The Clinton News-Record, 1910-12-29, Page 3December *9th,, 1910
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BONAU) MAGMA
intaraastinq Career of the. Montrsni
Man Who Hail Attained Die'
iileetien in England
�' Bonald Macmaster, who hail made
a, hit 1n imperial .politics in his elec.-
Mon by acclamation for. the Chertsey
Division ,of Surrey, has had an inter -
eating career in Canada, and has
!shown himself to be posswssed of great
qupltttes as a public :man. He was
tint' rat lamentt theNoble
o h 0 f Montreal
,(which: was hie benne Trona the begin-
ning of his professional career) as a
leader among a band of young Men of
singular intellectual force and ability,
who made the Thiiyersity Literary
Society of McGill the centre of wide-
spread public interest. After engage
ing for a short time in educational
work in his native county of Glen-
garry, Ontario, be went to Montreal, to
take up the study of law, where he
was,- articled to Mn J. J. C, Abbott,
afterwards Sir John Abbott, Prime
Minister of Canada, and very soon
came to the front as an interesting
and powerful speaker in the College
Society, which, under hieinspiration,
attained a degree of life and interest
which has seldom been equalled in the
history of the University. It included
graduates and undergraduates belong-
ing to all the. faculties, even Medicine
throwing off its former attitude of
aloofness, Among the leading mein-
hers of that society, and of the Gra-
duates' Society of McGill University
at thistime, were Doctor Geo. Ross,
Mr, lt, A. Ramsay, J. J. McLaren, now
a judge in Toronto; Mr. N, W. Tren-
boliane, now a judge in appeals; a P.
Davidson, senior judge of the Superior
Court; Dr. Osler, now in Oxford; Dr.
Roddick, and Dr. Shepherd, the late
Dean and the present Dean of 'the
Faculty of Medicine; F. J. Kellar, per-
haps the most brilliant criminal law- -
yer Montreal has ever seen; Michael
Lonergan, a brilliant classical schclar
and a man of rare eloquence; Dr. F
W. Kelley, a leading master of the
High School, and many others. The
Society at that time held its meet-
ings in the College buildings, but poli-
tical subjects were excluded from de-
bate by regulation" and this led to a
cession from the University precincts,
when a public debate was announced
do take place on the question: '"Should
.DONALD MACMASTER
Ireland have Home Rule?" 'Phe de-
bate was held, but in the Natural His-
tory Society's rooms, and Mr, Mac-
mastee made a speech on that occa-
sion that attracted favorable atten.
-tion by its studied moderation of tone
and comprehensive grasp of political
principles.
He was graduated in Iaw at the head.
-of his class, taking the Elizabeth Tor-
rance Gold Medal, and being selected
to deliver the valedictory address, and
on beginning practice, very soon came
to the front as a leading barrister"
He always had the faculty of attract
ing attention to his work, being pos-
sessed of the dramatic instinct in a
striking degree. Much amusement
was caused by his defence of a dozen
of the students of McGill, belonging to
families of the best-known people of
the city, who were arrested for some
species of hilarious conduct one even-
ing in the city: One of the students
having been taken into custody, the
others accompanied him to the Police
Station to give bail, and the enter-
prising policemen gave the whole body
of students in charge. All the incidents
of thetrial were followed` with keen.
interest, and damages were ultimately
obtained from the city for fal$e arrest:
About this time he crossed swords
with the Hon. Thomas White, Sir John
-Macdonald's Minister of the Interior,.
who attempted to suppress a new or-
ganization of the younger men inter-
ested in politics, and on that occasion
vindicated the attitude of the new
group with great applause from. the
young men and from the citizens. .He'
next attained prominence and fame by
being elected a''member of, the Ontario
Legislature for his native country, al-
though still residing in the Province of
Quebec; and after serving a couple of
terms in Toronto, he married a daugh-
ter of Ronald Sanfield Macdonald, and
a niece of a former Prime Minister of
Ontario and of the Postmaster -General
in Mr: Mackenzie's government, who
had also been Lieutenant -Governor of
Ontario. At the next general election
for the House of Commons of Canada,
he astonished the neighborhood by
coming forward as Conservative can-
didate
an•didate in opposition to his wife's
uncle, and to the whole interest of
the Sanfield Macdonald family, which
• hitherto been supreme in that
highland constituency; and was sue,
cessful in the campaign, in which he
had a great army of young men as
his committee. He served with dis-
tinction in the House. When the
election came on, a contractor was
put up to oppose him, and succeeded
in defeating Mr. Macmaster. Ile was
lei this way 'excluded for a time
'A!►om public life, and was' saddled with
tremendously heavy eXpenses, which
were met out of his own resources, as
he received little or no aid from the
funds of his party. He has indeed
always shown much independence in
such matters, and refused to' put him-
self under pecuniary obligations to,
wards his political associates.
