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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-9-23, Page 4'�':.KAni„nvin� THE AT THE CAPITAL. catter Atoacticate, Chas. J:3, Sanders,Editor and Prop TU.QRSDAY, SEPT, 28, 1897 Albert Venn and Mr. Ilollaud Drowned In Lal:o Desehene.. Ottawa, Sept. 21.—Albert Venn, aged nineteen years, son of Mr Geo. G. Venn, and William Holland, 21 years and 11 months, eldest son of 11r. Geo. Holland, to -day leo at the bottom of Litke Des - chem. They were drowned while cross- ing the lake from Aylmer yesterday after- noon about 4.30. Willie Hollancl sank about 9.30, and Albert Venn about an hour later. Willie Ross Jamieson, son of Mr. Si, A. Jamieson, lives to tell the story, which is very broken owing to his weak condition, he having been in the cold water from 4.30 yesterday afternoon until 9 o'clock this morning, when be drifted ashore about two miles from Britannle. When Mr. Jamieson found the shore he lay upon the sand in so en- feebled a condition that he could not stand, and reached home at 6.50 this horning, and now lies very near the point of death. The three young men, Mr. Jamieson, Mr. 'Venn and Mr. Hol- land, prepared about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon to sail for Aylmer. Mr. Hol- land took his boat, "The Lady of the. Snows," and the three sailed out of the bay at 13rittanie. There was a stiff wind blowing at the time. The whitecaps were rolling. but the young men thought the day a delightful one for a sail. They were all good swimmers. They reached Aylmer safely after a very pleasant trip across the lake. Leaving their friends at .Aylmer, they started on the return trip about 4 o'clock. When about a mile and a half from Aylmer, opposite Blueberry Point, an attempt was made to put on more canvas, a racing jigger, which proved too much for the light craft. The boat was thrown to one side and dipped water, and the boys, in an effort to right her, jumped to the opposite side, causing it to capsize and sink. It is thought that the water choked Holland, and caused him to lose his grip and fall overboard. Jamieson made several endeavors to put him on the boat again, but Holland soon lost bis strength and sank from view. Venn is supposed to have dropped off shortly afterwards, Jamieson, who is a medical student, managed to hold on to the boat, and during the long hours of the night drifted through tho cold waters of the lake in an almost unconscious condition, olinging to the boat Some- where about 2 o'clock this morning he was cast ashore at a point a short dis- tance above the lighthouse, where be lay until daylight this morning, when he revived sufficiently to crawl home in an almost nude condition. After telling a few of the particulars he became uncon- scious. A letter has been received at the Cus- toms Department from Collector of Cus- toms Davis at Forb Cudahy, who was sent up to the Yukon in September of last year. He sends down a remittance of $12,800 duty, of which $4,000 was in gold, and went direct to the mint at San Francisco, where it will be converted into bullion, This totals $15,000 which has been sant to the department from Fort Cudahy in loss than a year that the customs office has been established there. Mr. Davis attends to collections at Daw- son City, a distance of between 50 and -75 miles from Cudahy, and the most of his collections come from the companies. Many individuals have escaped payment altogether. The letter contains no new intelligence. It is dated July 26. Mr. W. B. Scarth, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, has received a letter from his son, who is an inspector in the mounted police force at Fort Cudahy. The letter is dated the 28th of Jdne. As an illustration of the wealth of the Klon- dike Mr. Scarth says that he knew a man who bought a half interest in a claim for $40,000. He had from March until September to pay it in two instal- ments. He, however, paid it in two months from his return from the claims, or at the rate of about $800 per day. There were, when he wrote, about 1,000 people looking for claitns who could not get them. Scurvy, he said, is prevalent. Mr. Fred White, controller of the mounted police, also received a letter from Inspector Constantine. It was merely a statement similar to that tele- graphed a few days ago about the police having got sufficient supplies for the winter. Because the Globe used the vague and meaningless phrase, " It is time fora change," as a key note during the Dominion campaign of 1S96, it now h'ls the impudence to say that Con- servative newspapers should not use in the coming campaign, the expres- sive epigram, "Ontario's best intrests demand a change." What monopoly Lae the Globe upon the English lang ire that other journals may not use w phrase that suits the occasion, even though one word of the Globe,s key' note is repeated ? Is not the latter t::uch more replete and expressive than the fernier ? We hesitate not to say that it contains