Exeter Advocate, 1913-6-19, Page 6ORIIER FORESTERS
14TH A1s'NLi AL MEETING OF
TILE 11I G f C Q IIlRT.
Over 500 Delegates la Attendance
at the. Anneal Meeting In the
City. of London.
The 34th Annual Meeting of the
Canadiau Order of Foresters con-
veaaed on Tuesday afternoon, the 100.
of June, In the new Masonic Temple
in the City of London at a p.na. Dele-
gates axe in attendance from all
r
parts of the- Dominion, every Province
being -.represented. This order had its
birth in London in November, 18.79,
and has on three subsequent occa-
sions, including the present,returned
there for its Annual. Meeting,
The following officers of High
Court were present at the opening
session: •
J. A. Stewart, High Chief Ranger,
Perth, Ont.; J.A.A. Brodeur, High Vice
Chief Ranger, Montreal, Que.; Alf. P.
Van Someren, High Secretary; Dr, 13.
M. Stanley, Chairman of the Medical
$card; Robert Fill .tt, High Treasur-
er; W. L. Roberts,. High Auditor; • A.
Shultis, Second High Auditor; W. G.
Strong, Superintendent of Organiza-
tion, all of Brantford, Ontario, grid W.
M. Couper, Montreal, Que.; N. J..Stev-
enson, Toronto, Ont.; R. T. Kemp,
Listowel, Ont; A, R. Gaipin, London,
Ont.; F. II. Davidson, Winnipeg, Man.
'Members of the Executive Commit-
tee.
In addition to the above, John Mur-
ray, District High Chief Ranger, He-
rniate, Man.; D. E. McKinnon, Dis-
trict High Secretary, Winnipeg,
Man., and A. K, Berry, District High
Tice. Chief Ranger, Holland, Man.,
representatives from the District
High Court for Manitoba.
The annual_ reports of the various
officers of this Order are of a most
satisfactory nature, showing that the
steady progress that the Canadian
Order of Foresters has experienced
ever since its inception in. 1879 was
continued in the year 1912, which is
covered by these reports.
This Order confines its business en-
tirely to the Dominion of Canada, and
is, therefore, ,peculiarly a Canadian
organization. In all its departments
the result of the business of 1912
shows it to have been the best year
in the Order's experience. The in-
crease in the Insurance Funds of the
Order amounted to $380,727.15. This
fund standing at the end of the year,
after payment of 506 Death Claims.
amounting • to $508,951.19, at $3,989,-
976.21,
3,989,-
976.21, the amount at the present time
being $4,108,799.50. Tile revenue uow
derived from the investments of the
Order constitute a very substantial
amount of the annual income. Last
year interest earned on investments
of Insurance Funds amounted to $167.-
166.16.
167:166.16.
In respect to the matter of invest-
ments, it is interesting to know that
the Order confines the use of its
funds to the purchasing of Municipal
and School Debentures of the Domin-
ion of Canada, and the very advan-
tageous market, from the investors'
point of view, of recent years, has
enabled the Executive Committee to"
obtain a handsome return on such in-
vestments, taking into consideration
the undoubted security offered in this
class of investment.
Both the Sick and Funeral Benefit
and General Funds show larger in-
creases for 1912 than in any previous
year. Interest earned on investments
of Sick and Funeral Benefit funds,
which are of a similar nature tothose
made of the Insurance funds, amount-
ed to $12,208.04, and, after the pay-
ment of nearly 7,000 Sick and Funeral
Benefit Claims, amounting to $166,-
534.30, the sum of $51,783,44 was ad-
ded to the balance in this Depart-
ment, as the result of the business for
the- year under review. The total
amount standing to the credit of this
fund at the present date is $306,927.03.
In respect to membership also,
substantiae progress was made. The
net result ` of the year's operations
showing an increase of 4,410; the
membership of the Order on. the 31st
of December, 1912,.standing at 87,536.
Besides the benefits accruing from
Life Insurance and the ordinary Sick
and Funeral Benefit Department of
this Order, we note that special pro-
vision is being made for those of its
members who are suffering from
Tubucular troubles of any kind, a
special grant being, made for their
care in any of a number of Sanitaria
provided in this country for special
treatment of patients so afflicted.
It is gratifying to note, in a perusal
of the reports of all the officers, the
fax -reaching benefits that are being
derived by the membership, in the
various directions in which thie So-
ciety endeavors to be of assistenee
to the individuals wile Compose same;
TIie record .of the Canadian Order of
Foresters, aa submitted in these re-
ports is well worth the perusal of
theca. who have been perhaps toe
apt to decry the permaz,enoe and eta.