W. M. AIITKI
The *rilliant Young Canadian Monti•
real drgaiilaer Who Ho Entered
British House of Commons
William Maxwell Aitken, who has
been elected on the Unionist ticket to
*epreseut Ashton -on -the -Lyne, is one
of the most successful of Canada"0.
younger financiers. He was born, en
May 25, 1879, at Newcastle, a lumber.
tug town on the Miramichi River, and
that his father, *Ito has only recently
retired, was for many years a clergy-
man in that twit. A. point .on which
the local biographers love to dwell le
that the Aitken to whom Burns dedi-
cated his "Cotter's Saturday Night"
was an ancestor of his. He never had
anything more than a common school
education and a short course in law
at Chatham,, N.B. There are stories of
his first struggling for a living down
Nova Scotia way as the representative
of a life insurance company, while the
W. M. AITKEN
age of 20 found him workings Secre-
tary for the late Mr. John F. 'Stairs of
Halifax, who was at that time Presi-
dent of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal
Company. Mr, Aitken is always ready.
to acknowledge the value of the train-
ing he got under that gentleman; in
fact, in Halifax one day he pointed out
Mr. Stairs to a friend, and remarked:
"That man made" me." •
Mr. C. Lintern Sibley, in a recent
issue of The Globe, 'gave an excellent
sketch of this brilliant young Mont-
realer: '
"Mr. ,Aitken is as yet such a boy of
a man that it ie impossible even ap-
proximately to gauge the real quality
of his mental calibre. Nobody can
yet say whether his extraordinary
gifts have sharp- and strictly, circum-
scribed limitations, or whether his
achievements to date .are but the ex-
pression
xpression of a personality so dominant
that it will mark him' as one of the
leading Canadians of his. time., This
much, however, eau be said: , Nobody,
not even his bitterest enemy-lf, in-
deed, he 'has an enemy --will deny that
he is a remarkable man. The out-
standing feature of his career thus far
is that, .starting aid a- poor boy. in 'a
country town away. down in Nova
S..otia, he, by his own unaided efforts,
made himself a millionaire before he
had attained the age of 30. ' He is now
31. Already it is not alone as a self-
made man of wealth that Mr. Aitken
is "distinguished... Heis more than
that. He is recognized' as a man of
great capacity for organization,, and
he is in the very front rank of the
younger men who are ass iming the
lead in the financial centre of the
Dominion,' The present indications•
are that, were he to elect to . remain'
identified with .financial •projects, he•
wouldiiaevitably occupy a leading•
place in the ranks ofthe successors. of
the old school of financial magnates
who built up :.the Canadian Pacific
Railway and the Bank of . Montreal to
their present pre-eminent positions. •
"At present, if you seek Mr. Aitken
during business hours, when he is in
Montreal, you will find him in a suite
of offices occupied by'the Royal -Se-
curities Corporation, Limited, on. St.
James Street, within. a stone's throw'
of the headquarters of the Bank 'of.
Montreal, the greatest banking insti-
tution of the Dominion. - He is here,
not as. an employe, but as the presi-
dent, for the Royal Securities. Corpora -
times an institution of which this boy -
man is the 'proud father. Through this
institution are handled the extraordi-
narily numerous and varied great en-
terprises with -whose management he
ds' 'intimately connected.'
"Neverwas,a'busier man., His whole.
waking hours are crowded, with work,
and'- it is probably`true to say that in
pursuance of that workhe has',. daring,
the three years in which he has.iived
in Montreal, had more interviews with
business men than any other man in
Canada.
