The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

October 31 1918 THE FLESH EKTON ADVANCE Troubles of Chnrtli ni«>lr». An incomplete diary k<j)i by a KingHtonlan who died recently, after having been a choii singer for more than forty years, shows thai he had iwltnessed tilts between snpianir and alios 7,165 limes; ditto between (tenors and basses 5.328, and seen 395 leaders resign; noted organists late for practice, 680 times; wil- n<«»ed the marriage of l.nco <hoir TnniiJr~T' noted friction with pas- tors, 4,230 times, and dlsiyrJ ubom the members, 11,1S7 tiaiaa. ;Vt°here Unicom Made Last Slaii4. Masset district, q.C.I., is being â- locked with English red deer from Ihe British Columbia Colony Farm collection. Heretofore the Queen Charlotte Islands have had no large £arae save and except a now extinct caribou, unique in that each of the three specimens preserved in the Provincial Museum posKesses but a cicgle born. The local council didn't meet >it the rei(ulsr time thia iiionih hcc-mso Reeye Sudden w«g a flu sufferar. The reeve ssys it wasn't the flu, juM a bad coll, hut a perfon who eels sick at the Vircsent and wi.sbefi peuple to bolieve ho hasn't the flu will peed to provide himself willi an altidaTlt taken before a justice of the vsace I'T a doctor's ccrtlticate. An uasupported assertion carries no wei(.'ht . Every whcez« is ihe tlu. Chatsworlh Kews. Farm For Sale IjoI 13, con. 19, Proton, CDntainin„' I'H) acres, new farm, niu-itly cleared, j>»od bink Ijarn and drivini; shed ; frame dwelling, youne orchard; three wells and cistern. Must b« mild (n »ccount of ill health. A b.irnain for tome ope. â€"GEO. t>STKANDEU RRi .xatcn loot For Service One pure bred Shorthoni Bull <>u lo 3ti, con, 'J, Artemesia. Terms *1.50 for gmdee. Must be paid within 1) months from date of service. 1 Jan. 19. -tt. O. TUUNKR. BOAR for SERVICE Purebred Tamworth Boar f«>r Service on lot 17«, S.W.T. & H.R., Arleme.sia, Termsâ€" 91. 2I>, or 11 50 if not paid at time of service.. 1 10 8 â€" T. J. STINSUN Proj. Farm For Sale Lot ItiO, W T S U, Artemesi-j, cou- isiniiit; 100 acre* ; good fr»nie barn and driving shed, sheep and pi(< pen, frame house and sinsll orchsid ; farm well watered and fenced. Foi' piniicnlais apply to -MARK STKWAUT I.July 18 BUSINESSCARDS Societies ISCE AKTHUR LODGE, No, M.T!,A.I-.V A M. ujeetB iu tlic UaBouic likll. Ann troBit'ii Block Fli»bertou, uvery I'rirtay on batore tbo full inoou. T. Houiy, W. M. U. W. Hickliug. Hecrotary. pB IIIOBEN FRIESDS- KlettBrton Coiincft ri)OBcn'Krliij(ii':iH mectn in flavtcirB >la txt iiKt tMid Wednetdav o' ladi iiioiitli Kr.ui. lay iFP<tn)eiit8 lo Iliiuulir cii t«-loittlTO fltet d»v ot f»<h uitutti. thio €omj<illor, W. ll.iiuiit; lltccitlei. Mih. l-.A Fitber. Dentistry rvri E. C MURRAY L. D. H., deutal eiirseoo if hctior Rrailuato cl Toronto Univemlly iin.i •loyal (Jolli'Ko ot Dnntal Surci'ons ol Ontario. Ou adiuiBiniatereil for tcetlj extraction tUoe at r«tld«uce, Totouto SttMt. Flettiertou Medical I 1' OTTKWIXL * Veterinary Riirceon 3rai1i;»te of Ontario Veterinary tollfdi refUtence â€" «>coud door Boucb weat.ou k»ry street. Tbia etreet runa oatli PiMbyterlao CbnrclJ. Legal I t;CA8, KANEY * hENRV-«arrlBter». L' iSolicltor«,elc.â€" 1. II. liOcai, K. t'.; W. 1'., Ilaney, K. »". ; W. 1). Henry, H. A. (Jilice», roraoto, HOe-9 Tiadore Hank Hldu,. pliono main 1412: MarkdaleLucaa block, rbono L' A. fjraacli otuce at Duudalk opao every HaturOav. VALUE OF IHienGATrONP WKIOnT. TELFOBD ft McDONAI.D liarrieter. Kolicltora, *c. OlBcon. (hiy * Hructt Dlock, Uwou Bound, btandard Hank Block, Klealierton. (8atur(!»v»>. W. H. Writibt, W. 1'. 