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The Wingham Times, 1913-12-25, Page 3THE WINGHAM TIMES, DECEMBER 25 1913 CANADA Portland CEMENT S°'"OME men ask for so many bags of cement Others, more careful, say they want ` ` Portland Cement "— But the man who does the best work insists upon get- ting "Canada" Portland Cement -- Write the Canada Cement Information Bureau, Mon- treal, for a free copy of "What the Farmer Can Do With Concrete." And he looks to see that every bag burs this label Jp per i NADI 4 CEMENT tib There is a Canada Cement dealer in your neighborhood. If you do not know him, write for his name. Wm. McIntosh, an automobile mach- inist, was killed when a borrowed car he was driving ran through crossing gates and was struck by a Deleware & Hudson train at Montreal. Wm. Scott, probably the oldest Orangeman in Canada, died at Milver- ton. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CAS'I"O R i A, ICES IT MATTER ? • 4. DOES IT MATTER to you that of all the men, women and children who die each year in Canada one in seven is a victim of Consumption ? Does Ir:g arrau that one in every three of these is cut off in the full glow of life, with plans and hopes and loves that must be given up? DOES IT MATTED. that a few persons have joined hands aua within a Lev Short years have saved thousands of these unhappy one:with. can save them all if only there is A little more help and a little more money? Perhaps it demsn't matter. It is all very interesting cub ie is no immediate concern of ybms: . ]UT WOULD: Ir Merrell if instead of entering somebody else's home and carry- ing off their loved one,, Consumption came into your home and laid its Band on tho ono you love the best in all the world? WOULD IT MATTER then if you saw your husband, wife, child cr friend dying for lack of alittle bit of the money some other fellow was throwing away? Womb I'r MATTE::, when Christmas came if there ve.re •_rothin; for you to do but eit on the ed et1 f o to bed and stroke the white hand on the coverlet and realize that this was the last Christmas? This is how mueh its matters in thousands of homes in Canada this year and will con- tinue to matter until en mgh people like you test the burden and feel how crushing itis. It DOES matter --it iv the most important thing in the life of some unfortunate sufferer—what you do with the attached form. To het^ the 1I; ol:(G .Z- '.• lioa. t• 'i:fP swig gorirork... alri lrtj enefune Name Address 5.00 will pros' ide maintenance for a week 20.10 will pay for ioer weeks. �3 .ier will endow a Int for a year. -'i`a.? Since the aged{a:; whapermanent e one, Iaho a,f also like to e:nhseribe 8 Register ..ay name accord- ingly. eoutrrio'trnnr mtny lvurnt t•• W..1 n;1 .,i; I..: s:;•r.:10,a t1v... lonsto. • r to li. Lunktr, ariurn Asm• istiuu, Sir EWE; SG. W., Toronto. WANTED, Good Local Agent at once to represent the Old and DIM Foothill Nursuries 4' A splendid list of fruit and ornamental stock for Fall Delivery in 1913 and Spring Dilivery in 1914.. Start at once and secure ex- clusive territory. We supply handsome free out fit and pay highest com- missions. Write for full particulars. Stflne& Wellingtons Toronto - - Ontario ADVERTISEMENT. HURON COUNTY BUSI- NESS MEN'S ASSOCI- ATION. ARTICLES OM PROiTOd No. 7 In our last paper we gave some of our views against Prohibition, from what we called a selfish standpoint; because they were our objections, in so far as Pro- hibition affected our personal liberty. This week, we will endeavour to show some of the harm that prohibition pro- duces. In the first place, prohibition produces a contempt for law. No man, worthy of the name of man, will permit an as- sociation composed of what he considers ignorant, misguided, fanatical people, to dictate to him, what he is to eat or drink. Human nature is naturally averse to it. And you cannot change human nature to tit in with any sump- tuary law you may wish to place on the statute book. The late Dean Farrar, a man gereatly beloved, and admired, by all who knew him, was a total abstainer, as an example to his weaker brother. But he never would support prohibitory legislation of any kind, because, as he put it, there is something, an indefin- able something, in human nature, that the forbidding of a thing may and:,'fre- quently does, produce an appetite for the very thing foroidden, that