"Ile is a.pleasant young man to talk
toha's a nice way with him, a. voice
and a manner of speaking that begets
confidence, and a personality that
somehow encourages immense respect
for him, a respect altogether out of
proportion to what one ought to feel
for such a youth; that kind of respect
which would seem more in place if it
were enkindled by grey hairs and a
venerable mein. Physically speaking,
he seems to run to head; that is to
pay, his head gives you the idea of
having been 'moulded for a man of
massive build, instead of for one of
rather slight physique. Although he.
is of Scotch ancestry, his countenance
is strikingly suggestive of the. Teu-
tonic type. He has very fair hair, and
blue -grey eyes, and, while vivacious
in conversation, and quick to appreci-
ate humor, he is of a serious east of
Mind.
"With all this rush of work, Mr.
Aitken has found time to acquire a
taste for therich ch mans sport of
automobiling; while in a quiet way he
has become interested in charitable
work.
JOSEPH MARTIN
5Fiphting; sae" of Canadian Politico)
Fame In His Element In 'Radical
Riding of England
"Joe Martin couldn't help but be
ceded in East. St, Pancras. It's a
riding that will let him go as far as
be likes. Ho can't be too Radical for
them."
That's the way a Canadian friend of
the famous politician -expressed hire"
self when he heard that East St. Pan-
cras bad given. the Canadian 241
mai
jority, . • . '
Some Canadians have surprised tine.
country by their entry into and sue-
cess
uscess in British politics, but not Jo-
seph. Martin. Had it been Egypt or
South America it would have been
the same --everybody would have said:
"That's just like Joe Martin."
In Canada lee had a unique career.
He saw more upsand downs of public
life thanmost politicians, and his
downs were of his own making as well
as his ups. The trouble was—from
the 'standpoint of other politicians—
that he made their ups and downs, too.
He it Was who raised the issue that
ultimately drove the Conservatives
from power at Ottawa in 1896. At all
events,, he is given the credit for this,.
and for manly other history -making
episodes in Canada, while his own
personal career earned for him the
title of "the stormy petrel of Canadian
politics." .
One writer has said that Joseph
Martin was never awed 'by . his own
environment—that he made his own
environment But perhaps his early
environment that he did not make
bad 'its influence on the development
of the individualism of his character.
He left his birthplace' of Milton,
Ontario, when a young boy, and 'be-
fore he was out Of hie tempi he was
a telegraph operator in the United
States. Then came the panic of 1873,
and returning to Canada, Martin was
successively schoolteacher, lawyer,
and professional politician, of course
he was a politician while at school
and at law, alwaysdemonstrating his
revolutionary tendencies" •
"He might be a good leader in time
of war, but not in time of peace;: and
not a good follower at any time," said.
an intimate acquaintance the other
day,
It was his. Radicalism in, Canada that
got him his first start in politics, and
it was his short -comings• as a follower
that led to those political explosions
that are now a matter of history. Had
he been an ordinary Liberal he would
not have managed to win . his first
Portage la Prairie seat.- But he was
Radical enough to make a stand for
Provincial Rights, and he became a
member of the Manitoba. Legislature.
Then one day the press of Canada
recorded his :remark that "Mr: Speaker
was the most unscrupulous partisan.
he had ever met."' Such' a remark was
shocking, everybody, said, and they
took it so seriously in Winnipeg, that
the• Legislature refused, to proceed
with business until he apologized.
The House adjourned for several'
times,: but "Fighting Joe" made no ap-
pearance, until he had the whole
country talking about him. Then be
attended the assembly and apologized.
But heclosed his apology by adding:
"but it's true just the same." •
This was while in opposition. In a
short time the Liberals gained the as-
' JOSEPH MARTIN
cendancy 'through Martin's own politi-
cal genius, and then came his dissen-
sions with • Premier • Greenway, in
whose cabinet he held the portfolio of
Attorney -General. Among other re-
markable demonstrations of his • indi-
vidualists, he announced • that the
French language would be abolished
in the Separate schools. That,, it 3s
said, was the commencement 'of the
Manitoba school question. '..
