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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-11-4, Page 1TENTH YEAR. —535. EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1897. (7 C. H. SANDERS, EDITOR. FARMS FOR SALE, MONEY TO LOAN, The undersigned has a few good farms for sale Cheap. Money to loan on easy terms. Jona Sr'AcnorAN,' Samwell's Block Exeter, FARM TO RENT. Lot 0, concession 3, township of tTsborne, is offered for rent by the undersigned. It is one of the best farms in the township, con- taining one-hnn1red acres anelbas every convenience. This farm will be let to a good tenant fora terra of years and possession to plow will bo given immediately. Apply to MAT. 1{Li.LANn, Devon. Sale Register. i. MONDAY, Nov. 15th.-•-Implomexts and household.effeots, the property of Mrs. Ellen J'.i'ogerty, Lot 0, concession 4, ktoGillivr ay Salo at 1 o'clock. FRIDAY, Nov. 10th.—Farm stook and im- plements, the property of 'William Ander- son, Lot 11, concession .1, Stephen. Sale e,t one o'oloek. 11. iBaowN, anat. FARM FOR SALE. TITE undersigned offers for sale Lot No, 5, 4th concession, Township of Kincardine. The farm consists of 50 aoros, all Cleared; good frame house and barn; also two good oroh- rds, and a plentiful supply of water. Tho ^' lanclf3 situated 11;i, miles from.the Saugeen .line and4 miles from the town of IKinear- dine. Pries $1,300; $300 down, the balance in ten or twelve years at 414 per cent. Possess,- fcn may be had at once. For further partio- niers apply to bins. Trios, ABBOT r, Broad- way, Kincardine, COOKING SOUVENIR, a Model GOOD CHEER, steel oven BRIGHT IDEA HONOR BRIGHT. HEATING RADIENT HOME RADIENT Souvenir CARBON COTTAGE RUSTIC TODD CC CC CC Cc We have a large Stock and our Prices are away down for A MD NO, C COOKING STOVE FOR $16.60 net. RIPE la A CALL BEFORE BUYING N. liisflop Sori. . EXETER . . EXETER ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO., LIMITED. ]Notes by the Way. l add to your ,comfort or enjoyment. It becomes a question of how mueh and Says a native South African to; ani how often you San eat and survive the ordeal. Australian " Don't London women in �. - } ,, ,� . You remember that next glorious prove with aequafntauce? Yes, " Sunday afternoon, the blue, hazy sky replies the Australian whose first sight of an Italian autumn or a Canadian of London, was two weeks old; " the Indian Summer, the air sensuous with most surprising thing I ever noticed." the aroma of late roses and falling " My first impression " said he " was. eaves' made melodious .with birdsong s that London women were very plain. leaves, ehi drons happy laughter, ow the I almost compare them with Aus- trap was brought to the door, your tralian women, the 'evilest in the world, friends and their friends and yourself, of course. That is the substance of drive off amongst the country lanes and couversatious, that you hear daily. villages, by serpentine roads that ap- Such is, the experience of all persons parently lead nowhere, only the finger first visiting London. Even Scotch posts tell you that they do really lead and Irisb gentlemen make the same re- to some village. Out by the Kentish marks. None of them try to explain foothill nestle the villages of Wye, the matter, but the remarks come to Brook, Poulton, Kennington and others. your ears frequently, and quite agree Andoupass through them all, by with your own experience. You try to y g es lain it to own mind,but fait ed byds sunique to a Canadian, bound, P � your ed by hedges, through avenues of trees, in finding a satisfactory solution. But while rabbits scurry off througb the the bold fact remains that the London fields in scores, to cover; and gaudy woman gets handsomer and neater the pheasants run to the bush lands in the more you see of her. Personal steam- parks asou 'a ,roach altogether ness is an article of religion with the making a scene, so unknown in London woman, in fact, to a great ex prior life as to be simply entrancing. tent with the British woman. They p y are never supercilious, but have a self- Along by Winchelsea Park, the seat of forgetfulness, that becomes enchanting some noble lord (whose name you eavi- while slight not recall, not having the pleasure of after a time, Then again, a personal acquaintance) with its ten tippling is indulged in by vast num- miles of brick `veil surrounding it with berry of English, or rather London Bing dears