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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1914-04-16, Page 3THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1914 THE WINGRAM ADVANCE ,••••••.. s ilieProprittalyTittepilidiciseAct AVeeetable.Prep.ration (base senitatingihelhodenditeitu* ; iinalbeStemachsaraillowelsot • • PromoiesDigestiortElwelful nessandltestgontatasneithcr: Opittat,Morphine florlikeral NOT NARC OTIC. Re* af0111.1141A15TPIR2EI fleofe Scot" ...esufkama Addle Salts+ VIZ 4r I kid. crafted Star Waerniesiulorn Aparfect Remedy ferCenstipa- lion, SourSiomach,Diarrhoeal Worms,C,onvulsions,Feverisir ness and LOSS OF SLE5R ,Faeeimile Sisnaltut of tissfsfefests. Th CENTAUR CoMPAtiy, 34ONTRBAIANEW YORK STORIA or Infants and Ohildreu. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Exact Copy of Wrapper. In Use For Over Thirty Years ASTORI THE C.NYAUM COMPANY. MEW YORK CITY. A • • t r " t )1: . 4 *i .:, ,ak . • tlXi.1•40,;• •, q..", ,W ' 44:11';:ii11.45-114,74421.rt:sliii‘k • 3cAti41,114A1 1 4•••••-•." 'es imax000 NL215..e.. "• ,41,( •-4:11,•1 4 • AT Good Roads hrAprove Social Conditions No matter what your station in life or 1,41.yi,11 , where you live, a certain amount of ) your time must be spent in pleasure to make 0F,1 life tit the living, and to ohtlin that pleasure you go to town or to your neighbors- especially RV is this true when living in the country. Good Roads enable you to get into town or to your neighbors quicker, more often and with- out you or your horses or vehicles being covered s.,:ith rnud, and Nvithout regard to weather con- diions or season. They enable your family 1.. ,icion to get to you quickly in times of illness. Thee; enable your (lair( n to "foot it" to school cr,o.,- doe. They keep your boys am! gi;l3 ;•;:n the :drm by giving tllem better conditions a -enmity, C•:3:1;21'et.e. Roads sesfisi ••- are " evny-day" read:, - they have no "closed season" because they arc enert zo traffic every day in the year. They ire%1.!.4 are the most ecce:cra;eal roads because they reduce the cost . • maintevancc o OM minimum. 'fley are easy of traction, clean, hard an3 rice of ruts and holes. They keep your road tnonty out Of the mud. t us send t ou, without cost, comPlete information about concrete roads. tk• ,,,KtrW41,,,,i,ys%,e• 4440, , Concrete Roads Department Canada Cement Company Limited 807 1-L3rald Building, tionia-ca e, itee • e e• -„,,,,see.—eseetesee74141,:• •seeteiteest Aele. RP11111111111131111111111110111111111110111111111111111unintiumantimillillitintill11111111MlitlIMIlitilltilltile Edison's Latest Wonder The Blue Arnberol Record is so faithful and lifelike in its tone reproduction, so fine and broad in the scope of its selections, 'so high in its plane of artists, that you can almost see the stage setting. Fern -tore than foutininutes, thougive you a concett free. Sped-, sands of times, theatre Amberol fy the !Nue Atilberoi always. unwinds to you the most ittxuri. out etttertaittinentyou ever knew. h neVer Wean but and won't tittoktut MAtittt' break. Drop in MI yoUr Edison toatd114. dealer day. Heil be glad toMIil Eases Phonographs sad Roth* Sid tokt er---1110147s or the week BY RE% BYRON H. STAUFFER Peeter Deed Street Congregational church, Toronto WHEN JESUS PAID HIS TAXES lag in your 'tae and joining in sine- - leg, "God. Save the Ring," while lie Text; 4'NotwithetandIng, feet we should offend them, ge thou to the sea and coat an hook, and take up the fish thet first • ()meth up; and when thou haat opened hie mouth, 'thou *holt find a piece of money; that take, and give unto them for me and thee," -,-Matt. XVII, 27, • So Jesus paid His taxes. He might have refused and eald, "I am flip 'Sow of Ceod; kings' sons pay no taxes."' But He didn't claim His 'right- Ho, might have drawn sixty , cents, by miracle, from . His pocket. But it pleases me to think that He had Peter go back to his trade for the moment, and there find the mono to pay thC assessment. It was a Jewish aead; tax 10001 they thus paid. It was for! the maintenance of the temple and ite services, .But what it was for does, not so much matter, for at anothee time He conceded the equity of the imperial tax as well. It is enough to remember that He paid it. So the simplest lesson I can draw is that Jesus paid His taxes. That: may be the narrower lesson of thel ittoident; But. we can afford to stand and look aerosti the landscape of this bare proposition a moment. lie paid His share, He "held up His end." IRO didn't look the other WaY when •the plate was passed. I am very Sure', that He was public-spiritea and 'mi. selfish. Do you know what the worst part of the treating system is? It is that it ails out, at an unfortunatei time, very desirable quality • 611 clusracter, The last man in the row! (Pronounced to rhyme with ho and! not with how) in