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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1911-10-5, Page 2s Tmt'etawAlf. GtTWI * 6. Ifi►11 THE SIGNAL t1i L)ERIt'H , t i 1 ARP ► tiODLRICH. ONTARIO. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ar THi:.t,;• tL PRINTINO Co.. Limited Teiegbow. WIN*. 11. Terme eeaishoorwlea : 11.00 per &mases In edvaasa Aix months, Ser ; three meatfis. ids. To United Steger subsorlbers, *Lau a year :rictly In ads&um,. Subscribers wise fall to receive Tex 8laast. 1hse mall famerlor m satoof the will at as early adao oi uoseible. W . elluityps of Widnes is desired, both old the and new address should be given. Advertising Rates : Legal and other similar adverttrsmeote, 100 Poi line for first lasertSon and is per line for each subsequent insertion. Measured by • nonpareil •Osis. twelve lines to an inch. business cants of six lines and under, n.6 per year. Advertisements of Lost, Found. Strayed. Sit- uations vacant, Situations Wanted, Houses toe :isle or to Rent, Farms for Bale or to Relit, Articles tor Bale. eta, not exceeding e(ght lin.., SSo each insertion ; $1 for Mt mouth. 500 for each subsequent mouth. Larger advertise- ments in propo:tlon. Announcements in ordinary reading type ten cents. per line. No notice ler Clan Ifo. Any special notice, the object of which is the pecuniary benefit of any individual or menet. tion, to be oon.idered an advertisement and charged acoordingle. Rates for display and oontract advertise- er.b will be given on applloulon. Addraw all oem.uunl atiene to THE NONA.L PRINTINU CO.. Limited. Oedericb Ont GODtiRICH. THUHSUAT.O(T. 3. fait RELIGIOUS TEACHING IN THE SCHOOLS. The Synod of Niagara has, biout;ht forward again tote perennial problem of religious instruction in the public schools. The natter has been dis- ouased again and again by the clergy of all de.omin+tions without, appar- ently, their cooling any nearer to a possible solution ot the problem. The great difficulty. an almost insur- mountable one, is the diversity of creeds' represented by the children in the public aehools,,and the impossibil- ity of imparting religious instruction without danker of incurring the charge of denominational teaching. ft is true that the rising generation ie not receiving tbe training in the Bible which is its due, and the lack of such teaching must have an injurious effect upon theta both now and when they enter the various walks of life they may choose as they grow older. This leads 'is to ask whether all is being done which might be done in this dire' tion. In the new readers now in use in most of the schools of Ontario are sev- eral lessons selected from the Bible. These are stories of Bible characters, and selections dealing with ethics or morality. or religious faith. Thus some instruction from the Bible, apart from the simple re.ding of the Scrip- tures night and morning, is ensured to the pupils. Beside this. provision is made whereby the clergy of any denomina- tion may. at certain periods. gather the children of their own people for definite religious instruction. With xll their anxiety to bare religious teaching in the schools, the clergy do not seem at all eager to take advant- age of this opportunity. is it because the time is too limited ? Or have they overlooked the deur granting them this right? But then is another side to this question. Is tbe public school the only place, or even the best place, where such instruction can be im- parted ? The Sunday school cannot iio much in one hour a. week, with only part of that time given to teach- ing ; but is there not another place better than eeither public school or Sunday school—the home? There are. of course. some parents who can- not read ; their children could be cared for by the charitably inclined among better educated folk. But parents are the natural instructors ot their offspring in matters moral and religious. if they feel unfitted for the task they can get instruction them - *elves and become fltted to guide those for whose being they are respon- sible. The reason why the children of our day are growing up with such lamentable ignorance of the Bible is not so much because the Bible isnot taught in the school as because it is not read in the home. And pastors are partly to blame for this. They do not give to tbe matter of home train- ing and home influence the place it should occupy in their sermons or in their private talks with their par- ishioners. The teacher% of our schools are not all estwlees in the matter. Many of them. probably most of Them, give much more religious and ethical and moral instruction than the public goes them credit for. But the