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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1914-11-26, Page 5AS Parlow Plays 01 -"k1 -1B tone of. the Violin h excep• j tionally difficult to reproduce, Its richness and lusolousnees depend on overtones, so eoft, so delicate, so fleeting, that the ordinary "talking machine" can neither,record goy reproduce them, But Mr. Edison—the wizard—the inventor of the Phonograph, the wonder pf the musical world—accomplished the seemingly impossible in =EDISQN PHONOGRAPH (THE INSTRUMENT WITH THE DIAMOND POINT) So perfect aro the Edison methods - of Recording—so perfect are Edison instruments and records (which you may have in your own home at small cost) that the violin records become the violin of Ole Bull and Joachim. All the richness fullness, softness—all the throbbing, heart -appealing tender- ness—all the luscious tones and over. tones—float from this amazing instru• meat just as the great artists achieve them on their priceless violins. The new Edison Phonograph has the diamond reproducing point, unbreak• able and long playing records, superior motors and construction, concealed horns, and the Cabinets are made in true Period styles, in perfect harmony with the finest furniture. David Bell, - Wingham, Ont. fcire$3QQ DAILY ESETWEEN.e ESUFFAi.O S( • LEVELAN D u .r• / ✓r ,F.t• ':. br cw '"•ni.:,y 1^ =•c THE GREAT SHIP "SEEANDBEIs" Length 500 fact; breadth 90 fact, 6 inches; 510 etaternome and parlors accommo,litin3 1100 peasen• ate. Greater in east-1ar5er In n21 proportions—richer in all. appointments— than any steamer on Island waters of the world. In service Juno 15th. legnificont Steamers "SEEAND3CE, ""City of Ede" and "City of Buffalo" Daily—BUFFALO and CLEVELAND — May lot to Dec. let Leave Buffalo- - . 9.00 P. M. Leave C c...eland • - 9:00 P. 01. Arrive Clevol hd 7:30 A. 01. Arrive Buffalo 7:30 A. 01. (Eastern Standard Time) CenuoetgneatCleveland for Put•in•Bnp Toledo, Detroit and ellpointeWestnnd3onthwest. nunroud Nebel. reeding between Buffalo and Cleveland are pond for trnnsportution on our atoamors. Atli your ticket .gent for tickets via C. & B. Lino. Write us for hinhome illustrated booklet free. TIIE CLEVELAND C BUFFALO TRANSIT CO., Clcvcland, O. 7 COLD WEATHER NEE SWEATER COATS --a splendid as- sortment in Men's, Boys' and Child= rens', Sweater Coats. Guaranteed pure wool. OVERCOATS and SUITS --we have a splendid range of Overcoats from $5 to 20.00 PLAID MANTLINGS--for Ladies' and Children's Coats, this is guar- anteed all wool and was purchased last spring before price of wool ad- vanced. Right -up to the minute for style. FLANNELETTE BLANKETS.. -in 11-4 and 12-4 at the old price. All wool blankets such as Alexand- er, King Edward. Those nicedow- ny kind that feels cosy and warm.' RUBBERS -.of all kinds and sizes for the cold damp weather. The best grade of FLOUR always in stock. All kinds of Produce taken on goods. J. A. Mills Phone 89 Wingham ham $4.4111.0.44•••••••*.... k Try The ADVANCE for You Next JOB C 0 c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HEAVY CANNON TYRE USUALLY BRINGS RAIN Downpours Have Foliewed Most of the Great wattles Since Large Gunn Were introduced It is one of the extraordinary things of warfare that a big battle invariably produces torrents of rain. History contains innumerable in, 'stances, both on land and Bea, and on More than one 000aeion'the starlit or 'showers that followed an engage- tnent had na small • influence upon the life of nations, The soldiers who fought so bravely under the leadership of Marlborough at Blenheim in the year 1704 had to stiffer the misery or successive down- pours after their brilliant Victory. Marlborough was anxious to folioW up his 'victory without delay, but his men were so worn by the fatigue of the battle and the discomforts caused by heavy rains and the contingencies of warfare that he was unable to push on for several days, On June 10, 1816, the British de - Coated the French at Quatro Bras, and .Napoleon worsted the wily Bloch- er at Ligny, both within measurable distance of Waterloo. The heavy rains which fol.owed these engage - month made the clayey so1I almost impossible for cavalry manoeuvres at Waterloo (fought on June 18), and so crippled the taetfes of Napolebh and greatly assisted those of the Duke of Wellington. During the early weeks of , the siege of Sebastopol, in 1864, the roar of cannon and explosion of bombs was followed, day by day, by heavy downpours of rain, until, as we read, the British soldiers stood in the tren- ches knee-deep in mud. .A. terrible gale .broke over the Black Sea and caused great disaster to Britain's transports, and on the heels of this tempest came a heavy, steady down- fall that brought death to hundreds of gallant fellows. In yet another instance the heavy cannonading