'i'elford Jr. J. C. McDonall,!.. U b. Business Cards If UUUiOOaH ft TOUNO v llankera Markdale General banking buslneiia . Money loaueo at reaaoDablu ratvi Call on ua. DUoPHAIp, McpDiad Aaotlooee for tlif • County of Grey. Terine moderate bihI aatiii,actiuu liuarantccd. The arraneeuiruta ard datt-H of Bale*, can be tiiadealTliB Abvauce office. Hitideuccaud P.O., Ceyluu, Telephone connection. Uec. C, 07 WW. KAITTITIO, loenaed Aaetloneer toi , tka cot4utl«i of Urey and Bimcoe. Farm and Klock Balea a specialty. Tertun moderate, katiklactlou Ruarantted, Arrange Itj^ta for datfi may be made iit the Advance ofllre, or t'ontiai telephont' oairo Ke\erBliaaj or by addrcaatUK uiu at Feverahatu, Out. Farm For Sale Lot 2, Con. 12, (;3piey J'W 8cre>- mostly cleared, frame baio, and «l.:i)e house, small orchard, farm well watered, property of the late Thomss Paul. For DarlicularH apply to â€" nA'iTlK WALLACE, FIsshetton L Alf.ilfa, Brnok.s. Alberta, 1918. Tmk: finest crops In the country are to be seen on the Irrigated land In Southern Alberta.' I'bia Is * remark invariably made Iv those who have liavelled throng.; Westeru Canada. And tlierc i« no doubt that this reiunrk is true II all the crops ou irrlpaled laud In Alt?!*? ^? ^5 1"'-"' i? ^'"''^'^ "^'f T^Vli TbislslfimaTTiowD on 'N main line of the C;ina-Jiau I'tt'.lll'- Rallwav, about a humlriil miles from the city of Calgary, and the i-euir.^ of one of the most fertile pieces of coini. try on the continent. Though sparsely fit led. It Is estimated that a quarter of a million buvhels ol wbcHt wlli he l-.arvos'eil from ;rn rated lands In this district this .v^ar Manv flelde will yield from thirty to {orty bushels to the acre, \\hlle there l» nothing "xTaonlinary about yields of this kind, snrh helntt ob Irripated Wheat, 1918, Brooks, Alberta." which water has been applied afford a very striking contrast to those to wlilch DO water has been applied. The summer having been exception- ally dry and hot has made the crops on uoD'Irrleated land in this terri- tory Id some cases nlmost a total failure. But where '«ater has been applied healthy crops will not only remunerate .he fjtrmer for his labor and the capital Invested in his land. but will also help to till the Allies' granaries. It is not buly the older settlers who have these large crops. South of Brooks a farmer who came to Al- berta last fall had about two hun- dred acres sown to wheat on new breaking. Parts of It were Irrigated In the fall and twice in the sprinR und summer. Here a yield of foi'ty bushels to thu acre Is assured. Other parts whiih were Irrigated twice tills spring and sunimer but not al all last fall, .'^hould .vield up lo thirty-five bushels to Ihe acre. Still other parts were irrigated once only, this year, and the yield will not be so good. Altogethe:- Ibis farmer .s crop oil two hundred acres should a â- ' ratf about thirty-five bushels to th- acre, Ihe returns froui which at I'lesenl market prices being not at ,all had for the fi^.^f year's working. jOne of the best yields Is that of a ^farmer who lettled In Alberta not 'quite two yrars ago. This field con sists of ninety ar res of whrat which .the owner antlciiiates will ilircsh out at torty bushels to the aire. Two brothers who 'aitie from .Vetraskn :two years ago v.ilh vej-y little capital expert to thresh from their rrop of ;two huudred acres of wheat .t least 1 thirty bufhels to the acre. Doubtless jyjerjs are several other cases limilar : to these. j Large crops of oafs, barley, aTl [kinds of grasses, clovers and alfalfa ;are also lo be seen on !aud where j water has been applied. Th« diver- laity and ahunilance of Ihe rrnp^ ihaf I can l<6 growu here surprise one. It j !s not difllrult to realize the Immense I boon water Is. Grains, grasses, al falfa. VPgetabtFg, fiuiall fruits ylold ! bountiful rrops under lis maglt epoll. i AsFiimlnB Ihe fanner, as It does o' re- iiuuncrative crops every year, it will Caataloupes, grown ^vitll Irrijra- tion, Duelifss. Allierta. make this part of Alberta one of the most prosperous districts on the con- tinent. These irrigated lands have im- mense pos£ibilltie,s in the raising of live stock, and their iuiponauce in this respect cannot be too greatly emphasized. The enormous rrops of alfalfa and other fodder crops that can be grown, combltj^d with the h'^altliy