kcgular Slfiand $'22 now at $12 and .$10.50 Men's Trousers < Selling at 95cts. Men's Suits $8 and $ 1 worth $ r :,. Men's navy blue Suits Regular ^22 and «2:) for §20. Men's Overalls aiul Smocks 'Regular !7l.75 and '?2 now S! .4.5 Boy.s' Overcoats Regular f^4 to *8 now selling for 81.95 and §;>.9r> liig I'tHliiction in Men's fine and heavy shoes. FOR WOMEN liadios' fur lined coat liegiilar 830 ot .SIS Roaily made dresses. ..Pa-gnlar SJaiid §U Selling at 88, !)5 Ladies' house dresses .ifl,50 to S2. 'jO Now at «1.25 and 98 cents Gil-Is' scliool dresses, sizes 10 to H years Refjiiliu' Sl.'i.") on sale- at P.s crnts GROCERIES . ...lOc. a pound ...•SOc. a pound Cloud blacli ten Green tea (•olden West Daking Powder 1 pound tins for liO cents Tomatoes per can 22 cents Corn per can 20 cents Tuas per cm 1.') cents '^j ,, - I - m I l_ II'.- â-  â€" â-  mr'm â€" â-  â€" • â€" m â€" * vpv .«. a'lwvjrwr ' w ' â-  m i ^w ^ m . 'm A m u m . ' m . w » »» <. i W"v KAITTINO, Icensed Auctioneer loi the oountiea of liiey and biiucoe ] Farm and Stock Bales a apecialty. Terms j moderate, aatiefaction Ruarautiod. Arrainje- ; Uisnts tor dates niav be made at M»« Advsnce j office, or C'entral telaj-boue oUice heversliaiu or by addreaainx we at Feverabaui, Out. Clubbing Rates The Advance has no extensive clulibinK : list this fall, most of the pa|«is Iwiiii- j Kupplwd at regular rateb. K.illowiiisj are | S'lne prices : i The Advance « '"" ! Globe -<"<' Mail •»•"" The World and Advance 4 T-i j News and Advance. :>.T.» | Star and Advance •••"â- > [ Youth's Conipanluu -â- '.^5 j Family Herald I 25 , FRUIT TREES! AND PLANTS For spring Planting We need no further inttodui'iicni ijuin Ihe fact that we have been m Ihn â-  Aursery l»urine<,';>/: NTV ONK YK.Alts;, | and are now prepared t.i iiieei i xihiiiit> I conditions by otleiiii'.,' our liiyh j^rmle I lre«s and plants direct to cu-'-tomuis at ' JIDCK liorroVl PKICES. I Send for c»ur ill uki rated ciruui.iiB "of i hardy variefiet; which you can ord.T ( direct and eavo the asent's coinniifiiO'. I ot which you get tlie lienelil . 'hir priies | will c sure to illl crest you ami all stock | n absolutely lirM class and true to name. TIIKJ CHASK JiltoTHEirs CO. , Of Ontario, L .uiied, j Nurserymen, â-  tOLIiOUNE,- â€" -ONTAilIol Notice To Trespassers Anyone takiiifj wood or lails oil' or in any way trespassiiia on any jjail :'f the north half ot lot H't, con. !1, Arloiiiesia, will be prosecuted. - MKR. W. C. PKDLAR. Farm for Sale lx>t 162â€" 158 ^:ast nies'a, mile and Back Line, A rie- » ijuartor from Kte«herton, conlaini-JK !MJ acres, luosily , cleared ; couifortablo house, yood barn I with "lone (oondiition, omall orchard ; j farm well wuturud, i>f)<>d urain or ..^toek ' htm. For paxticulaih »|>ply on the \ pt«aiiae8 tu -JoriK HKEOIUtFl', Fieshei'tou, P'<j ' Hoisteia BoUlFor Service Aithoroughbre'l lloUtein bull fornri icon lota ltt31H4 8.W. T. * H. K.. ArteiiieHJii; ebw ely related to the world's ebanipiun 4l-|M,und eow. Terma: <! TiOlor giadec, !j."i.OU fijr pio,- hrtdo. 1 July 17. â€" t*KO. MOolUC i .Son. Heifer Came Astray Came to the pieini«e8 of the uiid«r- •i^ned, lot ii2-;t4, ("on, 14, Atteiuesit, about Sept. Isf, one yearling heifer. Oirner pictae provH jiroperiy, pay ex- •(DMe and take thu suidd uway JOHN WK?.,SH. «agMi», Nov. 2(>, 1»17. British Battleship Drill member it, the route he followed tij the forbidding wall. . " 'I â- watched tlie goats for a day oi two,' he said, 'and then started up from a point to which I had seen . them descend. As I suspected, they A ] had a regular trail up the cliff, '^ though in places you wish-ed al- '^ I mightily that you were a goat your- I self, to follow 'em. As nearly as 1 I can recall, the trail eame out on the ' summit about at that