of a siege brought in its train a disturbance of the ele- ments. This was just prior to the fall of Plevna, in 1877, when the moisture of the clouds was turned to snow as it fell, and, by inc'r'easing the sufferings of the. besieged, helped to make Osman come to the deter- mination to try a last chance for free- dom. The explanation of the rain is cone partitively simple, and has been made use of for the benefit of agriculture in various parts of the world. The atmosphere is laden with moisture, a concussion caused by loud reports or noises will often burst the clouds, with the natural result that the drops of- water fall to the earth. This has been practically tested when farmers have been groaning over the drought, and scientists have induced the de- sired rainfall by causing cannon to be discharged at altitudes varying with the locality. , When, however, the discharge is continuous, as in battle, it is obviously more effective. -=Pearson's Weekly, BOOMED GERMANY'S NAVY Von Koester the Human Dynamo Bet hind the Navy League • In the amazing propaganda carried on by the Germany Navy League lies the secret of the conversion of the nation once known as the land of thinkers and poets into a race of naval enthusiasts. It is the Navy League which has driven the doctrine of sea power so deep into the German mar- row that it has become a religion and Admiral von Koester is the person- ality which has been behind the league. The methods of a predecea- sor in office brought the organization' to the brink of disintegration. The, ADMIRAL VON KOESTER • Imperial Admiralty was face to face With a calamity, \The breakup of the Navy League threatened danger tO the whole future of German natal nni;ev. od -MA o'ea£er had just :ieliquinee.. -MA commandership -in -chief of the high peas fleet with the rank of grand ad• ,Iniral, which eorreSponds to the high- est rank in the army, that of a field Marshal. The eXeeutive gifts Which had distinguished his entire career speedily enabled him to restore har mony in the league's warring ranks. On the wave of enthusiasm which accompanied the dawn of the' dread. ►fought era, the Flotten-Verein Wee launched on a new career of prosper' ity and power. NOT BIKE THE BOER WAR Ono Was "Marching," Other is NFlght. ing" all the TIM) "The difference between the Saudi African war and this is that one Wits Marching and the other fighting," field a corporal of the Coldstream Guards, who, having been in both, lir now in west Ham I etslaita4. r'Z saw more fighting in tivo weeks this time," he added, "than I dict in two rears in South Africa, and wheel. I went to join -my regiment there scores of dead lying by the roadside, "One terrible scene," added the corporal, "was when atter a battle we collected the wounded•.. Glermat; and our own—and put them in a big farm house. The German guns shed. led the place and we got our wounded outdrat. The plac a caught fire, and was awful to hear the cries 6! tits German wounded and the sCreamint" ofa th cattle close by. "We Gould not fat a red Oren II had.not got sing."• THE WIN GRA ADVA NOR NEUTRAL OBSERVER MAKES BOLD PROTEST Resigns His Commieslon in United States Army In Order to Speak Freely of German Bartarlsm Major Louts Livingston Seaman is not only a military plan, and a medical man, but a traveller and journalist of international repute, His work in the Balkans and elsewhere in sou- nectioit with the Red Cross move- ment has made his name familiar all over the world. He went to the front as special correspondent of the "In- dependent," New York, one of the liveliest weekly journals in that great city, In view of the statements writ- ten by him concerning German atroci- ties in I3e'gium, the publication of which the pro -Germans in the United States considered as a virtual breach of neutrality, Aiajor Seaman was re- quested by the' authorities to explain his action, as it is contrary to regu- lations for an officer of a neutral country to express himself definitely as a partisan in favor of either com- batant. On the dirty of the Zeppelin massa- cre at Antwerp, Major Seaman sent the following 'letter to President Wil. son: "My Dear Mr. President:— "Preferring liberty of speech to military or other service where it is denied, especially when silence wohld bo a crime againae humanity, I here- with tender my resignation as a mem- her of the -Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army." The following correspondence, with. in the limits imposed by the censor- ship, hints at the pitiful sufferings of which Major Seaman has been a witness, and which impelled him to take this action: "1 am writing from the Hotel de la Paix in Ghent. I believe no city on earth has contributed more to the development of civilization than Ghent. Here it was the purpose of representatives of Great Britain and