front of the bars; Must encourage excess to prove bine• self fair. Three friends have "treated" him. If he walks away he is thought unfair, and he thinks himself unfair,. He must say: "Another round, Isterei)• That's the bad part ot the• treating: syStem, even if "soft" drinks are ins dulged In. 1 think Jesus would have, refused the first drink. But I am sure: that if He drank in the fSrat round,' He would have paid for the last. He' would have paid His share, out at Scarbone Beach, at the Exhibition, anywhere where He participated in the benefits. es The temple had to be maiiitainedS withjtsbeauty, itsutility, Its services, The 'Isureli mina be supported in Its; various purposes. So the city In which' we lie, and the country which claims! our loyalty must be maintained. Andl it Is a very large indication of Chris-! 'tiatt epirit to bear one's part of the! cost of maintenance without evasion; or whimpering. Taxation is a bleating of eivilization Baffin's Land has no taxes- to meet,' but nobody is there to pay them. A, few years ago the Temiskaming cowls try had no taxation, but with the ads Arent of the sturdy settlers, roads and bridges were needed, then schools,. public buildings, asylums, jails, eoorl houses; thea sewers and waterworks,i street pavement and lighting. Thus! the taxation of New Liskeard and Co- balt will grow higher as the cons venieaces of tivilisation grow more imperative. When you get to Toronto,, you find advantages still running: neck -and -neck with taxation. The, house -holder may boast of the pity's, schools, it Itbraries, its streets, its' city hall, in one breath. He mayi complain of the assessor's office in the next breath, but he has an honest pride in the joint wealth of the city. The city hall tower and clook is a necessity, not an ornament. Public buildings of dignity help to maintain the proper respect toward the com. monweatth, just as people are less boisterous in a tapestried drawing room than they would be on a barn floor. The Legislature might meet, in tes old rink, but it would nest be seem- ly, and you would blush with shame it you found the fathers of the pro - 'into sitting le quarters out. of keep- ing with this great state. Similarly the pride of the Jew was hie temple. Mid the Matta-, in paying the head. tax, was sayieg: had up nier •en. 1 pay Dar share." SO a considerable part of patriotism is to shoulder one's share of the PO- jio eXpentie. National Loyalty does not torteist in making fatal- across ellagistaai gorge, nor in singing the national anthem in the presenee at foreigners. 1 knew an old Yankee who /lever cebuld gee a church vire tort Or lecture close without shouting': "Sing 'Vly Country. 'Tis of Thelk"! But the old meet also "swore Of'l his taxes. Patriotism isn't even stanch • . mannered folks are nuiviug toward, the door. It is rather a proud sense of co- partnership with the crown in mains tattling the essential honor of a coun- try, It is wicked to avoid taxation. Everybody knows that, you say. But evidently everybody doesn't feel that it is very wicked, I think I MR ewe vinoe yott of that, It is estimated that ia every large centre of popu- lation there is four times as much personal property as there is real property. Yet in this city, as in pearly every other metropolis, only about one- fourth as much personal property aP, pears on the assessor's books as there does real property. Hence by far the majority of mortgage and bond holders forget to make returns of their hold- ings, while their neighbors cannot avoid an assessment on their property, because it happens to be real estate. Heade one class of investors en- deavor to saddle the support of the city and nation on the other class, Slid usually the poor man must pay the taxes. I say, iu the end, the man who can ileafford it, pays the taxes, Poor John Jones is struggling to pay Dior his house, assessed for $3,000. •Rich. Peter Smith holds a mortgage • :for $2,000 on that house. Poor John Jones pays $60 taxes on the house in which he has only a third interest, while rice Peter Smith escapes tax- ation entirely, though he has two. ;thirds interest in that house. It is Just so with. every species of indirect tax. The poor man cannot avoid any part of it. The rich man pays only a small part of his just prolsortion. All schemes of assessment seem to fail to reach the dishonest man -Who ,choose s to be selfish enough to let his poorer neighbor pay for his share of police and fire protection and other blessings of the municipality or com- monwealth. A little broader lesson of the text is that we should deal squarely with the Government. There are people who fancy that it is no very grievous offence to smuggle a fur coat or a gold watch across the lines. They are the people, very often, who would scorn to cheat their neighbor's or steal from a stranger. But