climate, .niake tho conjitrv an '.deaf one fy tbj Mlslng and finisuing or Tattle, shre'p and hogs. Already there hare been .some great succes.sea 'hat Indlratg what can be done In this branch of farm- ing. Un luestionahly there 1^ a great opportunity for the development of this Industry here, condlilons being I Ideal, less capital being reijulred than on higher iirlced l.ind In other parts of Ihe contlnMit, while results as satUfariory as anywhere may be looked lor. Ttie LiOP<£l of Castle IVIovintairfc -p%i^* ^^:^Cr^gF':g;^%gssr^a^ Castle Sloimtain in the Carfaclian Pacific Rockies. Tiif: oaily fall had coiSe in the : magnificent specimen of the Rocky lU'Hinlains. Hunting parties pa- Mountain sheep, ,3r bighorn, nibbled trolled the valleys stUl green daintily at some tender lichens. A i-.r,.1 untouched by frost. The lower ; shadow flitted across his eyes, but cl'')i<;s cf Ihe risii j: ground wi»i-e diirk ' he paid no heed, for the lambs that with spru'-e. I'rishtened here and j wer« small In the spring were now there with the lighter green of poplar well-grown and could take care of r.;id willow. Higher still the spruce I themselves should somn bold eagle ! foot of tho sheep, "whce-ee-d" oft Into forests climbed In ever narrowing ' try lo topplo one off tho ledges. The | tho clear air, and then from a dls- tnila lip the v.ater fed ir'iJcheH, v hiln hl^ buck had no worries therefor. | tanco came a short, aharr report. The here and there lurgt) patches of poplar ! The liears were down below fattening I animal lifted his glorious head and gleaned goMin yellow, for the frost Sn berries; the wolves wore In thf)' stood la splendid pcse, very perfect concealment behind a rock until hJa breathing grew normal and his strained muscles became steady, the hunter adjusted his rifle and took preliminary sight. It was late after- noon and the light was deceptive. Something struck the rock at the was nipping things at six thousand : timber gcttliig good feed from among f< 't i tho partridges, rabbits and perhaps Above the timber line the grey ^ some wounded deer or moose. The crags towered, their highest peaks j precipice on which the sheep stood and plateaus shining with the virgin [dropped sheer for some six hundred brlKbtuoss of the first snows. In the i feet to the snow-covered rubble of the midst of the nioiinlalns, standing upper edges of the timber belt, alone In sr'smlng aristocratic exclu- < stunted, scattered freea barely eking elon, the colored battlciiifnts of Castle 'out a precarious existence where the | Mountain reached heavenward above j rock walls started to climb. Away j hody; something that sped faster the '.imber. Castlo Mountain is a In the valley bottom a black dot ! than sound. Blindly, frantically, he freak of nature. For a hundred miles [crawled unheeded. It waa a Cana- 1 1«*P*'' t'P and out over the chasm, south there is none like It. To the dian Pacific freight train laboring | The hunter Bcrambled madly to the north the range runs lo tho Arctic along from Banff to Lake Louise. [chimney and slid, rolled and ran to with no similar outcropping. East , A man, rifle on back, crawled like 1 'he shale slope at the foot ot the pr» nerve and muscle quivertngly ready to bunch and tauten to throw the big body to safety as soon as the source of danger was discovered. The hunter raised his sights a trifle, sighted n littlo further back, and pulled the trigger. Tho sheep heard no sound of the rifle. Something atruck him and crushed through hlfl ward to the prairies where the IJowia fly up a steep "chimney"; sweat Hlver crashes down from the first i dripped from his brow, his breath steps of the foothills It is not.dupll- was labored; he crept slowly up- cated, but westward, fifteen or' twen. j wards, using hands and feet and ty miles, there first appear signs ofjsometlmee his chin. Field glasses Fimllar formation.