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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-12-9, Page 3] it nett HAVING installed a Ne'' Bat- tery Charging Plante we are now able to give our Custoluers the best of Service. McIntyre & C;udmore Ford Cars, Trucks and Tractors Used Cars a Specialty Phone . 73, BRUSSELS Flag The Man Who Took the Fla g to India • Just two centuries have passed assistance from the English in their fort -factory at Calcutta or Madras, When England and Fiance were at war at home, the struggle was re- eehped in India, and European riv- alries became mixed AT with the ambitions of aspiring Indian leaders. To a large extent English and French fought each other as supporters of Indian factions. They took sides in native warfare, and victory always left move power in European hands. Besides, the terms on which they would give their help were high, for the wealth of the Indian princes was great. • Into this world of strife Robert Clive came while still in his teens, knowledge of the part played by and by' the time he was 21 he was Great Britain beyond the seas think a soldier. In 1746 Madras was cap - that human happiness and prosperity turgid by the French, and Clive was have been vastly increased in. many taken prisoner ds one of the staff of lands by British influence and rule, the East India Company there; but and that nowhere has this been prove he escaped to the neighboring fort ed more clearly thin in India. of St. David. There he was much A Great Englishman more at home than at an office desk The man who gave a start to tilts and as a soldier he quickly distill- great istingreat work, and infused into it a guished himself by his boldness and good deal of the fine spirit that has rosouree, that he was captain in long accompanied it, was Robert charge of supplies when a temporary Clive. Whether judged by his per. pence followed. sonality, his deeds, or the lasting When war again broke out Clive efforts of his actions, Clive was a drew up st plan of campaign, which .naturally groat Englishman, radiata- included the capture of the town of ing resolution and power. , Arcot. With two hundred Europeans Born on :September 29, 1721, he and three hundred sepoys he captur- es= of n very old Shropshire fate- cd the town, but was then beseiged ily, that lived rather poorly ee es there. For fifty days he withstood landed property and he had to turn ,sit anermously strong foree of st- out and earn hie own living when tackers, and finally routed them Me, the eldest of seven children, was from the field. eighteen years old. He minded that The Black Hole of Calcutta the less because he had been made. After this he returned home, but to feel himself anunsatisfactory next year went out again to be Gov- scholar at school. }lis thoughts ernor of Madras. Just as he arrived dwelt an adventure rather than in India Calcutta was captured from learning. He earned' no prizes, Yet, the English and 146 people were suf- afterwards, when he had taken to faceted in a stifling prison known as looks on his own account in India, The Black Hole. Clive at once or - Ile showed by his writings and dewed the recapture of the place, speeches that' his brain power must ancl-ivith six hundred British( soldiers have been badly misjudged when he and eight hundred sepoys, five hun- ,vas a boy. • dred sailors, and seven cannon, ut- It was as a clerk in the service of terly defeated 34,000 men with the East India Company, which bad forty cannon. the right of trade with India at Cal- Six months afterwards, on June Gutta, Madras, Bombay, and else 23, 1757, his eleven hundred Euro - where, that he went to Madras. Ho peens and over two thousand sepoys, did not like •the business he was in, with ten cannon, completely routed and was lonely and often iii with at the decisive battle of Plessey, fa- ille climate, which indeed perman- ty, thousand infantry and eighteen ently injured his health. But he thousand horsemen with 50 cannon Pound India endurable, even under the trying conditions that then ex - feted, and he had scope for adven- ture through an active life. Rival Viceroys The country was in a state of con- fusion, Its ruler, in name, was• the hereditary Great Mogul, reigning in Delhi, but active power was in the hands of viceroys over districts, and