The Signal, 1910-8-25, Page 6ace memo. .t moon -'.:, 1910
THE SIGNAL: Gtlf►ERI(rUI ONTARIO
"BACK
TO T
FAR £
THU high cost
"cost of btgb
l 21111 wt -
which just
the atteaUou of th
cost of the neces
ateadtly• increisf
S ymptoms dare
Creasing alar!
1%t9Wtn the 1
reached an a
Increase ter
Ban. 1. 1'
per cent--
3ttk., 0
The
cities
Dal
tweebre
E
11
%—The Growth of the Cities
and the Increased Cost
of Living.
/Thor of "Home Course in Live Stock
rarming.'• -Malang Money on the
Farm." "Home Conroe In Mod-
_ ern A fri, ultu»," Ltc.
, c 's-rtitht :710. by Arn.rl,an 1're.s
Araocletiun.
•H+e.+� —�
ewH
Ili lug, or the
atob," as James
it, is a subject
OW Is ewrorsiiii
entire "laden. 'The
es of life has been
since 1R9(;. tele •
u 'viewed with *S-
lay Dearly" all cleans.
year the matter has
ute stage. The average
• cost of aecersltles truce
to Jan. 2, 2910, wait 12.7
Tbe Increase over July 1,
eli er cent
1e and salary earners In the
,-
semi thhrpad Sine"B'rad-
s
Daily wing closer. The margin be- i
income and expenses, narrow at
has ThrUnt to the taniseiig
t. All this nhlle newspapers have
n ehoutieeeprosperlty, forgetful of
e old marina that "the real prasperi-
of a nation Is the citizen's :margin
of saving."
Whatever thq cause of thea increase
fin tate coat -of neeessitles and comfort'',
there ore hat two ways in which the
citizen as an individual canMeet ft
IThe first Is IQ Increase bls� Incolae,
living Is but the product ot ems Mete
Don, however, and Is something to be
encouraged ruttier than discouraged.
u
Feetaievtau,._it is responsible' lu het
a small .degree for the ltx'remse la the
cost of living. 1'he Increase 10 the
•4thudard of living has manifested It-
self- roof strongly 1n better houses;
better dotbing mid more conveilleucer.
Yet. the great lrcrmasu la cost has ween
not in these materials, but lie foot.
ketwee.n July 1, 12194, end Jan. 1, 19lU,
'brerid.tufls and live beck Increased In
price 30(4 per cent. f.nurtng the same
t+ertud\the increase In the Iextliee was
ent, in metals (15 per rent and
materials ouly I. per cent.
living has had muck
t� do with ct(e increased prices cunuot
be demist That It' is wholly reserousi.
tale he fur from the truth.
/f we are to seek the real cause of
the, crisis that coafrouta our country
we mu.at go back to the old cause of
supply nod demand, coupled with otber
• faerori-teat bane geown out of this,
Thepelt'p rom 1870 to 1493 was the
period of. deeeritnpment of. the twiddle
west, the" bread `hitaket of the world.
• Here weri' lands ,ole unparalleled ter.
Mirythat had merely to ,lei acrntrlrel
au Lh'.- forth their bonntlfel supplies.
The result weaatint the markets ot the
world were flooded with foodstufia,
fly 1(496 the middle west -was tsretty
well sealed. 'Tbe bloput.of_Ite-virgin
fertllare hod been- removed. Soon the
days of using euro fur fuel and wheat
to feed the hogs here fast. t'rk'es of
farm prothiete bitten to rise. 'if there
tend herr no -other factor entering In
tun'y,wntriyeesoerelinee-e-aehest .a nor..
' mai leviei, and the readjustment would
1 have come with little trouble. Unfor-
tunately the tide of population toward
i the eitlt'a bpd become tad strong to be
turned in a day. .
From 1880 to 1900 the percentage of
tremens dm'cr.neel from 44.3 to 35.6.
n decrease of S.7 per rent. During the
Name period the percentage of persons
-engaged in manufacturing Increased
from 21.8 to 21.:;. This increase of 2.
per cent is. no more than normal and
early he accounted for by the increase
In the standard of living and the con-
sequent demand for manufactured ar-
ticles. 1'he Increase In professionnt
ifs f
In bnlldt
DSJRO crone trop YUZL eit 18116:
and the second Is to lower kis stand-
ard of living. The wage earner, band- lines during this time was eight -tenths
led together with his fellows In a un- of 1 per cent. while the number of per.
Ion, h:la been able to Increase his sonj engaged In dasnesUc and personal
reale of wages to some eluent, though ser ice decreased one-tenth of 1 per
not nearly enough to tall the pip be-
tween Income and expenses. Tbe wage
learner who does not belong to a un-
ion has profited to some extent by the.
t eoer•al rise In wages. though not aO
Enoch as the muton man.