play have never before existed. We .purpose to somewhat terse an write v 1„��,tt'� d confine ourselves to statement•ePlacts, so we will not elaborate on.thfs point. Argu- ment may be net thh argument, and supposition w th „opposition, but facts i outgo � ible. And we submit are nc y this ea re ofprohibition is 'i - that £�an in- controvertible controvertible fact. We object to prohibition, because it lowers the standard of character where men come into contact with it. As we quoted previousiy from Sir Richard Cartwright, wht' wrote deliberately, that "not a few o;: the greatest scoun- drels I have known, and my experience has been extensive, have been very ar- dent temperance advocates.” Why this should be, is not hard to seek. Prohibition of alcoholic beveraecs is un- natural, unscriptural and therefore its influence cannot be good. It turns men into sneaks, hypocrites, liars, and even perjurers. Many would be surprised if they were told it even acts injuriously on the purity of the life. We will fur- nish statistics, at a later date, to prove this. Excess ie drinking is not the only sin men and women commit, although to listen to some sermons, one would be tempted to think so. We object to prohibition, of the kind the Scott Act would introduce in the County of Huron, because it is so mani- festly unfair. Why in Canada should we have class legislation? Why should we have a law that affects the poor man and does not affect the rich, nor even the moderately well to do? This injust- ice alone should cause every poor man to vote against it; one would think. Why should Smith, because by accident, he has money enough to buy a ease of whiskey, have all he wants to drink, and Jones because he by accident can only afford to buy a glass at a time, be deprived of it? Dees the possession of the means render Smith a person more worthy of trust than Jones, does it ren- der'Sinith less likely to abuse the use of whiskey than Jones, or does the possession of money render him one whose wishas must be considered? We'. state a feet when we brand the Scott Act in this regard, as an infamy; and an insult to all those, who do not happen to possess: a certain amount of money. If it's wrong for Jones to buy a glass, it is 14 times more wrong for Smith to buy a bottle; on the assumption that one bottle equals 14 drinks yDe not suffer another daywith Rollin Bleeds ing, or Pretrod. ing Piles. No eurgioal oper- ation required. Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieve you at once and as certainly cut's you. 60c, a noir; all Toronto 0z Sample box freetif you mu Limited, ion this vapor and eneiooso 20, stamp to pay postage IL We object to prohibition under the guise of the Scott Act, because it drives drinking alcoholic beverages out of the hotel into the home. There's no get- ting out of it. This again is an incon- trovertible fact. It removes drinking from the hotel into the home. One would think that all those dear people who are shouting "Save the boy" would shrink with horror from the bare idea of doing anything that would introduce, in any degree, drinking in the home, where the boys and girls are supposed to live! A man can go into a hotel and drink and his children never see it or know it. But how long will it be, be- fore both boys and girls will know he drinks it in the home, and possibly sample it for themselves if it be kept in the home? And kept it will be as sure as the sun shines. For, one more incontrovertible 'fact, as prohibitory legislation increases, so does the manu- facture and naturally the consumption of spirituous d*ink increase. We object to prohibition on the ground of the ebsolute folly of attempting to prohibit the use of what the law sanc- tions manufacture, sale and importa- tion of; 1f one pauses to deliberate upon this phase of the Scott Act, it is almost inconceivable. Here is an art- icle, perfectly harmless, perfectly good, the use of which is actually enjoined in Holy Scriptures, which for practically all time has been used by the good of every clime, the tnanufacture, the sale, the importation and the use of which, is still sanctioned by the laws of the country; and it is proposed to forbid its use by, a portion of the community, by another portion! One cannot conceive a more grotesque absurdity in legisia- lation. If we all, or the very large majority, think alco