these coveted offices were sought by rivals, who looked for help to the European nations that were them- selves rivals in Indian trade. Thus one ambitious representative of the Mogul would 'make friends with " the French through Dupleige since the birth of Robert Clive, the remarkable man who founded the British Empire in Tndia under the last India -Company. Not a few people to -day who know very little about the conditions of life in distant lands, and still less *bout those conditions two hundred years ago, say loudly that it is the business of all nations to leave all other races to get along as best they can by themselves. and that the par- ticipation of the British in the gov- ernment and development of India has been a mistake from the first. On the other hand, a vast maj- ority of those who have genuine HON. JOHN 5. MARTIN Ili •I Hon. John S. Martin, Minister of Agriculture in the Ontario Govenr- ment, places the agricultural pro- ductsof the farmers of Ontario for the year 1925 at $400,000,000. In- creased value of farm production is not only bringing 'prosperity to far- mers, but provdies the foundation for a solid and profitable increase . in all lines of trade. and Great Britain was fleetly estab- liehed as the European Power that wouldsuperintend the just develop- ment of the India peninsula with its multitude of races, languages, and Interests. Three years later Clive, who was then only 35, came home again, was made a lord and invested his wealth in land; but soon the East India Company again sent him out as gov- ernor • and commander-in-chief to consolidate British power and to re- form the administration by over- throwing the system of bribery that had existed from the first, ' and by substituting for it a good salary for the clever French Governor in Pewit- sound staff service. cherry, and his oppoltent would seek Cliee's work Af purifying a ser- re11 r.. m Wanted We pay Highest Gush Price for . Cheam. 1 cent per 11» Butter Fat all Cream delivered 'extra. p1n� for 141 nljr Creamery. - tlati sfl.f`tion Guar 04, r ts�.i e2; '440 rt r, Peas and QOats .. 1PoAh1TE;• NRJIAL s1R WII.1.,/AM OTTER vice long accustomed to corruption, made him'many enemies who attack- ed him bitterly in. his later years. Harrassed by his own foes and weak- ened by his. residence in unhealthy places, he, in a fit of depression, took his own life •at 49,• Conqueror and Reformer Lord Clive had some of the weak- nesses of the age in which he lived. He accepted- at first the usages he found in India, and gained great wealth rapidly during his early per- iod of success. But he saw clearly the evils of great gain frpm work done for a,00mpany, though that was really public anti national work, and his service es a reformer was almost as great as his service as a conquer- or. As a soldier there is no doubt that he had great natural military genius, and a most inspiring effect on those who served under him. The sepoys' name for him was the Daring in War. The effects of his life are visible in ,the honorable story of the education of India to take her place in company of the British Commonwealths that forth the Empire. He made it pos- sible because he was strong. It will need strength in government to make the experiment successful even now, Goy is Instantly Killed by father Accidental Hunting Tragedy Near Dashwood Dashwood, Dec. 2.—Robert Bit - rich, 10 -year-old son of Christopher Eitrich, a farmer residing three miles south of Dashwood, was shot and in- stantly killed by his father about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon while they were hunting rabibts in a bush on the Eitrich farm. - The boy received the full charge of a.shotgun in the back of the head, dying instantly. Coroner Dr. Pat- rick O'Dwyer. of Zurich, was called and decided an inquest to be unneces- sary. The boy, along with his father, kis elder brother and a neighbor, Jot: Regier, had gone into the bush about 'an hour earlier to hunt rabbits. Only the two men had guns, the boys oc- cupying themselves with chasing the rabbits out of their holes. When the tragedy 'occurred the boys were some distance away from the men, directly ahead. A rabbit ran across the intervening space, and Mr. Regier shot at it and missed. As he did so he called at Mr. Eitrich to take a shot at the animal. He