volumns tmore truth than the Globe's phrase and will be so found when the ballots are counted at next provincial election. It is cus- tomary in these modern days for parties to adopt a slogan or shibboleth in political battles, The Conservatives in Provincials and Dominion cam- paigns have bad such and so have the Liberals, Does the Globe forget when it used to sing the battle song of its party, Ontario, Ontario, The traitor's hand is on thy throat Ontario, Ontario, Referring to J, Israel Tart and his Tory friends of that day. How would it do to repeat that par- axot song just now ? Or how about a more recent cam- paign slogan, " Has the National Policy made you rich." How quickly the Globe dropped this when a number of Reform manufac- turers, such as W. Patterson of Brant- ford, and others, were twitted by their political opponents with the truth of the query! Is the kev-note of the Conservative party in the coming provincial cam- paign portentous? Does it express the true feeling of the electorate of Ontario toward:the Hardy administration ? Will it be the rallying -cry of thous- ands of independent voters all over the province, and will it be the silent moni- tor to thousands of unobstrusive, dis- cernir g citizens, when the opportunity presents itself to pronounce upon the course of Mr. Hardy and his colleagues in the government of Ontario? Never was an epigram more correct- ly applied. Twenty-five years of rule by one party, with the chief of that party in whom the people had confi- dence transposed to another arena, and a successor in whom people never had confidence reigning in his stead, is quite enough. Governments like individuals have their day of useful- ness and are then laid aside, It is not iu the best interests of any country that one party should be always in •'Opposition. The world's history shows this and Ontario is no exception to the rule. EDITORIAL NOTES. Notes by the IN'ay. I clings to the old stone, and the roof and sides and floor are crumbling with the hand of old father time. Every step is ou the grave of some old worthy, And you find a statute of Daniel Puttney in a corner and a long inscription of praise in his honor that would snake even a mummy blush. And you read ou a stone flag under your feet, that played poker in the smoke room. And four infant children of Samuel Wesley, at last the coast of Ireland is sighted, brother of John Wesley, lie buried be• but it is night and you cannot :see the a'rg,en isle; but a genial Irish gentle- man of Limerick, who is just return ing home from around the globe, 18 gettiug off at Queenstown at 3 a. ret and you get up to see him off. The tender conies alongside, his friends come aboard, then the champagne is hurriedly drank, hearty farewells are said and the genial gentleman and his friends disappear forever. Theu in the morning Holyhead rock and yon sail up Close to the Welsh coast and every body is ou deck and the chat is fast and indiscriminate, and you steam up the Mersey river and land at Liverpool dock about 7.30 p: m, Then you go to the Northwestern Hotel with some Ca- nadian gentlemen and a Melbourne merchant. You fii,d yourself in the fin- est hotel in Liverpool. And then the Ne braska farmer, who on the voyage has turned out to be one of the cleverest old fellows and the greatest entertain- er you ever mot, hunts you up and his racy tales still in store, repeats mote till your sides ache with laughter. And you find that your Nebraska farm er also turns out to be a member of the Liverpool Stock Exchange. rind the Melbourne gentleman and the Tennesee gentleman and yourself agree to all go to London at 11.05 in the morning. You step out of the back door of the hotel into the station of the London and Northwestern Railway. And the porters run and swelter and get your baggage at lase aboard, while another coach has to be added as all are full and you find yourself in a third class smoker, whirling at fifty miles an hour, out in rural England. And that is worth living a life to see, Sir. Hill and dale,stream, field, hedge, grove, cattle, sheep, horses, tall chimneys, golden wheat and oats in shock, run in a giant panorama before your eyes as you are whirled past. And the grass es the greenest and the hedges the trimmest that the imagination can de. Piet. And after a 100 miles of it you conclude, that there is not in England a square field or half a mile of straight road. Every field is an antity by itself being unlike in size and shape to any other field in all the world. And every lane and road winds in and out in a serpentine way, that is the acme of romance.. And every lane is an avenue of green trees, and countless thousands of miles of green hedge, no two fields, lanes or hedges being alike, all goiug to make a scene that thrills you with ecstacy. Nothing is regular in rural England but its extreme irregularity. Every farm house is of red brick slate or tiled roof, and the only drawback to a Canadian or an Australian or a South