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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1912-2-29, Page 2t ? eginsee, VOaveae A ISIS THE SIGNAL (4 )DERICH ONTARIO Ana !'UBLIBHYD RV13RY THURSDAY sir THE ell°NA14 PRINTING ('0. Llano Tensions Can Nati. TereM M awbase .tie** P.M par la .dvaase ods oafish /o ; time rased!. 314 to Vatted states subscribing, WIG • Teat srricUy V adsa+.esl. dots ribsrs wise tail to rsosive TO essurat reg.dartr b mad wW 000br • (aver bT w =Tree of tis test at ea early a date .. Wean a abeam ot address la desired. awW old .ed the new sddrsr sbssld be doss. Aesswea a eases : kes :sadaW slar adv m a,.en e!m 1L apar byt ssrsi a!Maslsca. � tas • ee.lneas ands of ea new .rod nadir, E Ps PAL AdvertioV smote of Lest. Roans :Strayed. 814 ooea.11 tlau wanted :ito .floe w tsM teats aaM�aa�aa� aRsatt Irmiu—!is sash la ': it [or it essael . 10 wash qse mantL Il��tsw•err advertise M swear, readies type ten ereb as s satire leis time Mc. Aar upas - wri er ae�t the client of whlcb Is ttw abu ed awned ar.o advertisement a sizased Rates to dimples Me a,ntreet advertise- ments will be dura es application. redress all os.a.nnnleatloos to THF: RiON.s L PRINTING C0., Limited Ooderiob Out uODb:ICH. THURSDAY. lge. !t tett TOO MUCH PRIVY COUNCIL. The Privy Council hes given a sweeping decision 'gooiest the city of Winnipeg and in favor of the Winni- peg Electric Company in a suit involv- ing the control of the streets of that city. Another lec•'nt decision by the Privy Council compels the Dominion Government to posy over to the Grand Trunk PacMc Railway the sum o ten million dollare tbrougb a disputed clause in the O. T. P. contraot. Not long ago the city of Toronto received a jolt. from tbe same Privy Council in a wit with the Wren t o Street Railway Company. in all these rases the de - eke fes o[ Owsdfee courts were set asiide by the Privy Cuuncil. The conviction is growing that the Privy Council is look ing out for the in- terests It private corporatises whose stock or bonds are held by British in- vestors. When adieagreement devel- op. as to the carrying out of a con- tract in which one of the parties ie a big private corporation, the Privy Council seems to be a safe resort for the private corporation. If this sort of thlog goes oc. it will not he long beforeCanadians will demand a change in the procedure which will make the Supreme Court of Oanada the last re- sort in all cases but those requiring an interpretation of constitutional law or affecting Imperial ioteeaets. There is to good reaaonsee je in Canada cann tet in Canada by Canadian jurists, election lc • South Renfrew. M r. Graham was elected, and, taking Yr. Foster's view of it, the Government bas received a bard knock. The Con- servative mime renes to be obserful over the eirelp tatwane that the major- ity for Mr. (st+aham wee lees tbao that given to Mr. Low, the flamer Liberal member, io September last. But Use Government was coutident of wiping out that majority eotintly and putting in its plans a Conservative majority, or it would not bare taken upon itself the ignominy of violating the awes - went by which Mr. Graham was to bs elected by acclamation. The Govern- ment risked its reputation on the diet of of South Renfrew, and lost. The result bas undoubtedly given the Lib- erals cause for cheerfulness THE HEBERT CASE. Judgment in the much discussed Hebert CAS*, involving the question of the marriage laws of rte Province et Quebec, was given by Judge Char- b,nneau last week, (teetering the con- tested marriage to be good and valid, The ne temere decree is declared to have no civil effect on the said mar- riage. and, In substance, the judgment declares that church deepest cannot have precedence over the civil law of the Province. The following extracts from Judge Ubarbrnneau's decision give briefly his view of the questions at issue : 'The ne temere decree of the Roman Catholic church does not, and cannot, have precedence over the civil law of the Province of Quebec." 