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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1908-10-01, Page 82 THE WINGRAM TIDIES, OCTOBER 8, 1908 TO ADVERTISERS Notice of changes must be left at this office not later than Saturday noon. The copy for ohanges must be left not later than Monday evening. Casual advertisements accepted up to noon Wednesday of eaoh week. ESTABLISHED 1872 IIE WINGIIAIII TIMES. H. B. RLIAOTT. PIIELIsuIiR AItD PROPRIaTOn THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1908. NOTES AND COMMENTS agent of such candidate. The bribery provisions in the act are made mnoh more severe. Canvassiug by perilous residing ontaide of Canada is made an indictable offence. Printing ofli:oes are required to give the address of the print- er and publisher on every glass of print- ed material leaned in connection with en eleotion. The making of a false state- ment with regard to the personal char- acter of a candidate renders the person making it liable to a fine of not leas than $100, Contributions for political pur- poses by any company or aaaooiation are made an indictable offence.. Make Aroh Hialop member for East Huron. It is time for a change in representa- tive from East Huron. Vote for Hislop. The whole Conservative campaign is one of slander and abuse. This kind of campaign should not defeat the Laurier Government. An increase of $141,000,000 in tbe valve of aur export trade in twelve years, as compared with an increase of $60,600,000 in 28 years, has not come by chane. It is not all the result of con- dition the world over. It is very large- ly due to the inauguration of a period of peace and the vigorous carrying out of a wisely conceived polioy of construc- tive statesmanship, Do you desire a continuance of the work so well begun? Vote for Hislop and send a supporter to the Laurier Government. Politioai orime will soon become un- popular in Nova Scotia. Bayne, a Con- servative worker, is now awaiting trial in Oolohester for debauching the electors with liquor iutrodneed into the riding as "ohoioe tomatoes." Now the Con- servatives have retaliated and secured the oonviotion of Daniel McLaughlin, chairman of the Board of Revisers, for his failure to return the name of eight properly qualified Conservative voters. He has been fined $400 and $104 costs, or in default he most go to jail for three months. The Vermilion (Alberta,) Signal, says: "As a contrast to his magio lantern views purporting to disclose the infamies of the department of the interior in oon- notion with the disposal of timber limits it might be suggested to Mr. Ames that he procure a few pictures .of the crowds lined up before the different land offices in the oonntry on the morn- ing of Sept. 1, awaiting their turn to secure homesteads and preemptions out of the 30,000,000 mores whioh became available under the terms of Hon. Frank Oliver's land bill, and throw them on the screen over the title of "The land for the Settler." . "When the grand aggregate is made up, and the new duties on household necessities, clothing and implements, are compared as a whole with the old, it will be found, we think, that there is a sensible lessening in the burdens resting upon farmers. This is par- tieularly true of the Northwest, be- cause in that section of the Dominion, owing to the fact that the oonntry there is in process of settlement, the implement bill is relatively larger than it is in other sections of Canada. The fact that there is a deoreere at all in view of the atrennone efforts to secure an all round increase, is cause for sincere gratification. -Farmer's Sun. In the five years ended Jane, 1896, the exports from Canada of agricultural products of all kinds, including animals and their products, amounted to $254,- 7M,654; in the five years ended June, 1906, they had inoreaaed to $535,418,- 297, or a gain of over $280,000,000 under Liberal rule. In other words, in the 'net Conservative five years the ag- ricultural exports averaged only $50,- 000,000 a year, while the average for the five Liberal years was $107,000,000, or considerably more than double. So, too, as regards domestic prodnoe of all kinds, including agricultural products. In the Conservative period the exports of such produce totalled $520,907,274, as against $1,035,174,328 in the Liberal five years. The Montreal Witness remarks with mnoh truth in regard to the wholesale mud -throwing of• the Opposition: - "As for the chargee that have been made, and the defence that has been offered, it ie to bo remembered that it is easy to put an indictment in a single sentence that it would take volumes of evidence and intricate examination of facts to disprove, so that the mere de- claration by a