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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-10-29, Page 81 ,Tiersita~~~601400041101001•0~10•30101011i 46) HEADQUARTERS FOR ,flo I FAMILY GROCERIES If you have not tried us with an order for . HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES do so now and see how we fill it. Fruit and Vegetables in Season and our aim is to please in quality and promptness of delivery. TEAS Atrial of Our. Bulk Teas will convince you that the quality is the best and the price is unchanged at 30c. and 40c.• Henry T. Thomson "The House of Quality" 1110111•1•11 OFree uelivery Phone 9 Fast Service.er 1111011iiisairsiluidiftwalititenfasiVekkitastatithrX1 CREAM WANTED )1 401 Having an up-to-date creamery in I full operation, WO solicit your cream patronage. We are prepared to pay the highest market prices tor good cream and give you an . honest business, weighty g, sampling and testing each can of cream received carefully and returning a full statement of Earns to each patron. We funish two cans to each patron es and pay every pay all express charg two weeks. Write for further particulars or send for CAM and give us a trial. SEAFORTH CREAMIRY CO. sEAFORTN, ONT. ekommozgammtsgsffmmesommsma Pagv 8 A MODERN SLAVE MART 1•0••••••••••••••••in Tit A r Fit 1 1\' 1tN CHATTELS 4T11,14 GOV:i ON IN :MOROCCO. On a 4. ertain lhav In Each Week In anti In .41•1•.maliesit Wo, men and (*Witham 011ered Sale—Atietion Begins With lathlie Player anti Then the Buy - tea '..ttlaitie the "Goods." hiel cor many years, had an idea thav Alva taw to -any Was dead, even lit acsb so far as the buying and eellime itlk.a and women were con- cerned. But I know different now. And I eitapose iiiy intstake arose from. having &mill so often when a boy at school about the "Abolition of Negro S'IhrverY,- the "Putting down of the Traffie in Slaves," ete., etc., with sundry eulogiunis ea Britain's glory thereat! However, as I have just said, my eyes were opened three year or so ago, whea 1 spent some time in Morocco, says a writer in a Loatam me/gazine. I do not intend here and now to deseriles at length the mysterious city of I•ez. There is the new town and tn.. old one, respectively named 11ez-e1-jail:1 and Fez -Bali. The streets are very tortuous and ex- trema/la narrow, as in most Moorish towns; there are many fine gardens, especially those belonging to the Sultan. Of course, all the houses are tial -roofed, and generally of three stories; the number of mos- ques is great, and many are very beau t if ul. Under the guidance of my astute and clever Moor, who seemed to know all sorts of folk in Fez, both high and low, and got leave for me to view many things I should certain- ly not have viewed otherwise, I had :two or three very interesting days in Fez. But the chief attraction to me—for it was the one thing I was never likely to see outside Morocco, was the slave market, Here, on a stated day each week, you can buy almost any sort of slave you may wish. They stand in rows, or in small gangs—men, women, and children, though the two latter classes predominate, and the wo- man-clafis is largest of all. Some- times they are fully dressed, gener- ally they are not. For when a Moor -wants to purchase a slave -girl he usually is very far front being will- ing to buy "a pig itt a poke," as we say in England. He has a keen eye for appraising a good female figure and. beautiful features, whether white, black, • or copper -colored. And he is not giving any big price for an old or incapable slave, even of the woman kind, let alone of the male type. aly guide, friendly and somewhat old acquaintance as he was, could not be got to say where the slaves came from. He professed utter ignoranee of this, beyond saying that caravans brought them from across the desert! Sometimes the slaves are sold privately, and some- times by auction, for there are regu- lar "auetioneers" engaged in this business, and the slave goes to the highest bidder. There is often strong competition for a really fine- looking girl, of from sixteen to thirty, and the bidders often get ex- cited otair this, not a common thing for Moors in most