'This haw does not require that the minister performing the ceremony should be of the same faith as the contracting parties in order to make the marriage legal. A Protestant minister is qualified to marry two Catholics." { Marriage owes its institution to nature, its perfection to law, its boli - nes, to religion." "What essentially constitutes mar- riage is the consent of man and woman to nuke together for common life; that is not only the basis of the contract, but it ls the contract itself. The sacrament gives it solemnity, the civil function gives it publicity, au- thentlelty and civil effect" "The good faith of the partners, the public possession of the office (held by the clergymen who marry them), and the sanction of the Crosse (given in the license to marry) prevent such a contract from being taxed with inval- idity." ROOSEVELT. Like & My wbo, having given up bis toys to his younger brothers, cannot resist the temptation to tate them away again and play with them, Theodore Roosevelt manta to be President again so that be can once more play in the White House at Washington. There ie something in- curably immature about the ex -Presi- dent. Perhaps it was this quality that made him to popular: be had the freshness e.od enthusiasm of the boy, and was youthfully irresponsible in bis talk, but managed to say tbe things the people liked to hear from someone in high office His real influ- ence upon the oour.e of event, in the United States wan about float wbieb a youngster would naturally he ex- pected to exert. HA caught the popu- lar fancy, and through him public opinion occasionally expressed itself with some effect ; but io the larger afteire of the nation, requiring headi- ness and caatiou. determination, bis efforts commenced and ended in talk. H. nominated hie successor, Mr. Taft, apparently expecting him to be but an echo of bitnself. President Taft turned nut to be one of the biggest men wbo have occupied the Presidential chair since Lincoln's time, ted although so fat- as be known there has been 00 distinct rupture between the two, there has leen & growing estrange- ment, dee almost wholly, it would seem, to the fact that Mr. Taft has beets " his owe man " instead of simply Roosevelt', nominee. This, at any rate, is the way the situation presents itself to an outsider, and it is observed tbst(ol. Roosevelt's announcement that he is again in the Presidential game has brought forth caustic comments from the United States p Statees+; of .11 shades of p.slitice Tbe result will not nnlikrly be a eoseiderable row in the ranks a the Republican party. and if the Demo - erste can rally argmd a strong man they .i• ,cid be the wieners in the soorcaching rnnt.M. A SLOW. SAYS N. FOsTElf. "IN yes Meet 6. P. Graham it will he aossiSseed as a blow to the 6.r ibill tet Let 'sew Uov.reenewt dhow whet it ran do he. foes pm strike it seen a blow. - This wee Ron. deo. S. Pnetees pied he a asmiell at Ammeter fuel Wert the EDITORIAL NOTES. Over fifty thousand men will be re- quired for railway oonstruction work in Western Canadoethi. year. The "beck of the winter" may be broken, but it is a pretty tough old winter and takes its own time about dying. Summer's coming. The Interna- tional League schedule of baseball garnes•for 1912 is published in the city Papers. — The papers are talking a great deal I about potatoes these days, no doubt because of the preseot scarcity of the tubers. One item of information that they give us is that Germany grows nearly one-third of the potato crop of tbe world. Where does ireland come in ? The order 10 change the name of the postofn°. at Bence' River to Rivien• a I'Aveugle has beep explained as a departmental error and the Hagfish nano. stand& Phe Globe, however, states that Stoney Point, Ontario, is to become Pointe cox Roches, and Montmorency Falls, Quebec, is hereafter to be 84 Louis de Courville, on order of the Poetoffice Department—which. by the way, Is in charge of Mr. Pelletier, one of Boursem's men. There will be widespread interest in the °ewe that the author of the „ Hpanish prisoner " 'swindle is him- self a prisoner, having come witbin the clutches of the law. This rogue has several times been baud ft-om in these parts, but mo tar as we know be secured no victim's hereabouts. The swindle must have met with some telecom, however, as 1t was kept going for ten years or more. The Spanish polios wart be slow, or they would not have taken so long a time to capture tbe swindler. The London Free Prete aye that the Pnstteafer-General, Mr. Pelletier, was "elected by the people of Can- ada." The Free Press would have some trouble reeking that .tatesnent good. lir. Pelletier was elected by the people of Quebec county, and the people of Canada out.kle of Quebec minty had no oimortunity of electing or rejecting hire. Further, we do sot believe tbat if the opportunity were preetent d to them the people of Can- ada would vote to keit Mr, Pelletier in tae position to wh . h he was calked by Mr. Bonita. at th Mimi of Boer - sesta Wooed The Ft „ Pyres !unit ad- voeatw Mr. Pelletier'. •noes. knowtsg the influent -es which , pgreg ent. lo CM Ceilings* >' The Wingham Advent.. tentiose the tae reform prop les's now before the I,egialaturts, and le teethed to hoer Mr. Rilk' hill. proposing a gra- sal menet-lout is the tax on impseee- mtm4e, le 'raisins, to that et M6'. Rowell, Which, says