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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-8-26, Page 4THE Ontario who could run a model farm with piggeries, stockyards and expert- '10x.eter 2bv.omte mental plots attached m better fashion than the Hon. John Dryden, then Ou• Melo is greatly to be pitied. His blun- dering for yeas at the Guelph model farm iu connection with stock bought at fancy: prices for the institution is well kuown to hundreds of the students and others, and was the subject of much comment in the legislature, While he was a member of a govern- ment with Sir Oliver Mowat at the head, his shortcomings and blunders were either overlooked or covcrSd up, but the people have grown tired of the whole lot and 1111 suralynew call fora e s don with the model farm there are ministry to take charge, after the com- 1/4experimental plots " and stock feed ing general elections. Mr. Hardy, Mr. tug " whie:h costs in addition to the Dryden, and the fancy piggery shoauld above $ 3,954.91 aml gave a return of all go together, Ontario best change. Chas. H, Sanders, Editor and Prop THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1897 A STUDY FOR ONTARIO FARM- ERS. Mr, John Dryden is called a model Minister of Agricultural by his friends. He ie runs a model farm at Guelph which costs the province last year $3,243.75 and gave a return of of $:3,704;47•—loss to the province $4,539,28 In connec- :355.05-loss to the province $6,62986. He runs a model dairy that cost $10, - ti 1.10 and gave a return of $5,39221 —loss to province $5,309.39. In addi- interests demand a Cameron Strikes Back. tion to this the travelling dairy cost The following are extracts from M. $1,970.12. C. ealueron's letter to Editor McGi:lli- iie runs a poultry department that cuddy, and it will be seen that he has cost 81,147.87 and gave a return of any amount of vigor when compelled 'to strike back. It is an interesting $.200,60• --lots to the province $947.29, family quarrel, and looks as if it might Ho runs a horticultural department end in pistols tor two and coffee for one, He addresses his letter to the Goderich Signal, though it is published in the Clinton New Era: For the last six weeks, in each issue of your paper, you have persistently vented your spleen and mzl1ce against st me. I paid no attention to your rav- ings; I knew, as every person iu town knew, that you were irresponsible, that your ` swelled head „" vaulty„ and "conceit” borderecl on the insane, but when I see that your lucubrations are copied into the Tory press and made the worst of, I think it time to speak, and so I "speak now." Prior to the 1st of July last I was in the eyes of the Signal the "Hero of South Huron ""The War Horse of West Huron," " the fighter of the party," "an able man," etc, Since then I am, ac- cording to the gospel of Dan"Basswood timber," " blather, bluster and bun combe," " a political cad," " a scaly pol- itician," " a warped politician," " a self- seeking politician," "a scalawag poli titian," " a cork -screw politiciau," " a machine politician," " a bottle -ended politician," " a played out politician," " a dead failure," " a polywag at Otta- wa," " a grab all and keep all," "a singed. cat." Why all this vitupera- tion, Dan ? How have I changed from the" Hero of South Huron" to a "sing- ed cat" in six short weeks? Only be- cause I would not recommend you to the Government as Postmaster of God ericb, that is the reason, and that only.. Yon say that I"inveighed " against nepotism, that I "have come through the fiery furnace of public life for over thirty years without being smirched by a taint of self-seeking or nepotism." That is more than can be said •of but few men in Canada; a good deal mare than you can truthfully say for your- self. You applied for the Registry of- fice; no one supported your pretentions. You interviewed the Local Govern• ment six times about it, They did not recognize your claims, You then ap• plied for the post office. You worried me to death for six months in the mat- ter, in season and out of season You interviewed the Ministers at Ottawa twice on the subject. You wrote Min- isters and myself begging for the office. You threatened, coerced and attempted to bulldoze me—ad nauseam. You failed. In the face of all this you had the cheek to quote in yours of the 13th inst., an extract from the Spectator, that you were "not after the job your self." I challenge you to point, to a single instance of where I assailed a Minister or a member of Parliament for appoint- ing one or two of his relatives to office. I did not denounce Sir R. J. Cartwright because he had two sons serving the country. I did not assail Sir 0. Mowat because he made his son sheriff of To• ronto, or the Hon. John Dryden be- �ause he made his brother registrar of Ontario, or the Hon. A, S. Hardy be- cause he secured a judgeship for his brother, nor do I attack you because you secured a lucrative office for your brother Tom. One McGillicuddy just now is enough to feed at the public crib. At one time I had some notion of naming you as postmaster, though with many misgivings as to your fit- ness. Your recent editorials have can