matters. The buyers walk leisurely round the market, surveying the slaves of- fered for sale, feeling their limbs, and examining them, much as men buying horses or cattle do in our land. And the slaves themselves, for the most part, are sullen, or at least indifferent, though now and then you, watching closely, may see the scornful curl of the lip of a young woman, as some fat, old, ugly Mos- lem leers at her when about to bid, or feels her arms and body in order to place a value on her. And sudden flashes of eyes and quivers of lovely nostrils prove that these slaves have not lost all interest of feeling, de- spite their wretched plight. It is something, however, to be able to record that, for the most part, once they are bought, the slaves are generally well-treated. The Moor does not like to lose the full value for money spent; also the authorities, so far as they can keep an eye on the women in a house, and, whilst allowing the Moorish master a very wide latitude indeed with regard to his wife, or wives, and female slaves, they do not allow hint to ill-treat even the latter on the lines of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." And so the slave, once purchased, whether meant to live in Fez or in a distant part of Morocco, generally settles down to a more or less prosaic and satisfactory life, as an inmate of the Moorish household. These slave markets at Fez and Marrakesh, known as the "Sok-el- Guezel," are unique of their kind in Northern Africa.. A visit to the latter market was at Fez. The ground of the "Soks" is strewn with clean sand, and the walls enclosing the Sok have several recesses, cov- ered so as to shelter buyers and sPectittors from the hot sun. The slaves at Marrakesh stand within little places itt an arcade, about the middle of the market; and one cus- tom obtains there which was not In evidences at Fez, or at leaet I did not flee it, namely, when the auttioneers Vieth to make a woman slave appear specially attractive, after first showing her more or less a. la the Garden of Eden, they dress her up tin really fine clothes, borrowed for the occasion, ere they otter her for Nate, to show prospective buyers what a beauty elle vrould make, as an additional wife or inmate of the harem. It certainly made me think fur- iously, as the Prench say, to find, that the Dilala (auctioneers) began the sale with public prayer. The auetioneer lead the alaVe the hand round a 'circle, for general inspection. After a bid is made the auctioneer tries ta get a higher one by. constantly repeating this bid, and enlarging on the beauty, or strength, or eapability of the 'dam THE WINGHAM TIMES October 29111g 1914 11 COD LIVER OIL tra•eaaeee—slicsaaaaracemaasparnisaargnesesocavasmaxask Is one of the best Lung Builders A guaranteed cure or prevention for Coughs and Colds TRYIT Put up in two sizes 5oc. and $41.00 Sucessor to A. L. HAMILTON CORNER DRUG STORE WINGHAM ••••• BORN HAMMOND-In Wingham (4eneral Hospital, on October 21st, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hammond; a son. FiciEnsma-In Teeswater, on Oct. 15th, the wife of Thos. Friendship; a daughter. k Turnberry, on October 19th, to Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Louttit; a someir•ea . Vae• a WiLsoii- In Lower- Wingham, on Oct. 24th, to Mr. and Mrs. F. Wilson; a son. Aceamv-At Shelby, Ohio, on Oct. 22cd, to Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Agnew; a daughter (Margaret Letitia.) imam DIED. HEALE-At Goderich, on Oct. 21, Janet lire Reale, wife of the late James Reale, aged '73. -- LOCKHART-In Vancouver, B. C., on October 20, Dr. Robert J. Lockhart, nephew of Atha Robt. Lockhart, of Wingham, in his 58th year. •S•MCGSUS, BEATTIE-In Seaforth, 'on Oct. 21, John Beattie, aged 81 years, 10 months and 9 days. • HUNTER- In Howick. on October 21st, Sarah Eaten, wife of Mn. Samuel Hunter, in her 80th year. TinEuvr-In Goclerich township, on Oct. 22nd, Frederick Tibbutt, aged 40 years and 6 months. GIBBINGS-In Clinton, on Oct. 20th, Elizabeth Shipley, wife of Thomas Gibbings, in her 60th year. Chas. Williams, of St. Catherines died of lockjaw from an injury to his ankle received when slipping on the step of a car in a rush of workmen for the trolley. London council decided to insure for $',000 eachaone of the more than five hundred Londoners, including British recerviste and nurses. who left with the first contingent, and to do the same ro7-th-O-S; in the second. 