Martin was,, next heard' of''en the'
Dominion House as member for 'Wtn-
nipeg, but his faculty for disagreeing
with other people ledto leis defeat.
Winnipeg minister once "said of a
citizen: —.-- would give up a dozen
principles for one job, but Joseph
Martin would give up a dozen jobs
for one principle." Ile did give up the
"job" of representing , Winnipeg—but
he didn't give up politics.
Farther west he went, and on the
coast he soon became a political fac-
tor. The vested interests didn't like
him, the politicians didn't like him;
but that was immaterial to "Fightng
Joe." On the contrary, he enjoyed the
situation, especially when, despite all,.
kinds of opposition, he rose to the top.•
Before he became Premier of British
Columbia he tasted decided defeat, so
decided in fact, that even his admire
ors expressed doubt as to whether ha
would ever re-enter Politics.
His rise and fall in British Columbia
was meteoric, but though he was not;
heard of for a few years, no one exe
meted that the last hes been heard of
him.
"bobbed
. That h.e boiibe.d up in Britain was
no surprise, nor was any flurry caused
in Canada by his flurries in the 8M•
fish House of Commons.
MAGNAMARA
A Kisses Student of Iducatlon' in the
Old Land and a Vigorous
Advocate of Reforms
41..0..-,
Dr, Thomas James Macnamara, who
has been elected In Camberwell,
North, is regarded as one of the cle-
verest all-round hands amongst the
you .ger race of politicians+. The son
of a private soldier, be was born in
Montreal in 1861, but remov'.ed to
England in early childhood with his
father when the latter's regiment was.
recalled to Lancashire,lee was a
d ho teacher School t schen between the
ages of sixteen and thirty, and in 1891
he became editor of the "School-
master." In 1894 he achieved a record.
poll in his candidature for the Lon-
don School Board. In 1896 he was
elected president'
of the National
Union of Teachers. The cause of edu-
cation has always been, near and dear
to his heart, hence it is not surprising
that no sooner had he been elected to
the Commons in 1900 than he began.
to devote his attention to the educa-
tional policy of the goy rnment, Ile
was one of the most vigorous cham-
pions of the Liberal Government's
Education Bill. On the floor of the
Commons and between sessions he
Wrote in leading periodicals in sup-
port of that measure. In 1906, in an
DR. T. J. MACNAMARA
article in th^'Nineteenth Century, he
charged that the outcry ofthe clergy
of the Established Church and of the
Roman Catholic community was un-
reasonable. "in what circumstances,
let me ask," he wrote,. "can they ever
hope to do better than this? As I
have said, they have only to carry
their growing fury against the bill.
far enough to push religious teaching
out of the schools altogether. Do they
want that?" '
The Contemporary Review of about
the same period published an article
on the same question in which Dr.
Macnamara pointed out that London.
alone had a million pupils and stu-
dents, 20,000 Public 'School teachers,
and an expenditure annually on educa-
tion of $20,000,000. _ In the United
Kingdom there were 11,817 Church
of England schools, ,460 Wesleyan
schools, 1,063 -Roman Catholic schools,
13 Jewish schools, and. 739 Undenotni-
national schools. Many of these were
old, ill -adapted, . ill -ventilated and ill -
drained,
Subsequently, in hisarticle. on "The
Education. Bill and After," . he :wrote
with great vehemence against Mr. Bal-
four, whom he accused of • killing the
bill. "Had it not been," he said, "for
the persistent determ ion of Mr.
Balfour to keep this fes ring : wound
open, a compromise would have been
attained honorable to both parties and'
of lasting benefit to the children of
the .country,. Well,he• will live to re-
gret it." •
Dr. Macnamara obtained his first
political preferment in the Parliamen-
tary. Secretaryship -of the Local Gov-
ernment Board in 1907, and in 1908,
was transferred to the Secretaryship
J. ALIEN BAKER
A Canadian Who Haii .'same a Chaitn.
pion of Public Ownership of
Peblie Utilities In London
Prominent anions Canadians: who
will ,sit in the new British Parliament
Is Mr. I. Allen Baker a member of
the London County Council. • Mr.
