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* The action of the convention has had the ‘~< effect of clearing the situation which had beâ€" 1.‘ come somewhat clouded owing to the controâ€" ‘ W wersy between Secretary J. J. Morrison of the If the spirit of brotherhood which is so much in evidence at Christmas time could only be perpetuated and continued throughout the whole year what a happy world this would be. At the Yuletide season we vie with one anâ€" tther in showing good will and love to those nearest and dearest to us. Around the festive board we have merry family parties and an atmosphere is created which is wholesome and sweet. We forget the mean, petty things of life and refresh our hearts with making others happy. p On wâ€"'â€"'nvcdm"'â€" g copy must reach th effice not than Monday mat?’i-:‘uro mseruon. Hope springs eternal in the human heart and Christmas, which heralds the coming of the Divine light is always associated with all that is bright and gladsome. It serves to re new in the heart of the individual faith in the ultimate triumph of Christian principles and ideals even though the outlook is oftenâ€" times dark and uncertain. If our faith be true and unfailing, who can; doubt the inherent goodness of things, and, that all nations will ultimately find the way, that invariably leads to the Light. | On Friday of this week the members of Waâ€" . terloo‘s municipal bodies will be called upon to give an account of their stewardship at the‘ annual nomination meeting. As nomination day draws nearer an increasing interest is being‘ evinced in the probable nominees for the various | municipal offices. This is a healthy sign and. makes for progress. Under the stimulus of: an aroused public interest in the affairs of the town there will be a keener desire to put forth‘ the utmost effort to serve efficiently and wellâ€" We believe the council and other public bod-{ ies have been diligent and efficient in the disâ€": tharge of their duties during the year If ; triticism is to be offered let it be constructive‘ and concrete. That sort of criticism should be‘ welcome as evidencing an interest in promoting the welfare of the town: | Mr. Weichel has made a creditable represenâ€" tative of the municipality in the Mayor‘s chair and the town has also been efficiently repreâ€" sented in the county council by Messrs. Henâ€" derson and Foster. It is also proper that there should be in the council representatives of laâ€" bor as well as a sprinkling of the young busiâ€" ness men so that the council may be fully re presentative of both the younger and older generation of citizens. The combination should make for well balanced progress. â€"As to the record of the council and other municipal bodies of the town the annual reâ€" ports to be presented at the nomination meetâ€" ing on Friday will disclose the degree of efficâ€" jency with which the affairs of the municipality have been administered. _ Every ratepayer should endeavor to be present and hear at first hand the year‘s reports covering the operations of the various town bodies for the past twelve months. _ f 1 The United Farmers of Ontario at their convention in Toronto last week placed themâ€" selves on record almost unanimously as being opposed to the "Broadening Out" policy enunâ€" ciated by Premier Drury and lined up solidly in support of Secretary J. J. Morrison. The fear was expressed by many speakers that the party if it "broadened out" as advocated would lose its identity and eventually end up by merging with one of the two old parties. It was felt that they could best promote their interests Aby maintaining a gertain class consciousness. The regolution, however, permits local ridings to broaden out as far as they wish. "I believe, while we maintain our organizaâ€" tion for ourselves and to ourselves for the purâ€" pose of our industry, that when we come down to the question of political matters we must seek the support of those likeâ€"minded with usâ€" That we should, in other words, form ourselves as & nucleus, where those who believe as we do may find a standard to rally around. We shall then go out and appeal to people likeâ€" minded, I don‘t care who they are or where they are, for such support as we can get from Premier Drury despite the action of the conâ€" vention still maintains his faith in his "broadâ€" ening