viuced me that you are utterly unfit for that or any other office in the gift. of the Government. You are still an office hunter, You applied to Mr. Tarte last Saturday for an office. You have boasted around town that you are get Sting a better office than that of post- master. Get it. I am satisfied, as long as it is out of town. You never were of much use to the party here. now you are none. You are henceforth "Dennis" not "Dan." For thirty years I have been an ac- tive party man, and John Galt is the first relative, and that by marriage, I ever recommended for a public office. You call that nepotism ? You ` don't knowthe meaning of the word. With- in one week of the general elections you insisted on the dismissal of Mr. Campbell. You were the first and about the only man who gave informa- tion against him. You, visited my of. fice six days out of seven to press bis dismissal, until you knew I would not recommend you to his place, to give information and press the charges. You pressed for the dismissal of Camp bell as long as you hoped for an office; "a vacancy if I get the office, no va- cancy. if I don't succeed Campbell,". was clearly your motto. I did not give you the office; hence your venom, E N. King, G. T. R. freight agent at London dropped dead on the street Thursday:-. that vest $5,126.39 and gave a return or'$15 80—loss to the province $5,110,- :39. ' r He ruins a mechanical department that cost $l: , 45463 and gave no return � in the way of money, Then there is the expenditure for the College proper and the other Gov- ernment buildings $72,008.31, consis- ting of salaries and wages $19,293,64; Food $8,042.31; laundry, soap and clean - in, and women's wages $2,019,07; ad- vertising., postage and stationery $1.- 45.80; furniture and furnishings. ;$955,03; repairs and alterations $1,000. 27; fool $3,04117; light and water $1,- 239.96: and miscellaneous to make up the remainder. The farm superintendent is paid $1,- 200 1;?00 per year; the experimentalist ou the "plots and feeding." $1,500. Wages paid to workmen on the " plots and feeding " $3,023.79. Milk for experi- mental cheese making cost $1,581.76, It is not expected that a model farm and college can be run successfully and show a large balance in money on the profit side, but it is a matter for serious consideration by the tax pay- ers of the province whether the large sums spent from year to year are bring- ing proper returns and whether the enormous losses on the farm could not roe prevented. We submit the follow- ing for the agriculturists of Ontario to think over. If any one of you had a farm mana- ger on a plot the size of a "model farm" at Guelph, and at the end of the year he submitted a balance sheet showing a loss of $11,169.14 on one year's opera- tions, notwithstanding that you paid nor all the tools, implements, seed grains stock, fodder, fertilizers and labor, what would you do with that manager? We venture to say, you would try another man for the position. There's a big rat - hole around the Ontario model farm somewhere. Mr, Dryden cannot ap- parently find it or close it. But it is not at the agricultural farm and college alone that Mr. John Dry- den shines out as a model minister and general manager. There is a retreat near the Humber, just west of Toronto, where Mr, Dryden does not care to fre fluent any more. He is the palatial piggery that was to be the pride of Ontario and another monument to the wisdom and bucolic statesmanship of John Dryden. In 18845-6 the magnificent sum of '$7,120 was spent on the piggery and the pigs, and to disguise the facts and so prevent the public from getting any 1 nowledge of the waste, the expeudi tures are charged up to Central Prison accounts. What connection there is 'between the piggery and the prison is =one of those things that only an On siario Government accountant of some .other official of the Hardy school or po- iitics can explain. Once there were some pigs kept in this marble sty but bog cholera—it is said—carried them ,all away and but one solitary piggie and his salaried attendant (some rela- tive of the minister or other good work- er in the elections) remains to break the silence of the solitude around. But. even this state of things is better for the province than continuing to pay attendants around the place $1,400 per, sear as the accounts show, one care- taker alone getting $500 for 1896.` This -is a specimen of the prudence, econo >any and general management of our agricultural interests `by Hon. John sDryden the model minister in Mr. ;.Hardy's cabinet. .Again we ask the farmers, What do you think of such management? And this is the haughty administration that tells theelectorsthat no one else is ca- Mable of running the government of this province. If there are not a thous- ,artd intelligent, practical farmers la THE UPRISL\TGS' THE POWERFUL AFRIDIS TRIBE IN OPEN REVOLT. Attaelttof: iIritish Forts—A. Formidable Pomo -, There is . Desperate Refiring Ahead or the British Troops in India. Louden, An;, 24. --.The Times oorres- poudent at Simla says that good rains havo fallen everywhere throughout India except in the districts of Bombay and Deccan, and the crops promise to bo exceptionally large, The numbers on the relief list are steadily diminishing, and evidences of famine are rapidly disappearing. An official despatch from Peshawur announces chat the Afridis attacked Ali Musjed this morning, and adds that they were attacking Fort Maud at 11.80 a.m. to -day. The enemy's line is a mile and a half long. Another body of Afridis, the despatch continues, is moving toward Eadam. All the Afridis aro said to have joined in the uprising. Tho news con- tained in this official despatch is most important, probably meaning a protracted campaign and desperate fighting. A. gen- eral revolt of the Afridis was what the Indian Government feared the most, and now it seems to have taken place. Simla, Aug. 24.