Baker is a native of the Bay of Quinte
district and was educated at the Tren-
ton. Collegiate Institute, Trenton, Ont,
At the age of twenty he .entered. his.
father's firm, having its headquarters
first at Kingston, Ont., and later at
Windsor, Ont., and' Detroit, Mich., and
was ultimately removed to London,
England,
When in 1894, Lord Rosebery on be.
coming Premier, resigned his, seat in
the London County Council, of which
he was also chairman, Mr. Baker was
elected to succeed him in the repre-
sentation of East Pinsbury, He won.
the "greatest victory for the cause of
the people of Finsbury ever known,"
as he put it, at the bye -election in
June, 1906. He had been Finsbury's
County Council representative and un-
successful candidate in 1900, It was
just at this -juncture that a syndicate
of South African mining capitalists,,,
i rominent among whom, were. Alfred
Beit and the late Cecil Rhodes, was
strenuously endeavorng to get control
of the streets of London for traction
purposes, and the matter had already
been referred to the Council's High,
way committee for consideration.
When finally thiscommittee's report
recommending the granting of the
franchise asked for, on terms favor-
able to the syndicate, it encountered'
Mr. Baker's vigorous opposition. He
laid before the council such a mass of
practical evidence, including a full
copy of the then recently made agree-.
meat between the City of Toronto and
the Toronto Railway Qo., showing the
immense value of traction franchises,-
that the committee's report was re-
ferred back for a further considera-
tion . This resulted in a desired de-
lay,
and soon. afterward he London t
County Council elections returned a
progressive majority favorable to pub -
(lc ownership. of public utilities. Since
that time, as . chairman • of the. High-
ways Committee, notwithstanding trio
mendous opposing difficulties, : Mr.
Baker has been a leader and champion
of public ownership 04 poblit utilities
in the world's metropolis,and has
achieved remarkable success when. the
obstacles 'to,his work are taken into
account. .
SIR .l GILBERT PARKER
•
•
Famous-No's.list's Early Days
in
Canada Are Recalled—How He
Found His Vocation
Oi('theeight Canadians elected in.
the present :.British contest, none is.
better known to -the Canadian public
than Sir Gilbert Parker, whose novels
have made him famous.
Sir Giilbert is now in his 62nd year.'
He is a native of . Camden East,. Ad-
dington, Ontario, and a former stn-
dent' of ; the Normal School at Ottawa.
After teaching at Frankfort and Sea-
forth, he etntered the Church of Eng-
of the Admiralty. He is an admirable
party speaker, and a clever writer, his
productions including a most humor-
ous collection of schoolboys' blunders.
SIR 'C
D* ROSE
He Took an. Active Part' In the Con-
struction of the Canadian '
Pacific Railway
Sir Charles Day Rose, elected to the
Newmarket Division. of Cambridge-
shire, thus recording a Liberal gain,
was born in Montreal on August 23,
1847, receiving his primary education
in. the. High School of that city. He
had the reputation of a bright and in-
dustrious student, also gaining con=
siderable fame as an athlete, for some
time holding the record for the half
mile on snowshoes. He had not i
little of the military spirit, and rose
to a captaincy in the Montreal Garro,
son Artillery, serving with that corps
at Trout Run in repelling the Fenian
invasion of 1870. Devoting his atten-
tion to finances, he entered the bantr
ing form of Thornton, Rose & Co.,
London and New York, gradually
working his way from position to
position until he finally succeeded his
father therein. His great financial
ability also found scope in the con-
struction • of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way, being one of the leading
Mem-
bers of that company for several
years: He is a director of the London
& Brazilian Bank, the. International
Bank of London, and other concerns.
Sir Charles carried his fine sporting
instincts into mature years and is a
1 rominent member of the English
Jockey Clfib, having won with Ms
horses some great events on the Eng-
lish
nglish turf, including a 2,000 -guinea race
at Newmarket, 1886. In 1893 he took
to yachting, and in 1895 leaned a chat*
lenge through the Royal Victoria
Yacht Club of England to sail a series
of matches for the America's Cup in.
1896• with the cutter yacht Distant
Shore, which challenge was accepted.
it was subsequently withdrawn.
SIR GILBERT PARKER
land,. and for a time was curate at
Trenton. He also held a professor-
ship
rofessorship at the Belleville Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb. .
