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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1912-01-18, Page 4.f ,- _-- 0 THE IN-INGHAM TIMES, JANUARY 18, 1912 THE Dominion Bank HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO Sir Edmund B. OSLER, M.P., President. W. D. MATTHEWS, - Vice -President. Qapital $4,700,000.00 Reserve $5,700,000.00 Total Assets ....,,.. $70,000,000,01) A Branch of this Bank has been esta- blished in London, England, at 73 CORNHILL, E.C. This Branch will issue Letters of Credit and Drafts on all important points in Canada, negotiate Bills sent for collection, make telegraphic trans. fens, and transact every description of banking business. Information will be furnished on all Canadian matters. A special department will be provid- ed for the use of visitors and bearers of our Letters of Credit. • C. A. BOGERT, General Manager. WINGHAM BRANCH: W. R. Geikie, Manager. R. VANSTONE, Solicitor. TO ADVERTISERS Notice of changes must be left at this office not later than Saturday noon. The copy for changes must be left not later than Monday evening. Casual advertisements accepted up to noon Wednesday of each week. BSTABLISHBD 1872 TUE WINGMAM TIMES. H. 5LLIOTT, PtIWOTBHBR♦NDP aeRRIZITe • THURSDAY JANUARY 18, 1912. EDITORAT NOTES. What is the Imperialism of Canada anyway? We have declined so far to increase the British preference in the tariff. We are now seeing our manu- facturers asking for further protection against British products, even though those products be raw material; and we see our labor leaders asking for Legis- lation which will restrict the coming to Canada of British subjects, except un- der regulation and supervision, which might be applicable to aliens but cer- tainly no right place in an. "Imperial" Dominion. - Ottawa Free Press. The main estimates for the corning fiscal year, totalling $149,789,677, were tabled in the Commons Thursday after- noon by Hon. W. T. White, Minister of Finance. As compared with the total estimates for the current fiscal year, brought down by the late Government, this is a decrease of $6,289,861. But as compared with the main estimates of last session, it is an increase of over ten millions, and when the supplement- ary estimates are brought down, later in the session, is is safe to predict that the new Government, instead of pro- viding for the cutting down of expendi- ture, as Mr. Borden promised in oppo sitisn, will be several millions in ad- vance of their predecessors. Unless the Ontario and Federal. Gov- ernments get together without further delay the scarcity of farm laborers throughout the Province instead of im- proving will likely become more than ever a source of complaint next spring. Partly as a result of instructions issued by the Dominion immigration authori- ties to booking agents last year, which checked the booking of immigrants to the cities, and to a less extent owing to the delay in completing the joint immigration plans already fore -shadow- ed, there has been for months an al- most complete cessation of immigration work on the part of the staff of the Ontario offices in London. As the spring movement of immigrants is to a r is the best and quickest way to perfect health. Women and girls who suffer are simply weak —weak all over. Opiates and alcoholic mixtures are worse than worthless, they aggra- vate the trouble and lower the standard of health. Scott's Emulsion strengthens the whole body, invigorates and builds up. Be sure to get SCOTT'S -- It's the Standard and always the best. ALL DRUGGISTS 11-21 large degree the result of work done in the fall and winter the present inaction is a source of worry to immigration officials. The big protected interests can make up their minds to the situation that now confrqnts them. It is too late to decide whether they prefer to allow the western farmer to sell where he will or to lose a substantial measure of their own protection, They have de- cided against freedom for the western. farmer and he will now devote his atten- tion more vigorously than ever to tearing good-sized chunks out of the Canadian tariff wall.