Witty of frateruat inauratzce cloncerns..
There is every evidence of Careful
management and of well -directed en-
deavor to conduct the affairs of the
Society in an intelligent and business-
like manner.
A point of special interest as indi•
acting the cautious selection of risks,
is the death rate, which for 1912 was
only 5.78 per thousand, and over the
Order's experience • of thirty-three
years, less than. 6.26 per cent, per
thousand.
We find further that the: Superin-
tendent of Organization has been able
to report the institution of forty-one
new Courts, so that every effort pos-
sible is being made to establish Courts
of the Canadian Order of Foresters
in the new territory being opened up
in the Dominion of Canada from time
to time,, and as the points become
large enough to maintain a Court.
A very considerable amount of bust-
nese will be laid before the delegates;
and et is expected that the Sessions of
the High Court will extend over sev-
eral
everal days, probably occupying their
attention till the 13th or 14th
1
S1:IL71 AGE 1N ALI. CLiIlII LP1 ZaS
Duration of Life is Same in Jungle
as in Eurwiae.
Strange as it seems, the heat of
the tropical deserts and the icy .toll
of an Arctic winter seem to have
hardly any effect upon the length
of life, and an extended series of
investigations --which 'has been re-
cently concluded --chows a most
amazing .agreement throughout the
whole world. In spite of the differ-
ence in race, in food, in habits of
life, the savage in the South. Sea
Islands has almost ,exactly as long
life as the African pigmy or the.
giant Fuegians. What is more, in
spite of all the skill and usoienoe of
modern civilization, the average
duration of human life is not a whit
longer in this country than it is in
a tropical jungle or a blizzard -
swept tundra.
The Eskimo' lives largely on blub-
ber, the Hinder) eats sparingly of
rice, the Andaman Islander ,con-
sumes raw fish, the modern epicure
his "hot bird and cold bottle," yet
each one of these changes that di-
verse diet into just exactly the
amount of fuel his body needs to
keep it going on an average for the
same length of time. The occupa-
tions of men are as diverse as their
food, yet in this also the average
remains the same. The Norwegians
are largely a race of sailors and
fishermen, the Swiss but seldom be-
hold the sea,. yet as a nation the one
is no more favored than the other
with length of life.
The elock of human life is set at
a. very definite point, and the tables
of mortality, which are made out
for one nation or for one period of
time, will serve almost universally
well. There are certain changes,
of course. The infant death rate is
far higher in savage tribes than
among civilized peoples, but more
adults reach advanced years. More
feeble children grow old enough to
give birth to still feebler children
in civilized than in savage commun-
ities, but the result naturally fol-
lows that the stock dies out. The
rate at which the wheels go around
matters a great deal fox the indivi-
dual case, but it makes practically
no difference to the race as a
whole. The overworked die out,
nature determines for herself how
fast and how far the human being
may go. Wo may do Whatever we
please in the matter, • but the /.harm
is set and the • clock cannot ' be
stopped.
Prehistoric Pins.
Pins were in. existence, no doubt,
in prehistoric times, and have been
unearthed in British barrows.
Brass pins were introduced into
England . from France about 1540.
They were manufactured by ma-
chinery in England in 1824.
"This office you are applying for
will require your constant atten-
tion," warned the eminent official.
"That's all right. I don't believe I
will have to hustle any harder to
hold it than I have done to get it."
There are no game laws to in-
terfere with the killing of time,
IJNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES..
"How is it yott are so late this morning, Themas'd".
"Plenele, sir, • mother's ill and eook had tris :get ap° and" eook
breakfast for us."
FROM MERRY OLD ENUANR.
NEWS, nr DIATL ABOUT J0U14
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences la The Laud That
Reigns Supreme in the Com.
ereaWor
Yn il la4
Out of every 100 of the. popula-
tion in England and Wales fib live
in towns.
Ninety per *eat of British peo-
ple can write, only .e7 per cent, in
Spain, and. but 16 per cent. in, Rus-
sia.
The United Enna: oni imports
more fruit than any other country.
in Europe, spending 26,500,000 a
year on it,
Next to Yorkshire, which has al -
meet, four million acres, Lincoln is
the largest English county. Devon-
shire stands third.
There were 1,011 persons killed
anti 8,700 injured during 1912 on
railways in the kingdom, says a
Board of Trade report.