0•0+//1•.••••••••••uor • Rev. James McRae, of Guelph, has been extended a cali from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Chatham. gp, Hon. Colin H.:[Camploell, feirmerly Minister of PublieiWorks of :Manitoba, dral on Saturday night at his home in Winnipeg. A petition has been filed for the sub- mission of the Canada Temperance Act in Perth county, exclusive of Atratford, PROPERTY FOR S The undereigned offers sale his house and cne fifth acre in the vil- lege of Belgrave for, s House is two-story brick, co a ng ten rooms end good cellar. G. frame stable on pro)erty. Everyth g in good repair. Get full pare:mists on the premises or address JAMES CtINEINGRAivi, tf I3elgra Ont, 46.010.11•••••••••••=m1moollYmmiaif STRAY CAT E Came to my mises, lot 42. conceSsiOn 12, as awanosh, on or 1 about the 17t October six head of young ca Owner cart have same by pro vin pro erty and paying expenso tit f`10S. UTTON, Wingham, Ont ANNOUNCEMENTS, &c. Notices Under This Head ten cents a line for Erst insertion; five cents for subse- quent insertions. Get Parnell's Bread at Christie's. Hand or Electric Va m Cleaners for sale or to rent. . ISARD & CO SERVANT WA T Apply to N. T. Sinclair, France reet Washing andIroning done at home at reasonable prices. Mrs. Page, Frances St. • WANTED -10 cord dry cordwood suit- able for furnace. C. N. GRIFFIN. TRUNKS AND VALISES:-Blg Stoat of select from at lowest prices. .yv. J. GREER. FOR SALE-- -A knitting machine only used three times. Apply W. E. machine, Wingham. • To RENT. -Sev ral rooms in the Kent Block suit le for living rooms. Apply.to THE Wk DAVIES Co. NeericE -All accounts owing to the undersigned mnst be paid by November 15th, 1914. DR., R. L, STEWART. FOUND -Two Yale keys and an ordin- ary key, attacked to a chain. Owner can have same by appiy at TiMEs of - fine. FARM FOR SALE -175 acres; one mile from Bluevale and three miles from Wingham. Apply to Bosman Bros., Balevale. ONIONS AND CELERY -We are offering Onions in five bag lots at $1 per bag. Celery at $3 per 100, till the 15th of November. R. A, GRAHAM. FOR SALE -200 acres of land close to the town of Wingham. First-class grain and stock farm. Will sell all or sub -divide and sell in part. Apply to John S. Duckett, Glenavon, Sask. DRESSMAKING --H ving returned from the West, I will be leased to see all former customers hose patronage was much appreciate , and many new ones. Miss J. MC ENZIE, Dressmaker, Francis St, NOTICE -It has been rep that I have retired from bus' ss, This !s not true. 1 am 111 g business in the old stand an h a complete stock of Verity plow r airs and repairs for nearly all leading plows, Fleury plows for sale. ommuno* WM. GANNETT. SCRANTON OR LEHIGH COAL WOOD KINDLING At Lowest Prices. R. J. Cantelon OFFICE WI= Dominion Express Co.'s Office AUCTION SALES Mr. P.R. Bennett, auctioneer, has re* ceived inatructions from the estate of the late D. II. Moffat to sell by public auction at the premises, lot 48, con. I, Turnberry, on Priday, November 5th, a good list of horse, cattle, sheep, pigs and implements, Everything is to be sold without reserve, The Colonial Player Piano Company has closed negotiations with Stratford 16r the establishment of a factory at that city. 71TRACTIVE VALT17177'sn ILADIES' HOSE, GLOVES AND UNDERWEAR 1 PENMAN'S CASH- NIUE HOSE - I Ladies' plain cashmere Bose, full fashioned and seamless, made from line even yarns and fast dye at popnlar prices, 25c, 50e and $1.00 Fowne's English Gloves The new fail and winter Gloves are here in fine kid, doe skin cape, many fancy designs with black and white stitching. Prices $1.00 to $2.00 per pair. Heavy Woollen Shedting In grey or white, fine even weave and free from specks etc, 72 inches wide, prices 00c and $1.00 per yard. All -wool Underwear, Separate Pieces and Combination Suits Our stock is now • complete from some of the best makers, Penman's; 'Watson's and