—Regina Leader. The Government, on the recommen- dation of Hon. Frank Cochrane, Min- ister of Railways and Canals, has de- cided to abandon altogether the New- market Canal, connecting the town of Newmarket with Lake Simcoe via the Holland River. On the canal there has been spent to date a little over half a million dollars, and to complete it and provide for conservation works the de- partmental engineers estimate that fully as much more would be required. There is trouble with one Conservative member over the announcement that the Newmarket Canal is to be abandon- ed. J. A. Armstrong, who represents the riding, says that there should be an inquiry before this work is aban- doned, and he proposes to bring the matter up in the House. He does not agree with the opinion of the Minister of Railways that the work is useless. HUGHES—BOURASSA—MONK. Mr. Monk was elected to Parliament three months ago as a Nationalist, after a campaign waged in the com- pany of Mr. Henri Bourassa and Le Devoir, and based almost entirely up- on opposition to the alleged imperial- ism and militarism of the Liberal Gov- ernment. He had already publicly sep- arated himself from the Conservative party and Col. Sam Hughes upon the same grounds. After the election Mr. Monk joined a cabinet which included Col. Sam Hughes as its minister of militia. In this capacity as Montreal minister, Mr. Monk attended recently a banquet given to the said minister of militia, at which the minister of militia made an extremely militarist and imperialist speech. Mr. Monk followed that speech by an address in which he expressed the profoundest confidence in Col. Hughes and his fitness for his office. The day after that speech Mr. Bour- assa's paper, Le Devoir, which was the chief journalistic supporter of Mr. Monk in the campaign, came out with a sharp rebuke to the minister of militia for his militarist disctetions, and an in- timation that much more of that sort of thing would be followed by the most energetic protest of Le Devoir and its following. Is it any wonder that Mr, Monk needs all the patronage that he can lay his hands on to keep the coalition from falling apart? -Montreal Herald. THE POPULAR MAJORITY. The recent Liberal onslaught upon Sir James Whitney's bulky majority left it but four slimmer than it was— but if the Government finds in that result an assurance that its hold upon the regard of the people of Ontario is as strong as ever, the official returns of the election are liable to prove an unwelcome surprise. The popular ma- jority of the Government with only one constituency to be heard from— .Algoma—was just 39.614, or less than half of the total rolled up in the pro- vincial election of 1908. There has been a general impression that less than half of the number who voted three years ago turned out last Decem- ber, and this has been advanced as the reason for the decline in the Govern- ment's vote. The official figures show that in spite of the fact that the elec- tion was brought on in the winter, at the commencement of the busy Christ- mas season, the reduction in the vote where contests were held was less than 14 per cent. The total vote on Dec. 11 was 365,- 958. In 1908 only six constituencies went by acclamation; in December the number was seventeen. The absence of a contest in the additional eleven constituencies mean a reduction in the total vote of approximately 45,000. In the eighty-nine constituencies in which contests where held the reduc- tion in the vote was, roughly speaking, 60,000. The unpolled vote was 274,293, with Toronto, where Conservative candi- dates were in little danger, offending the most. The injustice that the bringing on of a vote in the winter did to the settlers in the northern con- stituencies is evident from the official returns. In Parry Sound 3,361 men voted, while 6,086 did not get to the polls. In Kenora 1,912 went to the polls, and 2,256 remained away, Manitoulin had 2,669 unpolled votes, with 1,679 recorded. News of the death of Senator Thomas McKay has been received from Truro, N. S. He was a Conservative and was elevated to the Senate in 1881. He was born in Picton county, and was I first elected to the Commons in 1877. AN OPEN LETTER From a Well Known Clergyman Showing How Indigestion Can Be Cured. Rev. T. A. Drury, Beamsville, Ont.,, writes as follows:— "For eighteen years I have been increasingly impress- ed with the wonderful effects for good wrought by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. For some years I had suffered almost constantly with chronic dyspepsia of the most stubborn type, attended by different other troubles which invariab- ly follow, or accompany it as its re- sults, prominent among which were kidney trouble and piles. Against this complication of disease I waged a vig- orous warfare for several months, us- ing many different remedies, none of which gave permanent relief. In my discouragement I was about to ciscon- tinue treatment altogether when I was advised by a friend to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, the use of which, though under very unfavorable circumstances, soon revived my drooping courage. The medicine struck at the root of weak- ness and the different troubles of which dyspepsia was the prime cause releas- ed, let go and disappeared. In one month 1 increased fifteen pounds in weight, and received a new lease of life. Only