political prosecutor that nobody rose in meeting to accept his challenge and disprove his charges malt be taken as reserve. More, in- deed, oan be put into en innendo than any amount of denial oan wipe out. It is not sate, therefore, to assume that beoaase agroaat deal of mudis thrown, , some of It C>`ught to stick." The Dominion Government has oaused a summaty of the new law re- lating to elections to be published Same of the principal provisions are the followi,rg: That it is made a orim• maul offenoe, punishable by a heavy fine, to take down or mutilate or deface any pcoelamation, notice, 't oters' list or other doournent required to he posted up hider the provisions of the hot. No ptraota eau make a oontributicn CM be. half Of arty candidate except through the The Laurier administration doesn't claim infallibility. Where there are so many civil servants arid so many con- flicting interests, it would be amazing indeed it 'there were not some public undertakings, some expenditures of publio fnnde, or some ogees of ineffi- ciency that could be honestly oritioized. We must realize that the marvellous and rapid expansion of this country de- mands a corresponding magnitude in the administration of affairs in the dif- ferent departments. It must also be borne in mind that quite a large per- centage of the civil servants are not in harmony with the Government, politi- cally. Many of them were appointed by the Conservative administration and have been permitted to remain undis tubed. They are but human and liable to err as well ail Grits. Men in control of banks, factories, large oorporations, etc., sometimes make mistakes through the changing of conditions whioh no human inetinot or intelligence can fore- see. Even snoh oonoerns change their methods of doing business when they believe the success of their enterprise or business will be promoted. And so it is with governments. A change of polioy may be a good thing, and it may have been a good thing for this country that the Liberals aaw the wisdom of con- forming to conditions that confronted them and modified the principles pro- claimed in the platform they promnl- gated a few years ago. International Newspaper Bible Study Course. Salient Points in the Lesson for Sunday, Oct. 11th, Given in a Series of questions by Bev. Dr. Linscott. GOD'S PROMISE To DAVID. -I Citron. xvii, Golden Text --There bath not fail- ed one word of all his good promise. I Kings, viii:56. Verses 1.2 -Should we be as careful for the condition of God's House as we are of our own? Should God's House be as good. or better than the average home of the people? Verses 3 4 -Why did the Lord speak to Nathan to give his message to David, and not to David direct? Give your conception of how God spoke to Nathan. Did he nee actual words with sounds whioh struck the outward ear, or did he use words of any sort? If A gets a message from God for 13, how may B know that the message is from God? Why would God not permit David to build him an house? Verses 5.6 -What sort of a place of worship did the Israelites have up to this time? So far as God is concerned, and other things being equal, is a tent, or ;a con - cod hall, or the open air, just tie sacred a plane for a devout people to worship God in, as a church formally built and dedioated for that purpose? Verses 7.8 -Is a babe born in a humble cottage, just as dear to God, as one born to a Queen in a palace? Is a young man blaokemith or ma- chinist, or farmer, or daily laborer, personally jest as dear to the heart of God as one who is rich and in an ex- alted position? Are the chief positions in the country to -day held by those of exalted birth and training, or by men who have come up from the ranks? The last year of Conservative ad. ministration produced a deficit of $787,808 in the Postoffioe Department, There has been no deficit since 1903, and last year the surplus was $1,011,765, How has this been secured? By so re- ducing the rates of postage as to popu- larize the service in every branch. Here are the rates of postage on various classes of mail matter under Conserva- tive and Liberal rule: - Letters to Great Britain and the empire generally -Conservative, 3 Dents; Liberal, 2 cents. Letters to Canadian points -Con- servative, 8 cents; Liberal 2 Dents. Letters to United States -Conserva- tive, 3 cents; Liberal 2 cents. Drop -letter for city delivery -Con- servative, 2 cents; Liberal, 1 cent. Papers sent to Great Britain by the public -Conservative, 8 Dente per pound; Liberal, 4 Dente. Papers sent to Great Britain by pub- lishers -Conservative, 8 cents per pound; Liberal, one-quarter of 1 cent per pound. Behind all this comes the introduction of free rural mail delivery. That is the wonderful