and pheasants ad libitum, round en, Without remark or melee being by the the great flint arch or tower front taken of it yet, rarely indeed do you entrance, with the beautiful lodge be - see a drunken woman, ]Fill somebody siee it for the lodge keeper, ecstatic" with a psychological turn of mind try to amid the giant park trees. And the explain those remarkable, but undoubt- gaudy tower, is made still more getudy ed facts? by the glistening of the sun on its flinty London has some queer atmospheric surface as you drive off for home, and conditions. The sky clouds over, gets supper and bed. dark, so dark in an hour that all lights pp have to be lit at mid day or any other Certainly, Sir, you have not forgotten time. The sky is so brassy, lurid and your ramble down by the sea coast impenetrable, that all things assume amongst the famous watering places of a ghostly appearance; as if no pity Britain. The great stone jetty at Mar were above the house -tops, where dwell gate. running away out to sea, out on mankind. The yellow, brazen, seethe cliffs above the luxurious hotels phurous air could be no more lurid, and boarding houses where British were Hades ou fire and its sulphurous aristocrats house themselves in the flames embracing the earth, Weird summer watering . season. The gig spectres alit by in the mid-day gas town that lives and thrives by catering light. Ghosts of humanity, with dBs. to the wealthy, during the English dog torted shapes, wander hither and thith- days. Nor Ramsgate, with its harbor or, with a frightened, lurid look as of of refuge of solid masonry, where yes, disembodied spirits. Laughter is hush- sets run in through the stone gap, and ed and. even the lusty sparrow creeps leave the rough seas outside, with its into some adjacent creyiee to hide i s cliffs protected by masonry;itshotels and head. Even the eternal hum of the houses that cater for a less wealthy or street traffic is hushed, as if some ma- particular class. Nor Canterbury with gieian's wand had waved sound. from its groat Cathedral, overshadowing as the universe, The Thames becomes it were the whole town, Nor Minster the river Styx, on whose bosom phan with its second oldest church in Eng - tom boats flit to and fro, laden with land, quaint and placid. as a summer's fautastic figures, bouud for the great day. Nor quaint old Deal, with its unknown, bayoud your range of short lovely seafront and its old castle, .visirtn, Mirth is. furgotten, .and the :moat and drawbridge, the property of stillness of a great awe covers the ap the Warden of the Cinque Ports, who parently doomed city, as with a mighty ever he may happen to be. At present pall. But in an hour prr, two, the sky it is Lord Essher, lately retired from brightens, the sun shines and London the Bench, who resides there. Nor the is itself again. This is not a London eccentric old fellows who live in Deal. fog. Real fogs have not yet arrived. The old fellow with the nose like au What they are like; could only be told enormous potatoe, nor the other fellow by the pen of a Dickens with the big head and little skull cap, You remember, Mr. Editor, how be. who smoked their, churchwardens, sipp- fore you left your native bealth,-a ed their grog with such gusto, either miserably careless friend made you of which could many a tale unfold and promise to go out in the country to see either of whom were worthy a place in his particular friend. And you re- the tales of Dickens. You rememher member his lucid descripton of the to how you longed for a week, in which cality! A little country village of 2000 to drain the old chaps dry of yarns of about twenty miles from London. You flood and field, study them in their remember also, that Sunday morning native dens iu the sere and yellow leaf when life in London became a weari• time of life—but the fates willed it not. ness and you decided to run out in the Nor the massive old windmills of Kent, country and call on your friend's built ou round towers, with wind blades friend. On consulting a railway guide, each 30 feet long, slowly revolving on you find two places of the same name, hills many miles away and ,could be in different counties. One of them ex• seen across the flats of Kent for a vast aetly suits 'the description. Having distance.. Nor Dover nestling in its misplaced confidence in that friend, you great deep valley, between the @nor - of course go out into Middlesex