The Adeasee, "mottoes* that the radical change take place et awes.' As Tbe Signal under - 'Mode it, Mr. Rowell's propose! is to allow the municipalities local option in the matter, in which case any change in the method of taaadon would be made only atter the question had been dlsouseed in the municipal- ity. There is nothing ••sudden" about it Advocates of tax reform would be pleased if either of the proposals were adopted. Premier Whiteley will probably ,manage to sidetrack both of them. Alludiog to a resect speech by I.urd Rosebsry, Tbe Stratford Beacon asks why every book that has been printed should he included in a library. It be- lieves that many books should be allowed to die a natural death, and even advocates a violent death for sonde of them, quoting lsmund Goalie's declaration in favor of "so enol-mees des, met ion of printed books," Almost any busy man will agree with the proposal. Perhaps most men have a few resotites. which could be kept on three feet of bookshelf, which they would not exchange for all the "best sellers" produced in a score of year., and which they read over and over semi°, taking them into their very !twee, in preference to mak- ing new acquaintances. Whether this ill equally fru.• of women we do not know, but It i- probably safe to fay that the mstrity of the new hooks (speaking of fiction) find their market chiefly among women reader& FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES. A ":Timely Detentes. Guelph Mercury. An optimist is a man who always believes that the last ton of coal be bungle is going to last him through the winter. Advice to Girls About to Marry. Toronto 8tar. There's a moral in that case of the Detroit woman who, after beingg mar- ried a month, wants a divorce tr.eaasmes she detests the baldness of her hw- band'e bead, No woman should ma��ith ha ma° until she has seen hitt wis bat oft. A Frequent Cause of Rabies. Leaden AdverUsw, The outbreak of rabies at SL Thomas was caused by the failure of dog -owner, to give their dews water in weather when dogs amid sot= for themselves. The lama amid not be loot on dog -owners elsewhere. And Allam Had Nese. Toronto gar. Mr. Borden says that oarsotal enn- trol now Is not what it was twenty or thirty year's Neo. Thirty years a o k was commonly mid that parental eon- trel was not what it was sixty, years ago. It seems to have been steadily declining since Adam's time. Terrible ! Haoiltan Times J. K Armstrong, M. P.. attended the Canners' Ooovention bold in Rocbester, N. Y., last week.—Forest Free Press. Treason ! femme! A Canadian Tory member of Parliament and antl- reciprocity alarmist engaging in truck and trade," and actually enter- ing into conventions with associations of uncircumcised Yankees t 1ldettiagf Farman Prosperous. Grain Grower.' Guide. The tariff make. farm implements cheaper in United States than in Canada, while the price ppff grain is ex- actly the reverse. The f6llowing table *bows how many bushels of grain it take. to May an 8 -foot binder in Mani- toba and Minnesota Minneoota Manitoba 3 Nor. Wisest... .152 bus. 518 bus Feed Wheat ...198 30'1 No. 3 Barley ...138 •• 206 •' Rejected Flax.... 78 •'120 " s Wellets,...9119 '• 4i ,. The Manitoba farmer gets the worst of it by from 38 to 114 per Dent. Yet "protection" makes him prosperous. At the present rate. the protectionists will Felon force a great many farmers to quit farming in order to make a living. These are all mac - made schemes. Providence is not to blame. AVOiD HARSH DRUGS. Many Cathartics Tend to Cause injury eel the Bowels. If you Are subject to constipation. you ehnlld avoid strong drug. and cathartics. They only give temporary relief and the(r reaction is harmful And sometimes more annoying than constipation. They in no way effect a cure and their tendency is to weaken thealre.dy weak organs with whjeb they come in contact We honestly helievs that we have the beet constipation treatment ever devised. Our faith in it is so strong that we gen it on the positive guaran- tee that it shell not root the user a cent if it dos not give entire eat4stac- timm and completely remedy oosstlpa- tion. This preparation i. called Rex - all Orderlies. Thews are prompt, soothing, and most effective is action. They are made of a recast ebonies' i"wodories., �Mtastelsss, r aningredient d erelememes. Combined with otter well-kisseshl established tor their ueefehmile Is les treskstiet of event{ tat toe.' It brew s 1.14.1 which is eases just like easily. They may be taken any dm, debar de.y ee With& without fear eli their sang any beoeven- Msem whatever. They do sot grips, purse, ser eases senses` They art Iiloosenemeet can ` •ay cosi or eeesi.e off' tie bowels.bowels. They are Meal tee e1Ur'em week. delicate per- tM . mut t !d people. w well as for They seen f=eke pick ages, 12 Whit% N emote t i tablet*. 