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) 1914
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Tu WINfiliAll TIMES,
/LB. ELLIOTT, PDDLIEDIDD AND Peovieeon
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1914
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OPENING, OF LEGISLATURE.
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With a function marked by the usual
brilliancy and formality, the Ontario
Legislature opened on Wednesday, Feb-
ruary 18th, The comparative convale-
scence of the Prime Minister eecourag-
ed more gayety than would have been
the case if Sir James had still be in a
critical condition.
It h g i rally agreed, however, that
Sir Jamew ill be unable to return to
active ph' 1? poi the problem of
choosing I,ts •uf.ce—tr is giving the
Conservative party more worry even
than than the general public would
imagine. In fact the Conservative
members themselves admit a trace of
pessimism.
Hon. J. J. Foy wi1; lead the House
this Sessicm hut he does not want the
post permanently. Who, then, will be
the leader of the Government?
The Conservatives feel so tunertain
about it that they are comparing the
present situation in Ontario with that
which followed the retiremsnt of Sir
John A. Macdonald in the Federal Field.
The Conservative party after a few
years of weak rule and dissension went
to pieces and a Liberal Govemment
came into poser. Sueh a breakdown
is feared now in Qatari°.
Hon. Adam Beck will not serve under
Hon, W. J. Hanna, nor will the latter
act under toe former. In spite of his
undoubted elements of strength, more-
over, there- are increasing protests
against the selection of Mr.
Not only is he still under the shadow of
the Proudfoot charges which established
a serious case against am Minister,
backed up by his own admission, and
which admittedly were not given a full
investigation, but he is also Corporation
Counsel for the Standard Oil interests
in Ontario and this important fact alone
is militating strongly against the selec-
tion of such a man for the position of
Prime Minister.
it was shown that Arthur Smythe who
wee appointed homestead inspector for
the district of Humboldt under the
present Government was fined $50 and
costs for attempting to fore voters to
vote for Coneervative candidates in the
Saskatchewan eleetione of 1912. Dr.
Neely asked if Mr, Smythe was still in
the peblic service, and received the
following laconic answer, "Yes, still in
the employ of the Government."
In the other instance an affidavit was
read showing that Glen Campbell, ler-
mer Conservative member for Dauphin
and now Chief Indian Inspector in Mani-
toba, took an active part in the by-
eleetion in the constituency of North
Qu'Appelle on behalf of the Conser-
vative candidate. The affidavit told of
the purchase of much whiskey by Indian
Inspector Campbell for halfbreetis
amongst others during the campaign.
In one case a halfbreed was bought
drinks until he became helplessly drunk.
He left the hotel and went to sleep on
the prairie in the month of January.
When discovered in the morning one
foot was entirely frozen and be is crip-
pled for life.
These are samples of the way the
whole force of homestead inspectors
and Interior Department officials in the
west are being made cogs in Hon. Rob-
ert Rogers' political machine.
"CIVIL SERVICE" IN THE WEST
In 1911, when Hon, Frank Oliver was
Minister of Interior, there were 38,909
homestead entries in Western Canada
and 40 homestead inspectors. Last year
there were 31,499 homestead entries
and 6) homestead inspectors. Although
the homestead work has very greatly
decreased so far as entries are con-
cerned, there has been an increase of
50 per cent in the number of inspectors.
The object of the increase is to in-
crease the number of Conservative
political workers in Western Canada
without expense ta the party funds, but
at the expense of the public treasury.
Two instances of what is going on in
this connection were brought to the
attention of the Commons this week by
Dr. Neely cf Humboldt. In one case
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A Bank Account
SAVING is a habit that is
easily acquired, and affords
more pleasure and satisfae-
tion than can be derived
from the spending of money
No matter bow small may
he the amount you ere able
to save from your salary
each week, if it ie deposited
in this bank, you will be
given the settle courteous
treatment that is offered
large depositors.
An account eau be started
with one dollar and the
highest current interest veil
be credited every 6 months
C. P. SMITH
Manager', Wingharn
EDITORIAL NOTES
Nearly thirteen hundred miles of road
improved or constructed at a• cost of
$406,e4 I is the new high record of work
by the Colonization Roads Branch of
the Department of Public Works last
year. The work includes both coloniza-
tion roads, for which the Province bears
the entire cost, and by.law roads to
which the Government contributes a
proportion varying from one-half up.
Practical patriotism is a great thing,
and no mptake. When an organiza-
tion of Fenians wanted to come over
here from the United States and take
possession of Canada ten thousand men
went to the front to repel the invaders.
