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THURSDAY, JULY 22nd, 1015
A New Conservative Leader
Raspberry Lore.
(By Peter McArthur.)
The meanest loan iu. Canada has
been discovered, but I dare not give
you his name or tell you where he
lives, for like all the mean men I
know, he is very respectable, and
moreover he is well off and for that
reason his neighbors look up to him.
It would never do to cast a slur on eo
estimable a citizen, but let me tell you
what be does. He hires the children
in the neighborhood to pick raepber..
ries for him, and it is part of the bar-
gain that they must whittle all the
time they are in the berry patch. As
he le always within hearing he is able
in this way to make sure that they do
not eat any of the delicious berries
they are picking. Now, what do you
think of a man like .thai?
I wouldn't consider this man so
mean had it not been that for some
time past I" have been trying to de-
termine the origin of the name "Rasp•
berry." The explanation given in the
big dictionaries is perfectly absurd
"Rasp -with reference to its• rough
outside -looking like a rasp." • What
nonsense. The appearance of a rasp-
berry might remind one of a cluster
of rubies, but never of a blacksmith's
rasp, But philology, or the science of
words, is a mere matter of guesswork
in many cases so I feel quite at liberty
to guess at the origin of the name
raspberry myself.
Manitoba Conservatives have
chosen for their leader one emin-
ently fitted for the position. Sir
Jame> ,.»Aikens is a man of great
intellectual attainments, one of the
ablest lawyers in Canada, a vim -
did speaker and above all, a
man with a record that is absolute-
ly clean.
The present is a crisis for the
Conservative party in Manitoba.
The late Government is blamed for
the moral- degradation that has
been revealed by the Royal Com-
mission, That blame, to a certain
degree, naturally affects party for-
tunes even though the really guilty
parties are few,,in number. Had
the Conservative party in Manitoba
sought to escape this responsibility
it would have no call for public
support to -day. But the party has
called for the fullest investigation
and there has been thorough ad-
miration all over Canada for the
clean-up that has been taking place.
It is at this period of the provin-
cial politics that Sir James Atkins
Is taking hold. HIS is a task that
might deter a man who did not
feel a strong public responsibility..
There will be unpleasant duties to
perform, there will be many thank-
less tasks, there will be much ex-
pected of the man who gives his
efforts to rehabilitating Conserva-
tive party fortunes in the Western
Province. Sir James has won the
good opinion of his fellow -men in
his private life at Ottawa. In his
larger task he may be depended
upon to give honor to a position
that he plainly accepts under a
feeling of public duty.
A Study In Soil Cultivation
An exceptionally valuable Bulletin
to those interested in soil culture is
No 83, "Field Husbandry; Summary
of results," issued by the Division of
Field Husbandry of the Experimental
Farms, and that can be had by appli-
cation to the Publications Branch,
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa,
Reports are given of work carried on
at the central and branch farms and
stations. The results of experiments
in rotation of crops furnish informa•
tion of great valve. These experiments
cover a period of eleven years and
the results with advice founded there-
upon are set forth in the Bulletin
according to years. Following are a
few of the benefits given as derived
from adopting a judicious system of
rotation:
1. The appearance of the farm is
improved,
2. Every field receiving at regular
intervals its fair share of manure and
cultural treatment, the entire farm is
in a condition to ensure a maximum
yield.
3. Cost is lowered by the saying of
time due to all the work of a kind
being confined to one field.
4. Fewer fences are required.
5. Machinery can be more economi-
ally utilized.
6, More live stock can be kept, thus
increasing the quantity of available
manure.
7, Profits and yields are increased.
' 8. The farmer is not dependent
upon a single crop.
9, Permits of a more even distribu-
tion of the season's labour.
Following details of the rotations
that are outlined is a summary of the
characteristics common to all:
1. Grain fields are always seeded
down with clover, even though it be
used only as a fertilizer.
2. Grass and clover 9eedings are
heavy. Increased crops of hay and
rare failures of a catch have justified
them.
3, Hoed crops form a large propor-
tion of every rotation. An attempt
to farm a small area without a hoed
crop watt not succeeeful. Weeds could
not readily be kept in check.
4. No field is left in hay for more
than two successive years. The re-
cords show that the second crop al-
most always costs more per ton than
the first, and that succeeding crops are
liable to be grown at a loss.
5. Barnyard manure is preferably
applied frequently in comparatively
small quantities, rather than at long
intervals in large quantities.
Expenditure required and derivable
profits are fully explained along with
the values of commercial fertilizers
e and the relative virtues of deep and
shallow ploughing. Due regard to
weather conditions and to the different
varieties of soil make the Bulletin of
national importance and one worthy
of close study and wide inquiry.
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THE WIN H& M ADV A NCE
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eO Statement Issued by the
When Britain declared war against
tyrany, oppression. avarice and arti-
fice, she wanted men, young, heave
and strong; then who were not afraid;
men who would fight for right and
Empire, and if needs be dare to die.