school can never take the place of the home. nor the teacher the place ot the par- ent HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Thi• year or next year 'there being goes• d -who as t4 the correct date) will he oommersseted the birth of a woman w hn dWenore than any other permit to epee the eyes of the e.vilised .rr.r1d to the evils of slavery liaselet Sasoher ser the daughter of the $A. Dr. Lyman Beecher and the delis of Henry ve and Reecho, bas un bre earliest years an atmosphere of thought and learning and altruism. The type of subject which interested her in her younger days may be inferred from the topic of an essay she wrote at the age of twelve: 'Mian the immortality of the soul he proved by the light of na- t ure ?" The precocious girl grew into a sweet -natured woman, married the Rev. Calvin Stowe, professor of lan- guages and Biblical literature at Lane College, Cincinnati, and for several years was absorbed in domestic cares and duties. When the gueetion of slavery be- came the problem of the United States sbe took the part of the downtrodden. and became a strong and eager aboli- tionist. The passing of the fugitive slave law during the Fillmore admin- istration stirred her to action. She studied the situation, she studied ate South and then she gave to the world "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a book which touched th- hearts of people in every civilized land and did more to reveal the evils of slavery than anything else had done. Of this work Justin Huntly Ide- Carthy says : "It was translated into every lan- guage ; it was read in every laud. a.d wherever it was read it made converts to the tame of human freedom. It was recognized in the South as one of the most formidable attacks aspen slavery that had yet been made. Well might Southern writers, coinp.t- led t0 admit that everything in Uncle Tom's Cabin had occurred in the South, protest. and protest in vale, against undue importanse being gives to 'that book of genuis, true in alt its facto, false in all its impressions.'' Millions of copies of the book have been sold. it has been drainatiaed, it has been translated into a dozen lan- guages. and, though the evil it denounced is a thing of the past, it still can thrill the heart and quicken the pillage : end .till new editions are found to have a ready sale. The false which the book brought to the author could not alter, however, the sweet womanliness of her nature, and in her home she was more than a noted author, she was a loved and honored wife and mother ; end to her Womanliness as well as to her gentile the world of today pave homage. EDITORIAL NOTES. T,he Thanksgiving turkey will have a queer taste for us Grits, won't It? le this Turko-IWian war another get-up of the moving picture people? Some voters who cast their ballots against reciprocity are now ftndiog. out that -they were deceived as to the nature of the agreement. But their knowledge is too late. Perhaps Mr. Borden would get along better with that Cabinet-making job of his if his well-intentioned but too sager friends did not persist in thrusting upon him a lot of dozy old timber. Sweet ere the uses of adversity. We can begin to appreciate now the feelings of our friend. 'tbe Tories when they had been beaten four times in sticeessiodV-1806, 1900. 1904, Into*&. The .Trop in the price of hogs since the elections rosy help to open the eyes of some of the farmers who voted against reciprocity. They will know where to look for good advice when voting time comes around again. Wouldn't this be a good time to make a move for the abolition of the Senate? The Borden Government ought to be in favor of inch action, seeing that the Senate will be for some years overwhelmingly Liberal and nifty hamper the Government in Its work. The newspapers in agricultural sec- tions of the United States are chort- ling over the defeat of reciprocity. The Hannah (N. D.) Moon, edited by a former Hur rite, 8. J. A. Boyd, says that Laurier saw an opportunity to outwit the Yankees in the trade deal, but the Canadian voters "played the good Samaritan" for the United States farmers by repudiating the pact. Whet we may expect :— Toe extension of rural mail de- livery in this district. The prompt carrving nut of an ex- tensive system of harbor improve- ment at Goderich. The purchase of a site for a perman- ent military camp ground in the vicinity of Goderich. Etc. J. P. Willison of The Tomato New. is mentioned a. • Cabinet possibility. An excellent suggestion. Mr. Willi- son is perhaps the ably man In Canada capable of regulating the affairs not only of Canada but of the entire Empire as well. at the same time