The salaried man bre borne the hard-
est brunt of the rising prices. Ile be-
longs to Do union, and his demands for
Increased pay have brought little re-
nponse.
All classes that are compelled to
!wort for a living have had to turn to
the other alternative in a greater or
teas degree. They have been forced to
lower their atandard of living. Tbe
lend Item to be attacked 1s the food
lenpply• Russell Sage once said, oats
the cost of living increases the nes of
west decreases, the proportion of dark
loom,' increases and child labor be-
comes plentiful." Less meat mesas
poorer nourishment, less resistance to
disease and n higher death rate. Other
Foods of cheaper quality are used.
INeomargarine takes the place of but-
ter. Dodd storage eggs are leeery
end fresh eggs unknown, and -cheaper
brands of canned goofs are used.
Aside from food, the big item of ex-
pect* in the city is rept. In order to
eel) up with the Increased cost of
things property owners bave been fore -
ad to raise rents. The frenzied erowd-
ing of .thee peopl�_to_tbs cities has en -
t ided landlords to make these Menai-
fed renCr 'be reeolt-te- aiv-
S bottom with a porch and a frit of lawn
Ilan become a luxury, and more and
afore the middle classes, the classes on
Rebore prosperity should react most fa-
►orably, have been forced Into Bata
land aperhnent houses- ,Tbe poorer
RMsemi have moved Into tenements.
Ube bigt cost of rooin has made crowd -
Ing' inevitable. Human beings have
been forced to herd together like cat-
tle
abtle or worse. The modern dairy barn
4 a palace beside some of the tens '
Snots that pass truster as human hale
Mations.
Many (enema bare been advanced by
"economists' nod others to account for
ithe rise In prices- Many Mame the
anrIR, tout that will not explain why
pekes are rising,nearly as rapidly to
Mngtend ns 1n the United itntem. The
'aeon omIS a vo' 'W-ftr-tire
I nereiisc 111 the supply of gold, Money
Is becoming cheaper, be says, and
!therefore it takes more of 11 to buy
la given amount 'of any commctdlty.
Whitt exptanntton sounds very phase
be, but it dims not explain the facet
that prices hnve at others times gone
down in the fnre of inereasee gild
production. The gold supply is nn-
tiueattoilhty n factor influencing r1s-
Ibig Prices. That ft is the fnndnmental
hatter mer well be doubted.
Other writers try to lay the wbole
ernnhie to the growing ectrevagnnce
Of the Amerlrnn people and t.. the In-
creased remelted of living. it la tree
that at the pr•'sotit (late we regard as
n meegessie. whet yerterdnv were Imre.
Mew. Tbls Increase In the standard of
cent
The erred increase came in the num-
ber of persons engage! In trade and
tranaportaUon, an increase of 5.5 per
cent. Of the 16.3 per cent ot the work-
ing people engaged In trade and trans-
portation in 1900 only nine -tenths were
engaged in transportation proper. The
others, 15.4 per cent of all the people
of the United States who work, were
simply middlemen. Complete- figures
since 1900 are not available, but tbe.
cityward trend bas Inert -need rather
than diminished.
Here is the true extenuation of the
high cost of living. There are more
than one-third as many men engaged
in distributing food as there are in
producing it The conMInIer'e dotter
is worn thin before it gets to the pro -
darer. Tbe 10,000.000 -men who farm
must supply food to the 1.000.000 peo-
ple
eople who are workiug in the factories,
(h
OPlaRORownat• 'rR\Iat KNT nI,ITRI T 15 •
,:Itl AT Mil
to the 1 .0111,, xt 1eopie oTioa
nonproductive work and to the 46,000, -
Oe n pm(tple alio do not work at all.
Atet ta'cnuse the changed ratio of sop -
plc nnri demand are enabling the farm-
er to snake n profit when. before he
worked at n 1(155 there Ire n great outcry
oref. the high coat of !lying. Ther oat•
try will tot change tbings In the least.
Neither will beyeutts nor anti -men: 5n-
elette5.
There le only on, remedy, a reversal
of the tide of population. The Minor
mol growth of cities meet 1* checked.
hnrming mast be restored to its proper
else' In the indelible! world.. In the
etleeerelinr, rip eiPa WP shall note some
of the toreeSi that ars bringing this
shoot.
IHEAIING OF -THE GRAPE
IT I5 A _FAMOUS BUT HEROIC
CURE FOR .MANY 11.1.S.'
widely Known fTTeattneat Goes a
Loft Way Back Into History -
Troubles as Widely Different as
tndixantiQn and Freckles Are Said
to Yield to It -Several Towns t�hre
. Headquarters For the Treatment.