A number of noble young mep in
Wingham responded to the call, and
among the first to do so, and the first
to nobly die, were Edward, Murch and
Lauchie Aitchison. We honour our
noble dead, and sympathize greatly
with the widow in her loneliness, and
the father in his sorrow..
Give us men, young. strong and brave,
Sono, husbands, and brothers dear,
Who will crass the stormy ocean,
Fight for Empire, never fear,
Who'll laugh at storm and death defy,
And for right and Empire dare to die.
Here am I, send me, send me,
Behold the response from near and
far,
We, will go and fight for freedom,
To win or die our leading star,
So good-bye mother, do not cry,
If for right and freedom we dare to
die.
Bravely they bade goodbye to dear
ones,
Tao their hearts were sorely riven,
flow they loved the dear old home
town,
Now to them, dear, like as Heaven;
Yet bold an enemy, strong to try,
And for right and. Empire dale to
die,
Oft they thought of home and mother
And of Wingham don't you see,
Then in dreamland often wandered.
With dear friends beyond the sea,
Feeling perhaps, that bye and bye,
For right and Empire they might die,
What does a healthy boy do when
he discovers that raspberries are ripe?
Anyone can answer that, He comes
rushing towards the house Felling
"Rah ! rah l rah 1 The rales -berries
are rips. "Rah! an abbreviated cheer,
expressive of joy. Hence rahs-berries
is the berry that makes the emall boy
cheer because of the joy he feels. Do
I hear any objection to that? Of course
not. Anyone can lee that that is the
true explanation. Let the makers of
dictionaries take not,'
And now that I am at it I may as
well set the learned philologists right
on another point that has to do with
the raspberry. They seem unable to
decide on the exact origin of the word
"jam" as used in .raspberry jam,
Once more I am amazed at their blind -
bees. Also once more I go to the
healthy small boy for my explanation.
What does be say when he gets a
chance to steal raepberry jam? laayou
cannot imagine, just use your memory
and recall what you used to say.
"Yam yam!" of course. With this
starter any learned professor will tell
you that by the application of Grimm's
law, or some similar law, this ecstatic
exclamation in time became changed
to "yam, yam!" Still later it was
changed to "jam jam!" and ,then in
the hurry of our modern life was ala
breviated to "jam!" Do I hear any
objection to that? Itis all as plain
as mud. Say I have a notion to give
up farming and go in .for philology,
The college professors and dictionary
makers seem to lack both imagination
and knowledge of the small boy.
Now can't you see why I consider
the man who makes the boys whistle
when picking raspberries the meanest
man in Canada? The berry itself and
ite chief product both take their
names from the love for them shown
by the small boy. If you do not be-
lieve in my derivations just try any
healthy boy with ripe strawberries
and strawberry jam and see how he
will act. If he doesn't say "Rah" and
"Yum yum" he is not a normal boy.
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Bluevale.
Miss May Stacey has returned home
after spending a couple of weeks with
friends in Bowmanville.
Gerrie
(Intended for last week)
Good-bye Lauchie, Teddy too, ;pod -
bye,
Your lives they were freely given,
Your laurels you are wearing no doubt,
With friends up yonder now in
Heaven;
From duty you would never fly,
But for right and Empire dared to
die.
We'll miss our boys, our two bright
boys.
Their sun, tho brief, did brightly
shine,
And in dying they have left
Footprints on the sands of time;
They have listened'to the nation's cry,
And for right and Empire dared to
die,
BECKWITh3.
TREASURER'S SALE OF LANDS
FOR TAXES
By virtue of a warrant issued under tho
hands of the Mayor and Clerk of the Town of
Wiogham, and having the seal of tho said
Corporation attached thereto, bearing date the
15th. day of Juno A. D, 1915, commanding me
to levy upon the lands enumerated hereunder
for the arrears of taxes respectively due there-
on together with posts. Notice is hereby given
in aocordanee with the Assessment Act that I
shall proceed to sell by Public Auction the
said lands or so much therof as may bo suffic-
ient for the payment of the' Taxes, and costs
thereon. unless the same be sooner paid. The
sale will commence at the Town Hall in the
said Town of Wingham, on Monday, the `25th
day of October A. D, 1915, at the hour of two
o'clock in the afternoon,
LOT STREET ACRES
S. pt, of No. 4 Josephine
PAT. or IINPAT. TAXES COSTS TOTAL
Patented $16.91 $15 90 $31,91
J. G. STEWART,
3t Treasurer of the Tom. of Wingham.
Gorrie L. 0. L. celebrated at Wing -
ham on the 12th.
Mrs. Jas. Armstrong spent the
week -end with friends in Woodstock.