six boxes of pills produced this wonderful change in my health, which was miraculously permanent. Later my sister became so reduced by anaemia (though under the care of our family doctor) that she could scarcely walk. In this dangerous ex- tremity Dr. Williams's Pink Pills were resorted to and in a brief space of time restored her to perfect health. Being a minister of the gospel many test cases have come under my notice, in all of which Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have fully sustained their world-wide reputation. This is why I can con- sciensciously recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as being superior to any- thing known to me in the treatment of the many diseases for which they are recommended." A PARTISAN VICTORY. Toronto Star. Major Currie defends the application of the spoils system by the usual ex- cuse of the politician, "You're another." The Laurier Government did something wrong in 1896, and so it is right for the Borden Government to do some- thing wrong in 1912. The Toronto Tele- gram denies that the spoils system was applied in 1896. But suppose it was. We were told that the election of Sep- tember 21st was not a mere .party vic- tory, but a great upheaval of national sentiment, in which thousands of Libe- rals voted against reciprocity. The new Government was to be a broad, national concern, not a body of parti- sans. The appointment of Mr. White as Minister of Finance was put forward as the evidence of this breadth of view. Has this idea been abandoned? Is the Borden Government content to be a narrow-gauge partisan concern, to obey the partisans, to be governed by the ideas, not of the statesman, but of the ward heeler; the man who thinks, not of the general interests of the coun- try, but of taking revenge upon some official who has offended him and re- warding his own friends? We do not believe that this is Mr. Borden's idea. But it is a pity that his strength is not equal to his good intentions. It is a pity that the strong men in the Cabinet are not broad, and that the broad men are not strong. Surplus is Nearly Thirty Millions. The new Government is still heading towards another large "Fielding sur- plus." The revenue for the first nine months of the current fiscal year total- led nearly one hundred millions, with total expenditures of only some seven- ty-three millions. The increase in rev- enue over the first nine months of the last fiscal year was $13,S17.114, while the total expenditures decreased by $2,- 511,155, although the figures of ex- penditure are, of course, somewhat incomplete, since they represent only the returns presented to the Finance Department up to December 31. Ex- penditure on consolidated fund account totalled $54,803,871, an increase of $1,409,738, and forty-five millions less than the revenue. Expenditure on capital account was $18,983,354, or nearly three millions less than during the corresponding period of 1910. The total net debt of the Dominion at the end of the calendar year was $313,380,- 651, a decrease of thirteen and one- half millions as compared with Decem- ber 31, 1910. For December the rev- enue totalled $11,596,099, an increase of $1,805,712 as compared with the pre- ceding December. Parent, the man captured at Tema. gami with furs in his possession, was fined $500 and sent to jail for a year. It is reported at Ottawa that the Grand Trunk Pacific will seek for legis- lation empowering it to make a deben- ture stock issue of £5,000,000. United States millers would reduce grain rates from the Canadian North- west to Minneapolis and Duluth. They propose to mill our wheat in bond. Miss Evelyn Baker, a school teacher, died suddenly after driving home from Uxbridge with a young man. There is a suspicion of suicide and an inquest will be held. } _ _-- 8�o =_ _: Capital Paid Up $ 2,750,000 Reserve and Undevided Profits 3,250,000 Total Assets 40,000,000.rJ ` ,e' e `4 V S The Bank of Hamilton has made saving simple—by eliminating all un- necessary Bank formality. - An account, may be opened with the deposit of one dollar even so small • an amount will act as an incentive to steady saving, and will quickly grow to a sum worth while. C. P. SMITH, Agent, Wingham. On f ii 19 Ti e Head HAMILTON 9 g " Office JiR Vi if, , Public Guarantee. That most beautiful picture, entitled "Home Again," has brought such an enormous amount of new subscriptions to The Family Herald and Weekly Star, that the publishers are finding it impossible to keep up with the filing.of orders, but in the columns of that paper this week, we notice a positive guaran- tee from the Publishers that every sub- scriber tq that great weekly for 1912 will receive a copy of the picture, "Home Again." Their guarantee is