'If one will. take his food' or meth-
eine in the form of pellets, grapes
May afford the best medium for that
purpose'. The fact that migratory
birds fatten on the grape. and that
'the flesh of garn.- atjar a season of
grape diet is much °morn palatable
suggests the. improvement of Mimeo
litems'' • byy 110. s,trne aleens,:
The value of • the grape won early
recognised. We learn -in genesis that
Neialt „este,•erned 'them :and- planted a
vineyard: and according to 'Pliny.
Bioseorides and others,. the ,tietetie
and medicinal vatun ei •the grape
was undendoo l •by the. uneient Greeks
and Romans. Besides the direct use
of the fruit Noel • its ferinetlted,e0th
tents, they were accustomed to' Istel
the .jute+ to one-half er •nneethird•iti-
It Ile _Neale» and
"Italy to -day it i+ hoil.•.1 tdr a syrup
an•t used it the• prrpuiatwn of van
Dire --foie+, - -- - • ''
The the, n ,.' till fruit curs and
fret r•vnr,'s.ion ts,,,aside: felon the ,
destruction of hostile germs, that the
jut.c e\lr•tine' in the form of free •
acid or tr combine:ear with alkalies
as all:alone salt's; • when taken into
th, t.e,h forma-carlinrrates, which '
mould, the ajkalinity of thy,. blood:
accordingly She pr,tasaiwtl -bitartr.o.
of the grape is•ing trtinaforinmT' ill : •
potatssium_, cartionate, en alkaline:
taut, e`rrects the ezd•ss of n>orbid.'
acidity in., the i,jnoai of the grape. !
eater.
People «•hole e u esat i '
tactary, av u, hire • int'••+final tronel.
whm are excessively fat, and tho-.•
tnthject to urinary and biliary .lis-
oreliers. lure likely to aa+' benefitted by
the grape -mum' ft is applied in fact
to the most .tiv.•r'ih•ed ailments,
largely n the ground et its ancient •
reputation.. 'two • ph}'smians. lire
purelutrd ami limber, oliserviel fvP
arable rr sujt. ut chrome diarrhea;
and the .)Ii rvatinn, ,nf Dr. Tschar-
ner. were an ietroement, especially
when the disease orii-'rnated in nett
your' excitation.. Dr. Schirmer r..
Ported favorable •result„ in chronic
catarrh of the areolar timme ; Drs.
Schulze ami Curchnril have teeorn-
meed,rl the systenein dineasea of the
skin ax scurvy and even fr.cktes; and
Ili. l,ieilenstcin claims to have cured
Om itch by n dint of grapes. The
number of grape curt: establishments
in Europe, as well as patrons, 'mems
to 1"e increasing. though the methods
employed have, ehunged somewhat.
Frrrtnerly, when the seeker after
health ,or •inei-earei vieer went to
Ainlren. Durkh,enn. sigh•, Vevey or
Geller-I..-a-Bains, lie was expected to
eat grapes, s, rued nothing hut erapca-
one po 1 the first day. two the owe.'
owl: and so up to eight poured'' on
the eighth day. when, if unwilling to
acknowledge that he was cured, his
daily ration remained at that notch,
Datil he gave in and r said -though
he might look n little emaciated -
that he might;
felt better,'• etc.,
when at the end of 25 to 30 days be
would Ire allowed td depart.
Now. white the maximum amount
consumed is limited to front three to
alt kilos (6.6 to. 13.2 pounds) daily,
it has been decided that weight and
strength are gained more surely and
rapidly by taking ether foods with
the grapes. Frequently; ton, the ef•
feet i'' augmented -1,y drinkepg..several
yeanowe of the freshly exprenteed juice
and plunging into the mash dl . S
grape• hath at least once a day.
Great care' is taken as to the ex-
ternal cleanliness of the grape; as
only the juice ehnul) be swallowed.
and the skins and Atones thrown
away. No copper sulphate should
be used in cleansing them, which has
sometimes resulted in' the poisoning
of patients. Washing in boiled water
is the test method, by rinsing the
ekeetera . though. some go to the
trouble of washing the grapes one
by one.
For actual invalid'', and these not
seeking a 'renovation merely of the
gyst+env, it is not advisable to eat the
maximum daily ration; and about
Drip- If nt the whole amount con-
sumed nuld lie eaten in the morn -
Hie as the fiSd meal of the day. Ex-
cordin, to
the condition of t ..,pates an
ferahle before cacti mewl, One-fourth
of the whole daily grape tion, er
One-half the amount re ing,
Jhnuld he taken about nap -half hour
before tee Iday merit, and the re.
mainder aimtiarly before the evening
meal. and thefood other than grapes
ehnild licit exceed the limits of the
natural appetite.
