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The Wingham Times, 1908-07-02, Page 1• i 4 THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE INVEST- MENT OF SAVINGS IS SECURITY Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. • WIN GUAM BRANCH C. P. SMITH, AGENT. THE CANADIAN BAN OF COMMERCE HEAD OFFICE, 'TORONTO B. E. WALKER, President ALEX. LAIRD, General fdanazer ESTABLISHED 1867 I Paid-up Capital, $10,000,000 Reserve Fund, - 5,000,000 Branches throughout Canada, and in the United States and England 'COUNTRY BUSINESS Every facility afforded to farmers and others for the transaction of their banking business. Sales notes will be cashed or taken for collection. BANKING BY MAIL Accounts may be opened by mail, and monies deposited or withdrawn in this way with equal facility. 115 WINGHAM BRANCH A. E. SMITH, MANAGER. DOMINION BANK HEAD OFFICE : TORONTO. -) Capital paid up, $3,848,000 Reserve Fund'and Undivided profits $5,068,000 Total Assets, over 48,000,000 WINCHAM BRANCH. Farmers' Notes discounted. 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Lord Kitchener, speaking in the Legislative Council at Calcutta on the Indian budget, said some members had alluded to a possible reduction of the military charges owing to the re: cent agreement with and the cordial relations existing between the great northern power and ourselves. This factor had not been overlook- ed nor underrated, but other weighty reasons affecting the external and in- ternal security of India must be kept constantly in view. Lord Minto expressed hearty agree- ment with Lord Kitchener's views with regard to military charges, and said that the Commander -in -Chief's scheme had recently enable India to draw a sharper and better sword than ever before. The result had been a remarkable success from the point of view of brevity and economy. • THE WINGI1AM TIMES, JULY 2, 1908 A BIG UNDERTAKING, Will Drive Herd of Buffaloes to Battle River Reserve, Howard Douglas, formerly superin- tendent of the National Park at Banff, recently appointed commissioner of Dominion parks, arrived in Edmonton recently, after spending a couple of days at Fort Saskatchewan, The parks included in Mr. Douglas' jurisdiction are the Rocky Mountain Park, the Oval, the Glacier Park Reserve, the Elk Island Park Reserve, the Jasper Park, and the new Buffalo Park on the Battle river. The commissioner referred to the announcement xnade by Hon. Sydney Fisher to the effect that the whole of ' the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains was to be set aside as a forest reserve by the Government. "The reason for this is," said Mr. Douglas, "that as the timber is cut down the snow will more easily melt on the mountains, and the water will come down with a rush in the spring in the coming years, and in the hot months of J;;ly and August there will be no moisture for these western provinces as there is at present. "The new buffalo park on the Battle river," said Mr. Douglas, "was taken over on March 1, and the next thing to be done is the fencing of it. This fence will bo seventy miles long, .eight miles of which wil run along the main line of the G.T.P., so that the travel- ing public will be able to get a glimpse of the animals as they pass. The park comprises 125,000 acres, lying about 120 miles east of Edmonton on the G.T.P." In speaking of the buffalo at,,La- mont, which he saw a week or so ago, Mr. Douglas said: "The animals have wintered well, and three calves have been born during the winter months. From natural causes less than 11-2 per cent. have died. Last year one herd was brought in in June, and an- other came in in October. When the two herds met there was a fight, and, T am sorry to relate, eleven were forced into the river and were drown- ed. But that will be more than made up in a short time, as eighty or one hundred calves are expected. There are still some 300 head to come m from Montana, and Michael Pablo is now trying to round them up. He has built a fence some 23 miles from the mountains tohgs home, and the buf- falo f- falo striking that are driven right into the coral near his house. "Last year Pablo had 185 horses and 63 riders on the range for three weeks. This was rather expensive, and he has adopted the new tactics, claiming that they will be cheaper and will be a more effective method of rounding up