sufficient and subscribers need not feel anxious although the picture may be delayed for a few weeks. Those who have not yet subscribed to The Family Herald and Weekly Star should do so at once and make sure of having acopy of the picture "Home Again " We learn that the Publishers are contem- plating something for next season that will make this picture even more valu- able than et present. One dollar pays for a full year's subscription to the paper, and the picture. Forestry in Europe. The productive forest area in 1908 on the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Europe amounted to 182,263 acres. In general the standing timber is composed of six- ty-nine per cent hardwood and thirty- one per cent coniferous forest. The fir ranks first among the coniferous species. The total yield of lumber in 1908 was 4,575,000 cubic feet. Refuse in so far as it is not suitable for lighter lumber, such as laths or for pulp, is used for firewood. The expenditure for salaries, forest cultivation and road building amounted to approximately $751,000, and the total gross income (from lumber and firewood) .was. $1,161, 831. The capital represented by the forests ($52,665,354) brought interest accordingly at 2.21 per cent. Where intensive forestry of this kind is prac- tised, forest fires are unknown. Suff- icient money spent on Canadian Forest Reserves would greatly reduce the fire danger, maintain an adequate lumber supply for the country and in time be- come a source of revenue to the Gov- ernment. It is reported that Sir William Mere- dith will be appointed by Royal Com- mision to investigate the Farmers' Bank affairs. Tl% capacity of the paper mill at Sault Ste. Marie will be doubled if the company can make satisfactory terms with the town. Through the explosion of the steam boiler at Gravenhurst Sanitariom the patients had to be removed to the out- side cottages. There was some suffering from exposure to the cold. J. D. Chilman was found guilty at Hamilton of receiving some of the money stolen from the Canadian Express Com- pany, and remanded for sentence. Joseph Acheson was acquited. LIVE STOOK MARKETS. Toronto, Jan. 15. —Union Stock Yards —Receipts were 82 loads,. with .,1,456 head of cattle, 31 calves, 712 hogs, and 736 sheep and lambs. . Although "the fight is still on," as more than one or two drovers and ship- pers remarked this morning still there. were not wanting' signs of 'a somewhat relaxed condition from the " strained relations" between drovers and packers at the end of last week. All were look- ing forward to a possible settlement of the difficulty as the outcome of the drovers' meeting to be held in the Tem- ple Building in the afternoon. - In the meantime there was a littlemore activ- ity to business, and both packers, and the independents as they have been called were doing business, though many of the drovers refused to sell to the packers under the new rules. Another evidence of a belief that the trouble was nearing an end, was the comparitively heavy run of over 80 cars, showing that the drovers are not exactly all of one mind in the matter of holding back cattle. A more certain feature of the situate tion was the fact that prices all round were from 15c to 25c higher than Last week. It is possible, however, and in- deed very likely that the market would. have been higher had there been to trouble whatever between drovers and packers. Export cattle, choice. $6 30 to $7 25 do medium 6 00 6 25 do light 580 6 00 do bulls ............ . 4 50 5 50 do cows . 3 75 500 Butchers choice . 6 25 6 90 do medium .... 5 25 5 85 do cows ............ 4 55 5 30 do common .... ..... 3 50 4 50 do canners .... 1 50 2 50 Short -keep. , 5 60 5 50 Feeders steers 4 55 5 30 do bulls 325 4 25 Stockers choice 4 25 4 50 do light 2 75 3 25 Milch cows, choice, each55 00 60 00 Springers 45 00 65 00 Common and medium .... , 35 00 25 00 Sheep, ewes,...... 3 50 5 00 do bucks 3 50 3 00 Lambs, yearlings 6 00 6 00 Spring lambs, each 6 00 6 00 Hogs, f. o. b ....... 6 25 do fed and watered 6 60 6 50 Calves '7 50 8 50 WINGHAM MARKET REPORTS. / Wingbam, Jan. 17, 1912 Flour per 100 lbs .... 2 25 to 3 10 Fall wheat .... 0 87 to 0 90 Oats 0 43 to 0 45 Barley 65 to 0 70 Peas ... 1 05 to 1 05 Butter dairy ....... 0 25 to 0 25 Eggs per doz .. 0 30 to 0 30 Wood per cord 2 75 to 2 80 Hay per ton .. 13 00 to 13 00 Potatoes per bushel, new . 0 60 to 0 80 Lard 0 16 to 0 16 Live Hogs per cwt .. 5 80 to 5 80 Chickens - ° 0 10 to 0 12 Ducks .....0 10 to 0 12 Geese .... .... 