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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1909-7-15, Page 22 TIII'Ran.aY, Jt•I.v 16, IIk*1. THE SIGNAL:ThODERR'It• ONT.1RRI() 1 11 -publishing the following ',duettist ti t,Ig. o whn0 h would accrue from the r��opening up of the country by lana- �ifl~col ,lira cnpilal. UUlaIi.RIC 1, UNT tNLO. PUBLISHED RVKRY THIIB11L41 aT • TIIK sh.NAI. PItIN'I1NU r'u., Limited Telephone tall Na it Toms of (►uMCrtelties : • MLae per ennuteiu advasee. • Is luout l41..14C ; three nlsllthw Pr. To United States ubecrlhre. a year (slrlctly in advance,. ,. Menai. $ub-r.tben who fall to :wet,. g umming iia, of mail lio feet at�r. early favor date as porslble. When a change of addanaddress Y. both the old d the new Isidro. should AMrtiWng late%: t.1 1Ii awl other .:puler advert) ..Incurs for per IWfor nen 41.01(1011 end leper nee each subsequent, it e`Itl ' to r" -e d by o▪ 1;,a S1141.os. cord• of ars lines &MI ruder, Veer year. • Advert leenirul. of lard, round, strayed, tilt-, uul1 tat• Yaciect, sr(nwr 4uu. w'rnUd, 11011w. for }tale or to Saar: 1'',,u ins for $sale unto 'tent. Articles for Sale. rbc.. not sari•.dine riehl lamas, 1"...1` 01011 flay i sola l.h'I I,alMrlodvertl.rw- fur each 1(. ,b-1.1 menta I,l,uul..rt foss Aaoou tin.. r411 ordinary n•a1 'ps ten Cent. tea tins. Ni,Nour Ile Ic.- 11«1 Any special ...tor the uhp•-1 of tl�.feh 1• the yieouninrr lumen) 0f may Jinti¢idu or associ- ation, 10 e' ,'utteideh'3 an ad aert l+a•mrut tiled _..IOU eltargediweee1ae - -- . Rtes for display .oid contract -ad reettie. sats will be Invert 011 application. Address all Minn halloos 10 TIt}: SIUNAI. I'KINTINel I.1).. limited y. -,".1, ant HUBERIt91, TItt'It$tMY. Jl'6Y LL heti THE IMPERIAL PRESS CONFER. ENCE. • _ .14,..0 " a strange trend hat seat the 1ugwriaLprt'04 conferriica t Ing � ' war and deiencr as .one '1 OS' Must _serious topics of tliscna. All'. Mae- dolla 1 e e PE1 ' ' ytt- plains the situation ; it is oat 'fltcult as evi•r for persons at this diet itis 't' to un- derstand why a gathering 1 - paperturn, with any number t. tical subjects to engage them should have paid so !twilit »lir to the hysterical Lal - of st'arrwo arta jingo {.:hili W. in the ei - stanres one most favor» comments Omit can be made upon 1 confenlncl• in it n:•gative• one: and M Dtsfcdonatd bimeeH utters it when b m4utions as our of the t notable achievements in oonne•tion with -the gathering the fact that ."the confer- ence was kept hack flout vain if not hurtful attempts at 'binding the Ew- pire.toap•ther with high-sounding t -e- - eulutiostaou* either_ aerial trade or Imperial defence." •• Impertinent plat• itudes and veiled jingoism" presented. in the form of resolutions were frowned upon, and the conference refused to commit itself tm declarations of policy in matters which the various parts of the Empire must settle each for itselfin its own way. The British Enapire'salreIy has,,"oine greater Illissi than *nearly to keep _--itseltt ogee her1f it has'no sold shove defending itmrlf from imaginary - or passible rite ' •s its glul•y has already departed. It is be•auseweinw people• still r •.-iv,- of the British Etnpin• ars the greatest human ;agency for good in the woe Id that they are solely dia. appointed alien Imperial conferences devote their time to ignominious talk .of farts sad Koss *MI - lwttitshiPs as •__,tbe..WQPLL important .things in the . Eulpire'es life. We have had asnrteit of this kind of talk. 7'h, Empire will be defended if it as will /II defending. What Imperial conferences should con• rn themselves with is to see that the spire is maintaining such ideals as wi \bind the loyalty and high pat - n01444111 of its sone in its w•rvice ander fair skkie s or foul, We expect still of our Imperial Mtatensten that they will • "take .iccabbot lay the hand �.o