keeping an eye on the rest of the world and proffering friendly advice for the governing .4 the nations. Mr. William has been cribbed and "shined too long in the editor dal chair of • dollar and -a half -..yea, daily. There ie • great differ'...e between the position of the defeated Lib rel party to 1911 and the defeated Ooe- eervative party in MS& Thes MIS (knne•rvstivr practically leaderless, or, rather, had eo uaoy leaders of difter,ut minds that they did not know 'whom to follow. Now the Liberals are entbus- iastir+afly united under the undisputed leadership of Sir Wiltrid Laurier. Though defeated, they are not grumb- ling and will be ready for the nett fight whenever it conies. It is said there were many Conserv- ative farmers who favored reciproc- ity but who did not vote for it, think- ing that the return of the Utmost Govermueut was amused and that they would secure the benefit% of freer trade without the paiu of voting against their party. A story fifes" from Mullett township of a man. Boars who previous to the election blaisha up alt the barley be eo.ld gat hold ,e[ in his section. leteading next memos . callow a large pert of hie farm a ith and get the big United States prises`` for it. 'rhes mar was a tgeaervatire.1 and ea belts twitted ahemMoms* he retested that be was net piss to je Beet his party, hat he was alas w make somas money eat of the —rests of the Liberal pedis,. Me now has a lot of Se* barley tier sail Maw So Wag as the tar. -ere nubs as slat of their party is sties wee . s leas tem they renew hewers of woad stud drawers a water file the psahtstsd msasd.etnrrrs mad the weesmyed ta- tersete, who ewe' tle party .germs Inv their own adyestawe en every IP". foible ..ecweioa. FROM OM UOIITM.5 t)RARIES )111181 Dem* Pr.w rm. It » .1 1 be a long ties.- ode a we pas - pear . , Our Lady of the hisses agpaim. Are You a retake ? Ronnie Nowa Good new . for those who have K and have it bad An eminent physi- clan informs us that only '•rainy people are affected by hay fever The Worst Ever. Bobcayrew. I.depeode.t. Thank goodness, all this loyalty rot. old flagism and annexation talk is at an end. For right down rotten mush, this election bas eclipsed anything held in Canada. Crawfishing. Windsor Reoc rd. The Conservative papers are now outdoing themselves in extending the olive blanch to Uncle Sam. Their eagerness to palliate the wounds is a sample of three-ply nerve and double - deck inconsistency. it is something like taking a healthy punch at a neighbor and then telling him what a goal fellow he is. Get in the Firing Line. Hamilton Herald,. After all. it doesn't seen reasonable for Liberals to be downcast mad re- sentful because their party has been beaten after being flfteen years in power. They might remember what Frederick the Great said to his grena- diers when they broke and tried to run away after a cavalry, charge. Plying his cane on their shoulders, the crusty king shouted at them, "Get back into the ranks. Uamn you, do you want to live forever?" Autumn in the Garden. ".hen t he frosty kion of Autumn in the dark Makes Its mark Ou the flowers, and the misty morning grieves Over fallen leaves : Then rays olden garden, where the golden soil Through the toil Of a hundred years is mellow, rich and deep, Whispers in its sleep 'Mid the crumpled beds of marigold and phlox. Where the box Bordens with it+tawny green the ancient ..elks, Theme a voice that talks Of the human hopes that bloomed and withered here Year by year.— lIreams of joy that brightened all t he labor ing hour., Fading a. t he flowers. et the whispered story does not deepen grief ; • Rut relief - For the loneliness of Arrow seems to flow From the Long Ago, When 1 think of other 11res that learned Tike •mine, To resign And remember that the sadness of the fall Comm Nike to all. What regrets, what longings for the bat were theirs ' And what prayers For the silent strength that nerve.. us to endure Things we cannot cure' Pacing up and down the garden where they 1 have traced All heir well worn palls of patience. Lill 1 find Comfort in my mind. Henry WWI I ty ke. CURRENT UTERATURE. Anebutitivas. New Novel IIs [.ur- rrtrco'rr'a.—Toe literary event of the month is douhtime the appearance of a powerful new novel by Aced& Rives (the Princess Tr oubetakoy), published complete in the October Lippincott's. iia title is "Hidden House, and the scenes are laid in Virginia, aa were those of t.be author'. memorable first h ew:va. 