out" policy and in his address expressed himself in part as follows: THE WATERLOO NOMINATIONS. DECLARE AGAINST POLICY OF "BROADENING OUT." THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. | ADVERTISING RATES they are or where|is only 31,614,269, a little less than thirty per s we can get from|cent. of the total population. About half the people are called rural, but only sixty per cent. ntion has had the|of the "rurals" are actually engaged in farmâ€" jon which had beâ€"|ing And yet despite this fact, the thirty per ing to the controâ€"|cent. have produced so much that the other J. Morrison of the |seventy per cent. cannot use it, and unless forâ€" over the policy of |eign markets are secured, there can be little mn' What is described as "the most stupendous can engineering work yet to be undertaken" is thel ang proposed construction of a giant bridge to Way;span the Hudson from the centre of New York 'City to Weehawken, N. J., a bill authorizing .gitsA construction being now before the United ~ _ |States Congress. It is proposed to construct a I ?single span 3000 feet long, without a single ~ 0?pier in the river and it will swing from four W immense cables suspended from terminal towâ€" !PO ers 685 feet high. The bridge will have two the decks, the upper carrying the promenades, four @2Â¥ surface tracks and a roadway, two and a half D8 times the width of Fifth Avenue. The lower 10U8‘qgock will carry twelve railroad tracks, each and:capable of carrying the heaviest trains and § Of locomotives. When completed in 1840 it is es the timated that 200,000,000 passengers will use orth ;t ‘The proposed bridge will take fifteen years w°! to build and the financing of the project will b°_d‘|be done by the States of New York and New disâ€"‘ Jersey, 4 Farm Block leaders in the United States Conâ€" gress and the officials of this Farmers‘ organâ€" ization throughout the United States are much encouraged over the results of the recent elecâ€" tions and are laying plans for aggressive action to bring about legislation the agricultural indusâ€" try demands. ‘The demands include legislation for a new system of rural credits, in which the farmer can obtain loans from six months to 3 years on security of his live stock and products. Legislation is also to be introduced to revise the transportation Act for the purpose of bringing about lower freight rates. The farâ€" mers also demand the stoppage of the issue of tax exempt securities. During the past few years farmers have been exerting an increasing influence on legisâ€" lation both in United States and Canada and rightly so. They are engaged in the basic inâ€" dustry of the country and should be adequateâ€" ly represented in the houses of Parliament in order that they may watch their interests and initiate and support measures for the advanceâ€" ment of their particular industry the well beâ€" ing of which means so much to the general prosperity of these two great and promising countries : Immense projects such as the construction ;of this new bridge do not appall farâ€"seeing men of vision of the twentieth century who realize the importance of building for the future. Bome of these undertakings may look visionary but men of action soon translate them into realities Although costing millions of dollars at the outset they repay their cost many times over by the economies they effectâ€" Attention has recently been directed to the fact that a curious sect known as the Shakers is gradually disappearing, there now being less than 250, most of whom are of an adâ€" vanced age The Shakers were founded in 1877 by Ann Lee, daughter of a Manchester blacksmith and they were officially designated, "The United Society of Believers in Christ‘s second coming." Her sect established itself in America where a number of communities were formed. The communities were noted for their industry, thrift and high moral character and among their practices was abstinence from meat, tobacco and alcohol. They were surprisâ€" ingly longâ€"lived which was attributed to the fact that they abstained from eating meat. They attained an average age of seventy years. The London Times which has for years enâ€" joyed a wide influence and high standing as a British newspaper has again reverted to the Walter family, following the death of Lord Northcliffe. Under the guidance of this family it