make the IieundM of freedom wideet." and w maintain unshaken Briton itis an- cient retia. of Liberty and pear. This wars the first Imp••rlal press conference, and perhaps not much - cholera have • been expected of it. Probably the greatest lwnellt f t)ie gathering will lie the better 'i►cquatnt- anel' whIiit it will bring alone 1sP- • twe•n the iuuuldeni of thought in the various -parts of the Lar -spreading dominions which were thele represent- ed. • ter brat 'ode, tion Pre Im- 11e SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN. It is sauletiwee the case that famous men are honored for their works al and not for their character, Ind the wen whose nape and deeds Canadian, and their neighbors of the United States are honoring this yeir le worthy in loth t'w'eets. Sit rintlel de Chntoplain was horn in Itron'age, France, ' in 1:17. and flirt viaita•d Canada in IOW. Of ad- venhtrone spit it and full of religious zeal, he determined to weceel where others had failed. and to explore New Fernee, and found there a strong Catholic colony. l'ntiling, patriotic, sanguine. devoted to his country and his chosen work, he ''Lar Item fitly called the Father of New Frsnce. Ilia life. full of significance, le the true le-giuning of her eventful htetory." The first site ter the ie•ginning of a colony was unwisely chosen at I the mum h of, the 4t. ('i..ix River. An 'airmpt lit mete a Settlement at Poet Royal in Acadia was Matt a failure. but in 'ISN ,Queliec was founded aid became the alronghuldl of the little colony which do •ead, loon, to Tbtee hirers and Montreal. I paragnpb •'A purely fictitious story has been going the rounds of the papers in the west stout Sir Wilfrid Laurier s re- lations with rhe Witness. and honors offered its editor by him. It ie true treat Sir Wilfrid has been twice or p[werhaps thrice at the W aUnesm office. The last occasion was regarded as so notable en event that it was duly cele- blratel- by a photography( haw, which we preserve with intertaft. A similar note was taken of Mr. It. L. Borden's 'Visit about the saute time. The east oLthe story, which we need not repeat here, is pure invention." A friend writing from Gaderich satyr : • This is a lovely town, but nut so pretty es Orillia." lioderich, or any other town, might lie proud to stand recoi I • to /Liths. - Orillia Packet, Gudericb might Ise glad to stand next to Orillia if it could not get a twtter place ; but for natural beauty, fur line streets, for lovely homer, for pretty girls and handsome neo, it claims first place in Ootarit' against all content, l)f'course, we would not expect an Orillia man' to admit this. A well-known tioderich Iownlehip termer: a man whore- Hiutul judg- ment and „untiring industry have brought to hie • Isrgt• measure •of stireewr. e•llediat this otflee a few days a /to express his approval of The goat's rent jkir rest week nw-the l'hawpllain's adventurous spirit wt}s'f queNtion of the exemption front lax• not content with this success. ,Mr ation of farm building's. 'IYw tutee' desired to extend the 1 de of New France to the smith -and weld..4ail- 4 t. ing up theLawrence' be entered b the mouth of it beautiful river which be named the Ilicandi,•u, sad -traced it. back to the late which bears his own name, andAwhosc wooded shores wit- nessed a 111st encounter with the 1 oa. !tenoning to Quebec he pared to set mut on a longer ea., al iulprotrntents, he points old, ern. couragr14 people to put their money in mortgages or in anything elite than buildings. '1'u exempt buildings from laxation would help to gut repaid to Letter tors, would encourage the em- ployment of labor and Pte general improvement of country places. Pro grin -Tee rirmere are showing a Jews -- interest in this subject. and their pllring trip. He pwnuadad the In- opiniens publicly expressed will assist diens who