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Flag The Man Who Took the Fla
g to India
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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,
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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,;
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By CECILLE LAN.r
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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
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Always butter the inside of your
baking dish before putting in the con-
tents to be cooked. It will save you
so much rubbing. and :energy when
it is 'to he washed.
Mending tissue is a wonderful help
when one of the heavier garments
is torn. It can be purchased .at any
large deparbnent store and the direr-
tions are not 'difficult to follow.
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Envelopes
Billheads
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