the buffalo. "The three hundred that have still to come in will be driven straight to the park at the Battle river. The Mexican cowboys that will bring them up will drive the herd of 400 that are at Lamont now to the new reserve. Imagine an 80 -mile drive of 400 buffalo over land. It will be one of the greatest undertakings in the line of cowpunching ever seen. The buffalo have been fed on hay all win- ter, about seven tons a day being used. There is still nearly 800 tons left. The very mild winter made it possible for them to forage for them- selves. "My headquarters will still be at Banff. I have been there for eleven years, and it naturally seems like home. Geo. Hunter succeeds me as superintendent there, while 0. D. Hoare has charge of the Yoho and Glacier Park Reserves on the C.P.R. in British Columbia, and Mr. Sim- mons will remain in charge of the Elk Park." Conger Cruelty. The Ilfracombe magistrates have decided that a conger eel in a haw- ker's barrow is a wild animal in cap- tivity, and fined John Conibeare, an itinerant vendor of fish, $5 for cutting lengths off it without going through the customary formality of killing the eel first. The case was a test one brought by the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, whose solicitor :narrated the following facts: Conibeare in the morning bought a 30 lb. conger which had been landed alive, and hawked it about the streets in his barrow. He sold five pounds of it in the evening, and cut it off from the tail end. There was a second sale of three pounds, and while these por- tions were being severed the conger struggled and snapped at the sides of the cart. A veterinary surgeon said that as the nerve centre had not been destroyed the eel was sensitive to pain. Conibeare admitted that he had not killed the conger, and, although his solicitor argued that the severance of the spine would make it immune from pain, lie was convicted. A Chance Meeting. Proceeding down the wharf, I no- ticed any friend coming from his small boat, which he had just made fast alongside. We stood face to face. "Ah, well met, comrade," quoth 1. "If my eyes deceived me not, a rat from beneath the timbers this moment leaped into your craft." Good i Excellent!" dried he. "I see Sir Robert's finish. 'Tis a cat- boat in sooth." We embraced, then proceeded up the wharf arm in arm toward the coffee_iouss. a FARMERS and anyone haling lire stook or tithe^ firtiolee they wish to .dispose of, should saver. Nae the same for Bale in the Timis. Onr large circulation tells end it will be strange 1adeed • y+gndonlotgetaonssonier. Weosn'tguarantee chat on *111 sell beoeose yon a+ey ask nto,e ror the article or stools then it is worth. Bond your advertisement to the Tante and try this plan McV:wing of yoeltx stock and other arnolee RATS INVADE NORTHWEST. Undesirable Immigrants of New Type Cross the Border. In an obscure corner of a Regina paper the outbreak of another race question is set forth with cold, unim- passioned brevity. A most unwel- come class of immigrants has been coaling across the American border at Gretna, Manitoba, a quiet town in the Mennonite district. As is their wont, these immigrants have been tak- ing up their unwelcome abode in the houses of the citizens, and the de- spatch calmly relates that one, Hel- lcffs, a butcher, murdered twenty of them. Yet up to the present neither the United States nor the Canadian Gov- ernment has taken any notice of this cringe. So callous are the people of both countries that it is not apparent- ly regarded as a crime, though it oc- curred among a people who hold life so sacred that they will not in any way countenance war. The immigrants are a horde of rats. Up to now the whole of the West from the lakes to the mountains has been clear of this pest of Egypt. The rodent known as tett muskrat has built his home unmolested in the riv- ers, lakes, sloughs of the West, and occasionally made his way into the house drains. Mice also levied toll on the family larder, but the West has so far been free from the rat. It may be that they, are deserting sink- ing ships of state in the near -by repub- lic, but whatever the cause, their in- vasion is most unwelcome. It is like- ly that this is the penalty we will have to pay for commercial expan- sion. Our only hope is that among the motley crowd of immigrants we may yet find a Pied Piper of Hamlin who will charm them back across the border. Their advent shows the need of strict supervision of immigration from the United States. 