did so, and the report of the gun was followed by the cry of the elder brother that Bobby had been shot. The boy died instantly.. The shot entered the back ,of his head. The coroner declared that death was due to rupture of the brain cells. The funeral will' be held on Thum - (ley morning,at 10 o'clock from the Roman Catholic Church at Dashwood. Interment will be made in Motet Caramel Cemetery. • FOR MiLLOPIO All Binds Figur and Feed on hand. - T. G. Hemphill WROXETER Phones.Rp d Fo 50 or e22,1 a .t of administration, finance construc- tion, maintenance, and the problem of keeping roads open in winter. NORWAY'S 450 BUS LINES Norway has 8,313 mil'e's of main Highways, end 12,924 - miles of county highways which are well maintained and are constantly being improved for autotnobile traffic, ac- cording to a report recently publlsle ed by the director of public roads in Norwity. During; 1924. 450 bug linsw, with a total 'length of 7,700 Mika, were operated, while m:ttiy motor truck lines cert a d •.farm pen• dut'ts long dietauoew to .•t, ;un re and railroad line;; Ile emit e of they tttnitnt;tineue ;her, after of the 4,1111try, m'natl d'tnrttt'ni'.:. ' telt( mr+ vila•ti ',ti t,.iV „ bt}t ;: <,'11 a11, t 1 ,t teeeesely to t;14';. ilfr7l el'val,r;.altint f',t<E, tiit-'.,..it,.til ,lia7t„ at[tt",: i .1 • ti 91) i.c.Y •-,'itt.. yt, . :1. 1'::11• B :. ti t".'rt' : t ,-,', „F. ";',t ten _ft' ' t t2:.' Cllr.. cv'• rtuu, xiu ih.rki, Here and There British Columbia's whaling indus- QrY produces about 400 tone of whale bone meal and 900 tons of meat and blood for fertilizing purposes an- nually.. This is exported mostly to the United States, According to G. F. Tomsett, super- intendent of the Saskatchewan Branch of the Employment Service of Canada, about 43,000 harvest hands were brought into Saskatch- ewan and distributed over the prov- ince to harvest and thresh the 1925 crop. J. Stapleton, of Regina, ordered two springer spaniel puppies from a dog agent in Liverpool on October 9th. Thirty days later they were delivered to him after a voyage and journey totalling 4,600 miles, the shipment going at the rate of 150 miles a day. This constitutes a re- cord for speed. Constituting a record for Canada and probably for the world, 8,447,- 624 bushels of all grains were mar- keted on the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Western Canada on November 19. The nearest ap- proach to this figure was the 8,406,- 000 bushels marketed on October 18, 1915, in the year of one of the great- est crops the Dominion bas ever harvested. Reports received at Canadian Pa- cific Railway headquarters this week show that four more accidents occur- red in cases where motorists drove their cars into trains already in the process of crossing levels. This brings the total of accidents' of this kind up to thirty for the year. In all four cases the automobiles were damaged while the motorists escaped with minor injuries. Eighty-seven buck foxes, valued at about $100,000, shipped in 44. crates, arrived at Montreal last week from Buffalo. Twenty-five of the animals were prize -winners at the Black Fox Exhibition which con- cluded last week, and Were on con-, signment to the Borestone Mountain Fox Ranch at Onawa, Maine The Far East has . heard about Canadian apples. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Asia car- ried 8,000 boxes of apples when clearing out of Vancouver last week. General trade conditions between Canada and the Far East are quite healthy as there was also on board the vessel 800 tons of Canadian flour, 100 automobiles and 160 tons of Al- berta beef. With each succeeding year Great Britain is relying more upon British colonies for agricultural supplies. In the seven months of 1925 ending July, Canada supplied Great Britain with 4,927,266 pounds of butter, compared with 164,224 pounds for the same period of 1924, and 40,- 458,644 pounds of cheese, compared to 20,153,504 pounds for the same period of last year Two bears, six coyotes and fifteen chipmunks were shipped to England on the Canadian Pacific liner Mont Clare last week from the Toronto Zoo to the London Zoo. In exehange, the Curator of these gardens has been asked to supply Toronto with Ceropsis, Bean, Magellan and bar - headed geese; shell ducks; a female Comb Duck; two Rheas (ostriches); four