ern Yankee is the absence, in all this lovliness, of any verandahito the Eng- lish farm house. It is sterile in its plainness. Aud the thatched stacks are in the stack yard, within a rod or two of the house. And you think that through centuries, each of the thous- ands of fields contains the tale of some ancient family, that every, tree on every trinding lane, has its love story to tell, that every lane is an ideal lovers' lane, and rural England cap. tures your heart forever and you long for youth and vigor, a fleet horse and a bag of gold, to seek adventure and amusement amidst the hills acd dales of merrie England. And you conclude also that there are not ten acres of level land in all England, one eternal succession of ups and downs. Not a foot of land unused And you see a field of wheat in shock, with the shocks so thick that they can hardly get room to stand on the place of growth. No two bricks in rural England are alike, and no one brick of a uniform color, all are mottled and specked. Amidst it all you wonder no longer why an Englishman loves the old land and is proud of the land of his birth, Rural England is a glorious ground on which to breed a noble race. No wonder, Sir, that England has poets and painters and artists of all degrees. And when you think of all the births and loves and deaths in rural England during all the centuries, you worship its antiquity. The average field would be less than three acres. No field is, square and each field is hedged. An eternal succession of farm houses, villages and towns, smoke stacks and the greenest of green fields. Think of the sight in the 200 miles from Liverpool to London. Then you whirl into Euston station and are landed in the centre of the world, the maelstrom of London. And you have no trouble at all. A genial guard gete a fourwheeler for you, and you tip him a sixpence and the party of three, with all the trunks, grips, etc., are driven off to your hotel, the Arunedel, Arunedel st., W. C., running from The Strand to the Thames Embanktnent. Then after a good wash, you and your Tennesee friend set out for your first Loudon walk. You naturally You were supposed to be left .Mr. Editor in mid -ocean, on board the Bri- tannic, a callow youth just wandering from. home for first time. Aud of course you looked at the cricket daily, and be- ing of strong moral tendencies looked on While some of the wicked fellows Just as some Conservative journals now declare that some of the men who led the Conservative party in the last Dominion elections were discredited men because one chief province caus- ed the defeat of the goyernment, so will Liberal journals declare after the defeat of Messrs, Hardy, Ross & Co in the corning provincial contest. That the latter are descredited leaders .and that people of all shades of politi- •cal opinion have not the confidence in them that they had when Sir Oliver 12owat was at the head of affairs is apparent to the most superficial observ- er. There is a strong disposition through out the province to give Mr. Whitney and the able men of the Conservative party who will be his colleagues in the House a fair trial. Mr. Whitney's views please the people. He is well. known to be an honest; industrious and able man, thoroughly conversed with provincial politics, enjoying the full confidence of his followers in the legislature and the respect of his opponents. It is not in the best inter- est of Ontario that men of the stamp of Hardy & Ross should be in power here with such men as Tarte, Fielding and Blair at Ottawa, And the people Ttnow it. After a Severe Cold. ' "Hood's Sarsaparilla has cured me of scrofula. I was weak and debilitat- ed and Hood's Sarsaparilla built me up and made strong and well. After a severe cold I had catarrhal hal fever, I again resorted to Hood's Sarsaparilla 'which accomplished a complete cure." -Sansei E, DEvAY, Annapolis, Nova 'Scotia. Hood's Pills are the best family 'cathartic, easy to take, easy to operate, ANDREE'S BALLOON. Thr Third Carrier Pigeon From the Polar Adventurer. Copenhagen, Sept. 20.—A despatch received hero from Hammerfest, the northernmost town of Europe, in Nor- way, says the whaling ship Falken has brought there the third pigeon despatch from Prof. Andree, the aeronaut, who left the Island of Tomsoe in a balloon on July 11 last, in an attempt to cross the Polar regions. The message brought by the Falken reads: "July 13, 12.30 p.m., latitude, 82.2 north; longitude, 12.5 east. Good voyage eastward. All well." New York, Sept. 20.