1 War Stops at a Tollgate. In Sir Henry Drummond Wolff's "Random Recollections" there it a quaint tale of the Belgian revolution, when fighting was going on in the park at Brussels. B The Belgians found themselves short of powder, and or- ders rders were given for supplies, which took an unconscionable time in ap- pearing. "At length some of the leading men determined on going round themselves with a party in ease an attack $tad been made by the Dutch. On their arrival, however, they found the convoy delayed by one man with a white nightcap and the two words 'I,a b:irriere.' 'Thus 280 men were stopping each to pay his 9 sous toll before proceeding to engage." • CARTERS 1TTLE IVER PILLS. Humor an Philosophy Ely DUIicAN M. 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Carter's Little Liver Pills am vers email and very easy to Enke. One or two pillo make a do: e. They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please a1 who nee them. MT= I1ZDISIIIII OO-. YEW 1Z083. Ed IL Small he. Ind rim $500,000 HANGS ON DIVORCE. Romance of British Columbia Leads to Marriage Tangle. Property in Lanarkshire and Stir- lingshire worth $500,000 depends upon the result of an action which has de- veloped out of a matrimonial romance in British Columbia. The question raised is whether the defendant, Richard Stirling, was legi- timate, and that depended upon whe- ther the marriage of his fa,her, Wal- ter Stirling, now deceased, was valid. The Pro lem takes its origin in from a divorce obtained by a Scotsman in North Dakota, U.S.A. The story was outlined by counsel: Mr. George Smith was born in For- farshire, the son of a minister of the Church of Scotland. He went to Can- ada when 22 and never returned. At a place called Rat Portage he joined Mr. Edward Seager, a land surveyor, and married that gentleman's sister, Evangeline Grape, a Canadian lady, and the marriage was registered in Manitoba. Mr. and Mrs. Smith went to the territory of Washington, but went back to Canada before completing the two years' residence necessary to become American subjects, and lived in Alber- ti, British Columbia. Shortly after they went there Walter Stirling appeared on the scene. He entered into partnership with Smith in business connected with lands, mines, and timber. Stirling was a man of means, and found the money. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith -Jesse, George and Jane. The Smith family And Stirling lived in the same house. On the last day of December, 1894, Walter Stirling departed from the house, leaving a message to the effect that if Mrs. Smith found life unbear- able with her husband she could fol- low him. He went twenty miles away. Mrs. Smith did find "life unbearable" in a day or two and left her husband and joined Stirling. Then Smith followed his wife, and there was a meeting between them and Walter Stirling. The partnership proceedings were arranged, but whe- ther they arranged. their subsequent divorce proceedings was another ques- tion, though counsel said he thought the evidence was strong that they did. Mr. Smith consulted a lawyer, and with his elder daughter went into North Dakota and lived in a boarding- house. He stayed less than the ninety days to acquire a domicile, and then he began his divorce proceedings. He did not accuse his wife of miscon- duct, but he obtained his divorce on the ground of desertion, which "lac- erated his feelings." According to the laws of Dakota, Smith and his wife were parted for- ever, and the former returned to his home in British Columbia, where Ile married agr.in. Mr. Mickiem, K.O., on behalf of the defendant, Richard Stirling. said that., assuming the marriage of Walt's- Stir- ling and Mrs. Snaith -which followed the Dakota divorce of Mr. and ?4rs. Smith -was not a good one, the child might be legitimate according to the Scotch law on the footing that the parents went the ongh the c•ie,mealy of marriage believing Unit they were properly married. Evidence of expert lawyers was tak- en as to the validity of the Dal:ot divorce, and also as to the beaeing o the Scotch law. The hearing was edjeern'•d for 6:r ther elucidation of S:lotch 1:r.-.