When the Dominion Government pro-
posed to reward the surviving veterans
by granting bounties it is confronted
by a list of thirty thousand applicat-
ions. Does patriotism, too, grow by
what it feeds upon.—Woodstock Sent -
i nd review.
It is rumored in p litical circles that
the latest move on the part of the On-
tario Government will be to introduce a
redistribution bill at the present session
of the Legislature, and to follow this
up by springing a general tleetion upon
the Province, either immediately fol -
losing the close of the session in the
spring or in the early fall. This is re-
garded by Toronto politicians as the
safest manner in which the Conserva-
tive party CIITI smooth over the threat-
ening storm which rises whenever the
naming of a successor to Sir James
Whitney comes up for consideration.
THE DOMINION BANK
tI tONSUND 0. OSLO?, M.P PRE$IDENT. W. 0. MATTHEWS. VI04•PRE0ID5$M
C. A. BOGERT, General Manager.
Capital Paid Up ,
Reserve Fund and Undivided Profits
$5,400,000.00
7,100,000.00
You Gan Start a Savings Account
with $1.00. It Is not necessary for you to wait until you have a
large sum of money in order to start a Savings Account with this
Bank. An account can be opened with $1.00 ated more on which
Interest is compounded twice a year,
W1NGHAM BRANCH N, EVANS, Manager. IMei
members were introduced after the inie
tell ceremony of welcoming, the Lieut. -
Governor, and the reading of the speech
from the throne. Since the close of the
last session there have been four bye -
election. M. Colin Cameron, newly -
elect for North Grey, will be introduced
by Han. W. H. Hearst and J. I. Hartt.
Mr. Geo. S. Henry, of East York, will
be escorted to the throne by Hon. Dr.
Reaume and T. H. Lennox, while Mes-
srs Follis and McFarlane, of Peel and
East Middlesex, respectively, will be
accomanpied by Han. W. J. Hanna and
C. R. McKeown, and Hon. James Duff
and A, 11, Musgrove. This ceremony
of welcoming new members is time-
honored.
Belated returns in regard to dismis.
sets during the first three months of
the Barden Government regime are
still being produced in the Commons,
although ordered by the House over two
years ago. The latest returns brought
down bring the total of dismiesals, so
far tabulated, up to the 2,000 mark.
And even at that, returns from a num-
ber of the Departments are still incom-
plete. The guillotine during the French
Revolution did not work nearly as fast
in chopping off heads as Messrs. Pelle-
tier, Reid, Cochrane and the other Min-
isters have done during their first three
months of ante in chopping off heads
of Liberal office holders.
The official statement of Dominion
finances for the month of January shows
that the Government has broken all re-
cords. The difference between falling
revenue and incteased expenditures was
never more marked in the history of
Canada. During January the net debt
increased by $10,821,765. Expenditures
inereased by over $4,000,000 as compared
with January last year, while revenue
decreased by nearly $2,000,000. In-
stead of making ends meet Finance
Minister White succeeded in going to
the bad by over $10,000,000 last month
while the balance on wrong side of the
account showed an increase of $6,000,00)
as compared with January of last year.
No other Finance Minister in the his-
tory of Canada has been able to ap-
proach this record for one month.
The free entry of Canadian cattle in-
to the United States market is putting
hundreds of thousand e of dollars into
the pockets of weetern stock -growers.
The free entry of the wheat would re-
sult in similar flnaecial galas to the
western grain -grower. Finance Miniet-
er White is powerless to prevent the
gains being reaped by the stock -grow-
ers, but he telle the grain -grower that
great economic danger Het in tinkering
With the tariff ie times of depression,
while in titnee of expansion it ig elwaya
best to "let well enough alone," It ie re
pity the United States did net put wheat
on the free list instead or prov;ding
for a aounWvailing duty, because the
Borden Gesternment could not thencon-
tinue to deprive our graft -greeters of
their legitimate profits.—Regina Lead
et
1 The opening (of the Ontario Legiala-
ture on Wednesday afternoon, which
I was accompanied by the usual pomp,
( Was unusual to the extent that four
INSECT INJURIES INCREASE.
As the result of recent scientific in-
stigations of ineect ravages in British
Columbia it was found that in some
places forest insects have destroyed
twenty-five per cent. of the timber
crop. In California, on the Sierra Na-
tional Forest, the damage done by in-
sects last sunimer far exceeded that
done by fire. In Eastern Canada the
bark beetle on the pine, the bud -worm
on the spruce and the saw -fly on the
larch have done so much injury to the
forests that special legislation for their
control has been passed by the Federal
and Provincial Governments. Indeed,
as a result of the continued ravages of
its worst insect enemy (the large larch
saw -fly) the larch, or "tamarack" is
gradually becoming commercially ex-
tinct in Canada.