County. mous Chalk hills and cliffs that sur. No matter about the name of the town. round it. The train takes miles creep• But we will call it Ashford, for short. ing gradually down those hills to run Arriviug there by train at 3 p.m. you one quarter of mile into Dover. Then find neither the street nor the man. You it emerges on the •sea•front, with have struck the wrong town. No train white, perpendicular cliffs rising right back till six. You know no one, so over your head for 300 to 400 feet you wander up and down the deserted Then into great tunnels mile and a streets of that ideal country English half long, hundreds of feat below the village, for hours, till yolir weary limbs tops of those gigantic mountains of. refuse further services. Cold, tired chalk, Through tunnels and under and hungry, as a last resort you try to cliffs by the South Eastern Railroad on gain admittance to a public house to to Folkestone. Beautiful Folkestone. sit down till train time. A pert girl This is the summer resort of the real refuses to unlock the glass door. You upper crust of English Society. On the cliffs facing the sea, stand stately marble palaces, hotels and residence houses, gardens between each. Be- tween those palaces and the brow of the cliff is a place called " Folkestone Leas." Here invalids are wheeled in bath chairs, also stately old dames' and duchessses, too lazy or too fat to walk Out to seaward, faint outlines of the French coast appear on the horizon. The channel is almost filled with craft of all descriptions, while probably 200 sails are all making for the Folkestone pier. Those are small sail fishing boats, running to shore while the tide is in. On a plateau below, stand' six story houses, whose tiled chimneys are much below your feet. Aninclined railway, nearly perpendicular, carries you to or from the beach below. No improvement could be suggested. It is all beautiful beyond description. Over• all hangs the dreamy haze of an ideal autumn day. Oily a few of the yast crowds still linger at the seashore The summer is ended; the financial harvest is reaped, yet the insatiable caterers, cry like the, leech's daughter, for more. Rooms during the erush, at. places like Folkstone, Margate, or Brighton aro enormous prices. Cater ing to the pleasure, prejudice or fashion of English wealth will stand enormous prices. British wealth must be catered to,, no matter what the cost. But time and dreams float by and it becomes necessary at the call of exigency and duty to dispell the day dreams, pull Yourself together and get back to the monstrous city with its vast panorama of tragedy, comedy and farce. Folkestone is a new, modern, enter- prising city. Thousands of new houses, stand out in the brightness from the old. Thousand others yet in course of erection. "Old" Pelkestoee is quaintness itself. High street starts at the top of the towering bill and by sinuous and de- vious ways runs down to the level of the harbour. Narrow es a London alley, continuous shape ou either side, run- ning at an angle 30 to 45 degrees, you feel, in going down this winding street, as if there pas great danger of falling forward, landing at tbe bottom, hund- reds of feat below, a mangled corpse. Often the descent is so acute, that steps form the street. And the old shops, no two alike in structure or height, each with its tidy male or female attendant, reminds of many a mental picture of scenes in the narrow streets of the Orient. On all the most prominent hills overlooking the Euglish Channel, stand round towers, each with its ancient guns to protect the coast from ap. preach of British enemies, still well preserved,, so far as the eye can detect at a distalice, relies of a past eivilizat- ion in the British Isles., And the great hop gardons of Kent from the sea coast away above Maidstone are a special feature of this part of England. Many of them are hundreds of acres in extent, containing countless thousands of poles about 12 feet high, set two and a half to three feat apart. And the great brick towers, shaped like a cone, with a flue on top for drying the hops. Yes, Sir, you remember it all, I am sure with countless other things, that you will not. weary your already weary audience with trying to recall. Vivid impressions such as those never fade, till the great ocean of forgetfulness is reached, on whose tranquil waters, the bark of each must some day be launched. London, Eng' , Oct. 