one beverages are bad— then stop the manufacture, stop the impor ation, stop the sale in every way. Do as the Chinese have done to opium. But do let us act rationally, let us not act as fools. hut as wise nice. Ozie more incontrovertible fact, in the words of one far abler— "Regulation of appetite is beyond statute la.v, The appetites have their place and function; but their regulation must 1, a riF termired by the inner Sense! of moral responsibility. Respectfully, THE HURON COUNTY BUSINESS I• MEN'S ASSOCIATION. JOHN RANSFURD, President. WM. JAcrsoN, Secretary. BUSHNESS AND SHO SIb ll tt ADt .fi. ) Subjects taught by expert instructors at the eiitne6flee Y, M. C. A. BLDG.. LONDON, ONT. Students assisted to positions. College in session from Sept. 2nd. Catalogue free. Enter any time. J.W. Westervelt .1.' W. Westervelt, Jr Principal c:larta:ailAcaottniant 17 1i:rC-Pai:e:i,a1 Winter Term from Jail. S. ' CENTRAL R,• iATFOreD. ONT. Ontario's best Business training school. We have thorough courses in COMMERCIAL, SHORT. HAND and TELEGRAPHY De- partments and nine competent in- structors, We offer you advantages nit offered elsewhere. You do not know what an up-to-date business :ch sol can do for you unless yon have rest ived our free catalogue. Writer \ r it at once. D. A. iiiel.ACllLii4 PRINCIPAL, EVERYTHING WAS CHEAP. dust Imaiilne Buying a Whole Sheep For 10 Cents. A countryman living just beyond the outskirts of London drove to the the tropolle one day to order a few pro visions, etc. (By the way, this account is perfect• ly true. It is not a problem or a joke The prices stated can he verified.: The countryman first Went to the nearest cobbler's. There he bought e good pair of shoes. Not shoddy foot wear. carelessly turned out or even machine made, but hand sewed and of tine, strong leather. For this pair of shoes be paid just 7 cents. Next he drove to a butcher stall in Smithfield. There be bought a sheep, a dozen chickens and ten pounds of beef. For the sheep he paid 10 cents. For the chickens he paid li/ cents apiece, or 18 cents for the dozen. The ten pounds of beef cost him a nickel. For beef wns half a cent a pound. Stowing away his purchases in his. big wagon, the farmer nest stopped at a fish stall, where for 10 cents he bought twenty-five big codfish. His visit to the grain merchant cost him more. For he was forced to pay 15 cents for a bushel of rye—a sum out of all proportion to his earlier pun chases. It was cheaper, you see, to buy meat than the rye bread to eat it with. But his ensuing trip to the draper's for enough homespun cloth to provide him with a winter- suit atoned for the high price of the grain. For be found that the stout homespun cloth was sell- ing at 12 cents an ell. or 93-5 cents a yard. The farmer had no trouble in carry- ing his wares home in his wagon. For the wagon was large. He had driven it to London full of firewood, and this wagon load of wood he bad sold for 12 cents. The foregoing prices are all accurate. The high cost of living had not yet hit England. For. you see, all this hap- pened several years ago. In fact, it was at the beginning of the sixteenth century. — New York World. METEORIC SHOWERS. Why They Have Little or No Effect Upon the Earth's Balance. In answer to the query, "The earth is held in its orbit by the absolute bal. ance of centripetal and centrifugal forces, and if the balance were dis- turbed the earth should fly away into space or fall to the sun, yet this bal- ance is continually disturbed by me- teors and other causes and no catas- trophe occurs; please explain," Edgar Lucien Larkin, in the New York Amer. ican, says: "Tbere is no centrifugal force as such in nature. W bat so appears is reaction against gravity due to the motion of the earth. Inertia, an inherent prop- erty of all platter. would forever main- tain a moving h;dy In an absolutely straight line in its original direction unless some ontskle force draws it aside. The direction of drawing aside Is always toward the outside distnrbine mass—the sun in this case. And the earth thus continually falls from n straight line --a tangent --to its orbit through a distanee of oue•ninth of an inch during each second, "If gravitation should suddenly be annihilated the earth would tly away on a straight line into spare. But should a trillion torts of meteors sod. denly fall on the earth it would not fall to the stn. but would still revolve around it mueh faster on a smaller orbit. The year would be shorter. And the new orbit assumed would be dete'r- mir..