—Mr. Evelyn B. Baldwin, the meteorologist of the Peary expedition, '93-4, was interviewed to -day by the Associated Press regarding the latest pigeon despatch froin Andree. Mr. Baldwin said: "This message indicates that Andree had safely crossed the 150 miles or so of open water which extends from the north coast of Spitzonbergen to the beginning of the pack ice. When Andree wrote it he was sailing over the great frozen sea which reaches continu- ously to and beyond the North Pole. It is evident that the loss of the three guide ropes which took place on the day An- dree started had not prevented him from guiding the balloon. Some expert aeronauts feared that this accident might bring speedy disaster. It is also evident that the unbelie sing aeronauts who de- clared that the gas in the balloon would never stand the temperature of the pack ice were wrong. If the extreme cold caused any perceptible change 'in the gasps such action would have taken place before Andree wrote this last message, and ii the cold had done the work so much feared. Andree would not have said 'All well:' "It is significant to note that Andrea was going eastward, the direction he in- tended to take. This is a straw which helps to verify his reported safe reappear- ance in Arctic RRbssia. "The tenth of\degrees given in his message proved that.cAndree was not only able from the balloon\ to ascertain his whereabouts, but dick so with remark- able accuracy. "The first three days ere looked upon as being the most perilou' and important of the entire journey. A •dree's ability successfully to withstand the initial augurs better` than the lay au *ti Y mind would imagine, for the .ulxnInation of his daring project." .Archbishop Langevin is repo eut of danger. neath. And you remember that one of the ll'e:•.icy infants was named "Nutty," but of what sex Nutty was you are left to conjecture. Then you Lind close to the wall, where the eternal (ramp of feet cannot wear it, a carved flag re- presenting a man in his coffin, head and feet above and below the grave habiliments with a torch in thehand by the side, and on the wall you read that this was "Laurentius" and that he was buried in that spot and the flag carved over him in 1107, A. D. And a guard informs you that the oldest grave with a date to it that he has dis covered dates back to S00. And thea you feel that you would like to read again Walter Scott's Monastery and other tales of monkish times, because you feel that you could appreciate it as you never did before. And the old iron cell doors look as strong as they did iu the saintly days of yore. Aud you reserve the inside of the Abbey for another glorious day. Then a grill of beefsteak and you saunter back to the hotel and wander forth again with your Australian friend, And you find that your friend has plen- ty of quiet assurance and self confi- dence and you saunter into the Hotel Cecil, the most cosmopolitan hotel on earth, and you find the smoke room, and ydu order your Scotch or your lemon squash. And you find magnat- es of the world all about you, And you are astounded to see an elderly gentleman smoking and another in an alcove drinking coffee, with a lady be- side him. And other ladies wander in and out freely and you call the waiter, order another squash and tip him a threepence and ask him the meaning of it all. And he telly you, Sir, that he has been Sir, for thirty years an Eng lish waiter and he never knew of it be- fore. It is an innovation in London. The Hotel Cecil inaugurated it. And the custom has his hearty approval. These ladies are the wives or daugh- ters of the gentlemen beside them. Then we saunter up flights of marble steps, with carpets so soft and thick that you cannot hear your own tread, and find the cffices on the fourth floor, and sit down and look at the flowers and the statuary and the carved ceil- ings, and you conclude that this is a place for the gods to dwell. And you. conclude that when you have made your million you will come here with your family and live. Then Sir in the morning up to the strand and you climb to the top of a London bus, and take your first ride out Shoreditch way. Aod you pass the Bank of England, St. Pauls, the law Court and other notable places on the way. Your head is twenty feet above the pavement and a line of busses in front and behind you and a constant 'stream of them going the other way and everything turns to the left in England, and in an hour's ride Sir you have an admiration for the London driver, that places him as the greatest Jehu on earth. Every second apparent disaster comes in the shape of collision that is impossible to avoid to your mind but cabby is equal to all emergencies and a collision on strand never occurs You are rushing along in mid-air and busses rush past you so close that the top passengers could easily shake hands. And you conclude that on the top of the London bus is the most democratic place in civilization. Every -body good humored and all classes intermingle with a freedom and courtesy that pleas es while it astonishes you. Then your friend having a friend over at Guy's Hospital, you get a cab and run over, and you rush into the theatre. of the Hospital and your friend rushes out again, and you find yourself fascinated by the sight of an old man taking chloroform through the wind -pipe, and a surgeon is removing his jaw and tongue. Then you walk across Lon- don Bridge, and find that what you took for London