cause down the Ottawa in reaching a right conclusion of the u furs u him with their Mad f t Asks matter. baulk with then( to their home on the . great inland sea. The voyage, with It is just possible that some of oar restlere who like W indulge in the its tuaoy tiring portages, was very pleasant p•letime of "catching the wearisome, the Indians were not finny tribe" may not he aware that uniformly kind, but he persevered, they are limited by law as to the num- and crossing trout the Ottawa to Lake her they catch as well as to the time }they way fish. The law limits the sipisaing, then W Georgian Bay. be 'number of -speckled trout • person reached, the territory of the Huron may catch in a day to thirty and the tribes at the soelth eastern end 'of the nniuhrr ofi bays or pickerel to twelve. may. There be spent the winter, phis law is dermad necessary far the protection of the righes o all, and amino( the • rus1.01111 and wine- any who exceed the 1' ' prescribed '11g of the language of the red- are subject to revere penalties.- Sea - , and making 'trips in differ- forth Expositor. direct' through the sur- Does ibis mean that the sporting ��-theee editor of The Expositor, being a conn Lis said, he reacher the hanks parafT Wttutbfutmau. Riad. hineseif n bwaitifil lake, pend gaud handicapped in swapping flab stories nder on the vast expanse of with some of 4e•aforth's less scrupu• ter. In line spring he rt' bons "forte-'md hiring' in the )tsetse laws to keep the other fellnwi yarns within limits ? But you cannot catch a confirmed ash -story punster. Next thing the editor will he up against is a tale of thirty speckled trout and • dozen base all, caught before 5 o'clock in the morning, in'the same spot and without changing batt -"ea -Thee hip;- gest. ones all got away 1" HOW NEWFOUNDLAND FEELS. In an article contributed to he 'Cauatlian Ilagazine by Francis Ash- bury Carmah, who visited N,'wf end- --land witb;.lhe_-ttbject. -.111. studjing pulitical condilioao in the island colony, the writer stuns up his aul- pressions in thin paragraph : "The puliticel leader who. should to -day appeal to the Newt nllsldl elec- Wrnle mn the quest' of Confedera- tion would In disaolrourly defeated. But on the day when the leader of a party in the. island colony maker lip his mind to tisk temporary defeat for the purpose of a acr•emlpli+hing Confed- eration, that limy brings union be- tween NewfoundtaliJT nod -Canada within the horizon of the proximate future. That leader roust noires the financial exigencies of the inland bring hint extraneous aid ,face an arduous campaign of education, hit it will (.• n e•a111p:t1g11 cnlwnel with vic- tory.' Two main forces, guys the writer further, seem to be working against confederation at present. The island- ers --whether of British or of Irish stock, the ton nein mimeo of popu- lotion are fond of their Independence. That is the ant. The second is that the merchants of Mt. John's would undoubtedly lose their present solid grip on the trade of the island and with their grip on the trade their en- ormaun Influence over the fishermen. This prospect they naturally do ROL like, though they admit that they might under confederation 'Yap ah sol ltely Isiger profits. The two tnain influence's, on the other hen], whirl] o.,- working for union appear to be the growing finan- cial needs of the colony and the knowledge which fa gradually spread- log among the people of the advan- trips, ot our with w fresh w turned way of Lake Mimeos and the River Trent to Lake Ontario, and theme home to Quebec. From the time he first cause to Can- ada his whole time and thought were given to his adopted laud. Ile grieved tineasay when fmf921►-ht -wee forced to surrender Quebec 10 Sir Uavid Kirke, and was pro(ortitlnately re- joiced when, three years later, it was restored to Francs. He lid