story of the Canadian Postoffioe Department under Liberal rule. Electors of East Huron, vote for Hislop and assist in keeping the Liberal Government in offices. e. THE ONLY LAURIER. [Canadian Oourier,1 "Sir Wilfrid's oratory may be less impassioned than it was in the days before 'the snows of winter' got into his head. Bat it is still the Pierit.n spring; still the noble and dignified utterance that by its music and its form suggests the eloquenoe of the Roman forum and eliminates the petty bigotries and aspersions of party politios. There is about the premier that which makes him a larger man than a party. At the tercentenary the man was profoundly in evidence; the stately dignity that had no vain desire for emptly plaudits and ignored the floral offerings of a multi- tude -satisfied to be known as the Frenoh Premier of Canada. Independent of elections, Sir Wilfrid is a great Canadian; a men who would do honor to any civilized oonntry and government in the world. His tour in English-speaking Ontario may be the last he will ever undertake; bat to many thousands of the sober toilers of a practical provinoe the man Sir Wilfrid, disengaged from the toils of a premier- ship, has been one of those rare delecta- tions such as Dome from reading good books and looking at fine piotures. Other men might have spoken as convincingly as Sir Wilfrid ab:lut the Grand Trunk Paoifio, civil servioe reform and the enlargement of provincial boundaries But when it comes to 'the snows of winter,' and the personal desire to serve hie 'nuno dimittis,' it is possible for even a Conservative to forget that there is such an institution as graft. When Sir Wilfrid deoides to make hie last speeoh it will be set down in the annals that in his person Canada laid Oat= to a man who, while he wrought not in government better than he knevi, yet was able to inspire Canadians with the epeotaele of real individual great. mos." To what extent is success, or a prominent position due to God's ap- pointment and to our own efforts? (This question must be answered in writing by members of the club.) Verses 9.10 -To what general cause was the wanderings of Israel, and the "wasting" of their enemies due, and why could God promise them rest, and victory over their enemies in- the fu- ture? What are the general causes of our t rouble, and why does God permit them? Verses 11.15 -Does God know the time when we shall "go to be with our fathers," or is that a matter contingent upon our own notions? <: Where are our fathers who have pass- ed away? Does the future of our sons depend most upon ns, upon them, or upon the appointment of God? Were these promises of God to David, conoeiniug his son Solomon, absolute and unconditional, or were they con- tingent upon the actions of Solomon? What is a vision, and to what extent are visions possible to a true Christian to -day? Verse 16 -Where is God, and how may we "sit before hlm?" Ia it right for ns to realize our little- ness, and to declare it when we pray? Verses 17.18 -Does God regard no es "ohildren of the dust" and "worms," or as his own sons and daughters; so to Speak, "bone of his bone, and flash of his flesh?" Is God as interested in our "house" and its welfare, as a loving father is in the welfare of his only son? To what extent does God .guarantee our future earthly welfare? Verses 19.20 -What is the dominant note in the thought and prayer of every real Christian? What help to us are the recorded experiences which the godly men of the past have had with God? Verses 21 -22 -To what extent was David right in thinking that God had favored Israel more than he had any other nation? What is real patriotism? Is it necessary, or wise, that we should think more highly of our coun- try than the facts warrant, in order to true patriotism? Verses 2326 -Should our prayers be taken up so mach with our own per• sonal matters, as this prayer of David appears to be? Verse 27 --When God blesses our home, need we fear any evil? TOWN DIRECTORY. BAPTIST Cannon -Sabbath services at 11 a m and 7 p m,` Sunday School et 2:80 p m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. H. Edg tr Allen, pastor. BeF,P.U. meets Monday evenings 8 p.m. Abner Oosens S.S. Superintendent. METHODIST O11racs-Sabbath aervtoes at 11 a m and 711 m. Sunday Sohool at 2;39 p m. Epworth League every Mon- day evening. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. W. G. Howson, pastor. F. Buchanan, S.S. Superintendent. PRnsnYTsEUAt; CnuRan-Sabbath ser- vices at 11 a m and 7 p m. Sunday School at 2:80 p m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. D. Perrie, pastor. 