Bridge last night was not the real thing at all. Then on the other side the monument built in 1677 to commemorate the great London fire. And you pay your twopence and start up the winding stairs, but get tired at one-tenth of the distance and retrace your steps. And of course you are dead dog tired at night and sleep like Rip Van Winkle. J. A. R. Loudon, September 5th, 1897. REACH AMAN'S HEART strike the Embankment and get your first view of Father Thames, and you follow the Embankment and are soon viewing London Bridge, the Hotel Cecil, Kings' College and all is so new and grand that you follow your' nose, till you strike the Houses of Parliament and you go around to the other end and ask a bobby if that is the House of Commons. And he tells you " no the bother hand is the Commons, this head is the ouse of Lords." Then right be side it you find V estmi else Abbey. v. And the size and grandeur and the age appal you. You are late for ad mittance, so you wander round to the back and saunter through the cloisters where monks of old lived and fed and died; And the dust of ten centuries Stratford Zurich Staffa Bayfield Wingham Clinton Seaforth Goderich Mitchell' St. Marys Blyth. Fall Fairs. . . • by always having well cooked promptly served meals. It is easy with an ss sewn p;10411m11uun A. S. DEA Oxford Chancellor STEEL PLATE RANGE. 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On a large 'vessel there might be a number ei cushions of the same dimensions, but marine architecture is such that cush- ions may be required on the same vessel in a great variety of forms, and of vary. ing dimensions even within given lines, narrower at ono end, for instance, than at the other. And cushions are made to fit around masts, and around the round- ed ends of cabins, and in other spaces where they must be made in the form of an aro of a circle, and ship cushions are made V shaped and in other shapes to fit into various nooks and jogs. All cushions aro made with a vertical front edge, and most of them are made with a vertical roar edge, but ship cushions are often made with a rounded or beveled rear edge to fit handsomely against the side of the vessel, whiob serves as a back to the seat, but may slope away at a sharper angle than seat banks commonly do. Practically every boat that is set afloat, whatever she may be, big or lit- tle, is individually measured through- out for her cushions. The same materi. als for stuffing cushions that are used on land are used on the water—hair, moss, cotton and so on—and ship cush- ions are sometimes stuffed with cork clippings for their buoyant properties. The materials most commonly used in covering church cushions aro damasks and reps, the damasks more generally. The material most commonly used in covering ship cushions is mohair plush, which is made in various colors and qualities. Leather is also used in cover- ing ship cushions, especially in smok- ing rooms and chartrooms and aboard yachts, and it costs little, if any, more than a fine quality of mohair plush.— New York Sun. Modern Awnings. "Scarcely any objeot is more conspic- uous in the summer season than the awning," said Mr. Biffieton. "In none is our progress in civilization more ap- parent. Awning stripes are made now- adays in a great variety of styles and in various colors and shades of color. It is quite possible to get an awning to match a building, or one that shall contrast with it agreeably. I have seen lately a large brownstone building equipped with awnings having alternate stripes in two shades of brown, shading admi- rably with the stone, the whole produc- ing a massive, harmonious and pleasing effect. I have seen buildings of light colored bricks with light stone or terra cotta trimmings equipped with awnings in stripes of darker colors and of some- elhat fanciful design as to the width and grouping of the stripes, giving an effect somewhat striking perhaps, but decidedly picturesque. "The fact is that in the hands of a competent person the awning may now easily be made a great embellishment of the building, and properly put up, as indeed most of them are nowadays, it becomes a thing of beauty and a joy, if not forever, at least for the summer months."—Exchange. What Dyes are always guaranteed, And in our country take the lead ? ti The Diamond Dyes! What Dyes are strong, and bright and fast, And always dye to live and last ? The Diamond;Dyes; What Dyes bring profit. pleasure, peace, And by their work a great increase ?+ The Diamond Dyes! What Dyes should every woman try ? Hark! Listen to that mighty cry— , The Diamond Dyes!, The process of scouring needles bright takes about a week. They are mixed with oil, soft soap and empty powder, wrapped in loose canvas and placed in a kind of mangle worked by mechanical power. This scouring process done, the needles are washed in hot water and dried in sawdust. The ,ri: olsons Bank. (Chartered by Parliament, 1855.) 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