not live much longer. On Christmas Day, Ittt5, after two months and a•half of illness. Champlain diel at the age of sixty•eight. Of him Kirkman says : ••The colony moth' ill spare him. -For twenty -seers years he bad labored hard and ceaselessly for its welfare, - sacrificing fou'tune, repose and domestic peace to a cause em- bragel with enthusiasm and pursued with intrepid persistency. His dauntless courage was matched by an !unwearied patience." Thtre 1 dred years after his work was delete we who have benefitted through him zeal are glad to honor the tnentory of ►o great a man. EDITORIAL NOTES. 7• " Where are thrice wavte•pnpwr taask- rta for the parks 7 \fill they tin ready by next winter lend ('0174M thinks lbs Hlitish people are teen I bre. Forgetting that it is promise) to the meek that they shall inherit the earth. The daily papers publish long lieu of drowning accidents. The necessity of caution on the part of those who go in or on the water cannot he too strongly .gel. Gioam i ng. The setting ..an has dropt below the sandy reach The laggai t rook. come home. t.•latet, from Ute beach Here In the garden bed. the flower., otos.• t tri eyes. Jand_t_wl_gi ht• soft wan mist across the wood land Ises 1) la not this mat sweet of any time or hour, After the garish day, and ere the night clouds lower 1 'T1s as though Natures self should pause upon her way. Ursyclad and pikrrim-like. to meditate and pray -lady Lindsay. FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Didn't Notice the Cold. - t'ol'leater Planet. "'On -id pot !" was the exclamaitihn t.f a new arrival from the Old Country i7tee.other night ; ••and they told me that lire blot ' g place was nothing lot an a Garrett O'Co.ltor's Suggestion. A city nrw'Mpaper is condueting a ltl.eneidon upon the subject "What. Ike \%'r Live on f" The old lady of wl It was written : "Vitamin and drink is the chief of her diet," is1 evidently not considered a normal tyre. The article au these columns -last week, "Keep the Militate Green," hail a prompt response. Old Profs. keep.., hie eye on The Signal, and when he ,Mw' that the Square needed attention the rain was tonna_ on in full force. The grass is again a lovely green. 'thanks ! i1 is impossible al thin season of the year In work up wore than a languid intPreet in the coal -miners' strike at Sydney. So long as it doe, not affect the price of next winter's coal in (hie part of the country, we are rontent to let the miners and the mine -owners fight it out. The united counties of Leads and Glenville have decided to take ad- vantage of the Provincial good roils set, under which in the last flue years over half-a•tnillion dollars how been paid out of Provincial funds for the improvement of county road epitome. Tose Huron county council ham no far hems unable to agree upon a proms'. tion to share in the grant. The Toronto World a short time ago had an interesting story about Rir 1Vilfrrd fsorie•r'n relation. with The Montreal \Vitnes. and iia publisher. The Witness rather epode the story Opal inspect' ''Flus: naturally is emus in smaller efolul)tipnitles than 'n large; but. there is alit il•atm why - every community sl Id not have tw- eets to a public *Lenoir where proper inepectitu should lie easy and where it could 1»• entitle -•r pulshry to ►Isught.rr MI animate whoa, 'Neat it iutrndwl for sale. Diseased meat is at ewe emuree of Inriuin ,ttap ave, amt it civilize! 'wapiti ought to 1e willing topayany necea'sa1•y purl• t5 iota:•1 thwurrlveo against it. *' Heroine of Real Lae. Waod,4eck Seattle') lt, view. It i+ a •t' 's e,i41 fig:inlet the newspapers that they 1111• .o 1111, y looking ler seuratious 1 try 431•111)1,,, entirely •h of what i• beat wult!1 while in life'!'here i. :1 measure '•f truth in this; but taw fault is with the ores. rather 111:111 With 111e new -- papers. It is not lams. hllwrvrr. 