•tl in :pace by the equilibrium of central gravitation and the reaction of inertia of the earth neeinst it. But since the setting up of the grand mas- ter clock in Greenwich no variation of the length of the sidereal year bas been detected. Therefore the mass of all the millions of meteor's falling on the earth daily Is tee small to have any appreciable effect on the length of the year." Queer Bridge Foundation. At the little town of Wadebridge, Cornwall, England, there is a bridge of a unique character. Owing to the strength of the current ordinary stone foundations would not hold. and nu- merous devices were tried without suc- cess. Eventually bags of wool were sunk in the strenin and the piles driven in, and this strange foundaf'in has proved wonderfully firm and t• factory. Belated Discovery. "My dear." said Mr. Bickers to his wife, "I saw in the papers today a de- cision of a court that the wife may In some cases bo the head of the family." "John Henry," replied 'Mrs. Bickers, "the courts are sometimes very slow in finding out things." --Puck. Had a Good Excuse. "They were next door neighbors for years, and yet they never spoke." "That's the way with people in cit- ies." "There was some excuse in this ease The prison rules forbade talking."-- Birmingham alking."—Birmingham Age -Herald. Ending the Argument. "Briggs called me a liar." "Didn't you deny it?" "Yes, and he said that proved that I was." ---Boston Transcript. Not Soolety's Fault, Gibbs•—How did that rich boor man- age to get introduced into society? Hibbs—He wasn't introduced; be was injected. -Judge. The lucky man is the one who :sees and grasps his opportunity. UFr THRrATE!D tlY�iuiVE�i'l�FaSf His Ile pith In A Terri;lie State Until Ile Tacit " i suit -a -tries " B. A. KELLY, Esu. ILAGHE.S rr r,E, ONT., Aug. 26th, 1913. " About two years ago, I found my health in a very bad state. My kidneys were not doing their work, and I was all run down in condition. I felt the need of some good remedy, and having seen "Fruit-a-tives" advertised, I decided to try them. Their effect I found more than satisfactory. Their action was mild and the result all that could be expected. " My kidneys resumed their normal action after I had taken upwards of a dozen boxes and I regained my old-time vitality. Today, I am as well as ever, the best health I have ever had" B. A. KEI<LX " bruit-a-tives" is the greatest Kidney remedy in the world. It acts on the bowels and the skin as well as the Kid- neys and thereby soothes and cures any Kidney soreness. "•Fruit -a -tires" is sold by all dealers at 50c a box, li for $2.50, trial size 25c, or will be sent on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives limited, Ottawa. rl I • ..,. , •,11, :7 s..,.,. t,.1 1•• t.:, t "r the • •1••tl Wilt kis !ly . , .[rant: .•71:n, t,usi ns .• , 7.. 1.::•e11s ut un1- .•.:..•!. 715 t 110111 •,.: ••11-.••I lilt" 71 ni.nn' ••.•i ' • :seen renter 02 11 Larkin In New .n .. ,'r..W A t1 R, r'v t, • 1 1+'t../rp Alii II;1'ti'nt'd 1. "U.,- et the Sluok1t1 • - enei . n'mly seating ... ._ i 1 ❑. , • !i t' the+ Moll 711 here 1;. 1 ,•- . :.. ,;.• ri:•ill they DIP Its the •.i . . 1 I ....wilt t get 0 seat 711 all • 7I'1:1 mind the rigors ei• !.er I ae} 're i+etier lh:tu my husband `..+! ;rt ;:.•t• n!,.', 1hnt was offered. and -he !Cele 1,er -:rat. 1'1,1' :IgG 'rl'i1>Illle. CHRISTMAS APPEAL FOR The Hospital for Sick Children COLLEGE 19T TORONTO •. Dear Mr. Editor:— Thanks for your kindness in allow- ing me the privilege of appealing at P g this Christmas time on behalf of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. It would take more space than you can spare to tell of the good work done for the sick and deformed children of this Province. Let me, however, In a few words, tell you of the progress of the work of the Hospital. One nurse, six little white beds, a few dollars, a few friends—this was the beginning. The beds have grown to 250, the dollars to thousands, the friends to hundreds. 