'Dr. A. J. Irvin, S.S. Superintendent. ST. PAUL'S Onuses, ii isoorAL-Sab- bath services at 11 a m and 7 p m. Sunday Sohool at 3:80 p m. Rev. U E. Jenkins, B. A., B. D., Reotor ; Ed. Nash, S. S. Superintendent ; Thos. E. Robinson, aestataut Superintendent. SALVATION Amer -Service at 7 and 11 a m and 3 and 7 p m on Sunday, and every evening during the week at 8 o'olook at the barracks. Pose Orme-Office hours from 8a m to 6:30 p m. Open to box holders from 7 a m. to 9 p m. P. Fisher, postmaster. PDBLIO lesneaY-Library and free reading room in the Town Hall, will be open every afternoon from 2 to 5:80 o'olook, and every evening from 7 to 9:30 o'olook. Mies Ethel Elliott, librarian. Tows Clouse L -W. Holmes, Mayor; Dr. A. J. Irwin, Reeve; David Bell, Thos. Gregory, D. E. MoD maid Wm . Nioholson,Gao. Spotton, Geo. 0. Haana, Ooanoil)ora; J. B. Ferguson, Clerk and Treasurer; Anson' Dalmage, Assessor. Board meets first Monday evening in each month at 8 o'olook. HIGH SCHOOL BOARD,!-- John Wilson, (chairman) Dr. J. P. Kennedy, Dr. P. Macdonald, Dr. R. 0. Redmond, J. A. Morton, 0. P. Smith, W. F. VanStone. Dudley Holmes, secretary. A. Oosens, treasurer. Board meets second Monday evening in each month. PIIBLIO Stamm BOARD. - T. Hall, (chairman), B Jenkins,H. E. Isard,A.E. Lloyd,fi. Kerr, Wm. Moore,Alex. Ross, 0. N. Griffin. Seoketary, John F. Groves; Treasurer, Z. B. Ferguson. Meetingsaeoond Tuesday eveningin each month. • HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS -J. A. Tay- lor, B.A., principal; J. 0. Smith, B.A., olassioai msster; .1. G: Workman, B.A., mathematical master' ; Miss Helena Dadaon, B.A., teacher of English and Moderns. Priem SosooL TRAMMEL -A. H. Mnsgroye, Principal Miss Brook, Miss Reynolds, Miss 11''arquharson, Miss Wilson, Miss Cummings, and Mise Fraser. Lesson for Sunday Oot. 18th, 1908. David's Kindness to Jonathan's Son - II Sam. ix. HERE IS A SAMPLE OF THE DIF- FERENCE IN ADMINISTRATION During the twelve years the Liberals have been in offioe they have sold a little over 6,000 square miles of timber land, in each and every case, the same being sold to the highest tldder. In one year the Conservative govern- ment gave away to members of Parlia- ment and others, over 10,000 square miles of timber land, foe whioh the country did not receive one cent. In each and every year of the 18 that the Conservatives were in office, they added about six and a half million dol- lars to the debt of Canada -or a total of $118,000.000. In the 12 years that the Liberals have been in offioe they have added a total of $19,000,000 to the debt, and this is due to the Grand Trunk Paoifio. When the Liberals took offioe in 1896 the debt per head stood $50.87. To -day it stands at $40.50. These figures are official. When the Conservatives were in power, the Postal Department was run at a lose nearly every year. Everybody knows the improvements that have been made since then, and yet the depart- ment this year has a surplus of $1,000,- 000. ROBLIN FLOORED. (London Advertiser.) Premier Roblin will me the day be thrust himself into the Federal cam- paign in this Province. He has been convicted of falsehood and slander out of the month of a man who is now an aoos'edited spokesman of the Cons eervative party, Mr. J. S. Willison, of the Toronto Nowa. In his epeeoh at Toronto, Mr. Rob- lin made an inoredibly coarse attack upon the present editor of the Globe. and oharged that newapaper with in- finencing parliament and the Govern- ment to grant to the owners of the Globe valuable mining oonoessione in the Crow'' Nest Pass district, by' which the country was robbed, In his chaste platform style, Mr. Roblin described the Globe as "a reptile newspaper," "a poisoned well," whioh 'alt the chloride of lime in the oonntry, could not disinfect." By the very refinement of irony the man who directed the Globe's policy daring the Orow'e Nest Pau episode, Mr, Willison, eat on the same platform and had no doubt been ap- piatiding Mr. Roblin's address up to that point. The passage referring to the Globe was virtually a char- acterization of Mr. Willison as a knave and a hireling. That gentle. man was thus wounded in the house of his new-found friends. Editor Macdonald, of the Glot.e, Pew the opening and promptly retorted with an offer to resign hie post if Premier Roblin oonld prove his ao. eusation, or if Mr. Willison would acknowledge its troth. In street par- lance "he put it up to" the present editcr of the News. The latter had to choose either horn of the dilemna: he could maintain silence and rest under Roblin's imputation; or, if he had a clear ooneoienoe he oonld tell the truth and convict Roblin of slander. He has chosen to speak out, and he has diaoredited Roblin, though it has, no doabt, Dost him a pang. Mr. Willison affirms that the Crow's Nest polioy of the Globe was