11141 all newspapers 11111 I. „'king for the lrnsetional. Thr)' sfricce t.• meet the deu,nnds at their r,edrt • : bmf they a•t. just u+ drilling to pnela• It the art• a'1, 1•+ m• soma the'traipses of the bu11161cst Of the witlitre 110I•Itr....•. of 1 ht. 11)41'! C(tlsplrumus. A11 they slant is the (wpm Uwaty, •An illustration is afforded I.y the death of Slits A • $t *'wartt br brigadier .d' 1 ht''.V.'1110it's 4uci d Department. of 1lie Salvation Army. w haat I.u'k place in \V' peg recently. 1"or eighteen } rare, met toil- ing to 811 e•Mte !lied f Ull(rlm pM 11.11 ). she had given her lift' Ur141.-ai.i oat [posit her own Ilex who had fallen Ity the wayside -and Bever in , all that time did rhe fail to eaten the hand of fellowship and to utter the word of good cheer to those Who misled t4Mpr_knit'--'symyest see•-l1ar- heitrt was in het a1'r•k : her pulse was depleted time and sgaii to- relines lh.tce who writ. tel heed ; and he• ''holt• life wits as tttiki.g exhibition of unseltlsl'uess noel d••- votiou to ditty. Thi+ Starr nod noble w h 1+ Iwru rec.gni/.m1 by the Canadian press IIs the heroine that s1,r was. nd, her uanie land her life have been lai w are l r,• pu as inspiration and a .otter. • The Gospel ot Thrift. 1E0*tlflOs )rywrrltm: One of the most practical (lospt•1 sermons delivered in, Il 'Ilan for many a day, and it was not by a reg- ularly nlanwl pIr. eh1 either. Wile hraN al in %Vestry church Inst flight. Central Business' College SrANUS ready to help young mea and woolen to win Independence and, success. It has given the Matt to thousands upon thousands of young people. It tan help you. Write for Catalogue. Enter any tune. V.'. 11. SHAW, Yonge and Gerrard is . Toronto. The Lending School CE's' T t;Al t STRATFOrtfl. ONT. • Courses MI,; pinetIntl, marlrach• (.11. 1•)erienewl..111d our graduates -c rf . thtl-t.r fid r.:st.i.usilrld P. itiurtr. We at rrcritills: many alpplientiuns isfaies 4.111ce help. 1hit ing a single day this w',ck we 1v., .•ia't.l 0ev1•11:t( - . plicali.•u+ for o111ee help and four f,n a roi it teachers Our gra d W. ACHESON & SON. JULY SALE NEWS SHEETINGS and TOWELS Two hundred yards plain, extra heavy, tlahleehtd Sheeting, two yard, wide, regula 23e, Saturday and Monday ...... - - .. , .... f80 WHITE LINEN Fifty dozen hemstitched hucksback Towels, rite 32110, regular values 310411,1 '25e twt•h. S•►turMy morning only, on sale, at each, 12 1-20 SHIRT WAISTS ladies' white embroidered and lace Waists, sizes 3l to 44, $1.1144 and $1.7:, values; 880 HOSIERY Fifty dozen pairs of ladies: flurry- Hose, embroidered cotton, lisle thread, 1 and silk. pricer ranged from Lilt• t.. $1.5o, on sale at . . 280 and 360 CARPETS 27 inches wide, Engglish tapestry Carpet. A large and Iwautiful selection, to a dozen patterns, co ors greens, blownr, fawns, reds, and suitable for any teem or hall, lRc and 75e qualities, all at per yard 66c Ten pieces thirty-six inches wide reversible Union Carpet, regular 454•, on 37c e ale at per yard, Three detail lancets : COMMERCIAL. SHORTHAND . and TELEGRAPHY -. 1, 'at ali tie 111'e, 1SI.t.14 _.A Mel.le 111.:AN, ' . l'i ito' pole. _It -, KID GLOVES• - 1�tN!� ' W ' pr*'�iW,Td1e -(lata-Kftrtib,vrr- s otk, 4sa 1 - else 414 to taus. brown.. Anil modes, 2 done fasteners and uUfY Galt quality, vegeta tllar and 11,1•1 quality. on sale at per pair ........)\ . e 66c 1►tf���t►er��117 II 1=:xI-I . i LRM OPENS uSer 30th, 1 e • The prearlters tell u, every Nuntlay o �if Wu.'