* Castle Mountain had told him the splendid buck was Is Igneous rock thrust from the bowels I above and ho wanted a shot at the ot the earth by some flerco beat Iking ot tbo peaks. At last he reach- spasr.i of forgotten ages, thrust up In ! ed the plat«Ku and ]o«ked. There, the midst of the tc.mer grey of sand- 1 Ave buRtlred yards away oa tbe fur- atone aand limestone formation ot[th«re el4« of » capon, wnloh It would the first h«lt of the Canadian RocVlM ; take a half day to circle, stood the On the edge of « ibeer prtololct a I nine slaoldlz (eadlBt. 'waittaa- u clptce, the shale whsro tho first new snow lay thinly on tho rubble, where the stunted trees shivered In the cold air; for he knew his game wouli. lax there dear as the very rocks. And there he found It; its head lying U0 the slope, a dark blotch on the sno^'i A.nd It had a pair of horn* that man] a eportsman bA9 spent a tho dollars t6 obtain, but m " L, V. K. â-  ' V ^ I 11 »»»»»♦♦♦♦♦»»»♦»»»»»»»♦♦♦»♦' Kite Balloons Are Used With Splendid Results | By the Allied Armies < HK rapid development of the British aeroplane as a fight- 1 ing unit, and the glowing ' reports of the work of the pilots on the various theatres of war have tended somewhat to obscure the fine war record of the kite-balloon, writes Lieut. J. L. Carvel. Kite-bal- looms have been used extensively on all the fronts, and at sea, through- out the war. Quite recently there appeared the ofBcial report of the splendid and invaluable work done by the first kite-balloon in the Dar- danelles expedition in 1915. Early in the war, while the Ger- mans still possessed a great superior- ity In the air and upon the ground, valuable observation work was done by the British balloons and very im- portant assistance given to the artil- lery. As time went on, and heavier- than-air machines were many times multiplied, the necessity of the bal- loon for observation purposes was somewhat diminished, but they are extensively used and can perform some work which the airplane â€" al- ways on the move â€" cannot. The balloon pilots have a danger ous and difficult task to perform, A stationary baloon naturally makes an easier target than an airplane In flight and its powers of defence are, of course, very limited indeed. Cli- matic conditions very much affect ballooning. lu the east, work has to be done in the early morning before the heat becomes too Intense. More than once, when no satisfactory maps have been immediately available, this need has been made good by the bal- loonists, who, from their basket, have made accurate military maps of the surrounding country. Important as has been the work of these balloons over land, they would have more than justified their use by the good work they have accomplish- ed at sea. Many British battleships carry their own balloons and balloon officers, and many British destroyers are fitted with balloon winches, so that, if occasion arises, they caa carry balloons. The splendid work of the navy in the matter of convoys for cargo-carrying vessels is well known, but few people have heard of balloons being taken in tow so that a keener lookout could be kept for the Ger- man submarine. Observers from the balloon basket have been able to sight the periscope of a hostile sub- marine long before It could have been seen from a ship. The news passed by phone from balloon basket to ship's bridge, the range is soon found by the gunners, and the sub- marine is fittingly saluted. In patrol work the observation balloon has proved a great asset to the navy. What finer "bag" could be hoped for than that ot the first kite balloon used in the Dardanelles in April and May, 1915, where in a fortnight, with the observations supplied by the ob- servers in the basket ot the balloon towed by tlje Manica, a converted tramp, the following were accounted for by H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth? "April 28 â€" Two field batteries si- lenced; several guns destroyed. "April SOâ€" Chunak shelled; burn- 1 ed for two hours. "May 2 â€" Battery ot eight-inch guns shelled; three direct hits. "May 8 â€" Four batteries silenced. I "May 12 â€" House reported to be I Turkish headquarters destroyed." Tho records of British kite balloon officers would prove very interesting to the general public. T The Kxplnnation. One day somo .