grew to be a great national institution, holdâ€" ing itself absolutely free from party domina:â€" ‘tion. On the occasion of the recent visit of Retirâ€" ed Rearâ€"Admiral Sims of the United States navy to Canada, he was tendered a most corâ€" dial welcome. During the war he was outspokâ€" en in his support of the Allies and humorously referred to the fact that he had been characterâ€" ized by the Hearst papers as "the most popâ€" ular British admiral in the American â€" navy." In paying a tribute to the British navy he said : "If it had not been for the British sailors genâ€" erally standing by in the Great War, not all your armies would have saved you." Farm Life says that the recent census shows that the farm population of the United States GIANT BRIDGE TO BE BUILT. EDITORIAL NOTES. A CURIOUS SECT. meeting at â€"Acton last week stated that $1.00 in addition to the motor license was to be charged for the markers. PREDICTS DRURY DEFEAT Earl Biggar, private secretary to Wellington Hay, speaking at the Brant Liberal Association Rally at Brantford recently predicted an earâ€" ly election and a Liberal sweep of the Province. Mr. Biggar declared that the Drury Admfnistration would‘ ask the Legislature for a vote of confidence. This would be rotmd.: there would be an appeal to the country, and the Liberals would capture the Province. WANTS RACE TRACK GAMBLING ABOLISHED. ‘That at the next session of the Federal House he intended to move for the prohibition of raceâ€"track gambling, was announced by Y. C. Good, MP., at the annual meeting of the North Brant Progressive Asâ€" sociation at Brantford on Saturday evening. Mr. Good also voiced the belief that the Civil Service should be overhauled entirely, as he felt millions of dollars were now being thrown away in the service. NEW BRIDGE AT FALLS ! The contract for the new cantilâ€" ever bridge to replace the present structure has been awarded to the American Bridge Company, Philaâ€" delphia at a price of $3,000,000. The new bridge will be located between the present bridge and the lower bridge and will be slightly shorter and the approaches on both sides will be straightened. The present bridge will be kept in operation un; til the new one has been finished, when the traffic will be diverted to the latter. The old bridge will be scrapped. $ . NOTED TRAVELLER DEAD. . Clement Lindley Wragge, FRG. S., the noted astronomer and traâ€" veller, is dead at the age of 70. He established meteorological obseryvaâ€" tories in the British Isles, in Ausâ€" tralia, New Zealand and South Afâ€" rica. He organized the Tasmanian meteorological service in 1895. In pursuit of scientific meteorology he travelled through Europe, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, North America, Inâ€" dia and the South Seas. He settled in New Zealand in 1910, and es tablished the Wragge Scientific inâ€" stitute Museum and the Waiata Botanical Gardens. He was born in Stourbridge, England, and was educated for the law, but took un scientific work from choice. DIED AGED 125 YEARS. The death of William Kennedy of Holden, Alta., at the ripe old age of 125 years has been reported to Donald Mackie, Registrar of Vital Statistics, as having occurred on November 30. â€" If Mr. Kennedy‘s age at death is correct, not only was he the oldest inhabitant of Canada when he was over 100 years old, since it is stated that he came here 20 years ago. The person who reported his death has documentary evidence that Kennedy was baptized by the Rev. _ John Righardson, parish priest of Enniskillen, Ireland, Sepâ€" tember 25, 1802, at which time his age was given as 5 years. # Strapped to a bed, and @ ¢ lashed hand and foot, for four @ &# years by his mother who did $ not want to. lose him, James ¢ % Kozeny, 30 years off age, was @ # rescued last week at Chicago $ by the police, who broke into @ % the mystery house and found $ ¢ him in an unspeakably filthy, © & dark, cold room. % & When his bonds {were cut $ © Kozeny was unable to move. $ $ Four years of inaction had $ $ made him a helpless skeleton @ # and a mental wreck. Before @ $ they could cut him loose, two @ # detectiyes had to subdue his @ $ mother who fought like a tiâ€" @ © gress. _‘ @ & â€" The mother said her son had # been twice in the Asylum for & the Insane at Dunning. She @ & said he was demented because @ © of an accident in youth. She $ # talked confusedly of "relatives @ $ who were trying to spirit him # # away" in order to get possessâ€" @ % ion of money she claims was @ % left him. * % The mother said that be $ & cause of his screaming she had @ © removed him to the tight litâ€" @ # tle room in the basement. @ # There ho was "spread eagled" @ ¢% with feet and hands tied to @ ¢% the four corners ° of the bed. @ © He had been in this position @ ¢ for four yéars and had become l’ so weak that he did not scream @ 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 o 6 STRAPPED TO BED FOR % FOUR YEARS. h Initea without ,.