inspired by himself; that he consulted no director of the paper, nor did he know that any director had an interest in the Crow's Nest country. Thus a "scandal" upon which Con- servative papery and politicians have been trading for twelve years, is utterly exploded, and the premier of Manitoba is written down by one of his own party friends as a vilifier and a falsifier. Unable to Digest THE FOOD The digestive system is a wonderful piece of machinery, but power is necessary to make it effective. The power, in this cast, is the nerve force and with the nerves exhausted the digestive system becomes hopelessly crippled. There it indigestion, headaches, neuralgic pains and spells of weakness, dizziness and discouragement. Strength cannot be regained from the food you eat, but can be restored by Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Food This great prescription of the famous Re- ceipt Book author, A.W. Chase, M. D., instils into the feeble, worn-out' nerves energy and strength, enriches the blood, invigorates the nerves which control digestive fluids, sharpens the appetite and builds up the system in Natures way. 50 cents a box, at ail dealers or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto. Mr. John McLean, 316 Hunter Street, Hamilton, Ont., state,:: AAs a result of weak naves my appetite was poor and I had severe attacks of indigestion. Since using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food kr some time my digestion is excellent, appetite good, nerves strong, and 1 feel an altogether dilferen' person." LBTABLI$HXD 1872 THE WINOILV TIMES. IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING -AT- The Times Offlee, Beaver Block WINGHAM, ONTARIO, Tmaue or Sineentlx TION -$1.00 per annum to advance, $1.601! not so paid. No paper dlsoon- tinned till all arrears are paid, except at the option of the publisher. ADp1RTISI10 RAT88. - Legal and other caenaladvertisements loo per Nonpariel line for first insertion, 8c per line 'for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements In looal column. ars oharged 10 ots. per line for first insertion, and 5 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements of Strayed, Perms for Sale or to Rent, and similar, $1.00 for first three weeks, and 25 cents for each, subsequent in- sertion. Ootrvne0T RATns-The following table shows our ratae for the insertion of advertisements for specified periods :- SPAM~. 1 PR. 6 Mo. 8 no. 1 40 OneOolamn....- .- $70.00 $10.00 122.60 88.00 Half Column.......... 40.00 25.00 15.00 0.00 QnarterOolumn .. _ -. 20.00 12.60 7.50 8.00 One Inch - ...._ 5.00 8.00 ' 2.00 1,25 Adverttsemente without specific directions will be inserted till forbid and oharged accord- ingly. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. Tun Jon DEPARTYsNT is stroked with an extensive assortment of all requisites for print- ing, affording facilities not equalled in the county for turning out first o)aes work. Large type and appropriate oats for a11etyles of Poet - ere, Hand Bine, eto., and the latest styles of choice fanny type for the finer classes of print ing. H. B. ELLIOTT, Proprietor and Publisher The esetenial.l ung -healing principal of the pine tree has finally beensuooessfully separated and refined into a perfect oough medioine-Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup. Sold by all dealers on a guarantee of satisfaction. Prioe as Cents. BOARD or HEALTH -Thos. Bell, (chairman), R. Porter, Thomas Greg- ory, John Wilson, V.S., J. B. Ferguson, Seoretary; Dr. J. R Maodonald, Medical Health Officer. Fresh Fish Fridays. 1 have made arrangements for weekly shipments of Fresh Fish, and will be able to supply them Every Friday. All orders will receive prompt attention. THOS. FELLS BUTCHER Synopsis of Canadian Northwest Homestead Regulations. JP KENNEDY, M. D., M.O.P. B. O. . Member of the British Medical Associa- tion. Gold Medalltet in Medioine. Special attention paid to diseases of Women and Child; ren. Office hours -1 to 4 p. m.: 7 to 9 p. m. DR. MACDONALD, Centre Street Wingham, Ontario. ANY even numbered section of Dominion' Lands in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta excepting 8 and 28, not reserved, may be homesteaded by any person who is the sole head of a family, or any male over 18 years of age, to the extent of one-quarter section of 160 acres, more or less Applioation for entry must be made in per- son by the applicant at a Dominion Lands Agency or Subagency for the district in which the land is situate. Entry by proxy may, how- ever, be made at an Agenoy on certain condi- tions by his father, mother, son,, daughter, brother or sister of an intending homesteader. The homesteader is required to perform the homestead