� alt for I1. rw: I :• e how to live so that when we lie down • its (sow to side .o to'(.ul.4v 1 1 to die we may haws n safe passport • `1.111 1ooly. for 12.7•11:0" ... '4144 41011 to ,sly .e 1.... . into the glories of the world Iwt•unJ, e _ but Dr. Sassoon• the lectitier of fent 1 night. pre:wheel agu.pel 01 !Hitt that I iI (IODLRICII BLS' bS COLLEfiE will make the men and women biter citizens, and provide for t be days when old age comsat upon wand we are not able to earn even the • nem manes of life. The pulpit and the press should unite their forces -in teaching the doctrine of a thriftier cilizennhip, anti for the time, at least. Int thrques- tions of polities *nil the judgment to e have a rest. Otter get men and women educated up to the standard mf saving and - tern //nly, and higher and purer. It is the e*trsva- gance anal rector+.n •ss ut•oie deity liven that is responsible for the low stoats of morale Omit/mid .over. .'}du- cats the rising generation to be thrifty, industrious and economical.,. and the boys and young then will have no time• to squander their weekly earnings in the hal' 1•1o111 or in studying the dope cerhi of the race track. There is more looney waisted every day in Hamilton in the saloons, genttaing_room& Int in: on the horses, 11341 the smoking ant 1:111 would provide an annuity tor every one of the victimk if it were properly invested, payable after he remelted the age of fifty-five yrato. With alt its sins of wrongdoing the Laurier Administration has dune mor act that wilt r,itnrmd to iter evwlal -Ars all time in the future. While the British Government is providing for old age of its thriftleme citizens and placing a perpetual tax an the In - 1 dustri..,ls with which to pay pensions, the Canadian (loae?nment cosine's in with • new gospel of self-help ant presents a plan -whereby every man and woman ran pi (wide an annuity for the days when they are not able to earn 11 living. The British pla•1 educates pauperism by providing pen - slums for the improvident who live from eland to mouth ;Illi days in the• year, spe•tiding their earnings without one thought of the morrow. The Canadian plan to -gins with the youth and educates the-ls.ye and gists to lay by even as email a 00111 are twt•ntyfia'e cents weekly on that ellen they reach the age of Ilfty-liveor.sixty yea1- they will have uu nssulell income filar willat-Iraet make them independei., of the charily of the world. 11 1M•g,•' a spirit of pn•.I.• 11-10101 01 d.•p,•r deny. ANA/ the larger the w.sk l� waver the larger will he 1 t unity. The palate e4 the (iuve•ti lit. 1,1 1160% ides that um 111111111 10.14 (h.n fifty dollars a year "yell (t' tl:nfd, l*0(1 the highest sum that any /m-• r,n 10. rater is Stein n year. it depend. "1" n 111*' 111.1 hale th.ulsrlves how 01111•h to provide bet wevn *he higher and hostel LM. Once a person IwginM to save ruoney by opening an ar•ounl in a savings leink the habit lei! •s 00 fixed that every pay-day finds hila or her at the bank snaking the weekly dP(MMlt. (1,10,' begin sating Lir an annuity at the tint, of life when we need it fixed income and'everything will lie male to bend to Haat 111irpnila: The plan is simple and easily tinder - Mood, and the ni • of • Sir ltiehlud ('artwritrht will 140 A Messing in every !Mine where avantage is taken of the annuity. It is 1,, explain it that Dr. Maa►sn, of N'indtslr, has beast tni.sitroel by the .I1.minion (10v1111 meet -tea allege' part of his time in the Ilrld to Palmate the people up to the new gospel of thrift. no a provision for old age. Evidently the eh' rchee lupe not yet rouvertetl to It, for I)r. Towel', pastor 14 We,leq ,•hunt, Is our of 1h.• first to m s' Po •: ...on !.t•. tltI sir 1,-, /1 S/1111.1111. and the people whit *thrust la Presley church List. Hight we•1'.In led and w 11 rep:l.l for the hour Ince eppettl'. I)1.. M:ltnenm is an ea' est. ',weave, and he tells his 'slot v -o eloquently that. the heiIret• eann0l, lint he convinced that the Canadian (lov- ernmlent has hit it pt the tight plan to educate the people that en hideps•n. dent annuity, earned Jia' _one's own thrift, is preferable to a pimperiting penalnn tall." ��.�.. rnv'1raN, 1'ifs r...tt• rOji: Cfi