Great Britain carries on more
trade with Germany than with any
other country. France and the
United States' are her next •best
customers. . ,
The premises of Henry Fester,.
tallow a-nd 'grease manufacturer,
Leeds, were gutted by fire early on
the 16th ult., the damage .amounting
to several thousand pounds.
By the publication of editions in
nine additional .1anguagea the Bri-
tish and Foreign Bible Society has
raised to 449 the number of tongues
in which the Scriptures are issued.
The Countess of Aberdeen has
been invited by 20 national women's
councils of Europe and America to
retain the presidency of the. Inter-
national Council of Women for a
further period of five years.
Sir George Riddell, ,says the print-
ing trade is the recording angel
which chronicles the thoughts and
ideas of mankind. His only regret
was that, like moat romances, it
was not se profitable as it should
be.
The •changes in weekly hours of
labor taking effect in 1912 affected
72,067 workpeople. Of these 701
had their hours increased by 366
per week, and 71,366 had reduc-
tions amounting to 175,068 hours
per week.
Sir. John Hare, the famous actor,
on the 17th ult. entered his 70th
year. He made his first appearance
on the professional stage at Liver-
pool in September, 1864, so -that
next year he will be able to cele-
brate his theatrical jubilee
The London Scottish Regiruental
Gazette gives a, fairly good photo
of . Lieut. T. Ross, Soots ,Guards,
who
Guards,who has just been promoted from
the rank of Sergt.-Major., The 'edi-
tor says that the "Scottish" have
always found him "a good Soot, a
good shot, a good sportsman, and
a good soldier.".
A story told about the Prince of
Wales is worth repetition. Not long
ago he was dining out with some
friends, and on leaving the house
was helped on with his overcoat by
his host. "What a nice coat, sir,"
remarked his host, "Yes, isn't it,"
replied the young Prince, "it was
father' s."
BEGAN Y0(NG.
Ilad "Nerves" from Youth,
• "When very young I began using
coffee and continued up to the last
six months," writes ;a Southern
girl:
"I had been, exceedingly nervous,
thin and very sallow. After quit-
ting coffee and drinking Postum
about a month my nervousness dis-
appeered and has. •never returned."
(Tea contains the same injurious
drug, caffeine, found in. coffee:)
"This is the more remarkable as 1
am a Primary, teacher and have
kept right on with my work,
"My complexion now is clear and
rosy, ,my skin soft and smooth. As:
a, good .complexion , was something
I had greatly desired I feel amply
repaid even though this were the
only benefit derived from drinking
Postum.
"Before beginning' its use I had
suffered greatly from; indigeetion
and headache; these troubles are
uow unknown.
"I changed from coffee to Postum
without the slightest inconvenience,
did not even have a headache.
IIave known coffee drinkers, who
were visiting me, to use Postum a,
week without being aware that they
were not drinking coffee."
Narne given by Canadian Postum
Co., Windsor, Ont. Write for
boaklet, "The Road to Wellville."
Postum comes in two forms.
Regular (must be boiled);.
nstant Postum doe,sn't r.equ.ire
boding but is prepared instantly
bl•, stirring, a level tea;=_ eal:dui in
an;oXdinery cup of hot water, which
makes it right for most .pea sons.
A big cup reriuires- More and
some people -who like eerong i,hiegs
gilt in a heaping epoo•nful and tem.
pe,r: it with''a large supply of cream.
Exeerirnent until yott khow thc:
amount . that ' pleases your palate
sand have it eereed that way in' the
fxrture,
"There's a Reason"
r Posttim..
THE ENa
A FEUD
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It was ixst a grandfatl'fer's chair,
a plain, old, wooden rocker, but,
insignificant as, it appeared to
everybody else, it was sufficient
cause for the " spoiling of the best
part of two lives. Just because
of the chair Luke and ' Mathew
Gregory, twinin brothers, made for
themselves an existence as 'queer
as any recorded in the pages of
fiction,
Because of the chair they dwelt
side by side in ahouse, literally
divided against itself. They gave
up love, friendship and social in-
tercourse, For 23 years they inet
every day without exchanging a
word. For 23 years they glowered
at each other from opposite sides
of a living room. Far 23 years each
sat in the chair every other day
and read out of the sante Bible turn
and,turh about.
In all that time neither showed'
the least sign of retreating from
the position he had taken, neither
conceded a tittle to the other,
neither would admit that the other
had the :better right to the chair.
The house was divided by actual'
measurement and continued so di-
vided .until it :fulfilled the predic-
tion of the°Seriptures and fell in
reality.
• Not different in outward appear-
ance from ordinary men, were the
characters of this strange drama.