duties under one of the following plans: (11 At least six months' residence upon and cultivation of the land in each year for three years. (2) A homesteader may, if he so desires, perform the required residence duties by living on farming land owned solely by him, not less than eighty (80) acres in extent, in the vicinity of his homestead. Joint ownership in land will not meet this requirement. (8) If the father (or mother, if the father is deceased) of the homesteader has permanent residence on farming land owned solely by him, not less than eighty (80) acres in extent, in the vicinity of the homestead, or upon a homestead entered for by him in the vicinity, much homesteader may perform his own resi- dence duties by living with the father (or mother.) (4) The term "vicinity" in the two preced- ing paragraphs is defined as meaning not more than nine miles in a direct line, exclusive of the width of road allowanoee crossed in the measurement, (5)A homesteader intending to perform his reeienee daties in accordanoo with the above while living with parents or on farming land owned by himself meet notify the Agent for the dtstriot of each intention. Six months' notice in writing must Ibe given to the Commissioner of Dominion Lands at Ottawa of intention to apply for patent. W. W. CORY, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior. N.B.-Unaathoriried pnbtioi►tion of this Id- tertiseateat wild not be aid for. _ ...-•._moi- . DR. AGNEW, Physician, Surgeon, etc. Office-Maodonald Block, over W.MaKibbon's Drag Store. Night calls answered at the offioe. DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND, M. R.C.S. (Eng) L. R. C. P. London. ' PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office. with Dr. Chisholm. R VANBTONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, BTO Private and Company funds to loan at lowest rate of Interest. mortgages, town and farm property bought and sold. Office, Beaver Block. Wingham J• A. MORTON, BARRISTER, &o. Wingham, Ont. E. L. DionnrmoN DUMMY Hoxarus DICKINSON & HO/DIES BARRISTERS, {py SOLICITORS, Etc. MONA To LoAN. Orrice: Meyer Block, Wingham. ARTHUR J. IRWIN, D. D. S., L. D.S. Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Pennsylvania Dental College and Licentiate of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Macdonald Block, Wtngham. W J. PRICE, B. B. A., L. D. 8., D. D. S. Licentiate of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, and Graduate of Uni- versity of Toronto. Office ; Beaver Block. ALEX. KELLY, Wingham, Ont. LICENSED AUCTIONEER For the County of Huron. dales of all kinds conducted at reasonable rates. Orders left at the TIMES office will receive prompt attention. Wingham General Hospital (Under Government inspection) Pleasantly situated. Beautiful fur- nished. Open to all regularly licensed physicians. RATES FOR PATIENTS - (which include board and nursing), $3.50 to $15.00 per week according to location of room. For further information, address Miss J. E WELSH, Superintendent, Box 223, Wingham Ont. Selections RAILWAY TIME TABLES. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. TRAINS LRAva 'OR London .. .... - 8.40 a.m... 8.80p.m. Toronto &East 11.03 a.m.. 6.49 a.m.... 2.40p.m. Kincardine -11.67 a.m... 2.08 p -m_- 9.15p.rn, ARRIVE PROM Kincardine .- -.8.40 a.m -11.00 a.m_ -. 2.40 p.m. London....... -.-......-.11.54 a.m.. 7.85 p.m. Palmerston .- ...... 10.80 a.m. Toronto & East........., 2.08 p.m..... 9.16 p.m. L. HAROLD, Agent, Wingham. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. TRAINS LSAVa iron Toronto and East...-.... 8.66 a.m...- 8.99 p.m, Teeswater .-... 1.10 p.m....10.08 p.m. Aanrva Paoli Teeswater................6.55 a.m.-.. 8.89 p.m. Toronto and Bast ... 10 pp m....10.00 par).J. H. REEDIER. Agent,Wingham. 60 YEARS' PEXPERIENCE ATENTS TRAGIC MARKS DESIGNS j COPYRIGHTS &c. i Anyoyne sending a sketch raid deeerlptlon mas Inventionisascertain proably paternaion ee l) orenrunte time strictly confidential. souon Patents Bent freer deet agency tor a _Patents. Patents taken throe gh,.saunnnit a neetva eseeieisotke, witboutonarse, 1st)* $ denf l Rmtritall A hsndsomils Mutated Largest air- latioa of y eelentlee Pura T e for $ianad75a searsyostese vstPskl.'#wid.av f41111M D ew TA . 