He began his • career.' in journalism
as assistant editor of the "Sydney'
Morning Herald." Subsequently, as a
considerable' traveller in the, South
Sea Islands and in the Far East, he
found his true vocation as a' novelist.
It was in' that. nursery of talent, ' the
"National Observer," that he first at-
tracted attention in the : Old Country,
with a collection of French-Canadian
stories called "Pierre and His ' Peo-
ple," which was followed by a number
ofworks now long familiar to the
novel reader, and all in varying de•
grees specimens of vigorous literary
ability, such us "When Valmont Came
to ,Pontiac," "'The Seats of the
Mighty," and "The Pomp of • the • La-
vallettes."
His literary work has been carried
on chiefly at 20 Carlton House Ter-
race; London. The . spacious drawing -
rooms' contain many Interesting pic-
tures, and signed photographs of Lord
Wolseley,, and many"other famous
men, adorn the beautiful walls.
One small apartment in fact is given
up , entirely to a wonderful collection
of signed photographs of all sorts of
celebrities in the world of art, litera-
ture, politics, music, and the stage.
Cartoons and drawings also abound,
while in the library are other valuable
pictures. The house is located in one
of the most desirable spots in London,
and is on an. historical spot. Here.
at the top of his big house he does,
his literary work. His own particular
sanctum is a charmingly decorated'
room. A big old oak writing-tabie;=a
few selected curioe and books every-
where, are features of his workroom.
Gilbert Parker is one of the Cpnaler-
vatives who took a prominent part in
theioneer work of the Chamberlain
policy of tariff reform. It. wad in 1900
tat e first entered Parliament;rbee
big the only one of a quartette, of +'gas
novelists who succeeded lin, the et ;-est
tempt—Sir A. Conan Dgy10 ,pllaaag,
, eoa
beaten, while Mr. Anthony Hd a z
kins and Mr. J. M. Barrie„ rgttreiL.from wee
the contest. Hs was knighted in 1902, Iia?
f.1 .fid
HAMAR GREENWOOD
An interesting Glancy at the 1Alhitgy
Soy Who Has Been Elected
for Sunderland
The election of Hamar .Greenwood
in Sunderland was one of the events
of the present election in Great Bri-
tain that gave 'the Government the
greatest gratification, it being a nota-
ble Liberal gain. And it was also
gratifying to a large number of people
in this country, who have followed
with more than ordinary interest, the
rapid rise of thin young Canadian.
Whatever people may think of
Hamar Greenwood'olitical views,
there are no two opinions as to his
personal qualifications, and those Who
rsnow him best say that it was only to
be expected that having been defeated
in York in January last, he should go
In to win in December.
It is not many years ago that the
member for Sunderland became kiaown
HAMAR GREENWOOD
throughout Canada for his part in the
famous university strike. It was he
n u namedTucker d a student Tuc er who or-
ganized that strike among the political
sconce students. at Toronto University
in 1894, that lasted for several months
and ended in an official inquiry.
Tucker, it will be remembered, was
editor of 'the students' paper, "Var-
eity," and in the impetuosity of youth
he 'undertook to editorially castigate
the faculty. That was the beginning
of the trouble that ended in he and
Greenwood organizing a revolution.
His fellow -strike -leader may . have
been hot-headed, but .' Greenwood's
friends say he was cool-headed' him-
self. A good boxer and an all-round
athlete, he had developed control of.
temper, and in this connection it is.
interesting to recall that lee was one
of the best cricketers in Canada. Born
at Whitby, he had attended the Whit-
by Collegiate Institute, and' here, at
the age of sixteen, he was chosen a
member of the International cricket
team, being large for his age. This
team comprised the best . cricketers in
Canada, who were matched against the
pick of the United States. .
Perhaps another thing that gave
youayg Greenwood his self-control was
the fact that the platform held no ter-
rors for him. From a.child he showed
ability as an actor: and made speeches'
on the slightest provocation. At one
time he was teaching in the village
of Manchester, and with another young
man who was teaching at Utica, and
who is now in Winnipeg, he colt
ated in the writing`of a melodrataaenk
the genuine blood -and -thunder variety.