19th. J: A, R. t.F„ laTotice Of Rates remonstrate, when a weird old lady, ".'nuts her nose and her fist to the glass BESYDMak: LSGH.TIN4 . i.Y"md warns you off as if you were the Per Annum a night per x6 C. P. imp rsonification of each of Tam Main Hall $3 10 4-5C O'Sh nter's horrible visions compressed 1st Parlor .a 8o 7_xo in one. The gesticulations of the weird x 8o 4•? old lady are so suggestive and gro- 75 = 3 tesqe that like Bob Arces your cour- Bed room x 75 e.e age oozes out at your finger tips and Spare room ` x 56 x-6 you reluctantly depart heaping coals Cellar, .S;C..P. go x-5 of fire on you friend's head by bestow- At, cjo39:;l/y= 1Ay, Y,igrl3g'rs. ing on him a fatherly. benediction. You \Ther x6 c. P. per Annum or r - cts. per night had such a joyous afternoon you know, r to 5 ae you really couldn't help it. Then you notice two weary gentlemen with fish- ing rods and guns, who have spent the day iu sport and are tired, pounding on the door of the only other public house and you :chuckle as they have to walk wearily away without arousing the inmates Misery likes company you know. But cotnpensationis the rule of the world. A couple of Sat urdays after;towards evening, a card is brought to you. The identical gentleman you were hunting on that, glorious trip.: He lives in Kent County sixty miles away, and having in some way learned youwere in London, comes up specially, and willy nilly carries you off bodily to his home When once , ou becowe a guest in an h.nr:hsh home, it bet omes a question Of rivalry amongst' its inmates- and their riends as to which can do the most to Extra Parlor Dining Room Kitchen 5toxo x0 to x5 15 to 20 20 to 25. 25 and over 440 4 25 4 /0 4.00 3 90 1 D Gencrni practice has proved it more satisfactory for the con- sumer to own everything • within his walls. he aboye moderate rates are on thio basis nd in order to secure them the following, nominal wiling t.harge is made with lamps omplete '.teat—suitable for stores 51 3o per light '.oncealed " " residences, x 70 To be pad in ten equal monthly install. meats. Or ilr 25, 1.6o cash on startinjof lights. • Any special information may be obtained rem the undersigned, NOTE :—The above rates only applicable to „onsumers baying their own bxtures. Rates to others o i application to R. 0.. TREMAINE, Man, Luoan • A few weeks ago F. F. Downing's butcher shop was broken into and the till emptied of its contents amounting to about $5. On Monday`night it was again ente,xed and about $2 secured from the till. Since the first robbery the till had, been emptied every night but on Monday evening after the cash had been put away and the safe locked a customer carne in and purchased about $2 worth of moat and the money was left in the till, Entranee was gain- ed this tf{ue through an upstairs win- dow at the back and the thief squeezed himself through a ten by twelve inch hole. The window is on a level with the roof of another building at the back which gave him a good chance to work but the marks on the roof showed he had a tight squeeze, Tuckersmith. Threshing is now nearly finished in this vicinity.—Mr, Geo. Walters is suf- fering from a sprained foot caused by falling down a trap door in his cellar, but is now recovering. -R. Proctor, who is employed with Mr. J. Routledge accidentally cut an artery in his wrist while.cuttingabands at a threshing last week, but is progressing favorably Ito. der medical treatment.—Another pio- neer of this township, in the person of Mr. Patrick Keating, has passed away. He died on Monday after a short illness. He had been a resident of Tuckersmith for over 40 years, and was'one of those genial, whole-souled men who are uni- versally liked as well as respected. He his work in had done kwell and his life memory will be long and affectionately cherished by many friends. Zurich, Mr. McCloy, Dr. Campbell and the ;'Misses. E. Steinbach, and Grace, Tor - ranee wheeled to Exeter onMonday evening last, The band boys drove to Hensel' ou Wednesday evening last to serenade the town. The boys say they put in a good time and were well used.—Mr. D. Steitlbaeh shot a large swamp coon on Saturd last. It is the largest that has been seen around these parts for a long time,—Our sports are killin; black squirrels by the whole- sale.—Mr. and Mrs, E. Dyer, of Brant ford, and Mr. and Mrs. and 5liss T, Skinner, of Mitchell, were the guests of Mrs D. ,Steinbach, on Sunday last.