—A large force of Afridis has just been reported to be ad- vancing down the Khyber pass, and the so-called mad mullah or fanatical priest who is inciting the natives of that terri- tory against the British is said to have collected the Mahuxonds for an attack upon Miehni and Shabkadr. The Royal Irish Regiment and one of representative native infantry, with a battery of moun- tain artillery, have been ordered to Ko - hat. Fighting is reported to be proceed- ing at Ali Musjed between the ,.Afridis and the British garrison at that place. The Government has received a writ- ten communication from the Amcor of cel Afghanistan, in iviiich he denies os all re- sponsibility for the risings of the mul- lahs or fanatical priests of the different tribes, There are persistent rumors here to- night that Fort Ali-Musjed and Fort Maud. which were attacked this morn- ing by the Afridis, have fallen into the hands of the enemy, but there is no official confirmation of these reports. Peshawur, Aug. 94.—The Afridls be- gan an attack upon Ali Musjed at eight o'clock this morning, and upon Fort Mand shortly after 10, Both are garri- soned with Khyber native levies, Tho enemy is also entering Khyber pass. General Westmalott has sent artillery to the mouth of the pass to shell thein if necessary. The artillery was accompanied by the nth Bengal Lancers. '.r d=am. APPEAL OF THE ARMENIANS, j o Gripe 'C2 Wh n you take Hood's fills, The big, old-fash- loned,.sugar-coated pills, which tear you ante. pieces,; are not in it with blood's. Easy to take and easy to operate, is true .. of rood's Pills, which are up o date in every respect. Sa e, certain and sure. All dri ggists. 250. C. I. hood & Co.. Lowe 1, Mass, The a my 1911s to take with flood's Sarsep;. rills. Fall Fairs. Toronto . , , . , Aug. 30 -Sept. 11 Sept. 9-18 London.... .,,.,,. Exeter . . ..... . ...... . ` 20.21 Clinton . " 28 29 c .... . .... . :,3-24 .e 0 Guelph.. ... , .. " 15-16 Goderich ....... " 21-23 Mitchell " 29.30 St, Marys ....... Oct. 5 6 Blyth.... " 5.6 Imploring the Pity or the Dations or ,1surope. Constantinople, Aug. 24.—The confes- sions of the two Armenians arrested on Saturday, and at whose residences bombs were found by the police, are said to have been prompted by the Turkish au- thorities. The prisoners are alleged to havo confessed that they intended to use the bombs at the Russian and German Embassies. The circular letter received by,the Am- bassadors of the powers from the Ar- menian Dashnakzutrum oommitttie+ ap- peals to the pity, of the nations of Eu- rope not to allo'4v the Armenian nation to be annihilated, and assertso that the Turkish promises of reform are a dead letter, and that in this extremity the Armenians are resolved to carry out what was foreshadowed by the occur- rences of August 26, 1596. These steps, they further state, are the preliminaries of a plan, the very idea of which fills them with terror. They de- clare they will not cease to act until their demands, which are "sanptified by the blood of martyrs," are satisfied. It was on .August 26, 1596, that the .Armenian revolutionists made their de- termined attack upon the Ottoman Bank, invading that building with bombs and revolvers, and killing a number of police- men on guard. a:9 Body On the Track. Prescott, Aug. 24th.—The headless body of a man was found on the Grand Trunk Railway track east of this place today. He is supposed to have been killed by a west -bound train. He wore a dark tweed suit, blue overalls and brown cap. He is supposed to have been about 50 years of age was bald headed, and about 5 feet 9 inches in height. S, Around About� �.1 d St. Marys: John Elliott, contractor, had his foot crushed on Thursday by a heavy (mit. t.' stonewhich fe1io I y St. Marys : Mr. Hoary Peacock after several weeks of suffering passed away on Monday. Mr, Peacock was highly respected by all who knew him. Liman : W. E. & C. Stanley have disposed of their general store business to James Park, who will take posses' siuu ou the 28th of this month. Wing haunt While engaged at work on his new house, on Tuesday, Frank Paterson had the misfortune to fall over a joist and break two of his ribs. Hensail : Mr. Goetz, who has leased the Commercial Hotel from Jas. Beattie intends to take possession in a few days and will move here with his fain. ily. Mt. Carmel : Mr. Thos. Kilgallin, of 11th eon., Stephen, died on Wednesday Aug. 11th, at the ripe age of 74 years. The deceased was one of the early set- tlers of this country and was highly re- spected by all. Clinton: Geo. Connell had a vee} narrow escape from death on entering' the stable to look after his horse, The kicking of the animal smashed every- thing before him, behind and beside. Mr. Connell lay down to save his life and crawled out with a few$scratches and bruises, Parkhill: Mr, Wm. Wells, ex -Police Magistrate, died on Sunday, 15th test, at his residence. He had been in very poor health for a year or two and sev- eral months ago resigned his position of Police Magistrate. not being able to attend to the duties of the office. On Thursday he had a paralytic stroke and from that time he, rapidly failed. The Mining Strike. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 24.—The confer- ence between the miners' officials and the Executive Committee of the coal operators began at 11 o'clock this morn- ing. President Ratchford arrived in Pittsburg at nine o'clock, and said: "The statement that I had refused a conference is not correct. I am here now at the request of Mr. Dolan. We will agree to the operators' proposition if they will pay 69 cents. It must be 69 cents, or the strike will be continued until the demands are granted." The conference ended at noon after an agreement had been made for a general conference of operators and the miners' officials at two o'clock this afternoon. The miners' officials insisted on all the operators being present, and it was de- cided to make the conference an open one. The operators who had been kept on the outside were jubilant when this decision was arrived at, and said they would attend. Some said they would favor the granting of the 69 cent rate at the opening of the conference if it was seen that the miners' officials would not consent to a compromise to let out the operators who have contracts based on a 54 cent mining rate. British. Suzerainty. New York, Aug. 23.—A London spec- ial to The Sun to -day says: The state- ment made by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, in the House of Commons on • Aug. 4, that it was im- possible to arbitrate the question of Great Britain's suzerainty over the Transvaal, which had been established by conven- tion on tbe ground that such a course would be unprecedented between a suz- erain power and its subordinate, has ex- cited much indignation in the Tranvaal. The matter was debated by the Volks- raad, and several members declared that British suzerainty did not exist. The question will be again raised on Tuesday next. Meetings have been held in Prae- toria and elsewhere in the Transvaal at which resolutions were adopted denouno- ing the stand taken by Mr. Chamberlain. It was these resolutions which probably elicited the articles recently published by. the. Berlin newspapers declaring that the Transvaal does not recognize Great Bri- tain's claim to suzerainty. It is reported from Galt, that Mr: An- ,thony'Orr has found an axe among the chips that young Allison raked together, and from the ,stains found on it it is ihbughtto be the. weapon with which Mrs, Orr 'rat; Al*ur 1,re4, t WESTERN FAIR. LONDON, SEPT. 9TH TO 18TH, 897, Canada's .Favorite Live Stock and Agricultural Exhibition, The most complete 9.lve Stock Buil dinasin America: ]Dore improvements and e1. 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Fortun- ately it occurred at an early hour and no one was hurt. Mr. Foster's glass factory was levelled to the ground. Mr. Rebbs' lime kilns were badly damaged and his barns burned Buildings in surrounding towns shook as if they were about to fall. St. Marys: Miss Esther Ann Mout- ray, daughter of James Moutray, Bad Axe, Mich., died on Tuesday after an illness of a few days The deceased was not feeing very well on Friday but kept about all day. On Saturday she was confined to her bed but was not considered dangerous' until Monday evening. lier sister from Woodham was with her at the time and every- thing was done for her that could be done, but on Tuesday morning she passed away. Hibbert: Mary Devereaux, wife of Patrick Carlin, died very suddenly on Monday, at the early age of 29 years. A little over a week previous to her death, Mrs, Carlin had given birth to a child, but was regaining strength ra- pidly and was appearing in the best of health and spirits until a few minutes before her death. She was talking to her mother when she was taken sud- denly ill and within five minutes she was dead. A clot of blood .lodging in one of the main arteries leading to the heart was the cause. Logan : On Sunday Thos. Hill, one of the early settlers of Logan, passed away in the 67th year of his age. He had been ill for some time, from blood poisoning, caused by a soreness in one of his legs, but it was thought that all danger was passed, when he collapsed from weakness and general debility. Deceased was a quiet, inoffensive man and had many warm friends in town and,eountry. He was a Conservative in politics, and in religion a member of the church of Etrglaud. His widow and grown-up family have the heart felt sympathy of the community. In fact everything and anything. 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