1875, the first year, 44 in -patients, 67 out-patients; 1913, last year, 1,648 in -patients, 25,507 out-patients; 1875, 1 nurse; 1913, 70 nurses. Since 1875, thirty-eight years ago, the Hospital has admitted within its walls 21,018 children as in -patients, and 159,231 as out-patients, a total of 180,249, or an average of 4,743 per year. Of the 21,018 in -patients, 15,200 were from Toronto, and 5,818 from other parts of the Province; 10,150 of the total in -patients were cured, and 6,367 were improved. In the Orthopedic Department last year, of the 1,648 in -patients, 278 were treated for deformities, 25 hip disease, 37 Pott's disease, 2 knock-knees, 19 bow-legs, 62 club feet, 8 lateral curva- ture of the spine, 44 infantile paralysis, 6 wry neck, and 75 tubercular disease of knee, hip and ankle. In 1913, the Surgical Apparatus Shop manufactured 427 appliances for in -patients and out- patients, including ankle braces, spinal braces, hip splints, bow -log splints, club -feet splints, plaster jackets, etc. In this Department in 38 years near- ly 800 boys and girls have been treat- ed for Club Feet and 650 corrected. Half of these came from places out- side of Toronto. Surely we have a fair claim for help from the people of this Province. Will you, the reader of this letter, help to give crippled children a fair start in life? Busy dollars are better than idle tears. The sympathy that helps is good, but the Hospital has to have the sympathy that works. While Christmas Bells are ringing to the glory of Him "Who made the lame to walk and the blind to see,' give, give, give, and help the Hos- pital to help God's little ones, upon whom the heavy hand of affliction has been laid. Will you please send a dollar, or more, if you can spare it, to Douglas Davidson, the Secretary -Treasurer of the Hospital, or J. ROSS ROBERTSON, Chairman of the Trusteed, Toronto, The attendance at;;the Winter Fair for the four days totalled 41,000. Geo. M. Fox, Reeve of Drayton, was .elected Treasurer of Wellington county. William Nash, a Hydro lineman, was fatally crushed against a telephone pole in London by a skidding motor car. Marian Avery, a twenty -year-old Rochester girl, was found after a long search on a farm near London, with Joseph Chubotsky, a married man. Oats in a field of S. Van Tassel, near Brantford, threshed 105 bushels to the acre, weighing 18 pounds to the bushel. Trooper Mulloy, the blind hero of the 1 South Africa, war•is now in charge of the new Department of Military History at the Royal Military College, Kingston. What better Christmas present for a I relative or friend than weekly copies of THE TIMES during the year 1914? Can- ada $I; United States $1.50. GIIRISTMAS and NtW YEAR RATES, SINGLE FARE Deo, 24, 23, good for return, until Deo. 26: return until 1010,aand 2014ln. 1,1014, good for FART; AND ONE. THiRD Dee 02, 20, 24, 25 valid for return until Dec 27; also Dec. 59, 3041, 1010, and Jan. 1, 1014, valid for return until Jan. 1, 1914, Between all Stations in Canada east of Port Arthur, also to Detroit and Port Huron, Mich., Bt:ffalo, Black Rock, Niagara Ealls ard Sus- pension Bridge, N. Y. Full particulars. 7 iickets. etc.. oto,. from E. B. 3I.LI0TT, Town Passenger and Ticket Agent. 'i'hel a 4. W. b' hUihG- MAN, ttitation .Agent. 'Phone 00 A paper chimney, fifty feet high and ; fireproof, is a curiosity to be seen at Breslau, Germany. Verhoyaneek, in Northeastern Si- beria, is the coldest inhabitated town in the world. The winter maximum is 85 degrees below zero, Paint and oil purchasers by the gov- ernment for the present year show a de- crease of 10 per cent. in cost, as com- pared with those of last year. Taking into consideration the whole of Europe there are 107, inhabitants to the square mile. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA CF E ISTIVIAS, 1913 NEW YEAR'S, 1914 EXCURSION RATES Between all stations in Canada, Fcrt William and Bast. and to Sault t`te, Marie, Detroit, Mich., Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New Yolk, SINGLE FARE Good going Lee, 24, 25, retu n limit Dec. 20, 1913; also going Dec. 31, Jan. 1, return limit Jan. 2, 1914. PARE AND ONE-THIRD Good going Dec 2'9.23, 24, 25, return limit Dec. 27, 1910; Also going Dec, 20, 00, 31, Jan 1, return limit Jan. 3, 1014. MINIMUM FARE, 23c Particularsfrcm W.H. Willis, town Agent, phone74, J. 1t. Beemer, station agent, phone,-. --gym..-® r.g..1.a.4.4.+.; e,KW,,71,1, 44.?,g,•i•'t'•8•'i•+<r 1' •i• I.1• F"r 4. Clubbing List ee GliffiffantLeirieggerfeigraiggegeeemeame a,. 4. 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