Jays; two young leopards; and a Barbary. Sheep,: A stiff order, Six champion juvenile swine breed- ers, whiners in Manitoba, Sasketch- owen and 'Alberta, have been aeverd- ed medals and trophies by the Cana- dian Pacific Railway and ate now the guests of the latter at the Royal Winter fair at Torentb. The young people, who competed in dubs on 0%1>radian title if:a' lines in the Weet are; Vern ,inhnt cut end 0:eetr t,r;4- I utssus, Alht'rto;' tort' F i d Ariem, Bordeau •t td t • .:n: 'Mamie Coma t-', rel Ca,.tet ..:veil, i k en ton, I •,tnitoie, 1• It 41. . , t a1fi tlu. lii1t;el 5�11bit wadi. <if Ow'rinitlt.'tt General Sir William Otter, Can- ada's most distinguished `soldier, who celebrated his eighty-second birthday last Thursday. It is sixty-one years since he was,gazetted as a lieutenant, am Sir William was born on the farm, , near Clinton, where the Huron Co. Home now stands. Sixty Years an Editor aid a Political farce One of the most potent personal forces in our politics- is a man who is seldom heard of in the cities of Canada, and is personally known to few of his fellow citizens in Mon- treal, although there is not an Eng- lish-speaking farmer in Quebec who does not reverence his name, . This modest and retiring but extremely influential person is now in his 84th year, yet every day and every night he labors in his office or his study for what he conceives to be the good, of his 'fellow then. He is Dr, John Redpath Dougall, editor of the Mon- treal Witness, now a •weekly paper circulating throughout the farming population. A few years ago the Witness ceased publication of its daily edition when the strain became too great for its veteran edtor. Dr. Denali, an L.L.D. of McGill and also a governor of that enliver- sity, is one 'of the most remarkable men of his years in any land. Pre- serving to the full his wonderful in- tellectual faculties, he also keeps himself in first-class physical trim, and every morning walks three miles to his office, in which he remains from nine to five every day penning the editorials which enlighten not only the farmers but many univer- sity professors and other intellectual then who have learned to appreciate the political perspicacity of the vet- eran publicist . and know his great grasp of world affairs. Prohibition is Dr. Dougall's favor- ite subject. Ile is anxious that the movement should become Canada - wide, but although in his writings he valiantly espouses the cause of tem- perance, he has never allowed it to become an obsession which would prevent him dealing on their merits with other great questions. Son of a Scottish fur trader who founded the Witness eighty years ago and Dr. Dopgall has occupied the editorship of that papae for more than sixty years. Ile is probably the only Canadian newspaperman alive --perhaps the only newspaperman on this continent or in the world, who served as a wer correspondent dur- ing the American Civil War. Ills merits were fully recognized by the late Sii.• Wilfrid Laurier, who never failed to viol hint when in' Montreal. Sir Wilfrid. tried hard to induce bit'. Dolman to ente^r the Sonata, anti also offered to obtain Inc lmint n bar onrtey, but the editor 4,1' the 'Milnes felt that nerepti +;'; tit t+ ram, r his poitth":tl htr1,•ly^cud 1t, t 1cur lit ]m,; :zed ll Il.td 1 ' ,1 iv, le tit. tet ^ld t`tt' ;t it ii. apt 1 • •1.1.•Eaty.d bed) offers. .. ! 1 l -t tr i 0111' " :3! r• c.,4n et the 1!!) e,i. the; ' 1 .: 1 i,• id It r Sin) tilr r fted bite; Absolutely Dry f4jxcil band r d At Mill - $2.5o. per cord Dry Circular Har dwt.'od 16 in., in i'iki - $i4.00 per cord WPWe can deliver in brussels.. Gibson lumber & Cider Mills - IIroxeter NE S Roo+demo No,3o OfRce 2$-2 By CECILLE LAN.r rDON 3000. ,10000. •'04'4?H?PAO'+�0004t lCcpyrtght, 1915, by the Western News raper tains.) "1 ant a mind reader," announced Earle Munson 1,i'ldly, "and my innate mentality imparts the fact to me that you are going to engage me at an Initial salary of a hundred dollars a month and expenses, and send me out on the road to demoustr'.ttie it new Mute plan I he evolved for doubling your business in one le with a quadru- pling ratio as time rues on, my income keeping ince with this expansion: Martin Lane first glared tit the au- dacious intruder upon his t,nsy hour. Then his stern