\nicrican military auto trucks were disembarked at a certain port in France. As they stood on the quay a proup of British Tom- mies contempliiled them, writes E. H. Sothern, in Scrlbner's. "A-T-Lr-A-S," spelled one, regarding the cryptic letters in large capitals on the side of the huge vehicle. "ATLAS. That's its blbomin' name, I suppose," said he. "U. S." said another warrior, fix- ing his eye on n second inscription. "So they's come!" Then picking up a piece of chalk which lay hard by, he added the letter T to the flifit legend, and behold tho proclamation read AT LAST! We who were told the story should have laughed. But we could not. We well knew how, for more than two years of heroic stress, the man who wielded the bit of chalk, with legions of his grim, gay brothers, had watched and wailed for the peo- ple of our land to wake and rise and stand beside him in the break-up of the world. No doubt there had been good reason for delay. But we felt conscious that these men we had come among had waited long, not ! quite understanding, but still strong In their faith that in the end we would see clearly and tako our place â€" ^"At last!" In one stroke of the ' piece of chalk was wiillen a ptean. } swift, triumphant â€" American nnd [ Britain, America and France had j clasped hands and sworn to suffer and endure until tho oiul. Now in this crowded seaport the streets swarmed with thousands of I troops marching â€" marching by day I and by night, coining and going, and on the thronged pavements hundreds of American officers hurried In every direction. For a year now their presence has been an old story. They no longer attract attention. America is In the war. The scene Is new to us, however, and It is with beating hearts that we look on, and in our throats the words swell up grateful and hopeful. "At last." Hawkins' Big Head, James Hawkln*. a Kent County gardener has a big head and Is proud of it, Tho head is ol the cab- bage variety, 43 inches in circumter- «nce aud welfbiug X8 pounds. â-  r < r »»»»»»»»»»»»»0»*»»»»»»»» Major Fox's Testimony Shows Utter Depravity Of the German People <->♦«♦♦««<>•>♦♦*«♦*♦♦♦♦*•>•>•:-»•;-> HE story unfolded recently by Major Fox, a BritlsU prisoner of war, escaped from Germany, In which he fold with simple directness of his ex- periences during three years in Ger- man hands, and of the things which he saw with his own eyes in the Ger- man prison camps and elsewhere, de- mands attention. A normal human being naturally shrinks from hearing of the things which Major Fox re- lated to his audience at Newport, England, because such things are not normal to humanity. He shrinks still more perhaps from discussing them. And yet just because they are not normal, the fact that these outrages are being committed and all that this fact means is apt to be lost sight of. With a vividness all the more re- markable because so largely uncon- scious. Major Fox showed, first of all, the terrible shock with which tho British soldier, who would "gladly have called his foe noble," found hiiu out utterly ignoble. The major tells how. In the course ot the first battle of Ypres, he and his men captured some 200 prisoners together with of- ficers; how be sympathized with the officers, offered them refreshmwtt, told them it was "jolly hard luck" for them, and did all he could for them and their men; how, a few hours afterwards he was in German hands, and when he was brought to the officer who was to have charge of him, this officer "turned and spat at him full in the face." That was the beginning ot three years ot in- sults, suffering, and degradation, days at a time in crowded filthy cat- tle trucks, without food or water, with interludes at wayside stations where women offered