Mr, and Mrs, H. V. Holmes and
Miss Perkins motored to Woodstock
on Saturday and spent the week -end
with the latter's cousins, Dr, and Mrs.
Williams. Mr. Tait accompanied them.
A very pleasant ten days was spent
at Ingle Nook Park, Barrie, on the
shores of Kempenfeldt Bay, the
beautiful summer home of Mr, and
Mre. W. H. Smith and family of To-
ronto, Mr, Smith; .a former Howick
boy, and Mrs, Smith gathered togeth-
er a house party who were the com-
panions of the former's boyhood days
of thirty' years ago, and entertained
them in royal style. Forty-two invi-
tations were issued and the following
are among those who responded -Mrs.
R. Beatty Buck of Brampton; Mr.
and Mrs. T. G, Holmes. Mr. and Mrs.
0, W. Leech and Mr. E. W. Leech of
Detroit; Rev. and Mrs. G. R. Turk,
Barrie; Mr. and Mrs, Mills, Hazel-
wood, Clifford; Mr. and Mre. Wm,
Stinson and Dr. and Mrs. Jas. Arm-
strong of Gerrie; Rev, and Mre. Leech,
Rev. and Mrs, Fred Oaten, Mr. and
Mrs. A. Welob, Mrs. M. L. Watts,
Mies M. Stevenson, Mr. T. Welch. Mr.
and Mre. R. A, Norris, Dr, and Mrs.
Razelweod, and Mrs. S. Greer, all of
Toronto.
The Ontario Clothing Co, have open•
ed up a general store next to the drug
store in the store vadated by; C. L
Andrews.
Teacher Wanted,
Sir George Perley is
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11 Canada.
.7graitiiIgn.000.oeo.o.o.o.ao Fango.;
you.osoeo.00Qioeoeoio•000eo.Oeoeoeoeos
RDLDRE for munitions and
equipment for war aggre-
gating $300,000,000 have
been placed in Canada by
Great Britain and the Allied
Powers through tho medium of the
Canadian Government and its assist-
ance and advice to Canadian manu-
factures. The 8ho11 Commission creat-
ed by the Government In the early
stages of the war have made pos-
sibl3 Canada's participation in muni-
tion supplies to the extent of $150,-
000,000.
150;000,000. The tremendous business
brought to this country was never
realized until the following state-
ment 02 it in detail was issued by
Hon. Senator Lougheed,-acting Min-
ister of Militia;
Sir George Parley's Work.
Since the early weeks of the war
the Government has made very active
SIR GEORGE PERLEY..:'
SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTHWEST
LAND REGULATIONS
T" sole head of a family, or any male over
18 years old, may homestead a quarter -
section of available Dominion land in Mani-
toba, Saskatchewan or Alberta. Applicant
must appear in person at the Dominion Lands
Agency or Sub -Agency for the District. Entry
by proxy may be made at any Dominion Lands
Agency (but not Sub -Agency), on certain con-
ditions.
Dm mss -Six months residence upon and cul-
tivation of the land in each of three years. A
homesteader may ltve within nine miles of his
homestead on a farm of at least 80 acres, on
certain conditions. A habitual house is re-
quired except whore residence is performed in
the vicinity.
In certain districts a homesteader in good
standing may pre-enipt a quarter-sootion along
side his homestead. Price $3.00 per acro,
DUTIES-tix months residence in each of
three years after earning homestead patent;
also 50 acres extra cultivation. Pre-emption
patent may be obtained as soon as homestead
patent on curtain conditions.
A settler who has exhausted his homestead
right may take a purchased homestead in cer-
tain districts. Price $3.00 per acre, Duties -
Must reside six months in each of three years,
cultivate 50 aores and erect a house worth $30e,
The area of cultivation is subject:to reduc-
tion in case of rough, scrubby or stoney land.
Live stook may bo substituted for cultivation
under curtain conditions.
W. W. CORY, 0.K.G..
Deputy of the Minister of the Interior.
Teacher waited for School Section
No. 3, Tnrnberry. Datite to com-
mence September let. State salary,
applications with references and quail°
llcatlons received up to July 2103, 1015
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during the past six months. Tho three
applications received most rorontly were
for Lady Stenographers at ;780, Boo'•
keeper a.t $1000 and Cnmmerotal Teacher
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D. A. McLACULAN Principal
Summer Service to Highlands
of Ontario from Toronto.
2.05 a.m. daily for Mukoka L3kee, daily ma
cept Sunday for Lake of Days. Algonquin Park
Maganetawan River and T.magami Lake
points.
10.15 a.m, a tall except Sundays for Georgian
Bay, Lake of 133ays and Maganotawan River
points.
12 01 p m. daily except Sunday for Muskoka
Lakes, Lake of Bays and Algonquin Park,
HON, SENATOR
3. A. LOUGHEED.
Acting Minister of Mill, :3
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