depressionâ€"' I "I was following his finger, which I pointed to a V between two summit i , battl-ements, close above several I I small patches of snow, when sudden- j â-  ly we both saw that these snow patches were in motion. ! "'Hello!' he cried, 'tlu> goats are i I coming down now!' j j "The flock of goats we were watch- ' I ing were at first almost indi.stin- j I Kuishable, so high were they on Ihe I cliff, and resembled merely white \ j flecks of snow in motion. From where we stood â€" probably huU a mile out from the base of the wail, I and three thousand feet at least l)e- j low â€" there did not appear to be .iny- ; thing whatever for the goats to walk ; on, but of course there was a led.ee, \ and no doubt verdure upon the ledge, 1 for now and tlien a f^oat stopped, I evidently to brow.se. Tia.versing tho I ledges in a series of switchback.s, the i goats finally descended far enough to j give us a clearer view. There were I twelve adult animals, but only two »T<r» .^e*rV.J kids, which appeared very frislcy. yl One billy was leading the way, and ! for the; most part taking things easy. _ But once or twice he would reach a spot where agility was called for, I and then he would appear to slide over a ledge headforemost, landing berod among its members two United States .senators and several high otH- flals of the National and American leagues, spent a long time in complet-. lug the research. At the time of the investigation Ab- ner Graves, one of the original players, was a mining engineer at Denver, Colo. He i>roved to be the only survivor among those young Cooperstowti boys who played so long ago in a village field, conveniently near Greene's se- lect school. He reported that he saw Doubloday mark off the lines and place the bases and players virtually as they ure hi baseball today. The game bad provlou.sl.v been noth- ing more than the English rounders, to which baseball, as now known, bears as little roseml)lauce as drafts to chess. Abner Doubleda.v, who was then twen- ty, received his inspirntion one day trhlle he was playing rounders, and he lost no time in marking out a dia- mond with a crooked stielv. Later ho blocked out his new scheme on paiier, but it is interesting to remember that he tried it tirst onMother Earth. The diamond he drew w-as thurty yards square. Players, amateur and professional, have come and Kone; rule after rule has been modified; under- hand throws and curved deliveries have arrived; a change ba.s come in the size •nd weight of the ball, which originally, was two and one half ounces of rubber covered with yarn and leather, weigh- ing si.v and one-half ounces and meas- uring ten and one-half inelics in cir- cumference; in the wake of the ball have followed padded gloves, ciitchera' several times his own length l>olow. , mitts, breast pads and mask.s, but tho The rest would follow, in single-tile, diamond of today still luca.^tires ninety M feet along each side.â€" Youth's Com- panion. Enos R. Mills, a keen observer of Rocky Mountain life, has vividly de- 1 scribed in one of his books the de- • scent of a startled goat from a ledge j where he had cornered the animal. It went over headforemost, and in its ' headlong descent kicked against the' Verdun Has Figured In Wan • Sinca A CITY OF MANY SIEGES. R. George M<-l,!iv;'ii Hrown, European ui.'iiKiiii r of tl:« Canadian I'iuific Unilway in lyondoii, lias forwarded lli'- luioin- panyliig |ililures, v.bldi allov, lliose ot us svho are safe ai home a glliniisii of those u ho are l<erpliig us safe at lliH ri.sk of liielr own Itvo;*. The brst Illustration pnrtrny.s niuaketry drill aboard a Hiititli batliciihiii in the .Mcditorrnnraii Sea, and Ihe m^c- ond aliov,s a nuinhr-r of .lack Tars loading a naval fiubl; -tiring gun. rnitoiihlidly llu- gix-atest force cn- Caijcd iu the present coiillkt Is tl:e IJrIlish navy. Kvi r siiKc the out- br.