Greenwood took the role ofhere-and
the other youth that.of the villain:,.and
the drama was producedAat D riches -
ter before a great audience. :Acid, 'the
peop'e of Ontario county still, al of
that .piay. ; ,,,,,t� t'
The stage, , as a matter- of fear -feat'
seriously thought of . by Mt. Green-
wood when, after his grin
Toronto, he went to London, Eng.,
and decided to make the .fM oj�ini
his home. Though for ; o ;eabee
was advertising manage of;;eteadis
Review. of Reviews, an "'1'flid o h&
newspaper work, he took up. the study
of the. drama at' the suggestion of his
friend, the le.tc Franklin ivicT:eayr tied
brilliapt young Canadif:n'-nctor:.e But for- some reason he abandoned
the . idea, and became a temperance
and popular lecturer, finally going into`
politics: and law, in both of which he
has been most successful. .:. .
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STAPt.ETON SALT
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Highest prices paid.
Custom work solicited.
NEW YEAR
NECK WEARR
FOR THE CH'R,ISTMAS TRADE
WE HAVE PLACED IN STOCK
A LIMITED QUANTITY OF
NATTY BUT SERVICEABLkl;
NECKWEAR.
HERE YOU CAN DEPEND
GETTING FRESH UP-TO-DATE
GOODS
P-TODATE-
GOODS JUST WHEN YOU WANT
SOMETHING• NICE AND NO'iw
MUCH TO ' PAY.
G. W. BARGE' ANn CO.
GOOD
ISHES.
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We wish out ' patrans and
friends a Happy anti•
Prosperous New Year.
THE L SUITTER COi.
The following prices are being paid'
at the.'HolreevilPe -Poulbug.''Ya>rds;-
Hens 8c . per lb, live r
• t0V.4lc3:annu°St49.kllo11on,lb ile'D.t.'t'
41 C eeRCE l x",<x�-v„.,eereteet
ucks. 1 t per lb dressed.
&eese,...—'-'-Ilc--per--lIr dressed:d`-*,;
New. Laid Few, no ;n a It day*
ld,#31mpter dizi
Pqultl' f : tbee e.4deiivrrej , w1
Or ci.ein ty oil ,Monday, Tuesatay and
.PaEihel)4injnCdf
Bu ing all the ear round 1
�P one'" on". .�," .
4.
.J. ALLEN BAKE''R -
DEADLY EFFECT OF FOG
GI:' evidence-at.an,inquest held -at
24ew ngton; on . the „1Yy}1ty of,.'an ,eg'd4„�: '
lunati T do di f
suer cw ed ro
mal m
p
-bronchi is, accelerated by fog and cold,
Dr. Charles Frederick Williams, medi-
cal Officer of Newington-•, Workhouse,'
said that„it was impossible.. to keep
the fog and cold out- of an institution
like :,theirs,” bank lip the fires .as they
,,might. They had 1,200 inmates there,
three-fourths 0'! whom suffered from
thoii chests. Visiting them on a foggy
night, ono Would-' see them all' sitting
' lip their beds in a long row all
If The Nears -Record 'pleases
mend it to your fri�
ng like frogs. Fog as w• a great-
ifficull *yyJ b-iQ�i ch the ; , f$
added' 'Ili .a'
dtfot�an
, �.
inmates had died during the
, the malignity of
g been increased
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HAVING PURCHASER `• - 'MEI
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BLACKSMITHING But?. IIstES,'a))F
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MR. '.TAMES FLYNN.;s WE WOULD
RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT T
PATRONAGE OF THE T N.
CLINTON AND VICiNITY2'
We make' a specialty of
Shoeing/Lame and Inter-
frn
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line, 4141. aa,
CARRIAGE MAKING AND
1 EP?, ,IMING VIA..ALL KINDS
-' ,SPT 'ENDED TO.
GIVE US. A CALL.
CHARGES S MODEl AyE.
SA L/NDER&.
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'y.AL• ?OSE CAR-
RYING ALL 'THE LINES KEPT
DERE FORMERLY. Y. 'TITANIC*
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US THAT THEY WILL RE -
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AND ALL .Tao ATTENTION
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