The present plethora of insect pests
in the forests of Canada is due largely
to the recent ravages of forest fires,
which killed or weakened the standing
timber and thus provided vast feeding
grounds for these insects. It is for
this reason that forest fires are so much
dreaded by timber -owners, for it is not
often that the fire itself destroys the
merchantable value of the timber.
Usually it is the wood -boring insects
which follow in the wake of such fires
that make the timberounfit for lumber
and have a large share in causing the
millions of dollars loss which the na-
tion suffers annually.
To attempt the wholesale control If
the insects themselves would be a hope-
less task, but by eliminating fire -dam-
age, wide -spread insect-darnage may
also be automatically prevented, for
healthy trees are not susceptible to
attack. By segregating forest reserves,
on which the percentage of fire loss
during the last summer was smaller
than on any similarly protected areas in
America, the Forestry Branch of the
Department of the Inserior is taking a
leading part in the control of inseet
ravages.
1 thirteen were genuine, forty were class-
ed •as mixtures and twenty-seven
were classed as artiecial. Of ground
black pepper two hundred and twenty-
three samples were genuine, eleven
were doubtful and forty-five were ad-
ulterated; ground white pepper, two
hundred and fifteen genuine, five
dcubtful and fifty.three adulterated,
Of turpenine sold as a drug, one hued.
red and six samples were genuine, five
doubtful, and forty-seven adulterated.
Adulteration of foods.
A report issued by the Inland Revenue
Department dealing with the adulter-
ation of foods branch during the last
fiscal year shows that 3,609 samples of
food, drugs and fertilizers, in all parts
of the Dominion, were collected and
analyzed during the year. The cases
where adulteration were most notice-
able were in regard to cider, baking
powder, stock feeds, vanilla flavoring
extracts, ground white and black pep-
per, ground cinnamon and cassia, and
turpentine.
Of the samples of cider analyzed
thirty-five were genuine arid twent-nine
were adulterated. Of baking powders
one hundred and fifteen were up to the
standard and thirty-five below the
standard. Of stoet feed, sixty-nine
Were up to the guarantee or standard
recmirements, twenty-two were below
guarantee, and four were below steed-
ard requirements. Of vanilla extracts
Baby's Own Tablets
Cure Sickly Babies.
If your baby is sicker, if his little
stomach is out of order or his bowels
need regulating, no Other medicine will
op,
have such prompt o beneficial effect as
Baby's Own Ta ets. Thousands of
other motheb us no other medicine for
their little e ones. Concerning them
Mrs. John G. grOckett, Glenberrie, M.S.,
writes: "I have used Baby's Own
Tablets for stomach troubles, 'vomiting
and constipation, and in every instance
they have proved successful. I would
use no other medicine for my little ones."
The Tablets are sold by medicine deal-
ers or by mail at 25 cents a box from
The Dr. 'Williams Medicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont.
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
At the present time possibly no other
subject is receiving quite as much at-
tention in Canada as this one. It will
be a surprise to most readers to know
that during the fiscal year Which ended
March 31st, 1913, Canada p10111,500,-
000 in duty on food, and all oethis large
sum is virtually a direct tax 'oti.the.
consumer.
In glancing over the list it Is:easy to
understand that the buying public are
themselves largely to .blame in many
instances, for there are articles of food
produced in Canada that are •equal in
every respect to those Made in any
country in the world.,
In the baking powder line alone there
were 667,904 lbs. imported hot° Canada,
and this means the consumer paid in
duty the enormous sum of $67,000.
There are no better goods in the world
in this line than magic baking powder,
and it is made in a model sanitary up-
to-date factory, and can be procured in
any first-elass store at one-half the
price the imported article sells for.
Suehoarticles as raisins, currants, and
Many other thing, which 'denot grow
in Canada, or are not preklueed here,
have of nece'ssity to be bitported, and
the duty paid.
If the consumer would devote a little
thought and attention to this subject a
large amount of money could and would
be saved. ---Canadian Home Journal.
Mr. D. Geddes has purchased the
general store business from Mr. R.
Adams at Londesboro. Many friends
here will wish Mr. Geddee success in
his new business.
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Prank Morton employed by Robert
Stenton a Harwich farmer, was killed
by a cave-in in a gravel pit.
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BUSINESS
TRANSFER
Mr. J. K. Irwin begs to announce to the
public of Wingham and district, that he
has sold his Dry Goods and Grocery Busi.
ness to MR. JOSEPH BAKER, of Galt,
who will take charge on March 2nd. Mr.