• on tin•` subject. Pain in the head -pain anywhere, has iti cause Pain is congestion, pain la blood preen re--nothirA else usually. At least, so Stl ys Dr. Sheep, and to ttablet ealieisbr.M1Bhooe's Hetle adache k heltt. Thnl Tsbl t--. comes blood pressure away from pain centers Its efte.ctis charming, ipleasingly delightful. neatly, though safely, it surely +equalizes the blood oircu. lation. 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His fund of information la always at your call, And his advice is ready And guaranteed to fit, Though not a soul has asked him To shed a bunch of it. • He rises in a meeting, Where things are running smooth, And wants to switch the current To his own private groove, And with his explanations, As tangled as a skein, He gives to all his hearers A most decided pain - A bore from whom few meetings And lodges are exempt, And one is always tempted To treat him with contempt, But if he puts your patience To too much of a tax The better way to treat him Is with a large, bright ax. Variegated. If striving after greatness The Chinaman got blue, 'Twould bo a yellow peril Of quite another hue. Right Up to Date. Gas is liable to puff out of the front door of any furnace unprovided for gas escape. "Suns'hine" Furnace has Automatic Gas Damper directly connected with smoke -pipe. Gas pressure sways damper sufficiently for it to escape up chimney (see illustration), but heat doesn't escape. What does "Sunshine" Gas Damper mean to "Sunshine" Furnace? Means protection to the furnace parts against evil effects of gas. What does "Sunshine" Gas Damper mean to "Sunshine" householder? Means furnace can be operated without fear as to "puffing" gas ; furnace can be left without doubt as to whereabouts of gas. "That asylum for the deaf and dumb has all of the modern conveniences." - "That is nice." "They even have dumb waiters." Good Reason. "I notice you always smoke cigars„" said the man with the black brier, "Yes; I can't smoke a pipe." "Don't like 'em?" ° "Yes, but 1 can't smoke 'em." �'� f; "Burn your tongue?" s', ,l "NO" "What's the reason, then?" "My wife won't let me." 11,71 Just a Vacation. "Do you believe in lucky days?" "Sure. 1 bad a' whole week of them once all at one time." "flow did that happen?" "My wife went away on a visit." Declining Early. "She Is quite a sprightly person." "Yes, for one in her declining years." "She hasn't got that far along." "Yes: she is declining marriage pro- posals right along," Her Luncheon. Mary had a little lamb. It cost a mint of money. Her escort felt like saying -well, It would have sounded funny. Charity For Home Folks. "Would you consider grafting the same as stealing?" "That would depend on whether I or some one else was profiting by It." PERT PARAGRAPHS. The people who don't mean any harm are by no menus necessarily the harmless kind. IIow is it possible to speak the truth when it has ever been an impossibility to get together two well inforwedtmen who will unanimously agree as to what the truth is? As a general proposition the man who has a scared and diffident look is the honest man trydng to do byiness. When a man has to swallow his pride and eat his. words, he doesn't have much appetite ror'anything else. If it were not for the pessi- mist the opti- mist would miss a lot Of the joy of liv- ing. False pride is probably about + the most expen- 1 sive thing a man can carry' about with him. What does"Sunshine" Gas Damper mean to "Sunshine" coal account? It means, instead of owner with "ordinary furnace" fear having to keep check -draft indefinitely closed to "let off" gas -when there's two-thirds parts of heat -energy to one part of gas passing up chimney -draft can with all safety be opened, and coal saved for another day's duty. London Toronto Montreal Winnipeg ALEX. YOUNG McCIary's LOCAL. AGI',NT 4 Vancouver St.Joba,N.B. Hamilton Calgary 41INGHAM. ••••••••••••••••••••O•i•• lt•fifee011*••••it!•i••419e•+liard►'IM • JLUBBING 0 • • • • • • • • 0 • A The 'TIMES will receive subscriptions at the rates below for any of the follovt irg publicalic.Ls RATES AOR 1907 - 08. MAW - + + + • W en a man ma e a There are two classes of people who pe I 1 have the virtue of patience those who are extremely hopeful and those who are extremely hopeless. In the spring the grasping landlord tries his best to raise the rent. 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