— Quite a number attended the sale of the late Henry Werra ori Tuesday last. While Mr. F. Seliroeder was driving to the sake, and -lo turning • out he was thrown from the wagon which resulted in a runaway. Ile received slight bruises about the body but no further damage was done. --Mrs. Ed. Hardy, of Hamburg, is the guest of Mrs. - Dr, Buchanan at present, —Mr. John Bren- ner visited friends in Dashwood on Sunday last. Dashwood, Rev, Eby is conducting aseries of revival meetings in the Evangelical Church at which we trust much good will be accomplished.—We are glad to report that the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Fenn which was very i11 for same days last week is now improving nicely. —The Y. P. A. held a very interesting literary meeting on Saturday evening. The roof on M. Feuu's new dweliiug is now completed --Mr. H. Reese ad1'ertis es au extensive salts of wagous, buggies carts and real estate on Saturday, Nov. 6th.—On Wednesday of last week 11r. John Hoffman and Miss Carrie Guen- ther jollied hands and hearts at the alter in the Evangelical Church, Rev. Eby officiating. The young couple left on the evening train to spend their honeymoon in some of the principal cities eastward. Returning they will make their 'home in Dashwood where Mr. Hoffman has a good and promising business. We join the many friends in wishing the young couple joys many and sorrows few while sailing over life's rough sea.—Messrs. Eflber and Mogul, of Zurich, were in town one day last week operating their new clipper. Many a horse was relieved of its heavy coat, Greenway. A large number attended the sacra- mental service in Boston Methodist Church last Sabbath.—A very pleas- ant affair took place at the residence of Mr. Ruben Wilson, on Wednesday af- ternoon, of last week, it being the mar- riage of his eldest daughter, Annie, to Mr. Alex. Meiple. The ceremony was performed •by Rev. R. Ailsworth, of Parkhill. The bride was supported by bis cousin, Miss Weir, of Brown's cor- ners, and the groom by his brother, James, of Chicago. Miss Jessie San derson, dressed in beautiful white,acted as maid of honor. The ceremony was witnessed by a large number of friends and reiatives of the contracting parties, who, after the ceremony, sat down to a sumputous repast. The presents were numerous and valuable, showing the respect and esteem in which they are held. After dinner, the wedding party. followed by a goodly number, drove to. Parkhill and took the evening train for Chicago, amid showers of rice and good wishes;—Mr, John Meikle, of Chi sago, attended his brother's wedding. and remained a few days visiting friends and relatives —The Misses Weir are visiting friends in Thedford.—Mr. and Mrs. R. English were in the Forest City last week. —Mr. A. W Humphries erected the furnaces in the new church last week and also put on the cresting which makes a better appearance, the work being done by Messrs. Jackson and McIntyre.—Mr. Andrew Elliott, of Woolsley. Man is .visiting friends and. relatives is this vicinity. -Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wilson visited friends in London end Thorndale last week. Thames Road, Quite a number of our farmers have finished ploughing.—Mr. Horton, of St.• Thomas, is the guest of Mr, John Alli 'sou.—Miss Joan Duncan, of Plug town, is at present visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm. Monteith.—Miss E. Monteith, who bas been engaged at dress making in Seaforth, had to return home Friday on account of ill health. We hope to hear of her speedy recovery.—We noticed a slight mistake in last week's items, it being Mrs. Fletcher instead of Mr. Fletcher, who was addressing the W, F. M. S. meetings, -Mrs. D. Duncan, of Plugtown, and Mrs Mills, of Kirkton, were the guests of Mrs. Wm, Monteith last Thursday.—There was no services held in the Presbyterian Church last Sunday on account of the anniversary at Kirkton.—It is with sorrow that we announce the death of Margaret Tow- ite, beloved wife of Mr. Thos. Russell, of the "Riverside farm," which sad event occurred on the 2Sth ult. De- ceased bad been bedfast for the past two years and had borne her sufferines with patience and cheerfulness which showed that her faith was fixed on !Its y The Rockof :1 solid foundat„ Te 0 rigs which The large number of htch fnUow- ed her remains to the Rodgerville cern etery showed the high esteem in which she was held. She leaves a husband, one son and five daughters to mourn her loss. The bereaved family have the heartfelt sympathy of the whole community in their sad affliction. Rensall Mrs. Diehard Wright is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. W. Young, in Roches- ter, N. Y.