'The Quick or the Dead," which also was brought out in Lip- pincott's Magazine itis not ton much to expect that this new novel will create an eves "treater furore than did the earlier work, for it cannot be de- nied that to the Princess' former brilliancy and charm have been added • depth et feeling, a soreness of touch and • keenness of insight into Ole human heart and as vagaries which oouid come only with added maturity. The plot of "Hidden Melee" is abs. latellletilgue. and in read ny. In ardor. In faseleation. 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Buy a GILLETTE — you'!? enjoy It. Sta.d.sd Seas MIA —Pocket Eider *loo to 55.00. Cessblas- Sass h. 96.30 so- At year krd.are dede'a i. -sI •, Amorist's w habrdrker'e. Leek Ise the Gail<TTE DEPOT 3i... The Welk Sakty talar Colt. al Canada, Imo/ Office and Factory: 53 St. Ale.asder Street, IdssarmL 262 Mow .l.. i. New York, dle.w. tarps. Eas. end Sbaesks' dine- Fecieeies Leicester. Sorge and Paris. tea.. sus ser i In the lobby or rotunda or in any public meeting place you will note that the right sort of men are wearing the styles fashioned by the Semi -ready designers. Not l)ictators of Fashion so much as they pre careful selectors of the best points in Style creations, tempering each design with trZle 'lines which appeal to the most fu. a and conservative men. Etings and Overcoatiag6 foe darn, Isiah. stn boast 'tonsil's MM. tag, Mod Mme'" EAN BROS. GODERICH "The Quick or the Dead" created the biggest sensation ever caused by a novel appeannt in magazine form. To this day there is as Iscreditable demand for the story. its author, AmElie Rives. now the Princess Trotbetskoy, has written a new novel which bids fair to overtop the reputation of its famous predecessor. It is called "XMddais Yolue" and appears in the October Lippincott'.. FREEthe Three sew i+rad the November mmbar sed December term i malt pea* itis seriatim a blain with the Jmmery, tpii isle MVI sad !K ions embers tee tin peke at twdvs. Li p rash's JMaglIZIS(rr1•�l� e� Philadelphia - •nmal tie sesae..1 rtir /e1r ae •A«erne. W. AOHEIION d WON Fashionable Coats The new Coat+ this season have a style about them that ,uggeets cotufort. Toe heavy ...ft golf cloths are very cosy ; and •toe new large Dollars and capes on very many are prac- tical and extremely pleasing. Coau, beautiful quality, of all wool tweeds, golf cltotbs and beavers, ranging in price at S8. 19, 19.75, 112, 115 Women's and Children's L' nderwear WtaaliYee sad Styles bete teen very carefully selected frost the heat makes. Prima. • father' Vasa. and Drawers, fine. plain. Yt'sid weal • Was 12 to cls at, per .vma.t—n.1_ a.d 81.11111 N oew'. sad abtldree'• ' Zwith esti sag Densesea. eau herrne and warms/id use ri ehaltle, ewe, N. mars i asset lone 1 to ladies' endeblidweles. Is leers ..r antk• lesellsa StasaeY's t'.dmwear. soft wart durable, every siaw in men .. in red or Maw labels. Limbs= . _ aged Oilcloth Squares ♦ tl lanai ear hit_ dl_____r.ms ass kddws- ILeieame promptly and p..L..dy hM et ars erten charge by dm avers wiefth. Melling tit waisswe yaM ^Ms. Sia AM. Sea Rideal Lisstsesta peasen tbsesesk to the back. at SOs. SO. and 1;1.00. Calpeg T..psetry Carpets.: recbaa wide. is • range of patters•, greens. b,.rwee. reds. es asset or scroll designs. at. per yard, special—iso and fie. W. ACHESON SON r L What Has Created the Demand for Our Clothes ? —Being just a little better than tie others MARTIN BROS. .t►tsntwwbt A Big Shortage in Pandora Ranges A LETTER THAT EXPLAINS ITSELF London,,Ont,, Sept. 23rd, 1911. Messrs. Howell Hardware Co., Goderich, Ont. Gentlemen ;— On account of shortage of Pandoras, we have been compelled to ship you a Pandora with "Gun Metal Finish.' We are writing you so you will not expect this to be a regular occurrence. We have simply done this to try and fill our orders as promptly as we can. The pressure of business has been so great this year that we cannot keep up with the regular lines The usual extra on the Gun Metal Finish will not be in force in this case, the ordinary price ruling. WJT/VC. Yours truly, The McClary Mfg. Co., W. J. Thompson, Sales Dept. As this letter fairly indicates the big shortage in PANDORA RANGES at so early a date in the season, we would strongly urge upon our customers the advisability of selecting their Range without further delay. We are doing our best to protect your interest, but it is impossible for us to forecast how many will be required, as indica- tions are, from what we gathered at our exhibit at the Fair and other sources, that we will sell far more PANDORA RANGES than we will be able to get. Even if you cannot take your PANDORA in at once, buy it and we will keep it for you. The above PANDORA sells at $3.0o extra, but on account of getting it as we do, the first customer can have the benefit without extra :.coat. Me • Howell Hardware Co.