116 cents ; Wks& M cents Remember. you one oblate asly at our store— The Aare. IR. C. Dunlop, *oath elle at egenre. (lsilertch. r�»*3111.'. eiekine moods! er tiLftasetimesas. "Pbe.e dads* The Fa rimers Have Spoken. tams ... dairy. 8tusee sa.tisi Pr.sMa Wisitwas °permed helmet a n will. +1e was iotty the right fie OMeepe beairoe Ler'given n�is tmaetwe eat to ma lead velure only abode Miry ee Llumwaligeele the ptimeeii that Premise Whiteesy meant whet be meld, and, tbaedsre, take tlsarete ill eta henot have a tiesi it in drawing hi attention to the stead re- cently teak by the Dominion Grange At its anneal meeting in Torun**, wbeo the following resolutloo, atter discussion, wee passed ueaniwously by the farmers there assembled "We desire to place ourselves an rebid as favoring such a cbang, in our emeresment law as will allow mun- icipalities the right to exempt foe preeminent* from taxation, either is part or in whole. Much can be said in favor of sash exemption, and noth- ing can la justice be said emptiest l allowing municipalities the right to do this if tbey so desire." As the Dominion Grange is the only independent barmen' organisation in Ontario. and, therefore, the only or- generation that has any right to repre- sent the Wenn of the Provioce w.. ! prwcume that Premier Whitney will • fulfill his promise and grant the legis- letio,n so much desire.), not only by farmers, but by other classes in the' community as well. Rival Canal Routes. Muni bun Tunas. Canada has spent some thirt y millions in the Welland Canal, the expenditure of many more lions is contemplated• with the obj of making it of a capacity to b ocean vessels up to (tike ports. I t great work, and will do mach for Ca adian water transportation facia TIONS AVO II By Lydia E. Pis:Usem's Vegetable Compound idirsivera rrhh.ttts Vegetable CempemN I emit stet he alive. had Gee. ayniisti aid Ir. I1 atiesof nail the stem. 1 *of- fered like a martyr and thought , death I often suited two doeters whip could de ani ie g leer ase I gent to a ttra tar...la I ellst both hoses tWek heetww bei seesaw. BI est I) sig mein adviest ' ensepseell.as It hal rhtelte st.� se fret Asea eametese-il le feel batter, est erg a glietite cease heel with the Oat battle. Now I lest so pelt dad am emend. Your remedy is dieervleg of ��es��aee -Mrs. ]!Willa V a ifiyf *lel, '13elletivar, Ameeter Severaties Avoided. -odd eepsie, N.Y. —I ran a aswh� and fn a la��s factoryand stat e� tri- I rnrl dawn. I bad to give up work for I act I (lash sot stand the pains In my beak. ring The doctor said I needed opera ter womb trouble but Lyda B Pink- „ l ham's Vegetable Compound did stere ties. Iter me thee the doctors did. I have gamed Eve poasde. I hope that every one who is angering from female trouble, nervousness and backache will take the Comppoouunndd.. I owe my tbanka to Mrs. Pinkham. ' She is the working girl's friend for health, est all women who suffer should snits to bar and take her advice —Mese ?mug Mown, &Jay St, Ponghkeepsie,l4.Y, witty years of unparalleled a cake seeArms the power of Lydia Z. Pb0. a Compound to ems fesnafs disesse But the work win not be complete the width and depth secured in Welland Canal be secured all throu the connections from Port Dsibo, to the Atlantic coast. Transship°, of cargoes is not to be thought of as solution. Tbe freight must co through unbroken, the vessel load itt Glasgow or Liverpool must be a to bring her full cargo direct to H ikon or Fort Will/aloe if tit! port dream is to be realised. % can while tbere are rival schemes. To say nothing of the Georgt� Bay Canal scheme and the Hudson Bay route, there are the New York Starr Canal scheme and the Chicago to Golf waterway on., which is being actively pushed. This waterway, by the diver - gene et water from the lakes, is already attrsetiog attention, and even now its friends are ;gathering et Washington to press its claims upon Congress. Tbe promoters have Ob. Mined United Stater surveys of the Mirproposed work between Cairo and St and between the mouth of the Minces River and the end of the drainage canal, and they hope to achieve more. It is aro old work, first pat forward in 1873, and reported On to Ooog1em in 1938. In 1819 John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, submitted to Con- gress a report hi which be favorably mentiened the Hlinois Rive r th Lake Michit for ganconnecting. and in the am._Icwt• the improvemsot was oommended�n a report prepared by the corps of topographical engin- eer,. Three years later a survey was authorised, and