Irwin thanks his numerous customer for
their patronage, and hopes they will deal
as liberally with his successer, as with him.
There are a number of accounts owing
Mr. Irwin, and he desires to have settle-
ment of same by Feb'y 28th at the latest.
- Look for Mr. Baker's announcement in
a future issue of this paper.
firs, IR WIN
CREAM WANTED FARM FOR SALE.
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If you have cream to sell write us forto. 4 e. 7, Ent ),,,i, 11) -re; 85 cleared —all under
Wawa -
cans. We supply two cans free pay all
w !ll .c
express charges. Cheques payable at c ' ' ". u. 31.1 rained, 4 acres
f ar un il , woodshed.l.;s t story
par issued twice each month. Highest,1"1,21' '''':ilY kwiel 1,1tIi,en
prices paid consistent with an honest';" )e s':.?? ij ?'N; CI an 3 a3 tabling, cern ent
test. Bath can weighed and tested the i' 1cl 'is'aill 1 n'll all water in house and
day received and a statement of same ' ' ':',
ee .n for quick s ale.
mailed at once. Ship to us direct ancl'itlyeei i! I k 3 I. A b are' 0133 fr1/1 post offie e, school
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save buyer's commission and expenses ,eey t
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of hauling. WM. WIGHTMA N,
TRELEAVEN & RANTON
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Palm Creamery Lat 35, con 10 or B elgrave P. 0.
Palmerston, Ont
FARM FOR SALE
A good 200 acre farm within nine
miles of Wingham; good bank barn;
good cement house; large orchard, and
considerable quantity of timber. Price
$6500.00.—Apply to R. VANSTONE,
Wingham, P, 0.
FARM FOR SALE.
The undersigned offers for sale his
farm, lot 3. con. 7, Turnberry, contain-
ing 107 acres of land. On the premises
are a good barn, with cement stabling,
good house, drilled well and windmilL
Get full particulars from
C. J. RINTOUL.
R. R. 4
Wingham, Ont.
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Strathroy ratepayers carried the Hy- '"` nal That is Dirt
droelectric by-law by a mejority of 1)2,
Alonza Dingman, of St. Thomas, for
many years postmaster at Southwold,
clopped dead while reading a paper in,
his home.
I Paisley Public and Continuation Scho o
was completely destroyed by an ear ly
morning fire of unknown origin.
Peach -growers in the Niagara district
report serious damage to their crops b y
Ithe excessively cold weather of the past
Week.
All Growing Children
are dependent on nourishment for growth.
Their health as men and women is largely
established in childhood.
Ti' your child is Janguid, hloodiefss, tired *best rising, with-
out amhition or rosy cheeks. Scotts Emabisst is a wonderful
help. It possesses nature's grandest body-Imilding fats So
delicately predigested that the blond shawl* fts strength
and carries it to every organ and tissue and ilbre.
Viral It brxeroase* their appetite. then It adds tiesh--strenstisona
the bones - makos them facto:It:stet:tiro ab411 healthr.
No alcohol or narcotic in Scott'* tuntlsion,jult purity And shuttle.
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Cheap
May be Dirt
But Never CHEAP".
The ly-st is always the
cheapest. So why waste time
and money expctimenting wt h
cheAp coal, when you can get
genuine
D.B. & W.,
SCRANTON
The best of the beat by actual teat
WOOD
Four foot hardwood at $4
pc r cord.
No. it hardwood at $3 per
cord.
J. A. McLEAN
6 Sale of 6
SHORTHORN BULLS
Broadview Shorthorn—Herd Headed
by "Favorite Character," (hop.)
For sale are six hulls, eight to
twelve months old, These are choice
young bulls with the best of breeding
and will be sold reasonably, If you
need any thing write me or give us a call.
J. G. FYFE,
Wingham, Ont.
(Farm lee miles south of Wingham.)
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C. N. Griffin
GENERAL AGENT
FIRE tArtattie
LIFE
ACCIDENT
PLATE GLASS
WEATHER 10440307+
Coupled with a REAL &vat and
MONEY LOANING Business.
Issuer of Marriage Licenses.
Insurance
Office over Malcolm's Grocery.
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A French doctor has announced anew
cure for diabetes in a diet of dried veg-
etables. He claims to have had re-
markable results from his cure.
Inspector Ayearst has laid 72 charges
against 36 licensed hotelkeepers in the
county of Waterloo. The eases, which
inelude various breaches of the law will
be tried Thursdey in Berlin.
In the peach district of Larnbton
County 25 per cent, of the buds hav e
been destroyed by frost.
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