the United States to celebrate in the old Convent des Charteux the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace between Eng- land end America. A short time ago ill the Royal Casino and Palais de Fete the international exhibition of flowers Was held and in the Palasi de Dense; the French Opera Company made gay music. "But what a change, the Palais de Fete is now• a Palais d., Misers, trans- formed in a night. Fourteen thousand desolate peasant women and little children, refugees from the country near Louvain, Mal:nes and Termonde,, whose husbands or fathers or brothers had been butetlered or driven to parts unknown, their homes pillaged and burnt, their crops destroyed, their only possessions the clothing on their backs, have been, or are now, being sheltered here. "1 have participated as an officer or observer, in eight campaigns, in almost every country in the world, But in none have I ever witnessed sueh exhibitions of atrocious barbar- ism as this war is furnishing." Voices of the War Given time, the Brltitsh Empire can put 20,000,000 men in the field.—Lord Charles Beresford. If there was some great organiser who deliberately planned this war, the curse of humanity will pursue him to the end.—Lorl Rosebery. With regard to what aeroplanes will actually do during this war, 1 do hat ant'clpate that they will achieve any big coup. --Mr. B. C. Hucks, HOWICK COUNCIL Fordwich, Nov. IBth, 1914. Council met to -day in Cook's hotel pursuant to adjournment. All mem- bers present, the Reeve in the chair. Minutes of last meeting were read and on motion of Doig and Spotton were adopted. Moved by Artuatrong and Demmer - ling that the following accounts be paid : Thos. Jacklin, for gravel 05e.; Gen. Robertson, plank. for bridge, $13.00; Thos. Bennett, gravelling $12L 2U ; Jacob ltreoiler, spreading gravel, $15.00; Thos. Bennett, cutting hill and sanding bridge, $22 40; Thos. Brad. nock, for gravel $3.50; V. Schinbein, for gravel $2 00; Thos. Musgrove, put- ting in culvert, $9 '75; Daniel Lobe, gravelling and tile on H. and W. Bdy. Ewing Rogers, digging ditch and gravelling $12.855; John Schaefer, for digging ditch on H and W. Bdy., $0 05; Russel Harris, putting floor on nrldge $0.50; Amos Denny, digging ditch culvert and railing $24,50; James Musgrove, cleaning out `ditch $15 40; Wm.. Stewart, gravel $11 60; Joseph Davidson, repaid on taxes $2.2I; John F. Sotheran, gravel et .95; John Eiyn& t.. tile, 25,20; James Sanderson, plank for rr bride ;'• .65: John Silver. gravel, $4.05; Ben .Elitrlop; "biireadfnK .;ravel, $3.75; Wm. Anger, pulling mend on Gurrie bridge, $3 50; 441ex Campbell, uadei'•brushing, $2 25: `PhoN. (Pouter, putting in culvert, $q.00; 4.l. Horton, gravelling, $34.58; Thos. nett, gravelling, $26 05; John W spreading gravel, $4.05; Thos. Dan cleaning out ditch, $8 CQ; Teaser hes, clearing trees on mad! Wm. Maltz, rep. road and puttit fire, $7.85; Hugh Edgar, for outl road water, $9.00; .Mies Earngey, of road way $10.90; Adam Rees, making winter road, H. and M. B '• $1.00; Daniel Bigler, for making w ter road, 13, and M. Ildy , ;3 50; Ob Martin, pick plow, $16.00; Geo, Flub hard, rap. culverts, $15.00; Jatnes Strong, rep. bridge, $1.50; S. H, Web- ber, gravel and rent of roadway, ;22; Gordon Edgar, culvert and • under- brushing, $10.15; Wm. Auger, digging Ethel), $225; Wm. ;Auger, putting in tile, $7.00; Henry i aylor, gravel, $3.50; Mrs. Young, gravel,• 43 80; Lamle Dein- rnet•ling, work On bridge. $ Q0; harry Cook, rent of rooms, ;1 00; Thomas Bunston, refund of dog tax, $1.00, Stowed byArmstrong and Dtmbtr, e ling tbat title Council do now adj•n ru• to meet again on Decewher l&h, le the Township ijaii, gorrle..--tarried, t7, 41, Walker, Olerk en sir, 87, 3 00; out t for so or A FIGHTING PARSON Precedent by Getting Leave 11 Absence to go to War Por the drat time on record in aver 160 years an ordained Scottish minis- ter was given. leave of absence to Nerve In the fighting -line in defence of his country, Application was made to the United Free Church Presbytery Galashiels by the Rev. Mr, Nal- bmith, minister of St, Boswells, for "leave of absence froth, his pastoral duties during the period of the war." Mr. Naismith was only introduced to his new congregation at St, 13os- well's the day before war was de- clared. Within the week he was sum- moned by telegraph to join his unit es an artillery officer at. Glasgow. In a letter to the Presbytery Mr. Nal- stpith stated that he joined the Special Reserve for a period of four years, his intention at that time being to apply tor an army chaplaincy. 