That the tweets of the "grape -
cure". are not ordinarily due wholly
to the grape alone seems probable.
However. anyone intent upon the
fruit effects, only add powwowing a
grapery. or even the means to buy
the grapes, Can get *II the good ef-
teets. moving that of a travel trip, jl
lite. will conform to the regimen at
!home; *nil there is no doubt .of ',he
value of the grape -cum when it is
rationally Baer.
70 Years with Coughs
We have had nearly seventy years of experience with
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. That makes us have great con-
fidence in it for coughs, colds, bronchitis, weak throats,
and weak lungs. Ask your own doctor what experience
he has had with it. He knows. He can advise you
wisely. Keep in close touch with your family physician.
Naalcohol in this cough medicine. /C. Ayer Co., Lowell ffa—sa.
Be well; be strong. Noe cannot if your bowclt are constipated. The best xative
Ayer's Pills, all vegetable. Ask your doctor U he agrees with us. Do as he says.
Threshing Time
When you're off color—a little bit sick yet not sick enough
to call the doctor—you want a SURE and SAFE family
Medicine-- A MEDICINE THAT YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY
RELY ON. That's why we are advertising this trademark.
Old Roman Marriages.
.lune este the month whirl the
taneient Romans (-moldered the most
propitious aeaaon of the year for
contrarttng Main mon,al ehgage-
mm-nte. especially if the day chosen
vert that of the full moon of the
I cnnjunetion of the sun and moon.
The month of May was eapeeially to
to avoided as under the influenew of
lspirtts adverse k, happy household..
As to the Future.
The H-rp•-writ of course you'll give
me another thence.
' The Tortoise-{ )h. 1 snppo*, 1
molt f Rut understand right now my
anti of the pwrse'll be 75 per cent.
wi■ or Wee!
`pp,. FOR TMC OAN� V Ori
fore most ordinary, e eery -
Look for the dand, tem -colored wrappers and the tome Nyal's. Thr formulae of
Nyal'eFamily Remedies are all exceptionally good -very similar to what your owe
doctor would prescribe There's a special 1'ly
day ailments which rr, know to be effective.
,We strongly reconin,, ed.Nyare Pae,ilyReatodiso because we know what's in them
-your doctor ear kis wand you may knew too. ' -
Anything you
buy
with the name
will give you
entire
satisfaction.
Sold and guasaatsej bj SUB
J. StitLAND' S. E. HICK.
d C. DUNLOP E. R. WIGLE
GODERICH
The house .► ill need to be well4N indict!
wit r nivel, 'or s,
Utensils. We have extra good values, and
we ask Votl to be sure 10 see our stock.
ST ")VES
Possibly you have put up, with that old
Stove as Tong as yoti can. Now,' when you
have- extra cooki:ig, . you need th.. best
•range, theretore volt shotllil- get at (ince :t
PANDORA -- the ti ngc,.t-lived and -beg
:ill -round range On the market.
11'c are offering- hri.•cti .=n Lawn
Mowers, teas and Oil Stoves, -Ham-
mocks, etc.
Best 650 ft. Deering Twine at 9's per Ib.
.WIMIMMIWINEMBsa'raerWWIes.
liowell Hardware Co.
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Ajtr—
Midsummer
Clearing..,..
you R:1.ti trouble with (/prepared
Gske `tin, it, was not. Cowan':;.
i., Even a child can ' ice a
---..fse perfectly, in three
I�� , ininutes, with Cowan's
I rCtitrtc.'" icing.- Eight delicious
flavors. Sold everywhere.
`fee COWAN (0. Unnea. TORO/a°. 73
eve
0
Kellogg's has the real flavor of wholesome, health-
ful corn, flaked, and cooked to a delicious crispness.
i
TOASTED
Kellogg's has the nourishment that nature takes
out of the earth, and puts lavishly into the grain;
Right - now is y it to r
strange to get evilly good
Blore. at a considrnebte
raving. Our potiey is Co
..ei1 rili «hoee in their
.rear) and marry nnthiug
over. Tbe bajare a of
rtttureer styles we are
...fling now at prices to
clear ejuickly.
I(undieds of prit' of
O -X -F -O -R -D -S
11.•n w.,rn. rr ..r,.'.
IIII,I,•'Il
SEE THE SPECIAL VALUES
ON OUR BARGAIN TABLE.
G. M. Elliott
"Ile;Square. Ooderich.
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A
bare
"Tbe
Sweetbeaff
of the
Cora"
Kellogg's is clean. No food could be cleaner. It ex-
cels in making digestion easy. Order Kellogg's now
WESTERN FAIR
LONDON, CANADA
Sept. 9th to I7th, I9I0
$25,000.00 iN PRIZES AND ATTRACTIONS
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