Stan - fields. Prices $1.00 to $3.50 suit Large variety of Flannelette and Wool- len Blankets, Sheetings, Linens etc. All -wool Blankets with blue or pink borders made from finest Canadian yarns, full size and good weight at $4.00, $6.50, $8.00, $10.00. Full Size English Flannelette Blankets Made from extra heavy flannel- ette, whiped edges in white or grey with pink or blue borders at $1.75 per pair. Produce Wended- Large quan• titles choice Butter, Eggs, Fowl, Dried Apples, etc. KING ROS1 'Phone 71 Agents for Standard Patterns IRSIEMEIMASEMSEISUMBECIN203114 -AND-TRU NiKetzr E M Double Track all the Way TORONTO --C H LC A GO TORONTO—MONTREAL The International Limited Canada's Train of Superior Service Leaves Toronto 4.40 p.m.daily, arrives Detroit 0.55 p.m.and .Chicago 8.00 a.m. MORNING SERVICE Leaves Toronto 8 a.m.'arrive Detroit 1.45p.m., and Chicago 8.40 p.m. daily. Last Train out of Toronto at Night Leaves 11.85p.m.,m.rives Detroit 8a.m. and Chicago 3 p.m. daily, assuring important connections with principal trains for Western States and Canada*: FOR MONTREAL Leave Toronto 9 a.m.,8.30 p.m. and 11 p.m. daily. Berth reservations, etc., at G.T.R. ticket offices. H. B. ELLIOTT, Town Passenger and Tioket Agent, Phone 4, W, BURGMAN, Station Agent, Phone 60. ..•••=•••••=11. —......r-------........_. SAVE MONEY 11 Save from $18 to $20 by having your , SUIT OR OVERCOAT Repaired, Dry Cleaned ' and Pressed We also put on Velvet Collars and make alterations. We never disappoint. All work guaranteed JOHNSTON'S Cleaning & Pressing Works 'Phone 179 "We Know How" under new management. CHAS. G. JOHNSTON Manager 1 FOR SALE WINGHAM SALT WORKS OLD ESTABLISHED BUSINESS First class wholesale and re- tail trade. No other salt well within 30 miles. plant in good order, reason for selling, failing health. •••••="maxi F. G. SPARLING WINGHAM, ONT. BU PRUPARUD 0 Are You Ready to WINTER TOURS Defend Your Country? TO THE LAND OF Sunshine and Summer Days CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, LOUSIANNA, ETC. Limited trains leave Toronto daily, making direct connection at Detroit and Buffalo for the Southern States, and at Chicago for California, etc. Those contemplating a trip of any nature should consult Canadian Pacifie Ticket Agents, who win' pleased to quote rates, arrange reservationa *and attend to all details in connection with yoar trip, or write M. G. Murphy, Distsict Passenger Agent, corner Mg and Yoting Streets, Tbranto. W. A. Seadersint, Town Agent, Phone 47' H. teenier, station Agent, phone 7 YOU are urged to join the 33rd Huron Regiment and be ready when the call to arms comes. ANY able bodied Mari over eighteen ,years ef age is eligible. YOU can either jolt ithr for home serviee or for service abroad. WRITE, Telephone or See Capt. N. T. SINCLAIR, "111" COMPANY, Mrd nEGimENT Winghata eW11/11.1111/Vialewsal/alpaapalkillets•OIS•oatialaVallitile4e1•41, liatelellatalS111, A Pleasant Surprise 5 WHILE ALMOST EVEYTHING 15 GOING UP IN PRICE It should be a pleasant surprise to the people of Wingharn and' vicinity to know that in the matter of rubber footwear We intend to sell hi all cases just as cheap and in most cases /p cheaper /r than last year You will need Rubbers very shortly for the cold and damp weather is sure to come and when you do—do not forget that in most kinds our 'prices are lower than last year and in o case higher. W. H.WiIIis & Com Sole Agents 1 For Ladies I FALL GOODS Seasonable Fall Goods Arriving Daily We have been 'receiving daily and passing into stock a variety of Fall Dress Goods, Velvets, Plaid Mantlings Etc. As all of the goods were bought months before war broke out we are selling them all at old prices. Call and see them before buying elsewhere. 111•1110,•mk We have a large range of Velvets in all the latest shades just arrived. Ladies' Chincillis Coats, newest styles. Heavy Wool Plaid Mantling for Coats etc. Ladies', Children's and Mens' Sweater Coats. We also have Bran Shorts, All kinds of Feed. FLOURS: Purity, Royal Household, Robin Hood, Golden City. Try our Robin Hood Oat Meal All kinds of Produce taken on Goods. isla A. MILLS Successor to T. A. Mills PHONE 89, WINGEAM, ONT.