features relaxed.. Be was used to all kinds of applications for work and did not at all favor the familiar way in which this new ean- didate approacited hint. Catching, sight of the smiling face and magnetic eyes, however, ir>? s9111: "1 rant something o1 a tu)ud reader myself, and 1 ,In not share your views. Show me. "Good!" nodded therefreshingly un- abashed young imam, pluml•1ng into a seat and ttikbag out a packet of pa- pers. Rule sewer( of 'Business ldi- eient'y' says: `.lbproaeb a1 business man in an original wary,' so 1 present the mind- a ad lig phase. Rule nine- teen says; 'Present a propucitiptt"out- side of the usual rut: I've get it right here. it will take me ten minutes to explain It." "Go nn," nnd,l„d lair. Lane. more cu- rious and atnnced than intere'dr,t. Barbi Munson Isotec+ted 1.1 marline his plan. Air, Lane wee o ten amid tee-. tee -- fee merclutnt. Ile lt,ad worked up a very profitable emit -order trade, "Itan`t you set submitted 1110 pe suasive and optimtctie Manson. ',bats you will have over live hundred •igeuts picking up orders every day in the year? Allowing that each hula gets but ono order a day, that figures up over fifteen thousand orders a year. Getting that cumber of curfews through your circular and catalogue system, postage .stamps alone would cost you Ave thousand dollars. By my system you keep an account with one central sotu'ce, get all kinds of free adver- tising and have an army of men work- ing for you on commission bawls strictly,” "It looks feasible," admitted Air. Lane. "You come back at four o'clock prepared to give me the evening. Will you?" Munson had expected that the con- sultation anticipated would tate place in the private oface, but when he re- turned he found the merchant ready to tttke him to: Itis home in les automo- bile, When they reached it Mr. Lane ushered him among a garden group, In troduced him to his wife, three small children and his daughter, Lelia. The visitor made everybody feel :agreeable. lie complimented Mrs. Lane on her lovely garden, played with the little ones aha detoured the radian! daugh- ter of the home with eyes expressing an admiration he could not concent. "We'll talk right here where we ran enjoy, the beautiful evening;" sant her. 1°,1)2:e),and on a garden sent .lu.•r e:tu- side the faintly circle they want further business details. 31.:a••• n hall drifted about ti ;sod deal lit , h,r;. 11088 way. 11, MS,e; ..: t fhe number of t e ,ateme.. 11.3 ]rod. All spoke of ;111•. ;lint, .» h•,rtite warty as to nut ;(teasing persouaitttY and strict attention to business, but more than one deplored his constant. shifting front one position to another: owing to his love for change and va- rlets'. "les, 1 need an eucltor to .stetulY ate," acknowledged Mueson, and he glanced stealthily i'u the direction of, Leila, "Nell, I hope prat: after a month's demun,tratiou youwill be so pleased that Inc will -make a Perim - neat (arrangement, eloehe it twill 1)e su'prineising that some tiny I'tt get a mind-reading copartnership as to my ideas—er, Mr. Laney" btunsou wits simply irresistible the way he miugle 1 audacity and a win- ning ingenuousness, He had tate ehb- dren fairly wild .with sotne choice feats ter legerdemain he operated for their special' benefit. Tito filial hour or his stay be was treated all around like sumeold-time friend rather than the hash), .cc adventurer with a need' idea, At the end of a mantic Earle Mna- seta en1e bauueimg inti, the private of- fice of biariiu Lane ee frse.ty as if tie owned it, to spread tre;ure his ent- ployer a Lalrc•t1 of conducts anti careers that fairly bewildered the staid, eys- teutatic rutin When axe other sixty days had rolled away the influx of trade required his constant supetrlelnn In an otlieeof his own. Meantime 15 get to be so that if blr. Lane did not lung Munson itutne with hurt w lamu•r it Lust three times a week, etre, Line !oohed disappointed, Lelia unhappy turd the eldidren Ire- wailed his 95011'' to. wench . home was 41 dismal prison without idtu. And art the end of sir meadia the cihnax' culminated and \innanl valueto $U Lune. and is Inc refreshingly ennt'ttu to twat 8 el' "31r. Lane. as a idiot loader 1 a of the a 11,11tla + if, 1 tubi yen that I,e;L•r n 1 r,111 • . t,:- . 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