4lehtastos.l� THE FIRST JOKES. Do You Know Which the Original Eleven Ones Were? Miss Agnes Repplier, lecturing on "The Mission of Humor" at the Colony club, New York, said she had been in- formed that there were eleven original jokes in the world. After she had said her allotted say Mr. Joseph 1I. Choatie arose and, gallant as ever, remarked that be was now sure there were twen- ty-two original jokes. Any man or wo- man who produces eleven original jokes in a lecture is a world wonder, With all due respect to Miss Iteppliere we are inclined to think that Mrs Choate was too amiable and too recep- tive. What are these eleven original, fun• damental, basic jokes, not made for a parish or an occasion, necessarily Ka- man and unlversai? Look over the comic weeklies from the beginning of Punch and you will find the same lines of humorous thought,' endless repeti- tions of a fool born jest, ponderosa elaboration of a trifle, changes of an old idea to suit time and place. The old jest books -Joe Miller's, and, before his, Poggitt and Bacon -show how our predecessors anticipated us. Plutarch's "Morals" is full of jests and jocose anecdotes that are now fondly thought contemporaneous. Turn to his "Apo- thegms or Remarkable Sayings of Kings and Great Commanders" and you find this quip: A prating barber: asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. Archelaus answered, "In silence." Read "The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men," Englished by Roger Davis, A. M., and there a sage is thus reported: "In this mistake, however, I'm much of the youth's mind who, throwing a stone at a dog, hit his step- mother, adding, 'My throw is not lost, however.' " Tlife favorite jokes in this country, have been for years based on the moth- er-in-law, the farmer and the summer boarder, the city boarding house, spring cleaning (and the stovepipe play- ed an important part) and the greedy goat. The mother-in-law was naturally the victim' of the first jocose son-in- law, while there could bemo joke about the stovepipe before the existence of the pipe. There is the cannibal mis- sionary joke that has done yeoman's service, but it cannot be older than the appearance of the first missionary. What are the primeval eleven jokes? Otto of the oldest known to us begintt "Old Noah, he had three sons, Shem, Ram and Japheth," but there must have been jokes before the flood. What were the eleven that were preserved in the ark? No doubt the gag about the elephant bringing his trunk was coined by some irreverent looker on who saw in the embarkation only food for mirth. Death by drowning was tori good for him. But what jokes did Noah and his sons take with them for daily recreation? We can be sure of only one -the mother -fn -law jest. Will not Miss Repplier tell to the world the other ten? -Boston Herald. The Stiletto In Italy. "The reign of the knife and the sti- letto, which has been unquestioned in Italy for centuries," says the Rome cor- respondent of a Berlin paper, "is to be brought to an end. For generations it has been the custom to carry a knife, anti those men in the lower walks who had no knife carried a sharpened nail or file to be used on the slightest prove ocatiop. The wine is heavy, the blood of the people is hot, their power of self control small. Is it a wonder, then, that, with the murderous instrument always at hand, there should be so many fatal encounters? But the law- makers have at last discovered that the morals of the whole nation have been influenced for the bad by the knife carrying custom, and laws will be passed similar to those now in force in some parts of the United States of America making it a crime to carry a deadly weapon." A Fling at the French Army. General Langlois, a distinguished of- ficer of the French' army, has aroused much uneasiness among his country- men by asserting that the morale and discipline of the military forces of France are in an alarming state of de- generation. ,All the military enthusi- asm of Napoleon's day, he remarlm, has evaporated, patriotism is rapldly becoming a thing of the past, and the military organization of the republic, once so removed from sordid influences, is controlled even in tbe minutest de- tails by politics and politicians. Pro- motions, furloughs, permits to men in the lowest ranks of the army to marry, says General Langlois, are all subject to the control of civil magistrates in each prefecture, the results being com- plete anarchy and disorganization in the army. He Got Homesick. When Ruben Dario, the new Nica- raguan minister to Spain, arrived in New York recently on his way to his new poiK he brought with him frons Nicaragua a young man as his secret tary. The latter had never been so fail away from Managua and at first the greatness of the American metropolis surprised. him. Then it actually overs awed him, and he became afflicted With that yearning for home that IS commonly known as homesickness. 'When Senor Dario nailed for Madrid his secretary was not with him. Ile informed the minister that he feared to go farther away from Nicaragns, and, the ming for home overawe* tering the ernbitien for diplomatic !ems :fie ...- ....._.-. - _ i