‘.73'& the danâ€" ger of the extinction. Dr. K. EK. Prigce, Dominion‘ Commissionerâ€" of Fisheries, told the National Conâ€" ference for the Preservation of Wild Life, i% séssion at Ottawa last week, * & # ! {For the first time, as a result of the inlative and activities of certain : Canadian export agents in London, ‘Hungarian turkeys are being introâ€" ‘duced to theâ€" Canadian public this | winter, stated Brig.â€"Gen. John A. Gunns of Gunns Limited, Toronto, in explanation. | He says that 100,000 pounds of them have arrived at Montreal, from which point offerings are beâ€" ing made to the wholesale trade + throughout Ontario. As an evidence of this depletion he told of the experience of a whalâ€" whale after a. whole season in the the South Atlantic. Yet this one whale rendered the voyage profitaâ€" ble. + A resolution â€" was passed that sperm whales be hunted under iiâ€" cense, and a return submitted to their Government by the companies or individuals owning whalers. Inâ€" ternational coâ€"operation would be necessary to insure such legisiation being effective. TURKEYS IMPORTED FROM HUNGARY. 100,000 Lbs. ARRIVE. Orders for turkeys imported tn:m Hungary are being taken by comâ€" mission . men in St. Thomas at 38 cents a pound. The European birds are said to be of excellent quality and to dress from 10 to 12 pounds. General .Gunn estimates that the : price at which they are being otter-z ed by the commission menâ€"38| cents a poundâ€"will enable the, Hungarian birds to be retailed at: approximately 44 cents a pound, at which figure they will cut the doâ€"! mestic turkey market by all of 6 cents a pound. He did not think that the Hungarian turkey offerings would actually break the turkey mai ket but rather that they would lower prices by several cents por pound. 2l Bystem, cleanse the Blood and render| . _, _ â€" t mflkn |,.‘, f\hb:e '3 3:2: mp..m .&celved warnings from the Republiâ€" tacks 0 cute a may c c mrgntc Caterrh, ‘cans to leave Ireland immediately or haiL‘s CATARRH MEDICINE ithe shot. ‘tlken internally and acts through the ; Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the 8ysâ€" ferrenmecammnmatecam mm anene | tem, thus reducing the inflammation and 1‘¢ ":‘l‘l""l';fu;':{.‘:':' ‘é",‘;gf“&;‘:m Minard‘s Liniment for Distemper. ( F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0 9 0 4 9 0 0 ¢ 0 0 6 4 6 & AN UNPLEASANT JOKE. % & It‘s no wonder Mrs. Emma 0; % Levison of the Bronx, New & York, finally got mad; you @ 4 would too, if five undertakers @} & called at your door in as many @ & days and informed you that @ & they had been sent to embalm @ % you and prepare you for burâ€" @ & ial. Before Magistrate Well in $ < Westfarms Court, Mrs. Henriâ€" $ & etta Tarlow, an exâ€"tenant, deâ€" @ & nied that she had perpetrated & the joke, but Mrs. Levison @ & told the magistrate that after @ @ three of the undertakers had @ ¢ called, she met Mrs. Tarlow on @ & the street and the tenant enâ€" @ & quired ‘with mock surprise, @ & "Why, aren‘t you dead yet?" @ & Magistrate Well told Mrs. Tarâ€" & Jow that in view of the reâ€" @ & mark he believed ‘her responâ€" @, $ sible for the joke, and placed @, % her under a $50 bord to keep @ & the peace. *, 0 0 0 4 4 4 0 0 % ¢ o ¢ 6 I"n:n uus :‘:u }( (s r{ Idch the 1 ose subject to frequent "colds â€" head" Wil Snd that the use of f1a1 5/4 , The proprietors of The iIndepon:, CATARRH MEDICINE will build up thédent and The Freemen have reâ€" **Cold in the Head* It is the smallest of the Victrola family, but plays any "His Master‘s Voice"â€" Victor record with a beauty of tone which only a genuine Victrola can give. Other models up to $615.00 ‘& _ A miraculous operation was # ; < performed on a oneâ€"year old @ |<¢ baby last Tuesday at St. Michâ€" @ ‘% ael‘s Hospital, Toronto, when $ {&â€"an open safety pin was sucâ€" ¢| {& cessfully extracted from its 01 ‘©& throat. The baby who is the $ | & son of Mr. and Mrs. Forgus J. @| ¢ O‘Connor,â€"had been left alone @ io for a few minutes while its # © mother was elsewhere engaged. $ ‘0 ‘The infant was contentedly sipâ€" @ %0 ping warm milk from a bottle @ |& when its mother left the room @ ‘TO but on her return Mrs, O‘Connâ€" $ io mor saw a trace of blood on $ |¢ the child‘s mouth, and at the 4 |¢& same time saw that the baby @ !