them food, and snatched it away again on learning they were English. Then once in the camp, they were- destined to be the daily helpless wit- nesses ot outrages on common hu- manity the like ot which the world has few records outside the annals of the Inquisition. Let one case be tak- en, and Its significance appreciated. Three clerks from Paris were forced to work in the coal mines. Utterly Inexperienced and unfitted for tho work, at the end of a day of toil, their output was too small and they were condemned lo twenty-four hours in the steam cell, and now let Major Fox complete the story. "The steam cell," he said, "is small, and when the men are inside and the door closed, hot steam is turned on, and there is no release for twelve hours. At the end of twelve hours, the door was opened, and the strong- est of the three was able to walk out. and pull a halt-conscious broth- er after him. The third was dead. Soup was given to the survivors, and then they were ordered back, the stronger of the two being ordered to carry the other one. He refused. 'One brother,' he said, 'died last night; I will not carry another one in to die." The German sergeant in charge, for a reply, took his rifle and shot the half-lupefied Frenchman dead before the eyes of his comrade." Now this was not an isolated case of barbarity, the depraved device of some German soldier. The steam cell is apparently a recognized German institution. It is one of many such institutions, all ot which have, so far as anv known protest to the contrary goes to show, the full approval ajd^ recognition ot the German people. This, indeed, is the very essence of all those enormities which have pass- ed into common parlance under tho name of German outrages. They have the sanction of the German peo- ple. There is no uso in railing against them, still less is to be gained by protests. They should, however, be noted, not because they are out- rageous acts but because they are re- vealing acta, "because, week by week,, as the war goes on. the full stature ot Germany is being revealed, as is also the standing ot lUose who would help her, directly or indirectly, open- ly or Qovertly. Thus are men learn- ing the full task that lies bf^tore them. Those who are fighting on the side of right in this war cannot af- ford to lose sight ot these things. However bitter the task may be, they must resolutely put themselves In Iho way of gauging the extent ot the evil to be overcome, and ot which an end must surely be made. Using Honte-ninde Articles. Before the war, England, like the United States, preferred to buy cer- tain manufactured articles abroad rather than to make them. Magnetos and insulating materials were pur- chased from America, Germany and Austria. Lensets for field glasses were imported from Germany. Now these articles are being turn- ed out in the nuinllion factories ot Manchester. Field glass lenses have "â- been giving better satisfaction to the army and navy than any of German manufacture. Screw milling is an- other war development in England. Not one in 1,000 was made before in any other way than in dies ty skill- ed labor. To-day almost the entire supply of screws used in the country is made by the milling process, the machines being operated by unskill- ed workmen. Bennett's Mistake. Mr. Arnold nonnetf, like other British authors, has appeared not In- frequently in print in Canadian papers on the subject of the war. His latest article, on the subject of "Peace and War," however, onco more establishes the truth ot the adage concerning the wisdom of tho cobbler who sticks to his last. His point that the Allies have not given to the peace otters of Germany the sort and degree of attention which ihefio offers deserved was unfortun- ato for Mr. Bennett's reputation as a seor. Furthermore, he proceeded to knock the planks away from un- der hlfl own feet by stigmatising the German oSera as not worth con- •Ideratioo. iM^MtaMflisitHbiiiiJiilliHttMeaEss: mttgtmmm d