-ak of war It has guarded the motherland and the dominions Jealously as a llgrchS protects lier young. Silently the navy inovea about the waters of the dsep In seanb of onfiiiics tiial might bo o\ii on enuiid.s of destruction, fc-eliluiii iluy mipi-ar In .sight, but when tit y ilo appear a few liarks froni her niciih itrrlties and chases them avuiy. For the deck raine_ And the ocean was thi li Thus wrote Thomas Campbell of tlio oldtlnui llrllish tnarincs. It Is true that Ihe oi can l.s to the sons of Hrltain as familiar a field of activity as the land Is ;o the sont of other na- tions. l,onl Myron re;ireM.-nt(d the thought of the average Hrltlsbcr wh»-ii he wrote: And 1 have loved, thee, Oicr.n! my jny Of youthful siKirts »[;s on thy breast to lie Uurne, like lliy bubbles, onward; from a boy 1 tvanton'd with thy breakers- they to «ne il^'ere a delight; and If the frcs'hning aea Made theru a terrorâ€" 'twas a pleasing fear, For 1 was as It were a (hlUl of tho-j. And trusted tu thy biilowii, fur uud bear, Aud laid my hand upoD thy maoe â€" ' a* 1 do h«re. f ; But the sofis of the Hrltlsb Em- Olr* are amphibious creatures. They I cliff side with all four hoofs, till it ! I worked itself some distance to the j I left and landed on a little shelf over I twenty feet below, with all four feet' I bunched, its shoulders almost coni- 1 ing up through its skin with th^j Ini : ' pact. Naturally, no animal could re- I I turn by such a route, but the places I i they will scale sometimes surprise I oven Ihe old hunters. This particu- I lar herd we were watching descended i nearly the entire height of the clift, ' I to a big snow Held ~ which swept up alons the shale pile at the bottom: ; like a wave dashing against a head-; : land. At this point they all walked, oul on the snow and remained tlieie I several minutes. 'â-  "When they were ready to r«»turn, I the old billy again led the procession.' ; but the two kids were having allo- 'â-  getlier too good a time; they didn't wish to return. An adult goaf luid ; to go after them :ind drive them into j line. 'I'hen the procession start<>a up ! the cliff once more. We were curi- ! ous to see if they followed Ihe same , route as on the dosceut. With the j exception of one or two .';pots. they ! did. At Ihe points where, on the dc- i scent, they had jumped straight I down, they now on the i<»turn made a switchback detour to the light tirj j left. Otherwise, so far as we could I detect from below, they kept to n i perfectly detinite path. Hunuin, trails I j up steep places also have frequently | ; Just such short cuts for the descent, i j The Hock did not go all the way lo 1 the summit. They stopped wheie w; I had first seen them, evidently on aj I shelf a hundred feet (or perhaps' I more) below the ridge peak. Here' they .scattered somewhat, and several | of them quite disappeared, either to- j hind projections or into caves."â€"- ; Walter Prichard Katon, in Harper's I Magazine. I'art of Big Scheme. It is essential to remember that j the fights for Lens, Passcheudaele, I and Cambrai, in which the Canadians the Time of Caesar. The first appearance of Verdun iu the pages of history was in the time of Julius Caesar, who established at Vcro- dunum, as it was then called, a maga- eine for his legions. The Germans first attacked Verdua In the sixth ceutury, when the Franks from the northwesteVii part of Ger- many took possession of the town. By the famous treaty of Verdun, made oa this date in the year S 13, Verdun form- ed part of the dominions of Lothnire. It was taken aud annexed to the Ge> man empire in i>DO by 01 ho T. aud plac- ed under the temporal authority ot" the bishoiis. Verdun