Luke and Mathew Gregory were
simple, hard-working miners, Each
day they went to the great collier-
ies at Wilkes-Barre, labored on.
through the day, chatted with their
fellows and returned home at night.
Yet they never had a word one for
the other, despite the .fact that they
cooked at the same stove and ate
from the same table.
The Gregorys were of Scotch
birth and came to the Wyoming
valley with their father, John Greg-
ory, when lads of only three years.
The elder Gregory had been a miner
in Scotland and had journeyed to
America in search of better wages
and a better chance for his sons.
With him he brought his household
effects, among which was the chair.
With thrift and energy the father
made his way little by little. From
his meagre wages he saved some-
thing• and through his skill was ad-
vanced step by step until he reach-
ed the position of boss in the mine.
When he was forced to retire after
a serious accident he found that he
had a little home on the hfll above
the collieries, and was able to live
in modest comfort upon what he had
saved, what he had collected from
his accident insurance and the
benefits paid by his labor union:
John Gregory was ambitious for
his boys. Their mother was long
since dead, and he was looking for-
ward to giving them an education
that would help them to make their
way. He did not want them to be
miners. When the accident hap-
pened the lads were already seven-
teen years old. They knew the
mines, ,had worked in them in spare
time and had the spirit of gener-
ations of miners back of them.
At the crisis' they turned natur
ally to the mines and because of
their ability and their father's in-
fluence became coal 'cutters. In
five years they were making excel-
lent pay and had as good a pros -
peer of success as any of the young
men in the section.
They were well able to look after
themselves when John Gregory
died. He had not much to le eve.,
only the little:house on the hill and
its contents, ` with a small sum in
thebank.. The twins had always
been inseparable and • the father
foresaw no difficulties in leaving
what he had to them share and
share alike.
The house was just a 11-2 story
brick affair with a large living
room, dining room) and kitchen
downstairs and two bedrooms up-
stairs. Matthew and Luke contin-
ued to live on in peace with never
a thought of division of the slender
property.
Then, in June, 1889,they cele-
brated' their 30th birthday' with .a
little celebration, and after their
friends had departed, Luke broach-
ed to his brother a subject very
dear to him. He had found the
girl 'of his heart and was planning
to marry. He discussed his plans
at length /kid at the close was sur-
prised when his brother told him
that he,, too, was thinking of tak-
ing a wife. They shook hands and
went to bed joyfully.
The brothers had no idea of part-
ing after 30 years and determined
to pool their savings. and • build a
second pottage on :the lot they
owned next door. Of course, the
household goods would be divided,:
Bit by bit they portioned them out
without a clisagreement until they
came to the chair.
There was nothing to the -intrin
sic value of that piece' of furniture
to provokes dispute. To one unin-
terested it was just a out old
affair, none too attractive. To the
brothers that mattered not at all.
It had been their father's and his
fa the is anil his father's father's
before that. Ib was hallowed by
countless associations.
Luke felt that he ought to have
it, and so did Matthew, At :first
they joked about it, and then they
argued 'abotit,dt, and finally near-ia
reled, The men were mob alike in
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character, both were stubborn to
the last degree, and neither would.
make the slightest concession.
Thus they went on bickering un-
til Luke came home one night and
announced that the girl of his
choice had promised to marry him,
"Ye maun gie me the cheer as a
weddin' geeft," he told Matthew.
"That I willna, answered Mat-
thew.
The next night, came Matthew
with a similar announcement and
a similar request. The. answer' of
Luke was : "1 willna."
Nothing could be done. The
brothers stood firm and the pros
pective brides waited tearfully
month by month. What the old
chair: meant to the brothers was
nothing to the girls. They grew
first angry, then ` indifferent and
finally deserted the brothers en-
tirely and sought husbands else-
where.
A year passed, and Luke and
Matthew were no nearer a solution.
Then after a discussion in black
anger Luke declared that they
would divide the house and all in
it and never speak again. Matthew
agreed. The two brothers set to
work silently,
They drew a line cross the cen-
ter of the front walk, up the porch
steps and directly through the mid-
dle of the house. The stove in the
front room was Luke's side of the
house, but the stove in the dining -
room was on Matthew's.
Where the line bisected the din-
ing -room the table was set so that
each had his just. portion. A mark
was ,drawn through the center of
the cook stove and up the stove-
pipe. All the chairs were equally
divided; but the grandfather's chair
remained.