0 10 to 0 12 Turkeys .... ..0 18 to 0 18 lC:s.1;�~ ~ ..tir1YdZ"��1i�-aiw�v:LC.i 'Canada's Do TpTre c1< .;a WINTtR RESORTS Round Trip Tourist Tickets now on sale at all Principal Winter Re- sorts including CALIFORNIA, MEXICO, FLORIDA, Etc. The Attractive Route to Western Canada is via Chicago Steamshio* Tickets on Sale by All Lines For Tickets and further informa- tion call on G. Lamont, Depot Agent or address A. E. Duff, D.P.A., To- ronto, Ont. We Speak by the Card When we call attention to the great 'ariety of Suitings. Trouser and Top Coat Cloths That are to be seen as this shop. Not alone the piles of goods on tables, but the endless variety on "cards" is what makes it easy to find something "exclusive," if you tailor here. Don't cost a cent more. Our "made to order" clothes are what you should wear. HENNING THE TAILOR 1 1 1 i w JANUARY SALE Our Big Sale of Winter Goods is in Full Swing. Don't Miss It. There's Money in it For You. UNDERWEAR For Men, Women, Boys, Girls and Infants, good quality, all. sizes, at a saving of 25c on every dollars worth. Children's Toques, Children's Coats, Ladies' Coats (all greys), Winter Gloves, Shawls, etc., at 75c on the dollar. Men's and Boys Tweed Suits and Over- coats, at 1-3 off. Think of it, a $12.Oo Suit for $8.00, $9.00 Suit for $6.00. A few Furs, Stoles, Muffs, Coats, etc. These all go at ONE THIRD less than regular prices. Felt Slippers, plain and fancy, new goods, very neat. Just the thing for cold weather. Keep your feet warm. At a saving of 25c on the dollar. Heavy Rubbers and Sox, good quality, all sizes, your choice at 25 per cent, less than regular prices. Light Rubbers for Men, Women, Girls, Infants, all sizes, best quality, per cent off. Seasonable goods big saving. Boys, at 20 at a Men's Heavy Wool Sox, Heavy Mitts and Gloves, Sweaters, Cardigan Jackets and Caps at a saving of 25c on every dollars worth. Goods will not be charged at reduced prices. Terms of sale Cash or produce. Premium Tickets will not be punched for goods sold at reduced prices. KERR. & BIRD I The Profit Sharing Store mss!® I 1 _CANADIAN PAC.' C. To Winnipeg AND Vancouver Daily Transcontinental Service via the All Canadian Route. Standard and Tourist Sleepers. To Chicago Three trains daily. Excellent ser- vice. Making connections at De- troit for FLORIDA and at Chicago for CALIFORNIA and Pacific Coast Points For reservations and information apply—J. H. BEEMER, Agent, Wingham, Ont. SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTH. WEST LAND REGULATIONS. ANY person who is the sole head of a family ft or any male over 18 years old, may home- stead a quarter section of available Dominion land in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta. The applicant must appear ih person at the Dominion Lands Agency or Sub -Agency for the district. Entrybyproxy may be made at any agency, on cetain conditions, by father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister of intending homesteader. Duties. --Six months' residence upon and cultivation of the land in each of three years. A homesteader may live within nine miles of his homestead on a farm of at least 80 acres solely owned and ocoupfed by him or by hie father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister. In certain districts a homesteader in good standing may pre-empt a narter•seotion alongside his home toad. Price E8.00 her acre. Duties.—Must rude upon the homestead or pre-emption six months in each of six years from the date of homestead entry (including the'time required to earn homestead patent) sand cultivate flty sores extra. A homesteader who has exhausted his home- stead right and cannot obtain a pre-emption ma enter for a purchased homestead in certain dis lets. Price $8,00 per sere. Duties.—Mast res a Mx months in each of three years, eulti. vete fifty acres and erect a house worth $800.00. Deputy of the M n1 l i erCofRthe Interior. N. B.=-Unanthoriaed publication of this ad- vertisement Will hot be paid for. 'GE AL�- o t' iSL' IATrORD,. 0M -r. Our classes are now larger than ever before but we have enlarged our quarters and we have room for a few more students. Yeu may en- ter at any time. We have a staff of nine experienced instructors and our courses are the best. Our graduates succeed. This week three recent graduates informed us they have positions paying $65, $70, $125 per month. We have three departments —Commercial, Shorthand and Tele- graphy. Writefor our free catalogue now. _ D. A. McIACHLAN PRINCIPAL. WANTED A live representative for WINGHAM and surrounding District to sell high-class stuck for THE. FONTHILL NURSERIES More fruit trees will be planted in the Nall of 1911 and Spring of 1912 than ever before in the history of Ontario. The orchard of the future will be the best paying part or the farm. We teach our men Salesmanship Tree Culture and. how big profits in fruit growing can be made. Pay weekly, permanent; employ- ment, exclusive territory. Write for particulars, STONE & WELLINGTON TORONTO.