when it tomes to wearing three suits of underwear or staggering under the weight of two silk dresses while crossing Nia- gara's gorge—why they boast of it as soon as they get back to their country. They think they are justified in rob- bing the government. They think the same about the street railway com- pany, A man, his wife and his little boy mounted a Parliament street car during the exhibition. He was evi- dently not a resident of Toronto for he prepared to pay cash fares and got ready his change. The conductor passed him by, evidently thinking that he had already collected the fare. Then that man quietly turned his hand over, so as to hide the coin; then slowly drew the hand back until he could drop the silver into the pocket from which it had come. And when the conductor had disappeared, the little boy put his mouth up to his father's ear and whispered, "Daddy, you didn't have to pay, did you?" Some day that boy's dishonesty may land him in jail, Then the parents will say, "Alas, how could he do it, in spite of all our good traiaing." Stealing from the treasury of eoun- try or city should be looked upon as a serious crime. Yet right here in Toronto and Ontarierare many fairly decent citizens who listen to stories qf corruption, or waste with a smile. It seems almost -impossible to arouse the public -conscience on matters of draft. 'Even the church is not yet quite Prepared to denounce this specters of sin. It is safer to declare against the .breVer than against the corrup- tionist. The exposures of methods in several civic departments of Toronto have neither *routed the citizens nor! prompted the authorities to attempt a thorough reform, The lesson broadens until it teaches us unselfish honesty in discharging all obligations. The honesty of the in- dividual its the only tura for all op- pressions. `Under any syttem of goy- ernn1ent we would still be dependent on the honesty of the ledividual. Mee should remember that the only road to happiness is along the line of int. selfishness. No Man can really ere joy wealth which Is obtained by de- frauditig eorrsiOnwealth, corporation or toll:mow; I kow- 8. men who will never dare fienritin a roil of bilis. He will al. ways be compilled to turn away from the gaze of by. 'enders when he draws out his pockethoolt. He never can boast that he is Comfortably fixed. And, by the way, have you ever noticed how few psople, comparatively, can be induced to confess that they aro well off? They seem to fear that making the admission niay shortly cost tbem something, The asseseoe, too, might hear a it. Methinks if I were rich I should like to tell about it mice in a, while; point to yon house and announce that I am going to have new veranda added next Wing; comment On the price of New York Central and say that I expect to buy a little more of it If It goes down to a hundred. Weli, this poor fellow 1 was speaking of dare never indulge in that kind of pleasure, though I suspect that he could do so truthfully. The reason is that he had not paid what he owes. He has unsatisfied judgments out against him. There are those who aro watching him, hoping to discover where he keeps his pite, Sn he keeps the location of the pile a eecret. Ho has no eraployraent; he muat be etas - tied as a vagrant, having no viable means of support. Yet he looks very comfortably. He wears good clothes, and dines on succulent ateaks, He and his wife take rather extravagant va- pations. and go to the best shows. But for fifteen long years -they have never been heard to say one word about their circumstances. Is not that an awful life to live? And all because he holds what SQUID. one else ought to possess. He never intends to pay up. Consequently his life is dwarfed; he has no close friends; he lives alone 1 the world to about the same extent as if he had absconded to New Zealand, He is being automatically punished for having broken God's law. Oh that our preachers would say more about this class of sine! We have bitter denunciation for trans- gressions that vividly appeal to our imagination. We' can easi:e portray the misdemeanors of the prodigal, and look with horror upon them, forget. Ling that they are really abnormal phases of virtues. But the meaner Sins of selfish greed cast men into an earthly hell which makes the drtmk- ard's lot look like paradise. For remember that God is the author of all rules ef cDmmerclsl morality. He framed the first stelae against short weights, and wrote it upon the fleshy tables of our hearts, All who break His code lose the' zeit, the charm, the,eace of an open life. `PUFFING BILLY" 00.011•••••••••11.1%•• rfhe Centenary. of First Railway Engine Otte of the most interesting objects in South Kensington Museum, London, is a steam engine which has just cele- brated its centenary. The engine was built by William Hedley, for