11i14 Servide' with the reserve would have expired in three: days more. The Presbyterian clerk said he knew of no precedent for leave of absence for Ouch a time or such a purpose. There was not a precedent in the United Presbyterian Church, and the only case he knew of in the Free Church was that in which Ebenezer Erskine went out to the defence' of Stirling, Against the Pretender'e rebellion of 1746. The Presbytery could only use Its pommon 'sense in the matter and decide that Mr. Naismith was doing the right, the noble, and the manly thing in serving his country in this way, and their earnest prayer was that he would come backsafe and sound. • USED FISTS ON GERMANS Gallant Sergeant Refused to Surren- der—Fought TIII Killed A glowing tribute to his comrades of the battlefield was paid by Private William Cotttt, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots, to a correspondent of a London paper. He had just arrived from the front, wounded, and he told stirring stories of British pluck dis- played against great odds" - He declared that the impressions of one incident, which occurred prior to a great battle, would never pass from his mind. "We were digging trench- es," he said, "and totally unprepared ter an attack. One of the Middlesex companies was not at that moment equipped in any way, when the Ger- mans bore down upon them in huge numbers. Then I witnessed what a Teal Britisher is made of, "Otte of the sergeants of the Mid- dlesex, instead of holding up hands and begging for mercy, as I have known so many of the Germans do slate, raised his fists and fought like fury, downed fwo of the enemy with successive blows, stunning each of the'm. Then T saw this gallant fel- low bayoneted from cheek to cheek, and, as he fell to the. ground, he was 'put out.' Other members of the Middlesex followed their sergeant's example, and several suffered a simi- lar fate." CZAR'S LEGIONS ROLL ON •Austrian Territory thing Over -run—. Germans Gradually Giving Way A general engagement, on Whialk the fate of Germany's eastern trolly tier provinces may depend, is rapidly developing all along the extended line from Stalluponen to Cracow, where the advancing forces of the Czar have come into contact with the armies of the Kaiser, the latter evidently be- ing determined at last to offer a stub- born resistance to the Ffussian pro- gress. Already the whole eastern and southern border land of East Prussia Is ringing with coxi list, particularly in the region of the Mazur Lakes, where Slav and Teuton are struggling for the possession of passes, whose relinquishment by either army means. serious defeat owing to the nature of the country. The Germans failed in a vigorous offensive up the Vistula into Ruseian Poland froth the stronghold of Thorn. According to an official statement from Petrograd, the Germans sought -to readh Wloclawek, 30 miles from Thorn, by a simultaneous advance on both sides of the river, but were re- pulsed by' the Russians. The German force in this direction is said to have been strengthened, by troops hurried- ly transferred from Lyck, where no effort was made to cheek the Russian advance some days ago. Ot the fighting on the Poseft and Silesia fronts the Ruaaian general staff merely says that "in the Czenstochowa region the Germans are moving gradu- ally to the Silesian frontier." SPY SHOT IN LONDON First Execution of Kind In Tower For Generations Carl Hans Lody, alias Charles A. Inglis, was found guilty of espionage at London by a court-inartial and Was shot as a spy. Lody, when arrested, claimed to be an American, but later *outwitted that he was a German. He had lived in 'slew York and Omaha. Lody mot his death in the Tower of London after having been found guilty by a court-martial on charges of `having communicated with the enemy. , 1t is understood that Lody died game, refusing to the last to reveal the' name of the superior alter from whom he received his fnetruotiotts to ape on the British navy. Thts Was the first execution in the Tower of London since 1700. The Scene of the execution was the tower barrackg,.not far from the spot where Anne Boleyn and other persons fam- ous in English history were put tO death. b ilea na spit etshi x,e t of he cue da Of a Woo to exci "robust Belgium Honors a Wooden Leg One mystery for foreigners "who Unitas the cblebrations of Belgian. dependence le the part which a en leg plays in the processions. ruby bangs a tale. During the lcade fighting in Brussels in 1884 Dutch troops were harassed un- cifully by a wooden -legged patrigt d Charllor, of Liege, who, in of his infirmity, stumped behind e gon wherever there was need "Arabi) de WAS" ("Wooden s he was known, m became one opular idols of those etrenu- e' d ever since the symbol n stump has been calculated the wildest entbusdaslr a Belgian populace* ISARD'S Every Day Bargains These CUT PRICES on SEASONABLE GOODS ju t at a time when you are likely to want them should make BUYING EASY. Only room to quote a few of the MANY BARGAINS awaiting you here. 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