What to do with that was still a
problem. Finally, it was decided
to place it exactly in the center of
the front room. It was agreed that
it should be used by the brothers
on alternate days. The doors were
sawed in half and hinged so that
neither should touch the property
of the other. Bricks and copper
divided the cook stove, fire space;
oven and all.
.When the grim details had been
settled the brothers retired each to
his own portion of the house and•
commenced the long silen,e. Tn
the 23 years which followed neither
man spoke to the other and neither
stepped over the boundary line.
They cooked their own meals each
on his part of the cook stove, car-
ried the food to their respective
ends of the table and ate without
speaking. At evening when Luke
was entitled to the chair he pulled
it over into his part of the house
and sat down and smoked. The
next night Matthew enjoyed the
same privilege.
On warm summer nights the men
might he seen side by side, each on
his side of the front porch. appar-
cently unmindful of the other. When
the cook stove burned out and it
became necessary to have another,
Luke placed his exact share on the
table Matthew covered it without
comment.
Besides the chair there was an-
other thing they held in common—
their mother's Bible. One night
Luke would read his chapter and
then shove the book across to Mat-
thew. The next night Matthew
read first.
As time went on and the region.
developed, the little brick cottage
and the land upon which it stood
became more and more valuable.
The colliery buildings drew nearer
and nearer and the company made
frequent offers for the property.
With each new proposition Luke
would agree to sell at Matthew's
figure if , Matthew would relinquish
all: claim to the chair, and Matthew
would take whatever Luke pleased..
if the chair was given to bind the
bargain. The company gave up its
negotiations and prepared to erect,
its 'offices on land adjoining .the
Gregory house.
That was the beginning of the
end. Excavations were started
nearby, and, as the place was
rocky, there were' frequent blasts
which shook the cottage and loos-
ened
...,
" the sides of the hill. One
night while • the brothers • were
asleep the earth ,.beneath the cot-
tage gave way and the house so
long divided tottered to its fall, The
building collapsed : and slid piece-
meal into the trench below.
Out of the ruins a man was seen
crawling. It was Luke, and as he
looked about him he called and
called again : "Matty, Matty, are
ye hurted 1" The silence .of 23
years had been broken at last.
When the first party of rescuers
arrived they found Luke dragging
Matty from beneath a roof timber.
The old animosity had been forgot-
ten in the common disaster and the
reconciliation was complete. The.
twins were brothers in £act.
"A house divided against itsel'
mann fall. 'Tis the Scripture and:
a warning to sinfu' men,1A said
Luke,
"Aye,' 'tis," said Matthew.
When the brothers set to work
to clear away the debris of 'their
wrecked home, under the shattered
rooftree were found a few frag-
ments of what had once been a
chair.
BRITISH COLONIAL FIRE.
A special meeting of the Sharehold
ers has been Wiled • by the Board of
Directors for the purpose of malting
an issue of $260,000.00, increasing the
subscribed capital to $1,000,000.00.
The Company has been doingbtys
ness since June, 1912, and at the
first Annual Meetieg of Shareholders,
held in February last, an issue of
$250,000.00 was made and immediately
subscribed. �►
The balance of the proposed issue
remaining unsubscribed at a certain
date will be taken up by a Montreal
syndicate, which has agreed to sub
scribe all the shares not sold, at s
premium of $10.00 per share.
The operations of the Company have
been so satisfactory that a certain
number of Shareholders have ex
pressed the desire to subscribe the
new issue:
With the capital ofone million.
($1,000,000.00) the "British Colonial
Fire" will rank amongst the most im,
portant companies doing business in.
Canada.
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Happiness Classes.
Idle people in Paris are now at-
tending "happiness classes." : The
classes are conducted by a poet,
who lectures the company on how
to be happy. The principle is to
"destroy the terror felt by living'
creatures toward nature, life 'and
death" But the actual terror felt
by human .beings toward these sub-
jects was probably never less than
to -day, when the atmosphere of
materialism has stifled imagine, -
tion. Even the California earth-
quake or a great volcanic disaster
leaves the great majority of people
unmoved,
Deer Mint in Streets.
A deer hunt was provided in the
streets of Musselburgh, Scotland,
on 'a recent Sunday by the appear-
ance of 'a deer which is supposed to•
have strayed from the Duke of Bur,-
clot ch's deer park at Dalkeith.
During its passage through -the'
streets the frightened animal jump-
ed clear over the heads of people
who tried to intercept it. Finally it
reached the open' and made for
home.
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highly recommend. The `Profit Sharing' feature of
these securities enables the bond holder to participate, as
well, .with the Company in any further earnings.
Interest cheques mailed to investors twice a year.
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