—A, A. Goeiz, of the Com- mercial, is making improvements. The new landlord isdoing well,—on Mon- day, Oct. 25th, the little daunbter of Mrs. Wood who has been ailing since her birth passed away in her niuth year. The funeral took place on Wed uesday to the '13odgerville cemetery.— The new buildings that have beeu in course of erection during the summer are rapidly nearing completion and will be ready for ueeupancy soon,—W,„ Hod- gins and othere met with a very ser- ious accident while driving in Loudon last week. Mr. Hudgins, his daughter, Kate, Mrs. 0.'Neil, Sr, and her son's wife were in a rig owned by air. O'Neil and while creasing the Adelaide Street bridge they were met by two farmers' wagons with horses running abreast at full gallop. The rig was a te- te' wreck and the occupants were all hurled out and injured, especially old Mrs. O'Neil who was so badly hurt that her recovery is doubtful. The rest of the party were more fortunate although somewhat badly bruised. One of their horses was badly injured.—The hand- some Rennie bloclt had a narrow es- cape on Tuesday night from being des- troyed by are. A pile et' oily rags was discovered smoldering near a wooden. partition in the cellar of McArthur's large hardware stere and were quick- lyremoved. As a quantity of gasoline and oil was ae>l•' Ve :1luruing n a ial it was lucky the truutile•'l'aseac time, for, i is411"tfost certainherr 1 ee communicated wi. hthein#latiir i,blema-- terials the loss would have be tt serious. n Oentralia The lecture. which was given in Smith's Hall, Monday evening by Rev, Walsh on' To and Fro in Ireland " was a decided success. It was very humorous and instructive. The lectur- er pictured very vividly scenes of which he was an eye witness in the Emerald Isle and those who missed the lecture missed a rare treat. The musi- cal part was good. The chairman, Jno. Neil,- gave the opening speech, after which a trio was sung by Misses, Hieks,Neil and Leivens entitled; ''Come Tbou Fount of Every Blessing." Miss Lewis, of Crediton, gave a, sole entitled " The Sailor Boy " which was much applauded. The fife and drum band gave two selections, after which Miss Beaver, of Crediton, ;resided at the. organ, and the audience all sang "God Save the Queen" and departed to their . several places of abode, feeling down deep iu their hearts that there is no. thing too good for the Irish and the girl with the little plaid %du:m .—Thos. 'McCann, of Morresville, so has been engaged with C. W. Sm. a putting in cement flooring for thin farmers, met with a serious accident in our village on Saturday. Ile in company with some others were:in. a friendly- scuffle, when McCann was thrown on,•,bis back against a bench which rendered him uni.ble to walk for some hours. For a time it was feared the spine was in- jured but later the doctor pronounced it a broken rib, which for a time prov- ed to be vers painful.—Miss Kennedy, of Ilderton visited Mrs. R. Cableigh on Sunday.—J, C. Sheardown is build- ing quite an addition to his workshop. —The cheese factory is still receiving a fair supply of milk and will continue to run several days in November this year.—Jos. Lawson shipped a large carload of lambs from hereon Tuesday. -On Tuesday morning a little gill of Mr. Wm. Rowland died suddenly mbrain from some e . troub eh i The panels ' were awakened about midnight and found their child unconscious. Medi- cal aid was summoned but before the help arrived the child was dead. She was about four years of age. The parents haye the sympa thy of the entire community in their sad and sudden bereavement. THE CHEflP �H STOBE, OBEDIT)1 FOR BARGAINS IN FALL GOODS S Just to hand the most complete stock ever shown in town, comprising of Ladies' Mantles, ,Mantle Goal's; r` rise Goods, Fur Capes, Fur Ruffs, Etc. A large stock of Boys', Youths' and en sz eady made clothing. A complete stock of Gents furnishing Tweeds Worsted, 84 Underwear. G g_ E 7 E We handle. the SASKETCHEWAN AN PTTFFALO ROBE the best Robe in the Market: Call and inspect our stock for quality; our prices can_: not be beaten. PRODUCE TAKEN AS CASI3, Chas. Zwicker, ckexCrediton.