¢& had employed part of its time 01 'ié in pulling off its stocking, to @ |& which had been attached a @ ‘<& safety pin. Missing the pin, $ ‘|¢ and fearing the worst, Mrs. ;'0 O‘Connor promptly phoned her @ {!0 doctor, who advised that the @ ilé child be immediately transferrâ€" @ | # ed to the hospital. 0‘ 11‘0 jAn Xâ€"ray ghowed dt.he jpin 0‘ L| & Iying halfway down the child‘s 0‘ l}) throat, but skillful doctors ’i p % soon extracted it, and the baby . "6 made such a rapid â€" recovery @ ’!0 that it has already been reâ€" @ ..0 moved from the hospital to its @ .i & home. +4 .E‘Q The accident was unavoidâ€" @ .ao able since the pin was secureâ€" @ ’10 ly holding the baby‘s sock to @ .10 part of its clothing, and sprang @ .Nf open as the result of the child‘s # .!0 steady tugging at its stocking .QQ during his mother‘s absence @ .’0 from the room. % " i# 0 0 0 0 0 0 o o o ¢ o 6 & 4 0 0 0 0 6 ¢ ¢ 0 ¢% ¢ 6 # EXTRACT SAFETY PIN FROM 4 4 BABY‘S THROAT. 4 ! By way of counter reprisals for. ‘the execution of Rory O‘Connor and his three companions, Republicans ‘last week destroyed by fire ghe Teâ€", ‘sidences of J. J. Walsh, the Postâ€" masterâ€"General, Berkely Road; Zanâ€" ‘McGary, Military Governor of Maryâ€" ‘boro‘ convict prison at Philipsburg ‘Haven,. Clontarf, and Michael Hodâ€", ‘unphy, Assistant Secretary to the Government at Cloncliffe Road. The ‘farm produce stores of Mrs. Jeannie Wyse, Power, one of the Senators nominated _ by the Government were also destroyed. \| at any REPRISALS FOLLOW "BANK_TO A demonastration will be gladly given come to us. ‘They are the busin mendm%!m‘bov‘: can encourage B:E as saving his money, we. mfl ofgzgdmm».&tlu._fl he engages in business. #2â€" Eg __ __WATERLOO ... mfl‘l‘&?flfl (North Ward) * Incorporated 1855. | The four men were umm and faced the firing squad together, ‘‘The squad numbered 24. D*‘; ‘ came immediately to all. 'ru’:: ies were hastily buried five is ‘away. â€" Only the officers â€" of the ‘squad and ‘three priests saw the ‘condemned men fall. â€" Reprisals swift and terrible B# followed the assassination® of _ uty Sean Hales and the wound! of Deputy O‘Maille in Dublin . Dec. 7th. _ Rory O‘Connor, KA Mellowes, â€" Joseph McKelvey & Richard Barrett, all of whom We irregular leaders of somi@ â€" NC were executed at Mountjoy _ Ji where they had been imprisof since their capture at the Ft Courts in July. ; The official announcement â€" Was accompanied by an explanation that the executions were “repflnh _' the assassination on his way to h8 Dail Eireann of Brigadior Sesh Hales, and as a solemn warning to those associated with them who are engaged in their conspiracy of asg» sassination against the represents~ tives of the Irish people." > General Mulcaby of the Irish Free State has issued a proclamation deâ€" claring that a conspiracy exists "to assassinate the members of the maâ€" tion‘s parliament, which has alâ€" ready claimed two victims,".. and: that, "to safeguard the lives of the people‘s representatives and to safeâ€" guard the life of the nation itself the sternest measures are ne08s#â€" ary and will be adopted.". The. measures are that any person found: in unauthorized possession of "any bomb, portion of bomb or article in the nature of a momb; any dynâ€" amite, gelignite or any explosivé subject; any revolver," rifle, gun, fire weapon or any ammunition and such ,‘firearms," is liable to be brought forthwith before a commitâ€" tee of officers of the National fl"i, who after investigating the case will report in writing to a committee composed of any two members of the Army Council. The latter are empowered to order death or other punishment. "Such an order will be carried out summarily," adds the proclamâ€" ation significantly. s Voice" As Reprisals for Sh Irish Member by To Safeguard Life of Nation. rs who Yr "d