in Hai certain public lands were granted in aid of the scheme, but in 1840 work was sus- pended for lack of funds. Three years tater work on it was resumed, and by 1848 a coral sixty feet wide and Ave feet in depth from Chicago to La Salle on the Illinois River, a distance of 103 miles, was completed ; and thin canal has been in existence for near) sixty years and has been fed by the Calumet River. In all these yeses' the idea of having a navigable waterway free Chicago to the Mississippi had bggg growing, and i° 18(37 (.ol. Jambes 99 Wilson, afterward chief of engineers, made a report on it strongly favor - Able. since which time it has not Zoog been out of sight Congress has re- stricted the diversion of the water to the canal within narrow limits, appre- ciating that unlimited diversion would have a serious effect on lake levels and navigation. Meanwhile Chicago has spent 87.- 000,000 oo the canal, which is sixty miles long, has a varying width from 160 feet through rock to ffi2 feet through dirt. and a depth of 24 feet throughout. Tbis it offers to turn over to the Federal Government, ow eoodition that it shall become a link in the waterway cooneetlon from (�,,��[[ caws to the Gulf, with a continued, depth of fourteen feet Chicago is very much in earnest io its advocacy of this waterwayy, which would to great extent abort -circuit the other Mks outlets, United States and Oona dies. Cannes* Itss yet to be con vinced, and that will probably not he an easy task. The army etgiooers maintain that such a waterway le not fea.4hie. But why t Thet, granting permisdoe to divert sufficient water from the loam, la not obviotr. Will the desirability of maintaining the depth of water Is the lower lakes •ilwey be conceded to be so great As N-mettrain from the attempt to coo - Street the ('hicego-(o-intf outlet ? The tntersational question involved cnida, it seems to resolve Itself into a In And to and eietvanti% k st111 witbi° the realm of possibilities that much of the waters of the upper lakes may and its way to the ocean by the Cbisegro-to- Gulf route. tillthe gb I` tele i eni. w me ed hie� am- QCP.n Abbreviated. IilhabNb M was talking at a tea at the Oology Club in New York about charley. • At this Ilene a( the year." .ae said. "it ie • wiseto glee wares, .oft, woollen .so the etaii- dren of the mane. M says pone ebildresn from tbe bardshipsof Seassel- Ptte. "1 beard of an Rase aide mother the ether day who hoterltt a Airs el dktn- oelstts for her little boy. lie stilet was cheep. but atter the Aret Wafting the brought it hack to the Sealy again. I think, •Ir.' she bald, epee ePMFM to Otsego this. When i washed it the Asst l.5 earns out and tally left the este. " "Tommy " said ids hr•ot her, '•you're a regular 11415 glutton. How ase yon oat se t ueh r re;Tal't kUs,w ; it's jest good bask." las youngster. COWAN'5 PERFECTION COCOA Cowan's seems to hit the right spot. It is a great food for husky young ath- letes : satisfied the appetite : easy to digest: ata delicious T L7 lM 111 ISE Asir IN OM? 1 • N)10 5prig Show Note Ttsteety Itfew j if�M sins and Drew sie�sps�ariea. new, held diewttig Jetty long sits ig In to `� dirt sieve crib We leek* your early inspection wiles the s to �fo your selection i. unbroken. Ladies' Furs W. have Somme very correct 'tyke In Ruffs, Scarfs and Throwe, In .able, Persian With, China mink •red still is stook. Fry Year% are in nee almost the yew round. any of Meme are nine dace Christmas. We are (Starkest them at . half-�oe, in ksetth,a, Astrachan Iamb Coat', natio-lined and 27 to St Innes. *ala Orate for 01 111•1110 635 Coats for..,N • Men's Fur Coats Bleck Galloway, Na -t dog, brown beaver, goat. clearing We at from $115.00 to *135.00. New Curtain Madras New designs and effects in curtain metrial, 60 to 61 incise wide, in the natural or champagne eHUota, very sew and extremely serviceable and bandeoms. Prices epeeist 1110s. 41100 400). loser soda. New white enamel Curtain Poems,. heavy trams ande, ad o with books, at each y and Window Blinds, 37 inches 1 one osog, heavy and good rollers.ilerer, cellars greens and butte, at each .. .. • ............... i8s Art Sateen' Thirty *tom of New Art!tarsen. Ri to 32 inches nide, in u large se- of patter**, tter, suitable for quilts, box covert Specially priced at per yard1covering.). eta. Floor Rugs - Specie/ values in sea/niers Tapestry FI Ruga. Sise.:i x 4, 3; s i and 34 x 4; ywds ..s........ $0,00, 4.00 and 617.00 W. A. CHESON i SON Spring Suits • • Positively everything that is newest will be found in this magnificent assort- ment. The showing comprises the new tan, gold and blue -grey shades. MARTIN BROS. 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