hauling coal from Wyls.m Colliery, near New- castle, and was- given the very appro- prlate name of "Puffing Billy." It's weight when in working order was 8 tons 8 hundredweight, and its ten- der weighed 4 toes 6 hundredweight, making a total weight of engine and tender in working order of 12 tong 12 hundredweight. At a speed of five mile; an hour "Puffing Billy" was able to haul about 50 -tons, but on occasion es Meth as 70 tons was hauled at a reduced totted. Halley built another engine the name year which he called "Wyk= DIIIT.4* • Ordered Funeral Pyre An unusual desire was expressed in his will by the late Colonel Alfred Hercules Mayhew, of London, and late f the Bombay Staff Corps, who left in estate valued at over $100,000, the whole of which he bequeathed to his lister, Miss Mercy Mayhew, Colonel Mayhew directed that hie remains should be cremated, but if be should die in India his body should be burned on a pile of wood, with two rens of kerosene, at Din Pur, on the Indus, at six o'clock in the evening. "The pile Is- to be covered With green !eaVes, and his body arrayed in white aniform and latd thereon, and such lowers as may be available at the reason are to be strewn around. After lads burning the ashes should be cast Into the lefts." No Friends Like The Old Friends , r Prom girlhood through middle Mc and right along to old age Chamberlain's Tablets are vvoman't best friend -*ked the nerves, nid digestion, Stop headaches, keep the blood rich and assure good health troneett117. Tri them. 2Sc. baths Drutmitt3 and Depicts or baleen. s elsesteaSk Sada Cc. Toriata, . . CfiAM BERLA1 NSABLETS. Get Your Wedding Stationary Printed at the Record of Performance for Pure ores Dairy Cattle. According to Report No. 6 of the Canadian Record ot Perfortnallee for pure bred dairy cattle conducted by the Live Stock Branch of the Deperts malt of Agriculture of Canada, 746 00ate awl 25 bulls had up to the end of &larch,ioia, qn*Itiittui for registration of Performance. The cowl; were di- vided among the several breeds as fol. lows :—Ayrshire 32:1, Holstein On/halals 87, Guernsey 13, French Canadian 21 and Jersey 30. Tile bulls which quali- fied on twins four daughters in the Record of Performauce, 044 from a different dem, conasted of 16 Ayr. obire and 10 Holsteins. A. fact worthy of apeclal stttentiOn is that several of the highest producers were milked three times deity for varying lengths of time. Noted ansong these is Bells of Wellington, a mature Ayrshire cow, which gave 12.03242 lbe. of milk and 011.05 lbs. fat and Rosa Omega, a ma- ture liolotein,Freisiatt. with a rrcorcl of 18,003,7 lbd of milk mid 574,07 lbs fat. Many other excellent reaorde not confined to any one breed, were made during the year.. This report contains the regulations governing the work, the standards for registration for the different breeds and the records of cows that have ot,. rained certificates of the Record of Performance. .A copy of this report can be obtained by making application to the Publications Branch, Depart- ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, DOUGLAS FIR. The Tree with a Future. There are trees in Canada whose commercial importance is clearly on the wane. According to one of the latest bulletins of the Dominion For- estry Branchs'the value of the white pine lumber cut in 1912 was one and a half million dollars lege than in 1011. Tbe cut of hemlock decreased thirty per cent; that of cedar decreased twenty-seven per cent and etainarark, the lumber production of which has decreased over forty per cent In the last two years, bids fair soon to tee ensile commercially extinct,Of th.-, six leading trees in Cleneda, Douistes fir was the only one who e iunanir productionincreseed in 1012. Iu the province of Britbsts Columbia alone, Douglas fir formed °err 07.7 per cent of the total lumber rut, and Blitish Columbia is at present by fax the richest timber province in Canada, containing, according to some estim- ates, one-half the merchantable timber wealth of the Dominion. This remarkable tree attains a beight of over two hundred feet with a trunk ten to twelve feet in diameter, forming, alone or mixed with hemlock great forests extending four hundred miles north of the International Boun- dary. Ice natural range extends in Canada to the eastern foot -hills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, where it grows to a height of 130 feet and a diameter of four feet, and is consider- ed one of the most important timber trees on the Dominion Rocky Moun- tains Forest Reserve, which covers an area of nearly 21,000 square miles. It is also widely distributed through- out the western Uoited being able to stand considerable climatic iariation. and being praotically im- mune to insects or fungus disallow.. Dr. C. S. 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