siu-rendered to France ia 1553, but was not formally ceded to France until nearly a century later. During Hie French revolution, ia 1702, the citizens of Verdun oiiened their gates to the Prussians after ii bombard-, meut of a few hours. The French com- mandant committed suicide and the revolutionary government executed a number of otbei-s wfio shiiretl the re- sponsibility for the ignomuiious sur- render, including fourteen girls who had offere<l flowers to fho IVusshm monarch. Tbo Prussians were driven out after having held the town forty- three days. The Teutonic hosts again swooped down upon Verdun in 3S7t). Unable to take the town by direct assault, they invested and bombarded it, aud the French, after u brave defcuse, surren- dered the fortress A\itli 4,tKH.) men and large stores of nnimunition. Verdua was the last iilaco abandoned by the Germans, the troops retiriui; In Septem. ber, 1873. Difficulties of Mining. Every time a ton of unlhracite coal and rock Is hoisted from a mine an average of eleven ton.s of water must: I have taken and are takings so con- 1 be pumped from the mine. I spicuous a part, are n,ot isolated el- j It takes about the same aniotmt of I forts, but are all part of .Sir Don- puwer to pump fresh air into a mine as I glas H*ig'B sucwssful strategy, and f* ,,„„„ ,„ hni-V ti.o „r„i I , 7 i that strategy does not necessiute the *S„ t!,l!. ° r.L-^„?,?',""'/'f !^, actual capture of these centres of Iu some mines with long drifts the car hauls may he as ninch as fifteen miles per round trip.â€" National Engi- neering. I enemy comiuunicaiions. As the spe- j clal correspond«nt of The Times at the front shows in hla message of ; Monday, the enemy has already been i robbed of Lena by the push at Arras: [ Preserving the Pumpkin, j "By the capture of Passchendaele : In col.mial da.vs pnmpkiu.s were n.ii^ llidge we are now enabled to deny , ed. cut iu thin strips of convenient ske them Roulers all the approaches to,,. ..a dricl for fut, re use i,i "runki^.'" I which are under our guns. The thrust I i,r„,,,, ,,,,,, ..,„„,ui, â- . ,,,,. .,,,„' ,7 down here hits .similarly enabled us J"', .'"' r""km de. Ihls custom, i to deny them Cambrai. Each ot these t **"'"." "'"""^ '""^"'•'- Squashes placea was this time Uit year a great I •."" ^^Z^' potatoes, when they show ettemy base an,d centre of communi cation. As he bu lost each in turn he has been compelled to reconstitute bis system of communications In the rear, and that he must now be busy doing beyond Cambrai." iilgus of siwttiug, may be preserved by tlie same method. ran live i,ud ngiii, and die a* well on jert In their winter clothing eoiue- laiirt as on the sea. The third ptc where In Prance la the vicinity of ture 1,01'trays liriU»h eoldiera dreaa- 1 the treacbea. Advertise in The Advance. It pays. \ Bronte »nd Vew York. i An honest old burgher of Bronte j waa enabled br some strangle chance j to visit New York, and was ques- tioned when, he came back as to th« j character of that city, to which, It la I said, he answered that "New York, a' j thing considered, was a wonderfu' I place; but still Bro'hte for pleasure!" j , j In Uie Vernacular. j A modern young man would pro- ' baidy sing it: '01 all the Janes that I doll up swell, there's none like i pretty Sally."-â€" U C. O. He Wat Potted. "How old ure you?" asked a little boy. of his mother's caller. "Willie," said bis mother sharply,' "y«u must not ask a lady a question like that; It isn't polite." "Why, mamma," returned the .voiing- •tcr, "she isn't supposed to tell the tnJtlL"- Real Nerve. ! "Matt wire has got nerve, basm't bel^' "r gHe.s8 yes. The other day be aaked ; •B antomobile salesman for a aample.'*' â€"Lamb. PMalmlBin la ptodnctlTe ot paialjrilij ito* •lasnatio.n. -. .__ |